skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did, but that particular accolade didn't seem relevant. :)
Why would increased operating costs mean they can't offer flexible hours to drivers?

Setting and maintaining a new schedule would ADD to operating costs (gotta pay someone to administer the calendar), so there has to be some other reason.

Is there some magical cost per-driver that nobody (even the Uber CEO) seems to be able to articulate? Stuff like withholding for W2s seems to scale really well. The only cost I can think of that doesn't scale basically linearly with hours worked is healthcare (only kicks in at 30hrs/week).

If anything, Uber and Lyft should be threatening to limit drivers to 30hrs/week. That's what I'd bet on actually happening.
I'm still not following why it'd require so much data? I thought the goal was to have the commit hash collide with an existing commit hash, is that not enough?

I looked around, and it seems like the right place to hide the added data is in the "trailer" section of the commit. It's where signed-off-by lives and is used to generate the commit hash.

You might want to come up with a plausible reason for random data to go in there though. (likely using a header that wouldn't normally get printed out)
This comment reads like person who has taken a special case (and even then one that only appears to contradict the "other side", even though it really doesn't)—something like having a 10-K in PDF format—and then constructs an entire (and entirely hypothetical) ideal out of it, just so they can relish in spiting the person they're responding to. It's a crummy way to have a discussion and a crummy interaction to force on other people in general.
You had the chance to do just that and ended up not making an effort. It seems far fetched to think anyone could become president without a sizable chunk of white voters in the US just based on the census demographic data.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
Theory of Everything Controversies with L Smolin, S Hossenfelder and E Weinstein
Lots of water. No Cant to remember.
The article, of course, completely misses the stereotypes of people in the Peninsula and South Bay.

I suspect it's because the author is a 20something who doesn't go anywhere the BART won't take him.
It's interesting how often Silicon Valley companies blitzscale an unsustainable business model and then leave public investors holding the bag. In the Uber and Lyft case, the time bomb was the regulatory issue. Which investors should have known about, given that these companies have been breaking the law since day 1. Tesla with their full self driving is also an example of this dump the risks on the bag holders pattern.
> Set your Slack retention ridiculously low to force people to put information in documentation if they wish it to be retained at all.

I worked at a company that tried something similar.

The result was that individual teams set up their own off-the-record private Slack workspaces or Discords so they could regain some control over their conversation history. Obviously not great from a company information security perspective, but many managers looked the other way because they just wanted to get their work done without worrying about conversation history arbitrarily disappearing.

The idea that you can force people to produce better documentation by making their lives more difficult never really works out.
Covid is new, but infectious disease isn't and pandemics aren't. Covid models are just epidemiology models with a given set of covid specific input parameters.

If a climate model doesn't work with a certain set of unpredictable input parameters, that means the model is either broken or irrelevant.

Same for these covid models. Don't confuse the data for the algorithm.
Curse of Knowledge
I am interested, but we run Android
Iirc (top of my head), some datacenters go off the grid regularly at peak (provider) load times and get more favorable rates for doing it. I guess it ensures your fuel doesn't go stale and all your transfer systems work.
Abusing the word 'offensive' by applying it to expressions you happen to disagree with is a significant part of the problem. While you might not agree with the comparison to Kristallnacht that does not mean he caused you to be upset or hurt your feelings - which is the dictionary definition of the non-military meaning of the word offensive. He just said something you don't agree with, something which is bound to happen in a free society where free speech is the norm.

The way the word offensive is used here is offensive in the military way since it is meant as an attack which is supposed to silence the person who spoke those words.

Free speech should be defended not for those people you agree with but for those you disagree with.
Because it’s hard to detect life on other planets. It’s easier if we know what we’re looking for. We know where we came from, so it’s easier to detect.
> One of the benefits of using text is you get a huge number of tools that work with it, without the things that are par for the course these days like vendor lock-in.

That’s true, but you can store code in flat text files even if you don’t represent or manipulate it as plain text.
Somewhat related I saw it’s going to take NASA’s new Perseverance rover about 7 months to get to Mars and it’s traveling at something like 25,000 MPH. Since NASA had to take the planetary orbits and launch timing, etc. into account I’m assuming that’s the fastest ideal velocity for the rover but not necessarily the fastest possible.

So I guess my question is, given that Ceres is so much further away than Mars, what’s the constraining factor for faster space travel? Safety? Fuel? Hardware? Technology? If Elon was going to spend every penny he has to get to Ceres as fast as possible, how would his billions best be spent?
Yup, it's definitely Uber and their billion dollar investors that need the government assistance here, and not their below minimum wage workforce.
There is a strong consensus among economic historians that slavery didn't move the needle that much. Cotton production was perhaps 5% of GDP. The slave stock constituted perhaps 15% of national wealth.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.eeh.2017.12.002
Would it though? How do you get to that conclusion? My understanding is that many drivers for those companies do it as supplemental income because their regular jobs seem to be unable to cover their living expenses. But doesn't that then lead to additional economic pressure for everyone else because i.e. now there's more renters willing to pay inflated prices, so more people get economically desperate and need to get supplemental income?
Which of those IDs is available for free? I just checked the state website and they charge for drivers licenses and state IDs and all the federal IDs require money.

They at least offer the alternate forms of ID, but those still eliminate people. A homeless person is probably not going to have any of those documents on hand, but they have every right to vote. There is also the inherent problem of singling out people without ID for further scrutiny. This added "security" has notoriously been used as a method to suppress the vote over the course of US history. The simple act of requiring someone to state on a government form they can't "reasonably" obtain an ID is going to scare some people off from voting. What is "reasonable"? Am I going to be charged with voter fraud if I simply didn't want to spend the money on an ID? Will I end up in jail for voting? There is a chilling effect here.
> whales across the universe

and bowls of petunias
It's definitely going on the list :)
> many people work more than one job. IANAL, but I don't think your employer can forbid you from working more than one job.

Sure. But employers can prevent you from working for someone else at the same time as you are working for them.

So if you wanted to do a 6 hour shift for Uber and then after that do another 4 hours for Lyft. That would almost certainly be legal.

But the common practice today is to run both apps at the same time and pick up clients on both networks as requests come in. This is what people are talking about, and will almost certainly be banned.
>bucketloads of money

Uber has yet to make a profit. Some shareholders have made profits by selling stock, but the business is losing money hand over fist.
> We have high res monitors with incredible graphical capabilities but we still mostly just represent code as flat text files

I think the key issue here is that flat text files remain an universal standard, easily handled with commodity tools and editors, often bundled with the OS itself.

Once in a while someone wants to revolutionize code representation (like Light Table, which you mentioned). "What if we represented code as a... flowchart, a graph of nodes, a city, a pie chart, a mind map, $YOUR_NOVEL_IDEA_HERE? Wouldn't that be great and take advantage of current hardware to the fullest?"

It turns out it's really hard to beat good old flat text at convenience and interoperability with standard tools.
Tim Cook was a masterful operations guy with an MBA™ in the early 2000s. Rather than compete for manufacturing with the big, established, and expensive manufacturers in places like Japan, he partnered with little nobody Chinese manufacturers like Hon Hai (now FoxConn) to make Apple products like the iMac and iPod. Brilliant!

Like all masterful operations guys with an MBA™, he either forgot or ignored an ancient adage. In his case it was, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket...and don’t put all your baskets in one boat.” At no point did he or anyone at Apple question the narrative that China could merrily support their supply chain without any hiccup into eternity.

Apple reaped the rewards for 20 years, and now the lack of meaningful hedge could undo all of it...with one Tweet or two.
Thanks for noting the detachment. I also saw your reply acknowledging the summary of the possible reasons.

Not to argue or draw you out necessarily, but just want to share some thoughts.

We (society, human civilization) have incurred a lot of damage over the decades from anti-science motivations. If we can't call this out on HN, I don't know where we can call it out. Also it feels right to me that names should be named. Names of political parties, names of religions, etc.

I do understand the need to keep things, especially when flame wars are likely, from drifting off into divisive and toxic discussions, in order to keep this a healthy discussion. Maybe leaving out the naming of names is the cost to do this.

Somehow, these forces need to be called out.

Maybe this is not the place. That answer seems too facile, though.

Or maybe there are better ways. Instead of mentioning, focusing on, and calling out the negative, I have noticed some people simply highlight the positive alternative view, never acknowledging the (imho) toxic one. This is an interesting approach but I question how far it has gotten us, given… look around at the world today, to get my point.

Again my intent is not to argue with you about this, but just to share thoughts. I am questioning myself, whether I should become one of those people who always just ignores the bad, and only talks about the positive other options. I also realize there are better and worse ways to inject opinions into a discussion.

I think I'm not alone in struggling with this. Feedback welcome but not expected. Thanks.
I like this too (and use a version myself) however this form only supports one argument at a time. E.g. add(1,2) is going to return the curry of add(1), which is not what you want. The OP's function doesn't have that problem.

Something I would really like, although this would require some language-level changes, I think, is the ability to curry arguments in any order, maybe using placeholders. So you could say add(_, 2) and get back a function of one argument, such that if you call it with 1, for example, you invoke add(1, 2).
Just read in the news this morning that the intelligence community acknowledges China has a steak in Biden being put in the Oval Office and Russia has a steak in Trump staying put. Interesting that Russia's name was not in this piece anywhere...
The solution there is for somebody to contribute a translation, even if they can't contribute a list of sources. TheTechTree.md is comparatively new compared to the other files, as can be seen from the history: https://github.com/github/archive-program/commits/master/The...

Context like this matters.
You are free to fire a contractor for any reason, but if you consistently fire contractors for doing things that you would prefer that they not do but which you cannot mandate they not do because they are not employees, then you undermine the claim that they are in fact contractors.
"`grep -a 'Bob 1:1'` Hm, not as much as I expected. Maybe spaces? `grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1'` there's a few, maybe any number of spaces? `grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1'` Oh I could have spelled it out `grep -a 'Bob one on one'` Or it could be in a different order `grep -a '1:1 with Bob'` ...

diff --git a/2020-08-09.md b/2020-08-09.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c599ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2020-08-09.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+* Set up one on one again with bob on 2020-08-24 13:00. I thought I set one up
+ with him for next week already but I can't seem to find it.
+* I figured out some searches I can do to find one on ones:
+
+ grep -a 'Bob 1:1'
+ grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1"
+ grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1'
+ grep -a 'Bob one on one'
+ grep -a '1:1 with Bob'
What you seem to be advocating for is a service something like Fiverr, where drivers set their own prices and Uber/Lyft takes a 20% cut off the top.
Give it a couple of months.
> I'm not arguing that CP should be legal

It is questionable whether possession should be illegal. It incentivizes people to cover up crimes as they themselves may be held complicit otherwise. It incentivizes law enforcement to disrupt support / prevention efforts as anything someone could say could be taken in evidence.

This won't be a popular notion, admittedly. But it is an important elephant to address.
I think this is a good description of the state of the US presidential campaigning currently:

"... sales agents who are better informed about their products may, in fact, be at a disadvantage against other, less-informed agents when selling their products. The reason is said to be that better-informed agents fail to ignore the privileged knowledge that they possess and are thus "cursed" and unable to sell their products at a value that more naïve agents would deem acceptable"
Lots of fond memories playing a modded copy of the original on PC (Custom Edition). It was my first experience seeing how a game's legacy could be totally transformed by a modding scene (looking at you, Elder Scrolls). I really hope they continue to invest in more community-driven content (playlists, forge, etc.)

Halo: Guardians got its forge ported to PC and there was a small community who did custom games on there. I really enjoyed for a while. I'm a pretty casual gamer these days so when I occasionally get in the mood to go play the more traditional modes, I get wiped.
Agreed, but surely the More Evil Government could just buy a marketing database - or have NSA download it - and know everything down to what size underpants people wear and which specific businesses and organisations they support.

Facebook - without checking the specific details - can probably tell the locality and religious position of most of their users; certainly enough to direct the Neue Gestapo to arrest you. But they also have raw address and religion details, which makes it somewhat easier.
There is no stick; they already have to do that. If the drivers don’t like the rates and think they earn too little, they quit. Uber has to ensure that drivers make attractive rates if it wants retain them. And indeed, it offers lots of bonus pay, special deals etc precisely for that reason.

> Drivers then could, over their local "$city Uber drivers" FB/WhatsApp group, agree to not take any ride below $X,

This is, of course, illegal.
Software Engineering Life Pro Tip:

s/for now/forever
> A driver literally has to constantly make decisions whether to take the next Uber call or Lyft call.

Under an employee model, they would do this while on the clock of a particular company (and being paid by it). Sure, Uber could choose to employ a driver for 16 hours a day, but they'd have to pay for that time.
I was thinking it might be fun to have a cap or a shirt from this... then I saw the prices. $500 for a ball cap?

I'm wondering if anyone is actually going to pay for this stuff or if it's just a bunch of K-Pop fans driving up prices only to abandon them.
Alameda (East Bay) went 78.7% to Clinton plus another 6.6% to third parties

Santa Clara (South Bay) went 72.2% to Clinton plus another 7.2% to third parties

San Francisco went 85.0% to Clinton, with another 5.7% to third parties

So yeah, painting a picture of three people of different economic backgrounds, it would not be illustrative to make even one of them a supporter of the current regime.

Source: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-pre...
Maybe as introduction, sure. But IMO Python does not encourage exploratory reasoning about how programs work.

For example, the question "how does `x.y()` get evaluated?" has a very complex answer. `x += y` is even more complex.
The whole show is great, but there’s an interesting back and forth between Sabina and Eric starting at
https://youtu.be/CJx3gLkebIA?t=1h02m08s with some new explanations of Geometric Unity.
Of course! Not sure why I had such a brain fart thinking about that. Thanks!
> Dwarf planet, believed to be a barren space rock, has an ‘extensive reservoir’ of brine beneath its surface, images show

Believed by who? We already knew it was made substantially of ice. Isn't this just discovering that some of it is liquid?

Wikipedia quotes a PDF from 2017 regarding the quantity of ice, and by then the fact of Ceres having so much ice had already been worked into the story line of The Expanse.
All languages, both human and programming, have vestigial nonsense like this. All of them. It isn't possible for languages which are used to not have them, I would say.
In NL, you are required to have an ID to be in the public space. Although there is no requirement to carry, there is a requirement to show under certain circumstances ( for non Dutchies, this is classical Dutch consensus, the Poldermodel ).

Also, if I am not mistaken, is an ID not mandatory when using public transport?

I lived without an ID for quite some time.
Random thought after reading:

I wish macOS / iOS / iPadOS would have a version without tons of new features.
Instant Gramification
Sure, just don’t make the waiver some joke that requires as many hoops to jump through as possible to discourage voters. Voter fraud isn’t as significant an issue as electioneering but if an ID makes one side of the fence happy I’ll support it so long as it remains free and universally available.
Embracing Chaos – 5 Ways to Overcome Fear and Achieve Your Potential.(2020)
It looks like you're correct; the IRS doesn't seem to distinguish based on pay.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
The good analogy would be Patreon forcing you to follow specific schedule / backer numbers / revenue figures / working model.
More Microsoft Suck
Isn't the other time bomb that they aren't profitable?
> Yes, and when a robotaxi crashes and kills people they’ll just write it off as a business expense.

Ok?

We already do that when human driven taxis do that, so I don't see the problem.
Big name libraries and frameworks like React and Angular manage things relatively well and in a similar way to other frameworks in other languages (you could argue about AngularJS -> Angular but if you worked with both frameworks you know that AngularJS was a dead end approach designed for a completely different stack and it just didn't make sense to maintain backwards compatibility or maintaining that dumpster of a code base past it's EOL).

A problem in React ecosystem is that it's a rendering library not really a webapp framework so you need to use community provided libraries to fill in the gaps. Those libraries are often maintained by an individual so it's unreasonable to expect corporate SDK approach to development, but unfortunately it leads to a lot of abandonware and rewrites, especially since JS is not very maintainable and it's often easier to rewrite something than to pick up someone else's code.
At least until cancel culture demands a rename.
Could you share links to your games? Did you try to sell some of them to the retro community and if so could you share some sales statistics?
Also the reverse problem: The current resident gets the ballot and tries to vote with it.

That's part of the whole signature verification thing that isn't working well.

Officially the post office is supposed to do return to sender if the name doesn't match, but I suspect in apartments with frequent turnover they can't realistically do that.

Having the voter request the ballot gets rid of all of that trouble.
> This idea that uber / lyft drivers (both phones are always running) can work for BOTH companies at the same time seems ridiculous to me.

Yes, I agree, and I did not mean to imply that. What I meant is that a company has limited ability of restricting employee behavior during the time they are NOT paying them.
I said free and easy to acquire. It wouldn't be enough for states to waive the fees if there are still hoops to jump through to acquire it. Getting an ID in many states requires spending hours at a DMV office that is probably only open during business hours and might be in the next county over from you. Voting should be an easy and seamless process. It shouldn't require hours of administrative prep work beforehand.
Huawei data centre built to spy on Papua New Guinea
It would be nice to be able to style things with CSS in figma, not just export the CSS
`redux@^4` currently has two dependencies: `symbol-observable` for compat with observable libs, and `loose-envify` for compat with Browserify. I plan on removing both of those when we release Redux v5.

Our official Redux Toolkit package [0], which is now our recommended approach for writing Redux logic, _does_ have a few more deps: Immer, Reselect, Redux-Thunk, and the Redux core. But, those are all things you probably would have had in your app anyway.

If you're not familiar with Redux Toolkit, it includes utilities to simplify several common Redux use cases, including store setup, defining reducers, immutable update logic, and even creating entire "slices" of state at once.

I just published a brand-new "Redux Essentials" core docs tutorial [1], which teaches beginners "how to use Redux, the right way", using our latest recommended tools and practices. I'd encourage folks to check it out.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...
Assuming that Google or Facebook or Github has implemented a library correctly, and that it will remain available as long as you want your app to function is dangerous.
> You are utterly certain that you are not racist, even though your friend circle is exclusively white, Asian or hapa.

I love how asians are the new whites. For all its worship of success, Americans hate success like no other.