skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save your hide have either a lot of nuclear weapons or deep political ties to those that might invade you.
Uber isn't in the taxi business, it's in the self-driving car business. Taxis with drivers are just a stopgap, just like DVD's were a stopgap for Netflix.

The Economist is right that there are few real network effects or moats around the taxi business. But Uber's valuation depends on it:

- Developing the best driverless tech

- Being able to roll driverless taxis out to an established customer base faster and at far larger scale than anyone else (main advantage over Waymo/Tesla)

- Using a headstart in driverless tech, compared with huge data advantage from millions of Uber rides, to maintain the #1 position

Of course all this depends on Uber being able to develop the best self-driving tech, and getting such a data+scale first-mover advantage to stay ahead of competitors.

Skeptics will say Waymo will have the best tech, and expand/scale its taxi service effortlessly, and thus that Uber's existing customer base doesn't provide any advantage at all -- everyone will just jump ship from Uber to Waymo.
5x5 or Rippetoe's Starting Strength, also a 5x5 programme, are both excellent starting points.

Based on my and others' experiences, bodypump can be a negative as there's frequently no guidance on form, technique, starting weight, or progression.
MGM Resorts to Replace Bartenders with Machines
Elon Musk and SEC reach an agreement on his use of social media
Good points.

And maybe there's linked stuff that got selected for.
My properly configured DKIM/SPF/etc mailserver, with a 10-year old IP, still gets email redirected to gmails spam folder more often than not. Even replies to emails from gmail addresses, with reply-to-id's.

That's the box I use for my personal email. Out of principle. I believe in a distributed/federated net. It just means that I can't expect that emails I send actually get delivered. Sigh.

My experience for business has been that you simply have to bite the bullet and be on outlook.com or gmail.com. Or you can't expect that regular email always arrives. What everyone in the corporate world expects of course.

I've heard this story from everyone I know that operates their own mailserver. No hyperbole. I would be tremendously happy if Google would spend some serious (and visible) effort on this. Thanks Paul.
When Hackers Strike, Property Insurance May Not Offer Protection
It is not. At least the slow lifts are too restrictive on blood flow. Fred Hatfield did claim that Olympic lifting did interesting/good things for ejection fraction (IIRC) but these lifts have very little time under tension so are a different animal.

I would suspect you were reasonably fit before, needed some more leg strength to hit your peak speed, and didn't lose too much cardio from not doing it for a month.
This work has great hack value. It's good to see people doing things like that.

Also, the Palm devices were great little machines, with some interesting technical tradeoffs for developers to push the very modest limits of the early hardware, which made sense. I did an app for an early one, and also put the API docs in more usable formats. I looked at the later Palm hardware again recently, when I was deciding where to go for Linux handheld hardware after Replicant, before I decided on PostmarketOS devices.
https://www.neilvandyke.org/t-map/
https://www.neilvandyke.org/padr/
https://www.neilvandyke.org/postmarketos/
> A driver who doesn't talk to me

I wish "Quiet Ride, Please" was an option in the app.
it seems like a large portion of tech jobs are outsourced - even in the gov. glad to see something is being done to change it.
Oh, my beloved devotchka and droogs of HN!
I don't!

Later

Oh, you mean, about the tickets? Because I spent a long time amassing a lot of parking tickets. Sorry!
Before Uber there was an app I could use to book a taxi. That's one of the main reasons I don't think their app was innovative.

> This usually took at least 30-40m, if they arrived at all.

Not for me, I would and still do get cars faster using other firms. Uber says they're two minutes away and they come ten minutes later.

The only reason I use Uber is I get receipts I can push to my expenses.
When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of a Failed Software (2016)
The value of mobx is that you implicitly link each component to its data dependencies by dereferencing arbitrary paths into your storage objects in the render() function so that the component rerenders only when data at those paths change.

Does the Context achieve this as well? From a quick search, the Context seems to force rerender of any consumer on any change.
China's Proposal to Ban Crypto Mining Has Little to Do with the Environment
>you get a sign placer sitting around making a unionized $60k-$90k/year (for a $35k-$40k/year actual job)

>United Rentals, as a private company, has a vested interest in running their company efficiently

Indeed! So instead of the above, you get a non-unionized Joe the Sign Placer getting $25K/year for actual job (efficiency!), and Bob the CEO/Shareholder netting $25M/year of the difference.

The government doesn't spend any less though, because:

1)Bob is the only game in town (at least as far as govt. contracts are concerned)

2)Bob pays the government for it to continue that way

>Now, let’s say a senator wrote a convoluted law that made it so only United Rentals can supply signs for government projects, cost be damned. That’s a more valid argument for moving it under government control if there is corruption and rent seeking behavior going on.

My only nitpick for this would be replacing "if" with "because".
I am the PM Lead for the C++ team at Microsoft and I can say that the 2 initiatives are not related.

The Clang/LLVM integration in VS is a natural continuation of our team's work to enable compelling cross-platform scenarios for all C++ developers, without imposing restrictions around the C++ tools you choose to use (https://aka.ms/cpp/launch/2019).

So if you are already developing using Clang today, we want to make sure that VS is the best C++ IDE for you to do so, in the same way VS now also supports targeting Linux, CMake/CTest, Google Test and Boost.Test, clang-format, GCC and other non-MS C++ tools

Visual Studio 2019 of course also comes with the new MSVC 19.20 toolset. Our goal with MSVC (https://aka.ms/msvc) is to provide you with the best compiler choice on Windows for targeting Windows. Assuming you can choose your compiler, our recommendation is to use MSVC.
That is an interesting reference, thank you.
The ability to settle taxes and debts with money is a rather large part of why it's useful, especially relative to things which pretend to be equivalent but are not possible to settle tax bills or debts with...
In his first post (above) he said that he is from Google but he is not acting in any official capacity here.

It is not Google support, it is just an employee giving some insight on his own time.

What is wrong with that?
I'm not aware, but I'm always worried some lawyer is going to come and smite me with a fraud case where the NLRA was tangentially involved.
Show HN: ESP Finder – See which platform sent the marketing emails in your inbox
Here is something remarkably similar. Diana Deutsche describing the Speech to Song illusion (minus the frenetic near-OCD persistence of experience): http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/pages.php?i=212
Berberine can do that as well. You have to start off with small doses and let things adjust. I've been doing so many supplements for so long that it didn't really affect me much.
Show HN: Revact – full reactivity JavaScript framework. Light React and MobX
Oh yeah, looks like we messed that up. That space complexity also doesn't even agree with the final space complexity we describe in the write up.

I'm gonna actually change the space complexity in the table for both counting sort and radix sort to O(n)--that at least matches the amount of hand-waviness we used for the time costs for those two in the table.
Subset of Go + LVVM = 4.1k wasm demo (2.3k gzip'd)

Demo: https://richardanaya.github.io/wasm-module/examples/tinygo_c...

Article: https://medium.com/@richardanaya/hyper-efficient-front-end-d...
I was under the impression Facebook owned WhatsApp...?
The Week in Ransomware – April 26th 2019 – Targeting the Enterprise
It's a mix in the US. "Career" taxi drivers that have been in an area for a long while will generally be able to get you where you want to go based on landmarks and place names. Many will ask for a cross-street and will take you there from memory. Newer drivers or drivers who cover a larger area will rely heavily on satnav.

Even then, many experienced drivers will still use satnav due to changing traffic conditions. Since there are usually several routes that can be taken, using Google Maps or the like will tell the driver what the fastest route is during that particular moment, which might change every 15 minutes.

I remember when Uber was new (black cars only), and the app didn't yet give the ability to enter your destination, the drivers were all very knowledgeable (in SF) and would be able to take me where I wanted to go based on pretty minimal information. Especially in SF, UberX and Lyft Line are full of drivers who don't live in the city, and must rely on satnav to get around. Very occasionally (1 in 100 rides) I'll end up with a driver who has lived in the city for decades and could drive me somewhere in their sleep.
I like to think Elm is the most influential web framework that no-one uses.
They are reluctant to do that though. It can be very expensive if they get sued.
It's odd that this still isn't available. If you just want to drive for Uber for a couple hours you don't want to be taken to the other side of town
Huh. I guess that I've never seen a shaved chimp.

But now that I think of it, hairless mice have light-colored skin. Some hairless dogs too.
It says on the front page of the website that PostmarketOS cannot receive calls. The commenter that you're replying to is obviously using his phone as his daily driver. Being unable to receive calls relegates PostmarketOS to toy status for a secondary device suitable for tinkering. I have a Nexus 5 in my pocket right now and if PostmarketOS could receive calls I would be currently installing it. Instead, well I don't know what to do. LineageOS stopped pushing updates for the Nexus 5 recently. I bought this phone to try out Plasma Mobile, but it was unusably slow. I don't want a new Android phone. I don't want an iPhone. I was waiting on the Librem 5 but I think it might be vaporware.

I have been seriously considering just getting a Nokia 3310 and a Garmin and calling it a day and being done with all this smartphone nonsense.
LeBron James discusses his sleep routine in extent:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/lebron-james-reveals-the-nig...
I've recently started checking quite regularly my spam folder as I've noticed more and more legit emails ending up there.
One of them being support emails from TradeMe (one of New Zealand's biggest sites), keep getting put into spam, even after multiple "mark as not spam", along with some other kinda important emails from TradeMe. I've had to put in manual filters to force an email from TM to skip the spam.
"Other companies do bad things, too" is whataboutism and doesn't really address this one, though.
I feel the part of weightlifting that makes it more dangerous is probably why weightlifters are less injured than powerlifters. Weightlifting is technically hard, and most weightlifters start from day one with a coach. Powerlifts are "simple," and as such most powerlifters don't start with a coach and end up doing things wrong and hurting themself.
Of course. There's also the famous case of IBM supplying the Nazi party.

How does this address Huawei ...?
I use my own SMTP server for receiving, but for sending I use the ISP's server (I think I have seem to have read somewhere that not only Google but some other services as well, will not accept mail from dynamic IP addresses). I have not had problems that I know of, so far. Please tell me of whatever mistake I may have made of such thing.
> as Google has beaten Outlook and Yahoo and Mail.ru

Microsoft and Verizon are hardly vulnerable timid players.
So Tether holders may get redemption in Bitfinex IOUs shortly?
I feel like the coloring might make it appear more striking than it is? The difference in cancer rate thresholds between the blue and red colors is just over 20%. We don’t know the actual rates, of course, just noting the coloring range is surprisingly narrow.
> I'm critical of U/L, but it's ignorant to say there hasn't been any innovation.

I won't say there's none, but there was a taxi app for me before Uber that knew where I was and let me book a taxi, that wasn't innovative.

> Back then, you had to know the phone number to call -

A benefit sure, but "being big" is not an innovation.

> Trying to hail a cab during a busy holiday? Good luck with that

Here when it's busy I can't get an Uber but I can book my local service. Uber is way less reliable here.

> route-planning software.

Every uber here uses Waze.

> Waiting for the cab? Better stay put where you are since they can't see your live location.

Hah! I've repeatedly had issues where Uber cars didn't seem to know where I was, their app put me in the middle of a lake once and I kept moving about trying to figure out where the hell I could meet the taxi because their position made no sense either. They cancelled on me and I had to chase them down a street and rebook, hoping it would connect to them.
You can be solvent (assets = liabilities) with fractional cash reserves.

You can also be insolvent (assets << liabilities), in which you must be fractional too.
A while back in Chicago I was picked up for Uber, in a Taxi... that also drove for the other services and was tied to a local taxi company.

Not a bad ride that one, but that guy had all his bases covered...
You can solve the problem of internal communication for your entire company at less than the cost of hiring a single engineer. I'm surprised there aren't more companies on this list.
Why Cryonics Makes Sense – Wait but Why (2016)
The people writing these pieces have neither the depth, nor the insights to generate those projections. If they did, they wouldn't be writing blog posts for ads clicks.
Dagurasu7t7 (U/Dagurasu7t7) – Reddit
I often wonder when reading articles on African American news, whether it's more than a concidence that areas with high concentration of African American population is lacking the same access to public institutions as the rest of America. For instance, why is there so many liquor and gun stores in the 'hood so to speak?

Really happy and proud of this owner for this initiative, but other than just being another Model Minority Today piece, the institutional racism evident in the US is clearly visible to me as an outsider, and it appears to me, a sly, covert, purposeful, institutionally enforced ignorance prevalent in American society as a result of Nixon's attack on ethnic political expression through a caricature that is the war on drugs, in accelerating their collective demise through economic and educational deprivation. It wasn't like African Americans weren't trying either, for example, there once was a thriving economy called "Black Wallstreet" that was destroyed by the white establishment.

It's not evident just from the treatment of African Americans throughout US history but other minorities. For instance, disarming Koreans who were defending their stores from looters, and letting the communities they built up burn to the ground, and only then, sending in the national guard, Japanese Internment Camps, more recently the plight of hurricane Katrina victim's treatment, kids of refugees and asylum seeking parents who are stuck in a privatized camp with reports of sexual abuse from the caretakers in the absence of their parents, are escaping an increasingly violent narco-economies in South America that were formed out of the same institutional deprivation and usurpation of national resources by American corporations throughout Latin American history, ex) United Fruits Company, comes to my mind.
A lot of good advice on the human side of things. I want to mention that Zulip is an open source team chat solution that is designed to facilitate the "slow-thinking" type of communication you mention.
I wonder what Bill Campbell would have done if he were still alive?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Campbell_(business_exe...
Psychology Questions of All Time
They have G Suite, and they also tried a more consumer oriented version but no one wanted to pay.

I would love it if more of the Internet were based on payments and micro-payments but consumers have voted decisively against that.

I try to sell people on the idea of paying for news but extremely few are willing even for something that critical.
Good Symbolic Differentiation Requires Multidimensional Wobbliness
That's because in the UK they have to know the area before they can get a taxi license. No such requirement exists in the US.
The sad fact is that oppressive governments don't really care. A few geeks who can pierce the firewall are no threat, the government just needs to choke the internet enough to prevent the general public from organising.
Why ask why careful controlled growth is always better if you believe it is the only option? The market doesn’t control anything. The word control implies some sort of telos which is not present in an aggregate of individual purchasing decisions.
> Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects

In an ideal world, yes. Unless Gmail makes it harder for anyone using a different provider to communicate with Gmail users. In which case you've effectively "encouraged"/forced everyone else to use Gmail to take advantage of the Gmail network. This seems to be exactly what's happened to the author. This is very similar to the complaint voiced recently by the Mozilla leader as well.

I don't doubt that you as an individual have very good intentions. But individual intentions do not translate well to organizational priorities. The best way to prevent Gmail-lock-in in the long term is to have more diversity and competition in this marketplace.
>My dad more than once hired a taxi to take a package to the airport. I suspect post 9-11 this isn't legally allowed, but back then if you needed to get a bug fix to a customer your fastest option was put it on a tape, put the tape in a suitcase, buy a plane ticket for "Mr Package", and then check the suitcase in the name of Mr Package

I worked for a company where we would hire a courier to fly with the package when needed.

We sent a few tapes that way, but also some important equipment when it was critical to a customer.

It was by far the fastest and best way to be sure a dude would be at the office door in X minutes, on the plane in Y, and at the customer site in Z with the needed thing(s).

It was expensive, but they were really reliable and professional.
Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports?
there was this weird guy back in the early 20th century that said he could get massive amounts of energy out of some rare metals

That's a pretty good description of the opposite of what happened. It was new but mainstream physics and the potential was quickly and widely recognized, experiments designed, performed, reproduced, etc. And one of the central people wasn't even a guy.
I wish drivers that pick me up from the airport (or who are taking me to the airport at an early hour) would have some sense of situational awareness and realize that someone who just got off a plane (or is waking up early to catch a flight) might not be feeling all that chatty, and just wants to sit back, close their eyes, and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Probably because they got lobbied by tax preparation software companies to exclude it.
IP churn is a huge problem with email that everyone has to fight, these are the emails you’re getting from like list sellers and the like. And you don’t have to even have to spin up new hardware or vms, you can be in something like aws where you’re attaching new network interfaces, go and do your damage, spin it down and up goes the next one. This actively happens all of the time right now and it happens because you can profitably do it.
The will of the manufacturing people you mean? It's certainly the will of the people to consume goods as cheaply as possible, is it not?

One cannot have both high paying manufacturing jobs and $500, 70" TVs.
Well apparently they have many customers so...
Uber wants to be the Walmart of taxis where they start with super cheap pricing to hook in new customers and then turn the switch on once everyone is dependent on them.

It'll be very hard or impossible for Uber to be a monopoly and having more competitors means the prices will have to compete to remain attractive to people.

An unlikely idea for Uber becoming profitable is if they form a cartel with Lyft and other Uber-esque services to give all users no choice but to pay the high prices, but then they'll be competing with traditional taxi services once again.
If all of them collectively demanded higher wages, it would help a lot. If any of them demanded higher wages on their own, their income would drop to zero as everyone else happily eats their lunch.

Market forces will ensure that there's someone in a developing country who will do the work for less than a developed country's living wage. Usually when you have to fight the market, you do it with government, but that's tough since there's no global government setting a minimum wage. So I guess it's up to each country to adopt trade policies to restrict businesses in their jurisdiction from contracting with foreign workers. I don't think there's a good answer for how to solve this. American industrial and manufacturing workers have felt this pain for a long time.
> The problem for Google is that they are not the only trusted brand consumers interact with.

The solution to this is to start tarnishing this trust by word of mouth when talking to non-technical users. I take every opportunity to put Google in a bad light until they change their behaviour.
Romans revolt as tourists turn their noses up at city’s decay
It needlessly moves the discussion into partisan territory. Although, to be fair, it does not invoke the litany of conspiracy theories/fake outrage around that arrest, acknowledges that it is standard procedure, and explains the background.

It would probably be better to explicitly mention that such police procedures are employed against thousands of non-violent people very year, that there is persistent racial bias in large parts of the judicial system, and that one should be so lucky to be protected from the worst by being a major figure of public interest and having camera teams present.
> Every language is a unique perspective; the death of a language through irrelevancy leaves entire groups without the ability to view themselves through their own lens.

My ancestors probably spoke various Gaelics and Old Norse, their descendants did science in Latin even though it was not their native language, and now I'm speaking English.

What perspective is lost? Astrophysics is the same in English, Gaelic, and in Blackfoot.

I would understand this thinking when it came to poetry, prose, songs, etc; but astrophysics in Blackfoot is just astrophysics without a common vocabulary with astrophysicists.
Here’s the full article: https://outline.com/endjbs
Do those corporate/private Twitter apps still exist?
I don’t have an answer that is better than anyone else here, but I have a related ask.

If anyone here feels passionately about this area and is a remote manager, I’d love to talk to you 1:1. My email is in my profile.

I’m part of a team launching a manager training program this fall, and our emphasis is on managers that have to deal with distributed teams. We’re looking for guest speakers across a wide range of topics, including alignment, and I’m pre-screening potential guest speakers right now.

I’d love to connect and learn more about your practical experiences!