skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A neighborhood bar is a place you go to see people you know will be there. Even if your friends aren't there, you'll still know the owner and the staff. The people you see there routinely are the "regulars" and the "locals." You're not going to the neighborhood bar to get sloppy drunk, loud or to pick up chicks. You aren't going there to "party."

A "cool bar" which is packed is usually too loud for conversation. If you want to sit and talk casually with people you know, then you won't go to the cool bar. If you go alone to a cool bar, then you might not talk to anyone. The atmosphere has too much going on for casual conversation. You can't overhear and engage with someone sitting at the opposite side of the bar.

This may sound lame, but one of the major themes of this article is loneliness. Regulars at the neighborhood bar might find that the bar is less lame than being lonely at home.
The investors would prefer to lose their money entirely than get it repaid over a longer period of time?
Absolutely agree. Controls with tactile feedback are literally lifesavers when you're trying to pay attention to the road. Touchscreens are cool, but all the basic controls should be presented as neat panels of knobs and buttons that don't require so much as a glance to operate.
I triedVS Code and found it to be not as enjoyable as emacs. Sure, it makes some things easier, but emacs is light years ahead in functionality. I think most of the shortcomings could be addressed with a couple of projects.
My pet idea is that we’re just the idle thoughts of some incomprehensibly vast intelligence.

Imagine a world of intelligent ants. You might picture them working in their colonies. You might imagine their social interactions.

Imagine a world where magic works according to certain rules. You’d think about how society functions, what sort of jobs people would have, you might even imagine some specific people.

You might do this spontaneously, or in response to reading some random idea in an Internet comment.

You are, in effect, running simulations. They are really basic and extremely low fidelity because the brain isn’t very good at it.

But consider a vast intelligence capable of imagining our entire universe the way we might casually imagine the appearance of a zebra with a giraffe neck. For such a being, this act of imagination might not even be intentional. They might not even realize they’re doing it.

Of course there’s no particular reason to think this is actually true, but I like the idea.
Anybody think it's about price? At least the quoted guy thinks so

> Why go to a bar when you can go to a yoga class, WhatsApp your friends, crack open an inexpensive bottle of wine at home, and watch something on Amazon Prime?

And I do believe that if beer prices were 1/3 of the usual, you'll see way more customers. Boston and some other US cities I have visited have, inexplicably, very high prices for bars and restaurants. Then you add taxes and tips.

Add to that the American sprawl and if you are drinking a few beers, you'll need an Uber to/back home. That makes your night in the $70-100.

No wonder Americans don't have $2000-$3000/month to spend on after-work bars.
Vertical Forest
I also know many bars like that and they are doing just fine, I also frequent them. However, they are decidedly not-lame.
Personally, I think the problem is Spiritual, and no amount of politics will fix it. We are divorced from Nature, we treat life as a thing to exploit rather than neighbors to live with. I don't think we can save ourselves without a deep shift in our world view, a renewal of our relationship with life.

I think we will either reach a crisis and transform (in a biologically-rooted variant of the Singularity, IRL not cyberspace) or we will crash and burn.

Of course, there's a third possibility: we scrape by without crashing and without spiritual renaissance, e.g. some combination of geo-engineering and ecological agriculture lets us off the climate-apocalypse hook. In the first two scenarios we don't need politics anymore, but in the third it still exists and is caught up in the strange loops of modern space-age-a-go-go life.
I think all of these things are solvable by haptics and good design.

Of course - the latter is the factor least likely to be present.
Please don't cross into getting personal. No comment contains everything someone sees.
Yes, that was the point of the question: whether today's Uber is the first chapter of a larger plan to build a profitable business on top of a much simpler and possibly even inherently money-losing set of transactions, or whether it's already in its final form and is just a bad idea.
Note to the reader:

big-lies.org is a website dedicated to the idea that Jews control the world, the Holocaust never happened, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hoaxes, and various other "interesting" theories.

I assume the text of Wells' work has not been altered, but the website author's notes at the bottom include such gems as:

> Poor Wells must have been caught between his universalist beliefs (based on the kinship between human races—even if this was very attenuated) and the overpowering ubiquity of war lies and the support for mass murder by Jews fronted by Stalin.

and

> Wells had disappointingly little feeling for finance, which disqualified him from taking account of Jewish control of wars behind the scenes.
As a human maximalist, I could care less about what those cows think. The problem we face as a society is that too many of us are cow maximalist to the point we're prioritizing these cows lives over our own. Buying that cheese burger at McDonalds is a vote for more cows which has far more negative externalities than eating veggies.
You also, candidly, may be experienced enough and have enough time-served to get away with it. ;) There's definitely an effect--I kinda want to call it a thermocline?--above which your actual achievements can speak for themselves, particularly if you've built a solid network.

Today, if I had a notion to, I could probably call myself a "sysadmin" and not have trouble finding well-compensated work. But when I was freelancing, as well as when I was earlier in my career, I can tell you a lot of doors would have slammed right shut had I used the term regardless of my capacity. I do not particularly love the term "devops", but at this point its umbrella at least encompasses what we (like, you and I, not the general we) think about when we're doing this stuff, and it has a certain amount of loaned--or stolen--credibility.

As I said in a top-level comment, I'm more twitchy at this description of being a consultant than I am at the devops part.
(note that in the Rosenhan experiment, ALL examined psychiatrists had a false positive rate of 100%. Anything significantly over 50%, of course, can only be caused by systematic fraud. That's 12 separate institutions, 20 psychiatrists, in 5 US states. ALL frauds (willing to diagnose patient with an illness despite having no confidence in them actually being ill)
Morality can exist outside of the law but the law is not about morality. The law is/should be the "stable" version of morality because the latter is a lot more flexible than the former. And in a functioning systems the law should be adapted to the morals of society every once in a while.

Edit: Just imagine how some of your moral concepts conflict with those of your grandparents, and how many of them would conflict with those of your grandchildren. What would the law use as a compass at any time? The general consensus of the time or a possible random evolution from the future?

And wouldn't laws in a democracy explicitly reflect the views of that majority since they are created by the representatives of that majority?
Yes, or more specifically, Venture Capitals would.
We live in a society where the power pyramid of merchants and nobles is twisting to inversion.

There's still situations where the nobles reign. Nothing they have really matches the flexibility that merchants do when wielding their power.

People are appealing to power when they ask that google disobey a country's sovereignty. It's probably a misappraisal of google's power in Russia. Google is neck and neck in search with Yandex. It's hard to wield a stranglehold you don't have.

In America, google is having lots of success positioning itself as the prime broker for commerce.

Amazon's trying to build a tower that subsumes commerce with depth vs. google's breadth. EC2 is attacking search's foundation from the other side.

If you host the majority of content, you have territorial advantages and ways you can undermine google's usefulness. The amazon market is their flank attack. If everything you want is in one place, no need to search.

Facebook tries to be the ultimate broker of human relationships, and maintain de-facto control over downstream commerce from that high hill.

The government has a de jure monopoly on use of force, but how useful is that against controlling relationships, and therefore elections -- or commerce, and therefore the economy? The government looks outmatched to me.

It makes sense the peasants, yeoman and burghers would address their geopolitical wishes to those with actionable global soft power.
Unfortunately a lot of startups doesn’t shut down cleanly. Shutting down your own startup can feel for many founders like killing your own baby.

However, the alternative such as a messy shutdown by leaving unpaid bills and unrealized contracts is even worse. Bankrupcy laws doesn’t work so smoothly around the world, even after bankcrupcy you can still be liable for taxes as well as unpaid bills/wages get bad reputation which can hurt you in the future.
If that zombie startup gives you freedom and a good salary, why shut it down? This is not for bootstrappers or those who pursue life-style businesses, it's for VC backed startups.
The reason the C900 were cancelled was that Commodore simply didn't have the resources (money, facilities) to do both that and the Amiga.
Far Cry had this.

In every Far Cry game, by about 30% of the game I would eventually have enough weapons go take out an entire base without a blimp.

So I would go stealthy - in a few more rounds I would learn how to headshot every enemy at the base.

I would then consider it a loss if I would not one-shot everyone at the base.

Then, I would consider it a loss if I could not knife everyone without a warning.

I have to admit I don’t get why people don’t make games with exponential skill required.

But I still can’t finish Super Meat Boy’s boss having finished every other level at perfect time and score, so what exactly am I talking about?
Automakers warm up to friendly hackers at cybersecurity conference
Critical to Gore-tex is the DWR coating, which is still made of PFCs (basically Scotchgard). Sometimes they use shorter chain molecules like C6 (vs. C8), which have a shorter biological half-life, but the harmful effects are the same.
This is true for me. Since I have a e-mountain bike (a e-bike designed for offroad cycling), I sometimes bike up hills where I live just for fun and I would never have thought I would do this. The electrical support is awesome and a hell of fun. Then back at home I discover myself sweaty and tired.

I turn off the motor when biking around in the city (which is flat) so I don't get used to the boost. This is a trick I play on myself so I don't lose the fun.
I actually think so, because of how the vc funds and balance sheets are structured. The only thing they care about is the one or two startups that will return the entire fund.
It’s fossil fuels and farming.

This was solved two years ago: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2668/nasa-led-study-solves-a-m...

Actual study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02246-0
Do you think that IRC uses actual radio channels as well?
> But I don't think you'd be doing "DevOps" all by yourself, unless you are what I call a full-stack, good at: communication, frontend, backend, and networking.

This is pretty much how I sum up what you'd have to be to be "a devops engineer": an actually-full-stack developer with a strong facility for communication and for process.

Such folks are hard to find. I only know a few, out of the dozens of folks I've worked with.
When this happens, go to https://matrix.itasoftware.com and find the specific itinerary you're looking for, which will give you the specific fare codes, etc. which you should use to book. I believe this ticket is available, it's just that the people you're speaking with can't find it in their system (that said, you don't say what fare you saw, so it's hard for me to be sure I see the same fare you do). Specifically, the bit under "Fare Construction".

Fare Construction (can be useful to travel agents)
CPH SK X/MAN VS NYC 500.77HLHF06MN NUC 500.77 END ROE 6.637696 XT 161ZO 167UB 39YC 47XY 27XA 124US 646YQ

I wish that Google Flights would offer a way to get this info in the UI; it's not common but not greatly unusual to be in this position (where Flights can find the fare but the UIs available to consumers can't book it).
I don't think there's really much free press out there anyway. If they're not beholden to a state actor, then they're mostly beholden to the interests of their media conglomerate and/or their billionaire owners.

Ed. I want to emphasise that this doesn't necessarily imply bad journalism overall.
Or perhaps it was downvoted by people who realize their own limited impressions of the world don't always reflect universal truths.
In this scenario you'd be losing all your backlogs and user registrations anyways, so why re-use the existing client with a stapled-on redirector over switching to something you can actually deploy yourself?
Ask HN: Why is decentralized internet more secure?
But in the long run, isn’t being bad for authors going to be bad for consumers?
Wow, it's been a while. Pretty much anything you could poke with "test platform firmware," but r2d2 and tiangang come to mind.
>It ain't broke, so stop trying to 'fix' it.

Sure, but the marketing department had to fill a few blanks in the "bad weather options pack" (optional but casually installed on all cars in production that will be available in the next six-eight months) for a mere US$ 3,000:

1) self-learning wipers (using AI to set automatically an appropriate wiping speed, including economode, that only wipes the right side of the windscreen when you make a free turn on right at a traffic light)

2) intelligent defrost (computing the correct defrost temperature through analysis of real-time satellite heat maps)

3) heated and ventilated mats (that can dry your wet shoes and lower half of trousers independently from heating/confitioning settings)
As Harvard Professor Robert Putnam has pointed out: One of the effects of "increased diversity" is that there is a shift away from being a high-trust society. This causes, among other things, increased isolation and social disengagement.

No doubt this isn't the only cause of pubs / bars closing, but it is a real measurable effect.
On some level, that is true, but when it comes to performance reviews and such, as the post mentions, it is very easy for your manager(s) to forget some specific things done over a period of time, forget their impact, etc. Even you may forget specific things that were done in a, say, 6 month period.

Besides that, it's also a good reminder for your own self to recap the work you've done in a specific period of time, notice your growth (or lack of any growth), etc. I've personally seen pretty good results with a similar approach.
Absolutely! The best thing about the local is that you don't need to make any plans with anyone. You already have a pretty good idea who will be there.
Unless we're talking about Tcl. Its homoiconicity is based on strings.
Muji pens are amazing in case you're looking for a recommendation. They're pretty cheap, but feel great to write with, and I've never had one give up on me prematurely. Its terrific for people like me who easily lose pens.
A friend of mine found a great example of this. She got a packaged snack item that consisted of some bread sticks and some yellow cheese or cheese-like dip.

The front of the package prominently declared "Made With Real Cheese!".

When she read the ingredients list, not only was cheese way down on the list--it was on the bread ingredients list, not the "cheese" dip ingredients list.
This is an article about Google being confronted by an authoritarian government that opposes US cultural norms... and you've somehow transformed it into exactly the opposite.
You know, when you take your drivers test in the US, you have to demonstrate your ability to know where all those functions are before you even pull away to start your test.
They must use a boolean of “is-vpn” as a (part of) salt for your password.

The worst thing is that they can’t even tell themselves if that boolean has to be true or false because of all the hashing.

/s
The problem where the pesticides are destroying native insect populations, sure. But not the problem where the tomatoes taste like nothing and have pesticide in them -- that's not an externality, it's an information asymmetry. And then it has the same problem in the legislature as the supermarket.
Wait, let me check my health app that monitors my alcohol consumption in real time...
A history of how a silent cosmos led humans to fear the worst
Disclosure: I ride a conventional bike. I thought the gratuitous, divisive jabs against conventional cyclists were over the top. If e-bikes are a good idea, which I think they are, they should stand on their own merits as a technology.

Amusingly, with the proliferation of e-bikes, I actually find myself on the defensive about riding a conventional bike. People ask me why I haven't switched yet.
I honestly can't understand that at all. The "third place" has exploded and has never been more vibrant in the history of mankind, at least if you live in a city.

Yoga classes, coffee shops, CrossFit, meetups, hiking groups, rock climbing, dance parties, marathons, evening painting classes where they serve wine, improv comedy shows, improv comedy classes, cooking classes, language classes, indie band shows of every type. Meditation, Buddhism, any kind of spirituality you might be into. Literally everything just a few clicks away on Google. You don't need to "know somebody", you can just go. Go a few times in a row and make conversation with people, and suddenly you've got community and new friends.

Modern culture is an incredible smorgasboard where you can connect with every type of person through pretty much every type of activity known to man, whether athletic or artistic or spiritual or educational or all four.

The bar was a kind of lowest-common-denominator location that often came with a drinking problem. Bars still exist, but today's alternatives are almost infinitely more varied and vibrant.
Because it doesn't feel like an extension, so it doesn't feel serious.

There's also a difference between knowing emacs and knowing emacs. One can use it proficiently for years and still be completely taken by surprise when starting up unassuming ielm and slowly realising you have the complete superbly documented system at your fingertips, followed--indeed--by wondering why not everything that needs a (text)interface is written in emacs.

You are quite correct, but it's not obvious from the outset.
That Offer to Make You Debt-Free? It Can Make You Worse Off
To be fair, there is no such thing as the morals of society. Morality is individual to everyone and is developed throughout everyone's whole lives. So the law cannot possibly be a stable version of morality.

For example, in my morals it is not acceptable to imprison people for non-violent crimes, but most people are somehow convinced that it's ok. We can never agree on a stable version of morality on this.
Simple and Easy to Digest AWS Tutorials
Hey folks, wanted to share a youtube channel that I've been working on dedicated to providing simple and easy to digest tutorials on various AWS services.

My most recent video is a basic S3 walkthrough available here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9nWRykSBSFilnmg4hy2Sfs1o6_wF1JJP

Support & feedback appreciated. Thank you!
Please post a picture of your hammock setup, it sounds very interesting!
Not really. Supporting globalism doesn't implicitly lock you in to believing that every single item that a country makes should be produced in several thousand globe-spanning factories.

(Sidenote: globalism is a positive move for the proletariat and means that strikes are several orders of magintude much more effective (See: Marxism at the Millennium by Cliff, chapter four))
Arguably a complete simulation of all physics is easier than a simulation that has detailed memories of last week (plus fossils and microwave background radiation) without actually simulating last week/evolution/Big Bang. In other words for similar reasons that we can stop worrying that God just created us just now (or that you are all just dream people etc.) we can stop worrying that Wednesday didn’t happen. In some Maths sense if Wednesday had to be fully calculated for today to be rendered then it happened.
If an investor bet on a founder that they could produce billion dollar returns in a 10 year time span for their investment, they would much rather have the founder work on another idea / direction that could potentially result in the crazy returns.

You can never reach that level returns if a business is sitting at 50k/mo.
And don't forget about the criminalization of drinking wine or beer in a park or beach in N. America.
This depends on the state/region. There's no universal standard in the US, and some states definitely don't require the operation of all of these controls before the test.
At least with Reddit, you get to choose your own echo-chamber by subscribing to subreddits. For some other sites such as Facebook and Twitter, you aren't even sure what echo-chamber the all-mighty "algorithm" is guiding you.

I think the best way to enjoy Reddit is to first unsubscribe to all the default ones (I did this with the exception of /r/Art), and then pick really niche subreddits that you want to be a part of, not the general big ones that usually has the shortcomings that you've mentioned.
This was not my experience in New York. You don’t have to demonstrate anything other than knowledge of where the turn signal, ignition, brake and gas pedal are.
On Friday this happened https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49300025

British trains are very expensive and unreliable at the best of times. Anyone who can drive, does.
I took a driver's test 3 years ago and this was not included.
By and large, Commodore invented the "double-burger" tax-shelter, and discovered to their dismay that it was very hard to funnel the "liberated" money back into the company for investments.

The lack of a vision going forward also caused local projects to suck up too many resources, Germanys PCs, the C16/+4 disaster and so on.
Any good neighbourhood needs a little public green space, and a few pubs and coffee houses. To hell with zoning or other rules that separate living spaces from public drinking spaces.
lol this is great
That feels a bit like cheating though.
I call bullshit on this notion of natural and unnatural. You mean return the land to some imagined pristine prior state, which in the North American context means managed landscapes, because the NA landscape was managed in lots of ways by native inhabitants. This pristine wilderness is just an imagination of white settlers.

You are not going to rid the South of Kudzu. The only thing you can do is facilitate a ecological equilibrium in which Kudzu is now a part.

Ecosystems change. Species move. We assume a constant that is likely imaginary. I also think you are overemphasizing the harm.
Google offered to buy Groupon in 2010 for $5.75 billion. Current market cap of Groupon is only $1.4 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GRPN?ltr=1