skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the same vibe from Uber (which I outlined here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27788509) as I did from working for an internet company before the dot com bubble burst that was all show to raise money from investors.
I have Facebook on my phone at least since 2013 and I haven't ever re-downloaded it. I also downloaded tiktok last year. Do the math
What I don't understand about the "Uber can never be profitable" argument is, why can't they just raise prices until they're no longer selling at a loss? If the answer to that is, "because then demand would die", why doesn't that apply to taxis? Taxis make money. Why can't a better (in many people's opinion) service, with better tech, do at least that well?

Setting aside the other reasons to dislike Uber, there is obviously a valuable product there. I get that it has been subsidized by VC dollars in a land grab, etc., but saying it can never be profitable is saying it can never find a fair market value, and that doesn't make sense to me. What am I missing?
> Sorry, I said wrong - if any user will have opportunity to _ free _ install custom add-ons from any sources, then if he encounters a problem or will be in danger due to installing suspicious add-on, he will blame Mozilla and do the right thing.

> If you dont want to register on AMO, then you cant install custom add-ons, even if you wrote the add-on yourself and fully trust it.
> The restaurant crap is even more ridiculous. It literally takes the customer 5x more time to order a pizza on an app. I’ll call and say “Hi, I’m Spooky23, two cheese pizza and garlic knots” and I’m done.

This depends heavily on the restaurant.

(The app potentially wins, too, if have a recurring order saved to your favorites. My family tends to have the same fairly complex sushi order and I can re-order it in a click.)
As this document acknowledges, though, quite a few normal foods fall under their definition of "ultra-processed". Pasta sauce, sausages, ice cream, even bagged bread are all included.
Yes, for me the killer aspect of Quicklook is being able to flip through dozens of documents in barely more time than it takes for my arrow keys to actuate. It’s wonderful for skimming through dozens of files quickly. Icons that accurately represent content on more than just images are great too.

Aside from that, QuickLook remains one of the few examples of a generic extensible document reader in modern operating systems. The way it gains the ability to read new types of files just by virtue of the owning app’s bundle being present on the system (no installation necessary, and it goes away when you delete the app) makes so much sense, and it’s a shame that there’s no equivalent on Windows and Linux.
Assembly: The First Urbit Unconference
They are smart but TBH that crow already did all the sub-puzzles independently, he knew what the possible moves are just had to execute them in some order.
What the article speculates is a way to load up insuline in the blood that would not act if the blood glucose is below let's say 120 - but when it is above - then the insuline opens and acts. This is the fastest possible way of it to act. Even if it degrades and you could not keep much of it constantly in the blood stream - then you could inject it much before the meal and it would just start acting when the blood sugar increases and also you could inject more than enough and not worry about injecting too much of it - because it would never lead to hypo.

This would be the ideal - in a way it would be better than functioning pancreas - because pancreas needs a few minutes before releasing insuline and this would act instantly.
This study was conducted during the pandemic, when people with low smartphone screen times would experience even more social isolation than those who had high smartphone screen times.

Of course when every other avenue of socialization is limited, online access becomes better than nothing.

It's rather convenient that the article doesn't mention the study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...) was performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the new bit, if you've already read about the basics of animal counting:

> The crows mixed up a blank screen more often with images of a single dot than they did with images of two, three or four dots. Recordings of the crows’ brain activity during these tasks revealed that neurons in a region of their brain called the pallium represent zero as a quantity alongside other numerosities, just as is found in the primate prefrontal cortex.

(I'm a little disgruntled about skimming a longish article to find this 2/3 of the way down.)
Excavators and heavy trucks definitely were stolen. Thieves used them to ram the facades of jewellers, ATMs etc. This is why such businesses now have those poles that are raised out of the street. It was very common in the Netherlands before the thieves upgraded themselves to explosives (which I mentioned in the post below).

But good point about the tracks yeah.
> We would not accept having breathalyzers in every car.

Funny you would bring that up. I think the new infrastructure bill requires that for cars built after 2029 (or some other "future, but not that far" date)
> incentives of the union here is not always aligned with the students

I don't know why this would surprise anyone.

The union represents the teachers. It absolutely doesn't represent the students - none of them are members!

As far as a rational teaching union is concerned, the government, the general public, schools, parents, and students, are all the enemy.
I agree that many Youtube videos are tedious and needlessly dragged out, probably caused by focussing on time spent as KPI. Too many Youtube videos nowadays give a strong vibe of creators being made only for the money.

For TikTok I feel it's still at the stage where the makers, above all else, just want to be seen. But maybe it's only a matter of time before it devolves into aggressive monetization.
Most people on the planet don't use ios, and in 2016 when whatsapp had, IIRC about 900 million users was about when they cancelled it. It's fair to assume a lot of people paid that dollar.
I think you misread the whole thing you posted. It literally talks about the right to work and the right to leisure with respect to reasonable working hours. I don't see any right to just sit on your ass and consume things.
And there’s that famous computer vision story of a model that was supposed to detect tanks in images but actually just detected whether or not it was sunny (all the tank pictures in the training set were sunny, non tanks overcast).

Children will make similar classification errors when learning too.

None of this means that it’s not possible they can also learn counting, but just that scientists need to be clever about experimental design. The book goes into that.
> no one should ever rent from you

That's harsh. Reality is, I have no issues keeping my place booked. I've maintained a perfect 5.0 / Superhost status so far on Airbnb - and I generally have no issues with guests following house rules.

> reminding someone a couple days before their arrival

I said I remind them within their free, 48-hour cancellation window. They get a reminder right after they book - allowing them to cancel without penalty if they disagree.

>e pretty pissed off if some airbnb listing hid "no guests"

Uh, yeah, I'd be pissed too. It's a good thing I don't hide it. Where did I say I hide it? I said it is in my house rules - which Airbnb presents to the guest before booking. I then send an automated reply, immediate after booking, so that there is no ambiguity.
I once looked up what big apes are eating and found out that they eat very little meat and lots of fruit. Like half of the diet could be figs.
Both Facebook and TikTok are foreign actors in my country (and almost all of them).
We've been deliberately fortifying foods since the 1930s to try to reduce incidence of diseases caused by lack of some vitamin or other micronutrient, which has seemed to be effective. You're required to add it for some products, although I believe quite a bit is still voluntary.
I do think TikTok's chosen format and their algorithm make a great product. However, I am also increasingly wary of their growing power. Although I didn't expect it because they are foreign-owned, they are much more heavy-handed about censorship of centrist and conservative views (on the American political spectrum) than other platforms like Twitter and Facebook. I've seen numerous people I follow get banned aggressively, and apart from making me/others feel oppressed, such censorship also makes me concerned about the degree of influence they have in shaping public conversation in our society - particularly with younger generations. A feasible explanation is that they are simply conforming to the same politically-biased moderation practices seen elsewhere, like on Twitter ,and are conforming to what they perceive the market is demanding. A more sinister explanation is that this is a purposeful plan by the CCP to sow chaos in America by fanning the flames of a very fundamental, pervasive, ideological division.
First facility in the world capable of volume production of Si-anode batteries
HN is mostly like a good day on Facebook but once in awhile it transcends every other social media. IMO it is going downhill fast though and the really good discussions are getting drowned out by China hate, nationalism, brand loyalty, etc. more often than not. All in all 30 minutes of Tiktok is likely to make me smile a lot more than HN but then there's not any real discussions so hard to compare the two.

All of Reddit makes me hate the world. No sub doesn't. If it does just visit it one or two times more and bingo.
Hi Richie. I watched your demo video. Good luck with Clarity!

I noticed you have a search feature, and I'm guessing it's keyword based (Algolia/Elasticsearch)? If you searched for "team is overworked", could it return the retrospective that states "This lead our teammates to feel spread thin" (from the demo video)?

I'm asking because semantic search can solve this problem. I have a research background in this area, and I cofounded ZIR AI (https://zir-ai.com/) to provide an easy-to-integrate semantic search.

So, if better search is a priority, let's connect :-) I would love to collaborate.
While scary, is this really newsworthy? We're surrounded by bacteria that can be dangerous, but usually isn't.

Five years ago, my dad was admitted to the hospital because he contracted cryptococcus neoformans[1]. The thing is, that bacteria is everywhere. It's just that most people's bodies are able to easily fight it off. Most of the time, when someone becomes infected it is due to low immunity (HIV/AIDS patients and transplant patients, for example) He is neither of them. It turns out, there is a tiny percentage of the population that becomes infected and nobody knows why.

It was scary. Until they finally did a biopsy of his brain they were convinced he had cancer, they just didn't know what form. After the biopsy they were able to easily treat it with a common, over the counter medication they give women for yeast infections.

The bacteria had done enough damage that they had to install a permanent ventricular shunt (basically, a subdural tube that goes from his brain to his stomach to act as an overflow for cerebral fluid his body can no longer properly process in the brain) People die from cryptococcal meningitis like he had. My dad's neurosurgeon even told me that my dad was days away from death, had they not figured out what the problem was when they did.

Still, no news outlets reported on it. So I can't help but wonder, again, the newsworthiness of this mysterious deadly bacteria other than Ars Technica is joining all other media companies in trying to drum up revenue by needlessly scaring people.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/cdc-and-fungal/cryptococcal-menin...
My best guess is, that as humans our brains are especially sensitive to the facial expressions of other people. And, a shocked expression is an incredibly important signal. Looking at someone wide-eyed with an open mouth in front of you implies there is something you really need to pay attention to.

Just watch how babies react when you make the same face.

I suspect social media just hijacked and metastasized the response.
I think integrations like the MS Word example they show off at the end of the live demo have the potential to be even more impactful than just generating code for programmers.
Just full stack devs react native + go. Is it too wrong to think they are the same? Programming is programming, most computers work in a similar way no?

But they also don't know how garbage collection works in their language, or how to work with 1 million things in an efficient manner. Or why does the app pause for 100 ms because someone does sort while parsing dates within the sort.

For example, I have seen people that cant imagine what is the cost of a leaked database transaction, just back of the napkin wise, like you would think well, how many changes happened in between, how much we have to unwind when the session disconnects, when will it even disconnect because of the connection pool.. etc etc. Because the sql server is this magic rds thing. As if aws will solve everything with its pixie dust.
Like, judeo-christianity? Western societies viewpoints on human intelligence and how it relates to animal intelligence for centuries? The notion, typically, is that while humans are animals our intelligence is not just different in degree but different in kind. I think it comes from that bit in the bible where their god places humans as above all other life forms, just a guess though.
A few years back I was walking along the SF bay down in the marina with a friend when suddenly I heard a "clunk" and felt a splash of water on my legs. Initially I thought some drunk idiot threw a beer bottle out the window of their car, but a few seconds later a Seagull swooped down, grabbed a clam it had dropped from who knows how high up, and fly off with lunch. I had no idea they did that, I just stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds.
No landlord has been receiving $0 in rent for the last 18 months. Either they accepted rental assistance from the government (covering the full amount of missing rent) or they have declined rental assistance from the government, and have evicted the tenant. The most strict eviction moratorium is in California, which bars "evictions if renters file a declaration about their financial hardships, and if they pay at least 25% of their debt by the end of January 2021."

Also, unless the landlord entered a 2 year lease with a tenant in February 2020, why would a landlord choose to renew a lease with a tenant who is paying $0? These eviction moratoriums do not just let any tenant stay and pay $0, there are very strict guidelines for what kind of tenants are not allowed to be evicted and for how long.

Additionally, during the Great Recession, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act was passed which required 3 month notice to tenants before beginning the eviction process, so I do think it's fair to blame landlords if they are not able to afford their investment properties when a few months of rent is not paid on time.
So says a guy with 1,000 comments on Hacker News.
Why are people getting payment implants?
Yes, in these countries it's common for people to cook meals from scratch without using any ultra-processed ingredients (e.g. not using a ready-made sauce).

In the UK, convenience foods and ready-made ingredients (like sauces and condiments) are common and popular in supermarkets. It will be interesting to see if people's eating and cooking habits have changed during the pandemic and lockdown (i.e. more home cooking).
> Maybe the medium is the message still holds?

Was there ever any question? Your whole comment here is a perfect demonstration.
Sure, but we're in a thread talking about why some folks are choosing to send kids to "Russian" style maths teachers.

The whole discussion is from the perspective of the cultural and sociological.

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As an aside, I generally agree with you about american schooling. I think it's less a concerted effort, and more a sad reality of the fact that modern schools have essentially become federally funded child care in the US.
this!

TikTok regularly leaves me inspired, and across many different creative realms: Amazing makeup, mindblowing parkour, beautiful original music and eye opening covers. Oh and some of the short comedy sketches have left me thoroughly incapacitated due to laughter. The list goes on for me.

In general, I'm happier after viewing, even when the "you should stop watching too much TikTok guy" comes on.
There are some problems about TikTok, but it just reminds me how fun internet could be.
Not All Deep Fakes Are Bad – Startup Born from DeepTomCruise
Feel free to post any issues to the github repo and I'll try to help. Building is indeed not trivial, since there are so many languages and tools and thus builiding is currently only fully supported on linux (rather a docker linux build). With a few exceptions building on windows and OSX works.
A simple workaround is to delete the folders of those implementations that cause errors.
Diarrhea isn't comparable to COVID, as it is a symptom of numerous other causes (both infectious agents and otherwise) not a single infectious agent.
Question, how much of this is American culture of working people 50+ hours with no life balance? I wonder if everyone had 4 weeks paid vacation and strict 40 hour weeks how much of this would be occurring.

That doesn't fix bad bosses or bad culture in an organization. But at least it means you are not in that environment 24/7.
It used to go by Epiphany, but that's probably an even worse name.
Fires at tire recycling plants are all too common.

There are good techniques for recycling tires. May not be profitable, but they work.[1]

When looking at YouTube videos of tire recycling operations, take a close look at the throughput. If the beginning is a front-end loader dumping in a load of tires, that's good. If it's one guy lifting a tire onto a conveyor, they're not serious about it.

[1] https://youtu.be/UWyLzXHqJSs
How is TikTok state sponsored?
There's always room for one more and perhaps another existing security vendor will buy them to complete their enterprise offering etc...
But that's exactly the behaviour we want to encourage, when we consider so many poor people in America have a huge calorie surplus (ie. are obese or overweight).

If 1kg of Oreos (41% sugar) costs $3.60 instead of $3.19, people will spend the same but just consume 11% less, or manufacturers will recreate the recipe to have less sugar. Both of those outcomes are good.

The money collected can be used to subsidise community kitchens, or raw fruit and vegetables.
> TikTok apparently limited the reach of people with disabilities, including facial disfigurement and Down syndrome.

Hollywood and Youtube Originals presumably do this too, based on proportion of actors with these issues compared to what you see out and about.
To be fair, asset import is incredibly complex and a relative disaster. Content pipelines are the hardest and most complicated problem in modern development imho.

Unity grew in an FBX world. Bevy is focusing on the new kid GLTF. I don’t have enough experience with GLTF to predict if it’s full of landmines or not. I’m gonna guess probably.
How do you take it? I imagine it would be ideal to quickly beat hyperglycemia when you underestimate a meal bolus. But I don't see it replacing a pump (or pens), because it would be difficult to: measure it exactly and keep supplying it continuously.
This is why I stopped looking at TikTok altogether. "Trends" just seem to be too enormous a use case for creators, to be avoided. I never wanted to know who Megan Thee Stallion or $NOT are, but here we are.
Can during deacceleration all energy be absorbed and used for accelerating at a later moment?
Are they going to social networks because all other avenues are restricting them from speak out? Is this similar to the metoo movement, where a bunch of females started speaking up on social media because places they have reported abuse to generally have no real outcome?
Well, the obvious option if you've subverted someone's phone so you can do whatever you want with it, and have access to illegal stuff, would be to store it on the phone and submit anonymous tips about the person to the police. Or upload it to random image-sharing websites, or Facebook, or email it to their coworkers with some "I found this on X's phone and thought you should know" note attached, or whatever.

I'm just saying that actually getting the attention of authorities is the most trivial part of this suggested attack. Apple's new stuff is a vector for that, sure, but anyone who is in a position to exploit it could easily do so in other ways as well.
Sad news.

Anecdotal: 5 years ago I went on the Dr. Fuhrman diet (no processed foods). Within 6 weeks I felt better than I had in a decade: everything was better: clearer thinking, inflammation and bodily discomfort gone, longer hikes without getting tired, and better sleep.

I hate to think of the costs to society and personal costs of people not getting healthy food to eat.
> Is most of the conurbation as well served by non-car transport or is your area a special case?

I'm definitely in the more special case kind of area, by choice. There were many reasons why I picked the place where I live, and transit options were one of the key ones.

> Maybe there's some spontaneity to buying stuff that I just don't have.

I feel you on this idea. I'm not really a huge fan of these ridiculously giant stores with absolutely massive parking lots, I'd like for smaller grocers to be more popular. In the US at least, smaller grocers are dying, and grocers surviving are building bigger stores to try and compete more on the level of those 180,000sqft behemoths. The death of the smaller grocers leave behind 15-20,0000sqft largely empty retail storefronts around, at least in the big cities.

> horrified at how so much of its residential green space is golf courses.

There's a municipal golf course real close to my house, at the edge of my neighborhood. What is so horrifying about it? This land was prairie land, so its not like we're greenifying the desert or something like that. It would have been a bunch of small rolling hills, creeks, small ponds, and grasses before it was a golf course. The people in the area like to golf, why is it any worse than it just being a more generic park? Would you have also expressed such horror if it was filled with frisbee golf courses, or soccer fields?

That said, within my neighborhood there's a several acre park that is a bit more of generic greenspace. It has playgrounds for kids, a fishing pond, a soccer field, a baseball field, a softball field, etc. It also has a bunch of picnic tables and grills scattered at the tree lines. These kinds of parks are pretty common around where I live as well. It is not like all parks are golf courses. Certainly more than what you'd see in France, but golf is also significantly more popular here than in urban areas of France I'd imagine. If nobody was using them I'd get the point of them being horrified at the waste, but for many of the golf courses you need to book your tee time days in advance.
Sometimes I eat shredded wheat and bananas, yogurt and fruit, or shredded wheat + yogurt + fruit. That takes 0 effort and can be packed for breakfast or lunch.

Also carrots and hummus, dry roasted nuts, cheese and wheat thins, PB and apple slices, are all good snacks for a kid.
Curious - does TikTok censor content that China would find sensitive, like the existence of Taiwan or pro Hong Kong protest content?