skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the world moves further towards authoritarianism, how secure do you think Sir Mo feels about that?

In his shoes, would you be brave enough to speak out politically against a government in power, given his situation?
If you want to understand how things work at the lower level, I think the Compiler Explorer[1] might be a good place to start. You can enter a program in a while variety of languages, and see the code that results. Python and Nim are both supported, along with a wide variety of other languages.

[1] - https://godbolt.org/
> Amazon told the judge in Bryson’s case that it could not meet NLRB demands in a subpoena to provide the thousands of disciplinary notices it delivered to employees that year, calling the requirement “unduly burdensome.”

For a company notorious for making sure that employees dot Is and cross the Ts I find it ironic they can't produce the same disciplinary records for the NLRB as they can for their former employees.
The components are already in the car, adding complexity and cost to the purchase. What happens when BMW turns off the servers running the licensing for your car? No more heated seats period. Who would want to buy the car from you knowing the heated seats are subscription based? Does the car have wifi or do you have to also pay for a cell connection for the car to activate these features? It's madness the whole way down.
Ive mostly just used LXQT with my favourite file manager nemo and called it a day. I dont see the appeal of heavy DEs. Openbox has ludicrous customization potential for basic split views and keyboard navigation, and endless visual tweaks and themes too, dmenu for launching stuff. What is the stuff that you'd miss from kde/cin/gnome?
But `"türki̇ye".upper()` works correctly, at least in Python 3.9.

Interestingly, `"türki̇ye".title()` does _not_ work correctly, returning `"Türki̇Ye"`, presumably because the "title-case" algorithm incorrectly detects \xcc\x87 as punctuation. Not sure if this has been fixed in 3.10 or 3.11.

Python 3.9.13 (main, May 24 2022, 21:13:51)
[Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> s = 'TÜRKİYE'
>>> s.lower()
'türki̇ye'
>>> s.lower().upper()
'TÜRKİYE'
>>> s.lower().title()
'Türki̇Ye'
>>> s.lower().encode()
b't\xc3\xbcrki\xcc\x87ye

Edit: It turns out that this behavior is documented [0], and the more-correct routine is `string.capwords` [1]:

> The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters. The definition works in many contexts but it means that apostrophes in contractions and possessives form word boundaries, which may not be the desired result ... The string.capwords() function does not have this problem, as it splits words on spaces only.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.title

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#string.capword...
I’m uncomfortable to see that this statement seems genuinely needed in all of HN’s threads on this topic.
One could easily get the impression that the HN crowd find it hard to empathize with the service worker.

There’s real truth in the terrible service flaws of the previous taxi system, but the employment flaws of Uber are being smothered with the service improvements they’ve introduced. That’s not the only issue worth caring about.
> so it's always been dependent on a US company anyway

I'm not sure large multinational corporations belong to any specific country at this point.
If you want to put this way how is Ukraine being a a vassal state of Russia that different from Germany being a vassal state of the US by submitting to sanctions blocking the opening of NordStream II which the Germans were looking forward to opening?
Doesn’t bother me at all. I provided a citation showing how little trucks are used for truck use cases, demonstrating that electric trucks would be fine for the consumers of these vehicles. Your dislike of the citation doesn’t make the data not exist.

If they want to keep paying current petroleum prices to drive their combustion trucks, by all means, proceed. Not my household budget.
The more that time passes, the more reality resembles a Philip K Dick novel, where you have to pay money to open a door and cereal boxes and newspapers (read "internet") had animations that tried to push product. PKD's satire on consumerism sure is turning uncomfortably prescient.

I'm expecting some kind of crescendo of insanity until we finally hit the reset button.
> Do people remember what it was like before Uber?

Yes. In London there were tons of minicab companies. They were cheap and shitty, but they were there, and you could pay for better ones. There were also heavily regulated black cabs. Uber have probably increased the quality of the market, but at the cost of many more cars on the crowded streets, and the VC funding driving competitors out of business. Further, they fucked around evading rules and reduced safety for passengers by (for instance) failing to background check their drivers, failing to ensure adequate insurance etc. They were cheaper than most competitors when they started out, now I'm not so sure.

In Southampton, UK there were and still are multiple cab firms. They didn't really have apps. Now they do. The uber cars are usually cleaner and newer, but if you want service at a particular time, you still book the cab, because they'll send someone to you specially rather than just searching on a cron job. There is no real price difference.

In Perth, there were multiple cab firms, their cars were crappy and their apps still are. For a while uber was cheaper and more convenient, they drove some of the cab firms out of business. Now uber must not pay as much, because there are barely any drivers and half the time they don't even bother to take the job. If they do take the job, they often cancel it or just fuck around to try and make you cancel and trigger surge prices. Uber is now usually the expensive option. Cabs are resurgent and similar to how they ever were, which was actually fine.

Basically, as far as I can tell, Uber were 'good' because they threw VC money at everything. Now that's starting to dry up, they're getting unreliable because they can't keep attracting drivers. And frankly we should never have allowed them to use billions of investor dollars to distort world markets, nor allowed them to avoid tax by using an already well-worn excuse (oh they aren't employees!) in the first place.
If it requires being “not very aware” to enjoy life without frothing at the mouth in anger at all the messiness of the world, I consider myself a proud narcissist / “not very aware” person.

I think you’ve missed the commenters main point which is that all this hand-wringing about how terrible things are—isn’t actively solving any problems we have today, or any problems we had yesterday. I would even dare to guess it won’t solve the problems we’ll have tomorrow.
100% agree. But unreadable inefficient code often exists. What then?
hmm I wonder if it could be used for military purpose in the future.
bureaucrats should be unelected - they are there to implement policy. No question European political class go through electoral process
I was talking about economic or market value, not societal or moral value. While I agree that that enabling child abuse or trafficking in people is a societal negative value, that sadly does not mean there isn't a positive market value for doing so.

When you live in a nation whose bank's decisions don't influence the world economy, you don't get a vote when those nations decide to raise or lower interest rates, or to suppress the value of their currencies, or have trade wars with each other. The idea of insulating yourself from those decisions that you did not vote on is attractive, but it now seems like more traditional assets are likely a better approach.
"Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++" was a helpful book for me. I'd stick to C as C++ is kinda kludgy syntactically with higher level constructs and they're not key to lower-level stuff anyway.

After that, you might look into Rust. I don't have any particular recommendations; there was/is an introductory text online by the original Rust developer I found helpful. Rust is sort of hyped the last few years, but there's good reason for it, and its approach to memory builds well on classic C-like ideas.
You’re conflating innovation with office work, while in reality it’s often - or mostly - the inverse: the work patterns typical for software industry hurt innovation, replacing it mindless repetition - see the vast majority of software startups.
At the bottom of that tulip mania article, investooedia is offering $1M crypto giveaway. We definitely live in a simulation.
An external hard drive with Windows file history.
I prefer the background sound of rain, there are a lot of long rain videos on youtube and I am very grateful to the people who post them.
When you say took over what do you mean? Did they wrangle themselves a deal with the airport for exclusive access to the prime spots or what?
> Only narcissists and not very aware people are able to "enjoy the world as it is, in all its messiness."

I do not believe myself to be a narcissist and I think I am at least somewhat aware of the world and it’s problems.

Yet, despite this, I do “ enjoy the world as it is, in all its messiness”.

I think what is preventing you from doing the same is ideology and close mindedness. From the comment, you come across like a fundamentalist christian refusing to enjoy life because “the world is sinful”.

Enjoy life man. Since we’re on the article, take a page from the Buddhist philosophy and let go, for a moment at least :)
Oh yea. Much less memorable than BFS.
Pump and dumps are illegal.
It's not hard to understand the difference between something accruing wealth to the owner or not, being able to be taken down or not, or being able run your own node or not.

People might not care about the technical implementation details. But they do care about what the implication of those details would be.
> Everything related to transportation sucks.

That is not the case everywhere. There are plenty of walkable places with good public transport systems.

As the saying goes:

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
Not really. There are only a handful of schools where it matters, the rest nobody has even heard of. Odds are half the people you are competing with have a degree from a university I've never heard of, and the other half it is a local college that I know of but I have no idea how it stacks up compared to yours. The local school when you are local can be a negative though - I know the bad local schools.

If you have the big name degree it might push me to interview you when otherwise I'm borderline about tossing your resume, but that is it. I need to know you are good not your school.
I was ranting about this 2 years ago and a lot of people laughed it off...

I cited an auto start feature o VOLVO cars that required a siriusXM membership.

It's unfathomable that we reached this point of monthly subscriptions being implemented on things that we've already paid for. It's the first sign that we're in for a wave of not feudalism, but outright economic slavery. There is no rational consumer protection against many predatory business practices, and many are eager to be a part of monthly subscriptions for useless services for lord knows what motivational reason.

Mike Judge was a genius for making the movie Idiocracy, it's our future. No way around it now. :[
They have the right to privacy when they are following the law. On the other hand, if police enforcement have a legal warrant to read internal documents about how you run your business, to prevent employees from being exploited, they absolute should get access to it.

I understand having a process in place to be able to hide data from criminals stealing your data, that's not a problem. The problem becomes when companies start to hide data from legal requests, which is what Uber is in the hot for here.
I take it you think people that get life insurance are suckers?
Are you paying Intel $18 per month for your extra cores ?
I know, still surprised no one has called it that
My father has an inventory of everything with serials since the 1990s. He never sells anything so it’s all in the basement.

My father-in-law takes the cake and has a 1,000 or more spreadsheets. He has chickens and keeps a spreadsheet on the costs per egg since he purchased the chicks. I think it’s down below 25¢ an egg.
True, there should be no need for automated system, but instead it should be auction for next available driver slot. So those who pay more get the ride faster.
The Germanic tribe who invaded and conquered the lands currently known as France, forming (at least) the aristocracy and then naming it after themselves? Isn't that a reasonable name for the country? I mean, it also happened in England (i.e. land of the Angles) - which historically would have been Britannia when France was Gaul.
If they couldn’t reject your trip request, that would make them your employee.

Plenty of businesses give their employees discretion on which customers to serve.
Especially in countries where you might reasonably expect to be ripped off by the likes of taxi drivers, Uber is great because it just eliminates all haggling over fees, tips, etc. You know what you pay ahead of time and there's a big incentive for the driver to honor the deal and get their tip plus five star rating.

There are similar applications for different markets of course. But Uber has the international brand recognition. Worth investigating what app works best before you go somewhere.
Technology isn't the reason the US appears to lag in some cases - business and governmental policy decisions are behind everything you list, and plenty of people don't like it.

The truth is that 20-30 years ago Europe was lagging behind the US in some respects - credit card acceptance, computer usage in some businesses, etc. But obviously they're on par with the US today, and where they're ahead or behind the US the reason isn't access to technology, rather it's usually government policy.
More pressing are RE prices and fuel prices. Companies refuse to accommodate by giving higher pay and are too stubborn to adopt fulltime remote. In theory, this is one way to push them out of their comfort zone without hitting their bottomline that could tackle at least 4 separate problems.
Sure, but in many cases, such as the example given by GP, long-term AB testing is hard or almost impossible. For the testing to have validity, you need the A and B cohorts to be stable, and have little or no overlap, and that is hard for long time spans for anything that is not account based (and somewhat dangerous even for account-based things, as people will almost certainly start to notice that they are getting a different experience than their peers, which may upset them).
I love how it's a similar origin story to the word 'Barbarian' - deriving from anyone who wasn't Greek, and so whose language sounded like "baa-baa baa-baa"
BBC had a good article explaining the causes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61028138

Government amassed huge amounts of debt in foreign currency for dubious projects. The forced switch to organic farming was a desperate measure to avoid loosing foreign currency and for sure didn't help but it was not the cause. This wasn't an planned movement to organic farming. They just couldn't pay for fertilizer.

Also pretty crazy that IMF still sings the same song: privatize your most important assets and reduce the public sector to create even more jobless people. Why just why do countries ask Putin and China for credit?

Not that they are any better: Also lot's of debt from China for white elephant infrastructure projects - which is a know strategy from them. So they couldn't pay and now China controls the port in Sri Lanka.
Julia Mono: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

By far the best monospaced font I have seen, discovered on HN. Before that, I used Ligconsolata (Inconsolata with ligatures).
I’ve never once used my heated seats in Austin, but am absolutely annoyed the only way to get VENTILATED seats is to buy a super high end car with a much bigger engine than I want.
Does that consider the fact that people might choose a different car instead because this is not included by default? Or perhaps BMW bets on the Apple effect, that people won't chose a different car anyway.
I’m a huge fan of metrics. Huge! But they are worthless when not combined with qualitative experience. AB testing needs to be combined with human-centered “actually talking to people about their experiences.” Otherwise, you drift and the metrics no longer match the objective.
Did it work though? Was the scheme actually profitable in the end? Color me skeptical...
Unreadable inefficient code should be caught in pull requests. If its already in the code base, it should be refactored as the code gets touched.
When I review code I prefer to do it blind, not knowing who the author is.

This keeps me honest, and allows me to keep standards high without the author thinking I'm giving them an unfair hard time.
Thanks, that is a rational explanation for the trend I've been seeing. (it's been years of this, just recently it feels like another up-tick...)
The fewer workers' rights, the cheaper a product or service can be.

And Uber drivers aren't even considered working for Uber, so no social benefit and health care from Uber.
This is just casual bigotry.
Sit on my lap youngling, and I will tell you tales of i18n horror... and I'm from an English-speaking country!

A realistic scenario is an Australian writing French poetry while on holidays in Turkey. Now you have an OS GUI with en-GB as the language, licensing and date/number formatting as per the AU region, French spelling dictionary, a US-101 keyboard layout, Turkey as the location, and GMT+3 as the time zone.

It's a rare piece of software that can handle this. Few vendors have staff that have even heard of such exotic places.

There are still people... many people... that deny the existence of places outside of the United States of America. Such filthy, heathen locations are surely a thing of myth, or legend!

Places where dates are formatted with the days before the month, followed by the year in some sort of weird, unnatural order.

Nations that have fallen into the trap of some sort of mass hallucination, or shared dream of common measurement units. Some sort of... metric, for space, time, and matter. Maybe they've been watching too much Star Trek!

Multicultural countries where strange unions of races are commonplace, and couples may want to watch Netflix in one language, but have subtitles in a different language. Neither of which are English for the hearing-impaired! Surely, nobody but the deaf are unable to comprehend the universal English language! Not to mention that such taboo couplings are, thankfully, still banned on this stream of holy virtue and shall not be permitted by the data scientists that have declared: "Your union is a statistically negligible!"
I'm continually surprised that there's no (efficent, obviously, otherwise there'd be no article) bottle-bill in the US..
It's quite easy, put a dollar extra on the bottle, you return the bottle for recycling, you get your dollar back..
And why should you get to decide what they do in their work place? Isn't that infinite entitlement?
Did you end up getting a ride to the airport in time for your flight?
I certainly don't like it for cars and etc.

But I don't mind it for some things. I have no interest in owning a pile of movies, music and etc.
Are you really comparing 2005 compact cameras to the multi-lens machine learning tiny sensor capabilities of modern phones?

Your argument only holds up if you're taking high aperture landscape photos in broad daylight...
> central bankers--at least in developed countries--are not on some blatant mission to rob people of money for their own enrichment

Have you looked at the current world?
Why not Turkland?
The original communist ideology wasn't original at all. The roots go back at least to the time of the Gracchi in Rome.

It's clear hardly anyone commenting here has any idea what appropriation really is. It's not just disrespecting existing cultures.

It's destroying them by removing the meaning from them. And then repackaging the symbols - usually with a vague implication of profundity and exoticism - as a marketable commodity.

The purpose isn't to spread the original culture but to use the trappings to promote the usual Western corporate neoliberal value system.

Corporate Buddhism is a perfect example. It's clearly a lot more corporate than Buddhist. The goal isn't enlightenment, detachment, or compassion, it's cultural conformity with the aim of increased productivity and a higher share price.

This shouldn't be controversial. All you need to do is look at how people behave to see what motivates them.
Yeah, the truly interesting part is where you make the cutoff in regions where borders shifted. Straßburg instead of Strasbourg hopefully doesn't get perceived as a claim to the place and neither should Danzig, but I'd rather write Kaliningrad because those people are so damn thin-skinned, bordering on paranoia (they might even feel threatened by the letters Sank Petersburg, even if that can't possibly mean anything other than respect). But random villages that used to have a name in a language that isn't spoken there anymore? Hands off, unless you desperately want to sound "that way" (you shouldn't!). In an explicitly historical context, you should at least acknowledge the current name.
So you're saying that you're OK with the trade-off that instead of a taxi driver possibly charging you higher for a trip, you're willing to let Uber exploit their own employees?

Since the story here is not about if Uber is better/worse for passengers but if Uber is a good/bad employer, it sounds like that's what you're saying.
My workstation backup is a word document that explains how to quickly reproduce a configured workstation, given the usual sort of Windows fresh install we get from IT. This is useful because, far more often than needing a backup restored, we have new people starting, and established folks needing fresh clean Windows images because theirs are trash from 12 months of development. It's just a side benefit that if somebody's machine were to fall into a bathtub, we could deal with that, too.

All documentation and non-code files are in OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, or good old fashioned shared network drives. IT handles backing that up for us. $Deity bless them, we've never lost anything from a database or file storage.
Yeah without knowing if they made a profit this isn't all that interesting.

This is actually one of the least sophisticated/most expensive methods I've seen for a pump.
Could you share the scooter website?
The appointees sent by the different countries to the european commission. Thanks for asking me to specify.
I would point to this person as a nuclear enthusiast

https://www.ted.com/speakers/kirk_sorensen

Circa 2010 he came to the conclusion that Thorium could save the world, he runs a startup now

https://flibe-energy.com/

but this is nowhere near being a large or established industry. If anything the work that's been done to advance molten salt reactors has made plutonium cycle reactors based on chlorides instead of fluorides look really good. See

https://www.moltexenergy.com/
The move at the moment is for central orgs to specify standards and protocols so it doesn't matter who implements them and the delegated authorities can buy from whoever. That goes some way to preventing both one-big-vendor setups and unstandardised fragmentation, and it was blindingly obvious to anyone who's ever implemented more than a bash script that it was the correct approach even 20 years ago. Only it's taken a generation of civil servants ageing out at the top end to make it happen.