skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Reddit "Am I the Asshole?" posts there's an option for "ESH" - Everybody Sucks Here, which perfectly suits the ride options.

Lyft/Uber seem very predatory with respect to their drivers, but how they were able to align the incentives of having a comfortable ride and better experience were great.

The Taxi medallion system seems incredibly antiquated, unfair and unnecessary and the general experience of cabs is so much worse. Contactless is nice but you still have to contend with drivers asking for cash only and other weirdness / sketchiness.

I view transportation as a public good and wish that there were more municipal APIs that exposed: "I'm here (lat/long) and want to go to (lat/long)?" and then let all the different services bid on those.
A number of people get rich selling images of their bodies. Also, arguably athletes in physically arduous sports like Football or boxing are trading damage to their bodies for fame, money, and glory.
I used to skip lunch for years and it always felt great. I like to see studies on fasting but I have to ask: how do you deal with the hunger when fasting with 24h? How does that affect your mood?
I just love that for a moment here we’ve put aside our differences about emacs vs vi and focused our efforts on bike shedding which car analogy best fits. Peak computing culture.
> Despite sometimes lower prices, the convenience of contactless pay and being able to hail a cab from wherever you are on the street (if you’re lucky,) people in New York City appear to be favoring ride-hailing options, at least for now.

Outside of Manhattan or hip/busy neighborhoods you're SOL when it comes to finding a yellow or even green cab. So those of us not worthy of cab traffic have had to phone a car service and now lyft or uber.

Personally I mainly use Lyft buy my senior mother prefers car services as they are not beholden to metrics. Those drivers will help you carry items and even wait for you to safely get in your home before driving off if there are some characters about. My mother feels safer with a more personable service.

> Let’s face it: There is something just so New York about taking a cab.

Ugh.
- I've used Emacs for 30 years, and I have no intention of ever giving it up -
why? I hear it is much easier to quit then vim :)
Simple test:

"Have you been staring into a pool of water for a very long time?"

If your answer is yes: you're a narcissist

If your answer is no: you're probably not a narcissist

/s
> What made me sad that I had taken Uber BLR over Fb London.

You absolutely fucked up there. I hope you can recover.
I worked for GSAM for a bit as my first NAPA project - I guess you're referring to Armen Avanessians? Haha haven't heard references to the "train" in so long. Did you ever do any Slang/SecDB dev? I was mostly in FICC Tech so was pretty much slangin' slang most of my time there.

JSI (Java Slang Integration) was just getting off the ground but there wasn't too much for the front office tech teams to do there until it was to mature in the coming years.

Good times, thanks for sharing the history ;)
I have never heard such crazy ideas before from anyone. Its completely ridiculous, not even the most fringe right wing Yigal Amir supporting Israeli would say what he did.
> I have been using emacs for 7 years prior to switching to VS Code.

Based on what you've been claiming I doubt that.
I think this one is also pretty bad. And years later still not fixed. https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2527

In short? When you look at a room, your client sends a (public) read receipt. So stalkers get near-realtime data on your activity and the simple act of viewing different rooms (and maybe even just focusing the window) to see what's up causes data to be sent to the server. Ugh.
Measured that way, Russia is #48, Canada 76, US 89, China 121, and Australia 130. But then you have to take into account that these large countries have large deserts, high mountainous areas, tundras and plains.

As far as impact on the planet, total forested areas is what matters, not percentage of tree coverage. Suriname is #1 in percentage forest cover, but it's a small country. Brazil's forest coverage is much more important to climate change.
> Try finding a yellow cab the further out in Bronx, Queens, or Brooklyn.

That's what green taxis are for.

And honestly I don't see a point in not accepting both taxis and Uber as an option. Taxis have an app too now, the same way I check Lyft if Uber prices look stupid for a given trip, I also check Curb
Part of that equation is convincing other people your time is worth what you say it is. I, for instance, value my time highly, but 25 bucks would still be "more than I am willing to pay for something available for free".
I'm still curious, was the 3 years old able to read or typing from memory?
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“Enthusiast” CPUs seem pointless. My CPU is never above 20% in AAA games as it’s all on the GFX card now.

Good to see CPUs going through the great decoupling that software did.

IMO Steamdeck is the future of home desktops. Both my kids are into science; I’m excited to have a drone remote, sensor base station, generic pc, etc, in a high quality package versus something like Pine phone.

Valve and Apple are pushing hardware forward. Hopefully they can obsolete needing data centers of generic CPUs and tons of Byzantine software by making hardware with the best logic for a task built in, available to home users.
> Telemetry isn't surveillance.

As a categorical statement, this is false. "Not all telemetry is surveillance" is true.

Telemetry is exfiltrated data the user did not ask to send. The line between telemetry and surveillance depends on the use and intent of the data recipient, not (necessarily) the data itself, and that use is opaque to the person whose actions generated the data.

It is interesting to note that telemetry can become surveillance after it is collected. Perhaps a new manager has a different plan, perhaps the cops show up with a subpoena.
They have very good enterprise sales teams .....

They are also positioning themselves as a firm to firm data exchange hub (similar to how Zoom has positioned themselves as a universal firm to firm video conferencing solution) which allows them to capture a tax every time firms exchange data either externally or even internally (between various divisions).

Technically, I have heard despite their claims that they have a unique "cloud native architecture" [1], they are basically built on a custom distributed parquet system (Can't vouch for the accuracy of this).

[1] https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/intro-key-concepts....
Huge apartment buildings are “lumpy” and indeed impose externalities locally. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about if we could evenly distribute housing, we could cut through some of the NIMBY opposition. Quad plexes by right [0 for example] makes a lot of sense to me. If you’re OK with a quad plex next door, IMO you’re not part of the problem. Unfortunately, in many places SFH owners will come out in force to fight nearby quad plexes.

[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/portland-changes...
If this is your concern, I have some bad news. The aftermarket vehicle modding community exists, is hugely popular, and does far crazier stuff than this. If this simple mod frightens you, you should be terrified of those folks.
> What happens when that singleton has dependencies? And they have dependencies?

Everyone exports/imports their deps the same way as everything else.

> Not unrealistic once you have a config block that sets stuff like language direction ltr/rtl or API endpoint at runtime based on test/prod env.

Having different environment config is standard feature in most JS FX Apps, if it changes at runtime it's maintained as App state with any changes typically propagated reactively.

I've yet to run into any issue that I needed an IOC for in a client JS App (despite always using them for backend C# Servers) but they're unnecessary in JS, our Angular templates are the only ones that use them, all other premier JS FX's happily get by without them.
You are correct. Indoors have areas of solid color and near constant intensity, which compress very well in a wavelet basis.
I mean, there are apartments...this assumes much...
What I'd like to see is a Firefox (and Chromium) fork with

- automatic builds and uploads via GitHub/GitLab CI (or similar) from a well-commented build script

- all the knobs for reproducible builds set up, so anyone can fork the repo, run the CI themselves, and see that it's bit-for-bit the same thing

- an automatic merge or rebase of the latest stable release tag, and the result of that merge being plugged into automatic updates

- an automatic merge or rebase of the latest beta tag (or even nightly), and some form of alerting if the build fails

- perhaps some Selenium + Wireshark automation to see what requests happen and make sure there are no unexpected ones

And, actually, it seems like LibreWolf is on the way there. https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common has a decently-well-commented build script that grabs the latest tarball from Mozilla and builds on top of it and even supports building on nightly, and their documentation (https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs/) mentions that as well. But I don't see where it is run / who runs it, and what they do if the build fails.

(Honestly it seems like setting up the release automation and alerting is a substantial project in itself.)
Yep, there are many businesses which you could get to market a lot faster than self driving cars.
> the pivot to "brands"

At some point when I was kid - before the internet - some cool adult described to me a course on marketing they took where Coca-Cola was a case study. The sheer impact of brand recognition, and the lengths they would go to for its perpetuation (because it paid off), were lessons that have stuck with me ever since.

Of course companies and other organizations want you to get comfy with their logo/animation. Be wary of the power of this, it's a double edged sword-- it can help you immensely when you're a small player starting out, but in the long run it tends to accrue more power to those who already have plenty.
Amazon is worst payer among them in the US as well. Facebook and Google pay decent money in London and Zurich, almost on par with US in the latter, London is maybe ~30% less.

> How much are you left with now, ~1% of the total tech jobs?

If you want top 1% pay, you gonna have to hunt for top 1% jobs, seems obvious, no?
> It's very easy to spend those extra couple of hours in the morning just sipping a coffee, reading HN, catching up with social media. Work is work and it starts because other people will ping you, you'll have to be online on a certain computer, etc etc; but if you are your own boss, it's very easy to let employee #1 (yourself) slack off.

It's the same when you get back home after work though.

> Also, this works only if you are a remote worker. Most commuting will nuke those two hours away (yeah you can work on the bus/train, but probably not well - spotty connections, uncomfortable, no extra monitor, no mouse, etc; and if you have motion sickness like me, it's a non-starter), and in the evening you'll be even more shattered.

I personally have 5 "free" hours after work, which includes time to do shopping, eat, exercise, cleaning, all that sort of stuff. It's not a lot but it's not 0. That's with 1h30 of commute each day.
This is something I wish someone had told me 20 years ago when I first started using emacs. The whole "it's a text editor, but also it's not really a text editor"-thing was very confusing initially.

... Although, now that I think about it, being told this mind-blowing revelation about the emacs nature might have confused me even more.

What I love about emacs is that I have a variety - an extensible variety! - of programs under one roof, so to speak, sharing the same - customizable! - keyboard shortcuts that comfortably integrate with each other.

I think the main problem in "proselytizing" emacs to potential new users is that it is kind of the C++ of text editors, in the sense that it takes a very big up front investment that does pay off in a big way if you persist, but getting to that point took - at least for me - a multi-year commitment. It is hard to sell someone on that unless they want to do it anyway. I did it out of fun and curiosity, but if you view it as an investment in purely transactional terms, it's hard to sell.
That's some great information. May I ask what is your geography?
> Reimagining the entire drug discovery process with an AI-first approach
Been waiting for this for decades.
You need to be very clear on what it is you are selling. You need to be 100% sure you aren’t creating a security with your offering.
what version of Python was it?
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It's a good idea always to raise capital - but question is at what terms?

Secondly, is NFT tied to the stock? You will still have to register shareholding wherever you are domiciled.

Lastly what are the liquidity and exit options for investors?
Absolutely. This will not be seen on a laptop with more than 30 seconds of battery life.
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Had a lot of fun pulling things out of MetaDir and recreating what seemed like "early history" of SecDB when I was there, was a lot of fun :D
In some ways it does!

Exercise increases the presence of reactive species, which can negatively impact DNA and other molecules [1, 2].

We know exercise to be mostly beneficial, but you can't discount that it does damage too. It's just that the benefits exceedingly outweigh the downsides.

Your body is going to die no matter what. Everything you do involves chemistry, and eventually entropy will win over your body's attempts to minimize it. There are behaviors that will optimize for longevity and health, though.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2016.0024...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11327321/
It's not a bad mindset at all. "Finishing" can be a goal and so can "learn a new thing in an enjoyable way". Sometimes I write code just because I get the urge to create a nifty data structure. Who cares if no one will ever use it or look at it again? I enjoyed making it.
Does everyone use a giant Pickle dump ? I mean - how big is that ? Petabytes ?

I'm kind of surprised nobody monkey patched python serialisation to use a database (much like GitHub did with ssh key lookup in MySQL).

What does the devops there look like ? Snapshot every minute ?
I've done it with a full time job and two kids[0]. Here's my $0.02

For me I had to constantly reign in the scope to be a minimum viable game. I would let my imagination run wild and come up with all these grand ideas for an overarching plot, etc. But the project gets really hard to finish after you've done the fun bits like getting the main gameplay mechanics implemented and there's a big stretch of grunt work ahead ("the last 20% takes 80% of the work"). It's easy to let it languish and never ship/release. That's when you need to re-evaluate what it takes to achieve a minimum viable game and ruthlessly reign in the scope.

Tell yourself "I can implement all my other grand ideas if this minimum viable game proves successful" - and you can. And if it isn't very successful, then you can move onto the next project/idea.

[0] https://www.bryanpg.com/games/embergram
If anything I see more love for Emacs over the years, not less. From Spacemacs to DoomEmacs to all the vim users switching to Emacs+evil-mode. There's LSP support since a while too.

The Emacs ecosystem is alive and very well. It's in much better shape than it used to be.

I used to live inside JetBrains' IntelliJ IDE, starting at IntelliJ version 4 (yup, I'm that old) and I'd probably use IntelliJ again if I was forced to work in a nonsensical Java codebase, full of boilerplate, impossible to navigate because it became a gigantic mess of spaghetti code. But that is my vision of hell.

Emacs is something else. My custom config is about 3 000 lines of elisp code, written over the years.

About anything I want Emacs to do, I can have it do it.

Dunno, last thing I did was configure my 3-ways merge/diff environment: didn't like the default, didn't like the layout, didn't like the colors. Dived into some elisp code and I changed the layout to better match my very wide screen.

Another quick hack: when asking for the list of recent buffers/files opened, I wanted, for those in version control, to see how many commits they had (to quickly find hot spots)... Some elisp code to modify "counsel", one shell script. Boom, done. I've done that years ago. Still working flawlessly.

I've written a plug-in for IntelliJ back in the days. It's horrible.

Also if we compare Emacs to IDEs, it's the most lightweight, and by very far. It was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" and it was funny joke in the 90s but today 8 MB fits in the L1 cache or so. It's not swapping anymore (even if it's a bit more than 8 MB, granted).

I'm using the native-comp branch of Emacs since it came out and stuff like burntsushi's ripgrep directly integrated in Emacs. It is not just a bit fast, but incredibly fast.

Sure there are gotchas. You have to dig a bit into elisp to fix the usual suspects (like long lines making it slow: it's all configurable).

But you're in control of absolutely everything.

You have the source code, use it when you need it.

Now I know some are using Emacs with the default setup and the default keybindings and without knowing / using any elisp. I'm no elisp guru but I think Emacs only begins to show its power once you being to use elisp to tailor Emacs to your way of working.

That's the thing: you adapt Emacs to your way of doing things, not the other way around.

I don't think there's any need to "make it popular again". It is popular enough and it is thriving.
Kudos on the work done and I hope you the best of luck.

A little note of advise: I wouldn’t start my company description as “the Y of X” or “the Y alternative to X”.

It’s okay to mention if you are similar to another well known company, but don’t use it to describe your company, specially not in the first line.
I love public transit and opt for it if I can, even if it's a bit less convenient. Only remember a few cases where Uber was the best choice, definitely Las Vegas was one of them but if I can I'll never return there anyway.
I love Emacs, but you need to be a retro minded programmer to enjoy it, that means you have to prefer code as your user interface, because in Emacs, code is the main UX, you're basically living inside a running Lisp command shell.

Now honestly, I don't think it needs to become more popular, I think it just needs to continue to attract enough people that are smart enough to work on future versions and maintain the popular extensions, and that's all.
Don't fall into the trap of accepting the premise. Killing was always considered evil. An evil that's occasionally necessary or justified, sure, but so is today.
It's neither sensible or sustainable for mass market use. Installing this motor in most cars would require multiple days of work plus custom fabrication. And then where do you put the batteries?

Manufacturers are happy to sell crate motors just to pick up a little extra revenue but it will never be more than a tiny niche market for enthusiasts.
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Yeah...I tried my damnedest to claim some Call of Duty game that "came with" my 3080 last year. By the time I was done, I had to sign into "GeForce Experience" (which I'd avoided up until then) and install battle.net, reset my old account from the last time I had it (I think when Diablo 3 was new), then I had a hell of time because the authenticator was tied to an old device but I couldn't manage it without logging in.

I forget what eventually happened, but I never was able to play that stupid game and I only even bothered because it was "free".
Everyone’s different, but I can go a while without food and not have it bother me. It’s not uncommon to go a day without it and not really notice. I hear people talking about getting “hangry” but I don’t personally relate to the that feeling at all. I don’t even know what that’s like, or how common it is to feel that way. If anything, I just get tired.
Re: Pipes.

The problem with DSLs -- compared to just writing JavaScript/TypeScript -- is the IDE experience is incredible. It takes a formidable team to create both the software for parsing the DSL, and the language service to provide intellisense and ordinary language-feature goodies. At that point, why not just use a conventional programming language? Formatting a string is an extremely normative thing to do; it doesn't seem to necessitate the DSL plus all the tooling that elevates the developer experience of using the DSL.
Or hero.
The speed to 'first development environment' (lol) is a day and night difference between VSC and Emacs. VSC is faster to setup by several orders of magnitude (even if you know Emacs). Overall I believe you can get the same functionality, if less customizable, in VSC.

I can't remember the last time by VSC configuration broke. I guess there isn't much to break in it.
Looking forward to seeing this in an old Mini or a Fiero

Shame there aren't photos of the inside of the bed or the rear axle - from the shots under the hood it seems like it would be difficult to fit without losing cargo space

I'd assume most engine swappers would be more interested in something that mounts longitudinally
There's a ton of space on an old truck or van, most body on frame vehicles for that matter. It's really a non-issue.
Between the frame rails underneath the cab. Trucks are different from cars (unibody design, like a shell) in that they are body-on-frame. It looks like a giant ladder and they are generally 6-8" tall or more for HD trucks. You would create your own "skateboard" if you will then lower the original cab back down on top.
Great point, we have thought about it too. We are getting a lawyer involved to overlook everything.
Yes, "men can talk and understand about how women feel." But mansplaining is not that.

Epistemic implication is saying, for example, "she is home, because her car is in the drive way". The car is not the reason, and the first clause is not a statement of fact. It is not too odd that "must" can be found in this middle voice, "She must be (a slut/a victim) because ..."

Saving grace is that the comment did not explain anything, so it can be chalked off as self-ironic take.
An excellent description.
Eventually all of these options will merge into more or less the same thing, how couldn't they.
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QR codes suck for document verification
almost 9e6 weekly downloads on npm but only 114 stars on github; makes me wonder if this was just a troll by the author.
I agree. I am very close to one friend, who is reasonably high on the Kinsey scale, though I am not. It is a source of frustration to me that deep friendships between men get reduced to something sexual, as if men were incapable of forming attachments that aren't based around our dicks. Women can be particularly nasty about it.
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Take a look inside this shiny,industrial “cultivated meat” factory of the future
There are those of us who would choose privacy over safety every time...
> -Swift

Taylor or Jonathan?

> Flea

> prey

> bite'em

> ad infinitum

What is this telling us about former pronounciation rules?

> , in his Kind

this feels like it's only there to force the rhyme