skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two books I would highly recommend for their idea density and enjoyment are
Deamon - Daniel Suarez and follow on book Freedom.
Old Mans War - John Scalzi and really the whole series.

also really enjoy anything by
Vernor Vinge
The `formatter` tag is already part of the underlying data [1], it's just not reflected on the website yet. We plan to put formatters into a visually separate group per language and add a filter functionality for the type (formatter, linter, metalinter, web-service).

[1]: https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis/blob/0...
i can get an uber from my house to the airport at 4AM in about 10 minutes. I can't get a taxi in the middle of the day sooner than 45 minutes.

(I live in Dallas TX)
If you computer is using a VPN will your private address be visible?
They also work a schedule and do not get to work at BK and Mcds at the same time waiting for the next order.
Thank you for the comment and that link. Fascinating stuff.

The basic philosophy behind Chaos Magic seems to be very much in line with some ancestral eastern philosophies and religions. The gnostic state is pretty much the whole goal of some forms of meditation and religious practices.

Are there any other resources or books you could recommend to dig deeper into Chaos Magic?
All right, I guess we'll see. Life is good for construction workers, right now. Lots of work to go around. I don't think they'll change that.

"Everyone has to make a sacrifice" doesn't mean anything when you can't make them.
Competitive markets are the best way for capital to extract value from workers, because without collective bargaining they pit individuals against huge corporate operations with wildly disproportionate access to legal and financial power.

They are not the best way to allocate resources - not least because they have huge social and political opportunity costs which are rarely understood by their fervent devotees.

Cash is not a solution to this, although it can be a productive first step in some limited circumstances.

The "arbitrary economic relationships" here are the ones being peddled by Uber and Lyft.

The point is neither Uber nor Lyft are viable businesses. Even with its advantages Uber is somehow managing to lose $3bn a year on its ride sharing service.

It only exists at all because investors hope it will somehow be able to throw its beta-drivers under the proverbial bus when self-driving cars finally become a thing, and too many of its drivers aren't aware of this and are expecting it to act like a long-term employer.
> What's the difference between your local grocery store clerk, and a Hollywood actor?

One has to keep working to live a comfortable life, the other doesn't (and neither will their kids).
I remember digging into the source material used in this article, and contacting the founder, not Nico, but the other gentleman, can't remember his name, an amicable friendly chap. Anyway, I said to him, that a lot of the founders, although I respect their transparency and willingness to talk about unfortunately failing, they appear blinkered to the reasons for their failure. I won't mention the founders reply.

Looking at PMF in terms of:

1. The definition of PMF

2. How PMF is drummed into founders

3. The proposed criteria to evaluate PMF

4. The actual things to measure within the criteria

I won't pull a number out of my backside to state to what degree PMF wasn't the issue, but I will say PMF was not the problem in some of the startups mentioned in the source material. In some cases PMF was not something they should have even been looking for at the stage they were at.

Another reason that cropped up quite a few times. Bad Marketing. Putting growth over retention, automation and efficiency over learning and personally figuring out how to sell in person isn't bad marketing to me. That's a bad decision.
No employer would accept fulltime employees working for their direct competitor at the same time?
Books that have become dated can sometimes be quite interesting when read with the period they were published in in mind. Not just for the retro-effect they invariably invoke, but also to see how the thought experiments encapsulated in them would have appeared to people then.

Sci-fi classics are like any other classic books; you have to read them in the context of the author and his times. You can't read Conrad's Heart of Darkness ignoring the cultural and historical context either.

And honestly, sometimes a Heinlein juvenile makes for a nice change of pace between heavier works (either sci-fi/fantasy or any other genre).
none; you have to at least claim as an axiom "axioms are things that can be claimed" -- but that's not what's under discussion here: logic and math are neither of them empirical sciences, after all.

my point is that "we define science as empirical falsificationism" is itself nonscientific by its own definition, and that that's OK, still capable of being true, and is a handy way to get stuff done.
I've noticed this too. If there's one thing that'll get me to kick my YouTube addiction, it'll be the increased ads. If it gets any worse, I think I'd rather read a book or just go to sleep earlier -- not a bad thing, really.
> Still, it's an absolutely brutal way to handle the virus and it's accepting deaths on the order of large wars.

So just like the last million years of human history?
Not sure who wins here? It seems bad for both drivers and riders.
Lyft, Uber Granted Stay on California Order to Reclassify Drivers
Big Corp lying to save their bottom line? No way....
Lol...clown world
The problem isn’t the algorithm. It’s the class system
I don't think the definition of effective is relative. I believe people can have different goals though, so actions that would be effective to one person aren't to another. I don't think it's moral for your goal to be help those in your community at the expense of everyone else. Therefore if you are making moral decisions effective means the choice that will cause the most good per resource.
It's because people can't afford the true cost of a rideshare if a driver needs to make subsistence wage, and the company needs to be profitable.

In a difference landscape the Uber model might be sustainable, but the middle class is being completely gutted. California especially is headed toward a Hawaii-esque bifurcated economy, comprised of a wealthy minority and a massive underclass of service-industry people catering toward their every want and need.
In practice “max” and “min” often aren’t conceptually important for a clamp function. It’s more that you want to keep a value within a range, which is defined by two end points in arbitrary order.

If that is the version of clamp you need, the sort based solution reveals something profound and unexpected: it’s not just the two end points of the range that are equivalent, but all three numbers. Keeping value A between B and C is the same as keeping B between A and C or C between A and B. It’s completely arbitrary which pair you consider to be a range.
'We' are not the government. A specific group of people are. There are many people who want nothing to do with any government. That included Carlin.

> My logical conclusion with regards to speech: Learn to observe, think, form your own opinions, always speak your mind, and be no part of group think or group speech. Which is exactly what George Carlin did.

Agree. Someone should tell dang.
Neither Lyft nor Uber has ever made a profit. Drivers aren't the only ones being fleeced.
Certainly looks smoother than smashing into waves.
> Thus it is likely many more than 2.4million americans have been infected/exposed, potentially drawing down the death rate well below 1%.

The parent poster is not saying 2.4 million Americans were infected. The poster is saying 2.4 million New Yorkers were infected.
I double checked, because I originally thought you were wrong, but it looks like you're essentially right.

32mi/s * (5280ft/mi) = 168,960 ft/s

168,960 ft/s ÷ 32.17405 ft/s^2 = 5,251.4371053691s

5,251s ÷ 60 s/min ÷ 60 min/h = 1.45hr
Citizens also want to be able to earn income as independent contractors, the way they have for decades in many other industries. But above all, citizens would like to be able to choose for themselves instead of having a few people with no idea of their experience tell them what they must do.
Was it more or less damaging then the tire-pyre disaster that the country went through in the 90s, prior to him taking power?

That's when my family left, and while my remaining relatives have soured against Putin in recent years (Funny how that happened... They were all for him, right up until ~2017, or so), nobody feels nostalgic for the 90s.

Let's not whitewash history. The Russian public has only recently started souring on him. The brain drain didn't start because of him - it started 28 years ago, as soon as the borders were opened.
Those who acquire a disability early have lived with it awhile and adapted to their environment. So I don't even think about it, knowing that, if they need help they will almost certainly ask.

Those who are disabled by accidents have a harder time IMO b/c it takes time to learn how to adapt and they will always remember what life was like before the accident. That memory is hard to let go of: part of you is gone forever. I'm more attentive to these people, knowing that often the learning and adaptation is occurring right in front of me.

Then there are those, mostly elderly, who don't yet realize that they are becoming disabled/weak. I see them in stores, for example, struggling to reach or lift (e.g.,cases of bottled water, an item on a shelf 8 feet up). I always offer to help, and always leave them with the reminder that "Tall people are here to reach the top shelf, so don't hesitate to ask!"

Sometimes I think of a life with normal height and strength, a life where I wasn't the only one who could see the grunge growing atop the refrigerator or who could help move a piano up the stairs. But we're all different, we all can do different things and, thanks to our differences, there's always someone (or some ones) for the task.
> how they treated funds, retail investors, and mortgage holders during the financial crisis of 2008.

What did they do exactly?
This is pretty much unrelated to the discussion earlier on (which was about the interaction of different flow control mechansisms). But nevertheless one answer that tries to clear up some misunderstandings:

You can reuse connections with every HTTP version up from HTTP/1.1. The main difference between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 and /3 is that you can't make concurrent requests on a single connection with HTTP/1.1, but you can with /2 and /3.

For how long a connection will stay open after a request will be determined by keepalive settings on the client and server side. All HTTP versions up from 1.1 allow you not to use a connection for 30s and then make another request.
I was in an Uber rideshare once with a blind person. Had no idea they were blind until the driver pulled over and got out (which initially confused me) to help them to their house.
Granddaughter Arkady as well.
Kudos on that moral victory California. You robbed my mobility-impaired younger sister of her legs without providing any alternative. Fuck your sorry excuse of public transit filled with gawkers and requiring her to wonder whether there will be connected sidewalks for her to solve her last-two-mile trip on her chair.

"Oh, but Uber and Lyft were brought down by their own greed" Well, where is the non-greedy alternative in this market, employing legitimate full-benefit workers and serving their community while making earnest profits? If there really exists a market that is sustainable via the terms outlined by the court of California, why the hell isn't anyone competing in this market that famously yields no incumbent benefits?

If, on the other hand, if the math doesn't check out and there isn't a viable market, then what is being accomplished by this ruling? It's both shutting down an extremely useful service while taking jobs away from people who need it most, when they need it most.

This is a terrible decision that is so far removed from reality that it's almost laughable. While I admire the idealistic worldview of those who rule from above, this is a classic case of the road to hell being paved by good intentions.
>You cannot install Fortnite skins/characters/emotes/etc without paying Epic. Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite Store.

Honestly, it would not be all that bad if the community could mod Fortnite to add their own skins, like you can in many other games.
Wage Theft
Not by a factor of ten, but you can get 47.1% of the sunlight (which at 1 AU with no atmosphere is 1360 W/m^2), or 640 W/m^2.

Even then, 200 MW is a square 560 meters on each side.
> "And when IPv6 is in use, the median connection setup is 1.4 times faster than IPv4. This is primarily due to reduced NAT usage and improved routing."
I have worked as a freelancer for many years. I now run a company that finds work and manages clients for freelancers.
So why don't you start a competitor?

The idea that there is a gap in the market is something that people are looking for, on Hacker News most especially, and if this is a legitimate gap that Uber and Lyft are ignoring for silly reasons, then there should be a bunch of startups to take their place pretty quickly.
Yeah that’s a very good call, I will probably rename these. Thanks for the critique!
Competition tends to force organizations to evolve to meet the threat. That is, unless some government intervenes in the market, distorting the effect. Then you get a distorted market with inefficient allocation of resources.

Seems to happen quite a bit in monoideological areas.
That's something I have noticed as well and it's concerning - the vast amount of fringe/conspiracy/right wing content that's showing up on things like Peertube. it's like the unhinged days of Usenet again in many ways.

Edit: And I've noticed the downvotes, yet what I have said is still accurate. It is true that Gab moved to mastodon, for example, and there is evidence of their mindset spreading to other properties in the Fediverse.
Ironically deno.

Yeah I think my biggest pain with typescript would be the compile times in larger applications... Although I have very little reference to other compilers with the same code base. I can see why they ditched it
It's also forcing me into an $800 a year LLC I don't want for software contracts. :-/
another +1, excellent book
I decided to check for myself and registered in the app. The nearest ride is in 20 minutes (about 2x from the rideshares) and the price from my house to SFO is about $160. My last ride with Uber was about $70. Make your own conclusions.
Oh yes and the app is buggy as heck, losing internet connection all the time (on my home wifi!) and getting stuck in random places.
I wasn't arguing about what sci-fi is, its fairly amorphous. More just highlighting the laziness of creating a novel based around future tech and then having someone just reading a paper, its fine but not GOAT material imo. It is a space western/drama which is totally fine.
Someone posted great advice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227594
wholeheartedly agree. A female friend wanted me to recommend some classic sci-fi since it had influenced me so much. I knew they were going to have aged badly on social issues but, my god, they are unreadably awful. Even Bradbury whom I considered a good writer, not just a creative thinker - and it's the same problem. Same issue finding classic video games - pervasive, unavoidable, and utterly unnecessary biases that ruin the works.
Epic's long term plan should be to enable cloud gaming support via an Epic mobile browser. Basically the Google Stadia approach (cloud based graphics rendering and only basic input controls and video decompression of the rendered graphics on the mobile device).

- Use codecs the underlying mobile safari browser can support.

- The browser stores your Epic login and launches to the default Epic homepage.

- Enable the Epic browser to generically surf the web to provide multipurpose functionality to follow existing precedent set by Firefox and Chrome on iOS Appstore.

At worst Epic can default to Mobile Safari itself if Apple still blocks a specific Epic browser (i.e. duplicate functionality) and show how people can make iOS safari shortcuts.

Long live mobile web apps!
Many Uber drivers are great people! I know a bunch, I know how they have been screwed. The costs are never upfront. The Driving rarely lasts as people eventually get taken out by upkeep expenses, waiting for fares, and lost values in vehicles.
So you all want to turn them back into taxi drivers? Do you remember how crappy and expensive taxi service was? Ride sharing is not a career. It’s sharing a ride to make extra cash. Yes, we are runnning out of actual careers, I get that. But turning gigs into careers is not the answer. UBI + gig work+ universal healthcare is the answer you were looking for.
Does look like fun, but let's face it, 50 nautical miles is nothing on the water. I guess if you're on a lake the just under 60 mile range is enough to water ski but it's definitely not suited to deep water. And all carbon fiber, must cost a pretty penny. Great idea, hopefully battery technology innovates to give products such as this one a more practical use case.
Interesting discussion. Take some of the districts shown in your source: NY-10, a Democratic district, is like half of Manhattan plus bits of Brooklyn. PA-13, a Republican district, is 98% rural Pennsylvania with some small towns thrown in.

Rural districts lean Republican, and urban districts lean Democratic. I'd wager that the bad indicators you mention are better explained by the rural/urban divide more so than political leanings. A central business district of a major city is going to have better economic growth, higher-skilled and more educated labor, and a host of other good indicators compared to farmland.

I agree there is correlation between dense urban areas (which are more likely to lean Democratic) having a higher GDP output and rural areas (which are more likely to lean Republican) having a lower GDP output. However, you would need to provide stronger evidence that there is any causality established there.

I'd say the causality runs the other way around: people in high density living situations (which for better or worse have been the primary driver of GDP growth since the industrial revolution) are amenable to more government regulation, simply by virtue of the problems caused by that same density -- people encounter "this is why we can't have nice things" kinds of situations, and want regulation to counter those, a lot more often when squeezed into big cities. Therefore those places lean Democratic in the US. The opposite applies for rural areas. I don't think you can claim that you could take a rural (and therefore Republican-leaning) area, turn the voters there Democratic, and cause economic growth to happen, without first turning it into a dense city.
At a glance, I can't spot anything by Ken MacLeod, nor Iain Banks. Both are masters of hard SF. I read most of Ken MacLeod's work, some several times (yes, I really enjoyed them that much), and I am reading Iain Bank's Culture series these days.
People being taken advantage of by unfair business practices are usually still making an active choice to participate in those unfair practices. People making below minimum wage would likely rather keep that below minimum wage job than be fired because the company refuses to pay them more. That is still not a valid argument against the minimum wage.

A business model that relies on unfair business practices is not a viable business model. We just need to make sure that the employees caught in this transition have a social safety net that protects them from the financial repercussions of implementing these higher standards for all employees.
Haha at: written by a single genius. And so true.
That's fair, if it's cheaper including externalities.
> I genuinely don't understand this argument. The fact that a platform succeeded despite security holes is not an argument against removing those holes.

True enough, but you're just assuming the truth of your argument by using non-neutral words.

The fact that a platform succeeded despite security holes is not an argument against removing those holes.

The fact that a platform succeeded thanks to security holes is an argument against removing those holes.

But how do you know which fact you're looking at?
Epic's not a marketplace because it's all first party outside of licensed deals, its not the same thing.
"Kushi" is still a current slur against black people in Israel and other Hebrew-speaking areas.[1] It's a bit like calling someone a "chinaman." Also, some people point out the sound similarity of קוֹף (monkey) and כושי (Kushite).

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-rabbi-compares-african-a...
I really love all the financial experts on this thread, both pro, and con.
No, just bleak, cold, depressing, vast spaces that make you feel meaningless.
In the popular imagination? The Romans were conquering barbaric tribes that aren't worth talking about in detail, I think. Certainly not civilizations. The actual details of those civilizations seem to be as niche and obscure as knowledge of the Kush.
That's true, but I've read GP's post more along the lines of "we've already heard those arguments and debated them, there's nothing new here".

Just repeating the same arguments (whether they're right or wrong) doesn't really help move the discussion forward...
On call and showing up for a work request are both mandated by law in CA. That's where a lot of issues people are overlooking lay with Uber/Lyft having employees. In their current model they would have to pay drivers just for logging into the app. If the driver did one customer drive and it took 10 minutes, they would have to pay the driver minimum 2 hours.
Yes neither of my examples were exactly the same. I'm talking about feel and results and specifically I wasn't talking about how current drivers operate, I was talking about how the resulting circumstance might exist in the future.

But to go back to the tutoring example: if I was working for a tutoring company, agreed to take clients between lets say 1-5 PM, and the rate was set by the company, would that be similar enough?
My favorite course in college was Sociology of Science, the majority of which was basically reading Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Yeah, I would much rather see lawmakers recognize that ridesharing workers are employees, and change the law to accommodate micro-shifts, than to say that because micro-shifts go against existing law, ridesharing workers can't possibly be employees.

That said, there is certainly a good reason for minimum-length shifts and on-call payments in other industries, so I'm willing to acknowledge that striking the right balance that protects workers across the board might be difficult.
Surely "ridesharing" should be reserved for when a group of people share the same vehicle and all are going in the same direction, with another purpose than driving the group there. If I drive my friend to the airport and I then drive back we did not share a ride I gave him a ride.
Hopefully lyft and uber will decide to move their companies out of CA to a more business friendly climate.
Uber, Lyft Win Delay on Converting Drivers to Employees
When making glsl shaders, there's clamp().
Amazon has let you put your own books on Kindle since day 1. You are not restricted to their own store.
You're right - if you don't plan at all and just give everyone 2k per month, it's too expensive. In the strictest sense, UBI is impossible.

In most versions of the plan I've seen, the cost is not as simple as (population over 18) * (monthly amount). If you're looking for a breakdown of the math, check this out:

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/bicn/pages/57/attachme...
Amazon has this weird algorithmic automated price setting going on when books are out of print and only available second-hand or from leftover stock. It probably makes sense to whoever implemented the algorithm.

Usually the prices stop somewhere around the €75 mark though.