skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it the case that the approach of using a VM to do games goes way back .. in the early 80's it was a common mechanism in games dev, and the tradition has endured such that VM's are often pushed hard, technology-horizon wise, by the game devs.

One of the reasons Lua is all over the place, is its VM code is very well written and easy to integrate in a code-base.

There is still room for VM's to solve a lot of the current platform-war problems.
Is it? There's no upfront pricing in the taxi industry. There is a set fare rate, but the fare is dependent on external conditions.
It’s definitely the invisible hand of the market at work here and not the massive amounts of marketing subsidies being thrown at the product. That’s why Uber is posting so much profit each quarter, right?
Interestingly enough, here in Czech republic it changed the other way around, roughly half a year ago.
That doesn’t make any sense. Unless something else has changed, there’s no concrete way of knowing or estimating the cost of a ride. The price per mile/min is not regulated or posted like taxis. So what, you just hope surge pricing or per-rider-price-discrimination is not suddenly in play?
Comparing the code samples, it looks like it's easier to spin up testing with Httpx than Flask, but that's a superficial conclusion. I don't have experience with Httpx so take this with a grain of salt. Based on the comparison, I'm going to play with Httpx for testing the next time I use Flask because the simplicity looks rad.

Based on similar experience with other tools, that possibly means that Httpx is great for simple testing but if you need to go deep it's better to use the framework provided. That's an assumption, though, so I'd love to hear more from others.
This helped me get closer to understanding: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/12/funeral.html
If anyone is looking for a really great game, you should check out Terry's latest, Dicey Dungeons. Incredible variation. Each episode and character has you discovering new strategies and play styles.

30% off on Steam right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/861540/Dicey_Dungeons/
The iPhone 11 Pro Max has a 15 watt-hour battery. If it lasted a week on a single charge, it would need a 105 watt-hour battery. That's the same amount of energy in 90 grams of TNT.
Or that "Don't Be Evil" was all PR nonsense from the beginning that we naively gobbled up.
This is a repost of an article with 300 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935446
It is still beyond expensive. Especially at somewhere like Imperial.
First you need to get a BSc degree = $28k+ Then you need to fork an extra $36,000 (USD) £28,000 (GBP) for the online masters which you are paying for the University brand and course. Question is, Is it still worth it?

Apart from the obvious debt. The other Cons? loss of networking opportunities, $14k more expensive, small risk of inferiority to a normal degree. But I guess for some with deep pockets, if the University isn't ranked highly in the world or 'Ivy League' or 'Golden Triangle' then for that price? It is not even worth considering.
That is a great comparison! There are people who can't understand heavily-spoken Scots English, African-American Vernacular English or Cajun Vernacular English, and while all of those are English, they're different dialects.

All are proper English, as any linguist will tell you, but Scots English is more or less mutually unintelligible.

AAVE is relatively understandable because of pop-culture, but without previous exposure to it, someone who didn't have any influence to it would be confused in an environment that heavily uses it.

And if you got sat in front of a Cajun family, despite the relative amount in common with them, linguistically, you'd be bewildered at some of their heavily French-influenced vocabulary and structure.
Turkish higher education committee ignores multi-author papers completely and only counts single-author or advisor-student papers, in the first appointment of professors; and severely discourages multi-author papers in reassessments.
Uber and Lyft both operated this way in the beginning, and switched to upfront pricing later, presumably after having enough data to make upfront pricing reliable. I still remember the outcry - people say it’s a tactic to bury surge pricing and implement price discrimination.

Guess you can’t please everybody :(
The most scify thing about the future is that people actually talk to each other.

The Trek franchise should have some reference to the Texting Ban of some stardate.
Welcome to the United States where you find out the pricing for a medical service 6 months after receiving the service, then keep finding out about it for another year, random bill upon random bill.
IoT Application Running on KubeEdge and ARM Platform – Xuan Jia and Bin Lu
As a tourist you risk getting ripped off and one of the selling points of Uber is gone.

As long as the price estimation is working properly the profit for the driver should even out in the long term.
Or Burroughs, Xerox PARC mainframes, IBM mainframes language environments, UCSD Pascal, Lilith, Ceres, Inferno, Windows Phone 7, Windows Store, MicroEJ, watchOS bitcode,....

I think that the use of such systems has only increased, thanks to mainstream adoption of IoT devices and cloud environments.

OEMs can change their hardware at will while supporting existing applications, and cloud environments can be heterogeneous, without much issues moving applications around.
Also called social benefit corporations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

If the company doesn’t have their values and goals listed in the articles of incorporation, then they have no legal obligation to follow them.
Kubernetes is very good at keeping track of state and maintaining it. You "just" tell it the state you want and it makes sure it becomes reality (this is the whole point of k8s actually). Terraform is doing the same thing, just for imperative (instead of declarative) APIs (like public clouds, etc).

The issue with Kubernetes is more expressing the state. Kube uses YAML, which quickly becomes verbose and hard to maintain. More on our blogpost: https://grafana.com/blog/2020/01/09/introducing-tanka-our-wa...

Tanka is trying to solve this issue by providing a more powerful language that overcomes these limitations hopefully.
Complaining about getting flagged or downvoted makes it likely to be flagged or downvoted, on HN or elsewhere. Your comment doesn't even say anything negative about Firefox, it's just vague complaining.
It is sickening but not surprising that these Wall Street & executive types put profits about human suffering & human rights. I wish more countries that claim to have hold human rights as a central value of their county's morality would put their money where their mouth is to regulate these modern day supervillains.
We're in California as well. The state is pretty good with involuntary holds where someone is being deprived of their rights, but anything that's voluntary doesn't fall under that, even if the patient and/or their family made that decision based on tall tales a physician or physicians spun.
Software work is incredibly different from what Uber does.

Edit:

On top of that, I'm not coming into this thinking that this is whats best for all those people in their current situation. This is what I think is best for my society and country. I do not want companies to be able to push off large costs of doing business to their employees by just calling them contractors. I don't think this is good for _me_ in general and so I would support laws like this
3.9 GPA sounds pretty restrictive as well for online program.

University of Colorado has an interesting approach to this for Data Science MSc. A series of placement tests rather than GPA.

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-scie...
Use noscript. It's possibly one of the best add-ons out there now.
I wanted to point to Etsy, since they were a b-corp, meaning they were held to higher "social and environmental standards" than a typical company, but I just Google'd them to see how their stock is doing and it looks like they gave up their b-corp status sometime in 2017 and their stock price is up 400% since then (price was flat and declining previously).
I would love to know how you effectively run a 100,000 person company, particularly when they are all knowledge workers as opposed to retail, food service, etc.

Is google well run? How do you tell?
However you could use the tax system to do things like pay certain workers "reverse income tax" where instead of taxing their income you support the lower prices with tax credits for their profession.
> In the end, you shouldn't need a degree if you have the skills.

A university degree has multiple purposes.

As a student, you want to learn stuff and network with fellow students and get a paper.

As an employer, you see that the applicant has work ethic, knows the cultural norms, can obey orders, can interact with people in the field etc. And also that they have a fundamental knowledge of the field.

However, a university degree in computer science is not and should not be expected to be a developer training course.

It's very feasible to become a developer in a self-taught way and work productively in industry, building websites, CRUD apps, mobile apps etc. No need for a degree here.

It's much less feasible to self-teach computer science and math and so on. A university program will force you to do it even when it's not pleasurable. But it won't teach you practical web design skills etc. because that isn't its purpose.

What we have today is definitely a bad arrangement. Many students study a field they are ultimately aren't interested in and won't use, just to fulfill employers' requirements.
Apart from failing to account for competition, I think the problem with this kind of analysis is that it misses how transformative UBI would be for how we reward work. All those dirty, unpleasant jobs paying minimum wage will suddenly become a lot harder to fill. When people have a viable safety net the compensation those jobs offer will have to be commensurate with the unpleasantness of the work. Who would spend 40 hours a week cleaning for $200 a month when you already get $1000?
The easiest way to get to the top of HN seems to be joining Google, quitting, and writing about it.
The second paragraph:

"As with slaves, serfs could be bought, sold, or traded (...), abused with no rights over their own bodies, could not leave the land they were bound to, and could marry only with their lord's permission."

Does anyone really think this is how Uber drivers live?
Terry is open to propositions https://twitter.com/terrycavanagh/status/1215679119666688001
Terraform is really good at describing how infrastructure should be provisioned (VMs, load balancers, dns entries, networking, etc). Provisioning software on a VM and keeping it in a consistent state, however, is not something it's very good at. Userdata is very difficult to do anything complex with (limited size payloads, optimized for uploading a single shell script), and the provisioner system is explicitly described as a "last resort". This makes Terraform not so good at describing how software should be provisioned.

There is a bit of a movement, however, behind using it to deploy software by pairing it with Packer. You use Packer to create an e.g. AMI whose sole job it is to run your software (like a Docker container) then use Terraform to launch a bunch of EC2 instances that have juuuust enough resources to effectively run your software. That'd allow you to eliminate k8s from your stack, though it remains to be seen which stack would be more cost-efficient to run on.
Since the release of the original Oculus I’ve been curious about this. I fly for a living which is a very rewarding and satisfying way to earn a paycheck but it does come with some monotony and takes away some of the ‘fun’ that can really only be had from GA flying low and slow and taking in the scenery. I’m not able to afford an actual aircraft yet but I’m wondering if a good VR simulator set up could scratch that itch.

I guess it depends what kind of flying you do in the sim but do you find it still provides a fun factor? Like is it immersive enough to go fly around in the mountains? Or hop around some lakes in a seaplane? Is manipulating switches and buttons other than the primary controls cumbersome within VR? I remember the original ‘virtual cockpits’ in MS Flight Sim and planning around go find the right switches and buttons to click really took away from the experience.

I’m really interested in this idea but haven’t found a setup to try out and I’m hesitant to spend a bunch on it just to test it out.
Uber in a blog post on Wednesday said the step was the result of changes to its fare structure

Does anyone know where this blog post is? I checked https://www.uber.com/blog but the only post I could find for Wednesday was in the Culture section and didn't have this info.
This encourages drivers to maximize each fare, though. So now every time my driver makes a wrong turn, not only does it cost me time but it also costs me money - and what's worse is the drivers are now incentivized to do this!
University is just an overpriced IQ test anyway.

We want to delude ourselves that everybody has the capability to be a doctor, programmer, engineer, successful business owner etc. We ban employees from using IQ tests, when SAT scores correlate strongly with IQ. Then the best companies hire from the best universities where the best students with the highest SAT go i.e. they just hire the highest IQ people in each year slot.

To fund this delusion we would then have to make university available to everybody, as if a degree is in a vacuum a token of value and not the fact that a degree is relatively scarce. A degree when everybody has one isn't worth as much as when only 50% of people have one.

And of course the law of supply/demand makes degrees more expensive when everybody has one, but makes the degrees less useful economically when everybody has one. Double-dipped.
'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres
Know How Open Source Edge Platforms Are Enriching IoT Devices
Yes, OSI is responsible for the OSD, but the term has gotten somewhat "genericised". It's like saying that the Kimberly-Clark company doesn't define what "kleenex" is anymore.

Whenever this debates comes up everyone always says, "wait, the term existed before OSI", but no, it really did not. Essentially nobody was saying "open source" before 1998 when OSI and Tim O'Reilly started pushing "open source".

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

"Open source" wasn't our idea, and the greatest marketing trick that OSI ever did was convince so many of us that it was.
Call me naive, but I genuinely believe Sergey and Larry believed in it (especially Sergey)
Intel Core I9-10900K 10 Core CPU Sips More Than 300 Watts of Power
Have you tried ACC in VR yet? I can barely run ACC as is on my older i5 but would love to play that in VR as GT3 racing is my favorite class
I always used the Flash WYSISWYG editor for the canvas and graphics, so OpenFL isn't a replacement at all in that respect.
Why that baroque approach vs expecting, and maybe enforcing, that companies pay a fair wage.
They’ll most likely expand the model everywhere, while still blaming “regulation”. Then push the narrative that it’s better for the drivers. They need to turn a profit any way possible, and this is a good way to skim a couple dollars per ride. Local competitors in a lot of international markets never adopted flat pricing - in fact Uber itself isn’t flat-price in some markets (eg in my region of Brazil, and it’s not because there’s any regulation there). Uber is the new Taxi cartel. So it goes.
We're going back to taxi prices.

Taxis were originally as cheap as ubers used to be (think rickshaws in developing countries). Absent regulation, the price goes down to the cost of fuel, because this is a class of workers with barely any bargaining power. Uber originally claimed their innovation was logistical efficiencies ("traveling salesman") which would lower prices, but I don't think that matters as much as avoiding the regulation and removing bargaining power from drivers.

It's a cycle: rickshaws > regulation > new rickshaws ("innovation") > regulation.

This will hurt the people who take ubers for convenience e.g. don't feel like walking or squeamish about public transit. But won't affect people who need to get A > B directly. IMO this is a good thing -- more people on public transit will improve public transit.
Think of it like it's math. If you have to explain the value of e every time you use it, the value of your work to onlookers diminishes, and it can no longer be held in the mind of any reader.
The timing of his change of heart seems politically motivated so I’d take a lot of what’s he saying with a grain of salt.

He doesn’t disclose that he’s running for Congress in the article and it seems very convenient to share these opinions as soon as he’s running for office.
Though C doesn't closely map to the way processors work. It closely maps to the way the PDP11 worked, but for modern processors it's pretty far. It doesn't expose any of the ideas of caching, for example.
People uploads a lot of old Microsoft OSes and software on Internet Archive [1], but curiously, no one uploaded Windows 3.11 installer yet (plenty of Windows 3.1 though). I wonder why. Legal reason?

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Microsoft%...
Well, tech is really well paid, and tech workers tend to spend a lot of money buying things. Considering consumer spending is almost 70% of US GDP, when people lose jobs (especially good high paying ones), other industries tend to suffer. This can start a downward spiral.

https://www.thebalance.com/consumer-spending-trends-and-curr...
Does your tool support custom key commands and macros (also can I use it out of a browser)?

Last time I played with it that was what got me to leave. A drag and drop wysiwyg is wholly inappropriate for serious work. Also the search feature doesn’t work well, it stalled looking for “op amp”

And by “serious” work I mean a small circuit with two dozen elements.
Oh, too bad :(

The site is hosted on Netlify and seems to be working for most other people.

Maybe reset your browser cache, check your network or try on your phone using cellular data instead?

If the issue persists, I'll take a closer look :D
>Therefore, by definition, you can either find a way to cope within that surveillance state, or you can move to somewhere so remote and hidden that you can't be caught doing what they don't like.

The problem with this is that by submitting your DNA, you're not handwaving away your own privacy - you're also making the decision for your relatives as well to handwave away their privacy.

>In our lifetimes, I'm not seeing a way for us to dismantle the forces that are pushing for such a big surveillance state.

"It's hard so why even bother trying". Yeah, fuck this milquetoast line of thought, to be frank. The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance. Don't engage in the sort of activity that lays the groundwork for totalitarian surveillance.
Exactly! Uber is offering these people income where they would otherwise be without.
The intention was to provide context and information, not to editorialize.

* The article is from 2019.

* The fire situation is getting worse.

* The title is intended to be informative.

I don't see this as click-bait at all, and I think your criticism is misplaced.
It was no different in the workplace culture. Senior colleagues bullied and screamed at young women, causing them to cry at their desks. At an all-hands meeting, my boss said, “Now you Asians come to the microphone too. I know you don’t like to ask questions.” At a different all-hands meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told to participate in a “diversity exercise” that placed me in a group labeled “homos” while participants shouted out stereotypes such as “effeminate” and “promiscuous.” Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called “Asians” and “Brown people” in other rooms nearby.

What is this? I have worked in the valley in smaller companies, but this (the diversity exercises) takes the cake. Was there some context to this that is missing? Can anyone who participated throw more light?
> if you're interested only in pedigree - nobody gives a ...

With this program, also Georgia Tech's MSCS program, you get the exact same classes, tests, and degree as students attending in person.
The article does say Google risked all their China money at one point to stay true to their "don't be evil" mantra. They turned heel only recently. I'd say they genuinely believed and practiced it for a while, but once the upper management started to get infected with business types instead of technologists, that was the beginning of the end.
Do Not Study Biological Science
That's like saying Git has no conflicts because a file can have different contents in different commits.

A conflict can only arise when trying to unify (aka merge) two different states. The difference is the representation, with Git (naively explained) mapping file paths to text blobs , and Unison mapping identifiers to AST nodes.
So I append X to my file and you append Y to your file, do we not have a conflict?
Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Tongue Fat
Ill refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism which is how I am using the word as this is a forum and not a research paper.

They have very little control over their lives and work, Uber does not let them set prices and they arent making enough money to go retire early. I refer to them as serfs in that they have to answer to Uber with no actual negotiating power on their own.
Can anyone confirm if 73.0b3 includes the same fix?

Their "what's new" link in the beta's About window doesn't track with the beta release cycle. There's no revision listed, so I think the notes are for 73.0b1 still? At any rate, there's no mention of any security fixes.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0beta/releasenotes/
That's why the title deliberately has "2019" in it.
You can do this MSc elsewhere for way less than £14k. Is that place Imperial? No. Is that a name brand uni that someone from HR will know? No. But there are lots of good engineering-focused schools in the UK that are known within industry and that charge closer to £7k (and you don't have to live in London).

EDIT: just saw is £28k over two years, the absolute most expensive courses in the UK are £28k over ONE year. This is crazy (Imperial is known for this kind of money grubbing).
Upfront pricing is the main reason I use uber over alternatives in Europe. Almost all other services have price ranges.
How is the resolution/screen door effect of that headset? I use an original Vive with VTOL VR and other games and while they are still very fun and serviceable, I just built a new PC so I could purchase an Index when they go back on sale. I'm hoping the bump in resolution is as significant as I've heard
Headline matters 10x more than the content I have read, as people won’t read more than a paragraph.
I tried to use kustomize recently but could not figure out how to write Job/CronJob properly. I wanted to use the configGenerator/secretGenerator, with prod/stage/dev.
Many cities have a set rate for airport-to-downtown trips, and you may be able to negotiate one directly with the taxi driver for long or unusual trips.

For example: https://www.jfkairport.com/to-from-airport/taxi-car-and-van-...

> Taxis at JFK Airport charge a flat fare of $52 for trips between the airport and Manhattan. Taxis impose a $4.50 surcharge during peak hours (4-8 p.m. weekdays, excluding holidays), for a fare of $56.50.
Hi, you won't have much contact with JSON at all.

While Jsonnet is technically a superset, all you will see during use is most probably function calls and imports.

You won't have to actually write the Kubernetes objects anymore, they are generated using helper functions, just like real programming languages would do.