skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting because the taxi business had all that figured out already. It was a profitable business and drivers stuck around for decades. Does Uber have too much overhead to ever be profitable?
I think most of those efficiencies can be done better by a human dispatcher. The key thing which made Uber take off was a combination of convenience and better cars. Solve the convenience and that can take you a far way for many people.
Stranger Things S4, Set in 1985, Includes HTML and CSS Flexbox
Lol why are you still using win7? Uses an outdated os that is no longer supported. But doesn't attribute programs playing up to that? Mate. Win7 is your problem get off that.
Could you elaborate? I don't seem to grasp your point.

>AWS cross subsidization powers AMZN retail to be able to run at a <1% margin.

I've never truly understood that number, how come they have such low margins where most of the products I see there have a 10-20% markup (at least) vs. the same product in classic "offline" retailers (costco, walmart, etc...)?

"But they send it to your home", yeah but they charge you for that too.
Damn if you think any of that is problematic (which is not because you can opt out, and by default is not enabled), specially from the "capitalist cancer" pov wait until you hear about this obscure browser called Chrome from a company you might have heard called Google.

Edit: Forgot to mention, they stopped injecting the links 2 years ago as they claim it was a mistake (maybe, maybe not, but for sure not the case right now) -> https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.
> Don’t be too quick to judge and make changes!

I strongly agree with this point. The people I've worked with who spent their first few days making proclomations about major changes that should be made all turned out to be bad coworkers.

Most "obvious" problems a new hire notices fall into one of two buckets:

1. Tech debt that everyone knows is less than ideal, but hasn't been a priority to change.

2. Related to some subtle or complicated issue that causes the unusual implementation to actually makes sense.
Obsidian exists, but it's not FOSS.

I signed up.for early access but I'm not too hopeful. There's some blockchain-esque use of words(Making me think it will rely on Ethereum or something) and a lot of obsfuscation, it's impossible to get any clue of how it works without signing up.
If feeling things actually took up time, you'd be making some sense, but as it is...
All postgres needs to handle is a large metro area and then is trivial to shard and scale out.
Red Hat has influence not only over systemd, but over freedesktop.org, GTK, Gnome, Flatpak and many others.

They have strong influence over the entire Linux stack, and this is why IBM bought them.

Basically, even if you avoid systemd, you will still be over Red Hat influence, no matter what.
What is it in your first sentence? For just “muse”? Or muse something something? As in is the problem that just “muse” is trademarked in each business category. Or that “muse” is trademarked once with some software and so it can never be used again since there’s prior art? Is audio software and a note taking app in the same business category?
> this code sees a lot of churn because it is bad

That’s one possibility. It’s also possible that it changes a lot because it’s related to business rules, which are typically more volatile than infrastructure code.
> That's not a surprise; it would be a surprise if there weren't a difference.

The surprise part is not the difference itself, but the amount and legibility of difference even with a state of the art compressor at maxed-out settings.

> But that doesn't prove anything, and more specifically it doesn't prove that there is an audible difference.

On the contrary, it proves that some audible information is stripped from an MP3 file, even at highest settings, and this stripped detail inevitably adds more information to the sound stage. It wouldn't be there if there was no contribution.

Therefore, audibility of this information depends on the audio chain used. As I said before, a semi-decent amp with a good pair of speakers can render this, and the difference is not Oh, I hear a cymbal here, but Oh, this recording is really enjoyable and immersive.

The equipment I cite here is not a 5-figure system either. A good vintage amp (Akai, Sony, Marantz, Technics, etc.) with an "affordable" high end speaker (Heco Celan GT/Revolution 302, which are smallest members of their respective families) is more than enough for hearing the difference.

Investment in audio equipment has decent return in terms of quality up to a certain point. Past that point, it becomes meaningless for most people and scenarios.

Also, music has layers, and one listens a song completely in "multiple passes", this is why ABX tests play the same song 5-10 times and ask for evaluation.

Moreover, as per the study published in Audio Engineering Society in 2016 [0], MP3 changes the emotional perception of the songs, again verifying there's audible differences.

[0]: (Open Access) https://www.aes.org/tmpFiles/elib/20220528/18523.pdf
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To that I say: there's dirty code -- then there's researchers' code. It can be a whole new level, far beyond just copy-paste and other superficial sins.
There's always the venerable:

CREATE TABLE kv (
k TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
v TEXT NOT NULL
);

Even if sqlite is technically an RDBMS, I think it's a legitimate comparison. Is SplinterDB worth giving up sqlite's reliability and feature set?
Love the xkcd style chart!

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We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase:
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Can we formally verify the software cannot be used for evil?
What you're arguing, to me, sound like a way to make people ignorant of how effective their cars are. Comparing only dollars doesn't make sense. People should understand that they're using vastly less energy than ICE. They should know they're using far far less energy. Which is why we should measure "gallons" of electricity an EV uses.
My impression is that this is what the Curb and Arro apps were supposed to be. I don't know anybody who uses them.
Use a bigger fan
Couldn't you say the same for Coca Cola? Yet I'm fairly sure that maintenance budget is fairly big.
Libgen and YouTube
Starlink may now have global revenue of $44M monthly
400,000 live CPE terminals at minimum $110 USD per month per live terminal

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/spacexs-starlink-surpasses-400000-subscribers-globally.html

Obviously they are not sharing what it costs them to build a batch of 53 satellites and a new second stage, and refurbish a falcon 9 first stage for each new launch.

There have been four starlink launches all with successful first stage landing just in the month of May.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_launches
Unfortunately many ostensibly good schools also have notoriously poorly taught introductory math and science courses.

Stanford's introductory CS sequence has a good reputation however. Consider this course (for example) which teaches students bare-metal programming (and real-world interfacing) on a raspberry pi: https://cs107e.github.io/schedule/
We live in a world of algorithmically enforced bubbles and the author has found themselves in one. Subcultures and countercultures are fertilized by the internet and a keyword away. The long tail is healthier than ever. The world isn't boring, dear author is boring.
>Well, if you're going to define both abortion and human so expansively, I can't say I have much sympathy for your position.

If you are going to define human is limited, I can't say I have much sympathy for your position. It is dehumanizing and absolutely frightening.

>What about all the extra fertilized eggs produced via IVF? Do you think the ones not selected for implantation are "aborted" as well?

Yes.

>Cloning of human cell lines for various purposes (especially therapeutic) is going to throw a monkey wrench into your definitions, with "humans" flushed down the drain wholesale every day, as a matter of course.

I don't believe random cells are humans. Please stop (deliberately?) straw-manning millions of people's beliefs. You sound like the people who say prolifers think masturbation is the same as abortion. Just stop.

This conversation is not going anywhere and is a waste of time. We have such fundamental difference on what is a human that any higher level conversation is a waste.
Subservient lapdog attitude toward corporations is a modern thing not a generic property of "society."
The full quote is “Moreover, C++ code can be compiled into assembly language for direct execution on the OS instead of relying on interpreters or language runtime.”
One such set of packages I've used is Fontsource. Has all the Google fonts plusany more.

https://fontsource.org/
I propose that we reboot Luna 2.0, but this time we should call it Sol 3.0.

Maybe naming it after a brighter celestial body will give it a brighter future
Which is dumb because DCA is like 10 minutes from downtown, so I’m not sure why they would expect most travelers to be headed to the suburbs.
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The Luna event has changed my view on cypto too. I don't believe ANY crypto, including BTC, is worth more than $1. I've owned ADA, a tiny bit of BTC, and bought some LUNA after the crash, but currently have no positions. I essentially made and lost nothing in all my adventures. I got out after realizing cryptos deadly swings were not for me and my stomach. For me, the 10 grand that I had in the market is a lot of money that I'm not willing to risk.

The only position I'd take is the free stuff that Brave hands out, if I ever switch from Edge to Brave, which is pending how this MV3 debacle turns out... and I would buy a small bit of BTC for a fun investment on a hard crash.

I agree with the author, the only one worth owning (if any) is BTC. From my former positions, I watched altcoins collapse with BTC, but did not always pick back up with the same fervor with BTC. Just crashed alongside it. For that reason, if I take a small position again, it'll be BTC.
> A better metric for deciding where you should focus the most effort on code quality is not frequency of modification, it is frequency of appearance in the runtime call-graph.

On th flip side, a lot of code that isn't common in the main codepath often exists to fix edge case bugs that people have lost context on. In my experience, this code is a landmine with an unknown blast radius, only touch it with a 10-foot pole and only when you absolutely must.
I mean I sort of see why you’ve been downvoted (this is off-topic and adds nothing to the discussion), but you’re also not wrong.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which is a lesson that we learned a million different hard ways and which has been almost completely forgotten.
> Break the rules. Stand apart. Keep your head. Go with your heart.

> — TV commercial for Vanderbilt perfume, 1994

From a book someone recommended recently:

Commodify your dissent - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL687158M/Commodify_your_disse...
I can proudly say that I've NEVER ONCE used these NeoSlavery services and never will.
Doubtful anyone thinks react is cool at this point. It’s more of a thing you just need to use for your job. It’s like Java at this point.
> but after that it's just a scattershot list of guesses that will often be wrong.

What do you mean? If it's wrong, the font ain't there. If the font is there, it's the correct font (according to the desire of the one who made the stack). If my stack has "Liberation Sans", it means that if your system has Liberation Sans, then it's going to be used. And it's very often better than the default system font ("Deja Vu Sans", for example, is a typical fallback on Linux and sucks big times compared to Liberation Sans and compared to many other sans-serif fonts).

The way I see it that's the entire point of these "scattershot list of guesses": you can put several, it absolutely doesn't matter. The goal is to find one that matches before falling back to the default.
Didn't drive stick around because they dropped thousands on medallions?
People won't be able to appreciate how much CO2 they're saving if they just see they're paying 1/2 as much at the pump. If, on the other hand, we show people that their whole fillup is 2 "gallons" of electricity, then suddenly it's crystal clear how awesomely energy efficient your vehicle is.

Looking only at work obfuscates vehicular performance. It ends up compounding a bunch of different factors. If we just told people how much energy- how many "gallons" of electricity- are going into their car, they'd understand much better.

It'd be up to them to find out how polluting their grid energy was. But it should be much more efficient than the gas car, which still has yet to do most of it's energy conversion & is about to throw 66%+ of the energy input away to heat.
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This is not about literally displaying the system font, but about displaying a reasonably appealing font that is already installed. I could not possibly care less about whatever questionable system choice for sans serif some random Linux user makes.
I looked you up. I’m excited to read Inventing The Future, I’d actually been googling recently to see if I could find something similar.
"The revolution will not be televised." Step outside of your comfort zone, visit cities, neighborhoods and people you might not normally. The counterculture never goes away.
Why are you ignoring the regional differences & the other stuff listed above those points in that post?
gonna have to formally define evil
I think my opinion on close enough also differs from yours (and that's ok!) but you're also forgetting that a streamed/connection based approach only involves a single client and server and state during the connection.

A paged response needs to sync state across many machines. As you have said, you need a clientID, a cursor reference, or a sticky session. That's not nothing.

I think they're inherently different approaches.
Sure, given a formal definition of evil.
Actually the delight of it is most of our developer tools now are powered with go-based and rust-based binaries that speed up our iteration processes. For example, esbuild, typesense, etc.
I tried using Firefox on Android for a while but had to switch back to Chrome mainly because Firefox reloads the page if you put it in the background even for a few seconds. This caused real issues when I had to approve a payment on a banking app I'm using - after aproval going back to Firefox the page got refreshed and I had to do it again. Chrome somehow manages to keep the page loaded even with tens of open tabs.

Another thing missing in the Android version is the Print function. Such a basic feature!

I've been using it on the desktop too and there it works ok, no major issues - just the print dialog was much poorer then Chrome's and I had to print from Chrome.

Firefox has a many people rooting for it but not enough people contributing.

Brave strangely decided to go with Chromium rather than Firefox as a base even though Brendan knew Firefox much better. And many other browsers have decided the same Vivaldi, Edge, etc. At this stage I'm afraid Firefox has too many unpolished edges, especially on mobile to match the competition.
After 14 days discussions are closed and no further comments can be added. The first thread to link to is 82 days old. Realistically (almost) nobody will read it.
Just let people query for an empty page every now and then, no big deal.
> Sans-serif will get you ugly fonts, such as Arial on Windows, and likely DejaVu Sans or Liberation Sans on Linux.

Exactly. I find Liberation Sans very good but I cannot stand DejaVu Sans (which is the sans serif font all too often when browsing sites from Linux).
I have no stake in Luna, nor do I care to advocate for them in any way.

Yet, the reaction to this in no-coiner circles is characteristically devoid of substance.

The token was airdropped to the victims of Luna 1.0, with whales largely being capped / subject to vesting and cliffs. The small-time bag holders of the old token are the ones selling, to recoup a small amount of what they have lost.

The fact that the price is dropping so fast just means there is in fact almost no one who wants to buy the replacement coin that was airdropped to the holders of Luna 1.

This is not a case of "how does this keep working?" - its evidence of it not working in fact, exactly the outcome critics are asking for.
Fusion energy has been "coming in 5 years" ever since 1960. Just like Gallium Arsenide will replace Silicon. Except neither has happened and the reasons are physics!!
Outside of mission critical applications, if the cost involved to make software "provably correct" (time, salaries) is greater than the cost of the bugs, it will never be adopted.

Believe me, I see the appeal, but it's kind of like demanding your house have all perfect right angles and completely level surfaces. Living with manageable imperfection is far more realistic.
They're pretty much all the same, just a fan in front of a HEPA filter. If you can get a square fan and tape a HEPA filter in front of it you'd get pretty much the same result as many modern air purifiers.

You're paying for convenience and some bells and whistles (like a mobile app and an air quality reader), but the underlying technology behind it is pretty bare-bones, heavily tested, and heavily used in industrial applications.
The constructivist in me thinks we could define it inductively :)
Gaming broadly is not a counterculture, but it's generated plenty of counterculture. Gamemaking wasn't seen as a creative endeavor worth serious commentary by the mainstream culture, the effort to make it so was countercultural. A lot of indie games were (and still are) made 'in opposition to mainstream aesthetics' or mainstream concepts of narrative or play. It's harder to draw the distinctions as clearly because technology has massively sped up the cultural mixer. Youtubers and streamers have eroded what passed for mainstream game 'reporting' faster than we can decide whether that's counterculture or not. That's not something, say, zines did or could do.
I read the article, but that's not the level of explanation I want. I want to know how, for example, at the scale Uber and Lyft are operating at, the salaries of executives and engineers are more than the efficiencies it seems like they would gain. On paper, you shouldn't need to add a linear amount of overhead every time move into a new city: with taxi companies, you have to add physical buildings, admin, dispatchers, service personnel, and a bunch of other costs every time. You'd think Uber and Lyft could be a lot leaner than taxi companies, even though engineers make more than dispatchers: why not?
I know it's blasphemy, but! what would a firefox with WebKit/blink look and feel like?

would we want that? in a future that we are officially a monoculture, would we prefer no firefox, or a traitor firefox?
almost out of my thirties, consider myself perpetually interested in chasing and studying rationality for the last 25 years or so, and consider most of the population certifiably insane and I'm an alien anthropologist ferrying between mental institutions.

It's not all bad though, on a lot of the empirical economic work I've done a lot of people appear what I'd call "weakly locally rational": a rationality effect seems to effect people in aggregate and determines the direction they move, and tends to be the biggest effect, though the aggregate doesn't move perfectly in accordance with what rationality would expect. It also depends very much on framing: they are "locally majority rational" in the context of their frame of reference, but not in terms of the macro-world: which makes sense, because we're finite creatures who can't actually take in all the information, have limited processing ability, and each have different access to information and historical experiences. so most of us do the best with the limited experience of what we got and how we understand the world.
What is the set of information that makes you say this? Because I would put money that Uber's data team has run an experiment with lower realtime status updates (realtime is expensive, these companies aren't filled with idiots, they test things). And based on that, I think it's reasonable to assume that critical metrics are negatively impacted by not having realtime updates.

So I'm curious if you have any knowledge, or if what you are saying is "I don't need realtime", or perhaps more charitably, "I can't imagine realtime being valuable to users". I push back on the 2nd, and I strong push back on the idea that someone with can reach the conclusion that Uber is wasting money on things that don't drive user value.

Unless, of course, you work/worked there and worked on these projects, and saw firsthand that Uber decided to waste a bunch of money internally.
The author makes your point that there are plenty of
smaller voices out there. However the commissioners and platform owners are no longer so incentivised to find and promote those voices.

While it's great to go out and see interesting local stuff - we also need mainstream entertainment for when we are not at those spaces during the other 99 percent of our time.

This is the author's point: the revolution was previously televised. Original films, 'alternative' music, street press, small publishers, etc have all but vanished from the cultural landscape.

This has lead to a kind of stagflation of shite. A cultural blight where the sameness of cultural product grows and becomes harder to break out of.
The reason for literally everything is “physics”.
FoundationDB uses SQLite as the storage layer unless you mean to access the storage layer in FoundationDB to perform that task?
Wait... ETH had a premine? and with their move to PoS, It's basically a recipe for Rich becomes Richer. How do people not see the clear signs of a pyramid scheme wtf.
I think https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey had similar questions.
If not, you can suggest them to ask in a next survey
At this point who hasn't heard of Uber?

Marketing is as much about keeping your customers from going to rival providers as it is about finding new customers. If you don't want people to leave you need to remind them why you're better than the exciting new company that's spending VC money to take your market share.
> And consumers should be aware of the price of energy, in a comparable way.

You're still misunderstanding, and I don't get why you're interpreting snark in my genuine attempts to explain this. "Work" and "Energy" are terms of art, you learn them in school, they have wikipedia pages[1]. Telling you that you're conflating the two (which you are) is a point of logic, not snark. So I'll try once more:

If you have a task to do (plow a field, maybe) and you have two motive engines: an electric motor and a piston engine, and I offer you "100 kWH of energy" with the choice of getting it over a 240V AC cable or in a 3 gallon bucket of gasoline, which would you choose? I mean, the choice is obvious, you'll get three times as much plowing done with the motor.

And that's the point. And that's why comparing energy outside of context is wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(physics)
> they do separate the chaff from the wheat

This is where we differ.
What they separate isn’t chaff from wheat, but those who can do a specific type of interview from those who can’t. The latter aren’t chaff and the former aren’t wheat.

The only time these kinds of questions/tasks are suitable is if they genuinely represent the work being hired for.

Our opinions on this differ, and that’s fine, so whatever works for you.
Fed policy has long been to grow worker insecurity: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
I love the intent but doesn’t this make the problem worse? Your dollars are essentially rewarding a system that created the debt in the first place.