skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately

maybe i didn't read carefully, but i didn't catch in the article what he proposes is unfortunate about it.

> can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness?

wait ... what?!?

a) dorkiness

b) essential dorkiness?

wow. just wow. it doesn't seem like a clickbait-y sensationalist subtitle. it seems like the author really means it. omg, am i a dork?? i love these scooters. it never occurred to me in the slightest that they are dorky. and in fact, i see all kinds of beautiful people (and normal people) riding them. is this maybe an east coast / west coast thing? Maybe the author cares about presenting a certain adult image, and the scooter makes him feel childish, since yes, they are fun to ride. That's what makes me think it's coastal.

I love how the photo shows folks riding without helmets. AFAIK all the scooter companies make clear you must use a helmet (I don't). At least in the photo they are in the bike lane and not the sidewalk.

> Doesn’t riding in the bike lane annoy cyclists? Yes, of course. Cyclists are annoyed by most stimuli.

lol
As a sort of counterpoint to the suggestions you're going to get, I really like the series Connections [1] by science historian James Burke. He takes a step back to show how interconnected and interdependent technological progress is. I think it's a valuable perspective that is easy to ignore when you're focused on the stories of individual companies or inventors. The first series is available on the Internet Archive [2], as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

[2] https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22connection...
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Having tapped “Accept” over 1500 times for Lyft, I can tell you the idea af doing such an analysis of a fare is highly impractical and dangerous. And illegal in the State of California as you are allowed only 1 tap into an app while the vehicle is moving. In cities like LA or SF, rideshares have to keep moving in a lot of scenarios because there simply is no place to pull over and stop in between dropping off one passenger and picking up the next.
I never realized this. Any sources?

A quick google brought me to this aritcle (https://sumo.com/stories/pop-up-statistics) which indicates a conversion rate of 3-9% for pop ups requesting info / sign-up. So you may be right!
>Riding a scooter doesn’t feel like cruising on a Segway to me anymore, but it remains socially conspicuous.

In the long run, it seems that ownership is moving towards the cloud model. The same arguments for virtual machines in a server can be used for vehicles and, likely, many other types of physical items. There is no doubt that a pool of 100 scooters serving 1000 people is better for the environment than 1000 under-utilized scooters.
Could you explain or link to more info please? Sounds interesting.
What was that whole thing about a "cashless society" again?

What happens when a major rival actually attacks your cashless society?
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Can you offer specific examples that make you believe that the cumulative opinion of scholars are going to be objectively worse than the cumulative opinion of everyone?
It's mostly that folk etymology is very common. The etymology of this term is not exactly mysterious.
I would alternatively suggest "The HP way, How Bill Hewlett and I build our company" by David Packard.
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What is it that you think "I think" 4chan's culture is?

I am saying that 4chan is not a safe place if you are black or most minorities. Period. I don't care what 4chan's culture is because it doesn't matter for the sake of this point.
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Is there anything like this to reliably detect Firefox headless?
Early 30's guy here.

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>it's rare to be CPU bound.

Not when solving (partial) differential equations, which is what I am using Julia for.
I'd love to use Atom on a little QNX system, can you tell me where I can find the Atom distribution? It's possible to build Emacs on it.
This post presents a common dilemma: Should frameworks optimize for being easy to start with for local dev by default or production ready config by default?

In the Universal Music case, the contractor made some bad decisions around not using Airflow's specific built-in features for operators as well as encrypted connections. Should frameworks make it harder for this to happen by accident?
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I don't think the overlap between 4chan users and people that install the Alexa toolbar is large enough for those statistics to be accurate
Why would Mozilla do anything about that? It's not like this is going to be enabled by default in Firefox.
I've been listening the entire back catalog of NPR's "How I Built This" blog. The interviewer always asks if their success is due to hard work, skill, intelligence, etc. or luck. All of them acknowledge some luck is always involved. But the best quote I recall, but don't remember he interviewee, was "The harder I worked the more luck I found I had."

Highly recommend the podcast. At first I cherry-picked the interviews I thought I would be interested in, but they are all good, regardless of the company or industry.
You're thinking of HPKP and other certificate and key-pinning implementations. HSTS only enforces HTTPS, it does not prevent the usage of things like mitmproxy with custom roots added to your trust store.
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what brand have you ridden? i've only ridden bird and the throttle is very precise with a good "throttle map". lots of control in the starting off / low part of the range.
No. I'm not saying we should. I'm saying it's no different than other places, the racism on 4chan is on reddit. It's all over the internet. 4chan isn't especially bad in my experience. I don't go to the boards devoted to racism and I don't go to the subreddits and forums devoted to it either.
You could let the drivers script it (providing some canned - and well explained - scripts)
Tulsa race riot
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> The obvious solution would be to not accept the necessity of warfare anymore. But I guess, we're very far from that.

One could argue that conflict is a consequence of human behaviour so I don't see that ever being a likely outcome.
Nice to see we can somewhat agree. I just feel that coming down hard on either side is missing out on discussing the detail.

I don't see the conflict in Yemen as just but at the same time I feel like countries should have the freedom to declare war on neighbouring countries, especially given an uprising.

Sure, between the lines the Saudi Kingdom is trying to retain its puppet government but this is what we get from having allies that we don't see eye-to-eye with.
I wonder how often you've dealt with actual civil servants. Two problems:

1. Many civil services have unionised to the point where civil servants effectively cannot be fired. Guess how competent the resulting staff are.

2. Even if they could be easily fired, their hiring processes are also frequently a joke.

To give an example, the average age of officials at the British Treasury department is 27. This is not widely known, because officials love to hide behind anonymity, especially when publishing reports that sound superficially clever and authoritative but are later proven to be dead wrong about everything. There's no accountability anywhere.

Just look at how much difficulty civil servants have in even just managing contracts with third party providers. Now imagine how much harder they find it to actually do the work themselves.
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> We always could do that with extensions

You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0].

And while I agree with your comment regarding the chicken and egg problem, there are still some technical issues. As the shadowbanned sibling comment says, extensions don't have access to UDP/TCP sockets, meaning that you will need to run a gateway on your machine. See e.g. what dat-fox [1] does.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...

[1]: https://github.com/sammacbeth/dat-fox
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Here's how I explain it to people who don't get it.

https://cheatsheets.quantecon.org/

Python works, but it's far from elegant in this domain.
Most people are not racist/sexist when given a mask, the people who are go to /b/ or /pol/, and in the process get further radicalized.
It's not an "acquired taste"

Describe it accurately- Low-brow sexual humor that anyone in a position of authority would deem unwelcoming to women
3 miles in 10 minutes is 29 km/h which is quite fast. Not a speed I would ride my bike in traffic without a helmet.
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> what WhatsApp did with E2E encryption

Convince everyone that using a closed source, proprietary app is good security?
Its origins are with TENEX and from there TOPS-20. TOPS-20 was ubiquitous in computer science departments in the early 80s when I worked at DEC.

The release of TENEX precedes the release of Unix by a year or so and the release of the first BSD by seven years. If you want the etymological roots for this, you would need to ask Dan Murphy or one of his contemporaries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Murphy_(computer_scie...
It supposedly does not, as the data is kept on the phone and Apple does not take possession of the data.
It's called defense in depth.

Otherwise go ahead and disable DEP, ASLR, and other modern defense in depth and mitigations mechanisms used by Debian, of course, unless your OS is exploitable.
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When did new immigrants to the internet stop learning about the things we long-considered to be emergent phenomena of social interaction on the Internet? Eternal September eventually became known as a breaking point where what "is" and what "ought" will never be the same again. It seemed like we resigned to mapping/understanding the ways conversation breaks down so we could practice good mental hygiene of recognizing it, and stopping ourselves from accidentally getting sucked into it. Why did we loose the collective wisdom of social systems at scale?

tl;dr: Who am I to blame for the fact WIRED of all places is writing hot takes about social dynamics of the internet like a Dad that just got their first smartphone?
This list of aphorisms is riddled with advice where luck probably plays a dominant role, so the headline is misleading. There are reliable ways of getting rich without needing (much) luck, but they take a long time if you're starting with very little capital. But they are proven, they do work, and they generally involve a lot of saving and investing throughout your primary earning years, in real estate or other stable assets. They generally don't involve serial entrepreneurship, which this article seems to advocate.
I'm not sure about "luckily". Sure, today it might be a good thing, but 99.99% of the time it's just a massive inconvenience.
"The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story" by Michael Lewis. Written not long before the peak of the dot-com bubble, tells the story of James H. Clark, the founder of SGI, Netscape and other companies.
Communism was essentially dictatorship of political theorists. People like Lenin, Marx, Trotsky and even Stalin had all written books on political theory. It led to mass starvation, dystopia and economic collapse.

The USA went with cumulative opinion of everyone (democracies, markets).

Which country is the world's remaining superpower?
Whole article seems like a bunch of koans, that would be interesting to see fleshed out, or argued one way or the other.

I'd be interested in reading why those four people strike someone as the most accountable people.

But at my current level of worldly enlightenment, its not evident on its face to me.
I actually had meant to type "home & auto repair...". But anyway, IMO most of the value is learning what's going on in the car and the process of diagnosis. Many, many shops employ the "speculatively replace X and see if it fixes Y" iterative process, and being able to avoid that whole process is useful.

You are right, the cost savings on doing your own oil changes isn't particularly significant. Although it's also worth pointing out oil changes are the most commoditized, sometimes-loss-leader service in the business- if there's a cost savings to be had, it's in moderate repairs that are a little more involved but don't require lots of equipment. Replacing an oxygen sensor or alternator, for example.
If you look at my comment history I've made this exact point about politics. I agree with you. 4chan as a whole isn't any more racist than any other forum. The boards are separated by topics just like reddit for example. My purpose behind my comment was simply saying if you avoid the parts you don't like (exactly how you do on the internet in general, stormfront is a thing), you don't experience that toxicity. I rarely see racism on the boards I browse. And I'd say I see a lot more racism on average on reddit.