skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to, but they pointed out that they were being conservative in saying that an employee that makes 10 rides in a day charging $9.60 per ride covers their salary. If they made 15 that would probably cover fuel, maintenance, depreciation, and their salary.

Of course this would be a company owned car and they'd be reimbursed for fuel and stuff so at least the company is the one taking that risk. But if they're real employees, firing ones that can't make fifteen rides happen in eight hours is just kind of the obvious result.
> The entire engine of America’s superior prosperity (even at the individual level) has been based on risk taking

This is a story that America tells itself. It's not necessarily true.

And currently the USA in in enormous debt, partly because of the vast cost of bailing out its financial institutions and large corporations. "Risk-taking" is increasingly only being done by private individuals. Large American businesses are certainly not being exposed to the results of their risks - they're being bailed out, socialising the risk but privatising the reward.

In this case, if the community is shouldering the responsibility of bailing out companies that are in danger of collapsing, shouldn't there be some "impairment of ownership" as you put it? Aren't those communities entitled to ask that the company is run for their benefit too?
I wonder why more big corporations don't ban Google.

Through search alone, Google knows exactly what other big corporations are up to (perhaps even better than the corporations know themselves). That is something that should scare companies. I know GMail has been banned for this reason in a lot of places, but search is just as important.
There is no Cabal.
Some of the above can easily be written in C or Python or Ruby (and some of the simpler ones even in shell), at least for simple versions, maybe without all the frills of the originals.

And seq in Linux is like jot for sequential data, at least.

And from my blog:
An Unix seq-like utility in Python:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/01/an-unix-seq-like-utility...
Yep, I'm in the same boat as you. Part of it just looked like Linux running Powershell, but CMD threw me off.
Making matters worse, nuclear fusion practically is alchemy.
My list begins with Firefox, Ubuntu & linux. I want to see OS, desktops and browsers not being solely controlled by for-profit corps.
In the same line, mobile OSes don't have a good alternative. Any suggestions?
> I'm not that worried about Google.

doesn't look like it since you are using Chrome...
The Earth does a pretty good job. Just don't stand in the way, and you won't get hit.
Valve have said they will (somehow) not count the time taken to download the game content against the 2 hour refund clock [1].

[1]: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-20-valve-assu...
How is that different from saying saying "I'm sure the programmer who brought us StumbleUpon and the venture capitalists who invested in WeWork will surely succeed in building a public transit competitor"?
A Clean Start for the Web
It's risky.. hey does not have custom domains
You might not be a job hopper by Bay Area standards.

I've been at the same place since 2005.

Not many places want to train you and reveal trade secrets, only to see you disappear.
Look Back Once
Low-cost supplier is absolutely a classic business model.

If you want another one in retail compare and contrast with Costco. Which limits its number of SKUs (and actually has a reputation for paying workers relatively well by retail standards).
OpenSCAD appealed to me as a programmer. I needed to prototype some parts and openscad was simpler than any of the GUI tools. Not sure how but I have talent making SolidWorks blow up with non-invertible matrices. :/

But OpenSCAD’s approach hit a wall quickly for me. Trying to figure out the distances for new objects was a PITA. It would be nice to have a simple GUI tool for placing an item by inserting the proper code. Ideally you’d be able to link changeable parameters in the GUI to code variables and be able to do things like show/hide in the GUI, or even a repl.
Like the rest of SV, they are blinded by hubris and their own blindness to the downsides of tech.

Crypto currency is a disaster.
Valve have explicitly stated that that won't be a problem:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amp/valve-says-the-time-it-takes-...
I suggest running this on a server vs xfce/lxde/some other low overhead windows environment and get back with us on the overall load on the machine vs graphics. Holistically this is going to be a much smaller footprint.
No, I was just addressing the claim regarding the prompt itself, that "stirring lemonade with a cigarette is so batshit insane that there really can't be a sensible continuation".

That seemed like a fun challenge to me. Sorry I got a little carried away trying to come up with an interesting continuation!
A guide that can't be used safely by non-specialists while being aimed at them is not a good guide. It is a very simple conclusion with the added benefit of also being almost tautologically true.

The thing probably does contain a bunch of interesting information but it's not good at its stated purpose.
Sorry but english isn't my first language, do you mean that it was flawless or not?
Backstory, for context:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45284455
I mean you could say this about any regulation and any sector. I'm sure a lot of businesses went out when we banned child labor, introduced weekends, the 40-hour week, etc.

We've always set a bar for a minimum societal contribution that companies need to be making. There's no indication that the current bar is anywhere close to perfect.
I'm curious how much "productivity" is lost from employees chatting about non work related things in Slack. I also wonder how it would compare to the time this person spent in his MUD.
eu does not have freedom of speech, the have freedom if acceptable speech as defined by the government. go swear at a cop, claim the holocaust wasn't real, say a religious slur, etc. you'll be arrested. source: i've been to every eu country, and lived in several.

your protest examples have nothing to do with free speech.
I will agree that it’s definitely a niche and not everybody likes it, that said you really don’t need thousands of dollars of gear to enjoy it. The breadth of controller support is actually one of the most incredible aspects of the game to me - Basically everything is supported including an Xbox One controller. I’ve actually used the gamepad a little bit and it was a perfectly enjoyable experience. I think you would get more out of it with some more specialised gear. For less than 100 bucks you can get a perfectly good joystick and yoke combo that will give you quite a bit of depth.
Any recommendation on how to approach the course? Is it better to read the chapter in the book before you watch the lecture(s) covering the content of the chapter or vice versa?
Isn’t it misinformation to cite “an unknown amount” and then assume the worst case scenario to bolster your argument? This is the logic of an agoraphobe.
Similarly unwilling, yet we don't give them a free pass for it.
> Realistically, though, it's too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it.

Are you sure it's a coincidence? Imagine you are an intergalactic species that advances yourself by invading other worlds and stealing the inhabitants' knowledge and technology. What would be the best time to invade? I would suggest waiting as long as possible in their technological advancement but just before they develop the ability to defend themselves.
I too use Adaway with custom lists. However you can't block playstore ads via DNS blocking/Hosts method. Because you need to install your own certificates to read HTTPS traffic on android (which is what AdGuard does, very risky)

The aurora dev's account gets frequently banned. Look into is telegram group.
Pizza drivers don't generally use company cars, I don't see why Lyft or Uber would necessarily do so.
People who think sex should be a positive thing rather than being an embarrassment and that people should be free to say they enjoy the kind of sex they enjoy (within consent and the law obviously.)

Anti-shame, in other words.
The 'incel' term is a specific identity though: it refers to both the person's romantic circumstances (involuntarily celibate) AND certain beliefs about the causes of those circumstances (blaming women/feminism/Disney/Tinder/etc...). This term was coined years ago, though, from INSIDE the community. I remember reading articles about people calling themselves 'incels' in the early 2010s (can't remember exactly where, maybe Psychology Today). This was before it became a huge community on Reddit/4chan, before the shootings, and long before it became a term used in major newspapers, magazines, and TV news shows.

Even back then, there was differentiation between people who are just involuntarily celibate and those that identified themselves as part of the 'incel' community. The easiest way to tell is to ask why they think they're involuntarily celibate: the 'incels' typically blamed outside societal forces (see above), while non-'incels' talked about their own issues ("I'm shy", "I have social anxiety", "talking to women scares me", "I'm not good at talking to people", etc...).
Fastmail also wants a phone number. I no longer know what mail service to use apart from setting it all up myself.
Pousse (1999)
What's your thoughts on #[no_mangle]? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28179

Frankly Rust values being a usable language too much to be 100% sound.
This game has been marketed to a much, much wider crowd with a massive online media campaign. So it needs to work. It doesn't.

(Also 3xxx series cards aren't released yet.)
It was very common on some of the old vt220(etc) terminals to have menus and windows and such. However I never saw anything like this :) . Can't imagine those 9600 baud terminals having fun with all of this haha
You should give JavaFX a shot. It's not considered cool here, but does the job well IMO. I have built desktop apps that work seamlessly between MacOS, Windows and Linux using JavaFX with minimal pain. I was already quite familiar with Java and the Java way of doing things though. That probably helps.
I'd like to see Uber provide anything close to the value that the public school or transit system does to LA.
> this may change this school year.
IN the last 5 months I had to print more stuff for my kids than I've done in total over the last 5 years. Lockdown actually pushed me to replace a crap inkjet I've had for a decade, with a brand new Brother laser that is simply a dream (with macOS at least - had issues with Linux that I've just not had the inclination to solve, it's easier to just copy files over...).
Also the default controller profiles don’t include any dead zone, so at least on my setup, the control inputs were way too sensitive. Once I added some dead zone, and reduced the sensitivity curve in the options, it became much less twitchy.
yes, and he was, by his own admission: repeatedly bragging about exploiting bugs in Matrix’s beta design which we hadn’t fixed fast enough in his estimation (hijacking Matrix HQ; bricking #matrix-dev; threatening to loop over all public rooms to brick them unless we paid him; etc). It wasn’t exactly subtle, and it’s bizarre if you think we’re making this up or presenting without evidence.

However, the matrix.org security breach in Apr 2019 was unrelated to him, as far as we know.
In case you are like me and didn't get the sponge example, the difference from a shell redirect is it doesn't truncate the input so allows in-place modification of the input/output file.
A lot of engineers don't want to work with code though, and if you know what you are doing with your GUI as a poweruser, you can be fairly efficient that way too.

The way I see it, if one of those tools really wants to succeed in the industry, it needs to have a GUI for that group of end-users. I think one way this could be nicely achievable with a JSX(-like) markup system, where components can be easily GUI editable as long as you don't have any custom code in them (just like low-code React editors do it).
Stuck in the Middle with Bruce (2001)
Rust requires ALL CODE to not to have undefined behavior. Unsafe doesn't mean you can do whatever you want it just means that you are guaranteeing to the compiler that this block is safe.
{
what: doyou,
mean: jsonis,
not: forhumans
}
People may not act outwardly selfishly, but people may not realize that their individual action is selfish from a game theory perspective.

Everyone takes the highway because it is the fastest way to travel. However every additional car does slow it down. And this will continue until travel times on the highway either match non-highway travel times or the road literally can't handle more people. But no one thinks that driving the car to the grocery store across town to redeem a coupon is "selfish", because everyone thinks they're in traffic, not that they are traffic.
Socially Responsible Investing: Is It Also More Profitable?
I have to say, I strongly disagree with this. As a professional software developer I've watched legions of clients fall into the trap of customizing tools to adapt to their specific sacred workflow. It always ends up being expensive (though admittedly profitable for me) and most importantly, it always ends up trapping the client in a situation where they cling to the customized tool for far longer than they should.

The moral of the story: Your workflow is not sacred. Even the way your brain "works" is not sacred. Learn to adapt or be prepared to die. If your workflow isn't changing or at least being tweaked from time to time, the odds favor the idea that you have grown stagnant. That's not to say that change for the sake of change is the preferred alternative however. I'm only saying that treating your workflow as sacred and hence immutable is a dangerous trap to fall into.
You mean you know better than everyone that has been extremely Successful right? OK :)
> Lacking “understanding” doesn’t make GPT-3 less impressive

Yes it does. A model that latches on superficial frequentist links between words is much less impressive than one that would understand what those words actually mean, and the latter is how most humans use words. The former is just chinese-rooming, the latter is understanding. Of course, a model that is chinese-rooming something like a coherent text is impressive, but it is less impressive than one that would demonstrate actual grasp of the fact that words mean something.
So industry, but not agriculture, screwed up people's faces - a puzzle. Pollution? Watery processed e.g. canned foods (as mentioned in the article)? Preservative methods that replaced older foods like hardtack and tough salted meat?
I'm wondering if anyone has (good or bad) experience with pg's composite types? They're supposed to allow getting hierarchical data as query results, right? This and arrays should cover most 'simple' use cases?
> you will eventually have C++ -> Rust -> C++ where the "inner" C++ throwing would be expected to cause the "outer" C++ to catch?

Look I hate to be that girl with the strong opinions on the orange website, but "goto is not an appropriate feature for an ffi" is a hill I'm ready to die on.
Poked around their site a little and found this, seems to answer your question?

https://www.overshootday.org/content/uploads/2020/06/Earth-O...
Cosmic Brownies
Hmm, I am not sure we are using the term the same way. The processes built still run with my user id with full access to everything that entails.

In any case, the App Store sandboxing is pretty useless at enabling end-users to control what the process does. I mean little snitch should be built in to the OS by now and given user experience considerations outside the control or snitch—say, shipping apps with explicit whitelisted routes to the internet you can view before launching one.

/usr/local is a remnant of a time that makes no sense anymore for most developers in a time of dedicated workstations and I can hardly blame homebrew for pushing back against any of the cruft that's built up over the years but is now difficult to justify.
What would you personally pay Mozilla for?
Sure it would. Skimp and save until you can invest $100 using Robin Hood. Put it all at risk. Guess right and double your money in less than 12 months. That's when you find out that the government (in the US) takes a 20% cut of your winnings. Much higher cut if you are in a higher bracket.
Q: What comes after "person, woman, man, camera"

A: person, woman, man, camera, lens, light, film, lab, darkroom.

A: person, woman, man, camera, dog, cat, horse

A: person, woman, man, camera, camera, camera, camera
Yes, this! The point being missed by most is the very real possibility that the Scaling Hypothesis is true. If it is, then we're seeing some kind of reasoning intelligence emerge. GPT-3 obviously isn't there yet. Unless it's faking it (Yudkowsky)...
Yep, made my way through most of the Simutronics games. Recently tried Dragonrealms again but struggled to get into it. I also think their subscription pricing is way too high.

But I have fond memories of farming gold rings from Harpies in GS3, and popping boxes in the thieves guild in DR. Cyberstrike was also ahead of its time and was surprisingly enjoyable despite the horrendous lag.
There are plenty of YouTube alternatives if you’re looking to just host a video somewhere; but if you’re looking to grow an audience or have eclectic tastes, then there is not a reasonable alternative to YouTube yet. You can have every single other video service’s app on your iPad or Apple TV or bookmarked in your browsers and all of them combined will not match the selection and breadth and discoverability of YouTube. They’ve had some controversies and even personally annoyed me a few times, but YouTube is still one of the web’s jewels.
It's actually the opposite that will need to be dealt with.

How much of the recent stock market gains are due to a hidden inflation thanks to the trillions of dollars being borrowed (or printed) by all the governments around the world?

Get ready for 2 dollar eggs and 20 dollar loaves of bread!
It's very much not in a restaurant's interest to waste food in the kitchen. Ingredients are a significant part of their costs, so restaurants worth their salt (hah) are usually pretty good about this. And this is starting to be regulated in some places as well.

Portion sizes on the other hand are entirely ridiculous. I often eat out with a tiny friend (in height and width). They tend to ask for smaller portions, but it's insane that many restaurants simply refuse to be amenable to that request. This means either I get fat eating their leftovers, or half a portion goes in the rubbish. Taking the leftovers home is rarely an option over here. I get that you probably can't serve half a chicken breast. But there seems to be no logical reason not to serve fewer fries, potatoes, pasta, whatever when a paying customer asks for it.
Apple's privacy protecting actions only apply in countries where they can go through with it.
Here's one example where they can't protect your privacy. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
Light sails are not very fast. The probe would have had to have been launched thousands of years ago at least, maybe millions. Either way, long before our current level of advancement could have been predicted.
Love it! I have a strange desire to try to make that work in WASM over HTTP/2 and hack in MGR server hyperlinks.
> How do you expect to take down a SAM site? Its specifically designed to destroy air targets as they approach.

> With what, with air-drones? Against a hardened anti-air specialty base?

Yep, air drones (or, to use the more common name, “missiles”, whether launched from the surface or launched from manned aircraft) are by far the most effective technique.

In fact, there are missiles optimized exclusively for that (anti-radiation missiles for taking out radars sites.)

> You don't approach a SAM site (or any area a SAM site is defending) from the air.

Yes, you usually do.

> US Patriot systems can take out SCUD missiles traveling at Mach 5.

SCUDs are ballistic missiles, which at any given speed are the easiest thing to hit, since they don't maneuver.

> And if your "kamikaze drones" are flying at Mach 5 with an explosive payload, that makes them effectively a SCUD missile.

No, it makes them hypersonic cruise missiles. Which no one, anywhere, has a particularly good counter for right now.
If you sign a new contract with an internet provider in Germany , you will have to wait up to three weeks until somebody comes and turns one switch and you have Internet.

In South Korea they will connect you on the afternoon of the same day.

Sources: I am German and my neighbours are Korean (not the best Korea kind of Koreans)
It is impressive, but I'm not sure why doing stuff without training is such a good thing. Giving a choice, I'd rather have a model that works better with extensive domain-driven training than one that works worse without it. After all, when choosing an expert, you usually go for one that has the best experience in the field, not the one that can speak most eloquently on the widest variety of subjects (unless we're talking about politicians, there everybody does the opposite for some reason).
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Survivorship bias is a real thing, and very relevant when discussing tech magnates.
Welcome Home, Action Hero
Thank you for sharing looks good.

I often prefer to use a web based use as typically just want to learn and practice. Or indeed make try basic little projects.

So will all being well, start studying the book this week.
2016-2017 flu deaths: 38,000

March 2019 - 15 Aug 2019 covid deaths: 176,000
Ask HN: Why were GUI tools more popular with web devs in the 2000's?
In the decade of 2000's we saw a plethora of graphical interfaces being used for web site and server management. We had Plesk, cPanel and WHM come into widespread use. To spin up a complete web stack all you had to do was open XAMPP, tweak a few control panel settings, and away you go. Similar with MAMP on Mac platforms. Uploading files could be done with a myriad of FTP software with drag-and-drop interfaces.

Then the transition to more CLI based tools took on strongly in the 2010's and its momentum does not appear to let up. The benefits of CLI completely are discovered in that you have more control, everything is more "exposed" and with more flexibility. About the most popular GUI tool that still stands today for web devs are IDEs.

I still find it peculiar that in the past web devs had more interest in user-friendly GUIs. It's peculiar because in the past, modern software development in general did start out with command line tools, but the recent past of web development was full of windowed apps, with tons of forms and visual interfaces. "CLI discovery" was rather delayed for web devs and I'm wondering why.