skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No matter what you’re transporting or where it’s headed, Waymo Via will have you covered.

Lumber haulage, on forest tracks, in winter?

Snark aside, I'll be really impressed when they manage to get any service going. But that page doesn't offer anything to convince me.
> languages like Standard ML and Typescript that tend to be more structural.

AFAIK SML is nominal. OCaml has a structural subsystem in that its object system is structural. The vast majority of the language is nominally typed.

> It's probably more that most mainstream typed languages, like C, C++, Java, C#, etc. have mainly gone down the nominal route

It's not just mainstream typed languages. Almost all statically typed languages use nominative typing. Tt doesn't have any real drawback and it's just simpler to understand and work with.

A language like typescript would go with a structural system because it's a much easier bridge and sell from an object-oriented dynamically typed world.
I just googled "elementary backstroke" and yeah... I'm in my forties, pretty proficient swimmer, and nobody ever showed it to me.

I watch my kid's lessons and I'm sure I didn't see it being shown to them. They got into what I google as "backstroke" straight away, without the "elementary" phase.
Very unlikely. I'd be more likely to buy a house in Western Europe, in one of Spain, France or Italy.

The UK will go though 10-20 years of Brexit transition where things won't be so rosy. And that's apart from the cold damp greyness of the UK.
Nor do you for Lyft/Uber. You're simply looking for work for both simultaneously.
I haven't found memorizing to be very useful as a skill.

I find it so much more useful to build internal graph representations for concepts and tying memories to context instead.

Memory in isolation is like having a bunch of nodes without an edge list.
I don't know one way or the other, but I have heard the argument that if you actually do all the math, particular with the reductions in pay more recently, it doesn't all net out.

Generally people do not act as fully rational economic actors, so we can't assume that this is not true based on the fact that people still choose to do it.

Which isn't to say they shouldn't have that option.
The classification of uber drivers as employees mostly means they have to pay more tax and less money goes to drivers and uber. People will argue employees have more rights and this is good for them, but the primary benefit of someone being an employee is to the state and the benefit is financial. If too many people become self-employed, the state can't finance itself anymore. The line between 'employee' and 'self-employed' is vague and this kind of reclassification is not limited to Uber. If you try contracting as a coder for example, you are likely to get reclassified as an employee. And then you have to prove you are not. Which you aren't going to be able to, because a self-employed working through a brokerage isn't radically different from a consultant working through a consultancy. So in that case you are going to have to pay a lot of back taxes. The point is: if too many people start working for exchange sites, they will also get sued and be classified as employees, just so the state can get its dues.
>And I'll freely admit this all can be a bit ambiguous. And that I'm not a fan of the "gig economy" in general - I'm convinced corporations are using it to reduce wages and benefits and effectively foist the cost of those lower wages/benefits on society as a whole.

I think it's ambiguous too. Though I disagree with the criteria set by this court, I'm not entirely sure on what the right criteria is. I think Uber play a line between employment and self-employment to keep it ambiguous, and I certainly agree it's to make sure they don't have to provide full employment benefits to their drivers, but I still think the classification/distinction is tricky.

If drivers are indeed employees, as I mentioned in my other comment, I think Uber gain a lot of rights over their drivers that they don't currently have.
LOL! Did you read them??

"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

Likening HNN to reddit and posting that like you did is the definition of "snarky" IMO.

Please grind your axe in the open over the content instead of appeal to alleged community norms you are fine violating.
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Such a clause is pretty common in employment contracts.
That's in the article title. The problem was that it's longer than HN's 80 char limit. The submitted title was "Twitter starts testing 'Fleets,' which disappear after 24 hours", which is a perfectly good way to shorten it to fit the limit. But maybe mentioning Stories is more important than mentioning 24 hours, so I've adjusted it for the time being.
Sure. In the Luddite's case the number of workers wasn't dropped to zero either, but it did mean they could hire fewer, less qualified workers. I suspect the qualifications and pay for trucking minders will be different than current truck drivers.

Maybe it'll be slow enough that we naturally see less demand gradually. But we should still have a plan for those folks in case it's rapid.
>To be clear, if you dispute and counternotice everything

This isn't happening under the DMCA, it's Google's own brand of copyright process more tailored to appeasing the giant media companies.
Compilation of Airline Coronavirus Fee Waivers
Another difference is that the Uber app is not an ad board. It also manages the monetary transactions. This effectively removes the ability to negotiate the price. If you in your example include that aspect it starts to resemble the Uber situation.
I wonder how much research went into the name "Fleets". To a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind after "Fleets" is "enema" as in "Fleets enema".

I am not sure Twitter wants to evoke that image.

Then again, maybe this is Twitter acknowledging the toxic nature of Tweets and why they should be flushed out of the system quickly.
800k developers are now using Netlify
An app that makes stickers with Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost instantly!
So happy I went with AWS. Sorry to the Google guys, this bites.
Waymo's Self-Driving Jaguars Arrive with New, Homegrown Tech
Again, "exploited"? Using that word in the context seems very... Off. It's not like the female tit is choosing to "exploit" the male. They're literally programmed to do that.

Think about it. In many species there is unequal parental employment. That's just how nature works. Is it really "exploitation" in the human sense of taking advantage of someone else?
Automated video collection devices collect video, so they produce more video than not using them. That doesn't mean they create more security.
> Now, would you say that builder is employed by this website?

Probably yes. The terms are being set by the platform.

> It's a limitation of the platform (limitations made to improve customer experience - imagine if you had to negotiate for every taxi ride, you don't do this for local companies).

I've never used Uber. Does the customer get to choose the driver? On this hypothetical platform, does the customer get to choose the builder?
I don't think that allowing drivers to freely set their rates is necessarily a good thing. It "costs" money for an Uber driver to wait for a ride, so they're incentivized to undercut the competition in order to get more rides.
'Farts' seems more appropriate.
can't sub .3 microns particles get stuck in the fibers along the way even if they can pass the first (due to turbulent flow)?
At a time when I had more spare time vs. today I was also hacking on my own kernel, so I definitely understand the drive to do that. (And congratulate you for pulling it off.)

But OpenBSD is a great kernel and user mode, all around. For context on my own biases, usually when discussions of desktop environments occur around here I am defending X, because it isn't as bad as people say. But seeing the combination of OBSD and your UI I am like... Yes, that looks like a feasible system that is not X.
Is Amazon's Ring turning into a real life case of Big Brother?
The strike isn't removed until after ten days, but the effects are paused during that period. The content will stay down during that period but the account is fine.

I don't want to ascribe particular motivations to Google here, but I agree that more people should be aware that they can dispute and counternotice and won't be harmed except in the very unlikely case that they actually get sued.
Hey, @mc3

Thanks for your feedback! This is the reason why we posted our work on HN. I really appreciate it!

You won't believe, storing Nots data as a separate git repo or as a metadata was our initial thought when we were starting the project. But it quickly became clear that it's too complicated, pollutes the repo, hard to query. Lots of downsides.
But we know that everything you entered is your data, and we cannot lock you on the service. We're thinking of one-click export of your current docs snapshot as a nicely formatted HTMLs. Maybe even make a recurring task of sending such snapshots by email once in a while. Will figure it out. Stay tuned.

As of prices, it's a fair point. Now it's clear that we have to review per-user prices. And you're right, something around $100/y is fine. Thanks for your suggestions!
For golang, single method interfaces are recommended as preferable. The problem with huge interfaces or classes is they can always become larger! While if you compartmentalize single responsibility into separate components (may be several methods if applicable to the domain and design), each reason to change may be restricted to that bounded context only. If not, it's a signal design might need revisit.

The problem with "Drawable" is that it is property/data, and not messaging-based, thus breaking encapsulation, even if it was behaviour-based.
He has a contract to provide political commentary. It's actually pretty good...

Example for Super Tuesday commentary. These are snppets of only conversations Yang participated in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oclz7S8aXoo
Humanity built the pyramids. We went to the fucking moon. To say basic content moderation is impossible by "the best and brightest software engineers" is such a cop out.

The real impossibility: "doing it while still optimizing for the greatest amount of ad revenue".
You absolutely can refuse a customer as long as it's not descriminatory, like most other businesses.

Depends on your jurisdiction.

For example, taxi drivers in Chicago were notorious for refusing to take people on trips that were too short, or too far out of the CBD. Sometimes they'd even refuse to take people from downtown to the airport because if traffic is bad, or there was a long wait in the staging area at the airport, it would cut into their profits.

Chicago made that behavior illegal. It still happens occasionally. But if you know the law, you can do what I do and sit in the cab and refuse to get out while offering to call the police to have an officer explain the rules to the driver.
Generally curious, isn’t Docker Kubernetes an option?
Once again, this illustrates how modern tech companies (primarily Google) are failing in terms of overall correctness of following or apply rules - apparently primarily because they choose not to employ enough humans in the process.

In most of these cases of unreasonable takedowns or account closures, there is no way to reach a human to have the case reviewed reasonably. It seems to (almost?) always depend on somehow finding an employee, such as often happens when someone posts their story here on HN.

I haven't read the annual report of Alphabet lately, but I can safely assume they are making enough profit that they could afford to make improvements in these systems (by employing more humans in key positions and by slowing or limiting the chances of automated processes reaching terminal decisions).
Demand is probably relatively (to other products) stable, why would you have been running a factory with unused capacity available to ramp up into for years ?

I read about a hand sanitiser manufacturer ramping up in the UK; by increasing hours, not throughput. And obviously to increase hours you need more staff, training, and maybe to review some policies, local bylaws, and other procedural stuff.
Can we reference self fulfilling prophecy here? Subject-Expectancy Effect? I am all for taking stock of our world and trying to fix problems. But IMHO, seeing things like this is apt to make people say "FK IT, BURN IT DOWN!!!"
Dry food is extremely easy to transport. For the farmer, they are only growing cash crops if they can sell it outside of village, but if they sell it that means they can also import food.

At worst it might be raising food prices for non farmers, but farmers are going to be strictly better off.
The things you mention are over-engineered by wide margins to cover for mistakes.

The first nuke plants are pretty dangerous by modern standards, and we know how to fix them, but because the first ones are dangerous we are not allowed to build fixed ones.

The Fukushima plant, for example, had numerous engineering faults leading to the accident that would be easily and inexpensively corrected if we were iterating.

Airplanes are a good example of how good things can get if you're allowed to iterate and fix the mistakes.
Why would you use the cloud but have that single point of failure? Billing is also a network activity. Why not have the backup infrastructure linked to another credit card?
The Doomsday Clock is a PR piece for a group of politicized scientists.

The threat of a nuclear catastrophe is higher now than it was during the Cuban missile crisis? That doesn't ring true.
> Python's default (stop and raise the exception in the caller)

No, Python's default behavior is an uncaught exception causing program termination with a stack trace, which is not generally what anyone wants. You have to add code to get non-default behavior.

> A stack of ten function calls should not have ten try blocks

While I agree with that, it's kind of missing the point. Exceptions can be used well. So can return codes. The problem is that when letting an error/exception be "someone else's problem" is the default, that tends to be what everyone does. It becomes nobody's problem, except the user who's left staring at an inscrutable program-termination message. It's the Volunteers' Dilemma in code.

A good error-handling paradigm would require that errors be explicitly handled, passed on, or suppressed. Exceptions let them be invisible. C-style error returns are a bit cumbersome, but still better for correctness. My favorite approach right now is Zig's, based on error returns but with extra features (e.g. defer and try) to make common idioms less cumbersome. I've heard Rust is similar, but haven't really looked into it.
It's time to heed the calls to finally retire the theater of the clock. Its symbolic meaning has been stretched too far:

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock...

2. https://thefederalist.com/2016/01/27/retire-the-doomsday-clo...

3. https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2018/01/26/why_its...
There's nothing wrong with gitflow... The problem comes with how it's managed. The problem comes when a risk-averse manager wants to follow a 1990s release cycle, and release and feature branches live forever.

Release branches should be created shortly before release, and shouldn't deviate too much from develop. Feature branches also shouldn't last very long.

If a feature is going to be under very heavy development before shipping, a better strategy is to #ifdef the feature. This helps avoid accumulating merge conflicts that happen when there are long lived branches.
Can someone give me a TLRD on salt, is it something like Ansible but for InfoSec?
A lot of features never make it past experimentation and never see the light of day. The lifecycle of these experiments can last months and multiple code paths on mobile clients have to be carefully maintained. Failure to catch regressions on experiments cause unclean data and prevent experiments from re-starting until the new client reaches app stores.
Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...
I'm well aware. If you dispute content ID claim the content owner must submit a DMCA notice to keep the claim active.
I believe fiber and seeds were the original uses of the plant. Psychoactive properties weren't discovered until much later.

As for genetics, the tools we have now are so much better for breeding than even 25 years ago. For example, cannabis in the 90s was ~5% THC. Now it's easy to find strains over 30%. Similarly, CBD flower and CBG flower didn't exist even 5 years ago and now we have 20% CBD flower strains.

I'm sure people are working on genetics similarly for seed production and fiber but the money isn't there yet. Entire supply chains have to be built to support the industry. It's not just the farmers and genetics. There's processing equipment on multiple levels required as well as consumer markets that have to be established.
None. Thus my question of why the Curt responses and passive aggression. DDG has positioned itself as the anti Google and lo and behold Google still finds out what's being searched there, though not necessarily who searched it. If you're a bit cynical, it's vaguely interesting.
You don't have an impression of your own consciousness (your conscious awareness) to begin with. You just perceive stuff. How exactly could you not have conscious awareness?
Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage reimagined as cyberpunk-inspired cityscape
Virus pandemics affecting global trade, climate change is starting to build steam and become irreversible, right-wing ethnocentric parties are taking over in much of the developed world.

How can you not take it seriously?
I know the HN crowd hates this sort of thing, but seems reasonable to me. $70/month is a very reasonable price, and most businesses likely have well under 10 clusters (I’d think many just have 2-3, a single cluster for prod and then 1-2 dev/test type environments). This is probably mostly to cut down on edge cases users who are spinning up crazy numbers of clusters for weird reasons, and costing Google a bunch of $$$.
Without the context, I can see that remark being made by a creep
So ask for Google cloud for startups? One free cluster is enough to get started.
> Humanity built the pyramids. We went to the fucking moon. To say basic content moderation is impossible by "the best and brightest software engineers" is such a cop out.

You can easily get everyone to agree on the answer to "is there a pyramid right here?"

Try getting them to agree on "is this video valuable?"
> I’ve found that the best subreddits are fairly small or have heavy moderation if they are large.

Maybe that’s just reflecting how our species seems to work. The larger the group, the more it turns into a mob unless increasingly tightly structured.
Could anyone comment on copyright infringement and sampling? I recall reading that using short snippets of songs in your own music is considered sampling, but doing so on Youtube would incur a copyright strike?
Did you ever notice that as you drive through farm country, you will see long stretches where everyone is using one brand, and then a long stretch where everyone is using another? Dollars-to-donuts it is driven by proximity to a regional parts depot. If you are down during planting or harvesting, and the mechanic can get you running today if you send your kid to a town 20 minutes away to pick up a part, or wait for tomorrows parts delivery, versus parts are two days away, it is an easy choice.
Having worked for AWS, one of the things we got a lot push back from was offering something free and then walk back from it.

AWS really strongly focuses on gaining customer trust, and they will only lower price, and never increase price. They won't turn off things until the last customer stops using it (they might stop new customers from onboarding)

I did not enjoy working for AWS so I left pretty fast, but some of the customer obsession there really impressed me.
> In America, there are tens of millions of people who work more than one job.

not simultaneously, or even interleaved in 30 minute increments.
Somehow yes, btw. Success will be a great success story of crowdsourcing.
Just got this email. $0.10 per hour is so much for something that was 0 per hour before. Wow these guys. The chutzpah! This isn’t just offensive monetarily, it’s offensive like price gouging is offensive. It’s emotionally offensive. Gotta look somewhere else. Shame.
"Ride sharing" is a common term for Uber and similar companies because when Uber first started you did, indeed, share rides.

Now it's more correct to call it a "ride hailing" platform, but the original term still sticks.
Are these pictures just renderings or actual things that exist?
I think the main difference is support for complex applications (lots of services) and running in your own AWS account. We actually have a few customers who have been using Heroku Review Apps and their application has outgrown Heroku and they were bummed they were going to lose that functionality and were now faced with having to build that themselves. For companies that are just starting out or just have simple apps we think our Free and Professional plans are somewhat competitive (albeit it a little more work for now) with Heroku but we don't have the growing out of it issue.
Not just coffee.

Britain also stole Rubber and Quinine from the Amazon in South America and Australia's Merino sheep from Spain.

The Kew Gardens are not just a pretty place to visit.
About as serious as the stories Scientology sells.
Furthermore, anyone spending enough on compute to warrant k8s shouldn’t balk at all at $70/mo. I think the threshold for introducing the complexity and overhead of k8s isn’t probably until at least $5-10k/mo of spend (and probably 3-10x that in the normal case). Less than that and k8s is a whole lot of overkill.
Stackdriver is terrible, and super expensive for what it is. We ran a dedicated Fluentd in GKE for a long time to work around its shortcomings (GKE also uses/used Fluentd to shuffle logs into Stackdriver), then switched to using Loki + Promtail + Grafana, which has been excellent.
> seems to me like people just love to come up with imaginary reasons why self-driving cars/trucks can't work

You do have a point. The core reality that self-driving is equivalent to full artificial intelligence and passing the Turing test should be sufficient I'd think.
Arguably, the fastest fighter jet computer in the world is in a U.S. Air Force F-15E. It’s the Advanced Display Core Processor II (ADCPII) and it’s capable of processing 87 billion instructions per second.

http://www.boeing.com/features/2016/08/f15e-fastest-computer...

Sounds like they've moved on from the IBM 4π.
A small thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20001334
Online vigilante hacks scam call centre CCTV, owner now in custody
The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
Its a Traditional IRA that doesnt tax growth. Its tax free going in, on its gains, and going out. Theres really nothing like it.

Best case scenario, spend all your health care with cash. Let the HSA grow as long as you can. Reimburse yourself for a decades worth of health care spending when you need the cash.
- I'm convinced corporations are using it to reduce wages and benefits and effectively foist the cost of those lower wages/benefits on society as a whole.

The customer demand (customer being the drivers) tells a completely different story of people being more productive than legacy taxi systems by taking responsibility themselves.

I think a lean "gig economy" without the full load of bureaucracy is largely positive and really dislike how it is torn down here in Europe...
This depends heavily on the tax laws in a particular jurisdiction.
When the clock is almost always midnight, surely we are either on the cusp, or the time is set incorrectly. Although there are many things wrong I'd argue that we are nowhere near as bad off as during the peak of the cold war, for example.