skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd that you assert this to be "revisionist history" and then go on to make a statement that is itself false.
No other event has shaped Los Angeles like World War II. During the war years Los Angeles experienced a population boom as people moved there to work in defense and aviation. These job opportunities were plentiful in order support the war efforts. The people who came to work in those factories depended on the Red Cars and Yellow Cars as did the factories for getting their worker there. In fact Red Car and Yellow Car ridership peaked during the war years. They were most certainly not allowed to go derelict due to lack of maintenance as they were far too important. In fact there was rubber and fuel rationing at that time which only served to make their operations that much more important.

>"The public did not love streetcars for many reasons. The ride was rough, they were boiling in the summer and freezing in the winter. They forced all manner of people into close quarters with one another. Insufficient capacity meant it was not unusual for riders to cling to the sides of cars where that was possible"

There's a lot wrong with this. Southern California has mild winters and cars were also enclosed with windows that could open and close depending on the weather. There's pictures here which clearly document that [1]. Saying that people had to cling to the sides of the cars is also a complete fabrication. There was nothing on the outside of the cars to cling to.

>"When freeways and buses were presented as an alternative the public embraced building new infrastructure over rebuilding the old."

This is also untrue. The bus began competing with the electric trolleys as early as the 1920s.[2]

>"Blaming some corporate bogeyman is always tempting but does not change the facts."

And yet it's well established fact that National City Lines bought up these mass transit assets and were sued by the DoJ on antitrust grounds for conspiring to monopolize urban transit(they had purchased many other cities transit assets as well.) [3][4]. Conspiracy theory notwithstanding, I don't think it's a stretch to say Detroit and other automotive special interests certainly hastened the decline of the electric trolley.

[1] https://libraries.usc.edu/article/red-cars-and-las-transport...

[2] https://metroprimaryresources.info/our-grand-concourse-histo...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-02/explaini...

[4] https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-re...
"the market" won't start really replacing Tesla's vehicles until the value proposition is there. Unfortunately (as you highlighted), Teslas can't be made fast enough to fill the market, and they can't be sold cheap enough to out-saturate the truly awful ICE-vehicles. As long as it's legal to drive grandpa's $400 Buick, people will consistently pick cars that are cheap and destructive. That's just how our market works from a bottom-up perspective, and it's unlikely that Tesla will be pushing owners to keep their cars for 10-20 years like traditional gas guzzlers. So, you're spending $35k on a car that likely won't last you a decade, will eventually and inevitably become outdated or have electronic failure, and will not be serviceable by anyone other than the first-party manufacturer. I'd love to be an eco-warrior as much as anyone else on this site, but there's not even a faint chance I would pick that over a 5-year-old Fiesta I can get for a quarter of the price.
It has been this way historically all of the way back to mid 10s Tesla sales. Only a few years ago did Tesla drop their resale guarantee (when the market fundamentals provided for it versus them backstopping vehicle values).

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/rvg/RVG_Agree...

https://insideevs.com/news/490348/tesla-model-3-resale-value...

https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn/finding-the-right-car/...
I am not speaking with regards to malicious intent. I actually mean the scenario where providing a certain level of access does in fact degrade the user experience. Take for instance if US carriers were required to give all MNVO full 5G access with unlimited data simply because the carriers themselves sell this kind of capability directly to customers. This might put burden onto the network that just makes it terrible for everyone. We wouldn’t want that kind of regulation. I am just wondering if this will degrade the phone experience in a material way and the only recourse will be to uninstall apps.
From the Uber fare estimator for a trip in East Lansing Michigan.
Per-minute
$0.17
Per-mile
$1.20

----

What is the catch?
Drivers do not make any money while driving to pick someone up or after dropping someone off. Often, when I tried out driving, about half the miles driven were without a fare.

Subtract the service fees from those numbers and it gets less lucrative.
So like JavaScript
QA workers are not tech workers.
Very funny! I regret the group missed your satiric post and is now voting you into oblivion (where this entire topic belongs!8-))

Your last sentence is priceless!
Is it unstated when they give the numbers? And the type of expected return they're calculating is neutral.
The part where you have to confirm you are not a robot to subscribe to the mailing list is the best part of this, my new favorite website.
JWST has found the oldest galaxy we have ever seen in the universe
s/writing/reading
The propaganda is what allows elites to exist at all, whether they're aware of it or not. If all us regular people stopped bickering over gender identity and really opened our eyes to see how bad wealth disparity really is, we'd riot and burn down their mansions. Elites live in a bubble, and one of the membership requirements is never letting anyone know you don't believe what the people on TV say.
And then he turned to the dark side: "The obvious opportunity at the time was to sell SEO services."
[sic] Seriously?
Really an utter waste of R&D and resources during semi shortage. I detest Intel and the fact that the US govt is trying to give them more money to continue to fail. I lost faith in this company awhile ago.
I really like the channel's content, but like "The Caspian Report" channel, I kinda wonder if everything we're told is correct and objective. It's great information if it's all verifiable, but who checks the checkers?
I agree with the premise. Success is never immortal. The gap, however, is in societies being intended to be immortal. If you let companies run amok, so the thinking goes, when goes the company so goes the country. Limiting companies’ power let’s them creatively destroy one another without threatening the culture at large.
Citizens of Vermont would have just as much power as every other citizen… I understand that the founding fathers we’re forced into a system that empowers small states to the detriment of large wrongs. It was wrong then, just as it’s wrong now.
Interesting. I entered a URL into Signal in 'note to self' (didn't send) and in my access log I saw

162.210.7.8 - - [20/Jul/2022:16:40:18 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 15336 "-" "WhatsApp/2"

of course, anyone can send any user agent they like. Maybe signal is doing this for better compatibility. I did a quick search in the open source of signal-android and found this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/e22ddb8f96f...

public LinkPreviewRepository() {
this.client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
.cache(null)
.addInterceptor(new UserAgentInterceptor("WhatsApp/2"))
.build();
}

so yes the client app generates a preview of an entered URL by making requests with the user agent WhatsApp/2.
There's perception, desire, and actual performance. Maybe we want to believe in certain institutions (a little) more; maybe we perceive them to be more trustworthy because of what we (think we) know about them.

I agree that humans are all corruptible, but strongly disagree that there's "no way" to design policies which remedy that. Corruption thrives when there is secrecy and a lack of accountability, and is reduced when there is transparency and where power is limited.

We'll never be able to eliminate it, but we can reduce it by creating systems that increase transparency and prevent people from having unbridled power.
Why not create an AI model that improves acting?
For the backstory

This has nothing to do with the posted Show HN and whatever this other user has done, bringing them up in an unrelated thread and hounding them is way worse than any kind of spamming.
Or my actual favorite “Fiery, But Mostly Peaceful Protests”.
100% this - a good chunk of initial traction for YC companies is other YC companies - which is great in some ways to bootstrap initial growth/credibility, but the uncharitable view is that it's a Ponzi scheme in a way.
About being dominant. What about Raymond Ceulemans ?
From the wikipedia page:
Billiards player, having won

- 35 World Championship titles (23 in three-cushion + 12 in other carom disciplines)
- 48 European titles (23 in three-cushion) and
- 61 national titles.
Right, angel.co is not exactly a social platform by design, but people on there are in the startup space, likely very motivated, working on something very specific and open to discussion/proposition.

I guess the specificity of the discussion is the main thing interesting there, provided startups are your thing.

For other things, hobbies etc., there may be more specific places where you get a concentration of focused discussion on a topic.
Alarm as fastest growing US cities risk becoming unlivable from climate crisis
Yeah - Uber both eats and taxi part was extremely cheap during any restrictions. Now it's easily 100-150% more expensive here.
Often pickup traffic was very "directional" people going to the bar at one time, people leaving at another, so often you would have to drive back to where you started the last fare for the next one.
Tesla Q2 2022 report shows crypto sell-off, decrease in profits
> able to track which portions of which threads you have already read

reddit has this feature too for premium users. Works with every single thread regardless the amount of comments
What's the non-mediocre alternative to Windows, that allows you to choose your hardware (i.e. not macOS) and that is usable by everybody (i.e. not Linux)?

Not sure this applies to Meta, though...
Buy high and sell low. That’s the way to do it, right there.
You just said increased density isn't a problem for families and then describe people wanting less density a problem. If it's a problem for society that families want less density, then it's a problem for families if society want more density.
> You just described a relationship that didn't apply to native species before domestocsrion.

> Second you described learning and ignored culture showing children this relationship.

You're ascribing some definition of "culture" when the behavior is intuitive. I can understand if you're making an assumption about how stupid ancient man was, but that is simply a bias within your own imagination.

> In effect they where growing weeds.

Weeds are competing plant life, compared to the cultivation of specific species. The dictionary doesn't do anyone a lot of favors here, but that's the common parlance.

We were talking about Farming, then cultivation, which are strictly different things. Now you've moved to "domestication" all the while leaning on some strange alternate definition, or you're trolling. I don't think I can help you any more.
similarly, "criminal emerging from computer monitor holding crowbar"
>>> It was never sold as "you'll be immune".

> THE NEWS HASNT BEEN TELLING EVERYONE FOR THE PAST YEAR THAT VACCINES COMPLETELY PREVENT THE DISEASE

We're not talking about the past year. We're talking about if they were ever claimed to be 100% effective. Don't move the goalposts. Also, dude, chill out. And anyway, who said they're still claiming 100% efficacy? The anti-vaccine crowd has been mocking the media and Fauci for continuously decreasing the % efficacy claims. (Not that it's a legitimate criticism, since with a leaky vaccine it's to be expected: but if you overpromise at the beginning, you lose your credibility, and then you get cheap shots.)

> We soon discovered they didn’t last and the virus mutated.

There were plenty of people who saw that coming, but they were dismissed as 'anti-vaccine' and 'anti-science'. Why are you surprised by basic virology?

> We skipped the long-term studies.

Yep. Sure did. Wonder what else we're going to find.
I think you may have overlooked a logical solve. I dug into the code for his Minesweeper at one point and IIRC it works by generating random boards and putting them through a deterministic backtracking solver that gives up when faced with one of these choices. I think it then has a way of changing the board to be solvable. Or it just generates a new one, I don't remember.

I've also played it quite a bit and can't remember having any undecidable boards.
Judging by their reputation as alcoholics I'd disagree. Actually seems like a quite terrible job. Doing the same thing every day over and over. And after the novelty of flight wears off probably quite boring. I know being a passenger is and outside of take off/landing I'm not sure there's much difference.
Be aware that "When most people think of fraud, they think of stolen account numbers or identity theft, but first party misuse, which can account for up to 75 percent of all chargebacks[1]" looks like marketing spin.

The reference points to a marketing newswire that also states "More than two in five (42%) of surveyed consumers who have filed disputes did so due to true fraud—e.g., unauthorized purchases made with their payment information."
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/12/15/235295...

Going deeper the actually 75% comes is stated on this PDF which links (sources) from a company that sells... sells dispute charges services.
https://pages.sift.com/rs/526-PCC-974/images/ebook_Sift_Q4_2...

Others things to note: No statement by Visa in decreasing taxes on chargebacks to merchants.
Quebec got rid of brokers for sales. Not sure what makes them different than the rest of Canada.
I think there will be civil unrest until the MAGA movement dies off as their demagogue diminishes over time.
It doesn't have useful types for a lot of low-level abstractions; take, for example, all the stuff hanging off of stdenv -- if I'm trying to get nixpkgs up and running for a new C compiler that's neither GCC nor Clang, for example, it'd be really nice to know what all attributes need to be set for that. Instead, this ends up being a multi-day exploration through the nixpkgs source, where it turns out that (undocumentedly) the compiler must be named either gcc or clang...
In the context of Hacker News and the parent comment’s lack of interest in GUI-based tools, I’m pretty confident in my definition.
Uber's net GAAP loss, excluding losses from investments in DiDi and other companies, is around 300m last quarter [1] which is a ~1% loss on their gross bookings. Most of that is stock based comp. Their FCF loss was only 47m last quarter.

I know HN likes to hate on Uber and other gig apps but a 1% margin is something they can easily make up given their stated take rate on mobility and delivery is around 20%.

> So what market is Uber not established in

If you follow their earnings calls (or that of DoorDash as well), advertising is a huge growing market for these companies. My guess is they take on an airline business model: zero to slim margins on the core offerings, but huge money on advertising and ancillary sources of revenue (for airlines, this is credit card points).

[1] https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Love it - and also hacked it quite a bit (e.g. extra shapes and controls for Loopy).
> why would they pay more for someone from San Francisco?

Because they probably want someone from the area working in the company. If they pay a flat rate globally, they only have to pay average or lower and get great people in LCOL areas. But then you have a company with no people in CA or NY, which means you dont have contact with local trends or contacts in the big tech companies.
Good on you for taking the road less traveled! I don't have the guts to pursue 'real' entrepreneurship like yourself, but I appreciate those who do!
r/WorkReform is slightly better about this, but sometimes is plagued with the same issues.
This is likely correct in the long run and it means software engineering compensation will be dropping significantly in the next decade.
It will be more like Yugoslavia. It will start as you said but full on war between states will be inevitable aftee that
Sure, because there is large variance in engineering. Not just EE, either. If your an ME you might design HVAC but it doesn’t mean you can take an ME’s role designing CFD models in aerospace applications. Pretending jobs are interchangeable is a disservice to the skillsets
Even if commercial property is changing hands, there are well-known loopholes to structure that as multiple transactions, none of which transfer more than a 50% stake, and which therefore do not trigger a Prop 13 Reassessment.

https://journal.firsttuesday.us/change-the-law-close-prop-13...
Yes but the 30,000th best software engineer is making $1 million working at Google.
The U.S. Constitution badly needs to be updated. It needs to spell out more clearly the role of the Supreme Court and how many justices it should have. It needs to more clearly state the manner in which the Senate gives advice and consent regarding appointees by the President and what should happen if the Senate refuses to vote on appointees. It needs to reform apportionment of Representatives. One Representative from California has a lot more constituents than the one from North Dakota. The list goes on.

There is a power imbalance in the country and that imbalance can’t last long without some sort of backlash.
https://www.gtrlife.com/forums/

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/

https://www.camaro6.com/forums/

https://rennlist.com/forums/

Most car related subreddits are used like instagram or news aggregators with very little substance you can't easily find elsewhere.
As they should be. This is pretty simple.

For example, there’s full on videos of Hunter Biden doing meth and banging hookers yet it isn’t being reported on by major news outlets.

Easy for all to tell the priority of ‘news’ is just political propaganda. It’s overt
True, I have to do it eventually anyways, but having an idea of what each service is before diving in helps a lot.

This is especially true when working with Java or Kotlin apps where there's 100 levels of abstraction and calls to functions named "invoke" and "run".
I was including all three of those in the "per mile" piece of the equation since we are looking at products in aggregate. If EVs generally cause people to accelerate harder than if they bought an equivalent ICE then that would be reflected in the reduced tire life and if chosen tire compound decreases wear then that would be reflected as well.

That said tire compound could be more or less dense or have more or less of an effect on the environment per unit so that wouldn't be captured, and low torque EVs would most likely have less wear/mile so the categorization of just EV vs ICE might be too broad.
If we began, correctly, according to genetic and sociological findings, to think that our behavior is as much defined by genes as our physical traits are, we would also begin to think differently about ourselves.

That is, we might begin to think that our generosity, intelligence, kindness, and admirable determination are as much a product of ourselves--that is, of our choices, sufferings, struggles, and genius--as a full head of hair or being long of legs.

But we tend to believe, especially in modern times (think about the ancient Greek "kalokagathìa"), that our character, our intelligence should be admired and make candid souls fall in love with us.

In contrast, physical traits that are not so popular, say, among the ladies--whether being short, bald or graceful in movement like an elephant in a china shop--we tend to believe, or want to believe, that are of little importance, something circumstantial, which only superficial people would focus on.
Yes. It is unacceptable now to merely insult other users, on their platform. As well as this one.
Generally demographic makeup of FF traffic is more affluent than Chrome, similar to Safari. IE is closer to Chrome.

It can vary by the field or nature of the site, of course.
I was using an extreme example to illustrate my point more clearly.
Please don't call names or post in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. You can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166399.
Detachment and Commitment
Thanks for the really excellent insight and links.

I do hope that the conversation starts to acknowledge the difference between sunk costs and running costs.

Employees, office leases and equiment are all happening, regardless and ongoing.

Training DALL-E 2: very expensive, but done now. A sunk cost where every dollar coming in makes the whole endeavor more profitable.

Operating the trained model: still expensive, but you can chart out exactly how expensive by factoring in hardware and electricity.

I believe that by not explicitly separating these different columns when discussing expense vs profit, we're making it harder than it needs to be to reason about what it actually costs every time someone clicks Generate.
I'm also a fan of Nikoli-style puzzles. (My favorite is Nurikabe.) Nikoli themselves used to offer an iPhone app with lots of good ones, but it's sadly unavailable now.

https://puzz.link/db/ is a great source of community-made puzzles in this style that are playable in a browser. Also worth a look is https://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/ if printing and playing on paper is okay.

I agree with you that human-made puzzles are much more interesting. The generated ones become boring quickly.
There are a few issues here...

1. Depending upon context, *any* change to state (network I/O, console I/O, file I/O, environment variables, etc.) is a security vulnerability you can drive a truck through. For example: Foo is a very-locked down package that only appends text to a file the caller owns. It's formally verified to only change the file specified, verified to only append in all possible situtations, verified to not have cross-file-system identity problems, not subject to file renaming race conditions, yada yada yada. Safe? No. "foo('evil_command' '~/.bash.rc')".

2. A useful definition of a "capability" depends upon context. A *dynamic* context. Say Foo is intended to be used for generating log files. There's no way for a third-party library to determine whether the target is actually such a thing. It requires manual tuning which fits the operational context. Perhaps the file must be named "/var/log/${x}.log". Or maybe its "${home}/local/log/${x}.log". Great. Of course, now you've got to verify the context-specific defintions. And verify the tool that does this verification. And the verify the configuration of the tool that does the verification... Safe now? No. Context is *dynamic*. "foo('var/log/evil-hack-attempts.log' '0.0.0.0/0 tried-to-crash-us')", and your other context, the automated blacklisting, locks out the Internet.

3. This gets very complex very quickly. IMHO, configuring Selinux, in a real production environment with real personell, is akin to rolling your own cryptography. Can people learn to do it? Of course. But the same argument applies to writing cryptographic functions. You. Will. Make. Huge. Mistakes.

To be clear, this does not mean that capabilities are useless. It's obviously critical that they exist. However, they ain't magic. You can't "solve security with capabilities." There is a point where throwing more of them at the problem makes things *worse*.
My favorite part of their story is how they changed the interview process to not be terrible and built a dashboard to quantify it: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/19/the-trouble-with-te...