skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mention this all the time to coworkers who blindly believe solar is a perfect technology. It is really, really bad - especially the old stuff with all these REE's and extremely low efficiency. I am pretty upset that California now REQUIRES solar for new construction. It really feels we should have waited for the efficiency/cleanliness/recycling to mature a lot before that.
I reuse the paper grocery bags. They can usually be used 10 times or more before they disintegrate, then I use them again as trash bags. I wonder why I've never heard anyone mention this.

The grocery store has no problem at all with me bringing back the paper bags and stuffing my purchases in them. They've never said a word about it. I never see anyone else do it.
.Net Framework is dead – long live .Net 5
Despite what the Apple lawyers claimed, wouldn't the actual interpretation be: Apple could sue app developers? The developers are the ones "producing the concrete bricks" and Apple is the one "directly purchasing the concrete bricks." By arguing this way for this case, and setting precedent, Apple would have been able to manufacture a loop hole by subsequently using the more accurate interpretation.

It's a very healthy precedent for app stores, regardless.
> Providing public access to the state’s laws and related legal materials, Georgia’s lawyers said, was part of a “strategy of terrorism.”

Incidentally, "copyright terrorism" is an expression the Church of Scientology lawyers have used against critics nearly 25 years ago:

> The church said that it supports itself through donations for these services, and the former member was engaged in "copyright terrorism."[1]

* * *

[1] https://www.rcfp.org/church-scientology-sues-critic-seizes-c...
Presenting a Product Design Process that gets stuff done
I Prefer Random Forest over Neural Network, Here Is Why
The second point smells like ADHD or something similar.

You should go see a professional. Some cognitive issues can be rather easy to treat or at least improve, these days.
In my city (Toronto) taxis actually upped their game in response to Uber/Lyft, though not before fighting it tooth and nail. Before, you'd often get an ancient cab that the driver was (illegally) smoking in before you arrived and would often (illegally) refuse shorter trips. Half the time, the the electronic payment machines were "broken" and you'd get drivers threatening you if after arriving at your destination you refuse to go to a bank with the meter still running.

In most of North America, the taxi industry is notoriously corrupt and has been that way to protect their medallion systems. While I do feel for some individual cab ower/operators, I don't feel bad for the industry as a whole despite Uber being a horrible company.
If 99% of the company's growth has been received pre-ipo, then the word IPO = It's Peaked Forever. Decacorn is short for "greater fool investment".
Has Uber wrecked local bus services anywhere? I imagine it cut into their revenues for a few years, but everywhere I've seen the major conflict was "taxis vs Uber", with bus services muddling along without changing anything.
Lots of fiber that ends up in paper comes from actively managed forests, which are not particularly farm like.

And in any case, there is only so much productive land available. Planting a large areas of trees on productive land is likely to displace some other agricultural activity.
That's not why they took 8 years at all. You just pulled this out of your ass? Or...? It took 8 years because of the long, complicated procedural history -- complaints filed, motions to dismiss, appeals to decisions re: motions to dismiss, re-filed complaints, re-filed motions to dismiss, re-filed appeals to decisions re: motions to dismiss, and you get the point.

The Supreme Court can't hear a case until they have jurisdiction. Generally, that means the case has to be heard by the District Court, then heard under appeal by the Court of Appeals for the relevant circuit, and only then can the process to request cert begin. Furthermore, there generally has to be some "split" between circuits in order for SCOTUS to hear a case -- in other words, the case presents some sort of conflict in federal law, with certain circuits holding one way and the rest holding another.

There are slowdowns at every step because of (a) how busy the courts are (particularly SCOTUS, it's usually around a year from cert request to hearing the case, then another several months before the decision comes out), but also (b) because at each step in a case, us lawyers will appeal every adverse decision we can, which is what you see in this case.

But as soon as they can hear the case, they do -- or at least put it on the docket, which (like I said) can be slow moving due to the huge volume of cases where people are requesting cert.

You can see the procedural history outlined in the circuit court's opinion -- https://casetext.com/case/schwartz-v-apple-inc-in-re-apple-i....
Yeah, this is called emotional disregulation. I have it to some extent, but am an adult with lots of experience noticing and regulating it. One of my kids is super kind but often responds to minor annoyances with an extremely irritated tone, or will collapse into an incoherent puddle at minor obstacles.

ADHD can be a huuuuge problem in relationships. Especially if you're going out with someone who would score very high on conscientiousness. They won't understand that things that are easy for them are hard for you, and will assume that you're just trying to piss them off, or are incorrigibly lazy. This is exacerbated because it's not like you can't do those things, it's just that you will inconsistently do them, and average towards not doing them.
Slow Runners Come Out Ahead (2015)
Hilarious Tweets About the Mountain Reveal in Game of Thrones
They were drunk, so probably not at work. Not saying it's right or wrong. But probably less wrong.
There are two types of products in this world, lawyers and cigarettes.

If manufacturing cigarettes gets more/less expensive, people will pay more/less for their cigarettes. If it takes fewer people to make cigarettes, fewer people will have jobs making cigarettes. The number of cigarettes smoked stays constant.

If you have more lawyers, you'll have more lawsuits, contracts and legal letters. If it gets easier to do contracts or lawsuits lawyers will take longer lunches. Lawyer fees stay constant.
How are these documents typeset?
Saying that URLs are not idiomatic with RPC or GraphQL is really just saying that most people aren't used to this way of thinking. Specifically, they are not used to is treating URLs as identifiers. Most programmers and API designers think of URLs as being a way of encoding remote procedure calls, with identifiers being parameters to the call that must be embedded inside the URL. The point of the blog was to try to explain why a minority of people like to use a different model where the URLs _are_ the identifiers.
Several US politicians (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper) are advocating for federal right to repair legislation for farmers.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzqmp/bernie-sanders-cal...

As always, if this matters to you, get involved and vote.
The dealers for those are even further away.
I think the fact that he sided with the liberal justices in favor of Planned Parenthood was less expected [1]. Especially considering his hearings were plagued with disruptions and protests from pro-choice activists.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/10/supreme-court-plan...
My policy about kids is to never shout unless it's to protect life and limb. If they are about to feed the dog a chocolate bar or walk across the street into traffic then shout away. Same with my animals.

If you shout about everything then they will just learn to ignore you when you yell. Worse than that, they will learn to shout when they are upset too. Then you just end up as two people screaming at each other and nothing is accomplished.
It could also be that "left wing" more accurately reflects reality, hence its apparent "bias" in reporting.
I really don't think someone's blog is a canonical source on media bias:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/about/
In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies
https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1126892446925848578?s=21
People definitely refer to their options as being underwater. pretty common vernacular, I think.
Users often favor what is advertised to them frequently.

Google presenting particular results influences users.

Pretending that Google is merely passively reflecting user preferences rather than actively shaping them makes no sense.
As of right now, the stock price has dropped even further to $37. This is a brutal day for Uber stock holders.
> Used once is referring to plastic bags used to hold groceries and then immediately thrown out.

What percentage of people do this? We use them as “free” bags for garbage bins that we would otherwise have to buy, or for lunch where you won’t/can’t take an insulated bag (outing or when you won’t go home right after work).
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of One Grammatical Mistake
> They are certainly not pro-Trump for instance.

No, they are pro-fact/source based. The news presented there are generally backed up by information from sources. That this would be seen as not pro-Trump is not surprising. Does this mean they are right 100% of the time? No. No one is. But that also means they aren't just knowingly making stuff up without a care in the world. Again, this might be seen as anti-Trump for obvious reasons.
I wonder if Uber is going to turn out to be a MoviePass
Why the downvotes? Progress and competition are good.
This is basically how I made Qards (https://qards.io). I kid you not. Good to see I'm not alone :)
Stopped using Argo Tunnel because it didn`t work well inside Brazil... we had a huge % of requests to our API behind the tunnel not being completed.
We're going to need laws around algorithmic news.

This makes me want to work on a bot to reword hacker news into all clickbait links?

"Rust vs Python? You'll be amazed what this hacker recommends!"

"Uber lawsuit! They sued who?!"
Most wouldn't have even known what these meant.
Yep absolutely, it would just have to be in different ways.
Actually bdist is legacy is not even used anymore you basically use whl (bdist_wheel), generate packages for specific platform and also provide sdist (source) so people that use platform you forgot about still can use your package. If you're lazy you can just upload sdist.
Hi HN!

EQZEN lets you track multiple stock portfolios, cash savings, and other investments in a single view. Creating a portfolio does not require an account and it's not linked with your trading account, all your data can be saved (i.e. downloaded) to your device.

EQZEN makes it easy to experiment with stock portfolios and compare investment ideas without actually buying anything, it also has basic stock information, such as historical price changes, peers, and news.

Michael Sjöberg
It’s perfectly normal to dump product if it drives sales of your main product. In this case it’s the iPhone that benefits from cheap apps. The App Store has been instrumental in keeping prices down - a major way they do this is by not allowing demos. Who’s going to risk $50 without seeing it first?

I’d refer you to this Joel Spolsky article which explains it: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

You see this strategy everywhere in tech. It’s not by accident.
What I am wondering: Has that changed what you laugh about now? Like, what people warn about our future now?

As far as I am concerned, this is exactly what I expected, and I am seriously surprised anyone could be surprised by it. Like, I was not necessarily thinking specifically about tractors 15 years ago, but I think it was just obvious that DRM would be used to gain control over devices that are run by software, and obviously pretty much all devices sooner or later would be run by software, and as such, of course, tractors would be, too, sooner or later.
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months pay to start delivery businesses
I'm a bit surprised to see it stated that large investors ended up underwater, simply because they usually protect themselves first. Maybe the demand in Uber was so high they could skimp on their normal protections.

A year or two from now, I'd love to see what the actual paper losses were at this moment.
Front end web development workflow– WIP proposal – Part 1
If the alternative is no job the math works out differently. I think that a considerable number of people on this site don't really know what it like to not have employers fighting over them. Sometimes you take what you can get to feed yourself and your kids.
I find that games that have that amazing intricacy are often passion projects by one developer or a very small team and have been in development for a long time, often decades. Besides NetHack and Dwarf Fortress, I would highly recommend Factorio to anyone with an interest in any kind of engineering and Aurora 4x to anyone who played Stellaris or other space 4x but wants an insane amount of complexity
JSON works this way too. This deals with how to deal with the evolution of the data associated with an entity, it does concern the identifiers.
Important caveat: the data analyzed is from November 2017, which is an eternity ago in the SEO world.
UBI encourages parasitic drag on the economy.
> A new system shell that uses the Janet[1] programming language

Why have I never heard of Janet before? This ticks every single box so far on my Perfect Lisp Language (and possibly Perfect Language) check list, the language I've been looking for for years but couldn't find.

[1] https://janet-lang.org
Haha! Very true. Lost in your thoughts. Better take a notebook though or all of those solutions will melt away.
The US hasn't asked for their extradition for conspiracy either, and yet they have for Assange. Unless being accused of raping women in Sweden causes the US to do that, there must also be some other difference between Assange and those other journalists.
At no point will we be able to accomodate every desperate person who shows up in a top-tier city with a good apartment there quickly. Supply, density, and affordable housing programs can all be drastically increased, but not enough for the literal billions of people in the world who would take you up on that. Even the Soviets had to assign people to live in less desirable places.

Letting everything else fall apart (libraries, parks, transit, sidewalks, bike paths, etc) as we hold out for this to change doesn't strike me as pragmatism.
This is flippant and non-helpful. If you disagree with how his record is characterized, then please post counter examples. But let me post the following:

+ Rejected challenges to NSA authority

+ Rejected workers rights to picket

+ Opinionated diverting public funds to religion schools

+ Rejected meat labeling requirements

+ Repeatedly restricted the EPA

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/09/brett-kavanaugh-tr...

Kavanaugh is highly anti-consumer. That he's sided with consumers in this case is very surprising to me.
Or use cloth bags. Stronger than both. Re-usable for longer than either. And some stores give you discounts for using your own bag.
The entire process you outlined is there for the reasons I stated.
It depends on the demand "function." We only need so many socks. If sockmakers get more efficient, there'll be fewer sockmakers and prices will come down shrinking the industry.

In some cases, if productivity increases, and the price performance follows, we will consume far more of a thing, growing the market and employing more people.
>Similarly, I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features.

Do you ever feel like these applications are re-enforcing physical gender stereotypes? Like "you selected female, here is what females should look like." If gender is a social construct, tech like this is clearly maintaining that construct, yet nobody seems to have a problem with it.
> He'd be sent to a secret FISA Star Chamber.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review only are empowered to handle foreign intelligence surveillance warrant process.

Criminal charges are handled in US District Courts, and are Constitutionally guaranteed to be public.
What would it be? Go doesn't have any packaging system.

Installing directly from github is possible, but it works ok for a one off, if you have a package with your own dependencies then that doesn't scale.

It also covers source installations it doesn't work well for compiled.
I appreciate seeing posts like this as someone who doesn't use any of these apps themselves. It's intriguing what we're already able to accomplish in this area with sufficient funding and data, it makes the future seem very interesting.
>I've heard a lot about -- and I'm going to do it, right now
> Why do you think they aren't left wing?

That was your questions. Someone else answered that question as to why. You've simply dismissed this using some baseless criteria: your opinion. Your being disingenuous at best. This is HN, not some random site. Try to do better.
I think that is part of the big disconnect between private and public markets. The public market has been valuing simplicity in business models lately with old conglomerates like GE, Honeywell, Phillips, and UTX selling or spinning off units. The private market has been valuing potential and multi industry domination to some extent. Some companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft have been able to have multiple avenues, but this has come after multiple successes, and what I would classify as cleaner underlying objectives.

At this moment in time, Uber and Lyft would be better served proving the underlying unit economics work to receive a better public market price. I think if both could show meaningful progress in this regard, it would help stabilize their stock prices.
I am curious about the techniques used by the code to cover all these bases

i.e. how much can be done from clever rules, how much has to be exhaustively enumerated, special cases etc
Very simple solution to this. Pass a federal law that makes it illegal to copyright a law.
Oh, so 30 minutes ago and three posts up you thought "Google could definitely do something to democratize this valuable real estate, but they don't."

But, suddenly, you realise the importance of large media brands and their reputation?
Pure anecdata, but taxi services are far better today than before Uber and Lyft took off.

I've noticed in particular that prices to Chicago ORD are lower (from the suburbs) and in Miami cabs will actually take credit cards now and show up when you call them.

I'm all for ragging on companies that skirt regulation, but the regulation was 50/50 good for consumers and straight up protectionism for the cabs.
In the earliest days of Uber, the very large city I live in had mostly taxi services with no online support beyond a phone number. The most tech-savvy service offered a (not actually quite) real time map, but you just used it to guess where to go flag down a cab.

At this point, every major taxi company has a sleek Uber-style call-a-cab app, and most of them work great. Fare prediction has also become common, if not actually a guarantee, and in-app fare payment has mostly killed hearing "the credit card reader is broken" after a ride. (Which was already illegal but omnipresent, so competition solved the problem where regulation failed completely.)

Of course, this wasn't a city with medallions, so Uber couldn't just outcompete taxis by dodging regulation. I'm not sure how NYC et al have changed, since no amount of modernization could fix that problem.
That's like saying lead balls are lighter than rubber ones because they're smaller.

The value at risk is the size of the investment.
Yep, works now!
I guess it would be an open and shut case if Silicon Valley, Google included, wasn't either actively censoring conservatives or if "algorithm mistakes" always happened to apply to them. I'm not a conservative - but I'm not so short sighted to see that censorship could turn around on me quickly.

... Consider this from yesterday, where one of the foremost experts on the field of transsexualism, a major contributor to the DSM-V was suspended from twitter [0] for explaining transsexualism.

[0] https://pjmedia.com/trending/expert-psychologist-blocked-on-...

If "the algorithm" is ready to block anyone for anything that could be offensive to one group but actively allows threats, doxxing, and attacks on another - you aren't talking about RC Cola vs Coke.

It's not at all unreasonable to say that Google and SV as a whole are clearly biased. We don't need more ways to make a bubble, and we certainly don't need Google deciding the narrative themselves. I think the analogy to physical sodas don't really hold up to digital delivery of news. Sodas range has a phsyical limitation, digital news does not, if sodas were a digital resource you would sometimes get to try RC Cola.

Try and consider how fast it could turn around on you. Cool, today you agree that coke and pepsi are better than RC Cola. What happens when RC Cola is politically tied to Google's fate and they push that instead?
I was debugging firmware for a Dutch supermarket chain as a summer job while in high school in the 80s and at that time they were ‘very close’ to replace all packing jobs with robots. Did Amazon pull it off finally?
Sure, I wasn't disputing that usage. I only thought it was wrong when they were using it in the broad sense of "any time your investment is worth less than you paid".
I like the explanation about the importance of troubleshooting in today's world.
That is very slick.

I'm still working on getting ipv6 working correctly configured when I'm on work wifi, which is both ipv4/ipv6. Traffic flows fine on my personal iphone X with wireguard from home.

Our IT has reddit.com blocked and somehow my connection to reddit is being blocked still even though wireguard and 1.1.1.1 are setup on my VPS/wireguard setup.
Thanks. TIL.

I'd still guess that it comes from the phrase "trawling for opinions" - everyone has heard of that phrase and knows what a "fishing trawler" is.
First thing to do... close those tabs. They are the enemy.

The human mind can only concentrate on a few things at a time even when "multitasking", and it cannot concentrate on anything else when working on a complex, concentration-oriented problem. Respect how your brain works, even if it goes against your ADD instincts. (Example, from a book on how thought works... you can concentrate on multiple things while driving, but you can't concentrate on multiple things while computing 57 x 432.61 in your head. There are two modes to thinking; one allows multitasking but limits complexity of individual tasks. The other allows deep complexity, but at the exclusion of thinking of anything else.

So those 52 tabs? If you try to think about all of them, you can't think about any of them in a meaningful way. Pushing things off your plate is the most fundamental defense mechanism the ADD mind can have. Have one tab open. Or two or three. Finish what you're doing before trying to do something else. Don't let the squirrel do the thinking for you. You can outthink the squirrel.
The dissent's opinion is very weird. All of the justices agree that developers are suppliers, Apple is the seller, and the consumers are the buyers.

They all implicitly agree that buyers have standing to sue sellers who illegally use a monopoly to overcharge the buyer.

But - somehow - that is no longer true if the seller also overcharges their supplier. Then the dissent says that any harm is "passed-through" the supplier.

Huh? The buyer isn't buying from the supplier, they're buying from the seller. If any harm passes from the seller to a supplier, then the only way for it to get back to the buyer is for it to then flow back through the seller to the buyer. AKA the overcharge is still coming from the seller.