skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a well known phenomena that when evaluating new technology we tend to overestimate short term consequences, but severely understate the long term ones.

Society at large is just now starting to grok the nightmare that ubiquitous computing and wireless networking is enabling. Just because most normal folks aren't burdened with the imagination required to process all the shit you shouldn't do with networking doesn't mean we should treat the fact others have gotten away with it as "every one being okay with lt as business as usual."
I've had a good experience with the Aeron and Mirra 2 chairs by Herman Miller. Currently using both, as I work out of two different offices.

Both are pricey, but IMHO worth it.
It's how e.g. Wikimedia/wikipedia tables behave.
I mean, maybe he was a genius fraudster, but maybe he convinced himself to believe in what he was selling -- which made him all the better of a salesman.
Looking at the previous tweet in the thread this one quotes, it talks about trying to get a £600 donation.

But that was in 1938. Using the Bank of England's inflation calculator[0] that works out to be £39,671 in 2018 prices.

£1,150 (the total in the tweet) works out to be £76,037 in 2018 prices.

Though not a huge amount by modern fundraising standards, that's hardly "really sweating the next thousand dollars"

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
> An 8 gig stick of ram costs about thirty dollars. It doesn't make sense to run 4 these days.

It does not make sense if 4 Gb mean that you can only run a browser and Notepad.

If, however, you are a bit older and you remember the time that you had the choice between 4 MB and 8 MB and people were still able to do all their computer stuff, including internet, in a graphical environment, then you thoughts are more in the line of: what the fuck are these lazy and incompetent programmers doing these days? And this is coming from someone who earns a living as a developer.
A C++ function that returns different types depending on what the caller wants
Javascript/React/Webpack for one thing.
Cybertruck unveil on Nov 21 in LA near SpaceX rocket factory
I always look for a discussion of "how much money does Uber need to make to cover all the fundraising" and I never see anyone doing that analysis. Instead it's just "they're not profitable" or "they turned a profit".

Uber took a few billion dollars of investor capital over the last decade. Let's assume we live in the world from the textbooks where the value of Ubers stock is actually the net present value of all its future earnings (hah!). What do those earnings need to look like for the investors to turn out to be right? As in, would they have done better investing in some other asset?

My theory for why you never see this kind of analysis is that it doesn't matter to anyone. Nobody is trying to actually build a business that will generate money with their investment. They're building hype machines they can use to sell their stake to someone else before it all explodes. It's speculation and manipulation all the way down.
> No matter what technology, there will be an absolute upper limit of what population earth can bear.

The Puppeteer Homeworld in Larry Niven's Known Space is so largely populated they have to cool the planet down due to the passive energy output by the inhabitants. That always struck me as a pretty unrealistic barrier to beat.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1517/puppeteers-ho...
Are the cleaners using a spray or liquid that is penetrating and interfcerring with contacts? Waxy sprays can also with touch sensitivity.
browser compatibility/other edge case handling would be one decent reason to utilize a package for otherwise straightforward implementations. The MDN docs have a helpful walkthrough for feature detecting localStorage that would make a useful addition to your library. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage...
For instance our SSE/AVX2 algorithms have been included in a great, mature library written and maintained by Alfred Klomp: https://github.com/aklomp/base64 (the library includes also vectorized code for ARM CPUs).
All benchmarks are misleading.
The plugins were new to Godot 3 if I'm not mistaken so I'm not surprised.
I seem to recall the Common App requiring work per-college that went beyond “check some boxes and pay us more”.
Can't get Twitter to work.
The "math" can be quite complex, because estimates range anywhere from 1/4 acre to feed a family of four to 1 acre to feed 1 person. It depends on how intensely the land is managed, climate zone, caloric requirements, etc. I pack my veggies in much closer rows than you're supposed to, but they do fine.

It's funny, I built one 12"x48" window box just for herbs and I barely use them! I have oregano, thyme, thai basil, mint, lavender, bee balm, parsely, cilantro, even green onions, and I kind of forget they're there. A shaker of dried herbs provence works for me most of the time.
Herman Miller Aeron at home. Whatever they give me at work.
Just going off wikipedia (also other sources support the definition):

> In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

Basically it's a common good, that is sold and purchased, with no other modifications required for this use-case. This commodity is currently low in supply, but is still a commodity.
It seems less trivial than PadLeft.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-...
A hypothetical situation which could never arise, because the first amendment protects everyone, including both the users AND the operators of interactive computer services (such as HN, Reddit, Facebook, Google search, etc).
Uber is entering the ads business
Wider memory buses were still less bottlenecked than narrower though. See the transition from 32 to 64 to 128 to 256.

POWER9 has an absurd setup which is 192 bits wide at the CPU (2 controllers each with 4 24 bit DMI interfaces), but each DMI has a 256 bit path t memory.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/ibm/microarchitectures/power9
The valuation was largely over the general hype for self-driving vehicles. Those who thought they were imminent must have just been ignorant to how slow regulation moves and how risk averse corporations are to the potential fallout of being "first to market" with a self driving car that ends up with someone dead regardless of fault.

As the hype dies down so does Ubers market cap.
The limiting factor for high temperature superconductor magnets will likely be the mechanical strength of the structural steel holding the magnets together, not the limitations of the HTS. This is not a bad thing, just that the HTS are so much better than traditional superconductors at handling high magnetic field strength that you now have to optimize for the steel enclosures.
What if the threats are all very real but human nature is to grow fatigued by warnings and become ever more complacent even when the wolf is at the door?
”self-driving car fleet ”

Uber has zero competence in fleet management. Everything they do is to avoid investing in a fleet.i would argue that rental car companies or car dealers are positioned much better.
How about dropping notepad for a simplified version of VSCode. Or maybe just VSCode.

I'm on a Mac, and I love the app - never even use the built-in Mac text editor.
im not sure just what they are going for here...i’d not count auth0 as a “baas” offering...this reads more like a quasi jamstack business function api list...
Mastodon comes to mind.
> taxis are dead

Not where I live. Where I live, taxis are beating the pants off of Uber and Lyft. This certainly isn't true everywhere, but it does show that taxis absolutely can compete with Uber and Lyft if they have their acts together.
Most people who joined in 2015 were getting RSUs and not options. Also, the strike price on options is dependent on the 409A valuation and not the valuation at which they raised money.
Godot is a game engine.
No, that's patently ridiculous. The internet is a new medium; things scale so vastly differently here. Your proposal is literally impossible to enforce at the scale of major platforms. To force everyone to choose between "hands off, no moderation" and "you are responsible for all content" is a thinly veiled attempt to force the big players to not moderate, and therefore host extremist content - because they literally can't review everything.
To me the elitist part is that he's taking his personal dislike of Marvel movies and drawing a box around the things he does like as 'true cinema/movies.' That's the part that reeks of elitism saying 'this isn't good enough because I personally don't like it and think cinema should mean something.'

It's very similar to the art/high art/not art conversation that happened in the wider art world starting in the mid-20th and continuing somewhat today. The decision there has been very expansive.
They arent getting zero, they get the RSUs they were given and which vested. Sounds less dramatic that way. Still, many probably expected more.
It's not a SV company - it's an SF company.
> We're not talking about a phpBB forum or a little blog with a few thousand commenters.

I listed examples including "wikis" and "social media sites" which categorically contain the largest websites in the world. You'll find websites of all orders of magnitude from tens to millions of users -- where do you draw that line? But more importantly, are you under the impression that large-scale sites are somehow immune spammers?

> As a pragmatist on this matter, I believe the solution here is scale. The control I have over a phpBB forum is that if I don't like their spam policy, I can leave, and either join another or form my own.

I'm not understanding something here. You think that it's okay for spammers to implement a "heckler's veto" by de-facto shutting down every single niche website that (by law, presumably) accepts/rebroadcasts any and all submitted content -- that you'll be able to "vote with your feet" and move/create a site or forum that will somehow be immune to this onslaught? At what point is "scale" the answer? Bigger is better?

> As I've said before, I'm not entirely convinced that something the size of Facebook can actually work in the long term [1].

I'm suffering whiplash. You gotta help me here. You're happy to feed small websites to the spamwolves, yes? But you're not convinced that big websites are good either. Do we just cancel the entire internet?

I'll grant that I'd probably get more work done.
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So, let's talk with real numbers here.

I happen to have a Markdown file open in MacDown, a native application, right now. According to Activity Monitor, it's using 67.1 MB of RAM. I also downloaded Mark Text to take a look at it. So now I've got the same Markdown file open in that app, too. It's using 73.9 MB of RAM.

I will admit, that difference in memory consumption is equivalent to seven instances of vim, and I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm trying to get things done on a Raspberry Pi Zero. (As one does.)

But, on this 6-year-old computer, which does not have "over 8 or 16 GB of RAM", I'm still not sweating that 6.8 megabytes.
Mm-ADT VM integrates query languages, processors, and storage systems
Robinhood, Leverage, and Lemonade
Doing awful compared to what? The person I replied to said their municipal water supply was poisoning kids, which is an anecdote that doesn't represent most municipal water supplies.

Now you're moving the goal posts to water main breaks for some reason when the point in the first place was that municipal internet is successful.
Not sure how you missed it, but it's extremely clear: https://i.imgur.com/0WL8XNE.png

Not affiliated with this product, just surprised at how this could possibly be unclear.
That just proves my point. the_donald had to find an exploit and resort to spamming in order to get the algorithm to push them onto the front page. They couldn't get there on the basis of, you know, actually being popular because a large number of people want to read them.
Generating “Country Friendliness” Index from Google Maps Data
it's hard to have a discussion when every diverging opinion gets drowned in down votes and circle jerks are only interesting as long as the central argument is fascinating but climate change is in it's own definition "settled science"
How to send good pull requests on GitHub
https://bear.app/ does it pretty well.

They use a proprietary library and don't allow local folders of text files, though...
Back in my misspent youth I had a bash script that would connect me to whatever access point I needed.

I can't imagine much has changed since then, just add the logic to change the mac address between entering the SSID and actually connecting.
L1 cache is 64k for this cpu.
A benchmark with large files is more realistic, because it's unlikely that the data already be in the L1 cache.
The problem is that cryptocurrencies still require laws and judges and police. The only thing they replace is banks, and they do that bit pretty poorly.
Uber is a huge mess because the narrative is not credible. Dara is trying to tell a story about fast grow + profitability.

The reality is that they have three types of businesses. 1. Businesses that are slowing down dramatically, e.g. Ride Share. As they raise price it may have negative growth. 2. Businesses that are growing by unsustainable subsidy, e.g. Eats, Freight. 3. New business that are purely speculative. Uber Money, Autonomous, Flying Taxis.

They have no businesses that fit the fast growth + profitability. Dara is trying to balance the three categories above to pretend that it is happening.
What if a video producer uses PornHub because YouTube keeps demonetizing them for, for example, gun reviews?
Came here to say this, particularly RE: vim key binds. If those were added, I'd be much more interested. Even without the binds, though, I think it feels pretty good to use.
As I said, Gab is an exception since they embrace the worst of humanity.
There is one shared essay, but back when I was applying (which wasn’t all that long ago) I had to write additional essays per-college in their college-specific question sections.
First of all, it's not 7 billions sentients but rather a handful of government. Furthermore, humanity at the moment already agrees blindly that the only way forward is reckless growth, if we all managed to agree on something without even knowing why, perhaps we can also agree on something more rational.
> Nobody realized, in the early days, just how easy it was to abuse a social network API.

Actually, both normies and hackers were super concerned about this Facebook thing, and whether or not people were putting too much personal information on the internet.

Young adults - the early adopter demographic - didn't care though, because many of them weren't thinking much past boose, parties, and sex. And, thanks to network effects, you rather needed Facebook, if you didn't want to be a social pariah at your school.

Since the sky did not fall in an obvious way, eventually, their parents started using it, too.
The real problem is that Uber's lawbreaking and unethical behavior stems directly from the "bro culture".
I feel they have too much money so they desperately try to branch out. Google is a Little similar. A ton of cool experiments but almost nothing turns into a real business.
`Baas` as a term might be dead, but `JAMStack`, which Netlify invented [0] is alive and perhaps thriving -- it's a bit hard to say. Maybe not the same exact concept, but it seems similar.

[0] - https://www.netlify.com/oreilly-jamstack/
What's wrong with PornHub?
Their business is sketchy and their CEO is double sketchy. Type "wework" or "adam neumann" in google and you'll find plenty of sources
It isn't complicated. The population density of the US, excluding Alaska, is about 1/5 that of Germany, and we are probably relatively concentrated in mega-cities.
As George Costanza famously said “it’s not a lie if you believe it”
Yes, you wouldn't be able to measure it accurately, but it's nonetheless a static amount of time unrelated to the Earth's orbital period.

I'm not an astrophysicist, but I'd guess the Earth's orbital period isn't quite the same as when the planet first formed either. So using today's defined measurement of "years", the planet's age and the number of times it's been around the sun might not match up at the surface either. The impact that formed the moon must have changed our velocity a bit, right? And the sun has been losing mass (into energy via fusion) since it first formed.
None, until we concede that — because the world in which we want to live includes quality writing from a free press engaged in investigative journalism — it is required that journalists be able to promote themselves somehow.
A decent text editor doesn't mean VS Code, or anything like that complicated. Just something not as teeth grindingly sucky as Notepad. It wouldn't even have to be all that much better. An 'advanced mode' in the same way that calculator has a scientific mode might be nice as an extra. To be fair Notepad is gradually improving, but this has been an issue for literally decades.
The thing is, people rightfully are pointing out an important issue ("corporate tech giants have monopolized the public speaking space and are holding unaccountable power") and but inexplicably ignore the obvious solution (break them up and/or emigrate to federated/decentralized platforms while actively promoting them) in favor of the worst possible one (force Twitter to unban nazis).
Last I knew, Visual Studio Professional was about $500 for a single user. SQL Server can get expensive depending on what you're hosting, but IIS and ASP.NET don't cost anything. All you'd need is a Windows box for those.
Yes and no. There is a BIT for each unit, (now I don't know the exact details, but this is how I understand/remember it) but the pyrotechnic devices is tested by running a low level current through it to see if it has been fired/failed. The actual seal is verified via testing prior to aircraft certification, and checked in production using helium.
If you're unhappy about your OS preventing you from running applications that you want to run, you might want to consider switching to another OS.
Well yeah sure, but a bird is quite different to a person, it's small and usually not on the floor. I just meant it seemed strange to detect an object but not do anything about it because it's not labelled.
I think this is overly optimistic, what you're saying.

What's he gonna lose? Friends who invested with him? He can buy new ones.

Feel bad? You can literally hire a whole team of therapists for life.

He can sit in his mansions and not be in the public eye forever, it's not like being in the public eye is some sort of requirement for living.

Heck, he might even find a new following among people who want to emulate how he grabbed all that money.
If we assume the meant SF instead of SV, does that negate his point somehow?
> attempt to find code that looked like it was making a request to another service.

> We generally fixed those cases by adding a special comment in the code that told rpcmap about the link

Why not enforce all endpoints/urls be defined in a config file and sidestep this? - scanning code for URLs/constructed URL is overkill and brittle.
I'm not sure this is fair.

Staff are not 'dumping' shares - they are getting some liquidity as all of their 'life savings' are in a single asset, which is not rational for anyone.

Given the magnitude of the new shares available, it's perfectly reasonable to expect a dip at this point.

The 'end of the lock out' I don't think is a hugely material event for understanding the real nature of Uber. Staffers actions are reasonable, given the mechanics of it all, there are no surprises here.

FYI Uber is still holding a very heady valuation.
Uber’s battle for Buenos Aires is shaking rule of law in Argentina
Riders and drivers who got subsidized rides and income, were probably the largest beneficiaries.

Uber employees, VC partners, on the Silicon Valley side. A lot of other tech workers have benefited from the upward price pressure exerted on developer salaries not just in Silicon Valley but around the world.

Who got screwed, if Uber’s valuation never recovers - late stage investors, companies doing similar things such as in food delivery.
Not just felons. Everybody.

Some police agencies (NYC, for example) collect DNA samples on arrest. And if you're found not guilty, the arrest was wrong, or whatever, they still keep the DNA forever. [1]

But it's not like they conduct knock-and-spit dragnets. Oh, wait... [2]

Even worse is that social service agencies do it. Don't be born in California, because the fact that you suddenly exist means the state gets your DNA. [3]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/nyregion/newyorktoday/nyp...

https://www.newsweek.com/police-dna-database-nypd-swab-testi...

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/05/08/california-biob...
You need to indent the code by at least 2 spaces so it doesn't collapse into a paragraph like that. Also, that script isn't really portable. Not everyone has those interface names nor /etc/init.d/networking.
Why not use RDP to your normal desktop if you're going to self host?
It may be effective, but I don’t buy that reasoning. Corporations are just as capable as people when it comes to developing bad habits and self-sabotaging.
There is a vim plugin [1] that automatically renders markdown in your browser with synchronised scrolling. It felt like magic when I first used it.

[1] https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
This reads like the usual Uber criticism and doesn't touch on the lockup. The market knew the lockup was ending, so it should have been priced in. Dropping when the lockup ends should mean that markets underestimated how many insiders wanted to cash out, and employee sentiment is worse than market sentiment.
Is that what Apple developers were given a several-year advanced notice of, and Catalina now requires such?

I recall many people running non 64-bit clean apps complaining about Catalina, which I found curious.
I tested how McDonald's used voice tech for recruiting. This is what I found
aka Uber is selling a $5 pizza for $10 and recording $7 as "disruptive tomato sauce" r&d.
Yes, synthetic benchmark results in general are to be taken with a grain of salt, leaving a lot of potential for things like these that can easily produce the result you desire than what really is.. there is a big question of how this translates to what your workload needs/does.

We just bought our first AMD Epyc server for our HPC cluster. I cant wait until next week to test it against our Skylake nodes.
1 socket EPYC 16C cpu vs 2X Xeon Skylake.
I already have a suite of our internal workloads to hammer them with.. one of them is a key in house software compiled usually with intel compiler and intel mkl for performance reasons. Really curious how it will do with the EPYC cpus.