skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, the author is mostly reacting negatively to the price impact of two compounding issues that Uber/Lyft faced last year: the first is the out-of-whack supply/demand balance due to covid causing the current low supply of drivers (and a consequent increase in prices due to renewed demand), and the second is fallout of AB5/Prop22 (which netted an increased pay floor, which translated to higher prices in CA). A third factor is the companies' push towards profitability after their IPOs, which also undoubtedly makes a dent in the price calculations.

The "planet" angle is IMHO grasping at straws to set a specific tone for the narrative, because frankly who thinks about that when taking a cab? If this wasn't just lip service and carbon emission/congestion actually mattered to her, there's public transit from LAX!

I wrote in a comment downthread about an anecdote of a guy that had lost his job due to covid and had found an income safety net w/ Uber. You could argue that he contributes to carbon emissions/congestion by driving, but what exactly is the writer expecting the alternative to be? Sitting at home receiving free stimulus cheques? Working at McDonalds flipping infamously high CO2 producing beef patties? Working as... a cab driver for a cheaper fare for her exact use case, but still incurring roughly the same role in carbon footprint and congestion overall?

Trying to twist "I want to have my cake (nice Uber experience) and eat it too (for cheap)" into "think of the environment" just seems like virtue signaling IMHO. She just saw two services that were functionally equivalent for her needs at different prices and took the cheaper one. Most of us would've probably done the same. This is a non-story.
I realize you don't want to follow the site guidelines, but it's also not in your self-interest to post like this. The effect you're having is to drive people further away from whatever you believe is true. That weakens you.
This is entirely too cynical and pessimistic. In particular others have pointed out that other countries do not do this, and it’s not like they aren’t people.
In life there are many things we want but don't know we want, or can't admit we want. We seek analogs and those analogs often scratch our itch but might not for other people, leading among other things to arguments about contradictory anecdotes.

We want to avoid people who are bad for us. If you treat them as dangerous, scary, or 'below you' it's fairly emotionally cheap for you to avoid everything about them, not just the badness. But ignoring 'dangerous' problems can just make them more dangerous.
The "Unsupported Scenarios" is interesting, is this a sign Xamarin and F# are on the way out?
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If you've got pre-existing conditions that make you more likely to die if you catch the virus (old, fat, bloodpressure/breathing issues), get the vaccine. Even better if you take your own personal precautions and stay home, don't go to any public/private events unless your personal risk tolerance level is okay with doing it. That is what you can control.

If you're young and relatively healthy, you don't need the vaccine. You'll get through COVID just fine in the VAST, VAST majority of cases if you catch it. If you want the vaccine, take it. Don't chastise/berate/punish others who decide not to because it's a personal choice linked to bodily autonomy.

These lockdowns are due to slow-burning failures in healthcare systems across the board, proactive and reactive.
Since we're comparing against M1 Max, it's more fair to use a fully maxed out Macbook Pro 16-inch for comparison:

* MacBook Pro (16-inch Late 2019) vs M1 Max - CPU https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10496766?baseli... [single 145.8%, multi 176.3%]

* MacBook Pro (16-inch Late 2019) vs M1 Max - OpenCL https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/3551790?bas... [153.0%]

* MacBook Pro (16-inch Late 2019) vs M1 Max - Metal https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/compare/3557857?bas... [167.2%]

The M1 Max still wins by a large margin, but there's a slightly smaller gap. The CPU difference is negligible but the upgraded Radeon Pro 5600M graphics card narrows the gap a bit more. It's comparable to a Radeon RX 580. The default 5500M is pretty only about 60% as powerful and surprisingly runs hotter despite being slower. (TDP 85W vs 60W it seems)
That's not even a proper ad hominem, more like a projection of ad hominem.
So you took 1 intro class into a subject and determined the entire field is worthless? Do you apply this decision-making process to other aspects of your life?

Also, not a lot of actual "science" going on in Computer Science departments (meaning following the scientific method in the course of conducting research, as opposed to "here is a thing I built, isn't it neat?"), but that doesn't stop tech-inclined people from joining in droves. So I'm not sure what the "no science going on" criticism means. It's not like the scientific process is used when deploying technology solutions to problems. We just say "Here's a thing! Let's distribute this to as many people as possible!" without any forethought into what consequences will be.

To that last point, from my recollection of the late aughts, early 10s, it was sociologists who first identified that maybe Facebook and Instagram would be bad for society. Turns out they were right. Again.
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by being less contemptible?
> Which side is worse is a matter of opinion.

What perspectives do you see coming from the Democrat side that have the same mortality rate as vaccine refusal? (Or are there indicators you give equal/greater significance than mortality?)
Also interesting - it's being touted as proprietary code, but View Source (which as we all know is a clever hacker tool only) revealed that it's a fork/instance of Mastodon. Complete with not changing the error page's sad cartoon. The theme was slightly different, and the "toot" button has been renamed to "truth"... This is probably a violation of Masto's license, to not say you're using it.

Still remains to be seen whether or not federation support was planned to be enabled, as far as I can tell. But I can't help but find it amusing, as some people on masto talked about last night, that it's using the same core technology as Gab does/did - and the entire fediverse basically banded together to defederate from that instance.
Do either of them want to be together?
Electing a black president permanently enraged a lot of hateful people across the country. We're going to be dealing with the fallout for a long time. To be clear I'm not saying we shouldn't have, but I think we underestimated just how many people in this country would react very badly to that from a political standpoint.
I was really into early hacker and BBS culture in the 90s, and this point of view was rare to nonexistent. There was a lot of teen and young adult angst and egotism but that’s not unusual. It wasn’t ideological and the ideas tended to be either left or libertarian.

I would have called myself a libertarian back then but that was back when words meant things, or at least more than they do now. I stopped using the term when the fascists took it over.

It’s popular in some left leaning circles and particularly among people who did not live through that era to claim that libertarianism and cyberculture was always like this. It wasn’t. There was a mass conversion event around the early 20-teens that sort of coincided with Gamergate (not sure how important GG was but that was the era). I’d say a large proportion of an entire generation of younger “hacker” types were mass converted to fascism or neoreaction. Racism also made a massive comeback.

I still don’t fully understand it. The LessWrong orbit seems to be a major factor. I never found that whole circle particularly interesting, but a lot of people sure did.
Yep. I see them rarely enough that they are noticable when I do see them. I see one or two a week, probably.
I wonder if this fits the bill of “do things that don’t scale” — your experience is similar to a theme revealed in my work.
Alternatively, aggressive identity politics and "social justice warrior" cancel culture regarding climate change has grown following the rising scientific consensus that we have a disastrous future ahead of us.

Looking at another political/scientific issue, abortion, that is also steeped in aggressive identity politics and "social justice warrior" cancel culture which instead of growing in consensus that it is bad seems to be declining, I would argue that politics and social power follow rational thinking, not the other way around. At least on long enough time scales.
Thank's for the info! The WSL2 solution Windows has is pretty perfect, but that is a red line I cannot see me cross at this point :) That should be built into macOS!
I hoped that the Carbon would get better ratings, but so far the tendency is pretty clear pro Macbook..
Do you poll the notion page to get the notion data so quickly? Is there any rate limit on requests?
In a similar vein, being good at fixing things after you've broken them. Gives you a little more confidence in trying new things without all of the work involved in first making sure they'll work.
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We want to allow people to share any kind of information easily and allow others to find that information and interact with it.

We are building an application that allows people to share their information in the form of a card. It is a bit like a business card, but the focus is more on the sharing and the actions allowed on the card.

People will be able to share their cards easily with a simple alias like "johndoe" and people will be able to find them using that alias. We added other methods of sharing and embedding the cards and allowed people to be able to see those cards thru our website without the need for the mobile application.

When you create a card, you can add different elements to it which represent pieces of information like social medial accounts, emails, and more. When those elements are clicked they send the user to the proper platform or action that the element represented. Like a Facebook element would redirect to the Facebook page of the person.

Any feedback would be appreciated on this, as we are in the early stage of developing and releasing it.
losing in court will just feed the GOP victim narrative. from a political standpoint, the Governor's ignorant aggression is a win-win. he can say he stood up to the liberal courts and the tech elite.

but then again, Trump often lies about his losses in courts, claims they were wins, and gets applause from his audience. the GOP is a counter-majoritarian party, which makes counterfactual statements inevitable.
We've got a few billion rows in TSDB, pretty happy with it so far. Our workload fits the OLTP workflow more than OLAP though, we're processing / analyzing individual data points from IoT devices as they come in, and then providing various visualizations. This tends to mean that we're doing lots of fetches to relatively small subsets of the data at a time, vs trying to compute summaries of large subsets.

Compression is seriously impressive, we see ~90% compression rate on our real world datasets. Having that data right next to our regular postgres tables and being able to operate on it all transactionally definitely simplifies our application logic.

Where I see a lot of folks run into issues with TimescaleDB is that it does require that your related data models hold on to relevant timestamps. If you want to query a hypertable efficiently, you always want to be able to specify the relevant time range so that it can ignore irrelevant chunks. This may mean that you need to put data_starts_at, data_ends_at columns on various other tables in your database to make sure you always know where you find your data. This is actually just fine though, because it also means you have an easy record of those min / max values on hand and don't need to hit the hypertable at all just to go "When did I last get data for this device".
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Yeah, and the "use" statements for this came from Perl which is probably the originator of this pattern here.
> Musk is an engineer at his core

This is objectively false. He has great advertising and PR, but Musk is a business person through and through.

He has never been, is not, and never will be an engineer. His hostile take to engineering -- from the fact that he OKs unsafe technology and brands it as "autopilot" to half-baked, rushed assembly processes that produces terrible quality in the Model 3s -- is the most obvious evidence that he ultimately only cares about getting richer, whatever the cost.
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I get where he's coming from, but love is too freighted to really get traction. If you see love as meaning to be invested in the happiness and actualization of others, it's more practical on a lot of levels.

The contempt issue begins at the roots of identity, I think. When we're adolescents, we're a part of the world or society, but without the responsibility or authority of an adult. This makes us subject to it and a bit helpless (but for the benevolence of adults) until we find a way to become adults ourselves. Until then, we often assert ourselves though revolt and rebellion as victims of the forces we are subject to. Our adolescent mind exists as an island protected by its own defensive resentment and contempt against the forces it is only subject to, until it acquires the responsibility and resultant confidence to act directly on the world. We all emerge from it differently, if at all.

I'm saying the contempt is an adolscent urge that originates from believing we are a subject or victim of our circumstances. There are many situations where you really are a target, but I'd say there is no contempt without identifying first as a victim, and that necessary identity is a remnant of adolescence. The way to mitigate those adolescent remnants is by taking responsibility and ownership of your life, which coincidentally, happens to be a value at the core of conservative ethos Brooks advocates.

Treating people as undeveloped adolescents because they use disgust and contempt as an organizing social signal could seem to merely respond to contempt with sincere, even heartfelt condescention (the most insulting kind), and that would be all the more alienating and enraging, but it's toward discovering what the fundamental divide in the very axioms that inform our values is. When Brooks says we need "love," I think what he means is we need to feel loved, and by this, that there is some force in the world (or universe) that is invested in our growth and happiness, and believing we can both recieve and achieve it.
True, they own one bus and employ one bus driver. Not for PR, but to fulfill legal requirements to be allowed to run a vast network to transport people (as opposed to goods, freight forwarders have no such requirement). Not that the owned and employed driver where ever used on an actual route, at least not to my knowledge.

That is one of the differences between Uber and FlixBus, the latter actually respects regulations. They doing so in creative ways, but they don't ignore them.
Lots a free tools have all I need. Webhooks included. Obs away.
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Not really "separately", pretty much as a rule hardwoods grow very slowly. Pretty much any fast growing wood is going to be soft.
We capture and store energy readings at ~5second intervals, then display total energy at various time granularity by aggregating the values over minutes, hours, days, months, etc.
I could see Congress going along with this in exchange for DC statehood.

But, while we're talking about things that won't ever happen, we should also combine the Dakotas into one state. Lot of government administrative resources wasted for very few people actually living there. And we're paying for four senators, where two is way more than necessary to represent that population.
Sure. As we shared in the blog post it was tested (like other benchmarks) on dedicated EC2 instances using the freely available Community version.
It can be both. Typically one doesn't need to rationalize publically - by posting this thing to a large enough audience, this was past the point of rationalization - but was instead performative and seeking agreement/attention and acknowledgment.

And rather than stating the incorrect belief explicitly, she was using dog-whistle rhetoric techniques.
So, what's the big deal with quantum encryption?
There are people who are challenged , in their writing ability, but come up with new ideas. I can't name one off the top of my head, but I think the capitalistic world of startup companies could yield many examples of inventions.

To me tying the writing skill to that ability seems questionable.
It doesn't last so long in construction, rebar in concrete has like a 75 year lifespan no?
It's easy to be gung ho about having other people use inspiring, untested technology. But it's not so fun when you're the teaching example for why regulations are slow moving.

"Sorry your house fell down, but we never thought to test this stuff at temperatures that low. I mean, we thought Texas was a hot place!"
There was some kind of rule that allows The Internet Archive to maintain (but not distribute) data that it has acquired without the party the data came from having a license to copy it to them. I don’t remember the name but as far as I remember it was tested in court.
Mmm:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23757/did-malia...
I really wish they got more into the nuts and bolts of what this is in terms of the end user.

Some of the screenshots have things mentioned like passport / drivers license. However it also sounds more like a collaboration tool with chat and image sharing.

I suppose time will tell, but I think it would have been wise to explain more before asking for money as that was a bit of a turn off for me.
Also probably willingness to not restrict themselves to silicon parts rated for an automotive environment. They did this for the LED display...going with "industrial" vs "automotive". Where industrial has a more narrow acceptable operating temperature range, etc. Probably works fine in a lot of cases, but they are taking on some risk.
It was discussed as part of the 2021 Edition RFC.
Credit card transactions take far less, and they deal in legitimate risk (chargebacks, stolen cards, fraud, etc).

As developers, we don't even need app stores. They're an artifice that got shoved down our throat by trillion dollar mega corporations. A taxation clearinghouse. You can distribute the same program bytes from anywhere, most notably the web.

It's Steve Ballmer's old dream of taxing all software. There's just no point in it. It's massively unfair.

The excruciating review process adds insult to injury. And it makes fixing bugs a slow and stressful nightmare.

If smart phone manufacturers really want to protect customers, the best way to do that is to store signatures of known bad applications and provide solid permissions-based access to system resources.

Screw app stores.
There has to be a proper blind test for this somewhere. I can only find those for coffee, where it's does not seem to matter much.
> Also, with my minimal knowledge of programming, I have no idea what's going on with that website's HTML markup.

It's what we in the business call "old"

That's just how we made websites before CSS was a thing. It still works, it's just horribly user unfriendly. Presumably Paul either doesn't care or likes the retro look.
Probably also some selection bias:

> Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency (a form of selection bias)[1]

What you are looking for you will see more of especially if new to you or new in general. For instance, most people see Teslas because they are looking for them. No one is looking for a Camry or Corolla unless you know someone that owns one.

When you get a new car, you suddenly see all of those styles on the street, they were always there though. If you start looking for Camrys or Corollas you will see tons, same with any vehicle really that is even slightly mass produced.

I always notice Teslas myself because I was looking for them. Some of them like the Model 3/X/Y models also are just bigger/taller than most cars and they stand out.

There are definitely lots more Teslas on the road today than just a few years ago, but if you look for others you'll see them as well.

In Arizona, people are on the lookout for Waymos as they are the self-driving cars being tested there, people see them all the time because they are looking for them, and they are big and have the sensors on top and around. Seems like everyone sees them all the time. There are tons of Camrys and Corollas which no one sees unless you own one or have a friend/family member that has one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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Writing.

There is no shortcut.

Just like working out improves your range of movement and manipulating your own body and weights in space, writing does the same with ideas and expression.
> It has not been proven that these civilizations only had stone tools

It hasn't been proven that space aliens didn't create the masonry walls, either. (Yes, I've seen TV shows arguing that case.)

But archaeologists have shown that rocks can be shaped accurately in the manner of those walls by just banging them together. There is also the evidence of partially shaped rocks left behind.

There is no evidence of any other method.

I've been to Chichén-Itzá and have looked at the structures from an engineer's point of view, as I am a mechanical engineer. They are solidly built, massive, and well built. The scale is impressive. Very impressive. But the sophistication does not extend past the corbelled vault. They did not use an arch or a dome.

https://www.maya-archaeology.org/pre-Columbian_Mayan_temples...

The Mayan script has been shown to be phonetic, so they certainly had a solid writing system. But, sadly, we know very little about what they wrote about, since the Spanish burned their books.

I never called them primitive.
Could be a good trade for making DC part of Maryland, thereby giving DC statehood.
The article lists several reasons: culturally they feel closer to WV, they want to be able to do things like fracking that MD has outlawed, they don't feel heard by the MD government on issues like gun rights and taxes. Essentially they have a cultural divide that has grown deep enough that they want to secede. It's unlikely to happen while Joe Manchin is in office, though; he would likely pitch a fit and get Democrats in the Senate to kill it.
Interesting. It mentions stuff like the library and documentation.

When IntoIterator for arrays first stabilized (with the hack hiding into_iter() for backwards compatibility) I considered making all the documentation changes to use natural arrays in standard library examples, which of course would now be the obvious way to write it whereas previously it was ugly.

I didn't do it (and now I have a job keeping me too busy) and I haven't gone back to look at examples to see if all/ most / some were updated to use arrays in the now natural way.
Simply writing more will get you 99% of the way there.