skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair. There's certainly a race to the bottom aspect to the whole business. But, surely at some point, funding undifferentiated businesses to lose money when you know they'll have to raise prices sooner or later (at which point they're just like everyone else) can't continue forever. I know a lot of VCs are stupid, but that stupid?

Maybe we just end up with Taxis 2.0. Mostly local businesses with a very low cost structure.
It feels like we see this over and over when you trace corporate problems back- loss of competition and development of monopolistic conditions. There’s a reason we developed antitrust laws and to watch them be eroded in the modern era is quite worrisome.
I am sceptical about that though. It’s a copy of the China model of super apps but that’s a way different market.
South East Asia isn’t one (pretty unique) country. It’s a whole range of countries, cultures, history, languages, economies, you name it. A super app that does everything for everyone is a bit like Yahoo! in the mid 90s. Might work okay in the beginning but as the markets mature, why bother with one app instead of specialist expert apps.
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It's a mixed bag. Sure, they're great in London. In a lot of southern and central Europe, not so much.
Just to be clear (since downvotes and replies suggest I wasn't) my point is that if you're using a technology where anything written two years ago is out of date and now useless information, maybe instead of using a search engine that shows newer information you should rather prefer to use technologies where ten-year-old information is still relevant. I'm pretty sure anything I read about TeX today is going to continue to be useful information ten years from now. Not so much anything I read about Kubernetes or the non-relational database du jour. (Which is why I prefer not needing to read about those things ever.)
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I use Safari pretty much exclusively on both macOS and iOS and I saw my first amp page a couple of months ago. My first thought was oh there’s something different about this page followed by the realisation that it’s my first amp page.

Since then I’ve only seen two more. All three time I’ve clicked away almost immediately.

I think the reason I don’t see them much is because I don’t use google for search often, and I never use google news.
That’s because they’re cheap. Software updates are cheap.
Hardware updates are a problem.
>The problem, as in the article is size though.

I see it more in the amount of light needed, 50% pass-through vs. roughly 90% of conventional lenses seems to me "a lot".

Even if the researchers "hope" that they will be able to improve the material/shapes/whatever, it doesn't seem like an easy chore.
Great read. Thank you.
I know little about Boeing, but I'm sure the amount of money at stake, if they have a serious mechanical issue, would be staggering. I don't want to fly on a 737 Max. I worry they have too much incentive to conclude every root cause is software.
DNS error for the docs http://docs.hylang.org/ :/
Not only that, the catalyst was the most innocuous GamerGate take of the entire fiasco, which was TotalBiscuit's twitlonger about it, where he categorically condemned harassment, and rather used all the hubbub to talk about actual issues in gaming journalism. Nuking that entire thread might've been one of the biggest blunder in reddit history, alongside the Boston bomber fiasco.
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Good idea. Scheme would be a good choice.
I've always enjoyed the bencode[1] and netstring/tnetstring[2] formats too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140701085126/http://tnetstrings...
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I think Knuth is not doing this as a hobby. It's a source of income. This is sufficient to explain why he has spent so much time in this.
Hm, the ultimate marriage is not that IMHO. It's some kind of horror movie version of marriage.
Hydrogen is less efficient than batteries and we already have a the infrastructure for normal overnight charging for battery electric vehicles where the vehicle can be parked of the road.

The only time I need to use a fast charger is when I am on a long trip. Normal commuting, shopping, day trips, works perfectly well charging at home on a 230 V, 16 A circuit (Tesla S 70D).

I agree that there must be more fast chargers but municipalities should concentrate on making it practical for people who live in blocks of flats to charge overnight. Just put a couple of normal Schuko sockets on every lamppost with a simple network controlled contactor. Insist that all parking spaces have such a connector.

Also:

> Also know that there is up to 50% loss of electricity when transporting over long distances (like from wind-farm to the city).

This affects the cost of production of hydrogen just as much as it does the charging of batteries so what is the relevance?
hy was first introduced to me at PyCon 2013 in a lightning talk by @paultag, the language's creator. It was a very fun lightning talk. You can still watch it online here:

https://youtu.be/1vui-LupKJI?t=968

I remember that day pretty clearly because in the same lightning talk session, Solomon Hykes introduced the Python community to docker, while still working on dotCloud. This is what I think might have been the earliest public and recorded tech talk on the subject.

https://youtu.be/1vui-LupKJI?t=1579

This was also the same PyCon that Eben Upton opened with a keynote to discuss the mission of Raspberry Pi, while also announcing that each of the 2,500 attendees would receive a free physical Raspberry Pi at the conference.

It was a pretty darn good year of PyCon; 2013 was apparently a good vintage for open source tech with Python connections.
No it is not.

The biggest blow of confidence in nuclear power was very likely Chernobyl in 1986. It made the German public realise what effort you have to put in to contain a nuclear disaster. Have a look a the locations of German reactors. And now imagine an exclusion zone around them and note the cities that are affected. It would spell economic disaster for the entire country. On top of that Germany isn't even remotely capable of commandeering the amount of man power the Soviets had to.

Now let's look at politics.

The government under Gerhard Schröder decided to phase out nuclear energy. The next government under Angela Merkel put a stop to the full phase out and issued an extension for existing plants in 2010 [1]. In 2011 there was a "moratorium" that consisted of a reevaluation of existing plants with the possibility to close plants ahead of their extended time [2]. This is the only political action taken after Fukushima. The ball had been rolling long before that.

Please don't believe the simplified, sensationalist recounts that are popular in the American media.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laufzeitverl%C3%A4ngerung_deut...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom-Moratorium
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Then short lyft and uber or buy put options on them

Ppl have been saying this for years now. They said the same ting about tesla as far back as 2010 and the stock has increased 10x since then. They said the same about amazon a decade ago. Not saying that Uber is like Tesla or Amazon but that the media's track record at predicting this sort of stuff is really poor. People underestimate the ability of these companies to raise money and turn things around.

Uber can keep raising moeny by selling more stocks or selling debt. There is a lot of enthusiasm still about it, similar to Tesla.
Sure, but how long will people pay $10 to have a $5 hamburger delivered to them?
So, I'm not saying I agree with Google here. I'm just providing links to google information about why they said they removed it.
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As someone that lives in Australia but comes from a similar country with optional voting (NZ), Australia's mandatory voting regime seems very much like choosing a government by chance - if voters don't know enough to vote without it being compulsory, they don't suddenly know any more by making them vote, and forcing a bunch of low information voters to go and vote anyway doesn't seem like it's going to get a good outcome. NZ's turnout is not all that much below AU without compulsory voting (admittedly, we did have John Key for what felt like forever, so it's not like we've got great form either).

While I'm moaning about the electoral system, the lack of a representative system (winner takes all in each electorate, leading to an enormous focus on battleground electorates while the safe seats are largely ignored) is also hugely problematic.
Something like movielens, a project they eventually bought.

You do a simple k-means calculation of your friends or closest matches (if you have clustering or svm, I guess he didn't have) and then get predictions for free. Something like the Netflix recommender system, just very primitive.
At my work we recently went through a large exercise to decide on a common data storage format. The contenders were JSON, MessagePack, and Avro. MessagePack won because:

- Msgpack serialization and deserialization is very fast in many languages - often 100x faster then JSON

- Msgpack natively supports encoding binary data

- Msgpack has type extensions, making it trivial to represent common types in an efficient way (eg. IPv4 address, timestamps)

- Msgpack has good libraries available in many languages

If you do not care about those things (no binary data, no need for extended types, not performance critical) then JSON is just fine.
Imagine the mental gymnastic you have to go through to convince yourself that shootings are caused by cloudflare....

It's a societal issue, there are literally hundreds of measures that should be taken before even considering banning websites for wrongthink.
Did you report the query? Or why can't you show it?
Our biological you also forks now, I wonder how far down you go before you are not the old you anymore here either. Depending on your viewpoint it could be seconds or minutes or decades.
Not sure if it's quite the same thing, but this is still up https://hy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Another one is Joe Marshall's "syntax-rules Primer for the Merely Eccentric": http://sites.google.com/site/evalapply/eccentric.txt

Today, instead of `syntax-rules`, you'll probably use `syntax-case`, which is a lot easier to use for harder purposes, and also easier error-checking, just not as interesting as `syntax-rules`. Or, if you're using Racket, `syntax-parse`.

Greg Hendershott's "Fear of Macros" should be an easy introduction to some of the newer ways, though it has some Racket-specific bits in it: https://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/
I wonder whether those numbers take into account the massive refugee crisis that is looming on the horizon. Or wars for arable land and water.
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> For everyone who is suggesting Google search quality has taken a hit, I would suggest a quick test to see for yourself that Google is still WAY better than the competitors when it comes to long tail queries.

I think these are both true. Google quality has certainly fallen in my opinion (perhaps as a result of having to constantly counter SEO tricks). Other search engines still have quite a bit of catching up to do as well.
Cab companies have had the dispatch model way before uber even existed (My dad was a taxi driver when I was growing up)
First I’ve heard of the Airbus issue. Can you provide a reference? I couldn’t find anything
There will never be a perfect language until there is a perfect programmer.
Instead of telling folks that they’re wrong, how about you explain why.
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Can you cite some evidence on this? I haven’t heard about any right-wing terror cells in the US. The attackers appear to be “lone wolves”. They may have been radicalised to be right-wing online, but I haven’t seen any evidence of some organised group arranging or encouraging these attacks.

Either way, the two (radicalisation and contagion) aren’t mutually exclusive. In my opinion a large part of the motivation behind these shootings is the potential for fame and for the actions to be seen by the whole world - regardless of whether they’ve been radicalised or not.
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> C++ too difficult/fun-less

C++ would be a lot more fun without the obligation to maintain header files all the time.

This is one thing that modern languages get right.
Probably as long as you have young affluent urbanites who grew up expecting they could get anything delivered to them or done for them without getting up from a computer.
The problem with competition is the fracturing in the market. It's just as painful to install 6 taxi apps as it was to call 6 taxi companies and see when they could get you a ride. More so, it's really frustrating when the drivers are running 2 (or more) apps and it says "will be with you in 2 minutes" when they're clearly finishing a job on another platform.

What it needs is an open source system that stitches them all together, but let's the drivers choose whatever company they want. I use one app, every company has the chance to make money, drivers go with what works for them.

But I think that's about as realistically as me only needing one subscription to watch all the TV and film I actually want to see.
Custom date ranges on mobile work for me, just use the before: and after: operators. For example before:2018-01-05
It’s just good ol’ fashion business of building a brand, trust, loyalty and customer base, then taxing other businesses to sell to them on your platform. But I think the real players in this meta-game are Apple and Google.
We could run the code in a chroot environment that simulates the whole machine. It would be a safe place to play. We could call it something cute like "sandbox." Naturally it would be resource limited so code couldn't consume all your memory or CPU cycles. That would be completely under user control. People might want code to show ads, but the user could limit them to 100 ms of load time, 5 seconds of wall clock time, and no more than 10% of the screen.
I feel like a variation of these steps could describe a lot of software in general, across industries.
>Uber can keep raising moeny by selling more stocks or selling debt. There is a lot of enthusiasm still about it, similar to Tesla.

The point of a company isn't to raise money or to generate enthusiasm, it's to generate profit, and on that front exactly none of those businesses have turned anything around, and the only thing the media got wrong was underestimating how generous softbank is in playing lender of last resort.
As an embedded systems developer, I have developed mistrust to statistical reliability figures. These days you quite often come across components and subassemblies with MTBF stating (sometimes tens of) millions of hours. When you try to clarify with the vendor how they arrive at these figures there is nothing but general handwaving about using industry tools and statistical models.

But sorry, just can't seriously take it on faith that your product is going to last 11 centuries at 20C.
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Saying that "XYZ media outlet is a normal part of mass shoothing now" is a hypocrisy, because 1. the real problem you should be focusing on is why "Mass shootings are a normal part of the society now", 2. hate can and will be "farmed" in the next outlet, if we ban one.

You could go as far as outlawing anonymous internet access (require identity in all online actions), but people with these intentions would still find a way to congregate and develop/use a specific language to evade detection and control.

We really need to start looking hard at what causes pressure build-ups in our society and start working on alleviation of these, because while the side effects of anti-depression medication may act as the last-mile enabler in these special cases, it's not the core problem and as such will deflect our attention from solving the core problem/problems. (I'm not touching the gun-control issue. E.g. in London or Japan, they will kill you with a knife. Tomorrow it may be a chemical weapon. Etc.)

In my experience the biggest problem is paradoxically the lack of communication from the side of the government to the side of the people. Many controversial programs can be explained in a common language so that an information vacuums aren't created and then filled by "conspiracy theorists". E.g. clearly explain the logic behind immigration policies (democrats), explain the logic behind fiscal policies (the FED, the ECB), the logic behind taxation rates, and so on.

I'm not saying that governments are perfect or that there is zero truth in some conspiracy theories, but I see the lack of information flow be the biggest issue because it causes people's disbelief in their governments' actions and that breeds all sorts of problems.
You can build a trading platform which adds its own tariffs.
Heck, one SoC I know of has an entire cortex M3 core to manage entering and exiting sleep modes.
That takes 30 minutes to deliver and is cold.
Fuel is used as the metaphor here in the respective mechanisms.
See http://www.thermalhydrogen.com/ for a suggested carbon neutral energy economy with syngas, O2, and CO2 (for sequestration) pipelined around continents.
Some trade sanctions are a far cry from destabilization; and even destabilization need not lead to war. And while I think it's an unnecessary trade-off to make, I would further question your implicit assumption that any war is by definition worse than loss of the amazon rainforest.

Look, if you reason like that you essentially say that you can never apply any pressure on others, because pressure might turn out to be too much, and might then lead to destabilization, and might then lead to conflict, which might grow into a horrible large-scale war. But that's putting yourself in a very weak position. Others may well take advantage, and you may end up in an even worse situation - on average. All that doomsday thinking about pressure is probably usually being to pessimistic. And even if things go badly, they shouldn't do so overnight; it's quite unlikely another nation wouldn't have the opportunity to reduce pressure before push comes to the rhetorical shoving.
Children are also outdated.
Just one point before i get down voted into obscurity. but an effective regulation of firearms would go a long way to resolve this issue.
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MCAS only active at critical phases of flight like takeoff. At cruise, MCAS would not be active.
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I agree! Anyone who talks about “White Privelege” as if they are a uniform group below contempt is just as wrong as Nazis of old railing about “Jewish Conspiracy!” We should not be giving these radical racists a platform! These evil people want to disarm the populace, suppress dissenting speech, and engage in social engineering! We must stop them!

See how that works?

You want to know how to turn someone? Show love, not hate. Daryl Davis has shown just how well that works.
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Oof, there goes another childhood hero!

Looks like I've got some reading to do - thanks, internet stranger!
I guess I’ll never work at Amazon...
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I think we're going to need styles too, so that individual roles (like headings and paragraphs) don't have to constantly restate their font info.

But it's absolutely essential that the styling language not be turing equivalent! That would be a nightmare. So it must have a minimalist design.
> A non-Max 737 doesn't need MCAS because it already behaves like a 737.

If I read this correctly you're implying a 737 Max doesn't behave, aerodynamically, as that a non-Max 737 does? And if we follow that line of thinking since non-Max 737 don't require MCAS to behave appropriately then the 737 Max is not a 737 airframe and it should be recertified as something else, no?

I'm in no way "shocked" computers fly and/or help fly airplanes. I am shocked so many comments defend the gross negligence by Boeing, however.

Remember that in all of the needless death the 737 Max is attributed with absolutely zero deaths were because of a flight computer. The real root cause of the 737 Max crashes are Boeing executives and FAA personnel making cognizant choices to allow process to be skipped in the vain of profits and loss avoidance. I believe we'll see this, at some point, no different than the commonly referenced Challenger failure [0].

[0] https://www.breakingthewheel.com/root-cause-analysis-five-wh...
It's not just 8Chan. Violence is now normalised across a range of sites. Here's Breitbart:https://twitter.com/EJGibney/status/1157809158902681600?s=20
The 737 is a very successful design and it is clear with practical experience, what its strengths and weaknesses are.
Turn what around? Tesla and Uber both offer a great product priced well below its actual costs, in a world awash with capital (so much so that there are trillions in negative yielding debt). This thinking that at some point the unit economics will magically turn around is the error.
I have that one, I hate it because the key caps keep splitting
There should be just one public transport world-wide app to which local regulators can plugin their markets. Just like there is a global banking system, which allows people to send money across borders.