skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber drivers want to make more money. Uber wants to be profitable. It turns out the two may not be reconcilable. The cancellation behavior you noticed is a direct result of this. The way it works is that Uber is trying to force drivers to accept rides if they’re available. There are many rides drivers do not want, usually because they can’t actually be delivered profitably at Uber’s published price. What the drivers really want are the premium rides, but Uber will send them plenty of chaff to go along with that wheat. So the drivers game the system and cancel after accepting.

There are scenarios where this is highly predictable. Airports at rush hour will inevitably get this behavior in most places I fly. (Note: I only use Uber internationally, domestically I use Lyft. I do not know how Uber works within the US anymore.)

The solution, if you want to use it, is to pay for the up-market rides. You magically will suddenly stop being canceled. Then Uber goes back to being the way it used to work (the drivers are also more pleasant when they’re actually making money to shuffle you from point A to point B). Or you can do what I’ve taken to doing now that I’m traveling again, and try public transit. Since I mostly travel to major European cities these days, this is usually quite reasonable, and often faster than a car anyway.
Here is a link to our support site which provides more information:

https://recroom.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4426900227735-...
You will fail if you set the targets too high. Don't do that. Be happy with what you can achieve and with what you've achieved already. Riches and fame are for the lucky few, and most of those had rich and famous parents to help them start.
I've had that experience of "broken credit card machine" in multiple countries including US, France, and Italy. That's why I use Uber when I can. I don't want to feel kidnapped by a taxi driver who insists in driving to an ATM.
I've been gathering a list of people who turned their life around at 35+, might be an inspiration - https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-were...
Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
Why is that an issue? Contrary to popular opinion, no site is a public commons. Rather every site regardless of its policies is a petty fiefdom run at the whim of the site owners.

Hacker News seeks a specific culture and a high bar of content quality and it aggressively curates and moderates towards that end, with freedom of speech being secondary to the goal of reducing entropy, and thus the slide into Eternal September.

If you don't like that you can make your own Hacker News with blackjack and hookers elsewhere, or just go to Reddit or 4chan and find all the politics and controversy you want. Both approaches have value, and there's room on the web for both.
Not really. Some drivers will insist on driving you to an ATM.
> I had all the desires of a regular guy: a wife, kids, a house, meaningful work, etc. I mean I still do, but I guess I'm too late for the first few.

False.
There’s nothing wrong with supplementing nutrients that we know can be supplemented. I certainly don’t see the reason not to that doesn’t cash out into sophistry or some notion of naturalistic fallacy.

Requiring every nutrient to come from food seems arbitrary, especially with nutrients that tend to be added to the product upstream, like supps given to animals or vitamin D in milk.
It was the rendering. I had read up on the related issue tickets, and the answer was that the vector rendering was both not optimized, and not cached in any way.
Everyone goes through this.
10 more years of doom, and then it gets better

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Is this VS Code running in an internal Webbrowser of emacs? Webkit then I guess?
`| grep -viE 'skillshare'`
Yes.

I'm sure weve all had an issue with a company, and in their communications, theyve been polite and used the 'right' words, but in the end you know they are basically fobbing you off, and refusing to sort the problem. the issue isn't the words, the issue is the attitude.

for me the issues would come in around how they perceive me. you could say that language used is indicative of that, but I disagree, polite words are often used to be very impolite. It takes very little time to assess someones perception, so I really don't see the utility in making people use 'correct' words.
Over 40 years ago is definitely "at or before" Emacs 24.1. Specifically before.

As far as I can tell, the "probably introduced at or before" info comes from finding a symbol's first appearance in NEWS. So if there were no changes to `count-words` between Emacs 1 and 24, this is what you'd get.
These arguments seem unrelated. Any combination of opinions of the availability of abortions, the availability of euthanasia, and the availability of guns is possible. I'm not entirely sure who you're trying to strawman here (I'd say a generic liberal, except the liberals I've heard argue against gun ownership are way more upset about mass shootings than suicides).
The relative difficulty of ARR milestones (I just hit #1)
Fine, as long as alternatives - no, not wind and solar without storage, those are not suitable - are available. Nuclear is probably the best option with natural gas second. Start building and installing already, why wait?

Many developing nations never got around to install an extensive wired phone network and leaped directly to mobile, maybe small modular reactors can be used to make the same jump for electricity production. They need to a) become available b) at competitive prices first. So, natural gas as a good start.
First, I'd find someone to walk through the valleys you're in with you. Conventional talk therapy is good for that. If you're wanting to change habits in your life then find a therapist who can also do CBT. My only advice around CBT is that you really need to invest yourself in it. The system really only works if you take the time to recognize daily, incremental progress and you're on top of it.

As far as your love life goes I simply disagree that you're past your "prime". People tend to say this when they're not looking at themselves in the best light anymore. There are plenty of women in their 40s looking to date and I'd bet there's some thinking about things like adoption. That's to say, I think there's more paths to what you want than you may currently realize. See my first paragraph on that.

Last, I did a career reboot years ago. It's possible with a lot of studying and diligence. Again, you'll need a good system for recognizing incremental progress and appreciating your ascent. It is frustrating at times; the only thing I can say looking back on my own path is be patient with yourself. Life is quite an adventure and I wish I'd learned to appreciate the moments in which my life deviated so far from the standard experience - even the times that I thought were bad. They're the thing I share with others when they need perspective.

You got this my guy, but don't go at it alone. That's how you land in suicidal ideation.
> I know the best of my life is behind me

I don’t think this is accurate. What’s the basis for this?

Check out the book Midlife: A Philosophical Guide.
Fair enough. People who do feel compassion for those who caused their own suffering usually do so out of an awareness that they are fallible as well.
JWST Revolutionized Astronomy in 2022
I just finished the book that this movie is based on, "American Prometheus" and it is outstanding. If the movie is anything like the book, I think it will be a success.
A simple majority may not be enough in certain cases.

Let's imagine a parliament with parties with these shares of seats (proportional to electoral votes): A = 50%, B = 33%, C = 15%, D = 2%. (Note: Not an actual Israeli parliament!)

Even for cases where a simple majority is sufficient, A would be able to overpower all other parties combined, had it one more representative. But with precisely 50% (or, funnier yet, something like 49.75%), it has to seek a coalition with at least one other party, even if every A representative is going to vote the same way (which is not a given). The smallest party, D, voting in an agreement with A, can turn tables with a guarantee; D's representatives will be courted by every other party, but by A's most of all.

For cases where a qualified majority, like 2/3, is required, a coalition is a must. A + C would narrowly miss it, and again D has an outsized influence. A + B would definitely make it, but usually A and B are opposed to each other. Thus the votes of C are worth more than their modest 15% of electorate represented.

OTOH B + C + D is enough to block any bill requiring a simple majority.

So C and D, which collectively represent 17% of electorate, will be able to command serious concessions from both A and B, which collectively represent 83%, but are usually opposed to each other.

(And no, something like A = 87% may be even worse.)
Customer service costs scale linearly with the number of users. This is not a mode of business supported by tech-companies.
> I know this will be a wildly unpopular belief but it is time to get the soldiers out of the field all together.

Maybe it's unpopular with you, but what's wrong with just getting the soldiers out of the field all together, period? Nobody invited the Russian soldiers where they are.
Try a few. Go see one, make it clear you’re looking around. If it isn’t working, say so and move on. They’re professionals, they get it.

You do have to be prepared to be vulnerable to some extent, but if they’re any good they’ll earn trust and develop a working relationship with you that is comfortable.

Source: multiple years of therapy. Definitely worth the effort and the cost.
Finally, a rationale for space tourism! Much like the hot springs on Earth, a trip to orbit extends lifespan (in bacteria). I, for one, cannot wait to see this breathlessly hyped in the science press. Step aside blood transfusions from teens to the elderly, there’s a new fountain of youth in town.
I have improved my life greatly a few years earlier and it's very much feasible.

I'd recommend seeing a behavioral therapist (because it's the things you do that matter in the long-term).

I also started going to a gym, improve my social life, make an effort to have friends, identify other people's expectation and say no when they don't fit yours, ...

If you're living in a small village, chances are your living close to your family and sometimes your family is negatively affecting your well-being, that might be why you were happy in the US.

On the pro side: It sounds you have a lot of time and I suggest to start right away with reading and sports:

- No more mr. nice guy

- When i say no, I feel guilty

- Models

If you manage to run / do sports 15-45 mins per day (start slowly) you'll start thinking clearer again.

Also, taking care of your health and body is generally a good start (food, weight, movement), the better you look the easier it is to chat up people of any sex and the more you'll be respected.

All the best
For many years, corporations existed with multi-office conferencing and no real-time camera link. Don't take the bait; share your screen (making certain that it is shareworthy) as a first principle.
Uh no.

For sure, you can’t even consider the possibility of a fusion power plant without the core reaction producing power. That they figured out how to do the energy equivalent of getting the coal to actually light (finally!) in this context, is indeed useful.

But it is a tiny, tiny step towards an actual working fusion power plant.

And it does nothing to fix the economic issues here in competition with all the other energy sources, which matters.

Igniting that bit of ‘coal’ took near 100x the energy we got out of it. It was essentially putting it in a giant blowtorch, and then getting excited when it finally got lit and burned. That we previously only got half smoldering was indeed a problem! And that it finally lit is indeed cool.

it also took an extreme amount of thought, precision, investment, etc. to do it once.

Meanwhile, solar plants in the area were churning out billions of kwh.
Looks yum, will have to try it. Love Indian food.

Also tried something called Dosa and Idli during my brief visit there.

I was told they are made from fermentation process and from all I read fermentation is healthy. Maybe one of the reasons Indians are not as obese as their western counterparts? Not sure just guessing.

Although every time I tried making Dosa it turned out not as soft or crispy as the ones I had in India.
Yes. I turned my life around at 43. Single, obsolete tech skills, lots of debt, personal issues. Began with taking a genuine inventory of my life and how I function, not just how I felt. I picked a constructive and structured approach to that, which looked a lot like CBT therapy but was something else.

It was a life reset, clearing out all the baggage. It was very difficult but incremental and genuine over time.

After the personal part, I levelled up my tech with some commercial online courses. When I began the career pivot, there was a lot of ageism and ghosting. Eventually I got a foothold and was on my way.

As for the family and relationships, I can tell you that I got a lot of attention from women once I made all those changes. There are so many looking for someone who is at least trying to handle their lives. I hear it all the time. Even being older, I get curious early 30s women who want families.

Now in my early 50s, my life is so much better. In no way do I feel my best days are behind me.
Is this definitely based on GeoIP, or could it possibly be that when you look at the same city on Google Maps every day, it decides that you are likely to want to look at that city? Does the behaviour persist in a private browsing window?
I think it's worth remembering that your body does what it does for a reason, but that it's nearly always working with imperfect information. Some notable examples:

When you're in a stressful situation at work, your body can't tell the difference between that and "Oh no, we spotted a material threat to our life", so it reacts in ways that would make fight or flight easier, not in ways that help you handle the real situation.

If your liver fails and you get a transplant, your body sees "ah, a foreign invader", and will set about the task of rejecting the new liver, despite it being very important for your wellbeing.
The New York Democrats basically checked out for this election.

Had they not, the Democrats may have retained control.
I don't agree with your point of view, but it would actually make it easier to surrender to a drone: for various reasons it is impractical to offer the russian leadership an offramp at this time, but (if our[=UA] propaganda is to be believed) the morale of the suffering russian conscript is such that they would be relieved to take an offramp if properly presented.

To me the drone says "there is a large enough UA force close enough that your surrender can be processed with no danger of interference from your (former) command"; to you the drone continues "furthermore there is no dishonour in surrendering to the drone, because it is a significant escalation in the fight. You did your best, and must surrender now".

Does that make sense?
So just set it to off by default for everyone? That seems like a pretty pragmatic and very non-theatrical improvement. Of course it will have to contend with the theatrics of gamers whining about the immense hassle of a one-time settings change to enable voice chat.
> Undisclosed moderation short circuits any ability to forgive

On here, the vouch feature is a kind of forgiveness, if you will. If you are shadow banned but you say something interesting one lucid day, people will vouch you and engage with you. This is why I browse HN with showdead on.
Is anyone prosecuted for crimes less bad than these financial crimes? That seems like a better test than whether anyone gets away with worse.
I agree on the therapist. Some are better than others, plan to try a few before settling on one.

The other thing I’d suggest is begin exercising regularly. Jogging is great because it only requires shoes, and you can do it almost anywhere. It’s something you can do for yourself that will definitely make you better off in the long run. You can tell yourself: “even if all my other plans fall through, if I keep up this exercise, I will be better off in a year than I am now.”

Regarding the wife and kids and career angle, speaking as someone who has all that, keep in mind that they open some doors but close others. I can’t hike the pacific crest trail, or sail around the world. Honestly, it’s really hard for me to get away for a few days to do something exclusively for myself, and if I do I feel guilty about it. If the wife and kids don’t happen for you, keep in mind that that also yields a freedom to explore alternatives which will not be possible if they do.
Oh no, it's "this shit is bad for absolutely everyone regardless of age and in some cases worse for adults, particularly young men, but it's politically infeasible to do anything to stop it once people turn 18."
If I have a F2P game on mobile, do I then have to force ask the users age at the start to track things like DAU without getting potentially sued because I was unintentionally without knowing tracking < 13 years?
Step one, see a therapist ( as others have said i'm sure ). Also, from reading, it seems like it's the worst of your life that's behind you not the best.

Early 30s i had an unsuccessful suicide attempt but managed to get things turned around through therapy and family and am very happy and content at 46. "It's a long road out of hell" is an accurate statement, it's more of a journey and you won't even know you've been succesful until a thread like this appears and you think back from where you were to where you are and the changes you've made.
You mean the people pushing HTGR pebble bed SMRs as drop in replacements for a coal boiler with no construction are being unrealistic? Say it ain't so.

Also I'll believe the inexpensive molten salt cooled reactor when I see one.
Love Rec Room :)

But this is basically the button press the GP was talking about, during sign up (which can be separate from the main sign up on the same device) the kid just says they were born in 1912 and now the mic works. Yes it's compliant with the law but it's the same problem GP was actually talking about - there is no real verification.

Having parental controlled accounts is a nice feature in general though, regardless of the legal requirements. Ultimately things like this come down to making good parenting easier and that can help.
I found this quite nice (explaining and comparing different methods of dithering):

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
I read this a lot. Until you're in the USA and you're on an on-ramp that immediately merges. Then having < 5 seconds to 60 is nice for everybody's safety and comfort.
We actually do agree! Voting and contributing is only anonymous at first to prevent being biased by people who are more senior or opinionated on the team. So that everyone is an individual thinker. Afterwards the voting/contributing session, the results are revealed to show who contributed to what so you can then discuss as a team and see each others opinions.
Summary: Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke
I outright tell team members and managers that my camera will not be on unless I am the focal point of the meeting, i.e. I'm presenting. I also don't generally go into meeting rooms anymore, even if I'm in the office. Instead, I call in from my desk or a "phone booth".

I'm also pretty honest about the reason. I have always had trouble looking "engaged" and it's been an issue in many parts of my life. I always fidgeted or doodled in class, but it's how I learn. During the pandemic, I got used to not having to try so hard to look like I'm paying attention. I'm never going back.
Didn't they do that with Han Solo a long time ago?
You've been able to do that with exwm for many years.
How does this prevent children from enabling voice chat?
Thank you :) we wanted to keep things fun
Interesting idea. I think it means using another register to permanently hold the HANDLER_BASE though? The dispatch sequence is only 4 instructions. I tried it as a delta encoding, requiring another add instruction on every dispatch, but that is an approx. 5% penalty. So I was hoping that putting it at absolute address < 64KB I could do the sequence without another add.
Hell yeah. Austin Baraki's "Aches and Pains" article is great, as well as the YT video "4 step for managing pain in the gym".

I've had many similar back pain experiences to yours. Bio-Psycho-Social model for the win
Depending on how you have treated your body, 40s isn't too late at all. There's a big chance you can turn this around. It may not even happen until you hit rock bottom, at least in your mind/soul, though.

I don't even think you need to pay for counselling. You're here and it's free input. Keep your savings for more important things.

As they told me when I got out of my cryopod: have a nice future.
Ask HN: Hiring managers for SWEs, how is the market changing for open positions?
With all the recent layoffs, are you getting flooded with too many great applicants? Are open positions filling up lightning quick? Or has it been more gradual?

Just want to understand what the environment looks like post major layoffs from the hiring side.
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Go private if you can afford it. NHS therapy in the U.K. is basically impossible to get for most people, but there are many, many good professional therapists charging £40-£60/hour. Once a week or fortnight, it’s worth it.
It's interesting to see a lot of FP communities independently arriving at the same architectural structures. See e.g. Haskell's "handle:" https://jaspervdj.be/posts/2018-03-08-handle-pattern.html
For $30-40 you can buy a block heater. They are a very nice to have in cold weather.

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If you have a doctor, I would start there by asking that person if there is someone they would recommend. It may take a few attempts to find someone you're comfortable with. The first session or 2 will be around both of you figuring out if it's a good fit. It may not be. Most therapists have a bio describing their approach to their practice and their beliefs.

Remember, if you meet a therapist and you aren't feeling it isn't a good fit, that's ok. There is nothing wrong with you (or them), it's just not a good fit. Be honest in your feelings, and don't worry about disappointing anyone in the process. This is about you and what's best for you.
It's hard to know exactly what you meant with this single snarky sentence, but it does make me think about how a global scale culture handles nuanced spectrums.

To me, it seems obvious and intuitive that "fake it till you make it" is a mostly harmless comment on mentality for confidence. You act calm and confident talking to the person you want to date when you see them at a party, even though internally you're nervous and scared. You act like a big business deal is routine for you even though it's actually make-or-break for your company.

Suggesting that it means "fraud is ok" seems preposterous to me, the sort of thing that my intuitive reaction is to think "Nobody could honestly believe that, they're being intentionally difficult". But the world is a big place, full of people whose brains work very differently, who process language very differently, who grew up in different cultures and were taught different lessons about how the world works.

Which is all to say, no of course this isn't "fake it till you make it". But that it'd be interesting if some sociologist did research on what level of acting, deceiving, misrepresenting, etc different folks see the line between "fake it till you make it" and "dishonesty" or "fraud".