skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if the "one area" is one of ~10 expensive cities and the "another" is 100s of smaller cities, suburbs and large towns, it's much easier to build to meet the change.
80$ a month for 16GB RAM, 4 cores, is a very bad price. If you could buy the machine outright for less than the cost of 6 months, you should not buy it.

Also, 6TB/month is a bit over a day of download at 400Mbps. It's barely even worth mentioning.
- IT: we can't compute infinite data on finite machines !

- Cantor: smh
Grubhub actually only charges 10% for delivery.

It charges an additional 15%+ for the marketing component (to get your restaurant listed and to appear higher up in search rankings).

In other words, if a restaurant sources their own customer and only uses Grubhub for delivery, they only pay 10%. This charge seems reasonable when compared to what it costs to have an inhouse courier.
Hello World in Every Language
i have never read these, but it looks like quite the commitment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

why is this series so much better than Taleb's books?
OSM is a map first, not a business directory - although these do overlap. Admittedly, businesses without a marked presence are not de facto priority (as in: no explicit rule, but they don't get mapped first). Shops, restaurants and so on that are open to the public are more so.

Ultimately in a cooperative project like OSM you have to be able to somehow verify others' work - that's why there's "on the ground rule". https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability

That said it's only a guideline, which is deviated from in some cases (like administrative boundaries). I guess some other proof could pass, if it was plausible enough.
Show HN: Ocean – Make music with friends in your browser
Grand Theft AutoPilot. Now that would be a great name for this project. :)
Weird how this morning I was on their API page for an exercise/project I want to tackle (I needed a realistic data source).

https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/ You could build out this for any of their objects in their collections.
108chan – Indian Imageboard (similar to 4chan)
I wonder if they tried just having two, unrelated people physically together to establish the significance of parentage. What I mean to say is maybe they’re just measuring people perceiving the same thing?
> I am paying him $100 for 30 hours of classes

Seems a bit unethical to pay someone $3/hour for their time (unless he is retired/mainly doing it for fun/teaching a lot of students at the same time).

But for a person trying to make a living with 1-on-1 lessons, that's pretty brutal.

I pay $15/hour practicing foreign languages on italki
Also very confident that this is a phishing attack, have received similar emails for Office 365 as well. If you examine the email headers you'll notice a suspicious "From:" address.
This is so cool! I’ve just started myself (still putting together my blog). I really want to learn functional programming, maybe writing about it would be a good way to start on my journey too!
My impression is that once it was clear the Soviet Union would not rescue the regime, it had lost it's power base, and was doomed.
I've heard teenagers use it when gossiping. Though that's been a while now.
Anyone who does classified work (including software developers) can't do it at home.
On the topic of music, copyright, and free stuff.

When you think of music and the big picture, bands should be giving music away for free (Radiohead!). This is done so as to create new fans and reach more people who might come to concerts in the future. Or (gasp!) actually pay for an album to support their favorite music performer.

Musicians should be thinking about creating a relationship with their intended audience. They should tap into the networked age, and bring music out of the low space it occupied in the past between the producer and consumer. Bring music into the wide multi-national and multi-lingual community.

To understand and to make meaning of it all - is the key of the 21st century. Not to monetize.
Will you also advocate for going directly to the kitchen and cutting out waitstaff when sit-down service resumes?

Advocating for cutting out the ordering/delivery company and delivery person is akin to cutting out the waitstaff since those are the ones taking your order and bringing it to you.
> less commuting will help the environment and that that's worth sacrificing poor people's jobs

No, he's saying that if some people work from home and some other people don't, fewer people will commute, the environment we all share will benefit, but people who can't work from home can still do their jobs. (Source: am the one who said it)
I think "accidentally" is potentially giving Google too much credit/benefit of the doubt as far as capture of packets.

They hired a famous wardriver, Marius Milner, onto Street View (then later Niantic, maker of the privacy-intrusive Pokemon Go).
Hotels are masters of pricing the same room for different amounts, depending on how you ordered it, though. Their margins on rooms are very high, too.

Restaurants are banned by these services from charging more. So they end up eating the 30% delivery fee.
Thank you very much for creating this tool. I once looked into into doing the same but lost interest. Really great to get some Egon Schiele in high resolution format!

One suggestion: Print out WHERE the image is saved after downloading, I had a hard time realising it's sitting in the root of my home folder...
Yeah, something about how "the network is the storage support".
This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
Something, something, “Build your brand by writing.”

Something, something, “Communicating with words is as important as communicating with code in a team setting.”

But moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy, writing about ideas you want to personally explore (a’la pg) is exactly how you force yourself to think those ideas through. It’s valuable in its own right, whether people read them and shower you with the “three Ps” or not.

So write, and write often. Do not spend great amounts of time carefully choosing what yo write. Just write, and incorporate feedback into your work. Revise endlessly, much as one refactors software endlessly.

Do not write about things that don’t interest you just because you get more up-boats for “How to use Flibbitz in a managed K8s container with XML configuration,” unless Flibbitz personally interests you.

Write about what tickles your brain, and keep at it incessantly. What little (and it’s not much in the scale of things) success I’ve had writing essays and books can all be traced back to writing about things I personally care about.
Seems like it's primarily used for weather events, e.g. Hurricane X slams into Florida.

It's also pretty widely used in politics coverage across many news sites. I did a quick search of WaPo, NYT, BBC, etc. and they all had a few headlines that used it like this.
Bullshit is just a way to practice one of the hardest forms of interaction: attracting a difficult to get mate.

Not that you need to bullshit them, but often a woman tests a mans abilities before she decides on a relationship. The tests are many. Some are of loyalty, some of intellect.

But many are of how quickly you can react to unknown, hard to grasp things. It’s called “banter” usually, and it’s absolutely vital in many cultures and areas to attract someone.

Banter is essentially “bullshit”, except it’s highly entertaining. It can contain tons of truth (it can be almost all truth and even more so than a dry analytical conversation ever could, in a Straussian way). But the ability to play along, take up characters, bluff, and know exactly when to push things and when to let them up, to understand the “game” of having fun through conversation. That’s basically as important a thing you can learn, absolutely vital to reproductive success, and honestly one of the most fun activities that exists.

Sure, you can draw a line and say stupid banter is stupid or pure BS is BS. But you’re totally missing the point and the fun behind it, and the real usefulness. Talking dryly about science wont convince people - but giving a good fictional story with some (wink wink) bluster and can convey much richer meaning and keep people engaged.
But the article is describing the opposite phenomenon, it seems that in India only students from their Stanfords and MITs are qualified for and get the jobs.
I found myself in a similar position a couple of years back. One of the big things that changed for me is that I had to widen my field of view on a project. I had already worked the "full stack" through previous jobs, but now I was responsible for designing how everything connected: APIs, CDNs, servers (or "less"), storage options, security, CI/CD, etc. It's not unlike how we grew from single lines of code to functions to modules to applications. Now, you move to assembling all of the mechanisms into complex systems. Based on your training, I imagine you already know a good amount about the various tools at your disposal, and it is time to apply all of that together.

Your days of learning new things is not over. You don't need to know the minutiae of everything, but you need to know what can and will work together, what may cause pain in integrating, and where your risks are. Oh, and you'll have less time to tinker your way through the new things.

There are things that you may not be used to doing though. You'll spend more time in meetings trying to figure out what you're actually supposed to be building. You'll spend time investigating new tools to use (replace libraries and packages with services in your mind). You'll probably be expected to do even more project planning and estimating.

And one of the most difficult for some people: you'll have to delegate. I still struggle with this one sometimes. You cannot possibly build it all, and now the people you have to rely on to build it will probably lack your experience, and on top of that, it's up to you to make sure that the requirements are crystal clear to them. And that's not their fault. We were all junior devs at one point. Crawl, walk, run. On the flip side, remember that some people WILL have experience in things you don't. Identify those strengths and leverage them!

Oh, and there's a decent chance you'll need to manage how much all of this crap costs... Brilliant solutions aren't so brilliant when they cost more to run than they generate in revenue.
Who in the world would be willing to teach for 30 hours for $100? I would be much better off spending those 30 hours looking for the few available jobs that are out there or do the old r/cscareerquestions “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG”
>>No it isn’t. It’s first and foremost business.

Why can't it be both a dick move, and "business"?
Bitwig is amazing, specially now with The Grid.

But it's still the underdog. If it becomes more popular I'm sure the price will go up at some point.
It seems odd to me that there are no videos accompanying this press release, and there also don't appear to be any videos in the Mac app store. It seems like video (with audio!) would be a much better way to show off what this new version can do.
How is Wal-Mart a monopoly? I can't name any single good there which can't be gotten elsewhere and they have plenty of competitors for any given product line. There are dozens of other places I can get clothes, groceries, sporting goods, tools, etc. You say it's impossible, but does Target no longer exist? They directly compete with pretty much everything Wal-Mart does and many other businesses compete with them on specific product lines.

Economy of scale is not at all the same as monopoly power and conflating the two only makes your point more confused.

Finally, the "invisible hand" is really just a survival of the fittest type effect. It's every bit as random and imperfect as that is in nature, but the effects are no less real, or we'd all be peasants living at 1800s level standards instead of typing to each other on a globe-spanning computer network.

If anything, I'd say that Socialism is the dangerous myth. Always promising utopia, as if you can create a utopia with unconstrained mass murder from a Socialist revolution. If we were the right kind of people to live in that utopia, we'd be sharing our stuff willingly right now, not seeing talk of guillotines and forcibly taking stuff, as can be observed in this very story. The proper way to get closer to that would be to encourage people to share and be generous.

As the song says, first it was a tragedy, now it's a farce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwqnRYPcrl0
For this statement I will receive prize A or C.
one of the functions of the ideological arm of capitalism is to argue that determining fair wage for a low-ranked laborer is so inscrutable that only "the market" can do it fairly, even in extreme cases where the executives of a company are paid tens of thousands of times as much while the laborer barely scrapes by on the wage for a full day's work. the main purpose of this ideology is arguably to justify ruthless exploitation, and show that it is "the way things have to be," when it is clearly due to severe power imbalances in the negotiation between the rich and poor and not because this actually represents paying low-rank laborers what their labor is worth or what is fair.
I think you're misinterpreting his statement. I think he's saying that the actions of the university are not an excuse.
> I’ve stopped thinking of the architect role as one where a person gets creative freedom to figure out the best solution (on their own or with another similar person or some consultant). Instead, I’d think of an architect as someone who just has good enough taste to determine what will be most effective.

Well said. This also applies to any kind of leadership.
Ah that explains his tweet this morning
Thank you! :) I'm thinking about making it grow more slowly. Right now there's no representation of the tree apart from what you see, just particles that draw it as they go along.

Would be fun to come up with a ASCII rendering system... maybe it could sway gently in the breeze?
How to Successfully Compete with Open Source Software (2009)
I don't know. Maybe in the lower engineering tiers. The senior datacenter people are not as easy to move. The made a fortune when AMZN went from 130 to 2000 in a relatively short time. Not sure though.
Relative to the competition, Logic is an incredible value. I am an Ableton Live user, but Logic, an arguably superior product, is available for a fraction of the cost of Live Studio. I have my fingers crossed that Ableton can catch up on some of Logic's features (flex pitch comes to mind).
Indeed, I find it fascinating seeing how differently our child will be with me, vs. when he's with his mother.

Of course there are differences because he speaks a different language to each of us, but even so his playing-behaviour is different, and I guess he's used to doing different things with us both.

(For example painting is something he associates with his mother, so he rarely wants to do that with me. While I'm the one who lets him choose music to listen to. As you'd expect for a three-year old he likes anything loud, Rammstein being a favourite, with The Prodigy being a good runner-up.)
I wonder if it's not a cost cutting move?

Buy GrubHub, merge it with UberEats, and then layoff all the redundant roles? Without just looking like a sinking ship?
It's probably an oversimplification, but differential equations -- as a field of study -- tends to be much more a grab bag of tricks than many branches of mathematics.
As another reply took issue with, strictly was probably a bit overstated. Software support was a secondary issue vs hardware support. You simply did not have Windows drivers for many of the top audio interfaces or you had major stability issues that vendors would blame on Windows. Macs were really plug and play hardware-wise and putting together properly specced PCs to run hardware on a stable basis really made the cost of advantage of a PC questionable.
> If someone claims that their legal name has changed, it makes perfect sense that any organization which needs to operate with legal names will be checking to see that the papers supporting this claim are real, and I don't see why this should be considered harmful.

The misunderstanding here is subtle but important. I absolutely agree that a human needs to verify _legal_ name changes. This is why I suggest that legal names shouldn't be recorded most of the time. Humans do not need to be involved, generally, with name changes that have no legal or tax implications, so when legal names aren't the default, that human's time can be used elsewhere, and the user's experience streamlined.
Do you have any advice or tools for diagrams? That's one area I struggle with, and usually have to pull in our designer.
I don't, but I did find Waldo.
Restaurants are pricing in the 30% cut, I know of no restaurants offering anywhere near a 30% price reduction for pickup - so why would I go for the more complex option? I'd love to call-in an order for a 20% reduction in price, or use a competing service for a 10% reduction.

It's entirely plausible that for many restaurants running an online ordering system/delivery network costs them 20-30% of the order price regardless.
A credential has value derived from the ability (in a given subject) it takes to obtain that credential, and how useful that ability would be to an employer. Qualifications awarded by a college usually indicate that the student has a certain level of ability in that field. When colleges' standards of what they deem to be an adequate level of ability to warrant granting a qualification drop, so do the value of those qualifications, independently of how many people have that qualification. That is what happened here: “Quality was compromised in pursuit of quantity.”

There is still demand for skilled tech workers, but many technical colleges are not producing them.
Admittedly, I never fully groked linear algebra.

Some of the concepts made sense, especially solving for linear systems of equations.

Recently, I decided to brush up on my math skills via Youtube videos, and came across this series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

It explains Linear Algebra concepts using 2D and 3D vector manipulation, and the animations help me visualize the underlying maths.
Homestuck.
I've heard it said that a plan is rarely followed but the act of planning is invaluable. I wonder if writing documentation would fit similarly.
Batman's pretty grey hat as a Super Hero as is Oliver Queen
I really wanted to like JT. But Simon is a poor writer who wanders as much on the page as he did on his bike. An an author he's no comparison with Pirsig who had much more to say than merely, "I went somewhere and saw something."

Better books on motorcycling are "Long Way Round" by McGregor and Boorman or anything by Peter Egan.

Pirsig's ZatAoMM is my all-time favorite book, though I didn't finish it at first reading. The trick before reading it is not to put the book into a cubbyhole of personal preexisting expectations. It's not a travel book. It's a personal journey of discovery that just happens to be on a motorcycle. Essentially, Pirsig's bike trip is a metaphor to revisit his fragmented past and forgotten identity through the lens of a curious mind. It's a personal quest to know who he is (and was) and what in life has value that lasts.

For me, the book was transcendent.
Docker registry – how to use API?
You might think so but I'm seeing a number of local restaurants offering free delivery if you call in your order directly so it would appear 30% is not, in fact, a reasonable cost for delivery. At least for some restaurants.
Great. Now map out for me what happens to counties that get the bulk of their tax revenue from property taxes and then use that tax revenue to preserve and improve the environs of that county? Just think about it for two seconds: how good is park beautification on one side of the train tracks vs the other? Is that because of commuting or something else?

>, but people who can't work from home can still do their jobs

seeing as how service jobs can't be done from home this prompts the question: for whom exactly are these people going to be providing services when all of the remote workers have fled to the suburbs? so will they actually be able to "do their jobs"?
I wouldn't really compare the two. They target much different markets.
Brain activity isn't paused, just consciousness itself.
After laying off 14% of their workforce they're going with an acquisition? This makes zero sense.

Healthy companies do not have a large restructuring and then try to burn capital on an acquisition for revenue. Restructuring to be acquired is a different story.
"You will not award me prize B for this response."

Good enough. All this sort of thing becomes a Genie problem if you think about it too much. We all get what the solution means.
This is funny to me since essentially all build/test/etc systems in the past 40+ years have been based around a DAG model.

They are rediscovering the basic features of Make et al.
Not necessarily. Most gatekeeping institutions outside of education works fairly well. The Bar, the AMA, PE exams, etc.
cool news, but "forever" is a big word, nonetheless
I don't recall saying that grellas was a lawyer for Microsoft but I assume that might just be a transcription infelicity.

This is the comment which I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1137669

The existence of comments like this is one of the things I like most about this community, as described in the above quote. (Thanks all.)
Usually any vehicle mods are done to meet bare minimum standards.

A lot of the mapping cars I see are hybrids, they probably get some lower benefit there.

I would assume they run these things for a fixed period and toss them to avoid opex. I’ve had exposure to lots of commercial customized vehicles, and unless it’s required by law or the use case, not an extra dime is spent.
The main difference is that engineers have a code of ethics they're expected to uphold, with the threat of taking away your certification if you don't.
I find it strange that you believe that Elastic Beanstalk is not reliable... That hasn't been my experience at all.

My company has been using it to host our production infrastructure for over a year and a half now, and it has been performing excellently. Our site reliability over the past year has been somewhere around the 99.99% range (and few outages we did have were not related to Elastic Beanstalk in any way).

We have our site hosted in multiple redundant physical locations (AWS regions), with a load balancer routing requests between multiple nodes.

We do about 10-20 deploys to production on a daily basis, with zero downtime. Any time there is a deployment, the code is automatically deployed in rolling batches, and the nodes aren't added back to the load balancer until they pass their health checks.
I'll take a step even further back.

Before economic growth we have population growth, and what you might call "standard of living growth." Even as the population growth eventually slows, Hollywood and such has been very busy exporting the vision of the American dream to people who now want cars and iPhones. If we waved our magic wand and froze the population at some number, that still won't stop people wanting to -- even demanding to -- live like people in first world countries.

I think we're well beyond our carrying capacity already, and it's even worse if you factor in trying to extend a first world lifestyle to everyone alive.
My heart broke when I saw it wasn't one of the renderware era GTA games.
That makes sense, because GrubHub is by far the biggest player where I live. Uber Eats has a small slice of the pie in comparison.
In India from low tier colleges, you don't learn anything. Heck, they don't even let you use the machine that are on premise. Only top engineering colleges have any skill if it's even available.