skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really just think the play on all these sorts of companies was just to get max amount of money in this era of intense amounts of dumb investor money before it dries up. The math on WeWork etc finding profitability never made sense. The investor money IS the end goal.

I didn’t know things were already this bad for Uber. Looking like a big short on the stock would pay off nicely soon. I’ll leave that to the big guys.
No, it's the technology or perhaps the companies supplying it (unions are only ever a problem in the US - or maybe they're never a problem and there's only a propaganda system against them in the US). London Underground are currently in the process of literally the third attempt to upgrade the signalling on the subsurface lines (i.e. including the District) - the previous attempt by Bombardier failed outright (as London Underground were aware it would from the early days, but they were politically obliged to wait until the company admitted as much), and the one before that (a similar story with New Labour ideology-driven PPP) was also abandoned.
You are knee-jerk reacting to keywords you have been taught to hate, instead of actually reading and comprehending what is being said.

You need to work on that, first of all.
If the person has some stronger belief (e.g. people are important, and hurting them unnecessarily is bad) that can override “never allow green-skinned people in your neighbourhood”, they're redeemable. If they don't, they're evil. (Evil people can be rational, too.)
Option Pricing with Mandelbrot’s MMAR
It has nothing to do with catching bugs.

It has to do with that one sometimes has to write 80 lines of code in Go to to the same as 3 lines of Rust code due to having to repeat oneself all the time.
They are talking about the owner of the whole cab company making 75k.
What Is FaaS?
Video of the lifecycle of HIV. To me it's absolutely mind-blowing to think that this entire process developed on its own, in dark, and is mindlessly progressing along so effectively that despite all of our technological capability we can barely contain it.

https://vimeo.com/260291607

(also how awesome is the music?)
Exactly this. PreP costs >$20,000 a year.
Interesting, from the experience of my friends it sounds like they use it mostly to have fun (they use it when traveling to have a one night stand, find new friends in their home town).

Both men and women.

Those that wanted marriage and kids already have that.
Let's write a compiler, part 4: Testing
This is an interesting idea for app-interoperability in general. It brings to mind Apple Automator, which I have no idea how works, but can sometimes be used to make Apps interoperate. It'd be pretty cool if every app did have a sitemap-like API spec that that mapped out the core of the app, and the UI sat on top of that.
See also this review of the author's previous book, Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (2012).

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/beautiful-so...
Yeah I don't know what it is about QR codes but I'm really not a fan of the aesthetic they have. There's something cheap, mechanistic, institutional about them that I can't quite put my finger on.
That was their example, not their argument. "what about china" is a bad argument.
Specifically that's 45% of all households, not 45% of residents. Those rates are super low the closer you are to manhattan, and much higher as you reach the outer parts of the outer boroughs [https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars]

And for context, the average US household owns about 1.9 cars. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but its easy to see that NYC car ownership is MUCH lower than the nation on average.
[https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/highlights_of_the_2...]
But you're sure that not using the first person is a big component of that?
Thank goodness. I’m happy PrEP exists, but it gave me intense nausea for weeks before I couldn’t do it anymore. I would love to be able to date and not have to worry about HIV (I’m a trans woman who dates men, most of whom are bisexual). Not having to take another horse pill daily would be great too.
Asking people to wear a mask when they feel sick is not the current ask.
Same. I live a happy life with a very close relationship with my significant other.

I spent years going on dates and refining a charming persona, but that was the means to the end. Companionship is far more fulfilling than thin ego boosts, but you'll never find a partner unless you're willing to put in effort to become attractive to many potential partners and then attempting relationships. Sure, it's a facade and not who you are in your pure, unrefined, mammalian form, but it's a good version of yourself.

None of this is particularly revolutionary; it's just how courtship and mating works with mammals. Tinder is just the lubricant.
> A high speed line with passing places is a non-starter.

Yep. Not sure if I miss-worded something but that definitely wasn't what I was implying, just the opposite. That the whole point of HS2 is to separate the fast and slow trains so you don't need passing places (either at stations or otherwise) and so can actually run more trains on both the new HS [line and the existing line.
I don't have an opinion on what the "it's not caused by lyme" camp rely on, but the wikipedia page complained about above actually already references another study that found spirochetes in animals after antibiotic treatment.

No doubt the language in that wikipedia page is pretty triggering if you already believe chronic lyme disease is a thing though.
The censorship has been a disgrace.
I think the problem we're seeing here is that Tesla's autopilot system is on the cusp of a fully automated driving experience and that feels good enough to the driver. Yet it's not quite good enough, as we can see from the mistakes it has made.

Honestly, I see this as a necessary transition pain towards fully automated vehicles. No matter how you slice it there's going to be periods where fully automated driving systems aren't quite there yet but are good enough 97% of the time that human drivers let their guard down. It's going to take some sacrifices to get to fully autonomous driving.

The good news is that even with these accidents self-driving features are a bazillion times safer than human drivers. It sure seems like the occasional vehicle collision into stationary objects is going to throw a great big wrench into self-driving safety statistics but it isn't even a rounding error compared to the sheer number of accidents caused by human drivers.
Anecdotally, many NYCers own cars as family units, especially common in the non-Manhattan suburbs. It's just not typically a 1:1 adult/car pairing like the suburbs are.
> Just image search “cab company owner” and see if you can find the billions.

I keep getting all these photos of Michael Cohen
Here is a presentation from 2019 showing how they reduced Kernel boot time from 3s to 300ms: https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/281/...
> The scale of the game has never been replicated by any other game/series as far as I know.

Hmm, maybe some 4X ? Even excluding the non-RTS ones, you have the likes of AI War (1&2), Distant Worlds (2 to be released soon) and Star Ruler (1&2) ?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/70900/Star_Ruler/
"Logicomix: An epic search for truth" [1] is a graphic novel that chronicles the life of Bertrand Russell (logician and philosopher) and his interactions with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel. I really enjoyed this. It was fun and highly educational.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-search-truth-Apostolos-Doxi...
Ugh, this is so mean spirited and gross to post.
I just always use let because it looks better. Const provides pretty much no value in js anyway.
The DPI is also relevant. I find the global menu fine on my 13" MacBook even though it's 2560x1600, but it can be a bit tedious on my 28" display when I have multiple applications open side-by-side.
I agree that we need a carbon tax. However, mega ships are super carbon efficient. You driving to the store to buy the shirt burned added more carbon than the amount of carbon to ship it from Asia. Our personal vehicles are not efficient. Large, relatively slow moving transport (train, container ship) is. We are a major contributor to all the consumption driven pollution in Asia.
Ask HN: What are the current state-of-the-art Lisp implementations doing?
I've seen a few lisps floating by lately and am curious in what seasoned lisp programmers think.

What are the high performance lisp implementations doing that the original didn't / simple implementations don't?
Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s
>It's still a death sentence in Africa (as is being gay).

Just to be somewhat anal, AIDS is much more common in Southern Africa, where homosexuality is generally either legal or the laws against it weak and unenforced.

It's also much more correlated with race than sexuality. In South Africa, it affects something like 15% of blacks vs 0.3% of whites. Women are also far more likely to have HIV, especially younger ones. I think it's around 30% for pregnant women.

Outside of the West, AIDS is definitely not something that mainly gay men get.
> Asia is fully closed. That's due to their culture.

The famous shared culture of 3 billion people. /s

Not sure which countries you were looking at, but there are some where they do not have sufficient supplies of vaccines. That might be why they're closed to visitors.
In the past year there've been articles about NYC's decline due to the many people leaving the city, unwilling to pay enormous rents when much of the city is closed for a year. With that, three of NYC's motors (continuous inflow of new people with hopes and dreams, an city with a lot of existing cultural infrastructure, and tourism) came to a standstill.

To then write an article completely not addressing any of those issues and simply saying that NYC has more people pre-covid 2020 census, than in 2010... is just silly.

Especially if you then spend the first quarter of the article immediately explaining that 500k of the 600k of the increase was due to an administrative correction.

It's not sure that NYC is in decline, but this article definitely doesn't provide any evidence to the contrary.
I dislike uber, but given that they have meant to gone bankrupt a number of times already, I'm not keen to bet against them anytime soon.

Yes, they should have disappeared in a normal world, but uber didn't because its backed by people with a fucktonne of cash, enough might to distort lots of things about it that should have really killed it years ago.

But then again, in a normal world, Tesla's stock price should be 5% of what it is now, given how much money they loose on making cars.

But we are where we are. I expect uber will thrash about for a number of years yet. However I suspect that if/when uber goes pop, it'll bring lots of tech stocks down with it.
I go hiking a lot in the Hudson area of New York and have my concerns about ticks too.
As you said, tall sock are recommended. I also use permethrin on all my lower items of clothing including shoes.
I sometimes also use Off on my exposed skin areas and then check for ticks after my hikes.

My wife was once bitten by something through her pants. That left a small ring. I do doubt it was a tick though.

My sister on the other hand was bitten by something a few years ago, she thinks it was a spider. There were multiple red rings extending far and she started having other reactions and needed hospitalization.
They pumped her so full of anti-biotics(was on a drip for days), it left her digestive system screwy for months but at least she does not have Lyme disease now.
That’s from back in May - things have changed quite a bit since then:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/real...

In June they were already back to only 11% down, and it’s been accelerating since then. I doubt it’ll stabilize at pre-pandemic levels for a while, but it’s nowhere near where it was even 6 months ago
You could be doing stuff that works decently, is great for humans, and still be productive (maybe even fast). Or figure out how to do it faster next time.

Someone else may want you to be fast and productive. Or... they'll find someone else who can provide what they want who is faster and more productive than you.
My partner got a bullseye-inducing tick byte in our front yard in suburban upstate NY. Hardly little-traveled.

The absolute quantity of deer is more important than the deer/human ratio. Lawns make it super easy for deer to migrate, human presence suppresses wolves and other predators, and mice love our trash, houses, bird feeders, and pet food.
Six-part series on building a recommender system with TensorFlow 2
Spotify regularly upsets me with change. Don't change a UI that looks good and works well just to hide something I need. It feels like it's just justification to have an entire team of client designers employed.

I remember when Spotify had Lyrics, which is an obvious choice of feature for a music service. It was off my a line or two, but it worked pretty well and I used it all the time. It was the best way to hear the music and see the lyrics that I knew of. Then, one day, I open the client and see that clicking the lyrics button showed a message that the lyrics feature was being enhanced and it'd be back soon. Then one day the button disappeared.

The only reason I use spottily over local music at this point is discovery, because they really do a great job at that.
The data center bridging extensions ensure that packets won't get lost due to congestion or flow control. They were created in part because fibre channel over ethernet couldn't handle any packet loss in the fabric.
To add a data point to this, I'm happily married to someone I met on Tinder. Without the two of us using dating apps, there's a near zero chance that we would've met.
What is wrong is that people have unrealistic expectations towards their jobs (and, more general, their lives). These expectations are making them unhappy and depressed.
One of the most interesting insights I retained from my machine learning course from a couple of decades ago is that you can put a mathematical bound on how quickly you can learn from a given set of data, and how much you can learn. In the situations presented by the real world this is often not very interesting because we can only process such a vanishing fraction of the data available that we're so far below this theoretical optimum that it's uninteresting, but in more constrained situations it can be relevant.

In this case, while I agree that there was enough data to have a good guess that something had gone wrong after a certain period of time, it definitely is the sort of noisy data that would take some non-trivial aggregation to be sure, and even in hindsight I'm not so sure the signal was so strong that it's worth metaphorically beating anyone up about.

Moreover, only in hindsight is it obvious that the culprit was a doubling of melee damage. Prior to knowing that, the learning rate was constrained by the multiplicity of possible theories that could have explained this. It's not like it was simply a matter of "Either 1. the game is unchanged and people have just Got Gud or 2. the melee damage rate has been doubled", the span of possibilities was much larger than that. Had an oracle come down from whereever and offered that choice to the devs, sure, gathering enough data to resolve that one bit's worth of information would have been easy. But presented with the full, massive array of possibilities, it's a much harder task to even determine that there is a problem, let alone what it is.

Upshot, don't beat yourselves up too much. It may be obvious in hindsight but these are really quite hard problems to solve in the deliberate absence of information.
Indeed, there is plenty of distrust. If they are doing such a great job though, why the distrust?

I don't know a single person with a significant chronic condition in the US who would say the health system and all their physicians are amazing and great. Usually you hear the exact opposite.

However, stories about that gem of a doctor they finally found over the years are very common. Most physician suck, not sure why.

Loss of trust is indeed very unfortunate, counterproductive and indeed leads to unnecessary suffering.

Physicians are highly educated professionals in a legally protected rent-seeking monopoly, backed by a powerful trade union, AMA, and the corresponding social status/wealth/authority that comes with all that. Seems to me it's only fair that the onus is entirely on them to win that trust back. I'm not holding my breath though.

Medicine is just another business. Remember that next time you see a doctor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization
Grab is already leader in Asia, Uber is lacking in Indonesia.

The difference? You have the choice between paying through the app or not (like a prepaid regular taxi). Uber designed its system to look as if drivers were employees, so they will die with the concept of HR fraud they created, but prepaid transport apps will remain.
How to help Afghanistan: Things you can do right now for a country in crisis
> https://www.fastcompany.com/90666326/how-to-help-afghanistan...
> EC2 pulls down the AMI to EBS from S3 so theoretically smaller AMIs might be faster

I managed to create a 1GB AMI of debian. Will be interesting to test this.

https://blog.miyuru.lk/aws-root-volume/
Colin Lancaster's Fed Up has a lot to say on the "new normal" in the global financial system: permanent low rates, the impossibility of unwinding QE etc [1]

[1] https://etrading.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/colin-lancasters-f...
Following on this, are there websites that lists non-profits that needs software engineers, especially for volunteering? Or is you best bet to find a local place and go ask? If anyone has experience volunteering with software, I'd love to hear your experience. I wish I could put my Excel skills to good use.
There is a statute of limitations. But in the general case: if you're going to do crimes, it's probably not so smart to do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
Just checking lol
> Curious to see a follow up on what's going on with FreeBSD - seems like it takes ages to get the network up.

FreeBSD rc executes all rc.d stripts sequentially, in one thread. OpenRC AFAIK can start daemons in parallel, but unfortunately switch to OpenRC was abandoned: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18578
It's a bad disease in the region but there's a vaccine for it readily available that you should take if you are connected to woods and nature.
If you think about that old school ideal Internet, you also have to think about other ideal like everyone can start a server. It's not possible anymore. If you relies on VPS, it's no better than Facebook.

Sure, as an individual, you can afford a server hardware, but not the network. ISP is as same as Facebook.

Also, it's so cheap to DoS the server single person can afford. If you relies on CDN, that's another Facebook.
I’ve wondered this because I’ve “just not understood how they can lose money.”

I suppose during bankruptcy someone can buy their matchmaking tech and IP and relaunch without all that debt and overhead. Seems like a good target for someone to just run and pump cash out of as there should be a way to make money out of “market rate” * 15% fee for matchmaking.

I mean taxis were profitable and this is just a better taxi algorithm since the automate the multiple drivers sharing a cab process.
If it helps - I moved from Emacs to VSCode. It's not as simple as "objectively better you just need to know how".

I had invested a lot of work into my emacs config in order to get things working in a usable way. The problem is that every new thing I added needed a whole lot more work. VSCode plugins usually work pretty well out of the box - e.g. I just installed the Elm plugin and it was working immediately with errors shown inline, autocomplete etc. If I had been able to get that going well in Emacs in less than an hour or two I'd have been pleasantly surprised.

VSCode also has two things that Emacs doesn't. Live workspace sharing so you can pair program remotely (it's fantastic) and the ability work on a repo that's the other end of an SSH link (yes Emacs has tramp, not it's not in the same league). The SSH stuff works amazingly seamlessly, it's been my primary development mode since the start of pandemic.

One proviso I will give to my Emacs opinions is that the Language Server Protocol was only just beginning to come in when I switched away. That abstraction level is exactly what Emacs needs (particularly given the threading restrictions) and a lot of language setup might be easier and more uniform if you can take advantage of it.
Python News: What's New from July 2021?
trend of anti-intellectualism and distrust of doctors

As someone who knows a practicing doctor who is also anti-vax, these are orthogonal issues. Sometimes, distrusting a specific doctor is the more intellectual approach.
While I quite like this post and agree with many of it's points, hasn't this been posted here 2+ times already? And made the front-page each time?

We've had this discussion about this exact text already. Let's agree or disagree with it and move on. Time will tell if Doctorow is right or not, and we can all feel smug when we're proven right then.
Comparisons of both density and total population between different cities are problematic because so much depends on where boundaries that exist for somewhat arbitrary political and historical reasons are drawn. Metropolitan statistical areas sort of give you an upper bound for the latter but not the former. London is a particularly challenging case given that not many people live in the City. (Paris, and to some degree, NYC have the opposite situation where outside of the very core, density is quite a bit lower--especially with Staten Island in the case of NYC.)
Is it still the case that in NYC Ubers are required to have livery plates? I recall that making the price more expensive and closer to taxis than it is in many major cities where Ubers can drive with regular plates and no livery cab license, so I don't know that NYC is particularly representative of other major metropolitan areas.
That's 3 passions in one post. Are you a manager or HR? Or both? And does that correlate with wanting to be live and in person?
This move is necessary to keep their medical system from collapse. The ICU capacity in NZ is pathetic and can't meet demand in normal times, most USA cities have more ICU capacity than all of NZ as a country.

New Zealand has 4.6 ICU beds for every 100,000 people. A State like Texas has over 25 (as of 2018) for every 100k people.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300374794/new-zealan...

Following graph is for every 10k people in the USA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/05/18/icu-be...
See this comment for my own personal risk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28109526

(Slightly out of date as we've seen cases rise considerably since 8 days ago)
I don't mean it's nothing like they should simply absorb the costs, nothing as in a very low number for a Walmart.
If X can't/won't do it properly anyone relying on X to do it for them is also at fault.
I guess people who have a lot of partners and unprotected sex such as people who do porn or sex workers as well as people with partners that are positive.