skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm told they're punctual.

Haven't been to BER myself.

There are some well designed airports in Asia (multiple countries).

In USA, I personally felt SEA (Seattle-Tacoma) and DFW (Dallas/Fort-Worth) were rather good.

LAX is a mess for domestic/international transfers, with remote terminals and having to go though multiple buses right through the middle of planes on tarmac. However, I've gone through LAX many times that I now know my way around.

LAX was also the airport where I physically spotted the plane I had to board, and then figured out how to reach there by going in the general direction (because if you started your journey at a smaller airport and is changing planes at LAX, the original boaring pass you received may not have the gate written on it).
Memory Model Synchronization Modes
In the '90s when you wanted to order delivery, you'd open a phone book and pick a restaurant. Some would pay extra for a big, extra-visible listing in that phone book.

Uber, Doordash, etc get away with charging such premiums not because delivery is so costly but because they've made themselves into a new phone book. Hungry customers open the app to look for a restaurant, and the restaurant wants to be listed there.

However that's not really a win for the restaurant. It might not increase their business, just stop them from losing it. If the app didn't exist at all, those customers would find them another, less convenient way. But because the app exists, the customers stopped using those ways.
I haven’t seen most of those listed on job postings whereas I’ve seen seemingly dozens of frontend frameworks on various postings.
> It's either the highest APR of any of your debt,

Yes, by your logic it is literally an infinite APR. $200 numerator / 0 years denominator. Doesn’t that imply that maybe your formula has some holes in it and this is a fundamentally different transaction (a take rate rather than an interest rate) than what you’re characterizing it as?
I know you're being sarcastic, but Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway at Hollywood Studios opened recently. It's really well done. There's also a new uber-stylized show called The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse on Disney+.

(That being said, there's never really been much Mickey media. This is the first ride featuring him, and he's never had his own full-length movie. Mickey is way closer to a trademark, in my opinion, and has always been that way.)

Fun fact: the guy who plays the Tres Commas VC in Silicon Valley is the current voice of Mickey Mouse.
Ranchers interested in extra revenue would put up solar panels in pasture. Cows keep the weeds down.

Future generations will think solar farms in the desert were a dumb idea. But it is easy to get investor money for that, because investors don't know what a poor choice of placement that is.
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elisabeth Moon.
Practical and neat. It says TypeScript and "optical table"? Where are the sources?
https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab

"Visualizing quantum mechanics in an interactive simulation – Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap" Optical Engineering (2022) https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/optical-engineer... :

> Abstract: Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap is a no-code online laboratory of an optical table, presenting quantum phenomena interactively and intuitively. It supports a real-time simulation of up to three entangled photons. Users can place typical optical elements (such as beam splitters, polarizers, Faraday rotators, and detectors) with a drag-and-drop graphical interface. Virtual Lab operates in two modes. The sandbox mode allows users to compose arbitrary setups. Quantum Game serves as an introduction to Virtual Lab features, approachable for users with no prior exposure to quantum mechanics. We introduce visual representation of entangled states and entanglement measures. It includes interactive visualizations of the ket notation and a heatmap-like visualization of quantum operators. These quantum visualizations can be applied to any discrete quantum system, including quantum circuits with qubits and spin chains. These tools are available as open-source TypeScript packages – Quantum Tensors and BraKetVue. Virtual Lab makes it possible to explore the nature of quantum physics (state evolution, entanglement, and measurement), to simulate quantum computing (e.g., the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm), to use quantum cryptography (e.g., the Ekert protocol), to explore counterintuitive quantum phenomena (e.g., quantum teleportation and the Bell inequality violation), and to recreate historical experiments (e.g., the Michelson–Morley interferometer).
Isn't that just Uber Black?

I've found the drivers to be almost universally accommodating (almost like they're being paid more fairly!)

And you can even get an hourly Uber Black that will wait on you indefinitely.
A subset of tech community in Japan has established a strange form of "broadcast" yourself in Slack, which is called "minute-updates" channels, that is, each team member creates a channel owned by oneself, posts short updates (or tweets, if you like to think in that way) there, and lets others chime-in freely. So it's a channel for monologues out loud.

This clearly doesn't scale for large orgs, but any communication method doesn't anyway. One clear advantage of this is the low entry barrier: You don't have to worry about interrupting and shutting down the ongoing conversion unintentionally, or spamming others.

Although this barrier lowering seems to be helping a lot in the highly peer-aware environments like Japan. I'm not sure how effective this is in a different context. So take this as a grain of salt.
Sorry to be this person, but 0.0001% is 1 in 1 million -- so about 330 people in the US.

So maybe need to settle for that 1 in 10,000 person-- 1 in a million is a bit tricky logistically.
I used to have one large GitHub repo for all the book examples, but then decided later to have separate GitHub repos for the examples because some are libraries and this works better with the Swift Package Manager.

This link should show all my public Swift repos: https://github.com/mark-watson?tab=repositories&q=swift&type...

Also, I am a Common Lisp developer. Swift is just a side language for me, but I enjoy it and I was blown away at how useful Apple's Core ML libraries are (good stuff!).
IIRC, the midwit opinion was the original idea of technical debt. To you, is the beginner/expert version a misuse of the term, or has the thinking on technical debt changed?
These threads are usually flush with bullish supporters of Uber. This time around I see none.
Setting harsh minimums and removing judicial discretion serves no-one. If anything the laws should set the maximum sentences that a judge can impose and allow the judge to determine which punishment fits the crime.
I thought this article was going to be about normal distributions and sigma factors in engineering, maybe a bit on the central limit theorem...

https://www.thoughtco.com/bell-curve-normal-distribution-def...

https://news.mit.edu/2012/explained-sigma-0209

One thing to keep in mind, when looking at complex topics like expert vs. beginner opinions and so on:

> "When You Shouldn't Use the Bell Curve: There are some types of data that don't follow a normal distribution pattern. These data sets shouldn't be forced to try to fit a bell curve. A classic example would be student grades, which often have two modes. Other types of data that don't follow the curve include income, population growth, and mechanical failures."
Quantum-Flytrap/quantum-tensors
https://github.com/Quantum-Flytrap/quantum-tensors :

> A TypeScript package for sparse tensor operations on complex numbers in your browser - for quantum computing, quantum information, and interactive visualizations of quantum physics.

Quantum-Flytrap/bra-ket-vue
https://github.com/Quantum-Flytrap/bra-ket-vue :

> An interactive visualizer for quantum states and matrices.

#Q12 /? q12 quantum: https://www.google.com/search?q=q12+quantum
You've never done iPhone development it seems where there's neverending new or deprecated versions of iOS and "kits". I've had clients that try this without a dedicated team, and each time was a nightmare for them(and hence us) where nobody remembered how anything was done
Ironically, Uber Pool is the only reason I kept using Uber, but their scale wasn't big enough for it to work properly. In peak hour to or from the central business district it was great. Anywhere else it was hit and miss.

I noticed that in the past, you'd get the pool discount even if you travelled by yourself. They've changed the terms to "up to 30% discount if someone rides with you".

As a customer, the benefit of using Uber was that they would absorb the risks, spreading it out across millions of customers. Now, I have to individually wear the risk of a pool trip not having multiple customers, while simultaneously being enormously disadvantaged in my ability to estimate the chances of other people joining. Uber has billions of times more information at hand for their estimates than me as an individual.

When I saw this change, I realised that it's a sign of the beginning of the end...
It turns out the nasty things I thought were limited to coal fired plants still emerge from natural gas fired plants, like mercury and arsenic.... which surprised me.

The social contract when issuing a operating permit for a plant to burn things is that the social good of the energy produced for society outweighs the social costs of the pollution.

Clearly, since they aren't selling the power they produce exclusively to the public... there's no social good at play, only socialized costs.
Of course it is easy now that they have been around for over a decade, the problem with the whole space is not technology, but economics. Once you have competitors in the space, it becomes a race to the bottom in regards to cost. Eventually this creates a rift between the service providers and the company, and everything just kind of slowly disintegrates.
Try Slack Huddles when the number of replies to a thread threatens to exceed 12.
I love the vision on your website.

Any chance such scrubbers and combustion could be put on mobile engines for motorcycles and cars and trucks? That's my biggest fear for ammonia being combusted in cities. Though batteries handle city-based use cases well, once ammonia is a fuel I fear for urban environments with poor air pollutions controls, like those often found in India.
Ok, I'll stick to qt then.
Having just been in the fastener section at my local Home Depot... almost all the wood screws are Torx. Drywall screws are still Phillips, but all the deck screws and almost all the interior screws seem to be Torx, and they almost all come with a driver bit in the box. I now have a nice little pile of leftover Torx drivers for my impact driver...
There's a really popular piece of writing constantly making the rounds [1], that celebrates airports that make people walk around aimlessly.

[ https://stephenshapiro.com/walk-wait-innovation/ ]
Doctor of education.
Just like if somebody gifts you a car and you try to register. You need to pay the estimated value sales tax.
No firewall needed:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/person-dead-accident-air-show-invo...
I found this via inoreader.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109387/what-is-char...
But a rental has a lease termination date. Ownership does not.
I have done iPhone development, and I can say with confidence that it is less work to take an iOS 17 app and update it to iOS 18 than it is to take nothing and create an iOS 18 app from scratch.

You still need a non-zero number of people who know how the iOS app works, but the number you need is smaller.
Basically I wouldn't say that the idea of taking on technical debt in order to pay it off at a later date is beginner or expert. It's simply the norm within most businesses.

The expert probably goes deep on some problems and punts on others depending on how intractable or voidable they might be in future, but I wouldn't say there is a hard/fast rule they can apply. Also, I suspect they probably avoid the worse technical debts you get in weaker teams, so even if they appear to leave technical debt in some cases these are rarer or mitigatable. We can look at their actions instead of their words to see what side of the divide they are truly on...
Celery Beat is pretty good
IQ 55: mate, I trust me instincts

IQ 100: DO YOU HAVE A SOURCE FOR THAT?

IQ 145: It's perfectly rational to trust your deep instincts, since they passed through generations of evolutionary pressure
There are thousands to choose from, sift through one of the many tags flagging instances of it (most of which get no punishment) - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23antiwhite

Or for a more scholarly analysis with data - https://quillette.com/2018/08/17/a-closer-look-at-anti-white...
Simple answer, being forced to use Windows as the primary OS by corporate policy.
It is blocked in Vietnam. Normally here you don't really need a good reason to censor things. Just one random dissident writing something on Medium is good enough to block the entire domain.
As the happy owner of a NW-Z507 (and matching Sony 1000XM4 earbuds and a more traditional WH-XB900N over-the-ear headset), the Sony Walkman lineup is worth every single dollar!

It's helped me rediscover some of my classics!

The 507 is Android, which was both a pro (more apps) and con (battery life) especially since the Sony default player is a bit special. I didn't need Android as I don't use streaming, but I wanted USB-C, and that excluded previous models like the A55.

The battery life is less of a problem than I thought it would be, as my earbuds are drained first.

However, I'm still not a fan of the Sony music player. If you want to try Sony newest Android lineup, I recommend installing the foobar music player.

If you use wired headsets and the limited battery life is a problem for you, check the 1ZM2: https://musicphotolife.com/2022/05/sony-wm1zm2-review-digita...
> the endearing label for those of you in the middle of the bell curve is "midwit"

Midwit is a pejorative label coined by Vox Day: https://www.midwit.com/midwit/

There's nothing "endearing" about it.
I worked there for 5 years, it's not that complicated, Uber just made it way too overcomplicated.
Cost of a police investigation, prosecution, and then housing them in jail for what? 2 years ?

Public shaming is much cheaper
The biggest thing I remember from the book is the old guy kept falling asleep constantly! Obviously still a great book but that part annoyed me.
It's illegal for a taxi at NYC to reject a fare to any part of NYC. He might huff and puff if you're going out of his way, but he has to take you. You shouldn't have gotten out.
Hydrogen is a great way to store energy, a crucial step to replace batteries. Imagine a network of solar power plants, that store their energy in form of Hydrogen during day and generate power during peak and night hours.

The world needs to pour investments into such an infrastructure, so that we can have a chance at a fully carbon free world.
I didnt say it can be built with 15, but at 2017, features peaked, and maintenance is much easier than creation.
I mean, "homeowner association fees" are just condo fees for places that aren't apartments. They seem even less likely to go towards anything useful than condo fees do though.

But yes, that's true about property taxes. But since that's a commonality between condos and otherwise-individually-owned property it doesn't really matter. In a condo you pay both, but if you own outright you only pay one. In a rental you're kinda paying both combined, because the owner pays property taxes and then presumably also tries to extract profit.

Anyways, I don't agree that condos are a scam in the same way that timeshares are, and I don't think a condo is just a glorified rental (though the one condo I have owned in my life had absurdly high fees that I regretted getting myself into) or a scam like timeshares are. I was just trying to explain what I though the GP meant.
A team of 15 probably couldn't. A team of 50-100 probably could maintain something of similar complexity to the core uber app. Copycats exist using many fewer resources.
> OR (B) fire every engineer except the 15 or so it takes to maintain the rider and driver apps and a few services

Yeah. Things are * that * easy to do at scale. You need just '15' engineers.
Would you like a Rp 400? In stock on Amazon right now, they’re the keyboard one
All of the above is fine with me. I don't know why it should just be "either/or".
Medium is blocked on some ISPs in Vietnam. My guess is because "overseas agitators" use it to talk shit about the government.
1980s - People LOVE new programs... they will buy tons of them on floppy disks at the user group meetings, take them home and try them all out.

2022 - Nobody wants to try anything

Why? Because of the inherent risk.

1980s - We started with floppy disk based computers. There was no real danger from trying anything. We used to boot write-protected operating systems. Making a copy of the OS or anything else took a few minutes swapping disks, but was almost trivial to do.

2022 - There are so many layers of code running that even the OS doesn't know what's going on in modern hardware. You can't ever be sure you're back at a factory default state. There is always a risk any time you go to a new app, new OS update, new web site, etc.

We need an OS that controls the entire machine, and defends itself completely from applications. Until we have that, nobody is going to want your new app.
I had a mostly similar experience in the France. The "gladly pay double" would translate in using a different app (the ones provided by traditional taxi companies) depending on the circumstance and the margin of error.

Uber's app was still hands down the best to use, and I had so many issues with the others, like credit card registration being flakky, or the app straight crashing on specific screens. It looked a lot like they paid a dev company a lump sum to make the app and would proceed to pay for some more fixes every six months instead of keeping an ongoing maintenance contract.

I kinda wish that now that the legal frameworks and service viability has been explored, Uber dies completely, and the gap is filled with local startups working closely with the local market to maintain ride services from there.
Be careful about being scammed by astrologers, palmists, reiki readers, psychics.
The idea is that energy from renewables can be converted to Hydrogen, which acts as a store of energy. It is a better store of energy than batteries, as scaling up batteries to grid scale is next to impossible. Hydrogen, however, can take advantage of existing gas and oil infrastructure.

And once a critical mass is reached, along with electrification of transportation, we can drastically reduce oil usage.
> fire every engineer except the 15 or so it takes to maintain the rider and driver apps and a few services, with no new features, port everything over to common cloud companies instead of their DC (shoutout to DCA, the ugly stepbrother of SJC), and just pivot to value extraction and just maintaining it as the simple taxi app it should be.

Uber operates in multiple countries, each of which have very different rules.

There's millions of rides happening in each of those places.

It's difficult to keep everything running with just a few engineers.
>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

The term rent-seeking gets thrown around a lot more lately, mostly from the web3 crowd. Most times its not used right.

It's only rent seeking if the middleman isn't providing any value. Otherwise they're just getting paid for providing a service that people value....

Think about what you're saying. You don't "care how complex it is". Well that complexity determines whether or not it is rent seeking. You say ideally a transaction between two individuals. The major problem being solved here is finding the two best matched individuals based on their current location and destination over time. You need some system to aid this discovery no matter what.

Here's the definition of rent-seeking:

Rent-seeking is the effort to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking results in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality, and potential national decline
China blocks the whole site. Other authoritarian countries block it for a while whenever somebody posts something that ruffles feathers there. Egypt and Malaysia have blocked it a couple of times.
Alfred 5 – What's New
She's only 3 but she only uses a desktop computer in a public area of the house. I think this strikes a good balance between letting her use technology and letting us keep her safe. Tablets and similar I'll save until she is a teenager.
Not much water is required to produce hydrogen in the scale required. And, it can also be captured and recycled.
I see more and more content creators realizing they aren't in charge of the channel on which create their content on - and then not knowing what to do about it. Medium, Youtube, Soundcloud, Reddit, Twitch, Tiktok - these companies are getting a hell of a deal with content creators giving things away for free. When things are going well with YouTube and the like it's fine - but what happens if you get unwarranted strikes - and then you lose your community. Content creators really need to build their community management side first and then start posting on the big sites mainly for promotion. Patreon has done a good job in this space. Ghost as well per this writer. What are some other services that allow you to keep your subscriber email list?
What don't people use a $20 converter box from floppy/IDE/whatever to USB?
I've found from a management position it's a useful tool to confirm suspicions about salary thieves. Sometimes I pair them with a no-nonsense dev who will tell me specific problems. Sometimes I pair two problem developers together and see if the pressure of another person makes them build properly.

Mostly, though, pair programming is my favorite way to get people up to speed with a project and to prevent information silos about critical functionality. My devs do them about once a quarter with each other for a week or as needed.
Really hope that they meant disposable income and they're just maxing out 401k contributions and have kids and the like!
Because knowledge is a web of associations, conversation (and writing) is an imperfect means of conveying those associations, and there is always a chance that any new explanation of something might convey some connection that was previously elusive.
Does this work if I'm already using tailscale?
I flew on a 737-Max after an 8 hour flight delay very recently and I thought they were joking when they announced what the plane was. I quickly looked up the stats on my phone (is this thing safe to actually fly?). It made the trip back more anxious than it had to be.
Clearly what the US needs is a strong, broad Anti-Predation Act. With teeth in the form of regular detailed reporting, close scrutiny, and immense personal and financial penalties starting at the top. Since trafficking people is worth a 20-year sentence, then each death must certainly match that. $100,000 a day, up to 100 days, after which the business and all of its assets are forfeit ... as well as all of the assets of the principals. That oughta work.
That equation is definitely wrong, but it's not the one that I've used anywhere.
Chasing? I'm pretty sure they only had regular people in regular cars give you a ride when lyft came around. They had to match the service or lose customers
I still think about what a ridiculous question that is to ask a politician. Programming as a new form of literacy was a much bigger idea then, i suppose.
That reminds me, did anybody win the Coinbase money from the Super Bowl ad?
How ignorant you have to be to have such a tunnel vision?

Just see the per capita carbon footprints across the world. India is doing much beyond its share of the burden.