skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big concerns are whether drivers will continue to accept the pay they are offered. In 2018 they spent $837 million on excess pay to get drivers to accept certain trips. Insurance costs are also high, a large portion of their revenue.

Assuming their chart is representative of an average booking, $1 in excess incentives corresponds to a $10 booking. If so, 15-20% of their bookings appear to produce no revenue and cost money through excess incentives. They must be doing this to stay ahead of their competitors and/or encourage people to use the app.

Once the gross revenue picture is done, you have the relatively fixed operating costs. They are spending a fortune on marketing and consumer incentives, as are their competitors.

Overall they lost a bunch of money but made up for it through selling off the Russia/SEA businesses for a few billion. They also marked up their investment in Didi (which I believe they spun off before). But that's a paper increase.

So, they could become leaner. They also may continue to grow their way out of the hole. They do make money on most transactions. But becoming operating-profitable is a matter of putting competitors out of business and increasing demand for rideshare generally. They also need to get people to pay for the currently unprofitable trips. (Personally, I wonder how often they are leaving revenue on the table with their incentives.)
nope, but I know that someone at Tesla knows (who also works in the boring field). Probably costs less than one rated for humans, where they quoted $10M per mile. So 10km ($62M) we're at $22 per kwh. Losing 20% of the energy every time will add up to about $40K per cycle so after like 6000 cycles it will be roughly the same price as $100/kwh lithium.

I'm not sure about the technical issues regarding narrowness and depth, though a quick search indicates the deepest hole was a Russian made a 9 inch diameter hole 40,230 feet deep and had to stop because it was too hot. Anyway, I bet that offshore gravity batteries can also scale up very cheaply once you get over the HVDC cable fixed costs (this almost certainly means building 10GWh level capacity to justify a $100M cable to a place where ocean depths are 2-4km)
Think about it. When you stand up a new ARM-processor embedded widget for the first time, what are two of the first things you do to verify it works?

1) Port NetBSD to it

2) Port Doom to it
Project Soli has a lot more potential. The user interface could move off the screen.

https://atap.google.com/soli/
Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S
DNS/registrars/registries should be regulated as a utility. I just don't see any other way to reasonably do DNS. Its like having signs on the roads be privately owned and charge per view.

For all the talk about the internet being decentralized, that may be true on the IP layer, but once you get to DNS, its very centralized, with a single private entity essentially controlling your online identity.

I've actually stopped from switching to a hosted email with my own domain because of this. If they decide to 20x the price, I lose my email, and can't do much about it. If someone else registers it, they could suddenly read all emails sent to me...
I was using a double-edge safety razor with my preferred blade and shaving cream. It's difficult to shave that part of my head because it's incredibly delicate. On the contrary I've gotten nothing but crap shaves from the cartridge razors.

Shaving is something where you really REALLY have to test different things to figure out what works for you. For example some men really prefer Feather blades because they can get a really close shave with them. For me, those blades actually tear up my face to the point that I break out in a rash. Using the same technique and a Gillette Platinum blade I can get an incredibly close shave in two passes.
This would improve the negotiating position of some parties and harm that of others, but only slightly if at all.

Most likely it will make hospitals less likely to allow any single price to be negotiated too low.

Consider that when negotiating a basket of goods, the buyer and seller may agree on a low price for item A and a high price for item B based on their own preferences, but this does not mean that they cared specifically about item A or B since the negotiation was over the basket.

We see this all the time whenever products and services are bundled. The negotiation may result in some prices being lowered, but overall the seller has a lot of knobs to adjust to make the buyer happy.

So all this will do is modify the negotiation slightly and possibly provoke some sensational headlines in the near term.
I would still use a case.

I thought the same thing when I bought one 3 years ago, didnt use a case but used a screen protectoe and then I had to replace the screen three or four times in a year. Also each time the screen broke the digitizer stopped working as well leaving the phone unusable.

YMMV though. Im pretty hard on my stuff (I was also 22 and partying a lot when I had it)
I mean, we all sleep with phones under our pillow, so
What do you actually do to find out what the regulations for 50 states are and how to comply? Just hire experts?
As a YouTube consumer that posted one video of a cherry blue equipped keyboard recorded on a Sanyo flipphone (a long time ago)...

Works great for me.

Never even heard of tiktok and if it’s better for creators, great, but as a YT consumer I’m good
You really want an extension that limits your ability to access only a certain number of websites?
Rustarok: Multiplayer, fast-paced Moba style game
Is it at all possible to buy direct from the cutters and polishers?
I think orders of magnitude are in different leagues, a quick indication being the relative shares of fossil fuels and wind/solar in global final energy. Our best bet for carbon capture is probably to be found in the plant kingdom.
rem 1990s
10 Print "Basic"
20 GOTO:10

Seriously, I was taught Basic in 1990 that ran on a VAX (BigTen University). I can't even think Basic anymore after 20+ years of C# / C / JavaScript ActionScript etc...
The energy regulatory model in Australia is complex, and broken. And rather than simplifying it, it is going to be made even more complex, and probably more broken, to resolve the problems.

Tesla is not the problem, the 30 minute bidding model, and the state/federal divide on energy policy, and the monopoly capital rent-seeking behaviour of encumbent privatized generators using coal and gas, and guaranteed yields on capital investment, and weak regulatory oversight, and a lack of national coordination, maybe they are the problem.

But Tesla exposes the problem: the Neoen battery stack has been fantastic, but needs to be kept in perspective: To use this for more than FCAS (frequency stability services) nationwide, means re-building the national transmission grid to favour battery models. Parliamentarians got up on their hind hooves and brayed about how it couldn't keep lightbulbs on for more than 20 minutes and was a waste of money: They didn't for one minute admit it wasn't designed as a longterm power store, but as a frequency-control store, stability, and for peak-price bidding to cap off supply-price disfunctions, its working fine: Something like 60% of its capacity is for private bid to earn money, 40% contracted to the state for their goals. It is a real game changer but needs to be understood, its not like a Pumped Hydro unit, or a synchronous condenser (although it is more like that, than PHES) It is its own beast. Its response speed is so fast, the regulatory behaviour models have to adapt to cope with it.

A Five minute bid pricing model is coming in under 2 years I think. I hope the majors don't work out a way to "game" it because my hope is, other mega-scale battery and PH systems will be onstream then, and be able to survive in it, and drive some more coal and gas out of the system.

We have a fictional belief in "base load" power here rather than responsive power. We also lack useful tools like demand management which can be used to bid alongside supply for pricing to avoid having to turn on nasty dirty generators, when the option to time-shift load exists (supermarkets and places with huge thermal mass can time-shift their AC and cooling or heating budget, and so avoid load)

Meantime, people are arguing for a de-centralized model using household batteries where resilience is kept in the customer distribution net, as well as at the transmission net level. There are competing pressures around "how shall we fix it" which are not simple.

If you want to read a good overview of this, look for stuff written by John Quiggin, an economist in Queensland who has written on the stuff-ups in privatized energy supply in Australia and the market failure.
Sadly, Win2k3 was in use in 2012/2013 when this occurred.
Geographic differences in economic well-being
No, but if you are a law firm with a reputation for giving wrong legal advice, you're going to have a harder time getting customers.
Ah, I see. So we should all be lauding Toyota for it's role in launching the Prius when there was literally no existing demand for green cars, leading to the US and EU governments creating incentives for additional green car manufacturing, and creating the market that Tesla is now trying to cater to with poorly-made luxury vehicles.
Well yeah, the point is that YouTube would not engage in a business plan that they believe would put them out of business.
KeePass-XC has TOTP support.

The phone would be shipped with WebKit-based browser, Plasma Mobile does the same thing. When I'd have mine, first thing I'd do (or should start already!) is to help making a port of Fennec (current Firefox for Android) to Linux happen.
If witnesses and legislators are required to be in public for questioning before a committee, doesn't it seem a bit off-putting that one of the participants would be allowed to join from a private location?

It could lead to a violation of trust - Anderson is a politician, regardless of how little experience he actually has, and one never trusts a politician to always do the right thing.
If people complaining about the nuisance compensate the airport for the cost and the trouble moving somewhere else, then sure, I'm all for it.
Please explain? It's not currently technically possible to provide proof that you voted for a specific person and thus making it impossible to buy votes.

The fact that you cannot personally verify whether your vote gets counted is a feature, not a bug.
Great article, thanks for the link.

But I can't help but notice that these numbers are all for US, and US is a very prosperous country with low income inequality and high-paid workers. In other countries, where labor of low-level workers costs less (compared to the purchasing power of those who order delivery) it could be a completely different picture. Here, I earn a salary which would be around middle-class in US, and yet, my Uber ride usually costs around $3-4 (as opposed to $30 in the article).
Fantastic that it’s open source now.
This article was way too short to make any clear case for how b-threads would make changes easier to make.

In the end, our code is complex because what we want to achieve is complex. Sure sometimes programmers add some extra complexity on top for no good reason, but there's a certain level you just can't get away from.

Moving the complexity to understanding event streams does not seem to be any improvement at all, at least as far as explained in the article. The toy examples were entirely too simple to give any real sense of how this could work in practice.
Yes, but if they were all driver incentives, there would be no revenue according to the model they're using. Customer incentives, on the other hand, are hidden in operating costs and not placed in the cost of revenue where they probably should be.
Is there anything obviously new in his claims? I couldn't see it in the article, and there seemed a bit too much unquestioned "me and my team" style implications of revolutionary theory building.

Perhaps I'm being too negative in my reading, or it's just marketing gone awry and the actual book offers a more realistic grounding; but areas where there is potential for murky crossover between philosophy and fundamental science does seem to encourage this rather optimistic iconoclastic self-image.
Engineering will be next. Expect this from more companies in the valley as the reality of being a public company looms on the newly public companies.
True, but "The layoffs will affect multiple offices worldwide".
"solar requires a massive amount of area"

The US, for instance, has massive amounts of undeveloped land. The majority of the population live in cities, which only make up a tiny fraction of the land mass (as you can see if you've ever flown across the US).
It is undeniably impressive to get so far with something that was largely perfected in 1999. Cheers to more people realizing that!
I agree that this would not enable people to suddenly be able to afford medical services that they otherwise would not, but I do see some advantages to the system in general:

1. For people without insurance it would possibly give them a little more bargaining power in the negotiations around bills. Right now the hospital holds all the cards, especially when it comes to "costs".

2. It would shine a little light into an area that is generically murky. A lot of people are champions of capitalism/markets being the solution for all/most problems, but market systems do not work well at all when there is a heavy information imbalance. Pretty much every theory of capitalism talks about that. Right now an enormous information imbalance pretty much sums up the U.S. healthcare system.
For me, I need authy, anki, and a couple of other apps or else I need a second phone. Luckily, anki is open source too and hopefully somebody ports the linux version for the smaller screen.
How about one of the authors talking about a credit-card sized device supplying 100 watts to quad-coptors using liquid fuel and staying airborn for 16+ hours. (https://youtu.be/lDxJsa8miNQ?t=3202)
Yeah. They've gotten this far being lean; but there's something things that are hard and cumbersome to do with sheets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading
Costs to dig go way up 2km underground. This might be less so with your example as you don’t need access tunnels, but it’s still significant.
It was an American article discussing how an Iranian sourced/proxied attack had XYZ effects.

The author mentioned the attack was traced/lost in Iran. Talking about Iran was called a cultural attack, however since this had more to do about Iran's lack of cooperation with American law enforcement it was actually somewhat relevant.

If the article was talking about Iranians as being bad people simply for being Iranian, that would have been a cultural attack.
Stories about climate change are flagged off the front page because they are supposedly irrelevant but somehow this story remains. What gives? How is the tiger population more relevant than climate change, an existential threat to humanity and all living species?
This is what I meant. The content blocking framework that works with both Safari on iOS and the newer web view has been around for four years.
I'm sure there have been attempts, but I've always wanted to create a startup that really directly goes after the "vintage diamond" market.

Diamonds and engagement rings in general have a really low resale value (despite being sold as an investment). This should create a market where you can buy low and then sell at a substantial mark up that is still _less_ than what's charged by the cartel.
Its undeveloped for a reason, its wildlife habitat.
Nuclear needs no such wide footprint.
Purism is a social good corporation. It changes things a bit, but I’m unclear how
Hmm, valid point. I hadn't thought of the risk factors on the downside.

That just leaves the common attack-vector concern for any grid adding this into their ecosystem.
I'm sure the random person you're giving all your money to thinks it's a great gesture, but it's not doing anything for your wife.

It used to be true that women needed to own expensive jewelry - because they couldn't have their own bank accounts, so they needed something they could sell in an emergency. But diamonds are worthless and the price is a fiction.
We Might Need to Regulate Computing Power: Interview with Jaan Tallinn
It's easier to trim it to size, meaning better space efficiency and less wasted packing material without having to buy a bunch of different envelope sizes.
so that was hilariously well timed with my post but very strange: its some investors doing the share sells, but having the company announce it (and selling just a tiny amount of shares in it too). The company doesn't make the bulk of the money here, so why announce it at all? The investors just used the company to advertise that they have shares to sell

so this is more of a hilarious red flag of incompetence, if one planned to add to a position in this

but it does the prove the point that the company and shareholders have many financing options: the issuer is unscathed here, they will create shares and exchange it for $50,000,000 or maybe $40,000,000 due to the 20% drop from announcing it, oh no. Those private shareholders are still planning to make 9 figures.
I never ride Uber at home but there are some places where it's so entrenched (e.g. Mexico) that there are no real competitor apps. On the other hand, I've gotten better deals there from taxis and they've been more reliable. You can often look up a ride on Uber and negotiate with a taxi driver right then and there. If you don't speak Spanish, though...
> The majority of pedophiles recognize that rape is wrong and would never consider it.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment, matt-attack. No one mentioned non-consensual sexual contact with a child. Do you believe that consensual sexual contact with a child is acceptable? I ask only because the phrasing of your argument possibly implies this. Thank you very much for your response/clarification.
Firebase. They had a couple contractors do some good things up-front (auth, domain, some DB work) so that they can do the rest in sheets, which takes a certain type of technical wisdom. Wisdom to know where to draw the boundaries of the business-logic sandbox is quite admirable.
While $300/day is indeed ridiculously little, these fines would be published on a website, as per the factsheet [1]

"If the hospital fails to respond to CMS’ request to submit a corrective action plan or comply with the requirements of a corrective action plan, CMS may impose a civil monetary penalty on the hospital not in excess of $300 per day, and publicize these penalties on a CMS website."

I guess a "name and shame" strategy could lead to increased public awareness, and later to political pressure, which in time would translate into political action. At least that's how democracy is supposed to work.

Separately, the public is asked for feedback on the proposed rule until 27-Sept-2019. Not sure how this works, but I guess a grassroots movement could result in an increase in this diminutive fine.

[1]https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/cy-2020-medicare-ho...
"as much as US$60,000 each. The Iraqi government is said to have spent £52 million on the devices" - Wow and no one thought hey let's test this baby out before we buy a thousand of them?
It’s really not that hard to have a setting that allows an extension to run every time and hash the extension. If the hash changes, it’s disabled until you re-enable it.
How do you define reasonable?

How do you justify making accommodations just for some people? Why not for all? Rights should be equal, not based on any discriminatory criteria.
If it's on a bestseller list, it's already discovered. It's also going to be pushed by every book retailer.
Right, eventually the drivers will figure out that they are the losers in this scheme. People really don't understand just how much it costs to own a car, especially one you drive 30k miles a year.
Just speculating here, maybe if you fly to India and visit their cutting shops in Surat.

The fairest prices as I understand it are on BlueNile, which charges about 10-15% above cut price, which is much better than the 100+% you'll find in retail.
I think that's what we're all afraid of. But I interpreted epiphanitus as asking what specifically, precisely, is causing this legislation in Australia, right now? Who in big tech, the financial sector, etc, and how are they pushing for this?
10^0.3 ≈ 1.995 is close to 2. Reordering the first ten powers of 10^0.3 and taking out whole powers of 10 gives you exactly the first ten powers of 10^0.1.
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While it may be economical to pay the fines, I don’t think many hospitals would choose to tank the fine and keep hiding the information. That’s some pretty bad PR when it adds up. A larger fine would be better, but I think this will be sufficient.
Time will tell. Right now no industrial-scale deployments have reached EoL, so it's not surprising that there's little recycling. Plus those things also contain cobalt, which is significantly more expensive, plastic doesn't have that incentive.
Not sure if any insurer will cover used lithium batteries of unknown provenance in a multi-ton cube.
Pretty sure they’re not assuming they are the same, but are curious to know how similar they actually are.

In other words, does Tesla saying they’re the better option than gas make it so?
The one thing I dislike about Youtube and no one talks about is their aggresive lossy compression.

My monitor is only 1080p but I set the quality to 1440p or 4K if the video supports it, as those resolutions allow a higher bitrate and I can enjoy videos without noticeable distortion. I prefer my computer to downscale the image instead of Youtube butchering the whole thing by limiting the bitrate to an extreme.

I understand that Youtube has to optimize their storage and bandwidth, but still, if I see a video with too many compression artifacts I just close it.
Surviving a Conversation at a WeWork
Yeah, if they could replace one or more of those layers with paper (and/or use one of the various biodegradable plastics available nowadays), it'd be a universal win on pretty much every metric except maybe cost (though there's no way paper's expensive enough to make a significant difference in this case).
what a bad title. "one thing this week ".
I think the key technology when looking at extending supplies is fissile breeding, so you probably want to look at fast neutron reactors, and since you quote the french wikipedia, I will follow suit: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphénix
If you are curious about these subjects and a french speaker, there's a series on energy with many aspects of Nuclear on the french speaking youtube channel "Le Réveilleur". Jean-Marc Jancovici has also written and talked a fair bit about Nuclear in the context of energy and climate.
Is there any reason not to make discounted rates for insurers illegal?
That is not right and that is not obvious. First, because "right" means it is right for all, that would imply the same rights and obligations for everyone. Because it is not right, it is not obvious.

The only right way is to give equal treatment to everyone.
Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’?
I've always looked at the polygraph as not really a lie detector but more so as the person taking it believe their own statements or doesn't get nervous.
But that’s not entirely a bad thing. It allows for things to change over time. It allows for example for states to crack down on vaccine exemptions and allows for taxation and regulation of interstate commerce, etc.
Gotta look at the total cost of ownership. The lead-acid battery is fairly recyclable.
you need name and shame if you are a civil activist not when you are government!!!!!
Yes, but other comments actually mention the language, and the original post was using web languages as an example, so I thought I'd save someone the trouble of clicking expecting and realizing it's not what they expected.
40% of all invested VC dollars go to Facebook and Google in the form of customer acquisition costs