skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have Toyota Research Institute, which they've invested 1 billion and got the Gill Pratt to head so I not sure why they want to team up with Uber now.
I worked at a company where the CEO was an engineer, and most of the managers and VC in the engineering dept were engineers, but things weren't necessarily any better.
If you want less displacement, build more housing
AXDRAFT CEO Yuriy Zaremba: AXDRAFT Appeared as a Solution to Ease My Own Pain
Browser sandboxing is great but I’d be much more trustful of browsers if they required user permission for more things. As it is they give away far too much implicitly.
There's no such thing as perfect, natural free-market capitalism; government creates the conditions in which something called a "free market" can exist. Additionally, Internet service providers enjoy a monopoly in most regions they operate in, making the typical nostrums about the Invisible Hand even less convincing than usual.

There is a long (although slowly being forgotten) history of vigorous regulation of the market used in the US to maintain competition and avoid a situation where a handful of large trusts control the entire economy. Do we really want to go back to Standard Oil doing whatever they want because nobody can do anything about it? Because that's the way we're headed.
Seagulls were the pests of my school, and would swarm anything dropped outside at lunch. I seem to recall hearing about someone being shat on once a week or so, and I assume I heard about it significantly less than it happened. Happened to me once while there too.

This was a good 20 miles from the coast, too, so they're willing to travel to get what they want.
Spreading their bets? Buying into something else with Uber with the "self driving" being a front?
>for the rural parts of the world

I'm sure that's true. Google Maps seems to be better or at least more consistent (and better at routing with real-time information obviously) for the things that Google cares about. Which doesn't include rural areas, hiking trails, etc.
Great example of inversion right there. What McCain did to his first wife was sleazy, reminding people of it is not sleazy. This is the #metoo era, we are all moral absolutists now, particularly in the treatment of women.

Of course I am not an authority on those aspects of his life, doesn't mean I can't speak about it or have an opinion about it. This is after all a discussion forum, which by its nature should encourage alternative views and opinions.

I like McCain, I voted for him twice (primary in 2000 against Bush, and again in 2008 against Obama). I even liked Palin, before she self-imploded.
> But that's not going to be possible anytime soon until all state monopolies are removed (by law).

With perfect competition you still have the problem that a large amount of capital investment is required (making it impractical to challenge established companies) and ISPs from a pure profit motive have little incentive to serve less densely populated areas. The theory behind granting the monopoly is that in exchange they have to serve everyone and submit to more vigorous regulation.
Huh. Design is so subjective. I would not call this site "aesthetic".
> It's easier to give constructive feedback about an interview process you have a lot of confidence in, and much of the work we've put in as a company over the last few years has been designing an interview we think really works.

It's hard to take this at face value, as 100% of the TripleByte messaging I've seen since before I received that email focused heavily on how confident they were that their interviews were thorough, high-quality assessments.
I mean, this is pretty much just running an extension cord to a nuclear sub. Why not?
> It is completely beyond me why there isn't a battery of government saftey tests that vehicles with autopilot must pass before they get approved for use on our public roads.

Because the inefficiencies of government are catching up with them as they'd rather right each other (different parties) rather than be productive and move the country forward.
Business, Business, Business
This makes no sense to me. They already have TRI which has billions in funding and poached the former head of the DARPA challenge. Why do they need Uber?
> Unless each tier goes up in value by an amount proportionate to what landlords expect the wind-fall to be.

No, that's literally exactly what I addressed. Unless, by “the wind-fall” you mean the amount extractable not the amount of the net benefit to their current tenant base, in which cases yes, that's exactly what I addressed as to why it is not the full net benefit and why those who are not beneficiaries before considering induced rent increases are generally going to be net beneficiaries after such increases, too.

> Landlord don't have to play by some fair rules of economics or something.

Landlords aren't magically immune from economics, either.
The Struggle to Protect a Tree at the Heart of Hopi Culture
He meant 1% of market cap, not revenues.
Jonathan Blow discusses harmful abstractions in several youtube videos, while discussing the Jai Programming language. That language isn't out yet, but an overview is available at: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md
Running decades-old code on modern implementations is also a characteristic shared by other languages (e.g. QBasic with FreeBASIC) so I'd hope it's not anyone's main motivation for Lisp. Still, it's a big plus. This is a great writeup to see how to start tackling the elephant that is CL...
Most definitely yes.

But in addition to this, standard Raid5 does not periodically read the data, so it's actually rather common for issues to only arise on a resilver.

This is why proper maintenance in ZFS is to run ZFS Scrub (basically check every file) once a week.
If one of the columns you're SELECTing has some sort of complicated expression in it (e.g. `UNIX_TIME(colA) - UNIX_TIME(colB) AS duration`), I think you can refer to that column by name in HAVING, but not in WHERE. It's a pretty niche thing though; I can't remember if I've ever actually used it.
They want to win.
Oh, ships sink in the middle of the ocean, I believe, with utmost certainty.
previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17761104
Facebook API: avoid at all costs
You're describing my nightmare scenario but sure it's a wet dream for ISPs.
When to Rewrite (2010)
Rogues gallery of post Moores law options
What's your MVP favorite stack?
Hi hackers !

I'm passionate on digital product, SASS and side projects creation.

Sometime lost in the "amazon of tools" to do my MVPs, I'd like to know what's your favorite stack to create your products.

I've do this little form (http://bit.ly/2PFxN0z) in order to sumup these datas and I'll be realy happy to share soon all results with you. Is it possible to do a framework with part of these tools to do better MVP quicker ..? Try to answer together.

Mine is:
- custom HTML
- convertkit
- google analytics / bitly
- google form
- google sheet
- streak CRM
- stripe

Feel free to fill the form here http://bit.ly/2PFxN0z to go on.

Thank you.

ps: all results will be published on https://productlearn.io
I agree with you, except that the company should send out a rejection letter as soon as they can. If I were hiring, I would only send a non-generic response if the rejected candidate specifically asked me if I would be willing to give her or him constructive feedback, or otherwise indicate why they did not get the position.
I don't agree with him on that front at all.
What's with the high CPU usage?
GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development
It's tough to be in your situation. Not being able to drive really does block you from moving into the cheaper rent areas.

I'm wondering if you've thought of how much having that portable income would have helped you if you were actually able to drive.

If 90% of people with portable income were able to drive would they be able to move to cheaper places successfully? If that were to happen then the 10% who couldn't drive would suddenly find less competition (and therefore lower costs) for renting places in the areas that actually had good public transit options.
> I'm saying that OSM data is objectively better for the rural parts of the world I've been to.

Which is a subjective factor. "X is objectively better for the categories that I subjectively selected".

Mapping is a subjective topic, simply because there are endless ways to evaluate and compare maps, so attributing any type of weight to any factor is a subjective exercise based on your own personal preferences.
Show HN: Show HN: New Universe, deep strategy MMORPG, universe location gameplay
I know what your thinking, it's just another empire building game. But this one is different.

Conquest is a universe location community based deep strategy war game. Unlike other MMORPGs, conquest is all about location within the universe and the community that surrounds it. You can move your fleets anywhere you want and attack anyone you want, but it all has social ramifications within the game.

You’ll find alliances dedicated to training up new members. You’ll find alliance politics, drama and intrigue as you join alliances. Trust takes time to build up. Alliances may be slow to trust new members, as they could be spies. But, once you earn their trust, you can have no better ally. Players have a tradition of not sharing coordinates in global chat and global forums. But within alliance forums, these coordinates are eagerly plotted over.

High value targets are rare stellar objects that are highly contested within the universe. These can bring about vast amounts of resources to expand your empire. After one alliance defeats another, they typically divide the spoils.

Although this game has been around for a while, I’ve recently released a brand new universe, ideal for new players to get started.

Give it a try:
http://www.clicktaz.com
" On 1 June 2012, President Assad vowed to crush the anti-government uprising. On 12 June 2012, the UN for the first time officially proclaimed Syria to be in a state of civil war. " - Wikipedia

I am sorry but the conspiracy Theory that the US had anything to do with starting the Syrian conflict is simply not true.
Lightweight Modular Staging: Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs [pdf]
Yeah, this sounds like as much of an issue as the legal risk to me. Imagine if you reject someone and they blog about the letter you sent them and the interview process, and the post makes Hacker News or Reddit.

Now you have to decide whether to fight in public with someone you didn't hire, normally bad form, or say nothing.
I thought those were a joke, custom made, but then I went back and looked at the lock-up suggestions, and indeed those are the suggested ones by the designer.
Not too fast: http://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/
I read the EFF's post here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/verizons-throttling-fi...

I assume that's the one you are commenting on, if not, feel free to post a link as the EFF has been putting out a lot of communications lately. :-)

I agree with you that the EFF's communication here is muddled. The point I would focus on in the actual incident (the Santa Clara fire department being throttled) is this one:

"Within the documents submitted by Santa Clara, it appears to be some confusion as to what exactly was Verizon selling to the fire department. Twice the public safety officials asserted they thought they were buying an unlimited plan and twice they discovered during the emergency they did not."

In other words, to me the key issue here is not throttling, but whether customers understand what they are buying. (As the article notes, it might not be Verizon's fault if there was a misunderstanding; that would need to be investigated.) If you buy a plan that says you get throttled after a certain usage point, that's what you bought; I don't see how that is inconsistent with NN since the throttling doesn't depend on what sites you go to. But the EFF then argues this:

"The FCC, however, could have proactively addressed this problem in the future and establish a federal rule applicable in all fifty states that ISPs are not allowed to throttle public safety services during emergencies. The FCC under its Title II authority could even go so far and categorically say it is illegal to try to upsell public safety agencies, or anyone, wireless plans during official emergencies as a matter of public safety. The agency would have good arguments as to why to set these rules, and thanks to Verizon, the evidence to demonstrate that threats to health and life are at stake in the absence of such rules. But the Restoring Internet Freedom Order abandoned those powers, so right now in America, firefighters don’t have a government agency they can turn to for help."

To me this is a different issue from NN, since the whole basis of the argument is that public safety agencies should be treated differently from other customers. I don't disagree with that argument, but I don't think it falls under NN either.
There is no such thing as a "free market". What "capitalists" really want is "strong competition", not "free markets". The "free market" zealots think they are capitalists, but they really end up promoting a rentier economy where monopolists abuse state power to create perpetual advantages that benefit themselves but harm consumers in terms of higher costs, fewer options, etc.

The problem with internet services is that the infrastructure required creates a natural monopoly (ex: running fiber optic cables to each persons house), and there is a lot of regulation in many markets that ISPs are granted de facto monopoly power by the state itself in exchange for a guarantee of universal access for everyone in a given area, even if those customers are unprofitable/too expensive to service. If there was no monopoly at the ISP level, natural or otherwise, then there would be no need for net neutrality, as consumers would be able to choose alternatives and ISPs would compete on value. Net neutrality is an anti-monopolist regulation.
I see what you're saying, but that only works if the process is continuous - if the religious culture that values high birth rates continues for several generations. For a counterexample, look at Saudi Arabia, another religion-driven state. In 1960, the birth rate was 7.22. Today, it is 2.58. So religious parents have 8 children, and all 8 survive, because it's the 21st century and they're getting vaccinated and not drinking their neighbors' poo anymore. Will all 8 of those children go on to have big families of their own, in keeping with their religious sect's values? Or will they move to town, get better jobs, and start using family planning to have a family they can afford, knowing their children aren't going to die of cholera or smallpox or simple starvation?

Interestingly, I did some googling on the Haredim. As of 2010, the poverty rate for the Haredim in Israel was 60%, far higher than the rest of Israel's Jewish population (probably more in line with the occupied Palestinians, who also have a very high birth rate). Population size or not, this is extremely limiting for their political power. Money counts for a great deal. If they can't afford to expand their communities, and refuse to participate in the broader economy, they'll necessarily be limited in their growth.

So no, I'm not concerned about this problem. Religious groups that refuse to participate in mainstream society may have high birth rates, but will also have high poverty rates. And I see no evidence at all of this behavior in American society, outside of tiny cults. Even the Mormons, probably the best and largest analogy, have seen their birth rate drop drastically, falling 18% from 2007 to 2014 alone. I'm not expecting the LDS church to overrun the nation anytime soon.
U.S. and USSR/Russian arms sales from 1950 through 2017
I don't think nuclear waste is as big a problem as you might think it is:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

And on a side note, are solar and aeolic scalable enough to support (let's say) the entire US ?

How much of the country would physically need to be covered for that? Cause I've seen claims that it's just impossible
"While Jeff Bezos' wealth has increased $260 million every single day this year, he continues to pay many Amazon employees wages so low that they're forced to depend on taxpayer-funded programs such as food stamps, Medicaid and public housing to survive"

Privatice profits, socialize loses. Amazon has a PR problem with its employees, but the rest of the citizens should be also worried because they are paying for it.
The housing we have is in parts of the country with few economic prospects, such that people would rather be rent-burdened than continue living in them. There is not nearly enough walkable, transit-connected housing in major urban centers, because it’s usually illegal to build, and that’s what’s in short supply.
Jam Pad.
> Dissenting opinion: I dont think net neutrality is a good policy. Very light users(news) are effectively subsidizing super heavy users(netflix).

Net neutrality does not prohibit charging by volume of usage, if anything, the inability to do backdoor (and possibly third-party) charges based on kind of usage and remote edge provider interacted with encourages direct usage-based charges.

> I think internet should be sold per GB, at different tiers of speed/uptime/ping.

Well, at least on the first two axes that is both possible and consistent with net neutrality. Charging by ping is problematic: ping to what endpoint?
It was definitely intentional. The prefect sandbox has been a central design decision since day one.
Yes, but as you say not everyone wants that; also, maybe a large number of people will decide to live 2 hours away from the city center instead of 1 hour away (especially if they only go to the city on weekends) and that should also help to bring down prices.
Can't believe somewhere in the world, someone is still harnessing nukes
F the Telcoms. They wanted to gut it and paid Ajit Pai to make it happen.

This is part of their problem. They get the increased tax/regulation frustration as a minor cost to their goal of cable-ifiying the Internet.
> you can search for throttling to see what the rule would have banned

I did. It bans throttling based on content. It does not ban throttling based on going over the usage cap in the plan you paid for, which is what Verizon did to the Santa Clara fire department.
You're willing to bet your own employment on that? We'd all love to live in a world of butterflies and sugar plums, but risking your own for that is silly don't you think?
It's seriously surprising that a premiere design company produced this.
Geese is great cooking if you know how! There actually a lot less meat there than you might think, and it does take some cooking skill to get right, but that is often the case with game-meat, for example where I'm from elk, which can be super gamey, but also super tasty if prepared correctly.
Basic income is more than just about affordability. Higher housing costs is a problem that needs to be urgently addressed beyond just basic income as it diverts and concentrates resources in the renteer class, resources that could be used for other productive economic activity and job creation.

Free markets need 'choice' to work efficiently, consumer choice, manufacturers choice, its always labour who don't have 'real choice' as you need to work to survive, it's not a choice. And no labour market is ever liquid or fluid enough to afford 'choice' and the very nature of labour makes quick choice difficult.

What basic income has the potential to do is introduce choice in this critical component of free markets and give it the same power as capital and consumer choice.

However given how disruptive it is to 'entrenched interests' its an extremely difficult idea to pull off. It defines the bitter struggle between capital and labour for 300 years and there won't be easy wins. Studies, funding, motives, methodologies, data need to be examined carefully as they could be studies simply to discredit the idea and kill it at birth, or reduce it to a 'extremely basic income' as a tool to subsidize employers.
Or to put this another way... I think it's far more likely that modernism will doom high birth rate, impoverished religious cults, than it is that high birth rate impoverished religious cults will doom modernity.
A huge fraction of cars driven by Uber drivers are made by Toyota. More often than not, you'll get picked up by a Prius, Corolla, or Camry. So to some extent, this is about maintaining market share.
Having speed tiers isn't what people typically refer to when saying throttling. Throttling is "you used 100gb so we're halving the speed you purchased"
AMD ROCm GPU Support for TensorFlow
Here's one thing that stuck out to me:

> Even Triplebyte only sends individualized feedback to candidates who've done a two-hour interview with us - we simply don't have the resources to do it for everyone who takes our online quiz.

Unless there's something interesting going on, it seems like it would be easy to give some kind of feedback based on the online quiz, even if it's only "You answered X out of Y questions correct on $TOPIC", repeated for however many topics were covered.
I would like to stand on the shoulder of giants, when possible.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does
Do you realize you dodged a bullet at that moment? That was a classic case of "smartest-guy-in-the-room" syndrome: from your description, he wasn't there to interview you, he was there to show off and stroke his own ego.

Be glad you didn't get that job, because that would have been the future of your days at work -- constantly listening to Mr. Smartypants compensate for his own sense of inadequacy, where every different opinion is treated as a personal insult or a challenge. No thanks. That personality type is infectious (not in a good way) and it damages an organization.
Anti-monopolist is pro-free market. Monopolies are kind of the opposite of markets.
"holding Europe hostage with their gas pipelines"

Only countries that can't or won't pay. Take Ukraine, all the gas destined for Germany and the Netherlands (people who have payed their bills on time since 1950) had to go through them. Russia couldn't shut down those Ukrainian deadbeats because then they would lose billions.

The world is not black or white.
I believe in the Verizon case at issue, one of the issues was whether the apparent confusion was a result of a failure of transparency, which was an element of both the 2015 and 2010 Open Internet (aka, “net neutrality”) orders from the FCC, though a separate issue from net neutrality as that is usually understood.
I get his point, though in the end I agree with you. The interface between the scientific community and the public at large should be reliable. At this point in time it doesn't seem to be.
For a swath of business responsibilities, this "phantom legal risk" is the Most Available Excuse (TM).

We see Most Available Excuses in product feedback ("it's too hard to use" is easier to say than "I didn't see how this would help me accomplish anything I actually care about"), in social engagements ("sorry, too busy this week"), and many other areas.

I'm a natural skeptic so I maintain a mental set of Most Available Excuses, and when I hear one I treat it as a dodge, not an answer. Why don't they want to do it? How might I make them more comfortable with me so they can explain how they really feel?
Apple Maps lists a whole bunch of data providers. OpenStreetMap is among them.
I'll make a submission if it results in something interesting.
There is also some controversy around it : the big players do data mixing from different sources, which is not strictly compliant with OSM licenses. Also some say that their bulk editing creates nice map data, but harms local potential mapping communities, with early case of Netherlands where AND contributed map data resulted to no real manual map updates afterwards. So some say that community, not map must come first, so the “guerilla mapping” is bad.
This is about the design process, not a particular visual aesthetic.
Paula Scher, you can't win them all.