skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An organization involved in as much sketchy drama as Uber has probably doesn't want its internal communications on someone else's server.
Anti slip would be amazing. Without a case my iPhone X slips on every surface, including my hands.

The notch isn't so bad, I'll fullscreen videos and don't even notice it.
"... whose goal is to stop taking hidden donations from child sex traffickers and murderous princes for reputation building"

nope, wait, didn't see that in the press release, taps still open boys.
Yeah, but don’t you find it a bigger deal that “what’s wrong” is the bro culture, crazy work ours, and ageism?
Firebase Test Lab updated JUnit Report and broke all downstream clients
Had to triple check what site the article is on, the level of writing shrank my brain five fold, the amount of repetition and general lack of information is just too much.
> You

Who?

> defunded higher ed

I am unaware of this. I thought public funding increased over the last decade or so.
It stems from John Perry Barlow and the Cyberspace Declaration of Independence.

There was a lot of discussion of what the emerging net was, and what it was going to be. A society, a state, governable or ungovernable, above or separate from such things, etc. Which led to the Declaration.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Yeah I totally see this trend too. I think there's a reasonable hybrid model between private group chats and traditional social networking (i.e. photo albums, events, payments, posts, etc).

In fact, I've been working on this idea for a while now and just launched on HN a few hours ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933272. It's definitely a response to current trends of people leaving social media due to negative effects on social and mental health. I saw this happening to my friend groups first hand and knew something had to change.
I have a pixel, it's 5 inches and it feels absolutely enormous compared to the SE. I don't like it at all and yet it's classified as "small" today.

Not a fan at all, it's just too big for me. I'm 6'1"
It's absurd Apple is selling "Pro" phones without refresh rates over 60. What year is it? 2016? A whole bunch of phone manufacturers are making 90+ hz screens.
I quit posting and checking Facebook roughly a year ago (I still have an account for event invitations, but I've disabled all other notifications and uninstalled the app). I still have an Instagram account, and page through the feed once or twice a week (in the past, it was usually a few times a day), but I haven't posted in about six months.

I'm less anxious and stressed out, and generally less annoyed at people around me. My initial reason for avoiding FB was because I was tired of being bombarded by rageful posts about politics and social justice issues (regardless of whether or not I agreed with those posts) day in and day out.

On occasion, after asking a friend a specific question about their life, they're surprised I don't know the answer already because they'd posted about it on FB. I then have to explain that I haven't checked FB (aside from events) in a year. No one has even come close to complaining about having to tell me something separately; people generally enjoy talking about themselves, especially when prompted, so that shouldn't be a surprise.

I still take a similar quantity of photos, even though I don't post them anywhere anymore. I do share photos taken during a group activity/trip/outing, but privately, through Google Photos, and only to the people who were there.

When I flip through Instagram, I'm definitely less engaged than I used to be. I don't really comment anymore unless I have something substantive to say/ask, and I usually don't bother to "like" anything.

I have several healthy in-person friend groups, and some remote ones. I hear about what's going on with my friends in person, or via smaller group chats or one-on-one texting. I certainly don't see all the other things my random FB "friends" (at ~1100, of course the majority of them are acquaintances at most) are posting about their lives, but I find I don't really miss it. While it might be a novelty to see what some random old high school or college classmate is doing day-to-day, I'd much rather turn that limited energy and brain space toward my closer friends.

Regarding news, I get a daily politics newsletter in my email inbox, so I can restrict that to a small chunk of time and only pursue things further if I want to. For other types of news, I have to seek it out specifically, which works well for me.
Stocks vs. Bonds: The Difference
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How exactly? How different it would be to pass a header instead of switching path ?

Im was writing such tests in spock and pacts.io and it was extremely easy to do both.
In Amazon’s defense, there wasn’t anything as useful to their needs as AWS before AWS.

If a different company had dominated the on-demand computing space before Amazon’s peak load issues became too big a problem, they very may as well have gone with that and not made AWS.

Almost nobody needs to write their own chat app. Slack is fine.
> I'll probably just pull my iPhone 1 out of storage -- it still works

The phone may still be functional, and the iPhone may be smarter, but I recently pulled out a flip phone from that era and it couldn't connect to any nearby cell towers. It was too out-of-date.
> How do you explain Amazon, then? They invented AWS to sell books on the Internet.

The first AWS service was launched over 15 years after Amazon.com started selling books on the Internet. It wasn’t even a separate brand until after Amazon S3, SQS and EC2 were launched.
>> Just maybe realization how stupid it is.

This is me and cable TV.

I'm curious what arguments you've heard that you think are stupid.

I like having a way to contact old class-mates, etc. I've moved a lot and feel very sentimental about a lot of old friends. On the other hand, there are other people I'd just as soon never hear from again. I'm torn on this. But it doesn't require me being active on social media anyway - just maintaining the friends list and occasionally messaging people.

I like it as a convenient way to share photos with people who give a crap - siblings like to see their nieces & nephews growing up, and my wife uses ChatBooks heavily. And I get a lot of positive feedback on my humorous posts - which I continue to do for my own ego and because I know other people get value from it.

But beyond that I find Facebook just makes me angry, and I rarely scan my feed and have unfollowed a lot of people who just post crap. I'm curious to hear other reasons I should use it less :)
On what grounds would they sue? Not only is it completely legal to copy a competitor's design (in most cases), Uber isn't selling this to other companies.
It is a common misconception that Apple is obsessed with thinness when it comes to iPhones. Since the iPhone 6, each iteration has been thicker:

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/apple-iphone-product-...
No.

An arc discharge is a hot, high current density process. [1] The discharge in a fluorescent lamp is a glow discharge: low current density, moderate temperature and extended volume. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_discharge
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Use this as well. Great app! Found that I need to sleep more :).
I wouldn't put RabbitMQ in this category — it is a classical message broker, not a log. Once you've consumed a message, it's gone, unless you have set it up so ACKed messages are funneled into another queue, but that stuff is finicky and doesn't patch over the fact that underneath it's designed for mutable, ephemeral queues. In particular, you can't peek back into the queue to find older items. You have zero visibility into the contents of the queuem, and you certainly can't treat it as a dependable database.

And, as you say, fragile. I've run RMQ in production for years and I would be very happy if I could throw it out. It's the least well-behaved component in any stack I've used it in. Even Elasticsearch (shudder) is better at not losing data. Not just the clustering, either. Even for a persistent queue, RMQ will start to chug RAM for any message that is delivered but not yet ACKed, for example, making it dangerous for apps that want to batch large groups of messages for efficiency. (It seems to me that it was not designed for that at all, but for one-by-one consumption, which is of course much slower.)

I'm looking for a mature distributed log that is clustered and lightweight. Kafka except, say, written in Go.
I'd be curious to know if the AWS credits are available to people who have used AWS before, or had AWS credits before. In my experience, once you're a customer, they won't let you use any more credits (regardless of size, or how many/few credits you used the first time around).
I believe that the "narrator" on Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is done with text-to-speech. It's ironic given the subject matter, but the intonation and pronunciation is just too consistent and repetitive. A lot of reviews comment on the speaker (the underlying voice is an upper class English accent with a rather actorly demeanor), but I think they're being thrown off or maybe find it convincing enough not to consider this possiblity.
With normal human narrators there's always a bit of variety whereas with this audiobook it was just identical, like a machine. I ended up returning the book as it was tiresome and distracting to listen to, but it shows the potential.

As others have said, to an extent you could program this without AI using some current techniques but it would be impractical. An area that might help in this regard is efforts with GST, global style tokens, as this should allow more variation. Clearly more work needs to be done to get it to be more acceptable, but there are some examples here: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_...
Glad you have so much faith it is wrong! Stone the infidel! Capitalism is the one true faith!
Yeah, I heard about it from HN and glad I did. Might quit Facebook to read Ward.
I actually think there are two main camps here: people who take photos to share to their followers, and people who take photos for their own recollection and to share with the people closest to them (e.g. family photo albums).

I totally agree that the former is toxic and damages our mental health in many ways, like a digital version of smoking and vaping.

I recently launched a tool for our generation to manage and maintain a healthy relationship with social media - it moves away from the current trend of superficiality that exists on FB and IG right now.

I'd super appreciate if you all checked it out and let me know what you think! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20933272
I can no longer edit the comment, but I've just tested the Firefox extension, and both CF-Connecting-IP and X-Forwarded-For are set to a Cloudflare IP address, so the user's IP address is hidden. CF-IPCountry contains the location of the Cloudflare IP address.

The requests appear to be routed through the nearest Cloudflare data center [1], so the service likely reveals the coarse location of users through these proxy IP addresses.

I do not have an Enterprise account to check the True-Client-IP [2] header.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

[2] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/206776727-W...
Biz cards are personally guaranteed and corp cards are not.
Capitalism will reach its end one day, long after we are gone, but that will be because of its own technologic achievements and not because of 19th-century socialist philosophy. Capitalism will become so efficient at some point that in its quest for more and more efficiency, it will end resource scarcity. Once scarcity is eliminated, capitalism "withers" away.

That's my hope anyway. In the short-term, I'd like to see free markets begin erasing more borders and reducing the number of nations. Hopefully, the recent nationalist fad is just that and we can get to more EU style setups, more globalism, and more cooperation. A disgusting amount of resources is spent on the military. Capitalism has the ability to solve our problems. Borders are in the way.

Edit: Is it the socialists, anarchists, or capitalists downvoting me? Hard to say. My ideas definitely don't have many friends.
Is Ellroy modern enough? The Coen brothers have done at least two noirs as well, though not in prose.

Patanoir deserves an honorary mention.
The Adventures of Telemachus
Finally! They should have renamed a decade ago.
Glad your such a critic of US foreign policy. Didn't expect to meet someone like you on Hacker News.
While not a "tiny amount of data" Uber's problem seems like one of those embarrassingly parallel ones where partitioning by location is trivial, and accuracy of all the data isn't as important as knowing everyone's location right now. I'd guess any relatively popular MMO deals with similar things under much tighter latency constraints.

Data heavy to me means terabytes of data with potentially multiple dimensions, like Google or Facebook.

Not to say that Uber's problem isn't challenging, but I don't expect that the amount of data is necessarily the problem.
> on Sprint

Found the problem!
I solved the too-slippery case on my Windows Phone by putting some clear skateboard tape on the back edges.

I should do this on my XR...
At big companies, this is often the preferable alternative. Making and releasing quick bug fixes on internal projects is way faster than open source and public projects. Ownership and control is critical.
Mexican national anthem at midnight and 5AM, as well as a lot of mexican public service announcements and election advertising.
This is just unaccetable
Works for me in Firefox Quantum 69.0 on macOS.
> The ancillary market exists to prevent that. Standing contracts are posted to bring fast generation like hydro power or gas turbines on the second power gets too low or too high.

Ahhh, so that's how it works. Thanks.

> In Southern Australia there is very little of those resources and due to technical neglect and the governments pro-coal policies,

I struggle with that. South Australia is in the position it is is (50% renewable, 100% on occasions) because it has very little coal, and what they do have is low quality. In fact they import it from QLD and NSW. All that posturing from federal liberal politicians blaming SA Labor for choosing renewables is just that. In reality they didn't have much choice. It's very hard to be pro-coal when you don't have any.

> Nuclear is also highly capital intensive and benefits just as much as renewables from storage.

I've never thought about it - but that's probably correct. However I'm firmly in the camp of "if it was truly cheaper than coal or renewables, nuclear would be everywhere now". The data makes it fairly plain safety concerns are overblown - it's actually one of the safer forms of energy production. If it was cheap the loud protests from the anti-nuclear nuclear lobby would be ignored, just as the protests from the anti-wind lobby are mostly ignored.
Stripe's Corporate Card can use your history on Stripe and other signals as well!
Lucky guys. I wish I could need as little as 4 hours so that I have more free time.
Why an iPhone 8 over a 7? Is the performance much different?

Price wise an iPhone 7 Renewed on Amazon is only ~$250-260 (128gb) versus an iPhone 8 which is around ~$400 (64gb).
Heollo
Technologies like this suddenly make a lot of science fiction seem outdated. :)
Can't speak for OP, but I'd imagine most of the data in the system is metadata - i.e. very tiny. Sure they're moving a lot of packets, but an entire ride's data could probably fit in 100KB. If they have a million drivers active, what data do they actually need on them? Profile, GPS location, type? Few KB. Keeping the log of all rides probably takes up the most, but still, relatively small. In any case they essentially deal with small, highly compressible metadata.

Think of that vs. a company like Instragram where people are uploading probably terabytes of media content every day, and they have to maintain/host all that content to be served on-demand basically forever. This is probably a low-key reason for pushing "stories" - they get a reprieve by only having to store that for 24 hours. In any case, you're looking at orders of magnitude larger data usage in all aspects.
It's because we had our conference this week and chose to launch a lot of new stuff. :)
Basically why I bought a Moto G⁷ Power: it's about the same size as all the other phones these days, and it actually has two to three days of battery life. It's about the thickness of an iPhone 5, which was fine.

I personally think the iPhone 4S's display was a good size and resolution, and the form factor is good for human hands. If they could close in the bezels a bit, cut off a tiny bit of chin and forehead, and make the shell like the iPhone 5C... and make it run Android... I'd probably be game.

They could probably procure a really nice display in terms of colour, switching speed, sustained brightness, and black levels, maybe even increase the refresh rate to 120Hz for the interaction latency benefit. At 960x640, the quality of each of those pixels could be spectacular, and it'd further help with the end-to-end latency.

For the last couple of years I didn't ever bring a smartphone with me, just my trusty Nokia 106, which itself gets about a month of standby time per charge. I still carry the 106 because I'm still not used to having to charge a device so often.
> my partner has a large phone and carries a backpack(!?) with her everywhere

Bringing the SCR-300 back in style?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-300
Ahh yes. Which is why the members of Hacker News were so into solidarity with the Yellow vesters. Ohh, wait its only when Chinese citizens protest that its good.
Sim, pergunte pro coração! Ele tem a resposta que procura, basta ter fé em Deus.
Thank you...I wish I knew what he meant by that.
But the Spark EV is electric and used ones are around $10k. I'd argue that the Spark EV at the price is a better choice than an early Leaf at the price due to better battery management. Also they are fun to drive. Source, on my second Spark EV (first was leased).
Thanks for the links! That blog post is great.

I've encountered the issue before, but never knew the name. After bumping into it a couple of times I just changed up how I use react-redux.
I was hoping their "One more thing" would be tracking tags with precise positioning and an AR viewer to see exactly where something is placed in the world.
I did the same, about 18 months ago. It's a definite improvement in my mental health.

I choose not to see it as uninformed, but informed in more focused ways. Most of the news we see doesn't actually matter, there is no action to be taken by the individual. By filtering that out you can focus on things important to you, where you can take action. Family, work, local community if you're inclined.
This is part of the black market for THC carts in the Midwest: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2019/09/...
It hurts hard.
I'm taking day off tomorrow for long overdue day out with my daughter.
But they're not paying for cars now. Buying a fleet of self-driving cars to cover all the cities they are in will require many billions of capital investment.

> It would also drastically decrease ubers cost of entering new cities

Entering a new market will require buying hundreds of cars + investing in facilities to maintain those cars.
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Do you ever find it odd that the "bad guys" always seem to subvert these movements? It seems to me that socialism has a 100% failure rate.
This is an unsustainable business model. If you draw a Gaussian surface around it, the end result is that Uber/Lyft will destroy the taxi industry (which was execrable, but put a fair amount of kids through college) and replace it with pauperized “contractors” too naive to calculate depreciation. And at the same ultimate fares, but with less share for the drivers.

Enjoy it while you can, I guess.
This is me. I'm still rocking an iPhone 7 but use an iPhone X as my work phone. I think the iPhone 11 will get the upgrade for my personal device but I'll probably still with the X for work unless I notice a huge difference in camera quality.
I have only had an Amex decades ago, but it was issued when I was too young to drink in the US. Maybe eighteen? Could have been nineteen. Something around that age. The company decided to send me to the US and somebody went "Oh, this kid should have a card so we can sort out expenses that way" and they ordered me an Amex. I never signed anything to my knowledge, just a corporate Amex arrived for me in internal mail.

In fact it wasn't even delivered until after I arrived in the US. At check-in (to the hotel, not the airport) my boss had fax'd them a picture of her Amex card and that was good enough for them. When she flew in a few days later I tried to meet her in the bar, and that's when I found out my first crazy thing about America - I wasn't allowed in the bar.

Very different times. But I'd be surprised if Amex now cares about exactly who the people are its corporate customers want cards for. Why would they? These cards aren't for you to use as personal payment cards, they're your employer's card and you're just authorised to use it for work.
I moved away from home to study, then even farther for work. I usually see my family once every one or two years since I left during our summer gatherings. Couple of years ago I realised I will see them maybe 20 maybe 30 times if I am lucky, hopefully more.

This has been the hardest realisation of my life and I try really hard to be there for the 1-2 weeks I can see them and try to make the time we spent count.
I don't have a fully formed theory, but I believe it is a combination of things:

* there aren't any real EU tech giants

* the regulatory environment is tough on businesses: it's hard to start one and follow all the rules. The rules can also be different across EU states.

* poorer local market. Europeans generally don't have as much disposable income as Americans. It's harder to get a good amount of people to pay 20 EUR / month for a SaaS.

* different investor culture: if you failed once, you'll always fail thinking

* corporate and personal taxes are high, so there's not a huge difference between making 50k and 80k pre-tax.

* overall tougher social mobility, making it hard for top talent to get to the right people for funding, ideas, mentoring, etc

The lack of large and successful pure tech companies, means there are a bunch of good engineers, but little competition for them, which means lower salaries.

Some people say healthcare and more holiday days are another reason salaries are lower, but I don't believe that. First off, 2 more weeks of holiday doesn't add up to a 100k pay cut, neither does paying for private insurance. Second, it's nice that there's a govt run fallback option, but anyone that has had to deal with the system (in most, but not all EU states) knows that you eventually end up having to pay out of pocket or take private insurance for anything more serious anyway.
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This guy thinks he’s safe.
Alcohol doesn't really unwind you. And relying on it to help you relax or code is probably not a good idea.

Instead I recommend doing something mildly physical between getting home and coding. Housework, playing with the kids if you have them, dog for a walk, or a mild jog should do the trick. Alternatively having a warm bath works well for me.
Ellroy's noir feels derivative for half a heartbeat.

Then it stops.

Then your heart stops and your realize it's art. And your only three pages in, pal.
It’s obviously a contrived case.

It’s harder to just use state for example, when you need a ref to a canvas to get the 2d context.
Good ninght my friend, good luck to you.
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