skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good question. There are enough local clones to suggest it's not the software that eats all the money.

Bandwidth plays a role. Updating driver positions constantly, at scale, chews bandwidth. As does broad-casting trips, acceptances, and so on.

I'm guessing Lawyers take a huge chunk. Uber is forever being sued especially in years past and they must have a pretty terrible legal bill. It was always part of the model to operate outside the law, so legal issues were inevitable.

Plus lobbying - at every level. Changing the model (which they have done) takes a lot of lobbying. More lawyers, at lawyer rates.

Marketing of course takes a chunk. That's to be expected, especially as competitors enter the market (riding on the back of their legal coat-tails).

By comparison WhatsApp has no legal bill, no marketing bill, no lobbying bill, and so on.
did you even read the post you're replying to? "PBO shows ...". one google search away tells me

> The analysis by the PBO, an independent body that provides economic and financial analysis to MPs and senators, concluded that newspapers and online media would get $81,550,000 a year, while broadcasters such as the CBC, Bell, Shaw and Rogers stand to get $247,677,000 if the bill becomes law.
There are two web versions of Google Maps. There's the horrible one that you can reach from the search results page if you made a specifically commercial-local request, like [1]. There is the same thing on proper Google Maps[2].

1: https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:9&tbm=lcl&...

2: https://www.google.com/maps/search/lunch+downtown+berkeley/@...
Such as the four composers named in the very next sentence. The platform gives each a playlist, while ignoring four other composers at least as worthy of attention, and named in the subsequent sentence.
As an ex-3D developer, these videos are wild. Thank you.
Don’t wait around for revolution either
In a more respectful way he's probably getting at the fact that while the telecoms control a significant proportion of TV and radio there's still the CBC (owned by the government at arm's length, theoretically) and print media, which is arguably more important, that's independent.

Interestingly different from the US I would say the vast majority of Canadians I knew (including my elderly parents) get their Canadian political news from print media rather than TV (acknowledging that biases towards people who attended university and live in cities) which is more for local news if anything. Canadian TV channels are very underwhelming and have no where near the relevance of CNN or Fox News to US society. I would even modestly wager that CNN has a larger Canadian viewership than Canadian news channels.

I expect a significant amount also get it from radio which from what I recall are mostly telecom owned.
That doesn't make it public domain. It's not just loosey-goosey term without meaning.

Failure to understand the details brings misery.
I find that it is often difficult/immpossible to get a sense of scale.

The width and detail of streets is adjusted such that it is not obvious if I'm looking at things a few hundred metres apart, or a few kilometers! And there is no scale indication on the screen! I guess they want a "clean" look but it's not so helpful.

Take a look at Garmin aviation maps. You're offered only a specific set of scales (not an infinitely adjustable range), there is always an indication of scale, and the detail appropriately hints at the scale.
I'm already doing more than 1.5PB/mo, and my ISP doesn't care. I also don't think they'd care if I did 10PB a month, in fact they want to sell me 5Gigabit internet which could do 50PB/mo.

I also have several other unmetered gigabit links. The bandwidth is out there.
I agree that NATO is not the vehicle for US world domination.

NATO is hard to understand. It is a complicated organization without a clear course and it is especially not a pure defense alliance (Afghanistan, Kosovo, Ukraine).

Some members try to push their own questionable agenda (NATO expansion to asia) and the organization has a life of its own (mission creep).

NATO's success also exacerbates the security dilemma, which its own self-righteousness cannot see.

In my opinion, NATO should limit itself to an actual pure defensive alliance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_dilemma
It's interesting that Google has kept the Waze brand around. I expected them to merge it into maps when they bought it.
Why is it that so many open source developers simply copy commercial software instead of coming up with better ways to solve the same problem? Copying the creative work of others is not admirable or something to be encouraged I think.

Especially when open source developers often makes unsubstantiated claims about the superiority of open source software.
Its not like its physically impossible to design some sort of remote operated vehicle that can return with 200 lbs of material if these are within the mission parameters. That’s what I am getting at. Not that the missions were insignificant or the results poor, but that today especially considering present technology over that from 60 years ago, there doesn’t seem to be a compelling reason to put a human at risk in outer space over designing a remote vehicle to perform the same procedures you expect the human to do.
How often does art put lives at risk though?
> nor how to trigger street view

You need to drag the "man" icon and drop it on the map.

I had to google that.
Consider reading the article before commenting..
There is a special place in hell for the unknown inventor of the AZERTY layout still in use today in Belgium and France.

https://kbdlayout.info/kbdbe

Imagine being called to a parents' friend to fix their computer, faking a QWERTY keyboard and trying hard not to look at the keys...
Which utility is this, and what type of plan are you on? The time-of-day based plans can have extremely high pricing during peak, to discourage non-essential usage during those hours.

We are on PG&E and they moved us (involuntarily) from usage-based to time-of-day in 2021. But they promised to refund us after a year if it was more expensive on the new plan than it would have been on the old plan. It was, and we switched back. I don't think we pay even close to 67¢/kWh on the usage-based, unless we're like triple our base allotment (which we aren't, but might be if our PHEV were a full EV).

Sometimes it's also possible to put the EV on a separate EV account, so that you can have your main house on usage-based and your EV on time-of-day. Given how much you're paying, I'd look into alternatives (or not charge during peak, which most people don't need to do).
Lack of moderation or filtering of the content (via voting)
I can't answer for the developer, but the answer to that with most small one-person-show projects is familiarity/comfort/ability.

the head-space that adopting a new language for a specific project takes is immense compared to tackling it in a familiar language that you know you're already able in; there is rarely a benefit to doing so outside of team environments where a certain level of on-boarding is expected, or because you have a really niche language requirement/feature that your project is begging for.
If possible, always use an FOV of 90 degrees or more. I often find console ports that have too tight an FOV and no way to adjust it make me queasy (they're intended to be played from the couch). Another possibility is to make the crosshair bigger, or use a crosshair overlay - if you don't have something to "anchor" your perspective, it can cause nausea
I found that about 10% of dentist worth anything. This is because training quality has taken nose dive and it’s now mostly a business of hiring dozen hygienists and take the cut. Similar thing is happening in optometrists. I got 3 completely different prescriptions at 3 places. Even worse is neurology and physiotherapy.
> Startups' job isn't to fix a broken market

An aside...why are we still referring to Uber and Lyft as startups? They are 14 and 11 year old, extremely well established, multinational companies. They are no longer the little guys disrupting an entrenched market.

When do they stop getting the excuse of being startups?
Depending on the place, the little strip of dirt between the street and sidewalk is actually on the property owner to maintain.
This reminded me me of the _stillsuit_ from Dune [1]

[1]: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit
Pretty much zero afaik. If anything goes wrong the reactor just fizzles out.
I can’t help but notice the distinction between between customers _deciding_ and participants being _informed_. Can participants not also decide? Can the decisions not be mutual and decided per-session?

My child uses zoom for school and our family for healthcare - both of those scenarios make us participants. It sounds like we are beholden to the decisions of your customer, the institutions.

I am extremely concerned and intending to initiate discussions and suggesting alternatives promptly this week.
Win win for Google :-]
OTOH there are plenty of more energy efficient alternatives that avoid death to cooling an entire poorly insulated, oversized house without ventilation energy recovery at peak demand times using fossil fuel generated grid electricity.
Physics course is set to do two things

(1) 'to teach you to think like a physicist' as my professor was fond of saying to us. No one is going to be able to learn all of the subjects knowledge in 4 years, let alone a complex and rigorous field like physics.

(2) to give you a core foundation of understanding on which all other physics is built upon.

By teaching the core subjects and lessons of physics, you can get a pretty good understanding of the world, how it works, and how to derive equations to explain it.

As for it not being able to learn enough to do anything real. I beg to differ, like all fields you tend to learn the most in 'the field'. Most physicists learn by doing just like any other field. Take for instance engineering, there are some exceptions but most of the engineers I have known in my life have really only become fully viewed as engineers once they had some years of experience under their belts... Same thing goes for comp sci, and same goes for physics.

It's hard to explain because the field is viewed as an abstraction to those outside of it. The goal of understanding something new, discovering some new phenomenon, or better understanding an old one. But what that looks like in practice is years of working in a lab failing, trying things, taking results, tilting your head and going 'thats weird', and charting to colleagues about how to get something to work. Those who have done experimental physics, this is just experimentation and it makes sense, those who haven't, this probably sound simplistic and it is. Like your own fields, it's hard to really capture the depth of what experimentation looks like because even in physics it varies from sub field to sub field.

So it goes, sorry for the rambling from an experimental physicist
My prediction - regulation will cause AI rollout to be much slower than people expect.

For reference, look at how poor the process is for checking in to a doctor’s office. Using AI to speed it up? Not in my lifetime. After all, most of them have only gotten to double data entry (from triple data entry before).
You know that in many territories, being in the phone book is/was opt in?
Usually thats a sort of easement situation where the property owner maintains that strip vs the actual city.
The lack of street names unless you hit the zoom level just right (or seemingly never) reinforces the adage that systems focus on perpetuating themselves not providing the service they were built for.
Totally, or something like infinite probability drive from Hitchhiker's that would just send our trash to random other universes and timelines.

Which makes me wonder, are other universes and timelines sending us stuff? Is that where platypus' come from?

P.S. I'm not trying to say platypus' are trash, just that the don't fit in with our indigenous fauna and maybe another timeline thought they were and sent them to us.
Also: PostMedia, at least, is owned by an American hedge fund. I see this as more of an internecine war between U.S. capitalists over how to divide the spoils than anything else. Canada is only involved in a secondary role.
I think the target audience probably has no choice. They need performance, but their background might be web.
Embracing AI in Project Management: Reimagining the Way We Plan and Execute
Wow, I tried disabling ublock and it is pretty bad. There are exactly 0 words of the body of the article visible when first loading the page on a 1440p monitor, two thirds of the screen are ads...
This sounds much like the annual health check-ups that are done here in Japan. They're paid for by your employer, and involve a battery of tests on many things: blood work, stool/urine samples, chest x-ray, abdominal ultrasound, hearing and eye checks, etc.
Here's a list of classics from Improbable Research

https://improbable.com/publications/classics/
It's not that bad of a course, it's just a struggle because it's different than all other physics courses you take.

In that class you aren't being graded on getting to the right answer. You are getting graded on how you approach getting the right answer, and no one expects you to get the right answer - in the ball park is generally the average for the course.
Not sure why you assume this would be the case and it also isn’t really all that true [0], nor has it been true historically in societies with legal prostitution nor is it true in other industries with many women frontline workers (like the makeup industry, obviously not that similar but I think is somewhat representative).

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hof
Sounds like this would be a good system to have a bunch of idealistic developers work on pet tech projects.

This doesn't sounds like a goopd system to encourage developers to work on business problems - which are often boring and require painful work such as talking to people.
Humans evolved over millions of years in an environment without casinos, addictive drugs, fast food, or any of this other stuff surrounding us in modernity. The fact that a bunch of these things hack into people’s natural blind spots is not evidence of “self-destructive tendencies.” These are exploits of people’s psychology, every bit as bad as fraud, but run by powerful, politically entrenched people.

These are extremely toxic and antisocial industries and they make society much worse off.
dunno... that's probably a lot, but unlike say twitter, they do a lot more stuff. With Eats, you have to coordinate with restaurants locally, etc etc. So while it sounds a bit bloated, i think there are worse examples elsewhere in tech.

But I don't think it matters very much at all. If people are the problem, they can be quickly cut. But if their market fundamentally shrinks or is unable to pay for itself, you can't really fix that.
The "for free" part is what I disagree with because it's almost totally the opposite of what I've seen.

Men are taught that their work is valuable but they are not; they feel entitled after putting in work, even if it's work that nobody asked for, like going to the gym a lot or chatting up strangers at bus stops. No, they're not actually entitled to sex and attention, but the entire problem is that men feel like they paid and should therefore receive. "Free" is a complete reversal of the thought process of the entitled man.
Discussed today:

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37021160
Theft of the Mona Lisa  (2000)
It's happening, it just took a while.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/waze-googles-other-ma...
Other research shows the opposite. Remember reading about it on HN but nope don’t have links available.

My own experience is that I am WAY more productive working from home.
Went to a dentist in Redmond. Had all sorts of fancy goody bag gifts. I knew thereon I’ll be charged a fortune just to see their face. Lo and behold he found all sorts of problems and recommended some procedures. I acknowledged but didn’t go for them. Still got a huge bill and had to pay $300 out of pocket.

Healthcare in US is robbery in daylight. It’s kind of a joke they call it a capitalist country. Can’t compare prices, get 5 different bills over 6 months, in-network / out-network voodoo. A dentist/doctor could be in-network and yet insurance pays only $10 out of $500 bill and still charges $600/month premium.

The whole industry needs a big refactor.
Apple can't even keep albums with various artists straight in your own library.
AWS requires a credit card, which is not really a thing in Europe
Probably not a popular opinion here, but I like Google Maps. Sure there's some clutter, but it's pretty good at navigation, public transit and searching for places. I don't know any better alternative.
Some other noteworthy ones include: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bryan Adams, Barenaked Ladies and The Tragically Hip.

Of course one shouldn't forget what is perhaps Canada's greatest contribution to music: Nickelback.
Isn’t London Hell?
I often open Apple Maps and google maps in the same location, just for fun. Google Maps is sinfully ugly and cluttered now in comparison. Whatever the merits or demerits of Material Design are, its cleanliness and elegance hasn’t made it down to Google Naps. And while I’d grant that maps is a hard problem to solve, Apple’s example has been out there for a bit now.
Apple Maps has a good UI and bad data. Their problem is the same problem people face when anyone tries to unseat an incumbent platform: they don't have the audience, so people don't contribute to their knowledge base. Apple Maps shows an Indian restaurant in my neighborhood as open on Saturdays, but they haven't been open on Saturdays in years. They didn't even update their hours on their own website, but the hours are correct on Google Maps. Why? Because business owners maintain their info on Google Maps, because it reaches their customers. And the customers do their own editing of business data as well. So Apple is stuck at a point with not enough users to edit the data, and they are either not climbing out of that rut or they are climbing out very slowly.
I have good news for you, this exists.

It's called the "suitsy" and it's made by the SF clothing company beta brand:

https://gizmodo.com/a-hands-on-review-of-suitsy-the-silicon-...

Unfortunately Beta Brand doesn't make them anymore, maybe it's fortunate, I don't personally know of that were good or bad.
The ability to execute sample code during documentation generation seems invaluable. Instead of being subject to rot, documentation turns into an executable test suite.

I've been working on something like this for Kotlin using a compiler plugin that allows code to access the source text of lambdas, functions and classes being executed. You write code that spits out markdown and captures its own source into code blocks.

https://github.com/mfwgenerics/kapshot
Unwanted kids raised poorly are more likely to turn to criminal behavior.
Most maps do that, even print ones. It's not about a "clean look", but about readability. There is also a scale, in the bottom right corner.
A simple way to think about it is:

1. The state of the application is at rest.

2. An event happens (a message is received, a timeout, a key press, …) and the state of the application is updated to a new state.

3. Goto 1

In other words, think about the application as a large state machine with each event being a transition from one state to another. It’s that simple really.

How the events are detected and processed is system/OS/API/… dependent. It can be done in many ways. But the basic idea is the same.
Could you clarify the 'weird/painful' remark? I have small/average hands, been on Workman for 6-7 years and I wouldn't say I've found anything weird or painful about it yet (assuming I have interpreted your comment as you intended it).
I've commented on this before[1] as have others[2] but Google Maps is willfully malicious software that I am certain has killed cyclists and motorcyclists by re-routing onto dangerous routes after navigation has started. Why this dangerous 'feature' cannot be disabled is infuriating.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31333754

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Apple only assembled products in China. Almost none of the iPhone is made in China. They do no development in China. They didn’t start the company in China. They run the app store and iCloud storage separately in China.

So by that logic. No.
Yep. There needs to be a way to verify that the simulations run on all of those Department of Energy supercomputers actually translate to reality.
> And you absolutely do not need to use currying when using Ramda. It's entirely optional (just pass 2 arguments...)

I think this would be my only argument against Ramda vs something like Lodash, at least in a project with other contributors. Like, I’ll never use the currying because it doesn’t appeal to me. But if another engineer does, and uses it extensively, then we have a situation of “because it was easily available, someone did something that makes the rest of us have to stop and pick apart during review/debugging/whatever”.
Ok, I'm glad someone posted something.

It's not my sub field, but the description of the setup seemed soo haphazard
The monumental stupidity of launching a classical-music service ONLY ON PHONES boggles the mind.

It's even dumber than Apple Sing, the vocal-elimination karaoke function that (likewise) is only available on mobile devices. You know... the ones that Apple REMOVED the audio-output jacks from.
Also check out:

Camping with Steve

We're the Russos
Consider something like a town/region hospital. Don't want to fund it? Don't. Want treatment? Cough up the cash. At the moment, here in Australia, the government does the middle man thing, and money is just blown on crap. The town hospital is underfunded, understaffed, and KPIs for just about everything are dropping. Meanwhile, every tax-payer is coughing up dollars every day for not using the service until they need it. They might pay millions of dollars throughout their working lives for something they use for three days. OTOH, if they don't get taxed like that, and only pay directly to the hospital when they use it, maybe that would work out better. It certainly worked in the past. And every citizen would retain more wealth, some of which they could spend (if they chose) on improving their lifestyle with home gym, better food, etc.

Should hospitals need to beg? No. Just require payment for service. Maybe it'll cost you $100,000 to get a broken leg fixed. But if you weren't paying that in taxes for the past 3 years, you've got that and more spare.

Competition: That's how it works. If the school is optimised for profits, wouldn't that mean the parents think it does the best job? Otherwise they can just start their own school (without government interference), or individuallly home school.

I do think one of the few things government should do is set human and environmental safety requirements, such as not putting radium in kids toys. Alternatively, if parents find radium in kids toys, they should find the people responsible and deal with them appropriately.
We don't collect any data, so there's nothing to "monetize". We bring ad matching and blind confirmations to the browser, no need for collection.

You have to realize data is worth less over time -- a lot less. So the issue would be whether users stick if (heaven forbid) a change of control left Brave in the hands of unethical owners. By design, open source, network sniffing, and other auditors would catch wise and flame such a corrupt Brave into the ground. That's the best we can do here. There is no safety property ("X" holds for all future program states) enforceable on a company.
I want to use Apple Maps more, but in some parts of the world, the amount of info on Apple Maps (locations of places, restaurants, etc) is TINY compared to Google.