skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more comments from a user, the more accurate the system. In the case of HN, many people make less than 10 comments and the majority are shirt responses (i.e. contains minimal data).

If you try "postgresql" or something, there are enough people who have discussed it to provide good results. If you type "hnprofile", likely only these comments will show up.
Many drivers (in NYC anyway) are members of online discussion forums, so they are connecting already. I read many a multi-hundred page threads of drivers ranting and deciding to strike several years ago over Uber forcing black cars to accept UberX rides. Them joining together is a major reason Uber backtracked that policy per Uber’s public statement about it.
>Growing up people like Nas & Quincy Jones were idols even if I was never interested in making a career in music, simply because they made it.

My intention wasn't to denigrate the achievements of black entertainers. My point is that these people are constantly held up as the model of "making it", reinforcing the idea that "making it" in life is equivalent to "earning lots of money", regardless of what you spend your life actually doing.

Combine that with the astronomical odds of actually succeeding in those fields versus, say, just encouraging people to stay in school and strive for decent careers (as white parents/society teaches white kids), and this attitude becomes a huge contributing factor to African American poverty in my opinion.
Am I wrong in thinking that blood compatibility is basically a big allergy problem?
For IOS, that would make sense but the play store is basically the only way (with the recent EU fine) that google can make money on android.
You'd be amazed how much satisfaction you can get out of learning to keep a steady stream of perfectly-crispy fries going. It's quite fun on a busy day - hectic, but strategic, and rewarding when you can stay on top of things _and_ produce minimal waste in the process.

In some sense, the automation of demand prediction takes some of the fun out of gaining that intuition yourself. On the other hand, it is nice not to be the queue blocker with orders piling up behind you because you weren't prepared for a sudden burst of traffic...
Maybe that’s true. Or maybe the arrow of causality runs the other way and increased labor supply and housing demand due to mass immigration of foreign labor drives down wages and drives up housing costs, thereby reducing native fertility rates.

Edit: I wonder to what extent the US current account deficit is funding west coast real estate valuations. I know Chinese cash buyers were a big part of the Vancouver price increases.
> Because lots of people that haven't run a restaurant have successfully started a restaurant

[citation needed]

Do you have some examples? And do you have data supporting "lots"? Because I find that highly implausible.
From my days in those kinds of jobs I'd welcome it. I won't have to go count how much we have on hand. I just drop whats listed and move on to something else. My problems would usually come from "a system" that were missing large steps or prerequisites. "Start frying 1 batch of fries and other in 4 minutes" except the fries weren't cut the night before so both fries wont go in for another 20m. Or the food in the fridge is no longer fresh enough to serve, so we're down some food for the dinner rush.
The Roseville one has a train motif complete with steam locomotive coming out over the entrance.

Not sure that's earthquake ready.

Naturally Vegas has a slot machine.
Hmmm, we are going to have to check your credentials. In your opinion what is the best Chinese restaurant in either LA or SF?
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How about returning a reference to a static variable that changes when the function is called with different parameters. [C++]

I can't imagine why he thought that was a good idea.
Perhaps spyware is the more accurate term.

Even if it is clear in the app description that it is collecting data from users, I don't believe that the extent or consequences of such data collection would be considered or understood by the majority of its users.

It's a spyware product, wrapped up as a VPN, relying upon lack of attention from users to succeed.
Leninism and maoism both died the instant their namesakes died. I don't care about the difference. They were both tools to control populaces, not straightjackets restraining leaders.

Both strongmen did whatever they could and wanted to do. Don't buy the bullshit.
That is exactly why it should be renamed. It seems to be designed to be confusing. No one will care as much, if they just made it clear that they are transitioning parts of it to a commercial license that is not confusingly named. They are trying to make it sound like Apache is endorsing this license.
Ask HN: I'm experiencing pair programming exhaustion, how best to cope with it?
US denies liability after boy is sprayed by its cyanide trap
Eh, unless they're shitting on my plate I feel no need to be critical of service at all. Also, it's nice to eat out simply because it's away from your home.
Truly driverless.
I'm not sure, but from this context, it would seem that possibly, if "vexing" is also in the domain of others as well (seems so).

>Begone, you.

Not very welcoming around here?
> This is why I think we need a new way of identifying market abuse because you can make anyone a/not a monopoly based on what definition you use.

Which is why it matters if there are close substitutes or not.

> IOS device software distribution -> apple has a monopoly

There are no good substitutes for this. There is no viable alternative for distributing apps to the people with iOS devices. Distributing apps to people with Android devices isn't a substitute because they're different people, in the same way that distribution in the Northeast is not a substitute for distribution in the Southwest.

> High end phones -> apple probably has a monopoly

There are high end Android phones that are probably adequate substitutes. But if there weren't (or you think they aren't adequate substitutes) then sure.

> Total revenue of phones sold -> apple probably has a monopoly

The market you've specified is "phones" which is obviously not something Apple has a monopoly on. Whole Foods doesn't have a monopoly on food just because they have high margins. There are tons of non-Apple phones if all you need to satisfy to be part of the market is to be a phone.

It may even be a weak market definition because it's too broad -- a feature phone isn't a very good substitute for an iPhone. A better market definition might be smartphones, but even then they still don't have a monopoly. It's not about revenue or margins, it's a question of whether the consumer has a reasonable alternative supplier of something sufficiently equivalent.

> Number of phones (in use?) by OS -> android has a monopoly

The market in that case is would be "phone OS" but then Android has the obvious competition from iOS. Also, Android isn't a company, it's a product. It's nearly impossible for a piece of open source software to have "a monopoly" when literally everyone is allowed to supply it and anyone can do so at trivial cost. All the Android phone manufacturers are each independent suppliers of it.

> Number of computers by OS -> nobody has a monopoly

The market in that case is "computer OS" which is a poor market definition because desktop and phone operating systems are poor substitutes for each other.
The trouble with an idea like that is that unless there are armed "boots on the ground" actively protecting them, then those areas may just get exploited anyway, regardless of who owns them.
Sharing code is not always the answer. Independent thinking implies independence, in code and more abstractly.

The real 'mistake' is allowing the drama to escalate to the point that it is toxic. People who are truly interested don't care about who is right and who is wrong.

When disagreements like this come up, having common and good test cases are probably the most important (and is indeed the way in which the problem, generation of non-Boltzman behavior, was found).

In the end ST2 itself is flawed, and Princeton admitted that the discussion of water was not significantly advanced through this drama. Is it worth it?

Understanding the argument and its importance should be the focus.
Seems like playing one of the best 200 players in the world is a reasonable proxy for a top tier player.

I'm unfamiliar with DOTA rules, but does anyone know if there are any limitations on the openAI team? e.g. Things like keystrokes per minute, scroll speed, etc
To add another data point, the quick-accept only happens under a certain amount, like $25. Anything above that might trigger a signature.
The nightmare never ends.
>How is not wanting competition from aliens in the labor market irrational for native workers?

Extreme example: Elon Musk was not born in the US. He was an immigrant. Even ignoring the whole nation-of-immigrants ideology, surely you agree that the country and its workers may benefit from immigration?

The title makes it seem like hiring any foreign workers is bad a-priori.
Jump to 1:40 for the Elders line.
> My point is that these people are constantly held up as the model of "making it", reinforcing the idea that "making it" in life is equivalent to "earning lots of money".

I agree broadly, though I think 'earning lots of money' is held up as 'making it' for white kids too. It's that all of the examples are people who made money through celebrity, sports, or some other similarly non-intellectual activity.
While it might be good news, the amount of trees is still nowhere near the amount that existed before the Industrial Revolution.
> Tesla sells well in places without a tax credit.

Where? The biggest market is the US by far, and many other locations, like Canada, demand has dissolved without the tax credit.

> There is no reason to think that Tesla want be selling a 35k car

Other than the CEO once gave a large presentation two years ago selling it as a $35,000 car? And they raised capital multiple times under that premise? That seems pretty significant.

> Of course they can raise money, and I think even most bears would agree that this is the case. They have not raised more money because they currently don't need to raise more money, if that changes, they can do so.

Well, depends on what "raise money" means? Who is providing this capital and at what terms? Do I think Tesla could raise more debt at the 7-8% that it's debt is currently trading at? Sure, but that has a significant number of long term consequences raising debt at Michael Milken rates.

> Honest, people have been making doom and gloom prediction about Tesla 'cash position' for about 10 years and by now their actual cash inflow is growing massively.

I don't understand this at all. The company has never once been cash flow positive. What exactly do you mean by cash inflow and "cash position"? Also, Tesla was barely talked about until 5 years ago. Who are these people who are talking doom and gloom before the company went public in 2010?

> If you had actual prove that those 8000 are all broken and a warranty liability then you might have point but up to now very little of these problems have materialized and the quality has gotten better over time

The major problem here is that the company has had a number of instances being incompletely forthright with its metrics. That creates a pattern of distrust with how exactly to value the company. Any sort of financial projection of Tesla hinges completely on Model 3 margins. There's a growing concern of whether the company's quoted margins are accurate.
Language does not operate on the basis of what the speaker _wants_ it to mean.
In what manner is CFA non-diverse? Are you talking racially or belief wise?

If it's the latter, would you class the big tech companies as equally non-diverse, since Christians are frequently treated with derision there?
There are restaurants across the globe that people wait for over an hour to eat at because the food is simply that good.
the only expats i know got the bum’s rush in the 70s, and are unsurprisingly sharply critical of the state.
Laws of Showrunning [pdf]
McDonald's corporate has or used to have a royalty fee for each item sold. That's a lot of tracking of sales info in the early days...
Sounds like it would be fun to be on your team, but my work lies on the other end of the equipment chain. I do OEM work for the fryers and grills, and boy could they use a kick in the pants from the chains to get their act together.
Threadripper should win an award for product-naming.
> I'm not saying this is ok, but if we claim this is malware then Android is malware too.

Sure, it is. Or spyware, at least. So is Windows.

> I rather reserve the malware label to software that is directly designed to harm.

Stealing data is harmful. I mean, consider the OpenSSH user enumeration vulnerability.
> There wasn't room in the budget for comfort items like food on the plane, which back then was free

Are you allowed to take your own food on the plane in the USA?

When the airline doesn't give me free food, I'll often just pack my own. It's usually nicer than what they'd give me anyway. I'd rather a nice homemade bacon and egg sandwich than the shit they serve you on a plane.

Departing from New Zealand I've never had an issue bringing my own meal. Obviously I can't bring something to drink, but I can buy something after security.

The one that annoys me more than food is charging for luggage. Especially since some airlines will add a luggage fee for every leg of the trip, which can add up to be very expensive.
During the last OpenAI showmatch the bots had an artificial 200ms reaction time imposed on them, I assume it's the same here but I'm not sure.
Is there a chapter on what to do if your coworkers don't initialize variables? I just inherited a steaming pile of legacy where they didn't and I'm struggling to understand how they got it to run at all. At least I'm starting to understand why we held off on the spectre patches.
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The data is not anonymized, they say they may share anonymized data with partners. Malware is too strong but if you read the product description and FAQ, it's deliberately deceptive. Lieware? Slimeware?
"The top 10 organizations sponsoring Linux kernel development since the last report are Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, IBM, Samsung, SUSE, Google, AMD, Renesas, and Mellanox."

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2017/10/2017-linux-kern...

No, it's not a community service, not really. It's a happy byproduct of some very powerful companies.
Aside from real-estate (an asset, not a product or consumable), about everything you mentioned is hyper-competitive and low-margin.

'Brand' does not guarantee margin, in most cases, it simply provides a means to exist.

Peleton might make a hefty gross margin on their bikes, but they're also probably losing money due to huge marketing, R&D and operating costs, and they may never make a dime.

IKEA makes a solid profit, but only because they have a massive business at scale, at which point those thin margins add up to something big. Same thing for Walmart, Amazon, and any large Grocery store chain.

Those are all vicious businesses.

High operating costs, huge working capital requirements. It's ugly and cut-throat.

I'm making a hardware product right now, even if we're successful, our net margin per unit will be a tiny fraction of the MSRP. Of MSRP about 60% goes to retailer, about 25% cost to manufacture, about 5% marketing on the unit level, and then we have 10% to pay all our fixed and regular operating costs, brand marketing, R&D etc. and then taxes.
The ecosystems that took hundreds, thousands if not millions of years to develop will not magically spring to life in plantations, either.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? It's not what this site is for and we ban accounts that are here only to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This reminds me of the famous children's entertainment venue / science museum Wonderworks [0] whose building is constructed to appear upside down entirely.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=wonderworks&prmd=ivns&tbm=is...
The British were opposed to National ID cards, so they were never introduced. They tried in 2006, but it ended up being repealed on the grounds that it was an invasion of civil liberties and privacy. A rare moment of clarity for the UK govt.
LibrePay had some issues with a payment provider that almost killed it.

Patreon is owned by the VCs and will eventually make changes that negatively impact creators.
Me neither, but telling others that they will have a bad time trying to do the same is either confusing or disingenuous depending on how charitable you want to be. His second comment seems to indicate having regrets in going that way presumably because this strategy turned out to not be very profitable, and that was the reconciliation I was looking for, sort of. I still disagree with the original bullet points.
> The article doesn't say that 1 human = 100GB anywhere.

FTFA: "Typically, a DNA sequencing machine that’s processing the entire genome of a human will generate tens to hundreds of gigabytes of data."

Plural tens = 2to3 x 10 = 20-30. Plural hundreds = 2to3 x 100 = 200-300. Median[20,30,200,300] ~= 100 GB.
> All Apple has to do to offer an alternative is let people install Apps on their phones outside the App Store

This exists now and is free. I’m not saying it’s a good user experience (especially the one week limitation), but it’s definitely possible and legit / legal / free.
Thats the deal with open source. Don't like it commercialize and see if you can make it your day job. You'll have to pay programmers too though, no more free work from the community.
It would be great if the fund collaborates with Latin America too.
>When the concept of open source software was first introduced, it was seen as a desperate way to get users but it was an effective strategy at the time

This was not the motive for free software's beginning, nor does it describe the beginning of the term "open source." The concept rose out of early computing allowing and sometimes encouraging users to share and improve software, and the true start of the movement envisioned a model similar to Red Hat, where the software is sold though sharing is not restricted.

Forcing user payment is effectively impossible for open source software, someone can just buy a copy and redistribute it without the required payment, so your prediction is a movement away from open source software.
I don't know how it works in your country but in Turkey you can return the Windows license and get your computer with FreeDOS so you don't have to use or pay for Windows.
It's a combination of having no time to read (tests, homework, and sports take up time), having a smartphone (youtube is easily consumable), and honestly, reading doesn't offer an ROI most of the time.

I've read so many books about how to cook and I've received helpful advice, but the advice has never made me money, it's only just improved the taste of my cooking.
The argument here is not one of entitlement.
Animals cant read. Why then would they not put a flag/sign near the trap telling humans that a trap was there and to be wary?

Ostensibly they would not do so to prevent people from stealing them?

Well, if they want "security through obscurity" for not lableing the fact that a lethal trap is placed there, then they should be liable...

Further, especially liable if the ranger confirms he placed the trap in error.

How do you place one of these in error? Also, should there be a means for citizens to be alerted that they are/will/were placed in some particular area?
Unless I missed it, it doesn't seem to address the usage of shortened sha1 hashes. It seems like sha1 hashes will stay in the repo, so how does it know if 'abcd12345' is sha1 or sha256?
the first rule of the mobile passport app is don't talk about mobile passport!! it is great, generally the same experience as global entry. and I'm worried that if more people use it, it will become as busy as everything else.
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I've been there. Many times. To a point where I started introducing myself to new team members as "The Code Janitor".

> I started "repairing" the project

Don't. Unless your immediate supervisor requests you to do the repairs. These type of efforts largely go un-noticed or un-rewarded, and only cause you stress because you care a lot about the work and the codebase. Sometimes, you even get punished for trying to do the repairs.

>   I'm so frustrated and depressed by it

I know it's hard, but try not to take it to heart. There's a life outside of work, and don't neglect that at the cost of your work ethics. Have to leave you with this quote from https://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/83319/12527

> There is an incredibly rich world out there outside of work, and my sense is that all too many people get caught up in what happens within the office walls, at the expense of simply being, living in, discovering and enjoying this world. There have been some interesting survey studies of people on their death beds, and what they wish they had done more of when they were younger and healthier. Hardly anyone says "I wish I had spent more time in the office." I keep this in mind every day on my way to work, and it helps me keep my internal compass focused on the things that really matter, so that I don't regret not dedicating enough of myself to non-work-related pursuits years from now, when it may be too late.

RELATED: Try to achieve the 'Zen-like' state that the dude in office space gets into, when he get hynotized and does't snap out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7EUUVdrt0
If a tree was fungible, it'd be great news.

In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap a size z pants' belt around, replacing biodiversity with monoculture palm trees.

That having been said, I agree with the sentiment. There is actually a lot of great news that we don't report on, like child mortality or severe poverty dropping very sharply. Ourworldindata.org is a great place to start.

But in terms of this story, it's not part of the set of good news stories.
Has everyone forgotten that these people are all convicted of a crime and serving their sentences?

For all the issues that exist (gouging for common services, violence, the judicial process, etc.) complaining about the terms of their punishment is absurd.

To be sure there should be rehabilitation, and a component of that is incentives. There should be no expectation, though, that those incentives should correlate to what they may receive in the free market.
> That’s the problem: we all take this particular public library for granted, but there isn’t a sustainable model for paying the librarians.

I don't think the fact that RedisLabs doesn't have a sustainable revenue model indicates that open source infrastructure in general doesn't.

It's true that there are a number of relatively new venture-funded OSS infra firms that were built on a step 1, build software, step 2 ..., step 3 profit model. But I don't think that's an OSS problem so much as a startup culture problem, as the same problem is rampant in startups in other spaces.

> Then a librarian tries a creative way to continue serving us without starving

It's not particularly creative or novel; the basic outline has been tried since the 80s at least.
Anyone who wants to censor the internet can take their Winnie the Pooh lookin ass and get back to physically torturing ethnic minorities. Scumbag.