skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would have picked up another job or shift rather than work rideshare. The whole appeal was this was something you can do for some beer money once a week, but now people who would have been working 2 jobs are working 1 job and ubering, and given you are operating your own vehicle, I'm not sure how much you actually make relative to picking up a second shift at taco bell.

Honestly, transit is a tough nut to make profit on. Pacific Electrics red cars in LA failed to make a profit and folded. All the private railways in NYC failed to make a profit even during the days when people had to either take a train or walk, and still folded (these bankrupt companies were bought up cheap publicly and became the mta) Public transit looses money just like highways do, but all of this is justified because the gain is realized in other sectors of the economy.

However, uber and lyft are private companies and don't benefit from general gain in other sectors, so in my mind these companies have an expiration date once vc investors finally open a history book.
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Who has absolutely no significant power, or privileges. I take the Swedish Royal family over the Murdochs, Busches, Trumps or Clintons any day. I hope you aren’t so naive that you think that the US are free from privileges by birth.
> Why does everything have to be about money?

Because of those pesky habits of clothing, feeding, and sheltering yourself.
Despite your sarcasm, I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.
Nike provides a better job than than the next best alternative (often child prostitution), and it is the government's job to ensure that the factories are safe. It is also the government's responsibility, not Nike's, to provide education to children and the conditions to pursue it instead of working.
It is the government's job to legislate and provide universal healthcare/an adequate safety net. If you expect Uber to provide healthcare to its workers, many of whom don't want to be employees because that would reduce the flexibility of their work arrangement, then Uber will "hire" fewer people, raise prices, and increase average time-to-service. How is that a good thing?

Winners from classifying gig workers as employees:

- Full-time taxi drivers who happen to get a job from Uber

- Well-intentioned people who believe that society improves when there is an appearance of fairer labor treatment

Losers from classifying gig workers as employees:

- Full-time taxi drivers who don't get a job from Uber because labor laws force Uber to shrink

- Part-time taxi drivers who cannot work for Uber as full-time employees

- Part-time taxi drivers who can increase their hours but don't get a job from Uber because labor laws force the company to shrink

- Part-time taxi drivers who increase their hours and get a job but despise the new, inflexible work arrangement - and their kids, if they have kids

- Millions of Uber customers who get worse service for a higher price

- Prospective Uber customers who cannot afford the new service and make poorer transportation decisions (slower, less safe)

- Foregone business and consumer opportunities due to people not being where they want to be when they want to be there

- Gig businesses that never get started, gig economy innovation that never happens, and society at large

If the government provides a better safety net, then people will benefit from it no matter the job and no matter the particularities of their work arrangement (self-employed, part-time, full-time, single employer, multiple employers, unemployed...). I chose to study the California Dynamex gig worker case for a business law class and there's really no way around the terrible tradeoffs.
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Fluke's new ii900 industrial imager is already for sale and is used to locate compressed air leaks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wx9B_0n1co
But, wouldn't this need to be enforced by the government? How else are companies going to agree to stop outsourcing manufacturing to China? And if you agree that the correct solution involves government regulation, then what specifically about this plan doesn't accomplish your preferred outcome of "stop outsourcing manufacturing to China"? I may be naive but I also fail to see exactly how this plan is bad. Do you not feel the Chinese government is using technology to undermine the US, or that this isn't actually a legitimate and compelling issue of national defense?
Is 74% low? The 70-80% range feels about average, and decently acceptable for most projects.
This is why at my last job we had a rule that said prototypes could not be shipped as production software. It had to be either completely rewritten, or at least completely code reviewed and the "bad" parts rewritten.
The Mongols most certainly changed the borders of the countries they occupied. If that is the only criteria, then every conqueror is also a colonial power.

There also were plenty of examples of conquerors applying specific economic laws to the conquered. For example, Muslim conquerors would impose a tax on Christians and Jews in their empires (the Jizya). Does that make them colonial powers? So how is colonialism a specific institution?
....we had a chance to really fix our country with him. I don't know when another candidate of his honesty, consistency and moral caliber will appear again; if ever. My countrymen baffle me ...I really enjoyed phone banking.
Today was the day I discovered Zelle was same day deposits as I had just assumed like everything else before it, that there would be 2-3 day settlement. US Banks are comically bad at branding and user experience and the lack of cooperation between them all historically has left a pretty bad taste in the mouth, leading to my own ignorance displayed here.
The real problem IMO is that government in the US isn't able to keep up with how quickly the world is evolving.

The solutions thus far are obviously not optimal. The solutions being proposed also probably have issues yet to be discovered.

What really needs to happen is a fire needs to be lit under legislators' butts TBH. I think the end result is going to be a problem either way if we end up with something that (regardless of outcomes) won't be changed again for another decade.
You are correct. I've shared my personal experience above[1].
Coin will stay on top of the floating piece of ice even if 90% of water has melted.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24111666
I tried stuff like that. While it does remove the extra web request, the favicon that shows on the browser tab shows as the broken image/dog-eared page (at least in Chrome/Edge), not as a lack of a favicon (i.e. transparent image).
I'm glad we agree that development and opportunity are good things.

The average per capita income in China is lower than countries like Costa Rica or Venezuela. It's less than half of what a minimum wage worker gets in the US. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people still die in China due to preventable diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis. About half the children in the countryside are malnourished, to a degree that would not be conceivable for anybody in the US. This is the actual situation China is facing, and it's still dramatically better than many countries that were similarly poor decades ago.

In response to this, you and HN in general immediately react with fears of imminent Chinese world domination. Once again I ask you: why does the prospect of a few non-white people not starving to death make you so afraid? Why is this so alarming, so abnormal? I encourage you to spend at least a moment thinking about it.
IANAL either. But, there is a difference between taking a straight dollar amount (a fact) and description written that includes the fact.

If all Google did was display the dollar estimate that would be one thing. They go beyond that to include textual content pulled directly from sites.
I wonder if Apple/others knew about such vulnerabilities, and passed up on using the chip as a risk? Or, was it just dumb luck that they avoided this?
Let's not forget we have much work to do about communicating and respecting between different very-much-human groups on this planet.
Is there an image in the back of the postcard? Do you send this only inside USA or internationally? Did you already had problems with spam?
I doubt they were being serious about the title.
They offer a Crytek derived game engine called Lumberyard used for the long-running Star Citizen scam
As far as power surges go, I always put a ZeroSurge in front of my UPSes - they have saved the day more times than I can count.
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I’m not sure anyone deserves anything. If we flourish and provide for the less fortunate that is fantastic and I am all for that.

We can and do have laws and ethics about what is not permitted to do to people. That’s fantastic and I support that.

For children, I would say they aren’t yet potentially self sufficient, so as a society we should all share the responsibility that they have what they need to grow and develop healthily.

But no, I don’t ‘deserve’ the things you mentioned. I’m an adult human who needs to go try to manifest those things for myself. Including basics like food and water.
Appreciate your efforts, we have lots of work left to do as a nation. Don't give up, every election cycle the demographics shift even further [1] [2] due to younger cohorts aging into voting rights and older cohorts aging out.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...
Well that's not how the Internet works. Perhaps they can blacklist prefixes from being accepted by American ISPs, but as long as ISPs peer with any ISPs from outside of the country, those advertisements will be coming in.
Per use maybe but what about per byte?
That's more or less how an ultrashort pulse laser works already.

Different wavelengths (colors) take different paths so the high energy of the pulse is spread out for processing over different parts of the optical components.

The spreading is obvious in space. Less obvious is that this also spreads it in time, because each region of space gets a narrower frequency range than if the different wavelengths weren't taking different paths, and a narrower frequency range corresponds directly to a longer timescale for the pulse (see Fourier transforms).

Then the different wavelengths are focused back together to a small spot. This obviously focuses them in space.

Their path lengths are arranged carefully so they also arrive in just the right relative phase, and this causes the longer pulses at each narrower frequency to combine into a short pulse at a broad range of frequencies.

The careful attention to relative phase is literally focusing the pulse in time as well as space, to make an ultrashort pulse.

The current record for "most focused in time" pulse is 43 attoseconds, which is 43 nano-nanoseconds, 43 micro-micro-microseconds, and 43 milli-milli-milli-milli-milli-milliseconds. It uses this technique.
> So I don't see how you can draw the conclusion that
> Jeff Bezos can't be worth $100 billion unless they're
> mistreating their workers. Those things don't have to
> be connected.

But...they are connected.

Bezos is not just a large shareholder of AMZN, he's also it's CEO. He is responsible for every decision, ultimately, such as warehouse worker count and compensation. If they make less, he can put what he would have paid them into other product lines, thereby increasing AMZN stock price and his personal wealth.

Jeff Bezos could choose to pay his employees a living wage and treat them with dignity, but that may impact AMZN's bottom line or its share prices, so he doesn't.

> If you put $500k into Amazon at IPO you'd also be a
> billionaire right now, does that mean that Amazon is
> mistreating their employees because of you?

This is a stupid hypothetical. I wouldn't be the CEO, so the decision wouldn't be mine. And I'm assuming I somehow didn't buy a significant enough sum of stock to be able to influence shareholder votes.

Stop defending billionaires. They won't defend you.
Two GPT-3s having a debate on the stock market leads to shitting on humans
Russian anti-trust agency decides against Apple App Store
Isn’t the name “EPA” increasingly inaccurate?

Shouldn’t it now be called something like the Oil & Gas Promotion Agency (OGPA)?
Ask HN: All videos on Cloudflare Stream disappeared from dashboard
Yesterday, we checked the Cloudflare dashboard. After clicking on Stream, we're taken to a "new account setup" type page, asking us to pick a capacity, despite having thousands of minutes of uploads already.

Our videos seem to still be delivering, but all Stream related items have disappeared from Subscriptions/Billing including the usage charts.

Most of our uploads have come directly from users, so we don't have the master copies. We've started a script running to download a backup of all our uploads, but it still has several hours to go.

Our concern is the video/subscriptions have been deleted, but remain cached and at some point will stop delivering.

We're unable to get in touch with Cloudflare support. Trying to sign in to the support center leads to a redirect loop back to the login page, and email tickets are automatically closed as we can't send mail directly from the account email address (a group mailbox).

Is there anyone here who can connect us with support directly, or help look into this?

Please reach out via email to ben at infstream dot com
If you have connections to the real infosec world. They'd avoid it.
Free game engine, but not sure if it has significant users.
Yes. It is ridiculous how closely the language sounds to that of a dictatorial regime. The language is just so.. cringy. When I first read, I genuinely could not believe it was not onion or some weird caricature.
More profitable total. Took a lot more users to make the same profit as one sale on the app stores, but because it was free for the end user a lot more played it.

Something like a couple hundred paid on the stores, but over a hundred thousand played the underground version.
Is this something that the compiler normally handles or is it handled by the runtime environment upon executing a program?
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Can we apply evil/good terminology to corporations at all?

Btw, today on the HN front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105465

"There is no question that Google has a monopoly on online search. Any reasonable person knows this is a fact. The three vital questions I hope to help you answer today are:
1) whether Google has used its overwhelming market power as a monopoly to benefit itself while crushing competition, 2) whether these actions have had negative impacts on the
open internet as a public good and 3) whether these actions have created harm for everyday internet consumers. The answer to all three questions is an emphatic YES. "
Then you "just" don't use those services. It's not rocket science ...ok sometimes it literally is... but part of reliability engineering is knowing where your weak points are and preventing them from causing problems before it happens. Since the default state is building it yourself, not being able to buy an offline version of the service is no less reliable than the alternative.
I’m honestly perplexed that anyone can think that. The US has supported many more oppressive regimes than any liberation movements, and often toppled left leaning democracies to install their own capitalist puppets.
>For Twitch viewers. Surprise - nothing changes!

It had only good feature, the adless viewing but they removed that last year. But hey, you don't become the richest man on the planet without a reason

Edit: it was 2018, my bad https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...
That's true but most of the examples in this article don't play to the strength of lora (extremely long range) and seem to involve its weakness (speed)
>Nike provides a better job than than the next best alternative (often child prostitution)

So Nike is the next best to child prostitution, i get it :)

But you are right, the next big question is, should a company have the right to do stuff like that. Witch would be illegal in the country where they have the HQ.

Switzerland has a really interesting discussion about that ATM:

https://www.bj.admin.ch/bj/de/home/wirtschaft/gesetzgebung/k...

EDIT: Sorry no English version available to translate use:

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
To be honest they are forcing a "National Internet" in Iran, and the language in this document just reminded me of that. Huh.
still the only way to do requests with progress bars
Interesting solution! It shows at the "no favicon" image on the page tab (the dog-eared page icon) in the latest Chrome/Edge for me, not as a blank/clear icon. (I get that same result when I used GIFs that were invalid).
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Yeah I didn't understand how they planned to make it work long-term, but it was great while it lasted.
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My cheapo UPS certainly improved things for me when I lived in an apartment where the entire unit minus kitchen appliances was wired to a single 15A circuit. I tripped the breaker semi-regularly by forgetting to turn off the AC before using the vacuum cleaner or toaster oven or whatever.
>It’s very hard to understand why

As republican former secretary of the interior James Watt put it, “Why worry about the environment when the second coming is at hand?”
That's a fit of irony considering that many of the places with the most stringent regulations in this aspect are also places which have taken other actions ostensibly to help the environment. Reducing the energy demands of basic living seems to be more beneficial than nearly any other action that could be taken, such as banning plastic bags and straws.
The color of the Sun can be white, yellow or orange. Out in space, it will always be white. Down on Earth, Sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere. The short waves (blue) more so than the long waves [1]. The end result is that the sky looks blue and the Sun looks like the complement of the sky. At midday, the light from the Sun comes in the most direct way, so there is little scattering, and we perceive the sky as less blue and the Sun a very bright yellow. At sunset, the rays go through a much thicker layer of atmosphere, there's a lot of scattering going on, and you end up with a dark color of the sky (blue-purple) and an orange tending to red Sun.

Whoever says the color of the Sun is always white has no idea what they are talking about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
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Thanks!
Nice, works with my okular 1.9.3 too, after asking whether it should show forms. The PDF-X I have on windows asks also (I think they use the same engine, poppler?), but then shows a blue rectangle if I enable them. I'm pretty sure that was what my experience was generally when I looked at it the last time (2 years ago), so probably some updates in the engine which made it work now.
It is not a stupid idea when people work and are below the surviving threshold even if they have multiple jobs. Something's wrong but it's hard to see from your vantage point. And let me remind you that the lower one gets paid the harder and ass busting the work is.
Don’t post the desired results on here. Go make phone calls and help the campaign you care about.
No claim of “necessary” was made which needs refuting.
Jeff Bezos is a bad example for the point you're trying to make. He's worth that because he held (and built) an asset that increased massively in value over the past ~30 years. Not because his comp was too high.
Do they make these that have normal 5-15R plugs on them that don't need custom wiring?
I'm not sure I agree with turning off Find My iPhone. If it's turned off, you can't remote-erase your iPhone.
Reading this after a megastorm just blew through my town in iowa
Except you can't just score points. The federal reserve scores points and circulates them; they are finite and can in fact be hoarded. I can take 20 dollars from your wallet and you can't just shake your leg and print more.
That works until you get crawled by totally broken crawlers that interpret data: URIs as a relative URL. (It's happened to me.)
One of the annoying things I’ve seen with the Back-UPS range from APC is that they all seem to have an audible alarm when it’s running on battery that cannot be turned off. The UPS will beep periodically until you either turn the UPS off or until mains power returns. This is so annoying that you can find instructions and videos online on how to perform a surgery on the UPS to disconnect the buzzer from the rest of the circuitry.

Maybe APC really wants to drive users of its lower tier (and cheaper) UPSes mad with the beeps and force them to buy the more expensive Smart-UPS range that comes with a built-in option to turn off audible alarms.

Well, audible alarms do have a place in such systems to inform the person that the connected devices or systems are running on a limited battery capacity. But forcing that at all times is a big annoyance.
The article then goes on to completely miss the point of that statement.
This whole tax the billionaires is misguided and won't solve anything.

- US Population 2000: 280 Million
- US Population 2020: 320 Million
- +15% increase in population

- Tax revenues 2000: $2.03 trillion
- Tax revenues 2019: $3.50 trillion
- +75% increase in tax revenue

Population grew 15% and tax revenue grew 75% and yet we still can't solve any of the real problems we had since 2000. So what is increasing taxes going to do if we already collect 75% more and can't make a dent.

Now let's say you tax the billionaires:
- Jeff - $200B
- Larry & Sergey - $130B
- Bill Gates - $120B
- Zuck - $100B
- Warren Buffet - $80B
- Larry Ellison - 71B
- Elon Musk - $70B
That's $770 Billion - let's say we double this for the remainder of billionaires to $1.5 trillion and add in a 70% tax.

$1.5 trillion in wealth = $1.05 trillion in year 1

Now what about the following year? Well you reduced their wealth substantially so now you only have $500B and that would only yield $350B in tax revenue the following year.

$350B in tax revenue year 2.

And there after it basically trickles down to nothing.

So you end up with a total of $1.5 trillion and then nothing. Well that $1.5 trillion is 42% increase over what we have today, but remember that tax revenue already increased 75% and we still couldn't get anything right.

So while it may sound good to say tax the billionaires the reality is if we couldn't figure out how to spend the additional $1.5 trillion from taxes between 2000 and 2020 a one-time 2 year increase of $1.5 trillion won't do much because the underlying system is broken.
Many commenters are interpreting this as strictly a matter of copyright violation, and are asking the question of whether facts can be copyrighted. But that's too narrow a way of looking at this; there's also antitrust law. If Google scrapes everything interesting off of other sites and presents it as their own, even if it finds a way to do this that does not violate copyright, it's anti-competitive behavior that may violate antitrust law.

(I'm not addressing the European database protection rules which may also apply).
Maintenance and redundancy of HVDC transmission capacity is a more tractable problem than cost efficient storage & reprocessing of nuclear waste and nuclear generator decommissioning at end of service life. Basslink was mismanaged, and that's a tractable problem as well.

Could this project be late? Of course. "Nuclear generator late and over budget"? No.
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Step 1: Get 3 pigs.
Step 2: Number them 1, 2, and 4.
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I can only have my confidence in the U.S. voting public renewed or absolutely shattered this November.