skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The counter argument to that, is that it is worth while to do things, even if there are other things that are worth while to do. For any single item one can pick out "Why spend on X, when Y has a need", someone else can come along and say "Why spend on Y when Z has a need".
Assessing through the lens of strictly zoning laws, I don't think they've done anything wrong. If we (as a society) say zoning is controlled by local governments, and not the state government, then they are free to vote in people that pass (what I view) as draconian zoning policy.

My criticism of zoning is, historically, it has been used to keep certain groups of people out of certain geographic areas.
> I loved being only 45min from a 24hr Walmart

Perhaps I'm misreading you, but having to drive 45mins to get to a shop seems like a massive inconvenience!
Similar to how retired/elderly engineers in Japan volunteered to perform on-site remediation work during the Fukushima nuclear crisis?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607
And in talks to sell air taxi service. Uber Elevate tested helicopter flights to JFK with limited service. It seemed like they were betting big on eVTOL.
She not only objected, but made it a deal breaker. She clearly said that she will resign on a later date if her demands are not meet. Google let her go immediately.
Uber has a strong network effect, but I don't think there's actually much brand loyalty.
No - web deployed click once applications. Straight to desktop from browser. Signed and whitelisted.
I am not saying FP is a perfect fit, but since nothing ever is a atleast write something more reliable with less indirections.

I like FP for the simplicity of it, the problem with OO is overemphasis on structural design and frequent indirections to name every entity as a noun with its own set of Data structures and state maintenance routines.

To answer your question if Industry is operating less efficiently? Maybe but there is no empirical evidence for it.

Considering all things equal software is inherently complex and OO is a real world abstraction to solve the complexity, but we end up introducing more complexity than we start out to solve, which is why i consider going back to roots and try a different approach as OO didnt actually deliver on the promise.

Also thanks for the Book suggestion.
Oh i thought it was the actual PI 4, looks like i got confused here, thanks

Using the case as a keyboard, THIS is revolutionary compared to the fan box
I actually poked into this a bit out of curiosity. Without doing deeper research than I have any interest in, indeed Kalanick never seems to have publicly said anything like "We are so f'ed without self-driving" (which would be a truly idiotic thing to do) and even made some references to the length of the transition. But he also made reference to things like Uber's growth being limited until Uber was cheaper than owning a car and a ton of pubs seem to have "independently" reached the opinion that this was necessary. And I also don't see a lot of fervent denials from Uber in this regard.
Well, I may want to go to a refuge without any electronics.
that sounds unlikely. self-driving isn't like a social network, the ones end up building it would've invested tens of billions - so basically Amazon or Google. I find it hard to believe they would want to sell that technology to Uber. If anything, Google has large investment in Lyft, more likely they will acquire Lyft to deploy their own driving fleet all integrated under G Suite.
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Still rumours

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22086597/uber-sells-flyin...
That seems disingenuous and intended to save face. I liken this to the Soviets claiming they never lost the space race after the US moon landing because "landing humans was never the goal" and they denied ever building a lunar lander. I think the kids these days call it gaslighting. Statements from key executives at uber like Meyhofer who said “The ultimate north star for the company is Level 4 autonomy” are proof of this intent.
What are you saying about UK ships not knowing how to navigate? The US navy is far, far worse in that respect, the British navy hasn't had anything near as bad as this happen anytime recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crys...
> Doesn't it make more sense for IP to cease with the author/artist's passing?

No because it would be unfair to artists who die young.

There should be a time frame. 20 years. One generation is long enough to make money off your work.
tl;dr: also leave your furnace fan in the on/recirculate mode rather than auto.

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Also if you have a central furnace, leave the fan in the on/recirculate mode, rather than 'auto'. The power usage of modern furnace fans is very minimal, and the effect on air quality is significant. Especially if your furnace has a fresh air intake, which most do.

You can combine that with periodically cracking windows or running bathroom or stove exhaust fans (could even install a switch to automatically run the bathroom fan on a daily schedule). When things are sealed up, the furnace won't pull in a lot of outside air (but the recirculating still helps a lot), and then when you have an exhaust path (fan or window), it will pull in more. Then it's just a matter of finding out how much to exhaust. A bit each day should be fine, or you can get more precise with a CO2 sensor like [1]. Especially in a closed bedroom overnight, it's amazing the difference you'll see with the furnace fan and/or an exhaust fan running, or a window open.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-Autopilot-Desktop-Monitor-L...
Very curious how this would apply to cooking with propane. We're out it in the country so trenching in natural gas lines is prohibitive so the stove, furnace and dryer all run on propane which is considerably more refined than natural gas, which is its raw source.
Doesn’t appear to, it was almost a killer app for me. I hate giving out my CC details online, but I love the benefits
Why would Uber selling a portion of its business be relevant to Uber employee unvested stocks?

Do you mean Uber ATG employees? Were they getting stock packages for ATG or for Uber?
Reinforcement learning at Microsoft: Incorporating decision-making into ML
Why end-to-end encryption matters
Show HN: AI powered D&D map maker (no release yet)
I'd offer a more expensive version with the neural options available. Maybe offer a monthly subscription so people can give it a try with a smaller commitment. Just because you might not think that it's worth it, doesn't mean other people won't have different value propositions.

I have friends and family who would easily pay $100+/year to use this (compared to the $36/year you're charging now). The British neural option above is much more palatable than the current default, imo.

All in all, nice work!
Tesla was built before tax payer money, they got loans for scaling. They paid them back with interest, the tax payer profited.

SpaceX was also mostly built with Musk's personal fortune, after they developed the Merlin engine, and got the Falcon 1 to orbit, only then did they get contracts from NASA, and they actually saved NASA money, because SpaceX launch costs are significantly lower, ergo, in a way, they also paid the taxpayer back.

Pretty much most large successful companies have been subsidized by tax payer money in some way, if not by direct loans or contracts, then by taking publicly financed research from the military or academia, and commercializing it. Silicon Valley was started by Fairchild Semiconductor whose first contracts were military contracts. Computing started out funded by military. The CIA through In-Q-Tel put $150 million into 90 companies, including Google. Google Maps, acquired from Keyhole, was a CIA funded satellite mapping company.

Let's dispense with the rugged individualism. We all benefit from the government, and we all have a duty to pay it forward.
Also, when a company has such an impactful goal that will, if successful, lead to it having power, it feels important that it's at least somewhat tied to the government.

I'm very capitalistic, but if SpaceX successfully colonizes Mars and builds factories there, I can imagine some frightening scenarios where it has considerable control over the U.S. rather than the U.S. having control over it.
"not the usual gang of suspects" ehr, Canada is there ;)
From research to product at Azure AI [audio]
Everytime someone mentioned that idea I thought it made no sense. The Uber strategy is to delegate all the cost to a 3rd party (the driver and their own car). The idea of spending billions of dollar on hundreds of thousands of cars around the world and maintain them hardly seemed like what they were setup to do. They wanted the exact opposite. Externalize all cost, labor, material, etc. and just develop a software that generates them a % of profit. This would be an entire 180° in terms of business strategy.
It is not that Linux is not a viable gaming platform. It is just developers not publishing games for Linux.

Why? because:

1. Windows comes preinstalled on many computers.

2. People do not install Linux because they cannot play games on it.

3. Game developers won't publish on Linux because there are not enough users.

Is 3 the real problem, or is it 2? 2 is the real problem. If everyone committed to use Linux, game developers would follow immediately.

If you use Windows only for gaming then just buy a console, it is cheaper.
Nothing is perfect, of course!
Chicago is pretty segregated, but the transit situation is easily the best of any major US city. A car helps you get places quicker, but an adventurous person can get all over the city easily on the buses and trains and any given neighborhood is very walkable.

The main issue is the cold. You have 3 months of amazing summer and 8 months of cold with two weeks of spring and fall on either end. If you're not from the Midwest, it can really wear on you and bring you down.
actually AMD drivers are open source and works better that NVIDA proprietary blob.
Personally, I don't generally choose Apple products for my own use because I tend to prioritize customization, flexibility, cost and a wider range of choices over simplicity, ubiquity, consistency and aesthetics. However, I concede that Apple makes some outstanding hardware and is generally an innovative, well-run company and the world is better for having the company in it. There are many users and use cases for which Apple's offerings are an excellent fit (including my own mother).

Most of my personal usage concerns are around the software and content areas where the user types and use cases Apple tends to prioritize aren't a good fit for my needs. For example, the focus in iOS on content consumption and app-snacking vs flexible content authoring and application depth (speaking-broadly here, as there are certainly notable counter-examples).

From a meta-perspective, as a long-time software-centric serial entrepreneur, I feel the long-term, net impacts on the market of Apple's app and content business models is, at-best, mixed for third-party developers. It can be excellent for very large developers with established brands and/or customer bases as well as the single-digit percentage of app developers that score a mega-hit. It can also be a good deal for small part-time devs that just want to get started quickly and don't necessarily need to count on consistent long-term revenue to make a house payment or employee payroll.

The app store model introduced a different set of trade-offs for developers because Apple retains certain significant value components for themselves such as the direct customer relationship, finely-grained control of distribution, some promotion avenues, margins and available business models. They also force certain requirements on developers. I agree that some of these requirements are also net benefits for users (eg privacy, compatibility, etc). However, they are also differentiators for Apple's offerings and enablers of Apple's extraordinary business model success.

Unlike some others, I don't believe Apple is guilty of being a monopoly (as defined by regulatory agencies) and don't see Apple's strategy as even especially predatory or deceptive. Sure, it's boldly aggressive and perhaps lopsided in Apple's favor, at least as compared to the Wintel proposition before it. But it's not fundamentally immoral, unethical or illegal. Certainly, the net effects and trade-offs of the app store value proposition to developers (and users) should be well-understood by now. If it's not a good fit, developers (or customers) should evaluate alternatives and respond appropriately depending on their preferences, context, requirements and priorities.

Finally, I think the difference between my viewpoint and that of Apple's biggest fans or harshest critics is more a matter of subjective value-judgements and perspective than objective right vs wrong. For example, I'm probably influenced by personally benefiting from valuation increases based on having durable customer relationships and diverse distribution channels.
Yeah, Max Max would certainly have a different feel to it if he rode a folding bicycle throughout the movie.
What is the replacement then? Electric stovetops just aren't a good for some types of cooking at all.
It's the 'last mile' issue. Every village was down some track a mile from a good road. Just the place you needed the bike to work. Most weren't going to Rome; just around the village.

And a modern 'regular bike' is maybe 100x better than the original wooden, wooden-wheeled non-steerable chainless coaster bikes they started with. Made of local wood that could split and swell and snap at a bad bounce.
I used Bootstrap 4 on a project recently, and thought I'd get away without jQuery - I almost did! The one place I needed it was for Bootstrap modal dialogs, to wire up open/close event handlers. I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to do it without jQuery, figured it was a deep rabbit hole, and caved...
I biked to work nearly every day in NYC. The weather really isn't that bad.

And in NYC if ever I had some other obligation after work instead of my usual commute that was bikeable to. In California nearly every time an errand popped up I couldn't bike that day.
Their submarine and surface ship captains don't know how to navigate, running aground and into other boats.

The USS Fitzgerald and USS John McCain are US Navy ships that have both had serious collisions recently that lead to loss of life. Ships having accidents is not a particularly good measure of battle readiness.
Yes, but they also incorporate by reference all of the business purposes described in their general Privacy Policy (this page is the California addendum).

In the general Privacy Policy, [1] business purposes includes:

> Develop, display and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on our services and other sites

The "and other sites" seems like it would include selling user data to third parties, at least by my reading (IAAL).

1: https://policies.tinder.com/privacy/intl/en
The problem with the "spend it here" argument is that there is plenty of money to be spent here. Nobody wants to.

How many trillions are spent on war? On corporate subsidies and kickbacks on everything else? How much money is wasted in so many other stupid things? We have a GDP rising at a faster rate than our populations and have for decades. We don't spend the that extra money helping people. We could, but we don't.

And then people look to NASA and SpaceX and say "Look at all that waste".

Meanwhile, this money is going to go to providing low-cost internet all over America (and then the rest of the world). It's going to provide a real, tangible benefit to people at a lower cost than the alternatives.
The Talos Principle has had a linux version for years, never had any problem running it.
I had a whole long thing typed out. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt instead, and assume you didn't mean to generalize suburbs and exurbs as racist and homophobic, artless, desolate and uncivilized places.

I live in a quaint little town by the water, a decent drive away from a major city. I'm a tech worker that chose to move, because city perks didn't outweigh the city stress.

I would say that for anyone considering the change, think about what you want out of your everyday life and move wherever gives you that. Do not lock yourself into an expensive city because it has something that you don't see yourself enjoying every day. In my town, I can walk with my daughter to a local beach that has zero tourists. I have a garden, and a detached home office, and a garage wood shop, and two cars (one for hauling family, one for hauling lumber). I live close to my suburban in-laws, who get great joy out of seeing their grandkids on the weekend. Those are things that no major city in the world could give me, reasonably, and are the reasons why I would never move back.
Bad PR for a while, maybe 20 employees quit in solidarity, then go you go back to printing money.
Failed the “I’m am not a robot” test.
This is actually one of the selling points Google brought up at the original Stadia announcement: you can't pirate or cheat in Stadia games since it's just an interactive video feed.

Of course, most people who play games don't like that - including myself.
This is bollocks and the sort of mythology that CEO's also love to create about their "beginnings." Read up on Elon's family background and father, he didn't grow up on a farm or in an orphanage in darkest Congo... he lived a well-off and privileged childhood.
> BTC + Privacy is the holy-grail of crypto

The holy grail doesn't exist. It's all about trade-offs.

Bitcoin has a transparently auditable supply. Privacy coins based on Confidential Transactions have a choice between perfect soundness and perfect privacy. So far they all choose the latter (Pedersen commitments), as it also happens to be more efficient than the former (El-Gamal commitments).
But it means that knowledge of a single discrete log allows undetectable inflation.

Then there's the scalability trade-off. Bitcoin allows a full client to prune all spent outputs after verification, to minimize disk-space. Privacy coins need to keep some information about past transactions. Worse still, the Initial Block Download is way bigger due to the sizeable range proofs. Except for the Mimblewimble based coins, in which spent outputs can be completely forgotten. But those are still mostly traceable...

Then there are trade-offs in emission. A fixed supply sounds great for scarcity/speculation, but also risks mining instability / security risks down the road as the block subsidy dwindles.

Then there are trade-offs in transaction throughput. You can easily increase it with bigger and more frequent blocks, but then resources needed to fully verify all transaction history will make it less decentralized.

A quickly falling block reward is good for early adopters but also leads to wealth concentration.

Smart contracts increase functionality but as they say complexity is the enemy of verification, and the attack surface gets much bigger.

Etcetera, etcetera.
It may not be the strategy, but it is definitely the only reasonable path to profitability where the drivers will make at least a reasonable income and the cost of a ride is competitive with a cab.

Either ways, next year is pretty close. Perhaps I'd be proven wrong.
"Why is running a bursty load on serverless negligent?"

Because Lambda and any other FaaS platform are always going to have some limitations as to how fast they can scale out. When you put stuff on TV, this is as bursty load as it gets. You are literally telling everyone viewing that TV channel at that time to pick up their phone and browse to some link.

If you are expected to handle all this load, the only way to ensure you can handle it is to over provision. The FaaS may promise some burst rate, but ultimately it's a shared hosting platform and if they have to choose between giving you your 3000 containers or keeping the other X customers running on those same boxes healthy they will always opt for the latter.

Worst case for them, they refund you the few bucks you paid for Lambda during that time. Worst case for you is you miss a ton of payments/donations/whatever. Welcome to the cloud.

The Stripe API has rate limits of 100/sec: https://stripe.com/docs/rate-limits

They put that to protect themselves from getting overloaded and Im sure these limits are more than plenty for typical use of Stripe which would be well spread out throughout the day. But when you put something on TV, 100 RPS is no way near going to be enough.
> more limited capacity streets which back up onto the freeways

These are often because of a bottleneck such as a traffic right (particularly left turn signal) or stop sign. If autonomous vehicles can be tweaked to increase throughput (better reaction times, shorter follow distance, less accidents, higher speed through chokepoints like tolls, not distracted or not accelerating slowly on light changes) you might see significant traffic reductions as a result. Little's law is applicable here.

The problems with bus or commuter lines is it's hard to get people to share a route efficiently. I've had it work in the past but only where I picked my housing according to an effective commuter line for my school or work. But that's hard to arrange at scale.

Where effective commuters line don't scale instead if you combine the above wins with an uber pool like service where 3-4 people are efficiently routed together. You could be looking at 2-3x fewer cars on roads that have better throughput and fewer bottlenecks.
Talking about terraforming is kind of off-topic, but I would note that the articles refer specifically to terraforming by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, which has pros and cons. It would raise the temperature, but it wouldn't result in human-breathable atmosphere, if that was a goal.

Perhaps there aren't any better alternatives, but I'd think that orbital mirrors at least would be an option (like the soletta from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy), though the scale of construction would be beyond anything that's been done before even if it were extremely thin. Placing a million square miles of mylar into space doesn't sound like an easy problem, though something much smaller and specifically focused at, say, the equator or specific sites might be more practical.
> No, capitalism and freedom in general must operate within the confines of morality.

Just to make sure, I assume this is your opinion of agreement with me? Which I appreciate, even if you weren't GP. It's just that the phrasing makes it sound like a disagreement in reasoning, which if that is the case I would like you to expand on.

But as to your second point, labor hasn't (yet) disappeared due to industrial revolutions, only shifted. What has changed is simply the scale one unit of labor could perform. Slaves would very much still be valuable in the 1800s. If nothing else proven by the fact that still to this day farming jobs are very often imported low-income jobs. I can't reconcile that fact with your reasoning.
I wonder, what're the costs of providing fixed landline service, even in a city?

From burying the lines or stringing them on poles, to wiring up each drop into each dwelling, all the splices and repeaters and what-not, to the central office building and equipment and power and stuff, and maintaining that entire physical plant for years, it's all got to add up.

I'd imagine it's well within an order of magnitude.
I think that's exactly the point. It's a disagreement about what gets priority to get optimized. The problem is exacerbated when there are multiple giant sinks for resources (e.g., colonizing Mars, combating climate change). In a world of limited resources, some things have to get sidelined.