skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm dense but if drivers aren't finding the expected wage acceptable then why don't they simply choose not to offer their services to Uber? I'm not saying that in the "cruel capitalist" way, I'm observing -- they still choose to work, so there must be demand for it at a low wage level.

Seems to me we have an oversupply of labor of people willing (or needing) to work for pennies. Having a minimum wage isn't going to improve that. It's going to lead to fewer people taking rides, and fewer people being able to become Uber drivers, but slightly better for the ones that can remain drivers. Classic minimum wage problems.

Why don't we make it $30 per hour? or $50? That would be even better.
Thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306335

Can it really be that that's the only previous HN discussion of this classic?
After the initial round of "useful PyPI packages don't support Python 3 though, I can't migrate", that "I know 3.x is different and I'll have to read up on the differences....later" was absolutely the biggest blocker for adoption imo.

I know proficient Python programmers who were starting projects from scratch in 2017 and didn't want to use Python 3.x because they were in a hurry, worried that they didn't know how to write Python 3.x in a timely manner because they hadn't invested the time to learn it. Lots and lots of people just knew it was a known unknown for them, had no idea of the magnitude of the effort required to switch (tiny for new projects! tiiiny) and just put "look into this" somewhere deep on their backlog.
> Followers of Jainism have been doing this for hundreds of years.

Then we should have conclusive evidence?
Ha, I came pretty close to suggesting in my previous comment that BMXers, particularly pros, take the art of wiping out to the next level.
People will just continue to use non-Apple parts then no? If Apple expects customers to buy a new phone every 2 years, why would they spend a significant more amount of money for a few extra months of usage? If there is a $150 difference between an Apple screen and non-Apple screen, Im going non-Apple
Is this the correct incentive to give to diplomats, members of the military, etc, that we as a nation want and need to be physically overseas?
Well, just to provide my anecdotal experience with aftermarket repairs, I got my cracked iphone screen replaced at a local shop. They offer a "lifetime warranty" which in practice just means they have thus far installed four replacement parts, each of which has been faulty in a different fun way that doesn't become apparent until after I leave the shop. There is good reason for "certified replacement part" programs, especially in this industry, and customers will seek them out.
I didn't touch a personal computer until a few years later in a job where we had an Apple II to do some engineering calculations. High school was BASIC using a teletype connected to a local community college--and that was pretty forward looking at the time.

I did take a FORTRAN course in college which people would consider very rudimentary today. This was the textbook :-) https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6795090W/A_Fortran_coloring_...

But I didn't really use a computer to speak of (other than as a text editor in grad school) until I was working--and later got into programming as a hobby.
This is why everything is made from corn in the US.
And what will this do to fares? If they stop being the cheapest fast option between two points, I don't feel like I'd be alone in going another way.
Ads are being blocked, already, on hundreds of millions of devices. Brave users are usually former users of ad-blocking extensions in Chrome and Firefox. As such, these users were beyond the advertising system, far out of reach of Advertisers or Publishers. Brave changes this.

Brave brings security and privacy minded folks back into the system by offering a better deal for all parties. Users get paid without giving up data, Advertisers get better value for their spend. And Publishers don't have to weigh their sites down with third-party scripts to monetize content.
News to me, thanks! Now I can tell my parents to scrub whatever crap they grabbed from the appstore.
You can put a price on those things.

Insurance: 2400 / yr (guesstimate, maybe lower)
Miles driven per year: 50k [1]
Cost per mile (Incl depreciation) = 0.26$ [2]
Cost per year to drive = 0.26 * 52k = 13520
Total = ~$16k per year in post tax earnings.

(Assuming numbers above still work )
Min 21$ / hr = 43,680
Minus taxes = 40,175
Minus driving costs = 24175

post-tax income per month ~= $2k

Assuming a single driver lives outside the immediate SF area, "commutes" to work, and shares an apartment, it's enough to survive. There's plenty of other jobs that pay less, so it seems unfair to target Uber on this number. You can expect to get by temporarily or make a bit of extra cash with Uber, but it's not a long term career for a driver - but I expect most drivers know that already.

[1] https://ride.guru/lounge/p/how-many-miles-do-uber-and-lyft-d...
[2] https://bizfluent.com/how-5914430-compute-depreciation-based...
> No. You can't pay rent with their improvements and there's only certain types of software, and a handful of titles, that these companies modify like that.

I don't know about that. I suspect that a lot of the time, when a company wants to use modified open source software, they pay someone to make the modifications. Usually, they hire their own person, because they can pay them to make the modifications and then they own those modifications and can keep them internally, but that has a lot of costs: they have to pay the person to become familiar with the source code. It's much cheaper to pay the original developer to make the modifications you want, because they are already familiar with the source code. So if companies couldn't keep the results of the developers' work, they might as well pay the original developer to make the modifications, which both pays the developer's rent, and allows them the choice of what parts of the modifications to include in the end product.

> Funding open source development needs to be across-the-board inclusive, it is the "R" in "R&D". Open source benefits from a massive parallel pipeline of bad projects and inferior efforts and abandoned ideas from which comes great stuff, but even the bad stuff can teach a lot.

This is a good point.
"There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead." - Miracle Max
First they evade regulations, then they propose a new policy that is enticing to potential employees (or whatever they call them) - but the policy is so generous that most competitors would have issues keeping up.

How many companies can afford to pay 21$/hr minimum for example?

So somehow it's both a great step forward and terribly anti-competitive at the same time.
> but Uber/Lyft is probably a pretty strongly engrained habit for many at this point.

Might be true in the valley, but I see no reason to believe that this is true in many other markets.
Definitely not enough to draw an accurate timeline, but enough for educated guesses. As you say, guestimates shift with major discoveries, but not quite as much as pop-science press would have you think.

This species is now the oldest known australopithecine, by a hair. It is a contemporary and possible ancestor of afarensis. It's true that we don't know (and probably won't because it's too old for DNA) if these fossils just represent diversity in a species, subspecies or several species. We do know that they're similar to each other. We also know that they existed 4mya. Divergence from chimps is thought to have happened around 6-7mya (also controversial, and subject to change). So... all the australopithecines at that time were probably genetically compatible, considering apes slow breeding and how long it takes most large mammals to completely speciate.

Considering how different they are from chimps and similar they are to each other, it's a decent guess that they are closely related. We know that the genus had at least 5 types/subspecies/species, 6 if we include habilis.

Baboons occupy a similar niche to australopithecines. There are 5 closely related species. They hybridize often, but still maintain these separate species/types, probably because it's adaptive in their respective ecosystems. It's meaningful that australopithecines had a similar pattern.

An interesting side point is that there's some speculation that baboons emerged once australopithecines (inc habilis) declined, homo (erectus) emerged and the ecological niche became free.

So yes, we can't tell exactly which of these extremely closely related types represent distinct "species" and which of these is our immediate ancestor. But, that's more semantics than substance. We have pretty strong evidence that early homo was an australopithecine type, within a closely related (recently emerged) genus.. and that there was probably a lot of hybridization within the genus.

There's a lot to the difference between definitive knowledge and no knowledge.
Code-block support in Webflow CMS blog posts
I have been using Spacemacs exclusively for around three or four years and I don't know if I can actively recommend it.

The problem is that the 'stable/master' branch of Spacemacs is incredibly outdated. I found myself needing fixes or improvements that existed in 'develop' so often that I migrated over to that branch. The idea of regularly cutting stable releases just isn't done within that project so if I'm recommending Spacemacs to new users I have to give them installation instructions that aren't provided by the documentation. Also, to get more up to date documentation I need to go to the layers docs in the GitHub repo and that can be hard to track down.

Every fresh install I've setup there has just been... so many problems with melpa and pulling down packages. Most of the time I have to repeatedly delete the package cache and restart Emacs until Spacemacs successfully pulls down packages - usually using the insecure flag so that packages aren't downloaded over HTTPS.

It's just... not as a polished as installing VSCode and a bunch of extensions. Spacemacs can require a lot of work and patience and I've just had too many things break with it over time.
I've been using DDG for about half a year now, most of the time it does its job, but just yesterday, there was a case where I had to run back to Google: Searching for the "Ship of Theseus" with the words "ship replaced part by part" on Google lead me straight to the Wiki article, whereas on DDG...

Not sure if they're using a statistical (DDG could never compete, too few searches performed) or an algorithmic (DDG could, in time, get this far too) pattern to achieve correct results.

EDIT: It's about the tenth result on DDG, the last one to show before having to click to load more results. Not bad, actually.
A book can easily cost as much as a special powder or vitamin pills. And yes, someone writing some pseudo-scientific book pushing "hydration" (in reality, over-hydration) is a scam artist too. I'd be very surprised if there aren't any such books out there.

I case you're wondering, this "hydration" thing basically is a scam too, just like keto. Fun fact: it's generally impossible to die of dehydration, unless you genuinely don't have access to freshwater. People will drink when they're thirsty. No athletes have ever died of it. However, a significant number of athletes have died of over-hydration (water poisoning). Just like keto, it's dangerous and unhealthy.
Not even that. Wikipedia doesn't show ads, so this announcement isn't saying that Wikipedia will automatically get BATs from Brave using visitors. It's saying Wikipedia has a verified BAT wallet that a tiny fraction of users of a browser with almost no users can donate their worthless tokens to. I'd be surprised if Wikipedia can buy a USB cable with the amount of money they get from this. This is just a worthless PR post from a slimy company.
Beards are not actually as hot as they might seem. Think of how a shady forest buffers the temperature. Compared to the surrounding area, it is cooler in the heat of the day, and warmer in the cold of night
More cynically, they can survive it as long as their competitors die first :b
That sounds like it might work. The recent instance that I ran into was working on an OS kernel, where I wanted to jump interface definitions that might be in different directories
Note that there is a difference between methane and carbon. My quote only mentioned carbon.

> The most important greenhouse gases from animal agriculture are methane and nitrous oxide. Methane, mainly produced by enteric fermentation and manure storage, is a gas which has an effect on global warming 28 times higher than carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide, arising from manure storage and the use of organic/inorganic fertilizers, is a molecule with a global warming potential 265 times higher than carbon dioxide.

Additionally, he missed the fact that deforestation has other negative impacts besides contributing to climate change.

All things considered, meat consumption is pretty much the main reason for the destruction of Amazonian rainforest, using up incredible amounts of land, food, and water, as well as producing a statistically significant amount of pollution. Then there is desertification, MDR pathogens, and so forth.

If you want the total percentages per sector: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Some more reading (website is currently down for me but it was available a couple of minutes ago): https://www.fao.org/gleam/results/en/
Thanks for the reminder brother; no such thing as a safe ride ATGATT
Anyone have any luck growing a beard after a lifetime of not being able to? My dad could grow one after 40 but no such luck for me. Also I had a few bad sunburns under my chin snowboarding and I wonder if I triggered something like an electrolysis effect. I've noticed that some things like drinking alcohol seem to stimulate brief growth but it's not a permanent fix hah. Also I've read that testosterone levels today are much lower than what the baby boomers had, but I don't know how scientific that is. I haven't been to a doctor to get my T level checked, just curious.
Seeing that this is coming just on the heels of increased costs of by-mail shipping from China, I wonder if Apple has been waiting to supply parts until they could be sure that paying for their authentic parts is the only economical option for these shops.

Apple wouldn't want to get into a situation where they're supplying parts to these shops and deigning them an "Apple-Authorized Repair Center", but the shops are also buying grey-market parts and certifying those as being under Apply warranty as well.

But if it's too expensive to buy the grey-market parts...
Graphical Big O
The unabomber thought the same thing, with the same flavor of absolutist "ethics"
Everything in that list involves choice: where you want to live is a choice. (based on family size, crime rates, school quality, access to transportation, whether you have pets, etc, but still a choice) Even the things that have static prices involve consumption choices (ie, how much gas you consume)
Is that different from how normal taxi drivers get paid?
it sounds like this setup has proven very successful in helping your predecessor get hired (away from the company), I wonder if that was an implicit or an explicit requirement when they were designing the system
Yep, I use ATmega just as video and keyboard controllers. All real work is done by 6502 - it communicates with memory and keyboard and video controllers. Just as in the original Apple I
Sorry, but I don't follow this argument:

(1) HDR-Histogram merges are 100% accurate and very fast (few microseconds)

(2) The range of HDR-Histogram is bounded in the same way that floating point numbers are bounded. Hence the name "High Definition Range":

> For example, a Histogram could be configured to track the counts of observed integer values between 0 and 3,600,000,000,000 while maintaining a value precision of 3 significant digits across that range.

http://hdrhistogram.github.io/HdrHistogram/

Circllhist offers a default range of 10^-128 .. 10^+127, which has been more than ample for all use-cases I have seen.

https://github.com/circonus-labs/libcircllhist/blob/master/s...
Airflow in Docker Compose
Does anyone have a link to the actual policy Uber is advocating? It doesn't appear to be linked from the TC article or the independentdriver site linked from there.
The AAA numbers are within a hair of the IRS numbers so presumably yes.
No one knows for sure. However, Reuters says: "The program will allow independent stores to set their own prices for repairs and also offer cheaper aftermarket parts."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-repair/apple-to-sup...
Ahh, so I have the flexibility to choose to be homeless to save on rent. Great.

> SV's problem is that even the minimum rent is pretty high, but that's a local problem, not a universal.

In my experience almost all of people's problems are local.

To be clear, I have an excellent job. I'm just trying my hand at putting the 'ol empathy hat on.
The types of ads shown by early participants is skewed toward blockchain and security topics. For many users, this is not very interesting. But the inventory changes and diversifies with time. We're seeing this happen today, already. The machine-learning model within the browser will also adapt over time, getting smarter and more attuned to your interests and habits.

Quality will increase with Time and Inventory. We're seeing positive trends here, as more and more diverse advertisers are lining up to join the platform.
> How many Android devices get support that far back?

Also irrelevant. Most people don't use phones that old. If they upgrade devices on a normal schedule, there are plenty of Android devices that will get updated during that time. Even better, their system apps will also get updated at an even higher frequency during that time transparently, while iOS users have to wait for an OS update and reboot their devices. This is an issue with highly vulnerable apps like iMessage and Safari.
Thanks. I get it now. The amount seems on the lower end then since it is against the actual time spent driving and not the time you are online?
Yes. That's how a disruptive companies operate in outdated regulatory environments, and that can be a win for all. Call it corporate civil disobedience?

Case and point: Uber was basically a (hugely popular) mediator for illegal cabs in my country. They had to shut down, but as a response the government introduced new vastly relaxed regulations to the whole taxi industry, setting the rules under which services like Uber could operate. I am not yet sure if it will actually result in lower rates, but at least they catalyzed a historical change.
You can read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.

Note that the discussion here is about JavaScript code, not JavaScript the programming language (there seems to have been some confusion in this thread).

Also note that being able to read the code doesn't entail that the code is free as in freedom (i.e., released under a corresponding license). If you share some non-trivial[0] code of yours on GitHub, or deploy a website with your own non-trivial JS code, it still fully belongs to you, and people are not free to reuse it without asking you.

[0]: you probably cannot claim much for a hello world even if you wrote it yourself
Someone at google must have really liked their Kafka, but accidentally took it as a guide rather than a warning. Oops!
I had an iPhone 5s that I took to a local repair shop four times for a screen that was separating from the chassis. Four times they replaced the screen and within a week it started happening again.

I fully support independent repair shops but I am willing to pay more for a quality job. Right now since Apple doesn’t certify third party repair shops, there’s just no way of knowing.
Is this what it looks like when a corporation has a morality, rather than just maximizing shareholder value?
Could this theoretically be used/adjusted for telescopes too?
Its the perfect use case of taxes: a pool of money for public well being. Being able to pee freely in a sanitary area and not on the ground is benefitting the public well being.
That is an interesting twist on the argument.
It's also the entire cost of a console these days. The current status quo is a better comparison than a different service where cutting it out entirely is a meme due to ludicrous cost and subpar value.
using vim for go-to-definition, `gd` takes you to local definition, `gD` to global, q.v. :help gd

I find it often quicker than an IDE..
I made a wrapper to support this: https://gist.github.com/ayosec/816ccba7a75aba5336db0fe0b9791...
I got banned from a default sub in reddit for the reason "I didn't see that in the article". I replied to the mods with an explanation and a direct quote from teh article, and... nothing. They perma-banned me, and then blocked my account from messaging.

My comment was correct,

but even if it wasn't, it wasn't against the rules,

and even it if was against the rules, their own guidelines say you get a warning first,

and even then, the sitewide rules say that mods should hear appeals. But nah, forget all that. I'm just gone.
What industries have you worked in? Long ago I worked for a magazine company where the owner came in drunk one day and chased an editor around the layout room. A photographer who freelanced for the company had been a professor until he ran off with a nineteen-year-old student. I could go on.
Mawk Updated to 1.3.4-20190203
Would the story be different with Quantum now?
As just another Perl hacker, your "not real Perl" made me laugh. And no, let me reassure you that that snippet of line-noise is not, in fact, syntactically valid Perl after all.

...you have to transpose a couple of characters for that:

cat nocarrier.pl
!$#foo->_%[]

perl -c nocarrier.pl
nocarrier.pl syntax OK

(And yes, that genuinely does make me love Perl a tiny bit more. I guess you and I are just different that way, and that's OK.)
Lecture Notes: Selected topics on robust statistical learning theory
Safeside: A project to understand and mitigate software-observable side-channels
Yes, as a Portuguese reader (but not a lawyer!) this is also how I understand it.
Now the legislation is currently in a very grey area (notably on the business/occasional definition) and I'm guessing it will evolve in the coming years.
Show HN: Auto draft and mail a custom letter to end debt collector harassment
Changelog: https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES
> What is the right payment for Uber drivers?

Whatever the future union (that the drivers are asking for) can negotiate.

> Will 21/hr cover costs plus give a living wage?

No it won't, see the article.
They're including depreciation which makes sense for small businesses that turn over their fleet every X years.

If you're not swapping cars ever few years depreciation per mile is basically irrelevant because age and what you use the vehicle for will dominate depreciation.
Added to my list of places to stop next time I'm on the continent, thanks!
Raise them to the point to create an entitled taxi monopoly ripe for disruption by an aggressive industry defining competitor.
Depends on the car though. My econobox could turn a profit driving around at those rates but an F-150 might have issues. Hell, for those rates you could turn a profit renting a light aircraft for the trip in some parts of the country if you used the by-road distance (something like Telluride to Denver) as occasionally happens if you are good at bargaining with your expense people.
Well, if you're going to cry about using something that runs on the entire web, then that's your alternative. Or grab a Garmin, though I'm sure Stallman probably believes there is a mind control listening device in those too.
Well, I did try to fix my Amazon packages being delivered to wrong address. There's simply no way to give that feedback, yet alone receive a response.
Did you ever think of dogfooding your project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food