skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side, one of the things I love the most about ridesharing is that you're always just dropped off at the front door and don't have to worry about availability and quality of parking.

Even in the best cases, any moderately popular place is going to involve a winding driving path and a moderate trek through a car park to get to where you actually want to be due to the inherent lack of density of cars.

In the worst case, there was a time when a group of 4 of us needed to go from the Mission to Alamo Square and one of us happened to have a car on us which involved a 15 minute drive and then a 30 minute circling of the block looking for parking which finally involved us finding a spot half the distance of just walking to the place we wanted to get to.
Actually it sounds like recruiting just got a lot easier for you!
"Pants Considered Harmful" (cnet.com)
I saw the first page and it had the classic HackerNews headline format: "<name> has died."

AI is gonna win, y'all.
Here is an article from 2014 that discusses this trend:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/fashion/how-uber-is-chang...

One thing I didn’t see mentioned, why didn’t people just take a cab before Uber? Was it just too inconvenient?
I love Emacs. It’s my daily driver IDE and I use it for everything involving text. That said, I can’t help it: I love shiny UIs, instant cloud syncing, and top-notch mobile apps. Plain Org, beorg, and Logseq make decent apps for reading content on the go, but they’re completely different from Emacs for editing and writing new content when I’m on my iPad. I have to learn at least two different apps for accessing the same data, and their feature sets aren’t identical in any case.

If I could run Emacs natively on my iPad, I’d be all-in on org-mode. But I can’t, so I’m not.
Lack of ejection seats, or visible provisions for them have come to my mind, too.
> Come again? Of course it can.

Oh come on.. I'm pretty sure Walter meant taking a view kind of slice. Obviously one can always copy part of a string, but that's not what slice implies I think.

> It can't be done in place, mind you, but that's a pretty bad way to do any string slicing, regardless of implementation, in a manual memory management environment.

It's not bad. It's the best, most efficient way. O(1)-ish.

> Do most programmers expect their slices to result in undefined behavior if they release the larger string they were made from? I doubt it.

That's what copy-on-write is for : release of the parent is blocked until no views are left on it.

I made a C String lib using CoW. It works well:

https://github.com/alcover/buffet
What good is legal action upon entities that are, by design, extrajudicial to begin with? You can sue NSO out of existence and the people and tradecraft involved will just reappear a few months later under a different name and organization, but keep doing business as before.

The whole point of setups like this is to circumvent legal checks and balances to get information they wouldn't normally be able to get. No intelligence apparatus is going to give up that ability, especially not over some silly foreign lawsuit complaining about hacking. This isn't even a slap on the wrist, it's just legal theater.
Lmao, no offense but holy damn the mental gymnastics going on there.

> Great to see free speech finally thriving on Twitter now that Musk has taken over!!

> See but Musk is banning people for making fun of him, even accounts clearly labeled as "parody".

> Hmm sure, but then again does parody really fall under free speech?

Dear god

--

Free speech is free speech. It's not "you're free to say things I like", especially as defined by some slightly-deranged billionaire CEO. Plus, parody is the bread and butter of comedians making fun of politicians since at least ancient rome.

For what's worth, Musk had already been notorious before for attempting to silence those critical of him. And let's not even get into the union-busting stuff (free speech to hurl abuse at trans people online, but not to organize collective action!).
Well, a system can have "perfect" knowledge of where in that drawer things are, a human can't, but nevertheless you need a minimum amount of space to move things around.

Is Amazon retail still basically making 1-2% profit and AWS makes all the rest? I've seen these Amazon stories for a decade, and I guess there probably is a large amount of reinvestment, but isn't Walmart more profitable?

The perfect warehouse robot based on organic life would be a spider?
At this point HN is more or less a parody of itself. The same thing happened to Slashdot. Maybe inevitable with any long running community site.
Yes, well i just have it private, i just have the real close friends and family.. thats my message in a bottle to the future.. I hope it reaches the shore, someday.
Not sure what country you're in.. but in the US, most medium sized cities have "legal aid clinics" who can either help you directly or refer you to a local attorney specializing in your matter. The state bar association can do the same but they're more of a generic directory than a referral.
Another is Hollerith strings that was used by FORTRAN and TCP protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant
> An OS requires a DB

You said it yourself: Obsidian (= an OS) requires a DB.

But It does not have (a good, full-featured) one yet. dataview ? db-folder ? Yeah, sure, we are getting there [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33820817
interesting, I didn't know that.
Deregulation helped.

But the Uber dispatch was way better. Ubers would actually show up and you could see them coming on gps.

For a while in Chicago, uberX was banned but you could use Uber to hail a registered cab. It was still much better than trying to use dispatch.
Interactions with my managers at Amazon made me a much more cynical human being (at least when it comes to managers/corporate politics).
Oh for sure, sorry.

I was more meaning that from the patient’s perspective, it’s hard to tell the difference.

It helps that I live in NZ where you can’t sue very easily for injury, and most medical errors are covered by a national insurance scheme which applies to everyone.
Post 27 seems to always be some variation of "FTX owes $xx.xxx to XYZ"

FTX owes $13.68 to Robin Hood (substack.com)

FTX owes $997.43 to Binance (nationalgeographic.com)

FTX owes $264.32 to Robin Hood (theverge.com)

etc
Instagram is doing just fine at the job it morphed into. A high end escort advertising board.

A 20yo guy cannot afford to spend $5K a day for a beautiful girl that has posted scantly clad pics exactly for this purpose. They are not the market. The market is middle age wealthy men and the women they pay for their "time." Then the women they pay go back to Instagram to find things to buy for "bragging rights" which satisfies the advertisers.
Durable isn't a great word for what Facebook has become. It's been LinkedIn-ified - the entire notifications category is filled with useless recommendations and suggestions rather than meaningful updates from connections. And they still put notification dots up for it.
Even if there's an opt out option and I could 'filter that' I haven't seen anything else relevant in 1+ year.
This is only a very rough analogy, but consider these text AIs like lossy JPEG compression for images -- using an efficient statistical representation of the content, you can store a lot of information in a little space and reconstruct something aaaalmost like the original. If I (and a few hundred million other people) have gone through the trouble to create a nice PNG picture or whatever, and then someone comes along and saves it as a JPEG at.. say.. 95% quality, that JPEG will look pretty great. Hard to distinguish from its source.

But what happens when our JPEG saver only has other JPEGs to start with? And soon, is saving copies of copies of... you get the idea. The images lose more and more of their original real-world structure, and become dominated instead by artifacts of the compression and reconstruction processes.

That's basically the (a) challenge for this AI training paradigm of scraping web-scale content. The more that content is generated by the previous generations of AI, the more we're asking the next generation to learn from copies of copies of the original human intelligence that powers them
It's not the same.

If you ask a chat interface a question and it says "this is true", that's very different from a search engine containing a list of results where one of them might be untrue.

For one thing, you can look at all the queries and take a majority vote etc. Second, you can look at the source to see if it's trustworthy.
> I don't understand what this means, but I suspect

I interpret it that while afraid, you do not mind me explaining, also/at least for others that may not have understood.

Argument: "We adopt this stance, because it allows X and doing differently would cause Y and Z".

The Spectator, a few months ago: "It is like in that Seinfeld episode where she expressed her concerns and he replied that all [slur] are [slur]. Yeah, take that, [slur], because this [vulgarity] has met your [relative]".

Edit: and when I read that, I thought that the current decadence, each day more evident, is abusing boundaries.

Edit: ...although, I suspect that this type of articles that The Spectator has so horribly decided are acceptable, could actually be tolerated, under the circumstance that they are read and acted by Mike Meyers in a costume.
What is this weird jump to politics, eugenics nazis or whatever? You're the second person that went there.

I just wanted people to know that ettercap is a tool written by people that can't be trusted when it comes to writing open source software.

Will you run any tools made public by NSO or any other company like that???
I feel like there’s a natural adoption curve to social media:

1. The growing social media platform balances the needs of two user groups: the consumer’s need for fresh content and the neophyte producer’s need for a slowly ramping trickle of validation. This is possible because the people don’t know how to produce content in the new format yet.

2. The mature social media platform has picked winners. We know who the successful youtubers are, the successful twitch streamers, etc., and they know how to create the optimal media for their platform. At this point we’re maximally satisfying consumer demand, but we’re actively repelling the neophyte producers because the bar is now too high. They form a growing untapped market for the next social media platform.

3. Decay. A competing platform has stolen the limelight by restoring the dynamism of the consumer/producer balance. The successful producers of the platform start flexing out to the new upstart, though they’re unlikely to repeat their successes there, they’re too late to the game and bound to old habits. Chasing feature parity with the new platform does nothing because now you’re just upsetting the existing balance but that’s not suddenly going to pull new people into the game, they’ve already written you off.
I am in the same situation as you but as soon as you have caught up with the posts from friends (which if you only have a few hundreds and check everyday goes very quickly), it's literally only sponsored posts.

I just checked right now, I scrolled through 10 posts of accounts that I follow, which took 30 seconds, before getting "You're all caught up" and having literally only spam posts.

And I don't even go on Instagram every day.
It’s actually from a different parody, linked by the original author in the intro.
You could never get a taxi from a warehouse in LA to the south bay cities at 6AM before uber. You'd get laughed at. You pretty much had to have a place to crash or you're out $100 and you were waiting a while for the cab.
It looks like a small CPU is working inside a bigger CPU :) Are there any books on this or on CPUs design?
It’s not, though it certainly does have identifiable quirks.
None competitive with Uber/Lyft. Too much sprawl to for hailing to be viable, so pre-Uber one would have had to call to request a cab, wait as indeterminate amount of time, risk a no show, all without feedback.
Oh there's lots of solutions to this problem. But this is the most honest.
I'm not really following that explanation. You can get the same sharing of hardware resources with hardwired control circuitry as with microcode. (In fact, probably more with hardwired control circuitry since micro-instructions put some limits on what you can do.) It's just a matter of how you implement the state machine.

(As an aside, the 8086 has a separate adder for address computations, independent of the ALU. You can see this in the upper left of the die photo.)
So, take-home code tests are dead?
A successful judgement against NSO makes it radioactive for US investment firms and potential acquirers.
You keep opening it though
Pool and Line came pretty late in the game after the regulations changed. Uber absolutely used ride sharing to claim they weren’t taxis before Pool.
Yep, I live in Chicago and it's a cost/convenience scale with Lyft in the middle. Trains/buses are cheapest but take the longest, Lyft costs more but is faster, and driving is even more convenient (say, for groceries) but costs the most, especially if you don't need it very often.

Taxis should fit in there somewhere, but I've never used one because public transport was good enough, then when Uber/Lyft came about they hadn't yet come up with anything as convenient (or at least as well publicized).
I'd rather put it this way - it's because our resources are limited that we have so few IITs, IIScs, AIIMSs, NIDs, IIMs etc. As our economy has grown, we have established more of these institutes.
"(PARODY) Elon Musk (PARODY)" still gets you banned.
> The usefulness of this purpose not to be discussed here

This is a fantastic bit to tack on for divisive topics, I'm stealing it.
Having lived in a European city without a car, I would never own a car in a city again. Getting to anywhere within the city was much quicker walking, biking or public transport. If we needed a car for e.g transporting things there were about 10 cars from carsharing services within 5min walk of all sorts of sizes, which could be booked instantly using a mobile app. I would even use these for longer weekend trips, even though you could save some money by using a rental car, but that was typically more hassle.

Between the cost of car ownership, parking, petrol and lost time for finding a parking spot we likely saved thousands in the 6 years we lived in the city. And had much better quality of live.
It's, uh, fascinating:

GPT: Graveyards, Pits & Treasure

Gems: 0

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 10

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 20

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 30

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 40

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 50

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: 60

[Dig up the next grave?]

...

[Dig up the next grave?]

Gems: You fell into a pit. You are dead

Edit: yes, it's code that works. But how much can it do? So far, not so much. And we've had things that could generate code that works for decades, only people weren't interested because it wasn't neural nets and they weren't advertised by OpenAI & Microsoft or Google. Search for "program synthesis".
I don't know about the Telegraph's motives, but it's in line with the other narratives around Russia's attack on Ukraine. It was interesting to me because I'd brought it up on HN some time ago because the overwhelming sentiment was that countries like Germany to crazy to rely on Russian gas, but Russia is also a big player in the uranium business. And would be even more so if everyone had a nuclear plant per million people like France has.
Many C++ code bases still do this pervasively, it is a common practice to improve robustness. I don't know what it is like in Ada but C++ metaprogramming makes this not too onerous.
It seems like it's all going to plan but maybe a bit too quick?

You're a country with cheap manufacturing. Become the world's manufacturing hub for the higher tech design firms. Then as your economy ramps up, your education goes up, you start becoming more and more like those design firm based countries. At some point you switch over and find yourself a new country to base cheap manufacturing in. Say.. Africa?

So now, does the US and Apple, have a cheap manufacturing alternative? Does China?
Having wisdom teeth removed can range from a simple tooth extraction to invasive oral surgery.

In the heavier cases, a flap of gum tissue and covering jaw bone are cut away to expose a submerged tooth that is oriented the wrong way. The tooth is then demolished in place so that the chunks can be lifted out. The patient would be sedated during this procedure, and the wound and recovery period is significantly different.
Seems more performant than the existing non-old Reddit, particularly when loading comments. The font size and styles look like a committee decision at Microsoft, though.
> Anyhow it's sad that Facebook has so much of my family's lives hostage... Only there can I see what's up.

I'm not the social media kind of people, but I have some friends and family members, that my last words were through facebook. So as a communication tool, I see its value. Said that, I don't have the app installed anywhere. Just messages notifications via email.
https://archive.ph/DgDYQ
Inconvenient, unreliable, expensive.
Manual? One should be so lucky.
I think urbanists have a bit of a blind spot in this area. The typical experience on public transit in most places in the U.S. exceeds the typical American's threshold for tolerating disorder. This can be hard for urbanists to see -- probably because they're more likely to be very high in openness, which just means their tolerance bars are shifted further to the right of the average person.

> And anti-social behavior will problem actually go down as a proportion when there are more people on the subway.

I think this also hints at something urbanists aren't very good at reckoning with, which is that people do not experience disorder as a per capita phenomenon. If a drug dealer lives on your block, then that's going to have a big impact on quality of life whether there are 500 people on your block or 50, even though, again, the per capita rates in those two scenarios are quite different.

People have a proximity theory of crime, not a per capita one. That's why appeals to per capita differences in crime rates often fall flat.
I was walking through Amsterdam airport last month and saw ads for the metaverse and was perplexed.
GM bailout had stipulations to shut down overlapping brands, Pontiac and Saturn got the axe.
lol, taxis in the US outside of NYC and maybe the core downtown of a few other cities were a joke.

You’d call in to get a cab and they would say someone “should be there in 20-40 mins”. Then there was a 70% of them showing up if it wasn’t around bar closing time and maybe 25% if it was.

If you wanted to plan a night out you needed a car service if you wanted reliability and that cost a fortune.

That doesn’t even begin to scratch at the “my credit card reader is broken” and “should I take route X, it’s faster” scams nearly every cabbie would pull on you.
Legalizing has resulted in more ODs so you want to.. legalize more?

How does legalizing manufacturing of a killer substance stop ODs?
So, Hacker News is Dying?
Oh yes the dreaded “(There is) Fire in the city!”

I really liked Caesar III but I never seemed to be able to get service reach a reasonable amount of real-estate, presumably due to the left turn mentioned in another branch. So I ended up plopping way more temples and engineers/prefects than strictly required.
Good point. Some SSO (small str optimization) schemes achieve this by pointing back into the struct itself. Gcc String implementation for ex.
I can’t speak for LA, but taking a cab in other cities sucks and sucked. Dispatch was rude and inaccurate and you had to actively watch and assess the meter if you didn’t want to get scammed in the cab itself. Also if the driver didn’t want to go the direction you were headed you were SOL. This can still happen with ride shares of course, but it happens when you are trying to find a ride instead of when the ride arrives.
OK. Got anything that was only two or three decades ago, like you said you had?
Four-day week trial confirms working less increases wellbeing and productivity
> why didn’t people just take a cab before Uber

This is addressed in sibling comments, but basically it was impossible to get one, especially late at night, and if you did, it would cost a fortune.
The risk of myocarditis is substantially higher in COVID infections than COVID vaccinations.

Yes, it's unfortunate that the vaccine has side effects. But if you're seriously concerned about the risk of heart problems the vaccine is the safer bet.
You can get a used Ferrari for quite a low price too… it’s not particularly hard to get a new Ferrari either they make about 10,000 cars per year and their serial production cars don’t have that long of a waiting list since the majority of people who can afford one do not want a serially produced car or already own one.

A Ferrari isn’t just an expensive car it’s a rather useless car so even the crowed who wants and can afford luxury like a 150-200K pimped out S- Class / Porsche / Land Rover / Jeep Grand Whatever Indian Tribe they are on now which they can still use as an every day/family car is not in the market for one.

So believe it or not there isn’t a huge demand for Ferraris out there most people who can afford one already have one and they tend to go for highly sought off models and configurations rather than the normal production ones.

As long as you live near a Ferrari dealership you probably can get one of their serially produced cars within a 4-8 weeks.

Looking at the UK at least I can get a new Ferrari now pretty much instantly on the other hand a Porsche Taycan has a delivery time frame of nearly a year and a Merc EQS SUV has a waiting list of 70 weeks.
There you go, they are unable to stop because that is where their readers and audience is. Still on Twitter.

> I don't think people realize how desperate these news orgs are.

This is why the Verge hasn't moved off of Twitter and had to grift their readers for Black Friday and Cyber Monday affiliate links littered everywhere on the homepage and advertised on Twitter.

The desperation is there, and they are very good at hiding it.
"cool people are bored of some media consumption format"

What will be the next one?

A: hand drawn postcards
I can’t take any credit for having some omniscient insight but I was lucky enough to start Java development in 1996. It pretty much gave me a career.
It's also happy to spew nonsense and claim it as fact.
Even if that company ceased to exist, they'd just reorganize under a different name later on.
I think the rise of meander is more likely a sign of inattention and the inability to focus. An essay is much more powerful and memorable if it can state a clear thesis and defend it memorably and undeniably.

In today's writing, perhaps because we demand so great a volume of it, purposeful prose financially rewards the author's extra effort less than ever before, and is less appreciated by readers because they're less willing to pause their pace of consumption to reflect on subtleties and unobvious insights. The online written word has evolved into a 24x7-driven ehpemeral commodity, where cleverness alone is the desiderata that makes or breaks the work and its auteur.
But that runs counter to all the arguments professional scrum masters and agile evangelists make. "All you need to do know is agile/scrum/fad du jour". /s