skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying those cities are being abandoned, is more than a stretch.

Cincinnati's population has expanded since 2010.

Pittsburgh and Cleveland have both had stable population numbers the last decade. The declines have been very small over that time. As with Cincinnati they did suffer drops for a couple of decades in the past. They're not being abandoned.

Detroit is losing 0.004% per year at this point. There's a reasonable chance the worst is over for Detroit.

Chicago is not being abandoned at all, that's particularly incorrect. Their population has been stable for 30 years, it has seen a small 70k decline (less than 3% decline over three decades doesn't get you in the lesser extent abandoned category at all).
i saw https://deepl.com mentioned in another comment on another post. seems pretty nifty, im having a good time just chaining translations across languages to see how effective it as at maintaining the original intent and context. im quite happy with it as a toy but i imagine it could be very useful in other more focused applications
The real problem that I see with using Über in South America is that the service is not improving.

- The time estimations are way off

- The app doesn't know one-way roads well, although they should have a lot of training data on the routes I go on

- They allow drivers haggling for the price by forcing users to pay with cash instead of credit card.

- The app doesn't know about the road tarifs sometimes, and the driver is not allowed to ask that money from me, which makes an awkward situation

- Sometimes I'm getting 30 year old cars, which the Taxi companies filter for

I would happily pay more than the current price, but I need more reliable service, which the software could provide.
Right now Taxis with all their problems are still competition.
Think about morale at Lyft. You have employees locked in who cant sell for first couple of months. They are seeing their networth plummet everyday.
True though Israel put its own satellites in space (the Amos program).

The cool thing about it was that was a pet project of a few scientists doing it just because it was cool rather than a proper national project
A Saudi Prince also invested in Lyft

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/23/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-ta...
>Tesla hyped their basic lane-keeper and car detector into an "autopilot" then repeatedly plowed into clearly visible obstacles and killed people.
> The serious Uber and Tesla accidents were not edge cases. They were blatantly obvious obstacles: a semitrailer, a fire truck, a fixed barrier, and an isolated pedestrian on an open road

[citation required]
The publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, specifically addressed that "hypocracy" in a well written article on the NYT privacy project site:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...
Or democrat
Well technically, it's not the same thing. Irokotv is a VOD platform for Nollywood films with an already hungry potential customer base especially for Nigerians in diaspora.

90 percent of IrokoTv's diehard core customers don't even know what a short film is or have an interest in watching one. Except you are a filmmaker or have a deep interest in the film industry, you most likely don't know what a short film is, it's usefulness or why it's important.. lol

this was our mistake. we should have targeted countries with very active short film community.
Markov Chains can be quite amusing when applied to a corpus of similar texts, and often stunningly human-like. I maintain a list of humourous applications: https://github.com/sublimino/awesome-funny-markov

Some favourites:

- Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails - https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter

- Calvin and Markov - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined http://joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/

- Generate your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages - http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/

- Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines - https://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all

- The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page) - https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator

The original Markov-generated content prank: "I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt" https://web.archive.org/web/20011101013348/http://www.sincit...

And of course (un-amusingly!) - Google's PageRank algorithm is built on Markov Chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Damping_factor

n.b. there used to be parodies of Hacker News, but both are down: https://news.ycombniator.com/ and https://lou.wtf/phaker-news
NoScript shows buzzfeed.com when you initially load it, when you (temporarily) accept that domain you get lots of others... including facebook.net. Allowing any one of those (which I didn't do) may bring up others in this very fun game of javascript domain whackamole. Using that extension or one of many others that work similarly will enlighten even the most technophobic of journalists as to how this all works.

I find it hard to believe they looked into the subject and didn't run across these. But I suppose it's possible.
Or maybe they discovered that some one had leaked classified information (a crime) and during the investigation of that crime, discovered that Assange had conspired with that individual (also a crime)? That explanation makes sense to me. Maybe it isn't what happened, we will have to let the courts decide on the facts of the case.
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Some roads around me are positively lethal on a bike, I sometimes jump off and walk across because it’s not worth the risk to me or anyone else, annoying but worth it.
If you're interested in a basic math intro (starting from linear algebra concepts), check out Section 8.2 in this excerpt from the book "No Bullshit guide to Linear Algebra": https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/probability_chapte...
This excerpt contains some exercises (with answers in the back) as well an examples application (PageRank).

Technically Linear Algebra is not "required" to understand Markov Chains, but it's a very neat way to think about them: each "step" in the chain is equivalent to multiplication of the state vector by the transition matrix.
On the coast, one hour from Beijing. This is obviously an extremely attractive area. Give it a couple of years and it will be busy and wealthy.
The assumption that SDCs are going to completely overtake the market is a huge one and is unwarranted. This puts all the cost of building and maintaining a fleet on Waymo, or whoever is first to market. While it cuts out the cost of a human driver, it's not at all clear to me that this is cheaper in net.

Furthermore, a completely robust SDC able to handle all climates and weather in which a human driver is at least nominally competent to drive is still likely a pipe dream. So this model may work well - if it works at all - for the Southern regions of the US, without coverage anywhere else.
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and https://newreleases.io to support at least https://crates.io...
Looks like really bad news for LYFT. Their lack of diversification is really going to hurt them.
i think that's important but how exactly is that specified? Does the US Constitution to apply to anyone on US soil?
I wonder if anyone reading through this filing could speculate: Can Uber just raise their prices to reach profitability? If they lost $3B on $44.1B of Gross Bookings, it seems they could raise their prices by about 7% to hit breakeven. Would they really lose that much market share if they did that?
This is a straw man mischaracterization of what the article is arguing. His work with a "sincere whistleblower ... in the public interest" is the direct and only thing he's been charged for (by USG).
Thanks, I'm very familiar with them both. They're irrelevant unless you can prove some natural phenomenon can solve the Halting problem. I'd love to see that.
It's not unreasonable, people do it all the time. Look at the window stickers in a rideshare, if they've got one they've got four, all around Seattle.
If limiting CSS to 50k per page would prevent news articles from including "a video player, audio player, image carousel, map, data tables, scroll away images, etc." then I wish browser makers would include it as an option so I could apply it as a filter everywhere. I don't want all that stuff to begin with.
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Not related to TF, but the upcoming version of Gorgonia has a solution for that - we basically developed a calculus for dimensionality of data. Gorgonia is deep learning in Go, and is well typed as far as I can tell.

Work on the coq program proving the calculus is taking longer than expected though.

If you're interested in contributing to Gorgonia, lmk.
To keep the math simple: It's worth the amount a greater fool will pay for it.
> to insure it's only counted once

This is a really important goal.

Wouldn't it be cheaper, easier, and more effective to enforce this at the schema level of the vote database?

Building 50 (different, incompatible) state-level infrastructures to fairly distribute IDs according to principles like those above seems like the one of the harder of all possible ways to accomplish this goal.
As evidenced by the "Cablegate" leak, it's more the fact that when the US government tells the Swedish government to jump, the latter asks "how high?" like a trained fucking poodle.

Regardless of which side is in power.
Why would McDonald's want to do the delivery if Uber volunteers to do it losing money?
It's also a bad thing for all the employees and investors as they have 180 day lock-in before they can cash out.
>But in fact, Uber does have a massive moat -- its network of drivers and riders in thousands of cities around the world. No competitor is even close.

Merely being ahead of competitors isn't a moat, it would have to be something that makes "entering into serious competition" difficult for any new entrants. Uber already lacks the monopoly power to raise prices significantly because of competition from Lyft and local providers.

TNCs do experience network effects, but it's nothing like e.g. operating systems or social networks.
You do realize that Israel has put it's own satellites into space? And in a much more difficult way to avoid launching them over hostile countries.
For the HN Community yes...

Far-left / Socialist is the only "acceptable" way of thinking

anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now) should be shut down, out, and banned
When is the theft of information justified? The publication of The Pentagon Papers set a precedent for this type of argument, but it's a slippery slope. My preference would be for us to promote much stronger freedom of information laws.
On average I get more annoyed with other cyclists than drivers, no turn signals, running traffic lights, riding without lights at night in dark clothing on a black bike, curb jumping, riding on busy pavements, not signalling turns etc.

I’m fully in favour of the police cracking down on cyclists for not following the rules.
This is how you pump up GDP numbers.
The 737 calculates airspeed using the pitot tube measurements and the angle of attack sensor; if the AoA sensor is erroneous, so is your airspeed.
The Discovery Networks and ESPN. These are successful because they understand their target audience are a handful of cable companies and have managed to avoid the unbundling of their undesirable overpriced offerings from all but the literally means-tested "basic" cable packages.
There's an unofficial port for Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL: https://github.com/WOA-Project/WOA-Deployer-Lumia

Raspberry Pi is probably most accessible device for running Windows 10 on ARM: https://github.com/WOA-Project/WOA-Deployer-Rpi
Why would OP have any reason to trust you with the information? And for the lowest of stakes, proving a point on a web forum.
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While this is true, it's the only proposed path to Uber being profitable. They lose money on every human-driven ride and have no approach to remedy that situation. So if SDCs aren't coming any time soon, or if they aren't any cheaper than human drivers, I'm not sure that's any better for Uber's prospects...
Your example isn't proportionate. It's selling $14 for $11, which is much closer to selling $10 for $8, which is a lot more reasonable than $10 to $5.
Crashes in to and over 'barriers' can already happen. If you want to provide safety against that you really should have pedestrian only paths.

The way to get THAT inside of major cities involves lots of adapter IO at the edge of the city, and a much more (Azimov's) Cave of Steel like transit infrastructure inside.
Oh I didn't even think we needed to get into that part since it was stated. I'm saying their space program has directly benefited from the ongoing relationship with the US allowing them to develop as far as they have.

OP was pointing out how far they got despite being such a small nation, I'm just saying that's not an accurate statement whatsoever based on what actually happened.
Yeah but that doesnt support the "autonomous taxi" use cases that have been pushed for revenue.
Awesome thread, where body builders argue about how many days there are in a week: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
The driver network is worth precisely zero as a competitive moat if (and only if) you are competing against a company with self driving cars. The customer network is a competitive edge but it is also far less sticky than having a robust network of drivers that riders can depend on.
It does in parts of the world where costs are low. Over here it makes sense for them to let Uber/VCs subsidize the operation.
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Homo sapiens is an african species and the only extant species, so technically all americans are afro-americans and all europeans are afro-europeans.

Banning white people from playing black music or representing black culture (or claiming that this is disrespectful for the black people that created it), is as ludicrous as would be banning black people from using light bulbs, microphones, tv, spanish/electric guitars, pianos, cars... invented by white people, therefore "white culture" (and often built by asians).
> its network of drivers and riders in thousands of cities around the world

Whose switching costs are virtually zero. smh
I tried scaling the task of #2 across multiple people recently. It took way longer than had I personally done it myself.

I want to know if there is a way to spread the load for this.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

--- Warren Buffett

Expedia makes money from advertising (12%), from bookings fees, and from buying blocks of hotel rooms at a discount then selling them for higher prices to their customers (66%). [1]

All of these revenue models are something that is pretty obvious how you make money at. And all of them are very different than crowd-sourcing rides for which it is not clear that the market prices is higher than the cost of providing the ride.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/28/how-expedia-makes-...
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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's going to be a very long time before self-driving cars are cheaper than cheap cars with human drivers. It's very possible that Uber might reach an acceptable level of self-driving capabilities before Waymo's paid off its investment in its first crop of self-driving cars.
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I did a bit of research along the route I followed, and the worst stretch seemed to be around 120 miles of no charging stations. The rest of the trip typically had them between 15 and 20 minutes away from the freeway.

If I needed to spend an hour (driving off freeway + charging) for every 200 or 250 or even 300 miles, that would have made the drive far less pleasant.
Those are all things you asked to have. The topic was things you coded, but that the compiler did not generate code to do.

To be precise: by the object model, a constructor and destructor were supposed to be called. The compiler, by special dispensation, avoided calling them.

You may complain that the object model is whatever the standard says the compiler must do, in which case the statement would be vacuous: no transformations.
Rather than invest $10k in Uber, I went to the bank, got out $10k in singles, and burnt them in a garbage can in my back yard.

...this must be what disruption feels like.

EDIT: Okay, I have an ulterior motive. I work for CashBurn, we are super disrupting the venture capital space. We use machine learning, AI, and the cloud(TM) to build a drone that will fly to your house, break in, hoover up your cash, and set fire to it. Super.

By 2022, we are super optimistic that we will have aggressively disrupted the entire venture capital industry. No more wasteful spending on lawyers and investment managers...we cut out the middle man and burn your cash for you.

We are currently raising a Series A.
Most importantly he hasn't had a single negative mention since he took over. the company had a couple bad things disclosed that were holdovers from the old regime, but none of it was his as far as we know. he also hasn't had any seriously positive news, but for uber no news is good news.
Instead we got two boosters returning and landing side by side.
What's the point of saying "We have collected links for [...], relationships, [...]. When there are 0 links collected under relationships? Seems weird for me
In the segment of Office 365 etc?
Take a look at the Golang model, it uses duck typing and also CSP for parallel exec'n
With an accumulated deficit of $7.9 billion in their balance, isn't it worth at least $7.9 billion in tax credits?
Tree Sitter. Being able to do Alt+Up/Down and have syntax blocks selected with such a confidence has really changed the way I write code.
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Is it really necessary to measure the relative wind or is that just how it's always been done?

What would be wrong with using an accelerometer to measure/calculate velocity with respect to pitch give you a better reading of AoA? In conjunction with a second velocity source to provide redundancy?
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I wouldn't hesitate to note their license plate # and report them to the police. It may not help, but it might -- particularly if more than one person reports the same car over time.
What part of the first amendment exonerates knowingly attempting to crack NTLM keys of US military logins?

Or is the reasoning that the law should give him special treatment and exemptions not given to others?

Also, is the 1st amendment protection even applicable to foreigners on foreign soil?
At least he is answering honestly. And everyone seems to dislike honest answers. Looks like people only want to hear some lies wrapped in nice promises, which would never materialize.

edit: typo
This is a question that’s been on my mind ever since I did my master thesis in 1997. And yes, I agree that FP is not it (my school was heavily FP-influenced).

IMNSHO, architecture-oriented programming is what OO wanted to be. Or maybe it should be called connector-oriented.

In short, in addition to a library of data types / classes you can use, compose and adapt, you get a library of connectors you can use, compose and adapt.

Another way to think of it is tamed metaprogramming or language-oriented programming on rails.
>>" Free speech means the government cannot prosecute you for what you say.

Incorrect, very very very incorrect

I am alarmed by the fact that people believe the only censorship by government is a problem or what "free speech" means.

A society can be completely devoid of free speech while not having any government censorship at all. We are seeing the manifestation of such a society today.

Government censorship is only one kind, and only 1 threat to free speech, but it is far far far from the only threat.

> Any company can tell you to fuck off for any reason though,

Yes, yes they can. But if they do they should not be able to advertise, collect money, and promote being "for everyone" or "adovating for the free and open web" or other such statements. That is and should be considered fraud if they do such things.

If Mozilla wants to be a censorship platform, they need to own it in their marketing, mission statement, and public advocacy

> the free market all the "free speech" advocates love so much.

It is always amusing with Authoritarian and socialist promote the "free market" when it comes to censorship when in reality they have not idea what they are talking about
> The internet is such a game-changer.

Or subsidizing artificially cheap rides is a game-changer.
> VS Code is one of the finest examples of open source Done Right™

It's easy to do OSS right when your a major cloud OSS vendor who are able to use your billions of profits from hosting OSS to fund a 30+ strong dev team in creating a free "OSS" product.

If that's the definition of doing OSS right, then the only sustainable "free" products that will be done right will come from multi-billion dollar cloud vendors. I do love VS Code tho, just not a fan of seeing most of the generated wealth from OSS being collected by the major cloud vendors, this trend is going to hurt the diversity of the OSS ecosystem as we know it.

Irrespective of the funding model that made it possible, I will say the VS Code team is doing a fantastic work iteratively shipping new features with each release at a super high velocity.

IMO it's a poster child for why most future Desktop Apps will be built using a Hybrid or WebView dev model like Electron where its productivity is unmatched.
According to the S-1, Uber has a $1bn profit. Where did you see it is unprofitable ?
Many westerners don’t really understand china’s district system for cities. Ordos City is very old, maybe a couple of thousand years by various names.

Kangbashi is a new remote district (New Town) of Ordos that was built over the last couple of decades and is still very much empty. It is too far away to commute to Ordos’s older more popular districts, and so people don’t want to live there. Many of the apartments have been bought out by speculators, however.
How so? As far as I understand, it will hold to a very high degree as long as the flight conditions are stable over the time scale needed to establish the airflow pattern over the wing, which is very short.

(If the flight conditions are that unstable, a mechanical AoA vane will struggle too, since it has mechanical inertia.)
I take Taxis from airports and from hotels for that reason (often faster than waiting for the uber to get through traffic).

The exception is SFO where Taxis cost 2x what an UberX costs.

The Taxi experience is still bad though - just yesterday in DC I had to listen to my driver 'joke' about why the Taliban should be able to fight for their country while also repeatedly pointing out and talking about women on the street.
As mentioned in the tweet's replies, this isn't true at all. I definitely was a bit shocked to see my username appear in incognito, but this isn't a window.alert. Twitter has no access to your username in incognito.
I can't wait to see how a SDC deals with a passenger puking and passing out while getting a ride home from the club...
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Uber Eats is an amazing service.
I can keep up 28kmh all day comfortably on my road bike and I’m not that fit but that’s 8 kg of carbon fibre running on 21mm tyres at 120psi not your average commuter bike.

I ride much slower on mixed use paths or around pedestrians, me hitting someone at 32km/h is going to hurt both of us potentially badly.
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