skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a mis-categorization - I do agree that these exist (and a lot of them fall into the "airport taxi" class since that's a reliable place to get business) and a cab operating in such a manner sounds plausible to be an independent contractor. But organizations like Yellow Cab exist and is the way most folks hail a cab, even at hotels - when you ask the concierge to get a cab for you they'll almost certainly call a local company and ask for a cab to be sent over - someone actually needs to be monitoring that phone, and the logistics of each cabbie having a phone in the car is kinda crazy "Oh ernie is currently driving someone, bart might be available I'll call him" so there is a central dispatching center with a few employees that just help make sure that the cabs are well distributed to quickly respond to calls.
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> As a Kubernetes maintainer, I WANT to say that a smaller number of larger clusters is generally a better answer.

I'm not trying to nitpick here, but that justification is awful. It goes against reliability engineering on a deeply fundamental level, pretty much guarantees to make already not that reliable things even less reliable. Generally the more isolated entities you have and the smaller they are the less they affect each other and the environment when something bad happens, the faster they can be recovered, the fewer end users they affect, etc. If I remember correctly, this is even how some Kubernetes people justified ideas behind Kubernetes itself that you want to drop now.
Seems fine to me. Frankly, what isn't cool and doesn't look great is you not disclosing you work for Google in this comment.
This ad hominem caused me to instinctively upvote the parent.
Wow, that sounds excruciating.
> Are these semis truly driverless or does the testing that Waymo is conducting still require staff to monitor the drive?

I would assume they're planning to follow a similar trajectory to their passenger vehicles.

There are almost certainly human monitors on the trucks that are running right now, but the long term goal is to be driverless.

> Fully automated, point-to-point, driverless semis seem far off, as Hotz of Comma.ai was pointing out. Am I wrong on this assumption?

I think fully automated arbitrary point-to-point anything is a long way off at best and potentially impossible. Being able to handle any situation, including those that often give human drivers trouble, seems like it very likely could be a "hard AI" problem to me

I think that shrinking the problem space to a fixed route makes things a lot simpler, especially for deliveries that aren't extremely time critical where the vehicle could safely pull off if things got questionable. Think about something like a load of cars being shipped from Detroit to Denver.

Even if the autonomous trucks are limited to interstate-class highways, it could work like Turnpike Triples do here in Ohio where the autonomous truck could handle the interstate part and then drop the trailer(s) in a transfer lot located right at the exit. Human drivers could then pick them up from there for the local portion of the haul. That seems like it'd be a win-win, the companies get their loads able to drive any distance with no time limits while the drivers get a nice local loop where they're home every night.
Individual traders occasionally do beat the market makers. That’s why market makers need special rules to boost their profits... remember, nothing stopping individual billionaires from speculating in the market just like individual 9-5’ers.
/r/programming is not an anomaly. My experience is that programming-related discussion boards everywhere are like this, almost from day one. The rampant tribalism and insistence one groupthink is incredibly strong, to the point where even typos can cause a relentless dogpile and accusations that said person "has clearly never written real software in their life." You simply cannot make even one mistake, no matter how minor.

Consequently, I haven't discussed programming on an open forum in over a decade, because I've never found a single programming forum that wasn't openly toxic in this way.
Why are you comparing your internet to the internet from 10 years ago when it was significantly less important and less used...
There are reasons why Asian jurisdictions that ran into SARS previously is acting a lot more seriously.

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

There were plenty of them that still remember the residual effects of SARS, resulting in bone loss and other symptoms.
Wuhan is your reference? China too? Aren't they putting pretty severe quarantine in Wuhan? Aren't their quarantine outside of Wuhan still quite strong?

The Diamond Princess had a quarantine, and yet the infection reached 706 peoples, in a boat with 3711 peoples. Sure that's "only" 20%, but that seems to me like 40% isn't that far out if we are considering that it's hard to quarantine a whole country.

The timeframe is important too, as long as we don't have developed any vaccine, the only way to develop immunity is by being infected... thus if the virus spread that easily, it's only a question of when will we reach 40-70%, not if.
In theory, yeah... in practice, as someone who uses Go and Python with mypy (which supports structural type-checking using the Protocol interface) professionally, I haven't seen it happen. It's easy to think of contrived examples like the one in the post, where Cat/Dog/Table all implement GetLegCount(), but in practice your interface methods usually aren't that simple, and interface signatures like

func InsertFoo(*sqlx.DB, Foo) (int64, error)

are very unlikely to be unintentionally implemented.
This is such a true sentiment and is actually true for a lot of advice.

I think it's why a lot of people end up switching to giving talks or some other repeatable income stream.

Once you've written a blog post, that info is out there.

But if you can make it an "event", you can give the same advice over and over again.
I understand the emotional response here, but I don't think it's rational. GKE has to work as a business, or else the whole thing is in trouble.

I think GKE provides tons of value, but people tend to under-estmate that. In order to keep providing that value, we need to make sure it is sustainable.

I'm really, truly sad that you perceive it as bait-and-switch, but I disagree with that characterization. If you want to move off GKE, I'll go out of my way to help you, but I urge you to take a big-picture look at the TCO.
I’ve used DayOne for journaling for 6+ years, with varying degrees of consistency. One of the things I like about that is a) the ability to attach photos, and b) when I open the app it shows me all of the entries from the current day, over the years. Lots of little memories that I’d have forgotten if I didn’t have that ongoing reminder.
Love the local and the dev setup. Being able to develop locally and seeing your data is huge!
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I completely agree. Even having a mask that only results in a 20% reduction of transmission could be the difference between a growth factor that is less than 1, vs a growth factor of greater than one. It could be the difference between taking off or halting.

I suspect that even a spare cotton t-shirt material affixed over the face would stop a significant amount of droplets from transmitting.

It would be worth researching the effectiveness improvised masks, at the very least.
Presumably if sufficient participants in the process of that government prefer to work these jobs.

What does 'underpaid' mean in this context?
> It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual.

Which will, I suspect, drive analytics enhancements to help get under one's skin and/or sell users more junk. The tweet disappearing from the user-facing view will not prevent its being dissected and its information stored. And the point will be likely missed by most users...
So if a driver works on both Uber and Lyft or whatever, the driver is an employee of all those companies?
I am from Brazil, here taxi drivers usually own the medallion and the cab...

The medallions is suppposed to be nontransferrable and free, you would only need to pass some certification tests, but there are ridiculous levels of corruption, and a pinch of violence here and there (For example drivers in certain spots violently banning others from using the same spots, even with guns if they think is needed).

Here Taxi Mafia runs strong, but is still made of individuals, not companies.
> PowerShell is cross platform

cross-platform, yeah, but I have big doubts about real niche & competition over C# stack. Why should people use this on Linux or mac?
Once you realize that you need classes to return values and functions don't return values I (admittedly not an expert) don't see anything more complex beyond that.

This thing itself seems like a quirk but again I'm not an expert so don't know how this was designed.
If it is more lucrative than growing food, does that mean you can buy an equivalent amount of imported food and pocket the profits? If that was the case then it would be an example globalization at work. (note, I don't know if it is)

Similarly, would wealthy khat growers be willing to pay more for food? Since they have more wealth? If so then it would create inflationary pressure on food prices and thus make growing food pay more than it had before.

I can easily imagine that the markets would be imbalanced at first, but it seems the mechanisms would correct that if it is simply more valuable to grow khat.
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It's unusual to have $62k or more in a savings account.

Either it's some sort of 6-month emergency fund and CDs typically make more sense (ladder or not) or it's money you want to grow, in which case investing in index funds is the better approach.
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While the general advice feels sound, the point of doing small talk as part of the scheduling was not explained clearly enough for me.

It's not going to convince anyone to do things for the other person. It doesn't send the message that the meeting is urgent or important, and nothing about it will help getting both parties closer to the objective. It sounds like it would be better replaced by pleasantries that are actually related to the meeting, like the choice of food, possibility of a follow-up meeting, etc.
Hey - I'm a member of the multitenancy working group (wg-multitenancy). We're working on a project called the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (aka HNC - read about it at http://bit.ly/38YYhE0). This tries to add some hierarchical behaviour to K8s without actually modifying k/k, which means we're still forced to have unique names for all namespaces in a cluster - e.g., you still need dev-service and prod-service. But it does add a consistent way to talk about hierarchy, some nice integrations and builtin behaviours.

Do you want to mention anything more about what you're hoping to get out of hierarchy? Is it just a management tool, is it for access control, metering/observability, etc...?

Thanks, A
The landing page looks sleek, but what can it do that Trello cannot?
They've done quite a bit on the product front, although it's fair to question the utility to average users:

- Increased tweet length to 280 chars

- Tweet threads

- GIF integration

- Multiple UI revisions of desktop and mobile apps

There's also been a fair amount of work on ads and security, although these changes will be less apparent to most users.
Unfortunately those are profoundly unsafe. They only keep the child's head above water while they are slid all the way up to the shoulders. If they start to slip down the arms, which they are apt to do when swimming, they'll tend to slip all the way down to the hands and if the child isn't strong enough to pull themselves up out of the water it can keep them from being able to swim at all as it holds their hands up.

Try to imagine if you were less buoyant like if you had ankle weights on and someone tied two empty milk jugs to your hands. Your hands are suddenly not useful at all for swimming and you can't pull them underwater so now you're forced to hold yourself up by pushing your arms out.

Here's how it can look, and this makes it a bit clearer why it can be a hazard. https://i0.wp.com/renomomsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0... If it slips down to the wrists like this it's arguably worse than having nothing at all.
You do have to moderate, but it's not clear that a CoC makes any difference. You have people that are chill, people that will take direction when they unintentionally are not, and assholes. A CoC doesn't help with any of that.

When I read some of the rather hateful comments coming from the most ardent proponents of CoCs, I feel like something's really gone wrong with the project.
Firstly because JD is the biggest manufacturer, and is also american.
Secondly because the JD dealer network in the US. Waiting 2 weeks to get a part shipped from Europe/Japan while you are in the middle of the harvest season is a real show stopper.

It will take a huge effort to gain market share for a newcomer, and JD can always update their SW to remove DRM if they loose too much to a competitor.
I am purely speaking from my own experience and I can't speak absolutely... but every city I've ever lived in has had a few random cabbies driving around that are far outnumbered by the cab companies - whether this is yellow cab or something random like Boston's Metro Cab[1]. If you ever need to call and schedule a cab to the airport you'll be calling into a dispatch center - rather than just arranging it with a dude. My impression is that street hires are a pretty small proportion of the taxi market.

1. http://metro-cab.com/
No… no, they don't. O-o
I think the saying "you get what you pay for" would apply in this case. People want to not pay for things, they don't get the things.
If people voluntarily choose those jobs then doesn't that mean those jobs are better than the alternatives they have? It also provides a pretty nice service.
And as to that not our culture comment, I mean it's the American of course who got told to isolate himself on suspicion of infection but decided to go to a group political event across state lines regardless, only to infect at least one other person and lead to further isolation calls for everyone else he came into contact with.
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I'm afraid not sorry. Though it probably wasn't a great benchmark. They were only investigating whether enabling exceptions has a cost if not thrown on MSVC. So a single example where there was a penalty was enough to cast doubt on exception usage. Enough that nobody felt like sticking their neck out to fight the cause, anyway ;)
People have to go through 30+ hours of hands-on training, and an exam, before they're allowed to use a car on their own.

It's not just about putting the mask on; it's also about ensuring they swap them out regularly and don't self-infect in the process.
Honest question: Is this a joke?

I only ask because the article is about people making poor choices because they're bombarded with too many things that they have to make choices about. Then you show up and say, "Hey, we need everyone to think more carefully about their choice of capitalization strategy for titles."

Additionally, out of curiosity, did the difference in font also bother you? I couldn't help but notice that the lower case 'g' in "Fatigue" that HN uses is different than the lower case 'g' that wikipedia uses. If we used a font that makes the first letter in a word that is supposed to be lower case appear upper case (but technically still be lower case if you looked at the ascii code), would this solve your concern about the issue?
Clearly the drivers are paid enough to be willing to do it.
Google is beginning to ‘dogfood’ test Fuchsia OS
Many small clusters just do not deliver on a lot of the value of Kubernetes. Clusters are still hard boundaries to cross (working to fix that). Utilization and efficiency are capped. OpEx goes up quickly.

There are reasons to have multiple clusters, but I think the current trend takes that too far.

TO BE SURE - there's more work to do in k8s and in GKE.
source: https://github.com/keroro824/HashingDeepLearning

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03129
So Fleets can be used to send deniable abusive messages ?

-- https://twitter.com/rdgresident/status/1235281721979031552
Even series-tweets are more information dense than your average blog post. I think that's their main appeal really. Putting a blogging function on twitter which then ends up as long posts appearing between regular tweets might make it much less possible to quickly 'parse' Twitter for a dopamine hit.

I'm sure there are ways to counter my concern, but honestly why do it of things work well for them?
How do you know what infection route it came in by, and how certain is the method for determining the route?
People rob 18 wheelers all the time - there are particularly valuable loads from particularly interesting places.

Source: my father had to prevent this for film/cassette/DVD distribution, especially prerelease goods.
Possessing a gun “while black” is a recipe for getting shot in the US. The NRA does not care about this. The idea that the 2nd does anything for the marginalized is fiction.
Multiple companies in the US, China, and Europe have announced that they will be producing millions or more masks a month with availability beginning as soon as next week, just 2 months after the virus went global...

It took most of the war for that plant to get to the point of building a bomber an hour.
I would expect the majority of the mods are actually advertising accounts of some form or another. The more popular the sub the more likely the mods are not acting in good faith.
The internet in 2010 wasn't significantly less important or less used than now.
Structural subtyping can be based on attributes a la Python’s Protocols.
Or you could just wear cycling gloves.
Decision Fatigue: when you spend all your daily quota deciding which HN articles to read.
I tend to use nominal types a lot in other languages, so I have a lot of types with id() or value().

Would those be mixed up?
Looks like I am having tacos tomorrow. Thanks.
> use his billions to start providing a basic income to displaced truck drivers?

Are there no other viable options to "truck drivers being replaced by automation" than basic income? I've read a lot of pushback about basic income online.
Your nasal passages include structures called "conchae" which, among other purposes, secrete mucus to capture small and potentially disease-carrying particles from incoming air. [1] It's not a perfect defense, of course, but better to have it than not - and when you breathe through your mouth, you don't get the benefit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_concha#Immunological_rol...
There are always people who fail at swim lessons just like anything else, it's more that.

It's a tough problem to solve. I have no more than 10% body fat, I have no issues.

But I also taught adults who were similarly low body fat and some I succeeded in teaching and some I did not.

Consciously controlling your breathing is a big deal in many aspects of swimming & diving. It has a major effect on buoyancy. You can't breathe normally/unconsciously swimming/floating. It is always controlled. Likewise you must keep breathing when diving with compressed air.
Can someone shed some light on the difficulties of producing the "simple" surgical masks? I'm not talking about something that filters the incoming air, but the lame kind that just reduces the amount of liquids you disperse when breathing, coughing, sneezing etc.

Are they so high tech you can't just ramp up production? And how many months in advance would you need to ramp it up? We're about 3 months in and nobody got the idea to increase production of masks until about a week ago (similar for hand sanitizer, soaps etc)? What am I missing, why is that a thing?
Aren't most taxi drivers customers? They rent the car and the privilege of branding their vehicles from the taxi company.
Besides devops, I also do sysops for the servers of my team. Backup scripts, scripts for monitoring (plugins for NSClient++) and various utility scripts are written in Powershell.

Other scripts include synchronization of credentials from CyberArk Vault to Keepass, a start-up script which opens my common used applications and VPN (Outlook, Firefox, Visual Studio, OneNote, etc).

I also use it daily during software development if I need to manipulate or transform data I need during development.
I used to be a residential painter. AIUI (and I could be wrong here) biological and water-based molecules are larger than other chemical molecules so can be stopped by the particulate mask. This is why you can wear a dust-cup when spraying with acrylic (water-based), but need a respirator for oil or lacquer-based paint.
TBH I'd expect the n95 to work better for infection than a surgical mask because you can get a better seal to your face
I don't think that is at all a fair characterization, you just don't have the same data available to you.

Thanks for the props. It means a lot to me personally.
None of those things strike as 1) important or 2) indicative of a high-performing product development team given their size. But we can agree to disagree!
There will be one "driver" as a tender for 10+ trucks in a convoy.
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I would argue you aren't a contractor then
Yes that is cold start. I wonder where your slow down is. I only use 2 modules and have a rather small profile to load though.
I agree 100% with you. Thanks for writing it out in a better way than I ever would.

I think the main cause for how we feel is the lack of focus on refactoring things and repaying tech debt within our orgs.
Sure, how about people who work for Amazon warehouses? They don't have regular shifts or hours... They have to answer a notification on an app in order to secure a shift for the following day.
You kind of need a $15/hr armed security guard along for the ride too so that the "cartel" or equivalent doesn't steal your load.
create-reason-react-tailwind is an easy way to get started with boilerplate reason react templates.

https://dev.to/bodhish/reason-react-tailwind-starter-with-cr...

https://github.com/bodhish/create-reason-react-tailwind
Are you a contractor, or are you an employee of a contracting firm? I've been both, and it is a meaningful distinction.
Ask HN: How do you manage large files across multiple laptops/desktops?
My wife is a graphic designer and works on both a Mac desktop and laptop. The assets she generates for a single project can reach into gigabyte territory – multiple versions of a set of print layouts, RAW photos, etc. One problem she has is how to reliably sync large files between computers. She uses Dropbox currently, but sync over network can takes a long time or sometimes just doesn't finish depending on the file. And when she runs into space limits on one computer, she'll need to adjust Dropbox settings to selectively sync items.

I'm curious what people do in this case. I think she needs:

1) A large amount of storage, expandable as time goes on
2) Files accessible from multiple computers
3) Ability to access files securely when working from a coffee shop, traveling, etc.
No they don't exist in France.