skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the comment is that even if you’re willing to confront the driver, you’re forced into an awkward social situation (the confrontation, yelling and anger, having them angrily “get the card reader worker”).

Many people (myself included) would pay to avoid such nonsense, so the “cost” of a taxi is often much higher than the meter fare.

There’s other factors: dangerous driving, refusal to take you to your destination and the following confrontation (also illegal, but happens often), etc.

All this also depends on where you are. Some cities have great taxis. I’m basing my opinion here on Toronto pre-Uber taxis.
Without knowing the details of their business, it seems likely that Uber is happy to lose money to get a decent foothold in a market, and then slowly change priorities from growth to profitability.

I noticed today that the people who used to hand out $20 off your first Uber Eats coupons in my town are now down to $15... presumably part of this process.
His mother's article (linked in the piece) has much more compelling explanation of the traumatic real world events that helped radicalize him which his piece fails to mention:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after...

His mother's article was discussed here when it came out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847437
just curious where in portland.
That's why I consider Google, FB, and these other surveillance-capitalists data-Superfund sites.

There are massive amounts of jail sentences, international incidents (probably including potential wars), murders, divorces, and destroyed relationships in those silos just waiting to come out.
A friend worked for them and (if I recall correctly) employees got a free unit. Not sure if that’s included in this number.
It is the customer’s problem, so it is jointly a problem for Android and the OEM. Google may try to abrogate responsibility here as usual, but it doesn’t make it any less their problem.
Unofficial FAQ for Google Cloud Run
Googol can help:
"Bezos instead named the business after the river reportedly for two reasons. One, to suggest scale (Amazon.com launched with the tagline "Earth's biggest book store") and two, back then website listings were often alphabetical."

https://mashable.com/2011/07/22/facts-amazon-com/
In an efficient market that's probably the way to go. But it depends partly if your production process can scale up and down easily, which is rarely true in general. It could be designed like that though.
Not OP but I can setup DB of choice on an instance or group of instances and access directly from the Cloud Run containers. Our particular main stack is on MongoDB 3.4 so we deployed Atlas on the VPC and the containers access it just fine.
Review by a human might not help if the human is being scripted like a bot.

Line 5 of script: Look at reply. Count the number of vowels on first line.
Line 6 of script: now say, "we have reviewed your reply."
> I'm surprised that smaller companies have not moved away from static pricing yet.

The physical server has a fixed set of resources. If you let customers pick what resource they want to buy, you'll run out of one resource before the rest, leaving the server underutilized and increasing your costs. You can't sell KVM instances with no ram, no disk, or no CPU.

If you have enough physical servers and small enough customers, you can mostly solve this by carefully figuring out which customers to put on which machines. However, you've created a complicated jigsaw puzzle. And what happens if you need to shift customers between servers to balance things out?

I think Google is able to offer custom machine types because they're big enough, and because they're able to perform live migrations between physical hosts (most hosting providers can't do this), so the customer likely won't even notice if they need to be migrated.

Instead, most of these providers offer a few different SKUs to satisfy different use-cases, or they just pick one target market (e.g. lots of disk space for backups or lots of CPU resource for compute) and focus on that. A few offer networked block storage, which gives some more flexibility, but at the (potential) cost of reliability and performance.

> None in Asia though? You need it to be in Taiwan to service the region well!

Bandwidth in Asia is significantly more expensive (https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...), so most budget hosting providers stay away.
Why is that possible on android but not iOS phones? Serious question - I assume it’s because of the way android is built but I don’t know How that works. Why is there preinstalled installed software on Android phones at all?

Edit: I’m not sure why this question is getting downvoted.
Thank you. I appreciate your suspending judgment enough to research it.

If you read it, I hope you'll share your thoughts on it, especially if you do the exercises.
Breakthrough in battle against invasive plants
They're public. The funders' "payout" ship has sailed.
They've also been profitable this year, according to Yahoo finance.
What would be great is if judiciaries only treated video as admissible if it was cryptographically watermarked in tandem with a globally distributed blockchain-style rolling checksum, to resist tampering (deepfakes or just plain old timecode manipulation). Combine that with a licensing scheme, as a condition of using the global checksum service, that guaranteed by law access to video by any party captured on said video — i.e. scenes & events in public areas would be required to be made available to members of the public, on request; or video of private areas would still have to be shared with any subjects that it captured, if it were to be introduced as evidence.
This quote made me wonder about analogs in other activities, e.g. woodworking.
One simple way to think of it is that such mistakes are basic fraud. There are already laws to cover this in every country, whether this entails fines or damages or prison.

However it's mostly inapplicable in practice. Neither regulating agencies nor private parties have the resources or the will to go against the (many) abusers. Even if they did, laws and the legal systems are muddy across countries, not a lot could be done with offenders half way across the world. By the way while we're on this, "copyright" doesn't exist as such in France.
> Government and corporations are working together against the public

That sounds like fascism to me.

The division within the public is by design, and highly effective. I'm not sure how it can be combatted. The closest "solution" that comes to mind is to be able to out-meme and soundbite the oppressors so that the public has easily digested messages of unity.
I read Jetpack Compose will be able to support multiplatform as well. It will be a kind of flutter possible with Kotlin.

Well, it’s no surprise that google can run multiple projects that solves more or less the same thing.
Anecdata, sample size 1: When I was a teenager struggling in school because of attention issues, a psychiatrist had me take a test which suggested so. IQ and a few memory/recall-related tasks measured a bit higher when I was medicated with Adderall than without it.
What's wild is how at times the GFW will be abused to profit the operators of the GFW itself. Redirecting people to sites owned by friends to drive traffic/sales, etc. Due to the nature of the GFW, there isn't a lot of auditing or transparency there. Only the Chinese carriers can generally engage them and it usually involves a visit to a specific building in Beijing (no foreigners allowed).
My theory is that people hugely overestimate the importance of things they see and touch.

Flying is the most fossil fuel intensive thing regular people interact with, so we naturally assume it's the biggest energy user there is.

Last I heard the number was around 2% of all CO₂ emissions.
Only if they care about money.

Banksy isn't likely to sue anyone.
I had this same thought, but my fear would be that it could be confusing/misleading. GPT-2 is really impressive but sometimes it produces phrases that look like a natural language at first glance but don't make any sense when you really try to parse them, or statements that do make sense on their own but are directly contradicted by the next statement it makes. I'd hate to be learning a language and pick up nonsensical language use from an AI. My guess is that we're not quite there, and an attempt at this would end up being really confusing/misleading for the learner, but I fundamentally agree that an app could give you fluency via AI conversations and I suspect it will be done in the nearish future.
Thanks! We're looking in a few different directions, but one thing I'm excited about is mixed cooperative/competitive settings. In poker, there is no room for cooperation. In Hanabi, you are 100% cooperating with your teammates. But most real-world situations, like a negotiation, are somewhere in between. The AI techniques for these settings are not too strong yet.
> AMP is not a browser. It is HTML markup.

Nowhere did I say it was: I was providing an example of a case where technically classifying something correctly may not be what people expect, except I used HTML in my example instead of shapes in an attempt to connect better to the topic at hand.

> nobody claimed that AMP contains all of HTML

The (now somewhat distant) ancestor claimed that AMP is powerful enough to use as essentially a replacement for HTML, and that publishers can use this subset exclusively for all their content. To which I (and others) have counterclaimed that it is not, because we have not seen publishers move to it, which means it is lacking something that HTML is giving them.

> By deliberately misconstruing what AMP is

That was not my intention, and I apologize if I came off that way.

> As I have also pointed out before, their goal is to have even fewer Google members on that committee. Already, anything that benefits only Google would be shot down.

Perhaps you know more about this than I do, but I have seen little movement in this direction or confirmation that Google is divesting themselves of control here.

> Compare to Apple News, which is controlled entirely by Apple or FBIA, controlled entirely by Facebook, or RSS which is no longer updated at all.

You keep bringing this up, but I don't see widespread complaints about Apple News or Facebook Instant Articles (and RSS is beloved to almost everyone I know). I think the key point here is intent: these sources are very clear in what they're doing, how they're doing, and I don't think they feel as "forced" to adopt it.
Did you mean to refer to something other than Anki? I thought it was a free software project, not a company?
It is inefficient. The vocabulary lessons on Spotify run through words a lot faster. You don't have free reign of what category to study things in. It teaches vocabulary when you should be learning grammar. It teaches pronunciation just by having you repeat words, which is inadequate - the specifics of pronunciation (including emphasis of syllables) must be explained.
AMD Zen 4 CPUs Rumored on Track for 2021 as Early TSMC 5nm Yields Impress
Some of the newer stuff seems mostly well-designed, e.g. Room, LiveData. Lot of the older stuff is horrible. Kotlin is just slightly better than Java in my experience.

Overall I wouldn't say Android development is aweful, I think it's iOS is just marginally better. Swift is a nicer language than Kotlin but creating UI layouts sucks on iOS.
Quitting is an option if you are in over your head. You may be senior but not for that stack yet. They might have factored that in.

What most people do with your skillset is stick around and try to learn and struggle until they make it, give it all up or move into management.
You might like the story of Pizzaoki operating as a delivery-only brand of another restaurant in Oakland: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/02/11/dj-steve-aoki-quietl...
Making This Blog with Cloud Run
Yes, now. But I don't know how one would finance the build-out of a public utility like this.
The "block and ask later" method seems valid for copyright owners. But for users it is essencially just "block". Not only because relevancy will be lower after some days pass. But mostly because algorythms will not show such content to people. Because it didn't receive any signals for several days makes it to be considered uninteresting.

For funny memes it is not a big deal, but for social and political discourse it is devaststing.

And it is already known copyright laws are used by media companies to control the narrative. For example when a politician says something people can find not right. Should a media company sympathasing with him, be able to wipe out the very existance of the situation?

Because this is actually what media companies will be to do. Wipe out parts of reality they dont like people to remember or know.

Actually it looks like politics made a deal with business. And it is something to oppose against.
Its free for unlimited devices if you run your own network controller, which is not that hard. Look under controller/ in the github repo.
But a “website” isn’t an HTML page any more. It’s a network-deployed application. Most people want to run these applications.
European Lisp Symposium 2020: Compilers
Even with SwiftUI?
The initial concept was "value types" and we wanted a project name that was evocative of "value". Place names (even for mythical places) are good names since they cannot be trademarked. Hence, "value" => "val" => "Valhalla".
It isn't even clear that calling it "property" is appropriate considering the many differences...
I can't tell if you are making a joke or not.

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-banksy-sued-itali...
It's 45% bigger in area, rather than to a side (~4x overall area) like most people think when they see "double FOV". It's an improvement, yes, but not one that actually substantially changes its utility. If I could trade my Magic Leap for my old Hololens, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Can there be a list that come up so user who want control can see what pages the link they have selected to link implicitly. Just on the side perhaps. They can explicitly block or AI learn etc. It may have to a feature as deny or enable all is too rough to be useful.

For china need some way to handle that whole commerical-military-party all one entity.
Great app. 151+ day streak on it. I think there are some problems with monetization (right now the free tier has just as many features as the paid tier), but it is really a great tool.
People Are Flushing Toilets 10 Times, 15 Times
Worse in what sense?
"extremely lacking" is an understatement for the neglected courses. My experience is that questions where the expected answer is ungrammatical aren't fixed for months/years.

I wish they opened this up to community curation a bit for the less lucrative languages.
Microsoft Cloud Quantum Computing
My wife is using to learn Spanish, and she doing pretty good.

First she’s really dedicated to it.

And then she also has a lot of exposure to it. My kid goes to Spanish school, my parents speak Spanish, and she already understand a third latin language.

So I see duolinguo as a way to systematically increase vocabulary so that you can better understand the language your exposed to.
11.8k stars on GitHub doesn’t qualify as popular?
This actually speaks volumes. Yes, people forget. Yes, it’s possible to suffer severe growing pains and still get acquired for $$$$. No, you don’t need to start with everything-AWS to ensure 99.9-whatever% uptime. People forget.
That is certainly one hypothesis that has not yet been eliminated.
I would be interested to know how much of that code is not boilerplate just pulled directly from google’s site explaining how to interface with X.
Copyright is a corporate concern. Pest Control are corporate, and care about money.

They're not Banksy direct.
How was the comfort level on the HL2? That and the low FOV were what killed the original for me, as my use case is replacing my screens. I'm actually getting ready to commit to working 100% through VR -- Quest -- and AR -- currently ML1, but seriously considering the HL2...

If I didn't have a toddler to watch while I work much of the time, I'd probably just go all-in on VR (I'm currently working 30-50% through the Quest), but being able to see the world is kind of essential for those times haha.
So, is this basically a service which simulates a managed VPN, but establishes secure P2P connections between devices to maximize throughput? If so, I'm very curious about pricing.
This looks really awesome (glad it’s based on WireGuard). Can’t wait to try it out and use something like this for our infrastructure.
Interesting, I find Kotlin just marginally better than Java. It doesn't have checked exceptions which is annoying. You can't use a simple return in lambda functions.

As for other languages: Python is ok for smaller stuff. I don't like Go. My favourite languages are probably Swift and Julia. And recently, I've grown to really like C++ although I used to hate it.
Anyone know why intel is still so far away
Nothing working consistently?

Things breaking randomly?

Nothing looking consistent?

Aping all the bad parts of the MS ecosystem while missing most of the good (I firmly believe desktop linux peaking with KDE 2 and has been consistently downhill ever sense)
I don’t really see that at all. Facebook just bought Beat Games, not PornHub.
A meal that takes an hour of actively cooking is a very complicated/fancy meal. Ten to twenty minutes is more realistic for an ordinary weeknight meal, and a simple meal (eg pasta with sauce) is just a few minutes’ work.
I would expect the Bangladeshi and Sikh community to metaphorically eat the vc's lunch if they organized. Or the contingent of Mexicans who run almost all US kichens by repute (ie, unionised and form collectives to do this better and cheaper). Sikhs cook for thousands every week at the temple, they have volume down pat. Bangladeshi are the mexicans of Indian restaurant food worldwide, it often doesn't matter what subregion it says over the door, they're doing the cooking.
>Without CSS, what this would look like is pure data -- a list of animals with a picture and their relevant depth printed next to them. It would be perfectly functional. This is your render target: "what is the information that I wish to convey?"

No. The author wishes to convey a multimedia experience. This is evident, the page is unique because of this.

The author does not care to convey just textual information. You're just breaking down the core components of the system and picking the one that's required to have any semblance of a page. The "fun touches" are ultimately required. It's like a script vs. a movie, the movie isn't required and the script is ultimately all that's needed but nobody cares about the script do they? It's not even embedded in the movie.

>I want to be clear here -- I'm not advocating for a less experimental, uglier web. The reason you (or whoever the author is) needed to hack their way to this page is because they are over-complicating and over-engineering their UI. This page is using a CSS grid, for no reason at all. It's pulling in webGL code to render a background that could be handled with a simple Canvas. None of the elements on the page are in the right order, so good heckin luck trying to read this if you're blind. Even though, to be clear, the information this page is displaying is an ordered list of animals with some text next to them.

I have to be honest with you, and this is cruel. But when I design a page... I don't care for blind people. I don't focus my design so that it will cascade down into something blind people can read. Books don't have this property, movies don't and because of this... neither should web pages. It is not worth the effort.

>I'm not sure I agree that the state of native apps is perfectly fine. And I definitely disagree that caring about stuff like accessibility necessarily means that you can't be creative, or that we'll be holding the web back. I think that 95% of the native apps on your computer are probably text based UIs, except they've got a little bit of styling applied on top of them to turn unordered lists into drop-down menus. We have escape hatches for the web apps that are more complicated, that genuinely need to do crazy pixel-level things. Most of them don't.

I never said native apps are perfectly fine. I'm also not advocating all sites be designed with pixels. What I am advocating is freedom from HTML and CSS. If the platform of the browser exposed pixel level control with HTML and CSS only as a library and given the amount of people who hate the CSS + HTML... it's almost a guarantee that people will create sibling API's that are on the same High level as HTML + CSS but offering different philosophies. There are multitudes of UI layout languages and tools out there, who said HTML and CSS was the best, and why does it have to be the only way?

That's all I'm saying. You expose pixel level control at the core for the purpose of being able to use and create multiple high level libraries rather being vendor locked into HTML and CSS.
Or Chisel (Scala), which has real, industrial users and a thriving commmunity. RISC-V is in Chisel.

If you want to go really bonkers, there’s spatial-lang which allows easy interop with the Java memory model and heap
Here's his 25th annual Christmas celebration, at Stanford yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_kd7xE-HqA
> Kotlin has its own stdlib

Barely. You can't even read a file without java.io.
"An anonymous teenager writes about his brief infatuation with the alt-right, which made him critical of how big tech platforms influence the way we think."

I find it interesting that a very small minority group that isn't really taken seriously by anyone on the right is the catalyst for being 'critical of how big tech platforms influence the way we think' when the vast majority of Reddit, including the many subreddits that appear on the front page are very hard left and comments that regularly promote violence against conservatives, republicans, and anyone that disagrees with the current leftist narrative.

There is no alt-left, because it's considered mainstream. Domestic terrorist groups like Antifa are accepted by the mainstream left and the very real violence happening in major cities like Portland and Seattle isn't denounced by any Democrat or left-leaning politician in the US. Hell, it's barely covered by anyone in the press.

This is the real problem.
Bridge has a similar challenge, though from what I understand Bridge AIs are not superhuman yet. I suspect our techniques could be applied to Bridge, though they may need to be adapted a bit.

The imperfect information in Hanabi absolutely matters a ton. It's not an interesting game without it.
BAT was also known for becoming the primary funding mechanism for an infamous website dedicated to stalking and harassing autistic people.

This led to a lot of complaints sent to Brendan Eich and his employees, which they were understandably extremely upset about, but they did eventually drop support for said website.

It does raise an interesting point, though: at what point does BAT funding cross an ethical line? One can imagine even worse things than stalking being funded if there are no checks. But then defunding anything can be seen as a violation of free speech.
New Rails dev here: I believe the entire ActiveRecord model is constant monkey patching.
This is the quintessential “HN Middebrow Dismissal”. Good to know they’re still alive and strong here. “Just a skin” is absolute crap.
Humans introduce entropy in the system and might actually review cases once in a while, unlike a bot.

Outside of script, rejected claims that had "azertyuiop" as copyright owner, although it had the right amount of vowels.
You might be better served by a Xiaomi phone. They have a very active dev community and apps and ADB tweaks that boycott the private data telemetry to China and Google are introduced and updated regularly. Or at least they were last I checked a year ago. :D