skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It agrees with you - "Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity"

But rejecting science in favor of personal anecdote is ridiculous bad thinking when an anecdote doesn't disprove it.
Had the same thought and it felt terrible. Couldn't they at least try what almost all other advanced open source organisations seem to do? Branch out a consultancy in their field of expertise that maintains an incredibly famous piece of open source code on the side to show off?
The problem lies here:

> "Assuming that's the reason (and not election interference),

Not being allowed to explore the possibility of bad faith omits a crucial aspect of the topic. The result is a Potemkin Village imitation of intellectual exchange.

There are important reasons to "assume good faith" per the HN Guidelines (and to forbid accusations of bad faith), but that means certain topics just cannot be reasonably examined.
There's a major difference between 'unsafe because of high crime rates' (the actual case in some places) and 'unsafe because an entire mob of random people will manifest out of the ether, drag you from your car, and beat you up' (the nonsense part). The latter has been seeing increasing use lately as part of the endless barrage of 'all of (city name) is a flaming ruin constantly prowled by antifa supersoldiers' claims against the ongoing protests in several cities.
I was curious, having seen REI stores with the "Co-op" branding lately in my area... turns out they consider themselves a consumer's cooperative.

From the REI Wikipedia page[1]:

> The Andersons originally established the co-op structure to secure reduced prices for its members

I am not a member of REI, but I shop there a couple times a year.

Am I missing out on some serious discounts or something... because in my experience, REI is definitely the most expensive place around to buy outdoor gear.

Obviously I miss out voting for board members... but I don't really care about that (and I assume most members likely don't either).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_Equipment,_Inc.
I can see the cost of sales being quite high.
I don’t know what the post office’s account looks like. They claim they haven’t made a profit in years (e.g., “The agency has lost nearly $70 billion over the previous 11 years, including nearly $9 billion last year alone. The agency’s total debt and unfunded liabilities are now twice the size of its annual revenue” https://kuster.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/calling... ).
> From above, we can only conclude that capitalism and profit-oriented economy are insane

I don't see the conclusion. I can only see there are many specific problems with capitalism.
I can't see how that's true. A quick search tells me that dishwashers can get up to a max of around 60c, that's nowhere enough to kill most bacteria, especially ones hiding deep inside cavities. Maybe you could pasteurize milk in an extra-long run of your hot cycle, but it won't come close to sterilizing stuff.
I live in a country that felt the proverbial Soviet boot and after reading "articles" like the one in the OP I am pretty sure that the author has no idea what he's talking about and needs to change his history book provider.
Not so fancy, but a one-liner

# Remove all local branches for which there is no remote
git branch -r | awk '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
Obviously right on the numbers but I have to disagree with the notion that reporters and people are just making a lot of noise over the 0.1% of inevitable "bad calls".

Usually only notable popular accounts get coverage over their censorship (or lack of). The number of such accounts is a few orders of magnitude smaller than the general userbase. Any network would want to protect these accounts from arbitrary bans and they probably do.

Most big stories about social media censorship often include comments from company reps who stand by their decision. Stories ending in "Oops we made a mistake" tend to be much less common as far as I can tell.

As such I'd say people are actually pretty good at identifying the cases that aren't just a "bad call" but a contentious matter.
I haven’t seen any quality evidence that dishwasher dry cycles effectively “sanitize” anything. Really not trying to be a “but actually” dick, but without this information it’s just marketing mumbo jumbo.
We should probably let researchers know to check their results against your observed experience to ensure they line up.
Is it not consistent with your personal observations that the relative concentrations of diversity have maybe moved? I'm not sure how that possibility would contradict you, given your honestly limited geographical experience.
Ah, the garbage bag. This elusive luxury item which throughout history has been reserved only for people who have lots of money.
Depends where you live. Where I live now, I filter all my drinking water. Across town where I grew up, the tap water tastes so good you could bottle and sell it. Both places have safe water; it's just a question of how it tastes, and that's highly variable.
It does not strike me as a legitimate case to strip people of their human right to free agency and will by forcing people to do things they don't want to or may even be dangerous to their health and safety. It should be anyone's right to refuse going to dangerous neighborhoods, just like forcing drivers to drive out into nowhere where they have to spend their own money/resources to get back to the network, should be compensated by Uber if they want that feature.

It's rather abusive and tyrannical to force people to do things against their will or safety. But I am guessing you live in a dangerous neighborhood because you did not "discriminate" and are paying really low rents since you don't discriminate. Right? … exactly!
Uber's model would work fine in a country where the government provides medical insurance, disability insurance and the protective net you need.

In the US, unfortunately, those protective nets are liabilities of the companies to their staff, not a service provided by the government.

One could argue a third solution where the driver would unionize and the protective net should be offered by the union.
School press releases are always like this for alumni projects.
You need to chill. The person posed a question, and you attacked their character and worldview. Learn to express your disagreement more neutrally.
A great thing would be all sides involved being able to use their own stack of tools to write and navigate the code.

Usual remote control/vnc limit you to use whatever the other person is using, which makes it more difficult when that person isn't using the same stack you are used to (different terminal emulator, shell, editor, OS)

If there was a way for me to edit a file using vim and the other person to use vscode, for example, that would be a good step forward, all while still being able to see where the other's cursor and selections are.
Yes, Apple is absolutely a music publishing company (among other things) because it runs iTunes.
Here's a challenge question to folks reading this and learned with the tools of the trade (my apologies in advance for somewhat hijacking the thread): consider this video of an endoscopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUVDKoKSEkU -- say, from 3:00 to 5:00. And I have a bunch of movies (i.e., a series of images!) and I want to do a 3d reconstruction of this.

It seems super, super difficult... there are free-flowing liquids, and since this is an esophagus/upper lining of the stomach which is changing in form quite drastically so often. How would you guys approach this problem?
> It's worth noting the same holds true for UI: data dominates. Design your widgets, layout, and workflow around the data.

I couldn't agree more.

I think the current state of UI programming is like the pathological case to be honest. Too often folks are concerned with representing their database 1-to-1 in their UI instead of representing their view.

If anyone is suffering from brittle UI code, where somehow caching issues and stale data are affecting your application, this is very likely why. You have muddled your persistence and view concerns together and it's not manageable or pretty. What this means for folks using something like React- don't directly use your persistence models in your views, create "view models" which directly represent whatever the hell it is you're trying to display. Bind your data in your view models, and not your views, and then pass the view model in as props.
This is a fitting topic considering that essentially only a single subgroup does not see themselves as victims anymore and that is also likely going to change out of necessity.
> If your water starts fizzing, that could be a red flag.

You don't say.
If a grocery store cashier could punch out an hour into their shift, take a day off on a whim, or switch between 3 different grocery stores depending on which is paying better, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but you have to admit that gig work is quite different than traditional employer-employee relationships (which is why they're classified as independent contractors in most of the U.S.). They're not paid a salary or hourly; they're paid per gig, and they're under no obligation to accept any gig.

True, they're not nearly as empowered as a traditional independent contractor like a plumber who can set his own prices, but they're not as powerless as a traditional employee who has no control over their hours either. They're something in between, and their work should be regulated as such.
Have you ever taken a dishwasher apart? I have and it's an unbelievably simple machine that they charge you big bucks for. There's a lot it could do but manufacturers are in the business of making money, not selling complex, hard to maintain machines.
Haha, good luck porting QEMU to Rust.

For those who don't know, the original author of QEMU is Fabrice Bellard. This guy has several winning entries in the IOCCC. One of them is a C compiler, that once de-obfuscated, forms the basis of TinyCC.

QEMU C code makes heavy use of macros and gcc extensions. It really pushes C to the limit, it even broke my syntax analysis tools.

Now, if the Rust community wants to write a new emulator in Rust, why not, but starting with QEMU may not be the easiest way.
Concentration of power is a threat to personal freedom. Power tries to hold on to power, it is inevitable. At least with government you can theoretically vote the bastards out.
The fines were enormous for every violation, and EU courts have been doing billion dollar fines of these companies - why in the world would you operate one warehouse doing 10% volume (90% shutdown already) facing huge fines?

They complied with the law and shut down. This further limited covid risks for their workers.
Now podcasters must "comply with Amazon’s Creative Acceptance Policies.”

Bet those policies slowly drift back towards control of content.

edit: sure enough, look here and you'll see that nothing "misleading" or "controversial" can be said: https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-policy/creative-...
It's also not a surprise when cleaning supplies run out, they're used at a fairly steady rate; like you have weeks of notice if you see the bottle/box is running low.
It has adverse effects, the unemployment rate and particularly the youth unemployment rate are quite high in Sweden (pre-covid).

Indeed, the median disposable income per person (adjusted for purchasing power) in the US is almost $20,000 higher than in Sweden, even after further adjustments for transfers in kind received by households, such health or education provided for free or at reduced prices by government and NPISHs.

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
You can use CloudWatch Events for this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/E....
Well done for never running out of any household item
It's an engineering limit to effectiveness but not an engineering limit to higher yield. I think we agree and are just nailing down the terminology here.
Maybe? We've had mentorships over the last couple of years trying to introduce some crypto features to Git, and they've been rebuffed.
Was Keynes right about anything?
This is fantastic news! Now there's a huge market available for a rideshare app that wants to prosper by actual good service rather than wage theft and outright hostility to the regulations of the market they operate in.

I hope some hungry founders-to-be are working on this now.
Derecho Storm Wipes Out Over Third of Iowa Corn
The lack of people of color in the about page is all I needed to see.
If you're asking yourself the question of how do a honeybee's mouthparts even work, here is a narrated video[1] and yes, insect mouths seem to have tremendously complicated morphology, considering that everything that hangs off an insect is basically a modified leg.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql0OyLXeRuQ
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. But yes, waste disposal has been done much better for the rich historically than the poor.

I listed garbage bags specifically because I've noticed recently that the "good" ones (like, large, or strong) are actually quite pricey and often only are available in large quantities (40 count or something). So the price to buy trash bags might be like $20 or something. Buy 2 at once? $40 on garbage bags while grocery shopping? I mean that's a lot, no? To get the good version of something, twice? Not exactly an item for the poor to double-up on.

And suggest the poor buy the less good trash bags that are cheaper? Well then we have shown that garbage bags can indeed be a luxury item even today.
Current classifications are irrelevant because the parent was laying out a new system, in which you could either be an employee, an independent contractor, or a dependent contractor. Under that proposed system, there is a significant difference between a dependent contractor and an employee, because the dependent contractor can choose to stop working whenever they want, and can work for multiple companies, while an employee could not do that.

And regardless, I don't know of any hourly employees who can choose to stop working for several weeks without notice, and then start working again whenever they want. That is a major difference between something like Uber, and a normal hourly job. Also hourly people are paid by the hour, while with Uber you are paid by the job.
China's government has a lot more control over private business. If the mayor of Seattle had more authority over Amazon than anyone working within it, it would be fair to say that Amazon is "Seattle-owned".
It’s usually written to make existing manufacturing activity clean up after itself, or existing employment relationships better for the employees. There may be some collateral damage, but the intent is not to destroy.

“People’s jobs should be better” is a different goal from “bad jobs should not exist.” It may be used as a tool to achieve the former, but we care whether it’s actually effective at doing so.
Other hacks.

Instead of fabric softener like downy, use same amount of white vinegar. It is cheaper, your clothes smell fresher, and anyone with allergies will thank you.

For cleaning a tub or shower, make a mixture of 50% white vinegar and 50% dish detergent (like dawn). Spray the mixture on tile/tub/curtain/doors. Let sit for 15 - 30 minutes. Spray down with water. Done. This is way cheaper than the industrial cleaners, much less smelly, and usually works better.
The "what" is exactly my point. One would assume dishwashers are supposed to do this for you, but what actually happens is the plate comes out with the (yes, small) bits of food hard and stuck to the plate (someone else mentioned "caked on cheese" in this thread).

I've tested this effect in multiple dishwashers at this point, always wanting the technology that was promised, but always in vain.
100% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without food.
Can’t edit. Not two decades, but ever since gmail added spam filtering and started flagging many Google Alert emails as spam.
Employee motivations have zero relevance when discussing corporate actions where those actions are contrary to those motivations.

The reverse is not true.
Problems? Sure. It's going to be hell to try and get in and out of the area, since you'll have to either go at about two miles an hour while people move out of the way (while regularly stopping and waiting for unorganized crowds), or just go around the long way.

'Getting dragged out of your car and beaten'? No, unless the police do it (https://www.newsbreak.com/georgia/atlanta/news/1577488884462...).
You get to praise idleness only after you burn out writing Principia Mathematica.
A related strategy - always keep a spare of crucial household items like this (dishwasher soap, toothpaste, etc). Don't buy a new one when you run out entirely, buy a new one when you use up your primary and switch to the backup.

eg, I'm about to "run out" of toothpaste, in that the tube on my bathroom counter is almost empty. I have a full tube sitting in one of my bathroom drawers. When I pull that one out, I add toothpaste to my shopping list, and the new tube goes into the drawer as the new backup.
This is super cool, but unfortunately a little too late to the game. We will likely have a vaccine by Feb next year. To scale-up a protein antibody, run trials, and get approval for such a novel idea--plus you would need the device to be either CE or approved already because that would take a whole lot longer if not--will take best case 1 year. Doesn't mean they shouldn't find an industry partner to go for it, but I doubt anyone would pick it up without government backstopping and right now the focus is on vaccine and mAb scale-up.
It might be rare, but right now those engineers are super valuable, and are getting paid for it.

demand and supply.

you see the same thing happen with self driving engineers commanding million dollar packages because they were in such high demand and supply was so low.
What if you just give each person a way to censor the content they don't want to see?

Something like show dead posts on hn.

Although, why host content that isn't profitable?
The duo is running android. A lot of software issues should just not be there
In Latvia, we say "on average, all have no potato." Then we are sad.
There was no choice to "wait". AB5 was passed to fix the law because of a court decision [0]. Had they (the CA Legislature) not passed AB5, the court finding in Dynamex would be just as bad for Uber.

The court doesn't have an option to "wait" just because it's a recession.

Uber doesn't have a choice to "wait" because this ruling is going to go into effect in ~10 days unless the stay is extended.

[0] - https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/dynamex-operations-west-...
The Hatpin Peril (2014)
In the US there are massive subsidies for suburbs with single family homes, to the point where cities are stymied as people in the cities are the ones that end up paying for a massive chunk of this subsidy.

As a result there is less of a drive for people who are in between, or even want to live in the city a bit, to live there and make it a more lively area since it ends up being artificially more expensive.

On top of this, a lot of zoning makes interesting, dense cities straight up illegal or incredibly expensive to build, again, in preference of low density single family homes.

This is what people are concerned with and want to change.
I do agree, it’s not an easy problem.

But I think in the case of Uber it’s beyond debate that drivers, as an overall class, are not better off “having the freedom” to work under Uber’s (or other firm’s) poor conditions.

I’d say the same thing of Amazon warehouse workers too.

The conditions of these employment agreements should become legally not possible, so that workers don’t become effectively indentured servants to a working agreement that makes them worse off than some societally agreed standard, and feeling trapped and having the bad working conditions create a feedback mechanism bu which they can’t realistically choose to stop that working agreement and seek betterment.

These examples, in American standards, are egregious, nowhere close to any boundary where the government is asking unreasonable concessions of Uber.

If meeting these conditions doesn’t allow Uber to remain financially solvent, then Uber is not and never was a business, only a scam.
I'm not sure if this is a serious question or a dig given the previous tones, but there are any number of ways being that the majority of Torontonians carry mobile devices. SWL was designed to be a data dragnet for the purposes of influencing urban civic design so outside of regulatory pressure one would assume they would gather every bit of data they can, including fingerprint and tracking unique devices and their movement patterns in their region.
No, you can only conclude that. Because you're ignorant of similar and worse outcomes in alternate economies. China starved 25 million people to death just 80 years ago by similar philosophy. The Gulags were also the product of this philosophy. Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam have never recovered from the military use of this philosophy on their own citizens. This same approach left Guatemala and Honduras worse off after US textile outsourcing fled for China. Zimbabwe re-enslaved 13 million of its own citizens immediately after the end of colonialism, and Mugabe kept them stranded in servitude and punished the workers with physical abuse and longer work hours when these exact same approaches yielded insurmountable deficits year over year.

There are examples far and beyond the ones I just mentioned. So, unless you're trying to argue that 25 million rural Chinese lives don't matter, that it's OK for a newly-liberated African people to turn around and enslave the bottom 13 million, or worse, then you should take stock of the fact that people aren't defending slavery or capitalism, people are actually calling out the far worse consequences of your favorite textbook theory.
I think Toronto should deffinitely pay for new more efficiently built housing.
In my opinion it's better to let Google benefit than random offshore entities that are hoarding the majority of the empty new apartments in the city.

Also, this was housing for meant their employees, most of which will have high salaries and be in high tax brackets.

So not only did we loose a few thousand housing units, now we also lost a few thousand future employees each of which would be paying $20 - 40 000 CAD in taxes to us every single year.

That is terrible.
People replace flats with giant houses in San Francisco frequently. Here's an example of a 2200-sq.ft. duplex that became a 4200-sq.ft. SFH selling for over $5 million.
https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/891-Noe-St-94114/hom...
I believe what you saw was a promotion of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

That extension is described as:

"Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook."
Meeting KPIs That Can Uncover a Toxic Workplace Culture
There is no standard comparison because of different architectures.
Both of these sound like side-effects of trying to render massive amounts of UI artifacts that the user doesn't actually need or want to see. Whether you use JS+React or Rust+Yew you're going to get yourself into trouble with firehose-style data handling.