skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Net neutrality" means that there is no preferential treatment of packets based on origin or destination.

Which is utter nonsense for any large service provider that requires traffic engineering to handle elephant flows.

This is the problem with blanket slogans, they constrain the network in ways that impact user experience dramatically, and is why a LOT of internet pioneers oppose net neutrality.

Encouraging open access networks seems more striking at the heart of the matter.
I was a software engineer and did not work in LSI, so I cannot comment on that in a way which would be most informative, but I will try from a different perspective. An accurate answer would be incredibly complex, obviously.

Samsung, from my perspective, mostly focuses on this year's production and developing next year's model. Yes, there is work done planning for new fabs and global supply chain systems, but 98% of cycles are spent on this year's production and designing next year's model.

Samsung accounts for a huge percentage of South Korea's GDP, about 20%. Therefore, Samsung needs to favor stability over taking risks associated with living at the bleeding-edge of innovation. Samsung always did play the safe game when I worked there (and for good reason when you're babysitting a $20 billion factory with $100 million of product that could be scrapped at any time).

Again, I wasn't in LSI but this is my perception overall having worked there, traveled to Korea and learned Korean culture.
The assumption and question presented here is exactly why the OP should speak to an accountant.
At the same time, HN is quite distinctly not funny, with jokes being so exceedingly rare that they never even get the chance to turn into a meme. Sometimes, when I read discussions on HN, I wonder whether a little bit of humor might help from time to time (I know it's difficult in writing).

Slashdot was a little bit messy,and less obsessed with facts and technical accuracy, and with being civil and polite, but it was also, well, more human I think. And being a bit messy is ok, as long as most people recognize it (including the people messing about ) and mark things as such for those who don't (the funny, flamebait, etc tags).
Uber is being disrupted by for example Bolt, which is their frugal Estonian competitor. An example close to me is that Uber essentially already lost the Swedish taxi market. They had a couple of years as the the top dog making everyone install an app but due to the huge overhead got undercut.

This is a market with a completely unregulated taxi sector as long as you follow the base regulations. Maybe sometimes a bit archaic but I could finance a car and start driving within a month.

From what I've heard the only way to make a profit is to be a business owning about 50 cars which are staffed 24/7 and on top owning your own service workshops. It's extremely cutthroat.
Why do you take it as a fact that the legacy taxi companies were better?
They both have different irritations, but for most things I would still recommend unity.

Much of the long-project pain with Unity comes from its biggest limitation, in comparison to Unreal: no source, and so you're stuck with Unity's default behavior, limitations and bugs, unless you plan on extending it, wrapping it or replacing it. Whereas Unreal making source available doesn't lend itself to safe boundaries and compartmentalization.

Weirdly, Unity's irritation is also something of a strength, because those wrappers and replacements tend to find themselves on the asset store, often for peanuts. Often with source.

There's serious differences at the extremes, of course. But unless you're working with eight, ten, or more figures of budget I don't think it will matter that Unreal has superior tech in numerous ways, because you won't have the teams of artists to make use of it.
As someone whose virtual in-game company has grown so much that I lost track how much things cost and how much money I am actually making. I would argue it is very common. This is in a game where there are already turn key spreadsheets that tell you how much profit you are theoretically getting per day. The problem is that your "pipelines" are long and you may end up stock piling stuff for two weeks buying at one price and selling another.

I doubt most Uber drivers are whipping out a spreadsheet and pondering for 3 hours before they commit to the job. That is how much time I spend before I build a new base and lots of those were canceled before they got build.
I'm no accountant. We paid ourselves a salary after about 3 years, when there was enough income. During the first 3 years we funded the business and had losses on our personal returns (no other employment). You can carry those losses forward and use them when you start making money, either by paying yourself a salary or taking a dividend, or you can do a Roth conversion in the years you have a loss: converting pre-tax IRA funds to post-tax Roth IRA, thus generating income to offset the losses.

I agree with other comments that you should consult with a lawyer and accountant about Delaware, C vs LLC vs S, and your other questions. For a sole founder, I think an accountant is more important than a lawyer. For multiple founders, a lawyer is important to lay out the terms of a founder leaving while you are all still on good terms.
At least for Tahoe, VRBO and AirBnB have similar selection and interfaces.
Sorry, misread “agents” as “agencies.”
Got the same question for a new grad position around 2019. Only had an hour that time. Great question.
> why would you?

Combination hunting rifle and microwave oven: cook your ducks on the wing!

I suspect it would take unfeasible amounts of power to pull off in reality. Pesky humidity.
Internet companies are free to offer internet plans other than "unlimited" for people who don't want to stream a lot of video.

On mobile most plans are already "limited", but that hasn't given us net neutrality on mobile.
I wrote this simple python script to automate the backing up of the generated images to my server. I'm not using rsync or scp cause I don't want my keys on the PI, cause it can be stole. I'm using a sqlite3 DB to keep track of each file that was already uploaded so it won't be upload again.

this week I'll need to make a glass | acrylic enclosure to install the camera on the site and start capturing images for my time lapse.

first video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZ-almMSxQ
The US gov banned RT. So I guess it just protects some press

Also YouTube channels, Facebook pages... All banned... At some point even the 'rt.com' was unaccessible

Even worse, CNN is still allowed is to transmit in Russia

Same applies to EU, UK, BBC...
Yeah if you do the math you end up realizing you need to run the cars like airlines run planes - damn near continuously. Idle time is non paid time, and you need to keep everything moving.

The real advantage of self driving taxis isn’t going to be the self driving, it’s going to be the 24 hour/day shifts they can pull.
OK. It’s a four minute process.

It’s not like switching from Xbox to PlayStation or Windows to Mac or something. You don’t have to throw away something of value that you purchased and buy something else expensive.

You can go back-and-forth between the apps.
I test my speed by uploading/downloading huge files to my AWS instances. It always matches SpeedTest; I have centurylink fiber, it is >800Mbps up/down.

As others have said, if your destination has a slow connection, you're pretty screwed. Not to mention lots of slow file transfers = more latency impact.

Transferring 1x1GB file vs 1,000x1MB files is a HUGE difference, the latter will take much longer due to the initialization of the transfer. That's why we used to use FTP to transmit files instead of HTTP way back in the dialup days.
Competent legal advice requires knowing both the relevant law and the relevant details.

Some of the relevant details were missing and HN's readers aren't known for their legal knowledge, especially of "not EU or the US" law.

On a related note, HN is not a good place to get medical advice.
I'm a few more shades more conservative (Read: self-hating) than the guy in that video but I can't stop laughing.

I'm at the point where he's talking about how he suspected he should get diagnosis's from two doctors to get on disability and he was right and he was told to go to a third doctor anyways. It might be hard for people to relate to how I've had to have a hard talk with people that they will likely have to fight for years to get on disability assistance regardless of if they're legitimately disabled and that you can be too disabled and lacking in support to get through the system to get disability support. I know why things are like that but it doesn't make it any less cruelly ironic.

This video is so fucking real it's unreal.
Bitwarden (premium) has a really nice service of granting access to emergency contact based on prespecified wait time [1]. This can be used in any emergency situation.

[1] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
Cloudflare (and others) are working on it: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/browser-isola...
Please don’t post this kind of crap here
In the ACT at least, years 11 and 12 are called ‘college’, and the NT, years 10, 11 and 12 are ‘senior secondary’. It’s confusing, but each state has their reasons.
Yes - and whenever those people could, from the dawn of history, they were also getting drunk, high, and tripping balls.
> Would you be less frustrated if it came with a disclaimer, along the lines of "this is not a trick question"?

Definitely. That would make it more clear it's about SE and not stupid brain tricks.
TBH I think MacOS has been optimized for trackpad for so long, it's almost required. Swapping my logitech g400 for the Magic Trackpad was pretty mindblowing
One of the nice things about ridesharing is that, at least in some cities, taxis have started modernizing. I've been using Curb in Philadelphia, and it's significantly cheaper when Uber/Lyft have surge pricing. Otherwise, it's usually a little more expensive, but the drivers are more reliable so it's sometimes worth paying a few extra bucks.

I've had Uber drivers accept my ride, then drive away from me, refuse calls, and not cancel the ride (expecting me to do it, so they avoid getting dinged, I guess) on multiple occasions. One time I ended up walking to my destination and saw the driver cancelled it after 2 hours. Uber, of course, doesn't have a way to report this behavior.

The UI still isn't as perfect as Uber's, but it's good enough for me. Pretty similar to Uber without any bells or whistles. It wouldn't be convenient for me to hail taxis without an app.
Is there a way to automate this speed test every few minutes to make sure the ISP prioritizy stays up all the time
Got mixed feeling

- As people pointed out, it's advanced FizzBuzz (really advanced)
- I can easily see a lot of people being unable to solve it, not because they can't do it, but because of a "performance anxiety". The bar here is quite high, and the result is binary (does it work or not).
- I like that it is quite close to real life (that people have to read code, figure it out, write code). On another hand, again, what is not real, that you are parachuted into a unknown (quite big) codebase and expect to add a small feature in 3 hours.
Ability to communicate clearly.

Ability to communicate clearly to a non technical audience.
How did the logistics of this question work out? Did the interviewees work on the problem live, with you (or the interviewer) in the room acting as a sounding board or as some other resource?
I'm not sure where the three hour thing is coming from. During my tenure, we gave candidates one hour.
>We heard some arguments that it can be (encouraging suicide, dehumanizing minorities, inciting insurrection,etc). Do you think it cannot be? What are your arguments to support this position if so?

Some of these claims are stupid, and some of these claims apply to speech that is already illegal even with freedom of speech. It doesn't apply to twitter, given the majority of the speech being censored has nothing to do with that. It's like arguing about abortion by using a motte and bailey involving abortion post rape - its an emotional argument that accounts for something like 1% of all abortion if that. It's not an honest argument as to what is going on.

I think speech in general should be legal. I think speech can be offensive. I don't think most speech is hurtful. Are the founding fathers of the united states guilty of being hurtful, and should they have had their speech censored? They incited an insurrection.

Such blanket approaches and nonsense examples (compared to what's actually being censored) are just the work of people looking to use misleading examples instead of the common examples.

>o you belive, even if the speech were to rise to the level of abuse, it would be harmful?

This is again putting the cart before the horse. "if speech rises to the level of abuse..." assumes that speech is abuse, which it isn't.
Well, I dislike reasoning about this without facts, so maybe you can add some statistics from monitoring missions, like how many shells hit civilian areas each year since 2014. How many civilian victims there were each year, etc.

I guess to understand the scale of the issue... to see if it's more like an active terror campaign with a city/village being shelled every single day (like the joint Russian/Assad terror campaigns in the northwest of Syria), or more like something else.

If it looks more like a former, then yes, I'll accept that UA gov doesn't care about civilians there.
There is a reason memcached does not have mult. One could argue even incr and decr should be handled by clients. Starting to add more arithmetic support is scope creep. Why stop there, why not add sqr or bitwise ops, maybe a text based adventure game? Just blindly implementing this feature without any questions should be a huge red flag
Though this may not work out very well in a Covid-inflicted world, one thing you could consider is traveling the world. You can pick up a Lonely Planet for a country that interests you and stay in modestly-priced hostels/hotels. It can be great to experience new cultures and meet other travelers. It can actually help you understand yourself and your own culture/values better. You can potentially do consulting gigs while you travel to help pay the bills.

Another thing you might try is to do something like a 10-day meditation course. You can find many places for this here: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Good luck to you!!
Hmm. I work in the field of second language education. I even read Hamilton’s pamphlet [1] ten years ago when writing a couple of papers on historical controversies about language education [2, 3].

I’m sure the Hamiltonian system works for some learners, especially those who are highly motivated to learn to read the target language. In most language classrooms, though, the method would fail quickly, because most learners of modern languages are more interested in learning to speak. They would also find the Hamiltonion method tedious and intellectually taxing.

However, I do agree with the author that the importance and difficulty of vocabulary acquisition are often overlooked in language education programs. I’m not sure, though, how many people would acquire vocabulary better through the Hamiltonian system than through other methods. There’s a lot of individual variation in learning styles.

When learning Japanese, which I now read, write, and speak fluently, I did a lot of brute-force vocabulary memorization using flashcards while also reading extensively without a dictionary and, at first, without much comprehension. Although I later worked as a Japanese-English translator, when initially learning the language I didn’t use translation at all, and all of the language classes I took were taught only in Japanese. But I don’t know many other people who learned languages successfully in the same way I did, and I myself wouldn’t be able to learn another language that way again.

In any case, if anyone wants to try the Hamiltonian method themselves, textbooks are available at the Internet Archive [4, 5]. Let me know if it works for you.

[1] https://archive.org/details/historyprinciple00hamirich/page/...

[2] http://gally.net/writings/2012_Disputes_about_Language_Teach...

[3] http://gally.net/writings/2012_Which_Languages_to_Teach.pdf

[4] https://archive.org/details/opera00sall/page/n3/mode/2up

[5] https://archive.org/details/corneliusneposad00nepo/page/n9/m...
It’s more than converting depreciation to cash, it’s borrowing against deferred maintenance. It’s the $800 tires and the $500 tie rod that they will need in a year that they aren’t even thinking about today. I guess they will just have to drive a lot that month to cover it.
That doesn't really work for taxis. No matter how much you want to distribute rides across the whole day, no discount is going to be able to get people to commute to work at midnight - most of your rides will happen around 9am and 5pm. So many taxis will have to spend a good chunk of the day idle. With self-driving taxis, at least you're not paying human drivers for some of this idle time (which Uber doesn't either AFAIK, but traditional taxis do).

This is in contrast to air travel, where with the right discounts you can get people to fly at inconvenient times of day.
Search "Samsung fridge" on HN to find a bunch of comments on what they've done wrong. It seems they're very eager to overengineer and add technology either just because they can, or possibly to aggressively pursue environmental regulations on energy usage and such (so they can claim to be at the top of efficiency rankings.)
Agree. It's funny how people I know who are "non-tech" intuitively understand that of course speed-tests are rigged, but tech people somehow think that the same place that allows Facebook pages that say that the jews have space lasers, that same place somehow is completely honest about speed tests. I am just pointing out, fake world is fake world. Just because it's says Mbps does not exempt it from fakeness. Fake is as fake does.

Just interesting that people who are smart enough to understand other fake things on the internet (that maybe some people not as smart as you are not understanding). But when it is some ISP tricking you, all of a sudden, everyone is up in arms about it.

It's interesting.
I have to tell the taxi driver to turn the damn meter on every time without fail. It's ridiculous. I don't know how someone more vulnerable could possibly use taxis since it's basically attempted robbery every time you enter one. Hopefully Uber/Lift win and Taxis die. For the sake of the disabled, women and children at least. I wouldn't even mind if Uber cost more.
But why is the scraping so crucial? The history is probably less important to most users than the reach of their posts, so the mirroring on Twitter seems more crucial (Twitter could probably prevent that if they wished, though).
“Suppress your soul’s desire for freedom…” -part of the message being broadcast by drones in Shanghai.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/china-...
OK update: we walked by Freedom Plaza and all those skaters were definitely smoking weed. We should make an app. Like Waze for weed. Oooh "Haze"!
If you're already under an authoritarian government, I'm not sure that Covid lockdowns are a slippery slope to a power grab. The power has already been grabbed.
I agree. Sometimes a transition statement is better. Sometimes one must present evidence, then summarize. This is just my summary of the full 120-slide PowerPoint.
See also "dog" which I've been using for a while, works well. https://github.com/ogham/dog

I actually already have a "q" alias, I think single-letter aliases are probably quite common. Are there many other well-known utilities with a single-letter name?

Edit: Turns out I have one installed, "z", a universal archiver front-end. https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z/
I live in a place with very good transit and people just complain about their 45 min one-way commute by train.
Medical people talk about this problem as "differential diagnosis". There can be multiple reasons why some symptom is exhibited (in this case, failing the interview). Its not enough to know that the interview question was failed - you also want to know what happened.

A much more common example is that (particularly young) candidates tend to make job interviews into big, stressful things in their head. Then they don't sleep properly the night before, and during the interview they can't think creatively or access deep memories (which are both well known symptoms of stress). They can't answer your questions. You think its because they don't know, but actually the problem is that they're too stressed to think at all.

Long programming questions work great for my anxiety because I can zen out while I'm programming and forget the interviewer is there. But everyone is very different with this sort of thing.

The more general way to work around this problem is to listen and pay attention to the candidate. If you asked "Lawrence" in this story what he was thinking about during this interview, he'd tell you about fluid dynamics and partial differential equations. That tells a story. Another candidate will tell you that they felt really awkward programming through an SSH connection because they're used to Visual Studio. Or how they really do (or don't) like some aspect of the programming style on display. Or how (to crib from another commenter) the programming was easy enough, but they're worried that doing so introduces a race condition between atomic multiply and add instructions if they're interleaved. And they hate doing the work because they feel like they're introducing a bug.

None of that really helps with stress bunnies, but you learn so much about what sort of employee they'll be by asking.
Thats worse in both worlds.

In 4x4 You usually want an Auto, no more burned clutches and modern hill descent assist is done with ABS anyway so no need on relying on braking with the engine.

In electrics manual is just plain stupid, emulating manual with CVT or pumping fake engine noises with internal speakers level of stupid (hello Nissan).
I went down a very similar train of thought, making the same assumption. I think this makes us “type 1” engineers: wrongly assume that we are not allowed to break the existing code contract, and attempt to use it to implement a new solution “over” the old. Extending without modifying.

I took that as a kind of lesson in and of itself. I’ve certainly had to face code monstrosities and cut through multiple layers to discover the simple rewrite before. If somebody had modified instead of extended sooner, if someone assumed the existing solutions were not so sacred, maybe a monstrosity could have been avoided in the first place.
> Taxis died because it's a horrible user experience that was propped up by a government-enforced monopoly.

This cannot be understated. Also, as an introvert, negotiating with drivers, especially those that don't drive by the meter was always stressful, I mostly ended up overpaying.
Time Warner used to have a “turbo” mode where connections would temporarily speed up when you started a download.

Pretty sure many ISPs do something like this - especially on mobile. If you have access to a prioritized phone, the side by side comparisons are pretty interesting.
>Gypsy is a slur

Wow. Someone should probably let the creators of "Big Fat Gypsy Weddings" know this! And all the people that participated in the show. And all of the Travellers that watched it.
Ok, that does sound more relevant. Either my sources gave an inaccurate picture, or that's only for junior roles.
T-Mobile and others offer “HD Video” as a premium. So they cap the connection to Netflix to force 720p video.
As if taxi drivers weren’t exploited when they had to rent medallions.

But if you don’t want to support “exploited workers”, are you willing to give up all electronics?