skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Undoubtedly you're right: getting flying cars to work is an unfathomably difficult task.

But does that mean it truly will "never" happen? I imagine saying we'll never see flying cars reach mainstream is akin to those who once thought attaching a motor to a horse carriage would never work (though, to your point, the triumph of the motorized vehicle has brought disastrous outcomes along with its benefits)[1]. It's hard to see the future when all we've got is the past and present to evaluate it by.

And yet, we've had private aircraft for hundreds of years and that's gone reasonably well. Scaling that private fleet up and including car-like vehicles doesn't seem too far off, though the challenges are numerous and daunting. Flying cars will likely not include the same amount of training and preparation as private planes. The gamble seems to be software can help take on much of the burden, only time will tell if that's going to pan out.

1. What about those who could never fathom a globally connected network of information? Or the precedence of touch-based interfaces? Or the reliable, safe electric car?
Huh? https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-mac-os-...
Even commercially successful books often didn't get copyright renewed. Remember they were 25 years old at the time the renewal was needed - all but the most successful were out of print and nobody really expected them to get into print again. Even if they were in print, few were popular enough that anybody would actually make a copy what with the effort required to typeset things in those pre-computer days. (when typeset meant a Linotype machine)
Yeah but why does this stuff take root so aggressively in sites dedicated to these specific things?

Anime seems like the most ubiquitous common denominator here. These days when I see an Anime avatar and the person is not Japanese, it seems like 90% of the time if I look at their messages it's all misogyny, fascism, racism, etc.
On the Power of Simplicity
Sure, for modern systems "transfer rates of 30 seconds per byte" would also be "a huge signal flare going off instantly" where metrics track basic software-hardware interaction (latency and throughput, not just on/off error rates).

These metrics also need not necessarily by definition take longer to notice gray failures. You can detect a gray failure transfer rate without having to wait 30 seconds. Another example, but a second or two is enough to notice disk latency issues (and retry to a faster disk), which is probably in the same granularity as the window for detecting "Connection refused".
How a Silicon Valley startup is using open banking to fight false declines
As a Google guide, I can flag irrelevant content in Google reviews.
Amazon and Monopoly
Amazing. Yelp redirects the customer who intended to look up their number in Yelp, redirects them GrubHub. GrubHub then grifts the restaurant for it.

These online order companies are grifters. With tricks and sneaky fees, they exploit the restaurants, they exploit the customers, and if delivery is involved, they'll exploit the driver too.
I’m sure most Finns would agree with that characterization.

It’s certainly not a nation of very thin-skinned people.
Yelp is such a slimy company.

First they wall off their mobile web reviews to try to force you to download their POS app, they have the whole extortion racket going trying to strongarm restaurants into paying for advertising, and now this.

Friendly reminder - if you are on mobile and trying to read a Yelp review and don't want to download their app, simply hold refresh, click "request desktop site" and it will load the full review without forcing you to get the app.
I wonder what the field of view is like. The demos only show it being used towards the middle of the lower half of the screen - can the camera really see the top left or right corners?
Namecoin seemed like an interesting idea for decentralized registration, has it gone anywhere in the years I haven't been following it?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Another way to stop drownings is to go and pick people up with rescue boats. There is no disadvantage to allowing them to enter the EU.
So if it happens as in the synopsis, it would have been pretty weird to grow up as one of the first kids with recursive language? And I guess the gene takes over the world because well, you want to mate with other people who understand prepositions.
I'm no lawyer, but I'll bet on mandatory binding arbitration and no class action stuck into the agreement.
Yeah, neither can I. Lucky for both of us, that is not what this application is about.
> If anything this stuff helps real crooks like Epstein by muddying the water and making the whole subject area look silly. I sometimes wonder if some of it is intentional. Seems like a great way to cover things up in an age where actually keeping secrets is hard.

Absolutely. Karl Rove famously said something to the effect of "accuse them of what you're the most guilty of".

My money says that's why there is the Pizzagate thing -- Trump's clear ties to Epstein are absolutely damming, so spin up the Pizzagate and make sure to mention Bill Clinton's ties to Epstein as well.

> Disinformation is like radar chaff. You just blow out a lot of noise and nobody knows where the signal is. The real secrets might leak but it doesn't matter because they just merge and blend in with all the bullshit.

There is a RAND Corp report about this: The Russian Firehose [of Propaganda]
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
I think downtown Palo Alto should close off University to cars, and give it a try. Turn it into a big pedestrian zone, and let the restaurants put seating out in the space that this opens up.
3D Robotics Solo has that feature (return to launch), but that was 5 years ago now. You could also set it so when the battery started to get too low it would return home as well. But that was one of the most advanced hobby drones in terms of software that existed at the time. DJI now uses it as well. It's all built into ardupilot. http://ardupilot.org/
The whole VC-funded industrial complex and their bad behaviours will start collapsing rapidly within 10 years - their bad behaviour and tactics have just gone on for too long; it could be faster, hard to predict exponentials.
Maybe there's a better way than this, but the same way earlyoom decides it's time to kill processes (% RAM usage) firefox would decide it's time to free cache. While using the 100% of RAM might be the optimal state if you aren't going to use more than that, it's not safe.
If you were to actually read the article you might find it to be a thoughtful meditation on Arab military (and, more generally, male) culture by someone who has broad and deep firsthand knowledge of the topic.

Having advised the Iraqi army, and having tried to prepare beforehand by reading Lawrence, Patai, Nydell, etc, I would say that this short essay was by far the best of the bunch.

I think de Atkine also makes insightful points about how good people can create toxic organizations when they feel insecure about their status within the organization.
It's hard to make money as a directory service with Google and Apple Maps around. The shadier they get, the bigger of a sign it is that they're in trouble financially, I would think.
Meh. I remember we used to use Yelp to find the best restaurants in a city. It worked incredibly well.

It doesn't anymore, but Google maps is not better. For example, I tried to use Google maps to find good buffalo wings in Brooklyn. But, the top suggestion didn't even have buffalo sauce on the menu! Just soy!

I tend to blame SEO first and ads / paid promotion second.
Surprising ways product management will change in the next 5 year
We are not aware because it didn't happen. Having said that, among Chinese hardcore nationalists there are historic dreams of owning Siberia.
I wonder how many adults would respond better in that situation. It's been a long while since I've had anyone tell me what I'm allowed to do with my free time.
Vault Helm Chart
Now, that is just smart.
Can you point out an example? The amounts of money are large enough that I’d think it would be in the press.
that quits my active window. I have to cmd+ctrl+q
Is there a way to turn off the Yelp integration when using DuckDuckGo?
Sandboxes and jungle gyms are also open-ended activities, but kids (and presumably you at some point) love them.

Minecraft appeals because it’s a huge, yet simplified, world full of mystery where you can build anything you can imagine. It’s infinitely flexible because you create your own goals. If you want a structured experience with story and someone setting your goals for you then you simply play another game.
Documentation – Your Secret Weapon
I fixed this bug myself... I bought extra RAM. :)
It is a lot more complex than you make it seem.

Your position can be rephrased as "It is better to let refugees drown in the Mediterranean than think Europe might welcome more of them." I agree - it is likely over the long term that the more dangerous and hopeless the journey, the fewer might attempt it.

So now, we pit the "moral responsibility" to Europe to minimize population growth via immigration vs. the moral responsibility to save the lives of those in your backyard who have risked it to get there.

OR the EU could make/force an agreement that Libya/Algeria/Morocco take back migrants recovered in the Mediterranean.
One problem though: as of today, shared electric moped/scooters are actually worse for the environment than privately-owned ICE cars.

Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2da8
They are the directory service for apple maps, at least where I live
Isn't this pretty similar to basic auth? Passing credentials in plaintext but over TLS.
Very hard to prove damages. You would have to prove the calls that you didn’t receive and sales that didn’t happen. There also isn’t any particular “wrong” that has happened unless the restaurant paid money to have a listing and in the terms of that listing there was a clause that required GrubHub not be used. But essentially, paying for Yelp is paying for the service of lead generation which seems to be the exact service Yelp provides.

That being said, I detest Yelp.
Stunning out of the box thinking. Fantastic idea and implementation. Color me impressed.
Buy Negative Amazon Reviews – Buy Bad Amazon Reviews
Although it was indeed posted over a year ago, 239 points is certainly traction.
> I had to install their app to get in line at a local restaurant

This happened to me somewhat recently, though I'm unsure whether it was Yelp or some other app I was asked to install. It's a little arrogant for a restaurant owner to think it's fair to assume all their patrons are willing (or even able!) to install an app on their phone for the sole purpose of getting on their waiting list. This was not a fancy, special, or unique place, and there are tons of options for dining out in my town. When they said it was my only option for getting in line I told them thanks but no thanks and went somewhere else.
The summary of that Snopes article is that while medical bankruptcy in the US is indeed far more common than anywhere else, it's not entirely unheard of outside the US. Not all medical expenses are always covered, and disability can always lead to financial difficulties anywhere. Though medical bankruptcy is still significantly less common; in the US it's the leading cause of personal bankruptcies, in other countries it's a lesser cause.
Is there a human blueprint? Why the natural and social sciences disagree
It did for centuries.
Challenges in Africa ECom
In Kreuzberg, in central Berlin, many places don’t have fiber or cable available, and can only get 14mbps down ADSL2+.

I lived that way for a decade. It was terrible.
Show HN: Sell Your Anonymous Health Data to Research
CubeSat highlights from the SmallSat Conference workshops
Nope, Squares big drop after earnings took a big chunk and then came the trade war.
Elephant in the room...no birth certificates.
I guess that means the secret to a long life is the lack of government paperwork.
>How do you engineer around the misinformation vector thou? That's the hard problem.

You can solve both with good education but public education will never teach people to think critically about government en-masse because the committees of bureaucrats that decide the curriculum and the teachers that teach it get a government paycheck at the end of the day. They're not gonna be inclined to go all out when it comes to teaching people about things like gerrymandering, propaganda, etc. This is not for any nefarious reason or the result of any conspiracy, people just tend to see the good but not the bad when it comes to their source of income. The incentive system is simply not set up in a way to produce voters who think critically.
I think it will be the beginning of the age of automation and we'll see breakthroughs in robotics, VR/AR, space tech, biotech, energy, and finance.
Would be fun to taste the bread, especially if they can validate it is ancient yeasts. I know people have brewed beer using ancient yeasts.
There's a limit though, is what I'm saying. My hearing and vision are getting worse, not better, as I get older and there's diminishing returns on increased bandwidth in terms of utility.

Give me streaming audio at the absolute quality limits at 8Mb, 32Mb, 80Mb- I won't be able to hear a difference. My internet bandwidth is beyond my ears capabilities.

I've seen 4K and 8K TVs recently- I can't tell the difference. (I'm far more interested in contrast ratios, frankly). If I can stream video at 4K, my bandwidth will have exceeded my eyes capabilities. Why would I want to pay more for 8K hardware and bandwidth if I get nothing other than smug satisfaction?

At a certain point, there isn't any benefit to each human to having more bandwidth. And me? I think I've reached my limit at only 75Mb. 1Gb would be neat, but what for?
I like ShiftIt (free) for basic window management. I have opt+ctrl+cmd+[arrow] set to move my active window to that part of the screen. Ie, left arrow has that active window take up the left half of my screen. I then cmd+tab to another window and put it on the right side. Super quick for my window management needs.
Yeah, because I want to have to mine a token every time I update my DNS settings. -_-

I get the "global, transparent, append only log" appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don't want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.

And that doesn't even cover companies (I don't agree with this, but it is a reality), that consider DNS entries private, and don't want to expose an easily scannable list of DNS entries .
Interview with Libor Michalek, President, Technology at Affirm, Inc
While not post-processing, often you can configure the exposure duration and frame rate which will make things feel more or less responsive.
The Linux Documentation Project
Parents idealizes time-intensive parenting, regardless of socioeconomic factors
It certainly didn’t help that the US, France, Italy and the UK deliberately destabilized some of these countries (Libya in particular)
Visual sitemaps as the evolution of web design unification ideas
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> I wonder if Backblaze does anything similar to provision drives.

We do different things for different drives, but ALWAYS have a "burn in" period for new vaults (group of 20 computers that files are Reed-Solomon encoded across) that come online.

When I say "different things", when we deployed a vault full of recent Toshiba (?) drives it came up "too slow" and we figured out the OS block size and drive block size wasn't lined up "by default". It "works" but essentially a single write required reading two blocks and then writing two blocks. (sigh) I always wonder how many mis-configured PCs exist in the world with little problems like this quietly slowing down some user who never figures it out.
GOV.UK did after they introduced them (non-privacy-violating ones of course): https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2014/02/20/gov-uk-social-sha...
This is a very similar experience that I had my 8 yo kid, though its not something that exclusive of Roblox.
Same thing happened with Nintendo Switch, Minecraft and Youtube.
Yelp should obviously have just been upfront that they were going to be taking commissions, the fact that they weren't strikes me as symptomatic of a dysfunctional org (that failed to actually align on this decision but pushed it out anyway in a shady way).
Maybe Apple will pressure them to be less shady then.
The 7 years that google owned zagat correlated with a massive improvement in the quality of their reviews.

I have done the google maps local guide program a bit and the way it is structured is great. The google map slowly switches into proactive mode and solicits photos, ratings, and reviews.

A few months ago a friend asked me what I was up to, so I sent them a photo of 2 flights of beer in an attempt to get them to meet me at the bar. later, Maps asked if I liked the bar and wanted to upload the photo. For the last 2 months that photo has been the official picture of the bar and received over 250k views. Minimal input or interruption for me, large return for google.
There's a difference between enforcing a TOS for everyone and specifically banning someone who is a competitor.
This is a very common rationalization for provoking people, which admittedly has some legs, IMO (i.e. I think there are excessively reactionary people who perhaps deserve to be challenged - this is something late night comedy shows frequently do, or did). However, frequently, in practice, the definition of "excessively" is pushed until it means "has any reaction". I.e. "the fact that you reacted negatively when I insulted you means that I'm retroactively justified and will continue to escalate insulting you."
In a democracy it's generally accepted that the people deserve to get what they want even if it's stupid and bad for them. History mostly indicates that the downsides of this approach are far less bad than the downsides of any system where the people do not get what they want.
Missed the old post. Thought reposts were rejected automatically (like on Reddit).
It's really great to see more and more companies emerging in the market from these initial ideas/PoC:

[1] Pix2Code: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07962

[2] Sketch2Code: https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/

[3] ScreenShot2Code: https://blog.floydhub.com/turning-design-mockups-into-code-w...
It explicitly mentions pension fraud -- who wouldn't want to retire a little earlier?

> The hypothesis that these relatively low literacy rates and incomes are generating age-reporting errors and pension fraud, and therefore remarkable age
records, seems overlooked. ...

> This issue presents a substantial problem for remarkable-age databases, embodied in a
deliberately provocative, if seemingly absurd, hypothesis:

> Every ‘supercentenarian’ is an accidental or intentional identity thief, who owns real and
validated 110+ year-old documents, and is passably good at their job.
Then why aren’t apps an “accessory” to the iPhone where Apple can decide not to allow certain apps - including hypothetically Amazon? Do the console makers have a right to deny certain games on their platform?

Does a physical store have to sell every product imaginable?
> why is the U.S. finally admitting this out loud?

4) The US President is not well. He saw that the stock market went down, so he tweeted a thing. This then became policy simply because he tweeted a thing. As the US lurches from crisis to crisis, this will be forgotten, as many things have before [0,1,2], and there is not a good chance that the thing will be enacted.

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-keeps-makin...

[1] https://time.com/5175729/donald-trump-broken-promises/

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/06/trump-is-...
https://www.yelp-support.com/article/Does-Yelp-extort-small-...

I've kind of gotten tired of diving into the whole "yelp extorted my brother's cousin's friend's coworker's business for better ratings" anecdotal story schtick so I'm just going to link the above -- or are you suggesting they're getting away with lying on official communication? If yelp is altering reviews for paying clients, please show the evidence as I have yet to see anything but anecdotal stories about some folks getting a phone call from someone allegedly from yelp allegedly having the power to do this. I suspect, at worst, that they either misunderstood the sales pitch or were contacted by a scummy SEO-like company.

On the mobile experience, what are you referring to? The mobile site is fully functional with reviews, search, ratings, etc. I can't say the same of Twitter, Tumblr, and most major other sites. I despise mobile apps as much as the next person but I hardly see how Yelp is unique or even worse than others here. Please clarify.

You literally do not need the mobile app or even render the desktop site to read full reviews. I'm looking at a fully expanded review in mobile safari right now.
in my experience it's really really really worth it, though.
Apple stores are not retail platforms. The App store is more comparable to Amazon.
10 things that improve your focus
I had the same cover, and had to return it. It definitely changes the keyboard feel.
The quality of Yelp must be location-specific. Where I live, Yelp reviews are borderline worthless with chain restaurants with mediocre food and service scoring at or above legitimately worthwhile restaurants. I don't know whether to attribute that to the gaming of reviews or the pedestrian tastes of the Yelp reviewers in my area.
It'll collapse after the VCs have exited though, so who cares?
You are not adequately calculating the economic effects of rapidly attempting to refactor an economy the size of the United States nor the trickle down effects on the world economy and all the poor countries you claim to wish to help. This is extremely hand wavey and over simplistic.
(not OP) I have three of them (two off site backing up the primary) and it works great once you get it all set up!
Noise reduction is a big one. You usually need to interpolate over several frames to do that.

Also depending on the bus being used cameras often compress the image using JPEG to reduce the bandwith (very common with USB cameras, I doubt that the Mac camera does that).

Then on a computer you have the latency of whatever pipeline is being used and how much buffering is involved. For instance since typically the display doesn't run exactly synchronized with the camera you'll have some frames that'll end up "stuck" waiting for the monitor's vsync. If the app then does some internal buffering on top of that you can very easily reach a noticeable amount of latency.

In general you can consider than anything above 100ms is easily noticeable and that's only 3 frames at 30fps and 6 at 60, it's really not that much when you consider the complexity of modern video capture pipelines.
> “There's a button where you could hit play and so I was like, what is this?” he said. “I hit play, and the first call was me on the phone, which freaked me out because I didn't know I was being recorded.”

So is grubhub providing a notification to the restaurant that they are being recorded in two party-consent states?

And is it possible to get on the grubhub platform without agreeing to pay the marketing commission for phonecalls?
Are other companies that have apps but not sites (or their site is just a download button) slimy? Should yelp not be allowed to pivot from website to app?

I might not agree with that strategic direction as a customer, but its well within their right as a company to choose what they want to be.