skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some big cities, I find taxis vastly superior. Notably so across Europe. However, I was at an airport in the US the other day, and the Uber pickup area was packed. There was a 30 minute wait. So I went to get a taxi. They called for one, and it came after about 10 minutes since the taxis don’t wait in the taxi area anymore. I had to instruct the driver everything down to which highway to use (something obvious for anyone that drives semi-regularly in my town). When I arrived, I paid the fare, which was more than double what Uber quoted me.

It all felt so easy for the taxi to be competitive. But it’s far too expensive, and the driver was less knowledgeable than an average Uber driver using maps. The ride quality itself was a lot smoother however. For me, they have to get the cost lower than the cost of an Uber with an added surge to be competitive for my choice.

I really like the FreeNow app in Europe. I’d be happy to see something like that in the US.
They're going after the more used and easier (centralized) target.

X demonstrates plainly the importance of technological measures against government overreach.
Because that's how science is done, theory then practical?

Maybe it's just a meat space thing, but even if the math gives us the answer it still only feels "final" or "true" to me when we've actually tested something out.
I used to get mad because I was taking it personally. However, over time, it's become abundantly clear that I'm either overqualified and the interviewers are just not that great or there's a major shortcoming in the interview process. It's sad that it happens so often, but for some reason like many things in the world the interview process is optimizing for the wrong things.
I like backups as a reminder that some file is not under version control.
Shell Scripts: Stay Small and Simple
True, but those are often older. I know some new builds also have them (I lived in one of said new builds a few years ago) but my impression is they are often older heating systems that don't have a combi boiler yet.
> For the record EV use 99% regenerative braking so at least that source is practically zero

99% or "practically zero" are hugely overexaggerated claims but yes it's an improvement

> Really, really, don't let perfect be the enemy of good, please.

That's an awful reason to not talk about something. Yes it's an improvement but switching to EVs won't magically eliminate car related pollution in cities (not even remotely close to that) which is something some people seem to believe (and they really shouldn't)
The comments in this section are despicable. Making this list and including the student’s names is deeply disturbing and quite frankly, completely undermines your quest to spread awareness about the atrocities being committed in Palestine/Israel. Please refrain from being hateful, and also remember that this “conflict” has wrought violence and catastrophe for seventy-five years. The selective outrage is quite spectacular.
Yes, this is where the "elevated" part comes into play.

The scam is being run by a real prince instead of a fake one.
Thanks, yeah I'm tempted to just dive into the lowest level. My linear algebra is almost non-existent, so I feel like I should review my math fundamentals first. But I'm not sure how relevant it is to understanding the rendering pipeline itself, or if the math comes in at the applied layer.
I’ve only received one out of ~ 100 candidates.

The person already had gotten the job (they had not been informed yet), so it made no difference in the hiring decision.

They wanted to know which coding question they’d only gotten partial credit on during the screening phase, and why.

They had exceptional attention to detail after being hired too.
I think it's more - how do you hook it up with the rest of your water?
Can you explain how changing pollution standards for a few bocks around NK has anything to do with the massive loss of public transport ridership that is triggering the cuts in service?
I was pretty disgusted when Dyson called their hairdryers “zero carbon emission” because they used brushless DC motors
A fault is a series of hooks, nooking into the oppossing plate. One of them giving way, in a small event, gives off its energy partially to the surroundings (the quake) - the rest- stays as additional pressure on another rockformation.

There is a lot of research on people not taking possible disasters serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

Its understandable, but in the end also just noise for those who do and want to discuss mitigiation strategies or statistics. The urge to conjur up security by repeating doubt mighte be huge, but like all prayer, should be kept to oneself.
Not at all. Anywhere further out like Nacka or Täby are nightmares to get to. Or if neither start nor destination is in the inner city. Or if it's after ~1AM. Or if service in your area is havily reduced (or shut down entirely!) because MTR can't be bothered to respect their drivers. Or if you're in an Arriva area, period.

Maybe it looks brilliant if you're used to some US shithole. But even at its best it can't hold a candle to somewhere like the Copenhagen metro. And even that pales when compared to the trusty car that will take you from anywhere, to anywhere, whenever you want.

Source: lived in Stockholm for 8 years so far, half of which were carless.
You obviously don't know Sweden because Amazon is a very small player that just entered the market there and I don't think they make their own deliveries but rather uses already established delivery companies.
A few paragraphs into the start the article literally says "The AWM can be manually driven, or it can operate in autonomous mode. The operator sets up autonomous operation by using a “Teaching” mode in which the mower is driven to create a mowing route map using a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)."
What is the argument for why disseminating disinformation does anyone any good?
Just my opinion here...

The first example with map reverse is very readable and an improvement over lambda syntax. The chaining example (filter on length) is horrible for readability and I greatly prefer the lambda syntax.
The expansion is part of the official road map. Next year the first zone will be put in practice (stage one), and part of the second half next year the expanded zone is set to be drafted and a new date set for the deployment of stage 2. It is planned that stage 2 should be deployed no later than 2026.
I've seen that "S-curve" in multiple places, but I don't get it still: how is that a logarithmic curve/graph?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
Funnily game AI is often smoke and mirrors.
devs often have really dumb down the game AI to be fair to the players. And they balance out the dumbing down by giving it bonuses.

example: game AI's often have unlimited ammo. But their bullets don't hurt the player much.
That's the reason i have 2 devices with my accounts and auth app. One is for daily use and another one is a backup phone in case something happens to the first one
Regarding the last statement, segregation of game and engine is one way of thinking. But many a times, you do not need a full fledged map editor, sculptor etc. You just implement the parts you need for your game.
Seems to be the author and copied it as some form of abstract. @juliohm no need to be doing that.
The instant torque does blow through tires though. Maybe twice as fast as a typical ICE vehicle? The acceleration on a Tesla is like very, very premium ICE cars that few people have (>300HP). This could easily be tuned out, but that would cripple the thrill, i.e., bad for sales.
This guide was the only resource that made my 400 CS networking course material final stick.
The letter is about disinformation, not about evidence.

I don't think anyone here would argue we should be deleting evidence.
Are you talking about unaccompanied kids?
I spend multiple hours a year more time pumping gas than I do waiting on my EV to charge, despite the ICE getting far fewer miles.
Well, have fun defining "false" in a meaningfully fast way
Maybe? It just seems like good manners. Don't overdo it but as an interviewer I don't expect an email but I'd find it very normal to receive a short polite one.
"Engineering Jeopardy" -- perfect summation! And good point about companies that are very one-sided in their interview process. What message are YOU sending to the candidate by drilling them like this, for example?
Because it has becomes a haven for racism and misinformation. That ultimately risks lives as misinformation has real-world consequences.
It's such a shame. Walking through the no-car areas that popped up during covid was soooooooooo nice. I didn't even have to think about the possibility of getting hit by a giant truck! Oh well, the 3 inch curb will keep me safe I guess.
The Rails ecosystem is very exciting at the moment and DHH is a great advocate for that, as well as being a significant contributor.

It's OK to disagree with him on many topics, technical or not. But he belongs to the very few in this world who convey a fullstack vision for the web. That is very appealing to me.
Personally I don't think closures need any additional syntax, just reuse function definition syntax and implicitly capture its context based on variable usage.

I also hate the name "lambda" because it feels intentionally confusing and special. It's just a function that captures some context.
It's not feelings, it's the lack of feedback loop.
I can get the frustration when someone whose job it is to enforce the law repeatedly comes up against someone in the public eye who openly flaunts their violation of the law wearing a shirt that says "make me" where other companies that have sane compliance departments just follow the law and course-correct when it's pointed out without the need for a big lawsuit.

Big, "I shouldn't have to keep wasting my time on this" energy.
I wouldn't say it rises to the level of 'footgun' but golang's error handling feels kind of janky coming from other languages.
I'd heard about this, which I think added to my confusion. My general impression is that Vulkan, Metal, and WebGPU are all separate attempts at modernizing graphics, so they're all kind of related in some sense but they're also distinct and incompatible with each other. So graphics in general are moving away from the legacy OpenGL model (good), but it's also fragmenting (bad). Fair take or no?
By doing a very detailed due dilligence of schools in Bavaria, the rest of Germany, Austria, France and Sweden, using the most advanced data science methodologies, including all available for money social studies as summarized by Chat-GPT (which reminds to run that again now that version 4 is out) and having the results put into a picture drawn by Dall-E and vetted by the social science PhD I met as my taxi driver (I don't take Ubers).
I need to dig out the article(s) ...

I've been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn't send a thank-you email, don't hire them.

Jessica Liebman Apr 5, 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-write-thank-you-email...

Its a follow up to previous 2012 work ... https://www.businessinsider.com/the-number-one-mistake-peopl...

"They're all messing up on something that I think is very important when trying to get a job: the Thank You Email."
Just starting a job search, and this really helps put things in perspective, thanks!
Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta
The original Raspberry Pi SoC (BCM2835) is ARMv6 with VFP2 Hard Float support.

Debian's "arm" architecture is ARMv7 with VFP3. It doesn't support BCM2835.

Debian's "armel" architecture is ARMv4. It doesn't use BCM2835 to its full potential.

So the BCM2835 is awkwardly positioned in-between Debian's two stock ARM 32-bit architectures, which motivated the decision to recompile all packages for a BCM2835-specific "armhf" distribution.

In a sense, it's a historic artifact.
RIAA Reports AI Vocal Cloning Site 'Voicify' to the U.S. Government
Isn't that exactly the same thing? They go after the platform that revealed the government overreach for not doing enough of it.
Hmm, you could have a skilled pianist play piano through your hands.
GHC uses self hosted gitlab for its source hosting and review. The gitlab-runners are largely provided by the mentioned support in the announcement, including anonymous and in-kind contributions. The ZW3RK stake pool provides 7 linux, 2 windows, and 3 mac builders.

I only see two directly related supporters? IOG and the stake pool?
I suspect many people who donate their remains don't read the fine print.

I also wouldn't be shocked if there are shenanigans of various sorts taking place.
> What we're seeing is uncomfortable and [more] unfiltered by governments.

If it was only about sharing graphic content I'd be on your side, but for every "uncomfortable" image you have 300 bot accounts spreading straight up fabricated images and information

The few times I go on twitter I keep wondering if it isn't just 90% bots spamming content made to trigger real users and real users believing whatever flavor of bullshit they're fed today

Twitter is the last link of information before going on CNN &co, it's garbage tier in every aspect you can think of and there are dozens of better places to see uncomfortable and unfiltered content. People think they get the truth there but they're just one layer down in the thousands layer onion of misinformation
That's not how I interpret that chart.

The title says "Travel Distance per person day by main travel mode for urban mobility on all days". That is ambiguous, but suggests that the numbers are actually the share of the travel distance for peoples' main mode, meaning that people who need to travel further in a day tend to have cars, to an overwhelming extent.

That is still a coherent situation in a world where most people don't use cars because their daily travel needs only involve short distances (e.g. because they live in an area where all of their needs are met within a short range).
The EU Commission letter has a few examples. Easy enough for a moderation team to spot, if there was a moderation team in place. Complaining that it is difficult is no reason to skip moderation altogether.
And that's tough to study in the general population since a lot of vaccine recipients have had covid infections, whether or not they even realized it or tested positive.
Belive me, I know the long story of Amazon and Scandinavia quite well. I took it more general, and used Amazon as proof that last mile deliveries are perfectly possible with EV vans.
That's my point. They are the same thing. But the person I'm responding to implies that one is a benefit and the other one is a method. I was just asking which is which, seeing as I don't see the difference. They're both different names for the same set of tools, in my opinion.
You can run a digital camera like that too. I am more interested in composition than camera set up and spend most of my time shooting in aperture priority. At best I'll tweak the white balance but the camera mostly just deals with that for me. I take few photos. I spent 16 days on a trek recently and took about 50 photos in total.
Maintaining freedom of expression is always of primary importance regardless of any negative consequences. There are only a very few limited circumstances where suppressing that is valid.
Contabo Servers and Dashboard Down
Many servers hosted on Contabo.com seem down, even their user dashboard is down: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/my.contabo.com.html

But their status page, as all status pages, is showing everything is ok: https://contabo-status.com/

I don't think I've seen any status page from big companies in the last years that actually shows when there's an outage (probably marketing/PR/branding issues).
I'm starting to think hr is just filled with the dumbest people with no ability to think overall. Fwiw, Microsoft rejected me, annoying..., but, the recruiter actually spent like an entire 30 min call going over the feed back they gave. Somehow they can do it, but other companies can't?
I never use indent in markdown. I always use ~~~. This makes copy/paste much easier.
Any form of constraint solving tech. SAT solvers (used in hardware-synthesis, software verification, math proofs, etc.), Mixed Integer Solvers (usually sold for tens of thousands of dollars) that are used for hardcore optimization problems, Google's Operations Research toolkit (OR-tools), etc.

Unlike most algorithms, these things are general purpose, they can solve any* NP-complete problem (*usually in a useful amount of time).

My manager refers to these things as "Machine Reasoning" in contrast with "Machine Learning", since they start from the rules instead of from examples.
Good answer. I would add that, despite all of them being low-level, Metal is quite easier than the other two, and DirectX 12 is also easier than Vulkan, despite having very similar concepts and ideas. This is in part due to API decisions and differences in verbosity, in part due to the "easier" ones having less flexibility. If your ultimate goal is to master Vulkan, starting with another can help. Also: OpenGL and DirectX are easier than those 3.

If I were learning those APIs today, I would personally start with either OpenGL, Metal or DirectX 11 (or 12 if you're slightly braver). They can give someone lots of insights that one can use when learning Vulkan.

Like other people mentioned, WebGPU or WebGL are also more straightforward and a good starting point.
Autopilot was not a consumer feature but a professional one where the understanding of the system comes with multiple certifications.
Of course, that was the topic we discussed right?
How disingenuous.
I imagine vets go into the business because they like animals. Hard if you bond with every patient. Not sure how to get out of that particular catch-22.
OpenGL is Python, Vulkan is C++.
And Now, Japanese Therapy (1983)
There are also disabled and elderly people. Try walking and cycling to get your groceries with multiple sclerosis or a couple bad hips.

Cars are awesome.
I wonder why when Stockholm did it, it made the news, but, say Kraków did it we don't see it. City pays for PR?
Preventing the current state of disinformation on Twitter is hardly overreach.
Reminds me a bit of

Faq: The “Snake Fight” Portion Of Your Thesis Defense

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...
There are ways to do that, but I don't know how many pod catchers support these.

The most common solution I can see is to provide multiple RSS feeds, one for each audio format.
> The Kenya Nut Company, near Nairobi, will be the first farm in the world to produce fertilizer, on site, that’s free of fossil fuels.

Hardly. They're just using a new ammonia synthesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fertilizer
IMO it should just be a mileage check at inspection time. Miles travelled * weight classification coefficient * emissions/fuel type modifier + base registration fees = total yearly car taxes.

But then Texas also just got rid of inspections... :(
You probably need to re-scan the book. Meshes.jl is the submodule of the project entirely written in Julia with geometric processing algorithms.
I dont see how AI algorithms making judgements on appearance is any different from people doing it. My point is that it is no more fact when an AI says it vs a human.

If you are offended if a random AI says you are ugly, then you'd likely be just as offended if a random human said the same thing.
Hasn't scifi and comp science been using AI since the early days?
They weren't using as marketing term, and this was before PC's so there wasn't much of a market.
No mention of The Culture? I suppose it's not "history" per se, it's quite recent. For interested people, a short description of The Culture, as written by the author, can be found here: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

In short, it's literally "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" and it's viewed by many as a perfect utopia. A few take a dimmer view, in my opinion because it exposes the underlining meaninglessness and purposelessness of the universe.

The Culture forms the background for a excellent series of books written by Scottish author Iain M Banks; I fully recommend it.
I'd also add that, as much as many engineers hate the fact, marketing is very necessary to sell things to the general market. It's also a real skill set to figure out how to market things well. Even more so when trying to sell technical capabilities.
How are you going to enforce a plan on petrol and diesel cars in certain areas?
Yeah, Melanie was who I had that conversation with actually.
My take: It’s just classic satire employing exaggeration to highlight the absurdities of common experiences where people feel the need to justify the non-interview parts of their job interview.

I often get profuse written apologies for minor mistakes, such as using the wrong name, which I never care to remember and never factors into decisions because I understand interviewee nerves. Here, the comedy arises from the stark contrast: while minor slip-ups are forgettable and need no apology, a bite surely isn't, making it humorously memorable.
Thanks, I'm not talking about the difference in the EUA and the Approved versions. I'm talking about the clinical trial vs all subsequent versions with regards to how the actual vaccine genetic material was produced.

I can't find the reference at the moment, but I believe they used PCR to replicate the mRNA during the trials, and used the bacteria replication for the subsequent versions.

Here's a professor giving testimony to his findings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWHhrHiiTY
It encourages work. The current system which can punish you for trying to improve your situation, with UBI it's always in your best interest to work.

Also, the average person will not have their income increase significantly with UBI. The money has to come from somewhere, and taxes will offset the gains for most. Wealthy folks may see their income reduced by a few percentage points. Poor people can easily see their income doubled.

Another factor to consider is that apartments, clothes, and food are not flatly limited, they're elastic. Currently people with no money cannot participate in the market, so UBI has the potential to drive prices down through demand as well. We're seeing a negative example of this with the current housing market; prices are rising quickly because only wealthy people can afford a house, and less and less affordable housing is created as it's not as profitable.
The backing Git repository is at https://github.com/MegaManSec/Squid-Security-Audit
Having to write C/AL to make a living, which is based on Pascal, I can safely say it shouldnt be in the race anymore...
Good. A PHEV is an EV in the same way a gold-plated lead ingot is a gold ingot.
What will you do when enough users move to federated/decentralized platforms?
dota2 and cs2 do not even have an opengl backend anymore.

On my side, I am waiting valve to trash their 32bits legacy code and get a clean vulkan->CPU fallbacked steam client (discovered you cannot libdl libGL because of that pesky ELF static_tls flag). I'll get some old games running with XWayland(maybe, and I would need a drm/vulkan|cpu implementation), and my own wayland drm/vulkan(or CPU) compositor.
The ADA ruined everything! First came the wheelchair ramps, and now the mask dispensers in front of every lobby entrance.

The covid mask dispensers are compact enough, but the Hannibal Lecter ones take up some serious square footage right at the entrance. Has anyone considered fire safety?

It’s even worse when stores mandate both for employee safety! Which goes on first?

It’s probably necessary on Market St in SF, tbh.