skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got in a taxi at Brussels airport once. Fortunately the previous week I'd had issues with a Washington DC cab driver refusing a credit card, and had the wherewithal to check he took them before we left. He didn't.

The less said about the awful black cabs in London the better. Rarely take a taxi in London, but if I have a lot of bags I will, and it's not going to be a black cab.

Don't have this issue with Uber, it gives me a rough price (which is pretty accurate IME). I can count on one finger the issues I've had (driver didn't turn up at Nairobi airport, claimed he'd been arrested, had to book another one)

I've had issues in Beijing with taxis - thinking back I suspect the main issue is that Uber just didn't exist in Beijing.
> Imagine if NPM, Ruby Gems, and so on rate limited package downloads until you paid!

Sounds like an entirely reasonable thing to start imagining.

Reliability, safety, determinism and predictability are not thrust upon someone from the commons.

I frankly find it someone atrocious and abusive that downstream systems do not adequately cache these assets. The main archive repositories should be the source of truth, but they also don't need to be the fountain.
Are you one of Europe’s top entrepreneurs?
Some companies are doing this, like Everywell.

Testing is still a pain in the butt and gets pricey the more things you’re measuring.
> Btrfs requires a regularly run administrative task via "btrfs balance"

This hasnt been my experience within the past few years, though I do remember it being somewhat necessary in the past. Both systems I'm running btrfs on have their free space within a few percent of the unallocated space (indicating most used blocks are fairly full and little space is wasted).
Totally and completely agree with everything you've said, but the fact that Rider - a 3rd party IDE - has to ensure all these things rather than them being baked into Unity is part of the problem.
Agreed and happy to share because you asked.

At the time, the "company" was just my co-founder and me. We were essentially going to fail/give up by taking on consulting work. The decision to integrate with Slack was a bit of a bet-the-company move. We were building an internal wiki to compete with Confluence. Our early beta users told us they'd use our MVP, and when we gave it to them, no one actually did. When we asked, they just said, "We just keep forgetting. Still interested." We then asked about hooking up our wiki to Slack so you could search from Slack and get notifications for new content, and they wanted that desperately. Some teams even pre-paid us to build it for them. So we scrapped our whole MVP and three months of work, and rebuilt the entire product on top the Slack platform in two weeks over the holidays.

When I say, "on top of Slack", I mean we literally used Slack's APIs as our backend and just rebuilt a "wiki" front end serving up Slack files from the APIs. We even deep linked to their Post as the editor in our wiki. The goal was to validate demand so we did it as leanly as possible. Once we launched, we got about 200 sign ups in 48 hours. From there, we built a real product, which is now tettra.com.

I wrote an article about the pros and cons of building on another company's platform about a year after that which goes into more details if you're interested: https://thinkgrowth.org/building-on-slack-saved-our-startup-...
> Second, why are profitable opportunities for investment lacking?

The piece argues the post WW2 period was exceptional, hard to disagree with that.
> Title: In-band key negotiation issue in AWS S3 Crypto SDK for golang
I guess CI services like Github Actions could be easily hitting these limits (100 pulls per IP per 6 hours).
It probably depends on how much skin is exposed as well as your genetics.

Getting your vitamin D levels tested is a super simple blood test - you can just ask your doctor and they'll prescribe it.
I’m hoping GCP/AWS steps up and creates a limitless docker registry. Considering the size of their infrastructure operations, I suspect this would be a small cost but bring a lot of goodwill.

One thing this is bound to do is to make the process of using docker a bit more complex. Explicit registries will probably start to be used everywhere, which is something I welcome. But it seems like a really poor decision by docker, the company to do this: they’re going to drive people off using docker hub.
A lot of people are saying Uber can just raise prices. Sure, they can, but Uber's not like other businesses. If Uber raises prices, then fewer people take rides. If fewer people take rides, then its harder for riders to make money. Even if an equilibrium is reached with fewer drivers and fewer riders at the same cost of labor, it's harder for Uber meet flexible demand and manage driver retention, and what not. It could create a feedback loop where higher prices require higher driver wages resembling economies of scale.
Welcome to the life of a lawyer. Oh wait, they don't have one.
Please don’t assume taxi services are as bad outside the US as they are in the US.

I have used taxis in many countries in Europe and Asia and never was ripped off.

On the contrary, I always had very good experiences.
People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts
So, as of this comment, all I know is that Simon Sinek has a book called The Infinite Game. This book has an interesting premise, about which I just read a short writeup and analysis. I have also been told that Sinek has excellent presentation skills.

Strangely, in the middle of these two comments, I was told that people should not take anything from Simon Sinek. Why?
Thank you very much for the straight answer. I'd prefer not to poison myself via Vitamin D! I worry with COVID-19 other people are going to be overcompensating as well.
The problem is you used Uber Car, instead of Uber Airplane (please don't)
This is still just othering police, and thereby avoiding solving any problem. I.e. if the problem is caused by some inherent factor in the people who choose to become police officers, then we can simply blame them and move on; easy hate clicks galore!

But I think police are molded by their experiences, and made by various vicious cycles to become the stereotypical bad police. I described one such cycle above; here is another: http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=545 If this is correct, then anybody, even the most well-meaning angelic people, would, over time, become bad police, but anyone could still merely claim that all police are bad because they are “right-wing” (as if that automatically is a bad thing) or racist, and nothing could ever be solved.
Built in torrent and/or ipfs?
The thing I can't wrap my head around is how come Amazon does not have an API where I can pull my Kindle highlights. I know there are services out there like readwise.io but they require me to manually go in and "sync" things using my browser.

I would pay money for a service that was able to grab these highlights and put them into a Zettlekasten or P.A.R.A. style repository. Even Toi Lutke made something to help accomplish this... https://github.com/tobi/highlights
Eh, I mean.. Okay. Maybe this is true for the first steps into your profession, but after so many years in tech the amount of things I have to do that are, compared to my initial 'love' for tech, really horrible tasks vs the things I would like to be doing definately isn't in balance...

It's a nice idea, but this "do what you love" doesn't scale.

I mean, did it too, there was a day where I was super excited to be working as a developer or a sysadmin with tech I loved but after a while if you want to actually get anywhere that thing that you loved doing turns out to be a very small subset of what it takes to be great at something, or be senior enough to have responsability enough to steer things towards your interests..

So yeah. Do what you love at first; but what you love won't be enough in the long term and you're going to have to spend months of 12 hour shifts to migrate some horrible app or other at some point, or many points, and without doing some things that go against 'what you want to do' you'll never be able to do more of what you actually want to do...

Not sure if that makes sense..
Being able to add / remove components then query based on component sets an entity has is an important part of ECS data driven design, which Unity is trying to move to with eg. DOTS. Just leads to less branching etc. once your data is prepared. I'd rather just have my code express expectations upfront then query the entities that match, vs. needing to handle a combinatorial explosion of if/else based on existence checks.
Is there any part of the US left that wants business?
Show HN: An online bookmark manager for podcasts (08/24/2020)
The other day I scratched my own itch and create an online bookmark manager for the podcasts I was listening to. It allows the user to mark points of interest and add notes to them to return to later.

Feedback on the website would be amazing. It's only MVP, but I have a lot of features I am getting ready to add.

Podcastmarks --> https://bit.ly/2QmRvjf
This is completely the wrong place for this, but you don't list an email address and I don't want a Twitter account

In Dispatch #4 you complain (speaking of FIDO for OpenSSH) that "As far as I can tell, that’s true when the key handle is indeed an encrypted private key, but there’s nothing in the spec requiring that". In the WebAuthn spec. which I've actually read unlike the various other specifications, there are two alternatives offered:

1. At least 16 bytes that include at least 100 bits of entropy, OR

2. The public key credential source, without its Credential ID or mutable items, encrypted so only its managing authenticator can decrypt it. This form allows the authenticator to be nearly stateless, by having the Relying Party store any necessary state.
Federal law is the same in all states. Maybe your apartment building was built before 1991?

https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/d...
Well, I would certainly hope that as my reign as Unity Czar would include guidelines for storing procedural content somewhere other than in Components :)

I mean, if you're adding a new component to a GameObject for every room in your dungeon or something, you're doing something very wrong. At least in my opinion!
Thanks! Yes, I am very new to this. Hoping that by continuing to write, I'll get better. The comments on here are great for helping me understand how things are interpreted.
They want you to login, so they have better data for monetization
Why would any American court side not be partial to the US here? They're literally suing the US in its own courthouse.
Not that they abstain from doing that shit today, when code is not often published.

An educated and motivated layperson at least would have the chance to learn whether the critique is faulty. Today, with secret code, it is impossible to verify for almost everybody.
I'm guessing they're just trying to hold on until they can convert to robotic delivery. Then it'll be profitable. In the meantime they're preloading the platform, building brand recognition, etc.
No, the problem is that what is defined as top tier keeps rising, and raises the bar just to be average. You also now have to compete with a huge cohort of people due to the net now.

Going with the videogame focus, if you ever play competitive games you actually see how brutal it can be. In Overwatch for example you have an absolute mountain to climb in ranked because you can't just improve, you have to improve above average to increase your rank. This means a lot of people are getting better at the game over time but are going down in ranking simply because everyone else is getting better faster.

Essentially the internconnectedness of everything is making it hard to find the niches you speak of. There's always someone who loves his job so much and works at it so much that he defines the meta, so to say. This is a problem in computer science, even.
We need to redefine extraordinary.

Or, if you can't win, move the finish line.
It's up for debate in the US, and I don't see why we shouldn't debate it. Is there no room for innovation in work relationships?

In particular, health insurance being tied to employment seems US-specific and has a lot of drawbacks.
ClamAV is the best known.

Usually, linux antivirus software is not designed to protect the machine itself, instead it is more commonly used by mail and file servers to protect windows clients.
Weird how US laws are made. App was banned in some non-cyber laws countries like India, still Tiktok unable to challenge them. But US here is getting rebuted.
Do pulls for a "latest" tag bypass the cache?
It really sounds like a problem we just have to solve. Putting all the expectation on one central service is not reliable.. it should be a distributed network of content delivery nodes, of which you run a few yourself.
The person who wrote this over the weekend very likely makes 7 figures. That's the life they chose.
Plumbers aren't in the news and wouldn't add much to the state budget with their payroll and unemployment taxes.
That's true in certain ways, but there are also other points, such as that the US is a large, diverse country and it makes no sense to tar it with one brush.

In any case, these subtleties—not that they're all that subtle—are lost in internet comment land.
I just got the warning from portage yesterday that, in that case, told me it had been 33 days since my last sync.
CISA 5G Strategy: Ensuring the Security and Resilience of 5G Infrastructure [pdf]
There is very little reason for a build node to need to pull 200 images in 6 hours, and here is why:

When a machine issues a ``docker build`` command, the program reads the relevant dockerfile to check for any base images that need to be pulled (a la "FROM:")

These base images are identified based on the image repository, image name, and image tag. The first thing docker does is it checks its local registry and tries to find a match for the base image the docker build is requesting. If a matching image is located in the local registry, it uses that one in lieu of downloading the image.

This is significant - if your organization only uses a few dozen base images from DockerHub, those images will only be downloaded by each build node _once_, then never again.

Many docker users erroneously believe that if their Dockerfile requests a "latest" tagged image, docker build will always download the newest version of the image.
However, the "latest" tag is literally just a tag, it doesn't have any special functionality built in. If the docker build command finds an image tagged "latest" in the local registry, it stops there.

The only way to get docker build to always use the "actual latest" version of the base image is to add the "--pull" parameter to the docker build command. This arg will tell docker build to check the repository remote to see if the SHA hash of the image tagged "latest" has changed, and if so, re-download and use it. In the absolute worst case, this means each build node will pull 1 copy of each base image when the base image is updated. So unless you use 200 different base images that all have updates deployed to Dockerhub each and every day, you are fine.
Just 17% of Uber and Lyft drivers surveyed want to remain full-time employees [0].

How does this not stop this whole conversation in its tracks immediately? There's so much grandstanding about this, you and every other politician or upper middle class tech worker has their takes on how these poor drivers are being tricked into bad deals they can't understand and need the protection of full-time employment. But it's not a very good protection! There are a lot of downsides, and drivers simply don't want it, but for some reason a lot of people feel the need to force this change through anyway.

Our current labor system, and its default assumption that tying yourself to a full-time job with a large company is the only way you deserve to have stability, is just very clearly showing its flaws here. It's not compatible with gig economy work, why can't we look for solutions that drivers would actually want, and that would help every other independent contractor? Things like improving overall safety nets, so that everyone has health coverage and is covered in the case of things like disabilities even if they don't work for a large company.

Almost every take I read on the pro-AB5 side of this argument seems more focused on punishing
Uber the corporation for some perceived moral failing, than on actually helping the drivers. It's quite bizarre.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2020/08/19/wil...
The start of many US zoning laws was based on racism though. No one is saying every zoning law was racist, or that racism is the sole reason they are bad, but their origin is undoubtedly tied to racism.
I think the jury's still out on whether the link is causal or correlated, and that study in particular is under controversy.

Personally, I think its just because higher Vitamin D levels mean you generally go out more, which is associated with general fitness levels.
How popular was TikTok in India? How much money could TikTok stand to make by being popular in India?
The most universal issue with taxis around the world is safety. How do I know whether a taxi driver is going to take me to my destination, or drive me to an alley and mug me?

Apps like Uber are a major safety improvement over taxis. If I get out of an airport and need a ride, I can either hop in a taxi and pray I get to my destination safely, or I can take an Uber and have a paper trail of who picked me up and where I went.
Good!

I'd even welcome much more agressive limits than what they're proposing; the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient, wasteful and in the end just plain slow.

I'm looking forward to developers adjusting their workflows (and caches, etc.) to actual, reasonable limits, not just perusing the service as if it were an unlimited cost-free cornucopia of software.
The US Government is not a monolithic organization. Different parts fight with other parts. Happens all the time here.

If it’s done right we call this checks and balances.

If it’s done wrong we have lots of other names for it.
after watching GPT-3 I wonder can you get to AGI through pure hardware scale?
I really wish I didn't go into software development as a profession, and instead went to school for something that still pays ok but could still enjoy programming on the side.
I can't downvote you, if I could I would.

Do you really think this is something I deserve because I am Dutch?
The MAC address uniquely identifies a computer/laptop on the planet, that belongs to a person. It is as personal an identifier as it gets ;)
The Complicated Ethics of Keeping a Covid-19 Patient Breathing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24262633
The type of solar plant that uses mirrors to reflect sunlight to a focal point also vaporizes some # of birds per year, likely negligible though compared to the causes you listed.
Brilliant demonstration!

As you undoubtedly know, there is nothing essential about using sin waves with Fourier stuff... it can work with any shaped curve. A cool modification would be use a combination of the users input to generate a circle instead of the other way around. That is, if I draw a square, a multitude of squares of different sizes and phases, each tracing their contour, will generate the X,Y values for a circle.
In the case of the US, if the criminals have guns and the law abiding people don’t, where does that leave the law abiding people?

It’s just like what happened when Reagan was the Governor of California. As soon as Black people started peacefully “exercising their second amendment rights”, both Reagan and the NRA were all for gun control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

Even now while the liberals are fighting for more gun control, conservatives are arming up - especially in the South.

The far right is getting armed while the far left is talking about “give peace a chance”.
Do you define AGI as having a goal or agenda or just something that can compute an answer to a problem or solve a problem at a human level?
The way CCP influence works is through a legal requirement for firms to allow or establish internal CCP units inside their company, which are then officially recognized and connected to the CCP. Since this is an alternate method for the company to interact with officials, through their own party member staff, it can become basically your company's representative with the CCP.

The thing is though, the unit members are also still your employees with access to internal information. Since they serve two masters, the company can be tempted to elevate their status internally to improve how they represent the CCP on the other side. And the opposite can happen - employees can be hired with high CCP ranks so that when they join the unit their influence for the company will be stronger.

"One senior executive whose company was represented at the meeting told Reuters some companies were under “political pressure” to revise the terms of their joint ventures with state-owned partners to allow the party final say over business operations and investment decisions."

Information on how this actually works is scarce since relative to the US there is much weaker rule of law/discovery, and fewer independent journalists, considering how tightly China controls and polices which journalists are allowed in and what they write about.

"Companies in China, including foreign firms, are required by law to establish a party organization, a rule that had long been regarded by many executives as more symbolic than anything to worry about."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-congress-companies-...
Can’t say I’m surprised. They must be incurring significant data costs. The limits seem reasonable at least.
> The first thing docker does is it checks its local registry and tries to find a match for the base image the docker build is requesting. If a matching image is located in the local registry, it uses that one in lieu of downloading the image.

While I agree that this is the way it's supposed to work, I have unfortunately worked at companies with "stateless" build/CI servers that download the Docker image each build.
You failed to understand his point. As a worker I don't want any of that crap. It's good that it's mandatory because someone will need it? I choose to work at these places if I want because I don't want social security crap, and I don't have a schedule so I don't need vacation and I don't need to call in sick at Uber.
You like many who don't understand are putting it in the mold of a traditional job and people like you are not wondering why people choose to work long hours with no benefits, so you say everyone has to have certain hours and benefits, and are legislating without representing drivers or asking what they want. It has something to do with getting money now, not some far away 401k or social security. If I wanted European style wages I'd go to Europe where the problem becomes lower wages with useless "benefits".
Audio recording API in Unity is awful, you can only record a short clip on button press and thats it. No continuous listening, no sample rate configuration, no realtime. And processing thread changes from version to version. We had big trouble implementing speech recognition with Vosk in Unity.
There are two sides to this coin; sometimes some late hours are unavoidable -- I don't blame my employer for it, they're not forcing me to work these hours at all, but I think if you're a professional you can't avoid such circumstances sometimes and that's why we get $megabucks right?

The right mix for me is working like a daemon about 9 months a year then having 3 months off, but YMMV..
Web browsing history kind of confirmed as a new type of personal data – now what
Any ballmark suggested amount of K2 per 1000 IU of D? The supplement I'm currently taking is 100mcg of D3 with 75mcg of MK7 K2.