skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... Let me see if I have this straight:

1. Uber is unprofitable and the only way it can become profitable is to get SDC's

2. Uber is significantly (years) behind Waymo in the SDC space.

3. Waymo will launch SDC taxi services first meaning:

- When it puts in an order for SDC components no one else is going to be buying in bulk and thus it can have effectively 100% of capacity of these specialized equipment makers

- It is going to be competing with other taxi/ride share services with all the cost advantages of SDC vehicles while its competitors are paying human drivers (and have basically no fat to cut from their current pricing)

- It will be able to improve its services so when someone else does launch their service will be inferior.

4. Uber expects that its users will stick to it over the course of years in the face of significantly cheaper competition.

5. Uber expects that it is going to be able to continue to use human drivers even while it competes against those same people with its SDC's (i.e. when your employer hires your replacement but expects you to train them).

I simply can't imagine how Uber is worth anything at the moment.
I know criticising submission titles is a meme on here but it would be nice if the top comment on a pretty interesting hack was about that pretty interesting hack.

Going on topic for a moment. I love the concept behind this project. I wonder if you could fit Linux + busybox on there (I haven't run the numbers but I'd expect it wouldn't be possible)
It was more fun flying into a downdraft in the middle of power on stall training.
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Here's a funny quote about that...

>> Can you eli5 why TryFrom and TryInto matters, and why it’s been stuck for so long ? (the RFC seems to be 3 years old)

> If you stabilise Try{From,Into}, you also want implementations of the types in std. So you want things like impl TryFrom for u16. But that requires an error type, and that was (I believe) the problem.

> u8 to u16 cannot fail, so you want the error type to be !. Except using ! as a type isn’t stable yet. So use a placeholder enum! But that means that once ! is stabilised, we’ve got this Infallible type kicking around that is redundant. So change it? But that would be breaking. So make the two isomorphic? Woah, woah, hold on there, this is starting to get crazy…

> new person bursts into the room “Hey, should ! automatically implement all traits, or not?”

> “Yes!” “No!” “Yes, and so should all variant-less enums!”

> Everyone in the room is shouting, and the curtains spontaneously catching fire. In the corner, the person who proposed Try{From,Into} sits, sobbing. It was supposed to all be so simple… but this damn ! thing is just ruining everything.

> … That’s not what happened, but it’s more entertaining than just saying “many people were unsure exactly what to do about the ! situation, which turned out to be more complicated than expected”.

https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2019/03/05/this-week-in-r...
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/avbkts/this_week_in_r...
> Free speech means the government cannot prosecute you for what you say.

No, that's the 1st amendment of the US constitution. Free speech is a broader concept, and the 1st amendment defends it only from government interference.
I personally never liked VSCode's UI. That's 100% subjective, I'm not claiming Atom's UI is better, I just like it a lot and it was kind of a “love at first sight moment”, and VSCode just didn't gave me that feeling.

Also, I'm using a ton of Atom plugin that didn't exist on VSCode at the time I tried (this may have changed, but since I disliked the UI, I'm not going to try VSCode again).
No - you don't need to defend someone to withhold judgement.
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What’s there to see? What’s their value add? They’re not going to be profitable until driverless cars are a legit thing or they pivot into something with higher margins. This IPO will make incumbent banks a cool mint and early engineers paper millionaires but will hopefully blow up and let capital into companies that actually have a chance of staying solvent without successive massive influxes of cash.
This $3.2 billion other income in 2018 was from divestitures of Russia/CIS and Southeast Asia operations.
Convinced media-bias is the only reason why anyone could be "long $LYFT." They are a text-book "one trick pony" and too late for them to catch up in food delivery, international expansion, etc.
So...
Step one, raise funding to run a revolutionary company.
Step two, ditch original idea for being revolutionary once funding is obtained. Use interest bearing bonds and other investments.
Step three, profit.
I don't use Atom, but one feature it has that I wish VSCode has is "atomic tabstops". It means if you are forced to work against your will on code that inexplicably uses spaces for indentation, it will act as if they really used tabs.

Atom is the only editor I've seen that has it unfortunately.
US national vacancy rate is ~6.9% and NYC sit's well below that at under 4%. Much like the unemployment rate these things don't hit 0% for various reasons. But, that's very different from building a 11th building when your first 10 are all at 90% vacancy.
>Am I wrong?

You're conflating a scientific study on who does and does not have a valid ID with what people think about people assuming they have no ID because of their skin color. They're orthogonal concepts.

All of the black people interviewed in that video found it ignorant and offensive that people assume that because they're black, they likely don't have ID or know how to get ID, and the white liberals had no problem making broad, negative assumptions about black people, if it supported their political views. That's the point I'm trying to make.
I stayed with Atom for a long while because my main use case at work is editing single text files on remote servers... There's not a great plugin for this in VSCode. Atom makes it easy to quickly open, edit, save, and close over FTP/SFTP.
> Do you have evidence for this or is it just an assertion?

Well, for biking numbers, there are infrastructure-oriented places like the Netherlands with very high rates of biking. I'm not aware of anywhere comparable for vehicular cycling, at least in the developed world.

> Do you have evidence for this or is it just an assertion?

Places where vehicular cycling is more common like the US seem to have worse safety numbers. I think you're right though that there aren't any in-depth studies, or at least I haven't seen them.

Admittedly, to me it seems obvious that cars being separate from bikes will be safer for people on bikes than sharing the space. Just like how everyone would uncritically accept that walking on sidewalks is safer than walking in car lanes, because it just seems really obvious.

Granted, you're looking at it as a personal style, whereas I'm looking at it in terms of public policy: which one is safer for cyclists as a whole, which one encourages more cycling. If you're saying, "well vehicular cycling policy is great except for that part where it only works for a tiny % of the populace" then that by itself means it's kind of useless.
SDC’s are like... minimum 5 years away for something an early adopter would get into. So...
They did really well with the CEO they recruited. From the outside, it seemed like he did a really exceptional job profitably growing Expedia.
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Social justice mammals are going to bring democracy to the rest of the animal kingdom, duh.
Richmond, Virginia’s police are making it easier for neighbors to spy
https://cssbattle.dev/

This is good for practice. Was on HN two days ago.
> The government has no incentive to do this because it would just create another problem for them

Actually the government DID try to do this. The U.S. DOT had an entire decades long program researching the following:

1) Costs and plans for updating roads with sensors

2) Upgrading traffic boxes (the things that control traffic lights and such) with a module to communicate back and forth with surround cars

2) Forcing manufacturers to install a module in all cars that would allow them to communicate with surrounding cars + road sensors + traffic boxes.

The problem was the amount of push back the government got from car companies was really absurd. And of course Republican funding games. Republicans love their private companies so they basically sapped the program's funds.

It was able to pick up momentum again from around 2012 onward though:

* https://www.its.dot.gov/about/federal_its_program.htm

* https://www.its.dot.gov/research_areas/automation.htm

* A practical example of its research: https://www.its.dot.gov/pilots/florida_agencies.htm
If you selected a thousand voters at random from Texas, there's a good chance you would not find a single one that doesn't have ID, since only 16,000 of the 9 million voters didn't have ID. I think that's pretty compelling evidence that voter ID laws don't result in widespread voter disenfranchisement.

If you're aware of any research, I'd love to see it. I've seen lots of research into the rate of convictions and prosecutions for detected voter fraud, but never anything as comprehensive as what you are suggesting. If had I had to guess, selecting 1,000 voters from the rolls would result in 900 solid "yes I voted", and 100 failures to validate, everything from not answering the phone to refusing to participate to incorrect records to faulty memory to they've moved away since the election, thus making the resultant study kind of worthless because the error bars are so large.

Trying to track a cohort with a good response rate is hard in any sort of study, but if your cohort is not selected by your team based on initial response (where you have some prior belief that they are not utterly opposed to participation) then I suspect that the response rates are so terrible as to make the research useless.

(As a note, my failure to reply to your last paragraph is not through any desire to avoid the question, but just because my post had already gotten too long)
Well, he is only being extradited to the US because of the time that he worked with the sincere whistleblower.

He hasn't been charged for anything else "bad" that you think he has done.

So it seems like it would be pretty easy to denounce this extradition, because it specifically relates to the sincere whistleblower "crime".
Had Rome in the list but removed it because I felt I was missing one or two in between it and Vienna. Rome and Florence dominated for a long time. Culture also used to be more distributed and heterogeneous prior to industrialization.
> I chose to say "US government" instead of "administration" because it may or may not have been the "administration" that requested the UK to extradite Assange.

No one outside of the administration has the authority to request extradition.
It is bigoted.

Given that scenario, "taking a walk alone down a dark alley in a city at night where a rough looking person in a hoody is approaching you from the opposite direction with their hands in their pockets" the race of the person should not, realistically, play a significant factor in determining the level of threat they present, as compared to the other factors. The bigoted assumption drawn from the made up statistic that the person is a member of "the race that is responsible for 90% of the homicides in that city" is that members of that race, categorically, are significantly more violent than members of other races. Otherwise, it and the statistic wouldn't be worth mentioning.

However, if this were a reasonable assumption to make about members of a race, then the other factors should not be relevant. "Taking a walk down Main Street on a Sunday afternoon when a finely dressed gentleman who happens to be a member of the race that is responsible for 90% of the homicides in that city" would be a far more dangerous scenario to find oneself in than a "rough looking person in a hoody approaching you from the opposite direction with their hands in their pockets who happens to be your own race, in a darkly lit alley."

Within the contrived scenario presented, the stereotype is irrelevant. Outside that scenario, it's absurd.

And.. no one is talking about seeing everyone as an equal threat, or no one as a threat, that's a weird non-sequitur you're projecting onto my comment. Likewise, not being paranoid about certain races will not inevitably get you killed and prevent you from breeding.

What I am claiming is that the stereotype you're trying to justify here as a valid survival mechanism is not.
Uber Eats revenue in 2018 is $1.46B which is pretty impressive

regarding other income:
> Gain on divestitures increased by $3.2 billion from 2017 to 2018. This increase was due to gains on the divestitures of our Russia/CIS and Southeast Asia operations.

Covered on page 85, basically spinoffs with other regional leaders
Many suburbs in Europe are set up with either lots of parking at the station, or such that people even in the suburb are within walking/biking distance of the station. I can show you examples if you're interested.
> Absolutely it does.

How do you figure? It seems to me that even if the news organization does everything Facebook/Google/etc. does, that doesn't make Facebook/Google/etc. less bad. It only makes the news organization equally bad.
So election security theatre? Color me not convinced. We should be doing everything possible to increase voter turnout in the U.S.

I'll make you a deal. Let's do away with voting machines that don't produce a physical receipt, make voting day a national holiday, and setup automatic voter registration. As part of all that, I'm willing to concede a feel good voter ID measure.
Weren’t monkeys already mixed with aliens to create humans?
I switched from Atom to VSCode (rather enthusiastically). My biggest loss is the find/replace interface from atom -- it was _such_ a nice interface -- so fast to browse over all the matching contexts and replace piece by piece or all at once.

Atom's find/replace interface was the favorite version of the feature I've used in any editor -- would be cool to see how that design evolved to support other kinds of automated edits (like refactorings).
I think they are saying that china needs to plan for more and more people moving into its cities. The buildings are empty now but maybe that's better than having a housing shortage in 15 years.
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It's a Chrome Extension to use for fast academic searching it's still pretty basic but it's really simple to use
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Jekyll and Github Pages is pretty low maintenance (static files and Markdown) and hosted on github.io.
>Interesting, as the current narrative (on thehill.com, a left-center bias news source no less) is that this is all caused by fears from the Obama administration personnel

The author isn't left-center biased. It's the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Solomon

>John F. Solomon is an American media executive and columnist. He is currently vice president of digital video and an opinion contributor for The Hill.[1] He is known primarily for his tenure as an executive and editor-in-chief at The Washington Times.[2] He has been accused of biased reporting in favor of conservatives, and of repeatedly manufacturing faux scandals
"We have incurred significant losses since inception, including in the United States and other major markets. We expect our operating expenses to increase significantly in the foreseeable future, and we may not achieve profitability."

We have incurred significant losses since inception. We incurred operating losses of $4.0 billion and $3.0 billion in the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018, and as of December 31, 2018, we had an accumulated deficit of $7.9 billion.

Revenue: $11.2BB (2018) $7.9BB (2017) $3.8BB (2016)
Growth: 3.3BB 4.1
NetInc: 1.0BB -4.0 -0.3

But net income buoyed by Other income (expense), net [0]:

Other: $4.99BB (2018) -0.02BB (2017) $0.14BB (2016)

What is that $4.99BB "Other" income?

[0]: Includes gain on divestiture of $3,214BB, plus unrealized gain on investments of $1,996BB.

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If an Australian tourist visits the US, they can be arrested as part of a police investigation the same way an American can be, and they have Constitutional rights such the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

I’m assuming you’re asking about whether Assange can claim the law violates the guarantees of free speech and a free press. I’m sure his attorneys will make that argument. I’m also sure that the court will rule against him. If an American gave Manning advice on how to crack another user’s password on a classified military system, they wouldn’t get very far claiming “free speech” or “free press.”

Personally, I don’t see any reason that Assange should feel any loyalty to the US, so there is a difference between an American helping an American military intelligence analyst crack computer security and an Australian doing so. On the other hand, if an old friend contacted me and said “I’m in the Ecuadorian military and I need help cracking into a classified computer,” I would assume that my helping them would violate Ecuadorian law.
This looks interesting but who are your targeted customers? Are you building this for developers? Also what kind of models do you support?
Humans have an inner need to see their actions cause effects, so anything that requires low effort but has an outsized effect is going to be taken advantage of. I think that’s why you see otherwise pointless vandalism and why if you leave an insecure website out in the wild eventually someone will hack it.
According to Webster's 1828 dictionary

AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.
Thanks - Really appreciate the details!
They change it to "Red Hat Certified Ansible Specialist", no kidding. Relevance going from 80% to 20%.
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Unless you really need dynamic content, just go with static pages. There's a lot of blog generators. (https://www.staticgen.com/) Then you upload the result wherever you want: shared hosting, S3, gcp, GitHub, ...
MCAS is not an ‘anti-stall system’, it’s a cheap type certification compliance hack
Count your blessings.

They are the 4th country to reach the Moon (albeit at 1km/s).
Douglas Adams did this for me, but science fiction instead of fantasy
I was wondering why I was receiving 404s and 500s all day.
You seem to be confused. Arbitrary code execution is just the ability to run code. It is a security attack when a user that wasn't supposed to be able to run code can now run code. But WASM and JS runtimes would be literally useless if you didn't start with the ability to run arbitrary code. Their sole purpose is to run code. You feed them code, they run it. You were supposed to have the ability to run code, therefore arbitrary code execution is not an exploit here.

Maybe you're confusing it with privilege escalation, though? Or a sandbox escape? But FYI those aren't the same thing. At all.

Alternatively if the worst you've seen on HN is one person seemingly confusing arbitrary code execution with privilege escalation you must not be on HN very much.
Some ideas for a baseline:

0) Many states that require ID to vote are moving in the direction of permit less carry for firearms. (I think GA, where I live, has the condition that a permit is required but officials are not allowed to request it.)

An unbiased system would recognize that if permitless is sufficient for carrying firearms, it should be sufficient for voting.

0') Recognize that filing other official documents does not require ID. Notably, tax filings do not require any kind of ID, yet the information contained in them is considered extremely sensitive (e.g. knowing the AGI from a form is considered sufficient authentication in some government interactions).

Recognize that many citizens of voting age simply do not need an ID. If you don't buy alcohol, fly on a plane, or drive, your need for ID becomes vanishingly low. If you just do basic stuff like go to the grocery store, physician, and park, you may find that you never need an ID.

So again, do not require ID for this fundamental exercise of participation in government.

1) Accept all federal and state-issued IDs. States have a habit of cherry-picking, for example by accepting firearms licenses and not student IDs. That means accepting student IDs from public universities, among other things.

2) Make the provision of ID the responsibility of the government. That is: IDs should be free to acquire and free to replace. Acquisition of IDs should not be biased against the homebound by e.g. requiring a citizen to present herself in a government office at any time to obtain one. Social Security cards function according to these rules, so our government has known how to do this for generations.

3) Grandfather existing citizens. The last slave in the US died barely 40 years ago; there are likely millions of people born in situations where birth certificates may not have been issued. Pre-computer records were destroyed from time to time. The onus is on the government to track citizens, not the other way around (ref: US Constitution). So there needs to be a way to (transparently, without effort on the citizen's part) get ID to people like my uncle, who has lived in the same place for ~70 years no matter whether he can produce his birth certificate.

The basic problem is once you do all that, you defeat the goals of the modern voter ID project. So there's no reason to aim for an unbiased ID system here. Either aim for the real goals (which require bias) or don't implement voter ID.
> Adjusted EBITDA was $(1.8) billion in 2018 and $(2.6) billion in 2017
Technological and social impact. SV owns the west's attention and behavior right now. I do not consider art to be the only cultural artifact. OP in this thread actually included financial impact in its consideration of NYC. Technology is as much a cultural factor as finance.
Personally I strongly prefer the UI of Atom, especially the iconography, settings menu, and visual layout. VS Code has a lot of extra features it shows by default that for me are just distracting. I love zen mode in Atom and the package ecosystem has been fantastic for me. Teletype is a killer feature, it's such a joy to use and makes me feel like I'm in the future. I've seen a lot of complaints about typing latency but I haven't noticed a difference between Atom and Sublime on either my OS X laptop or my work PC.

I also have a massive personal bias against Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt.
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I think the distinction is that -- as far as I know -- HN does not collect, generate, or publish data that I'm not deliberately intending to provide.

I would complain if my pseudonymity were compromised, or if content beyond what I intended to share was being broadcast.