skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Solely from the perspective of the person running the platform, it makes lots of sense to factor in "likelihood of accepting" into your driver selection algorithm.

If I know driver X rejects all rides from a certain area, I'm going to stop showing them rides in that area. That way the user gets their driver faster.
Only if ads have peaked.
And the drain stopped because he worked hard to eliminate poverty and bring stable relations with the rest of the world? Nope.

So brain drain became even more of a problem under his rule.
Write a bot to raise random requests for an "ignore" feature with them throughout the day until they get the message. ;)
There’s no frontrunner to be found among the TikTok alternatives
Why Banning All Chinese Community Party Members Fro the U.S. Is Stupid
It sounds like this fungus only produces energy, and doesn't fix carbon like photosynthesis does.

Mold growing on concrete walls is actually living off the dust and other organic debris that accumulates on the surface if you don't clean it.
With Remote Work the Winners Take Most
But isn't the reason they don't want to write it up because they know they won't get any credit for it? That is exactly what this is trying to remedy
I don't think you have the same risk of stalling a powerboat foil like you would on a sailboat. You have much more predictable power at your disposal and something like a sharp header is irrelevant.
The future of ops jobs (Charity Majors)
What are the methods for security/defense for individual satellites?
We're those Russians working in Russia?
They don't have a rate. That's the whole point. A W2 employee has to have a rate, hourly/annual/weekly/etc. They have a salary or rate. A 1099 is the only way you can charge per project instead of per rate. When you determine how much you get paid for the project you yourself pick and start is irrelevant to whether you're independent and 1099. In fact if you include contractors working on your house repairs, you have an estimate and agree on the total well into the project.

paid per project you choose yourself =contractor. salary or rate =employee.

determining how much you get paid has nothing to do with employee or not. in fact, as I keep stating, not knowing how much you get paid literally makes you not an employee.
Slack fails to meet the bar of functionality set by Outlook 97. This isn’t a compliment to Outlook.
Shh.

It's probably easier to cook dark meat also.
Chat is a technology.

Blaming chat for having had a catalytic effect on a toxic corporate culture may underscore the toxicity of the culture.

Maybe a cultural detox would be in order?
Bingo. Having a user tied to an actual person, and not just a dog with an internet connection and email address must make it orders of magnitude simpler to address offenders.
Laser is actually what was on my mind when I mentioned tightbeam. When you shine a 5W laser into the night sky, it's visible to people quite a long ways away. Particles, clouds, and even variation in humidity or pressure create impedance mismatches, which result in partial reflection of your signal -- which end up spraying everywhere.
Was there any warranty? I guess the license is the bog standard everything disclaimed, all "as is" type.
> the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud
Can confirm, use Teams daily and theres almost no side chatting in it compared to Slack which seems like a near constant watercooler experience.
If a tool is so easily subverted and misused so widely, eventually it’s the tool’s fault. Arguing that it’s just the users’ fault is like trying to boil the ocean. It doesn’t matter if you’re right or not, the component that can actually be addressed is the tool, so the tool is capable of bearing blame.
I'm not an expert, if one is available please comment.

Human perception of temperature is mostly based on 5 things: Ambient air temperature, Radiant Heat (infrared radiation), humidity, direct conduction of heat, and air movement.

It seems like this addresses Radiant Heat. Another way to address this is to add more insulation, install low-emissivity windows, plant shade trees in your yard.

Half of my house feels much warmer in the afternoon because it lacks shade. I used a thermometer to see the difference between the ambient air temperature in the two halves; the hot side was only 2 degrees F hotter. I don't have an IR thermometer, but I imagine that the walls in the hot side are at least 10 degrees F hotter.
DigitalOcean App Platform
https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/ Everything, I care about, fully reproducible.

I don't mean to "hawk my wares" in what feels like many threads, but seriously, this is a solved problem, despite the continued mess-making of people that don't use it.
Expressions are fun.

In the .NET world we have an Expression library that behaves -almost- like S-Expressions. I'd say some things (i.e. currying) are simplified but for the most part it's the same concept. You can look at every part of an expression and do whatever you want based on it. We often see it used either for advanced reflection, or, for Dynamic Method Generation.

But, having written a few different parsers around it (and writing more LISP than I'd care to admit) I think anyone who is poo-pooing this has just never had the literal pleasure of writing a meaningful expression parser.

EDI transforms and XSLTs don't count, folks. S-Expressions are dead simple
I use Matomo with WordPress, and it's great:
https://matomo.org/
I initially read this headline as an Onion-article style joke. That said, I don’t disagree with some of the ideas set forth here. I mean, I think this same sort of thing is the reason I regularly find myself reading journal articles and thinking that the title is so misleading/essentially just scholarly clickbait titles. From my perspective, however, I would be really interested to see a journal do something like this but instead with ambivalence about the use of particular stat models. (i.e. I definitely feel that there is still a religiosity in how some reviewers/journals/even disciplines have singular loyalty to p-values, but this may merely be my own perception or anecdotal experience).
How closely can we can link the rise of SaaS (and corresponding disposable frameworks) to an effort to find a stable revenue model in a world which had problematic levels of software piracy? I remember when I was a teenager, you might be looked down upon if you obtained your copy of Windows XP legally.

There are a lot of posts like this that bemoan the current state of [insert social ill] but don't care to explore what structural forces contributed to this state.
This article is basically complaining "employees are using Slack to organize and try to push for a union", and then claiming that's a bad thing. Fun!
I like doing `Math.max(min, Math.min(num, max))` since it puts them in sort order.
iOS is not a monopoly
This sounds a lot more like your company culture is the issue than the tool. If you think this sort of thing didn't happen via emails, or even in the office kitchen, you're naive. If you're more interested in broad strokes like banning a tool than addressing acute bad behaviour, you shouldn't be managing people.
Bring back the IRC, half the high school problems will go away automatically, fire the immature employees and the remaining half will go away too.
It would be better if we had universal healthcare, but that will not happen for, at the very least, 6 years. Meanwhile, Uber should not be allowed to undercut competitors by simply offloading costs to the common man.
Where does this leave AIX Unix?
Maybe I'm being harsh, but those developers should all be fired.
Seriously, what if the device breaks, is lost, stolen, you accidentally delete things etc? These photos were not synced, they were just on one device... Anything that is just on one device can disappear any day for any reason and you shouldn't be surprised.
It's also cheap because there are very few protections and regulations for the animals and the fact that selective breeding has gotten their farmed lifespan down to just 6 weeks.
I immediately stumbled upon Facebook but it seems not (Instagram is still popular).
20th century+ science = pyramid scheme
What is also less discussed is that (unlike many other tech platforms) Uber/Lyft facilitates wealth transfer in local economies (to some extent) due to how locally it operates.

Uber has claimed that more than 80% of all the fares ever collected has directly gone to drivers. By creating massive demand mostly in the well-off parts of a city, it opens up a channel for one-to-one wealth transfer to the predominantly less well-off drivers.

This is quite different from other platforms that suck up money from local economies and then disburse most of them to the elite few, or park the cash in some offshore accounts.

I think there's a nuance here that is often lost in this kind of discussion about inequality.
How did you find the migration? I’ve been resisting Lightroom upgrades as I don’t want the cloud stuff. But as raw support for new cameras falls off it’s getting harder since the two step DNG import is such a pain.

Moving to Capture One or something else seems worthwhile. Tried Darktable but wasn’t a big fan.
"Sometimes karma carries a lead pipe"
Or have my job, switching periodically between on all that stuff and the end application. Make sure the tools you make are actually useful for the problem they purport to solve!

We just refuse to use vendor-lock-in cloud crap as a matter of principle. Regular server processes (though Haskell), regular machines (the NixOS), PostgreSQL, no problem.
This is what I'm taking about, when I was a kid before I got fitted with glasses, I remember the world looking like this...

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/99407/what-is-the-...
It really does feel half-baked.
Subsidies are certainly part of it, but the entire process is extremely efficient.
The Tandy 1000 – The best MS-DOS computer in 1984
It's also important to note that the 13.47$ an hour is heavily biased towards expensive cities, where it really isn't much, and is actually often under the minimum salary.
From reading the article it doesn't sound like this was ransomware:

> "During this time, two hackers contacted Sullivan by email and demanded a six-figure payment in exchange for silence. The hackers ultimately revealed that they had accessed and downloaded an Uber database containing personally identifying information, or PII, associated with approximately 57 million Uber users and drivers."

The hackers were demanding a ransom from Uber to keep silent about a data breach. Which is a whole lot different than paying a ransom to decrypt valuable, internal data. If a company has been breached, while it will almost certainly cause damage fiscally & to their reputation- they have a responsibility to notify users/customers. I'm unfamiliar with the law on this, but it should be illegal for a company to pay a ransom for malicious actors to keep silent about data they stole.
> Its not just drm in the way. Even if I had a copy of the app I wouldn't be able to use it because no device I have could run it.

Depends on the game. For example, a lot of old Windows games run on Linux in Wine pretty well, despite not working even on Windows anymore.
Yeah, from 2005-2009 I had a boss who insisted all staff be on AOL IM, with groups etc. There was an option to automatically save all chats. Slack has more features, but I don't see it as fundamentally different.
> That way the user gets their driver faster.

How is that relevant? If you are an agency, you are advertising availability both ways. If you filter on behavior, you are no longer acting as an independent agency but as an agent for one side.

Disclosing pattern behavior (has rejected 12 rides this hour) is the correct way to provide value-add, not silently making decisions for parties.
The "high school problems" are the employees organizing, apparently.
> Ok, but how do you know that a change (possibly a bugfix) in your code will break something (maybe a weird, broken thing) that I depend on?

That would be unintentional though. If that happens to you report it as a regression and most developers will give it super high priority and even release a hotfix to deal with it.

There's a big difference between accidental breakage, which is always a bug, and intentional breakage where it's reasonable to give some type of notice to people consuming your platform / API.
Oh, they are doing "unprofessional" things in a tool that facilitates informal communication now, are they?

Well. It's called chatter. That will either happen over the watercooler, or it will happen over text. The only problem is that off the cuff remarks can be part of the permanent record now. But otherwise, they should be harmless.

And also... maybe go fix the problems people are "bearish" about? (also what's this stock market lingo doing here)

> The problematic employee, the employee who would sit around at the lunchroom and tell people how bad this place is

Well, maybe the place IS bad. And if they are bitching about it, they may still care – employees who have "checked out" won't complain nearly as much (or at all), while looking elsewhere. Or maybe they are just venting and had a bad week. Or it's a cry for help. If the place weren't as bad, other employees could help the person.

> and it’s amplifying.

Oh, so other people agree with the person too? Maybe there is a problem indeed.
This isn't that bus that will explode if it gets slower than 60 mph.

According the the article, during the final deceleration, the space traveller will age 20 or so years. In other words, for the traveller, that deceleration phase is going to last 20 years.
Honestly it's just the little details... which are huge. For better or worse emoji reactions and gifs really change the tenor of conversations. You can say its just chat, and that's true, but people are complicated and the smallest of chat features changes interactions so much.

Just as an example, "heres a new feature" vs "heres a new feature (+100 thumbs up emoji)", for better or worse that changes people.
Looking forward to a fun new App Store world. Just like streaming services it will fragment to many different subscribed stores, each with their own privacy and sharing policies, for temporary access to exclusive games. Nothing like a little offshore gaming or porn gaming to pass the time in class.
Yet another tick on the list of "ways mobile devices are not real computers". If something erases my files I ought to be able to run a recovery scan and get them back in minutes, assuming they haven't been overwritten with new data.
I manage a team where we have had one member frequently get into issues with Slack. Mostly in the form of drawing into political discussions or lengthy drama, usually not inappropriate by tone or comment, but mostly by relentlessness and distraction.

His quality of work output is very high, his teammates rate him highly in reviews, he is kind & respectful in all other forms of communication like code reviews, team meetings, etc. It’s just 100% the instant gratification of a real time chat response in a debate thread that draws him to the problem zone.

Firing someone like this would be ridiculous. It would hurt team morale, lower productivity, sink costs into finding and training a backfill, and establish that we, as managers, would prefer to kick people and bark orders under the threat of dismissal than to be accepting of flaws and actually do the job of managing and help the person grow past this.
"We need new, accessible job-training solutions--from enhanced vocational programs to online education--to help America recover and rebuild."

Call me a cynic but part of me feels like this is really about helping Google lubricate the gears of their own recruiting pipeline.
This is just the euphamism treadmill in action. The name for an outgroup becomes a slur over time because it refers to an outgroup.
Just close the app then, right? Does your job obligate you to be on Slack all the time, probably not. You get more time back, and deliver more value to your company's business.
Lawn Jockeys (2008)
Sounds like the TV series devs
Support ticket systems (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom...) definitely have an “ignore” feature.
Your price seems off. My parents bought a decent 28' center console with twin 275hp outboards that was 2 years old and it was well over $100k. I was just looking for a boat in the 24' range yesterday and $50-60k seems like the minimum for anything built within the last 5-10 years.

I agree that's an insane price for a boat under 30 feet, but new boats are stupid expensive these days.

E.g. https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2019-pursuit-s-288-7560060/
> there are no 32-bit supported versions of Windows

Windows 10 has a supported 32 bit version

EDIT: It support 16 bit apps too: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-16-bit-application-s...
Aside: One of the best FSX posters out there is AirForceProud95. He's what got me into flight sims, at least for a little while. A good compilation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8E3SyMbaSk
> Of course we can. It's another CCP tool. We ban it. That's it.

This is how to conflict quickly.
This perfectly lays bare why I disagree with the ruling: you don't actually think drivers are employees, you just want them classified as employees so they get X benefits. It's a legislative hack.

It's seems so obvious to me that we need to create a third kind of worker: not an employee, not a contractor, but a new category that has some of the extra freedom of contracting and some of the benefits of employment.

It's important that we maintain integrity in our legal system. Uber drivers are not employees, and saying "we need to classify them as employees so they get insurance" is fundamentally backwards.
Is this a Dropbox joke?
> _employee_ problems

Employee problems as perceived from some random "CEO"'s perspective.
An iPhone is just a phone. The Beatles are just a band. Michael Jordan is just a basketball player. I don’t get the excitement.
I think the opposite meaning of factoid (ie: a small, very specific fact) is actually the more common usage.

I've never heard anyone actually use the original meaning, but frequently hear the "small fact" usage - except to point out the opposite meaning. (I've done some work in question answering, and the "small fact" usage is exclusively the way I've seen it used in that field)
Would these be feasible for the entire state? For example, could I get a permit to build one of these in a coastal region?
This seems like a case of shooting the messaging app. It's just human behavior, and it'll happen anywhere.
Uber drivers do not own the means of production, as ruled by the recent California courts, because they do not own the capital of their employers, which is the IP of Uber. This is why socialists are developing and operating open-source and decentralized alternatives to Uber in many countries, so that they will indeed own the means of production.

That said, I agree that employment laws need a rewrite for these situations, but we won't get the needed reform to get the gig-worker system to work under either Biden or Trump, so not for at least 6 years.
It seems like that perhaps makes it more likely everyone will want to settle quickly. Settlement money shouldn't be subject to a clawback, so Revlon comes out ahead. And a clawback doesn't help Citi either -- they're out the full sum. At that point, Citi's money flows to help Revlon's creditors.

What's even more interesting is that you're right that a clawback like that might actually happen. In theory, justice is blind. In practice, lots of courts exercise deep justice jurisprudence, and it's hard to argue Citi should get its money before Revlon's employees or similarly worthy parties.

That actually plays to Brigade's benefit slightly, I think. If this risk is there, Citi will definitely want to settle quickly.
> Software licenses always disclaim any warranty, implied or explicit, it's all "AS IS" and you accept it when you click that Accept button upon installation.

Those disclaimers often have far less legal effect than the text would suggest, because jurisdictions often limit the effect of warranty disclaimers by sellers, and also because of product liability laws which are distinct from warranty protection (though similar to the lay understanding of warranty protection.)
Sorry, I forgot the "/s" at the end.
The bulk of a "house" price in populated areas is the cost of the land.

That's why rundown, dilapidated, etc "homes" in the Bay Area are so expensive. You're paying for the land. So a $20k home is still going to cost you a stupid amount.

If you go out to the middle of nowhere, you can get huge, and amazing, homes for less that $100k (because no one wants to live there).
This is like the "how hard would it be to clone Dropbox" comment. Everything looks easy at first glance, the devil is in the details. Boat manufacturers work on relatively small R&D budgets too, there are usually only a few engineers involved. I'm sure there are hundreds of startups that are going no where but spend more on engineering than these guys.
The fact that you need to type 33 characters to define something so simple as clamp() really does not make sense
I have recently migrated off Lightroom to Rawtherapee, and would recommend it to photographers serious about raw development. I don’t see myself going back, really.

Open-source, plain-text profile format, works everywhere. Like Lightroom, it handles DNGs natively, but allows more control as you create your image from raw scene-referred data.

Its GUI is somewhat laggier, but if you do a lot of batch processing you may be able to more than offset that by writing a simple script that delegates processing to your own cloud compute (it has a CLI tool, something Lightroom is unlikely to offer). Profile once, apply without having to launch the GUI.
I don't know if you're joking, but I'm in the habit of using ZeroTier+VNC.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or snark here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24228435.
I hate Slack, but for unrelated reasons.

Slack has no priority levels. Slack pings you: is it an alert, a question, an outage, or someone sending you a funny gif? You can’t adjust the relative priority of these alerts, so good luck!

I’ve also seen that it regularly replaces documentation for teams. This is an issue, since slack just scrolls forever. You might have memorized the precise sentence to search for (I’ve done this), but good luck to everyone else.

All in all I think more companies would be better off with just IRC for ephemeral chats. IRC sets no expectation that you’ll catch up with everything that happened when you were offline, which in this case is good.
Is there a question? You are asking for dozens of solutions.
I don’t see why this is a problem, I actually think it’s a feature. Do you really want to be using 20 year old software? I don’t. Furthermore, not being able to run old code has never impacted me in a meaningful way and I’m part of the small minority of people who write software for a living. I recon if you go ask pretty much anyone out on the street about this “problem”, they wouldn’t even care.

I think it is fair to say that unchanging software systems can be harmful. The unemployment benefits system in the United States is a good example. They built those systems in the 70s and never touched them again. Now that the requirements have changed due to Covid induced economic collapse and the systems are overloaded, there isn’t a single person who has a damn idea how to fix it. If there were people iterating on and improving the system this entire time, things would be much easier to fix, or maybe there wouldn’t have been a problem at all.

Data is forever, not code. Code should be fickle. Changing code is progress
Uber can simply adjust their algorithm and refuse to give shifts to drivers if there is enough drivers to cover the "bad" time period, which would be the exact equivalent of Uber drivers right now not getting rides (and not getting paid) when there is no demand.
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