skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe has a timezone spanning quite a large area, I looked up 2 small towns at each side at almost the same latitude and compared their sunrise/sunset times for today (according to Google):

Niš Serbia; 43.3209° N, 21.8958° E: Rise 04:52, Set 20:12

A Coruña Spain; 43.3623° N, 8.4115° W: Rise 06:53, Set 22:14.

A whole 2 hours difference!
We used to have both brands on my school's campus. I found the lime app on android to be very buggy (crashing, not letting me park my scooter, etc.), not sure if that has changed.
Scooters are annoying so it's ok to potentially injure strangers? The mental gymnastics are baffling.
Don’t forget that part of that $6225 is paying down principal, which will be recouped when selling or simply disappear from monthly costs after the mortgage is paid off. Also, most ownership costs move less with inflation than rents do, so in 10 years the comparison is $6225 2019 dollars vs $4500 2029 dollars.

Also, once you hit 20% ownership, you no longer have to pay mortgage insurance.

I haven’t run the numbers lately to figure out which side wins, but the analysis is significantly more complicated than comparing monthly outlays in the first year.
I agree with your point but in the end the article was more about efficient decision making in engineering teams and less about flat organizations. Up-voted both the article and your comment :)

Reminds me about the stuff I've read about Valve. In theory, and maybe if you have strong healthy de facto leadership it could work. In practice it seems more like an excuse to dodge responsibility, leading to pretty toxic places to work - but maybe there's another side to it.

https://twitter.com/PastelChum/status/1136470238265040896
Ortak – 3D Printable Products
That's a strange claim.

First, how do you know what all institutional investors are thinking?

Second, Sales and FCF straddle Earnings on the income statement. A focus on EV/Sales suggests that investors are optimistic about growth and ignoring the spending required to get there. A focus on EV/FCF suggests that investors are optimistic about increased efficiency and cutting costs.
If I have a problem with bikes lanes, is it okay for me to drive my car in them? Is it okay for people to park in front of EV charging stations with their big trucks? Both could be described as acts of "resistance".
I also absolutely hate how it lets you zoom out but not zoom in. Have to reload the entire page to get it to the original size :/
Hong Kong Police frisking all the young people in subway
Unfortunately it is the norm. (With tech companies)
Good God man, why did you have to point that out?!?
Seems like they will need to add aggressive regenerative braking to all of these things not for the power savings but for safety. And somehow integrate a single lever to control both (like many electric cars do)
"The exercise price of Mr. Khosrowshahi’s options was lowered to $33.65 per share by the company early last year, eight months after they were issued at $41.65. Such repricings have become rare at public companies due to fierce opposition from investor advisory firms and other investor groups. The repricing, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing but hasn’t previously been reported, could cause some investors to view Uber’s board more skeptically, said an investor group."
Isn't it inevitable? The population grows, but the national parks don't get any bigger.
I don't get it. My employer provided phone was a Blackberry Bold. I need a work phone to make and receive work related calls, and to keep work related matters off my personal phone, enabling me to not have to think about work once I leave the office unless someone phones me.
My long term bet: computing will move towards an interface driven by "emoji as command". Custom iconography will fade out as the interoperability (and familiarity) of popular unicode symbols becomes dominant. So much of the existing textual input we use is designed to overcome the limitations of our software. In the future if you want to go home then you'll ⌂. If you want to go to the supermarket then you'll U+1F6D2. Once the AI knows your usual supermarket then that's where it will bring you. A complete shorthand for interpersonal communication will spring up, obviating the need to express the kind of nuance that we use presently solely to delude ourselves that we have something to say that can't be statistically derived from the total sum of former human communication.

Meanwhile I'll be in my sweet, sweet grave.

Edit: looks like HN can't show the shopping trolley
Hijackings were pretty much a daily thing (or three times daily thing) for decades.

Although until 9/11 the intent usually was either to get to a non extradition country, or demand something from some nation state primarily.

The source above shows a clear decrease in airline fatalities through the years but I suspect that’s due more safety improvements through autopilots, better sensors, and more redundancy than the decrease in hijackings.
Troy Hunt's security website is up for acquisition
This has been a growing issue ever since documentaries like Blackfish came out. Awareness of how these particular creatures are treated has led a lot of existing parks to either close down or pivot to other attractions and conservation efforts.

Even in the US, Seaworld has decided to phase out whales and try to push other attractions, due to shifts in public opinion. I have a feeling other US aquariums, like Chicago, will likely go the same route and not replace or breed their current dolphin/whales populations.
CloudBees Acquires Rollout.io
Citation desprtely needed.
There needs to be a hard rule about this.

Don't mess with scroll. You will always get it wrong.
There are shadow power structures, but I don't think you are correct that they are necessarily hierarchical.
The article very much needs a link to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Your original comment was 100% feels so it's interesting that this is your response.
#2 is a hint that you’re not who they’re trying to sell to.
The fundamental change is that now the content comes from Google's servers. Google is hosting the Internet.

Of course Google can't host illegal content on their service, right? And won't host content that goes against a future AMP user agreement...

From there they can tighten the screws against competitors, or future attempts at privacy, or basically anything they get away with.
Chinese Exporters Dodge Tariffs with Fake Made-in-Vietnam Labels
So you're argument against renting is: "why rent when you can have your parents buy it for you?"

It sounds to me a lot like the "let them eat cake" mentality.
Lots of them. It's under reasonable and appropriate security measures.

You say spyware; I say software that guarantees there is a password, that there is a reasonable lock-out time, that encryption is enabled, etc. Leaking data because you let your most gullible employee install whatever he or she liked on their laptop and phone (eg facebooks spyware certs so they can read all your traffic) is going to get you in trouble in a hurry.

For example, CCPA. Which applies to a lot of us in 6 months.

> duty to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect the personal information

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
There is lots of recycling and second hand in the united states. I can find a lot of toasters, very few computer parts. If I were to offer my old tech parts, I would get very few people who even knew what they were. In a bigger area like Boston, you can have a healthy exchange, but not in 50,000-people-ville, USA.

I think what you are lamenting is population density in the US vs EU.
> Me being in Germany and clearly not a lawyer. That said: I own all my intellectual property, of everything I develop in my free time on this device.

> I would not work for a company that would try to ensure it owns all of what I do outside of company time.

You might want to read the laws governing this, notably the "Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen" (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/) It's fairly short and clear. Work contracts often don't mention that because a lot of what you can invent is already owned by your employer by law.

Notably everything that can be patented and primarily results from your work or your or your experience at work:

(1) Erfindungen von Arbeitnehmern im Sinne dieses Gesetzes können gebundene oder freie Erfindungen sein.
(2) Gebundene Erfindungen (Diensterfindungen) sind während der Dauer des Arbeitsverhältnisses gemachte Erfindungen, die entweder

1. aus der dem Arbeitnehmer im Betrieb oder in der öffentlichen Verwaltung obliegenden Tätigkeit entstanden sind oder
2. maßgeblich auf Erfahrungen oder Arbeiten des Betriebes oder der öffentlichen Verwaltung beruhen.

You need to be fairly compensated etc., but the employer gets first rights. (and fairly does not necessarily mean market value)

The rules apply independent of which device you're using though. Compensation might differ slightly, but the rules around that are longer than the law itself :)
To spell it out, places a large burden on you.

And then you get evicted after the negotiated period ends anyway.
Apple’s U.S. iPhones Can All Be Made Outside of China If Needed
Remember that what.cd only stored metadata files like .torrents/magnets/.cues/etc. I doubt very few, if any, of the rare releases there were actually lost; they're still out there somewhere in the Internet. What was lost was the platform and the community that allowed said rare music to be easily shared and propagated.
That's what I've been doing, but it's a pain in the butt to commit and push every time I make an edit.
I don't know any off the top of my head (no, really.) but I'd bet searching DDG for "Hidden Wiki" and using tor hidden services would get you in the right direction, and probably put on a watch list or two.
It doesn't have to be that way. Consider the following scenario:

1. Every file is owned by application.

2. A file-store application is the custodian of files meant to be used by multiple applications.

3. An application that needs to edit a file must take ownership of the file for the duration of the editing.

4. An application that needs to read a file must borrow the files.

5. A file can be borrowed by multiple applications, but owned by only one.

6. Applications can provide the ability for shared ownership, but those would by specialized applications capable of handling and merging simultaneous changes.

This is a straw-man solution, and I am sure multiple problems will have to be solved before such a system can become a reality.

> As an example, most people would want to be able to import an image into a word processor regardless of where that image is located (local drive, network drive, floppy disk, etc.). To support that, most end user programs would want to be offered access to the entire filesystem. The moment two applications do this at once, you have all the shared mutable state problems we do now.

I don't see why the custodian of photos can't be a photo management application. In fact, a filesystem is the lowest common denominator. It is possible to build higher level abstractions like PhotoStore, MusicStore, MovieStore, CodeStore etc. which accommodate and make use of the properties of individual data types to offer an enhanced experience.
Which is why I like my own car, I know it has been maintained to the higuest standard. Many ubers are downright frightening to anyone who knows anything about cars, and taxis seldom better.
As I understand the speed is throttled on bike ways. So is it only allowed to ride e-scooters on the sidewalk?

In Switzerland e-scooters are categorized similar like Mopeds, so they are allowed (or required) to use the bike lanes or the street.

I wonder how this is handled in other countries as I just was in Spain and we saw a lot of e-scooters and I wondered what the rules are there.
Brex Lands $2.6B Valuation with Latest Funding Round
DST was introduced in most countries during WW1 and/or WW2, to save fuel [1].

It _might_ be the case that golfers are the ones arguing to keep DST now, I havn't really noticed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#History
This is the line in my .init file:

(org-babel-load-file "/path/to/config/emacsconfig.org")

Here's a snippet of the org file:

* Behavior
** Make Unique Buffer Names

When two files of the same names are open, make the buffer names nicer.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'reverse)
(setq uniquify-separator "/")
(setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p t)
(setq uniquify-ignore-buffers-re "^\\*")
#+END_SRC

** Prevent Shell Prompt from going to the bottom of buffer
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;; Prevent shell prompt from always going to the bottom of the window!
(remove-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-postoutput-scroll-to-bottom)
#+END_SRC

If you think entering #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp is tedious, put the following in your config:

*** Emacs Template for Source Code Blocks

I just type <se at the beginning of a line and it gives a source block
of Emacs lisp

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;; Make a template for emacs lisp.
(setq org-structure-template-alist
(cons '("se" "#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp \n?\n#+END_SRC\n" "<src
lang=\"emacs-lisp\">\n?\n</src>")
org-structure-template-alist))
#+END_SRC

As the comment describes, now in any org file, at the beginning of a line, type "<se" and hit TAB, and it will expand it for you.
"Screen reader pedantry" sure is a pretty abrasive way of describing creating websites for people.
Waste is not a good thing. And when choice leads to waste, it is not so simply a good thing either.
A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant Moons
I will never get prioritizing speed over quality. Search results are worse than ever but Google is still claiming to know what we want. If only they had a business model that encouraged development of high quality tools rather than selling ads....

Meanwhile, the easiest way to speed up pages is to stop selling ads and splitting up content over multiple clicks.
Where do you find Actually Good New Furniture nowadays?
Isn't hierarchy intrinsic to power?
Find out who can approve an invoice for payment.
He's the boss.
Ironically this is best privately viewed in Tor Browser to avoid their “You’re in private mode” paywall. (or at the official nytimes3xbfgragh.onion)
I would like to refer to the following - The Tyranny of Structurelessness, originally meant to address the concerns regarding 'flat' organizations.

"This means that to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an "objective" news story, "value-free" social science, or a "free" economy. A "laissez faire" group is about as realistic as a "laissez faire" society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others...

...Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women's movement is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware."

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
The Minimum Viable Product Virtue
Plumbing isn't the only kind of blue collar work, but I expect even there the work safety has improved considerably. Many things that used to be heavy are now light (copper and lead vs PVC and other plastics), many things that used to be toxic are no longer required or have safer alternatives (e.g., solders), and in general the cultural expectation for a plumber to risk life or limb for a job is far lower.

And if you're working in a factory, conditions have improved far more drastically. Worker safety is serious business given OSHA and legal liability associated with workplace injury.

Happy to hear about your best friend; I doubt it extrapolates, but it doesn't matter much to me--I don't have a dog in the fight.
Ah, Analog Devices, the king of "expensive because we say so" parts.
THT v0.5.0 – A language that compiles to PHP for improved security and usability
Web assembly is a good step in the elimination of the globally shared FS. Dynamically linked libraries are explicitly provided with an index only that links to the library location. https://webassembly.org/docs/dynamic-linking/

WASI https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas... will provide access to files given to the function by the runtime, not vice versa as in operating systems where a syscall is sent to ask permission for a file.
from the (possibly cherrypicked) benchmarks in the original announcement [0], it looks like single thread performance is on par or slightly better even with a clock disadvantage.

[0] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14407/COMPUTEX_KEYNOTE_DRA...
How Do Consumers Feel About VR (New Data)?
I found the lack of any horizontal line separating rows in the given examples of good tables off-putting. In the examples given from The Economist they are using horizontal lines and I agree those are great examples.
Wouter: A 1KB zero-dependency router for React and Preact (with hooks)
Abstracting this basically yields: "Random stranger X did something that is not right to do, so I'll hurt another random gal/guy Y for that"? Dear god, I hope you live really far away from me.
Any recommendations on a good scooter to buy?
Go to a coastal area. Optionally bring binoculars. It’s free, and a great way to see the creatures in their natural habitat behaving naturally.
UN and Western countries covered up facts on health toll of Chernobyl radiation
Same argument can be used for all recursive acronyms. Both GNU and Linux for example could have anything as first letter.
As a mobile web user, I love AMP. Pages load instantly. I can and do click through multiple articles on the same topic before finding one that is the highest quality because the time cost of clicking through is nearly zero.

Google's, Bing's, Baidu's, etc.'s users by and large also love AMP or else they wouldn't spend the money on the infrastructure.
Humans build houses with their children and grandchildren in mind. Holding to land for 100 years and longer is not that an uncommon thing.
hmm not sure if i'll buy apple products "made in India"...
More accurately, they want to keep you in their garden. Not knowing it's happening would be advantageous for the goog.
>I understand your point, but what good are master tapes if they're not available to be heard?

But they might be. The article itself gave examples of music long ignored that was rediscovered and became of interest, at which point the company could go to its archive and digitize the masters again with the latest tech. They did keep it archived in the first place for a reason after all. Alternatively with advancing tech and changing management the time may come when they'd be able to and decide to floor-perfectly digitize it all. Or down the road the public zeitgeist might change and support requiring the above.

Whether or not they were private, they at least represented potential, real and significant potential. Just like the Brazil museum that burned, or so many other sad losses. Having that potential destroyed forever can be rued even if it's not fully certain it'd be realized can't it?
>"I understand your point, but what good are master tapes if they're not available to be heard?"

Because they are they are the source for the products that music fans by. Remixes, re-issues, box sets and alternate takes all come from master tapes. Without the masters none of these things are possible. You are in fact "hearing" those master tapes just a copy of them. It's an incredibly privileged few who are able to sit and listen to the original 24 track 2 inch reels in a recording studio. VH1's show "Classic Albums" show often does with the artist and producer/engineer as the format of their TV show. It's worth watching for this aspect alone. There is a great example of why this is important in the article regarding the 50th Anniversary release of The Beatles's Sargent Peppers. These things would not be possible without the master tapes. The first generation of CDs in the 1980s are laughably bad fidelity. Now imagine the masters for many recording disappeared after those horrible fist early 1980s releases. Those terrible CD versions would be our source of everything going forward.
Fantastic - thank you

Will stick it on my list at https://github.com/mikadosoftware/importantexperiments4kids
Uber envisions Uber Air will one day be cheaper than owning a car
Some other countries have already implemented carbon tax. Some as early as 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax#Sweden

And what about China? Well, if US introduces carbon tax, demanding the same from China would a fair move in the current trade negotiations.
You can't apply that kind of reductio ad absurdum to confidentiality: it goes against common sense and the way the law works today. Telling someone in conversation that you are colourblind does reveal something about your genomic sequence, but it's very different from putting your entire genomic sequence online in a way that it can easily be discovered.

A primary school might put photos of the children with serious allergies on the wall in the cafeteria. They don't put that info on their web site. They certainly don't put it in a genealogical database so that anyone can ask whether X has any relatives with a nut allergy.
As a few people have pointed out, this feels a lot like an attempt at solving one environmental problem (proliferation of waste plastic) by exacerbating another environmental problem (burning more fossil fuels). But if it took off, it could potentially serve as something of an intermediary step between our fossil fuel economy and a renewables-based economy. After all, the switch from horses to automobiles took 50 years. (https://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/06/Horse-Dung-Big-Shift/, https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/horses-h...) A similar shift to renewables could easily take as long or longer.
To bastardize Greenspun, any sufficiently large flat org contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of top-down org.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I'd rather get paid more today than take a lower salary with the potential to possibly, if I'm really lucky, strike gold with my own invention.
You can simply observe the output and see the bias. Its not a theoretical matter.
Spain is more of a night owl culture anyways.
Indeed. They control the content, and the technology: It could become technically impossible to provide new alternatives for ads, privacy, or any other future use case or interaction.
> I think there is a pretty solid claim to be made against the tech companies who scatter these scooters throughout cities (often times illegally)

I don't know about that, the device itself is not illegal, only its use on public way. And technically ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse.
What's the hierarchical ordering of Congress, SCOTUS, and the White House?