skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about that. One major gripe from the rest of the LGBTQ+ acronym was many of the groups working toward marriage equality nationally in the US shut down the instant they won instead of working on related issues.
When they talk about "shift work" they're referring to the way the taxi industry works. The reason the taxi industry works that way is because most drivers drive company cars which are owned & maintained by the company. Drivers that own their own cars can drive whenever they want to. There are no shifts.

I drove a taxicab for more than a year back in the 90's. That's the way it worked then. Most drivers were shift because they "rented" the car from the company and shared it with other workers. A few drivers were owner-operators who got to set their own hours. This is closer to the model that Uber & Lyft operate under today.

So when Lyft claims that they would be forced to enforce shift work on their owner-operators, this is a lie. There is already a model for this type of driving that predates Uber & Lyft and they're just choosing to ignore it now because it serves their current interests.
> 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?

There was a cheaper alternative for companies to provide up until now, so I don't think the current lack of this type of service proves that it couldn't exist. Companies will tend to provide the service that costs them the least in the absence of other incentives; that's why labor laws exist in the first place. The fact that child labor and unsafe working conditions used to be the norm wasn't due to it being impossible to make a profit without them, but due to companies having no incentive to get rid of them.
> The central challenge arises from a distributional shift: in order to improve over the historical data, offline RL algorithms must learn to make decisions that differ from the decisions taken in the dataset. However, this can lead to problems when the consequences of a seemingly good decision cannot be deduced from the data — if no agent has taken this particular turn in the maze, how does one know if it leads to the goal or not? Without handling this distributional shift problem, offline RL methods can extrapolate erroneously, making over-optimistic conclusions about the outcomes of rarely seen actions
All this is interesting read knowing so many people are still using MySQL 5.7 . No announcement this week on new version support.

Will you ever be in MySQL 8
In many many uber/lyft rides i have met a very few drivers who actually were doing real ride sharing. A person would get off work and turn on the app to get a fare in the direction of home.
"Well actually" there's TWO (2!) women. One has one line, and she's talking to a man, so it still fails the Bechtel test. The other, like you said, models a necklace, and has no lines.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-Lyft-win-l...
Hi fellow HN,

Since the pandemic my company allow us to work remotely. Although it’s nice but it can get lonely and I miss some of the office chit chat. Most of the remote software solution only focus on business meeting. So after a 2 day hack I created a website to focus on the “water cooler” talks. You can try it here https://www.inoffice.chat

There are some things that make it different from other solutions. One of it is that it is voice only. The reason for this is because I believe voice is less intrusive than video and not everyone is on their best looks when working remotely. There is also no calling concept, you can just click a button and voice chat instantly.

I hope you guys give it a try. For now there is only 1 office to try. If you have any question or would like to setup your own office with your colleague you can reach me at hazmi[at]inoffice.chat

For those who are interested my stack it's built on Elixir(Pheonix LiveView)

Thanks!
Or anywhere, in my experience. I've never had a taxi experience that wasn't terrible. Even before Uber and Lyft came along. That includes several different cities.
Yes. Once those crises are over it's all smooth sailing ahead! There'll be TONS of time for labor law then.
do you have some recommended resources to learn more about BPMN? what's your take on BPMN vs other approaches? (JSON or cadence/temporal style "workflow as code")
As a counter-anecdote, I came to OCaml skeptically in late 2018, having previously done significant work in Haskell, Clojure[Script], and Java. I got up and running very quickly, and IMO compared to those other three languages/platforms, OCaml tooling is only worse/more difficult than Java's.
Gödel's theory relates to systems of mathematical proof (epistemology), rather than mathematical models of reality (ontology). The problem comes not with fitting maths around an infinite universe (which arguably requires fewer assumptions than for a finite one), but with building maths in the first place.
Presumably:

> This second one is instructive: the EU is taking the view that Apple has a monopoly of payment on the iPhone. Market definition is everything. I-am-not-a-lawyer, but I don’t see how Apple can win on Spotify (or Kindle), and I don’t think it should.

And the final sentence:

> Apple finally won the argument with users’ wallets, and that means it’s not niche anymore - Apple has become the navy, and different rules apply.
Hi, that's a really interesting boat concept.

Even if not foiling, can you still take the boat out with, say, beaufort 8-9 weather? That's more similar to what I was expecting in the "high waves" videos, and is not unusual to encounter when commuting or spending the day elsewhere, depending on your area (obviously, it starts being unpleasant if you want to spend the day at sea on a speedboat).

Edit: now realizing it, but your target market is probably only going to go out with calm weather in protected seas, given the price point and finish. I hope that sort of product will get mainstream at some point.
iOS and macOS Safari.

In iOS it's mostly when you have a lot of things open and too little memory. In macOS they don't reload (or maybe it's rare) but they do sleep. But it's very hard to notice.
Along with the bipartisan trend toward authoritarianism is a bipartisan trend away from economic freedom.

Some want to hinder our ability to trade with Chinese firms or hire foreign workers, others want to hinder our ability to take gig economy jobs or operate our home as an Airbnb.

The idea that these authoritarians have is that economic freedom is bad.

Why not just make laws that very specifically protect the most vulnerable and foist the tax burden fairly on everyone else? It's a historical accident that employee provided healthcare is tax deductible and that workers comp and social security/medicare are funded by payroll taxes.

All of the quirky rules and perverse incentives exist because at some point in the past they benefited some established interest group.

There is a very disappointing lack of creativity and willingness to look at the simple issue at the core of all of these problems. We can't let the most vulnerable workers be victimized, but we must do everything possible to preserve their economic freedom.

I think UBI is the closest we are seeing to a meaningful rethink of how we handle entitlement spending. We need the equivalent creativity to help manage the funding side.
Is that future different in any other of the top 5 states in the US? What can be done about it?
Your source is ignoring the fact that limitations on nuclear power in space are largely political. If we could put something bigger up there without concern it would be interpreted as a nuke, we would.
Be aware of incentives. Can the person speak their mind freely? If they're an institution, who funds it? If they're an individual, what are their incentives? Or, are they Elon Musk, in which case none of this counts?

I lack the epistemological certitude to propose a "filter", but I'd say a strong "red flag" in evaluating thinkpieces about whose predictions you should take seriously would be "anybody who elevates technology workers above others because computers are eating the world".
The web works so well, why would anyone install an app? Makes no sense.
It might be a bit preposterous to say what humans were meant to do or not to do, especially given that with a sample size of n = 1 we have humans actually wondering about such things.

Existential anxiety isn't per se about the relative size of self to the world but more about the inability to grasp and control the understanding of it. Pretty much everything living strives to "control" things, and in the case of human beings this applies to mental things too. Controlling things on a mental level is usually about understanding them, not necessarily about bending them to our will.

Anxiety is tied to a difficulty in dealing with perceived lack of control (over others, over our emotions, over the future..), and existential anxiety is an example of anxiety when it comes to existence. We simply don't know enough to say something that cements control.

Thankfully one of the coping mechanisms is humour, so I'll leave the reader with the very well known Douglas Adams bit:

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Yes?

https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances

Some of those are federated with eachother and you can upload to them and your videos are stored on the instance. You do not need to run your own instance but obviously it can be helpful.
NLP used to be based on bag of words. GPT-3 takes into consideration all interactions and the ordering, thus, not a simple bag of vectors. Quite the opposite, it's an implicit graph neural net.
> But what are you going to do? Hand-code an optimisation for every similar thing people could write?

While I appreciate that you solved the general problem, I wonder if there are legs here. Specifically, could one mine GitHub to find automatically common patterns that one could write specific optimizers for, or at minimum, leverage that to learn what semi-general cases are worth optimizing? To my knowledge optimizing compilers already do have effectively handlers for common operations, but I don’t know if anyone has leveraged “big data” to help guide this.

IIRC, various tweaks and optimizations in Java were guided by Sun analyzing their own code based. GitHub is just so much bigger, and polyglot.
Right, because hating someone for being a jew and hating someone for being a racist are totally equivalent. Both sides are bad! Only us enlightened centrists realize that you have to take everything in moderation, and must both hate and accept jews and racists equally much!
It's been stayed as of 10 minutes ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227481

The parent post (from Lyft) looks hilarious in hindsight.

Edit: Added context
FYI: Snowflake seems to be a commercial marketplace that lets users download data sets (weather, marketing etc) and presumably people to upload their data sets

https://www.snowflake.com/data-marketplace/

I assume there is a open version that's really good but less cool
Maybe deregulate taxis instead of letting companies bypass labor restrictions with a polite fiction.
The first chapter of "A Fire Upon The Deep" is one of my favorite openings.
I would prefer to see this comparison (top 1% vs the rest) for the NASDAQ.

To me it seems kind of normal, that tech is eating the world and is more volatile. So FAAMG making the rest of the S&P 500 look stuck in comparison is no surprise.

But does the same hold true if we compare FAAMG to the rest of the tech market? How about the rest of the software market? If so, that would be alarming.
This isn't really true if you use Bayesian science.

The idea you're stating is something like "It's not possible to prove hypothesis H1 if H1 is 'all swans are white' by sampling swans and only getting white ones, but it's possible to disprove hypothesis H1 by finding a black swan."

However, you can prove hypothesis H2 that "there exists a black swan" by finding such a swan. And you can't really disprove it for the same reason that you can't prove H1.

Neither of theses hypotheses are proven/disproven in the mathematical sense of "proof" but finding sufficient evidence in favor or against a hypothesis is practically the same in the case of science.

The Bayesian version of this is that the hypothesis is something like "the probability of a swan being white is P" and the value of P will by updated based on the strength of the evidence. It will never be exactly 0 or 1, but it will be close enough in many cases. Then you avoid the argument about whether a hypothesis is a binary "true" or "false" but discuss a continuous probability. E.g, the a hypothesis about the Earth being round has a probability close to one for most people while Russell's teapot and Sagan's invisible dragon have probabilities close to zero until evidence shows otherwise.
Isn't that the point? They spent more than sustainable by paying better than anybody else.

Now they are trying to avoid the laws that made them unprofitable in the first term.

it was unsustainable from the beggining, they just expected to gain the public opinion to change the laws
Right. I know what you're saying and I hope for it to be true. I'm just sceptical they don't have the power.
It's really impressive that you listened to the community and turned it around so quick. Great job, I can't wait to use it on my next project!
In this particular, specific case - there are. They are called taxes, and in most urban areas, they fund regular street sweeping.
(Quote from character Lester Freamon from The Wire)
one was a contractor for a company that did content moderation/fact checking on a big tech website. when ab5 was passed they predictably laid off everyone in california.

others include freelance writers, and other online work
Nice to see a recommendation for one of John Varley's works (The Golden Globe). There is one sci-fi author who is underappreciated. His writing has touches of Heinlein. His Gaea Trilogy is really creative too.
Maybe in a few years when WebAssembly and WebGL advance more, early last year someone posted a port of doom 3 running completely in the browser.

https://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
Appeals court grants Uber and Lyft temporary reprieve after threats to shut down
I'm fairly certain that it's illegal to pay someone for less than two hours of work [1 and 2] in California, so the practice of just doing a couple rides on your way home from dropping the kids off or hitting up peak rush hour for the bonus rate would be illegal.

1 https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_ReportingTimePay.htm

2 https://blog.accuchex.com/california-labor-laws-minimum-work...
Why do you say not reflected? It seems like the light that enters our eyes often has been reflected?
What's with the editorialized title? The actual title is "S&P 500 Return Attribution," and the phrase "1% economy" appears nowhere in it.
> effectively bought the loan back

Yes, at full price. Meanwhile Revlon debt is trading at a roughly 70% discount on the open market.
As opposed to rideshare which had artificially deflated prices due to a temporary infusion of investors money. Maybe push for more rational taxi regulations?
Partners: Intel Still Strong Despite 7nm Delays, AMD Gains
I'm not saying it'll be smooth sailing at all, just that this isn't the right time to cut access given all the other issues that are ongoing.
> Intrusions began as early as 1996.

No, much earlier! Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" documents a 1986 intrusion perpetrated by a KGB informant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg
How do we know that the space is expanding if there is nothing to compare it to?
Automatic Differentiationin Machine Learning: A Survey (2018) [pdf]
Will this change anything? Every last place I have ever worked at I am 100% certain concealed successful hacks in the past either internally for political purposes or purposefully externally for PR purposes.

I still think it should be on the shareholders to hire brutally honest employees and CXX's or face the consequences of fines from employees concealing successful hacks. Don't put stress of having to manage expectations of greedy shareholders that don't want to hear about hacks and having the threat of some prosecutor somewhere drawing their own grey blurry line in the sand and saying you crossed it. That stress should 100% be on the shareholders - they will have to make sure to hire the right people and make the right culture that won't conceal hacks for internal, political purposes and external PR purposes.

If we're going to keep ignoring corporate law and go after employees for their own mistakes, we're never going to fix our objectively awful collective security culture in our tech companies where we work and we're never going to hold greedy shareholders for the shit they could have prevented by fixing their employees' security culture.
Pilo: Raspberry Pi Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management for $60 or Less
If your ship can only handle 1G of acceleration, would that not also mean that it could only handle 1G deceleration as well? That means starting to slow down halfway to your destination.
If you are going to call a library function, just call median().
I don't think the economics dictate such a shift. I have had jobs where I was paid hourly, could start and stop at will, and for which I received a W2. (This was for a temp agency in CA.)

Is there anything in CA law that prevent Lyft from basically doing exactly what they had been doing but also paying payroll taxes on driver income?
That's a hard question to answer, because how I learned was on equipment that is so dated it is no longer available in any reasonable form.

The only thing I can really suggest is get one of those tomes on Linux systems programming.
This was the complaint from the cab companies here in Toronto; they were required to have a certain percentage of their fleet as accessibility vehicles where as the ride “share” companies were not.

Unfortunately, the cab companies had accumulated years of bad will from tolerating bad and abusive drivers and then ran strikes in the city where drivers attacked people and deliberately blocked an ambulance.

I don’t like any of the sides in this battle.
Why does it seem like people are trying so hard to be outraged about this?
Rides subsidized by folks desperate enough to sacrifice tomorrow in order to eat today?

I hope nowhere.
Kept scrolling, not sure what I was looking for. This was it, thanks for a great comment.
IIRC it's spelled out somewhere that the colonization fleet was generation ships.
And 0 value was added to the actual game. This is exactly how my side projects are never finished
Taxis everywhere are expensive due to constricted supply and are often unreliable.

Man I could tell some stories about that.
Heh many thanks, you are correct. Somewhere in there I divided something incorrectly.
flywheel is 'OK'. Better than it used to be before flywheel.
Definitely could get 100% of hatespeech taken off it they shut it down. Not to mention the absolute productivity boost to everyone working from home.
Tell that to Uber and Lyft.
Australia considers mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for entering travelers
An interesting aspect of this that isn't touched on in the article is about the much-maligned [1] scheme where Debian's Python is patched to look for packages in `dist-packages` instead of `site-packages`. The scenario in the Docker image is I believe the exact one that this is intended to provide sanity for, since you have two Pythons in play— the Debian-packaged python and also the built-from-source Python. Things get hairy once you start using the pip from either of these pythons to start installing pypi packages, especially if those packages or their dependencies have compiled parts which may not work for the other Python. Anyone who has used a Mac with brewed Python has also likely experienced this pain— especially in the days before wheels, where you basically had to use brewed Python for scientific work unless you wanted to compile big packages like numpy from source.

So the deal is that the system-supplied Python can get deps from apt packages, or from pip (into ~/.local, or as root into /usr/local), but either way will install them into a dist-packages directory. This keeps them separate from the packages which the built-from-source Python installs into site-packages.

Upstream Python has put a bunch of pieces in place to address this natively, for example with the "magic" tags that keep compiled assets separate in a directory of packages being potentially used by multiple different interpreters (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/#proposal). And obviously the ideal solution where possible is to simply use a virtualenv and be totally isolated from the system python. But there are situations where that isn't possible or desirable, such as in this docker container, and so here we are.

1: eg https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2232
Well just for me I don't care what's trending so don't need the feed of other people's views. But absolutely needing a feed of new posts might be problem.
by giving drivers the right to turn the app off at any time?

when did that happen in the 19th century?
How to Elastic SIEM (part 1)
I’m curious. Can you provide an example where CSS can constitute an attack?

How does your CSP stop a script from adding styles to DOM elements?
<script>
document.querySelector(‘body’)
.setAttribute(‘style’, ‘my malicious css?’);
</script>
In the last couple years I've been trying to branch out to read more scifi written by women. I tend to be picky in what I read anyway and often give up looking for things and just read old comics books so trying to find works by women has been tough. Add to that the fact that there are so many self-published multi-book series on Amazon now that it is really difficult to decide.
There were a few scifi books by women that I read and didn't like but here are some I did like:

I've read a few Ursula K. Le Guin books and they were decent. All I knew about Left Hand of Darkeness was the stuff about sex and the midevil-ish setting surprised me.

I read a couple entries in The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells and I might go back to read more.

I really liked Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. The two sequels were good but less thought provoking than the first one. I think there is another story in the same universe that I haven't read yet.
I have been looking for a good video aggregator website. Something like digg, but for videos. Most of the videos would naturally link to youtube, which is fine, but they could just as easily link to peertube, vimeo, self-hosted, etc. This would solve a number of problems:

1. Better (or at least a different) way of discovering. I'm a pretty heavy YouTube watcher, but my recommendations are bland and full of reruns. It knows what I've been interested in the past but I find them tiresome. It does a terrible job of recommending new things that I might find interesting. It needs to take more chances.

2. As many have already said, there are plenty of ways to host a video but none of them have good discoverability. If there was a good video aggregator site, it would help to begin diversifying this aspect. Even better, it could be successful even without convincing content creators to use it directly, because much of the content could still just link to YouTube.

Does such a site exist? One that I've found is browsing lobste.rs' [video] tag, or HN for the youtube.com domain, but that's not really the same.
This happened in Sep 2017. Then, the transport minister for Quebec changed in Oct 2017, and Uber said later in Oct that they would not pull out because they saw an opportunity for constructive dialogue with the new transport minister. By the time Bill 17 was passed in 2019 and Uber became officially legal beyond its pilot project, taxi drivers were protesting the Quebec government's actions.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/uber-is-officially-allowed-in-qu...

I wouldn't describe what happened in Quebec as a loss for Uber.