skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fair.com did something similar and they call it subscriptions. They list dealer inventory and you can "subscribe" to a vehicle. They raised something like 1 billion from outside investors and just laid off 40% of staff. I do not think you are competing with Hertz. My nephew just rents a zip car when he needs a whip on the weekends. They are all over the city, he lives on the upper east side. Turo is not allowed in NYC. The main problem in the city is parking, accessibility and cost. Typically you only need a car on the weekends thats IF you can afford it. Everything in the city expensive. If you can target start ups in the city and the engineers that work there and bring them the cars to them when they need them it could be an idea worth testing. So many ways to slice the market on this.
I'm sure buying 1 airpods per year (per month even) is less waste than buying plastic-packed groceries every day (i.e. what we need to survive). I too oppose this, but to pretend AirPods are the real issue is just FUD. We need to have laws / taxes against this, but they need to be fair - not people e.g. promoting anti-AirPods policies but supporting /ignoring plastic-wrapped veggies, or promoting anti-meat policies but tolerating non-electric cars. Institute taxes that accurately account for the actual environmental impact of a product, and let (1) the people, and (2) the market sort it out (by reducing waste, improving recycling, deciding whether they want to spend more on meat or on petrol, etc.)
What CLI userlands (POSIX, Powershell, Plan9) are missing, IMHO, is a self-describing serialization "stream container" format, like Avro (https://avro.apache.org), the interchange format used in Hadoop, Kafka, and several other systems of the "gluing IO-streaming components of different languages together into an ETL pipeline" variety. (Which is, of course, exactly what you're doing when you write a Unix pipeline, just in-the-small.)

Where in self-describing data formats like JSON or XML (or even the more efficient encodings like ASN.1), every term is "described in place", taking up a lot of encoding overhead and bandwidth; in a self-describing stream container format, each encoded stream first encodes a schema (or the ID of one) for what it's about to transmit; and then transmits the terms encoded using the schema.

Because schemas are referred to by embedding them in the document in a normalized form, each stream received by a client can be handled by a hybrid approach between building up just-in-time dynamic parsers from the schema, if it's not known; or recognizing known schemas (by e.g. hashing the representation of the schema, which works since it's in a normal form) and using a baked-in decoder for that specific schema if available.

This would work pretty well as an enhancement to standard POSIX CLI IO-streaming tools; they'd be able to use specific logic to optimize the parsing of a few schema-encoded types they "expect", while also faithfully (but less efficiently) handling data of any type by falling back to a generic parser routine. (By which I don't mean "falling back to treating the stream as text", but rather "falling back to treating the stream as the custom type that the sender specified." Sort of like how, in most languages, you can compile regexes that are available at compile time, but also have a regex interpreter for regexes received at runtime.)
Electoral Competition with Fake News [pdf]
GE makes in-wall Z-wave light switches that work wonderfully. No cloud dependency, and you can control them with open source software like HomeAssistant.
Is that a dig at Randall Munroe? Went back to click, pleasantly amused.
I disagree about Walmart possibly being caught flat footed. While it's valid to point out that Walmart Labs exists Wich means Walmart has a finger in the data science and ML pie, Walmart got caught off guard with online sales, to the point that they are credible competition to Amazon Prime - better in some areas, worse in others - this fact is barely known, with most of my friends (which is hardly the most scientific data set) happy customers of Amazon Prime. If Walmart was caught so flat-footed, and so unknown in this area, arguably central to the future of their business, it's hard to see them as a credible threat to Amazon.com or AWS, and not for lack of trying re: Amazon.com.
Interesting this dropped so quickly after 13.1.3, which was reported to have terrible battery life bugs. These days I'm giving iOS and MacOS updates at least a week before taking the plunge. Seems there are some pretty major bugs still lurking. Hopefully the fact that they're calling this 13.2 means we're past all that now.
Don't forget the amazing AOLserver, which was a very elegant web applications server with Tcl as the native template language. This was a great environment.
Is there a docker-compatible logging client that pipes to hosted grafana ?

I've been wondering about why there are not more elastic based or grafana based hosted solutions.
That's not specific to Objective-C, it's a GCC extension to the C language.
That still does not answer the question of "what are we asking permission for?"

Why that is a hard question can be understood by reading through the discussions in the OP.
My Garmin Forerunner 35 does a good job of sleep tracking. And it lasts around 10 days on a charge. (without using the GPS.) What model do you have?
Interesting thought, and looking at how many Romance languages evolved from Latin in the past, there might be something to it. At the same time there are languages that managed to re-unite the different dialects, at least in education and literature, I am thinking about the Hochdeutsch for German [1]. So we have at least a counter example. Would be interesting to know what are the factors that lead for similar languages/dialects to become one or the opposite.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch
thanks for the thorough response!

i’m not now, nor ever have i been a member of a national chain’s loyalty program. as i had noted, my experience is an outlier. i’ve never had the dreaded endless-line issue, could handle two signature and a half dozen initial boxes without it being an undue burden (at the time). i never rent from airport locations, only local franchisees. this alone may account for my experience; a small franchise location in an area with a major airport may be more inclined to strive for great customer experience where possible. obviously my experience doesn’t scale!!

best of luck. i’m sure you will see success and light a fire under national chains to up their game. win:win
I keep seeing new Apple Watches being released, and I keep seeing them add new features I haven’t seen people asking for instead of focusing on the obvious issue - the atrocious battery life.

Putting a 3G modem in my watch is the antithesis to what I see most people asking for - a watch that can actually last more than 24 hours without having to charge it.

When my phone lasts longer than my watch, there is something fundamentally wrong.

Hopefully this purchase will result in some half-decent Android smart watches - that I’ll never purchase anyways because Google - but for those willing to sell their data out at least they will have the option to do so on decent hardware and hopefully software.
Perhaps using numbers that are an order-of-magnitude out of line aren't helpful to your main point? If you're talking about replacing 100 items per year in a world where even ardent consumers of electronics own less than one-tenth that an replace, on average, none, that seems like a hard case to make.

I think there's a trend toward seeing electronics as consumable that bothers me, and I try to think carefully about my purchases, and yet somehow I've still ended up with at least eight items that use non-replaceable batteries, and maybe others that are "disposable" for other reasons.

Still, for each item I own, I've considered the "disposable" nature and yet bought it anyway.
Not sure if "hey, it's not JUST for speculation it's good for criming too!" is much of an argument, but you do you.
1. We have a business account with Uber and just pay them based on the number of vouchers that are used.

2. We don't put mileage limits on our cars, so dealers don't really have a way of limiting mileage once the vehicles are on the platform.
If every engineer took the extra 10 minutes to enable IPv6 for their AWS services we would have a much better availability.

I believe it's less than 50 lines of Terraform code to enable it for the standard Application Load Balancer use case.
All I'm saying is that Zuckerberg could have answered clearly and correctly with yes or no answers for some of the questions but he didn't.
His book Quantum Computing Since Democritus is very good too.
For those on devices where the button doesn't work, here's a direct link to the extra panel: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1481723502-20161214after....
"Bitfinex claims to have believed, per their court filings, that CCC subsidized their services through net interest.

...

"This would make sense for a financial institution, but it doesn’t make sense for a money launderer, because risk-free assets generate very little interest (1% of a billion dollars doesn’t pay for the minimum viable financial institution) ..."

I find that interesting ... 1% of $1B is $10M ... and I appreciate that there is a tremendous complication and expense involved in creating a bank but I have to think it must be possible to bootstrap something like Everbank[1] with $10M or less ...

Can anyone confirm or deny ?

[1] Everbank (not owned by TIAA) is an online-only, no-branches honest-to-god US bank.
The Case Against Patents (2012) [pdf]
>> navigate and bluff and take risks

All of this is _much_ easier to do when you're pulling down six figures right out of school.
I don't know what a bunch of words like "event" and "amplitude" (of... what?) mean in context, to the point that I was able to nod along but didn't actually understand any of it.
"iOS 13.2 also includes new Siri privacy settings that allow you to opt in or opt out of sharing your Siri interactions with Apple."

Without sounding all tin-foil hat, how is Apple planning to prove they are honoring opt-outs? Are they going to have an independent audit or are we supposed to just trust them?
Yes, as it works right now. You can't sync it to your phone. (through your phone). You sync it to their server and your phone also connects to the server.

There's presumably some caching on your phone, but the server is the source of truth, and I don't think you can get updated info on your phone without it round-tripping to their server first.
There is some talk of the recently announced PineTime (https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PineTime) running RebbleOS. Should be cheaper than the Mi Bands with a more traditional watch form factor and decent battery life!
Apple has a very long and very known history of ignoring problems until they can't. They'll get away with terrible/missing docs until they can't.

> You are making emotional attacks...

Am I?
Typically the minimum rental age is 21 but I see in your FAQ it's actually 25 for Carve[1].

I feel like there is a huge market for ages <21 as that would be the time that new adults would need a car and would not necessarily accept the responsibility of paying monthly loans or have access to credit that would allow them to buy one outright. They would have the capacity to have enough money saved to rent a car for a few days or weeks, but they are turned away by every player in the space.

I guess this is more of a general question than pointed at you, but since you guys have researched the market maybe you'd be equipped to answer it. How come nobody offers rentals to <21 drivers? Furthermore, a question for Carve specifically, why 25 instead of 21? Would dealerships not bite even though the common minimum age for rentals is 21?

I understand that accident rates among this demographic are incredibly high and that would complicate your liability. What I don't get is why seemingly nobody in the car rental business wants to service this market - couldn't you just offer beaters or end-of-life cars to high risk drivers? Nobody needs a brand new Nissan Murano to drive 70 miles upstate. You can do the same drive in a 25 year old Corolla. I suppose I am biased because I am <21 myself (20), but I also own my car outright so I wouldn't be in the target market for this.

[1] https://help.drivecarve.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031105291-H...
The microphone in Airpods is pretty bad too. One of my colleagues uses them paired to his Mac (maybe that's the issue?) and it sounds like the built in microphone on cheap laptops.
Let's definitely chat! Shoot me an email at amos@drivecarve.com

Re: the UX feedback--I'll let Sam know!
While the theory of road trains is sound, in practice they cannot work as well because of other theory. Getting into/out of a road train is hard. If there is a traffic jam in the other lane, the entire lane is limited to the traffic jam.

Road trains save some space, but they don't solve traffic jams (which already have cars bumper to bumper). There is no way around the fact that cars need a lot of lane space to work well, even in road train model. (steel rail solves that by packing humans tighter, while giving them more space)
When I was big into running I wanted a smart watch that could play my music and connect to my headphones without needing to take my bulky phone with me

Other reasons for wanting spotify is a remote control. When I had my pebble and my phone was in my pocket I'd often use it to skip songs, drop the volume a bit, etc without having to pull out my phone each time
Having abusive parents is not your failure. That analogy does not work.
If you were given the opportunity to receive a housing voucher, would it have helped you get to where you are today?

I doubt it.

I was offered housing on more than one occasion. Sometimes, it was a friend sincerely trying to help but it was very far away (thousands of miles) and substandard. I have health issues. I need my housing to not be making me sicker than I already am.

Sometimes, it was in exchange for sleeping with them. This was a non starter for various reasons.

A home is more than a roof over your head. It means you belong, you have some kind of security and so forth. Some homeless people float from dive hotel to dive hotel and are not literally out in the street. It's still a huge hardship to live that way.

I have researched housing policy and homelessness. We have some serious housing supply issues. I'm trying to figure out how to write about that on a blog called Project: SRO. It's so far got an About page.

I'm not up for trying to outline our complicated housing supply issues in an HN post. I think I need an entire website for that and I'm struggling with where to start that explanation.

Re addresses. I always (technically) had a mailing address while homeless and usually had access to mail service. I would like to see more mailing address services for the homeless, plus more free phones and some kind of storage locker service. People sometimes have job interviews and don't know where to stash their backpack.

I provide various informational resources in the form of a group of websites. This includes talking about making money online.

A lot of homeless people have personal handicaps and a regular job may be a poor fit. I began doing freelance work while homeless as one piece of the puzzle for resolving my own issues. I think that's a better option for some people.
I wonder why generating noise at these identification channels isn't discussed in a broader way.
The problem is that other companies taxes and fees can vary widely. Plus, they will have a high pressure insurance pitch when you rent. Not sure if your product includes that or not.
California's Gasoline Panic
> They're completely free to decline such business and refuse to run political advertisements.

Except that if politicians want to run ads on Facebook, and Facebook declines, then politicians will, with impunity, have the power to enact laws that will damage Facebook.

People who end up in a position of power can be vindictive.
It's really nice to listen to music while running without your phone with an Apple Watch, it would be a really compelling feature for Fitbit to also support this functionality.
I'd agree with you if the proposed fixes were "freebies." But they're not, far from it.

Each proposed fix breaks a substantial number of websites, and you're breaking tons of websites for something you know can be trivially bypassed from the get-go.

There's certain times/reasons to break a tons of sites. SameSite being one of them. Mandating Https across resources was another. This group of hacks that don't really fix the core issue, is definitely not one of those times.

If someone can legit fix it, it might be worth some breakage, but the fix has to be far better than the proposals here (and to be honest I don't think it is actually possible to fix, a simple font can undo any amount of work).
> This was clearly not something the tester liked. Also, to add insult to injury, they dinged me for not writing a cascaded nil-coalescing operator. The code they wanted me to write was difficult to understand, and absolutely not one bit faster.

The interviewer probably wanted you to write idiomatic Swift. That seems reasonable.
> This chestnut gets trotted out pretty regularly. What it ignores is the economic activity, largely untraceable, relating to payments outside of the US regulated financial system.

You follow this up with some political points that I generally agree with, but I don't believe have anything to do whatsoever with any significant portion of cryprocurrency's use.

Beyond speculation, cryptocurrency is used for:

- Money laundering (to evade taxes, regulations, sanctions etc)

- Various forms of financial fraud

- Payments for illegal transactions (usually drugs or ransom)

And to a much, much smaller extent:

- for the legal things cash is used for

The unbanked haven't been banked, and a new, programmable money hasn't yet emerged with much value.

I love the ideas behind crypto, but have been sadly disillusioned by the reality so far
When I work with v6 addresses, often only the last two bytes change from one address to the next, so I copy&paste the common prefix, and just work on the last two bytes.

If that's not the case, always copy&paste.
My wife's and my Fitbit Charge 2 can still get a good going of 5 days with a 3-4x hour-long exercise recording. My main issue with Fitbit is it treats us like someone who bought it for fashion. Also I prefer strength training, and to measure effort of anything but jogging and steps is out of scope for Fitbit. When I bought our Fitbit, I hoped the insights I can get out from the devices would improve over the years, because their slogan that time was about to revolutionise fitness with data. Unfortunately the usefulness of their products remain very basic.
It's a shame you can no longer upload music to the InfiniteJukebox. Apparently it relied on a Spotify API that was shut down October 1st. Best hope going forward is an open source library that can offer the same track analysis that used to be provided by that API.
You linked to a bug in Firefox Nightly. That's hardly indicative of there being widespread issues.

Also that bug seems to occur when IPv6 is disabled in the kernel.

Random applications should be fine with trying the IPv6 address, and if it fails using the IPv4 address.

That should happen transparently. There are millions of Linux deployments that don't require manually disabling IPv6.

You not having an IPv6 address is a separate issue.
I find the downtown experience at the traditional car rental companies terrible too. All they have done in recent years is update the style of their websites a bit. The paperwork and line ups is insane. Uber and Zipcar have none of that.
They need to spin-off a portion of their business to subbrands the way cell carriers have done. Or to Carve.
I'm a marathoner and need to go on long training runs. My Garmin running Watch has music (Spotify) which I can play via Bluetooth.

I don't want to carry around a phone during prolonged vigorous exercise.

Spotify integration makes a lot of sense for fitness watches.
So if Google acquired Fitbit, I'm guessing it would have access to all historical Fitbit user data.

When is the U.S. going to get proper user data protections?
There is a lot of bullshit that puts money on the table. Sure it's real money, good for you. But it doesn't make the bullshit not bullshit.
It is now, but that was the phenomenon I was responding to. When I was a kid in the 60s it was most clearly sun-sat
You’re right, and it can get worse. Certain focused industries such as financial services employ what they call “subject matter experts” aka “SMEs”. Turns out most are “solution matter experts” as in, only know how the particular wonky solution works as installed at their company unchanged since it was installed 10 - 15 years ago.
You mean the ICO?
I really don't think I'm being over the top. Doing any form of crossfit with powerlifting or olympic lifting is almost guaranteed injury. I lifted in SLC which is a hotbed for crossfitters. Pretty sure they still field winning teams every year. I was part of the community early on so I got to drop in and workout with a lot of the gyms. I even went to Chris Spealler's gym in park city a few times.

Now, if you don't do heavy weights against time and keep most things safe, you're not really doing crossfit anymore. You're doing bootcamp and I wholeheartedly think a lot of bootcamps are safe. They only use dumbbells and smaller things to do work with.

I personally do orangetheory which gets me a bunch of grief from my old crossfit buddies but I finally realized that I got into fitness to improve my body. If my body is always breaking down, what's the point. lol.

I'd say another reason I have this take is because I'm an average athlete working out with some above average guys who placed in the regionals. I'm sure that didn't help things. The people who avoid injury are usually just athletic animals with high recovery ability. People like rich froning and neil maddox.
Decentralized consensus between untrusted parties is a world-changing concept.

The fact that Central Banks / Governments have "chained the fire exits shut" to keep people in their explosively bankrupt monetary systems is not a long-term viable situation.

There are a multitude of problems with global consensus systems as monetary systems. But, something to consider is this:

Two-thirds of the global population are not served by the present system. Focusing on how cryptocurrencies are "used by criminals" is astonishingly wrong-headed. Once the world's population has uniform access to viable, stable and useful money -- then I might start to consider how to help keep "bad people" off of cryptocurrencies.

However, I think that the Gold Standard in international malfeasance will continue to be "suitcases full of USD or EUR $100 bills". As it is today. But, you don't see governments or central banks falling over themselves to fix that problem. Yet, they are actively preventing the unbanked from having access to viable money substitutes.
Accidentally clicked on an ad on the site at the bottom, trying to close it. It sent me to one of those, sites that hijacks the vibrate of your phone, and a back button that does nothing.

If the creator of the comic is here -- please pick a more ethical ad provider.
http://www.hazmat.tripod.com/id33.html
Thankfully in many regions we still have the choice not to go through hiring games.