skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but Apple has a huge developer fan base whereas Microsoft didn't until very recently, and that's only due to their massive course correction with WSL, VSCode, among others.
> Also, their current attorney will probably charge just to send that letter.

Surely not $75,000 for a letter. A few hundred, yes.

Recouping even $5,000 (in a "f u, go away please" payment) would be a big win for a scrappy startup, no?

Their old law firm probably would prefer not to be drug around town making it known they gave very wrong, and very costly advice. They'd prefer the matter just went away. Those conditions are ripe for a quick settlement.
10% isn't exactly chicken feed.
It's a fallacy. A lot of people who fall into this finds it lucrative. They are left-behind in the time of upskilling which they might have otherwise done had they weren't delivering food / driving uber. This way, they aren't up for the next game when this fails them (like Drones / Automated Cars). And I think that'll hit the economy.
You mixed up your Frenchmen. It was Sartre from his play "No Exit".
Agreed and anyway the 3 months pay thing was part of DeBeers advertising campaign way back when.
more importantly too many operands with side effects (auto increments) result in complexity in the handling of exceptions (do you restart or save partial internal state - compare the 68020 with the 68040 for example)
Oops, yea I was thinking of the Necunos.
This is really unfair to those people who experienced it. From a financial sense you are of course right- they got use of a house for “free”. In a human sense, many people lost their homes- they were forced out of the places where the lived, where they’d invested their identity in, time, money, and emotion in decorating and “making their own.” Children were forced to change schools, and adults were essentially publicly shamed.

There were some people who definitely behaved the way you described, but many if not most experienced true suffering in a way that deserves compassion.
Right, and to continue... Maybe Manhattan would be willing to (partly) pay to cover Arizona in solar panels.
With respect, Google is not Apple, and Apple is not Google.

I think a lot of people would say that Google is a pretty evil company in many respects, whereas Apple isn't exactly 100% saintly, but at least their profit and business goals align more closely with what is generally considered to be good for customers.
It's even worse than that. Even brains, as physical objects, don't exist. Only minds do, or something.
Raising debt is just as visible on public filings as burning the cash, and gets baked into the market price. It's also hard to do with as few of assets as Uber has.
Well, Chinese food is also a commonly delivered item in many places--including but not limited to cities. So I'm not sure pizza is all that unique.

That said, a lot of food delivery is some high school kid driving his car around mostly working for tips. You start tacking on the costs of a large delivery-as-a-service company and your costs go up a lot without all that much economy of scale.
You should consider the probability that in the past when newspapers deceived the public, the deception went largely unnoticed (at least at the time.) For instance, there is the time American newspapers almost single-handedly started a war with Spain.

Or, even worse, the infamous case of Pulitzer Prize winner and genocide denying communist sympathizer Walter Duranty using the New York Times to promote Soviet propaganda during the Holodomor. The damage there is still ongoing, despite the NYTs coming clean half a century later. When HBO's Chernobyl mentioned it by name, that was the first time many Americans ever heard the word.
I love the idea of a phone that isn't built by Apple or a spyware company, but I'd be worried about software stability and support. GNU/Linux on the desktop has always been flaky for me, and flakiness is not an acceptable characteristic for a phone.
Maybe, and I realize this is crazy, legislators could read the full text of what they vote on.
Unfortunately, I've found that almost all developers are incapable of objectively judging the quality of code until they actually have to start working with it and then after a few months they can start to appreciate or despise the code.

It takes a lot of investment from a developer before they can appreciate the beauty of the code... To make matters more confusing, a lot of developers tend to become extremely attached to even horrible code if they spend enough time working with it; it must be some kind of Stockholm syndrome.

I think the problem is partly caused by a lack of diversity in experience; if a developer hasn't worked on enough different kinds of companies and projects, their understanding of coding is limited to a very narrow spectrum. They cannot judge if code is good or bad because they don't have clear values or philosophy to draw from to make such judgements. If you can't even separate what is important from what is not important, then you are not qualified to judge code quality.

If you think that the quality of a project is determined mostly by the use of static vs dynamic types, the kind of programming paradigm (e.g. FP vs OOP), the amount of unit test coverage and code linting, then you are not qualified to judge code quality.

I think that the best metric for code/project quality is simply how much time and effort it takes for a newcomer to be able to start making quality contributions to the project. This metric also tends to correlate with robustness/reliability of the code and also test quality (e.g. the tests make sense and they help newcomers to quickly adapt to the project).

As developers, we are familiar with very few projects. If a developer says that they like React or VueJS or Angular, etc... they usually have such limited view of the whole ecosystem that their opinion is essentially worthless; and that's why no one ever seems to agree about anything. We are all constantly dumbing down everything to the lowest common denominator and regurgitating hype. Hype defies all reason.

It's the same with developers; most developers (especially junior and mid-level) are incapable of telling who is actually a good developer until they've worked with them for about 6 months to a year.

If you are not a good developer, you will not be able to accurately judge/rank someone who is better than you at coding until several months or years of working with them. Sometimes it can take several years after you've left the company to fully realize just how good they were.
Thanks much for the advise.
Never had as much fun with online gaming as I did over modem direct connection with one other kid!
It also allows developers to intercept your entire browsing history. If you care about your privacy, why would you let a random third party intercept all of your browsing history?
Uber blew as much as $3.2 billion on advertising alone in 2018 on its way to one of the biggest US IPOs on record
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-shelled-out-31-billion-...
I want whitelist-only. No blacklists, unless that's something to be applied after the whitelisting step.

So, no -- Google's method is not sufficient.
That must be how the Matrix got started -- create a few cookie-cutter retirement communities, have most of them get taken over by a few management companies, have the most ruthless one of those take over whole market and start earnestly geri-farming people for their social security paychecks, optimize and streamline operations, iterate on that enough and you end up with rows of pods with people in VR. Put them in from the birth to improve adaptation metrics and extend useful paycheck receiving time.

Matrix is the result of paperclip optimization process on a retirement home concept.
Possibly INterVal?
Jesus that’s terrible, no absolutes in taste though I’m sure someone likes it.
Hybrid cars are potentially their biggest market. Ten times solar PV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxJsa8miNQ&feature=youtu.be...
A really simple way to think about this.

The promise of software at scale is that the marginal costs of selling one single additional unit are basically $0.00

As a result if your product sells for $500 you can spend $495 and still make money.

This leads to all sorts of adventures in driving that additional marginal unit sale such as:

- Localization - eg Microsoft Office is available in 102 languages! So now we need a local market product manager, sales team, distribution team, translator, QA, etc, etc.

- Enterprise - Huge swaths of money spent on conferences, thought leadership, any bullshit you can think of to potentially get a decision maker CTO to befriend somebody on your sales team.

- Government! - Selling to the gov't is extremely profitable but extremely long and complex sales cycle. Now we're hiring lobbyists, contract specialists, etc, etc.

- Support - Happy users are your mostly likely next buyers

etc etc
OP was thinking of Dodd Frank.
Or we could zone appropriately for higher density housing to slow the spread of urban sprawl and not have to rebuild our airports every few years because people are incapable of doing basic research on their investments?
Interesting (and refreshing) to see things like:

Plan to always have more capacity than work

No Long Working Hours

Good Work Culture
Gives me the feeling of business logic with only SQL and PL/SQL
A part of me feels like claimants will find a way of gaming this and making their approval a series of endlessly nudged goalposts...given the way IP holders are already taking advantage of the tools already at their disposal.
I wish we had more honest opinions like this on HN, from tech workers about their own company's flaws.
Yes, there are problems but if to compare with others...

Windows is so popular just because of stability and completeness of its API. And that is non-disputable I think. Quite few simple and flexible abstractions (handles, WndProc, messages, etc).
This is one of the things I hate most about living in the US. Europe was so much more connected and accessible. Even rural places mostly had public transport. Where I live now there is nothing. I have no car of my own and have to borrow one to get into "town". No tram, bus, train to pop on when needed. It is a massive negative in quality of life.

My entire life I have heard the excuses, but it boils down to the reason that most other things here that are wrong...are wrong...because individualism is seen as proper and better than social systems of all types.
It might depend. In the case I experienced, sales, marketing and support were already in place and quite successful beforehand, and the acquiring company did an admirable job of teaching all three how to do less with more.

To take the example of support, pre-acquisition, the support team had a reputation for being one of the best and most knowledgeable in the industry. That reputation went up in smoke rather quickly when the acquiring company decided to merge support into their existing support vertical and adopt its existing policies, including things like requiring the support and the product development teams to communicate through JIRA instead of using informal channels like instant messages or (in exceptional cases) pulling a developer into the call.

The end result was that the mean time to find a resolution for the non-routine issues went from hours to days. Ironically, while management claimed this would reduce disruption for the development team, it actually increased the time that developers had to spend on supporting the support team, since it made communication so much more difficult. Which, in turn, means that it slowed down both customer support and product development by bogging them both down with paperwork.
>You literally cannot profitably transport people at the prices they're offering

That's not my understanding of the figures, which say that they're charging plenty enough to cover the costs associated with the ride, but are blowing lots of money on aggressive marketing. The transportation costs (i.e. driver pay and customer service) are not what's killing them.
Is it though?

Most pizza delivery is an ancillary service to the restaurant itself. Are there very many profitable pizza-delivery only businesses?

Also you could argue that for the genre of restaurants where delivery is profitable as an ancillary service (pizza, chinese, etc.), they already offer delivery and there isn't any profitable market for the restaurants where they didn't have it before.
A leaky bucket?
This is very, very incorrect. The term "yellow journalism" exists today because of really nasty work done in the late 1800s. Nobody at the Washington Post--or any other American newspaper today--is operating at nearly the same level of toxicity as William Randolph Hearst did then.
its a tradeoff for sure; i tend to think the risk of unpatched software outweighs the risk of software hijacked from the author, so i prefer the moz model. iirc, there are automatic checks (ie permission changes, certain api calls, etc) which trigger a manual review before publishing. that said even the manual review is no guarantee malicious software doesnt get published (from my experience the reviewers are not always experts)
Computing Education Researcher for 8 Years Takes First Programming Course
Safari had plugins from day one. As far as I know. Here is an early plug in from 2010 (
https://www.cultofmac.com/47232/macheist-tweaks-gruber-with-...)

But speaking of “closed”, where is the ad blocking extension for Chrome on Android and embedded web views?
It's not just an app. Apart from employing tons of highly paid engineers in Bay area and the rest of the world,they have to deal woth less glamorous,offline part of the business: local "recruitment" centres,where drivers have to be recruited,trained,etc.This is the probably in most larger cities.Also, the cost of acquisition of customers is in the tune of $billioms every year.Ads, subsidies, initiatives and etc. Uber absolutely can be profitable, however it feels like im order for it to be one it'd have to sack 70% of their back office,reduce the number of driver and agree to heavily adjusted valuation..
Oh? How many billions of users are on Chrome?
Feel free to post the same with your real account instead of a puppet one, then I'll be happy to reply to all your points.

I'm serious enough to put my name out there and own up to what I write - Are you also? Or are you ashamed?
Just fire half of them to save half the money.

Marketing has large budgets to spend (multiple of their salaries) on marketing campaigns. They're usually incentivized to spend as much as possible on whichever marketing campaign they can come up with, with little accountability on whether it brings any ROI.

It's the equivalent of software engineers wanting to use the latest tools for resume building, no matter the situation. The difference is that marketing lives on spending money, hence cutting headcount there has a big multiplier on cost savings.
Broad sweeping statements don't do anyone justice.

We live near the westmost tip of the US and have a water management plan for the entire county. We pay into a mitigation that manages the entire watershed.
Having a way to use excess energy for carbon capture would make it easier to expand solar and wind and further undermine the economic case for nuclear.
I think unbranded builds work too. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...
Keldon Jones’ Race for the Galaxy AI is brilliant. Every line is documented C. It trains and deploys a neural net. It has a fast and functional GUI. Most diehard RftG players have cut their teeth by losing to Keldon a few dozen times before really learning the game.

Keldon was contracted a few years later to develop the RftG apps on iOS and Android, which are easily worth $4.

Source: https://github.com/bnordli/rftg

Precompiled binaries: http://keldon.net/rftg/
That's actually not as bad. At least it's cohesive. It's the sort of "substrate jumping" of reality that is incongruous and terrifying.

I'm fine with only minds existing - as long as there are more than just mine. .....which I'm pretty sure is a tough valley to climb out of.
these are just a bunch of stubs right now, but you can see these things come up for me a lot: https://blog.vinneycavallo.com/tags/existential-dread :)
I think you might need to read what people are writing about climate science then... They're talking about the end of days from air pollution.
I'm not sure if there's a less distasteful way to say this, but I think that the statistics in the article we're commenting on indicate that a good number of people will indeed follow through with that.
Or maybe the top-line bill is so important that you just swallow the bitter pill of less important riders, because getting a clean bill seems unlikely / out of your own control.
Also, if the blur has a known or estimable kernel[0], you can apply deconvolution[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution
The optical illusion jpg at the beginning of the article is worth looking at https://www.socsci.uci.edu/files/news_events/2019/opticalill...
I understand usually it is a question of trading influence -- you want those kittens saved, but the guy whose vote you need wants to stick it to web cam manufacturers. Thus the abomonation bills are born.
Maybe the people who live closer to the damn work on the damn and know more about it so are less scared.
I think it means a physical location for the business, ie. a brick and mortar store location - such as those "A+ Tutoring" or similar tutoring businesses common in major shopping centers.
Timely:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/07/29...
BI Tools Pricing and Capabilities – Analysis of Legacy and Modern BI Tools
I mostly agree with this. Though as I wrote that sentence I realized Go has somewhat softened my position on abbreviations. I think the "note" portion is useful; ultimately a test would stop you breaking that secondary use, but the comment stops you spending time in that direction in the first place. But either way, overall I think you're right this would be fine without a comment.

I'm thinking more of examples like this: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

I just picked this at random from the storage subsystem, but I think it highlights what I mean. The comments are mostly about context. The comment for the routine is about when and who calls it, so that someone that reads the routine has that in mind. The specific line I'm linking to highlights in English prose that the correctness checking on the page headers is just a minimum guard and should not be fully trusted.

Back in the day I would have argued "oh, well, but you could break that into a function called "provisional_page_header_check(..)", or something. But.. there is nothing in the compiler that checks that function names stay in sync with their implementation any more than there is for comments. Writing it as a comment lets you use regular English sentences, breaking out a function takes that away and adds no compiler protection.

It's also.. friendly, somehow, to me. Working in this codebase is like participating in an ongoing and very slow conversation, which feels very pleasant.
Literally read the rest of the comments in this thread and that should give you a lot of additional information.
> it's quite trivial

I've been tasked with authenticating in an existing application via SAML 2.0 I've got the whole SAML 2.0 specification printed and sitting on my desk right now. It sure doesn't look trivial.
It's not profitable because every single restaurant does it for itself only.A post office service would never make a dime if it was only covering a small town.Scale it up to the entire city and it becomes very interesting
Well, about a century ago, when I got married, we weren't thinking about ethical dilemmas, because we weren't really aware of them back then. I gave my wife a diamond that had been my grandmother's, partly because the stone was free to me (don't tell my wife that!), and partly because the family history made it a bit more special than just some random diamond we found in a store.

I suspect, as family sizes stabilize on two or fewer kids, there's going to be a lot more of passing down family diamonds, and therefore less demand for new...
Nobody else can make you feel bad. That's one's personal psychological state.
Unfortunately even if you might feel a certain way, there might be someone else important in your life expecting a Real Diamond Ring whose opinion of you is more important than a few thousands of dollars
Reminds me of the recent story where Domino's would rather fight a case to the Supreme Court than take rudimentary steps to make their site usable by the blind.

(And the reporting site isn't any better.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-t...
Has China Just Made a Major Stealth Breakthrough?
Ask HN: Why are Microsoft’s software eng levels super broken up?
Microsoft’s track starts at 59 and goes up until 70, while Google and Facebook has a smaller number of blocks, for reference: levels.fyi

Anyone know why Microsoft chose such a ladder?
Django! And django rest framework. To me, both codebases are so readable and so well put together that even if their documentation was bad (which it isn't), you could fully grasp their APIs and how to use their libraries by just reading through some of the code.
Amazon's bestseller ranking is famously gameable by having a flash mob order the item all on the same day
Yes, I joined the thread in response to a comment that cited the $3.2B/2018 figure.
Not at all. We have to take what we're currently doing and try to retrofit it to what regulators are expecting.

I don’t think (for us) this process have improved the school at all.
In these sorts of discussions I always wonder why I rarely see people comment that attributes and concepts that are simply beyond our capacity to understand likely exist.

An unknowable unknown is a huge variable to ignore

Considering there are species that cannot comprehend reality as we humans perceive it,is this too far fetched of a hypothesis?
> So would private tutoring be technically illegal in CA?

No, the law at issue (as stated in the document mischaracterized upthread) restricts only “private postsecondary education”.

The applicable definition of “postsecondary education” is at Cal.Ed.Code §
94857:

“Postsecondary education” means a formal institutional educational program whose curriculum is designed primarily for students who have completed or terminated their secondary education or are beyond the compulsory age of secondary education, including programs whose purpose is academic, vocational, or continuing professional education.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/education-code/edc-sect-94857.h...

Private tutoring is not within it's scope (private tutoring at the elementary/secondary level that is used as an alternative to mandatory schooling or parent howmschooling is regulated in CA by a different law, but that's only when it is taking the place of mandatory schooling, not supplementing it or serving unrelated functions.)
They call this out as a use-case that's supported by Gubernator:

Egress limiting – Blasting external SMTP servers with millions of messages is No Bueno.
The article mentions tigers running out of room and coming more and more into human contact, in fact there was a story not long ago about a bunch of villagers killing a tiger.

Are there any plans to increase the size of the reserves, or creating new ones for the increasing tiger population?

Also, is it possible for tigers to mix sufficiently from one reserve to another, to avoid a lack of genetic diversity?
On the contrary: Browser extensions are horribly overrated. They're a massive security problem (the number one place malware is found on a computer) often for the benefit of replacing the word "cloud" with "butt". They are rarely adequately audited or restricted and have far more access to private data than anyone generally realizes.