skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be extremely opposed to this on efficiency grounds.

Semi trucks are awful. They’re horrible polluters, and they represent 99% of the road damage being done, despite only kicking in 35% of road upkeep cost. This is a drain on the public purse in exchange for more pollution and more accidents.

A far more sane policy would be to shift as much freight over to rail as possible, and reserve semi trucks for the last miles between rail head and customer.

Also, rail exists today. Self driving trucks don’t.
You can easily block them with uBlock.
My local restaurant has a couple of employees who own old beater cars. I call the restaurant, then they send out one of these employees with the food. The restaurant charges nothing extra beyond the tip, which I select on arrival.

This is how delivery used to work. The lie and promise of the startups trying to "disrupt" this is that it's somehow going to be better to proxy these interactions through a faceless megacorp rather than a small local business.

Well, is that really happening? If I use Uber Eats I get more expensive, worse service than calling my local place directly.

So maybe these delivery businesses shouldn't survive, at least not as currently envisioned, because they offer something that doesn't actually have that much value to most people.
Finland’s Landmark Trial Finds Basic Income Brings Happiness but Not Jobs
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." from Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn

Realising that honesty and candour is the root of all good things has made me a much better musician and, yes, programmer and businessperson! I don't try to appear impressive or sophisticated any more, just tell the truth and speak sincerely, and it makes life much more manageable
There is no solution to the insanity the web has become other than an alternative web.

Want a place you can go to find interesting websites, chat, share knowledge... all that the web was supposed to allow, but without being constantly tracked and bombarded with ads?

Try Gemini: https://gemini.circumlunar.space

Gemini is an extremely simplified version of HTTP and HTML, in essence. It is safe by default: the only way to allow user "sign in" is by using mutual TLS. with mutual TLS, YOU control whether the server talking to you should know who you are... and they can't know anything you don't tell them. And you can simply stop using your TLS client certificate if you don't feel like telling the server who you are anymore. This is what security looks like. Not what the mess of the web is right now.

It's time to reboot the internet.
Git? All of my work is backed up to git, even my dot files and config is there. For me, I try to keep my WSL "stateless" and never store anything there unless it's a copy of something.
Local Kubernetes Development with Okteto - Codefresh
"Nothing is ever personal."

The way people treat you, has nothing to do with you. They are just living out their own stories.

Related idea: "You train others how to treat you."
Think reinforcement learning as applied to training a dog. (And I love dogs, have the deepest respect for them). The concept isn't that different when applied to our social interactions.
Read the comment again.
> across the web

That part is not necessary. They are mandatory if you collect any form of personal data without legitimate interest.
I've wondered the same thing. The amount of annoyance, tedium and drop in people's focus and flow clicking these things over and over and over again has to really add up.
This has been my experience as well.

I find it interesting that I've been given many compliments in life for "how good I am at so many things" -- but it's all come down to this rotation. I dive very, very deeply into an activity for a few months or year and get to a point where my maintenance-mode is higher than other people's "high" point.

Sometimes I cycle these, I've gone to fitness a number of times and hit some incredible goals, then go to photography, then to dancing, then back to fitness.

It _does_ mean that I try to optimize my activities to be inclusive -- if I can do an activity that both keeps me physically fit and provides social benefit, and has the potential for extra income -- I might stick with it longer.

I also favor activities that give me lasting benefit when I am not paying attention, such as investing, photography, or writing (all of which continue to exist or build money or followers when I stop). This allows me to focus in other areas while still "growing" in a different field.
I’ve had several restaurants tell me to avoid any food delivery platform and they’re backing it up with great perks. I’d much rather spend extra tipping the person taking the risk than financing the middleman. But, I can see value in having a central verification system if I’m actually getting in the vehicle.
> It's amazing how fast one can edit text with vi once you get all the keys down

People say this, but I feel the same about VSCode. Once you know a few shortcuts (esp. the multi-select and multi-cursor shortcuts), you can make incredibly powerful bulk changes to a file.

I wish there were a subreddit called "TextEditorWars" or something where a challenge is given, and you can submit a screen capture of you accomplishing the challenge as fast as possible in your editor of choice.
codespaces!
Tesla have talked extensively about "Convoy Mode" for the upcoming Semi Truck where they will do exactly that. Maybe the gap will be more than inches, but the idea is they draft together.

I think the plan for early autonomous driving is the first one in the line will have a human driver, and the others will follow autonomously in convoy.
Would the Go 2 run Linux OK?

I had a Surface Pro 3 for a while and though I got Linux running on it, I never managed all the tablety stuff working properly. Rotation, Pen + Touch input (at the same time without randomly cutting out!!), auto keyboard popup on input fields with no keyboard connecting, the keyboard actually working after being removed and reconnected, etc etc...

It was a great machine but Linux lacked support for this type of support in many ways. I wonder if this has improved as this was many years ago when the SP3 was just out.
Can we get the same protections from 3rd party JS?
So let me get this right.

It is possible to spend the same amount in medical, car and daycare expenses if you keep a job while being ill, ride a beat-up car and leave your kid to a shady cash-only operating in someone's home.

So explain to me how earning $100K more is so interesting again?

cf: Average American car insurance prices: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-cos...

cf: Average European car insurance prices: https://www.insuranceeurope.eu/sites/default/files/attachmen...

cf: Average American prices for Toyota Corolla: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_prices_by_city?...

cf: Average European prices for Toyota Corolla: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_prices_by_city?...
my concern was uber not having competition and that has been set right with at least one other ipo-ed company. uber for me is as important as local business.
That does not matter because you aren't looking to find every specific black hole, the amount of black holes required for MACHOs to be the answer to dark matter would have orders of magnitude more micro-lensing than we see, pretty much no matter what, there is only so much space inside a galaxy.
FWIW, I didn't find switching to a trackball particularly difficult. I've got two CST trackballs - I use my office setup left-handed and my home setup right-handed to even out use between my limbs.

CST now bought-out/renamed to X-keys by P.I. Engineering.
The Cookie Autodelete extension does this.
I guess it's not about what's hard, but what's more profitable.

Companies are not people - any ethics they have are only there because otherwise it would be bad for business.
Firefox + VPN and I have to do that and I get pretty blatant fake failures and end up having to do it numerous times. It honestly feels like Google is trying to punish me.
There’s also the 12” macbook that they will update soon I believe.
I just downloaded 1.0, and it's so much better now on mac. With a few tweaks it looks quite nice: turn off border and shadow of default document, change default color palette to something less... 1997, maybe switch icons to "tango" - and it looks pretty clean.

The performance is janky, but I think that's a "known issue" since switching away from quartz - but I'm excited for Inkscape again!
Good question. Of course you can make the same argument about bandwidth, the question is whether you want to make such an argument.

If you are building a system whose purpose is to transfer data (e.g. a router), every second that system is "computing" and not "transfering" you are paying for Watts that aren't doing anything useful.

A supercomputer purpose is to compute stuff, not to move data around, so making that argument about a supercomputer doesn't make much sense because nobody cares whether the supercomputer is using all its bandwidth or not as long as its using all of its compute capabilities.

So that's like making the argument that everything that isn't a plane, well, isn't a plane. Sure, my guitar isn't a plane, but it is not the purpose of my guitar to be one :D
There are now 50M developers on GitHub
Why would you stagger them like that?

Layoffs have got to be terrible for morale. I'd expect you'd want to minimize the anxiety by getting all the uncertainty out of the way.
Cutting & bulking is not fitness, it's muscle building for appearance and status.

A good level of fitness can be achieved and maintained with an hour of separate core and aerobic exercise per day. You might not look like the guys in Men's Health but you'll probably swim a hell of a lot better than them.
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Apple of today is like that, Apple of the past was much much better.
I wouldn't say "ethical", but even Google's pubads can do non-tracking.

For pubads, look into "setCookieOptions(1)" and "setRequestNonPersonalizedAds(1)" for a good start on the matter.

It _can_ be done.
Tracking Tech Startup Layoffs and Layoff Lists
Completely misses the point that the main reason for Tim Bray leaving is because Amazon retaliated against an employee that was highlighting concerns.
But it's not fixed and now all of us are here spending time talking about it and implementing it even in the end have any of us accomplished anything
Nick Cave, on writer's block:

"My advice to you is to change your basic relationship to songwriting. You are not the ‘Great Creator’ of your songs, you are simply their servant, and the songs will come to you when you have adequately prepared yourself to receive them. They are not inside you, unable to get out; rather, they are outside of you, unable to get in."

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-u-have-any-spare-lyrics/
This read like it was written or highly edited by PR.
I haven't implemented it myself, and as far as I'm aware, it hasn't been in the past few years. If it is going into cyrus-sasl, then I can probably put together containers for testing (which is on my work todo list anyways).
It typically fullscreens apps for me. I think you can hold down option and press the green button for maximization.
Generate 8-bit avatars using Conway's Game of Life
Crayta: Coding games via collaborative in-game IDE (Lua, JavaScript, HTML)
I would hold that the better social policy is capping the cost of rent by allowing the construction of competitive housing stock. Either alternative is quite harmful: new housing is unattainable, either by defect of price or availability.
Non-personalised ads command a far lower CPM than others.

One possible outcome is that publishers have to display even more ads to make up the shortfall. That'll just annoy users even more and so they'll either stop visiting the site make ad-blocking even more prevalent. Either way, the publisher is really the one losing out.
Probably true too though.

One of the problems with MS' approach is trying to get a "one UI fits all" approach which just doesn't work, the usecases between tablet and desktop are too different.

Even Apple hasn't made this mistake and they're all about simplicity and consistency.
Have you tried adjusting your workspace? I had serious RSI and started the mouse to trackpad to wacom dance to try and solve it but it turned out I was just shifting the real problem was just my chair was too low. Raised it and it resolved itself and haven't had an issue for close to 7 years now.
Actions are not instantaneous. The problem is that there is no visual indication that the action finished. An UNDO button does not help with that.
You know back in the days you can also go to farmer Joe and buy a chicken and pay no middle man. Jumping from that fact to the conclusion that food supply chain has not much value is, naive, to say the least.
I can't find the study, but I remember hearing about it on NPR when the author was interviewed years ago. Basically, the authors tried biking with varyous appearances and measured how close cars typically got while passing. The findings were that if you wore a helmet, cars actually got closer to you. Cars also kept their distance when the author, a male, donned a blonde female wig. I think there are a lot of factors at play, part of it is risk behavior, but part of it is certainly subconscious perception by drivers.
MySQL in the same vein.
I find it amusing that he couldn't manage to stay aligned with the edge of the "paper" on the left

(Also, pitchfork hands)
"Always deliver superlative value, and your customers will take care of you."

Changed everything.
im running a postgresql database, building docker containers, etc etc.

this is a problem that needs a "docker volume" solution. git is just not enough.

think in terms of people moving to Windows from Linux.
It’s a bit late for that. Services were 22% of total sales in Apple’s last quarter (13 billion vs 58 billion) and almost 40% of their gross margin (13348-4622)/(58313-35943) = 39%)

(https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2020/q2/...)

Edit: that requires interpreting “SAAS” fairly wide, but I think that’s warranted in the context of “writing their own search engine”.
"Do more and more with less and less until you can move a mountain with the push of a button."

Advice I got from a born-low-class turned upper class -- richest man I know (and father of a highschool friend).
They can even show ads that are related to the content on the web page! Are you on a page that is about breeds of dogs you might want to adopt? Why not buy a Halti collar, and a package of dog training sessions, and donate to the RSPCA?

This is what Google's advertising product started out as, basically automated magazine advertising at scale; it turned into this perverse tracking system once everyone was hooked onto free web content and nobody could get away from it.
The extant ePrivacy directive is from 2002.

So... maybe you should go back in time and tell the EU back at the turn of the millennium that...
Ben Thompson wrote an interesting article "What Is a Tech Company?" on Stratechery [1] recently where he discusses the trademark characteristics of tech companies and makes a convincing argument as to why Uber could be considered one:

> Note the centrality of software in all of these characteristics:

> - Software creates ecosystems.

> - Software has zero marginal costs.

> - Software improves over time.

> - Software offers infinite leverage.

> - Software enables zero transaction costs.

> The question of whether companies are tech companies, then, depends on how much of their business is governed by software’s unique characteristics, and how much is limited by real world factors.

...

> Uber, meanwhile, has long been mentioned in the same breath as Airbnb, and for good reason: it checks most of the same boxes:

> - There is a software-created ecosystem of drivers and riders.

> - Like Airbnb, Uber reports its revenue as if it has low marginal costs, but a holistic view of rides shows that the company pays drivers around 80 percent of total revenue; this isn’t a world of zero marginal costs.

> - Uber’s platform improves over time.

> - Uber is able to serve the entire world, giving it maximum leverage.

> - Uber can transact with anyone with a self-serve model.

> A major question about Uber concerns transaction costs: bringing and keeping drivers on the platform is very expensive. This doesn’t mean that Uber isn’t a tech company, but it does underscore the degree to which its model is dependent on factors that don’t have zero costs attached to them.

He walks through a few other examples as well (e.g. Netflix, Airbnb, WeWork, Peloton), would definitely recommend reading the whole article.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/
I wish their showcase app resized better. Layout doesn't seem to flow well, as seen below.

https://imgur.com/zr4mSLr

Also, I find the UWP monochrome UI style extremely confusing and difficult to use. I don't know why it is to different from the Office 2019 UI, which I find usable.
I feel that delivery apps should have certification like "Fair Trade" [1], so you know that the restaurant owner receives a fair share of the money.

[1] https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/
Yes I absolutely agree it can be useful.anf satisfying to see analytics. But it also means you send your users' data to another place where you know it will be recycled etc.

There are alternatives but as you say sadly none are as easy - probably because none have as much budget behind them. I see a number of comparison articles for gdpr compliant analytics, so it seems to have become its own market of sorts.

I have opted myself out of most Google services due to the intrusive nature, I wouldn't want to impose it on my site visitors (but I also have no need to monetize, so maybe a different ballpark).
Any benchmarks on this? For laptops I'd be mostly interested in seeing battery tests - otherwise I guess a compiler benchmark, and some gaming numbers.

I'd be a little surprised if it really is measurable - just win10 with/without hyper-v? I seem to recall xen (which should be comparable) having a pretty low impact?
TEA laser is a new term for me. It resembles the Nitrogen UV laser I have wanted to build since I was a teenager and found the article in Scientific American's "Amateur Scientist" column.

"An Unusual kind of gas laser that puts out pulses in the ultraviolet" Scientific American, Amateur Scientist (June 1974)

This guy references it with regard to his TEA laser as well:

https://www.cornellcollege.edu/physics-and-engineering/pdfs/...
Paint Shop Pro in particular did a good job of combining bitmap and vector objects. Not sure if it still does, it's undergone many changes since I was familiar with it. There was also an associated editor dedicated to SVG, but I think they gave up on that long ago.
I think for anyone who has ever tried to do significant scraping, or even testing, with something like Puppeteer, you can easily see what services like this should exist. The price is surely targeted towards businesses, and I think that's a smart move.
The EU cookie legislation is still mind blowing to me. In terms of widely used protocols with terrible designs it's up there with US payment card processing (want to make a $5 payment? Hand over the secret that gives the other party the ability to take an unlimited amount of money from you at any time in the next 4 years, and hope they don't misuse it).

Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn't they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they've approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).
However It still use global state, you need to flush state everywhere when switch scenes.

Run another filter? good, switch everything on global state.
Render another scene with different texture? Set everything again.

Moreover... if you forgot to reset something after change it. You got weird bug that only happen under some specific order of operation. Because everything share a global state.

And it is full sync. A shader takes long time for render also makes your whole page non responsive, which is a pain. (open the list page of shadertoy, you will know what am I saying)
Gross.

The lack of empathy or recognition of the terrible conditions warehouse workers have complained of (and have been well documented by journalists) is pretty striking.
C++ meta classes will primarily be useful for library authors. It is not expected that you have to write them yourself. They can document and enforce some pattern (e.g. an interface) or provide boilerplate that would currently need either macros or, well, boilerplate.

But I don't understand what you mean with "an implementation trade-off"?
In a highly technical sense, it is maybe not. In a legal sense, which applies human common sense when necessary, it absolutely is.
For what it's worth, these ride-share delivery drivers also grab multiple orders at a time if they can. It's one of the reasons delivery takes so long. I've observed drivers putting in additional orders that just came in (and waiting for them) while they are picking up. I also think they'll swing by (and often wait at) two or three places to get orders before heading out to deliver.
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I've got a 12" MB that I'll keep until Apple releases another fanless laptop, or until it stops getting macOS updates.
I have a Book v1, and let me tell you, that thing is riddled with issues.

The hinge is the biggest thing. Because it connects over PCIe to the base, the Book is very sensitive after a decent amount of time. If I adjust the screen, the hinge disconnects and reconnects.

Also, if I unplug my headphones while it's sleeping in laptop mode (which I use 99% of the time), the audio cuts out and I have to restart the machine.

That's why I'm typing this on a Dell Latitude with the same 6300u that's inside the book and with a worse screen -- at least it generally works even if I had to re-uninstall Candy Crush...
Yes it is these upper middle class that need to realise they are in fact closer to a tramp than to Trump/Bezos/Gates in terms of their finances.
Our thoughts are subconsciously motivated
Emulating plane-to-plane refueling entails all sorts of system dynamics problems because of the untrained human driver in the mix.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier (and likely cheaper in the long run) to emulate overhead line-to-train power transfer?

Seems like "transfer of electricity into an (ideally) land-bound vehicle from its infrastructure" would be a more closely related problem than "transfer of fluid from one airborne aircraft to another."
> It is not important to work hard, it is important to be happy

There's a reason that none of the major religions or ancient philosophers share this outlook. It's because a society that elevates the personal happiness of the individual above all else necessarily becomes self destructive.
You make it obvious and unambiguous so that if you argue your case in front of a judge they will agree with you. Same way as you demonstrate a paper consent form is valid.
> The restaurants don't lose a full 30% on the order

Doesn't Apple already grab 30% of the in-app payment?
That doing the right thing, even when it seems unfair, even when I shouldn't have to, always works out for the best.

Doing the selfish thing, even if I'm justified, even if it makes sense, ultimately never leads to getting what I want.