skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree and what's especially bad about it is that these changes complicate what was what made Uber so special. You could quite literally press a button to summon a ride and it would show up, you'd get in, and they'd take you to exactly where you inputted, and then you'd get out, no other fussiness to deal with like tipping or unpredictable pricing, etc.

These changes make Uber become more like the traditional taxi world, which is quite honestly what people hated about taxis but had to live with anyways because it was such a regulated environment and filled with cronies in many cities.
this is exactly my experience, after making 1$, Google blocked my AdMob account, I tried to communicate issue and sent multiple emails, tried to convince them I am not doing anything harmful, without any luck.

after one year I wanted to integrate Google ads into another my side project and my account was still blocked (I took down my first application and re-applied again without any success)
You can't call the COVID masquerade "science", for a simple reason: it isn't. The science on the subject of masks is actually pretty much settled: they have exactly zero effect on transmission of airborne viral diseases. Dozens of studies, some are largish RCTs. No effect.

Must be a religion, then. Cult of State Almighty or something.
> It's not unreasonable...

You mean unlikely. It is absolutely unreasonable. But these arguments just don’t stand up. In the early days, perhaps this is true. But everyone is massively aware of these arguments now and what you’re still arguing is that people need to be protected from themselves.

Think about what you’re saying: your back-of-the-envelope conjecture without any empirical evidence should be taken over the millions of people who work in these industries, not just for a month before realizing they’ve been hosed, but for years and years.

How about this: let’s presume all of what you say is true. What if after all those costs are accounted for, it’s still profitable for many people to drive for Uber.
Bad programmers inflicting their worry upon the others.
You're not buying expensive enough dishwashers - Miele have recently launched machines which do just that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPmumBcAF4

They use a proprietary disposable reservoir, so there's an opportunity to get hacker points by working out how to refill it yourself!
Rust, ECS-core, slimmer abstractions, less tooling (less to learn, but also less pre-built), less complex as a general rule since its less featureful, which also means less cruft/bloat; unreal engine also has a general preference towards "realistic graphics & FPS gaming", to whatever detriment this means for any other type of game (e.g. afaik 2D games are not well-supported or tooled, and probably never will be; graphics tooling can be dramatically overcomplicated when you're chasing something stupidly simple, like replicating King's Field style billboard-3D graphics), etc

The big three specifically, which is pretty close to the reasoning for choosing any game engine thats not Unreal/Unity probably would be:

1. Rust

2. ECS

3. More likely to understand the damned thing
Our users specifically demanded to see this much data. They actually complained that we couldn't show more. Once again you're making bold claims about a subset of use-cases that you clearly have no context for commentating on.

I never claimed that switching languages would have magically solved all our problems, but in our case it could've been a significant boon to performance which could've been one factor of many that contributed to a solution, and I just can't figure out why you have such a problem with that idea.
Very interesting. Can you tell me what specific brand this is?
That stuff is hard! Better to just shove your data somewhere unstructured and then you don't have to worry about data structures and relations.
Looking at the Twitter responses, I don’t know why people assume that every single Mozilla employee would put “being part of the open web and contributing to open source” above people’s crazy obsession with having a job and being able to afford food and shelter.
This honestly sounds just like my nightmares.

I'd rather go live in a tent than spend 10+ years putting in 70+ hour weeks just to retire when all of my best years are behind me.
If you're going to include individual incidents, you should include the CHAZ/CHOP shooting, and the various "people beat up the car as it drives through" occurrences too. Sure, those cars may have done something to offend/anger/threaten the protesters, but...
“The Swedish model” is to put laws like this in place mostly to level the negotiation positions of the parties. What rules to actually apply is expected to be negotiated between the unions and the employers on top of that.

(As a side note the current government is actually just about to abolish one of the corner stones of those laws (“LAS”, the law of employment protection). Due to a deal they cut with the opposition parties in order to be allowed to form government)
> There can be no good attempt to comply with this (completely terrible) law from Uber

Actually, it's very simple: treat them as employees, including granting required benefits and paying them at least minimum wage for time worked (presumably at the higher of either minimum wage or per-trip earnings for the time period).

Nothing about this is incompatible with allowing employees to pick their own working hours.
I get your point, but I think the restaurant analogy is flawed.

With restaurants, there’s an ongoing relationship and and expectation about shifts. There’s just a small amount of flexibility. The employee with take some good ones, some bad ones (with more good ones probably going to folks with more seniority, or those favored by the managers).

One couldn’t show up every couple weeks for two peak hours at the restaurant and expect to work. But some Uber drivers do exactly that.
Better not ban child labor if it puts kids out of work, right?
Sure, but if I were in a situation where I needed help, I'd choose the unambiguous signal, that even people who have never heard of "the idea of threes" grasp immediately. "HELP" or "SOS" ist just very, very obvious.
I live in downtown Minneapolis and it's the first time I no longer really need a car since my childhood in Germany. And I love it.
I have meditated quite a bit on victimhood. In many cases I think it is justified. But fundamentally it is a historiographic view of the world, not an operative one. It is dominated by stasis - the way things were - and not the way things ought to be. This is not to malign those who are victims. But I suspect that most therapists dealing with such victims seek to impart an operative view of the world: one with plans, growth, change - not stasis.
Isn't this, put another way, Taleb's ethical precept of "having skin in the game?" - Post-Soviet and Trump Administration governments both demonstrate a complete lack of stakes in the outcome of the common person. The only place they have "skin in the game" is in the reified virtual reality of an insular bureaucracy.
It sounds like you're making assumptions that the driver cited a reason when he did not. Where from that comment did you get the driver feared being "assaulted by a mob, dragged out and beaten or shot, and their vehicle destroyed". Was it the part where he said it was racist?
Ha. So the truth is that Knuth did quote Hoare, not aware that he was quoting Knuth--indirectly Knuth was quoting himself.
> In fact, Apple has provided a freely accessible API to its podcast directory that anyone can use without asking Apple’s permission.

Have you tried using it? I haven’t myself but your comment made me google it quickly, and as far as I can tell, then it’s extremely limited (e.g. you can’t fetch a list of all podcasts, or newly updated podcasts, etc).
Oh ok (see above comment).
Plenty of professional developers would benefit greatly if they read Domain-Driven Design.
Ikea and Home Depot both offer home delivery for large items, nationwide (in most cases). Pricing varies (Ikea does a flat rate $50 or $60 regardless of how much you order, IIRC; Home Depot shipping charges depend on exactly what you're ordering), but it's generally available.

In fact, I've never bought a large appliance and walked out from the store with it. Even if my local store does have the item in stock (sometimes they do; sometimes they don't; the big box stores don't generally keep a large stock of major appliances in-store), it's way more convenient to get the store to do the delivery and install for me-- especially since that's frequently included in the cost for major appliances (or a relatively small extra charge).
If $40 to buy two is a lot of money, then $20 to buy one is also a lot of money (since, after all, it's the same price per unit), are you sure you can afford to spend 50 cents/bag for garbage bags?

We buy the big store brand box ($15 - $20 for 200). The box is a bit too big to put under the sink, so we put half in another smaller container under the sink. When we refill that container and the box is empty, then it's time to buy more.
Right, because the hyper-focus on linting of the industry is the symptom here, it's not a misguided treatment for the underlying problem of bad programmers.
https://youtu.be/2h6Cz4hwuEI
How legit is that video and YouTuber?
Just put a piece of tape over the vent, and it will act like an unvented N95.
> Bertrand Russell wrote “In Praise of Idleness” in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, idleness was an unavoidable reality for the millions who had lost their jobs

What a passive attitude. Unless you're in a straight jacket idleness is a thoroughly avoidable reality. Hustle matters most when you're broke and unemployed. If you're doing it right being unemployed is a full-time job, job hunting. Or building your own.
Thanks for the heads up! We just merged a fix for this so it should be fixed shortly.
I mean, if it wasn't I guarantee some fintech company would come out of the woodwork to disrupt it because the potential upside is huge once you scale.
There are other factors for these engineers to consider. This outflow may be temporary: once the Chinese side decides that their immediate goals have been met, they either force the Taiwanese engineers to leave, or accept Chinese citizenship, or some other unpleasant thing.

What I am saying is that the "free market" is not always limited to money. There are other things that play the role. TSMC must find ways to keep the essential engineers, or they are going to lose. This applies to anyone: you have to adjust to the changing environment, or die. Find something that will keep the best ones that other companies can't offer. Or die, like the rest of the manufacturing industry (look, American manufacturing is too expensive, let's make it in China! look, American programmers are too expensive, let's open a dev center in Bangalore!).

On the other hand, I think this is a welcome outcome - the knowledge spreads out and levels the playing field. From a very simplistic and idealistic view, it is better to have multiple industrial and knowledge centers than have everything concentrated in one place or country.
The New Surface Duo
Steve ?
I know it's almost a meme at this point, but maybe Apple should buy Mozilla (or financially support them in some way)? The enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of way. Surely Apple don't want to cede more control over web standards to Google? They both promote valuing user privacy, so it's not like they don't have some common ground.

If Apple really wants to stick it to Google, they could make an iOS App Store policy exception for Firefox / Gecko engine. Heck, that alone may be enough to buoy Mozilla, w/o paying a cent.
Regardless of whether the density is being replaced, when 100% of new construction is SFH, to a renter it's like existing townhomes are disappearing; as their proportions diminish, prices rise and thus finding this kind of place near your place of work becomes more difficult.
You do realise that your consumption of garbage bags does not double because you buy two rolls at a time. If you are wealthy enough to save up for a one-time investment of 1 roll of garbage bags, you are able to implement the scheme suggested by the original poster.
No. The biggest value that Wikipedia provides is the content. None of the donations are going to the content creators, very little of them are going to covering IT costs. And a lot of them are used for paying big Bay Area wages to people in the foundation whose work I regard as highly peripheral to the core value provided.
I think you're conflating two things: in my mind, working on the shape of data is different than pulling inferences out of that data.
The need for redress and criminalization is indeed a problematic and distressing mindset for all involved, usually just ending in an evolutionary dead-end and non-constructive waste of time and effort.

However, that doesn't mean operation from unbiased justice and fairness, or that we should focus on solutions rather than chart the problems to be solved first!
Thank you, I'm adding "The Fear of Freedom" to my reading list.
Either that, or in the wake of this some other company finds a way to achieve this same result in compliance with the laws and captures the market. I think both outcomes would be acceptable.
They are very simply constructed - and I think that's for two reasons: 1, it's cheaper, and 2 - My experience with dishwashers is that they are sort of intended to be disposable. They're relatively cheap, and replacement parts for the things that can fail regularly are very nearly as expensive as the actual machine.

The control board is the thing most likely to go (electronics and water); everything else is floats and switches. It's also 7/8ths the price of an entirely new machine.

This is one conspiracy theory I whole-heartedly subscribe to.
Thanks for the link - the 6x in pricing is to enforce the monopoly on delivery of letters rather than all mail items. It only applies to (i) items weighing less than 12.5oz (ii) to the first 1.0oz of a single piece of mail.

Certainly an enforcement of USPS' monopoly on letter delivery, but not a blanket price fixing across all mail items and types.
Ask HN: Who do you use for your email lists?
At this point, Uber is acting childish. They refuse to play by the rules, and opt to take their ball and go home. What is it with SV companies and petty schoolyard tier drama like this? Just follow the damn law.
Sitting 8+ hours at desk plus few more in a car only to get home and continue sitting in front of a fancy TV. And you call this advanced society or civilisation?
I made that mistake early my career following this exact advice and I ended up with a lot things were randomly 1 hour off depending on when the record was created and the date entered.
A major function of capitalism is to direct human attention towards utilitarian valuation, which produces the growth-and-exploitation formula we are familiar with: more stuff is made, more land is developed, but it is often done by overfitting to market prices.

But increasingly we are turning the valuation process over to algorithms, sensors, and other precision instruments. If we extrapolate this onwards, the market exchange will become vestigial in not that many years: the algorithms involved will already know how much can be sustainably produced, consumed, transported and trashed, and there will be known bounds to personal and societal consumption relative to planetary capacity. At that point, transition away from capitalism will seem obvious. And we might be closer to this point than it looks.
Owning the American Dream, ending the trap of rent servitude
> Uber argues it is a technology company first, and drives/delivers second

I can see Uber desperately looking for non-obvious applications for its core software to strengthen its argument.

Suggestions?
50/50 white vinegar and dawn detergent will keep your shower and toilets looking new.
Could you explain where do you see traits and overloading helping you with floating point operations?
It doesn't have to be "constant". It's enough to happen to you once to cost you tens of thousands of dollars, or your health, or, if you're very unlucky, your life. I've seen photos of people with firearms drawn stopping motorists at protests. You can talk all day about how it doesn't happen, but I've seen photos and videos of that happening. There's no way I would go to such place for $20/hr (Uber's average wage in SV, for example). It's just not worth the risk.
10nm Intel CPUs exist. I have seen them with my own eyes. Reading the tea leaves from public statements and articles like that, the yields seem to be crap right now.
Most medium to large media companies do have their own sales staff for online advertising! The problem generally is that they can't sell enough local/direct-sold ads at a high enough CPM to sell out their inventory. This is where they use something like AdSense, to fill in those gaps where they couldn't sell anything for a higher rate.
This also turned up in the other Mozilla-related thread 12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129926
Wouldn't a better solution then be to work through Congress to repeal that law?
I think you missed the first sentence of my post.
Lyft announced that it would do the same: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/lyft-president-says-it-may-h...
"A hyperloop system involves passengers or freight transported by pods elevated by magnets, which travel within raised pipes. The pods can be propelled at 620mph (1,000kph), says Jay Walder, boss of Virgin Hyperloop One, one of the firms pushing the idea. At that pace 'you could move between Columbus and Chicago in 40 minutes', he says, so covering the 460 miles many hours quicker than by driving and at a cost (and overall carbon impact) that he says would be lower than flying."

If the economics work, for both people and goods, and if the environmental externalities are lower than cars/trucks/trains/planes, then it would be great to have regional networks of hyperloops in the US. I say, bring it on!
Yes I realize that consumption does not double simply because you buy double. I am not commenting on garbage bags (the topic is detergent); I am commenting on the strategy being used for more than 1 thing. If you use this strategy for 1 item, okay, I get it, the expense is fine. But if the trick is used for other things (as seems logical) then the initial expense of starting to do this could be large.
I don't feel too strongly for this, something about paying monthly to a 3rd-party just to store your passwords seems like a ticking timebomb. I especially wouldn't rely on Dropbox to handle my credentials for $.

You could essentially just stick with using a free Dropbox account, use your favorite Password Manager, ex. KeepPass, and save your password protected encrypted database backup to your Dropbox account, & load the file from another device, etc, Right?

I'm just too used to using password managers on VM's that i've never found use-case in syncing them between other machines cause that already sounds rediculously dangerous enough, next to storing them on your Untrusted web-browser. It sounds extra, but i'm that paranoid after personally experiencing getting 'hacked'.
We already have social security and medicare. The problem is that we refuse to expand these excellent social programs, opt to hobble them, and then point out how bad they are after we've bled them out. The American way.
Can you link to the huge, comprehensive studies spanning the entire US that show a large decline in fireflies and ladybugs?
I spent ~$50k/year on USPS deliveries and also have had almost zero problems prior to the past 4 weeks. Now, we've got almost a dozen lost and delayed packages
it looks like they have some savings now, but wouldn't make it 2 years if they stopped getting donations. it makes sense to me that they would continue to fundraise unless they had an alternative recurring source of funding
App to call attention to Reckless drivers suspended by Twitter
My co-founder, Kyle, and I wrote this.

Republics and democracies rely on people having power and ownership in their communities. In our modern world much of this power, in the form of home ownership, is relegated to debt-financed mortgages on homes.

We believe there is a financial path to home ownership that sits between mortgages and renting that will provide adequate returns to investors and dominate both mortgages and renting.

The social impact, and market impact, could be staggering if we are right.
You people say, "I'm in the toilet..."

A good number (most?) don't say that. They say, "I'm in the bathroom."

A bathroom is the room with the bathtub, and since the plumbing is also there, there's usually a sink and toilet next to it. Variations include a shower instead of a bathtub, and sometimes a "water closet" — a small room that is part of the larger bathroom where the toilet is. This smaller room is sometimes called the "toilet room."
My parents are both chemists. They use "soap" specifically for soaps that are made from fat and lye, and "detergent" for synthetic surfactants.

Oddly enough, powdered dishwasher detergent contains neither. At least the stuff I use is mostly sodium carbonate, which is alkaline and combines with fats in the food to make them soluble by turning them into soap. It is also an abrasive. And cheap.

A functional difference is that in areas with hard water (such as where I live), soap forms soap scum, which is calcium stearate. You used to be able to buy bar soap that was actually detergent, but it's no longer made -- there's a glut of tallow and lard that makes "natural" soap cheaper. So my family now uses liquid body wash instead of bar soap in the shower, and I don't have to spend every Saturday scrubbing soap scum away.

None of this gets to why some stuff is called "soap" in the vernacular. For instance, I call everything "soap."
Totally. "Store everything in UTC" is just another flavor of "pick a timezone to store everything." In a lot of cases, you probably need to go ahead and just store the fully qualified date including timezone/offset for each record.
Sorry, the sentence has a question mark at the end because basically everything is different.

Size: Bevy is probably thousands of times smaller than UE. That is either a feature or a bug, depending on your needs.

Complexity/feature set: Bevy is a lot simpler because it's simply smaller. This of course means it's less capable. Again, feature or bug, depending on needs.

Language: UE is written in C++, so you can make games in C++ and its own language UnrealScript. Bevy is written in rust. Feature/bug depending on needs.

License: UE has a source-available commercial license, while bevy is FOSS (MIT license). A more open license is obviously better, but the commercial licenses generally come with support.

That said, I'm not a professional game developer, but am currently experimenting with the Godot engine (Also an indie FOSS engine, but a little older). I don't really like GDScript, but I can just use C++ bindings anyways.
Hyperloop has sex appeal, but it seems like Maglev or just plain old high speed rail makes more sense from an economics perspective. I can't imagine it's cheap to keep a tube evacuated. Either way, it seems good to try and build these sort of high-tech industries in the US.
Admittedly, I don't have a deep grasp of what Potemkin Villages are, so my comments below may reinforce what you said, I'm not sure.

I'm not saying that conversation about election interference shouldn't happen, I guess I'm trying to test the strength and legitimacy of one stated claim, that of privatization, before maybe moving to others.

I also think that even when discussing voter suppression, gutting the institution from the inside as that's easier than legislating it out, or even trying to capitalize on the sale of public assets, one can assume that people want those behaviors not of bad faith, but because they believe they will help the most people, or at least their people.