skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal experience in Perth, Western Australia -

My partner and I need to get home from where she works, we use the uber app, and it quotes us $35. It's a little pricey for a 12 minute journey, but whatever. A driver accepts.

We watch as that driver drives in circles, then appears to come towards us, then turns away again. There is no extra stop listed. He keeps doing it, just going round and round, stopping for a while, driving away again. After 15 minutes of this, we cancel to see if we can re-book with a different driver. Suddenly - "Surge pricing!" it's now $45.

So we install the local cab app (Thanks Swan Taxis), their app is definitely worse, but we get a quote for $25 and the cab arrives in under 5 minutes.

How do you compete with that? Uber business need to reflect. It's the same every time.
If the data is on the premise, how would the warrant not include being able to look at the data?

That's like saying a warrant wouldn't include data found in a safe, and that would require a second warrant.

Now, if the data is remote, I'd understand it I guess. But if the kill switch simply burns the local data so only remote copies are still there, that kind of defeats the purpose of the raid in the first place.
Given that the US still appears to think that cheques are the height of technology and part of a trivially researchable SSN is proof of identity, I’m not convinced that any sector besides surveillance capitalism is behind.
What are your complaints against it, if you don't mind my asking? The reason I ask is that after what I consider pretty careful evaluation of my own needs, I arrived at gRPC as the best solution. Of course it's not the best for every case, but surely there is a reason for its popularity.
What's your basis for this assertion?

Everyone I know who drives a foreign car (a set that tilts overwhelmingly to German makers) takes their car to the dealer for routine maintenance because the maintenance is often included in the purchase price. This is true absolutely for BMW, and CAN be true (ie, you can choose to do it) with Volkswagen.

If you're not the first owner, then yeah, you may go to a 3rd party, but the new-car drivers are going back to the mothership.
Newbie OO q: What’s the benefit/use case of sealing or making an object final? My experience is in javascript so I wonder why I’d ever need something like Object.seal or Object.freeze. Is it really that difficult to maintain object instances that do not change after some point?
It is a Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io) site, served on GitLab pages via Cloudflare.

When JavaScript is enabled, Docusaurus pre-fetches links that you hover, resulting in a faster load. So Docusaurus deserves the praise for the fast page loads, we are not doing anything special :)
It only takes ~8 minutes for light to reach us from the sun, so that seems wrong.

1.5 * 10^9 meters / (3.0 * 10^8 meters/second) = 5.0 seconds.
That Floki one was all over the London underground last year as well. They used the tagline "Missed Doge? Get Floki", which is about as bad as the other one I kept seeing, something like "When you see crypto on the underground, it's time to buy" by some exchange.

Anyway the Floki one got banned: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/02/watchdog-...

And yes, Floki Inu is named after Elon Musk's dog...
energy that did work / energy in

As an illustrative example, you could get the same heating effect by putting the electricity through a computer or other appliance, or by putting the gas through a heat engine to produce electricity which is used inside the home and warming the house with the waste heat.
Only narcissists and not very aware people are able to "enjoy the world as it is, in all its messiness."

Because that's what it takes to ignore abusive levels of inequality and systemic threats to the continued survival of the species.

The point is not about what happened in the past, it's about what is still happening now - and how the narratives from the past continue to be used to justify it.

Ignoring this is neither compassionate nor realistic - although it is toxic, pretty much by definition.
The implication was that they would be launched at an enemy without reliable missile defense.
If my company told me to check accreditation I'd ask these questions to them because it seems discriminatory and nonsensical and I'd be worried about their thinking.

> why does anyone spend time and money on getting an education and including it in their resume?

The point is the education - not the accreditation.
It is excruciatingly hard to make a living out from programming and that while staying honest, because planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE in software (and a bit in the hardware).

The only way I found: assembly with a conservative usage of the macro preprocessor. Since risc-v is not there yet (and it may fail), I still code super simple C code but I try hard to care for this code to compile NOT only with gcc and force myself to use tcc, cproc, scc, etc: only compile-time function tables coupled with runtime function tables, with preprocessor namespaces (if a project decides to grow to very large).

YES, it means additional upfront work, and other assembly ports if required. Only for pertinent ISAs though, the other ISAs get a "reference" implementation in simple C (and I mean _really_ simple and brutal): open source communities on the long run can do that fingers in the nose, corpos, not so sure...
I think academia is pretty sweet for the people with tenure, agreed. It's just hell for the postdocs, lecturers, adjuncts, ph.d. students without funding, etc., who have no stability, no voice, and paltry income in the system.

As someone who was told at the beginning of the term that he would have no job at the end of it, I'm not sure that foreknowledge was really less anxiety inducing than being told with no warning. It was more like knowing the end of the world was coming, and you were powerless to change it. And equally cruel, I'd say.
Call me gen Z but I prefer my knowledge in video form. Can highly recommend PBS Spacetime's coverage of the topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
Huh. Interesting. That explains why my SSD died at boot time. I thought it was just coincidence, and that it had died the night before or something, but that obviously doesn’t make sense.
This is pure speculation, but I suspect that they have some kind of DRM to prevent you on using those features, that means if you break a DRM, then you are at fault here, while I don’t agree, this seems similar to the case of one wheel that they block the motherboard if you unplug the battery, if you plug again the same battery it doesn’t matter, the motherboard is already blocked, and because of intellectual property (I don’t remember the details on what they did) you cannot "hack" the motherboard without breaking the law.

This is becoming so sad in all aspects, soon this kind of practices will get to PCs? where the motherboard will also have subscriptions, even maybe cpu and gpu.
I find it funny, Turkey was aldready a good test case for handling international users data :), I spend some hours on a bug in json with integer parsing of some users integer inputs in rares cases.

It was because of the way they write/parse integer using dots as separators. (Yes, the real problem was me having forgot to force server and client to use the same locale settings :) )

An old article talking of it : https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
Explore JWST’s first image in full resolution
> The buddhism as practiced in the west has very little to do with actual practices in the east

Is it possible to make a more sweeping statement?
Maybe it's because of RS codes superior performance during burst errors while the SNR involved isn't so low as to give convolutional codes a net advantage. Maybe it's Error Floor.

Or maybe we should just assume that some of the world's most qualified RF and comms engineers behind these decisions did their homework.
I mean, if it's small I wouldn't really call it DWH.
Sure, but they can’t spend more than they make, and they can’t make more than they produce. Obviously this might not hold true for every individual, but it holds true in aggregate.
It's "Starship", and it's unlikely to be able to get to where the JWST is in the next few years due to needing to be refuelled in orbit. Plus they have no payload bay design. Then there's the robotics necessary for doing a repair, or human-rating Starship, either of which is years worth of time.
>Uh...the Red Scare?

First, that was before most of our lifetimes. Times have changed quite a bit on that front, which is the point. Second, thanks to the Venona Files we know the "scare" had a large basis in reality.

> The article itself supposes the conclusion "the news is fake."

As posted elsewhere, this should be sobering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9rbHpA_6W4
All jokes aside, tbere's an article floating around about NASA's software development practices.

They are big TLA+/formal specification fans (the article predates TLA+'s rise) with well resourced and antagonistic Q/A engineers.

That hard drive will have been ordered, custom, and the controller verified by hand I imagine.
Does somewhat seem to play into the dystopian economic models that we all love to read and watch, but not experience.

Though marketing models for things you already have, is just handing over money so you can enable a feature you own and they add nothing. No AI to measure your heating needs or add on's ahead, just money to turn on the heat with no added value.

Shame as when your business model is a death of an innocent away (say child died of hypothermia as unable to enable the heating) from a PR disaster - then it's in need of some adjustments. But certainly, will encourage people with little skill and lots of willingness to try modifying their cars they own.
30MT 1 KM away is probably similar to ~5MT directly overhead by back of the envelope calculation. Sufficiently secure still I would say.

None of the published warheads specs are 30MT & even 5MT would be the combined strength of few MIRVs. And note that most warheads are airbursts not ground penetration type. That can make a lot of difference
All religions are fiction.
This is not new tech, we've had this tech for over 100 years:

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

Some modern takes:

https://www.vanraam.com/en-gb/advice-inspiration/news/van-ra...
For example, darknet markets deliver very real value.
> can take really good photos with their phone now

That does not make any sense, it was already the case that you could make excellent pictures with compact cameras 15 years ago, without having a DLSR. If your hypothesis was right the DSLR market would have disappeared much earlier.
How would abstraction magically materialize a data-layout optimizer into being?

The interface of Postgres is in fact abstract enough to do such an optimization (perhaps there would be a problem with "SELECT * FROM table" queries? not sure if in that case the order of columns is specified by the standard), but they just haven't. Optimizations don't happen simply because they are allowed by an interface.
So why do people make a big deal out of it, does it just taste bad?
> meat products

Are you saying meat products cause spikes in glycaemic index? Seriously?
Yes, yes, being murdered by the state is exactly like someone trying to improve the quality of Yelp reviews.
> DRM‐free offline installers are just as good as the classic “physical copy,” provided you actually saved them!

Better even as the classic physical copies often had DRM to prevent you from making backups. Not that there weren't workarounds but still, being able to just back them up like any other file is better in my book.

Unfortunately the "if you have disk space" part is not always irrelevant. Would be nicer if we could share that backup space by chunking up the installers into blocks and then advertise via a distributed table of hashes who has which blocks available. Ideally we'd also have a protocol to let these blocks of bits flow from those that have them to those that need them.
The point is that they wouldn't have that marketing flexibility if they weren't going to do the technical thing for manufacturing reasons. Like, the marketing folks will be all over that crap once they've got the capability, but I doubt they would be the original reason it was done.
It's not only about the comfort of the people trying to book a cheap taxi. When creating the kind of world we want to live in we also need to consider the working conditions of the drivers and the regulations society wants to impose on cabs to make sure they operate safely and without nuisance.
Slay the Spire – a roguelike deck-building video game
Sure, rules and regulations could changed, but we need to not only consider what is best for our own life but for others too.

Many rich people wouldn't suffer if Uber could just forcefully employ people at will, keeping them hostage, if Uber could arrange something like that. But that hurts the people who are being kept hostage. When we create/remove/modify regulations, both sides of the coin needs to be considered.

In this case, it's less about how good/bad Uber is for passengers and more about how Uber is exploiting their employees. Even if everyone loved Uber as a passenger, we can't allow them to exploit other human beings.
Depends if the sensor readout is slower than 28 Mb/s.
Exactly. Vanishingly few people argue with the customer experience. It's the flaunting of the law and exploitation of drivers that's the problem. I'm saddened that the cheaper price is always mentioned because we all know how it got there.
Unfortunately this sort of thinking spreads and it will eventually become everyone's problem unless we address it head on.
It very much depends. In South Africa? I’ll take an Uber every time, those cabs are scary. In Germany? Even if Uber existed, I’d take a cab.
It isn't meant to need servicing, but it does have a docking port if it ever does need it and we have the desire to do so.
> See how easy is it to reframe a feature in a nefarious way?

Turns out, there are laws and the above would be 100% illegal.
I’d be fine if every vehicle had the hardware in it and it was activated via an upsell at the dealership. I think the truly insidious thing here is the subscription aspect, for all the various reasons other people in the responses have stated.
I’m ok with Intel doing the same thing. But if Intel started selling AVX512 with a monthly subscription I’d ever buy an Intel chip again.
> which they refuse to even call "employees"

They aren't quite "employees" given that they can reject my trip request without needing to provide any excuse, which by the way happens frustratingly often esp. during rush hours.

I'd like to see an actual employee do that - like a waiter in a restaurant ("nah, I won't serve you, I'm busy and don't feel like it"); you'd have a word with their boss. And when things don't work that way, we're probably talking about some form of freelancing. Like a barber renting a chair at a barbershop. He (or she) is not an employee of the barbershop owner, as implied by the fact you can't really complain to the owner if they refuse to serve you.
At first was a little uncomfortable with the change, but then I thought how much would it be today to add those optionals to a new car.

Checking from my phone, the heated steering wheel is more than 300$, which is more than what would cost the permanent upgrade in the car.

Now we should wonder, having a construction line and distribution system capable of handling optionals like the heated steering wheel, does it cost more or less than 300$? I don't think that the answer is obvious.

Would it be possible that the car get actually cheaper for the consumers?

Also having those optionals allow to turn them on and off at will. Maybe if I swap car with my SO it would like the heated seat that I never care for.

I see the dangerous of this, but I also see the benefits.
In my country minimum wage workers don't have to fake it so you are unlikely to get much "community" out of them lol.

Consumers and employees aren't in it for the social interaction.
Do you think that the free software movement would have adopted "free as in speech" if the US was hostile to free speech?
Appreciated, yes, but I wouldn't be shocked if they did it anyway even in the absence of the recurring revenue opportunity.
I work with Honda. I've passed the link on. Doesn't look great if you appear to be ignoring this kind of thing!
I know it matters but I really wish it didn’t. When I’m developing I simply don’t have time to think about the nuances of how I should order columns in a table, this really needs to be abstracted out and optimized behind the scenes.
Isn’t that most of the low end processors have deffects, so they trim down (yes, blocking some features, cores, etc) and selling you at lower prices, but the thing is, you know beforehand what are you buying, without any hidden subscription, etc, also is cheaper than the full featured one, so I’m not particularly mad about it.
Surge pricing is a disgrace.
It’s a name, how can you tell if a name is “in English”?
As a generalist, I couldn't find my place in startup communities.So I built one
I would love to live somewhere where an electric bike is an option, but for many of us it is a non-starter.
Hindistan comes from Hindustan (India in Persian), not from the bird hindi (turkey).
Gotta make sure the workers do their work! And also, very important to have useless chit-chat around the coffee machine the whole time, and useless meetings with managers who have too much time on their hands.
My basis for this assertion is that I know very few people who are duped into buying maintenance contracts. Those things aren't "included in the purchase price" for anything but the highest end of mass market cars, they're overpriced tack-ons that dealerships push hard when you're purchasing a car.

Granted, I know very few new BMW owners (and the few that I do know, know very little about cars and just wanna go fast); most everyone I know who has a US- or Japan-make car doesn't bother with going back to the dealership, and that's the vast majority of car owners in the US.

EDIT: The other thing to keep in mind is, most Americans aren't buying new cars. In our tech centric bubble, sure, nearly everyone buys a car new off the lot, but in my sample size of a few dozen people in Ohio who are almost all professionals working decent office jobs, maybe half my friends have ever bought a new car, and the rest are driving something second hand. And keep in mind, these are young professionals with low debt and decent financial sense. The average person in the US almost certainly can't afford a brand new car on a frequent basis, and certainly not the dealer markup on services.
Looks great! This is the ultimate fundamental guide.

I've put my other in.
Late reply.

I really disagree. Whether the cookie shows under a dns name or another means next to nothing as to who is doing the tracking. If I'm not mistaken, Google Analytics is now pushing to have all cookies served by a front domain, hiding from the user who the third parties are. I may be wrong on this, have not done my research yet.
>What if the satellites had extra antennas pointed outwards

Pointed outwards towards what?

And I don't understand how that solves atmosphere interference issues. Still gotta go through the atmosphere at least twice for ground to ground

In actual fact, I believe the long term Starlink plan does include satellites in higher orbits, but I don't know their role

Lowest long distance latency is potentially a big competitive advantage for Starlink, so they'll probably try to get the shortest ground to ground path for some high priority customer data, and higher orbits on the signal path will detract from that goal
Also pretty sure almost every database with variable width columns has this issue. An old MS SQL Server optimization was to use chars and not have nulls since that drops a few bits too. That way your table was easy to find row 500 on disk. This was back when SCSI and IDE drives were common though.

Doesn't indexes fix this too? You can index on column 100 which puts in on disk as Column100|PrimaryKey and now it's a really narrow table. Like yeah you shouldn't have a table with 1,500 columns but sometimes you really do need it.

Edit Flipped the index layout.
Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market
Well, there's also the baby after that happens.
Is it even possible that the police has a warrant against a company like Uber that doesn't include data found in the very office they are raiding?

If it's not stated that they are raiding the office to grab data, what could the raid even be for?
Who even are the victims in the Ulbricht case?
Uber experience is really different in each country.

In south of France, Uber is half the price of taxis (for ride to airport I pay 30e from my place, while taxi is 70+), and cars are always very nice.

In Poland, regular taxis are often cheaper. Although usually regular taxis are so-so cars. But, UberX is even worse: often very bad cars, scratched, even crushed, driven by foreigners who can't speak the language. Uber Premium are good cars with good drivers, but are more expensive than taxis (although, they are nicer).
It is a bit suspicious looking, but there's a lot of very red objects that the Hubble image doesn't catch. Presuming that the red colors in the images are the deeper infrared wavelengths (and thus the most heavily-redshifted objects) I would guess that Hubble just didn't have the detectors to see those.
It's exactly the same discussion about cheap clothing from H&M made with child labor. The counter argument usually is "but children are not forced to work there!" - while basically true, is avoiding the exploitation point.
Or...you could put a switch on your dash that turns the heaters on and off as you wish..
introducing: the dark diet.

The challenge: stay in a dark room for a long time

How much weight will YOU lose?
Maybe we could send up a data buffer with a high-bandwidth, short-range radio.
At 40USD you got 'scammed', even with the meter, as the regular price should not go over 20$. Up until ~2016 the airport taxi business was the wild west, with a lot of shady/unauthorized drivers operating there. Things got much better now, unauthorized cabs can't access the Arrivals area, there are machines to order an authorized cab and authorities clamped down on the use of buggy taxi meters.
Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
WebAssembly is a modern bytecode supported by all browsers and designed to be a compiler target for a wide variety of programming languages.

To effectively support some forms of Functional Programming support for tail-calls has been proposed as an extension to the WebAssembly standard.

This proposal has reached Phase3 of the standardization process years ago, but has since stalled.

Phase3 is known as "the implementation phase" and the prerequisite for advancing the proposal to Phase4 is to have support in two different browser engines. V8/Chrome support has been available for a long time, so another engine is required.

To unblock this situation we have contributed full support for WebAssembly Tail Calls to JavaScript/WebKit/Safari. The PR is available here:

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/2065

An in-depth article about the challenges of implementing this feature is also available. This is intended both as documentation for our contribution, but also as a general explainer about how tails calls actually work, with a particular focus on stack space management.

https://leaningtech.com/fantastic-tail-calls-and-how-to-impl...
This is largely what Connecting for Health attempted, and the only good things that came out of it were intangible to most - N3 and the UK SNOMED extensions.

Unfortunately this was largely down to incompetent consultancies, and a focus on providing what management wanted rather than what clinicians wanted, and it has absolutely poisoned the well with regards to information technology in the NHS.
I see USA as a big casino (with few expections)