skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned scale.

The other thing Uber has to do is optimize well. It needs to state competitive with Lyft for both passengers and drivers, minimize driver churn (but not too much), optimize matching, and charge predicted fares accurately.

Uber also processes an insane number of transactions. Not quite Visa, but I'd guess it's in the top 5% of volume as a merchant.
If you want to start on a personal level to fix this, yelling about politics is not the solution.

Be kind to people, especially people who don’t seem to fit in and are alienated by the world. Teach your children to be kind to people and encourage others to be too. A common thread in so many of these events seems to be someone breaking in an unkind world and lashing out violently.
Dart is core part of Flutter: https://flutter.dev

What makes you say it's being killed?
A lot of children (boys especially) in America aren't taught that rough play is OK, anymore. Wrestling and rough housing, as I did when I was a kid (GenXer) is actively frowned upon and stopped, I've noticed, more often than not. I have a 7 year old and I'm amazed at how many of his friends are shocked when they see my son and his cousin wrestling about and race to tell me they're "fighting". I feel bad laughing when I have to explain to them that they're just wrestling around (his cousin is a girl and man, I hope her high school gets a girl's wrestling division - her take dows are awesome). I think American kids are so unfamiliar with physical combat that, for a lot of them, their first step to fighting back is to reach for a gun because that's all they've been shown on TV. Physical combat sport in any form is just so foreign to them, using a gun is much more intuitive.
driving a non plug in hybrid to maximize electric use is not the goal, the goal is to minimize fuel use. The former is at odds with the latter.
> If the government uses them, why not law abiding citizens?

Crikey, you must be some kind of special stupid.

Are all countries "law abiding" when it comes to use of weapons, you think?
That's not the problem with SMS for 2FA. The problem with SMS for 2FA is that cell phone accounts were never intended to serve as what amounts to a high security authenticator service, and cell phone companies are resistant to this newfound 'responsibility', somewhat understandably so.

By default, someone can call up your cellular provider, claim to be you, pass trivial to no security questions, and request a replacement SIM be mailed out, or that your number be ported to another device. Or they can slip a bit of cash to any employee who works at any cell phone store that sells service for your carrier.

SMS 2FA isn't better than just a password. It's objectively worse, dramatically increasing the attack surface. Compromise someone's cell phone account and you are virtually guaranteed access to their bank/retirement/investment accounts, email, social media, etc. And they are virtually powerless to do anything about it for at least a few hours while they scramble to, say, get phone service working again and rush to contact everyone they can think of. By the time you're able to even get to your bank to talk to a branch manager and show all sorts of proof of identity, your accounts could be long since cleaned out.

Some providers finally are offering secondary passwords for porting/SIM replacement, that sort of thing. Absolutely call them and request your account be locked down as much as possible, ask to specify a secondary password, etc.
Why would it? it isnt a question of character. It is just assets and profit vs Debt. The same is true for individuals too. If you have enough collateral, no one gives a shit if you went bankrupt in the past.
I agree, but not having an interface is a great way to make sure you probably are never able to swap out the implementation (even if someone came along and wanted to do all the work).

Drastic fixes and Rewrites almost always consist of three things:

1. Writing tests to ensure functionality

2. Writing an interface or shimming the existing functionality to redirect control flow

3. Implementing and testing the rewritten functionality/improvements

Obviously you can't do it everywhere, but life is much better when (2) was done up front.
I built https://hw.leftium.com, a mashup of https://hackerweb.app and https://hckrnews.com.

I also have a bookmarklet to quickly toggle between https://hw.leftium.com and the original version.

Then I installed the Refined Hacker News extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

I use two services to get notified about replies to my posts/comments:

- https://hnnotify.xyz/

- https://hnreplies.com/
If a company doesn’t survive and is not profitable, there is no net present value calculation.
Haskell hides this complexity and allows you to write just:

add x y = x + y

There is no functions returning functions here, just a normal addition. It is perfectly readable.
The question isn't whether you think they have an addictive algorithm, the question is whether a lawyer can convince a jury that they fit the law's definition of one.
if I accept the GP's statistics, it looks to me like by not arguing to close the beaches 100x more than arguing about guns, yes, people are comparatively arguing that they are ok with the beach model.
Ah, did not realize! A year back I was exposed to a white paper under NDA explaining the security posture. Also, the PM's had mentioned changes were underway.

Normally it is not under my purview, hence why I did not realize the recent change.
way to ignore the licensing and registration!
It is responsible of ~30% of the fatal car accidents.

https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/drunk-driving/

And imagine that we already have laws in place for drunk driving.

For guns even if I am diagnosed mentally ill nobody can cite me for carrying a gun.
you have full right to live your life dangerously but you have no right to put others lives in danger.
A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.
Ukraine Is Knocking Increasing Numbers of Russian Drones Out of the Sky
I'm curious where do you find parking? I don't think I've seen any motorcycle only parking around fidi.
This is part of why a sensible discussion cannot be had. "Shall not be infringed" has become axiomatic to many gun owners.

Disclaimer: I am a gun owner. I like guns very much.

Here's the 2A in full:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I am not a historian but I believe that this quote from James Madison in The Federalist Papers helps give some context to the second amendment:

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."

The idea is that a federalist country needs a power equalizer between states who wish to self-govern, and a federal government that seeks to grow its power. The gun ownership is tied to the idea of a well-regulated state militia, which we have now called the National Guard-- which is a reserve force of the US Military because in the Civil War we basically decided that a federal system was kind of stupid.

All of this to say, the second amendment is not scripture from the hand of God. It is a law written with historical context from a different time, by men whose beliefs would disgust most people alive today. It's not Orwellian to discuss licenses or background checks, it's our modern society outgrowing laws from a bygone era.
> If your code is incorrect and disorganized but readable, it will be hard to fix and extend, but easy to refactor, thus more extensible and fixable.

The state you want to reach is "fixed", not merely "fixable". I've seen too many people applying your reasoning staying perpetually stuck in the broken-but-"fixable" state because they prioritize "readability" higher, and I'm saying your users don't care about that. They want a fixed (read: correct) state.

> And code is always incorrect.

This makes a strawman of my argument.
It's not just SMS that is the problem. Cell phone accounts were never intended to serve as high security authentication sources. It's laughably easy to take over a cell phone account, and once you do so, you likely crack open the victim's finances like an egg and leave them almost powerless to do anything about it before damage is done.
I see many comments already default to "guns are the problem". I was hoping for a more nuanced discussion.

As a non US resident you can't help but think that is a massive part of the problem.

Many other countries have problems with bullying, mental health, radicalisation. We've also had mass shootings. But our tolerance is so much lower for that kind of BS. One shooting and it's over. The populace will support further gun control and stricter measures. This seems sensible to me since curing the underlying causes takes time. So why would you give firearms to people that aren't in the right state of mind to use them responsibly?

I think the real question is, why is the tolerance of Americans as a population, so high with regards to mass shootings? Are the lobby groups really that powerful they are changing the minds of regular people?
Maybe slightly off-topic, but I think this is a part of a larger trend of a declining empire - its inability to solve problems that have already become non-issues in other societies. From big issues like healthcare to small stuff like getting rid of pennies, I'm amazed at how the US is beholden to special interest groups under the guise of democracy and freedom, as well as its exceptionalism.

One can see this in dysfunctional companies, from its inability to acknowledge the root of the problem (e.g. trying to solve product problems with re-branding), bloated bureaucracy and rent-seeking behavours (e.g. we'll just raise the price!).

I really do hope things get better because the outcome is very scary but I also don't have much hope.
The FIDO2/webauthn ones (the Security Key series) are $25 for USB A or $29 for USB C. You can't use them for storing OAUTH keys, they're not smart card compatible, they can't store your PGP keys, and can't create one-time passwords or store a static password securely... but they are cheaper.
It's not, though. Something has changed. My father literally used to bring his rifle to school for the target shooting club (not sure the exact name). If you can blame guns, then you can also blame the internet because that's where a lot of these young men spend their time in insolation, amplifying their violent fantasies. You saw that with the Sandy Hook shooter. He put garbage bags over his windows and didn't come out of his room for weeks at a time.
Wow that is very impressive in this climate may I ask what is the category of the business? I am guessing it is not in any of the fashionable current spaces (blockchain, retail logistics, fintech,…)
Evidence and strategies for alcohol control as crime control
My employer was doing those kind of numbers pre-covid, having been profitable from year one.

But we’re not really ‘a tech company’, except in as much as we have a website. We did outlast companies in our sector that expanded like startups, though.

Staying relatively small and focussed with growth driven by making money instead of outside investment might be the antithesis of what a lot of people on here are into, but it can produce better results in many occasions.
>Purchasing those arms isn't a civil right.

A ban on the purchasing of arms would definitely infringe on people's individual right to keep and bear them. Yes, an individual right, which is how 18th-19th century courts and political commentators viewed the 2nd before the 20th century "militia only" narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...
The closest I've seen to this are all single-player boardgames; in particular, "Toe-to-Toe Nu'klr Combat with the Rooskies".

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68186/toe-toe-nuklr-comb...
We have to start by giving less attention to these events.

We have to start by being kind to the people who need it most and are often the most difficult to be kind to.

You can’t just create a way to think of people who do things as some sort of “other”, we are all human and capable of similar things given the wrong circumstances.
Your reply seems disingenuous.

The person you are replying to did not say guns caused the tragedy. Rather the availability of guns in the U.S. is why we see school shootings every week in the U.S. and not in Europe.
Uhh why would a large corp spend the money on windows update bandwidth when they could just split the traffic? Not sure about this article. Issue was on the enduser.
> The guns haven't changed in 60 years, and in fact regulations have increased across the board on both purchasing and manufacturing.

Carry regulations have decreased as evidenced in this animated map:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Right_to_Carry,_timeline....

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_concealed_carry_in_...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_...

In 1986 there were 16 no-issue states (including Texas(!)); in 2022 there are zero. One unrestricted carry state in 1986, 21 in 2022.
Child protective services seem like exactly the kind of job that you cannot do if you care too much about the kids you see. For very similar reasons to the doctor example. The entire job is visiting children in terrible situations and deciding whether forcibly taking them away from their homes and families would better for them on-the-balance. If you get it wrong you might make things far worse for the very kids you want to help, and even the ideal outcome may still suck for everyone involved. Personally, I could never do it. Certainly not while keeping my sanity
Where are these contract positions available, asking for friend but seriously I'm about to get laid off would be great if anyone has leads
I've lived all over Europe and Asia in countries where guns are illegal and there's plenty of violent crime in those countries. So, what's the problem when someone kills 19 and injures 25 using a backpack full of knives (Japan), drives a truck into a crowd of people celebrating New Year's (Japan), or drives through a parade of old ladies (US)? Do we need knife control? Do we need car control?

At what point are we going to start blaming the criminals and not the implement they chose to use to commit their crimes?
> Why should it be a right that we are bound to as modern citizens? I didn't sign off on the 2nd amendment, it was signed off on 250 years ago by a small group of pre-modern colonial elites. It originally was considered useful because colonists and local militias needed to be able to defend themselves from the British, and to not lose their means to hunt or protect themselves before police.

Did you sign up for the 1st amendment? Maybe next time we're facing a crisis of "facts" (ie. during covid), we should be able to repeal free speech by simple majority? After all, with electronic communications and deep fakes, fake news is much more dangerous now than to the colonists 250 years ago.
The Hitler blanking a donkey still appears to be on youtube, at least for me (another Canadian); it was part of a series of sketches that were "censored", so they showed what "they were allowed to show". Including the kid with cancer sketch, and .. something else.

My favourites are the 1) 'Arms in a Vat of Dead fish' sketch, which as a former factory-line worker hits all the checkmarks, and The "Fur Trappers", and ..
I think they're safe from addiction.
Copy protection on my Apple II was simple for me as a kid, all I needed was a pair of scissors! Or was that to make the disk writable...
Again, Europe has mental illness. But Europe does not have weekly school shootings. It really is not that complicated. Guns enable anyone who becomes mentally ill to kill magnitudes more people.
I mean using Java interfaces for backing services, as opposed to using Java interfaces for every Java classes.
As a non-American this statement is hilarious.
It's probably not really the lobbying, it's the way our government is structured (governments even). Because of the way the US population is distributed, the Senate ends up responding to viewpoints that are in the overall minority.

And then lots of states have similar structures.
Not to deny your experience and I’m sure that it is giving you problems, but I never have problems finding things with spotlight and the finder search. The files almost always come right up. the only thing I don’t like is when it has displayed a result and then it adds a late addition in place of the item that I was just about to click on. I’d rather it wait to display results until it had the full set.

I do configure Finder to start its search in the current folder because that is usually where I want to start searching for a file and I want to limit the number of possible false positives. It’s easy to expand the search if needed.

I have heard of people who force Spotlight to reindex their drive if they are having trouble with getting results. Have you tried doing that?
I see the comments in this thread being downvoted that point out that Europe (for example) have the same societal issues as the U.S. but don't have the same gun availability.
"Our mission is simple: Level the playing field and democratize the commerce experience."

I wish I could short all startups that use the term 'democratize' for any reason.
I've yet to meet a human being that came with an operator's manual, a maintenance manual, schematics, engineering diagrams, a diagnostic and logging system designed to survive catastrophic system failure, or a multi-billion dollar megacorp full of thousands of people whose jobs depend on being able to perform root cause analysis after catastrophe. There's a whole dimension of failure analysis that is uniquely permitted by human-designed engineering systems, thanks to our comprehensive understanding of their construction and capabilities, which allows us to narrow down root causes for failures with great precision. We can do that to some extent with people, for their less complex and more common failure mechanisms (medicine)... but I don't think "deciding to go on a shooting spree at a school" is the kind of failure mode you can pinpoint to some specific hardware or software phenomenon (at least not today), let alone how to fix it. The level of scrutiny applied to human-designed engineering systems, when instead applied to interpreting tail-end-of-distribution human behavior, does not yield an improvement in root cause specificity, and likely wouldn't yield any actionable design improvements. Instead we can really only suggest process controls, based on inferences about which particular parts of the process have the most influence on the outcomes. There are so many inputs into the black box of human behavior, and so many functionally unverifiable assumptions about the mentality of the tail-end-of-distribution people who become mass shooters, that it's extremely challenging to identify process controls that would be both effective and feasible to implement. Harder still when many suggested process controls also contain embedded political goals that have little to do with controlling the process, but which can be speciously furthered under the guise of preventing high-impact system failures.

All this to say, this is a hard problem, composed of thousands of overlapping adjacent elements, we have very little insight (or reliable insight-gathering mechanisms) applicable to the system under investigation, and so throwing money or effort at the investigation is a gamble that a feasible solution exists at all, rather than a process of concrete deduction with a deterministic endpoint. Maybe the optimal amount of scrutiny should be different.
Something tells me that even an armed militia of the people wouldn't be much of an obstacle for a military power such as Germany or America.
Take-Two and Zynga merge in the biggest deal in gaming history
wrong. if your implementation is simple enough you dont need the interface.
Your comprehension skills are extra ordinary, keep the guns.
I was going to suggest the Bollinger B1, but it's gone from Bollinger's website so I don't know whether it even exists anymore.
There's a psychological link between "freedom" and "guns" going back to US independence. Guns = independence from the yoke of UK rule, therefore guns = freedom from tyranny, therefore guns = good. It's ingrained.

A threat to gun ownership is equated to a threat to the freedoms fundamental to what makes the US 'the best country in the world'.

Any argument restricting gun ownership, no matter how logical or however great the weight of evidence, is up against this "the very DNA of the country" emotional position.

Gun availability has been said to be similar in the US to some other countries. Mental illness isn't limited to the US. The US' foundation is based on a war fought for freedom, using guns. That's the differentiator. (this, my apologies, papers over the requested nuances of mental illness drugs, the cost and availability of medical care, the individual and societal effects of uber-capitalism at all costs, the equating of any level of socialism to be full-on communism, the widening ideological divide and/or the decreasing tolerance for the existence of differing ideologies to one's own).

My cynical take is: Why would this incident make any difference if none of the previous incidents have? It's a harsh observation, but this is "US normal", and has been for a long time.
Well that I actually just take that idea as gospel/the basics at this point. In 2022 most applications should be doing things like relying on REDIS_HOST or REDIS_URL as ENV/config and using that to connect. 12factor enshrined these ideas and it's the way to go, I think.

That said, the services that I mentioned where I wanted this pattern actually already do treat their backing services this way, so the idea is more about the general idea of an code-level interface.
I want an asymmetrical game of 3rd-person top-down strategy vs FPS battle royale.

Basically one player is playing starcraft against 99 players trying to reach the middle of an island. The 99 players are playing first person survival battle royale - their goal is to beat the other players to the middle of the island where there's a throne to ascend and win the game.

The player playing as God gets to bring in environmental spells into the game and can direct a roving band of animals. The God player's goal is to prevent the 99 players from reaching the middle but can only do so in very specific ways that basically come down to herding players together and hoping they fight or dropping supply drops somewhere on the map where players are encouraged to fight over the drop.

There would be a limited amount of servers that players can fight over to become the next "God" of the island. Expanded features would allow players to design their island, yadda yadda.

I've basically been designing it slowly for if I can ever pitch it.
I would be in your views on it's economy and settlments gameplay in SWG. In some ways, Star Citizen may shape out to be a good replacement for SWG, if settlements, economy and manufacturing come out well there would be scenarios that aren't possible without an organisation or cooperation and real benefits to being part of a settlement. Think manufacturing pipelines and trading routes that can't be handled by one person. There are also ships you couldn't possibly fly and afford on your own, capital ships and the like.

The caveat to a game like that, is it lives and dies by it's player count. You really want to be on the bandwagon when it kicks off.
How does Japan use their SWAT teams?
I would trade in my Mustang for this and I'm not even a truck guy.