skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that the plan by Elon Musk or your postfactual justification because you love the idea of it?
That's because we make over $41/hour (the legal threshold for exemption from overtime pay for salaried employees, where the "hours" are determined by average working hours per week). At that rate, we're not exactly suffering.
"Protestors" - right here you expose just how little credibility you have be neglecting literal violent riots, billions in property damage and theft, hundreds of assaults and dozens of murders and deaths that have come from this.

Seriously man, try as you may, you cannot Correct The Record of things people have seen and heard with their own eyes and ears for months
I don't think that changes the meaning. Once that 3% matters to you and you've invested the work to measure that 3%, it's not premature anymore.

That "premature" and "optimization" are undefined and left up for debate is what makes it trite.
Hmmmmm....
I was one of the original backers at the minimal amount. I think 35$.

I absolutely loved the Wing Commander series and it still ranks as one of my all time favorites so I eager to see what Chris Roberts would produce.

I've played the game co-op with a friend on and off over the years and have definitely gotten more then 35$ enjoyment from the game.
As long as they keep moving forward, I have little to complain about.
I think to a hypothetical uber driver, the reason a neighborhood is risky matters less that the fact that the neighborhood is risky. Knowing that it's the cops fault for pulling out of the neighborhood won't pay the repair bill.
I think HN works because it's small and focused enough to exclude many people who otherwise would have used HN if HN wasn't the way it is. General platforms however are different. Twitter doesn't have a defined purpose other than some vague tagline. What kind of people does it attract?

Definitely a bigger brush than HN.
> That trick only works if you have lots of money. And lots of space.

No, detergent is cheap nowadays, and detergents are way more compact now (thanks chemistry) than they were 50 years ago. So space should hardly be an issue.
How is an area racist?
> I just go with their suggestions.

Why though? I am not going to go with suggestions if they make the code less readable for me!
Thank goodness we can get aerobic exercise in while gardening. If ‘twere not so, gardening might be - horror - unproductive! “The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.”

I know “nobody reads the article” is an HN joke, but surely asking whether Russell uses the word idleness in his essay titled “In Praise of Idleness” is taking the mick...
No, you've just described Uber/Lyft's problem in a nutshell.
Letterbox delivery is a competitive advantage because it saves money on delivery; the driver can often drop letters off in a mail room at a multi-unit dwelling, or by the road in the suburbs/rural areas.

We're only talking about first-class mail here, so a 6x cost advantage in first-class mail is very important.
* 10% of the optimists make money
Does Uber show a picture of the rider before they accept or just the location?
How are the questions fundamentally different?

It's just different ways of describing the conflict between the need to sleep and the neighbour's loud music.
One thing I don’t miss is C style Wild West access.

E.g., My coworker grabbed a word from somewhere, slapped a cast on it and proceeded to write into it. Hilarity ensues.

All the burden of explicit compile time checking, but no guarantees that anything is what you said it is by the time your coworker uses it. Of course, no computer Run-time is wasted on silly things like type, bounds or null checking, either.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Mozilla is a large, public community working on open source software, and anyone can become a "Mozillian"... you don't even need to program!

This isn't meant to be sneaky. It's just people trying to help out newly-unemployed, qualified people find a new job in a tough time. And I made it public for a reason – so anyone can find out about and apply for any of the jobs!
If Mozilla could stand alone and compete with the other big players, that'd be best. If they couldn't, then forming alliances with others, even former "enemies", would be 2nd best, and work towards independence.

Even Apple took MS money back in the day: seems to have worked out for Apple.
I addressed that in a different subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24136337
Dishwasher powder is also extremely alkaline, i believe. I (cosmetically) ruined an aluminium Moka coffee pot by putting it through a dishwasher.
This wasn't a big issue back in 2014, so there wouldn't have been much if any discussion on it for a much smaller service that had almost no market share.
I guess since it would be so inconvenient, just stabbing someone right away is ok... ?
Venezuela, 3rd world country, whole energy system is collapsed
I believe that the entire idea of accumulating runway from raising money is mostly a fallacy: VC expect money to be used for finding victory (and a bigger one, while you're at it), not for postponing defeat. All of that nice money is earmarked for doing things that you didn't did before, not for filing existing holes.

Staying within the aviation metaphor you get a longer runway, but also a heavier plane with many more seats. You'll better not have oversold on the capabilities of your engines.
Well, it is a stated CCP goal for "AI dominance", at least. And money designated for such likely will filter through these state-sponsored companies..
NGO or non-profit doesn't mean they took a vow of poverty. It means the corporation does not distribute profits to shareholders (and may be exempt of some income taxes). It still can be loaded with money, and many NGOs are.
This is something I've been acutely concerned about. I'm working on several side projects right now and I think I will want to try running ads for another one soon. Given that I don't have any power to my name and my emails to their support team seem to go nowhere, I wonder whether I'm completely shut out of their ads ecosystem now.
> half the workforce gets laid off.

Technological progress has made labor productivity itself a lot more uneven and sharply unequal than it used to be when Keynes was writing. So the currently most marginal workers tend to be laid off first, especially given the increasing regulatory barriers that have made low-productivity positions unsustainable since then.
I guess everyone expects their job to provide food and shelter, so it would be a bit hard to advertise with that as if it were a positive.
This language is so extensive and seemingly has so many dialects that I find it really hard to make sure that what I'm learning is modern C++.

Can you recommend any literature?
Was curious about this, so I looked it up. Sounds like it's usually bacillus protease and amylase, to digest protein and starch, respectively.
>Would it have been acceptable for a non-property-holding white male in 1820 to beat another man with a stick

Definitely if they were congressmen.

https://newrepublic.com/article/151817/violence-broke-congre...
I haven't tried Active Driving Assistance myself, but I wouldn't totally rely on it. If everything were so good and easy, we woudn't have to pass a hazard perception test. I'm currently studying to it (here an online platform https://www.easytheorytest.co.uk/practice-hazard-perception-... helps me a lot), so I know that people should be ready for various situations on the road. Maybe in future we won't need to worry about anything while driving, but not today.
I really cannot understand where you are coming from with this mindset and the arguments you've made in this thread, and I am glad your mindset is not more common. I'll leave it at that.
Interesting, can you provide any references for info about their internally designed laptop?
I wish that the notebooks supported Typescript or C# or something I'm more familiar with, out of the box.

For C# I have LinqPad, which I'm a huge fan of but never discovered something with similar functionality for typescript.

I've seen some open source kernels[0] but I'm not sure about the quality, did anyone try them? Deno core in Jupyter would have been amazing.

[0]: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
Do you see any performance or disk-space difference between "Dgraph" & "ArangoDB" ?
Both. As a driver, no medallion mafia and astronomical prices to deal with. As a rider, no taxi drivers and their horrible service to deal with.

Taxi companies are monopolies allowed by the state, it sucks for the last ones who paid $300,000 for a license to operate just before Uber took off, but technology finds its way.
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Why is hyperloop 1/20th the cost? It seems like the expensive parts of high-speed rail (acquiring the land and moving earth to make a long straight path) would also apply.
> the likelihood of failure is high but the expected value is positive

Except when the new technology was proposed and marketed by a loony, of course.
Very few drivers own their cars (or more importantly their monopoly medallion). Those are owned by investors like the presidents former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/23/tax...
Apartheid elected a man with no connections, wealth or experience to become the first black president twice in a row and retire a multimillionaire...

Seriously you should drop this extreme radical leftist fever dream perspective because it prevents you from having adult debates.
Did you know that LIGO designers had to add earthen berms to protect their vacuum pipes from bullets?

Not to mention the throughput issues, the energy budget, the cost of construction, the right-of-way issues...

Let's be frank: Hyperloop is dumb, and people who are spending money on it are too. You have better things to do with your time than analyzing it or defending it, and so do I.
Responding by STABBING someone, as a measure of first defense, is ludicrous, disproportionate, and far more immoral than the harassment leading to it.

The harassment is ALSO TERRIBLE. Just not STABBINGLY so.
We're doing our best to improve UX (it should be noticeably improved over the last year, unless we're kidding ourselves) - and we're doing our best not to screw it up :) But we need help! (hence looking for more folk to hire!)
60°C is enough. I've made chicken at 60°C in a sous vide without any issues

Here's the pasteurization table:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/07/the-food-lab-complete-gu...
You should check out his book, Innovation Stack. It was a really good read.
Of course all drivers should be able to refuse fares and refuse to pickup in specific neighborhoods.
Uber already re-uses this type of supply/demand matching platform for Uber Freight[1] to match shippers with "haulers".

They also have a vertical agnostic "Uber Works"[2] that lets contract workers find jobs, sort of like Fiverr or TaskRabbit.

They also partnered with the Thames Clipper to allow passengers to book tickets on the ferry in London[3]. You'd have a hard time arguing that the Thames Clipper staff would be considered Uber employees, even under the AB-5 test.

[1] https://www.uber.com/us/en/freight/

[2] https://www.uber.com/blog/chicago/uberworks/

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uber-boat-lo...
Why should a driver put themselves at risk? Especially without risk adjusted compensation.
Considering the state of medicine in 1903, there's a good chance he lost the arm or died.
> This hasn't been found to be the case when increasing the minimum wage, though.

Then by all means let's increase the minimum wage to 100 USD/hour, so that everyone will be happy and there will be no effect on the economy.

Are you sure about your claim?
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> There's nothing positive about undirected free time over a long period.

I could easily fill that time with dozens of ideas. But you see, I'm lucky enough to be a "creative" person. That is, I'm in love with the things I invent. The more I invent, the more passionnated I am. I can sustain an incredible level of activity just to achieve goals I create myself. But these goals are mostly non economic. So being able to just do my stuff without having to prove an economical value to it would be very much welcome.
This subthread is in response to a comment that said:

>" 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. "

So I responded with reasons why there was no competitor for letter delivery:

>" 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."

We were never talking about parcels.
When Brooks says tables, I believe he means the internal data representation, rather than "tables of results".
Man, it's sad that HN is going down the reddit rabbit hole, spam downvoting these kinds of well-though-out posts that (admittedly) go against the zeitgeist of SV "know-better-than-thou" elitist mentality -- with absolutely zero discussion or counter-arguments. The arguments here are sound:

- Free speech is a virtue worth striving for

- Disinformation -- to the detriment of the public -- is a price we're willing to pay (barring some narrow cases)

- The alternative is draconian authoritarianism

As Juvenal asked almost two millenia ago: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? I'm sick of programmers that never picked up a philosophy or political science book in their lives think they just solved the world's problems by giving Google or Facebook carte blanche to censor as they see fit (because you happen to agree with the outcome today).
Search as a lookup works, but search as an explorative method is utterly broken.
In the case of building knowledge in a topic, the ideal scenario is probably something like a searchable PDF, where you can get to approximately the vicinity of the information, and then you sort through the hits of relevant words to find if your info is there. It's an obvious improvement over manually using the index and then looking through the listed page for the relevant paragraph or sentence. But modern search is far worse than that because the internet of novel discussion and genuine information sharing is drowned out in the noise. It would be like going to an old-school library for research, only to find that all books have been replaced with popular magazines. You wouldn't be able to get the information you want. The best you can do in such a situation is find an article that skims the surface of what you need, and then you'd have to get the research or books by the interview subject of the magazine article.

And that is the modern internet. You use search to maybe get close enough to what you want that you'll find a referral to the actual object of your search, and then only if you pay close attention.
Granted...my cynical side is tempted to say, this is a backhanded way to get proper economic stimulus injected into the economy from fiscal conservatives...but graft is graft and in general is less efficient that a proper stimulus.
Bitcoin has a cultural bias to being conservative. Their selling point is that they were the first cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin network has never been hacked (even if individual exchanges or wallets have), and so they are a much more stable and dependable store of value. In the past they've been quite resistant to fundamental changes in how the blockchain works.

I'm pretty excited about Ethereum precisely because they're willing to experiment and rethink everything about their approach. I do suspect that soon after ETH2 is launched we will see a high-profile hack that steals everyone's ETH and requires a complete rollback of the network.
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Why is there a need to "write legislation"? If Uber wants to treat drivers as contractors (or employees), California's lawmakers & courts have already set out a clear path toward legally doing either. Meanwhile, I'm sure you're right that many drivers would prefer to be contractors.

So who's the resistant party? Right -- Uber. Why? Because they can't make their unit economics work either way.

"But if the drivers want this intermediate arrangement, and Uber wants it, why should Calif stand in the way?" States make a lot of contracts, especially labor contracts, illegal because they go against public policy (including externalizing too many costs on state & local govts themselves). Still, Uber would be welcome to restrict its activities to states and countries that have labor laws more to its liking. Chemical & manufacturing & agricultural firms have been doing this for years. But Uber can't turn a profit without being in dense cities in liberal states (where labor laws are usually stronger)

One more argument is often advanced, which is "there is no scenario under which Uber could use contractors." This is also untrue. For instance, instead of working directly with individual drivers, Uber could pursue a franchise-style model, where it might, say, solicit bids among companies representing groups of drivers to handle all the rides in a certain zip code. Variations of this model are already used in a lot of industries, of course. But Uber's margins are already too thin, and it would have to give up too much control. Uber prefers the current model precisely because the balance of negotiating power is permanently asymmetric.
The advantage on inserts with TimescaleDB is the automation. The built-in way on Postgres still requires a lot of manual maintenance, especially as data patterns change. TimescaleDB adjusts automatically.

(Nothing against Postgres - it just that Postgres needs to design for the general use case, while we can optimize for time-series.)

But TimescaleDB is much more than automatic partitioning. You also get:

* 15x native compression (95%+ storage savings) [0]

* Faster queries for time-series (b/c of our optimizations at the query planning / execution level)

* Automatic data retention policies (for automatically deleting old data) [1]

* Continuous aggregates (real-time materialized views automatically refreshed) [2]

(and lots more)

Happy to answer any more questions!

[0] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/data-ret...

[2] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/continuo...
They're paying their devs 200-400 grand a year? Jesus.
>But every major US tech company is banned or blocked from competing in China, isn’t it?

Nope, Microsoft operates in China, so does IBM, Uber did before the Chinese branch was acquired by Didi (they weren't banned, just outcompeted).

China is funnily enough even facebook's second largest market by revenue (about 5 billion) from Chinese advertisers.

Google probably could operate in China and I guess doesn't because it fears American backlash.

Doing business in China is arguably more complicated for American tech firms than the other way around, but American companies are most definitely not blanked banned or anything.
Love it! It's great. Works for me. I needed something like this today.

I'm not sure why it's so much better than other mind mapping tools, but it is.

Also, really big fan of the local storage only, no login required feature.
Another related strategy: Pay an extra month on any recurring bills at the start (for services that allow you to maintain a credit balance). Then, just pay your bills as normal, except that you have an automatic one month of grace period for everything because you have a credit balance. This has saved me numerous times because of absentmindedness.
You've never been on a team with two people with opposing opinions I guess.
Who? No one. What? Gnus.
Is it possible to damage a FPGA with VHDL code?
Hell I've seen women this century hit guys pretty hard just to say "hello" or because they disagree about where the guy wants to go eat or something else entirely trivial. Similar is all over TV, so common it passes below the level of notice most of the time. At least this wasn't just socially-acceptable casually-abusive battery and had a purpose. Go hatpin ladies.
Isn't TSMC's operating margin something obscene? Like ~40%. They could afford better comps. People mentioning PPPs and local standard.. that's all bs if your workforce can and will move globally with ease. Tell them their comps are good for Taiwan while they're packing.
This is particularly exasperating for me. I can't tell you how many times in my professional career I've ended up speeding up systems by removing two or three layers of improperly-implemented "caching" and using good ol' MySQL and a basic understanding of algorithmic time complexity to simplify things.
Appreciate the feedback - thank you!
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I worked for a North American Telco in IT, and I like everything about your answer.

I will also add that Telcos are wickedly inefficient. Multi-million dollar projects just to update a public website, tens of millions in advertising, more PMs and Business Analysts and Middle Managers than people doing actual work, etc. etc.

Of course they want to make a tidy profit too.
I can tell you from personal experience, much of the reporting on chaz/chop has been exaggerated. While any given incident may be accurately reported, the media selects the worst incidents/angles then tries to pass that off as the standard experience.

The incidents reported are reality, however that doesn't mean the picture being painted isn't misleading.
Burning man. And temples/churches.

But yeah, those are the only places where markets are off-limits. If you try to make a totalizing system that forbids people the right to buy or sell (say, on your way to burning man or after church), you'd need gulags to control the social unrest. People like to buy stuff and sell stuff.
DeBlasio is a clown and is ruining NYC.
Before Firefox, Opera was known as "The Tabbed Browser".
For a large part you cannot be certain of a lot of things in a startup. So being honest is not entirely relevant. What matters is your genuine belief in making it a succes and are able to bring that message to the vc.
> That's a really harmful outlook.

Harmful how, exactly?

I don't agree that the government should be deeming any type of agreement that adults voluntarily enter into as illegal. The notion that the government should be doing that strikes me as very condescending to the governed. Shouldn't people be allowed to make their own decisions on what is best for their own lives? If someone is in a position where a $3/hr job is their best option, I think it's a pretty bad idea to then remove that option from them too.

> You shouldn't get to just ignore the law because you're big enough.

Seems to me that the opposite dynamic is at play here - these companies have become large enough to be the target of legislation.
You'd think with rules on the books against discriminating on the basis of sex that it would be a slam dunk case, for this and night club covers, but there must have not been a serious legal challenge to the practice yet.
>Also, it has been true for centuries that a woman screaming "help!" would draw the attention of all the men in the area (for example the carriage driver in this case) who would be eager to beat the other man to a pulp if he didn't stop harassing her.

Is that really true?
I think you're taking this pretty far down the slippery slope. Someone who "mashes" up to you by taking advantage of the carriage bouncing and then slips his arm around you without saying anything is very different from someone asking you for directions. I could see the former being a prelude to assault, while the latter wouldn't be.