skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment has been made before, but here in NYC the Uber prices lately are just ridiculous at this point. Saturday night I was thinking of meeting some friends in Park Slope, and the Uber quote was $72 (I'm in Williamsburg). This was a ride that pre-Uber I could just call Areceibo or Northside car services, get a car at my door in 5 minutes, and it would cost around $20.

The weekend prior I was at a friend's art opening at south street seaport and the Uber home was $50+, something I in the past could just put my hand up on the street and hail a yellow cab for at least half that price. Not that it was perfect before -- they'd often stop, roll down the window, and if they didn't like where you'd be going they'd take off -- but now I feel like yellow cabs don't even stop for you anymore.

Took the subway instead, it was $2.75.

Edit to also say: I was just having memories of all the great music I'd hear in NYC cabs back in the day. Everyone is from everywhere here, so you'd hear music from all over the world when someone picked you up. Salsa, cumbia, bollywood, ghazals, high life, etc etc. After Uber everyone just plays generic American pop music, so as to not offend their millennial American passengers and get a bad rating (or as a friend would say, SV just makes apps to snitch on people). I once found out a driver was from the same town in Algeria that my father grew up in because he was playing Chaabi music. Miss when things weren't so sterile.
The problem is that you don’t just need to know about every other vehicle, you still need all the perceptual stuff for pedestrians, bikers, baby carriages, trash, road closures, traffic cops in the middle of the road, etc. All those things are arguably harder to detect reliably than a somewhat standard sized box of metal with pairs of lights in the front and back. I think shooting for superhuman perception of all these things is still where Tesla is failing.
> You never save money building it yourself

I agree, if what you want is a standard chair or table. But its common that I will want some piece of furniture that exactly fits some space or is otherwise unusual. For example, shelves that exactly fit my rooms.

It does help that I have somewhat low standards for appearance, and am quite content building things out of cheap wood.
No it isn't because the term was invented specifically to avoid this confusion -- it means "left from the perspective of the performer facing the audience".
This isn't ever going to be an operating system, that makes no sense.

Also "neo-browser" is a dumb term. This is just a browser. Slightly different than others, but fundamentally it's a tool for viewing web pages.
It can be really jarring too when a car behaves differently than you expect: I regularly use cruise control on my Kia, which makes driving much less stressful. It keeps the car centered in the lane, more or less turns the car with the road, and of course, matches the speed of the car in front of it with reasonable stopping distance. I wouldn't call it "self-driving" by any means, but if not for the alert that gets ticked off if your hands are off the wheel too long, it'd probably go on it's own for quite a long time without an incident.

However, I also once so far have experienced what happens when this system experiences a poorly-marked construction zone. Whilst most construction sites on the interstate system place temporary road lines for lane shifts, this one solely used cones. While I was paying attention and never left the flow of traffic, the car actually fought a little bit against me following the cones into another lane, because it didn't see the cones, it was following the lines.

It doesn't surprise me at all that if someone gets too comfortable trusting the car to do the work, even if they think they're paying attention, they could get driven off the roadway.
The so-called "Hague invasion act" allows the US President to use "any means necessary" to release any US citizen from custody by the International Criminal Court [0].

This, technically, gives the President the power to invade the Netherlands without getting (further) approval from Congress.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
Well, I also have a 401k and an Roth IRA, but I have a large amount of money in dollar-denominated fixed-interest accounts because it's money I'm planning on using within the next few years.

Is there something else I should be doing? I don't consider <5 years to be long-term savings. Am I incorrect?
Except that doesn't work if you're trying to produce a safe product. Investigations into crashes in the airline industry have proven that removing pilots from active participation in the control loop of the airplane results in distraction and an increased response time when an abnormal situation occurs. Learning how to deal with this is part of pilots' training, plus they have a co-pilot to keep an eye on things and back them up.

An imperfect self driving vehicle is the worst of all worlds: they lull the driver into the perception that the vehicle is safe while not being able to handle abnormal situations. The fact that there are multiple crashes on the record where Telsas have driven into stationary trucks and obstacles on roads is pretty damning proof that drivers can't always react in the time required when an imperfect self driving system is in use. They're not intrinsically safe.

At the very least drivers should be required additional training to operate these systems. Like pilots, drivers need to be taught how to recognize when things go awry and react to possible failures. Anything less is not rooted in safety culture, and it's good to see there are at least a few people starting to shine the light on how these systems are being implemented from a safety perspective.
Hmm, not familiar with WebView2 myself.

I think WebKit helped a lot initially getting everything running.
Not having access to extensions and other limitations imposed by Apple is a bit of a bummer (which I'm working around), but I think it's been much better than using Chromium/Electron still (especially on performance!)
Well, not the iPhone, but Apple's marketing. We had everything the iPhone did with Windows Mobile. Hell, even Symbian did fine. They were just aimed at "professionals" and completely ignored consumers.
> You’re completely overlooking how unprepared Afghans are for secular democracy.

Provide people with tangible benefits they gain from democracy and then it will come as naturally as they flock to the Taliban simply because they promise to get rid of the Western countries.

The West didn't do anything to actually promote democracy and provide a perspective for the people, and then we all wondered why the Taliban were able to take over the entire fucking country in a matter of two weeks.
Cloudflare is awful, I get tons of captchas while browsing with tor.
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Hey Matt, sorry for causing confusion. We will not create a full on operating system that you would need to install on a separate device. It is more in the sense of the way of working how it is very much sitting behind all your web apps and connects it to your local activities.
Americans seem to focus on themselves more than other nationalities.
It's the PLC which listed those ten emails as a basis of their grievances with Contreras. Contreras disputes the validity that claimed grievance.

But you seem to imply that Contreras, not the PLC, might be the one possibly viewed as a "professional victim", because you said "a person" and not "an organization."

Doesn't your observation apply more strongly to the PLC?

If the PLC pointed to 100 emails, and Contreras responded to all of them, then is that worse for Contreras? Or worse for the PLC? (Clearly it depends on if you accept the presented information. But "right or wrong" means you're only looking at the length of the list.)

If the PLC pointed to 100 emails, and Contreras responded to 10 of them, then wouldn't the easy interpretation be that the other 90 were justified? (Ie, the 'Gish Gallop' mentioned twice.)

As to your second sentence, unfortunately an irrational or emotional tone also doesn't seem to help. I wouldn't put it past people to claim that's evidence of being a professional victim playing to readers' emotions.
We actually don’t gather our users’ data.

But if you want to sync your data across devices, you’d have to upload your data (though we’re trying to move to iCloud for this so we don’t have to keep it).

Our privacy policy is available on our website and on the app before you login/signup, and we make sure to handle the data according to GDPR rules (though parts of GDPR are a bit lax, so I’d like to say better), considering it’s illegal not to :P
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Rationality is a game of checkers played outside in a meadow.

So many distractions. Wind, rain, bees, rampant squirrels.

And what makes that game more interesting than a squirrel anyway?
White House weighs response as Biden faces mounting criticism over Afghanistan
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In your mandatory signup form, I am told "Looks like you missed one of the required fields: [facepalm] Problems". I do not suffer from any of the listed problems.

… and now I have to dig up this login link? really testing my patience here…
I have no specific comment to make on the (first two chapters of the) book recommended by this blog. However I have become wary of people recommending a textbook because it finally helped them understand something they had tried to wrap their head around for years.

I heard a conjecture once that the best textbook you'll find on any given topic is your third. The point, of course, is that it simply takes about three serious attempts to make it click - but it is a fallacy to give all the credit to the third book.
That incident with the chopsaw shook me sufficiently enough that I returned the saw and haven't used a tool with a powered, spinning blade since. If I get another power tool it will be a sawstop.
What wants to get sick from their Uber driver?

If you were too sick to go into an office, you were too sick to drive.
As was stated elsewhere, most accidents happen in city driving where autopilot cannot be activated so the with/without AI is meaningless. We need to figure out when the AI could have been activated but wasn't, if you do that then you are correct.
Nobody wants to deal with rational people.

Big business want people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have to impress people they don't like

Politicians want people who will drink the cool-aid and follow what they (the politicians) say (and not what they do)

Religions... well, same.

And so all messages from advertisement, to movies, TV, narrative is about hijacking people's feelings and suppressing rationality. Common sense is no longer common, and doesn't make much sense.
> These wars weren't fought because women were treated badly

Originally, sure, it was about 9/11, but that was a long time ago. That's not what we talk about any more.

> many of them don't want to leave their families behind.

I was careful to construct my solution in a way that gave each woman a choice about that. Don't you think many would choose America over their "families"?

> There is no weekend course for integrating in western societies

The proven way to turn someone into an American, is for them to choose to come to America. That's all you need.

> Contrary to popular belief, you have to be qualified [to work in HR]

I wasn't commenting on the qualifications of HR professionals, but about the nature of the human resources themselves.

> What would you do with those girl and women? You have to educate them

The Transportation Safety Administration could be expanded. Starbucks and Lyft also both have famously inclusive work cultures, and Starbucks offers free college education.

> you would probably have large difficulties integrating them into the job market.

Supply and demand will find an equilibrium.

> This is just all around a bad idea.

It's a lot more likely to succeed that the original Bush/Cheney fantasy.
> Even Go, that prides itself on the good support for parallelism, fails once you actually want go get results back.

It's doable if you're willing to build a very thin abstraction over whatever you're trying to parallelize keeping in mind all possible edgecases [1] and how you'd like to handle them.

A generic `run N things in parallel and collect their results` function would be nice, but would probably end up being quite unwieldy in comparison to just writing out a purpose-specific function for what you exactly need.

[1] - Error handling, timeouts/cancellation, maximum amount of processes running in parallel, wait-for-full-join vs. returning results as they appear, introspection of currently running subordinates, subordinate output streaming/buffering/logging, ... A lot of things to consider when you're trying to build something universal, but that are easy to solve/ignore when you're building something purpose-specific with known constraints.
Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
Just make a bet and give it time and you'll see if they think it is worth losing money over their argument.

If it goes either way, not only one of you loses money but one of you could be formally crowned 'stupid'.
Hi, I'm stupid(why bother with IQ tests lmao), and I agree with your statement 100%.
So, not an operating system... You shouldn't call your product an "OS" then
I'm not the target (I use almost only Linux professionally) but from a quick glance this looks very much like my firefox setup (grouping tabs: tree style tabs + sharing quickly through many apps: share backported + split screen: Nifty Split).

I know it sounds like the famous Dropbox rebuttal comment, and I'm obviously not the target demographic, but I'm puzzled :)
And it's even using the user preferred browser!

Tried it on my MacBook M1 and it opens Brave which is my main browser.

Wonder if it's using the same mechanism as the macOS open(1) command does for opening URLs. Or maybe even calling the /usr/bin/open binary.
Short answer, you don't, you kind of force your brain to accept it. The writing experience on a tablet will (as far as I can tell) always be an inferior experience to writing on paper. It's not just latency, there are a thousand things that are almost impossible to replicate: jitter, texture, ink flow, pen nib texture/shape, offset, etc, etc.

But the other benefits -- instant digitizing, easier referencing, the ability to fully erase (I use a pen when I take physical notes, I refuse to take notes in pencil), layers/resizing/cropping, quick document transfers, the ability to quickly mark up PDFs or digital content, the ability to merge into my other notetaking/bookmarking systems -- are often high enough that it's worthwhile (at least in some situations).

So imagine that there are a series of thresholds for digital note-taking:

A) Take notes physically, print and re-scan PDFs/images that need to be annotated

B) Take notes physically, digitally mark up stuff that would otherwise need to be printed/scanned

C) take a mixture of physical/digital notes depending on context/mood, do any markup digitally

D) most notetaking is digital

Hitting each threshold of usage requires the writing experience to progressively stink less. This is different for everyone, it comes down to how much you can tolerate. With the older tablets I grew up with, I couldn't have forced myself to hit something like threshold C. IMO it's not really that you get used to the higher latency, it's more that you learn to force your brain to deal with it to get at the other benefits, and the better the experience the more that it becomes possible to do that.

That's for comparing digital notes to paper though. The different problem with comparing digital notetaking devices directly to each other is that once you're at a threshold where you expect a certain kind of experience, it's hard to go backwards. Every time the experience gets better, it's like a breath of fresh air, it makes it easier to actually use the device.

If my notetaking is at threshold C, and you give me a device that's only good enough for threshold B, then I'm going back to threshold B -- I can't force myself to pretend it's good enough for threshold C, no matter what your other platform features are. More likely, I won't even use the device at all, because I know threshold C exists, and the only reason I tolerate the current problems with texture/latency/offset/jitter/etc at all is because it's physically impossible for me to get a device that has lower latency.

In the digital vs physical debate, a digital medium with worse texture, offset, latency, and "flow" still has upsides over a physical medium. But if you compare two digital mediums, it's hard to tell what upside would would ever be big enough to justify using one with a worse experience. Tolerating any latency at all needs to come with some kind of wild benefit like "you can go get your printer recycled and never print another document ever again." There are some exceptions, but most platform-distinguishing features aren't big enough or important enough to overcome an inferior writing experience.
Heya, actually our main target audience are prosumers who pay for productivity tools within teams and companies. As mentioned this is a tool made more for work specifically, like notion, Airtable and the tools like this.
Why would you prank them at all? They are showing up to do their job, not be your buddy from college.

You have no idea how they will react to your "prank". They could feel rejected and/or humiliated. It could literally make them quit on their first week. Good job wasting the company thousands of dollars for your little prank.

Prank your friends, prank your coworkers who happen to also be your friends if you want. Don't prank strangers when they're already going through the stressful event of starting a new job.
Risk compensation probably also works the other way, looking forward to all news cars standard supplied with a new safety device that cuts traffic accidents to a small fraction of what they used to be, the only ones remaining are all fatal for the driver.

A nice and very sharp 8" stainless steel spike on the steering wheel facing the driver.
When I was 12 I remember really wanting my dev environment (turbo/free pascal) on a PDA but not being able to find one with good support. Eventually I got a Zarus but I wasn't good enough with Linux to get Free Pascal working on it.
I recently spent some time evaluating a bunch of different systems for migrating away from Ubuntu, including several Arch-based ones.

I was the most impressed with Manjaro, it seems very well polished. From Gnome 40 on Wayland, to the the default ZFS shell with custom Powerline prompt, to the GUI desktop layout switcher which even includes the tiling PoP Shell as an option.

The Manjaro team has done an excellent job at assembling a configuration that is simultaneously power-user-focused but also user-friendly.
For offices, non tech saavy places, my experience hints at the fact that computers are far from being a main factor.

Software is not mastered even by people in charge of picking it. It changes all the time. Users are (might be different with the next gen) digital-first, also software design regressed a lot, as400 terminals were so damn fast and predictable. Now users have desks with various UI paradigms (2021 people still don't know if single or double click will cause an action, from a hand tool pov it's an absolute failure, but software is not approached like a tool, except maybe industrial settings with big buttons and lag free interfaces)

Fun bit: intranet failed the other day, had to use good old paper template filled manually. It took me (newb here) 2 minutes. With the webapp it's 3 or more, with lots of clicks and waits and maybes... Beside a DB tracking the document creation it's of zero value.

I could go on further but not right now.
Yeah, we're using new frameworks that help keep our performance fast and product iteration high.

Hopefully you'll be able to upgrade to try it out :)
A lot of the currently mainstream advanced compiler and programming language tech was called AI when first developed.
Related, the Neo900 project apparently gave up. Does anyone know why?
Yes, that's the "overwhelmingly" qualifier.
What support does this project (and other "Launch HN" ones) get from YCombinator? How much money for the runway?
It's quite a trip on the memory lane when I am still using Nokia as my phone. The times when Nokia was the giant of the phone industry. But due to the rapid technological advancements, they struggle in the smartphone revolution, and since then, there has been a power shift in the industry.
You can skip doing all that formatting work yourself by using a good template. If you choose a 1-column layout, ATS probably won't bork it any more than any other PDF, too.

Here are a bunch of templates that range from decent-looking to beautiful: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/cv
Sure, naive rationalism is intellectually dead, but post-rationalism deserves a better endorsement, thus the downvotes. I suspect most people aren't yet familiar with the discourse.
If I was more qualified I'd write it myself, but alas.
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> It's fast, fun and easy!

--> I don't want it.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith
Isn't the answer obvious? Because doing otherwise involves a lot more work, and people choose the easier path.
Novel substrates for plant growth and disruptive innovation – the way forward?
Well, it does have "float" in the code, doesn't it?
Isn't that the point? No way out really.
Waymo selected the one state willing to entirely remove any safety reporting requirements for self-driving cars as the place to launch their service. Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, if they had confidence in their safety record, they would've launched it in California, not Arizona.

Waymo has lied about the capabilities of their technology regularly, and for that reason alone, should be assumed unsafe. A former employee expressed disappointment they weren't the first self-driving car company to kill someone, because that meant they were behind.
When I was learning to drive, my grandmother drilled into me to never swerve for an animal that jumps out in front of the car. This saved me when I was driving by the Grand Canyon and jack rabbits kept jumping, out of nowhere seemingly, in front of my car. I drilled "never swerve" into my son and it saved him on a mountain road when he hit a deer. He didn't go into the trees. When I drove in Alaska I asked why the forest was cut back from the road. They said that moose like to step out in front of cars.

I have no idea how self-driving fits into this. I don't have a feel how self-driving responds to emergencies. I'd have to experience an emergency in one. For that reason, I don't see myself ever trusting self-driving.
My impression: this is cute, but confusing. I don't like having to mentally translate things like "modules" and "constants" into headings that would appear in a resume.
I read somewhere about the postal network in India and how it suffered from a widespread lack of organized addresses. If it's still true, perhaps this is a contributing factor to why it might be hard to keep up and achieve scale for eBay clones?