skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m from Italy and though I was abroad when the pandemic hit and the lockdown was declared, I’m pretty proud of the European response in general. The rolling crisis and half-measures that please nobody and solve nothing that we see going on in the United States is just a recipe for never-ending crisis and constant death-count.
Helping people spot the spoofs: a URL experiment
I was wondering about this too. Most Uber/Lyft drivers in my area drive for both services but it seems like they could prevent people from doing that as part of a formal employment contract (I'm guessing IANAL).
If you want to take this analogy further, if that kid has the opportunity to do something else for more money and keeps declining to cut my grass for $10 I'll ban her from cutting it and find someone else.

There's also no negotiating with me. It's $10, take it or leave it! (If they leave it, like they don't accept the fare, then so be it my grass doesn't get cut and Uber doesn't make money).

> More broadly, you can't compare 1 person trying to contract with 1 other person with 1 multi-billion dollar company contracting with 10s of thousands of people.

Why? The foundational principles seem to be the same to me here.

I think too many people want Uber to be this company that meets these certain expectations and they want that because the government has failed them and so they've turned to corporations to save people via jobs and paid benefits because they want the illusion that someone is paying their fair share. Instead you need to change the laws in your state/country/area to represent your values. If people don't have healthcare, pay money and give them healthcare. Making Uber do it simply isn't going to work here. Especially for them in particular.

To me there is no fundamental difference between me picking up an app and then getting $10 to go pick someone up and someone coming to mow my grass for $10, or someone paying me $20 to move a couch for them. I'm doing some work for some money. That's it. There's nothing more to it.
Python's Itertools [video]
I tried to increase my typing speed and accuracy numerous times but it remained a disaster nevertheless. The biggest improvement was when I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout. For anyone struggling with typing fast and accurately I suggest you give it a try. The first few weeks will be tough but once you get "it", you will never go back.
Those other businesses have an opportunity for profits though. If you build a nice car, you can sell them at a premium price and the big automakers aren't going to compete until your unit numbers are big. If you make autonomous cars, that could certainly make money, and you get R&D tax incentives in the meantime. If you make cheaper space transport, the competition is still locked into their high cost systems.

If you wire up a rural area, there's not a lot of customers and probably they won't be willing to pay premium prices. If you overbuild an existing area, you usually have to compete with the incumbent telco and cableco and both of them can use other areas to subsidize network upgrades and price drops, so you can't charge a premium price.
I agree with you, I haven't found an alternative that is less bad. But that doesn't mean that I like SQL. It is so inconsistent and uncomposible, with too many awkward ways to do different things.

I love the idea of a functional algebra for querying a database, and while SQL is acceptable, it is far from great in my opinion.
There was a talk at CCC late last year where they talked about their std cell library [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jA7BHuAo9u0]
Logistics.

Lots of research papers I noticed from Chinese universities about a decade ago on how to best package given dimensions and with constraints like what material cannot be packaged alongside what, into containers of given sizes.
Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately, the apartment complex has an exclusivity agreement with CenturyLink. Cox and others have expressed willingness to pull cable into my unit, but the management company just won't allow it. It's driving me insane. It's unfortunate that this type of practice is even allowed/legal.
Oh, I didnt even realize it wasnt 4. 4 is on par with 2005 Athlon 64 X2, 3 will be ~half that, somewhere around 2003 Athlon 64.
Going from this post to your previous post:

> That would be identity politics 2.0 and the end of nation states

Still seems like a massive leap in rhetoric. The truth is that this sort of compensation already exists in the united states. For example: eminent domain, which requires a just compensation for government acquisition of private land. Another example, many cities require some form of compensation from a real estate developer to the surrounding community in exchange for a permit to undergo a big construction; for example, funding a public park or some such.

Neither of these examples seem like "identity politics 2.0" much less the end of nation states. You can argue it's ineffective public policy, but again its a massive leap in rhetoric you took with your earlier post.
> Can someone with legal expertise chime in but in cases like this, can a company like Uber lay out a plan for restructuring and be like "ok we'll comply but over the course of a year and here's the plan"?

No, except perhaps as a settlement offer, but because the law gives specific rights to workers which State executive officials don't have the authority to bargain away, I don't know that would be effective except against any fines, etc, that might be due to the State; individual workers would still have claims until they complied.

> Or does it have to be done ASAP?

It has to be done from the effective date of the legal requirement to avoid legal penalties; for the preliminary injunction, it has to be done on whatever timeline (which may be immediately) is specified in the injunction once any stay on the injunction ends (this one was stayed for 10 days during which Uber is attempting to appeal to have it lifted) to avoid contempt penalties for defying the injunction.

> The latter seems sort of infeasible.

Yes, it's risky to have a business plan that depends on breaking the law.
That’s silly.

They are literally forbidden by the court to operate as they have been. They need to make their drivers into employees.

You think they can do that overnight?

And why do you think it’s economically feasible to do so even if they could do it? Do you think users have an appetite to pay 2X or more per ride?

It’s possible the regulatory burden makes this an infeasible business. That’s certainly the case with a lot of other economic activity such as private city buses, affordable daycare, etc.
Those are negotiations between semi-equals still. If you had to join Nvidia's developer program, or use a commercial game engine, or take part in some other lopsided professional partnership, your negotiotaion potential is basically limited to complaining to their support in an email.
Oh, man. No. The lightning thing was 100% meant as a joke, and that I made a comment your posted to yesterday is 10000% coincidence. I don't even look at usernames on here.

Your post on that didn't really have anything to do with what I was saying originally, wasn't really negative to elicit a response, and genuinely didn't even register on my radar until you linked to it just here.

Relax.

What a weird coincidence.
Feynman diagrams were criticised at the time. Dyson showed they were equivalent to Schwinger's methods, then people gradually realized they were physical as well as helpful.
> But then there is a LOT more C/C++ software as well, so it makes sense that when you have a lot more code you'll also have a lot more bugs.

70% of C/C++ security bugs are memory management bugs. Those don't (for the most part) exist in GC'd or other non-manually managed memory languages.

> Why isn't that similarly well written software being used instead of the C/C++ software when the latter ends up with more bugs?

Performance and low level control. Familiarity. etc.
Denser bits of the air, like insects, will have a much harder time abruptly changing direction so vehicles with worse aerodynamics tend to pick up insects for the same reasons that water trap style air filters work.

While windshield angles haven't changed much over the years car front ends tend to get much more aerodynamic treatment than even 20yr ago.
> "We are still completely ignorant about the long-term effects."

news media likes to harp on this now that the initial novelty has worn off, with stories about extreme cases of serious complications to keep the fear train going and the ad bucks rolling in.

but bodies are complex. every ailment has a long tail of odd residuals. in fact, just living has a long tail of odd residuals. there's little evidence so far that this ailment has any special long-term effect.
Storybook has been great working on an incrementally enhanced Vue app. The standard app doesn't really work with HMR and is a PITA when it comes to feedback loop.

Building out components in Storybook with all but the final page integration into the main app has been a great workflow thus far. Some custom API recording/playback utils have even made it a snap to work on larger "connected" components within Storybook. Even just being able to manually verify a bunch of different states after making a refactor by flipping through the component stories is a huge win over doing that in-app.

What was no so great with 5.x is getting it to build like a @vue/cli stock build with sass and full sourcemap support. This took quite a bit of Webpack knowledge of which I already had a fair bit but now have far more. Still the source lines are wrong in error messages for Vue compoments(at least with TypeScript) and I haven't looked too far into why yet.

I know they have put work into making Storybook 6.0 setup for Vue closer to the ecosystem defacto defaults, but I'm not super looking forward to upgrading and having to sort out any issues haha.
Who knows? They had decided long ago that genuine tech support is not in their business model, and that's the end of things.
Nothing much to see yet. It’s a closed beta that requires you to sign up by filling a Google Form.
Which could have adverse results in that most every utility has metered rates. far too many assume utility means high speed and limit free connectivity where it really means you are just guaranteed access
You are right, but then you should suggest what you believe we should be doing.

on individual level the best actuon I can think of is donating to help folks that lost and eye or were beaten withing an inch of their life.

Otherwise i am not sure what you could do, perhaps we could send equipment like radios, first aid and body protection / armor? Depending on your views you coupd even post crossbows. Would they arrive through customs, assuming you know who to post them to?

Lastly, you could travel there to join the protests, but realisticaly are you going to do that?
It’s not akin to that at all, because child labor laws concern minors and this law concerns adults.

Unless your argument is that there’s nothing an adult should be able to do that a child shouldn’t be able to do?
https://slatestarcodex.com/Stuff/genius.pdf -- not that I've read it myself. There's a book review somewhere on the same site.
No, I don't, I pay income tax on my RSUs when they vest. And then I pay cap gains taxes I sell.
> Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America?

I can easily imagine that all of those could require an Internet connection.
Could be something as simple as getting information crucial for your job exclusively via electronic communication.
My gut feel is that statistic seems high. Maybe there was a sampling error (selection bias?) where they sent a survey via email or asked people to Zoom?
Sounds like democracy to me. There's more than one way of voting, and often times laws are made without really much public consent or awareness.
China’s Days as World’s Factory Are Over, iPhone Maker Says
Some resources, if you want to make a bee hotel.

https://www.foxleas.com/make-a-bee-hotel.asp

https://entomologistlounge.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/insect-h...

In French, but has some good designs:

1. https://www.abeillessauvages.com/nichoirs-a-abeilles/chalet-...

2. https://www.abeillessauvages.com/nichoirs-a-abeilles/dortoir...
It's incredibly popular in the ecommerce world where every 1kb reduced is a lot. Target large ones - they often use Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Hybris, BigCommerce, Magento.

Also any business with embeddable products and SDKs. No one is happy to make their page heavier with a script they don't own. Fintech comes to mind. Analytics companies too.

Anything with complex dashboards. Anything tailored to power users - CRMs, help desk software.

Figure out your pitch too - your job may save server costs (and increase development costs but maybe don't mention that), optimize response time of employees, increase productivity, or retain shoppers.
The idea of it appeals to me. Phone size and weight, and thus portability, yet I can quickly and easily switch to viewing and working with the same details on a larger screen when that'd be useful. That can't be as effectively achieved with two separate devices.
I think the more correct answer to "Why Are Currently No Ads on Techdirt?" is "Because we put all of our eggs in one basket."

Don't build a single point of failure into your revenue stream.

There are plenty of alternatives to Google that they should have been using in a smaller way that they could then move into prime position. That way, Techdirt's revenue might have been diminished, but not eliminated.
The ACA has always hovered around 50% favorability and 40% unfavorability nationally, so "extremely unpopular" isn't accurate. Additionally, support among voters for Medicare for all is about 70%.

The Tea Party predates the ACA and was more a general anti-Obama movement than specifically motivated by one policy.
A single-payer system isn't a state healthcare system.

It's a public-private healthcare system in which a single entity pays all healthcare providers for health services rendered.

Individual providers would still be free to negotiate their own rates with the single-payer entity.

Individual providers would still be free to provide concierge medical services or other non-covered medical services (for example, most plastic surgery).

Individual providers would still be free to distinguish themselves on the basis of patient service.

And with all due respect, the problem with the post office is that the GOP requires it to pay for decades of upfront expenses now rather than when those expenses are incurred, unlike a private business, and the GOP won't actually let the post office operate anything like a private business. If the post office could operate like a private company it would shut down every rural post office in America, since those are just money drains that detract from the profitable urban and suburban facilities. If the post office could operate like a government agency again (like it did before Reagan), it would run as smooth as butter.
Because it might be better for all stakeholders, employer, employees and customers?
If you have bad posture working at a computer, that's something you have to fix on its own. How you type has nothing to do with it.
> tax funded public housing developments have been shrinking almost everywhere

This is the main reason for the housing crisis. Toronto has one of the lowest property tax rates in Canada; by bringing it closer to that of other cities we could fund a lot of public housing.

Some people want to live in luxury apartments. Many people just want to live indoors. Building more luxury condos for speculators to keep empty as investments doesn't really help make the city affordable to live in.
You mean Ctrl+[. I use this sometimes too. You can also use Ctrl+j for enter (in the shell too).

Life changing for me was binding my control key (which is, rightfully, in the typical caps lock position) to register as escape when pressed briefly. When held down beyond a certain threshold, it acts as control. This makes for a very handy escape key but combinations with control still work without issue. There are multiple ways to accomplish this, but I use xcape (for X on Linux).
Rust has the good sense to keep all its Undefined Behavior behind unsafe blocks.
On the Basic tier, I presume you have to pay for those read-only replicas? Can they be used for automatic failover, or only for scaling reads?

I don't know what VM SKUs you use on Azure, but at a glance it looks like your solution would cost 300-400% the cost of the VM, just for your Basic tier.

As a fan of TimescaleDB, I really want to like this, but I'm just not seeing enough value-add for the price. Maybe I'm missing something, please sell me on the benefits over managing VMs myself?
A metaphor, if I may: think by analogy to the other famously exponential process, nuclear fission. When neutron flux gets too frisky, you have to throttle the reaction or face a catastrophe. You don’t need to disassemble the reactor to shut it down, it suffices to slam in the control rods and mop up those neutrons so they don’t trigger further fissions. Social Distancing is the “explosive dissassembly” of epidemiology: if the nuclei get too far apart (because the reactor has detonated) the reaction ceases because most neutrons “go wide” and don’t hit another nucleus. We’ve had to rely on the latter because as of yet we don’t have suitably effective control rods to scram the core. Lockdown is all about keeping the fuel elements sufficiently far apart so that the reaction goes sub-critical and eventually peters out (or reaches some background level).

(“Argument by analogy is very powerful and entirely fallacious”, so make of my words what you may.)
There's a great book called the Procrastination Equation that addresses this, and offers a different equation than Fogg.

Motivation = (Expectancy + Value) / (Impulsiveness + Delay)

It's useful to know what each of those terms means.

Your motivation is for a specific task or goal.

Expectancy is your confidence that you can complete a task or reach the goal.

Value is the importance you assign to the goal.

Impulsiveness is how distractable you are, or your susceptibility to other interesting things that you might do instead of working toward the goal (like writing comments on HN! ;).

Delay is the amount of time you have until the task should be completed.

The more distractable you are, and the more time until you hit your deadline, the less motivation you have.

The more confidence you have in your ability to complete the task, and the more importance you assign to it (eg this is life or death), the more motivated you are.

Cedric Chin has a nice overview here:

https://commoncog.com/blog/a-user-review-of-the-procrastinat...
>IMHO I think giving the government a role is a really bad idea.

You've described why the government shouldn't be the entity making sole architectural decisions - you haven't explained why the government shouldn't own and fund the last-mile fiber.

My county "owns" all the roads around me - city employees aren't building the roads and more often than not aren't the ones architecting them either (slope, water mitigation, etc). They do maintain them after they're in place (plowing the roads/mowing the ditches).

Why would fiber need to be any different? I don't think anyone expects city employees to actually trench the fiber, that would all be outsourced. If they're a large enough entity they could very easily train and hire some fiber splicers to fix cut lines.
The biggest factor encouraging Californians to move out of state is high cost of housing, not the higher taxes.

For example on a household income of $100,000 with members married filing jointly, California effective state income tax rate is about 3%, or in this case $3,000.

Moving to a zero state income tax state like Washington or Texas will only save you that much in state taxes but will probably save you a huge amount more in lower housing costs - for a common single-family home perhaps on the order of 20 to $30,000 a year.

If you want to place blame anywhere, place it on restrictive zoning laws that limit the construction of new housing, and on proposition 13 which has disincentivized the building of residential real estate in favor of commercial, and allowed untold numbers of properties to multiply and value over the decades without paying anything near an equivalent increase in property taxes.
First : except a YouTube account that I use to manage my videos playlists I don't use social medias at all. I still see what's going there and I find it appalling.

Second : you don't know me. So don't assume who I am and why I lament the loss of freedom on the web.

Lastly there are plenty of reasonable topics that are censored : you can't even emit any doubt about the COVID "religion" for crying out loud.
You don't need to give the government a monopoly on the last mile, you just need to allow them to compete on it.

As a Swede living in Japan, that system has worked well in both countries. In Japan you have the former telco monopoly NTT with its national flets network and competition in the private au, Sony NURO and various local networks. In Sweden you have many local municipality-owned companies as well as national competition fighting over customers.

It seems like Americans are always see options as black and white. The same thinking is reflected in your politics
The unemployment benefits go away faster than the jobs come back. And in the meantime the States go bankrupt and Federal debt balloons on the order of $10 trillion.

A wonder if a lot of people argue for lockdowns not just because they think it might be a worthy socioeconomic trade-off, but because they actually enjoy life better that way and aren’t personally being devastated by it. Similarly, people against lockdown could have just not been personally effected by COVID, or know anyone who has been.

Humans are particularly bad at balancing very large impact events (we tend to underestimate the big stuff and overestimate the small). I think it still very much remains to be seen which was the lesser evil — COVID or the response thereto.
The law was written to target Uber, because Uber was in compliance with the existing laws. The narrative that Uber was always violating the law is false -- if that was true, a new law would not have been needed.

The state wasn't able to get the result it wanted in cases against Uber, so it changed the rules. I don't see how a company can be expected to be in compliance when the state is determined to pass laws that make its business model illegal.
> Not to mention the lost writes (missing data points) which have no logged explanation.

FWIW I've had similar issues with MySQL backed Zabbix before.
Plenty of people would do that for the promise of a better quality of life for their family.
> That is, if you talk to successful founders, they will generally wish they raised less money (due to dilution).

Yes, there is a bit of a self-selecting bias involved here, but the thesis of _WHY_ you should take less valuation is (in the linked article) not based at all on the notion that you then end up with a large piece of the success pie.

It's based on: Hey, take what you need to prove that you have a good product, and don't take more, because taking more just means you'll be chasing a failure for that much longer.

The central tenet of "stop worrying about runway so much, you want as much runway as you need to prove your product and any more runway is just wasting everybody's time. Runway is a tool; not a goal." sounds rather compelling to me, at any rate.
>There’s also access to a real-time tweet stream, rather than forcing third parties to wait before serving new tweets.

This is pretty cool. I really wasn't into the development world whenever their V1 came out but I never really understood why they were so willing to kill it off. Twitter is such an interesting beast but I am glad they are bringing it back with some cool features.