skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because in the common case, a taxi (driverless or otherwise) drives empty at least some of the time, to pick someone up, thus creating congestion, compared to a private vehicle, which doesn't drive empty.

The cheaper and more convenient you make zero-person and single-person automobile transportation, the more people will use it, and the more congestion they will create.

The more expensive and less convenient you make it, the more trips will use non-automotive, or public transportation, both of which produce far less congestion.
>On the other hand, because of commission, it is in the recruiter's interest to get you as much money as possible so you might get a better offer via them than you would if you went direct.

It's in the recruiters best interest to maximize their throughput in placing candidates, and they're commission is skimming money off the top of the salary you could have collected if you'd gone direct.
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I’m extremely impressed with Spotify and Rogan’s ability to compromise and address feedback. I don’t see anyone being unhappy about this, though some (not including myself) may see it as not enough.
I wouldn't personally want to do this because gig economy work seems inherently risky and low-paying and my current job is not those things, but I see a more fundamental problem with the very idea of gig economy for software engineering. Gig economy is ideal for short-term, one-off tasks that are well-defined and effectively commoditized. Give me a ride somewhere. Buy my groceries. Carry a bed upstairs for me.

Once you get into something as complex as install a new shower for me, let alone design and install a new shower for me, there is a lot of value in things like long-term client/contractor relationships, word of mouth referrals, and the jobs need to be individually scoped and price negotiated. It gets further and further away from making any sense to have it be app-mediated. You could, of course, have software that aids contractors in managing customer relationships and scoping work, but that's just plain old-fashioned CRM and ERP, not gig economy.

Where I could see this maybe working is for very small discrete tasks, like lend me your computer for a consensual botnet to stress test my infrastructure, help with reviewing this single documentation pull request to ensure it's readable to an average person who isn't on the team already, but I don't think customers are largely in a position right now to be able to individually purchase something like 4 hours of work. The overhead isn't worth it from enterprises with convoluted and expensive purchasing processes. But there is not a sufficient value add for small businesses on top of just "hire a single tech guy to do everything for you," but then it's not a "gig" any more. It's just normal contract work.
Not sure what you mean by, "It's not biological evolution". The linguistic phenomenon you're referencing doesn't make any sense outside the context of the specific evolutionary history of the human eye. It would be like saying the shape of something has nothing to do with the shadow it casts.
If you have the money for that, you either build a cruise missile that flies very close to the terrain, or an ICBM that rushes down from space at a speed that makes if very hard to intercept.

If you build your rockets from water pipes, nitrate fertilizer, sugar, and a blob of high explosive, as most Palestinian rockets are [1], you don't invest into a flight control system at all, only into the aiming system and the efficiency of mass production and mass launch.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket#Design
So what happens when there is a cycle in the graph? Does it just DoS the resolver?
Tesla pivoted to video only. They originally tried with radar as well. So any such statements by musk are already a pivot.
I think the line count was just to emphasize simplicity and accessibility, rather than to brag.
Not in the list, Here maps (with ancient roots in Nokia Maps) is excellent.
No need for a conspiracy. This is hackernews. Not reddit. I doubt they are spending their marketing dollars here.
They had their assistant respond and they were cordial. The last time I saw him he was pretty condescending saying things like "this is the first step in a long process of finding a house." To the point that the assistant pulled him aside during the showing and asked him to tone it down and apologize to me.

So him blowing me off seemed like more of the same attitude and I'm sure they realized they lost $25k on an easy sale. This was in Seattle so I didn't feel bad about finding someone who took me seriously in a fast market.
Maybe we shouldn't have closed down the economy which was the reason why these programs existed in the first place.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace
Imagine that you were loudly proclaiming yourself to be an Irish Protestant, in a rather rough Catholic neighborhood in Northern Ireland. Or vice versa.

No, it's not particularly rational. But when there are distrustful, angry, or hostile groups of humans involved, "rational" describes very little of how things usually go.
One of the most annoying behaviors on the section of I-5 nearest where I live are people cruise controlling in the middle lane. I try so hard to drive courteously and safely, but middle-lane cruisers force me to make exceptions to that philosophy, just so I can make it from the left side of the freeway to the right.

It also causes other traffic to resort to high speed passing on the right and left simultaneously because they are aggravated with the moving blockade.

So I have no sympathy for people who cruise control unnecessarily in the middle lane. I wish the cops would write them tickets mercilessly until they stop. Traffic on the freeway flows smoothest (and safest!) when there is a comfortable difference in speed between the lanes, predictably from slowest to fastest as you go farther left.
In terms of censorship, YouTube flew the coup a long time ago, and doesn't touch audio podcasts.

Joe Rogan represents the uncensorable.

And now he grovels and allows a warning and says he will represent the other side? I don't see these disclaimers on Morning Joe or Don Lemon.

Joe may not be cancelled, but he caved, and warnings are the first step.
The issue is triggered by `console.time`

Try:

function mySlowFunction(baseNumber) {
const startTime = Date.now();
let result = 0;
for (var i = Math.pow(baseNumber, 7); i >= 0; i--) {
result += Math.atan(i) * Math.tan(i);
};
console.log(result, 'time:', Date.now() - startTime);
}

mySlowFunction(8);

I get ~100ms in Chromium and ~900ms in the WebVM (if I close the devtools)
Rather than assume malice, a more charitable and entirely plausible interpretation is that the Google Maps team simply does not test this configuration. A recent change to Google Maps or Android unknowingly broke it, akin to genetic drift. All phones collect MAC addresses from nearby WiFi devices to speed up the initial GPS satellite fix. Apple does this too.
> speed limit 25 mph during school hours

I've seen many signs that say 25 mph when children are present. That becomes an interesting judgment call: if children are walking down the street or on the sidewalk, it's clearly triggered. But what if children are playing in a fenced in part of the school? How would a computer know that those kids are not able to easily climb over the fence, and are therefore not 'present' quite in the same way as if they were on the sidewalk?
I expect the media led zeitgeist to slime you on a few fronts:

1. AI/automation/tech bros undercutting the working class.

2. The mortal danger of self driving cars to pedestrians and the public- perhaps with an AI bias/racism zest.

3. The price, location-availability, or otherwise explicit exclusion of people that damage the cars or are otherwise unprofitable being harmful.

4. The proliferation of self driving cars reducing public transit use, thus reducing public transit investment, reducing transit access for poor, increasing pollution, and clogging roads.

5. Something something self driving taxis are subsidized by the government via public investment in roads.

All of these arguments are bullshit and I am not excited to hear people recite them to me in 5 years.
My partner and I will be driving and my partner will point to a funny looking building and say, "Whats that?". To answer the question I need to quit navigation to view the map. You can't "browse" the map while in navigation.
lol. The conspiracies! It was a bad URL bro.
"UBI or stfu."

"for the love of god, let's stop prioritizing saving "jobs" th"

Printing money does not create value and we will generally suffer reduced standard living, some worse than others at least over time.

In the long run, the real economy creates vast consumer surpluses which are generally not even really accounted for. We are actually quite a bit richer than we were a generation ago.

'Direct Stimulus' might be better in the very, very short term to stave of serious harm, but in the 'mid term' it can be destructive, and in the long term it will absolutely be destructive.

Since the first wave of COVID in Canada, a lot of industries have been trying to open, but people have preferred to take their 'CERB' (direct payments) than work, which has accounted for reduced service and is one of the key drivers of inflation.

UBI payments are worthless if there's nobody to stock the shelve and nothing to stock them with.
I have REDIS driver working in web using websockify bridges (and there are a few other options)

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/redis
It’s true, ISP international speed is not that high. However you can connect to a local VPN or locally hosted proxy to get full 8gb/s international
I had some friends participate in a virtual hackathon run pretty much entirely over Discord. The final demos took place in a very "room-focused" fashion - each team/product had their own Discord channel, and people could pop in and out over the course of the 90 minute demo time.

It was very successful at replicating the feel of booths in an expo hall, and opened my eyes to how much I enjoyed the "audio rooms" concept. Right away, looking at the landing page, I love the idea of having my own little virtual "office" that people could pop in and out of. That's probably the thing I miss most about in-person work: informal, extemporaneous communication (that doesn't take place over text).

I get the feeling that the right audience would absolutely love this product. Good luck, folks!
The NYT's main competitors aren't other newspapers. Their competitors are Substack, Candy Crush, and Netflix.

As Byrne Hobart points out,

> "in their latest quarter almost 30% of their new digital subscriptions were for games, cooking, and Wirecutter, rather than news."

And a bit more cheekily:

> "When there's a negative New York Times article about a startup, one of the not-uncommon Tech Twitter jokes is that this constitutes bullying from an established, profitable unicorn with over $1bn in annual recurring revenue."

https://www.thediff.co/p/the-nyt-dead-trees-and-disruption (paywall)
Hell let’s make selling anything about me illegal: my voice, my image, my ideas, my bodily fluids, especially my time and effort. Then I can finally live off the allowance our caring government will generously offer.
This sounds like a shill comment.
But is anybody actually doing that?
Automated Rebase Farming on Ohm Forks
My understanding is this will be used right next to the Gaza border meaning it will get the rockets during boost phase. Iron Dome will still exist at the other end of the course to shoot down the remaining rockets.
Well, the best option at the time would have been to not lock down at all and just carry on as usual: lockdowns appear to have had almost no effect on Covid deaths (https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...)
Why is this considered a big stride when Waymo is doing it for 6 months already?https://blog.waymo.com/2021/08/welcoming-our-first-riders-in...
To quote C. Wright Mills, writing in 1960:

> They know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of Marines. Being baffled, and also being very tired of being baffled, they have come to believe that there is no way out—except war—which would remove all the bewildering paradoxes of their tedious and now misguided attempts to construct peace. In place of these paradoxes they prefer the bright, clear problems of war—as they used to be. For they still believe that "winning" means something, although they never tell us what.
I have it working here https://webcode.run
It's a pretty standard 14" laptop keyboard form factor.

It's not a "single layout" by any means.

If you hate the arrow key layout, blame Apple for popularizing it.
Of course, they are almost required there. Microsoft's Pyright extension is useless without type hints. I know this because I tried to use VSCode without them. It reminds me of those free-to-play MMORPGs, where you have to pay to unlock their entire content.

I mentioned the point of making our tools too reliant on type hints in my opening.
War (taking place somewhere else, that you're winning)
When did I say anything about printing money?

Don't conflate a policy debate about how we spend the commonwealth with the policy debate about how we collect the commonwealth.
Tips for information on getting into web crawling?
Well they didn't have to move, just to be captain pedantic :-). They chose to do so, as they made a policy decision not to use any GPLv3 code. Which is their right to do so, of course.

Apple have been moving to only permissively licenced code for a while now.
> I empathize with those who have been misled by a bunch of loony, grifting parasites who would have been laughed out of polite society 30 years ago.

“laughed out of polite society”? think that one over a bit. sounds pretty impolite to me. (also a decent example of how a group [“polite society”] can inadvertently establish foregranted truths [its own politeness] and be thoroughly baffled when the outgroup challenges that fundamental belief. i’m not accusing anyone here of groupthink — just that it’s a prominent aspect of the present moment).

anyway, i get your point. we all have our limits and there’s no shame in that. IMO if you’re at the point where you truly can’t converse productively with some group — and don’t have the desire to grind it out and search for a way to actually relate to/reach them, then just exit the conversation. leave it to those rare overwhelmingly compassionate individuals who are able and willing to endure to bridge the gap. sometimes you’ll do more good by saying nothing than by fanning the flames. not always easy in an era where people can feel defined by the beliefs we advertise, but if you really believe that these opposing views of the vaccine are harmful to our society, then let go of your apparel and delegate to the best methods for resolving these opposing views. maybe that’s linking to data-based writings (sounds like you’ve tried that, to no success). maybe you’ve found that you can’t actually provide anything to resolve these oppositions. that’s okay. someone else will have it. yield the floor to them.
Ask HN: Does Moore's Law apply to RAM and if so, is it finally ending?
I noticed recently that if you start with 32K in 1980, a reasonable amount of RAM for a personal computer at the time, and then double it every 2 years, you get a surprisingly accurate track of the "normal" amount of RAM for a personal computer in that year.

1M in 1990.
32M in 2000.
1G in 2010.

And... 32G in 2020... which while not unreasonable does suddenly seem quite high. And in 2022, you get to 64G, and I don't see many home computers with that much RAM.

So why have we suddenly slowed? Do we have "enough" now? And it just took 40 years to get there?
You really have to talk to the people in charge of your hiring pipelines if it takes 300 resumes to find one qualified candidate...

Every single position I've ever hired for has had multiple people make it all the way through, often more like 3-5.
> This is the key case I wish HN allowed editorializing the title

The ability to leave a short (less than 100? 140?) description would be one the ways which would allows not to clickba^W editorialize the titles.

Or the submission author can do the same by leaving the comment about it in the first comment.
U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook
People will swerve around you, ride your bumper, flash their high beams at you, honk, pull in front of you and hit the brakes, and other dangerous road rage type behavior.

I don't think the one being unsafe in this scenario is the one driving the speed limit!
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You're right. Perhaps they simply announced this post company-wide, so lots of happy employees are here.
I didn't read the article as "bragging" about the line count, but saying it was short enough to be read casually as a companion to the comic.
Sad to see Amnesty weaponized like that.
From what I've seen after the attempt to adopt Six Sigma within a large pharmaceutical, 6S has several inescapable vulnerabilities due to not knowing:

1) which important company components produce signals that aren't measurable (e.g. internalities like deep domain knowledge in R&D or externalities like market swings or competitor behaviors),

2) which signals are too dynamic or complex to optimize, and

3) which signals are insignificant, irrelevant, irreproducible, or simply meaningless noise.

Applying Six Sigma to R&D illustrates these caveats nicely.
Now you've introduced either a caching problem or a data subscription with a myriad of other trade-offs and I don't think either of those are less trouble than bluetooth.
But can we get 80% there and then have a human help out?
Why don't we make a law around it? I'm tired of politicians weaseling themselves out of difficult situations by saying "oh, I forgot about that". It's your job to bring important, relevant information to the table, damn it.
I agree with the spirit of this piece, but I think Wordle is a weird choice to try to highlight the point. I enjoy Wordle, but I'm certainly not going to die without it. Not to downplay Wardle, but, as xeromal pointed out, it's pretty easy to crank out a clone. Lots of people already have. If NYT paywalls it, I'll either stop playing or find or create a clone.
Set up your laptop to RTC wake up x hours after suspend, go to deeper sleep. Should be 100% userspace, shouldn't need code changes in anything preexisting, and be mostly a question of configuration.
Did you know you can actually talk to the people who are handing you those resumes? You can a) ask for more resumes at a time and/or b) suggest they look at certain pools of candidates.
What's the issue with this ?
If 10% of white software developers are women, that's not over half.

But assuming 100% of white software developers are men, 54% is still not within the normal range of the word "dominated".
It's not about a single trusted vendor here, it's about a supply chain on which multiple independent parties are working. The blockchain is kind of a neutral intermediary.

Scenarios like this are not "very strange" but very real. Europe and China are actively working on blockchain projects, e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/2021... or https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-selects-pilot-zone...
That's the argument made by the recent ECJ ruling on the matter, not by shady players.

As a business, technically you're simply not allowed to have dealings with US-based companies anymore if you want to be GDPR-compliant.

It doesn't matter if that relation is direct or transitive. If you buy a product or service from an EU-based company, even if data on their servers is guaranteed to never physically leave the EU you're still in violation of GDPR in case that company is owned by a US-based parent company.

The reason for this is that with FISA US law enforcement can force US-based companies to hand over any data, even if that data is stored with an international subsidiary under a completely different jurisdiction.

Now, you might say: "See? This is GDPR working as intended." While that's technically true that doesn't take economic reality into account. It's simply not possible to have an exclusively EU-based economy. Otherwise, why would the EU even need to negotiate trade agreements with other countries (which during the Brexit debate has often been cited as one of the main benefits that comes with being an EU member)?

Why do businesses even have to deal with this? This is a problem at the national and international level and it needs to be solved at that level. Why is it impossible for the EU to demand a FISA exemption for EU-based companies - US-owned or not? That's not an unreasonable demand, after all, given that FISA interferes with other jurisdictions.

The reason is the EU is weak. It's far easier to bully local companies into submission than to do the right thing and stand up to the US.