skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it’s named “Seven” is because that’s how many years it’ll take you to build it. I watched a friend go through this, totally cured me of the idea. An absolute metric shit-ton of work and you end with a car you - quite realistically - rarely drive. When you start this project as a young person, your priorities are clear: I want to drive around in a Caterham/Lotus Seven. Seven years later, your priorities have shifted somewhat and those 49-Dog-Years have erased the memory of the reasoning that caused you to start this project in the first place. Your friends have gone through an average of two motorbikes, two cars and three partners each, and discovered that multi-link suspension is awesome, fuel efficiency is important, garages are hard to come by and there’s only 12 weekends in the whole year when you might get a chance to go out on a bit of lark with your mates that involves vehicles.
Ask HN: How do I find out what I am curious about?
I dabbled in many things but didn’t manage to focus on anything much unless it is related to my work. How do I discover what I am really curious about?
The Incredible Proof Machine – An Introduction
Nowhere did voz_ say or imply that Uber was simple or easy to replicate. In fact he didn't say anything all about replicating them. What he is speculating about is a hypothetical where Uber itself stops development and just maintains their existing systems.
Why reproducible machines didn't used to be a priority (I think)
All throughout Western Europe, yes (particularly in the North - with the notable exception of England). It's standard practice here to not exceed 20 years incarceration except in very extreme circumstances (and usually nowhere near that long to begin with).

But European countries have a very different view of the purpose of prisons and the conditions within.
You made my point. You work on a bank, not a software company. Let’s be real, third league and banks treat software as an expense/cost center.

Let me know when any of the major companies actually use it seriously.
People keep saying "the sky is falling, with ip6 all the hosts are open to the internet" but not really it is usually one rule.

on openbsd pf

block outside connections from initiating connections to your hosts

block in on $external_if from any to $ip6_network

on ip4, if the world was just you would have the same rule(in ip4). however the world is not just and you usually only get one address so you have to pull some shenanigans to spoof that address across all your hosts

match out on $external_if from $internal_net to any nat-to $external_if

Really we all have a sort of Stockholm syndrome and think yes, this is normal, this is correct and being able to end to end address a host is weird and wrong.
Half of me wishes I ever worked at a place that had invested this much in documentation. The other half realizes I'd probably hate it if everything was already this laid out.
What is a normal downpayment percentage there?
Generations of evolutionary pressure to make skull towers out of people who look slightly different...
That method is still "prescribed"
The Brothers Grimm wrote Aschenputtel, whereas Cendrillon was written by Perrault in 1697.
I beg to differ. Compared to PDX, TPA, DEN, SAN, SEA and even SFO, I would say the updated Terminal C is still lacking, especially at those appalling prices. The whole OTG iPad thing is stupid too, and I assume leads back to corruption at Port Authority.
Uber is broken in my city now.

They don't pay very well, so there aren't many drivers. The drivers that are around will accept a ride, then fuck around for a while, driving further away, doing whatever (no, there are no scheduled drop-offs, they deliberately waste time). Then you cancel, then when you try to re-book to get a different driver ... oh look, surge pricing, it's an extra $20 for that journey now.

This is the point at which I pull out the (crappy) app for the local taxi service, that uber nearly drove out of business, who now offer a more reliable and usually cheaper ride. In fact increasingly I don't look at the uber app first any more.

It was never a good idea to allow a VC funded loss-maker to compete in pretty much every market worldwide, using this subsidy to undercut the local firms while somehow dreaming of extracting 20% on every ride.

It was always going to have to raise prices to succeed, and the only way it was going to be able to do that was by using its stacks of cash to run at a loss for long enough to destroy the competition completely. I'm just glad it failed to finish the job.
I had not thought of it that way !
This article is from nine months ago.

I wonder if the author would say anything is different today than it was in October of 2021?
My teacher in fifth grade used "Questions? Comments? Needs‐wants-desires?" Was distinctive enough that it is the only thing I remember about that teacher.
The code is still there (FOSS), so you can continue using it as long as you want — and even maintain/sponsor if you like. None of us is entitled to developer time (from others), so if the ecosystem moves and they wish to invest their effort on different endeavors or approaches, we can’t hold them back.
This looks like apks and no desktop apps, is that accurate? I’ll never forget the warm cozy feeling I got when my isp sent me a letter listing the the movies I had pirated over popcorn time.
Miniature, Implantable Nerve Coolers for Targeted Pain Relief
A question like that is either a joke, or an effort to establish dominance.

I think the correct response would be, "Why are you asking me a question to which you presumably already have an answer, or at least an opinion on? Why don't you just share your views on this with the audience?"
Good! As a US taxpayer then, that means we should no longer be required to contribute BILLIONS to Ukraine's defense against such a backwards, weak opponent.
These are standard test programs in India to get into various institutes.

JEE[1] is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India.

For students who want to study the general stream of physics, Chemistry, and Biology would go through the NEET[2]. This is for the Medical Colleges in India.

For everything else -- colleges, undergraduate, graduate, and other courses after 12th, students will go through the CUET[3]. This is the latest introduction to circumventing colleges and universities doing the test on their own.

I should add why these tests are crucial to students and parents alike in India. These decide the fate of most students and their careers.

I have a friend who collected and organized the questions for just JEE, and that's it. He charges a very minimal fee, and he is a Crore-ian (roughly $1M = ₹8 Crore) and leads a happy lifestyle. I'm no longer in regular touch with him and have no idea if he grew big or moved on or is sipping Mai Tai in Tahiti.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Eligibility_cum_Entra...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_University_Entrance_Tes...
Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability – AIXI (2005)
In the next 2 years, if the other EV manufacturers (and corresponding charging networks) don't learn to play nice together, Tesla is going to become a monopoly. I drive a Tesla, but would really like another option when shopping for my next car. Any reliability of the payment/operation of a L3 charger below 90% is a 'no go' for me.
> RvW has always stood on tenuous footing. We've known this. Congress has literally had decades to do something and they chose instead to keep the status quo. Why? Because the republican threat helps democrat voter turnout.

If by 'tenuous footing', you mean that there is not legislation protecting it, I understand what you are saying. However, per stare decisis (respecting judicial precedent), the general idea of Rowe has been settled and stable for a long time. Public opinion has been relatively stable too.

You said "Congress has literally had decades to do something and they chose instead to keep the status quo.". Congress is a body, yes, but it is also comprised of parties and coalitions that disagree. Saying a "split-brain" body "chose" to keep the status quo isn't a very useful way of thinking about it. A better explanation (one that conveys more information about what is happening) is that the parties strongly disagree, and the party lines have gotten firmer over time.

In February (this year, 2022), the House passed a law codifying abortion with Democratic support. It failed the Senate 46-48 due to Republican opposition.
>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.

well actually... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax#Places_without_pr...
This has always been the way since the internet.

Register your domain. Write on that domain (using CMS you control). And then use a range of social media / forums / creator platforms to get traffic to your site.
I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere.

And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support.

I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of quota approved on Azure...
> 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 can think of one thing like this, the web browser! Sure it isn't a OS, but damn it can run one.
The most important factor that is completely lost in this argument is "scale".

Simple looking things are very complex at large scale.

Even if no new features were built, the current api and apps won't scale to meet the demand as the user base continues to grow. And at any point in time there are thousands of bugs that need to be fixed within months before they cause big issues. 15 engineers will take years to fix them.

Another big factor is cyber security. This alone will require more than 15 people. Monitoring and defending against active threats, updating libs with patches and migrating from deprecated dependencies spanning 100s of services.
> There is nothing wrong with food delivery when used in moderation.

This can be said about any addiction. The problem is addiction. If your not an addictive person that’s great, for you, but others are susceptible to addiction.
With Many smaller skulls? #headduck
With Home Assistant[1] we use Ghost for our newsletter[2]. Besides ease of use and great design as article points out, it also was the only newsletter host that allowed us to disable all the tracking.

+1 for Ghost. Awesome software

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io
[2]: https://building.open-home.io
Last time I took the train, it was more expensive than driving, and took longer too.

And certainly far, far slower than a plane could be, with no hours of pre-flight waiting.

More comfortable than a plane, with its cramped seating, for sure.

Really, a prop plane is not horrible for the environment, especially compared to cars.
Not sure these "market share" competitions are very useful.

Includes SaaS cloud revenue for MSFT - which is the largest portion - an area where AWS doesn't compete (well, not meaningfully).

Also, in the past didn't MSFT include AWS cloud Windows and SQL Server license charges in their "cloud revenue" - not sure if that is still the case.
I’ve been using the old reader for a few years now. The cost for my premium subscription is: “$25 per year - Up to 500 feeds” (quoted from my latest invoice).

It works really well, the interface is simple and unadorned, with an emphasis on the targeted content rather than a flashy frontend.

I don’t think I ever remember the service being down or unavailable all the time I’ve ever used it.
This good, modern, well-disciplined code. Would use.
SwiftUI is only a couple years old. That would be like PHP templating ossifying around the turn of the century.

Additionally, web apps only need to maintain install compatibility with their server. iOS apps are “desktop apps” so you need to have the mindset that your installation targets are a constantly evolving mix.

On top of that, your targeted OS is one with strict design, security and performance guidelines that aren’t static. The web doesn’t have this requirement (other than what search ranking factors incentivize.)
*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.
The public transport situation at LaGuardia is terrible, but the design of the new terminal makes traversing it really nice.
Possibly it's because it's hard to get things right the first time, but sometimes it's better than the old way so there's a big shift to it, and once we know a better way it's hard to shift people to the better thing because the old thing was just good enough.

Come to think of it, this probably applies to any product.
There is a great deal of energy flowing through browsers, and there is no synchronizing organization strong enough to tame it. Java had Sun and Apache. C had AT&T. Javascript has who -- Joyent and Google?
Funny how those international sea lanes that are important for world trade just happen to be far away? Because it's foreign trade you're protecting. Oil, etc. If all the US was protecting was US shipping going from US port to US port, then yeah, we wouldn't need nuclear power, though it still might make sense depending on the threat.
When an unrecognized flow shows up, punt it to software. Handle the counter there, and if it overflows then you drop the packets. No need to add anything to the control plane.
All of this is a lousy substitute for a Memex. At this point, I think the incentives are strongly against them ever appearing, unless someone had a strong anti-corporate bias in their view of the world...

A memex would save EVERYTHING by default as it came in, putting it all into a long (month+) buffer... any links to "interesting" material would then cause it to be moved to the local archive. At any point, you'd be able to share your "associative trail" with others, along with ALL of the content referenced. You'd never be forced to deal with a broken link for static content, ever. (Which is why it can't be done... copyright law)

The other worst timeline thing we got was HTML - it's not markup, and it's not hypertext. It's embedded formatting with links off the page. You can include images and other things in an HTML "document", why not portions of other documents? (Security, that's why)

I want my Memex... it sounds like you're closer to one that I'll ever get, good for you! 8)
Or worse, they don't see the negative feedback - meaning even if they stick around long enough to handle your second order, they still won't know any better.
Funny "visitor" is about the only GoF pattern left in use, at least in C++ code.

Ripe for disruption, by some measures.
No. A time share is not an investment ever. It's a scam always.
There are quite a few incompetent doctors, sadly, and they stick together and support each other. While I'm generally reluctant to bring up identity politics, it does appear that women and people of colour tend to experience this worse than others.

My mum had abdominal surgery, and one night following the surgery, she felt an extremely painful tear sensation in her lower abdomen and shortly afterwards noticed a big asymmetric lump in the intestinal area.

My partner is an ICU nurse and suspected a hernia so we took her to the local hospital and the doctor said it's just post-surgical swelling. It didn't go away, rather it got bigger, more painful and frequently gurgled, so we went to the GP. The GP said it's probably just because she's had kids 30 years ago (!?) and that my mum needs to get used to not looking attractive any more, and to lose weight.

What followed was months of doctors visits trying to get them to even accept there was even an issue. Bear in mind, this was a significant, painful gurgling lump, around the size of a tennis ball. Yet doctor after doctor said there was nothing wrong with her and she should consider therapy and antidepressants instead.

After a few more months, she began experiencing such bad pain that she couldn't walk, and finally a junior female doctor suggested she had a hernia. However, she got overruled by her senior and sent home with paracetamol. The junior doctor quietly told her to go to another hospital.

We managed to convince my mum this was ridiculous and brought her to London, where she got looked at by a hernia expert, who was very concerned about her treatment thus far and sent her for a CT and - obviously - found a large hernia. Due to the time it was left untreated, the repair was very challenging with many complications.

Back home again, while recovering, she was having the early warning signs of an infected surgical wound (hot swelling, pus, smell, chills etc.) and again the local hospital fobbed her off and said she's overreacting, didn't swab the wound or change the dressing and sent her home. That night, she called me incoherent and I called for an ambulance - turns out she had sepsis and nearly died.

I can promise you that we made sure everyone treating her had a full medical history at every point, but they still blatantly ignored what was right in front of them. There is actually a ton more to this too - the surgery in the first place which triggered all this was due to a medical error and wasn't necessary. It's been five years so far.

She's currently suing the local hospital and doctors.
Does he include the effects of climate change in his analysis? I found it sorely lacking in Accidental Superpower; he tacks it on in an appendix, but it seems a really disingenuous take.
In terms of which cloud is running most services the breakdown is more like:

https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=c...

- AWS

- Digital Ocean

- Microsoft

- Tencent Cloud

- Alibaba Cloud

- Linode

- Vultr

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

- Rackspace

- Yandex

- IBM

It's hard to place Google as their CDN and other infrastructure inflates the numbers.
Please define how you are using "parochial (in the literal sense)". Here's a common definition:

pa·ro·chi·al | pəˈrōkēəl | adjective
relating to a church parish: the parochial church council.
• having a limited or narrow outlook or scope: this worldview seems incredibly naive and parochial.
Unidentified Rocket Crashes on Moon, Leaving Double Crater. NASA Perplexed
We don't have this scam.

We get the car parked in the shopping centre with big "WIN THIS CAR" signs. Entry is $5-10 per ticket though, so it seems feasible there's actually a winner somewhere along the way (My assumption is a Mustang appears in a few shopping centres at once and one is ultimately given away, for example).
They're not saying it would take 15 to build, they're saying that maintaining it does not take nearly as many staff as they currently have. Which is correct: if Uber is simply a rideshare company, then with the technology established it should be winding down it's dev teams.

If it's instead a "every market" company then it should be doing that with its considerable on-payroll staff.
As a WGU grad (May 2022, BSCS) I can confirm that the program is self-paced. There are some caveats to that though. Each six-month term you need to complete a minimum of 12 credit hours. After you complete those you are free to keep working through courses as you have time and energy for. You work very closely with a program mentor if you choose to, I maintained a weekly call with mine to keep myself accountable when I would stray. There are some classes that are great, some that seem like filler, but that's any degree in my opinion. What some find difficult is that the learning falls 100% on you. Instructors are there to help you along and do some online sessions, but a lot of the time it is just a matter of reading the text, doing projects and taking exams.

After trying for years to find a program that clicked for me, WGU was the one that really stuck. Being able to not deal with a traditional B&M (brick and mortar) campus let me focus on what mattered. I had experience in the industry which may have made it a bit easier, but I have two grads from WGU on my team now that are in their first dev roles and they have quickly become my top performers (I definitely attribute this to the WGU system of having to teach yourself how to learn on your own).

There are awesome WGU communities on slack, Facebook, and discord. I am still very active in the WGU Comp Sci discord because I love interacting with and mentoring others.

If you have any questions about it, feel free to reach out to me.
A. User CSS changing the font was maybe not a good idea here -- definitely misread that product number...

B. I resent that this is so expensive. I'm not saying you shouldn't pay it, but it feels too expensive by half.
One thing no "new" mp3 player has done correctly is audio books. None of them do bookmarking as well as rockbox. Also, new mp3 players usually have terrible battery life. Because of these reasons, I bought myself about 7 sandisk sansa players on ebay and have gotten very good at fixing their shitty headphone jack problem.

With a rockboxed sansa I get about 60 hours of battery life and bookmarking on stop with a list of recent bookmarks per file.

Can this sony do any of that? Hardware music player have gone down hill.
I think it is great that people are switching, but it sounds like they are more or less going to utilize most of the same hosted features that caused issues elsewhere.
Ask HN: Why is ICANN sending my site so much traffic?
For many months now, ICANN has been sending an absurd amount of traffic to a site I maintain from 192.0.32.224 and 192.0.47.224. From those two IP addresses, we have received 12,206,044 requests in June 2022 alone. In the last 6 months, the rate seems to remain relatively constant. It adds up to about 40GB/month.

Each entry is this:
GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4294 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (ICANN IT Operations +1-310-301-5800)

Why do they request this page so often? I wrote to their "ops@icann.org" address several days ago but haven't heard back. I know I could block them with a firewall but mostly I am curious as to why this happens.
Who's to say Qt won't drop X11 functionality also?

Wayland is the go-forward display stack for Linux. Get with the program or get left behind.
Second this, I wanted to poke around and check out the UI for something that looked interesting and useful, I remember looking for something like this back when I was studying and wanted to take notes in PDFs.

So I hit the `open in browser` button, but left as soon as I was prompted to create an account.
Copycats don't operate at nearly the same scale as Uber. Even Lyft operates on a significantly smaller scale than Uber.
I think anyone who has interacted with a big organization (company, government, religion, etc...) comes to the conclusion that they're disfunctional in some way. I agree that it doesn't say much, but I do wonder, how many engineers built the original Uber app and how many does the company employee today? I'm betting it's more, and I wonder how much additional functionality they've added over the years.
There's nothing stopping motivated developers forking and continuing the backwards compatible version. If there isn't anyone willing to do that then perhaps it's an indication that backwards compatibility isn't the most important thing, but other concerns are also factors.