skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber has to also pay for engineers, sales/marketing to get customers/restaurants onto the platform

I really wonder how much of this is a self-created problem. Would Uber really need that many engineers if it wasn't processing data at a massive scale to find the ideal surge price for every trip and maximize revenue? Maybe Uber would make less money without surge pricing (and the large scale data crunching it involves), but then maybe Uber also wouldn't need to pay for so many engineers.

Similarly, would Uber really need to pay for marketing if it attracted growth organically instead of trying to dominate the world within half a decade?

We live in rather strange time for business. It used to be that if you wanted to build a $100B company, you spent decades in the trenches, reinvesting profits and attracting growth organically.

Even a true "unicorn" (not that I care much for that term) like Microsoft was worth "only" $35B in 1995, 20 years after it was founded.

We've all somehow assumed that this order of things is natural when it is far from how the rest of the business world functions
OMG. 30 years of using vi and this falls from the heavens. Thank you!

I am a proficient vi user but it’s totally weird watching the keyboard of another vi user. Totally different (and probably better) keystrokes.
Not any data, personal data. You can't collect personal data unless is necessary to the service you want to offer, and only after the user gave its consent
Agreed about the first mover advantage.

Do note StackOverflow is only relatively a first mover: expertsexchange came first, and StackOverflow killed it. Evidently, they did something better.

Wikipedia also had challengers. I don't remember their names (heh) but many years ago there were forks. I don't mean Wikia, but actual alternatives to Wikipedia. Nobody uses them.

> In general, a new thing has to be fundamentally different in some way. It's rare that an internet product is out-competed by someone else doing literally the same thing.

Possibly right, too! But if an inclusionist attitude is not something "fundamentally different" enough to succeed, then might it be that it wasn't important enough to say that deletionism is killing Wikipedia/StackOverflow? If people don't flock to inclusivist forks, maybe inclusivism isn't important enough?
Are extensions not allowed?
Does the project need an adorable mascot?

https://www3.citizenm.com/news/europe/rotterdam/the-rotterda...
Sometimes setup on different platforms is different in very subtle and hard to debug ways, and for smaller OSS projects that haven't yet been tested on different platforms, it may be very hard to figure that out. Now you can develop even on a chromebook (without the terminal access) without having to deal with any of that.
I can't edit my post any more, but it makes me sad that this is sitting negative, when what I did was point out that food delivery is a luxury. This whole business of delivering everything has only really taken off in the last 3 years.

If you want to create an echo chamber, this is how you do it.
How do you mean? They likely will have much higher deaths -- only if they decide to quarantine longer could I imagine that they have a success -- but "not handling covid 19 well" does not mean they will quarantine longer or that they will do a good job after their bang-up job.
> 'me being a developer is worth more'

See things from your manager's perspective. They have work they need accomplished. They have a small team - maybe not big enough for the work they need to accomplish - and of that work, some will directly create profit for the company and some will cut/ control costs, and still other work will be "stuff".

Your manager is telling you that they need your skills in a particular area, like due to staff shortages, skill shortages, or more specifically the value of the work. Take this as a sign that your skills set and labor are valued, just not perhaps in the way you prefer.

If developing skills in other areas (IE: SRE, devops, etc) is important to you, consider ongoing conversations where you make it clear you want to build this skills, and partner with your manager to do so. If that just isn't going to happen in this team, then consider your career path elsewhere if this is really important to you.
Just make a plain C API like Win32, or...

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but this seems very sensible to me, because it could offer great performance, and it's easy to create bindings from almost any language to C.
That was my point. They are pushing Raoult the persona, and are never talking about the studies.
The SSH plugin is insanely good. I can dev from a Windows machine and SSH into my Mac and do React Native (native) iOS modules. Even my zsh shell acts as if it's local. Running `pod install` from Windows. It's seemless.
Sure! will do now
"...you have naive low-level "mechanism" models making the mundane non-edge-case decisions, with no awareness of the edge-cases; and then you have smarter case-specific "policy" models, trained to recognize when the conditions apply for some particular policy to be enforced, whose job is to change/override the decision the low-level agent makes, by MITMing ("subsuming") the lower-level model."

It seems like handling the edge cases at "the top" has the inherent problem that in a complex system, the edge-cases will grow faster than the normal cases. Moreover, the edge-cases are more or less the sum of what the normal approximators can't handle, "the top" has to be aware of every lower part and compensate for it, meaning "the top" will grow in an unmanageable way.

Also, a higher function telling a lower function how to handle errors isn't quite following the handle errors at the top approach, since this implies lower level systems do have error handlers.
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Firefox Reader Mode saves the day, again
I'm not sure what incentives congress has for passing policies for the executive to follow, when the executive has shown it has no problem ignoring the law and using funding passed in alternative ways.
Herd immunity? Assuming such a thing can exist for Covid and it doesn't mutate every season like influenza.
Is there a public roadmap for the project? What aspects of the project currently have the most traction? Are there any plans to remove any existing parts of the project?
I've been noticing these "meat shortage" stories recently, but not seeing any evidence yet. Are news outlets trying to stir up a story or panic? Seems self fulfilling if people start hoarding.
Radical Candor by Kim Scott was the first book I was asked to read when I was promoted as manager. After that I went on to read High Output Management. Currently I am reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
I think the battery story just barely got better with AMD CPUs. Intel's mobile CPUs (used to) do much better at keeping power usage low. IDK how the new 4000 series compares.
WiFi-enable USB printers with a Raspberry Pi and share it over your network
I also don't think that food delivery is something that needs to happen at a global scale. The market is local enough that you can have one player for every city or region that can grow organically, charge lower rates, and be beneficial for everyone involved.
It's called Herpese Simplex.. but there's nothing simple about it!
Given the extremely high rates of HSV-1 infection (roughly half of everyone 14-49 and more among older people [0]), I'm guessing that it would be difficult to eradicate it using a vaccine (although I'm certainly not an expert).

As a side note, the HPV vaccine only protects against strains 16 and 18 (with some also providing protection against types 6 and 11). That covers the majority of the strains that cause cancer, but it certainly doesn't prevent HPV infections altogether. Remember that HPV is the same virus that causes common and plantar warts as well. A Wikipedia quote: "Most people acquire genital HPV infections at some point in their lives, and about 10% of women are currently infected.[25] A large increase in the incidence of genital HPV infection occurs at the age when individuals begin to engage in sexual activity. As with cutaneous HPVs, immunity to genital HPV is believed to be specific to a specific strain of HPV."[1]

I don't think it's possible to get rid of either virus very easily, although vaccines that target the most dangerous types are a good defense.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db304.htm
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection
> Skyrim/Fallout 4

Not the titles I'd expect in the context of electrosex.

(I'm oldschool so something in the vein of Leisure Suit Larry or Lula the porn studio management simulator would seem quite proper for me.)
If you're getting your health information solely from Hacker News, without any additional research or critical thinking, you should probably not do that. I'm not a domain expert (Virologist or otherwise in medicine), nor do I pretend to be, and I qualified my statement at the top of the thread ("might"). Everything else in my comment was factual.
Can you import your old data from Quicken? Or Quickbooks? Or GnuCash?
The Bay Area’s dual refusal of housing and transportation made the delivery apps necessary in the first place, so I agree it may not be a great place to look for a solution. If housing and retail space were more abundant there would be more options within my immediate area, and if transportation were better my “area” would be even larger than it is now with what’s comfortable to reach on foot.
Yeah, and the two are linked. Seinfeld's focus on the process and craft meant he got exceptionally good at it. The money was a byproduct, not the goal. The motivation was intrinsic and about improving his craft. To which there is no end. So he continues.

This discussion with Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis CK and Ricky Gervais is worth watching for anyone interested in that aspect of comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
I'm on a athlon x4 860k at the moment, which according to benchmarks is marginally slower than your CPU.

Startup times certainly seem to be CPU bound, it pins one core to 100% during startup. This means they somehow are spending something to the tune of 1e10 cpu cycles to start a vector editor.

When inkscape is started up they use around 70 mb of ram. If they just store everything they need in ram in a linear file and load that at startup, the program would launch in a fraction of a second on an SSD.
We've already proven you can go from one case to worldwide pandemic in 3 months. So all it takes is one case somewhere in the World, and you'll never be able to reopen borders.

Now if a fully functional vaccine is developed, that'll of course change things. But there's no guarantee one is possible, so only time will tell.
They may not have a literal line item on an internal spreadsheet corresponding to how much of each bill goes towards delivery, but they are still paying for performing the delivery. When they outsource this service, they pay a third party for doing it, but save on the costs of doing it themselves. When you consider how expensive the third party is to the restaurant, you also have to consider how much they would be spending if they do it in-house.
JetBrains has Rider on Linux for C# and while not free, if you're already paying for other JetBrains IDE's, as many devs do, it's included. I just think there's still not much reason to do C# on Linux over say Kotlin if you want a huge ecosystem.

I'd consider it if they come out with a cross-platform GUI toolkit for .NET Core/
I enjoy electronic music. Never knew Florian Schneider was one of the influencers. RIP!
The problem is meat processing plants, not the abundance of livestock.
What's 'a long time'? Two weeks? Two months? Six months? 2 years?
Is this why my private repos have disabled all insights? I can't even look at pretty charts of commits I've been making anymore :(
Is this an ad for a company masquerading as a story about how marketing finally worked for said company?
...or grab it for free (which you are obliged to provide) while you cover the cost. It doesn't sound like a fair deal to me.

If you were able to say "tracking or subscribe" it would made much more sense.
Must be fun for @sytse to watch these GitHub announcements every year, where they consistently release the same thing GitLab rolled out two years prior.

Codespaces -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/

Insights -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/insights/

GH Actions -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

etc
Pretty stupid, their citizens will never develop herd immunity. And what then, when they open up, one person will tumble everything down again.
2 minute break while macOS renders the tiling animation, sometimes fails, then three-finger swipe down and try again.
Sure, if you define “worst at handling covid” as “had a relatively small overreaction”. Sweden is looking great now (look at actual total mortality numbers, not the pessimistic “projections” they keep changing). No substantial QALY loss from covid, and substantially less economic devastation, stress, and depression compared to those countries that overreacted.
I wish we had device convergence without fancy tricks like Android/Windows link or iOS/Mac Handoff. I'd love to be working on a document on my phone, put it in laptop mode to write in a more desktop-like environment for multitasking or putting PDFs side by side, and then docking at home for a full desktop experience.

So far, it seems like Samsung DeX (is the X capitalized?) is the closest for me, but with them killing Linux on DeX, it seems like it won't come to pass.

Or maybe I just need to suck it up and get LTE data plans for all of my devices.
The link is behind a login, I'm on my phone logged out but I believe it refers to this[1]?

[1] https://github.com/features/security
It’s also worth noting that if you’ve got enterprise customers, and you’re shipping “on prem” to them, your company might not even be able to access “prod.” You need to get the devops to a point of maturity that you can hand the whole stack over to an engineer at the customer company and have them take it from there.
Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Do we know it won't mutate? I was under the impression this was unknowable at this point.
Expel them from the EU and NATO. Europe must take a hardline on this or other countries will follow Poland and Hungry's path.
Yeah it's likely that could be true. Here in NZ we've not yet been hit by the economic toll as the government is paying wage subsidies. That's a short term fix. Years of high taxes will follow. Job losses will mount as the tourism sector falls over.

It will not be pretty. So was it a wise move to shut down? Maybe, given the information they had at the time. Better to be safe than sorry. In hindsight with all the facts we have now maybe not but they didn't have those facts at the start.
I think he was talking about the value he generates, so possibly something like revenue/profit per employee kind of thing. For example, FB and Google make more than $1M revenue per employee. You can go more granular and look at the impact of your team or yourself as well.

But can be his comp as well, these are not unheard[1] of numbers.

[1] https://levels.fyi
I understand that many companies will be seduced by the offering and what could come next:

* No more source code on developers machine so better for security.

* No more development environment to setup and all the devs sharing the exact same settings: simplified onboarding of devs.

* No need for costly developers machines.

* No more infra to setup to host the source code repository, the CI/CD workflows (even if many companies already moved that to the cloud).

But as a developer I am worried what could also come next:

* dashboards for managers with all sort of stats on developers: code quality with arbitrary rules, productivity (number of lines of codes), number of stars from other developers, etc.

* being locked-in with the Microsoft toolchain all along from source code edition to deployment in Azure. For instance currently I chose to do my NodeJs backend development on vim with coc-vim and found it to be much lighter than Vscode (I have a very old developers machine)
I am surprised this is not using atom. After all I that that was developed by the GitHub team. But I guess since Microsoft owns them VScode comes first.
Downloaded from Skype website, so I assume desktop Skype
My post was all about why this is not surprising behavior for bash, and my justification for the same. To be very clear, I don't find this surprising given the circumstances of bash's birth into this world and its primary use case as an interactive shell. I don't suggest any specific use case for this behavior, or even that there is an intended use case at all. I am choosing "behavior" as the word to use very specifically. It's not a feature. It is a behavior that falls out of a combination of implementation goals and constraints. I do not find this behavior surprising. I am not suggesting that someone sat down and reasoned through why a language should behave in this way when executing a script.
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
If this succeeds in reducing the friction for someone to submit a patch/bug fix, the number of 'eyeballs' for open-source projects would increase substantially.
Wow, things are getting a bit clearer now.

Am I paranoid?

For me this the signal that it's time to opt-out from vscode and github.

I was really impressed with the work done on vscode, the performance was really good for a hosted web-app.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
It seems to me a long enough contagious incubation period makes the severity of the illness moot from an adaptability standpoint. What's the selective pressure against killing for a virus that spreads easily for days to weeks before it makes someone ill and then takes days to weeks more yet to kill?
It buys time to prepare, and for vaccines and other treatments.
I actually end up doing a lot of both working in a company with a huge infrastructure but small number of developers.

I would recommend to start solving some of your own problems
in the devops space with some REST APIs and frontends :), maybe a self service web UI for developers to create VMs with some of the stack already there and configurable? (Think Heroku)

I have worked in the past 5 years sometimes as 100% React frontend for a medium size project, sometimes as 100% backend developer architecturing effective data structures and data access patterns and sometimes as 100% devops setting the Ci/Cd/Ansible/Docker workflows... Worth noting that in the beginning of my career I worked with digital signal processing in FPGAs and embedded Linux.

I dunno, I feel it is all the same thing. "Specializing" do you mean learning a particular framework? Frameworks change all the time... otherwise, they all run in computers with OSes, CPU, Memory, Disk and I/O.

I would recommend learning the underlying technology and then you can quickly learn anything (literally).
When given a tradeoff between intuitivity and other benefits, vi almost always breaks against intuitivity. It's this design philosophy taken to its logical extreme.
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Yes, but this doesn't bother me at all. Getting used to the super key to switch windows is good enough.
Sure, but for the vast majority of students they can get a quality education in-state.

Plus schools like Cal, UCLA, Michigan, UVA and UW are among the best in the world
> Given the extremely high rates of HSV-1 infection (roughly half of everyone 14-49 and more among older people [0]), I'm guessing that it would be difficult to eradicate it using a vaccine (although I'm certainly not an expert).

True, it'd be similar to Australia where their cervical cancer rates will decline over decades as older people die and for younger people [1], the HPV vaccine uptake rate was very high. Folks with HSV-1 are likely stuck with it for life unless CRISPR comes to the rescue.

> As a side note, the HPV vaccine only protects against strains 16 and 18 (with some also providing protection against types 6 and 11). That covers the majority of the strains that cause cancer, but it certainly doesn't prevent HPV infections altogether. Remember that HPV is the same virus that causes common and plantar warts as well.

"GARDASIL 9 is a vaccine indicated in females and males 9 through 45 years of age for the prevention of cervical, vulvar, vaginal, and anal cancers caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) Types 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58; precancerous or dysplastic lesions caused by HPV Types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58; and genital warts caused by HPV Types 6 and 11."

https://www.merckvaccines.com/gardasil9/

Disclaimer: I'm a male in my mid 30s who has had Gardasil 9 administered by a medical professional.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/03/australia-on... (The Guardian: "Australia on track to wipe out cervical cancer within 20 years" [2018])
(vscode does use ripgrep to power part of their search)
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I do agree with you that you should be able to freely exchange your privacy as you see fit. But the difficulty, as I see it, lies in determining whether the exchange is truly free or coerced by some means. The GDPR takes a strong stance on this (that consent is only freely given if withholding it would have no drawbacks) and it does have false negatives, i.e. situations where the exchange was fair but prevented.

However, there are two reasons why I think this is still reasonable (with 1. being more important):

1. The reality of the current situation is that invasions of privacy come bundled with other services, which you are pressured to use due to external factors. So I believe that the vast majority of cases are modelled well.

2. I see a privacy as similar to herd immunity, in that society benefits if lots of people have it, even if the individual does not profit from it directly. (In particular, it may prevent certain kinds of power from accumulating or centralising.) In these kinds of situations it can be necessary to restrict individual rights to achieve optimality.
The countries that are ruthless in dealing this will be able to reopen their economies quickly, reopen borders with other sane countries. Economically they will recover very quickly.

Countries like the US which have no unified and sane policy are going to take a full decade to recover. Some parts will never recover.
That's so odd given everything we know about cell biology -- aerobic respiration is required for cell activity and anaerobic processes generate lots of toxins and are an inferior alternative. This is really exciting research.
It will probably show up here eventually.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/surfaceforbusiness
I'm sure he'll have his usual blogpost moaning about how Gitlab already has it by end of day.
It's obvious there is value, otherwise these companies wouldn't exist, no matter how much VC money is pumped in.

For consumers:

Ability to order from multiple restaurants through one consistent interface / payment flow. This cannot be undercut by every restaurant with a phone and a teenager with a car.

For restaurants:

A marketing / lead generation avenue that provides, ideally, incremental volume that is profitable. If it was not profitable, then they wouldn't do it, obviously.

Delivery itself, is just a method to deliver these value adds.

The argument can be made whether this value is worth a tech infrastructure and the human labor cost of delivery. It might be worth it in China, where delivery is actually more ubiquitous, but in America, where worker compensation / expectation / norms are higher, its debatable.