skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much time are we giving it, considering Google's letal product policies?

I give them 2 years. Not a convincing project anyway. Yammer was already outdated when Microsoft bought it 2012.
I followed the crowd on the switch from Hot Dog Pro to Notepad++, then followed the crowd again to TextMate. Then again to Sublime Text. Then again to Atom. I installed VSCode and it took over my file extensions without asking me and I got annoyed and was going to go back to Atom, but then wondered why I was still playing this game. So I switched to Emacs.

Now I wish I did that 20 years ago!
It would be interesting to know the number of refused extraditions the UK has by the country requesting it. I imagine an extradition request from the US would be more likely to be filled than one from a less powerful/friendly country. The US has a "special" relationship [0] with the UK after all.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-SlDs59wKg
US, USSR, and China have successfully landed on the moon.

Japan, ESA, India, and SpaceIL all have crashed on the moon (counting as reached).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_on_the_Moon
You can't imagine any scenario under which an 11 billion dollar money printing machine which is growing and costs 11 billion + 3 billion to run can turn cash flow positive?
> 1. Uber is unprofitable and the only way it can become profitable is to get SDC's

That doesn't seem to be true...

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

What significantly cheaper competition?
By Chinese standards, most places are barely populated. They are a fifth of the world.
Uber is Lyft in more markets? More like UberEats is almost Lyft.
> There's a better video of the drones here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prhDrfUgpB0

Mount Tennent in the centre background at 0:10 in the video. Tidbinbilla Deep Space tracking station is a bit off to the right (and behind a range of hills).

I'm frankly surprised that they've chosen Canberra (the nation's capital) as a launch city. The degree of nimbyism in Canberra would be very high with a lot of people who are very good at lobbying and political action (it's their job). In the case of this particular project I see that as a good thing. I think delivering coffees by a noisy drone that overflies urban areas is an incredibly stupid enterprise.
We agree, identity is a basic requirement to see if someones vote should count, and to insure it's only counted once.
the problem is that you have to have constant stream of orders to justify having people who deliver on payroll. Uber basically has people who deliver and then rent them to restaurants so they never have a problem of constant load.
The Saudi family is invested in a lot of SV companies via Softbank's Vision fund (The Saudi fund also owns 5.4% of Uber, directly).

I don't think Uber, specifically, had anything to do with Khashoggi murders (with regards to the coverup).
Declassified photos from U2 planes are helping archaeologists unlock the past
> Pride comes before a fall. (scnr)

Only if your pride is traveling at less than 11.2 km/s.
Atom has always 'Just Worked' for me. For my projects (which are mostly Ember and Laravel) VSCode always had some issue, something to do with import maps. It also feels more sluggish to me than Atom.
Nowhere does it say the buildings are falling into disrepair.

On the other hand, if you would otherwise have high unemployment right now that can productively be channeled into construction that is less expensive to achieve, while you expect a massive influx of people in 15 years with a tight labor market... then it makes perfect economic sense to build out a decade in advance.

I'm not saying this is the case, but there are plenty of reasons why building in advance can make sense.
The problem is the people who can't afford to live in Cambridge. There isn't much in the way of public transportation to get you to Cambridge.
They do. Google "mcdelivery" - it's all through south east asia.
I think they probably know they can't do it anywhere near the "cost" that Uber eats charges. It's low value orders so not much comission (my guess) and the delivery fee doesn't cover what they pay the drivers. Plus all the bad PR of running a "gig economy" fleet.
> How much time are we giving it, considering Google's letal product policies?

Google isn't really known for killing G Suite features, though it's killed other things to support G Suite features. (E.g., consumer G+.)
Why? (compared to Sublime Text, Atom and VSCode)
Fix: Make Engineers actually liable for the correct classification of systems and require signed justification for NOT defaulting to the highest possible standard.
If my car could drop me off at the front door and go park on its own, that would be a significant improvement over the status quo. A personal automated valet is perhaps a little easier than an automated driver that does everything. Low speeds also means stopping or starting on a dime, which would allow it to be more conservative about identifying obstacles than when driving at highway speeds.

I don't really understand why nobody aimed for that sort of incremental improvement. Maybe the sensor package is too expensive to use in such a limited fashion?
It's stuff like this that makes it a far cry to call Mozilla "open" and "free"
It's not the side they are on, right or left, it's the violent and hateful rhetoric they use.
Thank you for the links. I had wrongly assumed cloning humans would be pretty much the same as cloning sheep.

Quoting the second article:

“Technically, there is no barrier to human cloning,” says ION director Mu-Ming Poo, who is a co-author of the study."

It would seem extremely likely the quote is applicable now. The paint is drying so to speak.
Being given government secrets and publishing them for the public interest should not be a crime, and it isn't. The New York Times won that case 8-1 or 9-0 at the Supreme Court for the Pentagon Papers.

Assisting with the exfiltration of that data is clearly a different beast. Professional journalists know the difference, and stay clear of it to protect themselves, their employer, and the trust journalists are granted.

Helping to crack a password clearly crosses the line, even if it's minor in the scheme of things, or unsuccessful. There will be endless handwringing here on HN over the precise definition of "assistance", because somehow the tech community cannot handle the ambiguity of non-binary real world situations. Would it be material assistance to let your whistleblower use your USB stick? What if you bought them a coffee on the morning they did the deed? etc... But the inability to precisely define the single tree that makes the forest doesn't stop us from making any "forest or desert?" decisions.

Of course this sets an ugly precedent. To the ignorant, it suddenly becomes far less extraordinary to see a publisher of secrets in jail. The Atlantic is rightly worried here, because who knows how long the courts will still operate independently, considering the current trajectory of other institutions like DoJ?
#4 is the most crucial. There's no stickiness. If a competitor builds a better mousetrap, the switching cost is near-zero.
Atom lost the HTML Editor race.
YouTube, Facebook put up ad roadblocks for Weedcraft, Inc. business sim
> it will take tremendous capital expenditure to neutralize it.

It doesn't take tremendous concentrated capital, though. A bunch of independent regional competitors can fight for each city / country separately. Uber has a leg-up with short-term tourists, who already have their app installed, but for regular users, anyone with a decent app and some ad money can be a competitor.
> Hackerspaces are wrong -those are educational institutions, not "getting things done" institutions for grownups.

Depends. There's a lot of organizational dissociative identity disorder happening in HSes I know (including ours). On the one hand, people would absolutely like to "get things done". On the other hand, educational outreach is what brings in new people and funding, so it can become the main focus simply out of necessity.
Why would moving a list have to allocate a new tail node? A lot of the value in moves is passing data around without having to copy/duplicate/allocate.

The most useful aspect of having customisable move constructors like in C++ seems to be things like updating pointers in self-referential types, which hopefully can be written to never throw.
khuey with the correction. Yes they would have been the 4th country to land on the moon. They settled to be the 7th country to orbit.
I've heard the name "Mainhattan" being used, because it's located on the river named "Main"
I think you're looking in the wrong place. I don't see anywhere in the eat github repository where there is code similar to the CHIRP algorithm (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd be interested in seeing the actual code used to generate the image (certainly the eat repo was used, but it doesn't look to be the main algorithm?) It looks more plausible that the algorithm is in eht-imaging (https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging), but I haven't looked deeply enough yet. She contributed a lot more to that repo.
And having said all that, # lines/commits isn't as important as the algorithm
The Arabs are all rolling in cash. It would be hard to find a large company they don’t partly own, just because of the sheer odds.
What experiences would you anticipate being different for you if you believed one way or another?
> without self-censorship, negative remarks, feeling out of place, their vocation and/or skills being continuously challenged randomly

This is the life of all men in competence hierachies. All of these things happend to me within the last half year and have been since I was a boy. Doesn't matter in the least, you couldn't pry me away from my interests with a crowbar.

This is your real problem: generally, girls want to be invited, boys just do.

The reason I speak up at all and will take all the abuse and downvoting thats sure to follow is it irks me so much.

We got into PCs and didn't matter one damn if they came from space aliens or out of the dumpster. We sat at them, we sat at them and we got scolded for it and told to go outside and called nerds. Our status was absolute dogshit and few women would associate willingly with computing in any form.

I am old enough to remember that at parties we mumbled "something with computers" and smiled apologetically hoping the topic would move on. Yes, many of us spent years, decades even, feeling slightly ashamed of our profession.

Now that the best and brightest of us nerds literally reshaped the world into a place where your personal handheld computer became a status symbol here come the women.

And you know, it would be okay, we are very tame men overall, except now you claim your collective absence from this topic is because we hurt you. No, we did not, you all just didn't like computers.
Small/mid size cities in the midwest like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago (though to a lesser extent).

Other "cities" are growing in the sun-belt.

It's complicated because many of the up-and-coming cities are being built with cars in mind and are not very dense. They are "cities" but they are not urban.
>Otherwise we could run roughshod over any foreigners we wanted.

That's the justification for (and purpose of) Guantanamo Bay, that the US can get around respecting (foreign and domestic) prisoners' Constitutional rights and obeying laws against indefinite detainment without trial and torture because it's not "technically" American, but Cuban.
Nasa Kelly twins study shows harsh effects of space flight and a brutal return
> Instead, I think they kept the mindset of "home computer" (I'm not sure how to put it) long after that had been in decline. I'm not sure when the turning point was, but it was sometime in the latter part of the 1980s.

"Microcomputer", from "microprocessor" (a CPU which is one piece of silicon), is the usual term which was used from the 1970s up through the IBM PC both standardizing the term Personal Computer and wiping the field clean of everyone except Apple and a few minor players, and Apple was fairly minor compared to the IBM PC and clones thereof except in certain markets.

> Anyhow - the Model 4 even had a version of Unix - Xenix from Microsoft - on the 68k; so they did do 16-bit machines for business, for a few years at least - but couldn't transition to the home market with a 16 bit machine (1000) - before the quick transition to 32-bit happened (386 and later 486).

For a while, Xenix was the best-selling Unix system, but mostly because it ran on IBM PCs and PC clones during the 16-bit era, before the 80386 finally provided a system that Unix could run on without massive compromises.
>What significantly cheaper competition?

The hypothetical Waymo SDC-based 'taxi' service
Ask HN: Which Terrible Products/Services Have Succeeded?
As in, which poorly made, poorly thought out products or services have ended up becoming wildly successful because of either good marketing, brand recognition or simple ability to understand their target audience?

Any examples? Cause if we've discussed great products that failed and better ones that failed due to a lack of marketing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19625319), we may as well discuss the opposite too.
I've been using singular they for as long as I can remember. Sometimes you don't know a subject's gender, and most of the time its irrelevant. Using they is just easier, usually natural, and only rarely stilted. People use and respond to it in speech without even realizing it, and it only catches their attention, if at all, in writing.

Once upon a time, before the debate really hit the mainstream, the predominate rule in academia was still to use "he" as the neutral or indefinite. I tried but it always seemed... wrong. I got into an argument with a writing instructor once, not because I was invested in the gender debate, but because singular they just seemed so obviously like the correct approach I couldn't understand the pushback. Fine, deduct points because I didn't follow the specified grammar rule--to use he. That's fair. We're being graded on how well we follow the specified rules. But at least admit the rules are wrong in so far as they purport to reflect reasonably correct professional usage. Don't deny the obvious and inevitable! It was so frustrating.
To anyone who is following Atom closely,

1. What happened to Xray? The Next Generation of Atom that was suppose to fix all the performance problem of Atom.

2. Is Atom as fast as VS Code now?
So we agree on the goals. I like your evidence-based approach to policy making and additional suggestions. I may have been a bit rash with some of my suggestions and appreciate your counter points.

How do we get this done?
Horrible numbers! They cannot get the unit economics to work. In order to make up for that fundamental flaw, they are trying to throw a number of things at the wall(UberEats/UberFrieght/SD/Bikes/etc) and see if something sticks. Each of those other bets seems poor, thus far.

They better focus on getting their original business in shape(call a cab via an app). I would be curious to know if they tried to raise prices in any markets and what the results were. I'm sure they want to know this for themselves and their investors thus far. Has anyone seen data/insights into such experiments by Uber/Lyft/Ola/X/Y/Z?

Given that none of the ride-sharing companies are sharing insights on such experiments, I am going to conservatively assume that these companies have low/no confidence that they can raise prices. Network effects make a good moat. But demand elasticity, substitute products, and competition seem to be dominating over the network effects.

Their original business is a good one. Price and value are way out of sync. UBER at $100-120B is way overvalued. Not touching UBER/LYFT stocks with a long pole at these valuations. Overpriced by 3-4x in my view. When they fall by 70-80%, will buy some.
There was no principle at play when Assange choose to publish the material he did. I fail to see what principles we're defending by choosing to defend him.
Yeah. It wouldn't even just be news--historical documents could also be helpful.
Juicero was invented there, if that doesn't qualify it as a cultural hub, I don't know what will !
/s
...ever tried actually using it on Windows? Like a year ago it got to ok-ish usable. A bit before that even on most Linuxes it had crappy performance.

Again, I like Atom's hackability, and mainly avoid it because the ecosystem of plugins is so full of halfly owkring abandonware
But how does she get to the T? It doesn't go very far.
> literally drives for "all of them".

But how many have they _stopped_ driving for?
At least on Android, for ~75% of mobile users globally, Google Maps is more important than Uber for getting from place to place. Every Android user has Google Maps. Virtually every Android user uses Google Maps. The same is not true for Uber.

Uber has a shallow moat around an ugly castle.
Also a private, albeit subsidized, company.
I am perfectly happy to accept autonomous cars to kill even a little more people than human drivers do in exchange for the utility that they offer. You can use your time in the car to do other things. That's actual life-hours saved.

And the promise is that they're only going to get more reliable with time.

Conversely, keeping back self-driving cars just because they upset your sensibilities who specifically should die, i.e. random group A instead of random group B even though A is larger, means you're effectively advocating that more people should die. That's grossly negligent.
Assange is a corrupt paid agent of Russian propaganda network. The fact that you are a fan casts more shadow over your own character than anything else.
> 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.

Their platform is a commodity to both drivers and riders. I haven't met a driver who only drives for Uber. Uber provides no incentives for loyalty to drivers, like actual employment as employees. As a user, I have no loyalty to Uber, either.
That's not really surprising, is it? Dual class stock is usually issued for tech companies where the founders were able to hold onto a lot of shares until the IPO, which I think isn't the case for Uber.
One month before, because you get two extra pay checks.

More relevantly, because of vesting cliffs it likely makes roughly no difference, except you get to see a bunch of colleagues celebrating becoming more wealthy.
Strongly disagree. VS Code is a corporate tool IDE, which is dull and awkward to use as just an editor, and binary spyware in it "phones home" to its users' masters in Redmond. It's exactly what an MSDN subscriber would like, but dire for anyone else.

Atom is fun. It's easy to configure in weird personal ways, get rid of parts you don't use, add your own plugins, change CSS as you like. There's an insane number of plugins and themes. It's like emacs but organized and nice.

So far the statements from project owners in public and on Slack have been that Atom 1 & 2 development continues full speed.

If it is "killed" we'll just fork it and run up a black flag.
There is value in vocalizing a guiding principle, even if it doesn't prescribe the exact way every single situation should be approached.
The memory doubled?
Are you saying that, like Al Capone, Assange has somehow threatened people with knowledge of some greater crime?

If you're referring to the Swedish allegations, keep in mind Assange constantly made himself available to the Swedish prosecutor to answer questions at any time the prosecutor asked: via video conference, in person or otherwise. The prosecutor declined.

To compare that behavior to Al Capone is odd.
I really hope you're being facetious when you say you wonder whether the other guy was being facetious ;P
you forgot option B: raise prices, reduce costs
Emotet the Banking Trojan
A rather spooky Freudian slip that suggests purging Assange...
> The problem is that it's not usefully deterministic once you add in exceptions, shared pointers, move semantics, lambda captures, etc. Not to mention every perverse combination of those things.

It really is though, and I can't stress that enough. I feel you just throwing out keywords to make it sound more complex than it is.
They aren't pulled out of thin air. They're best estimates. If you disagree, what do you think their unit model would transform into if they acquired lyft for $20B in stock and raised prices by 10%? Why?
I thought it was funny, its just a joke? No need to be such a Debbie Downer
China has a rather unique ability compared to other major economies: they can do whatever they want to, anytime they want to.

If they need to move a million people from a location, they can just make it happen. This isn't San Francisco we're talking about, Chinese authorities can snap their fingers and dictate policy. They can point at an area and that's where the new expansion will go for the city. Zoning problems? Nope, it's all flexible depending on who wants something done.

There's no need to build so far in advance if you're China. They're front-loading economic activity, attempting to pull future returns forward. You can tell because the returns they generate on their debt has plunged drastically over the last decade. If they were still generating the old tremendous growth returns on their borrowing, it'd be a different story, then they'd be feeding growth. Instead, they're stealing from the future (which will have to pay for all of this low value forced expansion).
> It's rational for the company to try to pull them

Aren't there issues with follow-on offerings? By taking the entire IPO pot for itself, the company will probably struggle to find investors if/when it needs to come back to the capital markets--which seems like an eventuality with Lyft.
People who don't get that distinction might benefit by considering crimes such as Attempted Robbery and Attempted Murder. Indeed, attempting to commit a crime is pretty much always a crime in and of itself.

Imagine if would-be kidnapper got off the hook just because the intended victim ran fast enough to get away. Or a wannabe bomber who fudged the recipe.
Neither the drivers nor the riders are capital items.
That is correct, it is just opening Chrome's password manager:

await navigator.credentials.get({password:true})

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/cred...

I do think it is odd that this API will present the UI without any user interaction first. (Doesn't require a tap/click to open.)
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It could at least provide a reference to infer if readings were within a sensible range. Outside of that range it might be best to scream bloody murder and require manual human piloting with automated assistance at producing the desired results. (E.G. If the pilot's pulling back on the stick, they PROBABLY want the airframe to go up as a result rather than down.)
Your link doesn't list the reason for extradition, doing some research on this issue, I see parental kidnapping generates a fair number of extradition requests.
Uber net income of $997m vs. Lyft's $43m loss
> and early engineers paper millionaires

actual millionaires not paper millionaires :).

> but will hopefully blow up

why do you wish others to fail so bad?
Online petitions run risk of being rigged
> They laughed at Einstein but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown

Off topic, but I don't think they laughed at Einstein. Special and general relativity were well received by the scientific community, weren't they?