skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Uber not offer this if the business is there? They have the infrastructure and if the Uber branding is sullied, just add a new name with a diamond next to it.

I think the market of people willing to pay $40 for a $10 ride with first-class experience must be too small.
London Stock Exchange (Labs) | Senior Engineer | London (Hybrid) | Full-Time | Go | Python | AWS | K8 | Terraform
Building MVP's around Horizon 2 tech (ML, NLP, DLT)

https://www.lseg.com/about-lseg/labs

Message me if interested (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrharding/)
That hasn’t been my experience. Something were cheaper (converting GBP to USD) but it was usually only ~10%. Other things were more expensive.
Whenever somebody calls musk the smartest man in the world, they don't understand the connection between data labeling and Tesla's propensity to stop for nothing and crash into stopped emergency vehicles.
> The US must continue printing debt (expanding money supply)

Can't tell if serious, but if you are, holding that kind of short-sighted opinion, you can be sure to be in most excellent historical company.

I mean it's not like currency debasement causes the fall of empires or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denarius

https://www.lietaer.com/2021/11/did-the-romans-debase-the-cu...

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-long-and-sordid-history-...

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato...

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/intranets/staff/butc...

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-...
Just to let you know, the link to Twitter in the nav doesn't work!
> Yet again blaming individuals' choices when large corporations are by far the largest global polluters.

Corporations don’t exist. There are only individual people.
I admit that, reading the code, I found it challenging to find a severe crypto bug simply because everything is wrong. Even their way of packing the data into a base64 is nonsense. The parser is nonsense. Almost every line of code is wrong. Without more context, I’m not quite convinced that the key is reliably anything other than a constant due to the use of PHP and the failure to validate that the variables in question are initialized.

It’s like the most severe bugs are buried in code that is 100% bug!

edit: the key is a constant. I’m speechless. See https://paul.reviews/cyberalarm-an-independent-security-revi...
Not if you use base 2. And sometimes I like to use base 1.00001 for a grand effect.
Ah I see what you mean now, agree.
The dirty little secret is that drivers depreciated the value of their car more than the money they get for it. They are taking money out of the value of their car and calling it income. Uber knows this and doesn't mention it.
A Tesla on Autopilot took out a helicopter today...

Elon Musk commented "That was totally rad, and his engineers were in the process of attempting to replicate the finding as a new "Vigilante" mode to become available next Thursday, probably."
Love HN for gems like this.
> And the most unusual thing about all this is: None of this is unusual. At least not within the national tapestry that is The Great American Small Town.

It also isn't unusual in the cities. Humans are wonderful and terrible everywhere. It reminds me of the 30 Rock episode where Jack and Liz go to Georgia to find a new comedian in touch with the "real America" and Liz keeps insisting that all Americans are real Americans and there is no "real America."

The acts of people after 9/11 in NYC remind us of the good in humans just as this small town inspires us.

As Mr Rogers said, "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
It improves user experience. Screen tearing and otherwise displaying partially updated frames is a bad user experience.
While it's true that `IO` in Haskell has a `Monad` instance, you don't really have to know that to do `IO` in Haskell. Certainly you don't need to know `Monad` in the abstract to use `IO` concretely.

I like Haskell's `do` notation, which is its syntax sugar for monads, but it's really not that bad without. For example:

do name <- getLine
putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name)

isn't really that much nicer than:

getLine >>= \name-> putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name)

or even:

getLine >>= \name->
putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name)

The main reason that monads are important in Haskell is that programs that do IO simply are not functions in a mathematical sense. If Haskell were limited to functions, it wouldn't be able to do IO.
I guess the parent is arguing that taking fraudulent, counterfeit, and unclaimed/unaccounted money out of the system left less capital for growth?
I'd say build the api first, then any frontend of your choice may be used.

Or how about leaving it as is and building a new business with any new tech you like.

In the end though, tech doesn't matter so much for most businesses, I think.
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com

ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.

ProcedureFlow has customers that consider us vital to their business and day-to-day operations. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we're about to close over $10 million in funding.

Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:

1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process; adding an automation capabilities to static knowledge.

Our technology stack includes: React, C#, Postgres, Redis, Node, Terraform and AWS.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.

We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.

Check out our engineering blog for more insights into our culture: https://medium.com/procedureflow-engineering

Interested? Send us your resume, GitHub profile, or anything you'd like to showcase: https://jobs.procedureflow.com/o/senior-developer-full-stack...

I'm a co-founder and the VP of Engineering. Happy to answer any questions!
They asked for more details, not more meaningless adjectives.
The document appears to have 80 contributors, that's hard to do with a blog post. It could have been a wiki page. But then I'm not sure if hosting a single repo on Github is harder than hosting a wiki. And of course Github provides superior platform for collaboration compared to a wiki.
We do not, in fact, have to expect compromising the safety of everybody on the road just because it is a "budget" product.
Is the visualization supposed to animate? I can’t figure out how to make it start.
I think it's cool that it's a repo. Now other people can submit pull requests and improve it.
As for the files, bah whatever. Go find a squirrel to bark at.
Thank you. The biggest issues were:

- I was not ever told to write documentation, never given time to do it, and was working around 100 hour weeks, almost all spent coding, under tight deadlines.

- I'm a senior developer / Architect with 25+ years experience and a degree in Computer Engineering from a top school

- The 19 people who replaced me were almost all right out of coding camps with 1-3 years experience
Haven't tried this with kids yet, but "coloring computers" might be a cool thing.

You can find it here:
Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYz7DPRWypGQcbAHr7Mi8EKB6ntSPsEnUsCXbA...

And the recent HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31393501
deepest apologies senpai, i've moved on to being weirdly obsessed with the cultures of the EU since my early 20s weeaboo days, but even then i was more of the "listens to much Koi No Yokan while pounding espresso" style japan nerd

(currently moved on to being the kind of weirdo who spends the 4th of july researching if there's a polish equivalent of "Gemütlichkeit" as I write out bullet points for an open mic and spend money I really shouldn't on a cortado... because my humor is cutting :-))
Something I wish I'd learned much sooner: From birth, be unfailingly patient, warm, and loving with the little bugger, no matter how frustrated you might be feeling. Matter-of-factly communicating unhappiness with him* is fine, but never, ever get angry with him — when he's "misbehaving," talking back, etc., it's because his brain and its "programming" are still developing and he doesn't have nearly as much control as you might imagine, or as you think he ought to.

* Or her, of course.
Calories are useful, but satiation is may be a better metric. Because a lot of calories come from sugars (sauce, and bread), it is hard to equate two items. Protein is the most satiating, followed by fats, and then carbs.

For example:

- BigMac: 550 Cal, 30g Total Fat, 25g protein, 45g carbs

- McDouble: 400 Cal, 20g Total Fat, 22g Protein, 33g carbs

So you're saving 30% calories, while only losing 12% of protein.
despite causing a lot of needless anguish, nobody really lost money in demonetization. something like 99.99% of money was just exchanged for new notes. thats one of the reasons why its considered such a failure
Here's some extra info about us:

ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:

• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.

Here's some recent blog posts about our Engineering team:

- How we do software engineering: https://medium.com/procedureflow-engineering/how-we-do-softw...

- Building our API: https://medium.com/procedureflow-engineering/building-api-au...

We offer:

• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a team that cares about what we're building.
• Optional 4-day work week (four 10-hour days).
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Vacation: 3 weeks minimum. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• 11 paid holidays
• Professional development budget ~$2K/year (courses, training, events, etc)
• Good benefits plan. ProcedureFlow pays health and dental premiums.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
clip studio pretty handedly outperforms illustrator for vector images and publishing at this point imo.
Is this even news any more? Autopilot is nowhere near ready for prime time. There's overwhelming evidence for it.
I’d like to live too
They /are/ the training data and trainers in a very literal sense. Every time they correct or take control over FSD I imagine it gets fed back into the training data. Will it ever create a fully self driving system? Maybe.
I have 25+ years experience and a computer engineering degree from a top university.

The 19 people were all right out of coding camps and each had 1-3 years experience.
So, your argument is that you should use a tool if you know how to use it, regardless of if it's actually needed?

Personally I would take managing "a couple of webservers and a db" any day over k8s.
Amortized cost!
I refer to the group to which the term is applied.
> Compare that to Microsoft's largely unsuccessful attempt of selling ARM-based Windows machines.

Microsoft failed at that multiple times in the past. Windows NT was initially available for multiple architectures, but that mostly ended with Windows 2000. Itanium got support until Server 2008 but non-server software support was very limited. Some Windows NT releases had a "workstation" label but application support, even from Microsoft, was between halfhearted and non-existent and the availability of some programs (such as Office) was almost a secret (I remember it existing for PPC, but never heard anything for MIPS or Alpha).
To offer the not-so-rare medical condition story, my wife and I were house-parents at a children's home and one of the 10-year old boys was having recurring infections because of poor hygiene habits. After the second time in the hospital to deal with it, the Dr. decided circumcision was the best course forward. The pain and discomfort that poor boy went through as he recovered is something I'd never wish on anyone.

I have 7 kids of my own now, 4 boys. I had them all circumcised when they were babies. The bell devices are clean and simple and even the chance that they'd have to go through that later was worth it to me.
No, many older systems work perfectly well and are sensible and intuitive. Vertical scaling a single box or HA pair, for instance, is generally easier than working with distributed systems, for instance, and is perfect for many (not all) use cases. The idea that recent stuff isn't terrible is.. well, your anecdote against mine, I guess.
It's a mixture of legislative and technical documentation.

Currently I copy to OneNote but there's no linking then to see updates to the original docs within my notes.
I always admire the self-importance journalists assign to themselves. Most local news was and would ever be utter trash. Small town journalism could only survive by peddling to some powerful local group or a political enterprise.
With all its problems, social media has proven over and over to be a far more useful tool for communities.
And I can make 1000 even cheaper. But I don’t want 8 chicken San who he’s by the time the ingredients are going bad.

This is just one of many things wrong with this article that I had high hopes would explain how to find the optimal pricing, but really just shirks that research off.

> Then again, most successful major corporations are run by heartless conservatives. The companies run by bleeding-heart liberals all went out of business.

Ok, maybe save me the time on the article and put winners like this at the top next time.
It would be nice if the article said which experimental drug was used.
> I hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth.

That was Bernie Sanders. Every debate, every mud sling, every derail, Sanders was a guy who would put the conversation back on track on doing what's right for the American people.
Seems like he had it under control, and was recording it in order to publicize the problem and possibly get it fixed.
The word you’re looking for is hypocrisy. If Mitch really believed in climate change, he could vote to end the fillibuster, pass a green new deal, not appoint judges to the Supreme Court who vote against the EPA. He doesn’t have one ounce of the bravery or leadership he claims to be looking for.
Are Things Really That Bad? Actually, No
The Riverworld series by Phillip Jose Farmer.
> Residential water use has plummeted in the west. Some areas, like vegas, use less water than the 70s, not accounting for population changes.

What's the point of this argument? Vegas population has increased more than 10x since the 70s, why would we not account for population growth when discussing the usage of a limited resource?
Turns out computers have the same problems without the right hardware and programming, much of which would be dependent on the public to implement.

There's a reason these problems stick around.
Me too! My friend's daughter had just turned 18, just got her driver's license, and was at the mall with a younger buddy. She entered and then cajoled her friend, who was ready to go, to wait for the drawing. She won a four-year lease on an Audi A4 and she loved every minute of driving it until the end of the term.
If "startup" is defined as a for-profit company, then I'm not aware of any. There are non-profit organizations that work on alternative voting (Approval voting [0] and STAR voting [1] and Instant Run-off/Rank Choice), non-partisan primaries, non-partisan districting, proportional representation (no districts), electoral college reform.

[0] https://electionscience.org/

[1] https://www.starvoting.us/
I didn't mention FoundationDB since it isn't relational. I think the relational model with automatic indexes and query optimization is a huge benefit. That being said of all of the options mentioned it does seem like the most battle-tested. I would love to see a relational layer built on top of it and see how that turns out.
This is very unlikely to get you back on board, but a tiling window manager like i3 gives you all the freedom and space you could possibly want.
My youngest and I love gardening together. She’s got so much gusto! Sunflowers grow really fast. Get loads of random seeds and a plastic tray to grow the seedlings in. Then once they’ve sprouted you can plant them in the beds or in bigger pots of you don’t have a garden. More steps more fun
Begs the question of how they know it tastes like people
Not only did I ask for a raise, I also asked for a team. What they gave me were code camp graduates with 1-2 years experience.

We were building a bank based upon a highly complex microservice architecture running on Kubernetes and other complex software. The team they gave me was essentially useless.

I asked to hire more senior developers and they said it wasn't in the budget.
In research on effects of local news, there is one really tricky part.

We don't yet know what precisely the "local" benefit is. Many of the relevant studies investigate the effects of local newspapers closing (or opening, rarely). But they imply that there is something special about local reporting that can't be supplied by national news.

The best answer comes from a ~10 year old study [1] that suggests there is a mutual reinforcing effect of local news, community embedding (i.e. social capital) and social engagement (i.e. volunteering etc.)

I wish there was a better model of (1) what it is in particular in local news that is beneficial and (2) how it affects people (positively and negatively).

[1] Rojas, H., Shah, D. V., & Friedland, L. A. (2011). A communicative approach to social capital. Journal of Communication, 61(4), 689–712.
I had great luck with Sparkfun Inventor's Kit. It came with an Arduino, a bunch of sensors and effectors and a manual of projects today went step by step to learn electronics and the Arduino system.
China generates more power from renewables than Europe. Europe has finally gotten some will to get off gas because Putin forced their hand. The US could get their shit together: 80% of US coal plants are uneconomical to continue to run versus firm renewables, EVs are 3-5 times cheaper per mile to operate than a combustion vehicle. $40 trillion dollars of investment capital, greater than the GDP of the US, has divested from fossil fuels. A majority of Americans believe in climate change and support strong government efforts to mitigate it (my citations from another thread below).

But, you’ve got this coalition of entrenched interests and corrupt politicians who are fighting it. So the death gasps continue. Kudos to capitalism in this regard, it will accelerate the transition regardless as renewables and electric mobility learning curves bend adoption and deployment curves closer to vertical.

https://archive.ph/2022.06.30-103521/https://www.bloomberg.c...

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/eu-slashes-fossi...

https://insight.factset.com/strong-ev-sales-could-soon-weigh...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31960997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961227
The news report said "mostly". So, who is being dishonest?
> Electronics is interesting to him, as is listening to "Daddy music". (Goth/Rock/Metal.) "Mommy music" doesn't appeal as much which I find a little fascinating. Does he genuinely prefer my music, or is it something about me? I know that he behaves and plays differently depending on who he's spending time with ..

There's not an A or B answer to this kind of question. Parents are influential, and the response to parents' recommendations and preferences are inseparable from the actual relationship.

My oldest son is now 13. Most of what I played for him isn't so interesting anymore. But we spent a couple years earlier in his life where we went to my workshop and I'd play Kraftwerk and he'd get one on one time and we'd do "serious" things. Kraftwerk is still treasured to him, and I doubt that it's because Kraftwerk was more intrinsically appealing to him than those other things...

Or, conversely, my dad always listened to music from rat pack performers. It was a subject of curiosity when i was 6-11... awful when I was 12-17 and had a terrible relationship with my dad, and now it's evolved to a mild appreciation tinged with nostalgia. If I was still mad at my dad I think it would be hard to like it.
I'm getting tired of the "You don't actually need Kubernetes while starting out!" crowd, despite being part of it. Of course you don't. Of course if you don't know Kubernetes, learning it as you try to get a company going on a minimum headcount is not the most efficient approach.

But for pete's sakes man, if you have used K8s before, know what you're doing and you're running on cloud, just shove a couple off-the-shelf Terraform modules at the problem and there's your execution environment needs solved, with easy and reliable automations available for handling certs, external access, load balancing, etc, all of it reasonably easy to get going once you have done it before.

Stop pretending Kubernetes is this humongous infrastructure investment that mandates a full time job to keep up at low scale. Of course if you have done this multiple times before you don't need to be told this, but people new to it shouldn't be fed a barrage of exaggerations.
If you're on bare metal there is a case for K8s. How many people are on bare metal?