skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The utilization formula part of the law advantages each operator individually according to that operator’s numeric utilization score.

Imagine if utilization was like a credit rating and the TLC wants laws that ensure good credit ratings among operators. So they incentivize reaching a good credit rating.

One option could be to say, hey if you get a credit rating about 700, that is good for the people, so you get a tax break or something.

Instead they are saying, hey if the size of your business already makes it easier for you to build a high credit rating, then you get even more tax breaks than others do, giving you even more advantage over them.

This is not about the 10k/day part at all, only about how if Uber’s position as current market leader leads Uber to already lead on raw utilization rate, then the new law automatically rewards Uber with a labor price break more than the price break Lyft would get, and more still than Via or Juno.
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Like, it doesn't make sense. My insurance policy is about $600/year and covers up to 25 million(!!!) euro in 3rd party damages. Like, I'd need to crash into several Bugatti Chirons or a plane to actually exhaust my policy.

I guess the reason why US allows it is because the society is so litigious - if you have that amount of money to self insure you also have enough money to fight pretty much any claim against you.
True, but in the US, they mostly all lay on the neuroticism about sex pretty heavily.
> You cannot say fuck or shit on tv

What TV shows are you talking about? Kids shows? American television in general is full of profanity. Some shows have way higher profanity content than what’s observed in real life, they always makes me wonder if certain demographics really fucking talk like that all the time.
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For google it's not that bad.

I have a niche french blog about Python and porn. Had it for years. Google still brought 10 millions views to us since it started. We are ranked pretty well in the french version of the search engine.

Now It's true I have now way of knowing how well we would rank without the porn, but funnily, it's 10% of the content, but 60% of the traffic.
Better than an actual person though, at least for now.
>>Unless you know something the insurance seller does not that makes you more likely to be paid out than others, then it is a waste of money to buy insurance for a loss that you can afford.

That's....insane. Fires happen. Theft happens. Thunderstorms happen. Kids breaking things happen. Yes I can "afford" to replace most things in my house - but why would I risk all of my savings if I can pay ~20 quid a month and not worry about it??
Yes. What I love about the Pi is its versatility at a "disposable" price point. I can repurpose it for any project that takes my fancy at that moment without worrying too much if things go wrong. It's great! It might not be particularly good at any one thing but it's great for experimenting.

However if I have a specific long term purpose in mind I will look elsewhere.
>The adtech industry has 2 of the most valuable companies in the world and generates petabytes of data and billions in profit proving how well ads work

Targetting a demographic in terms of search or social media or television makes sense — the information is there simply by virtue using the platform. This is fine and well, and what the article agrees with.

Pulling it from demographic to individual by means of mass data collection is quite new, and unproven — facebook and google made their money before profiling was a major thing, and thus their wealth is not proof that its successful; they certainly believe theres mobey in it, as well as the advertisers and trackers, and are transitioning to it, but they aren’t proof that they wouldn’t be just as successful if they never transitioned.

Ads work. This has been shown by the last century of their existence in every medium they can fit in. Personalized ads, specifically those that are based on your non-current activities (eg buy on amazon and get served shopping ads when you later browse fb) are questionable.
Is this the same Japan that blurs out genitals in porn films? Even in puritan America that doesn't happen.
In Europe we label portraying sexy nude women as erotica.
Playboy is not porn to us, it's erotica. Porno is something completely different, and explicitly shows having intercouse. Having only 1 general name for everything probably doesn't make it easier to make a distinction.

I know US colleagues who regulary go to striptease bars. It seems more normal in US than in EU.
Wait. These aren't really unrealistic expectations. If you want transformation against a risk appetite of hardly any risk acceptable, you jack up requirements or no go. That sounds business wise to me. In my firm we've had many cloud related problems. The result was higher and higher demands in the direction of our suppliers. Obviously this limits the number of possible suppliers, and makes some suppliers unhappy, but it is proper business in line with the way we want to reach our goals.
Lust is considered one of the deadly sins.

I'm not sure where the line between "lust" and "acceptable desire" is, and I suspect most Christians aren't either - although marriage and procreation usually seem to be involved somewhere.

There are far more unconditionally sex-positive religions.
The compulsory insurance limits in most states are laughably/ludicrously low. In MA, I have to carry $40K bodily injury liability, and $5K property liability.

Literally, I could be responsible for an accident that totals a 15 year old car and gives the driver an ambulance ride and a couple day hospital stay and have my compulsory insurance not be enough to cover the entire liability.

Of course, nearly everyone carries a substantial (10-50x) multiple of the compulsory minimums in auto-specific liability policies, and if you have any amount of wealth accumulated, it's common to have an additional umbrella policy.

[0]-https://usinsuranceagents.com/massachusetts-car-insurance-re...
What are the best options for a device that doesn’t cut as many corners? Say I’m spending thousands on som home automation gear, and many hundred hours on configuring e.g home assistant - then I don’t care whether the controller costs $39 or $299.

Are there similar projects with good high quality enclosures, dedicated power supplies? Are there any that support some kind of atx-like shutdown signals (requires quite a bit of hacking to do that for an R-pi)

Do I need to go to a “real computer” such as a NUC to get this, or is there something in between? I like the simplicity of single board with everything on board including the possibility to run of a memory card - but I’d like something I can trust will run for years without a failing power supply preferably without having to spend a grand.
I can't speak for Italian, but coming for another very heavily Catholic country I would say that the reason is that most other words having to do with sex are very much perceived as either bad (e.g. blasphemous or just rude), or simply medical, based on the traditional usage. The word "sexy" (as opposed to "sex") has always had an air of playfulness and joy.
Well, if you define things like that, than I have to ask who do you mean by libertarians? There are many different branches.

I was refering to the free market libertarians and with strike I meant the ordinary one, like the one in question. Workers strike to get a better deal. Better money mostly and or less hours. And this is a breach of contract, which the free market libertarians I know, would be against.

The leftwing anarchist libertarians I know on the other hand would be all for strike and workers seizing the factory for themself.
Ok. Thanks
Yeah. The article is accurate, and it's horrifying. It's nonsensical, harmful, and is, literally, killing people.

Worse, I don't really...see...a fix? The people being hurt by this are the least powerful and most vulnerable; they're not going to force a policy reversal. And everyone else just doesn't care that much, and even if they do, what can they do about it?

I find it all very depressing.
Thanks a lot for replying, and for taking the time. Is your server’s hostname a FQDN?

Edit: I just checked, it doesn’t do this with host, but it does with ping. What about ping?
Reminds me of drug trafficker "Lord of the Skies" Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who underwent plastic surgery, but died after the 8 hour procedure. The doctors were later found in concrete filled oil drums along a highway, with signs of torture to boot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amado_Carrillo_Fuentes

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9711/06/mexico.doctor/index.htm...

Another one:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/343092/mexican-gang-bos...
The idea of “you can find a job immediately after getting a degree or certification” ended a few decades ago. Today, you need some experience, especially in cloud computing.

Thankfully, in this field there are few barriers of entry, save for having some natural curiosity. All clouds have free tiers, excellent documentation, sample projects, etc. Kubernetes is free and open source. Technologies are interesting. Play and learn, and you’ll get a job.
I'll second this. My company does everything via AWS, and the personnel overhead for X00,000 users and regular major updates to everything is... maybe half of a full-time position, and it will be less than that when we finish overhauling the hard-to-scale legacy parts of our system.
Ok that's actually very interesting. I noticed a similar pattern but didn't want to put too much to it.
Very few things are actually bad choices, yes, but they do exist. I wanted to differentiate so nobody would assume I'm saying it's their fault.
Yeah, I have to admit that I felt a kind of 'not following the letter of the rules' when I used the word 'cute'. Frankly, the argument against 'snark' on HN is a bit wearying to follow 100%. All I would have to do is obfuscate a bit and it sounds like principled disagreement ("It's perhaps a naive take that you ...", "I don't completely understand the line of reasoning that led you to think ...").

The thing is, out there in the world, you don't have to bother worrying that there's some starchy HN exceptionalism that doesn't allow you to answer something that's complete bullshit with a 'proper intellectual response'. It is a bit wearying to constantly deal with juvenelia ("Getting dropped from network TV is like being 'disappeared' by Stalin) in a fashion that would be commensurate with, say, a improper attribution of a remark from Wittgenstein uttered in the drawing room.

It feels like HN's policies against 'snark' have the (no doubt unintentional) effect of shifting the Overton window towards requiring remarks - no matter how juvenile and daft - to be met with proper and careful drawing-room etiquette. So saying stuff that's completely absurd needs to be either unanswered (and left to stink up the room) or carefully argued against (making it sound way more plausible than it is).

I understand that the slippery-slope version of my argument here suggests that anyone can meet anyone else with a torrent of personal abuse simply as a result of disagreement. That being said, I'm not 100% convinced that the right answer to someone uttering absurdities is to meet them with logical, guideline-approved non-snark.

Also: to the nice people on the subthread defending my remark as somehow not snarky, thanks, but no. I intended to be a prick here - there's no entirely guidelines-compliant interpretation of my comment. My argument above is that judicious snark is probably better, and more honest, than either masking it ("your argument is characteristic of arguments made by people no doubt considerably less intelligent than you obviously are, my fine Sir") or by pretending that absurdity isn't absurd ("Well, you see, Stalin actually made people disappear and systematically erased them from libraries, while in this case, what we're talking about is...").
I guess you’re right, just weird to see young people turn to a form of conservatism.
He used the word incel unironically, his opinion is invalid.
Also nothing has changed for me because I never used any of those normalfag sites to begin with, the internet is the same it was 12 years ago from my point of view
>Shops that didn't sell black doors would be losing business from non-superstitious people looking to buy black doors, which might be a bigger factor if superstitious group is relatively small.

It's not about selling, is about having black doors of your store. If 10% of the people absolutely refused to go through a black door (because of some BS religious reason for example), stores would either paint their black doors some other color, or lose 10% of potential customers. Guess what most will chose. The 90% of the people who are indifferent to door color wont make any difference.

Here's a better version of the argument:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Enjoying sex isn’t a sin. Sex is supposed to be held in the highest regard. It’s a wonderful and joyous thing. The point is, I believe, to avoid cheapening it, making it less than the truly awesome thing it is.

It’s supposed to be a priceless gift shared with your true love. Packaging it and selling it makes it less valuable.

I believe that if you approach the subject with that mindset, a lot of the decisions that society has made suddenly make a bit more sense.
It really is time for a RISC-V based Raspberry Pi, with as much open peripherals as possible. That would be a fantastic platform. Mediatek might have something in the works already.
im following your steps and waiting for web&mobile to getpolarized ! any ETA to beta test ?
Beeping away words is something you will never see/hear in European productions. "What the beep are you talking about you son of a beep". Jerry Springer comes to mind.

European movies also have no trouble showing fully nude males, something you will never see in Hollywood.

The sensoring in texts like f*ck is also seen a lot online.
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How many Uber rides have other random passengers in it?
I am sick of this non sense. It's because nobody knows what they want and those that should be the ones knowing it all also do not know what they know and what they need to learn.

We built immensely complex systems that allow us to scale. The thing is we have increased the complexity so much that we no longer can justify hiring incompetent.

Simplicity is beautiful and we will have a renaissance of simpler systems. Something along the lines of what Go brought to the game.
> they seem Oblivious to the fact that the only thing we need from them is to negotiate an Azure or AWS subscription and after that they will loose any utility.

I've seen similar and they tried the following:-

- We'll provision VMs for you. Raise a ticket.

- We're doing "Hub & Spoke". You're not allowed to route any internet traffic except through our inspection proxies.

- We've disabled the API. You can only use the Console.

Basically, a couple of old school guys will do anything they can to disable automation, as otherwise they'll be accepting they can't really contribute anymore.
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"They want more people writing amazing content, and not SEO garbage"

I'm not convinced on this one. It feels like they've ceded the SEO spam war to me. As mentioned in the article, they just crudely exclude large swaths of content now instead of trying to filter out actually bad content.

And they have just generally devalued the organic results in favor of ads, widgets, curated stuff...anything that keeps you walled in to Google owned properties or ads. It's fairly common now to have zero organic results above the fold.
> Consensual sex work is mentioned, my perception is

I would be more interested in data than one person's subjecting perception.

> I hear of no stories where people have found happy and fulfilled lives as prostitutes

One of the major points of the article is that the voices of sex workers have been driven off the internet. You can't justify censorship by saying that none of the now-censored voices are complaining.

> The "women speaking truth" can only every have authentic voices if they are speaking from positions of power and security; I do not believe that this is the case for prostitutes anywhere.

That is either completely false, OR by your logic nobody can ever speak about what it's like to work a retail job. Some jobs suck; sometimes the people working them don't have a lot of power and security. So either your arguing that we shouldn't listen to anyone who isn't a millionaire, or you're not aware of the voices that exist.

> The illegality of prostitution is not because people are prudes, it is because prostitutes are routinely destroyed by their work.

Funny how that seems to only happen in places prostitution is illegal.
What proportion of people do their day jobs because of exploitation and pressure?

There's possibly a lower proportion on HN than elsewhere, but suggesting that most of the population works voluntarily, and not to avoid starvation and homelessness, is going to be a bit of a stretch.

Sex work just makes the dynamic more obvious. There will be some who do it because it's a talent and a calling, but the majority do it because they need to put food on the table.

And some of those will be posting how awesome it is on TW etc because it's free advertising.
"better" only has meaning if you elaborate for what. Especially since they seem quite a bit more expensive than a Raspberry PI.
What/Who is miniggl?
Tangentially related question: is it up to the developer to make forms do stuff like use the number pad on a phone instead of the QWERTY keyboard when the user is asked for a zip code or telephone number? Is this not something that is just auto-baked in to modern web dev frameworks?
I did have that problem with the original pi and it's big sd cards. But never with the micro sd cards.

And there were issues with the spring-loaded slots although I've never had issues with that either.
It doesn’t seem useful to me to talk about nominal values when discussing value of money over long periods of time. The original comment was that insurance charges more than they payout, which was disputed saying they make up for it in investment earnings.

What I’m saying is that since the same investment earnings are available to the premium payer, it is true that the insurance company charges more than they pay out, hence the original poster is right in avoiding insurance whenever they can (i.e. they can afford to pay for a loss they might have been planning on purchasing insurance for). All they need to do is invest it in one of the many nearly free index funds, and they’re in the same boat as the insurance company, but without having to pay for the salaries of the insurance company’s employees.
Is a striptease bar a strip club? If so, I don’t think it’s that uncommon. Me and my coworkers would sometimes go to strip-clubs after work. Including female colleagues.

Not as often as regular clubs or bars, but not a rare event.
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that's another example of Popper's paradox of tolerance.
A large contributing factor is probably that younger people have a lot less sex and start to have sex much later than e.g. their parents.
Decriminalisation means relaxing the penalties so you get a civil fine, not a criminal charge. Jaywalking may get you a ticket, but it doesn't make you a criminal. Many people advocate for the decriminalisation of many drugs, including hard drugs; the idea is that even if we don't think heroine use is okay, locking someone up for using heroine isn't solving the problem.

Legalisation means making it actually legal, as many US states have now made marijuana, or as NZ has made sex work. It can still be regulated or taxed, but in general its fine.
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Can someone explain the argument here - isn’t the point of the minimum wage that a company has to ensure the employees (drivers, contractors, whatever) make at least the minimum wage. I realize Lyft doesn’t like it - it costs them money - but what’s their argument that they shouldn’t have to pay their drivers a living wage?

Something something higher Utilization Uber? I read it twice but it’s still a little muddy to me. Are they arguing that since Uber drivers have higher utilization, Uber has to pay less minimum wage padding - so they get an advantage? Isn’t that fair? Or is this more complex than I’m hoping?
A drop in sales during one typically slow month does not a trend make. However, I think the underlying concern is that the Model 3 is essentially a luxury sedan, at least as currently priced. There is no mass market in the USA for luxury sedans. Tesla is in a race against time, and time is running out.
Yes. It can simultaneously cause and cure cancer too!
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS

https://www.w3schools.com/css/

https://30-seconds.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/

https://tympanus.net/codrops/css_reference/
> Otherwise what innovation are you talking about?

Quantity: Google has the highest number of deep learning papers accepted into top conferences among all institutions, even when papers from DeepMind are not counted in Google's.

Quality: Transformer and the recent BERT have, pun intended, transformed the entire NLP field. Batch normalization is now a staple of all neural networks, as are its descendants instance normalization, group normalization, etc.

These are just on top of my head. Google may have done many things wrong these days, but it definitely has not lost any edge in machine learning.