skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumb question: so who gets the money from this lawsuit?

Does the government keep it or does the government distribute it to all who were impacted?
The numbers for GM are explained by the chip shortage and other supply chain issues, which Tesla is weathering better. Assuming these are transitory issues, I don't think the growth gap between telsa and GM is quite as large as you're indicating.
I think a lot of that is that Python doesn't launch a server that handles code analysis/formatting requests, so every time you want to do another round of things-to-do-on-save, they all have to do be done more or less from scratch (some info can be cached between runs, but if you're launching a Python process that's like 100ms right there...). I imagine if there were a Python code server that handled formatting and type checking without ever shutting down, it would be quite speedy.
Yes, like SGIs Cosmo Player

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/silicon-grap...
> Intel reduced their R&D spending on semiconductors

Intel has consistently increased their R&D spending for the past 5 years: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/financials?p=INTC (see financials tab)
They do have a few little DSLs, which I dislike: struct tags (optional, I prefer to avoid), magic comments which provide build directives (this seems icky to me, but avoids breaking Go1 promises I guess).

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/08/gos-hidden-pragmas
Well that's pessimistic! If there's any justice in the world then the rising sea levels will be compensated by an generous outpouring of plastics into the ocean and a corresponding increase in the density of the PTI.
Anecdotally, I'm very comfortable with public speaking and presenting complex ideas, code, and architectures to a room of colleagues. I've given conference keynotes to 1000s with no problems. However, high pressure technical whiteboards still cause my brain to freeze. So I think they are different parts of the brain, and doing well or not on a high pressure whiteboard doesn't correlate with how well that employee will do convincing and presenting complex ideas to coworkers (it's definitely not true in my own case, I know thats N=1, but its something).
Zip is….. weird. In some undesirably ways sometimes, and desirable in others.

The index is stored at the tail end of a zip file for instance, which is really not cool for something likej tape, doubly not cool when you don’t know in advance how big the data on the tape is.
True, but some people might not want to hear from you again if you upset them. It's a pretty marginal/debatable example tbh.
Which is an order of magnitude easier to come by, proving OP's point.
I love the idea behind this phone and have been following the development for a while, but it's really a drag that it doesn't support group messages.
I'll say this again, I want Google to go down along with the rest of FAANG. It has way too much control over US population and the rest of the world. It has started to abuse its position.
This is doable by a large govt. $300 billion is 1/10 of covid aid and related stimulus. The point is that small, strategic payments can stave off much greater systemic damage, which is what a bailout does.
Sure.

Imagine a situation with two people and a state-like actor.

One person has all of the food in the entire world minus one loaf of bread. The other person has one loaf of bread. After they eat that loaf, they will probably die of starvation in the next 30 days.

This is a Pareto efficient distribution.

If the state-like actor intervened and re-distributed some of the food to the other person (with coercion), I would argue that aggregate welfare would be improved.
Not just dislikes though, or?
Oh, I'm not necessarily suggesting that my lack of curiosity about new language designs is a good thing. In fact I think it's kind of a mixed bag. I'm only clarifying because I don't want to seem to be implying something negative about younger developers.
-first-generation devices_

any recommendations?
CIA and Gen Z
I have multiple Google accounts on one phone number. I'd probably leave google if that limitation were put in place.
Neither do you get one from China itself. Its hard to tell what is really going on when everyone has an agenda to warp reality.
I've also had this experience with Google Ads- they pop up a second after all results right where I'm about to click. And someone's paying for that click somewhere
On google maps the most informative reviews are the negative ones... even if the ratio is highly biased to 5-star ratings, the few negative ratings usually leak the more honest opinions which help you qualify the positive reviews.
> C/C++/Rust, but then you deal with complicated OS level calls

What OS-level calls are you doing in C++/Rust that you aren't in Go?

> library deployment issues (problems fixed by Go)

How is Go's library tooling better than Cargo? I believe Go's is strictly worse, with its URL-based imports and how it deals with major versions.
> Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth today.

This is something which should be expanded upon:

Yes, people are behaving like that across the board, it is becoming a popularity contest...what matters is which company has the potential to achieve the biggest size, the biggest scope, the biggest footprint and nothing else.

It's fueling valuations.

BUT size, scope and footprint find their financial expression in REVENUES, not PROFITS.

So if you are trading be mindful that people are falling in love with revenues and not even considering cost of goods sold or profits, but historically the profit metric is undefeated.

We might as well be in a new paradigm, but all things considered it doesn't feel that bad to miss out on money because you missed a paradigm shift happening in the brains of millions of people who are not yourself.
I agree: they would have to move downmarket over time, following Tesla's playbook. That's why I guesstimated $50K/vehicle by 2030. It may be an extremely over-optimistic goal... but it's not impossible.
My car isn't dead yet, but it's around the time I would look at buying another used car. I bought a used motorcycle instead and am splitting miles.
A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey
USC is a great university.

It's bragging to have graduated from what looks like an obvious cash cow program that I'm skeptical of. All online, no cap on enrollment and full price. Should raise red flags.
Am I the only one thinking that the Rivian truck headlights/front grill is one of the most unappealing things I have ever seen on a vehicle?
I’m sure the White House videos getting disliked into oblivion influenced this.
I haven't hired a developer in Bangalore in a few years now, but talking to colleagues, salaries are up 30% or more in the last 18 months. Enough so that our comp charts are way off and unusable.
It's more of a funnel system where they take investor $$ and channel that to employees and in discounts to customers.
A trip down memory lane. Thanks for the pleasant reminder that it's still around, and pretty much unchanged. A hidden gem.

Some of the comments on the site from ~2005 are so quaint ("Great site. Am linking to you!", etc.). Makes me feel like I'm in a quaint old-world town: proud of its anachronisms that morph into charm and wisdom with the passage of time.
Looking at this uber charged folks with disabilities on the same basis as those without, not differently. So the discrimination claim is that they should have not charged folks with disabilities the waiting fee.
For sure. My 2010 used Acura has never been valued so high even though I am not looking to sell.
This is my personal opinion.

If society decides that a sacrifice should be made in favor of a disabled Uber customer, society should incur that cost and compensate the Uber driver the market rate for their time.

Wait fees, in this case, are not being used (in the abstract) to discriminate because there is an time cost inherent in this business model that somebody needs to inur.
No you wouldn't. You would quickly find that the market is too small to be worthwhile.

There is a reason the ADA exists. Because before then, everyone assumed businesses would cater to disabled people because they wouldn't want to lose out on the business. But it turns out they are such a small market, it doesn't affect their bottom line.
Yes, I would say that.

It's also the simplest method - again, just a dumb rsync command that you re-run every day.

If you are using borg you would probably handle the retention and versioning yourself with the borg tool and perhaps set just one or two daily snapshots at rsync.net. These would not be for your backup schema, but rather, for safety in case of mistakes/ransomware/mallory.
I can't downvote stories, but can downvote comments. Just to clarify. I edited my original comment so perhaps you replied before my edit.
Learning how dictionaries work
It could actually be a play for far bigger, the mountain of money that is now largely dominated by Microsoft in ALL establishment corporations and governments. Think of being able to run your whole network and equipment with a mere fraction of the IT and network personnel that it now takes to run a Windows based environment.
> The dollar spiked past a key technical level today.

I don't know much about "technical" forex trading, but I can say that USD/CNY didn't really change today, neither did USD/CAD, or USD/GBP. Everything is around where it's been over the past few weeks. Are you saying the real exchange rates will significantly change soon?
Google does not pay significant taxes in EU. Just like other companies they use a lot of tricks to avoid paying taxes.
It's the thought that counts -and I appreciate the thought!
The gradual extinction of softness
I’m far from an expert, but can the US Fed really print more money? Didn’t I hear that something like 30% of the USD in circulation today didn’t exist at the start of 2020?

It has to stop somewhere. Doesn’t it? (Genuine question!)
Universities are for training researchers and conducting research. We should stop treating them as vocational schools.
It's even elaborated on at the bottom of: https://www.level12.io/about/
Awesome -- more positivity at gunpoint
Somebody should make an extension that brings back dislikes and comments on videos where they're disabled. Just store it all on a different server but seamlessly integrate it into YouTube.
Good context rules. However, what always concerns me about 1 and 2 is that in our environment there are toxins of all types. Yeah, a penny here, a dime there, a nickle here again. Those all add up.

And since there's no way to sort that out, each of those individual toxins gets a free pass for being an insignificant amount. Unfortunately, we can to be mindful of the sum of those toxins being greater than the individual parts.

So now what? Is it reasonable and safe to ignore that context? And if we have kids?
How much cash? Feel free to send it my way. :)

See the bottom of: https://www.level12.io/about/
>I bet there's some interesting history here.

ML / AI were derived from Data Science. So hence it was built up upon the same python foundation.

As to why Python on Data Science. One needs to be reminded most people doing Data Science, or any Matlab type of work do not considered themselves as programmers. They dont want to learn about 20 reason why functional programming, or objected oriented programming are better and 100s other best practice with 1000 tricks to write the same program.

Although I do wonder if Julia may have a chance to dethrone it in the next 10 years.
The US can keep issuing dollars for as long as they like. And you will buy these pieces of paper because they are backed by the US Military, the US Air Force and the US Navy.
It's interesting that the Internet took the YouTube Rewind dislike thing as a win, meanwhile YouTube themselves took it as an opportunity to learn about the negative side effects of their users' free will.
I think the OP is saying that you can have a situation where the short term demand for dollars outstrips the supply available at that given time (think in terms of hours or days). This could lead to a sharp but short increase in the value of the dollar, since there's only a limited, albeit extremely large, amount available on the market at any given time.
9 years and 2500 karma in, still no downvote button on stories... I believe it is documented somewhere that the button does not exist.
Does it matter if it’s anxiety or not?
My claim is that there is nothing about Pareto efficiency that is ethically preferable to a situation in which more people are better off.

Arguing that this policy would render some consensual exchanges illicit is irrelevant, because I don't think the most ethical outcome is axiomatically realized by solely consensual exchange without any coercion.
Funnily enough, my first car was a used grandma '99 Taurus. I sold it to a family member, and it's still driving.
I'm not sure that's what I was arguing against.

From the GP's post - I was trying to say I read this as "the collection of services AWS provides would require several in-house engineering teams to compete with" not "vendor lock-in".

A single service is relatively easy to replicate if it is core to your business, but an entire on-demand datacenter w/ abstractions like Time Series databases, pub/sub services, etc. isn't as trivial to do yourself. Many of these services require teams of engineers to manage at scale, and engineers that _understand_ them well.

The on-demand service catalog of the cloud provides significant value. It's more than "pub/sub" or "blob storage" as a service. It's an entire engineering organization and data center as a service w/ pre-built architectures for you to start using today.
Don't you need to take into account current conditions to forecast into the future? Unless there is some silver bullet information or wild speculation, predicting future financial states needs some basis to stand on.
I don’t understand why people think tesla will keep growing at this rate. To grow they’ll need to sell more cars, and for that they will need to sell cars that cost a lot less, something they are not geared to do. Tesla is not apple, they’re not good at making and maintaining products at low cost in massive volume, and they don’t really seem to be getting better at it. So why again is it reasonable to assume they’re going to keep growing like this for years to come?
Because it's true. Job interviews aren't remotely as anxiety-inducing as a manager who wants to know why the widget you worked on blew up in production. If you can't answer basic questions about your background and experience, then you're not the sort of person I want to work with. I hire technical people with the expectation that they will one day either be able to fill my chair or exceed my abilities. If you're hiring a person who you would never want to work for, then you are hiring the wrong people. I guess the one caveat would be to hire someone directly out of school, since they would be less likely to have experienced that sort of direct pressure... but I expect an experienced employee to be able to answer questions with some sort of confidence.
Cool. 49 yr old Canadian here that also started game dev this year. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
They can keep issuing them. They will not have the same value, though.
The Slow-Motion Financial Suicide of the Roman Empire
It's not just inflated labor pricing. Customers are willing to make more extensive repairs because it's more economical than buying a replacement.
IF you rely on (older) compute codes, there are multiple problems getting Fortran code to compile and/or be numerically stable native on under Rosetta 2 on the M1 chipset. Given that it's a fast chip, this is frustrating to early adopters. Not every bit of code runs C/C++/Python.
Irrelevant question.

The proper response is to cut Pinterest out of search results.
> you don't change all of your process and accounting norms because of a temporary (at least as we think for now) supply issue

Is this why some people stick insist on making payments by sending cheques through the post?
Public dislike counts were opportunities for brands to own up to their ambition for authentic engagement. This is maybe the main thing lost here - without putting this at stake, and with full moderation powers on their video comments, brands basically only have a veneer of authenticity at this point. There's not as much at stake for them anymore, very limited downside / reason to care.
Farmers Take on ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ Food Crisis
Archived: https://archive.ph/kCkXz
the fact it isn't optional is the biggest red flag, why not just let channels choose if they want to show dislikes?
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Totally. I found actually visiting China to be informative.
Take a look at the Toaster Project if you want to see building an item from scratch carried through all the way:
http://thetoasterproject.org/
Good observations.

Question: isn't all the bureaucracy part of the business? I mean, in the real world you cannot ignore authorization, and all the friction in processes either. Isn't it naive to assume software is able to fully model around that? -- anything trying to do so is bound to fail (in that aspect), and is a priori just a lock-in?
Thanks, the examples are amazing. It is great to have these open source alternatives available. A clear case where it is super beneficial to the whole ecosystem to share this knowledge.
The limiting factor is inflation!

If we get massive deflation from a “dollar short squeeze” (which I don’t actually think is likely but it’s what OP was suggesting) that means we need more inflation, which printing money would produce.
https://archive.ph/kCkXz
This kind of smells of bad science reporting, the paper itself does not seem to be bad science, but I haven't read the paper yet (DOI
10.1038/s41586-021-04075-0); a quote from the abstract basically, indicates they were force-fed unrealistically high palmitic acid content combined with the standard lab mouse fake feed diet. It also indicates the palmitic acid did not cause the cancer, but only increased its growth.

"Here we show that dietary palmitic acid (PA), but not oleic acid or linoleic acid, promotes metastasis in oral carcinomas and melanoma in mice. Tumours from mice that were fed a short-term palm-oil-rich diet (PA), or tumour cells that were briefly exposed to PA in vitro, remained highly metastatic even after being serially transplanted (without further exposure to high levels of PA)."

Mammals produce palmitic acid as the primary fatty acid during de novo lipogenesis (humans are estimated to have about 1/3rd of their body fat stored as palmitic, possibly more in strict vegetarians than everyone else), and palmitic acid is required for building the membranes of cells and subcellular structures (palmitoylation, a process that is used in the production of several thousand chemicals in the body).

Fundamentally, if they would have not had this outcome, then it would indicate we don't understand something fundamental about biochemistry. If you put fuel on a fire, the fire will grow. If you feed a cancer the ingredients it requires, then it will grow. Cancer does not really do anything special that any other cell doesn't already do (the form of "high copper" anaerobic metabolism it uses not withstanding); palmitic acids, and saturated fatty acids in general, are required for cellular growth, hormone construction, energy production, and an otherwise endless list of functions required for life.

The paper isn't saying "don't eat palmitic acid rich diets", which the science news seems to be trying to imply the paper says, and if it had said so, would be bad science in of itself; what it's saying is we should look into short term low palmitic acid diets as an adjunct therapy for cancer treatment.

That said, if you're looking into keeping cancer from starting in the first place, the semi-traditional human diet of one meal a day, sometimes with intermittent fasting thrown on top, seems to make sure cancer is kept at bay with our normal apoptosis cycle; apoptosis in humans only can re-engage after the postprandial insulin spike after 12 to 24 hours, depending on the individual. Saturated fats, including palmitic acid, are required to keep an individual functioning without being hungry all day long, but also to replace damaged cells garbage collected by apoptosis and also drive apoptosis itself.
Yep. This sabotage is exactly why K-12 teachers disable comments.
SGIs RGB files are missing.
http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/sgirgb/sgiversion.html

Had been heavily used on SGIs as their 'native' image file format.
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> - Should this same policy apply to people with ephemeral injuries?

Are these sorts of things considered "disabilities" though, from the perspective of ADA and other disability-related laws? A bunch of years ago I broke my foot and was on crutches for 8 weeks. I don't recall it being that difficult to get to my Ubers in time (they may have been more lax with wait time back in 2014). It didn't occur to me to even think I should be entitled to extra time.

> - Should all disabilities be treated equally?

I would assume not? IIRC the key phrase in disability cases is "reasonable accommodation". I think it's reasonable to grant someone extra time if they have a mobility issue, but perhaps not if they have something like diabetes?

- How should a person with disabilities indicate that they have a disability requiring extra time in a fraud proof manner?

That might not matter? From what I understand, the ADA (and similar laws) are worded and interpreted to give the person claiming a disability the benefit of the doubt. I would guess that Uber is expected to eat the cost of fraud here, unless they can prove in specific instances fraud occurred. In general, though, the opposite case is much worse: denying an accommodation because you (erroneously) believe no accommodation is needed can get you in big trouble.

> - Should Uber compensate the driver for this extra time to ensure the driver is still incentivized to pick up people with disabilities?

Personally I would say yes, definitely. I know this isn't how Uber works from the driver perspective, but the "meter" should start running as soon as the driver gets to the pickup spot. Uber eats (or builds in) the cost of a reasonable "grace period" for riders, which is Uber's decision. Ignoring the disability question, if Uber drivers were truly independent contractors and had full autonomy, they could certainly decide to give riders zero time: either be at the pickup location already when the driver arrives, or you miss your ride. (Not saying this is a good policy, but in theory this could be something that's allowed; pre-Uber taxis in San Francisco would sometimes do this, and it sucked.)

Not sure if Uber should specifically note "this person is disabled so you'll be getting a little more money as compensation for waiting longer"; probably not? Though I guess after they accept the ride and arrive at the pickup point, they'll see their required pickup wait time be 8 minutes instead of 4 (or whatever), so they'll at least know at that point.

> - Why, ethically, should this cost fall on Uber instead of the driver?

Because, despite Uber's insistence that drivers are independent contractors and are not employees, Uber still sets ride pricing and does not give drivers all that much flexibility in what fares they are willing to take (that is, they don't give drivers much information up-front about fare details, to avoid discrimination).

Ultimately, though, the cost will more likely fall on riders (all riders, that is), not drivers; the rational response here from Uber will be to raise the cost of every ride slightly, in order to cover the added cost to transport people with disabilities.