skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auto companies are not service companies, those are very different things.

That said, given the dynamism of markets, there's nothing to indicate that Lyft/Uber will have any huge advantage when the time comes.

But this is a game of musical chairs - early investors need to create the biggest, most miraculous but 'believable' story so they can pass the bag onto retail investors long enough to cash out.

If retail investors were able to do their homework, or rather, if their advisors at Morgan Stanley etc. were to do their jobs, I think that they'd see there is far more risk in these things than the valuations imply.

The problem is of course is that Morgan Stanley private wealth managers, managing for all those doctors, dentists, lawyers etc. only make money if there is buying action. And the emotional excitement of 'getting in on an IPO' is just too much to ignore.

The 'bragging rights' value of your dentist in Akron Ohio being able to tell to his buddies on the golf course that 'he has an 'in' on the Lyft IPO' (not really of course, he's at the tail end), is just worth more than a scrutinized deal.

Also - notice the PR/branding for Lyft, it's so funny, like the opposite of Uber - and yet they are for all intents and purposes the very same thing.
I did some consulting work for a similar problem with growth. Home measurement company that sells to realtors at $100/service. Margin of 15%. Avg customer only uses service 3 times a year. So they make a whopping $45 a customer. The only way we were able to grow (initially 50k arr to 500k in 6 months) was going after big accounts. Its the same amount of work to close a big brokerage with 100 agents that represents 100k a year in sales vs each agent, one by one. Send me an email or message if you want to chat more. Id be happy to walk you through that transition and how we did it (what went well and what didnt)
This is another one of my favorites, the JobsNote-like launch of the Amiga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3x00Pbs2K8

Compare this to the 1984 launch of the Mac which cost $2485 MSRP, all of these capabilities came for only $1285 ($1595 with monitor), or the A500 ($699 MSRP)

As you can tell, I'm still bitter and annoyed at how Commodore mismanaged and squandered the marketing and sales of this machine. The Amiga was so advanced, it wasn't until PCs arrived with SuperVGA cards and SoundBlaster audio that I was enticed to leave the Amiga platform. The Mac128k at school seemed like a toy in comparison to my Amiga and what it could do, but somehow all of the media attention was on it. It's as if someone launched an iPhone in 1985, and no one cared.
> So even people who personally prefer to live "just outside the city" should advocate for denser housing. When the city builds up, everything moves towards the center.

Thanks for making this point, so many people vociferously object to any density anywhere. Nobody is being forcibly relocated to dense living, but people are being forcibly denied the option of dense living.

It's similar to transit and traffic: though other people taking transit helps drivers encounter traffic, far too many drivers will attack transit because it's "not something they use." Realizing that other people want different things and that those different things might help you with your own wants is a complicated topic for public discussion.
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Argos in the UK works this way. It is slow.
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An average toilet paper roll is 227 grams / roll [0] or ~0.5 lbs / roll. Consequently, this would be ~200 rolls, or 0.547 rolls per day.

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> It's still much better than the presidential system, because you don't get deadlocks between the executive and legislative branches that last indefinite amounts of time.

Sure, but that's a different argument.

> (instead of the voters electing him separately and on a different cycle)

Nothing prevents having both elections on the same cycle. AFAIK France (which is semi-presidential) somewhat recently aligned their cycles to make that disagreements between president and parliament less likely.

> Also, parliamentary countries seem to have elections based much more on party rather than actual people, so they have more parties with representation, instead of devolving to just two parties per Duverger's Law.

That actually weakens the claim that parliamentary systems are superior, unless presidential systems somehow cause first-past-the-post.

I think they may have a common cause though: If the writers of a country's constitution believe that people should vote for parties, they'll probably chose proportional representation and a parliamentary system. If they want people to vote for individuals, a presidential system with FPTP is the obvious choice.
Actually, this is now possible, as Kubernetes makes it easy to deploy steakless applications. I think i heard that.
It's amusing, but it's likely a cardinality like issue, they have n cases * n tenses * n genders. So I'm sure they follow a pattern that reduces what you need to learn at least by half and every day usage is a fraction of that.
I'm not a recruiter (am an engineer) and try to reach out to people that might be good fits. So far I haven't had any that made it to past the initial screen/job-fit that the recruiting team does.
Highly recommend reading Oliver Sacks' Uncle Tungsten - his tale of growing up and discovering the beauty of the periodic table with his home chemistry set. Made me appreciate chemistry and the periodic table and Oliver Sacks so much more.
I only want to develop PWAs for now on. https://appsco.pe/
Aggressively advertising to someone you know hates ads is stupid. They'll just boycott you in spite.
It's a complete mystery to me why certain YouTubers do this. I'll take the worst human voice (even Fran Drescher or Rich Evans) over a synthesized one, particularly for expository narration. It reminds me of phishing phone calls, and instantly draws me away from the actual content.
If they replaced C# with a language like ruby I suspect it would not get within the same order of magnitude of performance.

I agree that it may not be the best choice, but it is still interesting to see what is possible.
Also worth mentioning is Danny Dubé's SILex (http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/silex), which extracts submatches from a DFA trace by walking the trace in reverse, reconstructing the corresponding NFA trace (or traces) using a side table generated during determinization. The technique is described in these two papers: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/DubeFeeleyACTAINF... http://www.schemeworkshop.org/2006/14-dube.pdf
Its 2019, You have to map ESC to CAPS now. #MacBookProProblems
My son is a 12-year-old 7th grader in a public school in Manhattan. Phones are absolutely banned in the school building, and no one wants to lose their phone. The story could happen during out lunch, but not on school property.

More generally, the school has a big focus on anti-bullying and the kids generally seem much nicer and more together than my memories of middle school.
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I'm building a service that logs in to someone's Facebook account and automates some tasks on there. This runs in the cloud without explicit login from the user, after we have initial permission. The easiest way for me to do this is to simply ask them for their Facebook password and store it on my servers. However, I suspect Facebook might not approve of this? I'm having trouble wading through their docs and finding anything relevant about approved ways of doing this. Any suggestions?
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> deleting 4 tabs at a time

I assume you meant 4 spaces.
Fair enough - the reasons for my suspicion were the absence of any negative comments, the exhaustive list of features, and the quotes from Caspar employees.
How do you identify the caller?

All of the robo calls are I get are clearly from spoofed numbers; they spoof my area code from a previous location, but are clearly targeting people in SF, e.g. tax scams on foreign workers, stuff I can't understand in Chinese. Everyone I know gets spam with similar spoofing.

If you'll only tell me for $47, color me skeptical. :)
Google isn't going to shut down a gsuite account you are part of because your youtube account was closed. If you're that worried, pay the 100 bucks or so for an LLC, setup gsuite under that name and well that's about it. Never said it counted as an off site backup either, just that it's a good solution to dump video too.
How does one become redundant?

Were you in a position that wasn't a developer and that got automated?
That might work. I envision something close to Ikea (but in a much smaller footprint) where product collection is batched at the end of the store route. In fact, surely they (Ikea) have tossed this idea around. Probably encountered some roadblocks due to the size and weight of some of their furniture offerings. And how about insincere actors who just want to make some heavy furniture fly around the store?
Until people put things in their bag/cart that they didn't scan the code for, and you're not going to RFID tag an entire grocery store inventory that already has razor thin margins.

Supposedly Amazon's machine-vision store is solving this though.
Again, you didn't answer my question. Who exactly are you going to get them to vote for, if you don't like the guy who's running the place now?

And yes, talking to 50 neighbors sounds like a big PITA to me, when you aren't even on the board and don't have a way to contact everyone and arrange a meeting; you'll have to go door-to-door and hope to catch people when they're home.
That's a significant project. You don't have to do this in neighborhoods that don't have HOAs. And finally, again, WHO will you have them vote for, if you can convince them to not vote for the other guy who's mismanaging funds? Are you volunteering to spend all your free time on this payless, thankless job?
I was addicted to Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe for awhile.

But truly, one of the greatest early games was Fairy Tale Adventure which came out in 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5_4DhXWdwo
Thanks, the points you make are very important.

Specifically, on "... executive level bullshit politics related to their short term compensation milestones ...", I would like to add, this one is the hardest to figure out and has a significant impact on your growth not just within the company, but as a person in general.

Any more suggestions, on good ways to find out if this is part of the company culture?
If you die in the short term you can't come back 10, 20 or 50 years later.
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> The evidence is shaky at best

I think nothing will please the 'believers' except the personal Putin's apology. And of course they might say that was just his double speaking.
I think (2) sounds more useful too. You may also wish to consider a 3rd option: a machine readable export format (XML?), which would allow users to make their own human-readable archive formats.
Babylon 5 really opened the door to using this much CGI on a weekly show. Star Trek TNG and DS9 really didn't embrace it for a long time, even after B5 came out. It wasn't until the sixth season of DS9 that a major CGI effects sequence was used in Star Trek (though individual CGI assets were used prior to this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIFUJxJwcQ
It's British English for 'laid off' or 'staff reduction'.
Then again, ELB was amazing a few years back when the tooling for dealing with AWS/GCP/Azure was not as mature. ELB wrapped a huge percentage of the use cases (webapps) in one or two configs.

Sure, now there's a ton of better/more scaleable/cheaper options, but ELB was great before.
For sure.

The benchmarks game is just an easily available source of examples.

Which, for instance, may show an Ada program with much the same measured time as a Rust program —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It's easy to forget that BBSes were not at all populated by a representative sample of all people. The communities you experienced were the norm there but are a vanishingly small part of the modern internet. If you were raised now you might never have found your way to one before your psychological development was co-opted and sent in a very different direction by today's social media offerings.
I think the average Whole Foods has plenty of wasted space and that they could easily start to carry products that the average consumer has to go to a normal grocery/convenience store to buy (liquor, snacks, candy, soda, beauty etc). I don't think it will diminish from the experience. Plenty of higher end grocery stores do the same, even with a smaller footprint.
well, you guys were sneakier than i initially expected, and clearly more clever than me, as i can't figure out the pattern. oh well.
People parrot this too, someone has to buy new cars for old cars to exist.

Buying a new car lets you take advantage of warranties, free maintenance on some brands, having new tech years ahead of what’s otherwise availble (if you’re interested in that), not worrying about a questionable history (I’ve seen cars seriously damaged by driving habits in hundreds of miles of driving by abuse), and a myriad of other factors.

At the end of the day money is not just for hoarding. You can want to buy a new car as a treat, or a reward, and still do it a financial literate way.

Financial literacy != only spending money in the most utilitarian and minimal way possible, otherwise we’d all eat rice and legumes and live in shoeboxes to show how “financially literate” we are.
I'm a little skeptical as to how accurate this is. It definitely looks like it operates at a better price point than Google's ridiculously expensive Translate API, but does it really offer a huge boost over say, OpenNMT? You can deploy OpenNMT at scale pretty cheaply using Amazon's own EC2 Load Balancer so I'm not sure...

Also do AWS credits apply to this? I and most startup founders I know have upwards of 30k$ in AWS credits usually sitting around so this would definitely go a long way as to integrating translation without running a pre-scale cost.
I am all for this, but would love some guidelines (tips? pointers?) on how to figure out who they are to get the process started.
Do we really need another grocery store chain though? Whole Foods cornered the high-end grocery market (or created it, if you want to debate).

Introducing yet another generic grocery chain to the already saturated, age-old red ocean market doesn't seem reasonable unless they're trying to create walk-up warehouses for online grocery delivery.
That's a good plan.

But since the store size is 35000 sq.ft., they'll surely do something beyond that. But what ?

And they're going to build a lot of these stores, fast. They must. Or else, Walmart.

EDIT: Why so much space?

Sometimes you need stuff from the grocery today. Other times you can order online. Sometimes you need both.

This stores will serve both roles.
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Just launch a bunch of super-tiny, 1-AD regions so that you can have it on the map, and then rush to do region expansion within months of region launch. ;-)
From your resume it's not clear what you're looking for. Looks like you're an entrepreneur?
Not a sling shot in terms of gaining energy, but there's an interesting trick I don't really understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
I well recall the Duga radar, although back then we only ever called it the woodpecker because of the chirpy noise it made.

Its very powerful signal used to flood large chunks of the HF/shortwave radio spectrum (3-30 MHz) and render sections of it unusable for legitimate users (i.e.: radio stations operating within the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) radio regulations and technical standards).

Back then, it seems the Russians—or I should say the USSR—didn't give a damn about standards when it came to Cold War activities.

Duga used to check for a quiet part of the radio spectrum and then start its chirping activities (being radar, and even though its transmitters were extremely powerful, it still needed very quiet channels in order to detect its own very weak reflections/echoes if it was to work properly). Thus, it would land anywhere where it was likely to sufferer minimum interference from other radio stations (even though these other stations were very much weaker in power than Duga was, they could still easily drown it out).

I recall amateur radio operators—who use even much lower power than these other broadcasters do—were able to chase it out of their own bands with only few tens of watts—so important was it for Duga to have a very clear channel. Amateurs used to deliberately land on Duma's frequency and transmit there, this would interfere with its reflection and thus screw up its radar activities. When interfered with Duma would then move across the band to the next quiet spot and start over again. The crafty cunning amateurs would effectively chase it on and on across their bands until they had gotten rid of it.

Nevertheless, Duma was a remarkable system and there's been videos of its huge antenna arrays and transmitter buildings on YouTube for a few years now. Moreover, there's a few showing intrepid climbers clambering all over these very high antenna arrays. Intrepid in more than one sense, as Duma is in the Chernobyl exclusion (radiation) zone only a few kilometres away from the crippled reactor (presumably, they're not too concerned with the radiation levels from the reactor).

For any techie who is even vaguely interested in RF engineering or ionospheric propagation, Duma is a truly interesting relic/artifact of the Cold War as well as an amazing technological curiosity.
I don't think the parent comment means people putting things in the bag. They just walk with phone, scan the items they want to buy which get added to bag automatically by robot/someone else and customer just walks to the counter at the end to pick up their bag.
What do you mean? I thought AutoML was a tool to do neural architecture search, and hyperparameter tuning.
Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia
Some of my 13yr old son's classmates have started a bullying campaign against their own teacher, trying to dig up dirt or otherwise gossip about her. This happens over insta and snap.

My son isn't involved but as a result she wouldn't even meet with me to discuss his recent report card (a right I thought I had), she is so sick and tired of people ganging up on her.

I've always warned my son, you misuse or otherwise abuse a privilege in the presence of adults and they will strip you of it, a phone is no different. Then the more I tried to apply that to this situation I realized I'm wrong: his peers have already learned to bully and harass outside of school now, the teachers can do nothing about it.

I don't know what to do about this one.
FYI, almost nobody in Russia uses Cyrillic in the programs/scripts. Most people write comments, variable names, even error messages in English. So when I read that some malware was attributed to us because of Cyrillic, for me it's a sure sign of bullshit.
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Your anecdote says nothing about what happens in the large. In any case, do you deny that the Tiananmen Square massacre is censored in China? Do you deny that many people don't know about it?

It may take some introspection, but please try to understand that your experience is not universal.
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If you're interested in C64 stuff, here's a video I made of some old C64 intros I wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aViXXbUg_yU
> to not have to work someday

You will still be consuming then and unless you have enough savings to last, you will eventually depend on the money of others.

Multiply this situation by tens of millions and you have society, filled with people who consume more than they make, whether by lack of capability or unwillingness.

Few people want to work, yet everyone needs some energy to survive and most want more than that. So we have developed elaborate carrot and stick systems to induce people to work.
Often people use SQLite for sheer convenience instead of perceived performance or resource efficiency i.e. because SQLite is zero config, works out of the box. Sure spinning up a docker container with PostgreSQL is easy enough but why do that when you can use the default standard library with SQLite already embedded and linker configed?
I'm probably too busy/lazy to do this myself, but it warms my heart knowing that somebody is screwing with the robocallers. I will now send each robocall to VM with the thought of them bitterly writing another check to @instaheat sometime in the near future.
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Ironically, there is little confrontation between a skyscraper and a wheat field, in the sense that they are both extremely artificial and totally man made.
I see, my bad. Still, why even walk around empty aisles full of food pictures then?

It seems like a strange UI for something that could just happen in the app before you even get to the store. Seems like a waste of space too since everything will be itemized and stored in the back on shelves as well.

I understand that user behavior doesn't turn on a dime but Amazon customers are already used to ordering online.
As an undergrad in French, German and Russian, Deepl has been amazing. Always used linguee to see stuff in context, but deepl is very impressive!