skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in europe there are many taxi companies that have started to do uber app features and prepayment and all the jazz that make uber so great.

Yeah, Uber never got a foothold in Germany, but they brought us apps and card payment. Before that, it was cash only.

That said, cabs (both, actual taxis and rentable cars with drivers [0]) also seem to be far better here. The cab companies own the cars, not drivers, they are modern and clean and usually premium brands. Just from what I’m reading about the situation in the USA, it seems to be a clusterfuck, and I know from experience that in South Africa, cabs get you crappy overpriced cars that are almost falling apart while Uber gives you a clean private vehicle.

[0]: I’m not sure if this is a distinction in other countries, taxis are allowed to pick up people, and have some limited public transport rights, e.g. certain streets might be bus and taxi only, while rentable cars (German: Funkmietwagen, Personenmietwagen, or Minicar) can only be ordered in advance and have to follow all rules like a private vehicle. Taxis pay more taxes.
> That would just be worse

I disagree. In my cable/charger box I have 4 USB-c chargers with 4 USB-c cables, and they're not interchangeable for all intents and purposes. I've ended up sharpieing what device they belong to rather than reading the specs printed on the back of the charger, because otherwise I end up trickle charging devices (and thankfully I don't use a USB c dock, or I would be in all sorts of hurt.

> The issue is the difficulty of matching the cable with the device (and port) to ensure the upper bounds match.

If that were the only problem then sure I would agree that things are worse, however in the real world manufacturers ship both devices and cables that are missing features, underperform, and are labelled as "USB 3"
Huion? I've heard sanded down (so they fit in the port) USB C cables that support DP output works.
>He was vindicated by modern science.

He denied that genetic heritability existed and that all characteristics were propagated epigenetically. That's hardly been vindicated. In practice his theories and practical policies were utterly disastrous.

It is true that since then we have found some mechanisms by which some traits can propagate epigenetically, but characterising that as vindicating Lysenkoism is absurd.
I just had to google "is byte always 8 bits" so see that in historical context it wasn't always the case.

But probably for all practical purposes in modern era, we can safely assume it's always 8 bits.
FWIW UT2004 works fine under Wine (GOG version) here.
> people you’ve worked with for decades

It's more an instance of "place where one has worked". Someone in that position at SAS simply doesn't have the experience to confirm or deny the sorts of things the article gets into. Not to equate being a software engineering manager with being a janitor, but it is, on some level, like asking a janitor what was really going on at Enron just because they were in the same building.
guess they are using the good ones huh
Why? Assuming a byte being 10 bits instead of 8 bits would actually make the drive capacity lower in terms of bytes (of course not physically but for marketing), which a vendor probably doesn't want.
More to the point, Korean and Japanese work cultures heavily disincentivise taking that time off. So even if workers can technically take this time off later, they'll be punished if they do.
This is an odd stance to take. Just look at Boeing. Unless you were directly involved with Boeing, you likely weren't aware of the cultural issues in the company. Up until the Max crisis, it looked like a successful, well-run business. Cultural issues can fester for a long time and get worse and worse before they finally reveal themselves in poor performance, accidents or other issues later on. In Boeing's case, it's been a growing issue since the late 90s.

Seems not that far-fetched for Samsung to be facing cultural issues as well and that a company can be successful despite them for a long time. It seems like it's finally catching up to them as their competition becomes stronger.
UT2004 has native Linux version. I would expect that to still work well. The Windows version does, so there should be no need for Wine at all.
$30 is not the price unless you need a lot of searches. Looking at my consumption tab, I’m usually below $10/month, so I’ll probably end up in a $10-$20 plan. Some napkin math gives around 2,550 searches per month at $30, Vlad said in Discord $30 is for people who want around 100 searches every day.

Also, you can’t forget that every search actually costs them money, as every single search incurs the fee from Google and Microsoft for their APIs. I think there was an idea around having a $5 trial plan with only 10 searches a day or something. Unlimited searches for $5 would be "We are losing money on every customer, but we are making it up in volume"
As someone who's done every eating regime under the sun, it's very easy to binge on cookies for your one meal a day/week/month. Look how much shit keto enthusiasts can pile onto their bodies on a super-strict, mostly healthy diet for an example. People will abuse strict rule-based diets.

Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants. For 99% of people the key is that simple. Hold individuals accountable for their choices and promote, push, heck subsidize ancient eating standards over industrialized foods on society.
for me download is correct but upload is 1/3 ...
My home drive is constantly churning and I have no idea what is going on. And there are a lot of software in there, every apt update is a risk that some new supply chain attack is on the way.
Most of that is specific to the US. Taxis work in other countries without it being difficult to get one in the middle of the night. And the medallion system is unique to the US I think.

> . Uber made the payment process seamless
I've been paying taxi fares with a credit card in an in car payment terminal for twenty years in Scandinavia. If I had a business trip to anywhere in the Nordic countries I never needed to get any cash because everything worked with a card.
INR Group aims to raise $1.2m seed fund
I'm guessing the board will have spoken to most large shareholders and they've indicated that they don't want to accept Musks Bid.

I don't think any large share holder has come out publicly in favour. It's below the price Twitter was most of last year and if they agree that Twitter has economic potential selling isn't in their interest.

https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/151461595698675712...

Ironically, a way that Musk could get support is by offering to let some large share holders retain their ownership (and screw the retail investors). But he's said he "doesn't care about the economics at all" - which isn't going to impress many investment funds.
All good - realtek aren't that bad at the end of the day, I'm running my internet connection through a 100M ADMtek card from ~2004 :D

Well it probably was 10M then. The port LED on the switch might've changed color as well. (Smart reminds me of the consumer-lite answer to SDN.)

I just tried fast.com myself using 100kbps and it quite happily measured at line rate (6.8M+800k, yay D:). For some bizarre reason I found I needed to open a new tab, open the devtools, set the network speed, then load fast.com for it to work. My guess is that Chrome applies connection ratelimiting metadata as new connections are created, such that existing sockets still in keepalive aren't affected. I'd say that's at least a documentation bug.

I'm not really able/sure how to reproduce the other comment I linked (using an actual 10M switch and seeing 100M of throughput). That's really interesting.
Why bother reading the article when you can just slam out hot takes?

> Cables used included a certified Thunderbolt 4 model, and the USB-C (data) cables provided with the cases. Again, each was verified by establishing SuperSpeed+ 10 Gb/s connections to an Intel Mac.
Interesting that the author didn't mention Pimsleur. It is exactly how they teach you a language.
Note that in the USSR, political questions and false accusations were often used to torpedo career competitors or to have vengeance at those who were more successful. Almost nobody in this story or in other cases were political dissidents. They didn't go out to protest or speak up on the political freedoms or other matters.
If you’re talking about the release on GitHub, it’s well outdated.
We always push the latest version if Cytopia to itch.io and this works fine.
I’m Cytopias lead dev and I’m on a MacBook M1 with latest OSX
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world (2020)
You wouldn’t be the first. You can buy software and set up a ride sharing service very quickly. EverTransit is one, but there are others as well.
buy a book, any book, do all the exercises in it. after you finish that book, for any other questions you have about the language...Google

Don't make this any harder than it needs to be young buck.
Superintelligence Is Impossible
> USB 3.1 Gen 1 is the straight rebranding of USB 3.0

Why? To solve what exactly? In a sane world, it'd be major.minor, with nothing appended at the end.

Allowing marketers to take over everything was such a terrible mistake.

At this point I myself just don't differentiate USB versions beyond 3.0. 2.0 is the slow one, 3.0 is the fast one, anything newer is "so fast I won't ever saturate this much bandwidth anyway". Thunderbolt also falls into the last category.
I like to think of it as the right to freedom of speech and the "spirit" of free speech.

The definition of the first is simple. You have the right of not been coerced to (not) say what you do (not) want to say. Note that this includes the possibility of being coerced not only by the government but by any other institution/individual. It also grants the right of private entities to arbitrarily decide their platform rules.

The spirit of free speech is more vaporous, but it's the idea that powers the right. It's the notion that every perspective deserves to be listened and that the society will be better as a consequence. It's one of the main values of western culture.

One can defend the right but not the spirit, the spirit but not the right, both or none of them.
I believe that there is no unified correct diet. It depends on individual activity, gut fauna and genetics. And we probably know somewhat enough of one of those and looking at people in trades and like that could or should get enough activity even that might be questionable.
Cairo may help - https://www.cairographics.org
> If you want access from an app on your phone yes, not just to have access.

Ah, you mean in the case where you have a different computer available to you, that has not (yet) been locked against its user like your phone has. But we are so certain that this locking of compute won't spread, that we treat all other computers (that are locked), as an exotic exception, and the only remaining class of devices not yet locked (PCs) as the norm.

> Our mobile network provider is a stakeholder, the manufacturer is a stakeholder, our bank is a stakeholder. [..] some of your banks interests in the functioning and management of that card roll over into your phone.

Having an interest does not imply exercising that interest is legitimate. Especially when freedom-respecting options are nearly absent from the market, and one cannot in good faith argue that consumers choose locked products among equivalent unlocked ones.

But most importantly, there's one item missing in your list of interests: the interests of a free society, that needs a populace able to use software other than only what is approved by giant corporations. What use is free software if none but a handful of hobbyists can run it?
Are you arguing it's fairer to say V's default is to ignore managing memory at all?
I chose this artstyle for Cytopia because I wanted to created a game in the Spirit of SC2000. This is still my favorite city builder but it’s way outdated in terms of gameplay.
And I love pixelart.
The issue is likely not with Cloudflare, but with the connection between your ISP and Cloudflare. That's why this speed test is relevant - if your ISP can't manage to make good, settlement free* connections (=peering) to Cf it's not a good ISP.

Example: Rackspace Sydney (AS58683) has (likely paid) peering with AS7474, who has peering with German Deutsche Telekom (AS3320). Peering with DT is significantly more expensive than many others because they have a regional monopoly.

* Cloudflare is present at many regional Internet Exchanges and any good ISP connects to these, too. Some don't, however, like Deutsche Telekom.
From the roadmap, it looks like they are reimplementing the same/similar feature set.
It’s in the process of being removed from names. For example, the moth: https://www.ksmu.org/2022-04-18/a-common-moth-pest-had-a-slu...
I'm not sure what your point is. The GP commenter asked what brought us here... it was capitalism. It was people starting other sites that didn't censor or didn't have ads or didn't do this or that. The winners of capitalism are what we have now.
FWIW I would totally read your blog post about that if you wrote one!
I usually run through a free Codecademy course if there is one, and then follow a course or two in the target language. I'm not sure the equivalent approach might be useful, since different languages take different views of programming.
Even agriculture itself is in evolutionary terms recent change. Some components sure like lactose tolerance, but overall new.
We use Conan as package manager
Love pimsleur. I’ve used it for several languages. Only thing is it kind of leaves you at the intermediate level and I don’t know how to progress beyond that, apart from immersion.
Unfortunately it seems to be getting more like this in London, the cancellations are much more frequent and the fares have skyrocketed in recent years. I guess one positive regardless is that it has forced traditional taxis to modernise, previously their card machines were always “out of order” etc. and many can now be booked via similar apps.
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yes. And unfortunately it seems that the "port" extenders you can buy don't support DP and after I bought a seemingly DP-capable cable of AMZ and sanded it down (it didn't work) I stopped.
So not sure it would have worked in that case. The statues where basically used to fill the space (mixed up with other things) when the wall (Jubé) they were on was removed on the 17th century (iirc).

There were some large (known) cavities around, which is the floor based heating system from the 19th century. The discoveries have been made below/around the heating system.

(The other known pieces of the Jubé, now at the Louvre, had afaik been discovered when the heating system was installed in the 19th century, so not a surprise we found more of them when searching the same area)
When you're the only game in town, brand doesn't matter so much.
thats the difference between science and other realms of human knowledge: it doesn’t matter how you can spin his words, because his theory made inaccurate predictions.
Well, if you want to explore the depths of human despair and misery, just search the Unity forums for 'Scriptable Render Pipeline'
Do you build a real app to practice?
I'd guess senior level candidates should solve it without copying and pasting, perhaps make sure test cases are present for the behaviour before modifications are made, and then generalize the existing functions. Or, state why adding more functionality on the server side for every type of arithmetic operation would be unnecessary complexity, and instead add support for any type of atomic arithmetic operation with a transaction/UDF approach.
The networking in Unity is still terrible. Unreal is of course better but still not good enough out of the box. When Riot developed Valorant they had to rewrite the networking code to be more like Quake and Source.
Quite the opposite. We have quite a big community on discord and most devs including me are online a lot.
I’m not on Reddit or twitter but there are team members posting stuff from time to time.
I hear you on the London thing - having had quite a few experiences like yours with Uber recently, I’m going to try going back to black cabs. As I mentioned in another post though I think Uber has forced black cabs to up their game and e.g. they all have working card machines now…
Tension between fear and relief in Jerrod Carmichael's new special, 'Rothaniel'
Ask HN: How to Pick a Specialisation?
I’m broadly interested in many areas of CS, but not in anything specific.

I’d like to do meaningful work.

I would like to hear from people who have specialised as to how they chose their field.

Does it matter all that much?
GitHub: Introduction to Dev Containers
The obvious quote apropos here is Max Frisch "Technology is a way of
organising the world so that we don't have to experience it.", which I
probably cite a bit too often. But I'll offer a quote from Digital
Vegan which I think is not out of place here, and I hope conveys a
deeper message;

"" An immanent problem with enabling technologies, is that they enable
all connected parties and carry their values. Stare into the abyss,
and the abyss stares back at you. When picking up a technological
tool you had better know what it is for. What is connected to the
other side of it? And you should do so with the intent of mastering
it, and using it kindly. As Andre Loesekrug-Pietri, a founder of
European JEDI ('The European DARPA') project put it, unless the
people of Liberal democracies take control of technology "other
people or other political systems will impose their values on
us". ""

The rationale for remote weapons is risk reduction. Despite the
apparent diffusion of responsibility and decoupling of action and
consequences, the operator remains connected to the target. Blurry
pixels turning red on a screen are still lives being
extinguished. Unless you have a generally low IQ and very poor
emotional intelligence that fact is still inescapably bound to your
actions and will haunt you as if you had seen the whites of their eyes
and body parts. Indeed the trauma may be worse, because you now have
to fill in the gaps with your imagination, somewhere between
dispassionate official EKIA reports and gruesome media accounts.
You'll never know, and so you'll never get closure. Each technological
action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Because it is how propaganda works: dehumanize the enemy, and the opposite for your side: make your hangman as human as possible. It is aimed at people who don't believe there were no war crimes and therefore the spin is necessary to get sympathy for the killers.

A similar spin was with the Abu Ghraib: torturers were humanized and their victims dehumanized.
I see exactly 2:1 everywhere [0], including road edges. What are you talking about?

[0] https://www.cytopia.net/images/jimmy2_2.png
When CloudFlare is the odd one out having trouble with people's ISPs (just read other people's comments right here about their experiences with that benchmark... I'm not exactly the only one getting weird results) and when my ISP isn't having the same trouble when connecting to other servers across the world, blaming my ISP is... weird. It's a little bit like driving on the other side of the highway and then blaming everyone else for driving the wrong way. But I mean, if you still prefer to blame everyone but CF, by all means feel free.
These browser apps are relatively common inside Korean companies. The IE base dates to the pre-crypto-export days, when the Korean government mandated crypto be provided as an ActiveX module. This requires specialized secure input forms within the browser and within-browser error popups, so why not build a within-browser windowing system...

As a user, interfacing with these systems was always hell. Setting up online banking on a new computer would take the better part of a day, and would fail if you didn't have IE security exceptions set, if you were missing Korean font packs, or if your name was too long. And different ActiveX controls installs were required by every webapp. Our company (healthcare) finally rolled out a native Windows app in 2019. It includes its own floating tile manager, and for tasks like viewing PDFs, browser frames are now embedded in a tile...
I believe he denied existence of genes, not heretability of traits.
They are the same thing - draw.io rebranded.
What needs to be explained is why throwing technology at power generation problems, economic problems, healthcare problems, or warfare problems is seemingly ok, but social problems are a no-go zone.
> "UE5 is very pretty because Sweeny is a rendering god. But its hell to do any real programming with. A project that took me two weeks or so in C# is taking months to reproduce in C++ and Blueprints.

Sweeney is the CEO of a company with over 1000 employees. I highly doubt he has had much (if any) time to write any rendering code for a long time now.
Unfortunately users declare Protonmail barely usable in terms of features and UX. After a decade of this, I’m shifting back to IMAP. My use case is better off with GPG than with Protonmail. I can’t usefully function without integration into the rest of my Mac or iOS. A secure walled garden with Apps that get worse over time? I’ll go with Apple’s version.
I disagree: I follow research scientists and software developers in topics of my interest. This way, Twitter feed keeps me up-to-date on useful information in topics I care for and I can exchange news and ideas with those people.
This advice is a bit generic - but look at either the official examples or tons of github projects that have C++ in them and try to understand how they work - that's the thing that worked for me.
Why are all comments by SimplyLiz dead? False positive caused by anti-spam algorithm?
> high paying, high status, highly stimulating work

If you are lucky you can pick one. If you are very lucky you can pick two.
My plan was non-profit, corporate sponsorship, plus voluntarily member donations. Used the term 'startup' just because it's short for 'big complex IT project based on some assumptions'.

Besides my own issues, I simply found too many holes in my original idea — where this idyllic utopia could go wrong.

I still keep the idea on the heap — currently evaluating an idea of professionally supervised chat groups. But I'd be glad if someone steals the idea before I find every way it could lead to the extinction of koalas and collapse of the Hilbert space.
> That 7 year old Victorian chimney sweep still has to eat. If society doesn't have the infrastructure to take care of them, then the other alternative is to starve, possibly to death.

Yet we no longer have 7 year old chimney sweeps. Refusing to hire one now is one part of the process that changes society so that the missing infrastructure that you mentioned gets provided for future potential 7 year old chimney sweeps.
It's like the Peter principle. Not much we can do about it.
I remember coming to the US for the first time in 2014 as a tourist and went to KFC, assuming it would be the ultimate version of what we, the Poles, had known and liked since the 90s. There were two surprises:

1) it tasted way, WAY worse than Polish version, we couldn't even finish it. When I asked for the spicy ones while ordering, I was given a weird look and told in response that they had 'hot sauces available if I wanted it hot'. Later, after moving to the US, I found Popeye's more akin to the taste from the homeland,

2) the US chicken tenders were the size of EU chicken breast. Now this Twitter thread stresses the breed, but that breed could be also grown in EU, so I wonder what's the actual explanation for the difference?
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