skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it is a matter of what they are trying for - growth or profitability and how much in either direction. Amazon is an example of a success story of 'pump growth and then pump margin when huge'. What they are doing now is losing money and trying to make up for it through scale.

The sustainable equilibrium approach is the summation of profit margin x ride numbers.
What on Earth are you talking about? For the cases where your job requires longer hours even when they don't track productivity, the part of the sentence that you conveniently left out was "..by putting in less hours or get a job that isn't so rigid as to require a number of hours above what you find to be your healthy level."

For the cases where your work doesn't blindly want longer hours but measures your productivity in a saner way, if you can perform better at your job in less hours (which is totally plausible in many situations), then OBVIOUSLY you should be doing it already.

The fragment of a sentence that you quoted is narrowly referring to a situation where 1) you're still getting productivity out of your marginal hour and 2) your work doesn't arbitrarily require absurd hours as detached from productivity.

> So self-evident is this equation to some people that they down vote the mere suggestion that working longer hours does not make you better at your job

I can't even imagine what would drive someone to spend their weekend time feverishly imagining statements that no one is making so they can feel smug about disagreeing with them.
I mean...if they could organize they could have the effective weight of a union - but the circumstances of Uber's employment scheme make that more difficult.
Yeah this has me thinking that Uber doesn’t have a long time viable business model, unless driverless gets a real move on.
Swim is genuinely loving K yet finds pop drugs like cocaine or mdma boring and experiences nowhere as inspiring. Dissaciative state can be scary at first, but can be learnt to control.
Keeping in mind that we have seen exactly zero evidence that Bezos's texts were ever intercepted at all. Hopefully at this point we're long past taking claims in an op-ed at face value?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19531457
Do you consider e.g. BER MetaOCaml approach as "being able to redefine the language"?
I'm just amused by Phone Pay Plus huffing about how people shouldn't do this. Maybe don't pester people with cold-calls...
> The more charitable interpretation is not that they are trying to make another language look bad, but that they are trying to make their favorite language look good.

The project doesn’t talk about favorites or seem to want to make certain languages look good. Jumping to the conclusion that bias is involved isn’t the good faith interpretation, even if you state with a positive sounding framing. The good faith interpretation is to take the stated project goals at face value, and assume that the participants have done a good job.
Inflation was not the point, cheap loans = cheap mortgages = expensive houses.
There used to be a playable Tetris in the favicon, which I found from HN[1], but it looks like the website[2] is dead now :(

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873623

[2] http://favris.info/
Is go for github over blogspot. It’s cleaner and gives you total control over your content. You can either fork one of the many Jekyll templates, or just upload HTML generated by your favourite tool.
afaict the evidence is - not - that "one of the measurements is completely bogus".

On the contrary; we can see from archived web pages that other measurements showed the same relatively-poor performance, with those old versions of TypeScript.
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Well you can start making that distinction yourself by calling them Arabs, since Saudi is just an adjective meaning "pertaining to Saud." Arabia will be there forever, but since 1932 and until the house of Saud goes down the toilet like it deserves to, Arabia is temporarily a Saudi place.
You don't have to be an ex-criminal to have a hard time getting work and tendancy to get involved in harmful financial arrangements. I would argue, the latter at least, is the median individual.
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Then they have some weakness around CD/CI, I would assume.
That is much worse than not knowing how to build it from the command line
The first sentence was sarcasm. But if you need a reference, how about Iraq WMDs.

I'm not on the hook to prove anything. TFA provides literally zero evidence of their claim other than to assert it strongly.

In my opinion, the most strongly asserted claims accompanied by "we can't tell you the evidence, but we turned it over to someone else who also can't tell you"... well, haven't we seen how that turns out enough already over the last 2 years?

My point is simply that TFA asserts a lot and backs it up with nothing but hyperbole.
yeh but if u work for financial firm then u see that devs make maybe 50% or less of what investors make.
I don't understand. Did you have to create the card deck in Anki or was there someone else who created one, which you used?

I just can't imagine using flash cards, or a similar product, to learn anything in-depth about a language. Maybe API specific problems, but nothing more.
For the same reason the UN does nothing about our/british/french illegal wars all over the world or the russian wars or annexation of crimea. China is a permanent veto wielding member of the UN Security Council like US, Britain, France and Russia.

Besides, what do you want the UN to do? Sent troops there to rape children?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-16/rape-scan...

The UN does more harm than good everywhere it is involved. The US and the EU are the only political entities that has influence in china. But unfortunately, the US and Europe has a long history of backing/funding/arming separatists in china ( particularly tibet and xinjiang ), so that's not an option. Especially considering that europe is behind much of the separatist activity in xinjiang.
"Create more money"?
If you mean printing more money, than we just get inflation, otherwise giving money doesn't create any new value by itself, it's just money changing hands.
how is this allowed in rolling stone?
Michael Lucas wrote up a nice piece about setting up an Unbound DNS Server on OpenBSD eight years ago.[0] It might need some updating, but probably you could do that by reading the man page.[1]

[0] https://mwl.io/archives/580

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.conf
People like you miss the point that companies like Uber could pay drivers more at the expense of paying you less, and come up with all sorts of handwavy econ 101 justifications for why that's morally acceptable.
I don’t know what you do but to me working as a programmer, thinking all day and solving problems, is much harder than just driving around people.
It doesn’t need to, but that same developer that will jump ship for a pay rise will also jump ship if their pay is cut to afford higher rates for the workers bringing the actual value to the company.

Why should I take a 50% pay cut just so the people driving the cars earning our incomes can afford to eat?
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Am I the only one that is just annoyed at the tone and language of everything he writes? The guy doesn't seem to have a soul.
Could also be that her texts were leaked, right?
Personally, I don't even believe they can receive that many stars on GitHub. The fact they did amazed me.

Of course I understand ask some projects to suddenly change their license to support anti-996 is hard and unreal, but hey, the show of force and well there is already a win.

For me, the step they've taken to reach out for support (by ask others to change their code license etc) is already something positively progressive. Regardless whether or not they did successfully convinced anyone.

They got the message out, that's important.
> Well Americans like to call themselves "Americans" even if that technically refers to all of the inhabitants of the American Continent (from North, Central and South America), so...

Technically, they're overwhelmingly correct, and your definition is in fact the uncommon one. For example, see the primary definition for both adjective and noun usages in the Oxford Dictionary of British & World English (not even US English).

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american
Even if it is 'you' technically 'you' that is deadly to the whole needs to be removed regardless for the sake of other 'you'. While interesting in a classification exercise the practicalities are the same regardless - a transplanted heart keeps you alive even if it isn't technically 'you' and came from another.
Good point. When I discovered Clojure and saw the light after listening to Rich Hickey's sermons on The Mount I found it almost impossible to work with OO code. Years later I asked myself if this had actually benefited me professionally, other than simply broadening my mind, and I concluded it hadn't because it limited me to the tiny number of Clojure jobs available and ruled-out earning good money working on existing code. In recent years I've had to reverse-engineer this experience and get to grips with the likes of Java, Kotlin, Ruby and Python.
Without wanting to sound contrarian, the mere fact that individuals have been able to amass hundreds of billions of dollars seems to indicate that as a tool of exchange, money has failed.

These hundreds of billions aren’t helping anyone on the planet find shelter, food, or improve anyone’s quality of life. It’s being used to further the wealth of the already incredibly wealthy. Not to mention, the fact that the CEOs of these companies have hundreds of billions when their employees may only be earning thousands suggests that they are contributing hundreds of thousands of times the effort or value, which can simply not be the case.

In any case, the current system has served me well as i possess knowledge that is deemed valuable at present, but i personally know dozens of people who through a variety of causes haven’t been able to extract the same, and who would benefit from a complete rethinking of the system. This again suggests that for the maximum benefit to the most people, something needs to change.
This isn't even close to the worst atrocities the Chinese govt commit against Uyghurs and others: millions in concentration camps visible from satellite and unknown numbers of on-demand executions for forced organ donations.
Is it not the other way around? I would think that the USPS subsidizes paper spam. I find it very hard to believe that paper spamming would be even remotely economically viable at market cost.
I don't work for Uber (or any "gig economy" company).

Please engage with my actual arguments, rather than attacking what you (inaccurately) perceive to be my motivation for making them.
amazing op! tetris is one of those game on my need to implement list and never actually finished an implementation :)
At least one of them will be something similar to: write boring code. Document just a little more than you think you need to (be that in self-descriptive variables or actual comments). Don't get fancy unless actual measured performance dictates it, and when you do so, make sure you document both the why (which test indicated this was necessary) and the how (this is what we did, exactly, to make it perform better).
That seems unnecessarily risky to me.
I'm in the US. The after hours fee is definitely a thing at my kid's pediatrician practice. It ends up being something we pay out of pocket. And yes we have insurance and the docs are in network.
Nope, I don’t mean HHVM. I was thinking of Talaria. I don’t know if they still use it. http://enswmu.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-google-acquired-talar...

But HipHop is certainly another good example that demonstrates that this matters in practice.
That's a reasonable interpretation. If you play, you probably won't win — but if you're going to play, give it all you've got.
Ketamine is usually prescribed to people with "treatment"-resistant severe depression, and these "treatments" include other types of medication, exercise, and meditation. That aside, often, severely depressed people can't do even the basic things like showering, going to work, or making dinner. Ketamine treatment offers a severely depressed person to bootstrap themselves into a state where they _can_ start doing things that will allow themselves to support themselves.
The idea that Lyft and Uber prey on these “people who can’t find jobs” in record low employment is laughable. There are hundreds of thousands of drivers for Lyft and Uber in California alone. If these were only those poor victims that were preyed upon by Lyft then that would be a huge number. The fact is they aren’t victims or preyed upon. They know how much they get paid and if they want to take the job, they can. If they don’t want, there are plenty of other jobs out there. I know for a fact because I use the jobspotter app and I see hiring signs everywhere.
Programming is certainly harder than most jobs in the sense that fewer people are capable of doing it, which is the one that matters for economics. That doesn't mean other jobs are not harder in other ways that matter too.
that's a silly concern lol
Peter Naur has written before about the problems of ramping up new people on old codebases: http://akkartik.name/naur.pdf

I think this is the essential tech debt (and so shows up the essential problem with that framing; you aren't so much going into debt as selling yourself into slavery, because the debt will never be repaid).

I work on this problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533179

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533139
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/03/22/uber-drivers-prepare-to...

Found more context:

“In September 2018, we increased the per-minute rate and minimum fares in hopes of making it more worthwhile to drive with Uber in L.A.,” the company said. “Unfortunately, these changes did not have the intended impact.”

As a result, Uber said it was increasing the per-minute rate drivers earn but reducing the per-mile rate and minimum fare. The per-minute rate jumped from 15 cents to 21 cents. But the minimum fare dropped from $3.75 to $2.62 and the more crucial per-mile rate dropped from 80 cents to 60 cents.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/uber-lyft-nyc...

Organizers with Rideshare Drivers United started planning Monday’s action two weeks ago, responding to Uber’s decision to reduce per-mile fares from 80 cents to 60 cents—months after the company raised rates from 60 to 80 in September 2018. Uber says it’s now reversing the move to put its fares more in line with other ride-share companies, and that it expects the net effect of this 25 percent cut will mean that average driver earnings will return to the same level as before the September increase. Uber also noted that it increased its per-minute rate again on March 11. Lyft, meanwhile, has not changed driver rates in the city of L.A. for 12 months.
Succession in monarchies is a tricky subject, ask the Roman Empire.

Family based succession, more or less provides a clear lineage and plan. Otherwise, military gets involved.
Awesome positive story for black entrepreneurship in UK, which we don't get to see that often. An inspirational read.
The IRS deduction rate per mile plus minimum wage per hour. Anything below that is so low that it is immoral (and would be illegal in any civilized country).
It should be called the "anti-slavery" license.
Probably because of how vocal Tetris's IP lawyers are.
I think polar needs a heuristic evaluation, it takes too many clicks to do certain things. Also, I couldn't figure out how to export a card to anki. Exciting project though, I check back every few months.
Why would USPS subsidize spam? What’s the upside to them? They have literally no incentive I can think of to do that.
I'm on an older Toshiba Chromebook 2 and have been running Gallium for a while. I did some distro hopping recently and found that Manjaro, Ubuntu, and some others work almost perfectly out of the box. Bring in the Gallium keyboard layout and its great.

The work the Gallium team did was necessary, and its definitely paid off. It's nice to see things open up over the past few months.
It doesn't seem to be used if you use the firefox sync feature though, from my experiments, at least, I could sync my account and then open the passwords without the master password.

That was about when I stopped using 'save password' and also disabled password syncing.
I have a question, that was partially addressed in some comments in the last Timezone in Databases article earlier in the week -

What do people think about using Unix time in databases?
Sooner or later the us is going to have to sit down and have a long and hard conversation about this "independent contractor" nonsense.
Two? He's making an issue about having two identities?

Over the past decade, I've probably had ~50 identities. Most have been minor, basically just an email address for some project or activity that I don't want linked to such persistent personas as Mirimir.

And it's also somewhat amusing, given how Facebook doesn't exactly advertize its origins as FaceMash. And this gem:

> I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
I mean, the surge in pricing wouldn't even be a thing someone has to do. It would just happen automatically.

That's the whole problem with this issue: Uber has made the market for taxis/rides incredibly liquid, which has driven the prices down to pretty much exactly the marginal costs. There are plenty of people who have already sunk the cost of a car, and have nothing else to do, so it still makes economic sense to do this with their time.

If the demand for unskilled labor doesn't increase, this will get worse.
Yes, they can always see the metadata. To, from, ports, bytes sent, packets, time, duration of the flow, etc.
It’s time to put “but what about the WMDs” away as an argument.
"Are customers willing to pay 4x or more for that convenience?"

yes have you been to an Afro Caribbean barbers before?
Twitter is like an internet Rorschach test. It’s a very general platform that offers little guidance, so people use it in fundamentally different ways.

I didn’t get the headline until I saw that apparently the author think Twitter is for getting news. I’m sure some people do, but this is strange to me. I use it to keep up with friends and acquaintances, and with the goings-on at certain local organizations. Other people use it to get better customer service. There are many ways to use it. RSS isn’t even in the same species as most of them.
If you are a real meditator or yogi you should have more compassion with others.
David Brin also touched on the idea in his 1989 novel Earth, where police bodycams were required, but citizens ubiquitously chose to wear bodycams as well to keep everyone honest. I always thought the idea felt rather inevitable.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0411-cameras-everywhe...
More like one for each online account :)
You are aware of it.

They always have a well known prefix, in the us its 1-900, in the uk its 0871.
I was under the impression that unaligned ops ran at the same speed, but they used up more register ports, so it does reduce memory bandwidth between the register file and cache. Or does this no longer apply either?
I think your engineering must be pretty bad if a font can cause a crash and system problems.
Why would anyone assume that politicians phones weren’t hacked?
If anything this behavior, of invading privacy and trying to control people by blackmailing them, happened to the richest man in the world.

A lot of things mentioned in this article is similar to what happened with Alabama governer Robert Bentley.
Early 2016, a leaked recordering of his conversation with his mistress was leaked to media (unknown source)
Then a year later his wife screenshot his iMessage conversations with his mistress Rebekah! And everyone thinks it’s the wife.
Between 2016-2017 and before the wife screenshot these photos there was an organized campaign against Alabama governer. Who by the way:
- Supoorted Kasich to run for president
- took down a confederate flag
- was planning a settlement for Syrian refugee..

Just think of this, what if Trump was able to hack every congressman phone?

What gave national acquirer the confidence to black Bezos? Unless of course they’ve done it too many times to too many people.
The question who are these victims?

We need to know who is/was used as a tool to implement Trump and kushner agenda.
Given so much is (sadly) behind cloudflare or on AWS, I'm not sure that helps them a huge amount without seeing actual packet contents
I've never seen a high-performance workstation based on an ARM cpu before.
My more productive 10x days has little to do with programming syntax. These are days when I focus on gaining clarity on the problem/objective and writing the least amount of code to solve the problem.

Writing less code requires extensive knowledge of frameworks, patterns and best practices.
Memorizing programming syntaxes and paradigm makes getting in the flow easier because of reduced context switching, makes work more fun and hence greater productivity (10x days). But at the heart of it, being productive requires understanding of the problem domain in depth, knowing what matters and what doesn't (YAGNI and pareto-ing mercilessly).
When I take a Lyft or Uber ride the vehicle is frequently showing some sort of warning light or overdue maintenance indicator on the dashboard.
The moment I pull out my ipad and macbook and entrust the fate of around 3000 dollars worth of electronics to the competence and benevolence of government officials who barely give a shit is my least favorite part of the travel experience
Sorry I mentioned it! It has nothing to do with my premise, as we're not even talking about intelligence agency assessments here.

My point was simply that this is a mealy-mouthed statement which does not assert anything about what, if any, evidence may have been obtained or analyzed;

> "Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information."
I've thought about getting a 1-900 number and putting that as my cellphone number on my company profile. Any weekend or night production calls... I'd get some extra $.
Huffing? They're saying that as the operator of a pay phone service you have several legal obligations and you will be subject to possibly stiff penalties if you don't comply and someone complains.

I'd be pretty surprised if their lawyers would let them discuss this scheme without emphasizing that.
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Which is what it should be no? Drivers are still paid by the minute on top of that, which in LA is 21 cents/minute according to the news, working out to $12.6/hour. Not quite $15 minimum wage, but close.
Anecdotally calling something the best on the planet is absurd. Have you tried every health care system, or simply believe USA #1?
That doesn't make sense for a real business. For a non-profit ride share service that can gather donations? Maybe.
What do you think people did before plastic items were so prevalent? It was not so long ago. Ask anyone over 75 to remember their childhood.

In the scenario you describe, you would probably get help planning the celebration and pool items from that group. Shops would likely begin to rent out utensils and such for these sort of situations if there was a need. It's not so hard to imagine alternatives.