skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Airbnb: no, because hosts aren't being paid for providing services, they're being paid for providing access to their accommodations.

Hotels aren't classified as a service in the US? Or is this going along with the fiction that Airbnb is different from hotels (and not subject to regulations etc) the same way uber isn't a taxi service?
If it was for just the free market to decide, we would never have gotten rid of child labor. The government also tries to ensure that its citizenry are lifted out of poverty etc., things that free market isn't really incentivized to care for. As the op said, "As a society, we've decided that certain offers aren't acceptable, even if you can find someone desperate enough to take the offer."

Am not sure if this situation with uber/lyft calls for this, but there definitely is a line that as a society we do not want to regress. Though, I do agree it is a very hard job to intervene because of unforeseen side effects, many times adverse, so if possible I would also prefer to avoid government intervention and let the market decide.
nbconvert/pandoc is very limited in how it can be extended because it only relies on jinja templating rather than a proper AST.
You couldn't achieve a lot of the things that sphinx/jupyter book can now do with that.
Trust me I know because, before starting work on https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser I used the nbconvert/pandoc approach to create https://github.com/chrisjsewell/ipypublish ;-)
Why is that the only alternative? Surely, Californians are capable enough to come up with another solution that falls within the law.
This is exactly the issue though? Investors say “hey you don’t have to raise from us if you don’t want to give up X% of the company”. Which leaves no room to negotiate.

The ONLY time you can expect to sell a smaller % of the company in a round is if you go to an investor and say “hey this OTHER investor wants the same % but is paying more, are you willing to take a lower % at a higher valuation?”. However, this seems very rare and the VC driving up the valuation is usually a higher tier VC in a bidding war, so founders are likely to go with them.

Long story short, if you want to convince founders to sell less of the company, you have to convince top tier VCs to take less, and founders will follow suit.
There are a number of metrics where it's clearly better.

Scheduling and routing. Not waiting 10-30 minutes for the next train depending on time of day. Not stopping anywhere but your destination. No connections or changeovers.

Personal space. Privacy, safety. Regardless of how you personally feel about this factor, it matters enough to some people to significantly impact usage.

Those factors may or may not be enough to warrant changing the systems, but they certainly are metrics by which Musk's systems are better.
Civil trademark law effectively means everyone is "subject to" their terms.

They'll send a nasty-gram to enforce their rights as the trademark holder, and the potential resolution could be an ICANN UDRP complaint. Again, I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice, I could be wholly incorrect here.
It's like Toyota's kanban cards. When there's only N left the card says get M more of these items.
Ok. I'll keep things in order from now on.
Yes, and there were massive changes needed if they wanted to continue it https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Layout-2020

things like WebRender are more important
It very much depends. I've seen too many cases when business logic was moved to the database layer, with absolutely disastrous effects. Scaling application backends doing map-reduce on a pre-filtered datasets is way easier than scaling database to handle five-way joins. Yet,I've seen opposing cases too, when rdbms was used as a huge key-value storage , and was pushing hundreds of thousands of rows to tens of backends, sucking it's bandwidth dry.
These rules are good as far as they go. However, they are notably silent on what happens when they stop working.

If you're a celebrity computer scientist and a problem has been 'squashed' to the point where there aren't any more 80-99% "hot spots" I guess you can just parachute out of there and on to a more interesting problem.

However, if you're paid to work on a particular thing, sooner or later, you will fire up a profile and say "oh, great, I don't have a hot spot anymore, just a bunch of 10-30% 'warm spots'". At that point you need to attack problems that aren't traditional bottlenecks if you still want to get speedups.

Moreover, the things that you learn from repeatedly attacking those 10-30% 'warm spots' might be fundamentally different from the learning you get from, I dunno, taking some O(N^2) monstrosity out of the "99% of the profile" and Declaring Victory.
Two of the largest sources of air pollution in the world are cars and airplanes, and Elon Musk has already been working on attacking the issue of car pollution. Imo extrapolating out from the combination of SpaceX and Starlink, subways are an obvious project for the Boring Company, especially once you have higher-speed boring machines. (Current boring machines move at about 10 meters/day.)
> I still an advantage at home (though I replaced it's controller with a custom one that runs QMK, filled it with foam to deaden the din and am considering contacting the manufacturer for some spare parts so I can put some other switches in it)

Did you write about this anywhere? I'm thinking of getting an Advantage but it would be really nice to be able to run it with QMK, and your soundproofing sounds neat too.

I currently have an Ergodox EZ but the thumb clusters do not work for me, I can only press one of the keys without straining my thumb.
This is nearly identical to the infotainment display in a Tesla. Was the author only looking at 1 type of car?
Only that I've seen similar on other sites (carrying Google ads, like very site). It stopped a couple of weeks ago.

I thought it might be a cryptohijacker but I dug thru elements, code & did some packet captures. I couldn't spot what the issue was - I couldn't even confirm it was ads.
>Who stated it is CCP goal for "AI dominance"? Western media?

After a moment of Googling I found the answer, I don't think HN really benefits from presumptuous statements against a poster - presume good faith.

>Sure everyone want to be at the top of the food chain, but calling it dominance is just pure scaremongering.

"Market-Dominance" is a current tenet of PRC AI strategy, or at least in the words of a document published by the PRC detailing the country's AI strategy.

Sources:

(ctrl-f dominant) https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichin...

http://www.cittadellascienza.it/cina/wp-content/uploads/2017....
I second this. Quite the entertaining read, honestly. I also enjoyed the completely unnecessary transformation of the security dork into a security ubermensch.
I am a (former) chemist, and you are spot on. They are pretty comparable.

One is Polyethylene glycol (PEG) isotridecyl ether, one is PEG decyl ether (and friends, various carbon chain lengths. These neutral detergents act as surfactants without much foam. Dawn has anionic detergents which foams up.
I'd say what you're describing isn't undirected. You have goals and they sound positive, assuming that what you're inventing is positive (e.g., not torture devices). They use and refine your creativity, they potentially help others, they give you opportunities to partner with others to work toward a common positive goal, etc.

I don't think that's idleness for the average person. It's more like nihilism and hedonism.

I'm not arguing that jobs are the solution, to be clear -- just objecting to the terminology. If everyone would use free time in the way you would, there would be no problem.
You'd better also reject any "one paper" that entirely agrees with your personal experience too. You do that, right?
Golang proposal: switch to a register-based calling convention
my approach:

let everyone rate content on multiple relevant criteria. Eg, quality, grammar, agreement, sexuality, violence, hate, etc.

Make some default filters that choose societally acceptable settings for each filter, and hides new content that is unrated.

Enable individuals to tweak the filters to any setting they wish, for a totally custom view, including viewing unrated content.

Enable individuals to share their filters with others.

Voila! A system that allows any content to be posted, but shows only "safe" content by default and allows individuals to bypass the filters if they wish.
Ask HN: How much downtime would you ride through before switching jobs?
The software engineering job is not always exciting, since an average engineer will be spending lot of effort in non-technical challenges. These challenges are usually important to business but often result in less personal satisfaction.

How much downtime would you bear before switching to a better opportunity?
The expensive part isn't getting the labor, it's building and operating the facilities - and then the profit margins aren't even that great.

The existing chip manufacturers are sufficient to supply global demand, creating more competition there is pointless from an economic perspective. It only makes sense from a national security perspective.
Just wear a cloth mask or bandana over your vented N95 or N100 mask. Now you have protection for yourself, and also others. Boom. Problem solved.
No, it was added in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Before that you needed to either use Terminal or "A Better Finder Rename" which still offers more options than Finder, including the use of metadata to rename your files.
Blockbuster
You disregard all US science? Really? Good luck knowing anything about the world at all.
Industrial Society and its Future has a far more interesting take on this topic, and one that I haven't seen effectively refuted. (If you have examples, please comment!)
Folks, it's been like 3 weeks since we renamed Riot as Element, and (picking DDG) it's already the 18th hit from the top. Riot was 4th at the point we renamed it (second only to RG). Meanwhile it's already the top hit on the Play Store. So give it a few more weeks :) In terms of the name itself, I personally think "Let's talk on Element" is at least as catchy as "Let's talk on Riot", although it's touching to see folks missing the name Riot.
Different meaning of service. Many hosts have automated the process so they hand off entry remotely and employ an independent cleaning service. It’s hard to classify someone as an employee when some have been paid for ‘work done’ after they died.
I have another post in this thread that touches on its ideas.
There's no need to be so literal.

And conveniently, the people directing the Corp are the ones setting the agenda for the org (which that agenda is the thing the Corp has a fiduciary duty towards...).
No Adolf, you cannot run for Fuhrer.

I said no, Adolf.

Adolf! No!
Headless Commerce: Your Shopify Store Built with Angular and ButterCMS
I despise touch interfaces in cars and you should too. Every time you add a control that requires the driver take their eyes off the road, you kill people. Every time you have a control you can't touch without activating, you kill people. A completely blind passenger ought to be able to control the stereo and air conditioning.
How would any of those other examples be prohibited in a dwelling that you own?

Look, I get it, you prefer a detached dwelling. But all the arguments you're making aren't compelling at all. It really sounds like it comes down to a preference thing for you.
> Is that true in general or only when people have been lied to by their mothers in a demonstrably erroneous way?

Mothers are only one potential source of erroneous beliefs about one's inability to achieve something based on some personal characteristic. Surely, we should strive to prevent people from spreading these erroneous beliefs. But existence proofs to the contrary are a very effective, scalable counter-measure. We cannot entirely eradicate ignorance, but we can provide innoculations to prevent others from being harmed by it.

> People often say that others, usually children, require physical similarity (sex, skin colour) to be inspired.

Representation is not always about physical similarity. It is equally important (often more) for intangible characteristics like class, sexual orientation, religion, wealth, etc.

> This I find very sad and highly contradictory to my own schooling.

I find it sad too, but reality is that people are different and our experiences are different. These differences are precisely what makes each individual's contributions to society unique and valuable. But those differences are also a source of perceived limitations.

We are primates and learn by mirroring. If you never see a member of your tribe swim across the river, there's probably a good reason (maybe crocodiles) even if you don't see it (they hide under the surface). So we naturally, wisely avoid behaviors that we don't see people like us engaging in.

This is true even when we define our own tribe based on less tangible attributes.

> Of course if a I'm wrong people should be up in arms about primary schools not having teachers representative of the broader population

That only matters to the degree that kids aspire to be teachers. And, fortunately, the average kid gets enough different teachers and there is enough diversity among them that each kid will likely have a teacher at some point that they identify with.

A single existence proof is sufficient to open the door.
> It wouldn't be surprising if Google de-monetized all sites that allow random users to submit comments.

It would indeed be surprising. Also unfortunate and counterproductive.

As with many sites that put competent effort into thoughtful moderation, some of Techdirt's best content shows up in article comments.
A friend worked on an automotive version of these physical pressbuttons with tiny OLED screens[0]. I thought it was a potential option for the difficult problem of putting reprogrammable/contextual UI into a vehicle, where positive touch interaction is inherently infinitely better than smartphone/ipad style touchscreens.

0: https://www.alliedelec.com/product/nkk-switches/isc15anp4/70...
See: https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars
I believe random videos are too low of a quality. Like this, most of the stuff I've seen uses constrained videos.

I have seen random still images used for this kind of thing: https://nerf-w.github.io/

I haven't heard of any equivalent of EXIF for video. That goes a long way when trying to make sense of random video both for camera settings as well as GPS location if you're trying to correlate multiple videos.
Firefox and Chromium Security
> the new engineers preferred to write their own code than dig in and understand what was written before them.

once you dig in and understand what was written before, that's the logical time to refactor. so the next guy doesn't have to spend the time
You're not making any sense here.

Nothing is forcing you to go buy double everything each time you shop.

If cash is tight but you want to implement this scheme, buy an extra unit of one household item (e.g. laundry detergent) your first trip. Hext time, choose another item (e.g. trash bags).

Eventually you've got a backup unit of every item, and you're now just buying your one item on the same consumption schedule, except now instead of replacing the item you're replacing the backup.
Hard to say, and I suck really bad at estimates. If I low-ball it at maybe 200-300, that's likely off by a factor or three. A possibly old but close enough page on chromium.org lists the following teams:

Animations Team
Binding Team
Device Team
DevTools
DOM Team
Ecosystem infra
Input Team
Layout Team
Paint Team
Rendering Core
Speed Metrics Team
Style Team
Web Capabilities (Project Fugu)
Worker Team

and that looks like it's only focused on Blink, not including the actual chrome (desktop/mobile apps) or V8 which would both be substantial efforts as well. Who knows how much technology is pulled from other teams at Google, like video encoding for WebRTC, server performance collaboration for the SPDY/QUIC effort, low-level storage for IndexedDB, devrel with buggy websites or certificate authorities, security audits and whatnot?

For doing the "best job possible", you can probably blow up team size by a lot, there are numerous tasks that would benefit from more attention and I'm sure Mozilla are already making hard trade-offs at their current staffing levels (which obviously include a lot of people outside of Firefox engineering).
Differential measurements cancelling out unwanted terms is a common "trick" in electronics, and explains why Ethernet cables come wired as 4 twisted pairs.

Along similar lines, the "Translinear Principle" [1] may be another fun mathematical-relationship-turned-practical-electronics-tool to explore: it takes advantage of the logarithmic relationship between voltage and current in a PN junction -- specifically a bipolar junction transistor (BJT).

Since log(X) + log(Y) = log(X*Y), you can make very simple analog circuits which compute, for example, a square [2] or a square root [3] using just 4 transistors. These can actually be quite high-performance, low-power-consumption circuits. (JavaScript simulations attached; just click the link and then "Run DC Sweep".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translinear_circuit

[2] https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/33yksg85qf3s/?mode=simulat...

[3] https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/rfc7h79pvgtb/?mode=simulat...
downvoted... must've struck a nerve.
How would I go about confirming that your statement is accurate ?

I see several comments on the article saying it looks like it might have been written by GPT-3, but there's no confirmation.

There's also a comment on the article itself that is certainly suggestive but doesn't seem to come out and openly state that this was written by GPT-3.

Finally I clicked on the author's name and see a list of several articles but no disclaimer that this author is a bot.
Based on observations, your assumption that people on the beach are: 1) practicing proper and effective social distancing, 2) properly wearing medical masks with at least a water-resistant layer with high enough (e.g. 95%) filtering capability (not just some fashionable piece of cloth like bandana) 3) doing the above strictly for every single minute on the beach 4) proper wind condition to bring the viral load down to non-infectious level just does not happen in practice. People do not follow strict practices and bump into each other all the time. So your conclusion that getting the virus on a beach is astronomically small is likely invalidated.
Collapse OS Web Emulators
Some users might get annoyed if it isn't compatible with whatever type of dishwasher detergent they want to use. And there are at least 4 types: liquid, powder, gelpacs/pods, and tablets.

It's easy to solve that with a compartment and a door that flips open. I don't know of an easy way to solve it for 20 loads.
There is a misunderstanding because anyone who properly understood Morse code would never represent it in this manner where it's indistinguishable from a large number of other possible strings.
I mean that your statement implies that people are advising to perform expensive work without considering the cost, specifically the cost in terms of time, and that's not true. No one has said that. The article addresses cost in a number of places - maybe not explicitly the cost of time, but it seems weird to focus on that.

The article explicitly addresses that it's not so simple to just rewrite a codebase:

> Moving a large codebase to a new programming language is extremely difficult. If people want to convert QEMU to Rust that would be great, but I personally don't have the appetite to do it because I think the integration will be messy, result in a lot of duplication, and there is too much un(der)maintained code that is hard to convert.
I'm a super-fan of Collapse OS, and just found this site with a bunch of different Collapse OS with various configurations based on a JavaScript port of the Z80!
> Especially considering the buyer has no other choice if they want to buy that inventory. Its not like you are purchasing a product at market. You're buying from the only supplier.

Okay but that's because a specific ad placement served to Bob on 4:32 PM on his google search for "back pain Chicago" is a very specific, limited piece of inventory.

If these are not real auctions then neither are a lot of things I would have considered real auctions:

1. If a Picasso painting is being auctioned off, again it's the only one, there is no exact replacement piece. Yet it can be auctioned.

2. Auctions on ebay can have hidden reserve prices too, as well as obvious minimum prices. Yet I would have considered these to be auctions as well.
I sort of agree except I'd say you need to talk about all claims having nothing to do with a person's own life.

Basically, throughout human existence, we have been guided by a lot of language that coded useful information about the world but on an abstract level was somewhere between false and meaningless. But abstract falseness didn't matter because it didn't directly impact our lives. I believe ancient hunter-gathers described a lot of their hunting method religiously. Animal spirits don't actual exist but I suspect one person can teach another concrete ways of hunting using these.

So, really, it's only a somewhat limited group that has good tools for sorting true abstractions from false abstractions from meaningless abstractions.

The 18th to 20th centuries saw a fortuitous coming together of interests where those with power found it in their interests to promote a greater rational understanding of the world, to promote tools that allow more people to determine the truth of these abstract ideas with little impact on their lives. And part of this was having somewhat truthful authorities, which allowed this rational understanding to be much easier since people didn't have to figure things out from the get-go.

Things don't look good going into the 21st century. The expanding area covered by science seems to be leading to less ability of even experts to verify basic science (PCR technician claiming viruses don't exist stands out in the OP). And rationality seems to be of less interest to the powerful.
Ebpf.io
> In what universe is anyone proposing tearing down the buildings in NY, London, Tokyo, or Shanghai and replacing them with SFH?

COVID-19 will kill megacities. Whether they'll all be torn down and replaced with single-family dwellings or just left to rot into slums is indeterminate, but they're going to go away one way or the other.

Cities over a certain size are only viable if they have an effective public transport network, and public transit isn't compatible with endemic COVID-19. Get one superspreader on one train car and you now have 250 infected people and multiple deaths. Even the vaccines that are currently under development would only reduce the carnage to 125, rather than 250, people. No one is going to accept this risk if they have a choice, which is why public transit ridership has cratered everywhere.

Remove public transit from the picture and you have a car dependent city. By definition car dependent cities must have a low density to keep traffic congestion barely manageable. Highrise multifamily is no longer possible, nor are high rise offices. SFH with suburban office parks are the only style of building that makes sense when everyone must drive.

Further, everyone who can is shifting to WFH, which will erode the importance of cities as a concept. Get good Internet into the rural areas and most white collar workers will live there just to reduce the risk of dying from COVID.

When, in a few decades, we eventually get COVID-19 vaccines and treatments good enough to go back to the way things were, the changes to how we live will be socially baked-in and it will be too late to walk them back.

Cities are over.