skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine making a really crude bike out of wood. make the frame and wheels out of wood, make the crank and rear hub like a miniature ships wheel with pegs sticking out, then jam those pegs into rope to make your chain. Heck, skip that and peddle the drive wheel directly like a big wheel tricycle or a penny farthing. No need for brakes when you have no gearing or freewheel hub: you just slow down your peddling just like a fixed gear bike today.
Once you buy Starlink does it work from anywhere or does it have to remain where you buy it?
The rest of the world will surely follow the UK example.
Change selling chips and servers to selling cloud computing.

I don’t think Apple will do it considering how far behind they are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they start an AWS competitor using Apple Silicon.

Cloud computing is never 100% a commodity because there’s always business logic to sell.

Sure, S3 and EC2 are by this point commodities, but cloud products like Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL are not.

Businesses are plenty interested in single source cloud computing, there are tons of shops that basically can’t leave AWS without a monumental effort.
Go ahead and flag it? That's what the button is there for.
North of the Mason Dixon line roads require resurfacing every ten to twenty years due to winter freeze-thaw cycles which requires vast resources.

South of the Mason Dixon line roads require annual landscaping to prevent overgrowth.

Much like technology is spread very unevenly, post-apocalyptic is spread very unevenly. There is a large subculture of urban explorers on youtube, interesting stuff to watch. Interesting to see them explore sites abandoned around the turn of the century, driveways / roads and such are essentially impassible.

There are exceptions. Youtube abandoned mine explorers visit sites abandoned a century ago out west and other than the occasional landslide desert roads can remain clear for a century or so. Of course without massive fossil fuel burning, Vegas can't exist, so great roads aren't very useful without any population to travel them... Similar problem with the deep south USA, before air conditioning the number of people living down there was low.
Agreed. The 1968 hong-kong flu killed between 1 and 4 million people. Nobody talks about that now. They didn't talk about it much then, either. Woodstock, which happened during that flu season, gets talked about more.

With this latest surge per-capita deaths from covid19 just passed the low end of the 1968 flu estimates.
This article, and my comment, are discussion insanely wealthy individuals who have co-founded, led, or exited from very large companies (Splunk, Palantir, Opendoor, Dropbox, etc), or run VC firms.

Moving is much less of a big deal when your primary residence is a minuscule portion of your net worth and you are almost definitely paying someone else to handle all of the logistics of a move.
Ask HN: Why do most websites not justify their text?
I‘m often wondering why relatively few websites justify their text to fill out the complete screen.

Is this a matter of preference, or are there reasons for this? Is non-justified text more accessible? Or maybe because of smaller screens?
Signals the end of the self driving delusion, at least for 10-20 years.
You are actually right - I should update the readme with unpkg information:

import { css, classes } from "https://unpkg.com/stylewars@1.6.0/dist/bundle.esm.min.js";
This is absolutely wild. I've never entertained conspiracy theories about aliens for a minute. But this guy's credentials are as legit as they come. I don't understand why this isn't bigger news than it currently is.

> retired Israeli general and current professor

> served as the head of Israel's space security program for nearly 30 years and is a three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award

Assuming the article isn't misrepresenting his comments, my belief in alien conspiracies has just shot up from 1E-6 to something like ~1%. Ie, I still don't believe in them, but given what's at stake, this is mind blowing.
I'm not sure why they wouldn't necessarily be around. They increasingly raise prices to sustainable levels and maintain some share of the gig economy taxi and delivery business with pretty good brand recognition. Becomes a much more mature, lower margin, steady-state business--presumably with a whole lot less SV engineering.
This money is being spent to improve things here on Earth. This is about providing internet to underserved communities on Earth. Now you could argue that SpaceX has made it clear that they created Starlink to increase their funding for settling Mars (developing Starship etc) but at the same time StarLink stands to be a huge boon for people in communities that don't have access to high speed internet currently and that seems like a win-win. According to the article, Charter Communications made even more money ($1.22 billion) from the FCC as part of this deal, I don't see anyone on here complaining about how Charter chooses to spend the profits from this deal, it's certainly not going to go to settling Mars.
Yeah the more I look the more I find proof that self-driving cars has been seen as an existential threat by Uber/Lyft for years and years with Travis Kalanick (ex-CEO) saying it repeatedly. Here's an interview from him on exactly this topic. https://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on...
Yes, banks have offered these services for a while now. It is not obvious, from this post at least, what privacy.com provides that is different.
This is in addition to all of the business purposes listed in their general Privacy Policy, so "Short term, transient" is not a limitation on all business purposes — just the additional ones listed here (in the CA addendum).

As I mention in another comment, the general Privacy Policy includes some very broad language that appears to include selling data to third parties.
So if they invent the first reasonable self-driving car, they can sell those and provide service for them. Ideally TCO would be lower than a human driven car so basically a third party could buy and manage the fleet for Uber and Lyft. Neither company would need to own the cars to reap the benefits of making them.
Put down the kool aid. There are no self-driving cars.
There are tons and tons of luxury condos, new and those under construction. A lot of the ones I have seen are in rincon hill (aka east cut after salesforce took over), mission bay, and dogpatch. Can’t speak for SoMa as much as I don’t visit it too often anymore
My company of about 4000 people ran the numbers after the dust settled from transitioning to remote work, and determined that we're about 30% less productive. This was deemed acceptable, and we've been hiring to close that gap.

It would not surprise me at all if companies became more open to hiring remote employees, but started paying them 20% - 30% less, and extended the offer to transition to WFH (with a salary adjustment) for existing employees as well.
I can't think of a single scenario where having more tanks or fighter jets would be decisive in a full scale conflict between nuclear powers.

Suppose the US and China get into a direct conflict. How does the US having a 10x advantage in the number of traditional arms vs only, say, 2x stop China from threatening to obliterate humanity with nukes the minute their leadership is facing an existential crisis?
Victimization narratives are intoxicating. A lack of diversity in experiences will lead some down narrow paths.
Several people have recommend you air purifiers. I would add one thing, look at the price of replacement filters. Air filters are similar to printers in a way. You become tied to a company and have to buy replacement pieces every year or so. Some have bad track record (quick device depreciation because of out of stock filters, etc.)
Time to buy shorts then.
I think that keeping the specifics of some aircraft/technology projects a secret (which are obviously and clearly being developed, this is not a secret) is quite a far cry from keeping the existence of aliens and coordinated secret meetings on Mars a secret.
I'm curious to see an example of how this plays out in code (not comments).
Definitely regional. But the average post-apoclyptic movie is set in dry or desert environment, not a jungle!

And a bike doesn't need a road 2-rod wide. Just a path as wide as a bike tire. Even a good shoulder. And cement roads can last far longer than asphalt. Definitely situational.

Anywhere a car could go, a bike could go further I think.
From my understanding of the article (non-native), it seems like it is only one specific mailbox that is to be monitored

> "Tutanota sieht sich nun gezwungen, bis Jahresende eine Funktion zu programmieren...dieses Postfach zu überwachen."

and that nothing else will change for the other users

> "Für die anderen Nutzer soll sich dadurch nichts ändern, ihre Mails sollen weiter standardmäßig verschlüsselt werden"

As other users have pointed out, it will only be for new emails for the specific mailbox, as the rest are already encrypted

> "betrifft die Überwachungsmaßnahme nur die neu eingehenden unverschlüsselten E-Mails"

We may have to wait until tomorrow for some more native speakers to wake up and translate.
It's entirely possible that the Stadia version is a separate version of the game contracted out to some other studio, with heavily invasive changes that would break if blindly rebased on top of the Win32 version.
I'm seeing economy flights round trip from Colorado to Delhi at 1300, rounding up, for Christmas week. Don't really know how much this is due to Covid-related drop in demand, but it seems like a useful data point to put out there, since I've definitely seen similarly priced flights during non-pandemic years.
If the list is so long that the whole thing isn't even included by default and you need to custom configure which entries appear on the list, it's not that much better than arbitrary values.
Of which kind of music are we talking about? If you mean some art of abstract music or music that gets approved from some elite circle, I would indeed make the same arguments and don't see a flaw.

My main point is that there is no objective comparison between thousand of pieces and when we take the choices of the elite circle and compare it to intersubjective choices of the masses there would be little to no overlapping. So my point would still be "Why is your elite opinion more worth or correct than the collective opinion of the whole world?"
Taxis have been around for thousands of years. Taxis that you get with a nice app seem like a thing that will always exist.
Oh, I stand corrected
That commenter retired their account:

Account retired April 2020 (would delete but mere users aren't entrusted with this ability).
Reasons? Legion.

Proximate: the moderator "dang" discourages contributors from questioning billionaire ubermenschens' statements from on high. Obedience to the megaconsuming 1% is the last thing we need right now.

Ultimate: The SV locus of the tech scene, of which HN is a cog, is a marketing tool for extremist hypergrowthers (and their propagandised aspirants to world-consuming greed). This is the most dangerous class of humans ever to have existed, constituting a grave threat to the entire biosphere. Undermining it, a task beyond my talents, would be valuable. Continuing to contribute to it is however unconscionable.
It seems really premature to make any declarations about brand loyalty when Uber is still majorly subsidizing consumer prices with a VC cash bonfire.
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Big bets and promises for the future was all they had. Trying to be a solid profitable business in a dying industry isn't going to work out well for them.
You definitely want smooth, packed surfaces to bike on, and you want these to be reasonable straight / curvy ('differentiable' may be a sufficient definition, although it's been a while since I've looked at calc).

That said - you don't need modern car-caliber roads.

I've ridden 10's of miles on packed dirt trails (in upstate NY, near one of the canals) and it worked great. Smooth, level, no sharp corners, and waaaaay cheaper than paving.
Here we go https://github.com/sunesimonsen/stylewars#unpkgcom
I lived in LA and got layers of "soot" on my windows.. the screen would be black with mostly tire and road particles I think.
> why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?

Couple reasons by my guess:
* Bikes aren't cool. Cars are cool, horses are cool. Bikes, trikes, scooters, etc., aren't cool, and don't provide much besides efficiency.
* Terrain - as you say, roads are an issue and require maintenance. Trees drop some branches on the road? A car could push it (maybe), horse could walk over it, while a bike has to be carried. Not much fun, and probably makes up for the efficiency you get from riding it.
* Carrying stuff. Hauling things in a car? Easy. Horse? Easy. Bike? Hope you have a backpack, and you're probably still capped at ~40 pounds. And the more weight you have, the worse a time you'll have on rough terrain or falling.
No, I don't think a dismissed court case makes much of a statement regarding anyone's character, and that wasn't my assertion or intent.

My sense is that potential investors would be wise to be aware of information like this, as part of various decision-making factors and research before they invest their own money (or other people's) in potentially risky projects.
> A Bitcoin fork that’s privacy focused, what’s not to like?

Is it accurate to describe it as a fork?

In any case, I'm most concerned about the fact that there was some kind of mysterious collaborative operation [1] for the z-SNARK bootstrapping.

If Monero and ZCash have similar properties, Monero seems to
be superior because it requires less trust.

[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/cerem...
> it's nobler and more feasible to protect and improve this planet than settle another one

That's an incredibly short sighted argument. As if this planet will last forever. I don't get this attitude at all. It's like saying why plan for the future at all!
They won't. Unless that is "self-driving taxi" becomes redefined to mean "on roads with no human drivers and no pedestrians".
I'm on Fiber from Sonic and last week I was experiencing issues with connections randomly being dropped and being extremely slow to load. Sonic tech came out and said that the uplink was good and that it might be a problem with my UniFi system, but I don't have any issues with my LAN services.

It's great that the community was able to diagnose this, but a shame that AT&T didn't pick it up first and isn't acknowledging an issue on their network.
> What don't you like about it?

Not sure. Something just seems off. Perhaps it's because you have a category of not-very-close friends on LinkedIn promoting themselves really hard and the correlation between people self-promoting in that very "LinkedIn fashion" and being a really big asshat seems strong. Anecdotal, but still.
It sounds like the FCC took a beauty contest approach to this funding so ISPs promising gigabit took 90% of the money and Starlink got what was left.
Windows 10 web browsers are getting a new feature to throttle data usage
> Prop 13

https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/ generally the wealthier you are the bigger your tax cut.
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Moreover, Google’s style guides contain a very specific clause at the beginning. Here’s the example for Java.

> This document serves as the complete definition of Google's coding standards for source code in the Java™ Programming Language. A Java source file is described as being in Google Style if and only if it adheres to the rules herein.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html

Google requires all code to go through code review, so to avoid time being wasted by style disputes or reviews being sent back for style-only changes, style disputes are essentially banned. Anything that can be enforced by an auto-formatter or linter is so enforced. For anything else reviewers are expected to be able to cite the style guide to back up their requested change.

This practice seems to have spread into the community due to the popularity of Gofmt, and now other languages like Rust have a community-standardized formatter (rustfmt) and linter (Clippy). Many thousands of hours have probably been saved by this point by treating format akin to language syntax.
There are a few places where you can rent or borrow a drasine and cycle on a railway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine
Another problem with the Internet is that it’s made everyone really excited about getting on a soapbox to make sweeping and categorical generalizations about our zeitgeist based on nothing but highly personal experiences.
When a title catches my attention and I'm about to open either the link or its comments page, I automatically look over at the domain too before clicking.
Is file a file object? A file path?

All three are “the template”. So, they use polish-ish notation: the template as []byte, template as string, and template as *template.Template.
I’ll keep it in mind. I’ve yet to talk to someone willing to pay $100+/year to get that voice, but if they’re out there, I’d be happy to offer the higher quality voice options.

For anyone interested in this, send me an email at femme@femmeandroid.com saying you’d like to hear when I release the higher quality voices at a higher price.
I can agree with that. Plastic straws suck, and banning them is good for oceans, but small stuff like this is focused on. Just ban them/add a surcharge, like plastic bags, and move on to bigger things.
And for some boneheaded reason, you can't /collapse in threads, so if you have colleagues who like both threads and gifs, you're stuck.
So whats the big plan to lower overhead on rides? I looked up their last quarter and it was billions lost yet again. This doesn't seem sustainable, just shoveling money into the furnace quarter after quarter like that.
If there are competitors (e.g., Waymo) that have self-driving that's significantly cheaper, then Uber and Lyft can't compete. So it's a huge potential threat to their businesses. And if self-driving makes rides much cheaper, that can significantly boost the size of the market. But that does not imply that they can't be successful and profitable businesses in a world without self-driving cars, which is the frequently-made claim in the top post.
> First we have tesla which already has a self driving car

No, they don't. And it will take a while to get there.
It depends on who does the remembering.
I addressed this in a different comment, but the distinction is one of immediacy of existential threat. The DoD funding is framed in this context (and 60 years ago, NASA's as well - when it was almost 10x the fraction of GDP that it is today).

If people think there is an existential threat to their way of life, it's hard to convince them to take from that pocket to fund something more fanciful and likely only relevant generations away (if ever). That's the insidious part of the military boogeyman...and SpaceX probably knows this as well since they garner defense contracts too.
Huh, I had no clue that this was the case, do you have examples of specific proteins that are like differ in sequence to a high degree but are similar in function?
I suspect there’s something going on where webpagetest has an unrealistically slow CPU render time.
At one point I built a "Steam Box" that ran Windows (because, at the time anyway, lots of things didn't run on Linux), and hooked it up to the TV. The only problem I ran into was that lots of games don't do controllers well, either.
In SF I can open my windows year-round, so I just do that when cooking. I honestly doubt the gas fumes are the main issue for most of the cooking - the smoke from sizzling / frying seems way more impactful.

I have a suspicion that the statistics in the article are more because people with electric cooktops don't cook as much, and simply use the microwave instead.
> why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?

Because most post-apocalyptic media is individualism wish fulfillment porn. In most of those stories, the world has been destroyed because being that way serves to elevate the power and agency of the hero(es). Look at how bad ass they are to be able to thrive even in a world that bad!

Mowing down zombies in a Winnebago tricked out to be a rolling prepper bomb shelter is empowering and fun. Squeaking down a deserted highway in a rickety ill-fitting bike, knees akimbo, does not cut quite as dramatic a figure even if it is infintely more realistic.
> what other scalable solution do we have other than LeetCode type of questions?

This question is based on a flawed assumption that interviews need to be "scalable".

If you're interviewing more than 3 or 4 candidates for a senior position, you're probably doing almost everything wrong, starting with your method of finding candidates. (Job postings are almost universally terrible. Why is everyone so bad at it? I don't want to hear excuses like "HR". If hiring engineers is crucial for the company, then you need to fight HR.) You may need to interview only 1 or 2.

Don't "screen" a bunch of people. That's a giant waste of everyone's time, both employers and candidates. Start at the top of your list, and only interview your top candidates. Spend the time to research those few individuals — even before you interview them — instead of spreading out your time relatively equally on a large number of candidates.
You can make tires quite easily with simple tools.

You can't make gasoline as easily - or extract oil.
Car companies doesn't make their own airbags, they buy them from Autoliv. They don't make their own brakes, they buy them from Brembo. They buy transmissions from ZF, tires from Michelin, ECUs from Bosch, etc. Why should car manufacturers develop their own self driving technology instead of letting others, like Bosch [1] or Veoneer [2], do that and buy it from them? Spread the investment over more cars, it makes sense.

[1] https://www.bosch-mobility-solutions.com/

[2] https://www.veoneer.com/
You're hiring the candidate who happened to use one somewhat recently. The same candidate has completely forgotten other concepts and would have looked like a fool if questioned.
Balancing would be tricky though, unless you have a third wheel contacting the rails and then you are actually spending a lot more energy.

https://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=16349,filena...
Musk is pretty clearly in the "my way or the high way" school of governance.
It's not linked from the store, but Protondb is exactly what you're looking for. Also, Steam refunds make is rather risk free.