skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term “ride sharing” feels like an Orwellian anachronism as applied to current Uber/Lyft. Matching people who had to go from approximately the same place to approximately the same place had a lot of promise both to expand mobility, but also to address some “bowling alone” problems.

Still, the fact that most cars sit idle IIRC > 95% of the time seems like there should be some genuine opportunity frontier. I think the dream was always to get to a point where autonomous driving and somewhat centralized route optimization could generate real efficiencies. But the Uber/Lyft needed to get people out of their own cars en masse for that to work. Autonomous driving didn’t appear at the right time for everything to work out, I think.
> This is not true - the govt gave Rs. 3000 crore (the asked-for amount) in aid to SII.

The government gave SII and advace towards the end of April. This was not aid. What was the government doing until?

> True, but it's likely that the government's commitment to buy 100s of millions of vaccines played no small part in giving them the confidence to scale up the way they did.

Instead of ordering doses in bulk, the government went with piecemeal orders. The scaling up would have happened much earlier if we had actually seen decisiveness on part of the government.
i wonder if apple will strike a deal with hbo or some dumb shit. hbo available on macs only. love our corporate controlled media
>4chan is sharp and smart.

Well, it can be. But the main boards usually aren't. A lot of smart people have left the platform. What's left is mostly "bad" people who have nowhere else to go: nazis, child molesters, edgy teenagers and so on.
The problem is that there is really a stupid question, people often can’t tell since they are a bit clueless to begin with. Example is if you are a newly hired subject matter expert(Security for example) and you question something like what is a buffer overflow in a meeting, that could mess you up. It’s a extreme example, but anywhere in between, it could be hard to tell if this is the one question that could undo me.
yes, but interestingly it seems to be https://nimyaml.org/ :)
Real world analysis shows the vaccine doesn't help stop spread at all - the places with the highest infection rates are also the most vaccinated. [1]

Vaccine adverse reactions and deaths are not being investigated by CDC [2], and there are strong signals these things aren't just conspiracy theories. [3] I'm going to sit out whatever Pfizer is pushing for a while.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

[2] https://www.bitchute.com/video/N0T4iPVI0BRb/

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/analysis-thousands-more-usual-dyi...
I'll just mention https://freetaxusa.com at this point.

I think about 100 commenters mentioned it over the years before I finally switched to it and I haven't looked back.

It's a great product and way cheaper and way easier than TurboTax.
You may be right about where the burden lies, but your explanation renders the thermostat conscious.

Edit: I should put that differently. Your sense of the criteria by which the problem may be considered solved does not preclude thermostat consciousness. And if that is allowed, then yes: the problem is solved. But I sense, again, the assumption of physicalism (or ontological naturalism), and I don't know why that premise admits of no dissent or argument.
Does this mean that we would have to change all the standard Time libraries we use in our code if a countries suddenly decide to switch?
I mean, you can't make a hammer and expect it to be as useful to someone without hands or nails.
It's funny how the real reason we jump through time hoops escapes the conversation... the business class doesn't want to offer flexable work time for employees.

The OP links to another site that says the science is in: "Wake up to the morning sun". Well, clearly, the answer is then to get rid of the stupid two shift shuffle each year (use standard time), get up to the sunrise, and go to fucking work.

But NO, business leaders of america will sob and whine... working hours are 9 to 5 ONLY! Natch, no cookie for politicians.
I'd say it's not just learning multiple languages that is valuable, but learning languages with different paradigms. If you learn 5 different object-oriented languages, you'll mostly get exposed to different OOP concepts. If you learn an OOP language, a Procedural language, a Functional language, a declarative Logic language (Prolog, SQL, etc), and maybe something else you'll have a much broader set of ways to think about solving problems.
> The customer forum requires a login to access

It's not just a login. You need to actually be a customer. I consider that a good thing, because it allows me (and Hetzner) to speak more freely compared to a fully public forum. That's also why I just linked to the forum instead of quoting.

> and unfortunately is often in German.

That's true. The majority of the active user|customer base is German (I am myself) and thus communicating in German is the obvious choice. I've seen a few English-speaking folks participating by using a translator of choice to read the threads and then simply responding in English. I think it works well enough, as virtually every German understands English. Especially a German running servers.
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This is not totally clear. While the only references I can find to this quote are in articles about the situation, I honestly can not tell whether the YouTube app is nonetheless included in terms of availability. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if it was, this kind of thing happens all the time in these disputes. "Agree to our terms or we remove all our channels".

>"We are, however, giving Roku the ability to continue distributing both YouTube and YouTube TV apps to all existing users to make sure they are not impacted."
Your OS has a database for this.
People tend to hate change in general, so these things are hard to shift once put in place. That doesn't take away the fact that humanity managed to thrive without DST for thousands of years, so clearly it can be done.
I don't see an email address in your bio, can you add some contact information? Or at least come back here and post where you listed the site maybe?

Thanks!
> I suspect in the next 12-24 months they'll have an entire edge solution that is superior to all 3 of the top cloud providers in cost, performance and features.

I have been totally immersed in their ecosystem trying to see how much value exists here. Seems like CF might have already hit this objective. Between workers - which now support websockets(!) - and durable objects (which is basically MS Orleans), there is a very compelling offering on the table now for new kinds of hyperscalar+collaborative apps.

No telling how the pricing and investor influence will play out over the long term. I did just pick up some shares myself after seeing all these docs over the last ~48 hours.
I also might be interested - definitely reach out to me (my email is in my profile).
Mind that not all EVs are built the same. Maybe, EVs with smaller (possibly swappable) batteries, which are also lighter and smaller are a better fit for the specific environment. The solution offered by Tesla is very much linked to the US, the wide distances, its suburbia and the implications thereof. There's a certain possibility that it may not represent the optimum for a European scenario.
As a reddit user for 15 years now I would just move to gab (I think that's the name) or whatever other platform there is if they start asking for government IDs.
I like it, but I need the largest vehicle possible. It would be replacing a minivan (which is not really possible)
Ah, finally a post I identify with :)

These are good points in the article; two other areas I'm willing to look stupid are:

- asking a store employee where to find specific items (quicker than most men)

- communicating in simple (almost childlike), direct rhetoric. As I get into more intellectual circles, I've found that my reputation does take a hit, but I still think the mental throughput/accuracy of expressing ideas simply is worth the reputational hit
The math works very well when you know Polish wages, just like people living close to Switzerland (ie <2h commute) still go there en masse, doubling or tripling your salary is very attractive for most people.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/digpub/eumove/bloc-2c.ht...

> In 2019, the largest number of cross-border workers among the Member States were for those living in Poland and working in Germany (122 000 people)
Yes, it's really sad.
Why can't the x drivers at the front of the line wait directly outside? Not sure I understand.
I tried to use gimp like a decade ago, or even longer, twelve years maybe. I opened it last year: it was the same ugly unusable mess. Not a competitor to Photoshop, Affinity’s Designer or Photo, Pixelmator of Pixelmator Pro. In other words it looks very same to me after ten years being absent. The UI is just very very very bad.
I would say, using it with Typescript became much more common.

There is also deno (https://deno.land/), from the same creator.
First time I've ever seen somebody on HN request to change a neutral headline to a biased headline.

This is a he said/she said dispute. Taking either side's statements at face value is just foolish.
We see an easy path to 1B users...

We are introducing Orb, a device which does biometrics by scanning your eye...

I don't follow this logic...
I'd accept it, but it's illogical. There are just too many accidents needed to make this happen.

Paradoxically, at the same time our minds are so limited they can accept only two possibilities: (1) everything was created by a god, (2) everything happened by accident. My pet peeve is that there is a third option, but our minds are unable to grasp it.
We absolutely need Daylight Savings Time, you can argue about Standard Time not being necessary.

Without DST, in my hometown, it will get dark at 6pm every day from Sept 23rd to March 4th. That's depressing for the 9-5ers with commutes.

I wouldn't see the sun past 7pm outside of May 1st -> August 16th.

If we're getting rid of DST, we need to switch the working day from 9-5 to 8-4 or 7-3.
The federal system in regards to lobbying would change if we followed the constitution as written to allow House of Representatives to grow with census population count. And restore the not direct election of Senators. Then remove federal personal income tax. For icing on the cake, shut down the 3rd central bank known as 'Federal Reserve'.

This would require a nationwide general strike to show the people are serious. Most people are not serious about anything beyond TV, social media, and more personal debt.
<Why not both? meme>

There is something to be said for threads that provide a few "bullet points" of the article.

I would agree with the author when the threads get crazy long, or if the tweets don't encapsulate a single point.
> See, for example, the anti-GMO movement

I'm against GMO. Not because I believe retail GMO food is likely to be harmful; I mean, harmful foods could be made, but we have testing.

I'm against GMO because (a) a lot of GMO plants have been engineered to be grown with heavy use of herbicides and pesticides, (b) GMO crops make a farm non-organic, and I'm in favour of organic farming for environmental reasons; and (c) GMO companies lobby incessantly against food labelling. If a food supplier doesn't want to label my food, then absent any other excuse, I presume there's something they don't want me to know (yes, I read food labels in supermarkets. I carry a credit-card-sized magnifier in my wallet, for that purpose).

What is an "anti-GMO seed pack"? Would that just be a pack containing seeds that are not genetically modified?
> They might be great for employees, but have a terrible reputation among customers atleast in Europe.

This is the first time I hear about it. My personal experience was that it got a bit worse over the years, but still not as bad as Deutsche Bahn and the likes.
gotta quote to prevent shell expansion for bang iirc
You think the employer should pay based on what employees will do with their income, not what the employee provides to the company?

I mean, great, that's Marxism 101 - "to each according to his needs" - and I can respect that.

But does the employer get to decide if the employee's budget structure is appropriate? Surely a progressive income tax would cut down on the 10x differential, and strong social services would help support the family.
Just checked and it works well.
Alabama has a higher GDP per capita than Germany, Belgium, Israel, France, Japan, the U.K. and...I could go on.

Alabama is doing well. We live in such an enormously wealthy country that it only looks bad by comparison. But not by comparison to basically anywhere else on Earth.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states...
The board members were chosen for their placating potential not any governance capacity.
Yeah, I want something like an OpenRoku standard for TV service providers, and equal access from many hardware platforms.

But these companies are moving steadily towards locking things down behind anticompetitive agreements.
> "reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show."

Do you understand that statistics are calculated from reported cases? I mean, statistics is literally the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.
Cool, I'll give it another shot.
This doesn't really solve any problems, because it just makes trolling/harassment cost a few bucks. It also practically incentivizes commercial shilling since that has an easy to calculate return.

Any amount of money that would make it cost prohibitive to get banned would also kill the userbase.
So I won’t find anyone complaining about vaccine mandates on social media anymore?
I once had to add logging to a large set of methods in C#, so I thought, well, let's make a function decorator like Python or Haskell, there's no reason it wouldn't work on C#.

Well, it indeed worked perfectly well. But the amount of noise added to satisfy the type checker was larger than reimplementing the log procedure at each place.
Roku is a advertising company. Google is a advertising company. They are fighting over who gets to sell you.

This is why I have chosen to spend the extra money and use a Apple TV. Google still spies on my content when I am in their app, but at least apple is not using analytics and screenshots to figure out what I am watching and sell it others.
> Uber has crap service? I was under the impression the whole point of Uber becoming so ubiquitous as to become a verb was that you could actually get service at all in a timely fashion whereas cabs had a terrible reputation.

How quickly we forget. When I did traveling-consulting for a year and a half — a mistake — I heard horror stories from the quite recent past: for instance, the New York taxi driver who clearly wasn't supposed to be the one driving the cab and thus refused to take a credit card payment (as mandated by law) with the (working) credit card machine. Instead he demanded cash, and drove my colleague to an ATM against his will holding his luggage hostage. And the one time I took an actual taxicab home from LaGuardia — hoping to save the hassle of a pickup in the cold — my driver got pulled over for running a red light.

Yeah, Uber and Lyft are both sketch as heck, but they've got nothing on the world's taxis.
Faint praise. The article does more to normalize and prime the idea of banning online anonymity with a weak defense than to argue against it. Some abstract principles about discredited freedoms won't stand in the way of progress. The sceptical are not alone.
"Youtube TV", whatevz!
C++/CX was the different language kind of like Objective-C++ with custom operators for WinRT COM controls, that in turn was similar to (but also very different from) C++/CLI which was an older language for .NET interop.

The current approach C++/WinRT despite retaining the weird IBM-esque use of a slash, is mostly "just" an IDL precompiler and bundle of macros intended for use with "modern" C++ (I believe it needs C++17 support or higher).

«Can you mix C++/WinRT with normal portable C++? Can you use GCC or just MSVC?»

That is one of the supposed advantages of/reasons for C++/WinRT over C++/CX. I've heard offhand mentions on blogs of using clang with C++/WinRT. I'm not a C++ developer and have no idea how well that works in practice.

«Windows seems to have actually lost interest in high level languages over time. Seems like they have renewed their love affair with C++ and that's the "future" now.»

I think that is related with pjmlp's complaint above with C++/WinRT (versus the older C++/CX) is that it does feel a lot like going back to the bad old days of MFC and (especially) ATL. The "WRL" templates library of C++/WinRT from my understanding is intentionally designed a lot like ATL. I can appreciate that Windows developers with a lot of C++ Win32 experience and massive brownfields of C++ Win32 apps like it much more for exactly those sorts of reasons: it looks/acts/smells a lot more like 90s COM, there's less relearning, there's far more interoperability with existing code structures/patterns/compiler choices (beyond the "need to upgrade to at least C++17").

I wouldn't necessarily phrase that as Windows seeming to have "lost" interest in high level languages. On the one hand I don't think "Windows" has ever really cared about high level languages in one way or another. That's as much "the Fall of the House of Longhorn" story as any other: the infighting between core Windows which has always been C++ and seemingly likely always will and the Developer Division trying to prioritize Developer Productivity and higher languages especially via .NET doing as much damage to Longhorn's goals as any other reason for slips/delays/production issues.

In all those fights .NET still exists and higher level languages still have a seat at the table. (Though JS got knocked out late in Windows 8 from having a direct WinRT story and subsequently/relatedly Electron is winning. Though React Native is sort of making a stand. Sort of.) Of course even .NET at this point seems to think that Windows-specific apps are on the way out and there's seemingly a lot more focus on MAUI and cross-platform apps than WinUI apps.
I'm not aware of any platforms, blogs or other internet entities (accepting public comments) that chose this system. I'm thinking there are reasons for that choice.
If you have a better solution, there are literally billions of dollars up for grabs.

While parts of the pharma industry have definitely done shady things, the real reason we don't have a durable "cure" for many conditions is actually because the underlying biology is absurdly complex.
You're free to deny reality. Trying to keep your head buried in the sand will not change the fact that there's a sky above you.
Furthermore, a number of states are starting to require tax returns to be filed even for short durations of working in the state for business purposes.
Paid to lobby their friends in the media not to criticize the company too harshly. I'd say money well spent.
I got their error page for a good 5 minutes.

But yes, it's up again.
> Not if simplifying taxes was as easy as paying Intuit the $89/yr toll to not deal with taxes.

That's not what "simplifying taxes" means. That's paying Intuit to deal with the complexity for you, which is the status quo. They need the complexity or there's nothing for you to pay them to do.

Compare this with, say, replacing federal income tax with VAT+UBI. You get a progressive tax system (because of the UBI) with zero individuals having to file income tax returns. Actual simplification. You also solve the problem of people not realizing how much tax they're paying because they see the VAT on the receipt every time they buy something.
One of the best people I've ever worked with used this approach. "I'm going to ask stupid questions now." and "Just so I'm understanding the problem, <here's my interpretation of what you just said>." were two phrases she used all the time.

I am surprised at how difficult it has been to emulate her technique. Feeling comfortable asking the obvious questions is one half of the battle, but the other, more difficult half, is knowing what obvious questions to ask. Most of the time when I ask obvious questions, the replies are yes/no. She knew how to ask them in such a way that gets the person talking in greater detail.

It's kind of like being a great interviewer, there's a technique to asking questions in a manner which gets someone talking.
> it's pretty easy to detect like 90% of bot users

How to tell someone’s never worked on anti-abuse at scale
Could there be a way to guarantee that each account is "verified" ie: a real person,

but still have the platform allow you to hide your identity to others
That doesn't load without javascript.
We know there is computations done in the brain. We don't know whether this is sufficient to create a consciousness. Consciousness doesn't exist as a phenomena in physics, hence there is no scientific explanation how or when it would appear, saying it is an inherent property of computation is therefore nonsense. Humans just know it exists, that is all we can say, everything else is just pseudoscientific bullshit until we can properly tie consciousness to some physics phenomena.

Or in another way, if you say "it is an inherent property of computation", then I'd counter "define computation in terms of laws of physics". You can't. Computation is as ill defined as consciousness from the laws of physics perspective.
I think you confuse consciousness with conscience. Apart from that, the Bible contains almost no definitions (and this has caused many problems in the past, even people killing each other as they disagreed on what certain things mean). If one wants precise definitions, they can be found in literature such as Abhidharmakosha.
Roku should pay for a port of SmartTubeNext (Android TV alternative YT client with ad skipping and sponsor block) to Roku and pre-load it.
Not really on the anonymity front. I worked for an anti bullying children's charity back in the late noughties and we found that online bullying was often a continuation of real life bullying, and that kids who bullied online (and were generally trollish) were the same kids who did it in real life. Anonymity certainly didn't help a lot of the time, but it wasn't the cause.
I don't think you can generally expect LGBT support from western governments at large.

However, I didn't actually mean the governments themselves with my comment above, but the various christian and puritan lobbying groups.
It's difficult not get conspiratorial when it comes to incumbents protecting their empires; it's a lot easier call-in a favour with a politician than to build better electric cars ... But Tesla did try to rush the process so this is fairly expected. However you would really think that the environmental ministry could fast-track this considering how much (Net) positive impact it will have.
Also, Bitcoin is probably one of the profitable ventures of Elon Musk. It's just a matter of time that Tesla will try to spread throughout different countries.
When a term is undefined, any application of it is undecidable. Are you conscious? Is the thermostat? Y/Y, Y/N, N/Y, N/N are all equally valid conclusions.
It should be enough to win the day.

There is nothing other than anonymity than can provide the pro put forth by the OP. On the other hand, the "cons," you are making non-specific reference towards are achievable by any number of strategies and are a common facet of everyday life.
I love the GitHub Actions play here - keeping the deployment system right next to the code it's deploying.