skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah so the trick I used is to find a cheap deal to Oslo, and then use Star Alliance miles to get the Oslo-Longyearbyen segment as a reward flight on SAS. It counts as a domestic EU flight as far as mileage goes.

FYI unlike mainland Norway's national parks, you cannot "randomly" go to the national parks in Svalbard. Svalbard is almost completely devoid of infrastructure (no roads outside the couple of towns) so you'd have to make a completely self-sufficient expedition across arctic terrain to get there. You also need someone with rifle skills in case of a polar bear attack, and it's required to carry a rifle and register all plans with the Governor of Svalbard to leave the town. It's possible, but definitely needs a properly-equipped team -- not a casual trip.
I took the final paragraph of TFA as an indication that this is just ironic fun. "Couch alluder", indeed.
> it is hard-enough as is for people who deal with abuse to openly talk about it. It would be good to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than accuse them of doing something wrong.

I'm not sure why you act as if I am attacking you. Like I said I wasn't the one to downvote you, and I only offered a possible explanation for that downvote in response to a question that you asked. I'm sorry you were abused at some point and that wasn't your fault. But it sounds like that was in the past. Yet you are immediately taking a victim role in this conversation, and also in your replies to others in this thread. If you feel like people are out to get you all the time then chances are you are letting your past experiences colour your perceptions too much.
AFAIK they detected the emissions from the IF strip on old televisions with a directional yagi antenna mounted on top of the van. This possibility disappeared when the IC based IF sets were developed in the 70s and 80s.
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And those implementations are probably not covered by the patent, so it's fine.
Everybody seems to be focused on the fat loss figure, but what I find more intriguing is the relationship between revenue, 'reoccurring' loss and growth rate. When you see that their $3.1B revenue is just two times the solid $1.3B loss they had, you wonder what they spent their money on if they have a growth rate of just about 14%...
Don't forget insurance, maintenance, tag, and other fees associated with owning a car.
Search works pretty well for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20629871
Apple to provide iPhones with ssh, root shell & debugger to security researchers
They booked an expense of $3.1bn in R&D last quarter. Even excluding the $2.6bn linked to stock-based compensation it’s $0.5bn per quarter. But of course that includes useful R&D and not just the flying-cars kind.
This _might_ be a sign of depression and/or burnout. If I may offer a suggestion, I urge you to seek professional help.
Indeed, and it doesn't. Non-EU immigrants still outnumber EU immigrants.
> is the US anything admirable lately?

Nope, the US is firmly in the Wants a Prize for Basic Decency[0] category. Which is better than most other places, but that says more about other places than the US.

0: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WantsAPrizeForBa...
Some responses:
Its reliable enough to pay my credit card bills over the phone using public bus WiFi

SMS is trickier as I only know enough programming to write a script in bash to send sms. I can't send pictures or videos, so I try to convince friends to use signal instead.

911 works with no sim card, as required by federal law.

I do have working SMS to email however, so viewing SMS is a piece of cake :)
Wondering if they would do the same for Hong Kong if mainlands breaks the pledge to not force changes until 2046? The costs would be incredible.
FWIW, they don’t control the default map apps for the two major phone platforms. Competitors will be desperate to fork over money to Apple or Google to get placement when people are planning routes. And Apple and Google may also be in the ride sharing game at that point, since they’re both currently working on self driving cars.
Perl 6 Performance Update
CircleCI is fine for the private repositories of work projects, but not for public libraries.

In trying to migrate a fairly popular open source library I maintain to CircleCI, from TravisCI, I bumped in the following two problems:

1. setting up a build matrix with various configurations (JVM version, compiler version, coverage on or off, etc) is a pain in the ass (possible, but a pain nonetheless), a configuration that TravisCI has nailed

2. basic functionality, like triggering a notification on Gitter via a simple HTTP hook when the build has finished, does not work

I do love CircleCI for our work project, as it doesn't need a build matrix or notifications to Gitter and thus was fairly easy to setup.

But I also love to see some competition for my public projects.
"Uber uses AI, therefore, you don't pay a fair price."

Do you understand how many other industries use AI for pricing? What about buying things on Amazon? Hotels? Airline tickets? Gas?

You may as well go back to using taxis if you don't think Uber is giving you a fair price.
It is you who are mixing up inner and outer. The EU is an open border place (or at least, the Schengen area is) for those who reside there. For some other countries' nationals to enter a visum is required. The EU was never about 'open borders' at the boundaries, in fact there are a lot of requirements on the boundary states and they get compensation for that.
JS tooling has come a long way, and I've had pretty much all of these benefits by using Create-React-App within the past year. I don't remember ever needing to make project-wide changes because of an upgrade.

It's also possible to avoid JSX completely, thanks to a library that uses JavaScript's template strings feature: https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm
The law was abolished in 2013. You were also free to give false information - I know a couple of people who gave their postcode as SW1A 2AA (they had a TV licence, they just didn't want to give their address to the retailer).

> The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 (as amended) has been repealed, meaning that from 25 June 2013 onwards you no longer need to send us customer name and address details when you sell or rent out TV equipment. This also means your business no longer has to keep sales records to comply with the law on TV Licensing. If you don’t need these records for anything else you can destroy them from 25 June.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/business...
Not an accountant and didn't really like my accounting courses very much :-)

But mostly post dot-bomb. It's one of the reasons you see a lot of RSUs at bigger companies today rather than traditional options. FAS 123(r) was the first major rule. This came about because companies basically were treating stock options like they were free money from an accounting perspective.
Why shouldn't they be? Do you have difficulty reading them, or do you some sort of philosophical objection?
Thanks! Saw it :)
After my experiences having grown up with cabs, I am honestly willing to pay a significant premium to use Uber and Lyft.

It is not an understatement to say that I hate traditional taxis. I hate the terrible service. I hate having them refuse fares based on where I'm going. I hate calling to schedule a pickup in advance and the driver just not bothering to show up. I hate being pressured to pay in cash instead of credit card and having them berate and insult me when I insist on card. I hate having to be on alert to see if they're taking a deliberately longer route or running up the meter. I hate the verbal and sexual harassment they have doled out to me and my friends with no consequences, because there is absolutely nothing in their business model that provides them any incentive to treat their customers with courtesy and respect.

I want to see taxis crash and burn, I want to see them fail, I want to see them removed from my experience on this earth. I don't think I'm alone in that, and I will continue to use Uber and Lyft and pay far more than taxis because they provide an exceptionally better service.

Also Uber Pool/Lyft Line are brilliant and taxis will never bother to replicate that kind of efficiency.
We agree 4GB is too much. We put a team together to get the memory usage down https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/en... They’re rolling Puma out as an application server on .com within weeks. After that is successful we’ll make that the default. That should save a lot. After that the memory team will keep improving it.
Looks like NYT changed the way they paywall, but all the text content is in the DOM (for SEO purposes I assume).

console.log(document.querySelector('#site-content').innerText.replace(/(.{80}\w*)\s*/g, '$1\n'))
Sort of like music sampling
> they are doing so and getting what is arguably a much better service.

Not sure if I agree. The convenience of the Uber/Lyft app's is still superior to a taxi service in most cases. The only time I'll take a cab is if it happens to be right in front of me and I'm in a hurry.
Wealth?

What is this "wealth" you speak of?

Can you eat money?

Do all the technological advances, smartphones, VR, blah blah, counteract killing off the megafauna, turning the natural landscape into deserts and concrete?

Pure insanity.
You aren't going to rent a car to take a fifteen minute trip across town, so that isn't really comparable. And yes, they would be a taxi service. But they would be a taxi service with lower costs since they don't need pay for a driver.
Interesting project that is working on this problem:

https://tidelift.com/
> And those implementations are probably not covered by the patent, so it's fine.

I think what the grandparent is saying is that those implementations count as prior art and this application should have been rejected. It is ridiculous to even insinuate that the it is possible that thing that I cannot continue doing the thing I have been doing for decades because someone patented it a decade or two after I started doing it.
We also implemented the logic with the Spaces and a caching system. Was more work than just a fresh skin.
That might have few false-positives (being wrong when we say "this is good for HN"), but the false negatives would be huge. There's plenty on topic that still devolves into flame wars. Off the top of my head, these seem clearly on topic but discussion devolves: Vim vs Emacs. Javascript vs anything. Static vs dynamic types. Apple's keyboards. OpenAI.
Police Launch 8chan Probe in Philippines, Where Owner, Founder Live
>the other is adding a username to a bot's watch-list

Which is exactly the same as adding a flag to a user's account.

This is some bizarre hair splitting going on here.

>That would be like saying that paying an employee to watch someone's account and manually delete every comments and submissions is a shadow ban. It is not. AutoModerator is an amazing piece of work but it is just that, a robot moderator

I don't know what you're trying to say here. What exactly, in your mind, is the difference between "a robot moderator", which is code that controls what is and isn't visible on a subreddit, and core reddit code, which is also just code that controls what is and isn't visible on reddit?

>The point is that "an unpaid, unaffiliated subreddit moderator" cannot blanked ban you from the website

Reddit is infamous for having multiple poweruser mods that are moderators over many of the most popular subreddits, and many of these subreddits share banlists (even ones outside the 'powermod cabal'). A ban from any one of these 'unpaid, unaffiliated subreddit moderator' will result in a shadowban from the majority of the website.

I hear you and agree that yes, a 'premium subscription' does not mean you're immune from bans, but you seem to also misunderstand the banning mechanisms on reddit. 'Shadowbanning' is much more widely used across reddit than I think you are aware of.
Does a diffing tool maybe satisfy your requirements? I personally use Meld but there's lots of them out there.
HN itself and showdead was actually the first time I learned about shadowbanning.
As someone who used to work in a major city but now doesn't I think the ride share model makes much more sense in urban areas where you have more obtrusive costs like parking.
There's a difference between jumping on the hype train and being stubbornly stagnant. You will definitely be left behind if you refuse to adapt to new "industry standard" tech, even if all of that new tech is 90% old concepts with slight changes, repackaged.

That's not to say you should jump on every new half-baked hackathon-originating javascript framework. But it does mean you should have your finger on the general area of the pulse of where the industry is moving, and start learning that tech. For example, pick up Rust for systems programming, instead of C.

I know a web developer who refuses to learn or use any web tech besides PHP. Finds cloud-based hosting confusing as well. "I can do anything I need in PHP." Everything, except find good paying job that isn't maintaining gnarly legacy codebases. Doing PHP is his bread and butter, and unless he decides to learn some of the newer (stable) webdev tech, he's going to find himself with no marketable skills in the future.
With all due respect (I can appreciate paying more for quality, I do so myself!), there are not enough of you to justify rideshare valuations (which are based on taking over the world, not being a boutique transportation network for the discerning mobility user).
It has evolved into something that's not even close. San Francisco and Inter are quite interchangeable though.
I've been on the beta for a while, and while it was understandably limited, I really enjoy it and have done a lot with it. I'm excited about the announcement because it appears that a lot more can be done now.

However, it's not clear what happens to existing actions and workflows. Do they just stop working? Can actions still be made from a dockerfile and entrypoint script?
I think it comes down to the fact that people don't care as much about taxes as is commonly thought. They care about how much they like a city, or the general culture, or how close they are to mountains or the ocean.

Tax is belabored because it's so ideological, like when the Kansas governor claimed cutting taxes would bring a rush of new industries into Kansas (it didn't).

I know though when I chose to move from Texas to Hawaii to Washington State I never thought too much about taxes at any point.
Glad they're down, and hope the whole "gig economy" burns down too.

Where gig economy = padding the loss of decent jobs by replacing the bottom end with desperate deals where "non employed" employees, without regular salary, benefits, company provided work tools, etc., make a pittance, while the organizing company gets a cut from millions of transactions.

In some cases, no jobs is better than subsistence/dead-end/exploitative jobs. At least the former makes the problem evident, and ups the pressure to do something about it on a society/policy/economy level -- as opposed to helping perpetuate it.
Yeah, it's not uncommon at all to see things like, "Edit: Wow, this whole chain of comments was removed, except for mine!" because people don't realize that the site actively hides whether your posts are removed.

Pretty much all of reddit's moderation tools were created 10+ years ago for anti-spam purposes, and have hardly been changed since then. They don't work very well for how they're actually used now.
The drivers do get most of the fare--but, properly accounting for costs, a lot of that slice "goes to" their cost of operating the car for the ride.
You can't.

I think we're a reasonable bet because you know where the money is coming from. We have no incentive to sell your thoughts to anyone, because you're literally the one paying us.

But you'll really just have to trust us. I'm a real person behind the scenes here and I don't have any desire to read your thoughts. When I show people Quirk, I wipe everything off my phone and hand them a fresh copy. I don't want anyone reading mine either.

So we don't store them off the phone. And if we ever do, they'll be end-to-end encrypted.
They're constantly passive aggressiveness about it like this
I think this makes total sense for batteries. Batteries are a hazard, and a lot of bad ones are out there. Prices for swap came down quite a bunch, so I think this is fine. Apple is taking ownership about exploding phones and other problems.

This is the reason why it gets more and more locked down.

I once bought a MacBook with weirdass problems. Turned out to be a bad data cable used by someone.

Chips are still swappable, because not many people do this / screw up, but also... a battery is quite a dangerous component
BCL: Cross-Platform Distributed Container Library
It was a genius counter-hack -- distributing the countermeasure piecemeal, in undetectably small pieces, over time, and then building it into the fatal payload before pirates could analyze or block the change.

> Several weeks ago, DirecTV began transmitting to its receivers, via satellite, small pieces of the programming code that ultimately killed the altered cards, according to company sources and accounts published on HackHU.com, a Web site devoted to the satellite TV hacking community. The bits of digital information ultimately formed a complete program that--when triggered Sunday--permanently maimed any H card that had been altered.

> The result shocked bootleggers, who long had dismissed the steady trickle of software updates as more annoying than serious. When the pirates turned on their television sets Monday, they saw nothing. (The pirates saw the “GAME OVER” message when they studied the software coding that killed their cards, according to HackHU.com and other sites.)
> Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN's favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.

Indeed, I will happily fan-boy for the New Yorker here, they usually succeed in capturing the nuances of topics I happen to be familiar with.
Gell-Mann seems more applicable to mass market news outlets; whereas NYer writers will often spend months -> years researching a subject.
Internet Research Agency, not Irish Republican Army
It absolutely is organizing and advocating a campaign: https://mobile.twitter.com/alexstamos/status/115802918989673...

>If the truth is coercive, perhaps that's not on the author?

You're ignoring the context. Blue check with 50k followers who has testified to congress on tech matters, multiple followup tweets @voxility by others, and intense media scrutiny of 8chan and their business partners following the El Paso shooting. The exact same tweet made as a DM would not have anywhere near the pressure as what they did. The publicity itself is pressure; this is why corporate twitter accounts try to take your tweeted complaints into DMs as soon as possible.
We had companies forking GitLab instead of contributing upstream, they all fell behind with upstream and couldn’t keep up to date anymore.

Any examples of things you see that we at GitLab Inc. are not open to?
> and those in place for the safety of the general public.

What regulations are these? Is there any case where taking taxis was or is safer for an average customer than Uber?
From their S-1:

>We incurred operating losses of $4.0 billion and $3.0 billion in the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018, and as of December 31, 2018, we had an accumulated deficit of $7.9 billion.

Now they have accumulated a deficit of $13.1B. You might say, well they shrank their loss from $4B to 3B to $1.3B (giving you the extra $3.9B one-time stock comp). Except one has to keep in mind they cut expenses and raised fees in that stretch in anticipation of their IPO, so its literally the best they could do...only lose $13.1B over 3 years.

Investors and Founders made their money, Uber is now for the plebs to figure out how to salvage and milk. It will just be a long and painful death from hereon out, but the market will remain irrational to allow Investors to save face so they can run the same Startup/IPO unicorn scam on the public to cash out.

However, instead of the long painful death, an alternative now that the Investors are out, we may see the regulators finally "catch up" and properly classify Uber drivers as employees not independent contracts and the bottom give out.
AI Automatically Turns You into an Anime Character
which company has that internal application?
I'm assuming by AI you mean adjusting the prices based on supply and demand? What do you suggest as an alternative? If prices don't adjust accordingly, you simply won't be able to get a ride.
It seems unfathomable the rate at which some of these companies lose money. When I think of asking an investor for money, I imagine having a to put together a pretty foolproof plan of action to get a return. How do companies like Uber, Tesla, or even Amazon early on convince investors to lose money year after year? Investors have never struck me as the patient type.
Or posing the statements as questions. Like instead of

> Myth: People have unique names

You write

> Do people have unique names?

> No, because XYZ. This varies by region because ABC. And in this case, this assumption caused a major production outage: [link]

Turn it into a detailed discussion, as opposed to a debate. Also, you can share things that people _can_ assume to be true, or can _usually_ assume in specific contexts.
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