skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple didn't allow 3rd parties into its app store, then it would be fine. Once you operate a platform for third parties to join, you have an responsibility to ensure that other platforms providing the same service are possible without interference. Otherwise, you're participating in anti-competitive behavior.
I’m not familiar with the proposition, but lets say that you are right for the sake of argument:

Now we have two possibilities:

a) We could fight against it and try to get it revoked. Go back to the status quo where those workers keep working—potentially underpaid—without getting any of the benefits full-time workers rely on.

b) We could ask for a new proposal that would give gig workers these benefits and guarantee them a minimum wage.
No, it breaks the ordering requirements. NaN compares greater than and less than every number.

You can say that a call to max should return NaN if any argument is NaN, but you can't say the same about sorting. (For one thing... sorting an array doesn't return a scalar value.) Sorting is done with comparisons, and what happens if a NaN gets into the list of values will depend on which specific comparisons happen to be done.
its pointless to bikeshed this. People did the same to defend TD and other crazy communities. Most of the posts are fine, but occasionally blatant sexism will make the front page and mods don't do anything about it, or even encourage it by putting the post in "real believer" mode where opposing viewpoints can't exist. Same as TD.

Best example I've seen https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hzis4w/a_n...

"A message to all men" . Basically telling "all men" their opinions aren't valued or wanted on the sub. Wonderful. And it hit the Reddit front page. Imagine a "mancave" sub on Reddit with mods saying women's opinions don't matter and aren't welcome here and shit like that. It would be banned immediately, probably after making 5 o'clock news
The life cycle of the lancet river fluke: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-fluke-of-nature/
yes let’s make all public policy based on your sense of poetic justice. and not numbers.

i know cost is just a number to you but that’s other people’s money you’re spending
>Most of the weight of solid objects is due to the high speeds of the elementary particles within them rather than the rest mass of the constituent particles.

Wait i agree energy is mass but is this specifically correct? The rest mass is always much higher when i've seen it in equations.
Yeah I feel like these articles always end up coming up with apple pie positions. Like talking to customers more is good advice probably but it’s also the most common most stated advice for early startups.
Does this mean we should abandon expectations for announced features to be ready in our favorite mobile or desktop operating system?
Okay, so it looks like I didn't actually miss anything in your arguments.

I think it's fair of you to point out that there are certain scenarios in which healthcare is not paid for by the person getting it and everyone else ends up paying for it indirectly. I also think it's fair of you to point out that it's handled in such a way that it creates a byzantine system that ends up costing us all a lot more than it should.

But that's a long long way from claiming that "voters in the US are already paying for healthcare for all", in the context of the current discussion. "Voters in the US are paying for a byzantine system that handles extreme cases that happen because of the failure to have a proper healthcare for all" is as far as I could go with your arguments ;)
> No one is forcing them to do anything. They not only get to decide if they want to work, but how much, and when.

No they don't.. Their material conditions dictate how much they need to work to meet their basic needs (food, utilities, rent).

You're assuming that people who are living paycheck to paycheck, who are backed against a wall, have the option to pick and choose if, when, and how much they work. The people in those situations are the ones we need to work the hardest to protect because they are the most vulnerable to poor conditions and exploitation/coercion. Without protections they contribute to the race to the bottom simply by nature of having no other options, making them willing to work without benefits or for low wages.

> And almost all of my Uber and Lyft drivers had another source of income, were retired, were raising children, or had a medical condition that kept them from holding down a full time job.

This is entirely anecdotal, on top of the fact that "raising children" or "having a medical condition" should not be an excuse to be denied economic stability and benefits.
What age is that when it comes to something like gathering? Like around the time to be able to recognize shapes and point out things?
The uncomfortable but inevitable process of cultural evolution
Seriously. I already write short mails and put bullet points which makeout much smaller. This year one of things I want to do is write big emails like paragraphs atleast two.
> which states that entropy, or a loss of the energy available to do work, must rise over time.[2] Stars will eventually exhaust their supply of hydrogen fuel and burn out.

Since entropy is a statistical quantity, the second law of thermodynamics is a statistical statement. And because modern physics essentially deals with Hamiltonian systems, it can be proven that a time exists when entropy goes down again. The intuitive proof is really nice. Since energy is conserved, one can imagine the global state (position, momentum) as position in a park covered in snow. So someone walking through it will eventually walk over his own footsteps. Not precisely but it's arbitrarily close, the longer one waits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem

I really like that theorem
Just to clarify, I see this as a problem that may be impossible to solve.

For me personally, I think that "kill all men" or "all men are trash" can have a harmful impact (particularly on boys) even when stated as hyperbole in response to systemic misogyny.
They pay game companies to make sure they're the only store in town for popular new releases. There are other stores for other games, but not the Epic exclusives. Just like there are other stores for Android than Google Play, but lots of stuff uses Play Services and thus can't work without Play.
Electrons in a copper wire do not travel at the speed of electricity. Not even close.

Electricity travels at nearly the speed of light.

Electrons themselves travel like molasses:

"In the case of a 12 gauge copper wire carrying 10 amperes of current (typical of home wiring), the individual electrons only move about 0.02 cm per sec or 1.2 inches per minute (in science this is called the drift velocity of the electrons.). If this is the situation in nature, why do the lights come on so quickly [when you flip the switch]? At this speed it would take the electrons hours to get to the lights."

This completely caught me by surprise, but it makes sense once it's pointed out. Imagine a pipe filled with solid balls that just fit in it, with little friction. If you push a ball in one end, a ball pops out the other almost immediately. But not the same ball! Even if you keep pushing balls in, that first one you pushed will take a while to get the other end.

Update: as rrobukef notes in a reply, this would be the case for direct current (DC). With the usual household alternating current (AC), the electrons barely move at all!

https://www.uu.edu/dept/physics/scienceguys/2001Nov.cfm

https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/02/19/what-is-the-speed-of...
Whoa this is so cool!
> Does NaN have an "order" in the set of reals or integers or whatever?

By definition, something that is not a number (real, integer, etc.) cannot be compared to something that is a number.
>you can't be on the clock for two different companies at the same time

I mean, I don't see why not. Would create some inefficiencies. But I don't think there is a law against that.
The thing that just continues to strike me since I left Amazon is how many start-up ideas are buried within that company. Coming from logistics, there is basically no internal tool or process that couldn't be turned into a start-up. Quite funny actually.
Or perhaps it's basic business and economics. Lyft and Uber's business is built on the assumption that drivers provide on-demand transportation. The business model doesn't work if the workforce is not also on-demand. Instead of vilifying companies, perhaps it might be beneficial to understand the business aspects of decisions instead of jumping to conclusions based on knee jerk emotional outrage.
Good point on the room lighting.

Also, is that sort of what people do nowadays for reading? Meaning, when people say they read 100 books, they are also referring to have listened to audiobooks? Not judging, just curious if I'm not understanding the meaning of 'read'
This law looks like a hack to try to smooth over negative effects from the root issue.

The root issue is that health insurance is tied to employment, which reduces human freedom and distorts the economy in diverse ways.

Solve the root issue and many things become less complicated.
It seems like there might be a misunderstanding of what I wrote. Quoting myself:

> ..the 3 classical areas of Rome, Greece, and Egypt have gotten a very disproportionate share of work...

Greece and Rome (in the sense of the empire) are literally the "classic" in so-called classical archaeology [1]. Egypt is included because it's comparable for this particular case and there's a pretty substantial overlap with "core" classical archaeology.

Again, I've written nothing about whether these areas encompass parts of Africa nor whether they were wholly European. I also haven't implicated racism as the reason for that disproportionate amount of study. The things you're criticizing aren't my views and trying to put words into my mouth isn't appreciated.

[1] https://lsa.umich.edu/classics/undergraduate-students/majors...
Joe Biden, who many believe will be the next US president has stated "I am a union man, plain and simple". His whole political career has basically been bankrolled by labor unions. If that doesn't indicate the power labor unions have in the US, I don't know what else does.

Teachers Unions, UAW, and the AFLCIO are pretty much the strongest lobbies in America.
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This is not a good comparison because they're dismantling the whole business model with this ruling.

With the new requirements in place (e.g. actually hiring employees and providing benefits) the barrier to entry here is waaaaay higher than before. I would argue Ride Austin would have never even started (especially as a non profit) if these requirements were in place the last time Uber/Lyft shut down in Austin.
If you raise the minimum wage those poor people won't be as poor. And since the labor is only a fraction of the cost of the burger the poor people come out ahead. The danger is inflation, but honestly we're in bigger danger of deflation these days.
People definition's of good will vary. A strict Muslim and a gay man will probably have quite different interpretations of "good". ISIS probably believe they are acting in a "good" way, it's the strictest interpretation of the word of god after all.

Trying not to do harm would be an easier goal to define.
Lyft isn't a charity and should not be expected to operate in an unprofitable market.
Wowow love the fast turnaround. Remember the comments about this just last week. Great job team!
It's not cited properly, but that is a reference to Herb Simon's original description of the "attention economy."
If you can't operate your business without independent contractors, then they aren't independent contractors.

If Lyft and Uber want to back up their claims that they aren't livery services but simply a technology platform, then there should be no problem with eliminating the independent contractor drivers.

The fact that they have to "shut down" only proves they were misrepresenting drivers for as long as they have existed.
How would you automatically find symmetries?
What if we looked at things like tax rate and cost of living?

People make more money in California, but they also spend more on housing, taxes, food, gas, etc.
Crossing the bridges during rush "hour" (more like three to five) should be much more expensive.

Not sure how to handle the fact that this de-facto subsidizes the Peninsula. But it would be a start.
When I was looking into writing recommendation systems, one paper made the interesting observation: in a 1-10 rating system, the only places where people will naturally agree upon is 1,5 and 10. Anything else can only be evaluated relative to the same user's other scores. (Comparing my 9 and 10 scores has meaning, but not comparing your 8 and my 9)

The polarization is a natural result of the lack of definition
The business model doesn't require exploitative business practices; Lyft has chosen their prices, and chosen what they'll pay their drivers.

If prices were to go up, sure, Lyft would have less business, but presumably there is some price point that pays drivers enough and also makes the economics work for Lyft.
This is major, high-level corruption!

It's not. The CCP is not playing by the rules. It's not a recent thing. It's been going on for ages. Stop defending CCP companies. We're not talking about EU, Japan, Indian, Australian, etc. companies. Stop conflating this with lack of freedom.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the CCP and their absolute disdain for the rules by which everyone is playing.

We can't decide whether we're going to ban Huawei or not.

Of course we can. It's another CCP tool. We ban it. That's it.

This whole thing is just a huge, stinking, disorderly mess.

Only because you chose to make everything related to Trump a mess. Remove Trump from the equation, judge those companies for what they are: the leading edge in CCP cyberwarfare and espionage,
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/6/20851575/uber-lyf...

There's no objective "better" here. Some drivers may have done better with higher fares being passed onto them. On the other hand, 59% of Lyft/Uber riders ceased to use ride-hailing services.

There CSAT wasn't that great either; ride volume of competitors dropped significantly (Ride Austin lost 55% of riders within a week of Uber and Lyft returning).

The fundamental problem we have here is that pricing is being set by a heavily competitive market-place -- the clearance wage however is below what many see as a living wage. The most just thing to do may be to introduce a pricing floor (raise fares and raise driver income/benefits), but it's important to be honest about the trade-offs.
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So, what should be free market? Maybe we should get rid of army and hire mercenaries? FBI, police, taxes, what else can be replaced?
Go play with https://play.aidungeon.io/ if you want to get a vague idea of the capabilities - the custom scenario gives you a lot of space to play around and see what it’s capable of.
> And it would all be private. I don't mind paying for my content but I do mind being the product.

Some portions of a personalized, cross-service recommendation engine are a lot more viable if centralized (e.g. any scraping/indexing, and plausibly the personalization itself). Supposing such a service had no intention of you ever personally being the product, what would they have to do in order for you to still be comfortable handing that data over to them?
Plato isn't the best philosopher of all time because he is white and male. The Enlightenment is open and inclusive. Plato used to be a slave and elevated a woman to the highest philosophical position in the Symposium.
It's probably as simple as that.

I'll read that, thank you.
Their business model was illegal before they formed the business.
What level of drinking would cause this, though?
Science doesn't "prove" hypotheses - it disproves them.

For this to work, a hypothesis must be falsifiable. Most pseudoscience (and religion) makes non-falsifiable claims, meaning they are incompatible with scientific discourse.

This simple observation is a powerful tool in any bullshit-detection kit.

Once produced, a scientific hypothesis of any merit will be attacked vigorously with experiments until enough parties are convinced that disproof is sufficiently unlikely. The process isn't always pleasant for those making the falsifiable claims.

Sadly, this is not how science is taught in most schools. There, students are given the "truth" and, on a good day, asked to verify it experimentally. We are now living with the terrible consequences of generations of youth who think science is about "proving" the truth.
The moment Google All Music access disappears I cancel my subscription. I dont want YT Music and I dont want YT Premium.
Testing and debugging vary from site to site. Most of the ones I've used run your code against a hidden suite of tests to check all possible edge cases. This would otherwise take up a very non-trivial amount of time in the session. Actual debugging is also not possible on all of the sites -- usually the most you can do is litter your code with logs, which is far from a clean design.
Yeah I don't know maybe this is your experience. Maybe you're in a crowded city or something where everyone is tripping over themselves to drive for Uber/Lyft, but where I live there are often not enough drivers to meet demand.

Having been stranded far from home, both late night and in the early evening, I see Uber & Lyft as providing a valuable service.

Having been taken advantage of by taxi drivers on multiple occasions (I don't think I've ever actually had a good taxi experience) I don't want to go back to the way things were. Maybe other people like being defrauded by taxi drivers? Maybe people just forget how bad the taxi system is, and that at one point people were cheering the demise of the old taxi system for a reason.
And yet, Uber and Lyft have reduced drunk driving rates, provided mobility to thousands of people who otherwise may not have it, and generally made life easier for millions, if not billions, of people around the world. It's almost like one can enrich themselves while helping others.
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if you pick your own hours and your own pickups, you are not anyone's employee -you by definition are your own boss. to be an employee, you have to have your hours and your work defined by your employer. employers tell you what work to do and when to do it. flexible hours don't work when at 4pm on tuesday dispatch yells you to pick someone up.

california is forcing all rideshare contractors to be employees. that's not just a checkbox on a form.
I'm excited to see where this goes -- both this product and the general idea of using ML to reduce noise in interpersonal communications.

A human can read the shorter summary and add personal touches as they wish, but the first pass of what the model considers to be extraneous is interesting by itself.

I just put in a 300 word personal email and it spit out a 60 word summary that actually did extract the one concrete piece of news I was sharing, and just cut everything else. That's not precisely what I wanted in this case, but it wasn't a bad guess at all.

Side note: just finished a rewatch of Silicon Valley, I like that the sample text is from someone at Hooli, I wonder if it will change my .... to ... :)
A emerging secondary capability seems likely to be the ability to quickly launch low orbit or temporary platforms, either on board a rocket or via something like a Pegasus xl strapped to a plane, or flying objects like balloons (Loon) or drones like Facebook's Aquilla, maybe with FSO links instead of RF. FSO is more difficult to jam or intercept and has higher data rates for the size, weight and power usage of the transceiver.
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Fantastic blog post, thanks for sharing.

So I guess if you had to pick arbitrary revenue/data/fte cutoffs, do you see the org chart of these adopters as you’ve described looking a certain way? Let me try to rephrase that.

Do you think there’s a step function of “here you need one DBA who is a holy librarian” and “here we need a gitlab styled data team with SLAs and the data equivalent of HR business partners who get assigned to the BU”?

Tangential to your comment but curious if you believe the human side scales akin to the infrastructure side.
Thanks for this! It's right up my alley as a history-lover.
just pushed out an update that adds some safe clickable area in this case
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicame...
Yeah, and again, the issue isn't that your house is on fire or that there's a wildfire, it's that there's a global pandemic that in absence of any "conservation" measures on your part displays a superlinear growth path - so, yes, the asks being made are much more disruptive, because the event that's occurring is much more dangerous.
Ridesharing created a more or less competitive market for this slice of the transportation sector. Competitive markets are the best way to allocate resources. If you don't agree with that, it will be hard to have a productive discussion.

But if you do agree with that, shouldn't we resolve inequalities by directly supporting the least fortunate (with cash) rather than force parties into arbitrary economic relationships?
That 'normal' matter only makes up 5% of the universe. That some omnipresent dark energy field makes up the majority (63%) of the universe.
As expressed by sibling comments -- skin color is irrelevant to my point.

If it's not skin color, it's "those people beyond the mountains" or "the river folk to the south" or "the Babylonians" or whatever.

I'm talking about tribal/identitarian discrimination that ascribes essential natures/behaviors to "other" peoples.

This narrowly-defined and elevated notion of racism along the lines of skin color, Atlantic slave trade dynamics, state-building/citizenship discourses of the last few century, scientific racism and all other fashionable targets of criticism is ultimately just that: a narrow subset of a larger human problem.
The world has changed, homie. The construction unions will slay you if you try to substitute their labour with lots of other people. You will lose the game.

If you have a WPA, it'll look like this:

* Funding for existing construction companies

* Higher pay for construction workers

* Roughly the same employment

You've got to remember that high employment is not a union goal. If they can get five $250k construction workers over fifteen $80k construction workers, they'll do it. That's not a criticism. It's a transparent aim that unions fight for their members. That's what makes them worthwhile.
Agreed! Exciting to see this project progress
i just pushed out an update that adds some safe clickable area in this case
Plenty of alternatives, none that can scale, financially or otherwise.
Lol.
Haha.

You mean, overcrowding a market with underpaid positions, sold with lies and marketing to make them sound better than they are, to force people with full time jobs out of work so that people could get a ride in a vehicle with no safety, security, (or originally) background verification while doing all they could to cheat regulations, driver and user privacy, tax laws, climate change, and eventually, now, rent-seek, to boost stock prices to pad Vegas parties and investor portfolios.

Modern ride sharing is not sustainable, environmentally friendly, or a 'job' and this doesn't exempt the bad behaviors by taxi companies, but understand this is the end destination of capitalism invading a regulated economy.
And it's right, Apple is more and more being a China
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It’s entirely possible to do both, and indeed, most do.

War & force are simply continuations of policy with additional means.