skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly. There are always going to be low profit or unprofitable areas and it's unreasonable to expect an individual driver to subsidize those rides.

I’ve said it twice now. Give the drivers the information they need to know the cost of the trip - distance to pick up, distance to drop off, and the estimated time to get there. Let the algorithm decide how to appropriately charge based on supply and demand. I have no problem paying more to get from my house in the northern burbs to the airport in the south 60 miles and two hours away in traffic. I’m the epitome of the none price sensitive customer - I’m not paying for it. Either my company is paying for it or my company’s customer is paying for it.

When I am price sensitive on personal trips, I get an Uber to the closest train station that is much closer and less traffic.

> Unfortunately I think I'm in the minority with my belief that companies like Uber have a social obligation to serve economically depressed areas.

I disagree. The only responsibility that Uber has is to make a profit and let drivers use their own free will to decide whether it’s worth it. Uber shouldn’t even be responsible for benefits. If we as a society decide that everyone has the right to healthcare (I do), add a per ride government fee and let the government pay for it.

If you want affordable transportation, the government should either provide it themselves via mass transit or subsidize Uber rides for those who can’t afford it and if it’s more cost effective. That’s already happening in some places - via a “Universal Fund” tax added to each Uber ride.

If it isn’t obvious, I’m a pro capitalist, bleeding heart liberal big government pig. I should (or at least my company should) pay for the societal benefits of the ride share drivers.
No one reading it in 2022, maybe. Easy to imagine someone reading it in 20 years and benefiting from the context. Have some perspective.
A (Hopefully) Gentle Introduction to Serialized.io and Event Sourcing
I read the top 100 Scientific papers of all time
A nice compromise that I've appreciated in the classes that I've taken - have strict deadlines, but offer X days (say, 2) of a no-questions-asked extension. It creates the clear expectation that work be turned in on time, but offers a small relief valve for one-off problems.

The problem is that this adds extra bookkeeping for a professor who's already busy with everything else going on, which gets back to the original poster's point of becoming everything that they hated.
Where you are. You are not working on a computer in state, you are working on a computer on your desk that is talking to a computer in that state. Not much different from phones really, do support people technically work in multiple states because they use devices (phones) in those states remotely?
The few ways this changes, every driver leaves Uber/Lyft and sign up with FURE.Cab. We can all keep complaining about this till nothing happens. And everyone who's reading this post, knows nothing going to change.

Riders ride free or pay less.
Indie drivers get 90% of the fare.
FullTime drivers get a salary.

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And even when it gets to the point, I don't understand why they have to complicate matters so much.

I may be an outlier, but have been working cross-border remotely for 6+ years and absolutely never needed this legal stuff.

Quite opposite, I was super thankful to have an excuse to escaping local legal insanity and also ignoring insanities abroad.

It's like being "country-less" in terms of these crap legal stuff.

It's a dream.

Again, my personal experience here. Don't know if it works the same for all...
The countries which are least trustworthy wrt nuclear weapons are the ones that aren't going to ask the public's permission. An autocracy doesn't need to power itself by nuclear plants in order to have nuclear weapons. On the other hand having a sustainable, clean source of power not tied to autocratic regimes lowers the leverage those regimes hold over democratic countries.

In my particular country, a major chunk of the public budget goes towards paying fines to EU for use of coal, all while our government periodically passes bills allowing it to borrow more money from the central bank, increasing inflation. Negotiations with neighbouring autocratic countries can be pretty tough, when they can threaten us and rest of Europe, which is going to put pressure, with stopping energy transmission. Energy shortages in some parts of the country were a regular occurrence for decades, even before the current political problems.

Lack of nuclear plants does nothing to prevent a nuclear war, while it harms us on many very tangible levels.
Yes and before Einstein, > 98% of scientists believed in an even more wrong model.
I love the map. I love the responsiveness. I have done things with Leaflet and geoJSON and have always wanted to do hexagons. How did you convert the temperature data to hexagons? Or, more specifically, create the tesselation of hexagons? (I would like to do something similar for Australia where I live)
> This is more noticeable in the south bay than SF and thereabouts

That's probably why Redwood City wins. In the summer, if you take 101 from the Presido to Gilroy, there's a spectrum from cool, damp, and foggy to hot and dry. The happy median is between Millbrae and Santa Clara, but you have a dial you can use to pick anything in that range.
You probably unintentionally got caught in a review whitewashing scheme, where a well-rated product gets renamed and its specification and pictures updated to an entirely unrelated (or in your case, somewhat related) product so the seller doesn't have to start from 0 reputation.
That's exactly the problem - that's why things are so broken as per the article.
"And I don't know about you," says Mayer, "but I certainly can't afford to buy an island on my own!"

Again, best of luck to them. They had to crowdfund $250,000 for the tiny piece of land, they're a LONG way from being able to do anything ambitious with it. That takes DEEP pockets that they themselves admitted to not having.

It'll be a fun little campsite for a few years though, until it's underwater. Then it's just a heck of a story to tell at the bar.
Even worse, it was meant to be finished in 2009, not 2010.

It took over 4 times as long to built as pitched, and over 3 times as expensive.

Everyone doing comparison calculations with renewables, remember that.
yes... it's politics... call it "culture war" if you want to diminish the other

and yes. fuck the person who bought that truck (the very specific topic of the OP and this whole thread), and skirted the taxes, the very objective measure you purport to uphold.

this truck doesn't even pass the sniff test. it's blatant.

what do you even want?? I have no idea what you're arguing for.

I suggest we sue the shit out of corps skirting taxes. call the individuals who participate assholes.

the only reason you called me out is because for some reason I'm not allowed to have an opinion about this because lines are blurry?? it's called politics, where you hadh out the lines, redraw them, and hash them out again.

if you want to call me an asshole, fine, do it. you might be right, I'm probably a hipocrite in some area I haven't examined yet. but at least I'm trying
Amazing - much appreciated. How is it going compared to mongo?
Good job Finland. I respect the opinions of the environmentalists and agree with most of what they say, but until we have something more reliable that can put out power 24/7 year round, we need more new, modern nuclear plants.
My "them" was actually a reference to the west. Jewish Israelis is a fair argument too. Both are true.
Send me resume@fure.cab founders equity..
You mean the theoretical ones?
How many people will read it today and how many are likely to read in 2040?

I would argue it's better to optimize for today's readers. Not that difficult for 2040's readers to pick the context.
What prevents heated waste water from being used for…heat? Surely Finland uses central heating plants that pump hot water throughout the city (or maybe that’s just a Chinese/Russian thing?). What makes waste heat water less suited to heating, higher entropy?
Everything has downsides, and it has to be compared to the alternatives.

In Finland's case, the realistic alternatives are burning coal or burning Russian gas. (If the Finns dedicated a substantial chunk of their forests to this one generator, they could maybe use biomass.)

Coal kills two orders of magnitude more people per GWh than nuclear--and it does that when operating nominally, not when malfunctioning--and it produces three or four orders of magnitude more waste and more environmental harm from mining.

Russian gas has geopolitical/national security problems.

Biomass is a roundabout way of burning diesel fuel and gas, while degrading and eroding forest soils and polluting watersheds.

The number of new meltdowns per decade rounds to zero, to five significant figures.
If only we could have both types of energy source. Cover the gaps in solar/wind with nuclear, cover the gaps in nuclear with solar/wind. Sprinkle a small amount of pumped hydro and battery storage on top and what a world it could be.
I've heard of this dagger before but I had no clue it was so large. 35.2 cm total length, 21.8 cm for just the blade. A little longer and it could almost be called a short sword. Very impressive for meteoric iron.
Theoretically, should be able to sell it to someone else for $250k later. So it really only costs the carrying, transaction, and time value.

Seems like a small price for someone giving this a serious effort.
They're going to be recouping their costs somehow, I doubt Finnish customers are done paying.
Social Credit Industry Represents a $16.1B Opportunity by 2026 (2021)
Ah yes, the return of the good old Soviet methods.
The positive side of this is that it's a strong indicator of the ruling dictator slipping into distrust fueled paranoia. One of the first steps towards the downfall.
I'm not personally on any mission to "convert" anyone. If you don't care about an insider's perspective as a data point for informing your opinions, that's totally up to you.

I'm merely pointing out the irony of people on a forum full of programmers talking about Uber as if changes to complex systems with live SLOs can magically be done with a snap of fingers.
I think you massively overestimate the code quality in automotive. Weekly might be a hyperbole, but from what i gathered from friends in the industry, the situation is as abysmal as everywhere else. I dont have any hopes that this will somehow get better with more complex software. Would love to be wrong here though
This article accurately describes a problem, but while it claims to talk about digital media in general, it is really just talking about Twitter.

Here's the giveaway:

> A huge part of the problem is that digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare.

Every. Single. Platform. has an equivalent to this - except Twitter. Reddit (and HN) have visible downvotes. YouTube's downvotes, invisible though they now are, can at least influence the recommender algorithm. Even Facebook has "frowny emoji" reactions. But on Twitter, the only way to express disapproval is to "join the conversation" - thereby amplifying it, and incurring all the negative consequences Devon explores.

It's engagement genius. (Accidental genius, naturally - like most of Twitter's "core game loop", it's an unforseen, emergent phenomenon about which its inventors seem faintly embarrassed). The "grifter" problem Devon mentions exists almost exclusively on Twitter, because it's incentivised by the platform!

Normally I wouldn't get so heated about this stuff, but Twitter has attracted a critical mass of the world's journalists, so its incentives flow directly into The National Conversation(TM). This has visibly malign results, prompting many people to look for ways to fix it. This is a noble aim, but won't get anywhere if we regard Twitter's design decisions as immutable and inevitable, rather than a deliberate choice.
Humans colonizing space is essentially a religious belief and people freak out if you challenge it. Just keeping people in low earth orbit requires a tremendous amount of resources. Every person who goes up depends on the efforts of thousands of people on the ground. It will never be self-sustaining. It’s not like walking across the land bridge from Asia or setting out on your canoe in the South Pacific. But people freak out when confronted with the obvious facts.
Of course there is, it's happened exactly the way I said in South Korea, Japan, and American naval reactors. These projects take a long time to complete and there have been relatively few of them. It therefore stands to reason that the cycle of learning from them and making their construction more predictable would take longer than for e.g. cars.

Far too many people are generalizing from the French and American nuclear programs, both of which built lots of reactors in a comparatively short time and then were fear-mongered into a standstill by the fossil fuel lobby.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

"""In the third era of nuclear power construction in Japan, from 1980 to 2007, costs remain between ¥250,000/kW and ¥400,000/kW, representing an annual change of −1% to 1%. This period experienced relatively stable costs over 27 years."""
> someone from the UK: haha, you live in America

Excellent, my job here is done.

I also love the absolute nailing of startup/tech culture.
Regardless, I don't see how in practice it matters that water boils at a hundred degrees. E.g., never when boiling water have I set a temperature.
What happened to no blame culture?
The problem here is that for typical writers "implement Substack equivalent" is not viable solution.

Also, "pyramid scheme" has specific meaning and is not matching Substack at all.
Dave Chappelle famous words explain pretty well why we really should stop caring about twittokbooktagram.
No, people aren’t pretending that. Heat pollution in water is a tiny local issue compared to global warming.

It’s like complaining that a wool blanket is itchy so it might be better to catch hypothermia and die.
For a while, Russian nuclear fuel was cheaper. There are alternative sources if the political interest to not fund Russian exceed the economical interests.
> I owed the CRA $15,000, and the IRS owed me $15,000

I’ll just add that there are extensive trade treaties between the U.S. and Canada that prevent workers from being double taxed on income, which is why in this particular case it nets out. This might not have been the outcome if this was the U.S. and another country.
Soooo..I teach IT for a living and am thankfully thankfully free of being on the research side of things. I am incredibly lucky to be able to generally do things how I like.

I let them know mostly early on: I do grades because I have to, not because I enjoy them. I've settled on the following: I try to make the biggest assignment an ongoing project-thing that they "turn in" more than once, and try to coach them into primarily learning and doing -- and turning in something that I can reasonably slap a good grade on.

I do one or two small quiz type deals on top of that. Very hard multiple choice, but take-home, and you're on your honor to not to consult live humans. Also, I do the nice type of "curve," so if your fellow students' grades are average low, that helps you. Honestly, this is much more to maintain classic ideas about grading, though I suppose it helps keep the younger ones on their toes. Also, I find the psychological effect of "QUIZ" to be sufficient to get people to prepare, even when they don't check the syllabus and see that these aren't all that much of their final grade.

This seems to be a pretty good way to do IT type classes.
I highly doubt it does, it's largely a fun puzzle with potential ramifications for limits of computability.
But unlike nuclear, solar/wind is constantly getting cheaper. Nuclear is, frankly, doing the opposite.
The person you are replying to is not the same person as the one who made the content-free reply. You might want to follow your own advice.
Yeah, isn't TypeScript without enums and decorators already kind of "types as comments"?
A warrant??? I'm not aware of any country where you can/need to get a warrant to "spy" on your employees. In some countries that would be illegal. If said employee manages to do what others do while mostly surfing the web that's great. If they aren't delivering then by all means fire them (ideally with some sort of process to actually let them fix it). I don't see what the spying buys other than the mistrust of employees, the news getting out, and people not wanting to work for you.
I'm thinking proliferation as positive. Just think of countries recently in war had nuclear deterrent. They might not have been invaded in first place. Everyone having nuclear weapons would make world much more peaceful and safer place.

That is unless we sanction all nations that have nuclear weapons and blockade them from international trade until they get rid of them and subject themselves to being open to inspections for couple centuries.
From the footnotes:

Imagine a "ಠ_ಠ" button on each tweet. The poster finds out how many people THAT THEY FOLLOW* clicked that button, but can't find out specifically who. They just know that the crowd of people that they respect has a certain air of disapproval.*

I love this. This is so much more interesting than a downvote, which could easily come from someone you're disagreeing with or people who share their views. This is your friends giving you the hairy eyeball. I want this.
I found a link in its Wikipedia page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130116000447/http://www.hs.fi/...

"Suomenkin uusi ydinvoimala maksaa 8.5 miljardia euroa" which translates to "Finland's new nuclear power plant will also cost 8.5 billion euros."
A sub-skill of Alchemy :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alchemists
Those of you who seem to think a nation has to grow populations indefinitely or fail, what is the long term end game in your mind? Hope that your nation wins the inevitable global resource war?
It's not really a good option, however SMM mode could be (you'd need to figure how to do network calls, though). The only thing changed by UEFI in this case is unified interface to register SMM components (You can have UEFI system with no SMM).
All the more reason to invest in English language material, right?
While I appreciate this argument, I feel it's disingenuous.

The reason is that this problem doesn't just apply to banks, it applies to every goddamn service I try to make contact with these days.

The systems are setup to waste a users time so only by showing a large commitment of time and emotional frustration can you get to talk to a human.

The net result is massive waste of everyone's time. It's a race to the bottom situation, and it's a societal problem, companies do it to compete.

But if your competition didn't do this hostile user gaslighting, then you wouldn't either. Or if instead of wasting 30 minutes average time before talking to someone with agency, the time was reduced to 5, or even 10 minutes.

I think the answer is regulation, that the mean or median average for time to speak to a live human should be no more than x (I propose 10 minutes), combined with an ombusdman to report companies that hide behind automated systems instead of do support, and if the average response time goes over allowed limit, or more than y percent of users report a company for not having a way to address their actual problem, then that company should pay a financial penalty, to it's users pro-rata. If the penalty is balanced, this way companies would actually share the cost of the people's time they are wasting.
One other thing I would check is disabling or removing the submit button after the first click. Just an onclicked event to set the disabled attribute will go a long way.

Double-clicking on a lot of sites will submit the form twice. If people are waiting, they will click again, and again.
Solar is not a viable solution in the north. The energy usage goes up when solar generation goes down.

For wind, we're too small country - there are always days without any wind. There are even days without any wind in nearby countries included.
Everyone seems to be forgetting the most obvious problem: this island is still territory of the nation of Belize. It is less than 5 miles from the coast of the capital city. There are inhabited islands further away from this one that are solidly part of Belize. I can't buy an island a few miles off the coast of Seattle and then call it an independent country.
> male centric story telling often uses combat ability as a metaphor for personal growth

Why does this have to be male centric? Gaining strength as a metaphor and parallel to personal growth is a story as old as time, and there's a reason we all like it. It's like a meet cute in a date movie. You can have fun with the trope, but at the end of the day, something like it needs to happen to make a successful story in this genre.
I don't think it's correct to think of a laser as a source in some thermal equilibrium. "Concentrating temperature" passively from sources in thermal equilibrium is forbidden, but there's nothing preventing "concentrating power".

Pulsed lasers bring material interactions into a highly non-linear regime - photon intensity is so high that multiple photon absorption is common. In the typical nuclear decay regime you are concerned with single photon absorption, and the gamma ray intuition is correct. There are also a number of approaches where various targets hit with ultrafast lasers produce controllable flux of gamma rays which are used in downstream experimentation.
The importance of this transition can not be understated.
Try and organise a workshop to set some common coding standards. Having a commonly understood standard for good is an excellent way to start the process.
Oddly, the headline image of this article does not appear to be from an induction stove. Induction stoves do not glow red at all.
Finlands's population is about the same as the Cape Town, Melbourne, or Boston areas
If anything like this could lead to destruction of nuclear bomb material, nuclear disarmament could actually become reality.
I saw somewhere that 95% of all ML inference tasks is still done on CPU
The fascinating part is papers like Realtivity just don't get the citations so they don't get into the top 100 - if you work out the 100 by citations.

Fascinated to see if there is a list of "the 25 scientific papers you must read before you die" - much like the list of films Empire will publish etc.

If I put 90 minutes into a paper as often as I do into a movie I might actually know something :-)