skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And once again, Uber is trying to socialize the losses and privatize the profits. We should all be shocked by this company losing billions a quarter but still paying its execs and (initial) shareholders way above what they produce.

The difference here is that by having drivers as contractor, Uber is making us ALL pay social security, medicare etc for the drivers [1] .

Uber should fail as it has proven numerous time that its business model simply doesn't work at scale. I will say it once more but there was a good reason why taxis were expensive...

I find it embarrassing that so many urbanites, socialites, and other coastal elites got tricked into rooting for Uber's success by getting artificially cheap rides.

Also, Uber is losing billions each quarter with no clear view on ever being profitable. Why is that stock still so high?

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2019/12/16/is-uber-cheat...
uBlock Origin can block JavaScript by default now (2018)
> Lyft certainly has the option to comply with the law and jack up their prices to compensate

They also have the option, if they can find the financing, to comply with the law and burn money building an entrnched user base before jacking up prices to compensate.

I mean, even on the old model, that's how Uber got itself entrenched and hard to displace.
"Google must operate based on the stereotype I have of them in my head"
Only if its detectable.
Two screens and a hinge with mediocre OS - $1399.

Can't imagine this will be popular at all.
Agreed that it is unfortunate we could not have this experiment, but perhaps Waterfront Toronto can go back to the drawing board and do the experiment with local companies and homegrown technology.
Interested on the incrementally enhanced part of your comment. Are you using Vue with the script tags and using .vue components?
If local government put a contract out to tender for implementing last mile so that small companies could bid on it then the $1k company would win over the $1,800 company. This is how most things should work in local government (corruption aside) .

A competitive market with a relatively low barrier to entry for last mile cable would benefit everybody. Everybody except AT&T and Comcast that is (& their millionaire shareholders in congress).

Even a nationally owned and run last mile would be better than what we have now though.
Rust competes on performance and portability far better than Ada did at the time. It's also at parity in features and price, whereas Ada lacked proper OO and cost money until the Air Force paid for GNAT in the '90s. Modern Ada is a nice language, but pre-1995 Ada lost to C++ for a reason. Soon after that, Java showed up and offered a new, easier way to write safe programs, while also locking in the expectation that "modern languages look like C".

Pascal, by contrast, simply didn't offer any compelling advantages.
Not really. AB5 hurts a lot of small businesses that weren't doing anything wrong. It's a classic case of unintended consequences.
That's if they aren't already.

Without having the data I can't try but I'd guess that Fourier analysis (or something a bit more clever to deal with noise e.g. Welch) would get you a lot of the way there even without invoking AI
Its high time social media starts compensating content creators with revenue
Forget semi-rural. I'm in the middle of Silicon Valley and I had 10,000ms+ ping and 95%+ packet drops for a month during work hours at the beginning of the lockdown.
“Huh, I thought he resigned via Chime.”
Except these are adults of sound mind willingly entering into the agreement. I absolutely loathe these types of arguments first because its false equivalence and secondly, because why do you know better than the Freelance Journalists who were hurt by this? Stop nannying.
I was just giving a quick & dirty reply, and my knowledge of anthropology is quite limited. As I understand it we evolved out of the African savanna. If there are other niches we evolved in (rather than expanded to), those would also be a valid response.
Is Sumo Logic available on a month to month basis? All the prices on the pricing page say “multi-year agreement”. I’m also having dificulty figuring out exactly what it will costs, I don’t find the credit system particularly clear.

I’m about to launch a new project and am currently planning to use Datadog (for both metrics and logs, possibly more in time), but would happily consider alternatives, especially if cheaper or with more straightforward pricing, but so far Sumo’s pricing doesn’t look any more straightforward and I’m not able to commit to anything beyond month to month and by my reading of the pricing page, Sumo doesn’t offer that.
We'll definitely check it out! And yeah, one of the top complaints we heard from people when doing user research was how expensive Intercom is, so definitely going to try to ride that wave as much as possible like you said :P
A Simulation Suite for Tackling Applied Reinforcement Learning Challenges
I don't think you actually understand how fast food restaurants operate.

You actually can take several months off from McDonalds if you want and come back. Many employees do, especially the ones that work at college-town McDs...

Moreover, you can switch shifts at will, so long as you find another employee to exchange shifts with.

Pretty much the difference between fast food and Uber is that fast food is a minimum 8 hour shift and Uber can be as short as a 1 minute ride.
This looks cool! A couple of questions:

1. Currently, if I install something in the notebook, does it get re-installed every time the pipeline is run? Is there any way to "snapshot" the state of the container?

2. Where is the data stored between the steps?

3. How well-integrated is it with AWS cloud primitives such as EC2 instances, EFS, and S3?
Everything that Amit touches turns to gold. Sign me up.
Yet Uber was able to attract people who voluntarily chose to participate in their business model. There must have been something compelling about it.

The simplest explanation is that for whatever reason, those better-paying retail or food service jobs were not an option.
Who is thinking of getting a second internet connection?

I live in a place where I can get two connections over two different technologies (cable TV and fiber optic), and there are some cheap and lower bandwidth (~10MiB/s) options that make sense for a backup connection. I think it's better to avoid having 4G as your backup since if there's any wired connections outage your local mobile frequencies will very quickly get saturated.
I'm sitting here on a Comcast connection that is expensive and AT&T has FTTH in my neighborhood. I just can't seem to pull the trigger on the order because of the horror stories I've heard, and from personal experience. When I had ADSL from AT&T, they absolutely could not give me a connect that didn't drop randomly 2-10 times a day. I had 10+ visits from them over several years and at one point they told me "don't call us anymore" because I was too expensive for them. This, after being told by someone that put a device on my line and found the problem was in the drop cable (from the pole to the house). The new drop cable was ordered and a guy shows up 2 hours later and tells me it's not the drop cable (he didn't measure anything). When pressed, he told me it was too expensive to replace the drop cable. A subsequent tech told me to have a "tree trimming accident" where the drop cable was severed. I was worried I would be charged many thousands of $'s so I didn't do it and just switched to Comcast. (I have had my own issues with Comcast, and I hate them with a passion.)

The situation with home internet is just so shitty.
That takes an odd tangent into sex/race issues. Surely privacy violations apply to all individuals and the questions of whether or not software can a) have dicriminatory bias and b) be purged of them are entirely orthoganol to the initial human rights concern.
> I guess the option for people is to stop ordering food and cook at home.

Or the restaurants can just go back to hiring their own delivery drivers and taking orders over the phone.
What's really interesting (scary? sad?) is that the "issue" would never come up if the cast was all men.
For some reason I read the comments...

"Someone who hates you is doing this on purpose" reads one.

While I have NO IDEA what that's about, it does make me wonder, can people cause trouble for their competition through ad sense by doing things to cause the site to be dropped like this? That comment says it's because someone is leaving bad comments on the site, which seems unlikely, but I've read other stories about DMCA abuse or something like that to bring down competing sites or videos or whatever.

Can someone abuse some kind of adsense reporting system and cause this to happen?
I've used a decent amount of Rust, that's not the case this time. Rust is a game changer. The effect of borrow checker and automatic RAII everywhere is profound. I'm convinced its going to fundamentally change low level language design. Borrowing semantics will be mainstream someday, whether its through Rust or otherwise.

It has all of the safety characteristics of a VM language but its low level with no runtime. Its a direct replacement for C with all the performance and modern design of languages like Java and Go. And it uses LLVM so FFI with other languages that compile to native is simple and zero overhead. You can even do whole program optimization (LTO) on the combined binary, that's huge. Trust me the hype about Rust is real.

Much more real than the hype around Go, which to me just feels like yet another GC language. The hyped AOT compilation is nothing profound. Since the GC forces Go to have a runtime anyways IMO they should have gone all the way and just used JIT. And Go doesn't use existing C compilers so FFI has overhead, can't be optimized together at a bytecode level
235db! Apparently also kills wales and dolphins.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/93222/could-subm...
Kafkanetes Minikan
Was this data collected over the internet?
Set up a small-scale kafka cluster on local kubernetes - perfect for functionality testing and local development.
> That seems like the definition of capriciously applying laws, and would seem like it would create more problems arising from unequal application of laws.

AB5 is a case of capriciously writing laws. The state wrote a new law that was specifically intended to put Uber and similar companies in a state of noncompliance with it.
Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script (2016)
> The advertising and constant "we updated!" tabs opening up (yeah, great, I don't give a shit, stop telling me) are at least as annoying as Opera's adbar was, IMO.

This was actually the last straw for me. I had 30 tabs open, and Firefox decided to take an update. Any time I opened a new tab, it demanded I restart my browser, closing everything, and refused to function. That level of interruption was so unacceptable I switched (back) to Chrome.
AH - this is a Schelling Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
> 2) The drivers are outside of Uber's business. Uber is a software and technology company, not a taxi service.

This seems like _quite_ a stretch. With that logic you can make any modern company a "technology business" or a "logistics business", and suddenly everything a company does is outside of their core business.
I don't understand why you want to preserve these monopolies. They're already non-competitive. How on earth does granting private monopolies do anything other than give away free money to unaccountable executives? It's already clear, based on this suggestion, that the private "market" has failed so the government needs to step in. Just take these guys over and run them publicly.
It would likely coerce poor Americans into selling their kidneys to the wealthy so that they could pay off their student debt. Is coercing the poor to sell their organs to the rich a net benefit for society?

For anyone who thinks this is hyperbole, ProPublica has done excellent work investigating how lenders use the court system to imprison Americans who can't pay back their debts: https://www.google.com/search?q=propublica+debtors+prisons
The current solution is also a tax, just in a different form.

A broader solution would not be one-more-tax, it would be net-zero. The current proposal is also a tax -- it forces a cost on Uber (which will be passed onto customers) to solve the problem on a micro level. Whether I pay an "Uber regulatory recovery fee" or some other tax is all net zero. But I'd love to see a broader solution that solves the problem more universally (if not at the federal level, then at least at the state level).
I currently own a Galaxy S6 Tab. I use it for note-taking and reading books (primarily non-fiction and technical PDFs). Portability is always an issue with tablets. I don't always have my tablet with me, and even when I do, it can be inconvenient to pull it out of my bag. This seems to be 5,6" closed, which sounds like something that might fit into my pants pocket, then I could always have it with me. I've tried using a recent Samsung Note, but found the lack of screen space too much of a constraint that I ended up selling it again fairly quickly.

I'm definitely interested, though of course I'm not 100% sure it'll fit my needs until I actually try it for a week. The pricing is also iffy. I'm not sure I'm willing to give such an expensive device a try, especially with Microsoft's poor record when it comes to QA on their Surface line in general.
I'm not sure if that is an answer or an additional question. If an indie game maker wanted to make a game, why would they use Bevy over the Unreal Engine? It it just because it's different or are there advantages?
Creating unlogged (PostgreSQL) tables in Rails
>so you stopped using their free product?

If it wasn't clear, a user is directly supporting Mozilla by using their product.
Poor luck for Uber, I'm not sure the urbanites are demanding rideshares services right now enough to really make a fuss.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186865/uber-rides-decli...
As far as I am aware, ITER has no aspects of construction or operation which require manufacturing tolerances measured in nanometers.
Really cool. It's easy to use.
Just to be clear: that typo (marks instead of myself) was made on an iphone onscreen keyboard, not touch typing in colemak ;-)
I totally agree. The prevailing perception that Silicon Valley (the original MAE-West) and Virginia's MAE-East are the touchstones of high bandwidth Internet is not true either - while they are the peering points for (inter)national networks, the local access Internet offerings in those regions are indeed laughable. Meanwhile the small rural towns in fly-over country tend to enjoy networks that are gigabit to the home or better for under $100 MRC. I know of businesses in Philadelphia that had to relocate to Winona, Minnesota simply to lower their Internet costs from thousands of dollars per month (with Comcast) to under $200 MRC for a direct gigabit optical Internet connection.
Start porting some device emulators, otherwise this is just a waste of time.
I'm on the fence just based on the camera. Thats' my 1, 2 & 3 decision maker at this point with young kids.

The universal feedback I've seen from peers who are considering the pre-order is: I can stop carrying around an iPad.

$1399 replaces an ipad and a phone for them. Time will tell if the usability matches their expectations.
>It seems one could even argue that Google's focus on algorithmic rather than human solutions is a kind of harmful ideology

It's the kind of ideology that you often find in people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
Yes? Half of those are classes of bugs that would probably still exist with the usage of Rust, that is, they're simply a diversion from what you expected and what actually happens that the borrow checker can't save you from. You need to separate all bugs from the bugs Rust can't introduce.

It's safer, in theory, to just do it in Rust first, but it is also important to consider the amount of time it actually takes to implement either.

Why is this garnering downvotes...?
Staying inside is wholly unnecessary, especially in low density areas. It's the congregation on beaches etc that is problematic, not just "outside".
They wargamed live during North Atlantic convoy attacks on the floor of a building in Liverpool. Players received instructions through letterboxes around the room perimeter and each could only see a fraction of the the battle. They could not see the u-boats at all as those were same color as filters they looked through. Information was radioed in from convoy escorts and scenarios were played out. Battles could last a couple of days.
The government also has no idea how to build roads or power plants. They contract it out, and then take responsibility for owning and maintaining the infrastructure long term.
>> The problem is, the QEMU community has been doing these things for years but new bugs are still introduced despite these efforts. It is certainly possible to spend more energy on these efforts but the evidence shows that bugs continue to slip through.

While personally being a proponent of Rust, I’ve been wondering if some of the projects that have codebases too big to realistically RIIR any time soon might benefit from running statical analysis as a git hook server side rejecting any commits that don’t pass some set of rules.

Though, only having second-hand knowledge of statical analysis of C code through reading blog posts on the net, I am also of the impression that false positives are a common occurrence in statical analysis tools. So based on that I am thinking that it might either not be feasible, or at the very least it would be a major undertaking and you might need to continuously tune the rules and also bugs of this sort would perhaps still slip through.
Storybook is pretty flexible if your work can render in a web browser. We recently rebuilt Chromatic's CLI and as an experiment decided to write stories to record and regression test the many states the CLI can be in. We were able to use Storybook as we used a React based library to output to STDOUT.

We're loving the result so far as it makes it really easy to answer questions like - "what will the user see if they have passed flag X but their workspace is in state Y and Z their build has failed to upload". You can check out the Storybook here:

https://5d67dc0374b2e300209c41e7-kgfpdfjsbm.chromatic.com/?p...

If I was building a game I'd find the component driven methodology (https://www.componentdriven.org) with a component explorer like Storybook or something specific to the game dev environment ideal because of how many hard to reach key states games have that could easily break as a result of code changes somewhere else.
Yes I use storybook and tailwindcss. Storybook uses webpack so you configure it's webpack config with postcss-loader and then use the tailwindcss plugins; no different than just using tailwindcss and webpack anywhere else.
Eventually Uber has to run a profitable business. At that point I don't see how national/global scale adds alot of value.
I think it might be an in-joke about modelling animal populations with floating point numbers.

[EDIT] Just realized the poster said _less_ fireflies, so my guess might be correct ;)
Anecdotal, but I've seen so many insects this year in the US, more than other years. It could be a factor of being home more and also a resurgence. I'm not sure.
It's definitely changing. Even a decade ago, I was seeing home-grown leases, including some with clauses of questionable legality.

Now, a lot of the rental complexes either have their own online system (if they're owned by a big management company), or they use something like Avail if they're a one-off.

I pay my rent through Venmo for my current house.

Times have changed.
I as a user would far rather know exactly what I'm getting charged ahead of time, on basically everything, even if it were more. I'm 100% certain most people would.
On the first point, could you supply a bit more than just "wrong"? That's not a very convincing argument. Do you have data? Evidence? Anything besides just "wrong"?
Right a startup looking for funding (by its very nature) means you're creating a situation where your company will be in the process of going out of business the moment you get your capital. Your job is to prevent that eventuality.

So think of a new restaurant that loses money on every customer until they figure out how to take more money in through the till than they're paying out.
How Do Neurons Speak to Each Other?
Can you elaborate more on this? Is there any reading I can do online about this topic? Does the service basically just scan to see that all services are tagged with enumerated department names?
Adults of sound mind enter into all sorts of highly regulated agreements, starting from employment, to tenancy, to gym memberships, to even things like marriages [1].

The reason for why all those agreements are highly regulated isn't because they adults entering them are not of sound mind. The reason for it is that there is often a large imbalance of power between the two parties in the contract.

This kind of regulation has been the foundation of common law for nearly a millennium, and has been present in other legal systems for far longer than that.

[1] (As it turns out, you can't [2] marry someone with the stipulation that they can't divorce you, or with a fly-by-night, grossly inequitable pre-nup.

[2] Well, you can, but the judges will laugh your contract out of the room when you try to enforce it.
That's a rather contentious statement. Many would say it is solely to protect people from each other and outside forces.
I was a windows phone user for ages, I’ve got several surfaces, and I’m super hyped about dual screen phones.

Unfortunately this device just isn’t made for 2020 (or 2017) usage: small battery with no wireless charging, not waterproof, no NFC (aka no wireless payments), questionable/unproven camera, processor with 2017 specs driving two screens.

On top of all that, surface has particularly bad hardware reliability. Of the devices I’ve owned, each has had to be factory serviced. My Nokia phones from the windows phone 8 era all needed to be factory serviced. And all that for the low price of two iPhones.

Sadly this is yet another innovative device that will be killed by making the wrong trade offs. I expect it to be copied and executed much better by Apple or maybe Samsung (I tried the Note 10 recently and the stylus is much better than the surface pen).
You can achieve the same or better result but simply mandating that the same company can't own the fiber AND provide service. The electricity grid in Europe is run the same way.
I play this game with Google every month or so when the webmaster console reports some mobile experience issues, but when I do a manual scan, there are no issues. So I mark them as resolved and then there are no issues for the next month or so.
This is kind of ridiculous.

On the one hand, information and matter are inextricably linked... you might say matter itself is merely composed of information -- the matter's current state, combined with unchangeable laws governing state transitions over time.

But the idea that we're creating more information than there ever has been from a physics standpoint is absolutely preposterous. The physical world is absolutely jam-packed with information that's already there -- the exact location and state of each particle of matter is information. As far as physics is concerned, we're merely rearranging that information... but have no fear that there will be any physical inflection point if we continue to rearrange bits on hard drive platters.
> there are a bunch of productivity apps emerging which give you awesome giant monitors and workspaces in VR

Can you point out some? I looked into this last fall and was rather disappointed about what was available.