skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how Lyft or Uber are brutally exploiting drivers. They could be paying more but there's nothing forcing drivers to drive. The only people I see ride sharing companies harming are the taxi drivers who are stuck with medallions.
>It can also be pointed inward to improve its own effectiveness.

Assumption. Intelligence (which isn’t defined) may be something that can grow without bound, or it may be something that plateaus just above the brightest human yet (again this is ill defined. “IQ is a number. There are numbers that are higher, so intelligence must be able to grow” is about as much thought as some people put into it) or maybe it is something that can grow without bound, but the effort required grows too.
John was one of the last written, but it covers the same period of time as the other gospels. That’s what I meant by chronological. The text itself, not authorship. I don’t think an ordering in authorship time is any more sensible, particularly given the probable presence of forgeries and the undateableness of most of them.

Luke and Acts were probably not part of the same document, but were written separately. The beginning of Acts supports this when the author speaks of his previous book and re-addresses his audience. I suppose you could argue it’s all an interpolation, but the books were separate before the canon was established.

Either way, I wouldn’t consider it arbitrary to have all the gospel narratives together and then have subsequent events afterward. Perhaps you could argue that Luke and John should be swapped, so as to proceed from Luke to Acts, but then Luke is much more like Matthew and Mark theologically and stylistically. You could set John first, but it’s the most difficult of the four. It’s hard to see how your example is a good one of arbitrary ordering. Four books covering the same material are all in one place; the three synoptic gospels are in the same place - how else would you do it?
For people who don't know the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Even with legal contraception, accidental and unwanted pregnancies (and those that are the result of rape and incest) occur.

And women die in childbirth even in developed countries; they die or are permanently disabled by complications of pregnancy and labor; and if you deny them access to legal abortions they’ll pursue illegal ones that are far more likely to kill or maim them (see also “coat hanger abortion”; “back alley abortion”).
HBM2 vs. GDDR6: Latency Under Load
I got lost on the "we have to back port to python 2.7" argument.

Force the upgrade already. Code still on 2.7 if still useful can be upgraded.
The longer I've worked in software development, the less I'm convinced that any of this matters, at all.

What has mattered more to me is choosing the right architecture, technologies and dependencies. Understanding the fundamentals, especially at least a vague understanding of what the computer is doing with the code I am writing. Basic understanding of algorithms and techniques like state machines.

I've grown almost disdainful of things like SOLID principles, after taking them more seriously in the past.
Wet garbage is extremely heavy and hard to clean up. These socks typically require heavy equipment to remove/maintain. These filters also only work well in very specific drain configurations. Not as effective as the article suggests.
I was thinking it's more of a college thing. It was a staple of early college life and sometimes after graduation due to how inexpensive it was when bought as a bulk purchase. Combined with some cheap spices and veggies and this is your basic college survival life for under $50 a month. At least it was like that 15-20 years ago. Prices don't seem to have gone up too much since either.
Absolutely. It helps that my wife runs her own business so she understands that home time isn’t necessarily family time.

Having an office with a door that closes is key.

Having my wife run interference on the kids is key wouldn’t happen if she didn’t play ball.

With those two factors I’ve worked remotely for a dozen years (only the last five with kids).
Anyone who ended up in Guntanamo would have had a bullet to head in PRC, they would not bother with a camp. It is for hundreds of thousands of undesirables(like Muslims etc).

When USA ships it’s Muslims into a camp in Nevada desert and starts re-educating them let us know
Sorry, it seems that link only works if the referrer is google scholar. The publisher (paywall) link is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4754.....

Gambling with etruscan dice: A tale of numbers and letters
G Artioli, V Nociti, I Angelini
Archaeometry 53 (5), 1031-1043, 2011
The graphical and linguistic interpretation of the first six Etruscan numerals has long been confronted with the ambiguous assignment of the words huth and sa to either 4 or 6. Here, we show how the systematic combinatorial analysis of the numerals appearing on ancient southern Etrurian dice dated from the eighth to the third centuries bc, together with the careful comparison of the results with the only two existing dice carrying the alphabetical translations of the numerals conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, finally allows unambiguous mathematical resolution of the linguistic riddle, allowing the firm attribution of the numeral 6 to the graphical value huth and 4 to sa. Combinatorial analysis of the numerals distribution on the six faces of the die shows that only two of the 15 possible numerical combinations were actually in use in southern Etruria, and that during the fifth century bc there was a marked shift from the typical (1–2, 3–4, 5–6) combination used in the early seventh‐ to fifth‐century bc dice to the (1–6, 2–5, 3–4) combination used at later times and still largely adopted today. The largest body of archaeometric data on dice specimens from Etruria is presented, based on macroscopic examination, X‐ray diffraction, DRIFT spectroscopy and density measurements.
They don't have to be friends, but it does help to know people's specific interaction styles. Are they quick to voice an opinion, or hesitant? Do they play the "strong opinions loosely held" game? Which people will speak up in the group, which would prefer one on one, which will avoid one on one because of culture-specific gender or hierarchy rules? Which people are generally "progressive" early-adopter new-shiny types, which are "conservative" use-proven-technology types? Who welcomes new people? Who enjoys a bit of teasing banter, and who seems bemused genuinely hurt by it? A little light social interaction can answer all of these questions, and those answers can be very useful when interacting with them later in more structured and directly work-centered contexts.
What if you think everyone else is rational, but they'll all buy the stock for the same reason as you? It's an entirely rational system that leads to a completely irrational outcome.
These have been over the runoff drains around bondi, tama, bronte and coogee for as long as I can remember (at least 10 years) so I’m surprised this is being reported as ‘new’
Asking for a source for an assertion that is a fairly well-known fact is simply lazy.
Do you have references on their Super MARIO run revenue? It was definitely my favorite game of theirs in a while. Still play it because it’s so simple.
This seems to be a common thing with apple devices - supposedly powerful hardware with woefully inadequate cooling. iirc one of the i9 macbook models actually performed worse than the corresponding i7 model because the cooling was so bad.
> like setting up plans, accepting payments

I might be stupid here, but I have not seen any mention of Kong handling those things on their website.
Second this. Over the 15 years that I have worked in the UK, most of my best friends are ex-colleagues. I moved back for a while to my native Norway and worked 6 years there but there were nearly no social interactions with colleagues. Perhaps once a quarter you would go for a beer or pizza but very rarely. (Though some of the work organised sports events, lunchtime football, floorball, etc, was good.)

I was relieved when we decided to move back to the UK and I could have a quick pint after work once or twice a week again. Some quick banter and gossip improve camaraderie and spirits a lot. Though as a parent it has to be a quick drink but still enough to bond.

But also in the UK, it has been very different depending on if the office is located in the city centre or an office park. One of the many reasons why I try to avoid companies in an anonymous office park...

Though now I am working mostly remotely in a tiny town where I know no one so I make an effort to occasionally jump on a train into London just to meet ex-colleagues for a drink for my social interactions (and possible contract networking...)
The street food vendor market in NYC is also really screwed up. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/dining/halal-cart-food-ve...
There are areas of the country with relatively stable weather and mild conditions (no snow, no storms, etc). Could work reasonably well there.
Patron is fractions of a percent of the GDP of YouTube’s content creator payout, and patron works for only a fraction of creators. It’s not even a comparison.
http://archive.is/qb2GJ
Doesn't an unlocked bootloader almost automatically allow bypassing of the carrier lock?
Can we at least make the C API more feature complete so that it's a plausible target for more users? As far as I know it's not really a viable target for a heavy-duty user like a language compiler backend.
Yes I hit the road and work from closest cafe/library. Home has too many distractions (kids, pets, musical instruments... you name it).
Well sure, but (under my thoery) the humans rationally decided to use automated sentiment analysis, knowing that there is a error rate, but finding that it is low enough that they can make money. This just happened to be one of those errors. And substitute negative sentiment for positive sentiment in my original post to match the direction of stock movement.

Thanks for the direct link!
Let’s imagine a slave cotton plantation was unprofitable due to poor weather, some burglary, and other external factors. Is the cotton plantation not exploiting the slaves?

The final profit margin has nothing to do with the concept of exploitation.
I am against warrantless searches and seizures. (Which PRISM and other 3-letter agencies' programs are notorious of doing)
> If Mr. Hoque gave him $50,000 that day

That's really all I needed to read: "that day".
If someone is putting pressure on you to buy something "that day" - it's likely a scam. I am not sure how this guy didn't read the loan docs.
Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness
> It's not actually cost-effective to repurpose inventory unless you have an even-worse shortage in one market than you have in the other.

100% of the inventory on Airbnb is repurposed from elsewhere. People aren't constructing new buildings to list them on Airbnb.

Re-purposing inventory is far more cost effective than actually building a new hotel because:

- You can't hide a new hotel and would actually need regulatory approval for it, while you can list an existing apartment on Airbnb illegally

- You would need to meet the ongoing requirements for a hotel like paying commercial property taxes, having 24/7 staffing and meeting health and safety standards

- It doesn't require millions of dollars of capital

As a tourist, it's amazing to have the additional options afforded you by Airbnb. It's often cheaper, and even when it isn't it lets you rent types of accommodation that you just won't find from normal hotel businesses. You can stay in parts of town that don't have hotels. I get that. But cities aren't run for tourists, they're run for the people that live in them.

A shortage of hotel rooms, at worst, constrains your tourism economy. A shortage of apartments makes your city unlivable. Allowing inventory to move from one market to the other freely may maximize revenue for landlords, but it doesn't serve public policy goals of affordability.

Many tourist cities (Paris, Barcelona, etc.) have a shortage of hotel rooms during peak season (try searching the price of a hotel room in central Paris in June). With unrestricted Airbnb, that market can gobble up long-term rental capacity, effectively transforming a tourism industry problem into a widespread affordability crisis. Now try searching Airbnb in Paris for June, and look for the listings in Chinese characters, which will be illegal hostels with 8 or 12 bunk beds crammed into a 1 or 2 bedroom flat, things that no sane person would ever certify as safe for occupation - but that do generate additional profit for their owners. You will also find plenty of 'whole apartment' listings that are available 365 days a year.

Of course, introducing more supply for tourists will bring down the cost of tourist accommodation, which will bring more tourists. But does Paris want more tourists? Does Barcelona? Aren't those cities and their voters entitled to decide for themselves? Why won't Airbnb respect the decisions made by the people who live there through their democratically elected governments?
The EMH isn't necessarily that every stock is perfectly priced. It's that it's not possible to reliably predict where prices will go next.
A lot more, if it could be made at all:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...
Xfce 4.14pre1 Released
Information about SQL in general should not be confused with information about specific RDBMS.

That SE answer is about MS SQL Server.

What I wrote was specific to PostgreSQL which does a specific weird thing using CTEs where they are materialized.

In SQL Server, CTEs are not materialized and are just used to organize the query, to make it more readable.

If I wrote about PostgreSQL heap organized tables, would you object and say I'm wrong because MS SQL Server tables are index-organized, clustered on the primary key?
There's a rather fancy one in North Strathfield in Powells Creek at coordinates: -33.8586891, 151.0842781
Well, ASHR's price has changed by about 0% between Nov 2013 and Feb 2019, and by about 10% to this day. It was also +125% at some point. So even in the long run investing in diversified top-of-the-country-stock-market ETFs may be "just a gamble".
Ah, right you are. I've been punished here before for not adhering to those rules.

I didn't mean it to be a personal attack. I'll be more attentive going forward. Thanks for the reminder. I also aspire to a much higher level of discussion and I appreciate your efforts.
It's interesting that the graph of taxi medallion sales seems to show a trimodal distribution: most sales are close to the market price, but many are consistently at half the market price, and others are much higher, especially during the bubble years.

What could be the meaning of this pattern?
The fact that the ability to drive people about in a car became subject to a financial instrument as a barrier to entry is the real story here.

There are other cities in the world which don't have such an absurd system and they seem to be doing just fine.

Uber may be outcompeting them, but they haven't taken on mortgage levels of debt.
It's not quite that drastic; we do have organizations like the ACLU and EFF that bring lawsuits for the public good. Though relying on foundations to fight for the same idea of "public good" as you do is a shaky footing to base a society around.
Ok, we changed to that more accessible URL from https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-wisconsin-old.... Thanks!
It was my understanding that YouTube isn't profitable; has there been any new data on this that I've missed? Lack of similar-sized competitors in the space would certainly indicate that the margins don't really stack up and you could make an argument that the aggressive foisting of their premium offering underscores that notion, but I don't know for sure. It'd be interesting to know more about operating a site of that nature at that scale but I don't suppose that sort of data will make it out any time soon!
I do wonder if Youtube employees ever ponder when the day will come that a slighted, desperate content creator is going to visit their offices with an AR-15 and let their anger truly be known.
Because once rideshare companies corner specific markets, they're no longer incentivized to keep paying drivers competitive rates.

A few years ago, Uber and Lyft left Austin, which in turn created a local, non-profit MVP rideshare app called RideAustin that worked OK. It wasn't perfect, but it covered the bare necessities of ridesharing fairly well.

The drivers I spoke with were pretty happy with RideAustin because they made more money than they had been using Uber and Lyft since RideAustin took a smaller cut.

When Uber and Lyft returned, they enticed drivers with rates that RideAustin couldn't keep up with. Within a few weeks, it became a lot harder to hail a ride through their app. And within a month, I couldn't get a ride consistently from my apartment in north Austin. If I wanted to get a ride, it had to be through Uber or Lyft.

Once they regained the market, they cut the rates to drivers, who have no rights to negotiate pricing since they're contractors. Rideshare drivers are essentially a captive labor force that must accept all conditions to work without really any say over what they're paid.
This counter argument is silly. Paying workers at a loss doesn't make it not exploitative. If the customer is charged $1 per unit and the employer pays workers (at an obvious loss) $2 per unit sold, that still says nothing about the worker's conditions, just that the company is subsidizing its losses somehow.
> I believe in markets and capitalism, but it's hard for me to see these changes and not sympathize with the new wave socialists in the US.

What's happening isn't due to capitalism. It's all symptoms of monetary policy. Prices for real estate are driven up by cheap money, not just PE. Then, when the bubble pops, everyone gets a bailout by the nanny state. If the market shows sign of weakness, no more interest rate hikes. Risk has been eliminated.

The party has to go on at all costs, because if interest rates normalize, asset prices will tank, debt will become unservicable, mortgages will default, 401Ks will be wiped out...
It isn't clear to me why so few of these optimization articles talk about temporary tables. They are my go-to solution for many situations.

Temporary tables are great because they break the problem down into smaller pieces. They make the query much more understandable. They are way easier to debug. They are way less sensitive to failing because the query optimizer decides to do things differently because table statistics have changed. They will often eliminate the need for exotic syntax.

You also have the opportunity to add secondary indexes to these tables.

When you create a temporary table, you are essentially doing the work of the optimizer yourself. That's perfectly ok if you know things about the data that the optimizer doesn't or hasn't successfully figured out on its own.

They're not for every situation; they only work well when the intermediate tables are small and fit in memory. But that is very frequently the case.
How similar is that to answer set programming?
Looking at the data in the graph of medallion prices is very interesting. They do chart the main line and the 60 day moving average, but it looks like there's an interesting secondary trend in the data, where there's another line of sales that looks fairly contiguous but is lighter which seems to be about 25% or maybe 33% of the higher line. Also it looks like there are some higher lines that look stair-step (probably using round numbers for the prices). I wonder if these are other sellers or groups, but it seems like the lower line might be the actual value of a medallion in a not ridiculous price inflation way?
> though I doubt they'll see much success convincing Western users to switch.

Are any of these stores near the quality levels that Western audiences expect? My experience with software from China was consistently bad. Even the AliExpress web site looks like a cobbled together, barely working mess that people only put up with because of the low prices of the goods you can buy there, which won't work for app stores.
I appreciate your efforts too.
That's the lobby part of my comment. The only reason I can think the federal govt would be at all interested in tricking people into accepting fewer cherries in their cherry pie is if it is directly connected to campaign (and other) funding ventures.
Thanks for the reply! Not blaming you (you've done awesome job here!), just bringing up an interesting point and was hoping to get insight but apparently not so much :/
Seeing as I'm being downvoted - look! I found a source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-Core-i9-s...

I'm at work so I don't have time to do many more googles.
Except China has not locked U.S. smartphone makers like Apple anywhere near to the degree that the U.S. is targeting Huawei.

Also, China does not necessarily claim to be as free-market as the U.S. does and as far as I am aware, has not let interventionist wars in order to open up a foreign market to its companies.

What I am talking here is principle. The U.S. claims to have free speech for example, China does not. But in that instance the U.S. sticks by its principles and maintains its free speech protections, despite China not having them.

Why is this different when it comes to the free market? A concept the U.S. has in recent history definitely fought harder worldwide than the pursuit of free speech.
> I always wondered what would it take for a company to develop an alternative mobile operating system?

Creating an app ecosystem out of nowhere. This was the same thing that killed all competitors to Apple and Android.
Recalls can happen a decade later even. Would tesla owners even realize a critical component is defective after the company folds, let alone recieve a recall repair? If I owned a tesla and they folded I’d trade in my car that afternoon.
Not sure about Kong specifically, but monetization is a common feature API gateways support (Apigee)
There's a tiny in-cabin camera above the rear view mirror.
Here's an article on it: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/31/16580976/super-mario-run...

I love it, too, and I think it's well worth the money. But I'm sure Nintendo became aware all too quickly that their traditional fan base is happy to pay any amount for Mario; most mobile users, particularly children, are either unwilling or unable.
This is probably the hardest setting, yet most people seemed to have no trouble getting 8/8.
Ooh, I avoid that change of flavour when it gets the stewed bitter edge and after taste. Wouldn't surprise me if that's British English separating us by common language though. :)

Can't help you too much on where - I'm in the UK, even most supermarkets take tea slightly seriously. Then we're spoiled rotten with a great tea shop nearby with loads of loose coffees and teas, including their own blends. https://www.johnwatt.co.uk
> Let’s imagine a slave cotton plantation was unprofitable due to poor weather, some burglary, and other external factors. Is the cotton plantation not exploiting the slaves?

You don't see the glaring differences between a slave on a cotton plantation and an Uber driver?
And for Elizabeth Warren.
Your comment's great, except for the first sentence, which is what the site guidelines refer to as calling names in arguments. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and editing those bits out of your HN comments in the future?

I know it seems small, but it has a downgrading effect on conversation. Also, it often doesn't seem small to the person being addressed that way (or some other readers who happen upon it).