jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That makes sense. The insurance industry is willing to insure semi-commercial drivers if the coverages, payouts, and rates work out. This doesn't mean regular auto insurance will cover Uber drivers. It means buying a policy that's more expensive than a regular auto policy, but cheaper and more standardized than a taxi company would buy. GEICO is already offering such a policy.

It's more of a standards issue than a liability issue. Commercial liability policies are custom, complicated and negotiated. I've bought a few over the years, including one for a DARPA Grand Challenge team. What's needed for the Uber driver people is a standard policy that covers the rather uniform job they do. The universe of Uber drivers is large enough to allow statistical rating of the risk, so there's little need for an unknown-risk markup.

Of course, Uber is trying to dump the cost of this on their drivers. The insurance industry isn't taking a position on who pays the premium, as long as it gets paid.
> but because of how it was spreading misinformation and calling for violence

That's the rhetoric Reddit used but I was completely unconvinced. They spent the better part of a year looking for a reason to ban /r/td, going as far as to invent "quarantining" as a soft-ban, and when they finally did so the cited evidence was extremely unconvincing.
Automatic documentation seems to be an advatage. But what about explainabity?
I mean, if we're talking about symbolism, you might be right for "a guy in a buffalo costume", but the confederate flag was flown inside the capitol.

For many people, the damage that causes to government feeling "theirs" is much, much higher than a violent incident, even more so if we compare it to the way recent protests have been handled.
Same in Safari and Firefox, so probably nothing to do with Chrome.
There are a bunch of other examples too; I wrote a bit about that over here a few years ago: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/19519/can-the-p...
I'm curious why you value your phone number over your data.

I'm unsure if they will allow signups without phone numbers, but they don't store that information. Signal doesn't have it. [0][1] It is very possible they go around this though.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forw...

[1] (time-stamped to only the important part) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=894&v=Nj3YFprqAr8&feature=yo...
I think your points are good. Another point I would add is abstraction is a tool for managing complexity, not a tool for reducing knowledge.

You will have issues in that library/network/function/language. Learn to be comfortable peeling away the abstraction when you need to.
The submission title is misleading and inexact. It's not a quote from the article. The article actually says

"Alone in the USA and Canada approximately 40 people are killed each year by pigs – six times more than by sharks worldwide."
Thanks! We're working in direct-from-webcam support as well.

There's a sample collection you can check out at http://365.io/u/2fe9781736.
Could it be that maybe there's some kind of quirk in the BB API that turns out to be conducive to developing BlackBerry apps in a declaritive fashion?

So like, what if you dump a bunch of API calls into a table, and then aggregate the varying permutations with a SQL query, and wrap it all up in appropriate XML markup, programatically, and the call each variant an "app"?

The reason I'm pondering this, is because I think Microsoft has a similar situation, where even something as trivial as an RSS feed might be counted among the "app" statistics:

http://www.itworld.com/software/369727/microsoft-updates-win...

...and then there's also Firefox OS to consider. Where do you draw the line between an "app" and somebody's crappy web page?
It just happened again. It is a two step process. 1) "Hey fix your name, you better do this!" and then if you click "No", it does 2) "Are you really sure?" with a new way of presenting the same two choices! It is absolutely a dark pattern and I am thinking about finding/writing a browser extension to take care of it.
I read somewhere that this is a useful trick for web apps - if the user gets a null result it can help to give them a tiny timeout - then they think that at least the computer tried to find some results.
A lot of the time, it takes a few iterations before a product becomes truly useful. Once a product has become useful and has fully integrated itself into its customers lives - it's very difficult to replace it.

For many, Facebook solves a unique problem - it provides them with tools to help them manage their various relationships. It's ubiquity is a key part of its solution, and any other platform that wanted to supplant Facebook is obviously going to find it difficult.

Having said that, I think it's perfectly reasonable to think about what will replace Facebook.

As a company becomes larger - it will usually become less nimble. Unforeseen changes in the market's landscape, provide opportunities for new entrants - where the larger Goliath companies aren't as able (or willing) to adapt.

Facebook will be killed (replaced / supplanted) .. but without the benefit of hindsight, it's very difficult to know which company will succeed.
I wrote my own deployment scripts to deploy django-based projects. Before that, I used to deploy manually; it was a long, frustrating process that was error prone.

The "aha" moment being that it's just a bunch of scripts to automate mundane tasks, "how didn't I think of that before?". Everything really is just that. All the tools we use are just programs that automate things we'd have to do manually otherwise.

This is kinda embarrassing to admit as a programmer, but in my windows days, it never occurred to me that I could just write scripts to automate mundane tasks. It seemed like everything had to come from "real" companies or "real" projects. If no company made it, or no open-source project exists for it, then you're stuck doing it manually.

I also now realize that this is the mindset of the average company that has no clue what it's doing. They also think if a tool doesn't have a GUI, it doesn't exist. 'git' is not a real system because it's all from the command line.

Incidentally, I had that aha moment around the time when I was transitioning from GUI tools to command line tools.
Because it's $12/month if you extend subscription for 1 month, 9/month if you extend for 6 months, and $8 if you extend for 12.

I didn't expect this to be confusing at all so thanks for telling me! I will think about it and improve.
Again one of these posts where the author doesn't have/write about own experience to back up his claims. (Example: "Most successful startups had a long gestation period" - proof? citation? something?) He doesn't even write his full name in his profile. But on the other hand his About-page says he's a Marketer. So the point of this article might not necessarily be the contents.
Apart from every page in Cormen's Algo book (which I will ignore because of the share number of those), my biggest AHA moment was about 3 years back when I realized that I can say "return a,b,c" to return 3 variables in python. Till then I had been only using C++ and could not fathom that a programming language can be painless.
I can open many "Yale" locks (i.e. locks on a catch) with a credit card. My front door has a five lever deadlock, the standard for security. I can't open it without the key. (Bonus: it's also impossible to lock myself out)
> It was the classy, exclusive social network

Exclusive maybe, I'd stop short of referring to Ivy League students as classy ;-)
The awards only acknowledge, not express, what it has achieved.

The algorithm would be useful if it could generate/identify images that feel as emotionally transformative as good art.
A conflict born from such a small technological change. Managing land is tricky.
I would guess the comparison to the sun is what's really driving your concern. IIRC, the real danger of the sun is the invisible parts of the spectrum- the danger of what direct exposure to the sun's UV rays can do to your retina.

(Obviously a light bulb flash does not irradiate you with nearly as much UV as the sun)
My understanding is that visible light is very safe because it takes a long time for damage to happen and you naturally protect yourself. Of course "burning an image" really just means causing your eye to perceive an after image.
The compelling thing about facebook for me, way back when, was that it lacked the crap that drew you to myspace. I hated myspace. Very GeoCities-esque.
I hope this "innovation" get squashed by regulation.
Now that's what I call bio-hacking.
It is in OS X cron too.
Great idea, unfortunately they look ridiculous. Will be as successful as the Segway
I love that it loads up really fast, compared to LibreOffice which is slow as molasses to start up.

LO has way more features though, it's not even a fair comparison. And something that ticks me off about Calligra and OnlyOffice is that they can't do partial word counts, as in the word count of the highlighted portion of the document only. Small things like these sting more than more niche features that you might not miss.

Still, it's nice looking and fast and adequate for a lot of basic documents.
>I think it's pretty blind to teach people that "this is music" rather than "this is how we've done music here and other people over there do it differently." We live in a global civilization now and there's no reason not to reap the benefits or to be exclusionary.

Maybe start american people actually listening to music outside of the US and UK? (And I'm not referring to latin americans listening to latin music).

They're some of the most chauvinistic peoples when it comes to consumption of music, movies, tv series, books, etc.

Then we can worry about some jazz player at Berklee or some high schooler at a school band learning western music theory as "this is music" vs learning about the gamelan or classical indian ragas...

>I've never seen this to be true in Indian music discussion. They know Western music too. I can only assume the same is true in China being that America and Europe export so much.

That's only because they have to play this too, as it has become popular in the 20th century.

Historically however there was no mention or need to mention western music theory though.
Who cares if they’re “right wing” the reality is that tech companies possess enough information and power over how we interact with information that they can do incredibly destructive things. They actively cooperate with authoritarian intelligence agencies, media companies, etc, which makes them authoritarians by extension. An argument about the political orientation of tech bros is a pointless distraction from the deeper issues in this industry.
Charging variable rates based on location is the standard for just about everything, outside of e-commerce where prices are clearly advertised online and mass-market consumer devices like an XBox.

The mistake I see in compensation discussions is to assume that abandoning location-based pay means everyone gets paid as much as the company's most expensive location.

In practice, prices for services start to trend toward the least expensive locations once location is removed from the equation. There's a reason why the price of electronics manufacturing went down when it moved to locations like China, not up when manufacturing in China became accessible to to the expensive locations.
Do they disclose any important techniques/ideas on how to achieve these results in the paper, or it's more of a technical press release?
> The first 2 nights I'm pretty much consciously awake the whole time.

I believe that this is your experience, but I wonder it's actually true or there are short sleeping periods (microsleeps or perhaps longer) that you don't notice or remember. I've heard from some people for example that they literally didn't sleep for a week at some point, but this is very dubious regarding health effects.

For me, if I actually skip 2 nights sleep (e.g. travelling) I'm barely able to speak in coherent sentences or make decisions, my vision blurs, I feel derealization etc.
Can someone comment on the ease of distributing Julia code? Can I easily take a bit of code I write (w/o external libraries) and produce a single binary I can ship to someone or do they require a full Julia environment to run it?
Oh, I read more into the "on purpose" than probably meant. Yes, a lab accident looks like a completely reasonable hypothesis to me. What I meant is that it's implausible that this has been released on purpose.
Interesting - for me on Android in Chrome the website scales to the correct width automatically.
A lot of developers skip right over the phase where they respectfully seek clarity about a difficult situation right into "speaking up" and lambasting their manager for perceived slights.

Those are the situations where "speaking up" does not help. Trying to have an honest and earnest conversation should always be the first step.
Have you looked at how you actually buy Dollars in Venezuela? Using an illegal black market and paying a large commission? And with US financial restrictions on the country, along with tourists bringing across high-denominations of dollars rather than change, the fact that they've had to develop IOU policies to cope with that too? And if they want to use an application such as Zelle, how do they set up a US bank account to sign up?

This is a much more complex issue than people seem to realise and it is a valid usecase for cryptocurrencies where you can create a wallet quickly and transfer small denominations cheaply, if not necessarily via bitcoin.

Edit: At a minimum, could you see the perks that a stablecoin like USDT might offer?
What I don't understand is that it sounds like the utilities were unprepared for the cold because the windmills and gas lines froze up. But the same tech is used in Canada fine because it sounds like they plan for the cold and have equipment options designed to deal with ice, etc. So, you might immediately think - ah, climate change strikes again! But then I hear this is only a low temp in the last 30-40yrs. Who doesn't design a system to work at low temps that have occurred in the last 30-40 years?

So, the question is - is this system poorly designed? Were corners cut that should not have been?
I'm looking on case fatality rate: cases and death count are too volatile and depend on many factors.

My hypothesis (it's not mine but I agree with it): if population with high death risks is disproportionately vaccinated, at the level it can make visible effect on case count for this population, it should have effect on case fatality rate. Of course, multiple factors can reduce/slow down the decline, but it should be there. Reducing death probability by half for the 60+ people without changing anything else should significantly reduce case fatality rate.

Yet the data does not support it:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

The case fatality rate peaked at the end of November, slightly declined until mid-January, then grown a bit and is almost constant in last three weeks.

So, the options I see are: either no effect at all can be seen yet behind the noise (it's hard to believe for me), or there is some factor compensating for the case fatality rate reduction (I can think of what could increase fatality that much and exactly compensate the effect), or the hypothesis is wrong (I can't see why either)
In scala (https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/parallel-collections/o...):

Serial:

list.map(_ + 42)

Parallel:

list.par.map(_ + 42)

In C# (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/parallel-pr...)

Serial:

for (int i = 0; i < matARows; i++)

Parallel:

Parallel.For(0, matARows, i =>

(Function takes a lambda that gets called for each value)

Swift has DispatchQueue.concurrentPerform (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch/dispatchq...). That is a bit less clear and less flexible (won’t iterate over an array’s values, only over its indexes) but also fairly easy to use.

There probably are many more languages with similar constructs.
What country?

In the US, my wage slip shows the portion of my salary that was withheld to pay federal/state income taxes on my behalf, plus my personal pre-tax retirement account contribution, plus health insurance fees. It does NOT show the taxes paid by my employer in my name (workman's comp, employer share of FICA, employer share of health insurance, etc).
Not everyone has the time to learn yet another language.
Besides, learning a language to understand content like this takes a lot of time.
(I speak 4 languages already.)
Nobody is saying that depression is ascientific. The context of the thread was that chemical imbalance theories are ascientific.
My Honda Civic does just fine in the winter in Michigan. A good set of snow tires is all I need.
> This is not atypical for American consumerism.

Conspicuous consumption is an enormous part of consumerism absolutely everywhere. Wearing a $20,000 suit is conspicuous consumption to those who can tell that’s what you’re wearing but we don’t generally call it that because it’s only conspicuous if you’re in the know.
I live in Houston, where there are LOTS of very very clean very very expensive pickups. Most are status symbols that rarely see any true use.

However, in my immediate social group, there are LOTS of smaller trucks or smaller SUVs, mostly because of the practicality for bicycling trips. Sure, you can do a roof rack or a hitch rack, but if you want to go out to the hill country with you and your wife and both MTB and road bikes, you find yourself wishing for a truck bed pretty fast.

There's lots of overlap in this group with other outdoor activities -- camping, hiking, some fishing, a very small amount of hunting -- that reward actual trucks. My friend J has a full-size (read: HUGE) Ford with back seats and a long bed, and uses the HELL out of it, since he travels back and forth to Colorado with bikes pretty frequently.

But he and his wife also have a VW they use for most urban driving. ;)
This is a much more fun visualization of the same data - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U
Yes: http://impactjs.com/
You should have revisited the situation after fifth grade. Fifth grade teachers like to simplify things. Marbury introduced judicial review. It's not in the constitution.
I'm pretty sure you are projecting. The "1%" became a slogan around the time of the Occupy movement, coming frkm the fact that 1% of the world's population owns 50% of its wealth, which is such a hilariously skewed proportion.
It doesn't have to have an effect to everyone, it's about taking responsibility and actually defining what they're doing.

Once we have everyone actually publishing what they're doing it's a lot simpler to file complaints to DPA's and to verify they're actually compliant with legislation.
Is there something similar to RR for Java?
I read the slides in the web site of Permazen...
It really looks like a good and light solution persistence wize !

I am actually having difficulties with JPA on borh :
- the configuration side,
- And because it gives the persistence layer to another tool (Sql tool).

Permazen looks like a cute solution for (so many) Small projets with only less then 16 Tables to persist.

Thierry
The US backs (either financially, politically, or militarily) 70% of the world's dictatorships -- many of which were placed into power after US-organised coups overthrew their democratically-elected leaders. Yemen has open-air slave markets, thanks to the US's bombings and destabilisation of the region.

The point is that "we are doing the humane thing" is not an argument that the US has legitimate access to anymore.

Also let's not forget that Saudi Arabia treats women as third-class citizens. Let's not pretend they're some paragon of virtue.
That is a concern, but Pernosco is challenging to implement. We built on rr, which was already state of the art, and we've added a lot of secret sauce. Of course the smart big tech companies could duplicate it, but it is not simply a matter of putting a team together and grinding out the code.
There's no known way to sell (or buy) GHG offsets at scale. Current GHG offsets are all artisanal efforts that don't scale.

Scale would be something like the Sleipnir field Carbon Capture and Sequestration, times 40000. That's what it would take just to stop increasing athmospheric CO2. The Slepnir CCS sequesters at best 1M ton CO2 per year. Human emissions are currently 40 Gtons CO2 per year.
Nice. Is that happen ?
Really an employee at a FANG is not going to be a boomer Gen X at most.
Well, I say... "move fast and break things" is now a scientifically validated methodology.
This seemed like a trivial thing until I made the switch back to Firefox as a main browser after n years. It is difficult without this feature.

Safari displays an "all tabs" view when zooming out at 100% zoom (kinda mobile-esque), making Chrome's method is the smoothest in my experience. It's just done so well.

Firefox (dev edition, at least) contains some 'pinch' settings in it's about:config prefs that enable a somewhat usable pinch-to-zoom. It's a bit clunky, broken on some sites, reflows content sometimes, and clicking or selecting text almost never works when zoomed in. But it's usable, and great to see it make it into the browser without needing an extension, even with it's caveats.

I'd love if Sublime Text or VS Code had this feature, but iirc anything even similar would be far off even with plugins/extensions.

Other than gestures... Tree-Style tabs is the absolute killer 'feature' for me. Vertical tabs are amazing.
nope, it's based on Ada
"But employers might want to look at your SO score when you apply for a job!"

This seems to be the bad result of people turning gamification into real world results: you encourage people to pour lots of resources into a metric to get the real world result, which might be a complete waste of time.
Of course monetary policy is good for the guys implementing it, crypto is here for the rest of us. Making monetary policy tied to a currency and immutable is one of the great benefits of crypto, akin to having monetary policies be part of constitution.
Population has grown, industries have changed.

What exactly have "the rich" done to "take from the bottom"?

Let's say "the rich" would have done nothing.

Would Ford's Factories in Detroit still exist, churning out the same cars they built in the 60s, only employing more people doing so?

I don't think so. To keep "the bottom" employed at the same level as in the past, somebody had to create new industries and businesses. Why is it the responsibility of the 1% to somehow magically do that?
> What the nobility had to offer peasants was safety.

I believe the main offering was pain. Submission was a good way to avoid it, and peasants were not stupid enough to pass on it.

On the other hand, our definition makes it look like the relation was consensual, and a good deal for everyone involved.
I haven't seen him mentioned in this thread, but I was introduced to the phenomenal drummer Dave Weckl through Chick Corea and his Elektric Band. In my mind, Dave is the best drummer alive today. The mix of technical and musical skills is super impressive. After Dave played with Chick and the Elektric Band he's done several albums and is all over the place sharing his gift with folks from around the world. Look him up, you won't be disappointed.
Bit of the first box. A lot of not wanting to. My facebook photo is from over 15 years ago with sunglasses...

And generally I have come to conclusion that I do not want my photo to be shared online. I'm just old fashioned that way.
What bothers me more is the absurd amount of noise in those posts. A "software devs vs designer" bad meme can get 200 absolutely inane comments from people who just want the poster to notice them at all costs. It's only comparable to Youtube.

Facebook engagement feeds on outrage, but LinkedIn feeds on people wanting to make "connections" at all costs.