skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fairly cheap per hour. I think it realistic to be less than 25 cents per hour. I suppose it depends how much effort you put into detailing, and playing.
Nope. It takes far more delta-V to get to the Sun than to get to Mars.

To get to Mars you need to change your solar orbit from that of Earth to match that of Mars. The difference is a small fraction of Earth's orbital velocity.

By comparison, you only need to add about 41% of Earth's velocity to escape the solar system entirely.

But to get to the Sun, you need to subtract 100% of Earth's orbital velocity. It's a colossal amount of delta-V.
Putting a Blockchain Wrapper on the Financial System
Kafka's writings do have some very peculiar themes, though.

I don't know about other countries, but in France calling a process or an organization "Kafkaïan" is a big pejorative. It evokes incapacitating, mind-numbing complexity that you are thrust into.

I thought the name came from LinkedIn's woes of being unable to dispatch data efficiently between the several services and databases. That it was sort of a Kafkaïan mess; and that Kafka -the write-optmized log service- helped decouple this mess; with n writers and m readers you went from m*n to m+n dependencies. Kafka, the tool you need for Kafkaïan problems?

If Kreps named it because of the write optimized facet, other authors could be more suited. Like Asimov, Dumas or Voltaire [1]?

In the end if that's all good though. Franz Kafka is a great author. That's a good name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prolific_writers
Hey, thanks for the constructive reply. Reading everything a day later I do feel like my comment was maybe a bit too intense in tone, although I still stand a couple points:

> A more robust/practical approach is that I act the way I speak: when I have kids, I will make 100% sure they always wear gloves in cold weather :)

Which is very commendable, but bear in mind you might be forgetting things, or deciding different on things that are obvious for other people and not for you.

> If you put out your opinion in the public domain, you should expect support and/or criticism. People will attack your ideas, even if they are good. You are criticising me, yet I am not feeling sad at all.

Totally agreed. I just think that the tone and the intention behind the criticism is quite important.

Anyway, I understand your point better know, and realise that maybe I did to you exactly the same thing I'm (constructively I hope) criticising you for.
Bah, for more crying about web-tracking the browser is still a sandboxed environment, in the other hand what the article is talking here is an app with permanent GPS access, notifications, etc etc.
Definitely a great game too. But there are dozens, if not hundreds, of games I have omitted. There's a lot out there.
I hate to be one of "those people" but I logged out of Facebook on all of my devices on New Year's Eve and haven't been back since. I used to check the site multiple times per day. I thought I'd miss out on a few groups but to be honest the people I know from those groups IRL keep me updated on the rare important announcement - ie a couple of upcoming events. I haven't missed it at all.

Full Disclosure: I do still have Messenger Lite on my phone, but with notifications disabled so I only check it a couple of times per day.
That's not the issue. The issue is tax dumping and being a haven for gambling and other economic crime.
I purposefully chose the iPhone 8 because it is the latest phone that has Touch ID instead of Face ID. The hardware changes are it’s of course faster and has a better camera but that’s about it. The software experience would be about the same.
I started doing something like this (but with a different provider) and I noticed this is surprisingly difficult:

Especially messaging providers identify users based on phone numbers, but also a lot of websites started requiring a phone number verification. Those virtual phone numbers are often rejected. This can cause situations in which you have different phone numbers on 2 services.
A meta ride share app needs development effort (money), infrastructure (money) maintenance (money) and integration with local co-ops (money) and all that money needs an administrative hierarchy (more money).

All this overhead needs to be put in place without any direct income from riders. Either it come's in the form of a service that co-ops subscribe to and pay for or it comes in the form of a collective formed of individuals already in the co-op. Whatever the formation, it's activity that needs funding from the drivers.

This "meta" layer is then ready for abuse. Once the drivers are connected to this top-level coordinating layer the individual co-op layers become mere middle-men and are ripe for cutting out. Then we just get back to Uber.

It would be interesting to learn ideas how such a meta system could be created while limiting the overhead costs levied on the co-ops and retaining a decentralized cooperative system that allows drivers (and the higher layer workers) to retain their power.
Thanks for the reply, I might look into this for my next presentation (the graphviz could be pretty useful for me)
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That's cool! I used the term in reference to a specific brand though: https://www.thevegetarianbutcher.com
But how much money did Malta get from selling EU citizenship?

(This is kind of like if Alabama were allowed to sell foreigners US citizenship, but the state of Alabama would get to keep all the proceeds.)
The greatest failure of the EU is it's inability to create fair taxation and fair competition within it's so called "free trade zone".
> Today, DRM is used to force people with artificial pancreases to buy proprietary insulin

Wow, that seems especially evil.
I don't get this. Sure, it's been a while since I started university (fall 2003) but is stuff really spoonfed to starter students?
I'm not saying you have to deliberately make everything hard - but we got a little bit of introduction in the first week and then were sent off to cope on our own. You had the other students, older semesters and whatever else resource to solve your problem.

I don't think I'd want it any other way these days (oh wow, 15 years later) or feel that anything except the first week was tailored to people fresh from school. Sure - people taking courses around their work schedule is a problem, but it's a totally different problem. Either you know it's supposed to be a fulltime course, or it's not.

Also, maybe I'm a little biased for having majored in Computer Science, so mostly everything was digital or online even back then. But smartphones would make coordination with other people so much easier than email and texts... Or maybe American (live-in / campus) colleges are really that different from German universities that I simply cannot imagine the problems this book would show :P
It's this kind of thing... Trying not to sound preachy, but it just doesn't make sense that people, especially people who work with their brain, drink alcohol 'because it's fun'. Sorry, but that is stupid. No better way to put it. You have an incredibly complex and sensitive instrument, and you choose to bang it around a bit because it causes a funny effect. What more can you really say. There are loads of ways to have fun in life, alcohol is not necessary. Sorry for the blunt truth.
21 better ways to read Hacker News – which is your favorite?
Yep, I have quite some moles myself and get them checked. Although, thanks to the place I live in, I don't get too much UV exposure and try to protect myself well. That's the thing, I'm not too frightened by the things I can control, it's those that do not have so much prevention, such as pancreatic or leukemia... I think I did some permanent damage to my psyche by just reading too much about those things and too much statistics. Sometimes I see myself as just a number when reading these articles.

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to therapy and I'm not depressed. Just scared :) .
I ran into this the other day with ubuntu (on a windows laptop with the linux subsystem) opting for node version 8 instead of 10.

One of those annoying things that is valid from a "lets keep things backwards compatible" point of view that ends you up with the wrong versions of everything you care about as a developer. I fixed it by uninstalling node and then installing nvm and then doing a nvm install 10. Of course having per tool custom hacks around "your distribution comes with the wrong version of everything you care about, 100% guaranteed" gets old pretty quickly. Brew fixes this on Mac.

On most servers on the other hand, you should not be installing developer tools or runtimes at all and use something like docker instead. Installing stuff like node.js, python, ruby, etc. via the default package manager is almost always the wrong thing to do on both development machines and production machines.

Speaking of docker, having something like brew on a lightweight image could be a pretty awesome way of installing what you need without relying on downloading tar balls and other madness that you find in a typical Dockerfile. Why reinvent that wheel?

I haven't come across linux brew. Sounds like a good idea. Merging the two ecosystems sounds like a better one. Having that on windows as well; awesome. Simplifies a lot of stuff developers have to do on different platforms to end up with the same tools.
Hmm. What do you dislike about the Messenger app?
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NWN1 is still being actively developed by BeamDog. Graphics are more dated but they are working on improving the engine.
Ah that would be the sweet spot.
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Good for you, but it's only been 9 days mate, and leaving one of its tendrils in place makes it more likely you'll gradually get sucked back in.
http://astaria.net/wm_client/webclient.php is still going, but I think it has only a few dozen on average.
It uses HCL and the new unreleased version does have loops and conditionals:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-1-2-preview
List of Machine Learning/Deep Learning Conferences in 2019
As an avid skiier, a route traced out in front of you would absolutely NOT help with safety: more than driving, one needs to be able to see the surface conditions and be aware of obstacles at the edges of one's field of vision. At least until such a time when an AI is able to warn you of loose snow, bumps, ice, and a fallen skiier outside of your field of vision.
Everyone. If it looks bad, it will remain a niche product. With no adoption past the enthusiasts, the glasses will remain expensive, the dev ecosystem bad, the available software for limited and low quality.

You should always care whether your favorite product is sellable to a wide audience.
They're not for everyone and every use case, but the app story is improving a lot. For example your comment about Word is out of date. Word for iOS is full features and has complete support for track changes and comments.

Your point on sharing files via the cloud would also apply to laptops on Wifi as much as to iPads. Yes you can tether with a Cat-5 on a laptop, but most people don't bother and do pro work just fine.

I was worried the iPad would get neglected since Android for tablets is practically abandonware at this point so it has no credible competition at the high end, but instead they're doubling down on the hardware and the software. iOS 12 for iPad was a huge upgrade and the larger screen sizes make running multiple apps side by side a lot easier. sales may have flattened, but they're consistently selling twice as many iPads as laptops.
How come this doesn't apply to any other sort of debt this is really bad logic.
You have good points. It is hard for people to understand numbers when they get really large. How many phones Apple sells, the amount of money they make, or something like how many searches/day Google handles are just so big that it's hard to comprehend. To your point above, I wish Apple broke out more numbers because the Apple Watch probably made more in profit than Netflix. And that was a product that was buried as a complete failure by tech pundits, geeks, and the press.
Who has cash nowadays though?
https://cturt.github.io/cinoop.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17496859
In the UK there's an app available, https://gett.com/, which is very similar to Uber but hails regular, licensed taxis.
To have a common dev environment setup with their mac using colleagues.
The study assessed pre and post microdosing of the participants. Not a double blind study so I would be wary of the results.
The biggest difference to me between the old patronage systems and the current ones is the class of people who are performing the patronage and the class of people recieving it. IIRC, patronage systems of the old times were mostly under the wealthy, and thus it largely prevents artists from producing against the interests of the wealthy. While the notion that one still needs to respect their source of income still exists in Patreon, Twitch, etc. the set of all possible patrons is more diverse, leading to a more diverse set of artists who can market to niches.The sorts of people who are supporting NK Jemisin are likely not the sorts of people who are supporting ChapoTrapHouse.
Importance is relative and your personality and values tend to change over the course of your life. The version of you that lies on a deathbed has no future, his mental state is probably not in the best condition and his final regrets aren't going to last for long.

Regretting that you haven't done anything significant in your life is as probable as regretting you haven't had enough fun.

Here is a nice article that made me think about this
https://medium.com/@rikardhjort/the-deathbed-fallacy-5e54d96...
I didn't know this. Thank you for the tip. I always wanted to do this.
There's a remake of Realms of Arkania which has been released a few years ago.
All of the problems OP mentioned are software problems. Software on iOS is kneecapped by the 30% cut that Apple takes.

Reduce this down to as low as possible, and you will see a huge renaissance. 12% (like Epic) seems reasonable. Apps should cost $500 to launch and $100 yearly to maintain on the store, to ensure quality.
Sci-Hub is Kazakhstani creation actually.
Just different levels of "bad". For example Google is by default having all the same data about users (on Android) and more, of course it engages in the same activities as FB. Same as all other fat clients for social networks. It is almost impossible to escape spying by bigcorps.

E.g. I tried deleting Chrome from my mobile and I can't, I could only disable it. So crapware too? I'd say yes.

PS: read about "notifications" and remembered a funny story about Chrome. I was once given a Samsung phone to fix some AD notifications coming up regularly. And it was not obvious for some reason who was sending them. Apparently some apps can hijack default browser setting and force open their links in Chrome (which, again, isn't possible to remove), and Chrome by default allowed notifications from sites. After guessing this and opening Chrome I found out that there were several dozen open tabs, and some them were sending "useful" notifications. Default browser on that phone since buying the device was "Internet" app by Samsung. Same stuff, only without notifications, also happened on my own phone where Firefox is default. Until I force disabled Chrome some apps continued to hijack defaults and opened links in Chrome.
I really don't think people do it for SEO reasons. People that do that for SEO tend to write text that is on-topic but explain simple things in drawn out ways using lots of related keywords.

I think people that write articles that start with long anecdotes (which are usually linked back to in the end) are trying to emulate the writing style you'd usually see in newspapers and magazine going back decades. It doesn't work well on the web I feel when there's an abundance of information where you're trying to filter through what's useful to read and what isn't. It's different when you're e.g. reading a magazine and have limited articles to pick from.
Which enjoys the same level of independance as Saudi Arabia because of its natural riches.
> Negotiate the price ... pay cash upon arrival

But avoiding an argument about price and then having to hand over cash is a large part of why I use Uber...
Cool.

I have to say, though, that not having to negotiate a price is a key benefit of Uber. The price is the price, no quibbling, no bait and switch.

Similarly, paying by cash feels like a step back.
If you want that, you can just go to the App or Play Store and search for "rides <city>".

What Uber provides, and what Cory's proposal piggybacks on, is trust: just like when you ask for a Big Mac, you know more or less what you're getting when you're matched an Uber driver with 4.8 starts, yet the same is not true for some other ridesharing app you've never heard of.

But that also backfires on his argument about Uber's rates and goal of replacing it; they can charge an higher rate because they provide a service that others don't - a reasonably consistent experience worldwide - and one can't get rid of it without harming the meta-app itself.
> Especially if you have some situational awareness—a thing can't just materialize right on your bumper; it would have to get there from somewhere, and you should certainly notice if a motorcycle approaches and begins tailgating a few inches off the rear corner of your car.

If you've ever driven in a city with many bicycles and mopeds that is simply impossible to keep track of. No matter how much situational awareness you have, they will seemingly materialize out of nowhere.

> So basically, at high speed, when it's most critical.

I disagree. The most critical is when there is greatest risk for someone to die. That is not if you collide with a car, but hit softer road users (I do not know if it's the proper English term).

City driving, there will be enough to keep track of that some times something will be unexpected. The key is to know your blind spot and check it. At highway speeds, you have plenty of time to orientate you properly with either configuration.
Now I imagined replacing the glass panes with transparent LCDs or LED displays that would give an idea of system status at a glance.

These machines are, like the supercomputers I mentioned, meant to be displayed as a status symbol.
Well, they're two concepts with quite different meanings -- I'm not sure how you do better than explaining it that way. I've always explained bitcoin that way, and I think most people understand it that way now.

"the network" is a concept that doesn't necessarily mean "the public internet". Also, it really doesn't require everyone to be on the network -- it requires a network to exist. And pseudonymity can be "good enough".

The point was that the entire ecosystem can exist independent of cashing it out to fiat -- that point can be somewhat controlled, but it's not necessarily required.
I’d probably say thousands of games we both omitted, but it wasn’t my intent to list them all and very likely not yours either.
Maybe it started that way, but I personally buy into the old Jobs view on Apple as a software company.

I do this because I myself primarily buy Apple products for their software. It’s anecdotal of course, but I own a MacBook Pro because I like OS/X more than Linux, and, certainly more than Windows, not because it has a touchbar. Similarly I primarily own an iPhone because I much prefer iOS to Android. I also prefer iCloud services and iMessage to all their similar options. In fact my biggest grief with the iPhone isn’t the missing headphone jack or the ludicrous price tag, it’s that Siri is so much worse than the other voice assistants.

Maybe that’s just me, but I suspect I’m not alone, and that’s why I think their core problem is software rather than hardware.
What service do you use for chatting?
Possible poor choice of words on my part. There is technically a file manager, but it's gimped. For instance, plugging in USB storage devices flat out doesn't work. If you plug in a camera or SD card, you can only copy photos to the built in Photos app, and nothing else. Lots and lots of reviews mentioned this.

Apple's official solution for software like Photoshop? There's a Siri shortcut that will import a photo into Photoshop and delete it from the Photos library. This is what I consider a kludgy workaround.

It is absolutely possible to make the iPad Pro functional for these workflows. But iOS is going to fight you where it should be trying to help.
I've seen them attacked for a few things which I don't see as major or as Facebook's fault and can imagine that people constantly seeing people complain about these little things will mean it detracts from the big, important things.
Painfully. File a ticket with another team and pray they don't put it off until next quarter because your teams priorities don't match up with theirs.
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That's the exact reason why I consider MacPorts much more elegant.
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I got into D&D by chance around 2009. Unfortunately I started with 4th Edition (I know...), but I'm very happy that I did, because all throughout High School I was one of the outcasts, but never had any of these mediums to confide in, and often made fun of "nerds" even though I technically was one. Just playing D&D has given me another way to meet new people and do something other than play video games in my free time. I only wish I had more time in the week. I have too many hobbies.