skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, link to the list/PDF is broken somehow. Here is the file that matters:

https://docdro.id/Ncqj2y0

CONTEXT: Shortly after I posted that link the PDF with the actual list of cleaners was replaced with just a press release. A link provided within the press release did not produce the list at all. That's why I uploaded the PDF to an alternative site.

I just checked, it looks like they fixed it.

While I appreciate the sole down-vote, c'mon folks, chill a bit. You got someone trying to be helpful and all you can think about is down-voting? Wow.
I didn't say have to.

But consider that there are probably 10 million+ Americans who rely on trucking/trucker incomes. If a significant portion of them are put out of work, it's a recipe for massive civil unrest. Not to mention the impact to our stretched social safety nets.

Waymo doesn't have to do anything here, sure, but if they don't then I'd expect we see Luddite 2.0.

I personally think that innovation should be done ethically, that you should proceed forward, but don't be blind to the impact you could have.
>That is because PG sets clear rules and actively experiments with techniques to keep HN’s integrity intact, and since HN discussions are usually of the more intellectual variety

I hate to say it, but HackerNews is just another forum. It has its own political bent and biases (sometimes hard to see unless you step outside them). The level of discourse is better than some, and worse than others, but not particularly special in that regard; there are many good subreddits, too.
I did not. Didn't want to call anyone specifically here. Should have gone to you but didn't really pursue the question any further.
Nah, "I'm seriously you guys."

Look, I use vim and tmux too. When they work, they work well, no doubt. It's
when they break, like in TFA, that the trouble starts.

Recall that the terminal is a glorified refried teleprinter with more
archeological layers than the Grand Canyon and more fossils than a
natural history museum.

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

My point was that other professions advance the state of the art of their
tools. We're still using vacuum tubes and steam. Those are cool but
it's not cool that nothing better is being adopted. Using terminals in
2020 is like LARPing steampunk (at work with a straight face.)

We get away with it because the newfangled crap (Eclipse, etc. Heck, I
use VScode but half of what I do is still in the embedded terminal
emulator!) is just not better.

This can't be the best we can do, can it? And yet, where are the
alternatives?

Well...

> what would you recommend instead?

I can't recommend them because nothing highly superior has reached mass
adoption. But they exist (in the sense that they exist or did exist or
could exist) like Jef Raskin's Cat.

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

(Canon killed the Cat. Heh. Wah.)

Have you ever used the old Oberon OS? (Oberon emulator in browser:
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/emu.html?image=Ful...
)

Oberon OS (plus the "Gadgets" widget system) represents a fundamentally better UI metaphor than the terminal.

Heck Smalltalk et. al. (E.g. Pharo) with their portable VMs and platform-agnostic
pixel-identical GUIs are a better abstraction than UNIX+TTY, eh?

https://pharo.org/

(Maybe that "Dark" thingy will be cool: https://darklang.com/ )
When does that happen? Almost every Uber/Lyft driver I've seen lately has both logos on their car...
A person in the truck is the difference between a burglary and a robbery. One is a property crime, while the other is a violent crime. The law views them as very different.
I’ve seen a three year old jump into a pool with these (European) and they came right off, with the child plummeting to the bottom.
Can't drivers can deny the fare without penalty if the work offer doesn't pay what they want?
If you did that it’s gotta be truly random and you need to get almost all 500 to actually do the test
That would be like owning the trademark "General Electric" and selling electrical equipment...
>Imagine waiting (potentially hours) queued in a taxi stand for a fare, only to get somebody with a $5 trip who's rude and smells like they haven't showered in a decade.

I agree, we should pay taxi drivers a living wage so that this can't happen.
Inside Macintosh explicitly told developers that the first two items in the menu bar must be File and Edit.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, Apple's UI guidelines were considered best practice and widely adopted by other companies.
ATEC handles basically everything under the sun.

I'm not that familiar with him, but he mentions a couple of types he's helped test for ATEC in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin

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

Judging by the video's contents, he's worked on more than just missiles.

I'm not trying to absolve Uber or something, for the record: the people who work for Uber aren't innocent, either. It just seems clear that they're a lesser evil. Malpractice versus malfeasance.
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Nushell looks great. This is what I have been looking for, structured data but with sane naming .
Paul Singer is doing Twitter a favour and Jack Dorsey must be shown the door
>Thanks for saying this, and rightfully so! Approving a bad drug in the world where distribution channels are very well set up could have disastrous effects.

Denialism's Michael Specter disagrees. Vioxx was one solution to the pain problem but 2.4% of participants showed heart problems when using it, so it was pulled off shelves. That's like saying no, 97.6% of the population can't have penicillin because 2.4% are allergic to it.
I bought a Surface Pro 3 when it came out in 2014 (subsequently upgraded to newer versions several times), and I can honestly say that there is no other piece of technology I've ever encountered (including smartphones) that has more positively affected my work. OneNote with the pen is life-changing. I will never go back to an old caveman laptop - pen & touch are required now.
Even still it’s not like it’s non-trivial to just bring up and drop clusters. Just setting up peering with cloud sql or https certs with GKE ingress can be fraught with timing issues that can torpedo the whole provisioning process.
Strongly agree. Banks expresses those points well.

The piece fails to account for that we already know that it's possible for physical entities to think, and to make independent decision. We know this because human beings exist.

No good reason is offered to justify the idea that the difference in intelligence between humans and computers is a difference of category, rather than merely a difference of (ever shrinking) degree.

From the article:

> The intellectual incoherence of believing that computers can think or make independent decisions is self-evident

Nonsense. This is a very strong claim about the universe, or rather, one of two equally silly claims:

* That general intelligence relies upon the process of evolution by natural selection, and that it can never even in principle arise from a process of deliberate design

* That general intelligence relies upon a particular substrate, specifically neurons, and that it cannot be achieved with other substrates, such as transistors

Such a claim cannot be justified with a hand-wavey appeal to intuition, or with arguments about moral accountability, which are all the author has to offer.

Also, this next quote strikes me as misleading. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can confirm/disconfirm my take:

> chess prowess depends on players’ ability to recognize general situations that are in some sense “like” ones they’ve seen before, either over the board or in books. Again, the computer largely sidestepped what is most significant for humans, and hence for the game, by analyzing every position from scratch, and relying on speed to make up for its weakness at gestalt pattern recognition.

That may be true of chess, but what about Go? As I understand it, the reason computers can now play Go effectively (i.e. Alpha Go), is that a breakthrough was made in discarding unpromising subtrees of the game's possible progression, allowing effective moves to be selected relatively efficiently. That's not brute-force. That's precisely the kind of clever trick we'd expect from a skilled human player.

The whole piece strikes me as poorly considered. The thoughts of Dan Dennett are far more worthwhile. If you've read this far, you may enjoy a quick read of the Wikipedia article on Dennett's intentional stance. [0]

Dennett also makes the relevant observation that mankind is constantly creating machines with general intelligence and moral accountability: other human beings. This ties back to the article's points about moral accountability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance
I know they aren't hard to find, I have an account at Ally Bank. My question was specifically 2%.

Anyway, 1.6% is going away given the Federal Reserve just cut rates by 50 bps yesterday. Expect an email from Ally soon.
This shouldn't be downvoted. There is absolutely no way we're in greater danger at this very moment then we were during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It may or may not work, but I have no doubt that someone will try.
The US Strategic National Stockpile currently has 12 million N95 masks and 30 M surgical masks.
Highway is simpler but it's worse if it goes wrong.

Plus, highway driving is safer and cheaper than average so the bar is higher for self-driving cars/trucks.

I don't think there's any middle ground for driving semi-trucks on the freeway. It's either safe enough to drive without someone watching it or it's not. There's no point in having a person in there sometimes sleeping and sometimes safety-driving.
I'll take the hit and say it's bad. A great purpose of nation states is to enrich and protect the lives of those who are from those respective nations, often and usually at the cost of others. A bunch of non-governmental entities undermining the nation state is undeniably untenable -- both cannot thrive.

People, especially the rich, often pretend we don't live in nation states and that the global nation is here -- but it very much isn't. I think we ought to be afraid of what happens when nation states dissolve. The ultimate result doesn't seem to be unification but disunion.
> If I drive for Uber, Lyft, and whoever else wants my services, am I not building my clientele?

I seriously doubt you, as a driver for Uber or Lyft, could legally make deals to drive people you find via your work for those companies, outside being assigned with the apps for those companies.

Anyone know what the contract with Uber/Lyft says?
I started using Instagram stories quite heavily a couple weeks ago. For reference, I have ~32k followers on Twitter and ~700 on Instagram.

Way more people have come up to me in real life and talked about a story of mine in the last month than people have ever come up to me to talk about a tweet.

YMMV of course but I am bullish on the format and cannot wait for Fleets!
Yeah, because that's what I was talking about.
I've been swayed to the side of believing that rebase should rarely be used, so that's not much of a downside. See: https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.m...
see sib comment in reply to exdsq

Much better UI metaphors exist but gain little or no traction. I think that's unprofessional. (This is my considered opinion after ~30 years as a programmer.)
Well, careful what you wish for... :)
TLDR: You need to be a world-class legal research center in order to ensure IP rights holders don't squash your right to free speech by overly aggressive flagging of fair use material. And even then, it's an uphill battle.
Thanks, that's helpful to know about how you implemented it in Vue vs D3, and that there wasn't a noticeable performance difference for your use case.
Well, that and he (apparently) suggested it to them.

I think the cousin thing is just explaining why they were interacting at all.
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I did some in depth research a year ago and linked to all the Google resources there. See https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeCompendium/comments/aga8yl/h... and also see the EFF link there.

Specifically, https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000 mentions the courtesy period for anyone that's actually monetized and says the account won't go down at all if counternotices are sent. There's no courtesy period for accounts that aren't monetized (I.e. Not part of the Partner program). But of course if you're not monetized you have very little reason to dispute a content ID claim, since that also doesn't harm your account.
There was a video my fireman friend showed me a while back of two men drowning near a drainage pipe. There was a chunk of floating hardwood or something that they wanted for some reason, but neither could swim (I know, brilliant). The only violent and noisy parts of the incident was then frantically trying to swim back to the banks for about a minute. After that, they seem to lose all energy, go still, and sink shockingly fast, like rocks.
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Speaking only for myself, because we don’t have anything approaching a standard here, I do about 60% PlusCal and 40% straight TLA+.

Mostly the tradeoffs are the ones you mentioned. If I was the only audience of what I was writing, I’d pick TLA+ every time, but for a broader audience PlusCal can make this stuff much more approachable.
You're trying to act like everything is A-OK with this project, when it has in reality been a huge waste of public money. First, there has already been a large corruption scandal centered on this project, with people in prison because of associated corruption (search Alain Kaloyeros). Second, those Tesla employment requirement milestones have been repeatedly reduced to require fewer jobs, and the types of required jobs has also been watered down. The requirements in the original agreement are more stringent than the 1460 jobs required now.

The state of NY just wrote off 92% of the value of its $957M investment in the factory: https://buffalonews.com/2019/11/08/pennies-on-the-dollar-the... Does that sound like Tesla is operating at 5/6 utilization of capital equipment?

Panasonic just announced that they're pulling out of the Buffalo factory: https://www.eveningtribune.com/news/20200227/after-nys-750m-... Tesla just wasn't giving them the business that they were promised in 2016 when they joined the project.

I had high hopes for this project when it was announced. It is near my hometown, and I thought it might be a good boost for the local economy. All it seems to have been is a big siphon from public funds, but not a siphon to where it is needed.
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> No way you can stop the distress call from unmanned unless you had an EMP or something.

Wouldn't be so certain. Jammers are illegal, but they aren't that hard to make.
I hope the government does, but I also think it's in Waymo's best interest. We're not talking about a closet industry here, trucking employees ~8 million Americans, and probably supports many, many more than that.

You've seen the fuss over coal miners in the States as of late? There are ~50,000 coal miners. At its peak, coal mining was less than a million miners. The potential civil unrest from disrupting trucking could be a big deal. From insolvency of truckers who bought their own (now obsolete) equipment to demagoguery of politicians trying to soothe an angry group of people.
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> But the Church was also fully aware that the Bible could potentially be interpreted in a way that was not contrary to heliocentrism.

The Inquisition's assessment of heliocentrism explicitly contradicts your claim:

> All said that this proposition is foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts many places the sense of Holy Scripture, according to the literal meaning of the words and according to the common interpretation and understanding of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of theology. - The Inquisition, 1616

Your claim that

> It simply wanted to avoid making a fairly significant doctrinal revision in the absence of a compelling scientific case for heliocentrism.

... is simply not supported at all by the Inquisition's own statements. The Inquisition was very clear that heliocentrism must be false, because it contradicted the literal meaning of Holy Scripture. The Inquisition didn't say that heliocentrism was an open question to consider. It positively declared that heliocentrism is false and that the Earth stands still, and it grounded that statement by pointing to a literal reading of Scripture.

> it's inaccurate to see the Church in this instance as acting from blind dogmatism

I don't see any possible way to interpret the Inquisition's judgment on heliocentrism as anything other than blind dogmatism. In modern apologia, the Inquisition's rulings are rarely cited, because they contradict the key points that modern apologists make (about the Church supposedly being interested in scientific caution, etc.). I get the sense that people are trying to defend the 17th Century Church from criticisms rooted in a modern sensibility (which accepts empiricism and rejects religious dogma), ignoring the fact that the 17th Century Church (and most people in Western Christendom at the time) did not share our modern sensibilities.
I'll gladly upvote someone I disagree with as long as I believe they're arguing in good faith.

But when you have bad faith commenters (Like echoing Charlie Kirk's claim that Bernie wants to tax everyone making over $29K 52% [0]), or people being just downright rude, I'll downvote, even if they're posting opinions I agree with. Discourse only moves forward if people are civil and truthful. In more extreme cases of rudeness, I'll report/flag.

[0] https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1231005642413858816
I’m not concerned about price for non essential items like soft drinks. Having a functioning ecosystem is far more important than whether or not you have to pay an extra dollar for your coke.
that's per a single tomato plant, summer time. I guess it's the same for any greenhouse crop, see the reasoning here:

water use is necessary to manage internal climate. the greenhouse was designed to keep heat inside. the plants have to cool themselves (hence the environment) by evaporation. the farmer manages evaporation rate by watering, temperature and humidity. there are many feedback loops, both negative and positive, balancing it is a non-trivial task.

btw. there's an average of 1.2-1.3 plant/m2 in most tomato greenhouses I've seen.
I think the reason a lot of people create zero node clusters is that they want to "turn off" their cluster without destroying its current configuration or state, which otherwise doesn't seem possible.

I may be missing something here, but my guess is that a lot of people turn to GKE to learn how to use K8s, and then are like "wait, I'm in the middle of this project/tutorial/etc., but I don't want to be billed overnight when it's literally just going to be doing nothing, what do I do?" and find Stack Overflow or something recommending you just scale it to zero. See questions like this: https://serverfault.com/questions/877619/turn-off-a-cluster-...
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I find about half the people don't see the point (mainly can't be bothered). I can cut that group by about a third by telling them "the tests keep other people from breaking your code"

(Personally I think tests keep me from breaking my and others' code, but I don't tell them that)
3,000 / 80,000 = 0.0375

34,000 / 36,000,000 = ~0.00094

36,000,000 * 0.0375 = 1,350,000

That's the concern.

China also had some pretty extreme measures to get their low number of cases, measures I don't think will play out too well in the US. And probably won't have a full count yet.

We can hope for the best, we can wash hands etc., but it's not unrealistic to say this can get bad.
Combination of favorable laws, good weather for testing, wide roads, etc.
Just because the process is automated doesn't mean that no negotiation is taking place. Uber drivers negotiate all the time, every time they shut down the app due to rates being too low at the moment they negotiate. So Uber is forced to set rates at levels where they have enough drivers and enough passengers. It isn't like a job where if you just stop working they will fire you, you can drop in and out of uber whenever and however you want as long as it isn't in the middle of a ride.

I mean, imagine if a McDonalds worker could just say "I don't feel like working for $10 right now, I'm going home!", and then just leave in the middle of a shift. Then the next day he sees that Burger king pays more, so he goes and work for them that day for a couple of hours, after which McDonalds increased their rates so he goes back there and work a few hours. Sounds like insanity to you? Well yeah, because it is insanity if employees could act like that!

Uber drivers are not employees, end of story. Uber doesn't have any power over them as is, normal workers have a contract which is worth a lot to them, you have no such contract with Uber as it is trivial to get the permit to drive for Uber, Uber drivers are not afraid of Uber suddenly firing them, they can go in and out of their role how much they want.
Another recent copyright abuse was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8 and this was even manually stricken.

Basically this was a critique of aggressive copyright lawsuits that was manually copyright claimed... for the wrong song.
Thanks, that makes sense. I'm currently doing D3.js rendering within a Vue component. I suspect that my code will be cleaner if I switch to the Vue.js constructs for managing the DOM, rather than D3's enter()/exit()/update(), so even if the performance is ultimately the same, there should still be a maintainability win.

It sounds like it's worth me doing a Vue implementation and running some benchmarks.
Native (US) English speaker here. Semi-old, too. Never heard of a "fleets enema".
If there are any folks that have tried homesteading, can you share your experience? Specifically, I would like to know what your starting conditions were and how successful you felt you were.
The source for that article has been deleted. Additionally, the study was performed by Uber, who has an incentive to suggest that automating vehicles is a good thing.

If you have other sources, I'd be happy to take a look.
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Nobody is going to watch a video on a random website unless if it's hosted on some sort of content aggregator like Reddit. Afterwards, creators will want an easy way to monetize on the content aggregator. Next, you'll just have Youtube with extra steps.
But. If we're observing as humans and it appears to us that the one creature is taking advantage of another, surely that's just our interpretation from a very limited understanding of their world?

I have no idea where I'm going with this, but that phrasing still seems off to me.
Nice! Can I save the wheels yet?
I suspect it's more likely overzealous GDPR paranoia. Not that that's any better.
If one sentence says "30 year execs that were not worth the air they breath" the next sentence sounds especially unconvincing when calling "my experience (20+ manufacturing)".
If so, then the "employment relationship" would last only as long as the job. When employment is specific to one job, it's a contracted job, which is a much better criterion than whatever France came up with. There is no expectation that either side will come back for more.