skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea that taxi dispatchers could be more efficient, or as efficient, is ludicrous.

This really doesn't follow from your position.

Taxi operators are significantly more efficient because they are able to pool their leases together and are able to insure themselves as a group. Relying on individuals to do both leaves economies of scale on the table.

There's no reason that taxi dispatchers can't use better scheduling systems - however, the fundamental premise of Lyft and Uber is that they cannot ever recognize the efficiencies of scale in the underlying business. The cost basis of a Lyft or Uber ride is fundamentally higher than that of a taxi.

What has changed recently though is the markets and investors have stopped pouring money into rider subsidies and the price of Lyft and Uber rides is starting to approach the actual cost. That cost is often significantly higher than incumbents. The prices you saw over the last few years weren't operational efficiencies, just subsidies that taxis couldn't match because they have to actually recover their costs at the farebox instead of on Sand Hill Road.

> After all, the very first sentence on Wikipedia makes it clear all the things it's trying to do at once, of which ride-hailing is one of many [1]:

They're all terrible businesses. Food delivery couldn't even make money during COVID lockdowns when nobody went outside to eat and spent like a year and a half just ordering off Doordash.

Now they're trying to get into the grocery business and offering 50% off that. I paid $30 for groceries, delivered in hand, and the receipt showed the Uber Eats driver paid $50 for them.

I'd really recommend Naked Capitalism's 'can Uber ever deliver' series that's as true now as it was when they started writing it in 2016. [1]

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...
France starts a debate on legalising assisted dying
LexGrep: allows you to search over all Lex Fridman podcasts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106047
>If you stop using jargon then people assume you don't know what you're talking about.

This works in reverse. If you use enough jargon then you can often convince people that you know what you are talking about, even if you don't... :)

You will rarely get called on it because people hate to admit when they don't understand something.
What's the reasoning why it wouldn't, and why are we forgetting that he's also wearing an ankle monitor?
People have different moralities, for sure, but that doesn't mean you have to pick the legal standard to break the tie. That's like.. not having any opinions of your own? The legal standard is pretty much unrelated to morality, anyway. The complaint here is anyway at an entirely different level: the level of virtue, of what a person _ought_ to do, rather than _should be allowed_ to do, which is significantly broader.

The point of griping about this author's morality is: people have different moralities, and this one in particular sucks, so if you're reading this, hopefully you noticed that.
personally, I didn't read what you wrote as "mission accomplished".
Good stuff in there, but instead of doubling down on “dishonest”, and escalating to gas-lighting and toxicity, how about we just acknowledge that some people aren’t the best communicators in the world and are afraid of hurting feelings and starting fights and being confrontational? What’s potentially toxic is presuming someone else’s motivation. You’re setting up a mental framework for making assumptions and jumping to conclusions that people are being actively malicious when they simply try to soften their critique. This will infect your responses in a negative and destructive way, at least it has mine when I’ve made this mistake. If compliments or critique-softening bother you, how about just directly asking your conversant to get straight to the point?
https://archive.vn/runDV
i am taco bell :)
No, it doesn't.

I love immigrants, I love a good old fashioned rags-to-riches story as well. I've been an immigrant myself (albeit in another country as I am a US national).

You know what America needs to solve the labor shortage?

Better wages, that's what. The minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation in over 50 years. If you want someone to work, you need to pay them in accordance with the value they bring to the business, full stop. I don't want some billionaire with 10+ houses and a private plane using their money to commission puff pieces in the media complaining that nobody wants to work when said billionaire is offering slave wages and keeping the vast majority of the worker's fiscal output. Worse yet said billionaire cheats on taxes and whines when things go south, yet is happy to take a bailout and take a huge cut of said bailout instead of giving it to the people that operate the business.

if minimum wage kept pace with inflation since the 1960s the national minimum wage would be roughly $29 an hour. I'd work for that, but not the $7.25 bullshit that hyper-profitable publicly traded megacorps insist is all they can afford to pay their non managerial staff.
If you are on Apple ecosystem, NetNewsWire is free, reliable and syncs between devices. You don’t need a paid third party service to use it.

https://netnewswire.com/
The devs could be part owners too. But I think that's kinda the point, a small business model that attracts regular people who want regular jobs instead of the get rich types that dominate tech proper. Not everything needs to or should be hyper growth.
Also, most those without adequate food are suffering due to oppressive government regimes or conflict. We have enough food to feed everyone.
But don't you know that the only reason people want to have more control over their own lives and influence state politics is to be racist? That is why we must entrust the federal government with more and more power to run everything (with the help of The Experts™, who all happen to go to the same few schools).
> Which is to say, at least according to the published agreement, it is not true that "no other collateral was posted or agreed to".

This is wrong, a signed surety bond is not collateral, its a binding commitment to liability. Security/collateral for that liability is a separate thing, abd the only security provided is the house.

OTOH, federal law allows fully unsecured, personal bond of the accused if the jidge thinks it is sufficient, so having any security or surety (where this agreement has both) is optional, so really this just seems to be a bunch of people who don’t know how federal bail works being shocked not by something out of norms, but because their understanding of the norms is inaccurate.
> They seem to be reluctant about it, how can I make them change their mind?

A CTO's comp is tied to performance and paid in shares (should be mostly capital gains).

If they go cash bonus and base pay only, they are looking for an engineer. Since you are in Europe, my best advice is to re-structure the contract to be a contractor.
On Wizards and Sorcerers
I’ve tried twice now, and for the life of me, I have absolutely no idea what this post is trying to say. For an associate professor of communications, the writing is absolutely atrocious. I can’t make heads or tails of this rambling multitude of grammatical errors, passive aggressive insults, and buzz-word saturated soup.

I get that it one of a collection of predictions about how media in 2023 will look. But besides the title invoking the usual, repetitive conversations we have about the ‘State of RSS’, I have no idea why it’s here. I might bookmark this just as an example of how not to write a post. Especially if you don’t want to confuse your reader, and actually express a clear thesis.

Regardless, I’m an every day user of NetNewsWire on my phone, and I hope their prediction is right. It is about the only way I consume my news at this point. Even if RSS doesn’t have a revival, it’s fine. As long as all the major news orgs continue to provide RSS feeds, I will be here consuming them.
"Yes, you read that right. Bankman-Fried walked out of court a free man by signing a piece of paper where he promised to pay the court $250 million if he decides to flee to another country with no extradition. This, of course, is totally absurd."

Whew! This ought to piss off a LOT of people who couldn't afford to pay bails in the range of 1,000s-10,000s of dollars.

250M on a written IOU with (almost) no collateral to back it up, that's insane.
The incentive structure of central planning doesn't work and it's not something that can be solved with people evolving to be more altruistic. Meanwhile even imperfect capitalism has raised the quality of life of billions of people.

> as the illusion of scarce resources dissolves

It's not an illusion. If you want gold, you need to mine it. If you mine gold, it means you're not raising chickens or writing a social networking app or cutting down trees or whatever. Everything has a trade-off, scarcity is never going away.
I agree the inequity of the justice system is terrible. I disagree with what I perceive as calls for his head.
Throwing tech at social/people problems rarely solves anything. In fact, it tends to make them worse until society gets it's head together.

Agriculture and food consumption itself is a physics problem. Faster data processing ain't gonna make the actual material processes work any better.

To convince yourself of this, attempt growing your own vegatables. It's much harder than it seems, and not the kind of problem where number crunching and n-dimensional gradient descent is going to help you alter the fundamental natural processes that drive everything.

AI is not a silver bullet. Avoid any such snake oil that suggests it is.
If you want be into control, host your password database on your device only. Use applications like Keepass(XC) and Keepassium. Optionally sync via a generic cloud provider which is protected by a strong password and two factor authentication.
Working as a data scientist for last 8 years and have never used excel. Only time I had to open an excel with data was when some company sent me their data in an excel for take home assignment. At least send me a csv! I never bothered to finish that task.
Guanfacine andN-acetylcysteine for treatment of cognitive deficits in Long Covid
California has 41% of the nation's million-dollar homes
Your points aren’t really in opposition to anything they said - analysis isn’t endorsement, you might infer their feelings on these practices from their first bit saying that these were good practices - for Lyft.

It reads to me like OP had an analysis that did not agree with the TFA, and that you read that take as an explicit endorsement as opposed to a description of what is going on.
The timeline for fusion energy may be shrinking – Marketplace
Meta to pay $725M to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit
> it also gradually managed to cure me from free-speech absolutism

It's entirely unsurprising that people who appreciate current moderator behavior also have zero philosophical backbone.
No, the issue is you were taking a process that was solar and instead making it dependent on the grid which is mostly fossil fuel powered.

Until energy is much much cheaper, vertical/indoor farms just don't make sense.
I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.
It could be argued that tech "is just one of the few fields whose salaries have managed to somewhat keep pace with the insane cost of living.": https://twitter.com/nhuntwalker/status/1604115088406745088
The goal of a password manager is to use random password, one generated for each website, so that if one is leaked... Well, nothing more !
So having autofill is a good feature.
Yep. Started with Apple BASIC on an Apple ][e, then Amos on the Amiga, then C on MSDOS :).
Think of humans as artificial neurons. Language is how we back propagate etc
The Rise of User-Hostile Software (2021)
HN is ~~probably~~ the best online forum I've found since Slashdot in its original glory (/r/AskHistorians is pretty good too). Kudos to dang and anyone else who does the moderating (and to the users who post, of course.)

edit: not "probably"
Can you succeed while still being naive?
OpenPOWER simply wasn't open, it was simply marketing. Only years after RISC-V started to grow did they change their licensing.

RISC-V is more modular and and by now has far more support behind it.
I use Feedly, not sure why it's not more frequently recommended.

https://feedly.com/
Quite meaningful, if you have exactly 1 view in 10 hours. Some local censor have viewed and shadow banned it in deepest hole in universe. If you try it from elsewhere anonymously, it does not appear ever from the "load more" abyss.
iPlayer on TV (across all platforms) is a generic web application, topped with a custom wrapper app (think webview) for each platform, responsible to hook platform’s native APIs to Web/JS APIs.

I’m guessing there are some complications hooking Apple TV’s native subtitles APIs to relevant web APIs, and low usage statistics doesn’t help prioritising fixing the issue. Although the rumour is that they are working on a completely new Apple TV app.
> pick only a few really high quality sources

That's an interesting point of view. I tend to find that the high quality sources I tend to follow are very low volume. So I've subscribed to hundreds of personal blogs, YouTube channels and similar to produce a steady (but not high volume) flow of good content.

Most of the higher-volume sources that I have considered following are either low quality or most of the content isn't within my interests.

Basically I tend to prefer 100 good sources that post a few times a year than 2 sources that post daily. Of course this isn't a hard rule, it is just the collaboration that I have seen. There are obviously some teams that put out high-quality content on a regular schedule.
> (if you have it)

Now you understand what business bail bondsman are actually in.
Lex Fridman wants to be Twitter CEO for free
Step inside NYC’s competitive slotcar racing scene (2019)
> Would you extend a 250M credit to someone who offers you 11.8M in illiquid assets?

The Court is not extending $250M of credit based on the collateral of the house.

The Court is assessing that the combination of the $250M penalty, the security given in the form of the claim on the house, the particular full sureties on the hook, the additional partial sureties on the hook for a lesser amount, and the nonfinancial conditions of bail are sufficient to adequately guarantee SBFs appearance (in part, based on the prosecution also accepting that.)
Still seems like the system is bending over backwards to give him some freedom (and chance to run) before spending the rest of his youth in prison. The alternative is they keep him in jail pending trial if he can't come up with the $25m (10% bond). This is the reality any "normal" criminal would face. Why does he get special treatment?
To give an idea of what's possible, I built a "4K" display with addressable LEDs. It was 64 strips of 64 pixels each. There was no need to do any power injection (uniform intensity across the whole board). I did the same as you: beefy dedicated 5V supplies. Even then, I was a bit worried because lighting up the entire display at full power pulled over a kilowatt. The person I gave the LEDs to then reconnecting them into 1 long strip and had to do power injection,.
6 to 8 people is a lot even without using Star-Configuration WebRTC. For example, how many people do you talk to at once face to face in real life in an average group? 4 to 6 people calls its like the size of a normal table at a restaurant. It is the typical group conversation. You could argue large group calls become more and more unnatural after 8 total people.
With a 500 full cycle to 80% capacity, that two years if you drained it 100% to 0% every day and the battery still has 80% of its original capacity. To get to 50% capacity should be 5 years, again only if you ran your battery down empty every single day for 5 years.

So lets have a complicated waterproof quick release battery case adding weight and volume to the phone so that its easy to replace once every 5 years...
A hands-on deep dive into crypto self custody: what it means, why you should care, and how to take custody of your crypto with a multi-sig wallet provider like Gnosis
Not everything that's spoken in a televised event has a single accompanying speaker to watch for cues the entire time.

Separately, relatively dry sarcasm can't be visually picked up directly, but a signer may be able to suggest some of that with body/hand language.
Did he destroy billions in wealth?

Seems to me that he made chart go up for no reason and everyone was perfectly happy with that, and when chart went down for the same reasons (i.e. fraud/no legitimate reason) then everyone is upset about it.

If people are upset about lesser offenses getting handled more aggressively, they should spend some time lobbying for lesser offenses to get handled less aggressively.
Did the Puritans ban Christmas dinner?
The guidelines are (I assume intentionally) vague enough that moderation can selectively object to basically anything, claim it's on the basis of tone/personal attack/flamewar risk/etc, link to the guidelines with no further explanation, and call it a day.
I like to read comments from non IT people on HN, It's awesome that you were able change careers across different domains and still transfer skills.
Including this one. The two top comments besides the one we are replying to are polar opposites
I asked ChatGPT if GPT is equivalent to AGI:

"""GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) is a type of machine learning model developed by OpenAI that is used for natural language processing tasks, such as language translation, summarization, and question answering. GPT is trained on large amounts of text data and is able to generate human-like responses to prompts.

AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to the ability of a machine or artificial intelligence system to perform any intellectual task that a human being can. AGI is often thought of as a hypothetical future technology that would be able to understand and learn any intellectual task that a human being can, rather than being narrowly specialized to perform specific tasks like current AI systems.

GPT is not equivalent to AGI, as it is a specific type of machine learning model that is designed to perform natural language processing tasks, rather than being able to perform any intellectual task that a human being can. However, some researchers believe that the development of AGI may require the use of machine learning models like GPT as a building block, as they can be used to train AI systems to understand and generate human-like language."""

It similarly told me it is also not a "form of AGI"
> There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for 5.4% of the total U.S. population. - https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

Given that immigration to the US has been high for decades, and 1st generation immigrants as a % of the population are at the highest levels since 1910, if immigration was the solution, wouldn't the problem* be solved already?

*Instead of calling it a "labor shortage", why not a "job surplus"?
Ah, I didn't know about OPML. I like that it's readable and editable so you can make adjustments before importing. Thanks!
I use my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/.

I used to use https://blogtrottr.com which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own.
> Inflation may be bad, but it's not a "drop in value of almost 75 percent" bad.

That may be true in the author’s home country. However:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/12/22/turkey-hikes-minimum-wag...

Also, this is amusing:

> At the conference, the financial grownups were diving into topics like data interoperability between platforms and applications and how to encourage bank executives to let developers contribute to open source projects.

> It was all about how open source and the cloud are revolutionizing how banks, finance companies, and stock markets are working with money…

I didn’t doubt these conferences tackled topics more valuable than crypto, but if these two sentences were the best author could muster about the “grownups’” contribution to the world of finance and tech, perhaps I was wrong about that.
Tech salaries have managed to keep pace with the insane cost of living
Tesla’s Ugly December and Other Omens for the Auto Industry
Particle Lenia: Self Organising Particles
Reeder for iOS/macOS
Not sure if it is the same project, but I remember something like that from a long time ago. The cat would walk through a backlit tunnel and project a black and white silhouette of its profile onto a low res camera.

They used a very simple neural network to do the detection. Several example pictures were included in the write up, showing the cat normally, one where it was holding a mouse, as well as a profile of a possum (IIRC).

Replicating those results has been on my to-do list for over a decade.
People don’t seem to understand that support is only maybe 30% answering questions.

The rest is all about taking actions to override programs and policies. Either because you don’t trust your customers to do it themselves, or to correct bugs in your process.

That’s the last thing you’d trust an Ai to do.
https://archive.ph/SwuLg
But everything was never on Netflix. Most of the streaming services are net new content for streaming.
AI-Bot Generates Smart Things to Say During Work Meetings
> I've never seen or heard of a site that actually did that.

Protonmail maybe ;-)
Unfortunately, global hidden state is an unavoidable fact of programming. I don't see how one could be very good at programming if they were kept blissfully ignorant of it. Sometimes there is magic under there, and you just have to do your best to empirically figure out how that magic works.
rss2email + mutt
I've been on NewsBlur since Google Reader was put down. I'm still happy with it. Both the web and phone version are nice, and it rarely has issues.

https://www.newsblur.com/
Sigh, the dystopian hellscape memes are simply not working. What does it cost for a Victor David Hanson opinion piece?
I get your point now.

Panels cost 4 times as much when installed individually instead of at a community scale. I agree the economy of scale here is just too good to be wasted away like this.

As a consumer though, I see two practical choices (1) keep paying PG&E their increasing cost for electricity or (2) eat that initial high cost of solar install and keep outgoing cost constant for a decade.

And some impractical ones like convince a bunch of people to setup a grid at community scale or do a DIY solar install to keep the install cost low.
It sure does, which is why we should tax land instead. :) No level of taxation on land value will prevent the land from materializing and being usable.
Perhaps bail is lower for people with lesser means. I know I haven't heard of $25M figures thrown around very often.
branch, checkout, clone, commit, diff, log, pull, push, rebase, reset, status

watch out for off-by-one errors
I’d never heard of this Skippy (much less its dubious connection to a peanut butter brand). I thought it would be about the far more famous bush kangaroo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9iemIhs2I
While I really dislike the track of moderation policy on HN over the last 5+ years, I do have a lot of respect for dang being willing to engage in earnest discussion about moderation when prompted.
And which of those supposed explanations would also suggest that Python should be unpopular?

- poor story for Web
- slower and memory hungry
- lack of type safety compared

And which of those supposed explanation would also suggest that JS should be unpopular

- slower and memory hungry
- lack of type safety compared

Think again.