skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made some comments below, the devil is in the details. It is not theoretical, I tried to Uber to challenge my notions about this.

Circa 2021:

The main point I would like to make is that in my market at the time, the mileage was getting paid was .76 a mile, as I look back in the app. At the time additionally was getting .11 per a minute fare. The main issue is that the mileage rate is for time that passengers are in the car.

But about half the time it was driving to a pickup location. So you are looking at an average of .38 per mile + .11 per minute. These were city miles, not quick highway miles.

So to pull one random example from my actual history.

I did a 6 minute and 57 second trip that paid 2.86. The distance was about 2.5 miles. So by your calculations we subtract .75. This leaves 2.11 profit. The issue is it pulled me 2.5 miles from my next fare, so you need to subtract another .75 to get back. So we are at 1.36. We also have another ~7 minutes of driving.

So in 14 minutes I made 1.36... So we are talking $5.80 an hour. This is pretty poor pay for the service provided. I might quibble about your numbers in my case because it was a 2020 traverse, that was about 35k and worse gas mileage. So I was probably doing worse...

HOWEVER, that's only part of the story. Uber has bonuses, so there will be a deal where for a particular weekend, if you do 40 trips (no matter the length of each trip, which was strange to me), they might pay an additional $80 bonus. So that adds an extra $2.00 for that particular trip, if you meet the quota. And is nearly as much as the base rate. So that will push the earnings to ~$10 an hour. Significantly better!

And that is where the VC money criticism comes in claiming the subsidization is what makes it work.

TLDR;
If you are very economical about the bonuses and surge rates (which the example was not) you can make better than minimum wage income, it is not a loss. But you have to be very savvy and strategic. But the bottom line is the base rates, at the time were a bit over break even, and very low if you had any down time. But the bonuses and incentives made it reasonable.
I have the Sailor Moon sparkle noise as a Matrix notification sound and I regret nothing
>Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT?

The *Kit libraries from Apple are always capitalized. UIKit, SceneKit, WebKit, etc. The generic use of *kit for other libraries is pretty common though.
HN is generally a bad predictor of what courts will do.
Other than the subreddits dedicated to hate speech, can you give examples of this policy being poorly implemented?
Point. I guess I was more responding with the use case of an alternative to mass transit.

I agree that filling the gaps that busses or trains can't is a great use case, and I guess that my point about small towns was just one example of a gap.
What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
I was looking at that.

It seems like induction and abduction are pretty much that same thing but framed differently. Abduction looks for the "simplest explanation: and induction uses statistical machinery to argue for an explanation, which, if you break down the statistical machinery, is something like the lowest entropy, the most efficient encoding of the data, the ... simplest explanation.
That assumes that democracy can survive overreacted skepticism.

If you don't trust anything, you ... don't trust anything.

How can institutions survive? We're already living through a moment where large swaths of the population cannot get a fix on the same reality as their neighbors.

I would argue that this is happening precisely because the gullibles are being led into playing skeptics.
Most of the other court documents from the case are available here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211300/hachette-book-...
I'd argue appliances should be walled and computers shouldn't be.

I think the form factor is very relevant. A MacBook is treated like a computer. A phone is treated like an appliance.

Most phone/tablet users want the convenience of modular functionality without vetting the source. Said functionality should also be easy to discover and add/remove, hence app stores.

Whereas on a computer, app stores are ignored if they even exist. Most people install after doing their own Googling or seeing it run on another MacBook.

In my opinion phones intended for general purpose computing should have distinct marketing and different software-related features.
Of course. Because the majority of the tech bros on this site are self centered and think of arts as a lowly field deserving of no respect. While something slightly resembling some boilerplate lego code they wrote is a criminal act to learn from.
As people have caught covid more than once it seems this should be written “immune response to omicron wanes substantially over time”. Like colds it looks to be the govt that keeps on giving.
Or they could wait until December 23rd :)
> Publishers argue that libraries should not be allowed to lend any ebook except those which they set a specific lending limit to- charging the library a fee every X number of checkouts or every X number of months.

so this is yet another attempt at digital feudalism, where you bought something, but must pay the supplier a subscribtion or a cut forever?
Yep. My good friend is an RN who worked for a hospital bought up by some conglomerate and the perks slowly went away and burned a ton of loyalty/good-will. He left to do travel nursing and made a ton more.

It’s so shortsighted and ultimately defeating/self-destructive when companies act like this.
> Republican extremists don’t just say that Democrats are wrong, but that they are evil.

It's not something unique to only one side.

If you go to reddit.com/r/all you'll find lots of user accounts saying the same about Republicans; not that they're wrong, but that they're evil.

(I don't identify as either side, but I've had to block nearly 100 subreddits from showing up in r/all because of the constant hate, and even then there will be random subreddits that make to the front page of r/all because it's about hating another group. I want to see interesting things, not witness an echochamber.)
The Daily Wrong: AI-Generated Lies Every Day
I'd never heard of privacy.com, but it looks fantastic. And the $10/mo Pro plan is effectively free if you push $12k worth of eligible transactions through them per year (they are a little weak on defining "eligible", though).

I'd be a little concerned about them knowing about pretty much all of my purchases, though, and how they handle that data, and what they do with it, so more research required...

Hmm, also it sounds like they charge fees when your funding source is a "real" credit card, and not a bank account. That isn't really useful for me, as I rely on credit card rewards for a bunch of stuff, and I imagine the fees they'd charge would wipe out those benefits. But this could certainly be useful for buying something from a one-off merchant where I'm not sure if I can trust them, and in that case the free plan should be enough.
Their first sentence, describing the wikipedia article, is "This is false, revisionist history". Seems like a contradiction to me.
I lived in a country with amazing public transport - clean, on-time, accessible everywhere.

What did people do who made a lot of money? Buy a car.
All loves have to die, of that there's no help.
My favorite way to end 'em
Is the orb-weaver spider's, whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum,
Then dies on the spot, his corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse it.
He would rather die than not get to fuck,
Personally I reckon it's worth it!

--TISM, "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me"
Nice. While I still favor native clients over web apps, stuff like this will make music production much more accessible.
I read it as parody.
if it is running near capacity, its crowded, and therefore unpleasant, which causes people to attempt to adjust their schedule to use it at other times, shifting the load

if its not running near capacity, its wasting a lot of space, and therefore more wasteful than private automobiles

in both cases the scale of the system and the centrally planned nature of the system make its response time lag behind the people using it, causing them to seek alternatives if they are able
Some holidays

Those aren't the biggest holidays for everyone, and it isn't even the new year for everyone
play lots of video games
If cleaning latrines was the only job we couldn't figure out how to automate, we could probably work one week a year cleaning latrines and the rest of the time doing whatever. Which would be fine.

Obviously people have to do jobs and some are unpleasant. I'm not convinced that 40-hour work weeks or longer are necessary for society to function.
Nope, GM total f'd everyone.

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4
"Sorry, we can't be friends anymore, you use bad software." Look, I guess I kind of get what you're saying, but unless you're Stallman this kind of lifestyle just isn't viable. Real people just want to use the thing that's easy to set up, good enough for their uses, and most importantly already popular. Network effects are a real showstopper for those of us who'd like to move to FOSS alternatives, and when the options are to either use the popular thing and communicate with our friends, or insist on the FOSS thing and isolate ourselves, it takes more zealotry than most of us can muster to commit to the latter.
And don’t forget other benefits like salary.
Where did they get the art from anyway? Do they have a list of sources anywhere?
well it continues after the author us dead, you know, to keep motivaring the dead suthor to create more!
Changing the rules so that federal funding can more easily be used to fix/revitalize existing suburban infrastructure and not just make new suburbs should be popular in the existing suburbs, I would imagine. Or at least, should be popular if sold well.
>It's depressing how there's so little VR for Apple. Maybe they'll blow us all way with the iPhone of VR soon but at the moment my Macs have no VR love.

There's probably no VR plans for macOS ever. Apple's version of VR, whatever it ends up being, will definitely not be a tethered experience. It's most likely we'll see a specific OS variant like with watchOS when/if they do it.
Using Vivaldi, a chrome based browser, and this doesn't seem to load/work. What's up with that?
I’m fluent in English and I find autocomplete helpful. More advanced tools like Writefull that can help paraphrase or structure larger blocks of text have a lot of potential. These next generation autocomplete tools already are and will be increasingly useful to experts.
I should have been more specific. We only get Fridays off during the summer (memorial to Labor Day).
I played a lot of these games around ~2007. Excellent collection.
Looks like an interesting book. I’ve heard abduction described as “analogical reasoning” or “metaphorical reasoning” which is definitely not as rigid as deduction or induction but arguably more important—without analogies I’d doubt we’d ever learn anything.

If you’re interested in the topic check out the works of Charles Sanders Pierce (he coined the term abduction). He was a logician and semiotician and is still criminally underrated. Other than Wittgenstein, he’s pretty much the only logician I’m aware of who extensively wrote compellingly about topics outside of logic and was able to make logic itself feel relevant and meaningful in everyday life. Most logicians/analytical philosophers are either entirely silent on other topics or fall completely flat when they attempt to venture beyond logical subjects.

(there are others too, Russell sort of comes to mind, as well as a few others, but Wittgenstein and Pierce are in a class of their own. They are the two writers who I feel not only helped me understand some concept in a field but actually profoundly altered how I think about thinking—I guess I’d include Heinz von Foerster in this category too)
I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more money for my family.

Fear is a funny thing. Trick is to have it chase you down the path, instead of standing in your way.
If anyone wants to crank the difficulty up to 11, I suggest the puzzle types "Towers" and "Unequal" at max size/difficulty. These puzzles can get hard much faster than they have any right to - I play them whenever I feel worried that perhaps P = NP.
Then maybe just allow employees to take the week off during a time that's relevant for them.

But regardless, with this move everyone loses regardless of when they would enjoy the week off.
Startups. When you are not sure how to map data relationships yet, MongoDB is the best tool. You can easily build a prototype without worrying about the database.

MongoDB Community Edition is a powerful software.
> the extreme right-wing is building themselves up to begin politicide.

One can only hope; though it might have terrible consequences, like the republican's mask slipping more than it already has, leading to more violence.

> the conservatives who gain control in 2022 will grind the federal government to a halt with hearings and procedural moves

that's why I'm hoping the Jan 6th folks actually get Trump in prison, to get us back to some believable "hey your actions actually DO have consequences" normality. Listen, I can dream, right?
Ok, but the key point is the causative link between wing structure and size, for which you have not cited anything.

The only theory I've heard on that front is that being able to both launch and flap with their arms basically allowed them to use the same, larger muscles for both, rather than having to split them, which increased their size ceiling while still being able to launch. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-gian... (This is more precisely answering the question "how could they get so big?", but still pretty germane.)
Right? I often go out on principle on those days. I think people should choose which holidays to observe.
But you can, it's the sms app.

Signal is not a $75B company so it doesn't have to interop with Whatsapp (nor do I think this makes any sense, as the encryption story is different across apps)
Dear Copyright Holders:

LeVe the Internet Archive alone.

Sincerely,

Everyone
That reminds me of this post [1], which seems relevant to this circumstance

> I read on a post somewhere that if you replace "the economy" with "rich people yatch money" a lot of headlines make more sense.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507123
I had that url active for over 5 years here and never once was contacted by anyone interested in talking to me about a project, so forgive my cynicism with not being very concerned about keeping it alive.

Fpr the sake of not being a total jerk about it, however, I will take it down soon....thanks for reminding me btw!
It was the first CMOS microprocessor [0] and a rad-hard version flew to Jupiter back in the day.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802
Why would you use drones for this when you can build a very small rail network? Drones can't carry very much, and they can have problems in flight that will lead to dropped/damaged goods, not to mention they'll require more energy. A small rail network could transport the same small goods over the same areas with less energy and no potential dropped/damaged goods.

Their aerial route should ideally not go over forested or ecologically sensitive areas, in part to avoid contamination from crashed drones, and in part because drones push birds out of their nesting and feeding grounds, and territorial birds actively fight small drones.
I’m not disagreeing that that’s probably exactly what the execs who made this decision thought, it’s just gross. But I’m sure one them will get a nice bonus for cutting this.
Dont worry, soon you wont be able to use the smart TV, smart dishwasher and smart lights without subscribtion and removing the smart bits from your own property will be an act of piracy.
UBB had this feature in the early 2000’s. It was rather terrible to navigate using the default skins of the time and some sub threads would go on way too long. You take for granted the things that make modern threaded discussion work. Those concepts didn’t exist back then.
> His Wickr account was locked with Apple’s Face ID facial recognition security.
Those experiments don't distinguish between jealousy and intolerance for injustice or unfairness from a third party.

In the capuchin studies, given that they usually express their displeasure at the experimenter rather than the other monkey and also spontaneously share it's reasonable to view it as the latter.

This whole crab bucket mentality of 'it's unfaaaiiir that minimum wages get raised' rather than fighting to get the benefit for everyone is a distinctly neoliberal and american mindset that you have to 'deserve' to survive or be comfortable.
It’s trivial to remove the watermark and other tools put no watermark on.
The testimony I recall from the Epic trial was pretty clear - Cook & Co. see this as a point of differentiation that helps them sell hardware.

After all, Google can't really do the differential privacy stuff to the extent Apple does due to their reliance on ad revenue - which is only so targeted because they collect it in the first place, giving their Ads customers (businesses) more opportunities to sell to.

Netflix wants to build viewer profiles of its users, so gathering that data in a way that they can ID helps; Amazon will do similar things to suggest purchases based on your history.

As a card provider for the general public, Visa kind of has to play ball and even then, their customers are merchants and financial institutions that issue cards.

Given enough size - think FAANG, or really any financial institution - Apple probably can't reject them for shady behavior, but can always work to build guardrails to prevent the worst offenders from going off.
True - birds process vision very differently than mammals. They're tetrachromats, some species have multiple focal points, polarized vision, things like the woodcock's 360 vision, etc. which are major changes in processing info, but also not only is their visual acuity far more powerful, but their speed at processing input (needed for flight) makes it hard to even imagine what vision is like for them.

https://www.scienceofbirds.com/blog/bird-eyes-and-vision
> In current US dollars, that amounts to nearly $138 billion. But Borisov dreamed of enlisting the US, Canada, Japan, and Northern Europe in the plan, as all would theoretically benefit from a warmer climate. Surprisingly, the US was intrigued by the idea. In fact, in a response to a series of questions sent in 1960 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, Senator Kennedy noted, as part of a larger point about the value of innovation in fostering cooperation, that the Siberia-Alaska dam was "certainly worth exploring."

However, it turns out that it is much easier politically to just use advertising to convince Americans to buy and drive big, gas-guzzling SUV/Pickups and let the CO2 do the warming.
Why is the Bloomberg terminal so expensive, why do people still pay for it?
Couldn't someone with a cheap windows PC and a pair of monitors + misc. data feeds just replicate it for considerably less money? It costs $24k/year for a single subscription. At least with the PC you can install your own software. Bloomberg charging so much still for its services would be like Silicon Graphics still charging $30k for workstations when cheaper alternatives exist.
"your employment is very important to us, please hold..."
> These genuine owners are paying high property taxes.

Not if the tax base goes down. Which is the point.

> If so, why not just get rid of speculative buying (simply make it illegal)?

This makes the lawyer rich too. It’s not a smash-and-grab at a Walgreens. You can’t put real estate cops on every deal. If price is expected to go up, people will speculate.
You are viewing the problem wrong. If you don't want to pay and you are a big fish, you just tell them not to ask. VC world is based on reputation and politeness. Causing a big stink is not a good look for anyone. If you are a big LP and you say, look buddy, we are taking this quarter off, what do you think is going to happen?
Need to apply this to the C-suite. Publicize every single C-Suite benefit not being passed on to the entire company. Name the individuals. Being equitable is a bomb and management just lit the fuse. Idiotic is an understatment.
i always think about the "it's only a glitch" scene, whenever i hear of self driving cars...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TstteJ1eIZg
"We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features. We're investigating the issue and further updates can be found in your Service Health Dashboard via TM402718."[1] - 20220721T0147Z

[1] https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1549934141738651648
If you need bums in seats the professional way to do it is to have an oncall rota.

A rota is the positive affirmation that employee X will be here to support the team versus the negative one that well person X can’t not be here, because they’re the last one to take PTO.
Fight the good fight, this is all valid concerns, I don’t look forward to the Netflix store to download Netflix, the Spotify store to download a Spotify, etc
They've absorbed those days, and it will inform their policies. I can see why they wouldn't just make a direct transfer of that time off.
I think New York means NYC in this context and NYC has incredibly low property taxes. I believe it's due to a cap on maximum annual increases. New York State tends to have high property taxes on the other hand.

I'm less familiar with San Francisco, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had low property taxes due to Prop 13.
efficiency results in one thing: more stuff for the same cost as before (or put another way the same stuff as before for less money).

And yes, this is definitely knowable because the one thing efficiency results in causes a wealth effect for all consumers (and/or a wealth effect for capital owners to the extent they can capture the gains from efficiency vs having them competed away causing lower prices and a wealth effect for consumers) and a negative income effect on the subset of workers no longer needed because of the efficiency gain. For an efficiency gain to not cause a GDP increase eventually the income effect has to swamp the wealth effect for all time, which has never happened and is unlikely to happen any time soon, as there are no signs of any abatement in consumption demand that would cause a wealth effect to not cause a consumption increase (this is especially true given the incremental nature of efficiency improvement implementation over time primarily because of various productive limitations on adopting new tech. The more time people have to grow into a higher consumption state the more likely and easier it happens.)
Yes, but only if you're a salaried employee in the US.
Because it’s a lot less work to build out some ADS-B infrastructure and make some airspace rules than it is to build a railway.

I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that if they just have the drones fly at 2000’ AGL that would significantly reduce the impact on birds.
So they let people borrow as many books as they wanted which obviously violates copyright law but accidentally this didn't surpass the number of available books and this makes the whole thing legal? Bold strategy.
Fun story: why is the current rail system buckling and warping in the heat? Because someone in their wisdom decided to weld the expansion plates to stop trains going clickety-clack in residential areas. The noise is why you won't see much support for rail networks. I say bring on the rail infrastructure, it is the greenest method of moving freight.