skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't work great in house. It works great with economies of scale. I don't know the history of pizza delivery, so this is speculation, but I imagine that pizzas travel well, and people became accustomed to ordering them for delivery. So a driver can load up on pizzas, make a whole bunch of deliveries (and people are generally satisfied with the quality), rinse, and repeat. That's economical. Delivering a handful of orders at a time (maybe even 1) is obviously a terrible value proposition. But if it's incremental revenue, and covers your cost of goods sold, you may as well let Uber lose money to do it.
The funniest bit is that I'm not sure you can get normal v6 on GCP yet...
I wish Uber transitioned into being something more like Sabre or the MLS and could be whitelabeled to multiple companies, and created an open marketplace for rides - traditional yellowcabs or independents in their own car or whatever is coming in the future. I get that they kind of already are, it'd be nice if there was just one "network" that everyone used.

(Where we really need a Sabre is for takeout ordering. If you go to any restaurant these days there are like 5 iPads at each of them, one for each delivery service. This is bonkers!)
It's mind boggling how most people think it's a simple matching FIFO matching algorithm, instead of how mind bogglingly complex making ride-sharing happen at scale is

I would know.
My 2015 react code did work in 2017 with node/packages changing so much. My 2017 react code in 2019 didn't run.

Things I've written in php in 2004 still work today.
FWIW, you can help send OpenAI and Microsoft a strong message by filing an official complaint with the FTC, BBB, CA State Attorney General, San Francisco DA office & FBI IP Theft division.

There is currently an open investigation case at the Better Business Bureau (filed by my self), but OpenAi refuses to participate. I.E. OpenAI refuses to defend its business practices in front of a government entity.
I've worked on system with reservations and to be honest younger people don't come through, love cancelling and are a waste of time.

In totally legitimate businesses we've set ages around there just to avoid the hassle and bs.

It works beyond any reasonable expectation
A Florida county is quarantining after discovery of invasive Giant African snail
Shogun's a milestone in my reading history - it's so extraordinarily engrossing. It deflated me more than any other book as I turned each of the final, waning pages because I didn't want to leave its world behind.

I was briefly elated to see there are "sequels" but just as quickly disappointed to learn they're set centuries apart; it ended up feeling like I was clinging to the only album ever made by an amazing band. I've yet to read the other books in the saga, but I should circle back and fix that.
this reads like recency bias, discounting how terrible and experience hailing a cab used to be
Here are 2x 16tb drives for ~$900 AUD ($600 USD), RAID them. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/710309

Put it in a case with all parts, $800USD all up?
> What is more disrespectful is attempting to change the subject to take the discussion in a direction that, if it were headed there to begin with, I would not have engaged.

I'm flabbergasted by your words. I don't know your life circumstances, your age, where you live, what you've been through, etc. I do wonder if you are having a particularly bad day or week or month.

I don't mean this as an insult: if you need support, please seek it out.

Perhaps (like many) you lack some important communication skills or emotional awareness. These can be learned.
Did your php version change? Because I'm pretty sure my php 5 code would not run on the latest version.
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React is the corporate standard displaying angular but Vue is more popular than ever, Angular is smaller then peak but strong.
>> Windows has a great desktop environment, and WSL is good enough for most things.

I haven't met an expert that would advocate for WSL like that.
What is the conspiracy take on the giant devil blue unicorn outside the DIA airport?
Thanks, that's helpful! The algorithm is still in a spreadsheet at this point, so it's up for grabs right now.
When I was a bookworm, there are a couple of topics that continually interested me as the result of a single book. But then, after a couple reads, I tended to read others in the same arena. Not just for the novelty, but the different perspective.

But that was 'then', when words seemed to matter. And this is the same Now, only different, and Life is the book. Every day a new chapter. ;-)
And crypto miners front-run or reorder transactions to collect MEV.
My kids are younger and don’t have phones yet, so all we do is set tablet, pc, and console to screen time off during the time they are supposed to be sleeping. My 10 year old’s computer is set up at a desk we share in our living room, and we had a lot of conversations about online safety etc.

I am trying to be less controlling than comes naturally and giving them more trust and privacy and hopefully less likely to hide things from us. I also figure now is the best time for my kids to make mistakes, since they are still young enough to let us guide them through dealing with it.
Its 100% fair wanting companies to pay however the notice isn't enough. I just use Netlify for a basic landing page to link to my linkedin / github etc on my personal domain...

Its kinda annoying having to have this repo public, so i'm most likely moving this to s3/CloudFront since AWS offers 1TB free.
So, you separate it while it is still in the water.
Maybe the world needs a ride share matching game, in the same vein as Elevator Saga[0]?

[0] https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
there is a difference here though where you realize that you are meeting the street to an addiction versus your meeting this streak due to something you would like to productively learn
Thanks, I'll pick one up. Hopefully that have a pi-zero competitive model as well. I'm hoping to prototype something that I want to fit in a pocket
Engineer here. Despite your condescension it doesn't appear you understand economies of scale. Economies of scale means the cost goes down when volume goes up.

An Uber driver can only drive one passenger at a time (put aside pool, which requires a price discount to get people to use it). So the number of drivers required to serve N passengers simultaneously is N. Costs scale linearly with rides per hour.

UPS has economies of scale because one driver puts 500 packages in a single truck, so the driver's wage is fixed and the revenue increases with the number of packages in the truck.
> If it takes a programmer in a specific (unused) programming language to write a specification

TLA+ isn't a programming language, it's a specification language.

Programming languages are much too concrete to evaluate designs; that's why specification languages (like TLA+) exist.

You "test" a TLA+ design by running a model checker (usually TLC) that verifies the design meets the spec (i.e. a bunch of invariants which are the TLA+-equivalent of unit tests).
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I like the cut of your jib.

Almost always, people think one new idea is as much as a new technology can take.

But I suspect people will prefer an underwater hose for transporting gases.
Perhaps it's just that the existing weather websites are quite so bad! In recent weeks, the forecasted high has been off by as much as 15 degrees.
Insane in the abstract, but not exactly unfathomable. Who would make money off of that, and who else makes money off of it's absense?
Blackrock isn't just all about buyin' everyone's houses, don't you know?
To solve this problem for smaller teams I like to use private StackOverflow for teams: https://stackoverflow.co/teams/
The added benefit is that history of issues encountered is preserved for future employees.
In my other comment, I expressed concern about your well-being. Here I'm discussing the substance of your comment ...

> We were talking about liberals and conservatives. Conservatives are not universally religious and liberals are not universally irreligious. What is more disrespectful is attempting to change the subject to take the discussion in a direction that, if it were headed there to begin with, I would not have engaged.

1. I've said this before -- not sure if I did on this thread -- so I'll say it again: you seem to think that you get to define what is on topic and isn't. No, you don't. People are free to discuss as they see fit.

2. Logic isn't the whole story. Your words are coming across as self-important. That will not serve you well. It repels people, including me. I'm only writing in the hopes that this will get through to you or someone else that reads it. There are too many people here lacking fundamental discussion skills.

3. Invite feedback and learn. Ask 10 wise people to read your sentence. Do not pre-bias them. Ask for their unvarnished feedback. Discuss and actively listen without defending yourself.

4. What you wrote looks like a justification to make you feel better about yourself. Almost everyone does it. Some people become aware of it. Some people learn to do better.
I've seen people 'get addicted' to takeout to the tune of thousands of dollars of month in food costs. The fees are absolutely egregious for the cold mediocre food you get. Every once in awhile I'll get something I know travels well but wherever possible I'd rather order direct and local and pickup than use the apps.
Unfortunately, nothing like the zero I am aware of.
X is 40 years old. Talking about Wayland breaking compatibility there like it's a JS toolkit being dropped after 6 months is a bit silly.

Yeah, compatibility is nice, but not when it means you have security flaws innate to the system, bloat and stuff you never want but have to keep around, etc... Sometimes the positives outweigh the negatives.
Don’t have to tip Amazon delivery drivers either!
Location: Washington, USA

Remote: Yes. I am an experienced remote worker, but I prefer a hybrid work environment.

Willing to relocate: Yes! I am excited by the opportunity to live in a new city.

Technologies: Pixel-perfect mockups, mobile app design, user interface (UI) design, responsive front-end web development

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Hello, my name is Dillon and I want to help you create cool stuff. I'm looking for UI and UX positions, as well as junior web development work.

I am completely obsessed with usability. I owe this passion to my time designing for others. When I design app interfaces, I am trying to make someone else’s life a little easier — this is how I help people with the gifts I have. I understand most people do not want to spend hours learning about every tiny detail of every product they use. Very few people are constantly thinking about how they interact with technology and how it might be better, but I cannot be any other way. My mind is endlessly observing myself in the way I use things and how they might be improved.

User interface design is my passion and I can do some basic front-end web development. Plain old HTML and CSS are my tools of choice. I can hack together some JavaScript given enough time. By far the most impressive JavaScript I have cobbled together is for an open-source web app I built as a passion project, which can be seen here [1]. Please take a look at my portfolio [2] to see some selected projects.

[1] https://github.com/dillonjohnbrown/the-drugulator/blob/maste....
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This one threw me off as well because the common "middle of the curve" advice is to avoid "premature optimization", but then you get experts that talk about "non-pessimization" as an euphemism for writing optimal code.
I haven’t gotten any reply notifications since may… am I the only one?
Why stop now? We were interested.
It's OK to not like the work somebody produces.

It's not OK to be a dick about it and harass them.

The author owes you nothing.
Ha, what did you do right or wrong to end up with declining income?
LCCs generally do this because charges for the apron are cheaper than the jetway.

With Lufthansa, I'd assume that FRA is super busy and didn't actually have a gate available at the time; a 747 is a really large aircraft to load using buses.
in the name of regulation everything can be justified. Coinbase has to work with regulators. Surprised!
Even if question seems unnecessary at the time, more often than not some junior dev will find it helpful once your company grows. It’s about preserving knowledge and no question is dumb at that point.
No, they have very competent technical people, and, it's not a simple problem to solve.

They reached too far, raised to much money, raise too much ire, sang too big a tune.

If they had of stayed 'visionary but rational' they'd be doing just fine.

And they will probably end up doing just fine in the long run, expectations have to settle down somewhere.
I'm sorry, that's not what I was intending to say. I'm not finding the right words (and the English language sprinkles too many negative connotations on words that should be more neutral, without offering suitable alternatives).

Getting an agreement about having kids early on is absolutely a good thing. And those examples of aggressive questioning are absolutely a bad thing, morally speaking.

But I'm not talking about morality, rather, psychology. The landscape you find yourself in is not ideal to forming trusting relationships, which means that one must navigate much more carefully than someone in their twenties would. Not because you have anything shameful or things to hide (quite the opposite), but rather because there are many desperate people in similar situations who improperly court the idea that a little deception or trickery now can be made up for later. And in doing so they poison the well.

I also agree with you that being honest and up front about what your goals are is absolutely essential. After all, you're building a relationship, and its strength is directly proportional to the foundation of trust.

I guess all I can say in the end is: You're not doing anything wrong, but also that not everyone is the same. There are people out there who share your ideals and goals, and it's a matter of luck to meet them because all of the dating apps and services out there suck (I dealt with them before marrying someone I met in a completely different context and completely by chance and with no initial intent for a relationship, in my early 40s - go figure). I still don't envy your position, but I do wish you good fortune. Keep the faith.
Disagree. If a restaurant is listed on uber eats, the customer (johnebgd) should expect to get their order right the vast majority of time.

Why should it be the customer's problem to figure out the implementation detail (delivery for new places, not in-house)?
Isn't all screen recording an implementation ?

Edit: I do OBS screen recording.. didnt know it was such a big deal. Fedora 34,35, 36 ish ? has it working, but I imagine that is pipewire + obs. Its pretty easy.
Sometimes I wish it were simpler. I’ve had multiple situations where I couldn’t get a ride into my local city recently.

The app says there are rides within 10 minutes, shows me a cheap rate and I hit yes. In 10 minutes no matches have been found. In 10 more minutes it finds someone 20 minutes away. 15 minutes later the driver cancels and I’m back to square one.

Now the thing is the cost of the ride is a pittance and I would gladly pay double the cost just to get to my destination in a reasonable timeframe. Instead I just call a cab now, request a pickup at a certain hour and they send a driver.

FWIW I’m 20 minutes drive from downtown Montreal, so this is not like I’m out in the sticks or anything, and couple years ago it was much easier to find a ride. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s even another ride sharing company taking the drivers, it’s just a lot of drivers pivoted to doing Uber eats instead.
Friends for a reason.

Friends for a season.

Friends for a lifetime.
At least in my area, McDelivery is provided by Uber Eats.

All this seems to mean in practice is I get a crappy Uber Eats delivery but have to order it through the McDonalds app, which is somehow even worse than Uber Eats.

I've just looked at the McDonalds app, and it says my local McDonalds is 24/7 and lets me order to collect from there. I know for a fact that it's shut right now, and the official store locator also says it's shut.

I stick to Deliveroo and Just Eat where possible because their apps and service tend to be pretty decent.
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I think people don't care about it because at the end of the day all this mind bogglingly complex stuff just exists skim money off a transaction that should ideally be done between two individuals -- a buyer and a seller.

Uber is nothing more than a rent-seeking middle man and no one cares about how complicated their rent-seeking activities are behind the curtain.

Why can my ISP string up fiber optic all over my city and put routers and switches or whatever in boxes that can survive all kinds of inclement weather and end up charging me $100 a month for gigabit internet? Isn't that a much harder business than Uber?
Yeah it seems like it's not that sinister of a clause. At least at first glance it reads as if nothing gets shared if you stick just to the game and not explicitly involve third-party services.
I read the article as well as Paul Graham's 'How to Do What You Love (2006)' [http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html] that another commenter mentioned here and have come to realisation that I'm stuck in the area that both articles discuss - and I know that my 'archetype' or history (which is probably very typical in this line of work) contributes to.

Tell me if this my story rings true for you:

- You grew up in the the analog era when digital was coming into mainstream (80s for me)

- Tinkered with early computers and video games (C64 for me, onto early PC gaming in the 90s and dialup)

- Fascinated by sci-fi and technology

- Had some higher-than-average ability and affinity with computers - not prodigious

- Fell into some facet of the IT world as a result of being "good with computers"

- Ended up being able to succeed (for me, this was in the world of web dev from 2005-2019)

- Realised that even though it pays the bills and that you had developed some expertise (hilariously, much of my expertise also vanished when Flash died) - maybe it wasn't what you were supposed to be doing

- Tried startups or your own business (I freelanced and started a small digital agency)

- Moved countries / changed gears (I went to SG, tried my hand as a tech PM)

- Still in tech, still unsure whether this is what you should be doing or whether you're wasting the remainder of your time here building variations of the same thing

I get the feeling a lot of 'us' in the tech world come from similar backgrounds and personalities and thus end up in the same spot.
For someone who casually makes Swift apps, how can I keep up to date?

It moves so fast, it's changing every time I revisit. Often forcing me to upgrade my OS in order to keep my toy-software compatible.

Meanwhile I can reopen PHP projects from 6 years ago and it's still perfectly correct and workable.

I feel swift is mature now and they should slow the f down. I'm being priced out of the market in terms of maintainability. If it's your full time job, sure. Otherwise, RIP weekends.
hah. I remember having to build HTML-only fallback versions of fancy Flash UI sites back in... 2002 to around 2008. We marketed this as an add-on for improved SEO. Allegedly Google used to manually check if the content matched what was in the Flash version and knock you down if it wasn't. That was probably just a rumor.
Actually most webpack config guides also recommend you to start Typescript checker in separate thread(there is plugin for that) and don't block compilation(transpile mode).

But even you do this, the speed of webpack still isn't comparable to vite. Because vite don't really scan and bundle the whole node_modules before send browser anything. It leverage the native es module and on demand loading to allow it to 'compile as you need' and give you better startup time and reload time.
I want 1) people to be numerate about actual environmental damage rather than go on marketing vibes, and 2) advocate for ways to numerically decrease their consumption.

That means walkable neighborhoods, which would exist if they weren't blocked by law.

My city, which claims to be lefty, takes great pains to talk about taking climate actions, but takes even greater pains to avoid the numbers that would show that city planning laws and codes and zoning must adapt.

I have been fighting like mad to try to make even small changes to this, but the Overton window remains firmly closed.

EVs are only a partial solution. We should legalize housing and markets and jobs and all sorts of buildings that are accessible without requiring cars.
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This functionality is already covered by https://www.hnreplies.com/ which I have just learned is maintained not by dang but by dangrossman
> And no, I'm not irritated - I don't think there's an efficient way to have a worthwhile discussion about someone's religious beliefs over the internet without coming across as slightly hostile. Apologies.

Thanks.

Yes, it is hard without knowing much about the cultures and communication style of the other people. But I think there are some simple things that help: write, then wait a few minutes before posting. Re-read and edit if you think the tone can be fixed. Etc.
? "there's no difficult-to-copy element of it"

Wow, no, it's a 2-sided market problem (drivers and customers) that's incredibly difficult to reproduce.

And then there's brand synergy, economies of scale with regulatory issues etc..

Regular taxis are 'easy to reproduce'.

Food delivery is hard because there actually isn't any margin. It's all VC money paying for everything.
I don't think there's a way of owning a domicile in any capitalist country without paying a membership fee (property tax) to the government. If you rent, you're doing that indirectly.
Kinda funny how that comment is flag-killed, but an equally unverifiable anecdote is the top comment on the previous discussion, and it claims the same thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17400832
This isn't the case. Uber repeatedly, and likely fraudulently, claimed that they were profitable ex-growth markets (iirc, they made this claim shortly before their IPO, I remember it being leaked to compliant journalists). They have never attempted to obtain a global monopoly either (they bought stakes in companies outside the US, which clearly wouldn't have given Uber itself scale economies). The only place that you saw people make the claim about driverless cars was on Reddit, management never made that claim...because it makes no sense.

The underlying business can, obviously, be profitable. There is a guy near me who runs a taxi app, town has a population of ~5k people (no city with an Uber taxi service for miles around), and he is profitable. The problem is that most tech companies are run by morons who have a big stack of other people's money to burn (it really is that simple, all of these companies thought this day would never come...it has come, it is today).
The historical tendency is for the elite to use violence to preserve what they have, in which case it usually becomes necessary to fight back. However, if their will and morale can be corroded to such a point that they accept declining relevance peacefully, that's obviously the best for everyone.
Who should be the one who decides this? Nothing personal to you, sir, madame, or they, but I don't want it to be someone with this attitude.

Wayland breaks a huge amount of apps, with no good porting story.

Most of us just want our apps to be able to keep working. Linux is not a place for a wizard in the high castle to disconnectedly architect the future of Linux GUIs.