skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cabs became bloated and inefficient in most large cities in the US because of the unions/medallion system. Uber was supposed to be the answer to that, because anyone could drive a cab and make some extra money on the side.

With more and more regulation, you are essentially creating another large and bloated system. It also will impact the type of people that will be able to drive for Uber. If these regulations become the norm, there will be a fraction of the amount of people driving that will have to go through more of a formal/traditional hiring process. Anything else will cost the company too much money.

"Imagine your employeer removing your healthcare and defending the decision"

Uber shouldn't be considered an 'employer'. I am a software contractor and sometimes complete projects that only take a week and I never talk to the client again. This client shouldn't be paying for my health insurance.

It's not really Uber's fault that drivers decide to use them as their sole source of income. You really need to weigh the costs of driving, how much you earn, and if you can afford insurance. I figured this was common sense.
JVM-bytecode isn't ideal as a compilation target for C++, Rust, etc. And that's okay - it was designed for a different purpose.

There are very good technical reasons for WASMs existence. JVM-Bytecode for example is very Java-focused, WASM doesn't need class-files or many bytecodes like invokevirtual. For supporting C++/Rust it doesn't even need GC.

Bringing large applications like PSDFKit, AutoCAD or games into the browser is certainly getting the web forward. Sure, WASM isn't intended for manipulating the DOM. This is still JS's job (at least for the foreseeable future).
A couple notes:

1. Industry funding comes with its own set of hassles. And overhead is still a thing for industry funding - sometimes the overhead rate is less, but there's been a lot more pushback against this from universities (which I actually think is quite fair).

2. Being able to buy out teaching loads is a function of funding, not necessarily this funding

3. In many institutions, salaries are fixed - what this does is cover a percentage of your salary you don't have to cover from other mechanisms, or let you buy out teaching, as you note. It would be interesting to know if the dual FAIR appointments work like that or not.

While private funding is awesome, and these labs are in a very good position, it should be noted that in most cases in my experience between NSF/NIH-style funding and an industry grant, the government grants last longer, are more flexible, and less of a hassle administratively.
This looks pretty handy to just monitor processes that may get out of control on a semi regular basis.
Respect! Thanks for posting! Could you do a blog-post or more technical write up about your implementation.

I have my own DNS with min-ttl set. Further more I have firewalled all DNS-lookup except to a certain provider.

On top of this I have a installed a local CA on all devices.

Blocked domains are reverted to an local nginx that answer with a empty gif or 204, even when the request is on https (domains spoofed).

The access.log is very interesting to analyse, and sometimes you find bugs in iOS apps that crashes because they could not send their usage data to flurry.com or other domains.
Yes so there is nothing wrong with an extra layer :-) ask any medical practitioner why the put gloves on after they wash their hands.
The tunnel is cool and great. I hope we can get these tunnels all over the place. I was just saying "Were building it here" is factually wrong about the Chicago tunnel being a Hyperloop tunnel.
The maps on the comparative pages could use a different (ideally equal area) projection. At present, the free-for-all status of Svalbard is extremely prominent :-)
Interesting. How do you get stuff to 100,000 feet? I'm imagining some sort of cargo helicopter but that is probably not at all the right idea.
As someone who bought the game on launch that was my experience. Yes.
What would this actually gain me? Say I transfer my twitter data to facebook what happens? Does it create new posts with all my tweets, or what? Why would I bother? It would be nice to have a simple chat to show what it actually does.
There's a time/place for encouragement, and a time/place for criticism. I've only found a few comments in this thread that are even remotely derogatory or toxic. There's nothing toxic about blunt, honest, criticism. HN is known for this type of feedback anyways. It might be abrasive and tough to swallow but it's not toxic to tell someone their product needs work in a community that is arguably known for and built for just that kind of feedback. Not to mention that the folks bringing up issues with the product are providing detailed reasoning for their critiques and solutions.

TL;DR Blunt, honest feedback != toxicity
The world has plenty of injustice for all of us to decide which ones we want to talk about. Right now the Trump administration is separating children from their parents, genocide is being perpetrated in Syria, and 124 million people in 51 countries around the world are facing crisis level food insecurity.

People are literally being kidnapped or killed or starving and you're complaining about online harrassment.

Perspective is a great thing, but it applies to everyone, even you. I don't begrudge either of you your particular focuses or grievances, and you shouldn't begrudge anyone else's their own.
I can see how some might misinterpret that statement to mean that I am suggesting that the death threats were justified. I am not, and that is why I was explicit with my language explaining that it is an unacceptable crime that deserves severe legal consequences. The sentences that follow the "but" do not contradict my condemnation of anonymous death threats. Hopefully that makes things clear.
Is it just me, or they just don't have any screenshots anywhere? I'd like to see the interface before downloading and running it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
So, did Furey get a faculty job or can she be viewed with her accordion somewhere?
Looks like such a small change that people even haven't noticed it, but it matters a lot to the development.
the keywords "ill" and "duh" will cause collision. I know this because I ran into this issue trying to be clever on leetcode's anagram grouping problem.
The Ring video doorbell app turned my life into a domestic horror movie
Sure, but see the comment by munificent. You're saying, well JVM bytecode sucks because it's hard to compile C++ to because it lacks multiple inheritance, and arguing this makes WASM more language agnostic.

But. Then you admit that compiling Java to WASM is hard because there's no GC, you'd have to ship your entire GC with the app and it wouldn't be fast because GCs like to integrate with the JIT compiler and WASM is the JIT compiler here. Also WASM JITs don't really understand managed code patterns well.

So how is WASM more language agnostic? Seems like (if we ignore Graal) WASM has trouble with languages JVM bytecode is good at, and vice-versa. Quite comparable, no?

BTW even saying C++ is easy to compile to WASM is tricky because WASM apparently has no exception support, and exceptions are a part of the C++ language. Likewise for vendor extensions like vector intrinsics, inline assembly etc. At best you can handle a subset of the language.

So in the end I don't buy that it's really more generic. As munificent says, it seems more like people aren't really sinking their teeth into the tradeoffs involved.
Ask HN: How to file a patent alone?
I've just started my own company/start up. I've got enough funds to work on the idea for a year or so by myself, so I've got some time and a nominal amount of money at my disposal. I'm also pretty sure that my idea is patentable!

How do I, as an LLC, file a patent? The common response I've heard in person is "don't" or "get a lawyer." But the former is not fun, and the latter is not an option.

Has anyone personally filed for one? Or used a cheap online service or template like LegalZoom?
What's your point ? Buying the next game doesn't prove people agree.
Journalists can get charmed just like us normals. Their main bias is they are constantly in search of narratives and aim to frame information in that way (cause it makes their pieces interesting). "This tech will change the world" is an exciting narrative that a lot of journalists are more than willing to write a piece around.
I've heard of it but didn't realize people really used it? How/where should people learn more about mastodon if they're interested? How do you use it?
The last surviving member of an uncontacted tribe
This one I think has legs. Quite a few content creators are upset with YouTube policies, and can drive users to PeerTube using other social services. Once you have a core group of users, others see that it’s viable and adoption rises.
How about this one? https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php

The data is stored on the front end in a bunch of arrays, if you want to play around with it directly.

> Though it looks like their sources are different than my link since the numbers don't line up.

Most probably different definitions of visa-free (it's not all clear-cut) and "Dependent, disputed, or restricted territories" counted in one but not the other.
luckily they caught it in time though I suspect his daughter had some strong words for him.
The US doesn’t really do mass transit. We widen roads.

China has 16,000 miles of high-speed rail. We have essentially zero. It makes more sense to build this in China.

They already have high-speed and low-speed maglev trains.
> Many reddit posts have outright stated that Red Shell was "spyware" with no indication that 1) they were misusing data 2) no data that is harmful was being collected.

Having private data that is none of your business is already misusing it. And what is "data that is harmful", what does that even mean?
We experienced similar attacks and the easiest solution that fixed the problem was to completely block China and some other countries at the firewall level. We are a B2B app in the US and never had a paying customer from Asia. It's been a year since we did this and the spam attempts have ceased since then.
Then that phrase makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it be the same as saying something like "we can't critize Donald Trump for his criminal actions because doing that just encourages people sending him death threats".
Presumably their blog is very low on the list of things they care about the reliability of.
A cursory look at Google Flights shows a lot more than hourly flights from SFO-LAX. That's also not including flights to other area airports like Oakland, San Jose, Ontario, John Wayne, Burbank, etc.
Debugging with breakpoint in Python3.7
I don’t see why it would not be their core product. It’s still huge in the enterprise, it’s the one thing that can’t be easily replicated by a competitor and so guarantees them a long term revenue stream. Everything else has successful competition (PS4 for the Xbox, Google Docs & G-Suite for Office 365, AWS & Google Cloud for Azure, etc).
Seattle's light rail is mediocre. I wish they had gone full in with a heavy rail and subway system instead.

They could've used that to link up Seattle, Tacoma, Redmond, Kent, Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island, and the entire Seattle area.

And to keep costs of building the infrastructure down, then they should consider outsourcing it, and hiring Chinese labor. (Apparently, the Chinese are very good at building railroads.) That way, you keep development costs down, and afterwards, the local citizens can enjoy first-world infrastructure, at low rates.

But, when infrastructure projects become billion dollar estimates, then that just kills any opportunity of it ever being developed. Simply, because it now becomes a major high-paying jobs program.
Large doses of Zinc some reaction with his other meds and the hadn't told his GP about the zinc pills.
How do you calculate the score for best second citizenship in detail? You should probably add a page for that.

I.e. I get told that the best second nationality I could get is Serbian... Why though?
"What happened" to it? You're LOOKING at it, right now!

PeerTube builds on top of the Mastodon / ActivityPub network, which is Decentralized Facebook.

In effect, this is showing the network effect of the new open-source / federated protocol. It can be extended to host videos over Bittorrent over WebRTC through the Web Browser (all port 80, no configuration, Javascript clients only), while publishing over the Mastodon / ActivityPub federation.

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I think there are some legitimate privacy issues with regards to Bittorrent over WebRTC (public publishing of IP Addresses and such), but as long as its a configurable flag that individual servers can turn off, then the federation can grow.
It doesn't make sense to build it at all.

Not unless you nix the tube and just build a reliable high speed rail system.
Five ways to gain serverless observability
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I don't miss anything from Reeder, I use it on iOS already and it's all great. I also don't really have a problem with spending the money for Reeder. I'm just worried that in a few months when Mojave comes out all kinds of things are going to break and I have to look for a new solution.
It really is common sense though.

You only need good lawyers if you are trying to game it.
lol China will steal this company's tech in 3...2...1...
FAANG and most other tech valuations have grown enormously over the last 10 years, but they've roughly followed the growth of their revenue streams and potential monetization opportunities. There may be some short term corrections, but the notion that the majority of risk in the current economy is concentrated in FAANG and some tech IPOs seems overly simplistic and probably just wrong.

The GFC was a result of individuals taking on massive amounts of debt in aggregate. Corporate America has similarly taken on a lot of debt over the last decade for buy backs and growth. As the author of the article notes, the last 10 years have been great for cheap debt. Negative balances are still a risk and rates are going up. The companies taking on the most risk in terms of debt are for the most part not traditional tech. Think Chevron, GE, and other industrial and energy companies. I'd conclude that the majority of the economic risk is in fact not concentrated in FAANG or even most of tech, but elsewhere in the economy.

That doesn't mean some tech companies won't get caught in the storm. I think we could very easily see a couple mid-size players go the way of Yahoo (the Snaps and Ubers).
As someone who next to a Mac also uses Windows I just gave up on native RSS apps. Somehow RSS (or Twitter) apps never got traction on Windows.

There are some nice self-hosted RSS aggregators but in the end I just 'solved' this problem by subscribing to Inoreader. Its web app is convenient, resource-friendly and has more features than I will ever need. Their Android app also looks very polished. It is reliable to fetch article contents for header only feeds and because most RSS feeds are just pointers to web content I am just fine with not having a native app on my Mac/PC.
Brent Simmons working on new open-source[1] rss reader for macOS — Evergreen[2]. Brent is original author of NetNewsWire. He recently posted screenshot[3] of current Evergreen state.

[1]: https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen
[2]: https://ranchero.com/evergreen/
[3]: https://twitter.com/brentsimmons/status/1020079742869884928
'decentralisation' should not be a design goal, or at least should not be advertised as one, because it is fundamentally unsustainable.

It is best understood as a transitional phase between centralized regimes, not an end in and of itself.
Just another thing that you need to remember to configure on each of the applications that don't use the system resolver, on each of your systems.

I guess for me that equates to Firefox on 3 systems. Although I have three separate Firefox profiles, so I guess that's 9 times it needs configuring. And at some point 3 copies of Chrome, and another 3 Chromiums I guess. And then whatever other apps decide they want their own custom name resolution. That's assuming I'm actively notified that they have been changed to work that way, and assuming I remember to do it after each install.

Because by the sound of it, without remembering to configure my systems, I'm going to end up in a situation where I'm now shipping off a list of all the websites I visit to some American corp for safe keeping, by default. Along with everyone else in the World.

I can't even sit here in the UK, visiting a UK website, without asking an American corp for the IP. At least today, I'm asking my ISP for the IP. A company based in my legal jurisdiction, with whom I have a business relationship.

[edit] I forgot Firefox on my phone too. Thankfully I don't have a tablet.
Lol, AMP showing a google.com domain. Why are sites opting to send traffic through Google?
No VPN case. You busted by your ISP IP logged by HN.

VPN case. I logged in HN and gave legal advice :) Minute later I logged in Reddit, same IP, same browser, probably tracking cookies too (Reddit is behind CF too). Now CF can link my HN and Reddit logins. Chances are, I logged into Reddit without VPN days ago - IP - Busted. Not so hypothetical, imho.
No you don't.

The Web as a distribution method has supported the downloading of native applications since forever. Instead of trying so hard to make it so that users don't need to install native applications, then I think that it would be much more optimal if development efforts instead went into making the native installation-process much more streamlined. For example, browsers could have some kind of functionality that makes it so that end-users do not need to choose the correct type of executable themselves (such as choosing between x86-windows7, x86-windows10, Linux, etc) and instead just click a single installation button.
How exactly are you going to build a 50 mile tall structure? Current world record is Burj Khalifa, which is 828 meters tall, which is 0.51 miles. We're not even close.
Yeah, at my university partnerships between academia and industry have very complex IP terms that depend on the scope of work, how much of it involves novel research, etc.

And there, there's the clarity of "I'm an employee of the university". With dual appointments...the agreement has to be complex. Either that, or really draconian based on Facebook throwing it's weight around and saying "Accept this, or we'll find another university that will."
Gödel's background was Lutheran, not Catholic, and I don't think he was particularly orthodox. (I have no idea how his religious convictions influenced his metamathematical ones; you might well be right about that.)
"It" is "new cool mass-transit technology". That sounds to me like something that's a matter of opinion, not fact.

Edit: Ah, your stealth edit indicates you thought I was talking about Hyperloop! I wasn't. I edited the top to indicate that.
It's very strange to me how many people on the Internet constantly want to talk about "games journalism", which seems like an extremely niche area. So many very strong opinions about something that... really doesn't matter? I feel like there's more games journalism journalism than just games journalism, and I cannot even begin to approach an explanation of why that is.
I think getting viewers wouldn't be a problem since videos are shareable and searchable in the all the ActivityPub networks.
I hoped that link would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik
That's exactly the kind of information I'm looking for. Thank you. I'll follow that development closely!
I think its that no-one thinks "Obviously death threats are unacceptable and the perpetrators deserve severe legal consequences" requires a but after it.
Beauty lies on the eyes of the observer.

Also, there's nothing obfuscated here, and everything is explicit if you know the syntax.

The alternative is not caring and leaving everything for a GC and/or validating values with runtime checks instead. There are other languages which chose these approaches.
How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them.

A lot of successful things have had similarities to previous failures. The first step is to actually try something new instead of sitting around nay-saying everything.

Personally my opinion Youtube can keep the the drama rage videos, or they can fall off the face of the internet. I just want educational videos and music without constant ads, and I don't want to create some entity with absolute power to censor content for the rest of the internet.
Well it was a worker coop so there are some stronger laws governing that sort of company ie the employees directly owned the controlling interest.

Re being taken out if the coop movement was not stuck in the 19th century and embraced .coop properly it could have played out - and if ICANT weren't a bunch of xxxxx :-(
Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire
From a former climber's perspective, moving expediently through terrain is frequently the safest mode of operation. Every second you are in the mountains you are exposing yourself to increased risk of a catastrophic accident. Even if this is a terrifically low probability event if you spend enough time there it will likely bite you. Thus pursuing the fastest methods of travel is, from my perspective, aspiring to the highest ideals of mountaineering because it allows you to do it for longer (hopefully).
I'm still hoping for an ELI5 version of Wikipedia (e.g. as a language option).
Well its not a list per se but many of the interview prep sites tag their problems with the appropriate algorithm/data structure for the job. As someone who has his first SV phone technical interview on Monday and has done ~30 problems in the last two weeks, I can say after solving about 2-3 of them over a number of hours or days you start to recognize which algorithm will get the job done from the problem descriptions.
A Google-AMP version of a story published on Yahoo Finance syndicated from Business Insider. What a time to be alive!
Is there a GitHub repo?
But also shares THEIR data they’ve collected with competing companies for free. Not to mention potentially lowering switching costs for users looking to move away from their platform.
That is the implication, yes.
Student Life transition
Hello guys, a small group of students is conducting a research on student satisfaction and opinions on academic institutions and college-life transition.

Can you answer and share it with students or new grads?

Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7WctztEG6xMdgyFvG4qMKRRsNmWoQhH0Ebg88w6E-16HgNw/viewform?usp=sf_link

I appreciate the help, thanks! :)
they successfully raised crowdfunding..
So a cross between bittorrent and porntube?
It's overeager, then. It's pausing the console even when no selection is made. Maybe I'm clicking in the window accidentally, but I'm not selecting anything. I certainly don’t have the problem on Linux.
Good, we need decentralized services, especially as content creators. Youtube will flag seeming anything as violating some copyright, no matter how fair it's use may be. It's getting to be excessive now.

Fanmade music Video's i watched two weeks ago are taken down and gone from the internet. There's a real cultural loss with that, the culmination of human creativity snuffed over servitude to corporations who blanket flag content because they can.

The web is decentralized, and I think something so critical to our records as a species should not be under the control of any one corporate entity.