skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying you do not plan to do something, does not mean that you won't change your mind if circumstances change in the future
Your experience is almost exactly the opposite of mine.

1. Without fail, taking Uber costs me more than taking a taxi, same trip, same time of day.

2. The bill up front point is fair

3. As far as paying by credit card, know the rules of your city. In many cities, they must take credit cards or are not allowed to drive. As such, if they tell you at the end of the trip that you must pay cash, just tell them you can't. If they won't let you pay by credit then, just walk away. Even if it's not a city where they have to accept credit, just tell them you don't have cash and stick to it. If their credit machine really wasn't working, they should/would have told you at the beginning of the trip.

4. I never have a problem getting a cab (though, to be fair, I only do it in NYC... they're everywhere)
I like the animated ship as track position indicator as you stream... :)
> If not for the fact that the US&USSR were working like mad to find a way to destroy one-another, the cold war + space race was great for advancement of science.

Armed conflict or the threat of it has been the driver for a big percentage of the advancements in science, ever since Archimedes. Some posit that one of the main reasons Europe became the seat of scientific advancement after about the 15th century was because of the frequent wars between its many nations. Certainly nuclear technology and the physics underlying it were advanced rapidly because of WWII, just as space tech blossomed with all the money thrown at it during the Cold War.

Now the war has gone mostly underground and involves advances in surveillance, psychological control of entire populations, and AI. Not a shot fired, with worse results for everyone compared to the Cold War since there's no scenario where the victor relinquishes control of its population. Further, most of the control is held by essentially unaccountable private firms rather than (at least somewhat) accountable governments. But please feel free to continue to believe it's just about serving ads and selling shit to an audience, while making everyone's life more convenient with self-driving cars and the like. Perhaps I'm just a nutter.
I have been wondering the same thing. But, I spent the last hour looking for something like Kibana that would work with Postgres.

Postgres full text search, and Timescale extension would be ideal for logging kind of application. I could just set data retention to something like 2 months to keep the data volume simple and manageable.

But, all "data explorer" like tools for SQL databases obviously focus on having their end users write SQL. I'm hard pressed to find a good search interface that talks to Postgres at the backend..
Clusters of re-used keys [pdf]
This.

Also, their P/E is at an healthy 19.99, reasonable.

The article says that Apple is making their own GPUs, that doesn't matter, because Apple is not a nVidia client for a very very long time, and was never a big client.

The others are even less suitable comparasion as those companies aren't making GPUs and they are not just going to walk in that market.
Sweetch: little trick big benefits
The ISP provides the Internet access, while another organization provides the infrastructure to talk to the ISP.

This model is used in data centers where a single company is selected by the owner of the building and they are responsible for all the wiring (it would be very expensive and a lot of redundant wiring if multiple companies could do that), but selecting an ISP is a matter of just using a short patch panel in exchange room. You can easily switch ISPs or use several of them.

Currently when ISPs own the last mile they are only motivated to have speed that's marginally faster (typically DSL) and cheaper (typically wireless). There's no motivation to improve especially after FCC killed net neutrality, since slow speed can actually make them money by prioritizing traffic.

If last mile is separate, ISPs always will be motivated to be fastest and cheapest because the customer can easily switch between them.

The last mile is primarily responsible for laying fiber cable and do repairs if it is broken. If they won't do their job, both ISP and users won't be happy and they might end up being replaced by someone else.
I never make memes, but this stupid overused meme is so dang appropriate:

https://i.imgflip.com/2ottk6.jpg
I have been using the same for a week for leaky gut and feel better. It also supposedly fights H. pylori (the bacteria associated with stomach ulcers). I think I may have picked up a bad strain of cow bacteria from young cheese such as cottage cheese and casein in overnight protein supplements. I began having IBS symptoms a few years ago but didn't know what they were. I also developed a sensitivity to peanuts around the same time, which may have transferred to legumes and nightshades, which triggered rather severe bouts of acne and tendonitis, which lead me on the journey towards leaky gut and remedying it with a low carb/keto diet. Some other things that have helped are psyllium husk powder and good old fashioned prunes. Today my acne is completely gone and my joint pain is reduced but I have some redness that will probably take months to fade.

I am noticing how important gut health is to overall health as I get older. I feel like maybe children express poor gut health in different ways, for example by asthma, allergies, type II diabetes, acne, ADHD/hyperactivity, autism, etc. It's looking like autoimmune diseases are tied to inflammation in the gut, which is exacerbated by poor western diets saturated with sugar/soy/corn and herbicides/pesticides like glyphosate (Roundup) which disrupt intestinal flora. This is an inconvenient truth for factory farming though so will probably take 5-10 years to show up in the literature and become mainstream knowledge.
Then I get dropped off outside the Ivanhoe in a sketchy part of town in the middle of the night.
They should be certain about their priorities in life. They should be aware, that starting a business can have side effects on your family, your health and your significant other and can put you in exceptional situations, you cannot plan everyone's reactions to ahead of time. You are all-in and should at least be aware, what's at stake ahead of time. Everyone knows, that most startups fail. What's less commonly known is that lost money could be the least of your problems.
>...When Obama took office, the new POTUS' policies aligned to a significant degree with the anti-war protestors.

What actually changed? We left Iraq at the timetable Bush proposed and I think Obama wanted to extend it past that but couldn't come to terms with the Iraq government. There was a troop surge in Afghanistan - the thing that was criticized when Bush did it. People have a right to their opinion and the right to protest, but it does appear the anti-war democrats weren't quite as active once the POTUS had a D by the name.

I don't have space to go over the foreign military adventures done by Obama, here is an overview:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/ob...

>...This is true "political correctness"

Not really. The OP asked for politics that didn't work and got consistent support. I listed a few ones that came to mind. I also think these bad polices are also endorsed by conservatives. Rather than attack the idea that people could ever be wrong, why don't you address the policies I brought up and explain why either they are great polices or that democrats don't support them.
The courts in the US have long upheld that law enforcement (and probably by extension, regulators) are under no obligation to protect you.
By good diet, I mean higher intake in fruits and vegetables, moderate intake in meats.

this is a common truism that may or may not be beneficial to any one individual. it has nothing to do with understanding of nutrition as pertaining to treating specific health issues.

it's like saying, "exercise and sleep good". while this is true in most cases, has nothing to do with original point "Most doctors know very little about what food does to the body."
MetricSpot: Bootstrapping a $3,000/Month Site Working Remotely
Things like the Blackbird seem really amazing but whats out there now is even more amazing. It's crazy they were able to do all of that back then with just hand tools. But now you could design the same thing sooner, cheaper, and make the thing perform much better. Computers have really advanced what we can make. Just the software from 10 years ago seems crude to what you can do now. Not everything needs to be a big black stealth plane to appreciate technological progress.
Should have said, "Everything they can that's potentially profitable," but overall I'm aiming for pith over nuance.

I'm not throwing up my hands, I'm here saying: consider the things you're letting into your life and their motivations. There are plenty of things we can do about it. Not share every single detail about ourselves on social media being a good start.

This isn't private data we're talking about with the authors post. It's data she made very public, by choice.
Yeah, and I found asking for that consideration to be personally enlightening. I'd never thought about a case like hers before, and it seems excruciating.
The other notorious carve-out is box office futures. Read more about the ban here: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/15/18091620/box-off...
"In the short run, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine." -- Benjamin Graham

One other property of markets is that they're very good at transferring wealth from those who get caught up in the herd mentality to those who do their own research and hold their own opinions. This may be bad for wealth inequality, but it does make them self-correcting when it comes to human emotions.
I mean, I feel like the wording "retain memories" might imply a greater degree of consciousness/agency than what was actually observed. The "memory" appears to be some completely tangible phenomenon, as per their comparison of trees "retaining memory" in the form of a tree growing bark around where a branch broke off. "Ants use the rate at which they meet and smell other ants, or the chemicals deposited by other ants, to decide what to do next." , etc. That said, it's still pretty interesting, and I think we can make some comparisons about how humans share knowledge/experience and what kind of tangible markers we use as cues for our own behaviour.
>This is mostly very true, but I think the author understands this better than you're implying. The point of this tweet is to influence public opinion.

I suspect your parent understands this, and you're not understanding his/her perspective, which is that the general public needs to have a better understanding of how the Internet and monetization works. And that it is problematic to expect almost anything of value from a company you are not paying money to.

They key takeaway in the comment is something everyone needs to understand:

>You've made the decision to let a business deep into your personal life, a space once reserved only for loved ones. These are the consequences.

Yes, the tweeter may be able to influence the company's decision in some minor way, restricted to still births. And it will solve only one small problem. You'll still get plenty of these problematic ads in bad circumstances.
Wealth can be expropriated in both directions. Employers by default have more power; collective bargaining is just a check on their ability to exploit laborers.

It also doesn't follow that increased incentive to invest in employers translates to higher wages for laborers — why wouldn't employers keep wages stagnant and pocket the money themselves? (In practice, this is often what happens.)
I wish national politics were as simple and predictable as a computer program, but trying to paint an analogy there is quite troublesome, for the simple reason that there are hundreds, if not thousands of issues that government has to tangle with...and it often is the case that one party has a better approach to certain issues while the other party is better suited to deal with a completely different set of issues.
> We need more of that attitude in the U.S.

everything has its price, and as an immigrant to US from Russia, i'm not sure that i would recommend for that attitude/approach to be applied here, at least not in full force, may be if just a bit/sometimes :)
There is nothing illegal about a monopoly. A monopoly that uses it's position to prevent competition is illegal. Giving DDG a very valuable domain name (given their name) absolutely does what you're saying it doesn't.
Wish they had a monospace version. Doesn't work well as a terminator font, I tried. heh.
Ask HN: What interesting front end problems do you work on?
Seems like most DOM updating and architecural strategies have been re-invented many times over since Angular1 and the like. These problems aren't all that interesting anymore and frontend has become much more like lego building. What new ground, or what tough challenges are you still working on?
Thanks. I tried libfuse in the past and I reached the same conclusion.
and cost orders of magnitude more, and have a shortage of labor
I have a very-very good Haskell programming friend, and quite a few times I caught him start speaking in technobabble to impress a couple of blubers.

I also have a few Scala friends, and I can see the obvious Haskell envy they have, they feel the need to become good at it to prove their alphaness.
An engineer at a big company is still just a dude or a gal. Not everyone in a multi-thousand person company will toe the company line or are in lock step.
We pretty much do. If you have enough money, there is no such thing as legal trouble. It was just a misunderstanding (once the check clears, of course).
"ducking the issues" would finally be a good thing
How to Sell on the Webinar the Right Way
You were going to post it and suggest others pay for it without actually having read it? The marketing must be working on you, if you're already convinced it's an answer to OP's question.
>What you are doing in your comment is just stating facts that are known for everyone already.

For the HN crowd, yes. For the general public: Still no. In my experience, most people do not understand this. A lot of people, particularly young people, think that they are entitled to free services like email, instant messaging, and pretty much any service an ad-driven company provides (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc).

>I can understand her, but I cannot understand you.

Read the last line of his comment. (S)he is trying to say that there are negative consequences to revealing so much about yourself to strangers.
Thanks for this. I was curious about the details and the podcast (I read the transcript) explains all of it.

I was wondering how they made so much money and why it doesn't happen anymore. Turns out the initial cornering of the market was done in secret at a standard price. Nowadays buying at such scale secretly is impossible, so the price goes up and makes cornering the market prohibitively expensive.
>I suspect the problem isn't just that stillbirths are rare, but that you can't really monetize a stillbirth.

And you can monetize transgenderism, so unless the cost of this letter starts to get very expensive, OP's advertising will get better well before mothers of stillborn children.
Microsoft ultimately refuses to give customers a choice

2008. “Fuck you, Microsoft, for not bundling Firefox or Chrome. Your browser is destroying the web!”

2018. “Fuck you, Microsoft, for bundling Firefox or Chrome. Stopping work on your browser will destroy the web!”

Give it a rest.

If Microsoft implemented POSIX support, people would grab their torches and pitchforks because MS was actively working to encourage monoculture because it hates customers.
Yeah, writing C++ portable code across UNIX flavours, OS/2, Windows was indeed interesting, even when using plain old C.

Have you used SOM as well?
I guess it's finally time to switch to VS Code then.
Tomorrow Never Knows – Detroit Urban Farmer Fears Development May Push Him Out
User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem
From what I've seen, web devs throw everything away every couple of years due to high technology volatility, high requirements volatility, management idiocy, and outright business failure. As well at lack of automated testing that is exacerbated by the many technologies that make that hard.

And in environments like that, YAGNI makes even more sense. Overbuilding now in hopes it will pay off later is never a great idea. But it can only ever pay off if you correctly predict your business and technological future accurately. When you guess wrong, it's just waste.
California taxes hot food under the premise that it's been prepared at a restaurant (e.g. hot pastrami sandwich). Cold food is not (e.g. a head of lettuce) under the guise that it's less of a luxury. There is an exception for bakeries and even a hot loaf of bread is not taxed in California unless you were to eat it at the bakery.
Infrastructure requires a continual investment, which means that at any given time you can always point at something that is, quite literally, crumbling away. That's just the nature of the modern era - that we rely on such projects for far longer than the original engineers could've imagined speaks to both their and our ingenuity.

Is there truth in the idea that repairs take longer? Sure. Sometimes it's due to incompetence and lack of funding. Other times it's for the same reason that software takes a lot more effort to maintain/refactor than it took to write in the first place. There's a lot of momentum you have to undo if you want to make an old thing new again.
In the past, a new platform required a new language which required a new IDE. Fortunately those days things less tied together. React Native is mostly using JavaScript which can be productively edited with a lot of editors and IDEs.

So the fact that Nuclide was there didn't mean that you had to use it (and the vast majority didn't) in order to write React Native.
Not really. Whether something "works" or not is a relative thing. If it works really well compared to all the alternatives, it's not a loose definition of "works." Yes, markets suffer from imperfect information and various other ailments. You can find issues with the solutions to all problems, and while it's occasionally interesting to talk about those problems, the real question is whether you can find better solutions.
What are they using to determine revenue of the companies?
Whenever I see that Visual Studio Code update notifier... happy time
At commands are used for many nonmodem things too.. Bluetooth adapters, zigbee adapters, HC12 transceiver, other various proprietary devices tied to a UART in addition to LTE, GSM/GPRS (I guess technically some of those are modems but they’re pretty far removed from the original design)
Another interesting topic in the derivatives markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative.

Basically you buy futures or options on the temperature, rainfall, and cloud cover. Super interesting!
The source is IndieHackers which is owned by Stripe. I'm assuming the startups must register and opt-in to have their revenue numbers published?

e.g. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/tettra/revenue
From the outside, sure. From the inside, that's not my impression. And given that so many places are trying to follow their perception of what SV/SF is doing, it seems very plausible to me that they will pick up and amplify those visible traits.
Are they going to add multi-level undo/redo?

Maybe they are saving it for Windows 50th anniversary?
Haha well I was just going to suggest that people take a look at it, because I saw it recently. It does look very good
Autocorrect. Thanks, caught it in time to edit.
Its coming :-)
Why is the F-35 program such a disaster then? Honest question though I am sure the answer is feature creep and poor management
Design of Everyday Things is great.

I even had my Software Engineering students read excepts this semester.
Nuclide has always had a ton of value for Facebook itself as we could build a lot of Facebook-specific integrations and ship a new version to all the developers every week. It's now the most used editor at Facebook.

This announcement is about the open source version of Nuclide, which has never received a lot of love and didn't have a lot of adoption.
Install Jekyll on MacOS Mojave
Fintech unicorn Revolut wins banking licence
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I'm well aware of the ability to twist statistics, but the unemployment rate is a decent yard stick for measuring changes in the labor force. And barring some underlying change in methodology for finding the statistic, it shows a trend over time in a positive direction: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Wage growth is also ticking up: https://www.frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker.aspx?pan...

Which aligns well with the low unemployment rate.
Based on a comment wesd linked to above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18535748), and applying that comment to all the large corporations behind ad-tech (because IMHO large corporate political problems are fairly similar no matter where you go)...

It seems like for these systems, there are often multiple teams developing the algorithms, with multiple algorithms in play behind the recommendation. Each algorithm has their own style of metrics system. Some of them are probably relatively simple with not very sophisticated AI/ML (or even no AI/ML at all) behind it. And, there is a lot of internal political conflict preventing better analysis of said algorithms to refine them.

In other words, you're absolutely right.
> It's cool, though, how a guerrilla marketing post like this still has the substantive discussion at the top rather than advertising spam.

This is what I love about HN. Comment threads are usually much more interesting than the discussed article, regardless of that article's quality.
I certainly don't trust Google, and I don't use any Google products. But that's a bit beside the point.

What I was trying to get at is that if data is being sent from a product to the manufacturer without your knowledge and consent, then that is a data breach no matter how trustworthy the collector of the data is. Such products cannot reasonably be called "very secure" in a blanket way.

Saying something like "very secure against outside attackers" would be more correct as, to use the Chrome example, Google is an inside attacker.
Gwern has now replaced "chatting" by "IRCing".
I honestly don't think this is unique to women / I wonder if this isn't one of those stereotypes foisted on them.

The coworker (who was the target) in her story is male. I'm male, and I've had this very problem with male coworkers. (And nothing about this has ever struck me as having anything to do with sex or gender. As it is, most of my coworkers are male, so it's probably more a reflection of that than anything else.)

And to the parent's point of "why not be honest and direct?", at the point at which such things are being written… honesty and directness have been tried, and have already failed. Some people, even told bluntly "Sorry, I need to get some work done." will keep on…
Is saboteur really the right word for that though? Maybe it's just the association I've made but that to me denotes something much more active and directly damaging than just leaking damaging information.
Interested in hacking?
That's what I assumed you meant too. I think you got collateral damage from anger toward diehard extreme libertarian capitalism.
Aeroscraft
Git Your SQL Together (with a Query Library)
Where are you finding new 1060s for under 200?

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=373&sort=pri...
So for example, you might send only ERROR level to Splunk, and everything to Loki?

Or maybe you'd send everything to Splunk, but with a small retention period, whereas you'd send everything to Loki but with a 90 day retention period (or whatever)?