skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could not agree more. There are lots of things, easily copied, that make the Uber app great, not just the ride. The question longer terms becomes who continues to get rides, and why?

IMHO, ubiquity, especially when traveling, will ultimately be the winning move.
Apparently the decrease hasn’t been enough to have a positive impact on Uber financials
US begins withdrawal from Paris climate accord
I didn't read this either, for the same reason I didn't read your prior comment and won't read any of your other comments; you're clearly upset and aren't contributing to this discussion in a constructive way with your hateful, aggressive tone. You're not here to seek knowledge, you're here to bludgeon others (me, specifically).

I can happily engage with folks who are here and actually want to have a discussion and that doesn't involve you whatsoever.
It’s not that you want to switch. It’s that you wouldn’t care if you did.
I'm getting a 418 for this page (Firefox and Chrome). First time I encountered this :-).
It's not like it needs a solid fix though. It just needs a single satellite signal to get through, which is way more reasonable.
Thank you for raising these points because no one else has, in this thread or the previous one (linked in another comment).

I especially want to emphasize: the "streetcars" that the author equates to buses in his graphs and his reasoning are by all measures light rail. Toronto has a mix of subway, LRT, and buses that seem to work together. This totally undermines his entire argument, not to mention makes his article dishonest.
It's the price for a not-very-specific vcpu. Your performance could be better on the A family, more than offsetting the price difference. Of you're really considering the choice - you should test your workload on both. Or maybe they save you time in a different way - for example you save time not having to run a virtualised linker after cross-compiling.
Spoiler: an early example of the hamburger menu
Read my last paragraph :)
Hm, I'm not sure what to say. I'm a pretty heavy (and argumentative) Twitter user and I've had many conversations there that changed my mind about something.

Your perpetual embarrassment reminds me a bit of the concept of "ladder anxiety" in gaming -- someone is worried about losing the game and showing that they're bad at it, so they can't bring themselves to play. Then, since they're not playing, they don't get better. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.

It might help you to see Twitter the same way. Okay, so you're embarrassed by old opinions. But this means that some of the opinions you hold right now are bad. How would you figure out which are which without discussing them and learning from other humans?
I think the issue is mostly that you, in the eyes of Microsoft, did not pay enough. This entire online account thing is just a precursor to transitioning Windows from one-off purchase to a monthly subscription.
Read my last paragraph :p
After reading the comments here, I've started to wonder...

Does elitist mean "Doesn't like the same things I do?"

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While I wouldn't phrase it the way Scorcese did, I sort of share his opinion. Super hero movies bore me to death in most cases. As do most things created and A/B tested by a committee, i.e. most Disney movies. Despite having all the time in the world, I do not go to the movies any more. There's very little I want to see...

When will there be new movies in the same vein as Pulp Fiction, Tombstone, Donnie Brasco, True Romance, The Godfather, Goodfellas or hell, even the Rocky movies.

/Old man yells at clouds
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I definitely agree that with this amount of data, you should move to a more programmatic way to handle it... pandas or R.

Keep in mind that pandas (and probably also R?) internally uses optimized structures based on numpy. So a 10 GB csv, depending on the content, might end up with a much smnaller memory footprint inside pandas.

If you have 10 GB csv, I think you will be happy working with pandas locally even on a Laptop. If you go to csv files with tens of GB, a cloud vm with corresponding memory might serve you well. If you need to handle big-data-scale csvs (hundreds of GB or even >TB), a scalable parallel solution like Spark will be your thing.
Before you scale up however, maybe your task allows to pre-filter the data and reduces the amount by orders of magnitude... often, thinking the problem through reduces the amount of metal one needs to throw at the problem...
Have you ever dealt with the purchasing department at a large corporation? Hint: They really don't care about saving engineering hours.
There is a reason we have a GAAP as a way of not letting companies just make up metrics. Any company can show a “profit” as long as you don’t count expenses that make you unprofitable. They leave out over a dozen expenses to claim some made up definition of “profitability”. From their numbers, how do you get that just the ride hailing business would make more money than it cost to run?

Adjusted EBITDA is just a made up term. It is isn’t GAAP so by definition it isn’t Generally Accepted. Made up metrics are generally used by startups and non profitable public companies to justify their valuations to investors.
That's why SpaceX does not file any patents. It would be like handing its recipe book to its competitors.
What about all those with no bitcoin?

I placed 20 $1 bills on the ground scattered right outside my house. They are out on the street, free and open air. Anyone can take them.

In actuality, there will be a small, small minority of the world that gets all the value.
>Seriously, if you were born in a country like the U.S. in modern times, you won the birth lottery.

Agreed. The lottery won is for starting position in a game where participation is not choosen and objective you choose determines position ranking.
Did he teach them how to use RPN before letting them borrow it?
Can you even know every transitive dependency in an average Node.js project? I just looked at a simple web service we have, which doesn't use any framework or such, and it's 5 dependencies pull in 75 dependencies altogether.

Since most applications nowadays are server side, you would usually already pull 1 GB+ of Docker layers, before you even add application + libraries.

Facebook on iOS seems to be around 400 MB of size (first result from quick googling, might be wrong), and average Electron app is 120 MB+, so I don't think the size is a huge concern.
Google hasn't solved "spam". Solving email spam is pretty easy.

Solving comments isn't.

Also, google has the same incentives as facebook and twitter. I don't see why you are separating google from facebook and twitter.
> Larger companies also have a much easier time gaining consent (like Google and Facebook) that clears their usage while smaller companies struggle.

I feel the opposite may be true. When the law came to pass, I took some time to review my privacy options on Google and Facebook, since they are a big impact for me.

On the other hand, when I click on a link on HN to some random news paper, and get presented with a five-step process to start to see my options, I don't usually bother and dismiss it as soon as I can, probably with some 'opt-in' consent. Since I'm not planning on viewing the site again, I consider it a minor annoyance.
Social mobility is basically invariant across societies, with a heritability of about 0.7 according to Gregory Clark’s research (A Farewell to Alms, The Son Also Rises, the upcoming For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls). The difference is explained by the number of generations covered.
The part of this that actually hits closest to home for me is the fact that my performance can't scale. I need to grow my ability to be highly performant into something I can spread onto others, or else I will hit a wall, career wise, and the skills needed to do that aren't the kinds of skills you can dump 80 hours into (people don't get back to you as fast as a unit test does).
If both Uber and Lyft go bankrupt we’d have a new rideshare service (or 20) before the ink was dry on the court papers. The public value is embodied in the concept, not in the companies.
When they use Breitbart as a 3rd party fact checker how can we trust them?
I actually wonder what's up with bullying in US schools.

I grew up in Moscow, Russia in the 90ies (many people were not well off to say the least) and I was both super nerdy and extremely eh, daring (I would talk back to other kids who were much stronger/more popular than me all the time etc.). Sure, I was not popular, yet I was bullied lightly and almost never physically, mostly by a couple classmates who were just kinda generally messed up (interestingly enough both of them are software developers now, as far as I know), and in total perhaps for 2-3 years in late middle school (I think). The bullying just kinda never happened; I never thought much of that until I read stories like the ones here.

Sure, I hear it was worse outside of Moscow, but even in Moscow an average student's family in the 90ies was way poorer than say in Ohio. Outside of Moscow it's not even comparable. And yet, the level of bullying was probably still lower than what it seems to be in any average American school.

What's up with that?
That's not true. It is law in the EU and companies have been fined:

https://www.cookielaw.org/blog/2014/2/5/spanish-cookie-law-f...
Interesting concept. I think a success message might help too. I finished all my tasks before the countdown, but I don't get a 'well done', nor do the stats update.

Re the cancel button, I think moving it elsewhere is advisable, or telling the user that they only have to hit enter to add a new task. Or, adding a mini submit to each new row, but that defeats the purpose of your 'hit enter' function.
and since the rate-limit is probably off by now, i will continue:

- we have a website to track how hard the doctors are being bribed to prescribe certain medications. they were probably bribed even harder before the disclosure requirement.

- we have F-35 project--over a trillion in development according to some sources. many reports that it loses to its 40-yr-old predecessor. one only needs to look at the revolving-door between military brass and defense contractors to see how this happens. money doesn't even need to change hands while they're employed by the government--just dangle a juicy board position for when they "retire"

- in a similar vein, remember the number bob rubin pulled in the citibank/travelers merger

- DC is poster child for dropping a few hundred K through lobbyists and campaign contributions, then getting millions in return for it.

of course, none of this could ever happen in public education.
Looks like class is free to the student (but possibly charged to the municipality -- "Your municipality needs to sign part 2 of the application form").

Likely only for people already resident in Sweden.
Dude if you need Linux, just get a Linux laptop. They sell them now, System76 comes to mind, but I think Ubuntu partnered with Dell and/or Lenovo to make one as well.
It amazes me how much we still know from say 1000 years ago and how little we sometimes know about things just shy of 150 years.
That's not enforcement, that's misreading...
The internal API rejection is about not treating developers like “partners”. You aren’t their partner. Internal APIs are just that - for internal employees.

It’s dumb to use “internal”, private APIs. It always has been. It hurts your products stability, it hurts your customers, and it keeps the platform vendor from making rapid changes.

Microsoft never cared about you as a developer - they would just as easily run over you if it met their business objectives.
Swarm gets green light from FCC for its 150-satellite constellation
You can never be sure. But you can estimate probabilities.

I wouldn't even be worried about intentional poisoning - just pathogens introduced by improper food handling.
Bank reserves are 1:1. If a bank's reserves ever dip below that ratio, the bank is insolvent, and is in deep shit.

Only a fraction of those reserves are cash. Hence fractional reserve. The remainder aren't liquid, but they are worth enough to cover the reserves, under best accepted accounting practices.

Tether's non-cash reserves largely consist of "A money launderer stole our money, but pinky swears that they'll give it back." It's not like a fractional reserve bank, it's just a straight up fraud. It's why despite many assurances from Tether, it has still not been independently audited.
Buses have many advantages over subways, especially over trains running at street level (since these can't go much faster than traffic).

That's not necessarily so. Trams (streetcars) in cities, which have old tram networks usually segregate the lines from the parts of the street where privat traffic runs. Very often they also receive signalling priority and while blockage by cars can happen (especially on intersections) trams can run with a quite reliable time table.

I live in a city with one of the - arguably - best public transport systems at least outside of Japan. If anything runs in unreliable intervals (as you learn over announcemets while sitting in a tram) it's bus lines.

Now, if you just build some light rail on an existing road as often happens because public transport is chic nowadays then you run exactly into the problem you describe. But dedicated tram networks are very different and quite reliable.
Streetcars in Toronto are in fact light rail, doesn't that invalidate this entire argument?

One can argue some LRT implementations have the same limitations as buses, but you can't call them buses, point to their success, and say that means buses are the only answer.

It's clear that Toronto's mix of subway, LRT, and buses are successful, and perhaps that's what should be emulated.
Yeah, a patent should only be granted if the patent officer manages to build a working prototype using it as a guide. A competing patent officer should only get the title of the patent and try the same, to check for obviousness.
The Laplacian and the Laplace Transform are two completely different things.

The laplacian is the dot product of the gradient operator with itself, the Laplace transform is an integral transform with the kernel e^(-s*t).

The relation of the Fourier transform to the Laplacian is that FT diagonalises the Laplacian.
It's the successor of OmniOS by OmniTI which is based on OpenSolaris [1]. Tobi Oetiker (of RRDTool) and other have adopted the project. See the "About" page which is unfortunately hidden in the Site menu: https://omniosce.org/about/about.html
multiculturalism.
This person has it all wrong. Suburbs were created artificially, and it just doesn’t matter. Mixed income neighbourhoods are the desired result of all development. The pockets, rings, and regions of classist housing is the problem, not its location or how we navigate them.

Yes, the feedback loops is true, blah blah blah, but author needs to dig deeper.
Personally I think all the time at work (AI) and literally the last thing I want to do in sport / cinema / personal life / any after work activities is think. No one go to marvel for the storyline, people just like action (and for me, seeing the adaptation of comics I read).

But this doesn't have to be a fight, you do you and I "do me". To me scorcese was indeed elitist. It's like saying classical music is better than rap or metal.. it's not true per se and honestly it doesn't reflect well on him to say something like that. Indeed more like "old man yelling at crowd"
> In NYC they're wanting to remove the gifted and talented classes not because they don't work, but because of racial disparities. The idea here is that we should all fail together, since equality is most easily achieved by trimming the top.

This is also the state policy in France. Classes for gifted people are absolutely taboo. There are numerous programs for low-achievers of immigrant suburbs and special needs children so the ministry knows they are differences between people but refuse to fund programs for smart kids. Moreover, the whole educational staff are leaning (far-)left and facts like genetics of intelligence are vehemently combatted. Source: was a smart kid that lost a lot of time at school; both parents in education.
3rd party fact checkers themselves are highly biased. If you think reuters is neutral, then you really don't understand the "news" business. The "news" business isn't in the business of news. It's in the influence business. The founder of reuters started off peddling radical revolutionary propaganda.

Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters#History

Besides, the problematic part with "news" involve "non-factual" news but rather political "news". Whether globalism is good or bad. What, if anything, to do about climate change. Nonsense like veganism, etc. There, by nature, can't be fact-checked because it is a value/contextual judgment rather than a factual one. Capitalism vs communism, nationalism vs globalism, immigration vs nativism, alt-right vs alt-left, traditional media vs social media, etc.
I have a higher end GPS module. Building I'm in is corrugated steel sided with a metal roof. After being on for an hour the coordinates show... my desk. Far as I can tell.

GPS transmit power is 44db with a 13 db antenna gain. I think. And -140 db sensitivity (typical) So close to 200db of link margin. And the transmitter isn't in clutter either.
The majority of those people don't have that money because of their spending habits, not because they cannot afford it.
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It's not that complicated really - there's a three-level hierarchy in public transport systems:

1. If the road traffic is congested, the solution is bus lanes.

2. If the bus lanes are congested, the solution is light rail rapid transit.

3. If the light rail is congested, the solution is a subway/train line.
You assume that everyone works on their own projects. In that case, yes, you should probably market it, if nobody knows about your project it doesn't matter.

I was more thinking about contributing to other projects. What incentive do I have for fixing an issue in someone elses repo?

With this sponsorship model, the benefits will only go to the dev whose name is on the repo.

It's going to be very hard to market yourself as the guy who fixes random issues in a bunch of unrelated projects.
It's the starting point we needed. Every time some company tries to get away with being unreasonable (see gitlab and ubiquiti from just last weeks) GDPR is one aspect that is quickly brought up. One they can not ignore as easily.

The privacy options we suddenly ot from large companies from companies such as facebook were unheard of before GDPR.

It have already drastically changed how the world handles data, but it is a slow process. It will take decades and more work.

Massive success all in all, thanks to GDPR there is now hope for the future.
What’s ironic is that Google enforced a rule that Apple hasn’t had for over eight years but people still falsely accuse Apple of having....
the market is transportation, not ridesharing. It's not just uber and lyft competing with one another. They also compete with private cars, public transportation, taxis, bicycles, etc.

Together the two of them are just a paltry 1% or so of vehicle miles traveled last I heard. Combined they are still almost two orders of magnitude away from having monopoly power.
This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.
Obviously the parent meant that the transit providers should do this, since they also use OBA.

More generally, in the same way IXs have peering arrangements for traffic, there could be peering arrangements between data owners (e.g. bus location providers) and location API providers like Google.
What do you mean it doesn't cost them anything?
I think most companies are no longer expanding much in the bay area, but if you already have a lot of employees there it's pretty hard to convince them to move. Once you have a house and a family it doesn't make much sense to move away. And since there are so many people who have a life in the bay area, it makes sense to maintain a presence so you have access to that local talent which isn't willing to leave.
Being on the vacations I decided to write some Phantom OS internals book, and if you're interested, here it is:

https://phantomdox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Why you decided to use Nodejs and how was your experince?
I have seen lots of people complain about nodejs. I have used it in production for 2 years. I know its not the best thing out there. but it gets the shit done. how was your experience overall?
Their first point is that RH might stop supporting Keyclosk. What happens if Gluu goes out of business... isn’t that just as likely, if not more? Who is Gluu? The article compares Gluu to Ping’s IPO, but I doubt the financials are the same. Sorry this is a really weak argument
Bitcoin is gambling but the entire economy is also gambling. Luck is the only significant differentiator between winners and losers.

The reason why capitalism kind of works is not because it rewards productive people but because most people believe that it rewards productive people.

The economic incentive to work or invest is rooted in deception. Not so different from Bitcoin or anything else.
> That's how populism works.

That's how socialism works. You take some money from people, give half of it back to them and they cheer you for it.
And how is that different than when people do it for fundraising? They pick up the donuts from KK and sell them somewhere else?
They are only producing vehicles at scale in one factory.
I built the Atlas system that O'Reilly uses to produce books, along with a Markdown and Asciidoc converter to HTMLBook. So even though you write in Asciidoc or Markdown, it gets converted to HTMLBook since that's what the entire toolchain understands. But those formats are great for the authors wanting to write in a plain-text alternative.
Utah, in a not-particularly-rich-but-not-middle-of-nowhere rural/suburban district, starting in the 1980s