skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet technologies will be also improving, which may be even reducing their operations and maintenance costs (per page click).

And when they will _actually_ need more money, they can always ask.
Sounds somewhat like Meteorkitchen from reading that story. My feeling is that it will have very little to do with AI, but let’s see.
Thanks for pointing it out
Wait, how would taxing miles traveled decrease the value of loitering between pick-ups?
I think you'll find that at larger companies, or companies with a need for taking their security posture seriously, that is the norm. Even before we grew, only a couple engineers had prod access.

You debug it via tooling, instrumentation and logs. I realize if you're accustomed to sudoing on prod when troubleshooting, this sounds crazy. Trust me, it works fine; better, in fact. Far fewer weird things happen in well-controlled environments.
...it felt pretty obvious to me? ">" is pretty commonly used, in email for instance.
Is Youtube really a money loser? I thought they'd turned it profitable years ago.

Maps - in flux like you said.

Phones are more than hardware sales. They also run an app store and license their own ecosystem.
I have a pfsense box. It's quite arbitrary to block DNS request that are anywhere except to your pfsense box. eg. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/dns/blocking-dns-...
LTE already has good latency. IIRC at about ~5ms on the last hop.
Amazon even blocks legitimate negative reviews toward its own products... They will do whatever it takes to increase revenues.
Hi from the Apollo team! This is good feedback. I agree that the GraphQL community (including us) could do a better job at educating developers about best practices for building GraphQL APIs. There's a lot that goes into standing up a GraphQL server that isn't explained on the official docs, so hopefully we can work with the GraphQL Foundation to improve that in the future.

I don't think backend services with mature REST APIs are the problem; rather, it's fetching and aggregating their data on the frontend that's cumbersome. With the complexity of modern apps, developers have to write a considerable amount of data fetching code to build out new features. They have to fetch data from multiple REST APIs, filter down that data, aggregate it, cache it, and account for loading and error states. Writing all of this state management code by hand slows developers down and leads to bugs.

Apollo aims to solve this problem by unifying around one way to query all of your app's local and remote data. This reduces state management code considerably since Apollo takes care of fetching, tracking loading and error states, and caching your data. For simple primitive values that aren't shared among multiple components, I totally agree that Apollo is overkill and would recommend seeing how far you can get with React state instead. For local data that's shared among many components, like device API results or global boolean flags that you would put in a Redux store, Apollo shines because it allows you to specify all of your data requirements declaratively in one query.

While you do have to integrate a new data graph layer into your stack to take advantage of all the state management benefits, you don't have to migrate your REST APIs. Apollo Server has a data source plugin [1] that simplifies hooking a GraphQL server up to existing REST APIs, including a cache that eliminates the need for DataLoader in most cases.

I hope this helped to clear up any misconceptions. Happy to answer any other questions you might have!

[1] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/features/da...
Flexures can last forever if you stay within the plastic deformation range for that material. These can fail from other things though, e.g. mechanical shock, thermal extremes, stuff like that.
Not to mention Uber and Lyft drivers are wholly responsible for vehicle fees, maintenance, registration, their cellular data plans, wear and tear. California is out of control with it’s liberal tax policies. I spent the first twenty years of my life here and every time I return back I start to remember why I left.
Well, rich parents for everyone! Mostly kidding, but it would be a side effect of "reproduction permit auctions" (until banks invent the parenting loan, then it would become a race to the bottom, poor parents for almost everyone)

Deciding who can reproduce and who cannot is generally seen as the most evil thing next to outright killing. Because it can be used (and was used!) as a form of soft genocide and because it goes completely against the individualism that derives from a non-collectivist reading of equality. That's like giving the finger to 300 years of progressive history. But reproduction controls are not uncommon in other/earlier societies. Strict marriage requirements don't put a cap on children per marriage, but marriage was often a privilege, requiring land, some lord's permission or just a hefty bride price. Of course those where all in the context of seemingly unconstrained growth headroom and the motivation was mostly child welfare (or just a show of power). Nonetheless, once progressive individualism had liberated is from those limits, the number of childless individuals has fallen quite a bit I think. (I'm not an historical anthropologist or whatever field would actually research that, this is just my personal impression)

So much for why the topic is such a hot potato. Particularly principled persons might actually prefer to knowingly condemn everyone to heroic starvation than ever allowing reproduction controls.

A look at Chinese 1CP (an outside, uninformed look but still a look, ok?): it tried to be fair, in a socialistic way. Everyone can have one child! But the most notorious side effects, like the mysterious case of the gender imbalance and the loss of siblinghood are not generally inherent to reproduction control, they are specific to their method of making it fair. But 1CP was an extreme measure anyways, 2CP and the fair way becomes perfectly fine I guess. Except for the issue of enforcement of course, basically unsolved.

This is where incentives come into the picture. But they will forever be at odds with the desire to avoid child poverty, it's difficult.
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The money from this tax would be dedicated to mass transit projects.

It would be ridiculous to use the tax to subsidize Uber as they don't pay the tax, the riders do.
A possible baby step is a household system of stationary cameras with a mobile Hololens. The stationary cameras observe and attempt to classify objects you hold and put away; you can also teach it objects you name. Kind of like a visual Mycroft/Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri The Hololens guides you to the objects when you can't recall where you left them.

Elderly, memory-impaired (dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.), households with children would find immediate use with the assistance, even with not-great accuracy: any kind of reminder that scores greater than zero success at finding misplaced objects would be welcome than the alternative of zero effective recall.

If only the battery life was better, then small business warehouses would find immediate use for these as merchandise locators, as a lot of them have very haphazard methods to lookup merchandise locations.
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The machine will probably be very predictable so expect people working around it soon.
Do you want EV adoption or fuel revenue? Choose one.
> "Would you prefer wikimedia shift into selling user data and putting advertisements? If not, then donate."

I'm sure you didn't intend it this way, but this phrasing sounds like a threat of some sort, blackmail.
I bought a Raspberry Pi specifically for this, then I realized the obvious, it's useless outside of the house :) It was good for the old Wi-Fi-only iPad the little one was using, but pointless for my needs. I like having the Pi to play with though.
Sure, anything -- so long as it doesn't have geometric extent, fit, finish, accuracy, internal strain, material composition, or volume economic requirements within a couple orders of magnitude of the competing traditional processes.

In other words, it's nice to know that they were able to achieve these results on a 3D printer rather than a multimillion dollar MEMS facility.
Anecdotally, everyone I know considers LA mass transit to be a viable option. This ranges from professionals like doctors and lawyers to the homeless.

I know a number of transplants from NYC, Chicago, and DC who ditched their cars after they moved to LA because it's possible to get everywhere worth going by Metro.
Including many English speakers. Please don't force me to use 12-hour time, it hurts.
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It was congested way before Uber of Lyft.
WhatsApp – 1M is so 2011
Part of growing as a developer is also knowing what you can do without, if you have 3 months to bring an mvp in front of a single language customer - i18n is the last thing on anyones mind, and delaying for even a day is a waste of precious time.

This does not mean that time is the only thing that matters, if you know that at month 6 you're going to launch in spanish - then you better look to avoid major i18n pain points, and think ahead to ensure that between months 3 and 6 there is a viable project to internationalize the product.
U.S. Cyber Command “basically took the IRA offline” during the 2018 midterms
The least worst move is to get out. If that's not an acceptable answer, then your question is basically, "how do I become an expert deck chair arranger on my sinking ship?"
Knowing nothing but chatter on the internet I'd say Musk goes through manic episodes.
This is one of the benefits of diversity on a team: you better understand the diversity of your customers.
We don’t call them taxis in California because in most California cities they’re different because of:

* no access to red lanes

* only app-based payment

* unique pickup/dropoff locations at airports and other such places

If we called them computer-dispatched taxi we’d confuse that with Flywheel-style stuff which can use red lanes, take cash, and use taxi locations. We could call them Taxi Type 2 but that’s super confusing.

“TNCs” is just an awful name so we use something that sounds intuitive “ridesharing”, since we know that pooling is possible on these services. It’s just a name. No one has proposed an alternative simple enough.
So is there going to be a generation of young people who grow up thinking that all peripherals are USB, and that the naming system is so complicated/nonsensical that it isn’t even worth trying to figure it out?

When I was growing up, we had USB, FireWire, and a couple size/speed variations. It was easy to understand and you could tell what a cable was by looking at it.

For people who grew up in this era, the current situation is super annoying. Perhaps the young people of today will view peripheral standards as some sort of super-obscure language that isn’t intended to be decipherable by laymen?
The fuck?

The guy has had rumours around his actions for decades. He set up a "compensation" scheme that was designed to prevent criminal charges or publication of offenses. He belittled and degraded abuse survivors whenever he could.

And you fucks think this is about an already corrupt bank being reformed by someone who is skilled at concealing and papering over issues.
I'm honestly unsure what he has to gain by doing this. I can't imagine that the departure of the counsel isn't related. Maybe the GC announced he was leaving and that rattled Musk somehow? Very strange.
Classism runs strong in the tech industry.
Building luxury condos and apartments is fine. Rich people will live in them instead of outbidding poorer people for the older apartments.

People who oppose luxury apartment construction need to explain how they will prevent rich people from competing with poor people over existing housing and causing the prices to go up.
Why can't a nightclub be included as part of "first floor" commercial/retail space that can be found in many cities? You have the best of both worlds, a mid/high rise with housing and close proximity to retail and entertainment spaces. Sure, clubs have noise and people issues, but these can be designed around for noise abatement and traffic control or put them underground. Bars have these issues too.

Just because land owners can make more from developing housing in the modern urbanization doesn't mean commercial retail/art/dining/entertainment spaces should be pushed out, otherwise the declining proximity benefits of urbanization lose their appeal.
I'll echo this. I was hired by Atlassian to join and "make prototyping better". Part of this meant enabling designers to more easily create code based prototypes.

I learned very early on that if creating something in code means learning/entering cryptic code just to start (that is, before any work gets done), then you lose people very quickly. Inexperienced developers can easily express, "Hey if I click this button and a field has the word 'bubblegum', I want a popup to show", and likely can figure out the js necessary for it. But if you say, "Ok, before you write that javascript you have to configure a package.json and install all necessary pages, but also make sure your version of node is the correct version for our internal libs", their excitement to dive into a project is ruined.
With all the nonsense going on, I’ve actually just got a car in SF. And that’s after 7 years car-free. Cycling is bloody impossible these days, and they got rid of the damned scooters too. Good job, Aaron. You’re a bloody genius.

My friends were all car-free too and only a fourth of them are still that way. No kids or anything. It’s just gotten kinda crappy here. I was hoping to hold out for just a little longer but I think I’m done.
I'm pretty much you except KDE instead of GNOME.
Why do they think they have rights to your data
Yeah, the dataset was 40GB of text from pages linked from Reddit, so I imagine it was quite hard to clean it to just English text. They also noted in their paper that it "accidentally" learned to translate English into French, even though they removed non-English web pages, because of examples like

"I’m not the cleverest man in the world, but like they say in
French: Je ne suis pas un imbecile [I’m not a fool]."
LA is building a rail parallel to the 405, and the Silver Express (bus) has run down the 110 for more than a decade. LA is also building 2 more rail lines in the SFV. The reason they're not already built is that the SFV opposed these lines 3 decades ago when they were originally proposed and only recently dropped its opposition.

Also, Buses run from downtown to Beverly Hills, and getting from Long Beach to Brentwood can be done entirely by public transportation.
Lazy way to look at it. Consume less, produce more. And when you find a clever way to do either or both, package it up it either give it away or sell it, but help others do the same. Government is never the answer
Many customers (myself included) don't bother going through the refund process for a <$20 item. I've been shifting my buying to other sites, instead.
The problems start when you open code to see

var localcache = cachemaster.cacheFor(foo);

Now you have no idea what it is until you dig into the (hopefully correct) API docs, or use an IDE that can untangle things.
It seems you're telling me that stagnating wages for increased productivity is fine, because the extra productivity is from better tools, not more work, which means the workers don't deserve the extra revenue from their increased output, is that right?

So if you're a farmer, and you're given a new kind of tractor that doubles the yield of your fields, you'd be totally fine if your landlord just took the extra crop for himself, leaving you with exactly the same amount as you would have had without the new machine?
That site looks sketchy
If you can build a system which measures the latency of task processing and dynamically adjusts the resource allocation, I think you can be robust in the face of changing underlying conditions. It's non-trivial, but easier to look for spikes in latency than trying to estimate resource allocation/utilisation.
In the short term it would get passed on to consumers. In the medium term supply chains would figure out how to reduce shipping by road. In the longer term (in conjunction with other changes) we might be able to get larger-scale urban development on a more sustainable track.

If we could properly price externalities (not just road wear but also ground water contamination, CO2 emissions etc.) there are many parts of our economy which could be made dramatically more efficient and less harmful without that much overall change to human quality of life.
In this case, reduced demand is desirable because Uber and Lyft drivers are a large part of the renewed traffic problems in LA.
> If there was a Consumer Reports-alike where I could pay "per report" (like paying for investment news "per report"), I'd pay. But I wouldn't subscribe.

I subscribed to CR for a month when I was shopping for a new dishwasher. After I found what I wanted, I unsubscribed. That seems functionally equivalent to what you want, at least when applied to large ticket items where the cost of a month of subscription is a small percentage of the total cost of the purchase being made.
A lot of people here are saying "plastic trash."

Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? Of course, eliminating them is way better than any form of recycling, but I'm fixated on the use of "trash" to qualify plastic refuse.
Well, it's a temporary thing..
Get an MBA.
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Not sure on the accuracy of this report but there are some indications that Uber, etc increase the number of cars on the road: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/uber-lyft-creating-traffi...

I think the implication is that people with cars keep using them and people without cars use Uber instead of alternative transport.
Why isn't the city allowed to be denser?
Congestion pricing is paid at the point of entry, so the non local cars also pay the fee. In fact, it's easier to collect from them.
You don't need an SSD to get benefit from the transfer speeds of USB3. Decent hard drives support linear read speeds of ~160MB/sec. USB2 will throttle that to 40MB/sec after protocol overheads.

I've also run into this using external ethernet adapters, which I still want when I'm copying large files or streaming video via airplay or steam. My last 3 laptops were missing inbuilt ethernet ports. USB 2, while much faster than the wifi speeds available at the time, only supports half the bandwidth of gigabit ethernet.
I liked Matt Levine's analysis:

> probably what will happen is that Musk will go to court and the judge will yell at him and he will say he’s sorry and then six minutes later he’ll tweet “my fingers were crossed and I am NOT sorry” and he’ll go on TV that night and be like “you know what I have contempt for? Court,” and everyone will just be like “ehhhhhhhhhh good enough.”

( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-26/elon-m... )
Yes, I do think that it learned a model of PHP and JavaScript syntax. 40GB of text data is a lot, and PHP syntax is a lot simpler than English grammar, which it learns quite well.

See also the example in the paper of accidentally learning to translate into French even though they tried to remove French pages from the corpus.
I’ve been on a personal quest to taste, at least once, the real version of things. Just so that I could say I had and have a point of reference. Olive oil that was pressed in front of my eyes, honey that was extracted from a hive in front of my eyes, etc... I wish there was a service that I could buy samples of food that were guaranteed to be the real thing.
Tesla is gaining a lot of free publicity from this.
Good idea. But I think it's a bit strange to have -8 (Pacific) for the US. -5 (Eastern) feels like the "default" time zone, and IIRC slightly under half the population lives in it. -6 (Central) is probably a good compromise - I've gotten used to it working for a company that has people in Eastern, Central, and Pacific with a Central-time headquarters.

(It seems even stranger paired with -5 for Canada. Surely these should be the same?)
Haha, total and utter bullshit. Someone is pulling a fast one on this sucker of a journalist. You don’t need location turned on to see where someone is lat/long. An average engineer can think of a dozen methods in half an hour.
Hybrid cars like the Prius actually weigh more because of the weight of the batteries. Tesla cars other than the roadster are also huge and heavy.
If you’re in the US, maybe. If you’re building an MVP of a dating site for the European market? i18n is feature #0.
How pi-hole works and what is FTLDNS, if anyone is interested: https://pi-hole.net/2018/06/09/ftldns-and-unbound-combined-f...
> When you have 80 characters for line, you are wasting a lot of horizontal space on most configurations.

But then you're requiring those who read through your code to have the window displaying your code maximized in order to avoid having it wrap or having to scroll to read it.

> Second, at least for me, I am focusing on 1 file most of the time. 90% of the time, I write code in 1 file, with maybe 10%, I look at 2 files.

When viewing diffs, a lot of people like to view them side by side. In some cases, people use a tool like kdiff3 to handle merges and need to be able to see 3 copies of the file side by side.

> Third, when you break at 80 characters, you waste more space cause you need to indent the new lines that were broken up.

It really depends on whether you use a lot of long variable names and/or have to include scope identifiers when referencing them. In python, a typical module may have a very small fraction of statements that require lines greater than 80 characters. That means that it doesn't add that many more lines to the file compared to just keeping those longer statements as a single line.

> Fourth, if you use languages like Python that have semantic whitespace, you need line continuation characters that just add to the noise.

Not necessarily. Any opening (, [, { can effectively serve as a continuation character. So you could write a print statement like:

print(
'Hello there. '
'This will be printed on a single line.'
)

> Fifth, for those cases where you are comparing code side by side, having an editor that does intelligent wrapping to make code narrower is not that big of a deal.

For line based diffs, it does make the diff significantly harder to read in my experience (especially when looking at the source file in conjunction with the diff).
Setup a VPN tunnel for your DNS traffic and benefit from your Pi-hole wherever you go. I use Tasker on Android to automatically detect when I'm not on home wifi and then trigger OpenVPN to connect to my home VPN for Pihole and local network access.
pi-hole is amazing. It blocks ~20% of my network traffic, based on ~1M domains.

I'm still amazed that they recommend piping curl to bash though...
I wrote a full stack implementation for Ruby: https://github.com/socketry/async

Come and chat here: https://gitter.im/socketry/async

TruffleRuby folks are trying to support us using native fibers in the JVM, but I'm not sure when that will be working.
He wants attention. Good, bad or otherwise.