skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that metered taxis are cheaper for about 80% of the trips I make. The exceptions are during periods of extremely high traffic where your Uber/Lyft Price is fixed, but the metered taxi price could really shoot up if you’re sitting in traffic too long.

Essentially, unless I’m traveling in rush hour, I’m always better off taking a metered cab, and it’s usually faster to boot.
Why are you then purchasing installing the app if you think they invade your privacy. Just dont use those apps.
That stance means everyone just has to abide by whatever invisible political ideology permeates the company. Most typically, that’s unfeeling “man in a gray suit” corporate capitalism.

Where you work, who you work with, and what you do, it’s all political.
But the EPA does regulate aircraft emissions. You can see the regulations on their website: https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...
I wonder if recording ratings now and then every month or so would show a decline in ratings. IMDb must know already.
This seems like a predictable outcome in a consumerist society driven by planned obsolescence and the need for infinite growth.
Counter experience that still echos a lot of the same themes: I started tinkering with electronics around 2011, the typical beginner Arduino projects with the starter kit you've all seen-- it was enjoyable and I learned a lot, but never made anything that went beyond a toy or learning demo. By 2014 I was gainfully employed and had a little more disposable income so I gravitated towards freestyle and racing quadcopters which I've continued to enjoy through today. My lab and expertise have continued to grow every step of the way, and I've been excited to implement some very basic home automation on my own with ESP8266 kits now that I'm a homeowner. Realistically there isn't much "maker" related things I would see value in beyond commodity tools and a 3d printer, but vendors with FPV electronics touting cool new features or enhanced functionality have a reliable track record of cracking my wallet open. I suspect this is a broader feeling and contributed to Maker Faire struggling to find a niche with reasonable margins amid a race to the bottom in the associated hardware.

Ultimately I suspect Arduino boards gathering dust on the self are the overwhelming majority. People are either interested in it and rapidly move on to more specialized applications (Hobbyist multi-rotor electronics quickly graduated from 8bit AVRs to 32 bit ARMs) or they aren't and the dev kits find room in the closet.
What was great about it?
I think I've fallen for the 'GNU Hurd is Now Complete!' April Fool's joke for about 3 consecutive years now.
> The only reason they want a user’s real address is because they want an address the user cant stop them from spamming.

Unsubscribe and report to spam doesn't exist in our world, anymore?
2008 to today is eleven years. Please look at the immediately previous eleven-year period. The 2008 crisis left the S&P down compared to where it had been in 1997. How cheerful would you be about retirement if your own 401(k) returns had been negative over the last eleven years. What if a 2008-like event happened just before you had planned to retire, or just before/after other major financial events such as buying/selling a house or kids hitting college or someone getting sick?

It's great that your prime savings years have coincided with an exceptional run-up. I also have been fortunate. The difference seems to be that I don't look down my nose people who lacked perfect flexibility wrt when to enter or leave the market. I have reasons to believe I've been pretty smart about my savings and investments, but I still admit the role that pure luck has played.
HFL1, Generating Thoughts and the Insightful Hags.

Seriously. Get a grip. You are not that important.
Proof of work is merely one form of consensus algorithms.

There are many forms of consensus algorithms.

> Git also uses merkle trees

Blockchains are not a complicated concept. They are merely a merkle tree combined with a consensus algorithm. That's it.

People try to make these concepts way more complicated than they actually are. A lot of this crypto stuff is actually quite simple.
What is Dropout? How does it prevent overfitting in a neural network?
That was the same thoughts I had on gnuradio + a cheap sdr.

I remember I tried to get a temperature sensor decoding gnu radio plugin working and I never solved it.

Couldn't run it on a Pi, it required a fast intel system to be usable. That eliminated the nice raspberry pi "canned image" solution other projects use to cut through the dependency mess.

So I had to do a linux installation from scratch.

But the online packages for gnu radio were broken or out of date.

So I had to build GNU radio from scratch.

And once I got GNU radio going any existing gnu radio program was broken because it required an exact version of gnu radio and other dependencies.

Maybe it is better now, that was a few years back.

I've also come to see the light with Arch Linux, so that might help.
Well it seems you were more thrilled to use it instead of Google or Facebook. You could have already used gitlab or some other privacy oriented service already. So yeah what parent said seems true.
The reality is that this isn't the kind of venture that brings in money, and that's not as much an indictment against Maker Media so much as it is against the adverse conditions of which any venture is up against. I.e., we live in a (flawed) society. At least the ethos behind the Maker movement lives on.
That is so unbelievably false if you knew anything about their funding and revenue. Seriously. You have no idea what you are talking about. Stop it.

Please enlighten us on how much one round of print costs.

This comment sums up how many idiots pretend they know anything about things they have nothing to do with.
I don't understand the question.

I run a large regional forum (10-15k active users per day) and our business model (such as it is) does not rely upon having as many randoms as possible getting user accounts.

We are quite selective when it comes to approving new memberships. We look at numerous subtle signals to decide whether to allow an account to be approved instantly, approved with limits, delayed or rejected. Email, ASN, browser behaviour, user's actions prior to the registration page, and numerous other things which strongly predict whether someone is an authentic new contributor, or a sock puppet/astro-turfer/troll/spammer/abuser etc.

This saves us an astronomical amount of pointless work for our moderators and makes our environment more conducive to constructive and useful contributions. (In a way it's like Hacker News comments except we're not as pedantic about chatty contributions so long as they're good natured.)
Isn't it fine since they've released the source?
I think (perhaps unfairly) that these fun hardware projects are often parents like ourselves harking back to a day when exactly that sort of thing was absolutely fascinating... but that's not the world we live in now. Which one is going to be more rewarding: building a smartphone, or making an app? It's the latter.

That's not to say hardware stuff can't thrive, just perhaps not at the scale venture capital would require.
Fingerprinting works because the sites link that fingerprint back to an identifiable individual.
> this is exactly why languages that specify their source code in non-ascii encodings are a bad idea.

Seems like your problem isn't that the source has a specified encoding, but that the syntax allows for non-ascii characters in identifiers, which is actually an unstable feature of Rust, only available with nightly compiler builds. See the feature flag: https://github.com/nixpulvis/lalrpop-lambda/blob/master/src/...

Specifying ASCII for the source code, as your post suggests is better, would leave everyone stuck using \uxxxx escapes for non-ASCII data in string literals. That's unnecessary when you instead specify UTF-8.
On the SF peninsula, yes. The TechShop bankruptcy, which was totally botched, left many people angry. (I was a member, but didn't prepay, so I didn't lose anything.) TheShop.build closed their San Francisco location recently, and at one point had an eviction notice on the door of their San Jose location. (I dropped my membership last month.) Maker Nexus in Sunnyvale is struggling to get enough members to survive. Today's email says they have 80 and need 200. (I pay for a membership there.)

Other cities are doing better. Usually because of government support. "We need to retrain workers" arguments play well in industrial cities.

The original Menlo Park TechShop had skilled people doing hard stuff. People making things for the X-prize. People from Stanford who needed more machine tools than Stanford had. People from startups. Gradually that declined. Stanford and Google got their own in-house shops. Then there was the "Etsy crap" era - people using CNC laser cutters to make "hand made" stuff to sell on Etsy. At peak, TechShop SF had eight laser cutters going almost constantly. That died when Etsy removed the requirement that you make it yourself.

Today, maker spaces seem to be mostly learning centers for teenagers. The "STEM" or "STEAM" thing. That's fine, but it's a branch of the college prep industry.
From a sanitary perspective, yes.

Plastic bags are naturally waterproof, have a high strength-to-weight ratio, and don't easily let bacteria grow. If made sturdy enough, like they used to be, they can even be easily cleaned and reused, because dirt does not soak into them.

Edit: it's amusing how voracious the anti-plastic brigade is here...
> The prediction is that the next time you revisit this code your original assumptions will still be valid.

No. The tests will encode the previous assumptions. When you run them, and they fail, either you broke something or one of the previous assumptions is no longer valid. But the tests give you an automated way of recognizing which assumptions you'd better think about, to see if they are still valid.

> Games are an extreme case but you can extrapolate the experience.

No - no more than you can extrapolate my experience, which is having core logic that is (mostly) valid a decade later.

> I'm arguing against code coverage and test enforcement.

Or at least against those things in areas that are constantly changing. Even in your world, though, are there areas that change more slowly than the game rules? Would it make sense to have tests for those areas, and not for the game rules?
I think it was the other way round. Investor scrutiny on Uber increased after it became clear they were gonna IPO. When it became evident that Uber couldn’t make money to justify their valuation (and potentially not make money at all), the justification became self driving cars.

When it became clear Uber’s self driving cars weren’t happening, and Travis personally had greatly compromised the possibility of it working out, Travis was forced to leave.

IOW, Travis’s leaving was driven by the increased scrutiny when it became clear Uber needed to IPO, and needing to IPO meant Uber couldn’t continue losing money like they did which led to them having to make changes which meant customers weren’t as happy with them anymore.
I think that the generalized reverse instruction could have fit just fine, because the circuit that computes it is also capable of the complete set of shifts and rotations. Not sure about that generalized zip, though.

clz/ctz are pretty useful as priority decoders that show up in a variety of applications.

Carryless multiplication can subsume all of the CRC's.

What are the users for popcount?
I saw that kind of macro-based syntax a long time ago in some ancient Unix code (Version 7 from Bell Labs) - I think it may have been in Bourne's shell ("sh"). It had macros like:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }
...

The author really seemed to prefer Pascal-like syntax to C.

A quirky programming style that was fairly popular at Microsoft at some point was "Hungarian Notation", invented by Charles Simonyi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
Hah I got the exact opposite realization actually.

Yes if you boil it down to it’s essentials you are right the customer is the one with the money, so satisfying his needs/desires is what matters.

But, and thats a big but, we as devs are also humans, we also have desires and needs, and in the long run companies that successfully balance the needs of its users with the needs of its workforce get the best workers, which solve the problems of their users better/cheaper/faster.

So it’s more of an equilibrium kinda thing. If you stray too much in any direction the organization tanks - either the users loose faith, or the people satisfying theirs needs do, which leads to failure just as much.

The complexity with balancing this usually stems from the fact that both of those variables are subjective to their respective environment - users can tolerate bad solutions if there are no alternatives available, same with devs.

And that is also a subject to information availability - devs can be ok with their situation because they don’t know what salaries are at that other place for example.
More due to tradition than anything else.
The problem I had with Endless Sky was that it didn't have the kind of stories that really drove Escape Velocity. EV (especially Nova) was fantastic, had multiple storylines, etc. The writing seemed genuinely good to me; Endless Sky was nowhere near as enthralling (and the technical glitches made me give up).

It's got "good bones" but lacks content; it really made me realize the value of writers and those who can hammer out storylines.
The other problem is there is practically no incentive for any company to recycle broken glass. It's heavy, sharp, and there's little demand for it.

It takes much more fuel to transport glass containers and once broken it isn't recycled. Although glass is inert so in a landfill it isn't a problem I guess that's an benefit.
I actually mixed this up with another claim of a backdoor (the bug).

The Bloomberg claim of a backdoor, which you linked, is even more absurd. The "backdoor" was Telnet, which Huawei used during the initial configuration of the Vodafone equipment. Vodafone said to Bloomberg, "There is absolutely no truth in the suggestion that Huawei conceals backdoors in its equipment."
Personally I think the younger generation will rethink the entire notion of what retirement is. The stereotype of counting the days til 65 and then all of a sudden you’re playing golf every day for the rest of your life is just comical.
> Number of Movies By Ratings

I’m dying to see all of these as percentages rather than absolute numbers! I was even thinking that while scrolling down through, and then there the totals are right at the bottom. @KyleOS are you up for normalizing them?
Maker Faire's business model was print media and events, two notably unprofitable models. Techshop was a for profit chain model trying to compete with volunteer diy maker spaces.

Contrast that with maker focused businesses like Sparkfun and Adafruit.
You learn hands-on Electronics (and Embedded Systems) using these types of equipment. If you can afford it i would suggest Digilent's "Analog Discovery 2" (https://store.digilentinc.com/usb-scopes-instruments-circuit...) Digilent has lots of online course material (https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/instrumentation/...) which you can follow-along to learn Electronics.
I was gifted a subscription to their publication for years as a kid, but never got as into it as I wanted to. I loved reading about what others had made but felt like I never had the experience or expertise or money to make things myself. In hindsight, I probably could have done lots of cool thints.

When the subscription expired I didn't renew. This makes me so sad to see now - I feel like there's a world where I would have been extremely into this culture, and I feel like not having this publication around will prevent others from becoming that.
If you knew anything at all about their funding you would know thats not at all why they got funded. Print is crazy expensive and eventually the muse ran out.
(as others have pointed out here and every where) Comments are NOT for making code understandable. The things you mentioned are for that.

Comments are for things like

1) explaining why this thing that looks wrong or dumb, really isn't.
2) explaining what method/function/class/whatever is suppose to do. Because code can be correct, understandable, and still wrong.
The idea that reliance on Canadian steel represents a threat to US national security is not plausible. Canada isn't hostile to the US, and it would be inconceivable for Canada to cut off steel exports to the US in a critical moment. The Trump administration is quite transparently misusing the phrase "national security" to justify measures meant to force trade concessions from other countries, including American allies.
There are many reasons. That is another huge one.

Most of the time, nobody even is aware that including some new widget code ends up downloading half the internet, making our code size increase, our build times extend, and opening up a huge volume of attack. No one has any idea what dragons might lurk in that mess, or sometimes even that there might be dragons at all.
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Is the ADALM1000 really worth it? Seems too basic and limited to me. I have had my eye on the ADALM2000/ADALM PLUTO for a while now (already own a Digilent AD2 and Redpitaya) but haven't committed to buying them.
Does it seem plausible though?

I wonder if we could tune them and use it to control the weather (minimize the effect during hot spells, maximize it during cold spells).

- https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/do-contrails-affect-cond...

- https://news.psu.edu/story/361041/2015/06/18/research/jet-co...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Contrails_and_climate
I think "stop all flights" might be exchanged for "tune all flights"
Many time release drugs use plastics to accomplish it. Polymethacrilic acid is a very common plastic used.

Regarded as safe since the plastic just gets excreted in the feces.
Things don't last forever but it was impressive that Maker Faire got started in 2006 and survived the Great Recession which hit the Bay Area particularly hard. I went to the Maker Faire twice, the first time being especially magical. But I never went to any of the sub Faires. I think like Tech Shop, expansion was never going to be sustainable.

Again, things don't last forever but I'm grateful for what it was, when it was.
> Where's this confidence coming from?

Probably from the fact that disabling these email addresses would be a distinctly user-hostile move. If Apple determines that the developer is actually a malicious entity who slipped malware past the App Review process, then it might be reasonable for them to disable the forwarded emails as well as a malware vendor has no legitimate reason to talk to "users", but beyond that specific scenario, cutting off the email address harms the users who signed up for that service. For example, if the app actually represents a web service, and Apple determines that the app shouldn't be in the App Store for whatever reason, blocking "Sign In With Apple" (which is distinct from removing the app from the app store) and cutting off the email address means the user has no way to recover their account even though the service is still active, just without an app. There is no reason for Apple to take this step as it benefits nobody and only serves to harm Apple user.
Apple is the one that handed over iCloud keys to the Chinese government. Next to Apple, those two are lightweights at being evil.

Google was upfront about what their app did and paid their users for that data. It's just like a Nielsen box. I had installed it on an unused tablet myself, tapping the notification to check in weekly, and collecting enough Amazon credit to pay for Prime. https://www.google.com/landing/panelresearch/
While this is entirely true, it’s not effectively true for the average non-technical user. Balancing control of one’s personal content in a way the average user can take advantage of is something Apple, whether benevolent or not, has been an effective champion of as of late. And I (and many others) would argue that therein lies an important distinction at iPhone scale.
The war started in 1939. The US got directly involved in 1941.
"I write my code in JavaScript" is "The Aristocrats!" of the new millennium.
Isn't it common to leave debug code in production software?
Indeed, Chinese apps have diverged significantly from what's used in the West. There were a bunch of Chinese copycat apps at first, but some of them have been supplanted by new and very different apps. Everyone in China used to be on a Facebook copycat called "Ren Ren," but it's gone the way of MySpace, and everyone is now on WeChat, which has no equivalent in the West.
Love clicking on twitter links and being completely confused. They've just stopped showing threads and replies on the non-JS page anymore. This is what we see, and this does appear to be a recent change: https://imgur.com/94u95no there's nothing below this, this is the full page.
MSI CEO: Even Low-End AMD X570 Motherboards Will Be Expensive
This. It was at that inflection point that I cancelled my Make subscription. It just didn't have the vibe any more. I also remember them developing their own fairly expensive custom ARM development board during the time the arduidnos were rapidly proliferating, and thinking, "why do they think people will buy this?" So maybe there were some sub par investments on that front as well?
Ha, I just finished that book after being turned on it by HN. Thanks, everyone!
There's a lot of odd hand-wringing around GPT2. Unless there's a ban on AI-capable hardware, _someone_ is going to release a full model for this.
Yes! A subscription model would solve the hardware problem.
Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent
Technologists certainly tend to seek solutions, and find blame in technology or the application of it. Getting technology right is necessary, but not sufficient.

In the end, the world is much bigger than the tech we build & consume.
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