skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Information reported they (Bird) were paying $551 with a goal of reducing it to $360 per scooter. The unit economics are pretty atrocious, tbh. These scooters aren't designed for continuous operation out in the wild, for the average American girth, on anything other than a flat surface -- so they break a lot.

The average lifespan is 32 days (median 28) -- and only goes 85 miles over 70 trips. Average is 1.63 miles per trip, 18 minutes long, and 3.49 rides per day on average. That's why scooter rides are so expensive compared to JUMP, for instance. [1] Some napkin math indicates they lose (at minimum) $267 per scooter.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-birds-scooter...
We sort of lost the ability to imagine a better world, at least in fiction stories. It’s very difficult to find some sort of invented technology that is mindblowingly good in sci-fi these days (like Star Trek replicator, for instance). They are all terrible and oppressive, even if they look good (like amazing VR), it will be played for bad (now everything in the VR is scary!)

I think this is actually not great. Sure, sci-fi should talk about the dangers of technology, but it should also talk about great ideas and fictional inventions that inspire scientists and engineers. There’s not much of that these days...
These things seem to be incremental. News cycle shows positive hype-->increase in potential funding.
a lot of new addicts are because of the pain killer epidemic
Did much of Lisa even survive to become the Mac, or was it just in spirit?

Considering you needed a Lisa to develop for the Mac for the first few years, it’s good that they made it.
All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?
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I just lost ten minutes to drooling over the absurdly over-the-top McIntosh Reference System. Now I need to win the lottery.
Facebook has also performed studies where they controlled the items that show on individuals news feed and recorded how it changed their emotions. Controlling 3b people is exactly how I would describe it.
In response to the 'dead' reply, you make some points that stick. I'm curious what kind of solution could exist to address the issue(s) you describe. Hoping to hear more thoughts.
We can't know without a control
Yeah, well. Engineering keeps figuring out how to keep reliance on solar/wind low enough so as for the blackouts to not happen.

It's engineering, you know. Keeping politics from breaking things. Keeps getting harder to do though.
Vxlan, for starters.
The whole point of preferred numbers is fitting a rough logarithmic scale to a positional (e.g. decimal) number system.

For an alternative let me recommend just using binary logarithms written in base 12. (So that 1 corresponds to doubling, 1.7 corresponds pretty closely to tripling, and 2.4 corresponds roughly to quintupling. i.e. 0.1 (base 12) is an equal-tempered semitone.
What does "on UDP" mean? UDP is just a means of running an arbitrary datagram protocol that rides on top of IP; it's how you'd build a system that treats IP the way IP treats Ethernet.
Why would journalists need to know data science?
It's just to keep track of them to make sure they are safe... some even like the idea of being tracked at all times because it's so comforting and leads to a feeling of security!
I don't understand how Scoot's permits to operate dockless scooters / bikes / whatever relates to the Lyft lawsuit over their exclusive right to operate in SF. Not a lawyer but the wording I saw seems like Lyft is likely to prevail there.
This isn't mentioned in the public version of the v3 spec (perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place) or in today's blog post. Do you have a reference?
More than enough to deal with any other form of armed opposition in the city. There is a question of just how far the PLA would be willing to go if things got out of hand, but that really isn't something anyone wants to test.
> That software though, unfortunately, has a lot of knobs

Lots of people have different definitions of 'easy' which is why I didn't say 'easy'. But how did you get this far off the rails with 'dead simple'?
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It isn't scientific because there is no hypothesis, but it is certainly good quality data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE
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The same game is played in the United States, traditionally with high ABV beer, where it has a different name, "Edward Fortyhands".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor#Forty-ounce
SYS 32768, not POKE 32768

As an aside, reading and understanding the entire disassembled "kernal" and BASIC rom for the C-64. All of it taking up less space than just about anything on just about any site nowadays - in that respect we took a wrong turn somewhere IMnsHO. Yes, storage is cheap and bandwidth abundant but the same is true for clean water yet nobody drinks 50 litres of the stuff per day 'just because it is cheap and abundant'...
Just wait for ipv6 then, where Nat is no longer providing casual anonymity.
This really doesn't sit well with me. Yes, the bars in question were breaking the law. However, keep in mind that one business was using private citizens to essentially spy on other businesses without the citizens' knowledge or consent.

I'm sure the users of the app technically gave legal consent via the app's terms of service. But I doubt even 1% of the app's users were actually aware of this aspect of the app.

Also, this is why the permissions an app requires to operate matter. I roll my eyes just as hard as the next person when I see comments in the Google's Play store about the absurd level of permissions required by some apps. But I also think twice when I install apps requiring ridiculous permissions compared with what they're supposed to do.
Most US unions WILL NOT ACCEPT board seats or enter into any amity based relationship. I think it comes from the past history. Germans also get comprehensive health and other benefits and they allow management to kick out drunks and addicts instead of treating them as ill people who need remediation by health clinics - who kick back $ to patients.
Many places have moved to places where workers have the right to join or not. That is why western New York state is a wasteland. Uneducated employees from bad schools with untion teachers etc etc.
My main issue with iCloud Photos is that there's no way to disable auto-upload. The idea of every photo I being uploaded in an instant to iCloud is such a deal breaker for me.

As far as I can tell there's no option which can replace the Google Drive + Google Photos functionality they are deprecating here.
Do you actually want to talk about the real world impacts of this or have you already made up your mind? What your saying is going against what the captions on the image from the IAU site point to and seems to have more to do with your personal opinion of Elon than the actual merits of space based astronomy or the impacts of satellites on ground based astronomy.
It's not a zero day, it's a 91 day. Some bugs can be complex to do root cause, fix, and verify a bug. But 3 months for what appears to be a validation failure seems more than sufficient.

Obviously we'll need to wait until the actual fix comes out to see if the fix was more substantial.
Enforcement action can be as simple as not issuing a permit renewal when this one expires.
- Editing your /etc/hosts to block the worst offending sites that offer no real value

- Using tools that augment sites that are distracting but can be useful (e.g. YouTube)[1]

- Using website blockers - I made one that uses AI to recognise what is and isn't on task [2]

- For me the single biggest thing is changing my physical environment for better habits. E.g. coffee shops and coworking spaces aren't the best for focused work but they at least make me more consciously aware that I should be working and not wasting time on distractions. Obviously you are in an office this may be difficult to change though.

[1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindfultube-youtub...

[2] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deepmode-intellige...
Yes, hand in hand they walked the oppositional walk
Totally!

Also for whomever else reading this thread, I’ve been privy to quite a few medical tech startups and let me please share, it’s much simpler than one might imagine to create new medical tech. It’s a remarkably underserved area, the requirements are not quite as hard to get through as it would seem from first glance and I’ve been appalled at many of the systems that are in current use at many hospitals. We’re talking Stone Age level in a lot of ways! If you’re humble, willing to go in and actually listen to the doctors and nurses to identify the real problems and willing to create robust solutions it’s practically the Wild West of opportunities.
Could be a good business opportunity.

Make a "compliance device" for shops/hotels/supermarkets that want to comply with their licensing obligations.

All the store owner does is place a listening device in their shop and it listens to what licensed content is used and automatically invoices and ensures compliance.
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have several years remote working experience.
I think that when GP said, "ecosystem is over-engineered", they didn't mean that it's too rich, they meant to say that it's over-engineered.

Which, I'm not sure there's a more durable reputation in all of informatics than Java's reputation for over-engineering things.

There are cleaner Java libraries for most things nowadays, but the culture around the language is also such that, in many companies, it is politically much easier to use another language entirely than it is to use Java but choose a REST framework that doesn't implement JAX-RS.
> I'm not going to change the mind of a 60+ Baptist who's devoted their whole life to getting into heaven. They believe my soul is at stake and that accepting that part of me is itself a sin.

You'd be surprised. Like habits, old thought patterns die hard, but nearly every person with a bigoted view that changes their mind does so after meeting people who don't fit the mold their prejudices try to force them into.

Your conversation might not change their mind, and they may never change, but if their narrow worldview does one day crumble it'll probably be a death by a thousand cuts so every little cut makes a difference. Even for the devout the cognitive dissonance is always there somewhere. Feel free to feed it when you get the chance.
Your NIC is at least as dangerous as ME if you don’t have the ME connected to the network.
/s? Please?
The Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line is the authoritative repository of US streets and features data, regularly updated by municipalities and counties. For-profit mapping services augment the data and use drivers to make sure they’re on top of streets changes, but you can do a great deal of work with just Census and municipal GIS data.
What's unethical about "if you do something we don't like, we're going to talk about it"?

What would the more ethical alternative be? To just take the deal on offer or silently move on?
A new design tool could do to design what GitHub did to development
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Biggest issues for me here were generics & the dependency situation, both of which are being fixed. But even back then, I loved using Go, mostly for what it DIDN'T have. Even ternaries, while convenient, inevitably lead to someone using them to write some really stupid shit that's hard to read.

Overall, I'm a fan of losing a few helpful abstractions in order to get rid of all the bad ones, whether in the language itself or in it's ecosystem. And Go delivers on that.
Our IT does not support development environments. Just network, backups, printing, client certs. Dev tools support is all essentially peer to peer and ad hoc, with escalation to the internal owner of the tool (another engineer) sometimes possible. If you mess up in an unrecoverable way, IT will give you a loaner to work on while they reimage your machine. It works fine.
It is if no one else has guns.
yet they crossed in USA from Mex... I am sure we will have ebola here too!
I am neither arguing for or against, just that delayed ACK probably isn't the only reason for the connection to become sluggish. A typical page makes dozens of requests, these are packets to be uploaded, if the uplink is saturated, the latency should increase, I'd expect that to affect the time it takes to render the page.
by "wonder" i mean what actually happened, not what the prosecutor's narrative is. the agents were aggressive in taking down SR and making an example of it even before knowing anything of its operations. did agents approach ulbricht and offer to make his problems go away for a price? did they lead him to believe it was a neccessity for his own safety? etc. we may never know because ulbricht was not actually tried for these crimes.
Wouldn't it be nice if modern switches could properly route packets without them being framed in legacy protocols? This could be negotiated when you connect to them. But because it's only marginal gain and needs dual-stack switches we just keep the hacks.

Maybe one day.
I think the main reason is military cooperation. West supports dictator regimes and in exchange they allow to have military bases there. If USA doesn't support such regimes then they will turn to other countries who are not so picky like China or Russia.
Flickr's a decent alternative to Google Photos but is not comparable to the combination of Google Drive + Google Photos.

The combination they're deprecating is not offered anywhere else.
Yes, it increased consumption by creating new addicts. Because, as with cigarettes, addicts are good customers. But it was inability to keep getting prescriptions that caused overdoses and death. Because you had all these ~middle class addicts switching to heroin, without a clue how to use illicit heroin at least somewhat safely. That, and the increasing use of fentanyl to increase potency of highly cut heroin.
Ruby actually went one step beyond: there are no attributes. `attr_reader` just generates a 0-arg method, while `attr_writer` just generates a 1 argument `name=` method.
Sorry that was confusing wording. Not expertise in informatics, expertise in the field to which it's being applied – in this case, healthcare.
True enough, the bad marriages do exist, tenured dogs can make life hard for their undergrads and post docs, but new tenured positions are getting rarer as old ones die off.
Yes because SQL databases never fall over and are the pinnacle of modern software engineering.

And there is nothing worse than people who think that when other developers are making technical decisions it is because of hype and not some reasoned judgement.
It's not the most reliable but it worked pretty well.

The Google Drive sync they're deprecating today is what made Google Photos not a 'dead end'. I've been using it for 3 years and am really bummed that this means I'll have to give up using both Drive and Photos.
I've only done it once before with an early Pentium, I believe from 133 to 300 MHz? I plan to do it again with my Ryzen 7 1900 as soon as the 3000-series hits the market.
Losing only 5% market share 2 years after early 1980s IBM enters said market seems pretty good to me, actually.
Is the commentator Murray Walker by any chance :-)
>> Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

VC Money.
Uber's air taxi vision isn't amazing it's dystopian
I’m embarrassingly out of the loop. What happened with ipv6? Weren’t we supposed to run out of IP addresses the years ago? Will ipv6 still happen?
I'm not saying think of the children. I'm not even making an arugment with that previous post - I'm probing your viewpoints to see if your worldview truly allows free sharing of information from one party to another as it appears you claimed.

I could have just as easily said terrorist propaganda, beheading videos, revenge porn, bomb making manuals, or a lot of other things. My point is to find out if you really believe in unrestrained speech, or if you yourself have limits to what is allowable free speech vs unallowable.
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The position is a healthcare / tech crossover-episode :) He's an expert in healthcare, but not in tech. Sorry to confuse you!
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Funny, I've felt the same thing about VR. With AR, I can think of a million practical applications. With any kind of VR that is short of full sensory immersion, I can't think of a single practical use.
Check this: https://www.kiro7.com/news/where-are-seattles-most-dangerous...

The block on 3rd between Pike and Pine is the second most dangerous on KIRO's compiled list when looking at violent crime in Seattle according to those statistics. It looks like this data is from 2010-2013.

I also can't find geolocated statistics - the best data I can see is at the beat level here: https://data.seattle.gov/Public-Safety/Crime-Data/4fs7-3vj5
You sound like you know more about this than I, can you point me in the right direction?
It is also possible for bars to not serve alcohol. What's your point?
This has the same solution as any other story around copyright infringement.

If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal methods to consume the content in a way that works for them, for a price they find reasonable, then they overwhelmingly won't resort to illegal means.

I'm not saying these bars are correct to resort to illegal streaming, but a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn't actually match demand, and work to fill that demand. You're not going to make 100% of people happy in 100% of cases, but you can get to a point where the level of illegal streaming just isn't worth cracking down on.

It's such a sad waste that all this money has been spent to identify and track down illegal activity when it could have been spent making the overall legal experience good enough that most people wouldn't need to resort to illegality. It adds insult to injury to note that companies like La Liga are already making money hand-over-fist; it's not like they have some sort of crisis where the lost revenue due to illegal streaming is posing an existential threat to their business. Instead of cracking down and making enemies, they could instead work to make the experience better and turn potential enemies into satisfied customers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs#20th_century
The US drug abuse problem is multiple things colliding over many decades.

Extraordinary wealth & extremely high disposable incomes (very large profit magnet), by far the largest pharma economy, a pharmaceutical culture you won't find anywhere else, a many decades long history of general persecution of drug addicts, and a healthcare system that doesn't take good care of the homeless or drug addicts.

That covers both the prescription abuse and blackmarket issues.

The wealth & income in the system acts as a huge magnet. If you're going to sell drugs somewhere (legal or illegal), you want to do it in the US. The US has nearly double the median personal disposable income of the EU, under one big roof. The culture encourages a drug-solution approach to everything. The doctors, nurses, admin, hospitals, pharma companies and healthcare system overall have been very happy accomplices, feeding the problem for decades to great personal profit. A lot of prescription writers should be in prison for playing assist in murdering tens of thousands of Americans. The persecution of drug addicts makes everything worse on the back-end once a person has become an addict; it pushes them away from treatment, it isolates them from society. The poorly constructed healthcare safety net in combination with the cultural & legal / political persecution, then finishes them off, leaving them little to no proper safe recourse or way back out - ending far too often in death.
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I have not seen any evidence that ancient Mesopotamians counted phalanges using their thumbs.

I believe that counting method was devised by some fan of duodecimal arithmetic sometime within the past century, and has nothing to do with sexagesimal numeration per se.
It's G.Skill. They'll release ~100 new SKUs for it, as long as they can get enough well-binned modules from samsung.
> Drugs in the UK exist but not in an epidemic. Teenagers and students smoke weed and then move on

this is not at all true from my understanding of MDMA usage in the UK
Unpopular opinion, but I would say yes.

It doesn’t cost Netflix any more money whether one person or 10 people are watching a particular subscription.

I’d say the major appeal of the drive-in is the venue and all the accessories (big screen, sound, etc) - otherwise you’d just pay for Netflix yourself and watch it at home.
How to raise 28m€ in FinTech and scale your organisation?
That's massive
Devops is not really what you just described. Using the wrong tools is the problem here and tool driven development and some blind-sighted management.
Just an excellent resource.
> Sorry, where did I say that?

Here:

> would try harder to [...] move to another location.
Yes, or "Can disease lead to disease resistance?"
Yes.

BTW, how does Windows hash your hardware serial numbers for DRM nowadays? I haven't used and checked it for a long time. Is it still the harddrive and the motherboard?
There are courses on how to speak to the media. They are aimed at CEOs, politicians etc, or anyone who might need to speak to the media. Often taught by reporters, or ex-reporters.

I’ve done one, I’d recommend it. I have rarely talked to journalists, but the skills are useful in any situation where you’re being ‘grilled’, like a job interview.
Thanks for making this comment. I'll be sure to ask FizzBuzz in every interview I ever give, just to weed out people with such a horrifying attitude.
It’s interesting to me how well-reported this seems, or maybe how it seems informed by ensuing decades of literature rather than being reported in the moment. Apple’s mythos, Jobs’s showmanship, and the importance of Xerox PARC and Apple’s deal with Xerox were all established lore very early on. I guess it’s just bias on my part that it seems like things would have been less clear or known at the time.
It saved lives by giving more people access to high quality drugs, as well as having a feedback and review system that made the vendors accountable for the shit they sold.

Harm reduction is a big thing on DNM markets and forums. You have information on how to safely use drugs and places to ask for advice. I bet it saved quite a few lives.
Slovenian commentator in Slovenia. Did every race for some 20 years.

He truly is F1 to me. The experience just isn’t the same without him :D
Where did I imply I was uncomfortable with homeless people? I am uncomfortable with high profile violent crime. I provided more examples of this below.
In fairness, all the sensationalization is in the original press release put out by UC Riverside; phys.org has just copied that wholesale (which is what they generally do).
I think Java is ok. I just don't like all the weight you inherit with the ecosystem. There's a lot of buttons you have to learn and history. It's working a submarine vs purposed craft (bad example).
I am looking at for value for money and quality of life. Bay Area is not a ‘tiny ghost town’. It’s crowded and struggling with a serious deficit in imagination wrt city planning. It’s my town. I have a vote and I intend to use it. Please use yours if you want to change the system.
C can be quite complex once you get into all the abstractions it's using. And even for newbies I think the whole syntax around pointers is unnecessarily confusing (or at least people are often confused by it in a way they usually aren't when learning assembly). Not to mention how many keywords and symbols are overloaded and depend on their context for meaning.