skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the answer. I have to admit it doesn't quite sway me, for reasons such as those below, but thank you.

e.g. yes I realise they are different search problems, but I'd presume that Google is nonetheless well-equipped to handle the document db one. the only apps I can imagine that couldn't benefit from a search box are games - anything content-focused or ecommerce focused needs one, and the majority of utilities benefit too (yes I can do chat without search, but it certainly benefits from being able to search through chats) - any examples? yes I realize having to do Backend/iOS/Android/Web is hard (as it is for everybody else), but with on device cases at least the db is smaller. Im sure you do have big users, I didn't mean to imply otherwise, but with my admittedly very limited knowledge I'd still wager that a majority do not see uptime and scalability as the most urgent improvements, but rather those we are discussing. In our case, give us just 2 9s of uptime, and give us the above queries and searches even if 2x as slow and expensive as you'd like them to be, and limited to a db the size of an average relational db, and that would beat the extra 3 9s of uptime and the super scalability any day. Not least because, I don't mean to be rude here, just candid, but if we were ever to reach a point where we needed that massive scale and uptime, I'm not sure I'd be keen to trust Google with user data.

To be clear - I like several things about Firebase/Firestore, which is why we use it and why I'm insisting on badgering you here. I just wish I could be completely comfortable with my choice rather than wondering every day if I shouldn't just use something else.
Exactly. Psychopaths have no morals, they only feign them when necessary.
I don't know the details but it could because in many countries there are different licenses for taxis that can pick up off the street, as opposed to licensed car services that can only be pre-booked.

Uber tends to operate as the latter, using the laws for a pre-booked taxi service.

This law is obviously protection for the classic taxis by giving a legal standard to what it means to be pre-booked. They can claim to be just clarifying an existing law.
Which 8 banks?
> I would say that what enabled this in Oslo and similar local apps was a (relatively) respectable taxi industry.

Yes.. absolutely that is a factor.
Resisting against France wasn't that much a big deal: it was just after WW2, France had lost control of Indochina during the war, drafted soldiers were never sent there and political support was never that string, especially with the big communist faction in France.
Indeed. The violation here really has nothing to do with protecting users, as you say, it's more of a positive side-effect. On the other hand, if it weren't for that aspect, the press-coverage that sparked Apple's revokal would most likely not have happened.

Apple found themselves in a position were doing "the good thing" aligned with business.
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Any current Wayland compositor handles fractional scaling, different scale displays, touch, good composition very well. (idk about Optimus, I don't buy systems with Nvidia or switchable graphics)
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I wonder how much they chared for a second line back in the 1950's
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You may want to fix the headline "we work with the bests"
This would make an interesting entry on http://longbets.org/
» This warning time is crucial because that's all you got to decide whether you are under attack or not. For ballistic missiles launched from enemy territory you get half an hour and it means a bunch of people can gather data and figure out if it's real or fluke and make informed decision. You can't make informed decision in 2 minutes and it is extremely dangerous because it does not give you any capability to verify anything or ask anybody.

I apologise in advance for the naivety and the insensitivity but what kind of an idiot would give a go ahead for a strike like this knowing that an unprovoked strike on a major civilian population center in Russia will almost assuredly lead to a response from multiple Russian ICBM locations that we keep worrying about the North Koreans.

If there was a fleet of a dozen or more space shuttles either "permanently" in the air or ready to fly at a moment's notice, I can see how that would change the equation but one space shuttle can't just dip, deliver a payload, climb up to rinse and repeat on five or more cities, can it?
You forgot the translation: “bande dessinée”, literally, means “drawn strip”, or, equivalently, graphic novel. The latter term exists and matches the French wording pretty closely. “Comic”, by contrasts, really only describes a subset.
This looks an awfull lot like 3d printing to me
Apple too have TestFlight for that https://developer.apple.com/testflight/
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This is what everyone who sings the praises of locked-down platforms is advocating for.

Either you control your own hardware and you can run whatever you want, or you don't and you can't. Those are the choices.
This is an interesting example of an article that talks about gradual improvements in our lives that we take for granted at this point. It's strange because most articles are about dramatic deterioration. For example, it's unlikely we will read articles about the increase in % children who are vaccinated against basic diseases. It was 22% in 1980, 88% in 2016. Far more likely is reading reams of text devoted to the (for now) niche anti-vaxxer movement.
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I live in Madrid and this issue is fairly complex.

- Taxi is a public service that is performed by private entrepreneurs. As such, it is strongly regulated by law (fares, working days/hours, etc...). On the other hand, VTCs (spanish acronym for Transport Vehicle with Driver, Vehículo de Transporte con Conductor) are not regulated by any special laws (except labour laws of course).

- Taxi drivers were always strongly organized but more of a guild kind of organization rather than a union kind. Most VTC drivers are not organized in any way.

- The price of a taxi license is quite expensive (150,000+€ in Madrid), however a VTC license (private transport license) is way cheaper.

- Most taxi licenses are owned by individuals, not companies. There are very few people that have more than one taxi license. On the other hand, most VTC licenses are concentrated in very few hands (mainly Uber and Cabify).

- The agreements between taxi drivers and government was that he ratio between VTC licenses and taxi licenses is to be 1:30. Currently it is 1:5, hence the strikes.
When traveling in Dominican Republic, I asked an Uber driver on a 10 minute trip about my planned 30 minute trip to the airport on the following day, and he told me no drivers like to accept those due to the unpaid drive back. The next day, I made sure to tip my driver and mention this fact and he really appreciated it.

Not sure if Uber pricing never includes the trip back, or if it's country-specific.
Presumably some of their 85000 employees prefer to use iphones.
Also Uber allows the drivers to get customers wherever they are. After a long trip they can work that area for a while and maybe make their way back home. With a local taxi company if a driver is out of the area they serve then they have no customers.
macOS doesn't expose fractional scaling to applications, it is done by the output encoder by scaling the entire framebuffer. For software, it is strictly integer only.

It is also careful with the resolutions it supports, it is not just any random scale requested. It is always to scale down, but not lose many pixels. For example, with 2560x1600 physical display (rMBP13), you can go to logical 2880x1800 (@1.78 scale) or 3360x2100 (@1.52 scale), but not further.

With Linux (and also Windows), people have weird requests that would not fly in macOS world.
Very relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1494/.
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Hm, I thought the claim that newspapers are funded by advertising was wrong, but apparently you're right after all - at least historically:

- https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/index.html

- https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_eve...

However, in the last few years, a switch to a greater subscription income has taken place (see first link above, also here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/circulation-...).
Hacker News API is not well designed
Last night, I thought why not develop a HN clone in react and when I looked at API, Oh my goodness. It is not well designed at all, like passing 400 ids, just ids. And to get posts we have to make requests to get single post detail to show 10 or 20 posts on a page. Well, react helped me a bit like storing ids in array and using splice to get next 10 items and so on.
STL wasn't a thing, but MFC, OWL and ATL surely.
>Uber is definitely not perfect as a business but the taxi companies are horrible all over the place. If taxi companies would just enter the 21st century, I would maybe never use Uber but the thing is, they don't.

I never really understood this sentiment. This may be different in other countries, but in Western European cities, taxis are usually dependable and affordable. Just walk to the next taxi stand or hail the first one coming by.
> dropped thousands of bombs over entire areas of a city hoping to weaken/destroy infrastructure

I'm pretty sure that in a lot of cases, hitting urban area was the goal, with theories that killing civilians will help win the war.
Approach yes, exact algorithms no.
He didn't limit his suggestion to .com
GoF was written for C++ and Smalltalk developers.
Just follow few models for a couple of weeks and you will notice how inaccurate the weather forecast is.*

I do follow ECMWF and ICON and a bit of OpenWeather forecast and the differences in forecasted temperatures are often 2-3 degrees C. And everything with a horizon over 72 hours is just numerology. (OpenWeather showed -19C in early days of Feb just 2 days ago, today it is -2C).

Now a model is just a model (I had some experience with industrial and financial models) so they are good at this and not so good at that. And they are recalculated and self-adjusted over time. I can understand.

But from the user perspective there is huge difference between +1C tomorrow and -3C.

Windy app is using 4 models and has nice graphical comparision of forecasts.

* - What I mean here is that meteorologists have good understanding of processes but the numbers that we are getting could be as well random.
Drawing it is possible, it would get approximated; the pixels are so small, that the user would know no difference.

But then hit-testing it with mouse pointer is another level.
https://www.google.com/get/sunroof
I don't know, I have a hard time thinking someone would go: "I better start smoking these cancer inducing sticks, I've read studies proving they reduce appetite".

I doubt people go out of there way to start new addictions voluntarily, but maybe I'm too hopeful.
> I’m one column away from the round of mob opprobrium that sinks my career for good.

Yet Rod Liddle and Jeremy Clarkson continue to have a successful career, Trump makes it all the way to the white house, and netflix is filled with highly successful 'controversial' comedians.
> Honestly it was only a few years ago when you would have to make a phone call to order a cab, OR be within visual proximity of an available cab.

Is using an app really that much of an improvement?
That's exactly how desktop scaling works.

Browsers have luxuries that desktop compositor with desktop apps do not have.
The 15 minute delay is only for VTCs, that is, vehicles with a driver which are not taxis. MyTaxi should work as usual (except when there's a strike going on, of course).
I'm not impressed with Apple walled garden. They will block apps that go against monetization. Apps like DNS66 or blokada will never get in. Its not just about security.

I could never trust an Apple or Google run app store to serve MY interests.
There is TestFlight:
https://developer.apple.com/testflight/

(With the caveat that builds expire after 90 days)
It is all a fake, virtue signaling mess.
I think of James Watson who had many honorary titles for his scientific work revoked for a supposedly "racist" observation. Other scientists who have produced complete garbage but make the right political noises get accolades and honorary doctorates.
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> Java the language is cool. What the enterprise has done with it is not cool

This is a re-occuring pattern.

I have seen it happen with C, C++, TP, Clipper, Java, JavaScript, C#, VB, ...

The enterprise environment is quite "interesting", specially when politcs get intermixed with technology.
And stomach growls all the time till lunch time in office, embarrassing.
Yes, what you see today in Iran has nothing to do with thousands of years of Persian empire. Persians are quite far from arabs in many aspects. I blame US and Britain, but mainly US for today's situation - their constant meddling, installing corrupt leaders and eventually pissing off radicals enough to revolt and take power.

You know why US embassy was stormed like it was? Because CIA was actively using it as a base of their operations. How you would like if your own resource-rich country was constantly interfered with bunch of spies who hide in their embassy but feel so comfortable that they don't even hide it too well?

They should have kicked staff out of country (even though most didn't have diplomatic immunity and were helping subvert the state they were in - this is still heavily punishable everywhere around the world today). Instead jailing them gave US marketing fodder to paint them as pure evil. Not that they are saints, but Saudi Arabia just next door ain't much better but was, is and will be a big US friend, as seen with treatment of horrible Khashoggi case.
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Canonical's Web and Design team use GitHub to agree on team standards
I think that it brought a good competition against JEE (back when it was still J2EE), however I would still just use JEE for Java Web projects.
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What you describe doesn't sound like "bothsiderism", just a two-party system. I don't see how the equal-time rule would be connected to bothsiderism.

As I understand it "bothsiderism" is the practice of not taking a stance for either side of an argument and saying "both sides have valid arguments"/"both sides are equaly wrong", and in the process ignoring that one side is much more right/wrong than the other.

> I think there's blame on both sides, you look at, you look at both sides, I think there's blame on both side, and I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either.

- Donald Trump after violence at the Charlottesville rally
I agree it is more complicated than what I outlined above, but I do think the aggregate welfare lost from the detriment in service quality of car-hailing multiplied by the number of potential consumers hurt represents a bigger loss than any gain cab-drivers could obtain with this measure.

I find the measure exactly the wrong type of regulation, the one that hurts a large segment of society to protect a small group (which had already benefited from a decades-long state imposed monopoly and became stagnant and comformist as a result).

As a small disclaimer, I do admit I have a bias against cab-drivers in general, but I do not think it clouds my judgement in this case.
That's such a shallow take. To bypass local labour laws as a business idea and effectively go back ~100 years in history is not objectively good. But perhaps it looks like it from the view of the upper middle-class who's at the benefiting end.
Thanks, you're right :)
We will fix it today.
In Italy forecast are so unreliable they cannot predict rain in the evening from the morning.

I don't know if it's because current climate change is throwing off models but short term forecast accuracy is terrible and I'm recently acutely aware of that since I switched to public transport for my commute.
I think people aren't super clear on what they expect from meritocracy, this leads to statements like yours.

Speaking personally, I grew up in an incredibly deprived part of my nation, I have little in the way of formal education and I definitely do not have connections. However I have achieved incredible social mobility due to technology. Why? because there is _some_ level of meritocracy going on even if it's not entirely widespread through every single hiring manager or company and I have a deep unyielding passion for this field that drives me to continually educate myself which despite my poor connections and education is looked at favourably.

I still think of meritocracy as a noble goal, and I feel that merit is certainly definable if that's the main issue (IE; points based on time spent contributing to open source and things like invitations to speaking engagements and the like).

I genuinely do not buy the argument that having "merit" in other areas infers that you have license to be a toxic asshole; because at (least in my mind) part of merit is being able to work with others. You don't have "merit" if you can't communicate effectively.

In fact, there is an old saying about that: "Lots of MIPS but no I/O" which would make for a shitty CPU. Why would it make for a non-shitty developer?
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Oh man that part was ridiculous. Its like, you could spend a whole page talking about some guy taking a dog for a walk and talking about how he bagged up the dog poo and put it in a bin. Then say "little did I know this dog poo was actually related to the murder of a journalist in Australia... The dog belonged to an infamous hitman who hired a dog sitter to look after his dog while he was in Australia on a job".

The whole thing sounds like it was written by a 15 year old.
I assumed it is country specific; in some countries they prefer long trips, in others they try to get rid of them. Like call upfront to ask where you're going and if it's too far they cancel. But I am indeed not sure. I always tip on long distance anyway unless they were really rude.
That is not really accurate. I used to work with this madness. Google ad displays/impressions are the result of transactional data micro-auctions. If there is high demand for a particular and well known data market, like Las Vegas hotel booking, the ad rate will be more.

The auction rate is determined by the winning bid rate of the competing content providers. In the Las Vegas hotel booking example the hotel properties might pay up to $16 for their ad display along side Google search results and up to $24 for a click through. Most ads, though, are rated at pennies. Anything that can achieve bid rates over $0.50 is a gold mine.

So, yes, some providers will pay far more than $7.00 for a click, but that is extraordinarily rare. This is even more rare when source and context are taken into account. Impressions that look organic, like on top of search results, are worth more than those that look like spam. I highly doubt ads that look like spam on a parked domain are doing more than pennies, likely fractions of a penny. The commonality of low rates and weak impressions on online advertising is also why Facebook shares aren't worth more than they are given the traffic and dedicated eyeballs that they have.
To be honest as a French, I don't mind everyone talking about "comics" when referring to French and Belgian graphic novels.

It might not capture all the depth of what it really is but at least everyone understands.
> - The price of a taxi license is quite expensive (150,000+€ in Madrid), however a VTC license (private transport license) is way cheaper.

Am I reading this right? 150,000 euros for the privilege of driving a taxi?
This is very similar to a patent I have filed on extremely fast 3D printing.

I have mentioned this method of 3D printing here previously. Transmitting data to a volume at high speed can be done in many different ways, at any scale, and with a variety of materials.

I hope to someday demonstrate the printing of a 2 story concrete house in an hour using my technique.
Only for a week or so, you soon acclimatise.
They shut Reader down specifically to shift users over to G+, instead of turning Reader into a broader social network.

This would be like if Mark Zuckerberg had shut down Facebook b/c he didn't want to build a yearbook product and started Socialbook to replace it.
I was going to say the same thing.

It's almost exactly the same as Uber, open the app, enter a destination, a taxi picks you up and you pay through the app when you're done. In Berlin prices are very similar.
French, and Belgian. I have a big collection of French comics I enjoyed in my childhood and other new ones.
ICANN charges a ridiculously low maintenance fee to the registrars at something like $0.18 per domain per year.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=icann+...
“Graphic novels” are called “Romans graphiques” and are their own category of “bande dessinée”. And yes, it’s a quite important thing, not only in France but in Belgium and Switzerland too (at least in Romandie, the French speaking part).

I’m in Berlin since a few years now and one of the main thing I miss are places where I can go and read good comics, that’s not really something as developed here, majority of people I meet don’t even know that’s a thing.

As a contrast, in Switzerland or France I can go to any Fnac store and spend a Saturday afternoon reading comics from a huge set of artists.
Apple hasn’t claimed it is banning Facebook or Google from their enterprise program. They are simply revoking the certificate that was spread to consumers. Those certificates can be re-generated.
If you want specific examples, C and C++ to start with, as the old GNOME plugins used to be written on, before they went JavaScript crazy with the UI.

And doesn't need to be C or C++, anything else that compiles to native code AOT would do as well.
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I feel using the original word is better since it represents a different format & art culture, the same way 'manga' is still used in English.
If Taxi's just copied Uber's UX I would use them all the time. If I can get quoted on my journey ahead of time, and the money is taken out of my account with no money exchanging hands between me and the driver then I would be fine with them.

In the UK you can get quotes for journeys but it doesn't mean anything because they just put you on a meter, no-one knows how the meters work. You get in the back and they press some buttons, the numbers change, the price for the same journey is vastly different every time, their card machine is never working despite it being the law to accept cards now so they take you to an ATM, they keep the meter running while you wait behind someone to get cash out, and so on. I have no sympathy for taxi company's anymore. As others have mentioned, if they modernised I would support them.
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The windy.com site is really useful. It is the only way I know to get the ECMWF forecasts for free. As far as I know all the AccuWeather and similar spyware apps use the freely available but inferior GFS model.
Well, in the late 40s, the US was not so subtly threatening to nuke the Soviets. Some even argue that they nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki primarily as a threat to the Soviets.[0]

0) https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7706-hiroshima-bomb-m...