skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taxi driving is not skilled labor.

I had a couple passengers who'd tried their hands at taxi driving and couldn't make money. It takes a while to figure out the ropes, where to go for the big fares that pay the bills, etc. Being able to deal with problematic people is a challenge too.

> It simply isn't worth much;

Except when you have somewhere you need to go, and no vehicle to get you there. Having someone to drive you home from the bar is invaluable when you're wasted.

> certainly not what its full-time drivers are demanding.

Economic cancer has many symptoms.

App-based dispatch simplifies driving people around for money. It also hides the cost of driving. If people don't keep track of their mileage and expenses, app drivers are probably losing their shirts on their vehicles' depreciation. The taxi company kept most of its vehicles on the road for 400,000 miles. I doubt many ride-share vehicles will make it past 200,000, as parts on cars are always breaking, and it's expensive to pay someone full shop rates ($75+/hour) to fix it for you. Our crew of 3-4 drivers put 100,000+ miles a year on the taxi we shared. That cab had a head gasket replaced, a battery pack, and a used engine was transplanted when the head gasket failed again. It was totaled in an accident at around 475,000 miles (this was after I had to quit), soon after the owner had paid it off.

I wasn't the best at maximizing my income because I was more interested in people and their stories than the bottom line. I made enough to pay my rent and keep afloat, even after the vulture capitalists arrived with their "not-a-taxi" service.

> We tried to regulate taxis such that driving one paid wages on par with costs of living,

Arizona's regulations are for safety (background checks for drivers, basic vehicle maintenance, etc) and consumer protection (calibrated taxi meters).

> but then some asshole company undermined that with a populist smartphone app.

populist subsidized smartphone app.
> Gun fans like to point to the evidence that banning guns in one city does no good, as those cities are still plagued by gun violence. Guns are easily brought in from next door, of course.

So how come the 'next door' with plentiful guns doesn't have a gun problem?
What I mean is that most sites load within a reasonable time frame for me, i.e. I don't usually have any 'oh, this is slow' feelings when browsing. When it happens it's close to always my connection that's at fault, or the odd site that simply is too heavy. That's all.
I’ve always admired Slack’s pragmatic choice for LAMP, despite the amount of slack it gets (pun intended). Despite its reputation, it still has an amazing community, ecosystem, and tooling to get shit done.

I’m currently working with Flask/Postgres and it’s simply lacking when you need to scale it (in terms of performance/team size/code size) and there’s not great tooling to take it to the next level. Can’t wait to get back to Laravel on my next project.
Bye Aerospace also has a pretty cool all-electric trainer aircraft that looks quite promising, and close to certification:

https://byeaerospace.com/
OK, we've put the fox before the cat above.
Or as a friend said. Nextdoor taught her that the white middle class women in her neighborhood are utterly racist.
Yes.

I've seen pharma, nonprofit cancer organization, kaiser permanente hospital, State government (epidemiology), etc...
I feel perfectly qualified to say that 2^32 makes no sense.

Just because something is specced doesn't mean that it's reasonable. My "if statement" example is perfectly valid C, but it's not reasonable. 2^32 is perfectly valid, but also unreasonable. Frankly, any bitwise operations with >10 decimal constants are either intentionally obfuscating, or done by someone who doesn't know what they are doing. Consider "2^32" vs "0x02^0x20". The latter is much better.

It is entirely sensible to warn on the premise that it might mean something in another language: The construct seems to be an actual point of confusion (the authors sited numerous real code examples where people are accidentally doing this in the wild), and the construct makes no sense at face value. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a real example of 2^32 in code where it isn't a bug. That's enough to make it a reasonable warning.
Sure. You'll find them here: https://www.winepak.org/
What a Street Looks Like 39 Years After Legalizing Fourplexes
This is called front running and is super illegal.
I think these are positioned as the questions an organization should ask itself before hiring a developer, which makes sense to me as the sorts of questions a developer would ask an employer. They both with to scope out the preparedness of the organization for their perspective employee.
> There is no expectation of fairness in the stock market

...until people are forced to play the game by external conditions, e.g. being employed and therefore having a pension that is based on funds.
Getting guns out of the hands of every day police would indeed make policing safer, especially for police doing traffic stops. Very rarely do parking tickets end up with armed conflict.

There's this overriding myth that's been stoked by Hollywood et al that a "good guy" with a gun can just shoot everything up to save the day. There's no surprise what this narrative maps onto in the real world, where the results aren't predictably written to entertain.
Perhaps you should read the actual article for the image you linked, which mentions that Mac OS was synchronized with FreeBSD in 2003. The fact that this gets a one-line mention shouldn't be mistaken for belittling the effort involved in feature-syncing a mature operating system.

I wasn't sure of my memory, so I had checked my FreeBSD statement before I said it.
I haven't seen them either. But I don't make my purchase decisions on whether other people have them. I only know my own use case.

My boss, a marketing director, uses an iPad Pro w/keyboard case. It serves no purpose for him besides email and PowerPoint, which makes sense when you don't even have mouse input. Yet we would consider him a 'serious user' because he takes it with him everywhere.
> They weathered the Netburst era alright

They were cheating, though. https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-to-pay-amd-1-25-billion-in-a...
Mark Hamill Became the Most Sought-After Villainous Voice in Hollywood
Please don't post racial/nationalistic flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do it.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here. That also means not using HN primarily for political battle, which it looks like your account has been doing recently.
Faith in institutions, including the government has declined since. Maybe it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but as much as I want to agree with this I can't.

Interestingly it's increased in the military since Vietnam so maybe we should let the Air Force take charge of this if it ever happens.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as...
The Thunderscreech only had one prop though. A Tu-95[1] has four.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
Why do some people avoid news? No trust or no value to their lives?
It seems to me like if you visit a URL about three times, then any time you type a fragment of that URL it assumes that's what you want.

This happens to me at work all the time. When I'm working I'll visit localhost:8080/feature/abc over and over, as I'm working on feature ABC. But a month later when I start working on feature XYZ and typing localhost:8080/feature/xyz, it does not pick up on the pattern. Typing "l", "localhost", or even "localhost:8080/feature/" will always autocomplete to ABC, no matter how many times I visit XYZ.
The US Ban on Huawei Is Creating a Multipolar World
Watching Billions to learn about what hedgefunds do is like watching Silicon Valley to learn how to make a startup.
a shameless plug:

the reason i couldn't make the switch was the poor bookmarking/topsites. so i finally got around to making a speed dial extension that replicates the awesomeness of opera's.

every other speed dial extension i could find was shady -- defeating the purpose of going to ff in the first place :o

hope others find it useful :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...

it's new so feedback is welcome. released under GPLv3.
True, but it seems knowing how I'm being hacked helps me avoid it. There are several comments in this thread that share devious methods for increasing conversion. Now I know some new things to look out for.
Disney+ Has Put Apple TV+ in a Bind
Yeah. The title is misleading though technically correct. I guess whoever came up with it didn't think that "questions to ask before hiring someone" would imply "questions to ask that someone". Maybe the title should've been:

Questions a Recruiter Should Ask a Hiring Manager Before Hiring a Software Developer.
Besides already mentioned benefits the new bytecode is serializable so it is very easy to cache it.

Serializable format of AST is a hard problem. WASM was supposed to be like that, but in the final design it became a stack machine.
Improving subsequent page load speed without sacrificing initial page load speed is an obvious win for user experience. Users don't like waiting.
Fractals, mailing addresses, and nomadic futurism
I caught that if it wasn't clear; it wasn't a direct reply but a reply to the whole thread. I was just pointing out why that original behavior existed in the first place and how funny it is that that behavior in the given example is actually more technically correct because IPv4 addresses are supposed to do that.
I like your optimism. But I see most people just shrugging their shoulders if they don't see how it could affect them. Long term risk often hard for humans to comprehend.
If you do your own legwork you can find companies that are not going to go up long term. There is as much of this as there was in the past, but there is still a lot of better than market investments for someone who a little money.

Personally I find the above work boring - it ends up being a full time job, so once I subtract my salary I'm not really better off financially than an index fund and I'd hate my job.

As for why don't the big guys do this: it isn't worth their time to chase a small gain (say $20,000) so there are many things the small guy can do that are more than wroth it that is beneath the notice of the big guy. They know about these things, they need to make more money to pay for their overhead.
"I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges." --James Tobin, July 1984
This was also my experience going to the movies in the '90s in North Texas. Don't forget that this was before stadium seating was invented, so good luck being able to see the screen if the person in front of you is taller than you. I hated going to the movies back then.

Cinemark started a revolution when they invented stadium seating (but even then, the original incarnation was problematic because it wasn't wheelchair-accessible until Cinemark settled with the DOJ).
If they don't have the infrastructure for vast modern cable based connections and wireless installations, why not use the already existing cell infrastructure? India isn't the only one.
What's the joke? "I turned around in some strangers driveway and now I'm wanted fugitive in 3 separate neighborhood groups"
Intel is still winning in single threaded work, last time I checked. AMD is winning in performance per dollar, and only because Intel gouges so damn much.
Not all front-running is illegal, see this article which discusses a few examples, including quote matching and order anticipation: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/04/24/what-to-d...

Front-running is very common in bond trading.
Here's an idea that I wanted to get a grant to try in Detroit. Take a high crime neighborhood where the majority of its residents were working class poor. Give every house a ring doorbell and then sprinkle cameras where lots of assaults or drug transactions take place. Then have license plate readers on major streets but don't store the locals license plates in the database.

Would it allow the police to zero in on the criminals causing most of the pain? Would it make a meaningful difference in these peoples lives?

Bet it would be cheaper than flying over the neighborhood with a drone 24 by 7.
They've been using ML to automate most of that work for at least five years.
Part of the issue with Hurricanes is that they hit a huge area. If you just need to evacuate a single city, it would be a lot easier. Especially with the added urgency of an asteroid. Hurricanes happen all the time and usually, it's not the end of the world.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, a near-failed state, managed to evacuate 300,000 people in three days from a Volcano. I'm pretty sure suburban Texas can handle it.
It's very easy to avoid asteroid impacts. You do lots of observation, so that you can tell decades in advance, that the asteroid is an imminent threat. Then you build spacecraft which intercept it, and use some type of engines (probably ion engines) to slightly change its orbit. You don't need extremely powerful ones, you just need them to operate for a long time. A very small orbital change will result in it completely avoiding the Earth decades later.

The key, of course, is being prepared well ahead of time, and looking for these things. We're doing a terrible job of these.

If you're a stupid species like the dinosaurs and don't bother to prepare for these things decades in advance, then there's nothing to be done; just let it happen.
Ya thanks for pointing that out. I probably should have phrased it "I think it's time to question the rationale of arguments against UBI" because personally I think most of them are straw men masking cognitive dissonant or undignified positions.

In other words - at their root are things like classism/racism, fear of socialistic solutions to fundamental problems with capitalism, or flat out greed and the "I've got mine" mentality that's so prevalent in the US.

That fear/uncertainty is a distraction from what we are capable of today with automation. It's a 20th century zero sum worldview where giving to someone requires taking from someone else. I don't subscribe to that, because we could largely automate basic sustenance production (food, water, energy, shelter, transportation, etc), charge very little for it, require substantially less human labor, and turn any profits from that into a stipend that we all get for being US citizens. I think that's more in line with a 21st century or Star Trek future.
How localized would the effects of a 700 megaton impact be?
> about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after

To get this data you wouldn't need to buy the cars. So it sounds like they did something that sounded like that as opposed to what you remember. Even w/o social engineering you could quite easily get some dealer to give you that type of information (or someone working there or otherwise).
...which doesn't make it any more acceptable.
> This is called front running and is super illegal.

Are you sure it's illegal if it's a hedge fund with access to order flow from a third party?

"Front running is one of the easiest ways to make money. It's essentially insider trading, except the inside information isn't about corporate activity; the information is about client order flow. In this case, since the index investors are not their clients, it is legal for hedge funds and any independent traders to front run them. One could argue that the hedge fund managers are doing nothing wrong; it's the investors' fault for acting irresponsibly. The problem with that argument is that many of these investors don't have a clue about what is happening to them." [0]

http://www.dark-bid.com/hedge-funds-front-running-investors....
Atlassian releases an open term sheet for M&A
The usual defence for copyright claims in music is that they are similar because you are both stealing from an earlier work without a valid copyright.

So I'd bet that jazz cases would be difficult in general. I'd expect there are a lot of older songs without proper copyright papers.
The proper defense is to not use passwords. It's 2019, nobody should be using passwords on SSH-enabled shell accounts.

Heck, I use secure tokens for authentication so this memory encryption hack is useless to me--even I don't know what my private key(s) are, nor does OpenSSH or any other software on my computers. But I appreciate that we're a long way from ubiquitous hardware-based authentication.
If you have no time for that argument, you have no time for the mainstream neuroscientists.

https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-...
I applaud the authors of this and people behind similar foundations such as OpenAI for the time and resources they are devoting. Neural networks have rapidly surpassed human capabilities in some regards; care and consideration are vital when it comes to turning one loose in the wild.
WeWork sued by former execs claiming gender, age discrimination
You might want to read up on that thing about plastic coming from a few chines and indian rivers, because it's wrong.
Who is voting this up?
Track Satellites in Your Terminal
It's a bit of a micro-optimisation but ASTs are also usually represented fairly sparsely, so processing on bytecode could be much faster due to more efficient cache utilisation etc - some benefits from memory locality and also from bytecode usually being smaller in memory)

(I don't know JSC does it so that could be wrong)
Yeah this is the most sensible reason against it. NTP is also responsible for some of the biggest traffic amplification DDoS events.
We already had something a bit like this, several years ago when a small asteroid exploded over Chelybinsk, Russia. 1000 people were injured.

Has humanity sat up and decided to take this threat seriously? Nope.

Most likely, this was a test from some aliens to see if we're smart enough to avoid a much larger, extinction-level asteroid headed our way, and to try to get us to prepare ourselves better without violating the Prime Directive too badly. We failed.
To be honest, I found it long and depressing. It must be something about this theme of the demise of society and space exploration that gets me. Same with Baxter's NASA trilogy. His early novels, like Snowcrash and Diamond age, are amazing, but Seveneves is really quite a different kind of a story.
Not impossible to imagine the credentials were the unchanged default pi/raspberry... (I imagine quite a few people who haven't done much w/ a Pi don't even run raspi-config) I assume you can scan for similar exposed RPis with Shodan etc.
Can Historic Preservation Cool Down a Hot Neighborhood?
I've heard of a couple of examples of companies that will replace goods at any age, but they don't appear to be any good as capitalist entities as they're not profiting rich owners to the optimum extent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/30sand40s/32-brands-with-lif...

for example. But then The North Face is on there, and I'd never heard that offered a lifetime warranty (my jacket lost its waterproofness and needed replacing), and they also only give 1 year warranty on several items (half the statutory warranty in the EU).

IIRC Dr.Martens limit their free repairs to a particular sub group of their boots?

Could you give examples of companies with lifetime warranties that you consider successful examples of capitalism? I'd guess to qualify they'd at a minimum have public share ownership.
Whatsgoingon.com – Seriously, what is going on?
There looks to be all kinds of fun redirection to the site whatsgoingon.com

WHOIS info:

Domain Name: WHATSGOINGON.COM
Registry Domain ID: 164517412_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.fabulous.com
Registrar URL: http://www.fabulous.com
Updated Date: 2019-05-31T06:13:34Z
Creation Date: 2005-06-01T18:12:50Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-06-01T18:12:50Z
Registrar: Fabulous.com Pty Ltd.
Registrar IANA ID: 411
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Name Server: NS1.ABOVE.COM
Name Server: NS2.ABOVE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2019-06-21T19:15:11Z <<<

Seems to redirect to park.above.com, which seems otherwise dead.

I'm a dev, but can any network ninjas shed light on what's actually going on? 302's to park.above.com and then other bounces? Results seem to be different every time, but with duplicate results. Is it querying some network to get URL's?
We also have much cheaper and more reliable access to space. SpaceX and eventually Blue Origin will continue to push this down significantly. The one downside of this is that the same types of tools in space to deflect asteroids would be quite excellent for pew pew against things down on earth. It could cause a whole new level of cold war style standoffs.
You mean like binast? https://github.com/binast/binjs-ref
Those numbers, by themselves, tell you nothing whatsoever about the resolution of the measures they're using. They tell you solely that for group A, they got a result of 30% with 99% confidence and for group B, they got a result of 25% with 95% confidence. That doesn't mean that they're approaching the limits of their measurable resolution—it most likely means that group B is smaller, or has more variability in it.

If group B had a result of 10% with the same confidence, that would also not indicate that their measures have a resolution of 10%—those things literally have nothing to do with each other. You are reading far too much into the very limited data presented—not merely more than you can prove, more than there can be any possible logical support for.
question 1: do you know what a CDN is?
Transatlantic electric flights wouldn't be too hard. 1200km minimum hops could be done with next-gen battery tech and plenty of margin.

...Transpacific (i.e. reaching Asia from North America) wouldn't be too hard as you can hop along Alaska and the Aleutians, but reaching Hawaii is a major challenge. To get to Hawaii from LA takes 3800km (at the edge of what you can do with L/D of ~40-50 and 500Wh/kg batteries). Taking the long way from the Aleutians to Midway cuts that down to 2600km for the minimum hop distance, which is perhaps feasible with a sailplane-like L/D and the next-generation lithium-metal and/or lithium-sulfur batteries (that are already demonstrated at the lab scale).

Lithium-air is the breakthrough in battery tech people want, which will enable much easier transpacific flights at transonic speeds (rather than the ~Mach 0.50 speeds you'd be limited to for the most extreme high performance airfoils), like what people are used to already. Lithium-air would also potentially enable long distance supersonic electric passenger aircraft.
Would you agree to bet a donation (the EFF or something else you like?) We can ask the reddit user to check their serial.
Yeah.. I mean Subaru found a way to email me about scheduling an appointment for the airbag recall. (Yes, I know its probably because of regulations)