skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't Uber allow other operating companies to use its service along with Raiser/Raizer LLC as long as they follow certain platform terms?
Yeah definitely! Depending on how the site uses the chat bubble it can be annoying to the user if it blocks the site or randomly pops up. I think the author did a good job of getting a good number of samples and write up.

One thing that makes this a bit harder to compare is that the chat widget is at the bottom of the page where as the Live Chat & Support link was up top right. Which catches the user's eye much more so might not make this as an accurate of an A/B test as it could have been
And as a state entity they can develop their land without approval from local governments, one of the largest obstacles to new construction. UCSF has used this to great effect in San Francisco.
Worth keeping in mind the principal agent problem literature. Selling equity in a company is vulnerable to “lemon” problems. Startups with product market fit want to minimize dilution and keep executing before raising at a higher valuation in {12} months. Startups without PMF want to maximize runway to maximize probability of finding PMF. VCs know this, and startups know VCs know this, and etc. Unfortunately this can create perverse signaling incentives on both sides.
Adding some TSP should help.
I would agree that distance is perhaps the more significant factor but it seems like you are trying to say that Transmission(distance + mask) === Transmission(distance) which I find quite hard to believe. Even ignoring the imperfect distancing that is bound to happen in person. For example, rounding a corner
at the same time as someone else.
This is true only if you are iterating over the entire array often. If you only rarely need to access one data member the array will not be in cache and so you have less to load from memory. Depending on how your data is structured the array may or may not save time even in small sizes.
And that was 10 years before Haskell went huge in that idea.
the courts haven't seen through the facade of the taxi companies (the point is: this would be uber doing exactly what the taxi companies do)
Sure it's a great speed, but $300/mo plus a $2k install just to get a decent upload? Seems like market segmentation where they're basically just ripping anyone off who wants to run a little server or backup their files to the cloud.
And Nixon declared the war on drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs#Socio-economic_ef...
Why wouldn’t they? That’s kind of their thing...
Modeling the data and structuring the program are indeed the harder tasks, but orgs have lots of smart people who have those skills but not the familiarity with various existing syntaxes and standard libraries and so on that a programmer learns over the decades of their career. Further, those same orgs probably have many people with experience in the latter but without any special ability to think abstractly. This significantly limits the ability to create tools. Further, the no code tools often abstract at a more appropriate level than general purpose programming languages’ standard libraries because these tools aren’t trying to be general purpose (at least not to the same degree as general purpose programming languages). Lastly, I’ve seen business people use certain no code tools to build internal solutions quickly that would have taken a programmer considerable (but not crazy) time to crank out, especially considering things like CI/CD pipelines, etc. Nocode won’t replace Python, but it serves a valuable niche.
Exactly. SQL is great for data that's mostly tabular, but despite their name, relational databases are not great at dealing with relations. We had some queries that required 10 joins. The same query in Cypher is trivial.

But yes, hosting solutions are terrible at supporting graph databases. Some do have a thin Graph DB layer (often using Gremlin as QL) over a Mongo-like database, but it's not the same thing.
You're right on both counts. CA has a big homeless problem because of the weather, and other states exploit that to use CA as a dumping ground for their own homeless.

LA Times' Steve Lopez interviewed a number of homeless last year in a series of articles. Most of them weren't from LA. They just came because they were told the weather was great and that drugs in LA were free.
I might be a dummy, but if I create a card with a checkbox and nothing else I can't seem to edit it. Is this a bug?
We're very well equipped, we just don't use the laws we already have. If we did the gig economy would die overnight. Just class all of them as employees and be done with it. Gig workers existed in the past. Many harbors used them. You got paid for every piece removed or stowed in the hold of a ship. Governments the world over realized this led to all kinds of bad outcomes and outlawed the practice. Containerization did the rest. So we already know this particular demon and the solution was to make it illegal and to make all such people employees.
By the way I love the product :)
Postnord's argument that the handling of parcels from China took too much time was utterly nonsensical, especially given in the light of their usual complaints about the fact that fewer people were mailing stuff so they had to raise prices. If handling parcels from China took too much time they simply had not been very good in negotiating a deal with China Post about parcel rates.

Another factor in the nonsensicality of this tariff is that Sweden is more or less the only country which starts charging sales tax (called moms here, comparable with VAT in the UK, BTW in the Netherlands etc.) from a value of 0kr (i.e. free, but sales tax is paid on the shipping costs). Where other European countries start charging sales tax when the value of imported goods rises above (e.g.) €20, Sweden starts at €0. Many parcels ordered from China fall under that rate which make it a very common thing to be represented with the following:

price of ordered goods including shipping: €4
sales tax: €1
"handling fee": €8
total: €13, of which €9 goes to the Swedish state (directly or through Postnord)

Mind, this is not the shipping fee as that was already paid for in the €4 purchase price. If the same parcel were ordered to the Netherlands the customer would pay €4 and that's it, no import fees and no tariffs.

The so-called "handling fee" is nothing but an excuse to put a tariff on international trade for individuals, a way to make sure the fruits of globalisation stay out of reach of the public.
Yeah. That's how it was where I went to college. Even the dorms were 4 to an apartment.
Sidewalk would collect more personal, identifiable data on pass-through commuters than governments and companies already do? Maybe, and if so it's a valid point. But I'd bet (money) not. No facial recognition would be used. Doubt they'd track you in a bus. They were well aware of privacy concerns and their data collection would be under intense scrutiny. Data wouldn't be used outside Sidewalk without consent, de-identified by default, etc. (And many of the technologies they were developing had nothing to do with data collection.)

Sounds like an instance of what this comment describes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123463
This (and the Galaxy Fold i guess) could be the perfect sysadmin/on-call device - except for the price maybe. Small enough to carry around and use as a normal phone day-to-day but offers actually usable screenspace for remote sessions, docs, etc. if the need arises.

Also weirdly reminds me of the Sony Vaio P for some reason.
However, the market will eventually change and it's better to be prepared. Plus with PHP being the mainstream I wouldn't be surprised if you could make better $$$ by going after the (still) relatively niche technologies.
New-look malware can steal passwords from VPN software and web browsers
Giving the absolute benefit of doubt to the administration , the only valid reason for why now is that term of the current administration is ending, if they don’t do it now , they may never get a chance to do it at all.
I’m such a huge fan of DDD. IMO, if you only ever read one book on Software Architecture, that’s the one to pick.

A key point, though, is that you learn the right domain models/abstractions over time. Refactoring is critical as you gain more insight into the domain. If you’re constantly questioning your modelling of the domain, and refactoring towards a better one, you’ll end up with a great model and thus a clean, understandable, easy to extend/modify system. If you stick with whatever abstractions you chose at the start, when you knew way less about the domain/business problems, you’ll likely end up with poor abstractions, and a code based that’s slow, tedious and error prone to modify.

Convincing the business that it’s worth setting aside time to constantly refactor towards better domain models is often the hardest part, but crucial.
No one would develop apps for it. What is a smartphone without apps?
I would probably _not_ do this long term without expertise from someone that understands the 'why' on the ingredient list on commercial detergents... but my limited intuition says it's probably ok in the short term. The hotter the water the better, and always dry as hot as possible. Dishwashers save a ton of water, definitely use them when available
It’s not market rate, it’s geopolitical theater rate. These are rare situations
welcome to my town where you are legally only allowed to buy black beans. People keep buying them so there must be market demand. the legislation must have followed popular opinion. If people don't like black beans then why are they buying them?

Like food, you need housing to survive. housing will be built and purchased because it's necessary, even if legislation mandates a type of housing that isn't well suited to the population.

> The legislation followed popular opinion.

Agreed. The legislation followed the popular opinion that black people were inferior and dangerous and needed to be priced out of white neighborhoods through draconian zoning laws.
Do you know if there is a specific target to get more boomers reading?

I have to be honest, I don't think fraud like this could be stopped unless we prevented a significant number of people from having bank accounts. PayPal are bottom feeders here, but if they weren't someone else would be (you list some alternatives)...

Congrats on the article!
Nobody faces ‘no injustice’.

We simply bring different levels of privilege to it.

Certainly many privileged people are blind to that.
Could someone please confirm what “dish soap” is please for those of us that aren’t American. It’s soap for cleaning dishes in the sink, right? (as opposed to soap for washing hands). In the UK we refer to dish soap as washing-up liquid. Don’t want to use the wrong stuff!

Thanks in advance.
In the last two weeks, key financial docs got sent back as wrong address. Charles Schwab and our bank - we only know because they called to ask us about it. We’ve been at the same address for over 10 years. Never had this issue before. Anecdotal, perhaps, but odd timing nonetheless.
> why and why now?

If voting by mail enfranchises those who can't get to the polls easily on election day, does it not make sense (to those who are not favorable to that electorate) to break down the system that enables that?

Edit: Assuming positive intent (which should be done!) only works for so long.
What actually happened after complaining that Jews make themselves victims does not make my statement false. Nazi did in fact complained about that and did felt Jews are making themselves victims.

Also the genocide mostly happened by the second half of the WWII, the rhetoric conflicts were mostly before war.

> The Nazis were clearly the aggressors, and their attempts to paint themselves as the victims were transparent lies.

Plenty of them actually did believed what they said. They did lied a lot, but they also did believed in a lot of they said.

> To you it may seem like a game, but the sorts of lies you're repeating have resulted in the deaths of millions of people, and may do so again. This is no game.

Not a single word that I wrote was a lie. I did reacted to parent who framed Nazi as primary making themselves into victims. I don't think that framing was the primary appeal. The parent was trying to use Nazi analogy to discount contemporary people/movements parent dislike, contemporary people who are not Nazi.

> Much of this is paralleled in contemporary politics, and the powerful continue to create myths that they are the victims of the powerless, while in fact themselves committing violence against the latter.

The stab in the back myth was not invented by Nazi either, although they believed it and were motivated by it. The stab in the back myth existed before Nazi, it came to existence right by end of WWI. It was widespread.

Also, nazi were not the first anti semitic group in Germany.

> they could feel more justified in using violence against their enemies, and so they could acquire more power to "protect" themselves

Answering this just for fun. Nazi did not thought like that, this is projecting our values on the past. Nazi believed, strongly believed that "might is right" and the "survival of the fittest". They did believed that victory power has right to do as it pleases. They also believed that violence is manly man thing. They had pretty clear ideas on masculinity.

They did felt justified to use violence solely on these grounds - not just against Jews but against whole range of groups.

> so they can pretend to be defending themselves and Germany when they attacked

Nazi primary argument for war in East was expansion - they claimed to need a living space. That was the justification toward Germans. The Germany was not overpopulated, but nazi did believed it is and that it needs more space. The expand the imperium policy was not invented by nazi either, but was part of German politics long before.
My impression hasn't been that DataFrame are slow at all. What do you mean it can't handle 50k rows? Like it takes a long time to load or what?

Because right now I'm using a DataFrame that has 7m rows and 50 columns and it works very well.
TSP is magic. I put it in the laundry from time to time. Used to be built into laundry detergent back in the day, right? Banned now. Well, I only use it for nasty stains and really dirty stuff.
What is the direct competitor for bulk letter delivery? Historically that's not profitable so no private company does it and instead they all focus on the profitable package business, or edge case super-fast high cost delivery.
I think HN commenters also overstate the problem. I’m in the US, use Amazon a lot, and haven’t noticed counterfeits. Maybe I’m just bad at identifying them.

I think it’s the type of issue where it would be a major problem for the producer of a specific product that got ripped off, and any customers who are fans of that product, but may never affect the average buyer.
Ah, I can concede the "Oh no, we might be out of power, lock as much as we can into place." I don't agree with it, especially during a pandemic, but I can see that logic.

On the second point, doesn't almost every government service have direct competitors? Public vs private education. Public vs private security. Public vs private military. Public vs private roads.

On the third point, I'm a little confused what you mean: what are some examples of something that would require the powers of the federal government?

EDIT: the comment I was responding to got edited, so this seems a bit outdated: suggestions on what to do on HN when that happens? Delete? Update? No idea how to handle it :-)
Dish soap is for dishes. Hand soap is for hands. Bar soap is also for hands.
that is literally what the article says to do
Ctrl key placement was OK. As a heavy SSMS user I had a lot of trouble making Shift+Home, F5 key sequence work.
A better test would've been to have "Live Chat & Support" on the bottom right
TSMC’s advantage is an order of magnitude more engineers of high quality handling yield issues, the machines used to make cutting edge transistors is the same.

With China doing this, TSMC’s advantage will decrease.
Canadian here. Detergent is what you put in an automated dishwashing appliance. Dish soap could be either detergent or dish soap for washing things by hand. Dish pods are pre-bundled detergent with liquid that helps stains from forming.
Well, the law currently requires that any competitor charge many times (7x if I recall correctly) more than the USPS for mail, and they are not permitted to use letter-boxes, so it is rather unsurprising that UPS and FedEx charge more for first class mail.
Google will do this, and then sell the data to security institutions. We will be told about it later, or consent to it during a Terms&Conditions update.
Which book did you read?

I just looked and it looks like there are two books by Forester. One is The Good Shepherd which is the original book and the other is Greyhound which is also by Forester and is sold as the movie tie-in. They have different number of pages, so I assume they are different.

Edit: I ended up buying The Good Shepherd because it was only $0.99 for the ebook.
If no code tools are anything like ORMs, there will be some interesting surprises when one encounters non-normalized data structures.
> It's not 'proper' touch typing - I almost never use my little fingers (I use three on my left hand, but bias towards just using index/index and middle on my right)

I used to do something like this. Developed some real bad RSI that was only partially alleviated when I got a split keyboard (which forced me to learn to touch-type). Now that I’m used to that I’m finally starting to touch-type on a normal keyboard, which also helps quite a bit.

YMMV of course, but in retrospect I really wish I learned to touch-type to begin with; I think I ignored it during typing lessons as a kid as my typing speed was honestly pretty good, but now I regret that.
Sometimes there's a very fine line between cynicism and realism.
The crux of the problem is that limiting moderation only to allowing content which is illegal and banning what is illegal still allows content many people may find objectionable, spam, trolling, racist and hateful speech and off topic content.

Not every online community wants to be a 4chan or Voat, which is what that sort of hands off moderation inevitably leads to.
Yeah, but lot's of cities (I'm also in the UK) now have the problem that there are so many students that there aren't enough houses for families (because landlords can charge more to six students sharing a house than one family). We need to build more houses.
The theme of the last four years of Federal government has been dismantling working-but-flawed systems in favor of private enterprise. You cannot assume "good intentions" on the part of a Postmaster General who is part of this government and is personally invested in private competitors to the USPS.

The USPS also labors under the Republican-inflicted 2006 decree to prefund their pension obligations:
https://www.gao.gov/assets/660/650511.pdf
TDD is good for features (like web apps) but not so much for algorithms.

The difference is that you only need to support a tiny fraction of possible features / use cases, but your algorithms need to be correct for a wide range of inputs.
That depends.

If you are writing the code yourself then the maintenance costs of everyone else after you trying to understand it makes it wrong. However most programming languages have generic programing features such that you can just use an algorithm and so you aren't writing either the algorithm. In that case the code for the fast hash is equal to the O(n^2) code and so of course you select the faster one as a application of don't prematurely pessimise your code rule. If your programing language doesn't already have built in generic algorihtms for your data, then you are using the wrong language (unless your job is to write the generic algorithms for the language in which case this doesn't apply because you can assume your algorithm will be used in a performance critical part at some time)
Wow, author runs dishwasher twice a day, sometimes three times a day on weekend. That's insane. Life-hack: reuse dishes and glasses when possible throughout the day. Wipe off crumbs after breakfast and lunch and set the plates aside. Don't freak out if there's a little left-over grease smear on the dish or dried up fruit-water in the bowl from three hours ago, it won't kill you. If the dish is actually in gross shape (caked on cheese or whatever) then fine, throw it in dishwasher and grab a new one.
Yeah, dish soap is soap for washing dishes. Us Americans can get pretty craaazy with our naming conventions!
I grew up in the suburbs because my parents got priced out of the Bay Area. It was good as a little kid because I could play in the woods. It sucked as a teenager because there was absolutely nothing to do outside of stupid high school drama. I knew a lot of kids who got into opiates, mostly out of boredom.
At least FB has its priorities straight. /s
We definitely want to make our chat widget as unobtrusive and customizable as possible, so that our users can choose exactly where it shows up... I can sympathize with how annoying it is when these chat bubbles get "aggressive" e.g. by automatically opening and then sending me a bunch of messages from a bot.

I really like the idea of just adding a nav item/link that goes to a page dedicated to messaging. Perhaps at some point we'll create a hosted page that does exactly that (e.g. maybe a custom "contact" or "FAQ" page where customers can ask questions, etc)

In the meantime, our users should technically be able to set up a dedicated page for this, and just embed our chat widget on that specific page :) but we are going to keep thinking about how we can improve the UX for this kinda thing!
What? Google updates old pixel phones. They are way better than the other manufacturers that give up supporting their phones after a few months. I don’t your point, who would buy a new phone thst was made multiple years ago? This project wasn’t even killed by Google, it was killed by everyone else.
The use of numeric coincidences like the cotient of the Moon and Earth radius in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV07SJz1YXI&t=14m55s is a very big red flag.
>> Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers,

And why would you assume that such jobs don't require internet access? Shift workers are sent their schedules via email. They talk to their bosses after hours via email. Factory workers often complete mandatory training (health/safety certs etc) from home. Just as once upon a time each employee having a phone number was once optional, basic administration of any vocation now requires internet access.

I'd say that monastic orders probably can go without, but I equally assume that there is an abbot out there somewhere staring at a screen and mumbling about how slow the wifi gets on sunday mornings.
I'm confused. Are you saying that mainland Chinese feel -more- nationalistic if they live in the ASEAN region, i
e. outside of their home country? Or are these employees from an ASEAN country but are just Chinese in ethnicity?
Also, creating a hash isn't free. And often ordering is required.
Truckers book loads over the internet.

Service workers use the internet to see what their shift is going to be, respond to work issues/surveys.

Etc.
Interesting that the first 3 are all about performance. Which strikes me as a bit ironic given rule #1, which could be summarized as don't worry about performance until you have to.
Are the readers of 'Nature' or 'The Economist' extreme? Quality curation and editorial control are possible at those levels. I can write a letter, or indeed an article or paper for either, but it only gets accepted if it is good enough.