skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in semi-rural California. It would be a great place for SV tech to live - great schools, affordable (for CA) houses, awesome nature access, and you could drive to the Bay for a really important meeting. The problem is there are only pockets of cable internet and most places are lucky to get 2 bars of cellular. There is fiber running down the two major highways. The reasons why we are so disconnected are many and complicated, but the only real solution is that access should be driven top down as a public utility - just like power.

Oh, and while they are at it, I shouldn't have to worry about my internet utility stealing my data. They have a monopoly and so I am forced to accept whatever they put in my contract. If I could negotiate, I'd charge these leaches billions for my data...
A prior discussion had some solid evidence[1] that insect populations naturally fluctuate, and we tend to notice when they wane, holding it as harbingers, but dismiss it when they wax.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071745
> Feynman was married with two children and, having not secured the kind of research position she was looking for, she decided to take a break from physics to take on the role of homemaker.

> The break was short-lived, as Feynman grew depressed from the drudgery of keeping a home and caring for two small children: In 1962, at the advice of a therapist, she went in search of employment

Imagine how many great minds the world lost to societal rules about women staying home and not having careers. The number of mediocre men who went out into the world when they could have stayed at home while their wife worked is mind boggling and terrible to think about.
Oh no you are so persecuted. I am so sorry for you that you can’t post racism and gore on Facebook.
"Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity while others increased or were unchanged, yielding net abundance and biodiversity trends generally indistinguishable from zero. "

That's very interesting, and REALLY surprising. Even the citations listed there has this one:
"More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas."

Hoping to see the details on how they did things.
I like it. I’ve not applied it directly to a negotiation, but it helps me edge forward on sticky points. Turn an angry complaint (or more likely for me passive aggressive) into a powerful question to move on. Maybe that is negotiation! But not used it on a high stake thing yet.
For most of those functions a smart phone or a local library would suffice. I read "can't do our jobs" as being "literally cannot complete work or perform on-paid-time duties".
Cool! I hadn't heard of that site before, I'll have to give it a go.
Perform a Two-Sample T-Test with Python: 3 Different Methods
Yes! We're planning on releasing an open source bot sometime next 2 week. We have it working just need to integrate it with our platform. If you are curious of the details we're doing some fuzzy string matching with some neural networks.
I've heard the sonar ping from a submarine is so powerful that it will kill you if your a diver near the sonar dome.
I'm sure both Uber and Lyft have contingency plans to quickly hire drivers as employees. It is more they don't want to switch to the employee model and then back again if the Prop passes
Uber isn't special. If they can't exist without exploiting workers then they shouldn't exist. The void will get filled by something better.
Emmanuel Macron’s French language lessons
Even a plumber or electrician will spend the evening sending invoices by email, discussing future bookings, etc.
We have docs for it here: https://docs.xkit.co/docs/auth0-authentication

You can create a separate token specifically for Xkit or re-use an existing one.
If people are really serious about writing virtualization in Rust, they should just contribute to firecracker: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Can we talk about the upside of being a contractor? It takes more effort to keep tabs of what you do but there are many benefits to being a single person entity. I believe lack of education about being an LLC or incorporated entrepreneur or maybe the high bar of understanding its benefits contributed to the opinion that being W2 for Uber is much better.
Integrating with Dialogflow is definitely on our roadmap! We were thinking of starting off with a relatively simple bot that uses your FAQ to automatically answer common questions that come in, as long as the NLP model has a confidence score above a certain threshold. But certainly something like Dialogflow would give our users a greater ability to customize their bots, so we'd love to do that as well.
I have moved several symbols to an extra layer under the right alt (or "alt gr" as it is called in the Swedish layout), and that helped a lot. I can type parens without leaving the home row, which helps my scheme programming by about a billion percent.
They used to be really bad. Their quality has significantly increased over the past years. I will use w3schools for quick info, but MDN when I really want in-depth information.
rewrite in new language syndrome lol
Computational model could improve translating Drugs from Animals to Humans
My guess would be it's because "Americans Say" and what people SAY in answering these types of things isn't exactly the same as the reality of what they REALLY need.
We can hope, right? Right!!?
How does the logic work? There are many necessities you pay for that aren't a public utility. The necessity of a resource doesn't seem to dictate the government should take care of it. A government monopoly is most effective when the cost of infrastructure dictates the inefficiency of a monopoly is a better alternative than a duopoly or competitive market no?
>I have trouble managing other aspects of life like socializing

How so?

>hanging out with the family

What are you doing when not hanging out with the family?

>Hell I even often get blamed for wearing the same types of outfit

This isn't your problem at all it's someone else's.

>I just can't get enough time to complete my work.

Honestly, try cultivating Shamatha, which is meditative equipoise or calm abiding mind. Singled pointed concentration is relaxing and has the effect of increased mental stability over time. Check out this book on it [1].

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64084.The_Attention_Revo...
I want some hybrid that uses AR on my phone to help me hand draw and color in QR codes for when I can't print them.
The last public number was that Twitter was banning 10 fake bots per second. How exactly do you plan to have a public oversight process for fighting fraud and abuse at scale?
The first time I read about this topic, the author suggested counter-offering a smaller investment for a slightly higher dilution/$ to soften the blow.

As in, “I don’t need $50m (for 20%), how about $23m for 10%?”

I have never been to any of these meetings, but it seems like the guy who just skyrocketed your valuation for his 20% is going to be “louder” than the earlier investors who also own 20%. The % of investment versus the % of investors will probably skew things a bit, too.
The difference is that contractors can negotiate those other contracts to change the rate of pay. An Uber driver cannot negotiate how much they get paid by Uber. (Part A of the ABC test.)

In some cases with written contracts, the pay is specified as a non-negotiable condition from the paying party, and the "only freedom" the contractor has is to take it or leave it. Is that a violation?

No, because one of the other factors in being a contractor was having multiple (potential) contracting counterparties (aka clients). An Uber driver contracts with just Uber, not the riders. In contrast, a contractor would generally have more than one client if they were in the business of providing that type of service as a contractor. (Part C of the ABC test. Note that Part C requires a contractor to engage in the legal formalities of creating their own business, so it's not just enough to work for both Uber and Lyft.)

But note that for Uber and Lyft, what matters is not that they failed part A and C of the ABC test, since those are relatively trivial to structure around.

Uber and Lyft fail part B of the ABC test, which is that a worker cannot be engaged in a job that is the usual course of the employer's business. Uber and Lyft call themselves transportation companies, ergo, any worker that is providing a transportation service is automatically an employee under the ABC test. Indeed, drivers are the only workers at Uber/Lyft that would be treated as automatic employees; the programmers could be employees or contractors.
What about food delivery?
Google makes building Android apps on Chrome OS easier
Questions for Startups Selling in Covid-19
I currently do this for major brands as a one-man crew in a 3,500 employee company, and I'll admit, the idea of going it alone as a consultant in this space is _extremely_ alluring. It's just a matter of the right angle to get clientele in order to go it alone, which is the main stumbling block in my case due to time.

The work's consistent and perfectly suited to remote, the engineering teams I'm working with are great and consistently in need of not only the what and why, but the _how_, and monitoring the progress is pretty fulfilling work, to be honest.

Some of the best work I've had in a very long career. I frankly love it.
Surprisingly Recent Galaxy Discovered Using Machine Learning
Congratulations on the launch, how does it differs from that of listmonk[1], it's open source and battle tested at Zerodha. Ability to create templates via a drag/drop tool would give marketers a lot less friction.

[1]https://github.com/knadh/listmonk
If you take a look at their 'about us' page and some of their other articles, it becomes pretty clear that this organization is a paid lobbying/PR firm for ISPs.

Kinda calls into question their methodology and intent...
Thanks a lot :).

The false friends are interesting, I though "hulaty" was the same word as Polish "hulać" which means to have fun/to party.

The other quirky word is "boroniu", which I thought was the same word as Polish "bronić" which means "to defend", but in this context (ja tobie nie bronię) it would mean (I don't forbid you). It comes from the noun "broń" (a weapon).

The agricultural stuff would be "bronować" in comparison from the plural noun "brony" (harrows).

I wonder if the Ukrainian is maybe closer to Polish in this case? Cause it would make more sense that way.

Even "ukonce" have Polish equivalent "okonie".

That's why I suspected Kaczmarski invented it - the song was completely understandable to me without any knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian except for knowing how the sounds change usually.
They license lyrics however and, critically, often times lyrics and their copyright are not a package deal. many songs don't have lyrics provided from the publisher. Genius allows users and artists to upload the lyrics. Google has the copyright but blatantly steals the content. This obviously is not protected in US law but it is elsewhere (see news sites and such in some countries requiring google to pay). Google then uses their search results to leverage their position.
Do pigs have 30 minute orgasms?
This[0] is an interesting account of an accident with a submarine and how sonar played a role in the event.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville...
They don't provide as much advantage over c to make the transition worth it.

Rust has more advantages than Pascal. A single implementation. A decent package manager, lifetimes, sum types, all the infrastructure around sum types etc
It kind of looks like they are classifying that as
"Mobile (Cell) Internet Providers"
rather than
"Home Internet Providers"

I tried the "About Our Internet Data" form and it wasn't 100% crystal clear, but the results implied they are only considering cable and dsl or whatever to be "home internet".
Other comment is correct on their purpose https://youtu.be/JjDJLNubKKw?t=259

I don't think any are intentionally different heights. Part of it could be the thing was built nearly 60 years ago but also it doesn't need to be perfectly accurate to securely be tensioned.
Well, NIMBYism + privacy paranoia. Torontonians who were never going to live there, hadn't attended the open houses, and weren't willing to even try it as a small-scale experiment apparently had veto power over what Sidewalk could do with their own property.
What's the current state of compilation times of Rust? How many times slower than C does it compile? Any links to statistics? I know it's hard to compare, but I am interested in developing a gut feeling of what to expect.
In fairness, their product is fantastic.
You can't just say "there is no end" and follow it with "my end is the right end".

At least talk about why you think deontology is better than other forms of norm setting, why the law must be right even though there are many different and contradictory laws in different places, and how you propose to make new rules if not based on a concept of "right" that is independent from the existing rules.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics
Don't you think there is a fundamental difference between the casual use of the word and including it in your brand name?
Switching shifts with coworkers is so much easier with the internet. I know of a large German company that has a "shift market" where employees can switch shifts as long as certain constraints are fulfilled. You can either switch with coworkers directly or "auction off" your shift by giving a timeframe where you want your new shift to be and select the most convenient from the coworkers that answered.

If I were an employee there, I'd say that I need an internet connection at home.
People like that could get by with dial up if people like the ones reading this comment would stop loading 80MB of JS just so they can save a couple lines of code.

Edit: The dailup part was an exaggeration but if your web app doesn't suck 3g and two bars or a 1Mb down DSL pipe should be fine for most CRUD type business tasks that. There's no reason that signing in and signing up for a shift should take more bandwidth than Craigslist.
It was in 1984. ;-) For comparison, in 2018 I took out an ad in the _Yakima Herald_ prospecting for some ag tech work and didn't get a single nibble; that ad cost me over $1000 for 4 insertions.
Yeah - their complaint, albeit ambiguously stated, seemed to be that you couldn't retroactively allocate historical charges to a newly placed tag.
A smart phone is still an internet connection at home.

It's possible that some of the 70% are not considering their local library, though.
That's an incredibly limited view of the subject.

I could theoretically write code with a laptop from the back of a camel in the Sahara desert. That doesn't mean it qualifies as "able to do my job".
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Otherwise, posts like that are mostly people asking others to use same toys as they like.
This looks great and an open source option in this field is needed.

From demos and docs, I'm only seeing the chat. Does papercups also have some sort of customer database that is filterable and segmentable?

Because to me, that is more about what intercom is about.
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> the residents, people that have to deal with its consequences and for whom the benefits were vaguely defined, opposed it.

When I lived in San Francisco proper this was the same reason I didn't have high speed fiber. NIMBYs didn't want a little green can out front of their houses.

Sometimes progress has to be made despite the residents so they can ultimately reap the benefits.
Scrub the information and rotate encryption keys with enforced deletion.

Sure, this would not get around a dedicated attacker, or screenshotting, but that's the same as printed information, or information transfer over radio. Someone can always listen in if they have enough resources and time. Even closed networks can be infiltrated with enough persistence.
>Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can't work from home?

You're misreading. It's not that 70% can work entirely from home, it's 70% can't never work from home. I don't believe that number either, but that's a different topic.

>At the very least work email can be done on a phone.

So, the internet connection that they use at home is different from "home internet" for the purposes of this article? If you really want to spit that hair, what is the meaningful distinction?
> A smart phone is still an internet connection at home.

I don't use my personal phone for work. Anyone who does use their personal phone for work is being abused by their employer.
Margins are already negative. How can they possibly afford to?
UK court says face recognition violates human rights
Fixing now, thanks for bringing it to our attention
Scientists build ultra-high-speed Terahertz wireless chip
I have to say I find it hard to follow your argument. How can the forces be stronger than ever if the opposition was defeated and wiped out?

According to lore, Stallman started the movement due to a closed-source appliance (a printer) he used and which he wanted to improve. Closed devices continued to be and are still the norm, so I don't see how the opposition was defeated, let alone wiped out.
I heard threonate crosses the brain blood barrier. I was worried about the opposite happening. What brand do you take?
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I think you're renting classier apartments than me.

I've always just seen the state's sample form often without any modification.
Lots of (money-losing) competitors in that space. Plus lots of restaurants do their own take-out and delivery.
I work at Uber outside of the rides/eats business and observed many feature releases to adjust the business after AB5.

What I saw released:

- Enabling drivers to see where a rider is going before accepting the trip [0] [2]

- Removed a main penalty for declining rides, “No More 85% Acceptance Rate Requirement For Uber Pro” [2]

- Drivers get set their own fare with a multiplier [1] (the article details screenshots and backend balance rules)

Now every dollar coming in seems to very clearly go from rider to driver.

- removed upfront pricing in California and once again charging riders the precise trip amount based on time and distance. [0] [2]

- A new driver incentive was released too tied to purchasing the service fee at a lower rate [3] (since every dollar is supposed to flow clearly from the price breakdown)

- “Favorite Driver Feature”, so even if they set higher fares, riders will be able to request one of their favorite drivers if they’re nearby [2]

These seemed primarily to try to address the flexibility evaluated by “Prong A” of AB5, however some public experts were concerned it wouldn’t address “Prong B”, which requires the “drivers’ work is outside ‘the usual course of the company’s business,’” [0]. This might have been where the judge focused their ruling.

Other companies didn’t make changes for drivers, “Lyft [also afaik Postmates, and DoorDash] continues to operate as if it’s business as usual.” [0]

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-03...

[1] https://therideshareguy.com/set-your-own-rates-uber-feature/

[2] https://therideshareguy.com/uber-rolling-out-new-driver-feat...

[3] https://therideshareguy.com/uber-drive-pass/
The illustrations are very charming. Here's the android app to test if your station is vulnerable: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/mobile_sentinel
Thank you. I’ve saved this video to watch later.
And maybe you should read the conclusion of the article before commenting on it?
Right, but the lockdown helps us choose exit door 3 (inoculation) instead of 2 (herd immunity).
> Is that because the Dutch are white and the past is the VOC and slavery? Or because the Dutch are white?

As a Dutch person I will answer: the first.

The great grandfather's of the black kids getting name called 'Zwarte Piet' because of this tradition were literally slaves. Their grandparents were free but did not have remotely the same chances in life. Often couldn't read/write. Any original culture or family ties they had were completely erased. It wasn't like we allowed them to 'raise their kids' when they were slaves. Their parents had it much better. Went to the same schools, etc. Still had to deal with racism when going out or trying to get a nice job, but not at all with persecution. They still did not having a lot of good role models within their own community yet. And don't think about trying to go to a club or join a fraternity.

The current generation is the first one performing on par with native people within society. With more good role models and succesfull entrepeneurs.

Honestly. Decent folks in the Netherlands already changed the tradition to the chimney style. Small subtle change. Doesn't harm anyone.

The people at this moment who still strongly hold on to Zwarte Piet .. are racist. But the tradition wasn't intended to be. And before the discussions started it wasn't. It is now. Because it's impossible to claim that minor changes to traditions are this important to someone unless the intend is racist. Traditions that were always changing. That have changed over and over again. And the only change that is a discussion is this one.
I'm curious when folks say they expect a dev plan offering at a pretty low price point to come out of the box with HA - are they comparing this to an Oracle High Availability solution?

Because $75 or $150 for HA on oracle is not going to happen - period.

It's just interesting how the price points are so wildly divergent.
In addition to the author being a long term contributor, the piece seems to have been a leader for a discussion[1] on the qemu-devel mailing list (where it seems to have been positively received).

[1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg...
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Some other unmentioned add-ons that I use frequently:

- Contextlets: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextlets/

Adds context menu items that execute custom JavaScript. Think of it as an advanced version of bookmarklets that can use webextension APIs.

Example use case: Search for the selected text in multiple search engines in a new window with discarded tabs.

- Distill Web Monitor: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distill-web-m...

Monitor website changes and get notification popups, email, SMS or push notifications on change. There are other alternatives that have the same basic functionality but I stayed with Distill as it is more customizable.
People waiting tables or working retail make more than Uber drivers on an hourly basis...
They might, or they might not at all. Who knows what government can truly influence that man. Examples plenty of countries being sanctioned that simply ignore the sanctions and do their business elsewhere, or not at all, even if that means their people suffer the consequences.

I definitely support asking our governments to pressure their government. But I wouldn't ignore the fact that people in Belarus are be the ones that might be able to affect real change in Belarus.
That movie and Master and Commander are two movies that helped a digital nerd like me understand how an incredibly complex system can be managed by lots and lots of humans playing very specific roles.
Firecracker is a really nice project, but the scope really isn't the same as QEMU, and they are not mutually exclusive projects
API design tools for IT pros
Idk how I feel about Rust's longest-running justification being wound down
i had this question on the other thread,

If uber drivers are employees can they still 'decline' a ride?

Employees aren't free to decline work that their boss assigns them.
My minor gripe with it is that you can't drag and drop URLs or any other text. Other than that it's a joy to use.