skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that this isn't the experience. Most options I'm after are available in multiple apps.

More to the point, all drivers seem to use multiple apps. I often get my food in bags from the wrong company. The barrier to switching for drivers _and_ the customers is zero.

As a result this feels less like money spent on a unique strategy and more like money spent buying the business.
Acting is a calling. We would lose many pretty faces but the people remaining would be extremely talented perhaps more average looking.

There are a lot of people in community theater now who would love a bigger audience. Tons of youtube creators would gladly make shows for the masses if the networks would have them many would even pay.
Is there a link to the primary source? All I can find are news media articles
> but I don't think that requires $500m in investment

Honestly, $500m sounds like a wild underestimate for what it would take to get last mile drone delivery working. Remember that this is something that's currently (mostly) illegal! There's clearly a lot of work to be done.
How exactly is pathfinding an NP complete problem?

Surely a simple Dijkstra search across all grid squares would do the job?

Edit: Perhaps it's 'find an optimal strategy for everyone to get to their destination while nobody collides with anyone else'?

I didn't think real time strategy games normally did much collision avoidance between units though... The number of times I've seen an army just walk through another...
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I think you’re forgetting the two rules of fashion:

1. Do what those above you do.

2. Whatever you do, do not do what those below you do.

If rich people act poor, it’s because they’re trying to avoid being mistaken for middle-class kids who are trying to be mistaken for rich kids. When all the middle class kids start wearing Armani, it’s time to start dressing like the lower class (knowing that the Middle Class kids can’t possibly follow you there because they’re too scared of being confused with actual lower class people).
Thanks for typing this out.
Agreed. I wonder what the authors think “Big Bang” refers to if it occurred after inflation.
When you go to McDonald's and see the picture of the burger on their over head menu does it look like a reheated microwave Patty or a juicy burger?

Of course it looks like a juicy burger even though you know full well that's not even remotely what you are going to get.

How would the tax cut pass if they didn't pass it off as a juicy burger full well knowing that they were going to give a microwaved burger instead.

Trickle down economics doesn't work.
Of course, my point was just that it had nothing to do with encryption or the recent laws subverting encryption in Australia. It's worth noting, because you can be sure we will be used as an example to try and push these kinds of laws in other countries.
If anyone would be interested it would be c# dotnet developers
A "last-modified" date on the standard nutritional info would be great pro-consumer regulation.

Now if we could only get a "roasted-on" date requirement for coffee ...
Interesting that GraphQL did not come up.

For me, the fastest and most fun is: Postgres + Postgraphile (generates a GraphQL server based on your PG schema), with Vue/Nuxt on the Frontend. Use Dokku on a DigitalOcean droplet for the backend, and Netlify for the frontend.

I am not a professional developer, though. I found the combo above really fun, simple, and easy to work with.
I think we're all going crazy. Seriously, we as a society must be running out of real problems. Enough internet for today.
Except you still have all those great options you mention (I played AoE II earlier tonight, in HD!) plus the excellent indie scene, plus you get all the blockbusters 9-12 months after release for a fraction of full retail. You've also got all those discount console games for PS and xbox (if that's your thing) and Zelda on switch is amazing.

Stay away from the pay to play, most sports titles and anything on casual mobile and you've got it better than ever before. And it all runs on a decent windows PC that's less than 7 or 8 years old.
i learned touch typing in school, but i never really picked up on it. it just felt uncomfortable. i could not get enough strength into my fingers to push down the typewriter keys we used and the wrist felt uncomfortable. i did get ergonomic keyboards when available, they definitely make a difference, but they were not always available. (i never even considered that, but i wouldn't have been able to carry them to school where i had to work on a random terminal instead of my own workspace using unix workstations which weren't even compatible)

so eventually i just started typing with the index fingers and thumbs only.

i don't actually see the point in touch-typing for programmers.
programming requires more thinking than typing. it also uses more special keys that touch-typing is not really adjusted to, so i don't feel like i am loosing any productivity by not being able to type as fast as a trained touch-typist.

and in light of the stories here, i consider my early uncomfort as a warning sign that stopped me from making things worse.

as others said: if you feel uncomfortable, fix the uncomfort, no matter how small
Insulation was a big problem before plastics. Varnished cloth, mostly. Hence so much open wire.
These hypothetical employees are expected to be 24/7 on-call? If they're required to have their "pager" on and respond to pages, this is unreasonable. Nobody would put up with such absurdity. If they aren't, it's also unreasonable, after all, nobody would put up with such absurdity.
- Apple is spending more than ever on research and development.

- R&D account for 7.9% for its revenue this part quarter.

- Apple is now on pace to spend $16 billion in R&D in 2019 as it preps for life after iPhone dominance.

https://www.imore.com/apple-spending-record-amount-research-...
Did you even read that list? That list only helps the point. We haven't had a public mass shooting in decades. The more recent incidents have been arson, car attacks, or murders of people known to eachother, and they have had significantly lower impacts.
Do you have a source for the claim that more than 1% are?

I’m not sure why we’re talking about inheritances anyway; most people these days don’t get significant inheritances until they’re in their fifties or sixties, when their parents die. A college student who has already been the recipient of a large inheritance is a rare bird indeed.
> Pathfinding is actually a murderously complex programming challenge—one that, depending on the path, might be NP-complete.

> The "eureka!" moment came when Castle and team realized they didn't have to build perfect—or even really great—pathfinding. Rather, they had to build pathfinding that didn't look stupid to the player.

> The most interesting thing, at least to me, is that pathfinding is still a difficult problem even for modern games, and simply throwing more CPU power at the problem doesn't really help that much—such is the curse of NP-complete problems.

It reminds me of my experience of some pathfinding bugs in OpenRA (free and open source Command & Conquer clone): one day I was playing OpenRA on Linux, and I find the game was running extremely slowly like a snail, the more I played the more slow it was. So I decided to check GitHub, it turned out that AI has built a huge number of soldiers, but unfortunately, due to geography features of the map and the battles, a lot of them have trapped inside "islands" with no available path connected to the rest of the world, or they want to attack targets inside "islands". One example is isolated waterways, another is land with destroyed bridges.

But edge cases like these were still not handled well in the OpenRA engine, the AI would keep ordering those units to move and attack. OpenRA uses a variant of the A* algorithm, and those AI orders will force the engine to run a huge number of A* pathfinding attempts on every second and exhaust most of your CPU time.

The solution should make the AI to detect these endless attempts and "bail out". The developers have already fixed some of those edge cases, but there are still a few to hunt down.

* https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/12435

* https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/7694

* https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/12938

* https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/12435

* https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/10860
> Up until Uber exhausts cash on hand.

Uber's rideshare business appears to be almost revenue-neutral. So if you're waiting for Uber to run out of cash, you'll be waiting a while. Worst case scenario, they stop pouring money into their money-losing ventures and focus on rideshare.
In the case of chain restaurants in particular, the food isn't always coming from the place you might think. Deliveroo have been setting up "dark kitchens" in London - a kitchen in a shipping container making brand recipes for them to deliver.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...
It does beg the question, does changing a user's password without their consent violate the CFAA?
Unfortunately for most people taking a break like that is impossible. I’m sure stress is a major factor in many of my health problems but the biggest break I can take is an hour or two to myself once a week.
To all people out there that say “you are making your email public by pushing it to github”, please remember that just because something is on the internet doesn’t give you absolutely any right to use it. That’s the big deal here.
Rich people can be really stingy
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Products diluted with water are hard to do, but I have no problem with government standardization of, say, the length of toilet paper on a roll. Maybe it doesn't even need to be a law but a tiny tax on nonstandard sizes (0.1%, enough to drive profit-seeking towards standards)
This site is absolute cancer on mobile. Their domain should be blacklisted from HN.
My first though after reading that a recruiter used GitHub API was "I wish I met a recruiter like that".
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Trump doesn’t technically have the nomination yet - https://fortune.com/2019/04/22/republican-presidential-candi...
Definitely. Before the advent of telescopes and modern astronomy, we naturally assumed that the sun revolved around us because that's as far as we could physically (and cognitively) see. We were being egotistical to assume that the universe was here just for us.

In a contemporary context, it would be similarly egotistical to assume that the whole of the universe began with the furthest event we puny humans are able to infer from our vantage point on this little speck of a planet. Context should teach us that we have no reason to assume that our local "big bang" is special or unique in any way.

Just because we can't see or infer any further out (and we might never be able to) gives us no right to declare the big bang to be any sort of beginning.
Science lesson: How anesthetics work, and why xenon's perfect (2017)
If I was hiring a recruiter, I would be hoping they could provide me with something more than an ability to spam developers.

It seems to me that most good developers would ignore such spam—I get so much of this noise that I pay it no attention whatsoever.

If this is the best recruiters can do, then they can apparently provide no real value to the process.
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Only place that I heard was cruncher from my time in gamedev was the animators who came to us from some of the VFX shops over in the movie industry.

Still inclined to agree, the number of non-crunching gamedevs out there are shockingly small. It really is celebrated as a right of passage and 'part of the job' which is infuriating given all the data that backs overwork on cognitive ability.
Just because it’s published on the internet doesn’t give you absolutely any right to use it. I don’t understand why people don’t get this...
Methane accounts for less than 20% of all GHG emissions (in CO2 equivalent units), and cows are only responsible for a part of that. Reducing the number of cattle is important, but killing all cattle would only buy us a few years before we have to completely decarbonize the global economy. In industrialized economies, agriculture's relative impact is even lower, since we emit so many GHGs from other sources.
More likely they used some tool to do it.
Not to mention cows are a major contribution to global warming.
I don't know if its just me, but the site runs extremely slow on a pretty well-specced desktop PC. I think there might be too much going on. I gave up trying to scroll through.

This is on Chrome 72.
China and Japan are both quite unfriendly to outsiders and ridiculous choices to compare with a country formed almost entirely of immigrants from the quite recent past.
You seem to be the one person on HN with consistently the right take.
Last I checked CA law (an ethics class), a computer permission setting explicitly does not grant actual permission to use a computer. Given that the TOS explicitly prohibits the use of the API for selling info to recruiters, it may be construable that this was hacking. Not sure that Microsoft, the owner of both GitHub and LinkedIn, would cooperate with a claim that a recruiter hacked their dev network.
It will cost you a little bit more in time and money, but go to your local (legitimate) farmers market and you’ll have quality meat, fresh veggies and fruit, and your local microbrewery will serve a cold one with no malt substitutes for a tiny bit more.

Shopping local is so underrated.
Researches about economical change/growth and production outputs?
"My email address isn't on the web"

Yes it is, you put it there.

https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/.mutt/...

I fail to see the dramatic issue here. FWIW, I once got a very good (unsolicited) job offer after putting code on the web, more than a decade before github even existed.
Could just call it... normalization? There's already a word for that.
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I wanted to try it out just for 5 minutes, but alas, I'm on Arch Linux and can't compile. GNU Make complains about dots in the Makefile (things like .include and .if) and there are probably more issues like BSD specific .include <bsd.subdir.mk>.

It's the early days for the tool but hopefully it will become available on Linux in the future. Because the world totally needs yet another git wrapper and visualisation tool. I jest of course, but there are already a few tools I wanted to learn but never dedicated the time for. For example hub command line utility for working with github. git-extras for lots of small things like repository statistics. fugitive.vim, a vim plugin that claims to be a git wrapper so awesome it should be illegal.

Recently I had to find out why a section of code was written a certain way and decided to hunt for the commit that introduced it. The only way to do it that I'm currently familiar with is by using github blame interface. The code was moved around so regular blame showed the commit that moved the code instead of introduced it. Github allows you to jump to a commit before the change, so I did that a couple of times while looking at the diff of where the code was removed from, because this was the place I actually needed. Overall I felt rather clumsy doing that and wondered if learning to do it on command line would be easier in the future. How can tog help here? Avoiding learning to use git on command line by itself isn't a good idea in any case, but a proper browser that allows to easily dive through history without shell trickery or a dozen of HTTP requests is a welcome addition.

Also, for tools like this I think video demonstration is best.
If we haven't learned how to live sustainably by 2100, we'll have wrecked the planet anyway. Future environmentalism will likely be about helping developing countries skip the extremely polluting stage of development.
At the very least I smell potential fraud with the trip wire limits then associated messages saying no more screen times and password resets. CFAA could potentially be applied but I think since it’s their platform and done by an authorized agent it may be a stretch. But some state AGs could read into these actions and open wider lines of investigation, and compel other evidence. If this is what they are okay talking about, think of the other dirty deeds that were kept hush hush..
Thomas Brothers Guide, San Diego 1986. Otherwise I was doomed.
To quote the movie Short Circuit "Robots don't think, they just run programs".

If the software is racist, then the robot is, if the software is not racist, neither is the robot.

Therefore, robots cannot be racist. Only programmers can be racist. (which are people)
The irony is that one of the big reasons Brexit is even happening is because people in U.K. don’t like the fact that EU standardizes everything. They don’t seem to understand that this is being done to protect them from exactly this shrinkflation that is now going to be used by big companies to compensate for the negative results of Brexit.
Ack. Still, the DOB is not difficult to access: just apply to work for the AEC and your copy of the roll certainly includes DOB.
Model 3 handling has been almost universally praised as superb. I haven't read any negative reviews of it.

I have almost 40,000 miles on a Model 3 and from my personal experience with it and with other cars I've owned, including hundreds of thousands of miles on Porsche and Mercedes, the Model 3 handles the best. Air suspension will, I expect, give the Taycan a slight edge, but other than that, there's no magic dust that Porsche can sprinkle to make their car any different. Just putting the massive weight of the battery on the floor is enough to give both cars a big advantage over any ICE car.

You mention that the cars are in different classes - the only class that they don't share is price. The Porsche is predicted to cost between 2x and 3x the price of the Model 3. They're of comparable weight, size, power output, layout, etc.

You mention that the Model 3 has a poor interior - again, unless you work for Porsche or otherwise have access to as-yet unreleased photos, there are no released images of the Taycan interior. How can you know the interior is better? The Model 3 interior is simple, clean, and spartan, but I like it better than the E-class I drove before the Tesla. When I go back to the E-class, it feels fussy and baroque in comparison.

We know how advanced the Model 3 self-driving is, and it's constantly improving with frequent updates. It's really quite good. Will the Taycan be better? Perhaps, but at this point Tesla has had hundreds of millions of driving data to refine their approach and Porsche has not. Even if Porsche outsources from someone with much more experience, such as MobileEye. They're unlikely to be much better than Tesla. All of Porsche's money and many years of racing successes can't make software development suddenly leap ahead.

Finally, Porsche, in this video, is pushing the ability to run at "full performance" for a long time. That video, while very nice, didn't give any facts and figures about what that means. Tesla's had ten years and several generations of drivetrains to work out the kinks, including the overheating problems during track time of older Model S cars. When the Taycan is finally out and people can independently compare the two cars, I'll be interested to see of the Taycan is significantly better, but before that happens there's no reason to think that it will be.

Let it be resolved, then, that the Model 3 and the Taycan are in exactly the same class in every area except for price. I hope the Taycan is a great car and I'm sure it will be.
Then they redid everything in Erlang.
That's a fairly old version of Chrome, try updating. It's working well here on Brave (based on Chromium 76) but this is on a high end computer.
So what about leveraged buybacks?
I was supposed to learn touch-typing in school, but all I learned was how to game the system. To this day I still type with pretty much only index and middle fingers, even the space bar.

I don't feel particularly restricted by my _maybe_ slower typing with more frequent mistakes due to looking at the keyboard. Like you said, my job is engineering, not typing.
Hey, thanks for the comment. I appreciate the response and likewise, glad that we can have a civilised discussion on here, even though I started it out a bit on the rough side.

I agree with you on the fact that there's a huge amount of potential to improve upon existing systems of producing and delivering food to people, transporting people from point A to point B, and so on.

Where I think our opinions differ is that I'm way more cynical in the ability for these first-mover advantage companies to deliver substantial value in a way that will make them profitable and sustainable in the long run.

I may be wrong though, and no one wants to be the guy who made that Dropbox comment on HN a decade ago about why it's useless. But I stand by my opinion and when it's proven I'm wrong I will eat my words without complaining.
IME, this isn't consistent. If you can write it as `f . g . h` then point-free will probably be clearest. If you need to use each argument in a few places, I find going all the way to point-free is usually much less clear than some intermediate points or even the fully pointful version.
Random mass shootings :(
I like using storymaps to outline/manage projects. https://storiesonboard.com is a good collaborative tool for that or you can just use sticky notes on the wall if you are co-located. Here’s a blog post that explains the concept (he also wrote a book) - https://www.jpattonassociates.com/the-new-backlog. You might also want to check out Gantt charts (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart) if you have a lot of dependencies.
My point was that people aren't looking for a real solution, they are just outraged irrationally about current events and not seeing how the masses are being steered towards a worse result than they currently have.
Also occurred in China after 2007. First it was just the usual inflation of the general level of price, the most obvious sign was the inflating price of food in supermarkets and meals in restaurants. However, as it progressed, the restaurant owners seemed to believe that, if they keep rising price, it would be extremely unpopular, so the prices kept roughly at the same level, but the amount of food in the dishes becomes smaller and smaller.
Start where you work.

Participate and start discussions around ethics when your company engages in something questionable. You don’t have to threaten your job, but you don’t have to accept as business as usual without any critical thinking.

Persuade your colleagues to do the same and lead by example.

Or just quit, if you’re working for Facebook. Insanely smart software engineers are not plentiful. If enough people declined to work for Facebook, they will be feeling an impact in their bottom line and scalability.
From the article:

> It should be noted that even with a negative interest rate, banks often charge fees linked to the borrowing, which means homeowners could still pay back more.
Dark matter seems to comprise about a quarter of the mass-energy of the Universe, and we don't know what it is.

It seems worth investigating.
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Sure, we can't all think big picture all the time. That's part of what discussion is for. And even if it's okay to be narrow minded or flat out wrong on occasion, we are well within our rights to try to adjust people's mindset if we are so inclined. Even if somewhat grumpily.