skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agreed that buses need lots of love, especially in SF.

However, Uber/Lyft exist, and this divide exists as we stand today. I really hope these are cheaper, and help us drive down the cost of transportation.

Secondly, I'm very excited about areas that are subruban-ish where we could get rid of many many cars and use something like this instead.
Good stuff. I love seeing really practical articles that just lay out, "Given my experience and the lessons I've learned, these are a good baseline of general best practices".
The only reason busses are the size they are is the labor cost of the driver only makes sense with many, many passengers. When that is eliminated, the equation changes.

Even if these weren't point-to-point, smaller vehicles can a) serve more routes that would otherwise be below breakeven for minimum passengers served by a bus, b) be more comfortable for passengers to enter/exit, and c) take up less room on streets. Buses barely fit on streets, they only make sense on very dense thoroughfares as an alternative to rail.
I don't really want to go with somebody I've never heard of, but H&R Block seems to be providing their free option to anyone with income under $69K. They have an option to import your previous year's Turbotax file.
Safari is a great advertisement for Chrome.
> turning over a new leaf

I think you can always count on smart companies to optimize for return on assets, including their brand.

Microsoft had some weakness on that front, but they've put significant, sincere, and welcome effort into building brand value with the engineering crowd over the last decade. Nonetheless, it's entirely reasonable to expect them to make use of opportunities to leverage their assets to build their business as well.

If you have the means, compile from source. And if not, then perhaps enlist the services of someone who does (directly or indirectly).
I’m also cutting way back on my amazon spend. I still buy when the reviews don’t indicate counterfeit red flags, but it’s fewer and fewer product categories each year.

Amazon is no longer the first place I look for many items; with things like Shopify, high-quality eCom experiences are available to basically every business in a way they were not 10 years ago. For branded products, I’ve started buying direct from the brand websites with mostly good results. I’ll probably cancel Prime next year.
> With the Origin’s ability to drive day and night and last for more than a million miles, we’ll be able to cut up to $5,000 in transportation costs per San Francisco household, per year.

What counts as a transportation cost? Do average San Franciscan households have $5k of local (i.e. replaceable with a robocab) transportation costs? We're one of the US cities with the most households without vehicles [1].

But even looking at the US average, $5K would be a big promise.

E.g. a quick search finds claims [2] that average US households are paying $250 in gas per month (-> 3k per year). That same source says the household average for transportation (including planes, trains, ships, vacations) is $9k.

For comparison, an SF muni pass with bart within the city is $98/month.

[1] https://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-...

[2] https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-household-budget#transp...
If a cashless society is implemented.

What happens to the people, companies and organizations banned from using the cashless payment network?
Plus it can come right to your house at (roughly) the time you want it. Closer to being like owning a car.
Labor costs are the only thing? Fuel efficiency and traffic (how many double parked Ubers jamming a single lane road will I see tomorrow? Will it be more or less than half a dozen?) would like a word.
All the extraneous ads, tracking, etc in Windows 10 has made it so I have never bothered upgrading from 7.

It seems like it would be a huge pain to go through and disable or blocking everything, and even then how confident could I be that I didn't miss something?
Amazing. Windows peaked at 7, and every update has been downhill ever since.
What’s the ‘club’ going to be called?
Well searching/counting/etc k-mers can be done with regexps, but I certainly agree that regexp-based searching is somewhat niche compared to more generally useful similarity searches like BLAST.

One comment though: backtracking is not inherently an issue with regexps. Some implementations will never backtrack, and others that do (like perl's) are nowadays pretty good at avoiding the exponential worst-cases that I think you're referring to, for all but the most pathological cases.
I've seen a million dollar java project (which started as scala) crash and burn because the team couldn't code its way out of a box. Ruby / Rails, python, php, heck even chef and vagrant setups that made me question my sanity. Crack open the code for most games and you see an unholy mess of c/++. I also know brilliant people who write excellent code in all of those (except maybe python, it's not too popular in my immediate circle). Golang is probably the hardest to tell good from bad since copy-paste is a virtue.

I have long given up on "language choice" as a marker that automatically says anything about a developer at all.
I wonder what things are just happening now that are the equivalent; the first people to experience something that will be so commonplace and useful.
At which point pushing for new technologies as a private entity is anti-competitive vs moving technology forward?

If the criteria is just "needs extra work" then unfortunately almost nothing can change and we're all going to live with the existing technology. Change inherently has friction and requires "extra work" with the hope that's an investment which provides returns long term.

In other words, say you are a large Internet company that is trying to improve web page loading times. You profile why most web pages are slow and identify issues. You publicly report on those issues and develop guidelines and criteria. Nobody bothers because "extra work". You develop new technology that directly addresses those issues, this technology works within the existing environment but it requires both client and server support to be most effective. Do you think anyone cares? No, because of "extra work". That's why there needs to be incentives. Now you have a "penalty" for not doing that "extra work". You can file it under "it's anti-competitive" (maybe it is) but if you do the "extra work" then suddenly the anti-competitive part works for you, not against you. IMO that's why it's not anti-competitive.

Other examples: why do you think there are so many people that complained when iPhone released with Flash reader? "extra work". Similarly when it removed the audio jack. Change is friction and friction is extra work. But most of the time that's not anti-competitive...
The normal approach is to keep copies in a format that isn't dependent on specific tax software, and the IRS only has a few years to audit you or ask for more money. I was undergoing a ten year background check once where I had to certify no government debts, and found a small underpayment (W-2 that the IRS had but I never received) and they wouldn't take my money.

I think worrying about open source in this context is optimizing entirely the wrong thing. If you keep things simple, then at worst, you'd have to copy your printout onto the forms for an amended return by hand, and that wouldn't be too onerous.
I think the overlooked answer in this conversation is that Apple doesn't need to modify their service for China at all. In in all countries, they hold the encryption keys for most user data. Only these things are E2E encrypted[1]:

Home data
Health data (requires iOS 12 or later)
iCloud Keychain (includes all of your saved accounts and passwords)
Payment information
QuickType Keyboard learned vocabulary (requires iOS 11 or later)
Screen Time
Siri information
Wi-Fi passwords

You might say "what about iMessage". The link has that answer, too:

>Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices.

This means Apple can produce the data a government is looking for in virtually all cases, and that's probably good enough for China.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
> to handle the same number of requests/sec you need much more workers, which has a lot of overhead

When doing multiprocessing, it's advisable to fork() instead of creating fresh processes (or launching them in containers etc). As long as you preload the necessary libraries/modules in the parent process before the fork, children will reference the same memory in a copy-on-write fashion. It keeps overhead extremely low.

This [1] article is for the Unicorn (ruby) webserver but the way it explains forking, signals, and pipes for inter-process control it's absolutely illuminating. These techniques are applicable to any unix-based applications, including php daemons.

[1] https://thorstenball.com/blog/2014/11/20/unicorn-unix-magic-...
Cooler master has a keyboard which they call a hybrid ten key less where they combines the numpad with the arrow and home buttons. There are probably other brands with a similar layout, seems like a good compromise.

I use a ten key less keyboard so I can put the mouse closer to it.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdn.coolermaster.com/asse...

https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/peripheral/keyboards/ma...
Ritual: Use C++ Libraries from Rust
It is also clearly designed for airport trips given the layout of the interior cabin.

Which is genius as in every city that is (a) the most lucrative taxi route and (b) the one with the newest and safest roads.
Just Read the Transcript
Kong 2.0 GA
Refactoring: Clean Your Code
And that doesn’t make the statement untrue. Apple clearly lists which data stored on its servers are e2e encrypted. Those are all considered “iCloud data”.
Flossing seems like an example concept for a different concept. The tiny task is a trick to get you to start. Once started you’ll floss them all.
the photos imply to me that these are "micro" buses- they are shared as if you share the space with people unknown to you - https://images.ctfassets.net/95kuvdv8zn1v/7bBqzbzAyUqFclbeGM...

The person is getting on a different place to the rest... ?
America is not built for public transit and without huge federal investment in rebuilding communities, that will not change. Simply getting more buses on the road when you're dealing with pretty huge suburbs is going to get very costly -- and remember, public transit fares can't be expensive to pay the costs, they have to remain low. So you're talking about a huge uphill battle with suburb communities who a) don't want "shit" in their backyards and b) don't want to pay for it.

So, this method is easier to roll-out, easier to bring profits from (especially with an ageing population who don't want to live in city centers), and can easily fit into nearly any community in America with ease.

Ideally, you would be right, we would instead be investing in a massive public transit overhaul from trains to buses but as the saying goes, we do not live in a perfect world.
Does anyone else just see a blank page? I'm assuming there is supposed to be a hero image?
The problem with all the existing products is they seem to be crowdfunding scams or they are essentially some clear plastic domes over a large touchscreen eink panel. I'm guessing that no one is able to source the 1x1cm eink screens that would be needed for a mechanical version.
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I want to see more minorities like myself on prominent magazines so I've taken it upon myself to be the change I want to see. I hope you can cast a vote and share recommendations on how to gain more support. Thanks in advance!
https://jetsetmag.com/model-search/2020/alina
> Lets say Apple launched iTunes2 as a separate product and one day you opened iTunes and saw the banner "Try iTunes2!" would that be equally upsetting

It would, actually. I don't want to be sold to, at all.
>That essay might still get more views than any of the research I’ve done in all the years since.

Hey, it happened to Cicero, too!
The superficial typographic level is the difference, I was mostly talking about first impressions. Though you probably shouldn't really allow your expression to get to the point that it's hard to read in Julia (for example abusing broadcast to create overly complex one-liners). At this point you should probably break it in multiple variables and functions.

And as Julia gets more mature and popular, I wouldn't be surprised if more people notice the strength of it's ecosystem and start creating new language that targets it, just like Elixir and Erlang or all JVM machines (and something more than just reader macros like LispSyntax.jl, like having full editor support and exclusive features that makes it unique compared to Julia). A JuliaLisp could have an amazing interop with the main language, and serve as an alternative for those who prefer s-expr.
> Now I'm drowning in work, with no one to give me priority or direction.

When you feel that "drowning", probably you are not enjoying the work load, which is quite important for the happy-you. I understand you are in the early days, did you try to make your decisions on the priority? Sometimes, you may be better, who knows. Give it a try.

> The work I am asked to do is important and I don't feel comfortable telling individuals high up in the subsidiary no.

This is the situation you've to face in your life, every day. Saying "no" is perfectly "yes", be bold enough to say "no". But just give a thought on the after-effects, if those do not put you in trouble, it is perfectly alright.

Good luck.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we're hoping for more thoughtful conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Alternatively: the more efficient and affordable version of “taxis”.
Not really faster than switching tabs unless you are deploying a hello world app.
If you're versed in both, it comes down to taste, though there really are cases where you'll have awk (usually via busybox) but not Perl. OpenWRT comes to mind (just verified it's not present by default, though yes, packages are available).

For a huge number of simple tasks, awk is available and sufficient. It's largely a subset of Perl, so yes, there's some skills overlap, but there are times where knowing awk is the right tool and the available tool will pay off.
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Just search in a private window then, the part of the tracking that I assume you find objectionable (gathering info on what sites the current user visits) goes away when you close the window while the part that helps the search engine (and thus results in better search results for everyone) still works.

Now sure, we can argue that maybe the company should provide options where you can say "you can use what I click on for search training but not for targeted advertising" (I think Google does provide a set of options that pretty much disable all web history/targeted ad collection), assuming you believe they follow through. But the company needs to pay for its services somehow so I can't blame them for tying the two types of tracking together, I still have tools as a user (private window) to avoid it if I care enough to.
One distinct variety of company culture is one where the employees can't fathom a world where no one has ever heard of them.

That's ok though, especially if you target your marketing towards early adopters who would know who you are. I doubt some of these companies could handle the hype or scale of being a household name.
It doesn't even have to be significantly cheaper. Being the same price as Uber & Lyft will be enough, as long as it is profitable/sustainable.
Not a single job role open for security. Hope they've solved the adversarial attacks against ML before these hit the road. The rendered images look great though!
Parent addressed this when they said "with first I mean to first capture the large swath of people that wasn't techies nor young people"
> that average US households are paying $250 in gas per month

Gas is definitely not the only expense to driving. Amortization of the vehicle value, insurance, and maintenance are all costs that you have to consider as part of vehicle ownership (or leasing).

If Origin were the difference between someone owning and not owning a car, it would be pretty easy to get to $5k. As you noted, $3k per year for gas. Another $1k for vehicle insurance. Another $1-2k for the value of the vehicle.
Does this apply to the vast majority of VC's? So if I want to do a yc pitch it needs to be able to have unicorn level potential? Who would you target as investors for tens of millions ideas if so? I'm guessing a larger focus on angels and IB's after a more proven, traditional profit model is shown (often a much different model than VC-startup profit model).
> 5G is supposed to make this feasible.

5G does not make this feasible. 5G does not break the speed of light
They say they're using Google's search engine. They bought the rights to use it.
> he isn't a traveller, he is a resident in the Seattle area returning from China.

A traveller is somebody who travels, e.g., from Seattle to China and back.
Show HN: A repo of code samples I created as an alternative to coding interviews
Site did not render well on Brave/iOS.

I’m in the UX/Human Factors Engineering field and hah, I too thought it was UNIX-related. Please consider changing the product name. I am guessing it is a play on iris but problematic for all reasons already outlined in comments.
Yes, sites just host the original copy submitted to Google. You can see all the resources are loaded from https://cdn.ampproject.org

If you visit the page from search results (which is the only place it would be linked) then it would never leave Google's domain.

Here's the actual URL used from search results: https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.b...
Wasn't the main problem that Amazon comingles inventory, therefore making the main way product quality would be signalled to buyers (reviews) useless?
The layout and default keymap[0] show this is really a very QWERTY-specific design.

I love small keyboards and am a Dvorak[1] fan, so tolerating such a layout will require some creative thinking.

I've purchased a PCB from SpaceCat Designs[2] and am keen on creating a Dvorak-centric keymap that chords the top two rows like the gBoards[3] Georgi[4], with the bottom rows dedicated as modifiers. Probably will give it a shot using the new F10 flat key profile from SP[5].

[0] https://github.com/PyrooL/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout

[2] https://spacecat.design/products/alpha28-pcbs

[3] https://www.gboards.ca/

[4] https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/ge...

[5] https://pimpmykeyboard.com/flat-keys/
Does that also apply to UWB?
> and $38.5M/year on "standards" (!?)

Does "standards" mean things like these?

WiFi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

Floating point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

Those types of standards seem pretty important.
That's how ads work. More visitors more pageviews/clicks. People who serve ads don't want to pay for bots which is why they are a problem.

Doesn't medium do this?
Yes and yes. It's a reverse engineered version of what iTunes does.
The google books link appears to have died: "You have either reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book"

(I'm fairly certain that I have not viewed anything from this book, nor any book for that matter, this year.)
Additionally, buses are certain sizes for political reasons. Constituents want a full sized bus driving through their neighborhood as a sign of respect given, passenger occupancy is not a concern in these situations.
> Average annual [transportation] expenditures among low-income households come to $2,164, while higher-income households spend an average of $6,569

https://www.ppic.org/press-release/transportation-affordabil...

This one however says the average household spends $13,350:

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/good-luck-cutting-down-tran...
Just replace all i++ with i-=-1 and watch the world burn
Your wish will be summoned. Just make sure to never have kids and never fall on your luck.
Beginnings of the Michelin Guide
It sounds like you're describing a very sophisticated bus route that every city in the world already has.
I played around with Go for the first time. The package manager and process of creating a new project was refreshing! It’s so tidy and neat. Those are the first words that I thought of - Go is a very tidy and neat language. From syntax to publishing packages, the language has extreme levels of cleanliness.
Archie : How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?

Otto : You are the vulgarian, you fuck.
I used to do yoga in my office (have a private office with no windows) for a bit. I loved it but occasionally when someone knocked on the door things were awkward. If you can pull it off in a way where you won’t be interrupted I’d say go for it.
What's with l being rendered as a 1?

And the typo in the footer?
"A numper of factors can affect 'the accuracy of the record"

Edit: Oh, I think this is the result of OCR
This mode of transport is very similar to how people ride Jeepney's in my country, the Philippines. I didn't see anything on how it would pick the routes, but I can tell you that it can get pretty smelly in there without windows.

Jeepneys are great though, I hope this mode of transport catches on.
That's a bit much. SGI IRIX is basically ancient history. The last release was in 2006, and SGI's heyday was the late 90's. If you were young or weren't online then, you wouldn't have a clue about it.
The simple case is:

FS = ","

or:

awk -F ',' <program>

If you're working with CSV data that has quoted strings with embedded commas, FPAT is your friend:

FPAT = "([^,]+)|(\"[^\"]+\")"

See: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Splitting...
It's very easy: hire more developers than security engineers.

Vulnerabilities will appear and be discovered by the security analysts in your government.

Whey they suspect other countries have the same 0days they'll notify you of it and you fix it.
If you ever get a chance to travel to Sydney, you'll find a nice outlier for road quality near the airport.
When googling for stuff I've sometimes come across other sites which make use of StackOverflow questions/answers. It feels tacky.

I don't know the chances of another site killing SO/SE the same way SO killed EE.. but I've noticed recently I visit SO less frequently than e.g. GitHub issues.
Duck.com?
It's crazy that the devs could do all this debugging in just 1 week. I think at least 99% of us programmers wouldn't be able to do it. I sometimes hunt for much simpler bugs for much longer time.
They only had to spy on whatsapp, so they could do it all in the same sandbox.
I used to think about the end of the universe, and also about whether the inside of a solid object really exists. So one way I imagined the universe could have an end is if space was a bubble inside of a solid.
Found this under the comment of the cruise post.
Pure GOLD
Unlike buses, this has a chance to pay for itself.
https://duck.com Should redirect you.
How many empty or near-empty buses will you see driving around tomorrow?
Yes FreeBSD tends to be the better desktop BSD due to many devs/users using it as a daily driver and fixing many of the pain points... of course I haven't used FreeBSD as my daily driver since ~2003 so I could be operating off totally stale information. I do have to say sometimes I get pangs of missing the much more unified tooling in BSD land, but GNU is my home now (sometimes exceptions are made in the case of pfsense, freenas, etc).