skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that it's not ridesharing, but app-based hailing which reduced drunk driving, by reducing the friction of hailing a ride. There is also the added effect of there being more vehicles available, which reduced wait times, but that can be achieved with increasing the number of medallions, so I don't believe there is a direct need for companies like Uber and Lyft to reduce drunk driving.
> SPIR-V by itself does not have the needed safety or interoperability properties for the web

Safety, maybe not 100%, but this could be fixed with extensions, and transformations. The same transformations that WGSL compilers will apply. I'm unsure of what you mean by "interoperability".

> or the advantages of text formats that the web has benefitted from.

??? Nobody has ever enumerated these to me. Or told me why if these advantages are so great, why Apple has not advocated for a text-based formats for <audio> and <video>. Binary formats are widely becoming more standard on the web for all sorts of reasons (images, fonts, video, audio, even code in the form of WebAssembly, and Bloomberg/Facebook's JS AST proposal improved performance by removing parsing cost. MapBox ships its vectors in binary format. glTF is a binary format.), and even in the graphics space, the release of the new SPIR-V format over having to ingest GLSL is seen as one of the greatest advantages of Vulkan over OpenGL.

If you want a text format, take the text serialization of SPIR-V. It's there, it's standard, it exists.

But you won't bother answering me, because every time you bring this up, we ask the same questions, repeat the same evidence, and you ignore us, preferring just to reply "text is more webby".

Not to mention that you're currently pressuring the WG to add new APIs to avoid the heavy front-end cost of Apple's own MSL shader compiler.

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/1064
> Ubports' Pure Maps isn't bad, is it?

Maybe some people find it sufficient for basic navigation, but it is missing all those detailed features that you can toggle on OSMAnd to clearly show OpenStreetMap tagging (road surfaces, street lighting, etc.)
Somewhat related to this are the remote work opportunities that have opened up to those living in rural communities.

I have friends who live in Northern Ontario that now have remote work jobs in Toronto (programming, graphic design, IT) they wouldn't have been able to apply for beforehand because of where they live.
> They pool the fares to provide a minimum wage and benefits, and then anything else above that gets distributed to the driver who created the specific revenue as "incentive pay" in exactly the way the parent suggested

Zero chance the bulk of the surplus gets distributed to the drivers. I know of a few New York medallion era brokers keeping an eye on the California market, and they aren’t doing it because they plan on passing along profits.
I'm curious what the energy formula on those things looks like. Is cold weather outdoor socializing going to help us catch up on the backlog of fossil fuel we haven't been burning in our cars?
I’ve never understood how extended caloric restricted diets are supposed to work without continuously losing weight. I understand that if you eat under maintenance you may lose weight and have a lower maintenance level and stop losing weight but then doesn’t it stop counting as calorie restriction?
Does anyone know a lot of personally who have personally done this?

One of my friends is travelling+working across western states, but he's the only person I know. Another friend tried going to Truckee (Tahoe) and eventually ended up back with his parents after a couple of months.

So far, I would guess this is happening but to a much lesser extent that what most think. It'll definitely be a trending in that direction though.
> polite conversation about mundane topics

Is lying polite? Is lying respectful? Misinformation is not only harmful but also disrespectful towards your audience. So, I agree with you that "polite conversation about mundane topics" should be respected. But it is not what is on discussion here.

polite: having or showing behavior that is respectful and considerate of other people.
Author here, appreciate the feedback! I got caught up a bit in the story of the inspiration behind Markdown (email for Markdown, typewriters for Textile), what I'd assumed was competition between Textile and Markdown (when it turned out they were more connected that you'd think just by seeing two "competing" standards on the market), and how this standard of sorts in Markdown both came from all these inputs but then was flexible enough that everyone can write how they prefer and also that others can take the Markdown idea and run with it and make their own thing.

Pandoc would have absolutely been worth mentioning; that's definitely more on the modern look at how Markdown itself got remixed and taken further, but definitely relevant.
Cool. My city has been adapting to the massive influx of tech workers for the past 10 years. Enjoy your increased rents and rent seekers. Might want to beef up your local social services networks as well.
I don't want to discount the usefulness of log probabilities. But this post gets off to a poor start.

> Probabilities are very rarely added together, and probability distributions even more rarely.

Umm, we _often_ add probabilities when we want to know the probability that any of a number of finite but mutually exclusive outcomes will happen.

We often add distributions (perhaps with weights) when we think about mixture models, or when there are multiple mechanisms which can both give rise to the same outcomes.

A point the author didn't make about log probabilities which likely relevant to this audience is that we often think about the product of many probability terms when modeling a complex outcome of many steps (e.g. a language model where words are 'drawn' from a distribution, and so the probability of a sentence is a product of many terms corresponding to many generative steps). In these cases log probabilities are often also important for computations to avoid underflow issues. I.e. when you have to reason about large, complex, composed structures generated from stochastic processes, _everything_ can be astoundingly unlikely in absolute terms, and log probabilities let us keep track of the important differences between astoundingly unlikely things.
Mild? Haha. My wife and I celebrated our anniversary back in late June by visiting the city and having dinner outdoors. Despite patio heaters, being on the leeward side of the building, and blankets(!!!) provided by the proprietor, we were absolutely freezing. I understand it's probably fine now, but give it a month or so.
There's a big difference between purchasing devices that have user agreements and interacting with others in public.
It can be. The really bad outcome is reverse-charging, where one cell is completely drained, then charged to a negative voltage. The probability of an explosion is significant.

If the flashlight has a low-voltage shutoff for the series at 2.5V per cell, it would take a series of four before that's possible, and even then it's pretty improbable. You'd have to mix a discharged cell with three full cells; a moderate difference in capacity or internal resistance wouldn't be enough by itself.

It is easily possible to over-discharge a cell under those conditions, after which charging and using it again is risky, but if you're salvaging laptop cells you probably already know that.
You're so far from the truth you can't even see it. Nearly every single other industry has an excpet from AB5 than gigworkers. It's an insanely stupid law that nobody wanted and was not passed via direct democracy. Nearly everyone agrees with this
Sugar is pH-neutral, and is not itself a preservative (it's pretty much the opposite).
> at rest

So we're talking about after it's received and processed by a server.

> Email is built on top of plain text protocols and messages flow in plain text. If you encrypt, you cannot scan for spam or viruses...

But you can? Just scan and process before encrypting.

> ...index messages for searching

This indeed is a problem. Encrypting emails individually makes search difficult. Why not just encrypt entire hard drives? Encryption at rest is a very broad term.

> or recover messages when a password gets lost. Not to mention the usability issues of changing passwords and encryption keys.

This has nothing to do with email. This is encryption in general, and these security details are a feature.

> Some other providers automatically encrypt messages as they arrive using users’ public keys. That sounds exciting but in practice that means you cannot access your messages using the webmail unless you pasted your private key into a browser, and have it handled by script and a myriad of third party code. Ouch.

Huh? I haven't heard of copy-pasting private keys. Use passwords. But more importantly, this is specific to webmail, not email in general.
especially as they didn't have the money for a super computer as they were fighting the real war.
> If that isn't an attempt to coerce drivers to vote a certain way by threatening their jobs, I don't know what is

It also looks like the sort of political speech the First Amendment was designed to protect.

Uber threatening to fire employees who don’t support a measure is a labour issue. Uber opining on what it might do if a law were passed, without specifically regulating its employees’ or contractors’ views, voting or activism on the matter, is policy discussion.
There are some other solid Microsoft keyboards too and they're also really cheap (compared to keyboards in similar quality range). Mechanical keyboards are for stype, MS ergo keyboards for comfort. One of the best mid range mice I got were Microsoft too.
That would still be biased heavily in favor of large corporations; NASDAQ-100 CEOs get a lot more interview requests than local bakers.
Agreed although in the last thing I heard from Edward Snowden he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and sounded pretty unhappy with his general living situation in Russia.
Relatable to a lot of people in the military. Pretty much every visit is with a new person who doesn't know you, they just know the record they reviewed minutes before.
We just launched Amazon SNS FIFO topics
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Social mobility without money looks like the dustbowl, or Californian migrant farm workers.

Social mobility with money looks like second homes becoming first, with huge investments and then questions around socialised cost of roads, infrastructure in general.

If you do the local taxes right, it evens out, but the price of land and housing rises for the non-mobile locals and it makes for some awesome "you're not from around here" issues.

The write-ups of westerners working from Bali goes into a bit of this. Yes, it adds to the local economy. No, not always in constructive ways. Feeding young egos desire for european beer and fixing their skateboard falls costs time feeding local kids in schools and providing primary health care in a stretched local economy which is 10x lower down the scale.
Yeah, I think my comment is not so great, as you could totally call this reverse engineering. Kind of an off-the-cuff reaction on my part that wasn't very considered.
That's an opinion, not fact. The charter of such an organization or co-op could be written to that effect, and in fact, Uber and Lyft could refuse to do business with employers that didn't support that structure. My point isn't that employees are immune to being screwed over in such a structure, my point is that they do not have to be which is what the parent post was suggesting.
Wealthy private citizens will pay, but the government says it will not. In the case of a private citizen paying a ransom for another you run into money laundering laws and trade restrictions.
Author here: Absolutely. Or how apps like Notion "eat" Markdown, turning it into Rich text when you paste it in but then if you copy the text you pasted, you don't get the Markdown copy but instead get their rich text conversion.

Also amazes me how Markdown basically has become a generic term—Slack referred to their plain text markup as "markdown" when it was actually closer to Textile (with single underscores for italics and single asterisks for bold, versus single of either for Markdown italics and double of either for bold).

That's perhaps the greatest downside to Markdown is that you have to almost check your copy and see how it looks in many web apps (seems native Mac/iOS apps are more likely to implement it well).
Tripoholic: Explore the world at comfort of your home:feat.Huawei Panorama Kit
Oh plz - great tool
Did the price of Halide just jump from $5 (or, $3 as I paid in 2017 according to my receipt) to $30?
This is what always surprises me on HN when talking big tech. Same level of arguments as an online news article.

Have you even read their latest releases? Ridehailing in US as a singular unit is insanely profitable. The take home is incredible.
Universities became bloated over the decades as federally guaranteed loans ballooned and tuition creeped ever upwards. Assistant to the Assistant Dean of Water Aerobics positions multiplied.

Now universities have to operate like a business. Revenue is down and isn’t going to come back for a long time. Consolidation for the lucky and bankruptcy for the unlucky. Honestly it’s a good thing to happen, the sector produces way too much nonsense (we don’t need more papers on 19th century fiction authors that no one reads but other academics) and costs far too much. Society simply doesn’t need this waste anymore with the internet able to provide esoteric knowledge to the masses for free.

I’m fine with my tax dollars funding fundamental scientific research, but an online study group can enable people to study the classics and debate what it means to be a good person. A lot of these majors should not be funded by the state anymore.
It's a backwards way of going about it. Instead of forcing anyone who ever wants to hire a human being to pay for their health insurance, the government should be providing it for everyone.

If I want to hire teenagers on my street to mow the lawn or babysit the kids, should I be forced to pay them benefits as well?

The alternative is the way California is heading: instead of taking care of people's needs directly, it's regulation after regulation to lock everything up so that only entrenched corporations with the scale to afford all these benefits can afford to operate.
demonstrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZxgI59_Ak
Centurylink to begin imposing 1TB cap on gigabit fiber service
Author here: Agreed on it being better to do advanced stuff in other apps. I found it interesting that the original Markdown launch posts basically say that. Textile was trying to cover the vast majority of HTML; Gruber with Markdown basically said that this is to simplify writing for the web, and if you need HTML, you can just include HTML inline for extra stuff beyond the writing basics.
Luminar IPO Will Make 25-Year Old a Billionaire
> Why would Uber: 1. need to send messages through text instead of in the app

SMS is still the most attention getting messaging medium. When these messages are in an SMS it looks more like it's coming from the driver's personal number. If it were instead sent through the app, people are far more likely to ignore it as a broadcast corporate marketing message.

> 2. message only this one user instead of everyone else who also has registered like me (and probably you too)?

I got the same sort of message purportedly from an Uber driver, but enough people had reported that number as a source of SPAM by than that my phone automatically marked the message as spam.

Therefore, it sure seems like the same numbers are being reused via an SMS proxy service of some kind - or drivers are being provided a list of numbers by Uber to send the same form message.

It's really no different in that way from all the political text messages that have flooded our phones of late.
> sold over a million books

Perhaps I was the one stretching with my "cursory search", because I missed the pseudonym. A million sales is certainly "famous" from any reasonable standpoint.
By "matched", do you mean binned by the vendor for capacity and internal resistance? I don't know of anybody doing that, but dealers like Illumn might be willing to sell you multiples with the same lot number. I'd be surprised if most OEMs do more than that when building packs.

You can get a cheap analyzing slot charger ($30-40) and do it yourself. That won't be quite as accurate as a big expensive industrial battery tester, but it will be accurate enough to make safe battery packs for consumer electronics.
Actually, not the core team, as the core team doesn't do decisions like this. This was decided jointly by the compiler, infra and release teams.
The nth power of an adjacency matrix yields the number of length-n walks from any vertex to any other vertex.
I live in Salt Lake city for the winter and work remotely so I can snowboard, but I was doing this prior to the pandemic. I also have a friend who lives in Austin, Texas normally, whos planning on moving to Colorado for the winter to snowboard as well. Those are just anecdotes, so who knows how prevalent this trend is.
Those papers you deride aren't what college professors mostly produce. What they should produce are citizens via the study of what great minds have thought in the past. The increasing narrowness of scholarship has destroyed the liberal arts.
Not sure if this is the same thing, but I recall reading a case study in 2006 on McD's cloudifying their kitchen equipment. The project was apparently a huge failure and was eventually stopped due to runaway costs.
Yeah.. this is going to backfire quickly.
Congrats to him.
I wonder what about administrator job openings?

Something tells me that they justified to themselves that all that bureaucracy still needs to be shuffled here and then shuffled there.
That was an exceptionally bad tweet from both a PR and legal perspective. It's not much of a stretch for an enterprising attorney to argue that Google just admitted that YouTube is knowingly contributing to and profiting from copyright infringement by distributing videos of game content.
I’m more interested to see how COVID will change, or perhaps do say with, the tenure system.
Have you ever been to the Midwest? They aren’t running out of land. Las Vegas could expand into the desert for an extremely long time. There won’t be the same struggles that you have in coastal cities or exotic expat hot spots.
Why do American ISPs hate their subscribers?
Maybe what they meant was to say just about the hardware arch support...
There are times where it's a good thing. The big one for me is if it's a link to documentation/help while in the middle of something where you don't want to lose state such as filling out a form. I always middle-click those out of caution, but they almost always do the smart thing. (Though I hate when the anchor's href is "javascript:void(0)" and middle clicking doesn't work. In that case it's usually set that way because it displays a modal or other form of help overlay, but there's no guarantee so I just have to pray)
I don't know what it is, but I actually find a visual of the speaker to improve the tutorial, even if it's not strictly necessary for the material. I think it helps with engagement.
Well, "can be achieved in theory" and "has happened in reality" are vastly different things. Some potential counter-arguments:

- If it can be achieved via such a simple change, then why wasn't it?

- Medallions and gig economy have vastly different incentive models, which tie very deeply with coverage and supply volume

- What of the countless anecdotes of taxi no-shows even after rideshare became prevalent?

- In most markets, it took a multinational giant burning through billions of dollars to get competitors to start playing catch up technology-wise

- etc
> The core concept of the Constitution is that the voters pick someone they trust and that person makes the decisions for them

Expanding on this, it traces from classical observations on the relative strengths and weaknesses of monarchy (modern: autocracy), oligarchy (modern: junta) and democracy (modern: mob rule to anarchy). It is why we have our three branches of government, and puts U.S.-China (and previously, U.S.-Soviet) competition on long-term rails.
i was using the automatic translation for Mongolian on facebook recently, and I couldn't make much sense out of the output. Interesting what kind of translation software was being used there.
more like consuming unnecessary substances and engaging in recreational activities that you can't afford is a good way to become "underprivileged" and cigarettes aren't really going to bring much joy regardless. but there's no harm in asking. just don't expect people to answer any way other than how they choose to answer.
That's what is done:

"Very fortunately for us, we can use a library to take care of all of this for us. The encoding_rs and encoding_rs_io libraries will let us translate from UTF-16 to UTF-8 on the fly, which will let us send ordinary Rust strings into our XML parser."
Towns can easily control for these things using taxes, zoning, and traffic rules, but they often don’t have the political will to do so. We’ve been here before with Silicon Valley, and thirty or forty years later it’s still a major problem .
> Why not attack the problem from that direction?

This is the workers' rights version of a gadgetbahn. I am arguing for universal healthcare and for central government to cover things like medical leave and childcare. As and when that's actually implemented, I might support some relaxation of the standards for when people are considered as employees (though I suspect Uber probably wouldn't care whether these people were classified as contractors if it didn't mean they were on the hook for healthcare and benefits). In the meantime, the laws that we currently have are that employers are required to provide these things; Uber needs to step up and fulfil their legal obligations.
Author here: Ohhh that's one I wish I hadn't missed, thanks for mentioning it. Ward's contributions with c2 keep showing up in different places, as you mention here with plain text formatting, and in other ways with for example the backlinking that's popular now in Roam Research, Notion, and every other personal notes app that suddenly is making the personal wiki a reality.
Yes, it could become a regular night club but then the strippers would still lose their jobs. Regular night clubs have no need for strippers.
Totally agree, but I also think the same curriculum can be provided at a fraction of the cost of a 4 year degree. We can produce thinking, reflective people for less than $200k in tuition.
To be fair, car expenses for road trips for entertainment are pandemic costs but aren’t reasonably work-related expenses.
And there's utilities that can give the trackpad a three finger click to act as the middle mouse button. I'm not sure I'd be able to tolerate a MacBook without that.
Eventually, sufficient representations and warranties are made by Tesla, that they are painted into a corner. There is a lot of boilerplate language that attempts to disavow liability in the Tesla communications to customers. Given the substantial payments made to Tesla, the courts are going to impose liability on Tesla under theories of misrepresentation or contract law. The line will be crossed, and Tesla won't even know it, until the insurers, working on behalf of the individual insured 'drivers' pile onto Tesla.