skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try A-10 Cuba if you want to see this done right, in terms of fun.

Can knock bits of your wings off, grind your gears up etc
Hackers can now clone your keys just by listening to them with a smartphone
Apple has separate rules for purely business apps like Slack and Zoom, as well as a set of exceptions for Netflix, Spotify etc. Most other consumer-focused apps aren't allowed to do the same, so they have to offer an in-app subscription.
It's a rather confusing statement though since Skripal survived this WMD attack.
This doesn't seem like a great system to me for a couple reasons. First of all, it can be used to dismiss basically anything. If someone is bullish on crypto and also has a big financial stake in the crypto ecosystem are there more reliable because they have "skin in the game" or less reliable because they are just "talking their book"? But more importantly, it is really reductive about making predictions. You can look at vague predictions as wishy-washy or you can look at it at as someone being thoughtful about the fact that the world is complicated and the best we can do is assign probabilities. And how do you evaluate that? Was Nate Silver wrong because he gave Hillary Clinton a 70% chance of winning the 2016 election? According to him she "should have won" but didn't but things with 30% probability happen a lot so a single event doesn't really tell us much.
The reason for that, of course, is that Russia, like any right-thinking country, wants to be surrounded by friendly or neutral buffer states.

If Mexico and Canada entered a military alliance with China, how do you think Washington would react? How long would it take until we would see regime change in Ottawa?

It's not a 'perfectly fine' view, it is just a natural consequence of being encircled.
As a computer program, this is probably not feasible. While in theory you are possibly capable of writing the algorithms for your own recommendation engine using whatever ML tools are popular today, the issue you'd have is data. YouTube's recommendation algorithm effectively only works because it's capable of aggregating millions of users behavior to feed into their own system. Getting that data personally would be very difficult both because YouTube doesn't want to enable competitors, and because consumers would be extra freaked out to find out about some random engineer outside of YT getting their watch history.

As a non-program, you can always depend on the means that humans have used for content discovery since time immemorial: word of mouth.
I think Ubuntu strikes a good balance— goofy, lovable names, but a clear alphabetical sequence. Robot operating system (ROS) inherited this approach with its naming as well: https://wiki.ros.org/Distributions#List_of_Distributions
That's their rationale for shutting down, which is still a choice they've chosen to make. Basically, they're going on strike as a corporation.
I hope you realize that AB5 will eventually make its way into delivery services too. All those services will cost a lot more then. Are you ready for that? Even if you are, have you thought about low income earners and how they will cope up with this? These are 2 sided marketplaces - just thinking from the driver's standpoint, who mind you have also protested against this since it robs them of flexibility, is missing the point.

I really hope people vote for Prop 22 and kill this awful law which was mostly brought in by unions/taxi drivers to have their way around things.
The state doesn't get a choice the people will vote on proposition 22 which is already polling very well; Uber and Lyft will get there exemption.
Lots of angles to attack "art" but monetization isn't one that applies here.

This is extremely hard work to sell, time-consuming to create, and doesn't scale in any way that's compatible with an industry unpinned almost entirely by scarcity.

Think about how much this would cost to prototype and build, and how much time the artist put into conceptualizing and creating it. Then think about the tiny subset of people who would want to (and had space to) live with pieces like this—no matter how cool they are.

Even if a piece like this sold for $50k (which would put this artist in > 95th percentile of earners), take $25k off the top for the gallery, subtract out cost of materials and take into account maximum annual output and, factoring in value of his time, we're talking modest middle class money. Nevermind the endless schmoozing and strategic friendships and events and studio visits it takes to drum up any gallery/institutional/collector relationships...

Kudos to the artist, keep fighting the good fight!
AB5 was an absolute cop-out by the CA Legislature. They should have defined a third class of workers with protections somewhere in between Contractors and Employees.

But when it comes to the vote in November, a vote to exempt Uber/Lyft from AB5 is a vote to strip drivers of all protections. Uber and Lyft will be free to go back to exploiting drivers for <$10/hr [1]. I don't think I can tell someone else they don't deserve to earn minimum wage.

Maybe you are hoping the legislature will eventually come up with that third way once forced to, but there's a lot of momentum behind a popular vote. No US legislature has proven themselves particularly effective in the last few years. Let's not leave people out to dry while hoping some politicians will do their jobs.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/10/2/17924628/uber-drivers-make-hou...
I watched the documentary last night and it was fantastic. Wonderful work and thank you.
They could put a DMCA policy on their site. I did.
Internet sleuths solve mystery of Flight Simulator's 200-storey Melbourne house
I don't know, it would be great if any of these people had bothered talking to a lawyer or an anti-trust scholar, a provenance that would matter a lot to understanding this issue.

For example, almost everyone here will learn more reading "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox" (https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...) to understand why Epic set things up the particular, exact way they did - because they got Apple to take down a store page that clearly gave consumers the option to buy something at a lower price.

If you don't want to be prejudiced by educational background, which is reasonable, you can easily tell if a take on the Apple v. Epic case is well-informed by simply Ctrl+F searching "consumer welfare." Additionally if the writer makes the distinction between the legal realism (what will happen, which is that Epic will relist but not sell IAP on the App Store anymore, and the outcome of the case will be non-precedent-forming), the legalism (what should happen, which is that Apple is reducing consumer welfare), and what you hope will happen, which surprisingly, for Ben Evans, I guess Apple makes even more money?
Or go right. Time dilation would start working in your favor. You might get there, and back, within your lifetime. Of course everyone on earth would be long dead.
So, if Prop 22 is the solution to this mess, then it's natural to ask:

1) What do services like Uber/Lyft/Doordash (who are proposing Prop 22) currently offer in terms of benefits?

2) How do current benefits compare to what will be mandated by Prop 22?

3) If there is any difference, why? Is a state law required to treat your contractors better than the bare minimum?
Diplomacy in general, or specifically re: space arms control? I don’t think there have been any significant modern examples yet.

Important to remember we’re in the infancy of this stuff as well, NPT for reference hadn’t even started being negotiated til the 1960s.

Obviously, that doesn’t exactly support my point though considering the chicken definitely came first there...
Or taxis.
A lot of people have condemned Uber and Lyft for violating the new law, but I’m wondering whether there is any correct way to apply the law. Does anyone know how AB5 has affected taxi drivers (who typically cannot set their rates), particularly those who use hailing apps (flywheel.com)? Are taxi drivers guaranteed minimum wage, and if so is it on waiting time or only driving time (like in the proposed Proposition 22)? Do taxi drivers get health insurance coverage? If Uber and Lyft instituted a driver cap (medallion), would this bring them into compliance with AB5, or is AB5 compliance impossible even with a driver cap?
> That is not even close to being true.

In C, NULL is equal to itself. In C++, nullptr is equal to itself. In Java, null is equal to itself. Same in C#. In JavaScript, null is equal to itself, and so is undefined.

> You're confusing None with NULL, like everyone else. Only a very few programming languages make this error.

Not so, as I've just shown.

SQL takes the philosophy that NULL isn't a value, but a marker for the absence of a value, and gives it special treatment so that it is not treated as equal to itself. Most programming languages do not take this approach, they instead treat null as a special value, special in that dereferencing it is disallowed, but it's still subject to the usual comparison rules (i.e. it's equal to itself).

Your contrasting of None again NULL isn't meaningful. They're just words. The semantics depend on the language.

> NULL is undefined

Depends on the language. In C it's defined as 0, roughly speaking. (Curiously the bit-pattern used to represent NULL is not required to be zero. [0])

As a curious aside, in C, the special float value NaN is not equal to itself.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/9894047/
AB5 was a legislative act, not a proposition.
Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing Ruby (TruffleRuby, 2015)
Human beings definitely did and still do very awful things. But that word race, as we understand it today, isn't really the thing they used to justify it.

The question is whether "race" as we understand it today was understood that way then. And it wasn't. Not that we can see.

19th century pseudo-anthropology and earlier built up a whole concept of race which essentially defined humanity into subspecies. There was Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, etc. and these were then attached to specific supposedly scientifically defined traits that went far beyond the colour of skin or shape of eye. That is what is generally meant by race, _still_. And it turns out this is complete and total bunk. There's more genetic diversity and difference within Africa between "blacks" than there is between non-Africans and Africans. So the category of race is of absolutely no use except as a historical or ethno-linguistic-cultural designation, and there as well, it's a pretty crappy one. What do Kenyans and West Africans and African Americans have in common other than skin colour? Very little -- not linguistically, not genetically, and not much culturally, either, but they do share a history of being categorized together as "black" by Europeans.

By saying "people always did this" you're ignoring a very specific meaning of race that has been used to justify, and still is, some pretty stupid _specifically_ awful crap. By calling "race" into question, we try to deal with that crap.

Yes, humanity has always used difference as a way of justifying oppression. But this specific kind of imagined difference, it's important to analyze because it's a very _modern_ designation, without a scientific basis, and it had a very specific purpose, and still does for people who like to peddle pseudo-scientific superiority theories around it.
"Uber and Lyft say drivers prefer the flexibility of working as freelancers, while labor unions and elected officials contend this deprives them of traditional benefits like health insurance and workers’ compensation."

I was curious about what drivers think. I guess they're not happy [1] but want to be independent contractors still [2].

1. https://therideshareguy.com/uber-driver-survey/

2. (In a May online survey drawing responses from 734 Uber and Lyft drivers nationwide, 71% said they wanted to be independent contractors) https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-lyft-ordered-to-classify-d...
the world don't move to the beat of just one drum..
Perhaps you're right, English is not my native language.
Yes, I picture it like having to wear shoes with little stones in them. Wishing you good luck in finding a better situation!

A way to stay optimistic may be, to see it like Kung Fu training, where they wear heavy weights around the feet for building strength and endurance. When the weights are taken off, they can jump high and run fast - as I imagine you would be when you finally transition to a workplace that provides an actual work machine.
You stated:

> If Saudi Arabia were to commit a comparable offense, I assure you they'd face a comparable response

Offenses were cited to you. Where is the "commensurate response by the international community" to these offenses?
This would require the employers to collude as to where to have you idling. (Employees don't get to pick exactly where they work.)
Does kotlinc optimize away inline ranges like that, or does this result in a range object being constructed and discarded?
Mortality is also highly age dependent. It mostly reflects that the virus ripped through care facilities since nobody isolated them in time.
> Either give the drivers what the California politicians are saying all Californians should have as a minimum benefit, and then go to court to argue why Lyft drivers should get something else, or let Lyft drivers set their own prices as they should be able to as independent contractors.

Both companies did go to court (which is why the shutdown is happening now and not eight months ago) and Uber does allow drivers to set their own rates.[1]

The people involved in these economic transactions know what they're getting into and consent. The negative externalities created (pollution, congestion, increased accidents, road wear & tear) are paid for by gas taxes, liability insurance, and road/bridge tolls. There are positive externalities such as lives saved due to fewer drunk drivers. It seems crazy to stop consenting adults from doing an activity that, as far as I can tell, mutually benefits everyone involved.

1. https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
I imagine the reason it's downvoted is not because the point isn't valid, but because of the tone.

From the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> It is 60-70% efficient

Funny - in a lot of other technology sectors, that would count as pretty good efficiency.
Anyone remember calling a taxi dispatch over and over? I used to have to call both taxi dispatches in my area (there were only two!) just to guarantee I'd have a cab get me to the airport in time. And you had to pay cash.

I think we can all agree that taxis sucked before Uber/Lyft forced them to update. But that doesn't mean we can't have a better taxi experience using the tech stack Uber/Lyft created.
I also enjoyed what I read of Revelation Space. I really liked how not having faster than light travel played a role. I kind of lost interest when so many of the books revolved around that same planet. There is a whole universe out there that I want to learn more about. I don't care about the rust belt or whatever it was called.
Yet another example of how Medicare for All would be a benefit to all citizens and businesses except those profiting off artificially limiting the supply of healthcare.
> This is a terrible suggestion

Well, if we're optimizing a terrible idea anyway...

https://download.01.org/perfmon/index/skylake_server.html

The FP_ARITH_INST_RETIRED.512B_PACKED_SINGLE performance counter _seems_ to be the hardware performance counter tracking AVX512-32-bit instructions.

You wouldn't even need a debugger. Just a reset: turn on hardware performance counters in the BIOS and run a profiler that can read the hardware performance counters. I don't know if that's the performance counter for sure that we're looking for. There's a few other 512B counters there.
The argument X "does not pay a reasonable wage for anyone to live on true" may be true for many definitions of "live on", how is no job better? Does Uber pay more than an alternate world with no job? Surely that is the question.
I reread (Audiobook version) the Hyperion Cantos a year ago and I was floored at how well it aged in the past 20+ years.

as a sidenote, I picked up on stuff on the rereading and am wondering how much of that is due to my increased maturity and how much is due to the format (paperback vs. audiobook).

As a result I'm rereading a lot of my favorites from the past . Not all have aged as well.
It's called a Taxi. They will drive to your location, pick you up, and take you anywhere you want to go.
SARS died down before they could develop a vaccine. After that it's kinda hard to do human trials without deliberately infecting someone.
I couldn’t tell, your English is very good. I hope my comment didn’t come across in any way as a sleight, my apologies if so.
Not impossible.

mesh network/TOR for uplink can solve that. not to mention it can work as a backup connection when the high bandwidth downlink satellite is nuked/lasered(?) from orbit.
Not sure why the sibling comment was marked dead. It was a relevant response:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-im-joining-cloudflare/
The functions
minNum and maxNum ([IEEE 754-2008, 5.3.1, p19]) take two
arguments and return the min and max, respectively. They
have the special, distinguished property that “if exactly one
argument is NaN, they return the other. If both are NaN they
return NaN.”

Source: http://tom7.org/nand/nand.pdf

Edit: As of 2019, the formerly required minNum, maxNum, minNumMag, and maxNumMag in IEEE 754-2008 are now deleted due to their non-associativity. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#2019]
I agree about muni being bad, having took it for a while ago its really horrible. But in general people complain about SF and all of its public services, but do nothing about the clowns running the city/transit systems. Public transportation can work and work well, look to Europe for a blueprint. If you don't like the way the city and its services are run, vote!
Where in California does that service even come close to what Uber/Lyft offer?
What If Detroit’s Real Estate Industry Looked More Like Detroit?
No it's not. I don't think Isis fighters deserve the same level of care as a newborn child.
discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791428
They did not have "years to adjust their businesses" to a changing landscape of demands, the worst-case scenario of which literally destroys their innovation/business.

"You had years to plan for us removing 95% of your business!" is quite the argument.
People spin history to try and enhance the prestige of groups they identify with. Even when their group identities don’t really make sense in contexts that existed thousands of years ago and thousands of miles away. For instance, “were the ancient Egyptians black?” is a deep rabbit hole.
Ask HN: Anyone in NYC (manhattan) want to share an office work studio?
I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that my mental health is taking a huge hit because of the current lack of ability to context switch. This is also killing my productivity.

Big offices aren't a thing currently, but what about small offices shared among a small group of regularly tested people?

I enjoy working from home, but only for a few days at a time. I'm proposing that a group of myself and maybe 1-2 other people split a lease for a small office / studio space and schedule certain days a week where one person uses the space. (In order to maintain social distancing etc.). Many NYC hacker spaces have adopted similar policies so why not do this for those who really need an office or dedicated workspace to be productive?

I'll furnish the space and provide cleaning supplies.

Is this idea stupid? If so, please tell me. If you're interested or want to get the ball rolling please comment below or include your email :)

Here's a space I'm currently looking at: https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/off/d/new-york-studios-available-at-41-union/7175329407.html

Context switchers unite! We will get through this NYC!
Yes this is a shitty patch job at best. It’s going to restrict individuals and not even solve the root issue.
That's cartoon physics.
I'd shelve The Stand in horror, not scifi. It uses post apocalyptic scifi tropes, but ultimately the driver of the story is occult, not technological. There may not be a fundamental difference between a rogue AI and a demon as an antagonist ... other than where the book gets filed.
This is true, but a better comparison would be to the current taxi market. As much I dislike the realities of the medallions, it's important to acknowledge that taxis have generally upped their game too.
I've been kicking around the idea of a New Urbanist business model generator, which would spit out ideas from keyword lists like "gamification blockchain micropayments 311 litter reporting cleanup" et cetera. I'm sure there are a whole bunch of businesses out there that can be created based on applying civic principles to disruptive capitalist exploitation models

edit: please don't ever ask me the related dystopian business model generator.
True. From some books I've gone through however, the act of making your partner happy often has the side effect of making yourself happy and the same act of making them happy tends to make them want to do things to make you happy. A lovely cycle. People tend to want to be "right" - and that usually means someone else is wrong. Not often a good way to build a loving relationship.
Great questions. I've often wondered the same thing. I strongly suspect that the biggest impediment might be the threat of litigation for patent infringement. IBM has fought fiercely in the past to protect their crown jewels.
Something mentioned in that article is HoloLens. I can't help wondering if Flight Simulator 2020 is meant to be paired with a yet-unreleased version of HoloLens that will make Flight Simulator more immersive than we realized it could be.
x2

While doing competitive programming I learned that I'm really stupid, but even as stupid as I am, I still understand that expression easily.
I'm amazed that peer tube isn't full of porn by now too.
Not neccessarily hazing, but it's only natural that you won't be able to, on day 1, co-design the big refactor or switching from platform A to B or a big feature which touches existing code in very many places. Instead, you'll be given smallerand well defined tasks (which often means that they're boring) that will allow you to familiarize yourself with the codebase, the process, the team members etc.