skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stand up scooters (as opposed to motorcycle-style scooters, for clarity) are best suited to short-distance travel, as an alternative to walking more so than an alternative to cars, bicycles or motorcycles/scooters.

That makes them very well suited to last mile transportation, getting you to and from the nearest public transit point, especially since most models fold for easy transport on a bus or train. As standalone personal transportation, they are handy for going a few city blocks while carrying at most a shoulder bag or backpack.

Compare this to (e-)bikes and electric motorcycles/scooters, which can carry significantly larger amounts of cargo, are inherently more stable to ride and cope well with less optimal road surfaces that would be troublesome for the small wheels on a stand up scooter. Especially for parts of the world with less-maintained roads or a high amount of dirt roads, a basic bike is vastly superior to a stand up scooter.

Similarly, the tiny electric cars mentioned in the article have more carrying capacity and as a bonus feature they shield you more from the elements. Personally I don't mind throwing on a rain poncho and rain pants when riding in adverse conditions, but not everyone is comfortable doing that. Getting people into these tiny cars is much preferable to them driving a large (possibly electric) car in the city. They're an affordable and gentler alternative to traditional cars, not a replacement for low-profile personal transport like stand up scooters and bikes. They may displace motorcycles/scooters, but I count than as either a wash or perhaps a win, if they get 2-stroke scooters off the roads.

As for the legal issues surrounding stand up scooters, I understand why some scooter sharing apps and companies have been called out and in some cases banned. They litter the cities with scooters, don't care if they're just strewn around everywhere, blocking sidewalks and bike paths, and they use barely-paid gig economy workers in open ugly competition with each other, as their recharging "solution".

But in some places even personal electric stand up scooters have been banned or at least have not been made explicitly legal on bike paths. That is an absolute travesty, we need as many people as possible to use low-impact transportation instead of their cars.
I've wondered the same thing every time I hear of "bitcoin will change the climate".

I think we could even design processors differently if heat was not part of the equation. Right now it's all about perf-per-watt, which gives up absolute speed.

Also it would be fun to say "It was so cold that night, <x>" like "I could raytrace in realtime" or "I mined 1 bitcoin" or "crysis ran 10,000fps"
And wouldn't everyone just switch to the mincab companies, both drivers and passengers, if that's the case?
Ah, yeah. I can’t be bothered with that either. I just run omnibus on a completely separate VM.
This tells me that Australian government is extremely corrupt and they erode the quality of law so their mates can make some money. This is immoral and stupid. What would they do if people stopped sharing Australian news? What can we do about this brazen attack on open web?
You mean once a month you have to make some social media posts? You conside that a "dismal existence". I know it's almost a cliche to point out HN users being out of touch with normal people, but have you ever had a real job that didn't involve sitting in a climate controlled office typing on a computer?
The future will be electric heating for everyone, once we have enough renewable and storage sources.
There are reusable glass bottles, at least where I live.
Are you familiar with the term Hyper-normalisation?
> Perhaps you need to somehow create a rapidly changing filter glass of all different wavelengths. Purely hypothetical.

Monochromatic colors are just a tiny, tiny sliver of the perceptible color space. They're not even the boundary of it, they're such a small part of perception that they're only a part of the boundary. In the CIE model, the curved part of the boundary represents monochromatic colors. The surface itself is not monochromatic, and neither is the straight boundary (line of purples). And that model is a simplification in and of itself.
Money changed hands. A few lawyers, lobbyists and politicians will be able to afford nicer cars/condos/coke mirrors next year. That’s all.
> I think the reason JSON caught on outside of the javascript community is because it provided a succinct way to represent tree structures of common types (numbers, strings, dictionaries, and lists), using a syntax familiar to anyone who has used C, Perl, Python, Ruby, or Java.

I believe it's hard to explain JSON's popularity and wide adoption without talking about javascript. With javascript, JSON was right from the start an ‘eval’ away from being parsed. The barrier to entry to adopt it simply was never there. Once you start to expose JSON APIs to clients, other servers also start to need to consume data from those servers. Rinse and repeat until you reach mass adoption.
The most eloquent post on domain suffixes to date.

The best riposte to date of Paul Graham’s love of the .com domain suffix:

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
A company (or anyone else) attempting to buy all of a public company does pay a premium, but no one is about to take Amazon private.

Selling in small packages, alleviates one problem (lack of instantaneous demand), but it still increases the supply of shares in the market, which is going lower the price. That's before you consider effects like strong leadership or that the apparent lack of confidence from the big share holder is going to decrease the price.

Edit: Incidentally if you look at Bezos's trading history, you'll discover that he has been doing the "sell in small packages thing". I'd speculate that he's doing it as fast as he thinks he can get away with: https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1043298&tc=7
Yeah, that's great that you have pointed that out, but it doesn't take away from the main point I was making unfortunately. You could argue definitions, but if you truly know that I am making this mistake, then you should explain the mistake of vocabulary rather then then essence of the point being made.

What you're doing instead is diverging the conversation towards a topic that is unrelated to the subject; while in the process satisfying your own ego.

And yes, I meant "negative punishment" vs "negative reinforcement".
I think that could be interesting. As others have said, whatever the computations are, if they are being done anyway, might as well use the generated heat for something useful instead of letting it go to waste.

But I wonder what would happen with such a system in the summer? For example in most on France it gets pretty cold for long enough every year that having a proper heating system and good insulation makes financial sense. But during the summer it's pretty hot, especially in cities. While the heating can be turned off between March and October (give or take), Facebook & co would probably like their DC to keep on working, so to keep on heating, year round.
I think GP meant that lower egg quality leads to more birth defects, etc. So not just fewer humans born, but those born have more problems. A statement which is completely independent from point 1.
Having a warm/hot laptop on your lap is definitely not a good idea for fertility.
Pis you have a point but phones are far from having 'freedom'
Only once it gets publicized. You have a window to sell and make an enormous profit before people notice and then the entire bit-conomy gets wrecked. I hope this happens as it is a much better outcome to this mess we've created than wrecking the biosphere.
> You would be perfectly happy for everyone to be wiped out the day after you die?

No, you would be nothing the day after you die. It is that simple.

The problem was slightly different anyway, that is everyone being wiped out at the same time. Literally no body would care anymore.
Elon Musk is the master of marketing
Only if you assume the conclusion.
Sure, but what does that have to do with the initial point that this thread is about?!
OP is in Austria.
> That seems to be jumping the gun. You don't normally get an onsite immediately.

True, but in my experience I always get far enough to waste hours upon hours interviewing only to be rejected in the final round.

I’ve yet to encounter the take-home assignment where I get rejected (so far it’s a 100% success rate).
It's nothing wrong with having to pay for links - its a commodity after all. The problem is that you are being forced to host those links and pay for existence. If government forces private entity to host certain information that is the other side of censorship coin. It's just wrong and reeks of China way of doing things.
The video call apps linking home workers with strangers
In modern bitcoin, what is the role of an exchange? Do most people hold their own wallet? If you have an offline wallet, what's the work involved with using that cold key to perform a transaction?

And for an organization like Tesla, do they now have 2 FTE to manage their holdings or do they just have 3000 wallets with different amounts of BTC some of which are online and some of which are offline?

This all seems like an enormous PITA to actually use for 99.9% of human sized transactions; an exchange seems like a reasonable mitigation against that, but now you're 100% at the mercy of something that's as trustworthy as an 1830's bank.
One Year Later: 3 Lessons Learned Since the Market Peak
A.I. Here, There, Everywhere
:D

Stdin. New phone, forgot to disable autocorrect.
Links are what make the web! When you're talking paid links, you're talking about breaking the foundations of the net and limiting the free flow of information. It's that simple.

Content you see will be limited to whatever companies have made agreements with each other. Organic search would just be broken.

As paid links are in complete opposition to the way the net works, government intervention is required to dictate the rules of information. Politicians will decide what we see, what services will be given benefits and who misses out.
Running rail relatively slowly and on the level is low-power. Put hills or other load factors (start/stop, speed up / slow down, even wind) into the mix and it can go up. Elevation most especially --- railroads will go up to a thousand kilometers out of a straight-line route to avoid elevation gains.

A passenger car should get 20-30 miles (30-50 km) per gallon, so unless your store run is several towns over (or you're in the sticks), probably less energy moving a ton 500 miles by rail. Though yes, personal autos are, relative to size and cargo capacity, profligate energy users.
I failed the test.

Interesting article, though.
Americans live in cities with grid systems, wide roads and lots of parking space. They also primarily live in suburbs or towns.

Europeans live primarily in cities with much less urban planning, narrow roads and not so much parking space.

And European are 99% poorer than the average American (even in places such as France or Germany; they have similar per hour productivity but they work fewer hours so their total productivity is lower, thus their salaries are also lower, even gross salaries), while gasoline/diesel fuel, as you noticed, is much more expensive.
All actors having better access to these tools and others, more open markets. Someone with knowledge of new tools can build services aimed at various market participants, without needing much capital etc.
Goods were sold before the Internet, too.
There Has Been a Mind-Boggling Amount of Unemployment Fraud Since Cares Act
No. Behavioral economics is absolutely not considered heterodox. Mainstream departments (Chicago, mit) all have behavioral people.

They don’t have heterodox people (eg marxists, Austrians, or MMT). Nor should they. CS departments won’t hire people who (for example) believe computers work via magic. Dollars and tenure lines are scarce and can’t be wasted on BS. There is a lot more diversity of thought in economics departments than commenters here know, but there are limits, as there are in every field.
I must agree with the points on the UI/UX. I just opened the app and 95% of what I see on the screen I do not care about. The fact that only 1 list item is immediately available to me as a user is just bizzare.

https://i.imgur.com/YwHTQWa.png: I have highlighted what actually matters to me as user.

There's just so much noise in this new UI. All I want to see is the title, the source, the subreddit the post belongs to, how many comments it has, and MAYBE the upvote count. Put all the navigation stuff in a hidden drawer - it doesn't need to be on the screen all the time and let me switch off these silly awards (or at least tone them down). The rest of the screen is taken up by elements that simply don't need to be on the screen all the time. The search bar can be put in a menu to free up space for more posts. The thumbnails don't need to be there all the time. I don't need an immediately available button to buy Reddit coins / awards. The new awards system (while lucrative) is a complete eyesore and often takes up as much space (if not more) than the title of the post itself.

I cannot express how grateful I am that HN as opted to remain with this simple UI. It's all we need.
The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans like here on Earth
Is a "populist fiction" not precisely what any currency, that is traded in place of tangible things, is?
Sounds like you just need a multi-bump cake/jello mold like [1] with multiple "input spigots" pouring in with a "fast harden" aspect to have the perfect logo/name combo. Not sure how to convey rapid hardening with simple art, though... :-)

EDIT: You may just have to settle for speed/parallelism being conveyed by 2..3 spigots pouring in. :-) It's perfect - you can stay with moldy bread while it is a major work in progress and evolve to the more finished logo when your own work is "hardened" -- all without changing the name. ;-)

[1] https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/baking/best-b...
Seeing that game gives me some nostalgia. I remember playing it as a little boy. There was one in the corner of the local department store that got it’s fair share of quarters from me.

For as great as the SNES was, it’s kind of disappointing Nintendo out of such a poor quality port. Cool to see folks still working on these old games.
curl https://api.fizzbuzz.engineer/15
A Guide to Using Influencer Marketing for Fashion Brands
Are you curious to know how to use influencer marketing for fashion brands? Thankfully, fashion is a sector that can easily take full advantage of the power of influencers and social media.
I'd wager they just ran pccleanupscan on their xp boxes for the first tine since 2004 and got a shock, I guess the bulk of it was installed within the last 16 years. They probably had 90% of that malware for 15 years by now. You know how these skits go.
It's also ironic that the center-right government is picking which projects to fund in order to reduce carbon emissions, instead of a market-based emissions trading scheme
Worse than that, it would probably have 0 particle filters of any kind, so the fumes will probably be horrendous.
To be fair, the article is not about the firing. In any case, the two researchers who got fired did more harm to Google than good. Internally no one cares they left. AI etichs is an esoteric academic research field.
StackExchange network. StackOverflow is a part of it, among ServerFault, SuperUser, and others.
I drew no conclusion. I said, "if it can be shown ...".

It's true that I haven't studied DAI --- because I haven't felt any need to. I know how to buy currency that is every bit as stable as DAI and much more widely accepted and easily redeemable --- just buy USD.

Have you studied DAI? Are you sure that their algorithmic trading works the way they claim it does? How did you verify this?

Most "stablecoins" are built on trust of some sort at some level. Until someone audits them, you really have no idea if that trust is warranted.
I live near there and remember going to see the train in the town’s center when it happened. I remember seeing the wheel’s tracks in the asphalt, as they drove the loco directly on it, and was impressed at how shallow they were. I would have thought the train would tear the asphalt apart, but it was not the case, at least not when going in straight line.
I have posted elsewhere about the value of Reddit. Even if you ignore the massive network effects, the main value is:

1. Sign up once, log in everywhere

2. Follow and interact with all of your communities (and groups of related communities) all on the same platform.

3. Better UX for browsing/scanning and text-oriented conversations (no avatars/signatures, collapsible threads) than traditional bulletin boards.

4. Greater sense of interactivity and participation through upvoting, with a natural flow towards posting. First you read logged out, then you make an account just to upvote and downvote a few things, and finally you make a comment or two. Again, lacking an analogue in other platforms.

No other platform has even come close to this except HN, and HN is still one community, not a network of easily-cross-linkable thousands.

To disrupt Reddit 7 years ago you just needed to recognize this and do the same thing but better. To disrupt Reddit now, IDK good luck, inertia is real.
It’s easy to forget how much cleaner our air and water are now, though.
My cynicism backed hypothesis is that they want telemetry, location tracking and all that kind of stuff. Also knowing Tencent has a stake on Reddit [1], I am even more inclined to avoid it.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/08/tencent-invests-so...
Time will show; winning the competition was just the first step.
Its not shifting the blame. Its placing the blame squarely on where it belongs. If you're in New Hampshire and buy something listed as $1, then you only have to pay $1. Why? Because New Hampshire does not charge any sales tax. But if you were to cross the border into Massachusetts, then suddenly everything has an extra 6.25% tacked on at checkout solely because the Massachusetts state government decided to tax each transaction at 6.25%.

>I mean it's just a tax the business has to pay to the government, calculated based on products sold

No, its explicitly a tax on each transaction to be paid by the buyer. You're probably thinking of corporate tax, which the company also has to pay, but is completely separate from sales tax.

From their site:

>The buyer pays the sales tax, as an addition to the purchase price, to the vendor at the time of purchase. The vendor then sends the tax to Massachusetts. For motor vehicle and trailer sales, however, the buyer pays the sales tax directly to Massachusetts.

https://www.mass.gov/guides/sales-and-use-tax

>Ultimately it's all anti-consumer.

Yeah. Fortunately, New Hampshire is a lovely place to live.
Another example of a nutritional disease is beriberi. It plagued the Japanese Navy in the 19th century:

>Beriberi was a serious problem in the Japanese navy: Sailors fell ill an average of four times a year in the period 1878 to 1881, and 35% were cases of beriberi.

It was caused by a vitamin B1 deficiency. Sailors were eating mainly white rice (polished) rather than brown rice (unpolished) while underway. A more varied diet eventually fixed the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency
Oh, sure.

But that's beyond the point that if what they really desire is contribution, which they have been claiming for years, they should make it less painful to package software for the plateform, which we have been claiming for years.
> Yes, there have been numerous studies showing that the radio frequencies (radiation) used by cell phones and wifi are correlated (maybe causative, but not 100% sure) to reduced sperm count and quality.

Do you have some references?

> This is especially true when you have your phone in your pocket or your laptop on your lap.

Are you sure you're not mixing up heat and radiation here? OK, technically radiative heat is radiation, but surely that's not what you meant. Sitting outside on a warm day with a pillow on your crotch probably isn't good for your sperm either, but it doesn't seem honest to chalk that up to radiation (even though technically radiative may have warmed you in the first place).

> Not to mention it seems we have more commercial exposure too. We have GPS, satellite TV, StarLink, cell towers, etc all vying for 100% coverage. However, I didn't look up the wavelengths, so these might not be an issue, or might cause some other kind of issue.

I'm sorry, this is pure speculation unless you can back it up by something. "We didn't have all these things in the past" isn't an argument for anything. It's like claiming that the cumulative number of HN comments is rising while sperm quality is decreasing, hence HN is killing sperm.

> I guess I'm just saying it should be no surprise that sperm count and quality is decreasing if we know that certain RF is linked to it and we are increasing that RF exposure.

Do we know that those kinds of RF are linked to it? X-rays to your balls, sure! But GPS and cellphones? Evidence, please.
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My daughter has narcolepsy and (according to her) always lucid dreams, so I hope this isn't completely true.
From my reading Mason bees are easier to maintain and are better pollinators than honey bees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee
> Pretty much every language on the planet has JSON parser libraries.

Yes, but they all implement the JSON RFC slightly differently, or implement it in a totally non-compliant way.
Vaping better than nicotine replacement therapy for stopping smoking
Your argument doesn’t apply. Carmakers supplanted horses: that’s their objective. Consider the societal positive externalities that commercial news journalism has in society (yeah, I’d rather we had non-commercial news journalism too, but Google isn’t non-profit either).

Google and Facebook aren’t supplanting journalism - they benefit from it: while responsible citizens like you and me may prefer to read a news article rather than skim the headline or article preview and post a take on our timelines - I can assure you the majority of the “news”-consuming public definitely prefers the latter.

Yes, I’m fully aware AUS’ draft laws were Establishment (read: Murdoch) scummy bollocks, but we need to come to a reckoning of the need for a self-sufficient journalistic estate. For all the clickbait that Buzzfeed posts - they use the profits from that to fund real legitimate investigative reporting - that certainly isn’t cheap to run - and only profitable if it results in some politician getting fired. I’m arguing that it’s sucks that idealistic reporters and fact-finders have to sell shit (and shit is the word) to the public to support the good they do. I don’t think bowing, unquestionably, to the altar of the free-market is in any of our long-term interests.

There’s a reason I still pay my UK TV License fee despite being non-resident: quality-journalism is worth tenfold what we pay for it (well, that, and so I don’t feel guilty when I torrent new episodes of QI...)
Fair enough. I kinda forgot that smoking is still a thing. But it's been on a big decline for years, hasn't it? Surely this isn't some new and growing danger?
If you have mates in government it's easy to setup such money grab. I wonder what they are going to do next. For example coffee makers will demand a share of ones salary? (After drinking coffee you are more productive and make more money, it's only right to share with coffee producers % of your earnings, right? Then you will say you'll stop buying coffee and government will call you being anti Australian and will force you to drink coffee. It is that bad.
Part of me wonders if we aren’t getting there now. The crypto craze is driving more heavy compute setups around the globe than anything else.

When it finally slows down (if ever) what will all of that hardware be used for?
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