skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats pretty crazy, and I suppose a good thing. Dogfish head makes great products, and Sam Adams is one of a few Crafter brewers with a good Distribution across the country.
If the multi-home buyer "rent-seeks" more homes than they otherwise would, tenants will be less desperate for housing and rent will fall. If the multi-home buyer buys the same number of houses as before, some of them will be the newly built houses... and prices will fall. The only way you could lose is if you built new houses that nobody would buy.
It was a couple of days before the Android fix was released. For many users this was a multiday affair. Some lost data (containers).

You were lucky you extentions were not disabled before the fix, but for many people this was a major problem.
Nothing is obvious when it comes to how autonomous vehicles will shake out.
The Best Buy qualifier makes it a lot harder. If you're willing to let that go, System 76 and Purism sell amazing devices with not only good Linux distros pre-installed, but also as much free software (close to 100%) throughout the whole stack, which is a real benefit to security and freedom.

If you weaken "turnkey" a bit to include installation you'll find that most Laptops on sale today will run the popular Linux distributions flawlessly.
It's done like that because the typeWriter effect is actually rendering line break elements (<br>) as it shows up.
> Americans have a stronger case that a foreigner is running their news

We'll accept blame for his having been spawned, but he's totally yours now!
Having spent a lot of my adult living in pretty impoverished urban environments, and having knocked on a lot of doors for both personal and professional reasons (as a neighbor, and as a social worker) - I think the risks are pretty overblown.

Talk to your neighbors.

Definitely talk to your neighbors instead of calling highly armed and confrontational people who can kill someone or toss them in a cage because of something affecting your quality of life.
Nobody is denying that these canned arguments don't refer back to real things; they're just saying that they devolve into canned arguments and superficial, thought-destroying comparisons that degrade the site.

On "whataboutism", there's no debate to have; if you follow Dan and Scott's moderation comments, appeals to "whataboutism" have been verboten on the site for awhile now.
Accidentally Fasting.
How big is the worldwide market for 1) personal transportation, 2) package and parcel delivery, and 3) 30-minute delivery of prepared foods, groceries, pharmaceuticals, auto parts, etc.?

Can Uber capture 10% of that combined market opportunity with the efficiencies that come from globally optimized routing of all those trips?

Can Uber inside-out the company so others can execute on its platform, with Uber taking a cut?

If so, then an $80 billion present value seems low.
If one takes a meta viewpoint about evolution not as how single organisms evolve over time but instead the complex processes that happen to be occuring on the surface of the Earth, then you don't actually need to separate your thoughts about biological, cultural, or technical evolution. It's all part of one big ball of mud rolling down the same hill! The only reason that humans seem to think that microchips and sailboats and GIFs are fundamentally different than oxygen and proteins and honey is that humans think other humans are Very Important.
I'd curious to see an explanation of just how the ride-sharing business might be profitable.

I assume this:

"Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, argued that Uber’s future was not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide technology platform shaping logistics and transportation."

implies that Uber hasn't figured it out.
I still think it’s pretty crazy to price an IPO below the highest price that you can get for the full allotment. Facebook’s stock plunged in the months following its IPO, but it can raise capital at a much higher price now. The stock price shouldn’t matter in the short run.
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They don't currently, but adding a better channel to deploy hotfixes is something that's specifically mentioned in this article...
If there was a true threat at their profit margins then I would think that a pharma index would reflect that. DRG does not.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/drg/stock-chart
This is definitely a good point. Let’s think of two scenarios.

1. Stick a lot of affordable housing in building, but math works since the developer can make money selling the high priced units.

2. Increase total housing supply through less restrictive zoning, meaning more developers are building units they plan to sell at list price.

Scenario one is only possible if some people are paying too much for housing, and the people that are squeezed the most are the middle class. Scenario two probably means that the poorest group is displaced.

New York has been attempting scenario one. I’m not sure if SF has tried to accomplish either route, leading to the worst case scenario.
First I thought your predictions were my favorite part of your comment, but your confidence won out.
I can't speak to the data analysis part, though I do believe some people have looked into it, and hopefully they can add their thoughts.

From my experience, the answer is: it depends very much on the community the project has.

First, the obvious positives: you could have lots of people with lots of different kinds of experience looking at the code, finding and fixing things.

This is how I got involved in Firebug back in the day. But I also noticed that while millions of developers used it daily, the number that got all the way to the issue reporter were small, and the number that posted fixes in an issue were minimal (I got to know them by name). Only once do I remember a security issue being reported, considering that extensions had such broad and unlimited access back in then.

So, if it does not invite that kind of community, then it is possible to be a net negative with only blackhats having a reason to inspect the code. OR, you have a social problem within the community (also common), where people assume that with such a large community, surely someone looked at X. Everyone thinks that, so no one looks at X. Years later someone does and finds some surprising things in code that withstood the test of time.

That said, I think the case of UEFI would be different. It might be a good candidate for shared source at least, if it isn't already.
It might not have helped here, but updating certs every several years always leads to problems from my experience - people move on, processes get lost or outdated, etc. I'll accept the yearly annoyance to avoid those issues every time.
That's because of Slack, not because of .gif files.
In this case it's tying together data from different, independent systems. So the schema may not be textbook ideal but I don't think there's any way around it.
I would like one of these as my daily web surfing machine ... if I were able to avoid having a Google account to boot the machine.
Rhode Island (where I used to live before Seattle) is a blue state with functioning prosecutors that actually prosecute charges for misdemeanors and crimes, but they offer sentenced individuals the alternative of entering the drug court system for mandatory interned rehab, or the mental health system. People going through the system say it saved their life.

Intervention works. West coast states do have similar drug courts, but since crimes are not prosecuted and misdemeanor charges are routinely vacated there is no incentive for people to actually be helped.

For helpful information on Rhode Island's program I recommend the last 20 min of this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
Thanks, that was helpful. However, I still think that having "sum(1,1,{})" returning "2" and "1+1+{}" returning "{}" can be viewed as somewhat inconsistent.
As described in the Video, they could not keep up with feature parity of syscalls in Linux and some concepts are simply incompatible with the two systems. They reference the concept of open file handles and moving folder structures.

I think they found the boundary of OS research in this case, and a better product is using the actual Linux kernel.
GIF lets you control the loop count and playback speed. It's baked in when authored and is useful. You can simply save the file and expect it to work everywhere - dead simple.

The Internet has voted in favor of looping, "GIF-like" moving images. Platforms try to emulate this with proprietary video players. Some have sound (wanted or not), some of the video players prohibit copying, and none of the files work as simply as GIF for sharing.

We need something more modern than GIF, but that has playability baked in. Something that browsers treat as a moving image and not a video.
How to Prepare for a Product Manager Interview at Big Companies, by GoogleX PM
> just because capitalist are competing for labor doesn't mean that management switches from being agents of capital to agents of labor. Valuable, contested human resources are still resources, not owners.

Yes, I generally agree, but it goes as follows:

1. The business owners care only about achieving their business goals.

2. To achieve the business goals the owners need to have good employees.

3. To hire and retain good employees some business decisions should take into cosiderations the needs of the employees.

So even from the purely economical point of view there should be some balance between 1. and 3.

And overall your purely economical point of view seems too rigid to me. One example that comes to my mind is the cultural shift happening at Microsoft. The company made many decisions with little business sense like open sourcing many projects and providing free developer tools. But the effect is that developers like the company more. This has measurable effects like Azure success or hiring better employees. I think this is an example of a bottom-up-built success which doesn't fit your top-down viewpoint.
If you believe in Tesla autonomous driving you should just buy Tesla stock.
I think this is covered in the blog post, but I'll take another stab at explaining it from my perspective:

Republishing was one of the options we were investigating early on. However, the problem is that it only fixes things once you check for and install the updated version signed with the new certificate. Firefox would still have disabled your installed version that had an expired certificate.

Firefox checks for addon updates every 24 hours, but it checks in with Normandy every 6 hours. Thus once we had stopgap fixes shipping to users via Normandy, and a proper fix of a new Firefox release in progress, republishing addons wasn't necessary.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
I don't understand how papers like this get published. The title of the paper seems almost designed to lead you to the wrong conclusion. The paper is about income inequality, and it appears to be a meta-study proposing that building more houses won't help a given area reduce inequality. However the main thing people are discussing is pricing, and affordability, as you can note from the citylab subtitle (won’t solve the urban affordability crisis)

Building more houses will absolutly help the urban affordability crisis, as the paper claims if you were to build more housing in San Fransicsco obviously it would be occupied by high paid tech workers, that doesn't mean it didn't make the situation better for everyone as all those people who are not living in the upzoned houses didn't go bid up the existing housing stock.

Right now California is estimated to have a four million housing unit shortage, doing a study about a few hundred units built and then claiming it didn't help anything is beyond dishonest.

Also the paper ends not with a solution, but with saying we should not try to build near transit. It really reads to me like the authors decided they didn't like the propsed legislation for upzoning so they picked a bunch of data that supported their views and cobbled together a paper.
Datalog indeed is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
I unfortunately lost my container data (luckily I only have a couple set up).

To get the fix though, I had to opt in to the Firefox studies. Apparently I had opted out at some point in the past.
Gif was killed a long time ago by webm
Despite rent-seeking being undesirable for purposes of equality, more people rent-seeking over more houses does mean more competition in the rental market, and you'd expect rental prices to go down as a result. If you want to eliminate rent-seeking and have low housing costs, the only solution is an appropriate land value tax plus sufficient construction. You can't have affordability with insufficient construction, supply is a prerequisite.
There is very little evidence for “fire risk to charging”. Anecdotally most people at Superchargers sit in their car. The charge rate does slow as the battery gets full. But it’s rarely necessary to charge fully. The optimal plan is to arrive at the Supercharger almost empty and charge only enough to get to the next one. That way most charging is at higher rates.
That kind of paranoid neighbor is nothing new. They would benefit from being social shamed and isolated. Connecting a whole network of them together is just about the worst thing I can think of.

Nothing reinforces crazy like an echo chamber.
I am not planning to buy, but if I would consider, my reasons would be specifically to not bet on self driving cars. I don't foresee self-driving cars to be ubiquitous in the very near future (5 years). Until then, Uber's presence and driver network can ensure that they are profitable in current markets. They already are in major cities.
To complain about GIF usage saturating your CPU when running an Electron app is to be penny-wise and pound-foolish.
CVCompiler.com
The container stuff can be very buggy.

A few weeks ago I tried to run Debian and Ubuntu on an older Chromebook with Crouton (also a container solution).

Systemd failed booting, because the last published Chromebook kernel for that device had an incorrectly applied backport of some patch, which made nonexistent system calls return garbage data instead of erroring out.

You can read the details here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11974

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/3914#issuecommen...

This kind of stuff took me many tens of hours to debug, and I am relatively experienced with tasks like that.

If you want to have an easy time with Linux, better run the kernel provided with the OS. Containers don't do that.
This whole thing is a load of spin.

If they could have gotten a higher price, they would. Uber stock is going to be lower than this valuation in a month's time, mark my words.
The difference is that `+` is defined as a strict function (returns empty on empty input): plus(a, b), whereas sum() is an aggregate that is specifically defined as 0 on empty input.
Square does the same thing. If you control the flow of money to the merchant you’re in a great place for both risk assessment and ensuring that you get paid back.
San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering
I too might have followed a similar path if not for the fact I was already writing software professionally at the time. Your story definitely brought a smile to my face - thanks for sharing that!
> but ultimately, they were microtransaction games nonetheless.

I would argue that "casual game with microtransactions" is a particular design philosophy, and arcade games don't actually share this philosophy. Sure, both games have you constantly paying small amounts, but consider:

In an arcade game, if you get really good, one quarter can let you play for hours. Arcade games effectively charge bad players more for their time, with time-cost trending toward zero as skill increases. So there's effectively a finite amount of money any given player will ever have to spend on the game (unless they hit a skill ceiling, get stuck not making any progress, but continue to find the game fun nevertheless—which is rare); and skill at many types of games are "portable", such that money you spend learning one arcade game is money you don't then have to spend learning another similar game.

In a modern casual F2P game, skill at the game's mechanics is entirely orthogonal to the thing you're paying for. Sometimes this means that the thing you're paying for doesn't affect the mechanics, e.g. skins. But other times this means that both good and bad players can "pay to win", and that there's no point at which you're so good that it would no longer make sense to give the game money.

Imagine a competitive arcade game with a point-based leaderboard on its attract screen (e.g. most racing games, games like Donkey Kong or Pac-Man, etc.) But imagine that, instead of needing to pay to play and quarters equalling continues, instead, anyone can play for free, but quarters increase your score by 1000 points (with no indication that this was done.) Even the top players would need to take advantage of this to show up on the leaderboard, because if they didn't, they wouldn't rank, since all the other top players had.
I would, but them being successful at autonomous driving is already priced in, at least to some extent.

Do you think Tesla stock is currently undervalued, assuming they will become a leader in autonomous driving within the next five years?
That is excellent news!
>a comment with a picture of some random (again, person of color...) walking down the street from a Nest cam asking, "Did you see anyone like this? My bike was stolen too."...

This is a real problem. People are having their lives impacted in a materially negative fashion because of actions like this. Not just minorities either. Recently a female police officer walked into the home of a random black guy and blew him away for no reason. (Well, no good reason.) Not 24 hours later a picture of a white female, who had nothing to do with the shooting mind you, was being circulated around the world as being the shooter. The woman had done nothing more than go to work at a place where the unfortunate victim also worked.

Seneca said that a lie can travel the world before the truth can even get its shoes on. So this proclivity towards making much ado about nothing has been going on for a long long time if it's something that Seneca spent time observing. Given that reality, it has to be conceded that it's not necessarily because of these companies that your average drama king or queen is out pointing a finger at some random black guy minding his own business. But as far as low life corporate ethics go, these companies probably rank right up there with other pond scum of the internet age, like location "information brokers" and such.
Well, uh, one way is to try and install it in firefox.

Assuming you meant without installing it in firefox, I don't quite know. You're going to need to find mozilla's public keys somewhere (maybe just extract them from firefox), unpack the xpi (it's just a zip file with a different extension) and find the signature contained within, and then figure out how to verify it.
I'm suspicious of it's value for local business recommendations. I've used it in 3 neighborhoods and it seems like it's mostly everyone just recommending their friend's business. Is that not everyone else's experience?

At least that's better than all the people hawking their multi-level marketing crap.
FWIW, I never noticed the connection until now. I guess AVI has been 'gone' for too long, and it's not in most people's minds anymore.
> AWS storage costs 3X more than B2 ...

s3-standard costs more than B2 but Glacier Deep Archive is less than 1/5th the cost.
Yes, my current setup does allow hotswapping the GPU from the host and guest. It does require using the integrated or some other GPU to run your X11 server and then using primusrun when you want to use the dedicated GPU on the host. I'm using a rather old GTX 760 so I'm not sure if there are any limitations with newer nvidia cards.

My kernel line is (I disable the spectr/meltdown mitigations so ignore those parts):

root=/dev/mapper/ssd-arch--root rw intel_iommu=on iommu=pt i915.enable_guc=3 i915.disable_power_well=0 i915.enable_psr=1 i915.enable_fbc=1 i915.enable_rc6=1 pci=nomsi,noaer pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier

The XML for the VM I configured in virt-manager can be found here:

http://dpaste.com/2HQM8D1

I don't think has any significant modifications. Eventually I want to switch over to using the newer q35 architecture. The only issues I've had with the VM are some audio glitches in some games and it has recently had issues with hugepages so I've had to disable that.
If they are just as insecure as credit cards, then I can understand they're a poor choice. But why doesn't the US use more secure bank cards?
Laughable - we spend too much on the "nonessentials" such as gym memberships, takeout and ridesharing. The same products you spend oodles to try and sell to us.

The idea that we can continue to grow at the rate which we have isn't sustainable. The bottom line is to accept we can't continue to consume like we've have, and to realize the consequences we are putting on ourselves and our earth for doing so. Most of all, start to pray and find the Lord, because this world is going downhill and the big players in power are still thinking about their bottom-line.
Thanks, I enjoy it. Gives me something to link back to once I'm correct.

I mean, Uber's financials are a total mess, and their valuation is 100% predicated on "winning" at autonomous driving, and Elon just said that everyone using LIDAR platforms are fighting a losing battle, and I personally believe him.

Plus he owns the lion's share of the electric car supply chain, so...
U.S. Urges Britain to Put National Security Above Finances in Huawei Row
You'd be wise to first discuss this with a practitioner in the field, who will tell you unequivocally that Tesla's (and everybody else's, including even Waymo's) claims that L5 autonomy is coming "real soon now" are utter and complete horseshit.

Although, scratch that, it's your money, so yes, you should totally short it. I'll be on the other end of your bargain.
I think you mean “doesn’t”. OP is referring to the recent Israeli airstrike of suspected Hamas hacking group building.
Yep. It's almost as if the person posting that hadn't finished reading the article.
I’d argue it almost certainly is more cool :-)
budget cuts.
Hi - a lot of commenters have valid concerns and critiques, but I joined HN after lurking for years to say that I really like the direction you’ve taken! I’m particularly happy about the convenient syntax for joined inserts and sum types.

I see that you’ve built this as a patched version of Postgres, but I’m curious how much of this syntax you could implement as a client library and shell that would run against an existing Postgres instance.

Right away, you would get adoption from people who have an existing Postgres, or who want to take advantage of SaaS offerings like AWS Aurora.

Longer term, I could imagine the client/shell being extended to support multiple backend DB dialects, even things like Spark or Redshift which you’d have a hard time modifying intrusively.

It could also be cool to explore interoperation with existing schemas written in plain SQL, so people could adopt it incrementally that way.
Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but doesn't is seem that this kind of problem is exactly the kind of problem where a blockchain solution would be useful?

Or at least more useful than the 'when all you have is a hammer' style applications of blockchains.
The cost of building is not the main issue, it is the cost of land in desirable areas which is a limited resource. There are many modern ways to build cheap, just go to any major city in Asia and see how fast they build from prefabricated materials.
Don’t they spend a lot more on self driving than say lyft? I think a bet on Uber is a bet they win self driving. A bet on taxi apps is a bet on lyft.