skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because many of them created their market space years ago and are now so established that it's difficult for a competitor to stage a worthwhile effort

I find this opinion (which is common on HN) hard to reconcile with the idea that established companies are "old and slow" and susceptible to "disruption" (also common on HN).

Like, no one can take out Apple's AppStore stronghold, but Tesla is going to bankrupt a century-old trillion dollar auto industry with a global supply chain infrastructure? Which one is it?
Age.

In some people lactase production decreases with age.

Same thing that causes male pattern baldness - age - even thought it doesn't happen to everybody.
Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL: PAF vs. Repmgr vs. Patroni
For me, it’s variety. I value novelty and creativity in food, so the availability of different types of meals is great.
It's not really a message from the passenger. They updated their ride to include the additional stop (a feature), and are apparently allowed to do this realtime for the trip they are currently taking.

For the driver this would just appear like their current destination suddenly changing, which I guess you have no option to deny except for asking them to leave your car and canceling the trip entirely.

Being able to make major trip changes mid-ride is pretty crappy for the driver. I'm also surprised the multiple stop feature isn't just for simply letting someone in/out of your ride. But apparently Lyft actually encourages you to use it to stop at the store. [0]

> Whether you’re picking up a friend or a bottle of vino, just add your stop into the app and your route will instantly update — making it a seamless experience for you and your driver.

The person in the article was driving for Uber. The verbiage on Uber's site for this feature is more focused on passenger pickup/dropoff, but also doesn't make it clear whether you're allowed to spend time visiting a store. I found a rideguru post indicating you're limited to 3 minutes at a stop, but can't find this officially.

[0] https://blog.lyft.com/posts/add-a-stop

[1] https://ride.guru/lounge/p/whats-the-2-stop-rule-on-uber-is-...

Edit, found this on an Uber blog post. Do riders really know, Uber? Do they?

> Riders know that each stop should be less than 3 minutes, so you can get back on the road as soon as possible.

https://www.uber.com/blog/multiple-destinations-us/
I suppose so. Though it's much clearer when the matter is dichotomous, such as "going to protest"/"not going", and "GOP"/"Democratic" (I know, I know, but independent is not significant).
But we can split hairs about that forever because this isn't the action of an authoritarian government, but rather the invisible hand of the free market, which in this case is a company owned by American's richest industrialist working hand in hand with law enforcement to link together a network of surveillance systems.

It's completely different. /s
It's all relative. It's not a very difficult repair like say, replacing a screen on a Galaxy S8, iPad or Macbook Pro. You need some skills/experience and the correct tools and then it will take 15-20 minutes. An experienced phone technician will have no issues whatsoever. A relatively inexperienced, brave individual like me can do it alone in 30-60 min. But again, not like this Fairphone.
Lanier's local-global flip.
Sichuan, Chengdu. Not rural but inland. Their grasp of Western culture came mostly from Hollywood, Music, Basketball and the news.

I actually debated it with other English teachers and some also had Adolf Hitler in their classes. So they might just be trolling their teacher, but many sincerely don't have the same ideas as Western people. They know Hitler because it is mentioned in History classes during WW2. But they definitely don't see him as the apex figure of all evil like people in the West.
Though frankly I'm fed up with installing yet another mobile app for whatever conferencing system someone wants to use today.
Dave Chappelle's sketch on if we treated corporate criminals like street drug dealers is relevant (and funny) https://youtu.be/HeOVbeh2yr0.

Yet more relevant when the corporate criminals are drug dealers.
Are there any companies using Julia at the moment? This isn’t a snarky comment - I’m genuinely interested in hearing who’s using them, as well as reading any associated blogs etc.
The difference between decimal and binary is essential to understanding the problem. Just as there's no elegant way to represent 1/3 in base 10, there's no elegant way to represent 1/10 in base 2.
No, most of Freemaonsry's really useful secrets come from an extreme measure of self discipline, and through the correspondence courses you work through with your Sponsor.

The Rituals of Freemasonry are something millions of people are shoved through, in the interest of what we call 'knife and fork Masonry' - this is the typical image of usually the largest Lodge in your City or Town, where businessmen congregate to drink beer and make connections.

There are few who take Freemasonry seriously for its rituals, and even fewer who choose to make it past the Blue Lodge (3°), and move on to the Scottish or York rites, which can go all the way up to 33°.

The 33rs Degree is basically an honour. There are very, very few of them. When someone tells me they had a friend of a friend who was a 33rd Degree Freemason I just smile and nod.

Freemasonry is about making 'good people better'. How much you get out of it is entirely dependant on how much you put into it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply ill intent whatsoever. It didn't come across to me that you were trying to do anything shady, and it also didn't seem like you were trying to damage a competitor.

Given that this did end up reaching a broader audience than your twitter following (it is a public forum), my feedback would be that it was too hard to tell that you were directly affiliated with Brave, and that it would feel much classier to disclose this clearly in your bio (just "eng @brave" or something, or even a top-level reply to your primary thread if you don't want to modify your bio).

Perhaps I'm less eagle-eyed or adept than most twitter users, but I actively suspected you were affiliated, looked for clues that you were, and could not find them. Given that it wasn't your intent to hide anything, but can accidentally give an impression that you are, it might go over better to be more proactive in disclosure.

Again, the thread itself was successful in achieving the tone of "just the curious musings of a software engineer", was great content, and IMO still reads well with knowledge of your horse in the race.
Not really.

Lee Smolin has a nice accessible writeup on the Big Bang here[1], what we typically mean by "the Big Bang" and how we seek to replace the Big Bang concept with something better.

[1]: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25371
No calories. I like coffee (black) because it helps me through the day.

Don't do diet drinks, they seem to be doing more harm than sugar.
Of course, we do still have a metro area of ~1.4 million with a large proportion of immigrants both from abroad and within Canada. We're quite cosmopolitan. We've had quite a few restaurants on all the relevant awards lists for restaurants. Beyond Burgers sell great, every A&W here was fairly full when they came out. It just hasn't really caught on at price-points higher than fast food.

Vegetable forward restaurants are a thing, but I have it on good authority that they still sell a pretty large volume of meat and fish.
Hi Jacques, your Pivitol is showing :p

Commit messages are good, but the dogmatic anti-comment philosophy that Pivitol follows is overdone. Lots (I mean LOTS) of comments are redundant or can be fixed with better naming or organization. But comments shine when dealing with the "why" behind something. I would rather see a comment that says why a value is set to what it is than have to be a git historian.
> This is just an observation of a black hole that falls inside the supposedly "forbidden" range.

So you're saying it's of a mass that was thought to be impossible?
In other news, you don’t need plugins to provide voice or video calls in a browser. You do have to make a real web version though.
It would also make the search space exponentially bigger
It's not just about short term vs long term gains for the farmers: it's about gain for them vs gain for the whole human population (the second involves just a small marginal gain for the farmers).
FF does not include ad blocking by default, you have download the necessary extensions just as you would on Chrome.
A) Obviously.

B) It might be better spycraft to use this obvious entry to Chinese intelligence in the other direction. Of course TFA may just be cover for that... are there any details that seem plausible but perhaps misleading?

C) These people ain't playin'. No one wants to end up like Shane Todd.
Obviously anecdotal, but when I interviewed with Stripe earlier this year I saw both sides of this - I had a recruiter ghost me for almost a month and a number of times important information about interviews got lost in an email chain. It was about as messy as I would expect from any company that size trying to arrange interviews.

That said, the interview process itself, once it was set up, was one of the best interview processes that I've participated in. The PDF they send about the questions and scope of each interview helped me know how to prepare. Each interview had a specific goal and angle on determining if I was a good engineer, and at the end of the day, I felt like we all had a good idea of each other. I ultimately didn't get the offer, but because the process was robust, I didn't have a regret of "I could have done better" or "These questions were unfair and I should have gotten the job". I was confident that Stripe had a good measure of my skills and mindset, and that they'd simply decided I wasn't a good fit.

It's hard to really ask for more than than from the process itself. I can't say if it's effective for them, but at least to me, it seemed like Stripe had thought more about the interview process than most companies I've ever been with or interviewed with. There's obviously going to be implementation issues and problems around the specific people who have to implement it, but the plan itself seems well conceived.
This isn't Stepwise.
Found an bug in my algorithm. Fix on site. The update in the mobile application will be within a week.
Complete vegan meals? Sure, I believe that. Overall percentage of people who are vegan is very small. And in a fine-dining experience, omnivores will lean toward meat.

I have an acquaintance who is vegetarian, with one exception: Michelin-starred restaurants.
I'm doing the semi-veg lifestyle. Trying to avoid meat more days than not. It was totally environmentally based for me. I want to transition to full veg, but need to work on my prepping skills and planning better.
Reminded me of this drawing of the alphabet: https://images.app.goo.gl/3pR7TQqohUDqM3hf8

It's not the same, but it's left-right symmetrical instead and really neat.
Hrm. Do you also consider different companies all banning various controversial figures at the same time to be coordination?
The police are using red flag laws to seize weapons because the 'private free-market Stasi' told them to?

Red flag laws are mostly used to prevent suicides and domestic violence. They are formal proceedings and due process of law. If the problem is with the law, organize and change it.
Won't blame you, we are not designers by trade, and just purchased illustrations :)
If you skip to about 21:00 in the presentation, the presenter says they added screws.
Not quite. The case is still active (!) in the Federal court in Salt Lake City. The judge lifted the stay on the case on May 14, 2018. Since then, absolutely nothing has happened. But the case has not "gone away" so far as I can tell.
Hong Kong Protests Lead to the Wider Adoption of Bitcoin
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter: Call Stack and Activation Records
But that doesn't mean Uber is losing money by offering it less. It costs the driver more to drive farther for less, Uber doesn't have a higher expense for a longer ride.
Another options that seems promising is Netlify CMS: https://www.netlifycms.org

It puts the content in the git repo so that your SSG can read from that. Then your CI can trigger a build and deploy after each push to the repo.
I think they mean cloud-provider-agnostic.
I just tried this on Python3 on a 64-bit x86 system:

import math
x = 0.49999999999999994
print(x-0.5)
print(math.floor(x+0.5))

I got these printouts:

-5.551115123125783e-17
1

So yes, something less than 1/2, with 1/2 added to it, has a floor of 1 in floating point math.

Yet another reminder that floating point calculations are approximations, and not exact.
Is it bad that the best part of the tutorial for me was to discover fzf? https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fzf-a-command-line-fuzzy-f...
Is semi-veg, semi-vegetarian or semi-vegan?
they don’t believe users should have a choice.

Microsoft adds more telemetry in PowerShell 3: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/new-telemetry-in-p...

And there is an opt out. Guess they do believe users should have a choice.
At that point why use gold at all? If the value is in the marking, not the gold itself, then there are much better ways to create hard to duplicate markings than stamping them into gold bars...
I guess what I meant was that it shows you a lot of details of what trackers are being blocked with individual switches for cookies/scripts etc, which is nice for users who may not be as tech literate.

https://imgur.com/a/REAStmy
Make sure you use exactly that argument in the civil suit against you for the willful destruction of someone else's property.

You have no reasonable expectation of [visual] privacy anywhere that is plainly visible from ground level on the public right-of-way. Erect an opaque privacy barrier if you're worried about snooping cameras. Remember to have the utility lines marked before you dig your post holes.

Anyone, anywhere in the US, is free to photograph or video-record anything they can see, from any place they have a legal right to stand.

If you don't want your emitted photons captured by someone else, capture them yourself before they leave your property.
Look at Prius batteries. You can get cells for $25 a pop and rebuilt batteries for a grand.

Tesla will probably never reach that price point because they're a bigger battery and more on the luxury end of things (indeed a reman engine for a German car will hit your wallet harder than a crate SBC) but there's no reason to believe that the industry will all be hard/expensive to service like Tesla and other luxury brands. Also Tesla is particularly terrible about parts supply chain and locking everything down so you'll probably never see aftermarket batteries apply downward price pressure there.
I find the ethical-philosophical side of it interesting. In the philosophy of ethics, thought experiments can be helpful (or puzzling), like the trolley problem or the Categorical Imperative. So:

Imagine if a wizard finished casting a very complicated and resource-intensive spell and the result is that every living cow, pig, chicken and turkey in the meat industry were replaced with a clone of a dog you've met. In the thousands of crowded compound pens, the millions of tiny cages, on the assembly lines facing captive bolt pistols like the one from No Country for Old Men-- there is now that dog. In that moment, what would be an example of something happening that is more unethical? Of course the answer would be different for each person; some people would have the point that we can't compare apples to oranges. For me I find it hard to imagine a war or a process of exploitation in 2019 that measures up.
Also misleading because it is not that the existence of these holes is physically impossible, rather that their formation was extraordinarily unlikely. They can exist along a range of masses, and it is technically possible to make nearly any mass in the range by merging holes. It just very difficult to imaging how such mergers would have happened.
As much as I'd love to support this, it lacks some of the LTE bands that I'd need.

Worse, too many of the newer phones have jumped on the no replaceable battery/no headphone jack/no MicroSD slot/all glass bandwagon. Sigh.
There is this [0][1]. As for my example above I don't have nearly enough data to draw a conclusion. But enough for suspicion when combined with the previous links.

[0] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/04/10/uber-showing-dri...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/uber-lyft...
Is it just 50 million or could there be more that hasn't been reported? Is the money used to bribe officials, pay for espionage efforts worth $10b? Is a crisis based on the base value or the overall cost that comes from it?
Checking equality on NaN doesn't work the way it does for other numbers. Your test might have had a fatal flaw.
The majority of places I have been put more than a single sauce. I've found mediterranean places love their sauces and it's something you usually get a lot of.
You reduce the number of vehicles available in those rare cases.
I did not know that. However, a couple of caveats (from your link):

> This is an experimental feature

> When using this feature, you might experience significant Oracle VM VirtualBox performance degradation on some host systems.
If I'm hearing this right, this is pretty much money laundering
You can see some examples here: https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/

Additionally, a lot of use cases were discussed at the recent JuliaCon (and in years past): https://www.youtube.com/user/JuliaLanguage/videos
If you're in the Portsmouth, UK area, Portsmouth Museum also has a couple of rooms given over to old games consoles from the 1980s onwards. Some are still running and you can play on them.
If you don't want clickbait headlines, pay for quality writing in the form of subscriptions.

Sign up for quality publications, maybe a few on the local level and a few with a wider distribution, and read articles. Send them occasional letters saying how important those long-form articles are for you, and they're why you're subscribed.

If you want high quality, sober writing for free, who do you expect to pay for it?
Preparing your project being open sourced
> This needs a bit more technical detail. If you mean they'll combine IP + other fingerprinting, we can work on mitigation techniques there too.

Yeah, but instead of playing cat and mouse, just make it illegal and fine anyone caught violating it.

Honestly, banning tracking would end the race to the bottom and be good for publishers and consumers. It probably won't affect FB & Google because they are too big to be displaced. It may kill a bunch of middlemen, but they are leaches and should die anyway.
Also an option: a real GUI
For me it works fine in latest Firefox in both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.04.
In a word, yes. In many words, it can be difficult to get a patch merged (or even reviewed) as each device might be maintained by specific (or group of) person(s) who may or may not want to take patches from other individuals or organizations.

Patches to Base? I have no idea, but I suspect it would be easier provided it lines up with their Charter.
Actually that's a really good idea to move things towards checking compatibility with standards rather than by user agent. The hard job would be forcing these broken sites to fix themselves.

UPDATE: the idea below of Safari not updating it's UA seems to be a good way to move this forward.
Curious as well. Currently trying to integrate ut for a client with a Gatsby template. Has been very smooth sailing so far.
Why the Periodic Table of Elements Is More Important Than Ever
z14 and Power 9 appear to support decimal integer and float. Does Python on those processors support their use?
Isn't this the same browser that by default allows through certain ads to fund its own development? Or that has replaced ads on web pages with its own approved ads?
The Nextcloud Mission and Principles
It's always your fault, not your users fault. Even if it's your users fault, they have the money and you want it, so you have to fix it.

Try to get some people that may be users and make them use the app in front of you. Ask nicely. I remember that someone offered a free coffee in exchange of the help.

The most important part is that you must be 3 foots away, with your mouth closed and your arms crossed behind your back. Don't try to help. Don't talk. Don't give advice.

Only watch!

Did I say that you MUST have your arms crossed?

Watch and see what they do and where they are stuck. When they are completely stuck talk about their problems. Watch a few, and try to fix the problems they have. Get more guinea pigs and iterate.

---

In some internal tool for the university I had similar problems. For example, after the presentation page they didn't understand how to continue. So I added a yellow arrow that appears after 10 or 20 seconds, something like the Windows 95 arrow. It fixed the problem. It's not very elegant, but they can't escape :). But it was important that they can complete the task without help.
>How is them going to court a civic duty ?

Imagine if it was you or a loved one that was murdered and a neighbor's camera caught the suspect breaking into the house.

>You could testify once that this is your camera and here are the mp4 files (and their sha sum). And that would be it.

This is just how the rules of evidence work (also equal protection and due process), you can't just submit video, there needs to be testimony to introduce the video into evidence. Further, the defendant has a constitutional right to cross examine the person who introduces the video into evidence.

>Equally, technically they didn't see anything as the video caught by the camera could actually be made up.

Yes, and the Defense will hammer this point home. You didn't see the murder right? If the video actually shows what it alleges to show, the defendant breaking into the home, you have no evidence the defendant actually killed the homeowner right? You have no evidence the defendant even confronted the deceased correct? Of course there are other questions about handling the video and chain of custody, but the obvious being was the video edited (by you or the police after turning it over to them)? Do you have a copy of the original video you turned over to police (is there a difference between the copies, etc...).

As another commented said there is no difference between the video and if you eye-witnessed the suspect entering the home, you would still testify one way or the other (including acknowledging you didn't see the suspect commit the murder and have no knowledge if the suspect committed the murder, its possible someone else could have broke in when you weren't watching, or around back, etc...)
Fear. I think they are over-cautious. They don't want AGPL code running in an environment that could be perceived as part of our customer environment.
His employment contract included binding arbitration, which is reportedly completed.

There are no further civil avenues.
You could probably just crack open the browser extension, prettify it, and send a few sample requests to get the hang of whatever API is used pretty quickly. I doubt it will provide one, as there aren't many users demanding it.
Beyond the Browser: Getting Started with Serverless WebAssembly
It makes me wonder how difficult it can be to do diving work in places like the north of Nunavut. Has anyone in Ycombinator done something similar? How is it like?
> To seek out Ring video that has not been publicly shared, officers can use a special “Neighbors Portal” map interface to designate a time range and local area, up to half a square mile wide, and get Ring to send an automated email to all users within that range, alongside a case number and message from police.

Is "half a square mile wide" supposed to mean a square that's half a mile on each side?
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