skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, in places where Uber still has up front pricing for riders, drivers are paid on time and distance. Uber is taking the risk of the estimate being too high or too low.
> In which case they could resign, and Mozilla get people willing to work for $500,000.

Exactly. Firing so many people means it's time to reconsider the structure and ambition of the company,and that includes considering whether to compensate the ceo at the level of charity ceos or at the level of successful tech ceos.
How is the validation done?

If you discover a brand new biological phenomenon, are you saying you can get it published unless someone else does the same experiment and gets the same result?
I see that post as a double standard. Yes, libraries are mostly crap; that's because code is mostly crap. Fixing the file-writing implementation in a library may take more patience and tact than this author has, but it can be done; fixing what dozens of mediocre programmers wrote on their own is completely hopeless. If you want to talk about an attractive nuisance that lets people write code that sort-of works most of the time but's actually fundamentally broken, that's Unix - and C - all over.
Depends on your advisor.
The prongs don't matter for AM or eBay, since AB5 exempts them from the analysis altogether.

But on that note, a lot of people seem to be ignoring the crucial differences in the transactional relationships between the parties for websites like eBay.

Sellers use eBay to conduct auctions and sell their goods. They have control over inventory, pricing, starting and ending auctions, accepting final bids, etc. eBay as acts the seller's agent and provides services to the seller with respect to transactions similar to how an employee or contractor would. IOW, eBay is acting as a contractor to the seller.

Similarly, for AirBnB, hosts use AirBnB as a marketplace for provider hoteling services. AirBnB is acting as their booking agent and payment collections agent for the host. IOW, AirBnb is acting as a contractor to the host. To the extent that AirBnB itself is paying the hosts (and is not merely passing along money from guests), it isn't for providing hoteling services on AirBnB's behalf, rather it's an incentive for making a property available on the AirBnB marketplace. (I know this because my former employer got paid $$$ to make certain beachside properties it owned available for booking on AirBnB, and these payments were separate from payments we received related to AirBnb-booked stays.)

For Uber/Lyft, the relationship is reversed. The driver is acting as an agent for Uber/Lyft: Uber/Lyft assigns them a ride, and they must provide the ride to get paid. Moreover, in contrast to actual marketplaces, the amount drivers get paid by Uber is not directly tied to the amount charged to the passenger; indeed, driver's generally do not know how much riders actually pay for a trip unless they ask the rider what they're getting charged. This indicates that the transactional relationship for both the driver and the passenger is with Uber, not each other. (Further explanation would dive into principles of contract law, so I leave it to you for further research if you want to go down that path.)
> how well a compiler does is mostly dependent on how many of those transformations happen to apply to your program at hand

Right, there's an infinite number of distinct useful code optimizations, there's a cost to checking if any given optimization can be applied, and some optimizations have _massive_ costs for very rare and specific savings, so any given compiler is making a practical decision to include some optimizations and omit others. There was some discussion in the Rust community about LLVM having a period where they weren't tracking regressions in compile times - so "the perfect optimizing compiler" isn't really a coherent goal. But I still wonder how much faster Optimal Chromium would be. Just another interesting number I'll never know, I suppose.

> I think it's almost certainly not even in NP

Yeah, that was sloppy of me, I think this is undecidable by Rice's theorem. Nice catch!
Everyone has to bear the costs while thieves make money sounds something that is worth fighting against.

Keep in mind that this is only possible because they are stealing cherrypicked materials. No municipality would allow them to run garbage removal legitimately if they would collect only valuable materials while leaving worthless at the curbside for someone else to deal with.
Thanks for the pointers. I do indeed upvote good stuff even if I disagree, and buried posts (I like to check the New section regularly).
> As an administrator in the main job and helper in the private sphere for some people, Firefox as a browser can no longer be an option. The danger of unpatched security holes and lack of further development in the core area endangers the infrastructure and systems.

I think this is the killer for Mozilla. Most people knew about Mozilla because of Firefox. Most non-tech people knew about Firefox because their tech friends recommended it to them. Now, I think that recommending Firefox to your non-tech friends is a disservice to them.

Despite what people say their priorities are, what their priorities are become evident when they are forced to make cuts. What gets cut is not the priority no matter how loudly they proclaim it. What remains is the priority no matter how much they may say it is not. Firefox, Servo, Security these all got the axe. They are not the priority at Mozilla.
The most recent DefCon conference was held virtually and they referred to it as "safe mode" which I thought was a funny, poignant touch for a computer conference.
This is excellent news for all young actresses. He was single handedly the worst enabler, supporting all criminal producers under his reign. Much worse than Harvey Weinstein. #TimesUp

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/01/four-for-friday-i...
Focusing on PM pollution tends to reduce CO2 emissions. Most PM 2.5 comes from burning fossil fuels, so insisting on lower levels means burning fewer fossil fuels.

PM studies are able to tie pollution directly to lives and thus dollars (through statistical lives). So, if reducing coal use costs $2.7B a year, but we extend enough lives, prevent asthma, etc., to equal at least $2.7B then as a country we should enact the regulation. The US starting doing exactly this from 1996-2003 and it reduced CO2 emissions by making coal plants, steel mills, etc., more expensive to operate. As a result, PM studies like the Harvard Six Cities study were highly controversial and fossil fuel companies lobbied hard against them. It is a lot harder to tie climate change to direct costs because the impacts are somewhat fuzzy and on a long timeframe.

In this case, discovering brake pads and tires cause PM2.5 means we can invest in less-emitting brake pads. But this isn’t likely to produce tires/brakes that dramatically reduce emissions. A more likely approach is investing in mass transit, which would reduce CO2 output.

I wouldn’t say greenhouse gasses are a larger problem but a rather a harder to coordinate long-term global problem. PM pollution caused 4.2 million premature deaths in 2016 [0]. It is hard to directly state how many deaths climate change caused in 2016 but conservative estimates [1] are for about 500,000 deaths a year by 2050. Most PM deaths stem from terrible industrial air in poorer countries which if combated would also dramatically cut CO2.

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(ou...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/health/climate-change-health-...
Element sounds cool, relaxed
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Using a weather API to assess daily road risk on your route
Well, its sort of true. Open source doesn't pay the bills and their projects Firefox and Rust are used for free and doesn't help them generate revenue other than getting a contract with a trillion dollar company against your privacy.

They have to stand on their own if they want to be true to their mission rather than taking in a privacy abusers money, or just admit it and drop that mission statement.
The UK study mounts a grid where the license plate goes which doesn’t necessarily disprove a change in aerodynamics for bigs hitting the windshield.
> I don't see that.

Glad to hear it. Could just be me, or that I have an abrasive way of asking questions. Have tried for a couple of years to regulate my behavior that way, but just haven't got the knack and recently decided to give up. Now I ask and just take the downvotes.
See also "Python Data Science Handbook" by Jake VanderPlas, which uses Jupyter notebooks too.

[0] https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/
If Mozilla focused on better technology, that would not solve its money problem. It currently depends on other companies (Google search, Pocket) to survive. This post does not make any suggestions how to make Mozilla profitable.

Indeed, Mozilla provides utilities, services and advocacy that provide value to many people and companies. We take that for granted somehow, and don't reward their efforts. We want everything for free and better and faster and with no ads.

I wish France or the EU provided funding for Mozilla to reduce the internet dominance of Google.
I found the article very enlightening. It is useful to have proper names for the phenomena that I have witnessed in others and partially myself.

The conclusion gives some good ideas how to fix interpersonal victimhood

> What if we all learned at a young age that our traumas don’t have to define us? That it’s possible to have experienced a trauma and for victimhood to not form the core of our identity? That it’s even possible to grow from trauma, to become a better person, to use the experiences we’ve had in our lives toward working to instill hope and possibility to others who were in a similar situation? What if we all learned that it’s possible to have healthy pride for an in-group without having out-group hate? That if you expect kindness from others, it pays to be kind yourself? That no one is entitled to anything, but we all are worthy of being treated as human?
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If the tools are there, they will be used for evil.

When you can surveil and blackmail the entire world, including your political taskmasters, what sort of person will that role attract?
First I’ve heard of this, just copied a section from the linked Wikipedia page:

> The Chicago Mastery Learning Reading program was criticized for a focus on testing. A concern is that children were taught to pass tests without a focus on enduring skills. The duration of the retention of skills was questioned.
An alternate approach, which I think I read in a spy novel somewhere: glitter nail polish. It'll be a random pattern when it dries; take a photo of that pattern.
I really don't see how this post supports the one before it. Much of the complexity here can and in many, perhaps most, cases should be abstracted into a library, whether that is the standard library or a well-established high-quality third-party library. Given how easy it is to make mistakes, common operations, like atomically writing a buffer to a file, or creating a new file and ensuring it didn't already exist should not have to be re-implemented in every application.
Currently, we are not focused on helping DS teams putting models into production.

It's those 'messy' projects with 10K LoC notebook that could easily be broken up into multiple steps (perhaps some of them notebooks, some of them Python scripts with library function usage) that we feel are a great match for pipelines in Orchest today.

When a team is still experimenting with what models to go with (i.e. trying neural networks v.s. decision trees) it can be helpful to have a more structured prototyping environment with reproducability and easier scalability. Which is also where Orchest shines.

If you want to test some of these models in production, you could easily push artificats to endpoints for serving, in the final steps of a pipeline.
Is it more likely that they are “so obviously inept” or that there are underlying reasons for the change?

They’re pivoting, or perhaps they are simply not profitable enough to keep them on.

We don’t know what’s going on in their strategy room. It could very well be a good business move, or a terrible one. We don’t have all the information.
6 Trains per hour seems extremely low.

For example: There are 7 Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka tomorrow between 9am and 9:30am. That would mean 13 - 14 trains per hour.
you are going full retard right now
So what does this mean for Rust? Is there any other company dedicated to maintaining it, not just using it?
Indeed and consequently "your experts failed you" is also ahistorical. Maybe some talking heads did but not experts in general.

The better questions then would be "why didn't people listen? and "why didn't the general public see it coming?" It would be useful to understand these well to prevent future occurrences and even possibly to escape the current situation and future unfolding.
I absolutely believe you could be right. Would love you to be. I literally was looking for citations. I also know these problems are difficult and my own experiments were discouraging--which has absolutely no bearing on what's possible.
By...not shipping a browser. That's straight-up the opening point of the article.
No https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616
This article has no substance, and the tweets it links to explicitly contradict it's core message. Maybe the author isn't aware of the difference between Servo and Gecko?

https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616

> Fwiw, afaict, almost all Gecko / platform devs are unaffected (I'm pretty relieved about that, I started my day with a totally different feeling).

> These layoffs are still devastating personally, but if anything, Mozilla is not ditching Gecko.

and

> To combat some FUD: my Security and Hardening team working on Firefox also appears to have survived.

> I conclude that a secure Gecko is still considered key to achieving Mozilla's goals.

> I'm happy to still be here. We have key improvements in the pipeline that I want to ship.
But if you'd give adult males a choice of which female to undress, I'm pretty sure they would value "exploration" very highly again

Likely, but that's not the same experiment anymore since the sex factor comes into play and living beings are basically programmed to reproduce as much as possible and also with as much variety as possible (maybe oversimplified, but you get the point). So for a smartphone you can talk abut novelty-seeking/exploration (which btw I'm not sure are really different things), but when reproduction comes into play it's a whole different game anymore and it'll alter/override parts of the behavior and it shouldn't be underestimated how string the effectss can be.
Fire her and hire a new CEO then. Why would you raise an under-performing CEO's takeaway ?
I’m curious what you mean by this - the community version has most of the features in it.. and if you are willing to pay for something, you’d an run the enterprise version on-prem.. my experience with that is that it’s quite cheap, and you get support as well.

Timescale also has a multi node version now that distributes your data across a cluster sort of like Citus.
On the contrary - in a world with 8 billion people it's pretty much guaranteed there's someone worth that much money to a company!
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> Couldn't the capacity issue be somewhat mitigated by stacking tubes vertically

Significantly increased costs

> and/or increasing the tube diameter?

Immeasurably increased costs. Because hyperloop already operates on the idea of operating in vacuum. So let's say you have a 10-kilometer tube that you need to keep in vacuum and you want to increase its diameter...
From Japan, I wish the old plant was replaced after 30 years...
This is exactly how a democracy gets corrupted
I’m confused.. do you think it’s likely that someone forges the signature of a person they’ve never met within a believable margin of error? Seems the burden of proof is on the people claiming that happens a lot
This pandering to women will not help you get laid. Just let people do what they want. 99% of women don't want to do difficult jobs. The ones that do already have those jobs because guys like you giving them preferential treatment are everywhere.
Why are you making your game's store page unattractive?
As raganwald put it on Twitter:
"MDN remaining while the team is let go is a little like a band firing all of its members, but putting out a press release that they will continue to record and tour under the same name."
If with "VBA" you mean Visual Basic for Applications, it had (AFAIK) several ancestors from the BASIC family including Visual Basic and Quick Basic. Probably GW BASIC and its ancestors count as well.
Sounds like the problem was images being uploaded with a timestamp without a timzeone, in which case neither solution would work.
thank you & I really hope you'll figure something out
Unsure if you mean solution for migrating or solution for a good alternative platform, but Ghost has received a decent amount of praise. https://ghost.org/vs/medium/
Yeah-yeah. Because cars are magically teleported in and out of the hyperloop tunnels.
It's probably counterproductive. Yeah, you can sue and maybe you can win. But are you sure you want the end result?

Human attraction, unfortunately, is not very fair, and definitely doesn't really follow anti-discrimination practices, from everything I've read so far.
Why such a dichotomy between intrinsic and extrinsic when any situation is a mix of both ?

We do our job to get money, but we won't do any job for that sole purpose.

Kids learn chemistry because they are forced to, but they'll find fun bits here and there, they'll ask teachers questions to better understand what they're taught. They won't give a crap about half of the curriculum, but the half they'll remember and will be formative is not guaranteed to be solely from the self-motivated part either.

Going further what motivates us to explore also depends on the environment, what is rewarded and what is not, etc.

I feel splitting things in two theoretical extremes is close to labelling actions good or bad, it's useful if we don't care about nuance, but has little use once we dive below the surface.

> I recommend reading Drive first if you think you disagree.

I remember getting that recommendation for "Getting Things Done" ... is Drive much better as a reading experience ? Is it readable for people who're not into self help books in general ?
yes, exactly this. You can always read and re-think about the past and try to find better solutions for the future problems that has happened in the past.
Indeed, what remains of the core teams? Why didn't they transfer talented engineers from canceled projects instead of canning them?

I hope this will all resolve in a sensible way. But this could be Mozilla's equivalent of Nokia killing both Symbian and Maemo. If so in a few years the ashes will be sold and, we have to hope, a new phoenix will rise.

Typing this from Firefox on Android, have been following and using Firefox since it was called Phoenix, and Netscape before that since 1.0.
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> Firefox, Servo, Security these all got the axe.

This is not true. Do not spread FUD.
The impact will be more because Servo is a big project that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with rust, so language design, the standard library, and the ecosystem are influenced by what the problems that the server team runs into. For example, the url crate is largely driven by Servo's need for a standards-conforming url API.
Mozilla better switches to a management that understands building experiments to move the company forward based on data / evidence. Why not establish an experiment based on the the concepts of Brave? Why not evaluating if people have money to get advanced dev tools (e.g. I'd buy session replay tools).

Killing of teams related to Firefox will definitely hurt their reach, especially in enterprises.
What kills me is that I was unaware of just how badly Mozilla was struggling. As an avid Firefox user, I would have paid a monthly subscription to help keep the Mozilla dream and values alive. A world with just Google/Chrome is too depressing.
That's what I get, too. A "reward" is a subjective experience. If someone doesn't care about grades, then good grades will not be rewarding, and bad grades will not be punishment.
I did some quick calculations out of interest.

It seems our sink fits about 25 liters of water. Let's say half of that volume is taken by dishes, so 12.5 liters. You need a second sink for rinsing unless you run the tap (which would be worse), so that's another 12.5 liters.

From experience, you need to change the cleaning side's water at least once if you have as many dishes as a dishwasher would fit. So the total would be 37.5 liters.

Now I checked on Bosch's website for a standard 60 cm size dishwasher and the water usage ranges from 9.5 liters (eco program) to 18 liters (most intensive/quick program). So the dishwasher wins by some margin.

Personally I don't rinse most dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, mostly just remove any solid bits of food with a knife or similar. So I'm inclined to believe that in my usage the dishwasher is much more efficient.
If cost-cutting is the ostensible goal then I presume there have been layoffs in non-engineering divisions too? Why are we not hearing anything on Twitter about that?
How many instructions is an infinite loop :p More seriously, processors are superscalar and can execute out of order.
Yes, very old hardware that's no longer on the market. I don't consider that a solution. Eventually that pool of hardware dries up.
> I think only the PLA plays with slightly more open cards, mostly because they just don't give a damn about being caught

This kind of reputation makes them the an easy target for every other actor to take advantage of.
Most non-tech people don't care about Firefox. Chrome already won the browser war and the internet is increasingly becoming apps and appstores as far as consumers are concerned anyway. Firefox has for years been the browser of tech enthusiasts and privacy activists, people who by definition don't care if the experience is subpar so long as it's not Chrome and lives up to their idealism. I'm not saying it isn't sad but it's been obvious for awhile to anyone that actually talked to people outside tech circles that Firefox is not something the mainstream cares about. It's far more practical to shift focus to areas where gaining a profitable foothold has real potential.
This is irrelevant to the discussion, the point being that Mozilla's financial position as a company needs to be discussed if it has any chance of surviving.
This seems like a knock on effect from the recent layoffs.

I wonder if they made Firefox Enterprise paid would have been a better option.

EDIT: Downvoters not accepting reality obviously...