skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/papers-please/id935216956
Not if these taxi drivers do their best to scam you.
The last psychiatrist has written a lot about that. He calls it modern narcissism, and uses it to explain a lot of what we call depression today. There's also the Christian notion of acedia, the ancester of sloth, that is not just laziness, but a moral failure due to selfishness and being self centered, and thus not doing things for others.

I of course won't go around accusing eveyone that's depressed of selfishness or moral failure. But reading about this helped me understand a bit better why I feel so unhappy when I'm surrounded by so many good people.
But maybe you are a rude fellow who doesn't take appropriate care for his hygiene and is just generally a burden on everyone around you. There is no hard line between "who you really are" and things everyone ought to fix about themselves. And it is changing over time, at one point being obese was a thing everyone ought to fix but today it is socially acceptable, as the median American is obese.
Ask HN: Best way to source control multiple repos building upon each other
Hi HN!

I'm working on an online course that currently has four chapters. The students need to be able to start the project from any chapters they want.

Ideally, I should be able to provide partial/full solutions as a repository (or an archive) to students. So far, I've separated the work into two directories per chapter (one for the full solution, one for the partial).

The problem is - if I want to modify something in any place and want to keep it consistent, I need to make a change in 8 directories.

I've been thinking about the best way to organize it but can't think of any approach that would be simple and would allow me to change the code in a single place.

I was thinking about submodules, but the projects are not clear-cut, sometimes the same files will be modified in multiple chapters.

I would hugely appreciate any thoughts you might have!
I think you might be 100% incorrect with your supposition on businesses and BSD licensing!

Businesses love BSD licenses, because they can use the code for any purpose they need, whether internal use or building something and distributing it.
No one can force them to share any part of their work, or even share anything.

Netflix, Juniper, Apple (and many others) all use BSD derived UNIX components, precisely for that. They contribute back what they want (and mainly what they do jot wish to maintain as a company secret).

GPL-3 is much more complex because it can /require/ you to share code. BSD licenses do not require you to share anything.

Businesses in general do not like ‘requirements’ like that even if only because they have to track them and ensure they do not break any licenses.

I work for a large financial services company, GPL-3 licensed software requires specific approval, AGPL is banned across the board (same as in Google).
BSD and GPL-2 is fully permitted (as is MIT and all the other style licenses)
> On first impression it sounds unserious—real compilers output machine code—it's tempting to denigrate it by calling it a transpiler.

What? No, this is so wrong. “Real” compilers transform input from a source language to a target language. That’s it. A program could compile a language to itself with functions inlined and it would still be a compiler. Transpiler is a dumb word made up to identify compilers that output valid source for a chosen language.
Electrical Instruments calibration alludes to the most common way of confirming the exhibition of or changing, any instrument that actions or tests electrical boundaries. This discipline is generally alluded to as dc and low-recurrence electrical metrology.
People have disliked internet explorer since the dawn of time it seems
> Apple and Microsoft will announce that they have entered into cooperative development on Java, with the intention of insuring compatibility between their respective Java virtual machines and extending them in some similar directions.

Oh, yes. Java was "the future of programming" back then.
> free market

There's no such thing as a free market in our world. It's just a myth. Everything is regulated or under the purview of treaties or laws.
Well yeah, laws are supposed to generally follow the will of the people as much as possible without seriously harming minority groups.

But without the regulation, the trust wouldn't be there, and people would use imported formula, and likely occasionally get contaminated stuff from fly by night vendors.

Grocery stores would probably refuse to stock the poison in some cases, but there might be more subtle contamination that went unnoticed.

Regulations are written in blood and there still seems to be cases of doing the legal minimum even when it's not enough to be safe. As far as I know there are plenty of coin cells with no bitter coating or childproof packaging.
> I think if a file name looks different (because of case), it should be treated as being different. But I'm probably in the minority.

Completely agree. Also ext4 _is_ case sensitive on filenames.

I think that _new_ users of a system should adapt to that system and not the other way around. Linux file systems have been case sensitive from the beginning. Changing that now would break things for users like me who are using linux for over 25 years.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Is it children staying home because they love their parents more than themselves and want to be with them? Or because they know their parents want to be with them and thus they prioritize their happiness? Or something else entirely?
Problem is with the law, more specifically possibility of completely prohibiting uses of the patent by the patent author. This is very stupid, because others have to innovate around this, which in most cases isn't possible given resources and in many not possible at all.

The solution is to remove possibility of prohibiting patent uses and create better financial system where patent authors can get on revenue streams/shares of patent users. This is doable and the only sensible option imo. The amount of revenue chunk/shares/whatever should be decided by courts.

If domestic vs international is the problem, allow prohibiting patent use for foreign entities. Problem solved.

Where is the catch? If there isn't why we are not doing anything to make it happen?
Meta and Google speculated(by Calacanis) to hire at lower salaries in the future
I stopped reading at the claim that Uber provides worse service at a higher price than traditional cab companies. No one who experienced the hell of taxis could ever say that with a straight face.
They can be built 20' off the ground, but they will always be built 2' shorter than the most important truck that needs to park there 10 years after the ribbon-cutting.
> for PRC, TW is a political problem

That’s surely the reason for their political exercises in the region these days.
Emacs Manual for ITS Users (1981)
If memory serves well, normal operator precedence was already present in the first FORTRAN, which was proposed in 1953.

And APL's priority system is: there is no priority. Everything is evaluated right to left. Pike's Ivy is no exception. 3/4 differing from 3 / 4 is a lexical convention: 3/4 is a rational number.
I don't get the endgame here. Uber provides super cheap cab rides by going into a loss so competitors don't spring up. then eventually when they've dominated the market they do what? increase prices? so competitors spring up again? makes no sense
https://archive.md/H7voo
It's a fair value prop in SF, where you have to scream like a cave-person while wading through poop-filled streets with gun-wielding semi-homeless trying to mug you at each corner. Unfortunately for Uber the rest of the world doesn't look quite like that and normal taxis work just fine...
>mom is too busy with Facebook again

That sent shivers down my spine, wow.
I'm curious about how we got to a place where we can assume that our colleagues will disrespect other colleagues and laugh at those asking for more respect.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there is something quite horrid about a working culture where we think that might ever happen.

If you say "this big open space is like a library: no fixed desks, sit where you want; we expect quiet, there is a 'librarian' who is empowered to ask you to keep the noise down or leave; you do not bring food and drinks into this space other than water; you do not take calls or do meetings in this space", I think most people would get that.

But you would, perhaps, need the librarian to enforce the rules, because you're right, a decent %age of working age adults are utterly self-absorbed and will think the rules should not apply to them.

Perhaps part of the problem is in an open _public_ space like a library, the only person with authority is the librarian. In a company, that person is going to be a mid-level manager at best - what happens when a more senior manager decides they are going to break those rules?
The difference is that installation of solar panels without adhering to industry safety standards affects the individual, which makes the decision and profits from it, only. In case of nuclear and coal, consequences are shifted from the individuals, which make decisions and profits from them, to completely innocent people.

It's written in clear text about this responsibility shifting in the comment, but you continue to do that responsibility shifting.

I'm affected by Chornobyl, my parents are affected by Choronobyl, my brothers are affected by Chornobyl, my children are affected by Chornobyl, while we have zero profit from nuclear energy, and nobody asked our consent when the nuclear station was constructed. Moreover, our then government (Moscow) tried to hide all facts about tragedy, while our current government postponing research about cancer induced by Chornobyl radioactive pollution, so people like you can continue to claim that only few people killed by Chornobyl while thousands die every year due to increased levels of cancer.
It's fascinating to me how people can do something for 30% of adult life(probably biggest uniform chunk along with sleeping) and claim, that "living" happens outside of that time.
The Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%E2%80%93Tallinn_Tunne...
It didn't work for me at all. I used the machine three times and always got different results. That was 2 years ago so maybe they improved, but I was very disappointed, especially with heel width.
There was a lot of anti-intellectualism in the US at the time. You know, doing well on a test and other students would say "nerd alert nerd alert". The nerd in the movies always had his glasses taped together and was always asked to "say that again in English" and of course they didn't win the girl. But people like me simply did not care.

I remember instances of finally understanding something, and the feeling that somebody had suddenly turned the lights on.
The top framework needs to be called Sapio.
Plus, as a user, it's great to be able to only change the cable when traveling to a different country, instead of having to haul around adapters and stack them.
Talk about clickbait / false advertising.
Sound like a typical Rob Pike design. Idiosyncratic, not that user friendly, and mostly "works for me" affair (considering things like the Sam editor and parts of Golang).
Regulatory capture most likely.

As shitty as cabs were, they also had regulations to follow (in theory). Sooo they'll do something similar. Lock up the market, do all the suuuper unethical political junk they're known form, and make it impossible for anyone to compete with them.

THEN they'll jack up the prices.
I think this article conflates two different things: the concept of app-based ride-hail services like Uber, for which there is clearly a huge amount of demand even without VCs juicing it; and the actual implementation of it by Uber, which is a hugely bloated and unsustainable company that's proven primarily to be an unparalleled bonfire of VC money.

> That is, rather than having to wait longer because drivers tapped "accept," realized they'd lose money on your business, and tapped "cancel," you would now wait longer because drivers just didn't accept your run.

The blog is implying this is a bad thing, but this seems preferable both from the driver and rider's POV?

> Today, Uber offers the same poor service as traditional taxis, but must charge enormously higher fares because of its much higher cost structure.

No, Uber's model of being able to order a car from anywhere to anywhere with transparent location tracking, routing and pricing (as in, you know what you'll pay) has always been and remains superior to "traditional" taxis. In some markets taxi companies have finally followed suit, down to fares fixed in advance, but by doing so they've also shown the superiority of the Uber model.
> Adding parentheses makes things clearer in 99% of the cases

I will challenge that in saying that

9*2+3/2^3

is clearer than the far more noisy

(9*2)+(3/(2^3))

Precedence is something you learn in high school.

edit: fighting with the painful markdown of hn
Yeah, and god help you if you were somewhere other than a major city.

I remember calling cabs multiple times in Southern California suburbs and waiting for hours only for them never to show up.

Taxis essentially didn’t exist outside of downtown/airports. Ridesharing apps were a revolution, not that I’m defending their practices here.
Ah but see that's post tensioned and weather proofing. The Pécs high rise pretensioned cables were eaten by the very building material they used to seal the gaps between the concrete panels.
I think you mis-read - I'm saying they did have a self-driving car project, not that they didn't. And yeah nobody has production ready self-driving tech, it wouldn't surprise me if they had canned it.
https://archive.ph/hgjhw
Bare knuckle fight maybe?
Uber operates in "strict" (as in 'technically correct') adherence to local policy. That means, in places where the policy is strict, like for example Italy (Milan), they have only licensed taxi drivers with licensed taxi cars. And where law allows (even with a loophole) they have less.

Uber is structured so that each country has one business entity, thus it's very easy for them to say "our Swiss entity does not do any such thing in Switzerland". Many EU countries have similar laws too, btw - and they have a very clear separation of base price and promo price here, and the base price is regulated.
#TIL Will check this out! Thanks!

- I can see the Dockerfile equivalent (Bastillefile).
- Not sure about the image distribution (Docker repositories) and Cluster management parts (Mesos, K8S)
From that Wikipedia link:

> VisualAge for Java is based on an extended Smalltalk virtual machine which executes both Smalltalk and Java byte codes. Java natives were actually implemented in Smalltalk.[6]

> VisualAge Micro Edition, which supports development of embedded Java applications and cross system development, is a reimplementation of the IDE in Java. This version of VisualAge morphed into the Eclipse Framework.
No it predates that. I think in an attempt to use the way arithmetic is usually written.
See https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Operator_precedence for a list.

COBOL, FORTRAN and Algol60 all have that so this dates from the '50s

I think out of major languages only LISPs, APL and successors and Forth don't have precedence rules
Funnily, the same is true for some Apple laptops and bricks.
The idea is that Uber will develop a self-driving car that will ultimately offset its loss leader, much like Amazon and AWS.
I think "love" here should be replaced by "being there for other people". I have felt romantic love for people in periods where I didn't love myself at all. The problem comes when love is not only about kissing and having sex, but also about sharing chores, taking care of the other after an accident, making compromises. I would agree that this love is hard to give when you don't love yourself.
I think you can improve the landing page, I have no idea how long the job timeout is and "Limited" vs "Full" features is way too ambigiuous.
Where I live, Rotterdam NL, traditional taxis work pretty well. Not everywhere is as fucked up as America.
But they haven't run out of VC money so who cares, right?
Are you "stealing" if someone delivers their tv into your possession and never asks for it back?

Your awareness of their mistake doesn't obligate you to correct it, especially when the mistake is easily avoided and fixing is a non-trivial effort.

In the case of a business, I wouldn't be surprised if they count on exploiting that free labor in their cost projections.
If you do that a lot, look into `autostash` (as I do), which does that automatically for you

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30209750

https://leosiddle.com/posts/2020/07/git-config-pull-rebase-a...
100x more true for places like India which has notorious taxi and auto drivers who would charge you anywhere from 2x to 10x if you don't know the area or see you in need.

For all the things uber has done wrong they have done a lot of right too. It was truly a nightmare to get a taxi here and most autos and taxis won't even stop or refuse fare outright if it wasn't for a profitable route.
Is it just that fractions are first-class objects? And I guess then you just want to always separate operators with spaces.
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Solar panels must also be maintained.

Even a canopy without electronics on it, or a lot without a canopy on it, must be maintained to some degree. And parking lots are often mandated, with a specified capacity, for every use.

Now that we're in an era where cities are moving toward eliminating cars from the road, reducing parking lot acreage, and easing those aforementioned mandates. So, as a business, we'll want to calculate the tradeoffs of installation and maintenance, as well as the understanding that we're less able or willing to demolish a productive solar array when I need to build something else in its stead.

Installing solar arrays over a parking lot may essentially lock-in that desolate acreage while the value of the land underneath them begins to ramp up.
This sounds like a great way to quantify policy/law impact on businesses, by comparing their financial performance.
I live in rural UK. We have several local taxi companies that reliably turn up within minutes. It's been that way for decades.

The only really interesting value add to Uber was app-centric interactions (as opposed to a phone call), giving the ability to pay by card (instead of cash), and to track the taxi in the app.

Many local taxi firms are using apps too, so those advantages are gone. If this plays out the same in all geographies then Uber has already lost the taxi game.
any recommendations ?

All i've heard is mostly the same types of "sound" copied over and over again. Nothing jaw dropping so far (but there is definitely something that has to come out of this technological revolution one day...)
I don't know what you mean. I plug my USB-C dock with dual monitors into my laptop, I don't even have the option to not charge my laptop while I'm using it at work.
As someone who has used Uber quite a bit across Europe I cannot understand how they are not profitable. They take what 10/20% of the ride and they do millions of rides every day. I myself have spent few thousands in their service alone.

How can they not be profitable after all these years.
It's almost perfect for me. I'd like to have additional dimension (tags) to organize things, but it's so good in other areas (ease of capture and moving things around, keyboard centric, super fast, ...) that I'll use one way or another.
> Why do they do this? Because many high quality manufacturers (Samsung, LG) don't approve their cells for usage in vaping devices

Interesting. In France, there's a vape shop that advertises batteries as Samsung, Sony, etc.

For instance: https://www.lepetitvapoteur.com/en/batteries/5185-samsung-30...

Although, I do have a pair of these in front of me right now, bought a few years ago, and I can't find any mention of Samsung, or any other manufacturer, on them.
I think the internet has accelerated the evolution of "mind viruses". New arguments and rhetorical tricks arise and mutate very fast. If you jump off it, that'll be good for you, but when you get back on after a long time, you might have no "immune defense" against what the internet came up with in the meantime. Similar to how the USSR was outside Western cultural evolution for awhile, and when it broke up in the 90s, people turned out very vulnerable to colorful ads, bubblegum and Ponzi schemes.

Maybe the fear of such "falling off the wagon" is part of what keeps us on the internet. We don't want to lose the world's thread of conversation, because in the end one way or another it will affect us anyway. It's like not coming to the forum where future laws are decided.
What does 'objective' even mean in this context? This is a post about what the author believes is healthy and positive for individuals and society.

I don't see anywhere where contempt is shown, in fact quite the opposite. The post is written in a very empathetic way in my opinion, and I think displays a good level of insight into, and understanding of, the attractiveness of things that can do harm.

I'd challenge you to entertain the idea that this post has some good advice, and follow some of it. I have no data, but I expect you'll be happier as a result.
It is not that easy see the many threads over BODMAS/PEDMAS/BEDMAS.

If you actually do maths you never have the / or ÷ operator in writing equations it is always a horizontal line so you can't write maths in one line.

In your case I think the bracketed form is easier to read

If forced to write on one line suspect I would write as
9*2 + 3/(2^3)
Kai Krause/size mo graphic
> I'm now using VS Code. I hate how the file explorer jumps around when closing a tab (because it tries to select whatever other tab becomes visible). VS Code also doesn't allow me to easily open my files in multiple windows. Meanwhile we have browsers that allow us to freely open windows or tabs.

I use VSCode with the Vim plugin (it's not perfect: browsing undo/redo tree can lose changes, opening new tabs with `tabe` doesn't work correctly, etc), but on a widescreen monitor, I use `:vsplit` and `:split` often, and this allows me to view the code in 4 to 6 different files, aiwth all of them on the same screen at once.
My granddad was a teacher through his life, going ~20km every day by bike for 40 years, in rain and even in the winter. When he became retired, he started physical work of farming crops, making hay for his cows for the winter. He lived for 92 years, while he was still able to walk around and take care of himself on the basic level. He got also a type 2 diabetes around his 80's, but wasn't prescribed metformin. I strongly believe the physical work in his retirement gave him the strength to be in a good shape in his late years.
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That's not very bright proposition. Suppose they have captured the market regulatorily and jacked up prices. Sure they have defended from new start-ups. What would prevent a big player such as Amazon or Meta from entering their market? They can surely afford to allocate tens of billions to do so. They can also hire an expensive team of lawyers and execs to enter this regulated market.
Never really understood why people use uber either until I went to Austin. They are not filling a gap in taxis in my opinion but in public transport.
That has been available in Macs since 20+ years. It depends on the model, as not all get this.
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