skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Getaround sees its car rentals, . ..helping to move Americans away from private car ownership."

Except that it depends on private car ownership in order to have cars to rent. If you really want to get away from private car ownership, a service like Zipcar that maintains its own fleet would be a better way to go. But Getaround doesn't want the hassle of owning the cars either; it just wants to collect its cut and leave the hassle to others.
Depending on how broad your definition of stack ranking is, every industry does stack ranking.

Every single successful business has the problem of "we have this large amount of money in bonuses that we would like to distribute out to our employees and we want to figure out equitable way to do it". Invariably they end up having the rank and group the employees to do that.
I would also love to see a protobuf/gRPC decoder for wireshark. Bonus: the ability to filter sniffed packets based on a field value.
I don't think it's ridiculous. Assuming that one component of "intelligent behavior" is the ability to think "further into the future," that is, not purely beholden to feeling good in the here and now, intelligent people are more likely to make more sustainable choices (if only for their own sake).
fair enough: *guys
Mostly because videogame plot lines aren't as good as we give them credit for. Videogames are great at being interactive diversions, but their stories leave a lot to be desired and are really just thin background dressing for the real reason we play videogames: for the gameplay.

The most successful videogame movies tend towards genre films like Mortal Kombat (the film) and Resident Evil (the series).

Of course, let's not forget that it can be hard to make a good movie, period.
Yeah I think that's the crux of it.

The "Doom" movie is arguably an excellent adaptation of the video game. But that doesn't make for much of a movie.
He's asking about hackable mobile phone hardware (on which, yes, he would probably want to run Android if possible, but also run some other open OS, including his own).
This came up during today's hearing. Apparently this page links to another page[1] that asks you to log into your Facebook account which you obviously don't have.

META: The original title is "I don't have a Facebook account and would like to request all personal data stored by Facebook." which I reworded slightly to fit into the HN title char limit.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/180237885820953
Can you talk more about your experience, or what sort of projects you worked on in previous roles to become a "lead automation engineer"?
This is why we need government investigators to look at crash/accident data (after the fact) and we need to ensure that the data hasn't been tampered with by anyone, including the car makers.

We can't just rely on the company's words in a crash. Of course the company has all the incentive to lie or at least be as misleading as possible or try to minimize its blame as much as possible, to avoid liability or bad press. That should surprise absolutely no one. That's why we need to make sure that the company's bias is taken out of the equation altogether.
Teach kids creativity. Ultimately, machines will be better at coding
Not just video game movies, but also movies based on books about video games.

Having read Ready Player One and then seeing the movie, it's like they didn't even try to capture what made the book successful. The book had clues that were hard for the characters to figure out, but in the movie, it was basically trivial for them.

They should have done 3 movies, each one focusing on obtaining a single key and opening its respective gate. It would have left plenty of room for character development and the underlying love story that are in the book. They could have been Netflix movies too.
Always wished there was a tool for protobuf which could test whether a changes to any .proto files were backwards compatible and if not raise an error
Wreck-it Ralph is a good movie. And so was the first Resident Evil movie.
To say nothing of Garry's Mod and the resulting fanfiction equivalent culture.
Former UK Ambassador to Syria: “No Proof” of Chemical Attack (BBC Radio)
Reading these threads as an European tech worker is weird. Or maybe I've missed all the pogo-sticking companies. The most I've seen was some people wearing inoffensive t-shirts and jeans, and a couple of companies which had a foosball table in the break room.
>However, the "calories out" portion of that equation is actually quite complicated. In recent years many studies have indicated that the body does not process all calories in the same way.

I think of this as the "calories in" portion. There was never any reason to assume the means by which we measure the caloric content of food truly represented the caloric energy available to the body.
For me it shows the number 2 and nothing else, even if I view source.
The number of inspiring people is much less than the number of teaching positions. And the number of inspiring mathematically talented people with enough knowledge to teach mathematics is much less than the number of math teaching positions.

With a 100 students each semester I don’t have the time or inclination to find out about their personal struggles. We are here to learn mathematics. If that is not true of a person then they shouldn’t be taking math classes. Such is my general view in the matter. I’m not an extremist and exceptions do apply.

If a student, for whatever reason, can’t devote the required time to a course then they shouldn’t take it. The best teacher in my department, the most inspiring one too, complains about student apathy all the time. Some people just shouldn’t be in college. Many would benefit from waiting to mature and otherwise be prepared.

I can’t magically make someone want to learn. I like the Chinese proverb that says a teacher can only open the door to the house of knowledge, he can’t make you enter.
TLDR: Zuckerberg continues to lie to Congress
Only for the sake of emphasizing your point, I have seen companies go out of business only because they did not follow proper documentation procedures.
Nope. Protos have repeated fields and can be hierarchical (that is, can contain other protos) and even recursive (that is, contain themselves, possibly as repeated fields). H2 is not going to work.
Love the support :)
https://www.amtrak.com/charter-your-private-train
I remember when I got out of college and had stopped playing sports. My roommate at the time convinced me to start weight lifting and training hard at the gym. I was taking all kinds of supplements (creatine, various amino acids, whey protein, etc), working out 1.5 to 2 hours at a time, and it was working, albeit slowly.

Looking back a few years later, I realized maybe I didn't see the big changes I was expecting since my roommate and I would hit the Burger King on the way home since we were always so hungry after working out. It dawned on me we were completely erasing all the work we just did in the matter of twenty minutes eating cheeseburgers and onion rings with several cups of pop to boot.
Interesting idea, thanks. I'll give it a try.
FWIW I literally just got my boss on board with switching last week. There are still a lot of stragglers who are stuck thinking that they're going to have library compatibility issues with Python 3.
I think books are suitably different mediums but get cross adapted just fine. I don't think the suggestion that they're "for storytelling" holds weight, many games have very linear stories you play through with little flexibility.

And books often are even harder to translate the story aspects for because they usually take place over much longer time spans than movies or video games. Many movies made from books seem to have character relationships that seem like they should have taken much longer to develop because of it.
Same here. Looks like the server broke.
Would you please also not use HN for ideological flamewar? It's what we're most trying to avoid here, really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah I wasn't referring to improving your mental health with meditation.

Meditation is more for calming the subconcious, dropping all the background threads that are running.

Maybe that's a "hack" that can fix your problem. Even if it doesn't, meditating a few hours at night gives your body more rest than rolling around and not getting rest nor sleep.

Maybe 4h of meditation at night is like 3h of real sleep for you, who knows.

Furthermore, you get a lot of insights and a better connection to your body.

I can recommend the app headspace.
There seems to be a flurry of activity from Uber recently. I wonder if the failure of their self-driving tech as evidenced by the pedestrian death and the subsequent suspension of their self driving program spooked them. The HN take on Uber's valuation seems to be that their current model of paying people to drive does not justify their valuation, but becoming the dominant ride service with self driving cars does. With their crash and Tesla's crash, maybe people are questioning just how soon real, usable self driving cars will actually be available, and Uber is scrambling to try to jump into new markets to try to prop up their valuation.
Company (mis)handling of user information is not exactly a new, one-off problem that came up just this one time. I would argue it's the exact problem they should be trying to curb with legislation, except for the fact they'll undoubtedly get it wrong since they'll look to "industry experts" like Mark Z for guidance.
The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid
So glad to see this article. From time to time, my wife will ask me "how do I get the kids to learn X?" My answer is always the same: "Forget about the 'learning styles'. Drill baby, drill!"
Right, I grew up in the 80s/90s and slime was a big deal on Nickelodeon. I can remember a kids party in the mid 90s where we even made our own Nickelodeon slime and the slimed each other

What about Gak? This stuff looks like a rip off of it. My parents hated Gak with a passion due to many messes created by my brother an me.

Edit: looks like Gak was Nickelodeon branded.
I really appreciate this comment, for offering an alternative perspective. It's easier to dehumanize someone after labeling them as a psychopath. I believe there are a few studies that claim psychopathy is overrepresented in the business world, so it is a thing, but sometimes it does feel like people latch onto this and take it to an extreme. No, not all business leaders are psychopathic! Most simply can't be, statistically speaking.

I think there are real problems with the current economic system, but that it would be easier to discuss solutions/alternatives when people aren't so eager to demonize each other.
Stop assuming people don’t like you to solve 90% of your social problems
I can say by direct experience that often is just like that, yes. I found manure sacks, newspapers, lots of plastic bags and net chunks in knots. Sometimes it was a little, other a lot.

Is unclear to me on the other hand, if plastic was the cause of death or just a desperately starving animal trying to survive. The sample in the video is very peculiar (not what they found. Is what is missing there). We talk about 26Kg of plastic, that could look like a lot, but was found inside a 6 ton animal with a huge, huge gut. This is a terminal animal. Deaf by sonar or last storms could easily be the real killer here.
> Lujan: It may surprise you that we’ve not talked about this a lot today. You’ve said everyone controls their data, but you’re collecting data on people who are not even Facebook users who have never signed a consent, a privacy agreement.

> And it may surprise you that on Facebook’s page when you go to “I don’t have a Facebook account and would like to request all my personal data stored by Facebook” it takes you to a form that says “go to your Facebook page and then on your account settings you can download your data.”

This is typically something Facebook should be prepared for considering it's one of the use case of the GDPR.

It's highly likely they are prepared for that but won't show it before the storm.
I don't want that story to be ruined by directors/producers/writers taking creative liberties.

Some things just shouldn't be live-action movies. Look at all the anime movie failures. They were perfectly fine in their original animated format. No need for live action, except to keep people in the movie industry employed.
Do you have an unusual eye condition?
Same with virtualenv, but without users of scripts using pyenv or virtualenv the shebang is broken if it's pointing to #!/usr/bin/env python. Many users of scripts aren't python developers, so they won't be using pyenv or virtualenv. Just wish we had a cross-platform way to run python scripts reliably like we did when /usr/bin/python always existed.
Airbnb has been an incredibly good member of the open source community. Airflow is a great tool, and this tool looks really good as well. I was just digging around looking at superset a while back, and that looks awesome as well along with Flask App Builder.

I just wanted to give a shout out to all of you and say thanks for giving so much back to the community.
Ask HN: Do battery costs justify “buy all sell all” over “net metering”?
Are batteries the primary justification for "buy all sell all" over "net metering"?

Are next-gen supercapacitors the solution?
It is a vserver from server4you.de with a special christmas offer for returning users but you usually get the 500gb two times a year.
I find it difficult to believe that people being assholes is a result of any particular economic system.
If this were the case, Warcraft would've knocked it out of the park. It's lore covers many hundreds of hours of gameplay content and a decent number of full books.
First figure out which side is harder to attract. Demand side or supply side? In most cases the demand side is harder as you could easily get people/companies who want more $. This however does not hold in every market.

I am going to use the term the marketplace driver for this. Not sure if it already exists.

The market place driver will make the platform attractive for the other side.

A strategy for this could be to intially offer something of value to the marketplace driver without the need for the other side. So they get value without having to conclude a transaction.

Then eventually transition to the marketplace business model.

Another tip would be to focus. like around a geographic location, product or niche service. Then expand out from there.
But is that sufficient under GDPR? Although a double opt-in has generally been considered good practice for a long time, it only demonstrates that a recipient has agreed to receive mail for some purpose, not for any specific purpose.

Even if you've been building up your mailing list for years, following generally accepted good practices, and only signing up genuinely interested recipients, it seems you could now to be in a position where either:

(a) when you signed people up, you provided sufficient information about what you would be sending to them and you can still produce evidence of that today;

(b) you need to contact everyone on your list to obtain explicit, specific consent for whatever you actually send to your list; or

(c) you have to remove anyone who isn't covered by (a) or (b) above (or delete your whole list).

As with so much about the GDPR, what will be accepted as reasonable evidence of informed consent for earlier subscribers to a mailing list is ambiguous, and the consequences of either doing too much or not doing enough are undesirable.
> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up

This is an interesting thought. It does simplify expression, but in sum I don't think it's that much different than life before the like button.

We press the like button all the time in real life. Giving thumbs up, a quick nod of the head, or clapping.

From that standpoint, the like button is just the digital manifestation of how we showed engagement with "content".

Where I see we run into problems is that a "like" has different meanings depending on the person and context. Unfortunately algorithms aren't able to fully understand these nuances yet, so we end up with the same stream of youtube videos in our feed or the same 5 songs in our pandora playlist. Which means on the backend we're stuck with a certain set of "almost-but-not-quite-right" labels in a system which will then make "almost-but-not-quite-right" decisions.

Folks at the edges may get incorrectly lumped into the wrong group and, in milder cases, receive content they aren't interested in, in extreme cases, be flagged as a "potential terrorist".

It's tough. I do think my life is generally better off with intelligent algos removing friction, aiding in discovery, and anticipating my needs. But to do so, those same algos need an almost infinite amount of info about me to be able to infer context and nuance.
I was specifically responding to the commonly held belief that modified gravities and observations of the bullet cluster are absolutely irreconcilable. I'm not necessarily drawing any line in the sand about whether I believe in modified gravities over particle dark matter, or whether that distinction is even important.

In general, I'm suspicious of dark matter. It would make an interesting development if it ended up being the planet Vulcan of our time, where we doggedly postulate its existence despite mounting counter-evidence because it's unpleasant to question baser theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)
This is Silicon Valley. "move fast and break things"
Easier said than done. This isn't the web world, things aren't so simple.

How do I mock a temperamental motor controller responding to AT commands? I mean, I'm sure it's hard enough to replicate the oddities of their serial port parser, but the temperamental part is gonna be tricky. This is an embedded system I'm talking to, which is parsing bytes coming over a serial port in an interrupt service routine at 16 MHz with 4 kB of RAM. Not an async callback with JSON in a nodejs app with GHz of processing power and 8 GB of memory. Emphasis on: temperamental.

Oh, and don't forget. This is a mechanical system, not a website. We'll have to put torque and strain gauges on the system to make sure it's doing what we want.

The skinny is, the system my python scripts talk to is far too complicated to just "stub out". You may be able to test 90% of the cases, but what you really worried about is that 10% of freak accidents that break things. Look up the Therac 25 and how that failed.
He also denied knowing the political orientation of his content police(during yesterday's Cruz question), however, he's Facebook, so he knows everyone's political biases.
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"I wanted an easy life but instead got reality"

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> Learning is a skill you can get better at...

You know, I just don't think it's realistic to expect everyone to be able to learn anything. Certainly an expert in a field can come from anywhere, but not anyone can be an expert.

I don't think you can go through those books, however excellent, grab a random name from the phonebook, and then teach them how to do differential equations. Or to debug corrupted stacks in a multithreaded C++ program.
Sure it is. It's public information how bad at their core business of making cars Tesla is. Musk is trying to show that they're getting better at this we promise please give us more money.
First part of phishing with EV (2017)
VC Money is a helluva drug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWccN_uu0gY
> Ask HN: Do battery costs justify "buy all sell all" over "net metering"?

> Are batteries the primary justification for "buy all sell all" over "net metering"?

> Are next-gen supercapacitors the solution?

With "Net Metering", electric utilities buy consumers' excess generated energy at retail or wholesale rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering

With "Buy All, Sell All", electric utilities require consumers to sell all of the energy they generate from e.g. solar panels (usually at wholesale prices, AFAIU) and buy all of the energy they consume at retail rates. They can't place the meter after any local batteries.

Do I have this right?

Net metering:

(used-generated) x (retail || wholesale)

Buy all, sell all:

(used x retail) - (generated x wholesale)

For the energy generating consumer, net metering is a better deal: they have power when the grid is down, and they keep or earn more for the energy generation capability they choose to invest in.

Break-even on solar panels happens sooner with net metering.

Utilities argue that: maintaining grid storage and transfer costs money, which justifies paying energy generating consumers less than they pay for more constant sources of energy like dams, wind farms, and commercial solar plants.

Building a two-way power transfer grid costs money. Batteries require replacement after a limited number of cycles. Spiky or bursting power generation is not good for batteries because they don't get a full cycle. [Hemp] supercapacitors can smooth out that load and handle many more partial charge and discharge cycles.

Is energy storage the primary justifying cost driver for "buy all, sell all"?

What investments are needed in order to more strongly incentivize clean energy generation? Do we need low cost supercapacitors to handle the spiky load?

Are these utilities granted a monopoly? Are they price fixing?

Energy demand from blockchain mining has not managed to keep demand constant so that utilities have profit to invest in clean energy generation and a two-way smart grid that accommodates spiky consumer energy generation. Demand for electricity is falling as we become less wasteful and more energy efficient. As the cost of renewable energy continues to fall (and become less expensive than nonrenewables), there should be more margin for energy utilities which cost-rationally and environmentally-rationally choose to buy renewable energy and sell it to consumers.

Please correct me with the appropriate terminology.

How can we more strongly incentivize consumer solar panel investments?
IMHO they are waiting for Modularity to mature https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/ since I really think the existing RHEL support model is becoming a tougher sell in today's environment.
It depends. RPGs have a lot more character development than action games. Something like Mass Effect would be pretty straightforward to adopt into a movie (biggest question: Man or Woman Shepard?). If you're trying to adapt Space Invaders then yeah, the scriptwriter has their work cut out for them.

Could be worse, you could be adopting classic boardgames. The Battleship movie was gloriously dumb. Monopoly would come across as a critique of capitalism. Actually, the Clue movie was a lot of fun.
What a disgusting shady move is that... Glad that I don't use a search engine that uses such mobbish predatory ways to extort newspapers so that it can make money off of the stories they write, and mandate what I can access or not in the meantime.
> I have little doubt that the CTR conspiracy theory was largely spread by the very real Russian astroturfers.

Could you source/clarify this?

I agree that the narrative around CTR as an astroturf source is either massively overstated and outright wrong, but that's a basically negative claim - there's no real evidence for it. The Russian astroturf part is a very specific positive claim, and across the identified Russian accounts (e.g. Reddit, Tumblr) I haven't seen any indication that they meaningfully drove the CTR rumors.

It's not like Americans have any trouble starting political conspiracy theories without outside help; why are we laughing at claims of "this idea came from an astroturf campaign" and then making comparable claims without strong evidence?