skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be a bit behind the loop as to what efforts has been done before, but has there been efforts at doing a "taxi platform" vs. a full ride hail-service app, i.e. just providing an app as a common platform for different taxi medallion holders to ride hail and maybe handle payments but without handling full fledged ride recruitment and rates?
> A lot of drivers were sure forced to drive for Uber for lack of other alternatives but that is not Uber's problem. They did not add to the problem.

Uber ignored local laws to force their way into the taxi market without having to compete on the same terms as existing businesses.

Uber also classified their drivers as contractors to avoid having to pay fair wages and provide benefits.

They've been criticized for this (and many other things) for years. They could have changed course any time, but they didn't want to. They were too busy using internal tools to avoid scrutiny from regulators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyball), threatening journalists who wrote articles they didn't like (https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7240215/uber-exec-casual...), and trapping drivers with predatory auto loans (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/05/uber-l...).

This is 100% Uber's fault.
"For Mozilla folks looking for a landing spot, Safari and WebKit teams have a number of openings. DM if interested in any of the below:
- HTTP stack
- Web dev tools
- 3D/AR/VR
- Mac app
- iOS app
- Web Extensions
- Any web platform area (layout, web APIs, ...)
"

https://twitter.com/othermaciej/status/1293252487021916161
Today I learned from the internet that I have been wrong about the advice I have been providing clients for the past decade... /s

Employees have contracts, too.

Everything you have described as supposed features of dependent contractors are features of independent contractors. Indeed, that last point is one of the biggest historical factors (in the US, and most of Europe) for determining whether a worker is an employee or a contractor. Historically what made a worker an independent contractor instead of an employee was that a worker was economically independent from an employer for their livelihood because they had other clients paying them for the same work. The work independence factors are an outgrowth of that analysis.

As to your other points:

Many employees can set their own hours. Most white collar employees can (and now do, as a result of COVID). It is hourly workers that can't chose when they work, because they are paid on the basis of time work rather than labor performed. Generally, whether a contractor can set their own hours is determined by the contract.

I'm not aware of any contractors that can simply start and stop working during a contracted job without violating their contract, so in that respect your point isn't valid for any worker, employee or otherwise.
If this is true about MDN then it is more awful than we thought. MDN is one of the go to resources for anyone building anything on the Web. I hope the community can pick it up like the ArchWiki...
They're solving for the common case, not the exceptional.

Namely, people were encouraging others via social media to add holes in their masks to help them "breath easier," "reduce CO2," etc. This results in them "wearing a mask" but that mask had poor/no effectiveness.

This is a blanket rule that is easier to enforce. It isn't reasonable to ask minimum wage, sometimes temp, untrained employees manning the entrance to retailers be able to identify different styles, qualities, and risks of masks and manage that. It is reasonable to ask them "If it has a hole, they need a mask without a hole."

Unfortunately, "we cannot have nice things," because bad people continue to abuse them.
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019)
How Are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Changes Affecting Workers?
How would you compare a "dependent contractor" to a restaurant worker who is largely paid in tips, and where management changes their working schedule frequently and erratically?
> 2) The drivers are outside of Uber's business. Uber is a software and technology company, not a taxi service.

What good is all that software and technology if a driver doesn't pick me up when I request a ride. Uber very much depends on drivers to perform their core function.
2/3/4 billion users paying $10 a year would certainly change things. I think the closest I have seen is the Google one program but not sure if people are aware or would want to pay for it.

For power users, I completely agree it might be the only feasible idea.

The closest parallel I can think of Amazon where there is cost of products involved (and >> $10 year I suspect) - they do a good job but even they work hard to make sure you cant easily reach a person.
The Internet isn't your personal safe space and it never will be. Recent EO's to this effect should make you take pause.

If you don't want to read things outside your bubble, feel free to go back to Reddit.
A film set is the same way. Also, sounds like a lot of "machine learning" shops. Hire a squad of humans to do the work until the ML/AI graduates from schooling.
Wow what a fair and balanced headline.
So, just to be clear, by "ban" you mean they stopped serving ads on your site, or something else?

As a seller of advertising space, to what extent is Google obligated to fill your inventory? How reliant are you on assumptions about whether they will and how much?
"The world's against you, so you think or maybe wish it was

At least that way someone would care but baby, no one does, not even you

Baby, someone is crazy and it's you"

https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Someone_Is_Crazy/Lyrics
Lack of female subjects in drug dose trials leads to overmedicated women
Great work on this Pirijan. I use Glitch.com almost daily, but I did not know that you were the co-creator. But, the moment I landed on the site I knew it had something to do with Glitch. I felt that familiar design instantly.
Parent here. I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a good camera and take "live photos". The camera is the only reason I've not looked into getting rid of my smart phone entirely. I'd have to find some way to keep WhatsApp working, though, or else convince my entire contact list to migrate, and find a solution for MFA that works with everything from Steam to Github, so either of those might end up being blockers if I actually tried, but I'm not trying because I won't give up a good Internet-connected camera (=auto-backups) that takes live photos.

I just gave it a quick DDG, and it looks like that still means my only option is iPhones (or 3rd-party apps on Android, but I am very skeptical the experience & results with those would be anywhere near as good).
The perfect example of a textbook as a collection of Jupyter notebooks may be the Deep Learning for Coders book:
https://github.com/fastai/fastbook
It actually pairs well because this is a SaaS service run by the maintainers of Storybook.
So, I have a construction N95-type mask: its vent/valve/whatever is dead center right on the front. If we're talking about droplets/aerosols mostly, it seems directionality would be a pretty big factor, so it's actually somewhat plausible that the bandana could be relatively effective despite nonexistent fit.

It seems like we could/should have had pretty reasonably authoritative information about this kind of thing from public health services by now, though.
No, that is not true:

"Some disposable N95 masks come with an optional exhalation valve." https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/news/2020/03/n95-ma...
>But we all know that one crazy friend or family member who thinks (and says) the world is against them yet never had a truly traumatic experience in their whole life.

Man that rubs me the wrong way. You've been in their shoes for every experience they've ever had and used your psychological authority to assess that none of those experiences were "truly traumatic?"

Maybe some of their mindset stems from constant dismissal.
Looks like they violated rule 1 of accepting client-side input: always assume someone will send you maliciously crafted input.
The problem is that you wouldn’t be able to feel the haptic on a shaky car (running on a highway).
Curious what tool/tools you used for that if any.
The Mom and Pop Factory with an Atomic Secret
Close to what I experienced myself.

I spent my teens looking up to microelectronics career, and actually self-studied a year, or two ahead for entrance to Nanyang, or NTU semi.eng. programs.

I almost accidentally met two ex-TSMC engineers who worked for Chang almost since his first days at ITRI, and they were very good mentors, and seriously warned me about "a decade+ grind ahead." In the end it were my parents who stonewalled the idea, and sent me to a business degree mill in Canada. And this is all was when I had 2 early admission letters from both Nanyang, and NTU on my desk...
Sadly considering their behaviour regarding ads, the default search engine, telemetry, sending the sites that you visit to google, pocket, etc it seems that they no longer care about making the internet a better place and that their focus it profit.
1) histograms as the basic primitive. 2) bidirectional transport 3) runtime configurable filtering at source, collection and sync. 4) provenance as part of the transport.
The problem with counterfactuals is, it very well may have been an overreaction. The truth is often not knowable.

If the above is the logic someone is using to sell me on an idea, my suspicion level increases.
It's a famous saying in in Italy on the problem of losing information when averaging

"If one person eats a chicken and another person doesn't eat anything, on average they both ate half a chicken"

Or in a similar way something like:

"If I eat two chickens and you eat none, statistically we both ate one"
"fidelity" is a new one to me, what does that mean in the world of digital communications?
I encourage you to learn more about business! I have found that process to be interesting for someone on the technical side. More tech people need to consider it and respect it, in my opinion.

Basically, part of situation analysis is that you have to evaluate the future potential of your projects and where your investment dollars go. Businesses are always thinking of the future, and that includes non-profits.

The Boston Consulting Group matrix is one tool that might fit this scenario: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/st...

The scenario you describe might be analogous to this hypothetical example: let’s say Microsoft laid off its entire Microsoft Surface team, and simultaneously invested $10 billion into Microsoft Azure. You might think, what the heck, the Surface lineup are good products that seem to be profitable (I actually have no clue if they are).

But, perhaps the Surface product line is a dog. It’s a low-market share product in a low-growth market. Azure might be a star: it has a large portion of a fast-growing market, and deserves more investment.

Even though Mozilla is a non-profit, I think it’s clear that they are looking to diversify their income stream. The “fix the internet” incubator can probably come up with services in high-growth markets that are less costly to implement and more easily monetized than a web browser (and fit their organizational goal of improving the Internet).
...to a bunch of stupid people...
> Non-valved N95 are vastly superior to all other low cost / disposable masks, yet they are difficult to find

In the study you link, surgical masks come in second, extremely close to non-valved N95, at nearly 0 relative droplet count.

Are surgical masks not considered disposable and low cost, or are they hard to find in the US?

Where I live, they are price-capped by the government and available everywhere from pharmacies to grocery stores.
does this apply only for contents posted on dstack data servers ?
Strongly agree. I'll never understand the argument of forcing people to give up the benefits they already have as gig-economy workers and become full-time employees. Despite all the issues with the current situation, there are still a lot of obvious benefits that these workers do get like the ability to set their own hours, not having to work exactly 40 hours every week, and being able to work on multiple platforms.

There is a very obvious solution that gives them the best of both worlds, and also helps millions of other unemployed, part-time employed, and entrepreneurial Americans. Let's make it easier for people to get by and meet their basic needs without tying their well being to long-term full-time employment at a large corporation.
Or they can just be employees because that's what they are...
There are plenty of valid uses for valved masks. These uses remain during the pandemic.
Yep, healthcare workers are using surgical masks on top of the vented N95 masks - one protects them and the other protects the patient.
Is it really something for ML? Shazam isn't ML, and it's the same basic thing. Take the current sound and then compare it to a huge database of known sounds. Report the result.
As the relationship advice goes "when someone shows you who they are believe them." Plenty documented examples of Googling acting in the stated way across various products. No reason to assume they won't act the same in this case sooner or latter.
> What "virtue" is being signalled?

Care for others in your community?
Not everybody buys lates ridiculously overpriced iPhones. Some of us buys Apple because Android has unbearable UX. Older models or SE models are perfectly fine.
Airlines don’t care about you, they care about lawsuits and liability. They’ve stripped services and planes back to the bare minimum, and the masks do absolutely zero on an enclosed metal tube with recirculated air. They can’t even keep someone from dying from peanut dust.
I'm also in agreeance in a way but I think you're missing some of the forest for the trees. It ultimately doesn't matter what order things get done in for the final release, it only matters because the game is in open development, something that also slows development down a whole lot itself. So we don't get to have our cake and eat it. The reason these things are prioritized now are because people won't shut the hell up about the bartender, and the visor is game breaking because you can't see anything after it ices up.

As well, there are three entire studios working on this project, they can do more than one thing at once. Working on NPC interaction does not stop the whole show until it's done.

I'm in agreeance because part of me wishes they'd stop fussing with the open development and just finish the game. But that's not fair or realistic.
If the quality of item descriptions is anything like Amazon.DE's right now, maybe other Swedish online retailers don't need to worry too much. It's already possible for me to buy from Amazon in Sweden (Amazon.DE ships to Sweden, using PostNord no less), but the listings are poor quality and you can't trust it. I only use it as a last resort. (Mind you, I also avoid Amazon because I don't like their business practices.)

It should also be mentioned that e-commerce is easier in Sweden than in some other countries. The ubiquity of electronic ID, the national address database and rapid bank transfers mean that even if you do not use PayPal, creating an account and ordering with a new website is very quick and requires entering almost no personal details yourself. Many websites even let you pay by invoice.
Exactly—I bet the reasons are often surprising.
Moments of Attention
Before MDN goes down, someone should archive the entire MDN.
For one time limited use in sterile environments. And they don't touch or adjust them either.
I'd be excited for an updated iPad Mini.
But wouldn't it be just as good idealism to go all in for creating a truly good independent browser?

Until three years ago or so I think that's what I thought was the idea of Mozilla.
I haven’t tried looking for it and it seems like minimizing latency on the pi 0 is more fruitful and flexible than trusting such an adapter to work. And as you said, cheaper.
is remacs looking for itself these days ?
> No doubt Putin will be along soon and generously decide to lend a hand and restore order.

That's pretty much in the working if the EU will not do first. If not, the world will see Russian tank armies on the border with Poland again.
I read that one too with great interest. I’m still only learning and reading, though. I’m hoping someday I’ll be able to use Rust in some professional capacity, but for now it’s just to have fun and play with something new.
how does this compare to dash by plotly, or r shiny, in terms of the intended use case?

It looks like you are more of a wholistic platform, including a workflow scheduler etc.
> Yes. But that wouldn't be slavery really because you are working for a predetermined rate.

Huh? I literally said the person would be selling themselves into slavery, which means becoming chattel property with no rights of any kind. That's nothing like a non-slave "working for a predetermined rate," because those workers still have rights since they're not property.
> It is disgusting how Lyft and Uber treat drivers with their A/B testing

Society as a whole needs to answer the question "is it moral to roll a dice and offer a worse service to people who get an odd number?"

In my view, it is. As far as that person is concerned, they can pretend your company doesn't exist and go to another company (and maybe roll another dice)

Some other people would say "all businesses must treat all customers equally and fairly". In many ways, I don't see how this can be universally true - there is always the superstore that has run out of a product - why should Mrs Smith who picked up apples at 9am get some, when Mr Jones who tried to buy some at 9:15am finds the shelf empty? Thats unfair.

Instead I'd like to see a list of characteristics a business is not allowed to discriminate on (religion, race, etc.), and explicitly allow discrimination based on another list (random number, position in queue, length of service as a customer, etc.). Any other factor, judges can decide which list it falls into.
As it happens, kind of:

"A recent review concluded that it is not clear whether face masks prevent surgical wound infections, and the scientific evidence for this practice is weak and insufficient."
https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid...
Tried it. Then compared it to the prices that I would actually get using the app and found that they were nowhere close to the estimates on the website, because the website estimate doesn't account for surge pricing, driver multipliers, waiting time fees, or taxes and other levied fees.

In contrast, the taxi service you linked to is the all inclusive price and is generally standard for all taxis as a matter of local law.

In the app, Uber is now more expensive than a taxi in LA for long trips.
Thousand Talents Program. I hope these engineers don't plan on going back to Taiwan, it probably won't be allowed by the Communists.
yeah, i do the same, i don't look at the keyboard, but i definitely don't properly touch type.

I do ~80 wpm with my system, and around ~30wpm when properly touch typing. So I'm always annoyed by my slow typing when touch typing and usually give up trying to learn it. And yes I know, learning it properly would probably make me faster than my ~80 wpm because I'd actually utilize all my fingers, but going down again first feels so bad.
obligatory EPB post here - Chattanooga, TN - https://epb.com/home-store/internet
Do you think nationality is the only reason, or do you think they could also genuinely disagree with Huawei's treatment, for reasons that are reasonable if one accepts a different point of view?
I make southwest give me a mask each flight. Why use mine when I can use theirs.
I think the GP is describing an artistic/hobbyist view of software development. If you're doing it purely for your own enjoyment, with no external requirements to constrain you, you can take all the time you want and follow whatever process you want and try to achieve whatever you consider to be perfection.

This contrasts sharply with professional software development, where you are building software for a purpose and often within a specified budget and timescales. In this case, you can't be selfish any more, because the whole reason for what you're doing is to satisfy the need of someone else. Processes and tools that you can happily ignore on your fun projects become relevant. Being unwilling or unable to work effectively with other developers or with people who have different roles on the project team makes you almost worthless. Taking risks that no-one else knows about becomes a danger to the whole project. Your goal isn't to achieve perfection, it's to deliver software that meets the requirements, on time, on budget, to an acceptable standard.
See, this is what annoys people about the anti-Brexit brigade.

There are two very important facts you're not giving people here. Firstly, yes, the UK has had stagnant GDP per capita since 2008. So has Germany, so has France. So has Switzerland, since 2010. Clearly, this is not a UK specific issue.

The exceptions? America and ... Ireland. That's tech companies. They are big enough to move per capita GDP by themselves.

The second rather important fact is that the UK is still a part of the EU today for all intents and purposes. It still has to pay and is still a part of all the systems. What you're saying is that as part of the EU the UK, and additionally other major European economies, have seen 12 years of economic stagnation.

You know what one of the top arguments for Brexit was? The EU is a stagnant economy, structurally so, and it's getting worse. If we leave we can be more dynamic and fix that problem.

hard to swallow for people used to the glories of empire.

This is such a bizarre, insulting and ridiculous talking point. Remainers bring it up repeatedly but I've never encountered someone who supports Brexit who talks about the British Empire. It doesn't happen. It's a fantasy.
> A local organic, progressive grocery chain in Marin County will stop you at the door with a vented P100 mask but a flowy, loose fitting bandana, totally open across the bottom goes right in.

What people don't seem to be considering here is that the loose bandana is still directing exhalation down at the ground instead of out at other people's faces like the vented masks.
This is really stupid. An airplane where everyone wears P100 respirators is clearly preferrable to one where everyone wears unvented N95 masks, yet this wouldn't be allowed because all P100 respirators are vented.

The only masks that don't have vents are lower quality paper masks that don't seal along the edges. They can't seal along the edges because masks without a vent don't magically force all of your exhaled air through the filter -- your exhaled air goes out the sides.

The point of a vent is not to bypass the filter (Unless you have a backpack sized filter, that's going to happen regardless). The point of the vent is to control how and where exhaled air leaves the mask.

Controlled exhaust is arguably more important in an airplane where you're sitting side to side with other people, because uncontrolled exhaust from an N95 mask goes straight into the face of the person sitting next to you. P100 respirator exhaust can at least be directed into your lap.
A different perspective on the server-side of things might be useful. Could either go lighter like Firebase, or thicker like Rails/Ruby, Django/Python, Phoenix/Elixir, or Yii/PHP. They have more structure and let you tune things differently.

Certainly being exposed to working in a functional style with immutable data can benefit your thinking even when using common languages. I prefer the static type-inference flavors, e.g. F#, OCaml, or Haskell which is a bit more of a stretch. SICP/Scheme is great or even playing around with Clojure.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-...