skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember living in NYC pre-Uber. If you were trying to hail a cab in a spot with other people also trying to get one, you had to resort to aggressively yelling "Back the F@#$ off, that's my cab!"

Then Uber came and that largely went away b/c why fight over a cab when you could call and Uber?

Then CitiBike came along. It was amazing that you could just get a bike and ride somewhere. That is, until you were riding it to a commuter bus or train station at evening rush hour. Suddenly, you have 5 mins to catch your train and you see one open slot in the bike return. Another person also sees that spot and you race towards it until you ave to say "Back the F@#$ off, that's my spot!"

In other words, if cities want to have these options then should address directional supply and demand issues otherwise people are just going to say "Not worth the hassle"
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It’s written into the constitution.
Why, exactly?

1. It's not like this should come as a surprise to anyone at Twitter. If you work at Twitter and haven't been updating your resume and reaching out to other contacts, don't know what to say.

2. Remains to be seen what severance package laid off employees get, but with the California WARN requirements I think it's likely to be at least a couple months, which is fair. Looks like Musk tried to screw over some of the top execs by firing "for cause" (and note, in an exec's contract "for cause" can't just be "we don't like the job you did", it pretty much always has specific stipulations about breaking laws or company policy, e.g. sexual harassment), but they have more than enough resources to sue if necessary.

3. Is there anyone who reasonably thinks that Twitter has a lot of unproductive employees that should be let go? I think unions can do a lot of good, but not if it's the standard "once you're in the union it's nearly impossible to let you go" situation. Highly productive employees hate working with people who just "phone it in".
Keep in mind, things are not as simple as some talking heads would have you believe:

* More than a fifth of the treasury bond debt owed by the federal government is owed to... none other than the Federal Reserve, which is part of the federal government. Every year, more than a fifth of the debt payments made by the US Treasury go to the US Federal Reserve, which dutifully sends them all back to the US Treasury every year.

* If you own any US treasury bonds (whether directly, in a 401(k), in some other kind of retirement or pension plan, or in an index fund), that's your share of the US national debt: It's the amount the federal government owes you.

* Every dollar spent by the government at home is a dollar earned by the private sector (who else?). Every dollar the government spends at home goes to private companies (healthcare providers, aerospace/weapons makers, government contractors, etc.) or to private citizens (government employees, military officers and their families, individuals receiving tax refunds, etc.).
US private colleges cost about $250 to $330k for am entire BA.
Companies here in the US do things that are illegal all the time. That doesn't mean they don't recognize the US government.
That's giving an opportunity to a class of people who are less privileged overall, too bad you feel that way.
Atlanta is huge. It can take two hours at highway speeds to get through it. Most routes do not allow for scooters. I think it's obvious that banning scooters cannot have had impact on most commute routes. This conclusion needs to be more specific about commute routes impacted to help folks learn from the data.

I think they also need to discuss other projects which impacted commute times at the time. For example, major work on the GA400/I285 intersection began at that time. Changes to I75 and its dedicated pay lanes was underway. Those two routes are used by huge numbers of commuters every day and the impact was huge.
To boost adoption, hybrids and EVs were allowed into the HOV lanes (without high-occupancy passengers).
The Apple Card is a partnership with GoldmanSachs, IIRC. That is, they outsourced the zero-sum thinking to Wall Street.
Yes, I find myself doing this sometimes
Everything makes sense when you think of Harvard and similar universities as selfish private institutions that want to maximize their reputation. They want the children of world leaders, billionaires, and actual super-geniuses. They don't want to dilute their brand with thousands of extra students with mundane backgrounds that end up being moderately successful professionals who make mid-six-figures. Affirmative action students give the school more credibility among URMs, so they offer more to Harvard than a somewhat more qualified Asian who isn't quite IMO medalist level.
Just tell them to move your account or you'll take your business over to Azure or GCP.
Some places incentivize low emissions vehicles by giving them access to high occupancy lanes.
My guess is that previously a Prius (or similar hybrid) qualified for the HOV lane regardless of how many passengers. The intuition is that because they are so fuel efficient, it's similar to carpooling.
100% agree, I had the same experience
You can say each of those things about cars and it is equally true. You're just acclimated to it.

Parked on sidewalks: yes
Blocking crowded streets: yes
Collisions common: yes
People getting hurt: yes
That's true, and those laws are supposed to right decades of misappropriation of education, finance, basic rights back to those that were wronged. The intent is sound, but the execution of it? I'm not sure it's been done fairly. Consider this:

Asians have been discriminated in many cases in the past as well. Goes way back to the days of slavery:

> After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations [...] Starting as early as 1865, Southern newspapers began printing editorials and letters calling for Chinese labor to be the new labor supply.[2] This interest was sparked in part by accounts boasting that the Chinese contract labor attributed to the increase in Cuban agricultural imports. The Chinese effectively became the new labor supply but were positioned societally at the same level as African Americans.

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

Then you have the railroads era, WWII internments camp era, the Chinese Exclusion Act, 2021 Atlanta Spa shooting, and more. Then factor in all the other racist policies against Asians: minority roles in film, in white collar job sector, bamboo ceilings, violence/assaults against asians vs police response, US government witchhunt on Asian researchers during Covid, dealing with "Model Minority" myth...

Yet, Asians are constantly excluded when it comes to Affirmative action in these modern times, why is that? We can clearly see they've had an unpleasant history too, so why are institutions increasingly hostile against them? This isn't even restricted to Colleges, even though the lawsuit stemmed from it, we can see it affecting the workplace as well:

> "Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management"

https://hbr.org/2018/05/asian-americans-are-the-least-likely...

> "Pfizer defends exclusion of Asian and white applicants in fellowship, says it’s ‘non-discriminatory’"

https://www.yahoo.com/video/pfizer-defends-exclusion-asian-w...

We should embrace Asians to be part of the diversity and Affirmative Action policies, not reject them, so I feel the current implementation of AA needs to be addressed, which I hope the ongoing college lawsuit will do.
I am pretty sure that Kodak or Nokia had pretty healthy results when the wind turned for them.

Those kinds of ships are so big that it is very easy for managers, investors and employees to convince themselves that everything is _fine_.

The biggest problem, for Meta, in my opinion, is not the brand, not the business model and not the competition. The problem is much worse because it is internal and probably too late to fix.

Their engineering culture as a whole is a one trick pony.
They wouldn't be good looking humans, but as a non-gamer since basically half life came out, I actually became more interested in the game after seeing them. They have ineffable character compared to Fortnite models.
> But means-based aid is also significant.

Does this refer to scholarships and other forms of tuition assistance, or does it also include admissions criteria as well?
> Not everyone wants to own a car either, and everyone owning a car is not exactly environmentally sustainable. Replacing Uber & Lyft with robots would add a ton of value and be practical for a very large percentage of the population.

Yeah, no one wants this.
Why not provide the same thing and make the colors variable, tho?
The DS was also to JRPGs what the Switch is to them now! Contact, Dragon Quest IX, TWEWY, Strange Journey, Rune Factory - median and top 10 beats both the PSP and PS3.
Also not the person you replied to, but yes, in the moment. The feeling was that I couldn't believe someone would pay me for that.
Why the future of computing is everywhere, all the time
Your habit of citing yourself with the appropriate references has led me from taking your stance as an extremely literal one (“understanding all of the layers; literally”) to actually viewing your point as…very comprehensive and respectful to the history of technology while simultaneously rendering the common trope that you are addressing as just that, a trope.

Thanks, teddyh.
Indeed, if self-driving cars killed 1,000 people a year they would immediately be banned, but 30x that in human-caused fatalities and nobody bats an eye. We have created a culture that idolizes the personal freedom of the automobile while ignoring every externalized cost it dumps onto the general population.
I get your point. I really do. But proof is in the pudding, and the Picard show is really missing the mark. I don’t think it’s growing the brand, and I don’t think it’s pleasing fans either.
> The code is GPL, nobody will arrest you for forking it.

People will bitch about that too - see what happens to kernels of Android handsets, people will complain that OEMs don’t want to waste time upstreaming drivers.
Usually when someone's habitual activities cause routine death and misery to others we don't factor in their desires too heavily when we change it.
Things were different, but I don't think it's universally better or worse.

In 1992:

- Every programmer had at least seen, and possibly even coded in, _every existing language_. I had college classes that touched on or taught COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC, Ada, C, C++, and even a couple different assembly languages. The current proliferation of languages can be a bit overwhelming when you're striving for the "right tool for the job."

- Using C++, especially cross-platform, was an act of frustration due to lagging standards adoption. Like others have said--you only learned from books, and stuff that the books said you could use, like templates and exception handling, just didn't work on a ton of different compilers. gcc/g++ was still rough--using the compiler provided by the OS was still the norm.

- UNIX boxes like Sun or SGI workstations were _crazy_ expensive, but if you knew the right people, you could buy used stuff for _only_ the price of a Honda.

- There were 20+ different UN*X variants already, all with only a modicum of compatibility. 16-bit SCO, 32-bit SunOS, and 64-bit DEC/Alpha architectures made porting...a challenge.

- 1996 was the first time I saw my first Linux box in the wild (at a UNIXWORLD expo, I believe? The star of that show was Plan 9.)

- Agile/XP/scrum was years away from common adoption. Code reviews were nonexistent. Pair programming nonexistent. Continuous Integration nonexistent. Unit, system, and integration tests were a decade away still: QA was a team, and _manually_ tested builds using a test plan.

- To be productive within a code base took time due to lack of standards, making then somewhat impenetrable (sometimes by design for job security), and system setup took days (no docker!). Some people used `make`, but there were a ton of other home-grown tools as well.

- Source code control wasn't widely adopted. Some companies didn't see the need. This is pre-git and pre-subversion--some people used CVS/RCS. To get a tree, you had to rsync from another dev's tree, or a master shared filesystem.

- Having someone else look at your code was unusual, compared to typical pull-request-style workflows of today. No bikeshedding issues back then, but also, no real opportunity for mentorship or style improvements.

- There wasn't really an idea of "shared open source libraries" yet. CPAN (for perl) was one of the first, and started in 1993.

- You had to actually _buy_ tooling, like a compiler (like SUNWspro, Visual Studio, or the X-Motif builder toolchain). It made coding at home on a budget a lot more limiting.

- Work/life balance back then, just like today, varied widely in the silicon valley. You had to pick a co that met your needs.
The real solution to congestion is to shift cities away from having so much car infrastructure. If you build a car oriented city with gigantic box stores surrounded by lakes of parking lots as the only option then people will drive cars. Electric scooters are a terrible solution to a problem that really needs to be addressed.
What is the low hanging fruit in terms of changing the product? Can there be different 'streams' of twitter users? Moderation ala reddit? How will light touch moderation actually work given the garbage that will rise to the surface (child porn, beheading videos) that will kill advertising?
I get the point you're trying to make, but isn't installing an accessibility extension or enabling accessibility features in your browser/OS the equivalent of buying your own wheelchair, crutches, glasses, etc? I don't think anyone expects every store they visit to provide a wheelchair for customers.

There's also the wheelchair ramp analogy, but I don't think that's the same since web technology is already accessibility-friendly without publishers having to do anything. User agents can completely change the style of any web page, so they are effectively wheelchair accessible.

I admit I don't know much about accessibility issues, so maybe there's something obvious I'm missing here?
Crypto giveaway scams surge: the number fake domains grows five-fold in H1 2022
Nearly a third of the forests in the southern Sierra Nevada have been destroyed
That these questions are being asked makes me think software engineers are very detached from the other 95% of humanity.
Uh... I (and everyone else) wants the one who is the best heart surgeon!!!

Ask the wrong question and you will rarely get the right answer.

Good lord, this really encapsulates the level of this debate, and how it is about anything but actual merit.
A custom-designed 1.8“ ZIF IDE SSD
The infrared heat of metabolism would be indistinguishable from the background noise of natural sources.
For those who don't know, RoCE = RDMA over Converged Ethernet.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet

> RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) is a network protocol that leverages Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capabilities to accelerate communications between applications hosted on clusters of servers and storage arrays. RoCE incorporates the IBTA RDMA semantics to allow devices to perform direct memory-to-memory transfers at the application level without involving the host CPU. Both the transport processing and the memory translation and placement are performed by the hardware which enables lower latency, higher throughput, and better performance compared to software-based protocols.

* https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/pages/viewpage.action?pag...
My Yaesu FT65R is IP54 and FT5DR is IPX7. The Olympus OM1 is IP53 (only camera I can think of with an actual IP rating) and Pelican makes IPX7 flashlights. All of which have easily replaceable batteries.
Seems like he came to the same realization as Karpathy. Any problem of the scale of self driving requires massive organization and work, its not a short term project. There's a ton of managing and planning involved, and if what drives you is the engineering then its simply not for you.
California let Priuses in to the carpool lanes for awhile with a "Carpool OK" sticker I think due to their reduced emissions. BEVs later got the same stickers but they were either limited in number and/or eventually were phased out.

For me, I'd always just risk the fine for the 6-7 years I was down in the Bay Area. It never happened and I got hours or possibly whole days of my life back.
The 360 has a Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor. So there's not much, if any, performance impact to having it since the software runs natively on the hardware.

Microsoft used a hypervisor primarily for security. They wanted to ensure that only signed code could be executed and wanted to prevent an exploit in a game from allowing the execution of unsigned code with kernel privileges on the system itself.

Every ounce of performance lost to the hypervisor is money Microsoft wasted in hardware costs. So they had an incentive to make the HyperV as performant as possible.
Me neither, until the author mentioned it to me in on GH!

https://github.com/will-stone/plastic/issues/170
I always wondered if it was a mistake for Facebook to try to rapidly casualise VR after acquiring Oculus. If they spent even a small fraction of their metaverse billions developing high-end, niche products (flight/mech sims etc.) then they could cultivate a loyal base of affluent users. It probably wouldn't be profitable by itself, but it would grow their user base and act as a nice showcase of what VR is capable of. More so than the cartoon office space vibe.
Code golf is an enemy of clarity, and clear Perl has been a victim of that.
I'm just correcting AlbertCory's wrong understanding of the word counterexample. I don't care for their discussion.
I think you'll find the most capable engineers at Twitter will be the first to leave, not the deadweight. These people will be able to get a job anywhere, or start a company, and they're not going to sit around and be screamed at by a capricious dictator who doesn't know anything about how long things actually take (and if Elon did, he wouldn't be promising FSD "real soon now" every year)

If I was working at Twitter and Elon strolled in and said "Ship this (non-emergency fix) in one week or you're fired", I'd tender my resignation immediately. First, it's ridiculous. Second, we already know he wants to get rid of 1/3 to 2/3rds of the company, so there's no guarantee if you pull 80-hr weeks, weekend all-nighters, that you won't get fired anyway. And honestly, a CEO expecting people to regularly pull crazy hours like that is a red flag.
> Is that model based on information you collected that day? Mostly no.

Of course not, but how is that relevant to whether causality is only(!) useful in geopolitics on extremely large timescales?

> Proactive vs reactive. Causality is good for planning or initiating, but ultimately what happens happens...

It does indeed, and that is a function of what preceded the event happening....you know: causality.

> ...and you need to respond in a way that produces the best possible outcome with the highest likelyhood. I'm not saying that as an absolute, I just believe it to be the most efficient mode of operating, and seems to reflect most geopolitical interactions.

And I agree (it's my point!)...but that is not contrary to anything I've said, at least as far as I can tell.

> Of course, and we can learn a lot from looking at why.

Do you believe we do a good job of this?

Do you believe that the US Government promotes causal thinking among the public (as opposed to encouraging them to think in other forms, such as justification)?

> That doesn't really fit into this instance of cyber defense though.

It is certainly relevant to a lot of the "facts" being laid down in the discussions here.

> There is no lesson to be learned that makes you give up and hand over digital systems to an adversary.

I don't think anyone is proposing that we "give up and hand over digital systems to an adversary".

Maximally absurd hyperbole is useful when it comes to rhetoric during internet arguments, but for clear thinking I believe it is detrimental.

> I pointed out exactly that. My point was that no matter what lesson you learned, you still need the cast. I'm not saying causality isn't helpful, I'm just saying it's not helpful here.

Can you explain why causality has zero utility here?

For example: how events unfold in Ukraine has some dependency on Vladimir Putin - do you think there is zero utility in at least considering his opinion on such matters? And to be clear: I am in no way proposing that we roll over and give into every demand he has - rather, I am proposing that we engage in clear, unbiased, truthful, "good faith" conversation, to the extent of our abilities. To me, this seems like a good idea.
Scrum, Agility and the Human Factor
This seems like multiple reports on a single batch of incidents connected to sketchy accounting of foreign capital (and in Canada). What about this doesn't scream "edge case" and needs to be handled as a general case of college admissions and not by anti-money-laundering?
True, until it can off-road in the amazon rain forest it has not improved.
> The way electric scooters were handled in Atlanta was an absolute nightmare

Is there an example of a city who has handled them correctly? Your description describes every implementation I've seen thus far.
Well... that is REALLY sad.
Not desensitized just different stats and impacting how they are seen as tangible. For example, the auto stats translate into me, a mid-40s adult living in a very car dependent part of the US, having only known of a few people to die my entire life (first hand, actual people I knew - was in high school when I had a much larger social network, so was statistically more likely to encounter this back then.) I don't know many people that have been severely injured either. Yet, those scooters began and instant and constant nuisance that many people across various social groups share. I'm not arguing against your point, just saying how perceptions get skewed based on how frequently you encounter them. It's easy for people to think driving is kind of safe when you and everyone you know drives daily without much consequence. The real statistics and magnitude (death vs annoyance) don't really mean much.
https://archive.ph/tkElT/
Here is an article on it if you prefer that:

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-custom-built-open-source-s...
Check out

https://rockylinux.org/about/

Then go to bottom of page there is lots of info and a great FAQ and check out the community.