skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, scheduling shifts is going to be both easier to manage and more cost efficient than what you're suggesting. Uber has a good idea of how many drivers they need at any given time. This ideal distribution of supply will never align perfectly with the supply pool's natural scheduling preferences. You can try to use economic incentives to force these two distributions to overlap, or you can just exert control (that you rightfully have over employees) and force your employees to work when you need them.
New Zealand's Shotover Jet Boat
maybe this person is thinking of a scope similar to an elaborate to-do app?

Many enterprise scale business centric applications have tremendously complex business rules and overreach. One can not simply make a casual decision last minute, and expect perfect execution, towards an end result of increased business value.

EDIT: I see he is a Drupal consultant. There is a very explicit ceiling on the complexities of primarily CMS driven sites.
Why social responsibility produces more resilient organizations
Mennonite (Amish)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoreligious_group
I intentionally write short, concise emails.

It has actually backfired on me in the past: because I didn't define and explain the entire space of the matter at hand, I was overcome by other arguments or ideas that I'd already considered and dismissed. That led to followup discussions that didn't need to occur.

It seems that context matters, sometimes long-form is better.
> The goal is to reduce hate, and pushing people further into the fringes doesn't do that.

I mean, it may. Sure, there are whole websites which exist solely for refugees of Reddit's various bans, but normal people, as a general rule don't go there, so it's mostly just racists shouting into the void, rather than propagandizing others.
OneDrive, if you don't want to self-host. I switched from Dropbox when they added the device limit.
Thanks, I'll also watch it later. It initially reminded me of Tegmark's levels of parallel universes (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131) whose highest is one that assumes mathematical reality is the same as physical reality.
Alliance for Agri Innovation urges government to allow Bt Brinjal trials
That's negative portrayal of a violent corrupt dictatorship.
> Just like .unwrap() is okay for stuff that never fails.

Never fails, and will also never fail in the future as other code changes. There are certainly situations where you can be sufficiently confident of that, but it's something to think about.
Randomly came across this again today, I rode in one of these in a lake in New Zealand when I visited, the river looks like a lot of fun.

Here's a direct shot to a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PBIuJT4Iw
Oh, HenryKissinger, I swear you've got a one-track mind! You see everything as another opportunity for military spending!
Saudi Arabia exports oil but apart from that is generally just completely irrelevant. It is a terrible, despotic regressive craphole, but it doesn't have context enough in the world to come up a lot.
I don't know what happened there but the official version leaves some serious doubts open. For example there was a long time talk of a "nurse" that found them. Only by accident it was revealed that this nurse was the head-nurse of the UK forces, i.e. in the rank of a general, well versed in chemical warfare.
Also why was never the full tracks of the two Russians the victims revealed? There is CCTV on every corner in the UK. The story of the Russians was bogus but so is the official story.
It wouldn't be the first time the gov stretches the truth. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

Edit: downvoting because it doesn't fit your world view? At least have the balls to reply.
"billionaire's dollars also sit around unused" Is there a source for that? Or even a reason to think it's the case? I'm sure Jeff Bezos has a savings account and it probably has more in it then mine but even on that I don't think that money in the bank is the same as money under the mattress and that's what you seem to be talking about.
Hedonic Regression
Again, having your wages and passport stolen is not "freely" working and completely incomparable to ridesharing.

Earnings vary wildy by person. Some people do great, others don't. There's no universal calculation. Ridesharing has always been about flexibility, not full-time employment, even though some people work full-time hours.

There are numerous other driving jobs if you wanted employment instead of being independent. Perhaps suggesting that instead of changing the law for everyone else would be the better option.
I experience that too, and only when I ponder the universe and ultimate questions like “why is there something rather than nothing?” It is a strange feeling that comes fast, some feeling of absurdity of it all mixed with the pain that we humans will maybe never be able to answer such questions, and it feels like a strange panic attack, felt both in the body and brain.

I take solace in some way that I am not alone in this and that there are other groups of trillions of atoms somewhere else in spacetime pondering the same questions with the same intensity.
The distinction comes down to factors that change (behaviors, mandates, regulations, etc.) and those that don't (age, gender, etc.).

Saying we've reached herd immunity given behavioral changes is largely meaningless, as most people do not want to continue these behavioral changes indefinitely. One of the biggest changes that you failed to acknowledge is that people are not in contact with nearly as many people in their day to day life as they were before. Working from home, kids not in school, limited social interactions, etc.

It's not herd immunity if a return to previous behaviors negates the immunity.
Alternatively, jailbreak an iPhone.
The Boogaloo: America's Extremely Online Extremists
It was taken over as a tool for political propaganda. Political operatives realized that and have been refining this strategy.
> Voters in the US are already paying for healthcare for all

I've been living in the US for almost 7 years, and this is news to me. As far as I understand, Medicare only applies to people who are 65+ years old, and Medicaid only applies to families with certain income (relative to family size). What did I miss?

> The USA doesn't (generally) let people die if they can't afford healthcare (people may be driven into bankruptcy, but they won't be left to die), so those costs are all getting paid by the public.

As COVID-19 has demonstrated quite effectively, death is not the only outcome to focus on. Also, driving a person into bankruptcy or otherwise ruining their future is not what I would call "healthcare paid for by everyone".

I am sincerely hoping that I have missed something in your arguments.
You are wrong. The Russia has been a target of the western propaganda ever since the Great Schism[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
There is a huge gulf between the abundance necessary for criticality and that necessary for prompt criticality. Even rudimentary, low-yield weapons design requires HEU, likely over 50% 235 (and if you have the capability to enrich beyond 20%, the barrier to enriching up towards "weapons grade" is comparatively low.) I won't contradict the FAS's claim that this is within the reach of any _rogue state_, but it's not something you can achieve by bombarding natural ore with your garage-project fusor.
Google should spin off YouTube.
I get that some flexibility is lost. But I would argue that

1. It is by far not as bad as Lyft and Uber present this and
2. I think this is a good thing overall. Less payment flexibility means a more stable income. Sure, some drivers don't need that stability, but those who do need it, really need it and this is more important in my mind.

The second point also fits into the narrative that this only benefits 1/5 of the drivers but that these drivers are doing a majority of the rides. I don't have a citation for that, so take it with a grain of salt :)
Private Composer Repositories with Gitlab
>I always find these sorts of discussions sorely lacking an understanding of The Tolerance Paradox.

I can't possibly speak for Popper, but I suspect that he'd disapprove of intolerance from any group towards any other group. Let's not tolerate threats or double standards of any kind, whether it's a man defending that he said "kill all women" sarcastically or a woman defending that she said "kill all men" sarcastically. One can acknowledge that a man saying it should be taken more seriously (for a variety of reasons) while also acknowledging that the acceptance of generalized vitriol towards groups based on at-birth traits shouldn't have directional weighting. This is a blind spot and form of implicit bias I find many well-meaning progressives fall into.

Also, although it doesn't necessarily apply here (since most would agree talking about killing groups of people shouldn't be tolerated), I almost always find that people who bring up Popper's paradox of tolerance tend to wield it like a cudgel to draw arbitrary and absolute lines as they see fit.
I was under the impression they're planning on suspending operations because it would be illegal for drivers to operate as contractors come tomorrow. Their political stance is manifested in prop 22, but the shutdown is for compliance w/ the law.
Non paywall link: http://archive.is/VanKI
> (Of course, for `min(max(...))` I usually write a `clamp()` function to hide that for me, but someones I want to only clamp in one direction)

You could make clamp work in only one direction too. clamp(number, None, upper_bound) or the idiomatic equivalent in your language of choice seems pretty readable.
I love paying $1,300 a month for my health benefits I use a few times a year. What a great badge of honor. Oh, but wait, there's more! I can also pay hundreds of dollars out of my pocket at each visit to a clinic or dentist!
With a laptop you're getting something worthwhile out of it, a physical object that can last you for years.

With a gate like the developer account that's far less possible.

It's also easy to buy a mac laptop from the blackmarket in Iran (since Apple can't legally export their laptops there), but you can't really do that with a developer account.
To Bt or not to Bt – does this question persist anymore?
Database and AI software developer Co-founder
Listee was founded by myself, Jacob Engel, as well as my two additional founders at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. Listee is a professional matching service that matches people with opportunities based on desired skills, interests and goals. Listee serves as a way to find opportunities and people that are of resource to your career and personal goals.
Syncthing does not require setting up a server. Your devices connect to each other directly, or through a relay if that's not possible.
Founders. If you're using CxO titles before you have product market fit you're doing something wrong.
I love how you flipped that so quickly, and it immediately sounds more useful to me!
Loading up gamefaqs.com Age Of Empires II Walkthrough to prove my point about human civilizations.
Not insensitive at all. I only realised mental images exist for anyone a few years ago, so I don't think of it as a disability, really (though obviously some things are way easier if you can visualize, like mental math).

I am not purely aphantasiac - I do on rare occasions get very blurry, ephemeral flashes of imagery. It's like seeing an impressionist watercolor on a ragged piece of flash paper that ignites the instant I look at it.

Pluses of the condition:

- disturbing images are gone the instant I look away.

- I cannot get lost in a daydream. This roots me in reality and the moment in a way I think few people are.

- probably contributes to my native ability to speedread (if you can't visualize you do not spend any time doing it, and I think that makes me faster)

- I'm not limited to visual modes of thought. Someone has speculated in the past that maybe aphantasiacs are better at abstract concepts and thoughts since we are not tied to the idea of visualizing as part of understanding.

Minuses:

- probably contributes to my poor memory

- makes it hard to understand most peoples' experience of life

- makes certain thinking and reasoning tasks massively harder than they are for neurotypicals

- makes empathy harder, IMO. I cannot "put myself in your shoes" the way many people can.
Obviously the best way to avoid Kessler syndrome is to prevent it from occurring in the first place, but given the widespread short-termism everywhere these days, that seems naïve.

Are laser brooms the current state of the art when it comes to deorbiting? From this article [0], it appears to be quite slow but at least highly parallel, "cleaning" an object in 3-4 years but all addressable objects in ~5 years. It's still unclear to me if the principles required for them to function effectively are currently available, or if more development is required first.

Another concern is that large installations may be viewed with suspicion, given their potential applications as anti-satellite weapons, especially against surveillance satellites whose sensors (I assume) would be more sensitive to high-intensity illumination. Any ideas on how these concerns might be mitigated?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3835
I really think this should now be built.
You don't really own it till you jailbreak it.
I've tried to get mutation testing going on my last few projects. Amusing how little faith/interest there is in this from most of my colleagues. Would be interested in hearing how folks keep this up in a project.
That is actually a genius idea! Somebody needs to make an affiliate marketing blog about affiliate marketing blogs. ROFL
It's a common meme in some circles, reflecting a claim that facially neutral rules against hate speech depend implicitly on who's speaking and to whom it's directed.
this doesn't work for NaN, e.g {0d, Double.NaN, 1d} returns 1d.
You can find many (too many actually) on these threads -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198980
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329

Check them out. Many are better and faster.

The best ones I found - usertrack.net , gaotcounter, plausible,
And IntelliJ IDEA of course, which I think many HN visitors are using in one form or another. This still doesn't change the original point that Putin regime has been very damaging to Russia.
> Independent contractors pay both sides of the payroll tax, don't they? So there's no greed there.

Not if they are under the reporting limit, which many drivers are.
> ... and still need to live in fear of surprise bankruptcy-level bills arriving if god forbid you collapse and need an emergency procedure at the closest out-of-network facility.

I don't know why this isn't illegal. You can go from living comfortably to living in poverty even though you held up your end of the contract except for that last time when you were not even conscious.
imagine touting "security" while every single iphone gets jailbroken, over, and over, and over again. i don't understand the fanboyism. they are just as prone to flaws as microsoft, google, amazon, et al. they are not more or less secure than competing devices.
I'd like to add a filter but in the opposite direction -- how do you know if you're asking a reasonable question or having a reasonable reaction to someone's opinion or information?

-- Are you phrasing your question or reaction in a way that the person could reasonably respond to?

Basically, if you are putting a question in front of someone such that their answer would get them in trouble or put them in some liability or embarrassment, don't expect them to respond. Or be angry or outraged when they don't. The most laughable example is when someone replies in a post to someone doing an AMA, saying, "please respond as your reply will be taken as the company's position on this matter".

-- Are you giving the person a way to answer concretely?

If you're asking someone to respond to you in a way that takes a lot of story telling, or high level judgement, or interpretation -- don't expect an answer. Most people have not thought about something at that level, or don't know enough to say. Or if they do, who knows whether that's what you want to hear or were specifically asking.

Most people are a little lazy. Ask yourself if you're asking them to do work and a lot of hard thought just in answering your question.

-- Is your question just as a spectator, or someone actually seeking to improve or help?

A lot of people can't resist the urge to ask questions. And the internet was a great democratizing factor for that at least.

But for what purpose are you asking? Even if you received the full information you wanted, are you going to do something about it? If not, are you just a spectator? Why are you qualified or deserving of an answer? It's like some sports fan wanting to ask their favorite team's GM a slew of questions why they made the starting lineup as they did. What difference does it make? To your fantasy football league?

If you make it clear that you have some concrete desire, or role, or outlet to help in the situation being discussed, people are more likely to want to give an answer. Rather than your question just consuming time of theirs that ends up not producing anything useful as an outcome.
That would not be an issue at all if anticompetitive licensure requirements hasn't driven up healthcare prices to insane levels.
Thanks! We love DBT and take a lot of inspiration from their work. We’re putting a lot of effort into suggesting the right tests based on the data types, sources, and field names. A lot of these tests are pretty repetitive to write so we want to make it easy to spin them up.

We’ve also found that keeping a history of the state of the warehouse over time is really useful context for determining whether a test has failed (example: this table tends to update every 30-40 minutes so we’ll set a threshold at an hour).

We also handle the scheduling, which is surprisingly annoying to manage (we built a couple of internal tools for this in the past). That’s something we really missed with great expectations (you get this with DBT cloud).
Testing files is an interesting use case, to an extent we support this using Athena or Bigquery external tables for json/csv/parquet. We’re intentionally limiting it to SQL for now.
In SJ pretty much everyone who can afford it has a car now. Maybe not literally everyone but vast majority. It's very hard to live in SJ without a car. Public transportation exists but is next to useless unless you go between select very small number of points, and SJ is pretty big, especially the residential part. So I don't foresee much effect on SJ prices-wise - SJ is already suburbs anyway (there's downtown but it's tiny).

SF OTOH has been pretty navigable with public transport plus Uber/Lyft. I try not to go there lately, for obvious reasons, but when I did I could get around there without a car without too much trouble. Having no flexible option (and taxis sucked before Uber rose and I'm sure will continue to suck after) would make it much worse, but I expect SF prices to drop anyway - people are finally realizing they don't have to pay 3.5K/month for a studio just to work remotely anyway. Golden Gate park is nice but not that nice.
Criticizing "you guys" as a sexist term when describing a mixed gender group is a) true because there are multiple genders in the group and b) not a gotcha. She wasn't baiting you into saying sexist remarks to criticize you as a chauvinist. Her over enthusiasm may have been annoying sure, but calling it "gotcha" behavior is a way to casually dismiss anti-racists and anti-sexists without actually in their engaging arguments or even the slightest bit of self reflection.

> In modern anti-racism, not only does a gotcha not need to be justified with argument,

> would get a lecture about how using the word "guys" to a mixed sex group was being oppressive.

Sounds like you received a justified argument that you are choosing to ignore.
Honestly even a risk of hyperinflation paying for everything with dollar creation would still leave a healthier more productive population in its wake.
> Adding 0.5% scandium to aluminium greatly increases the metal's strength while maintaining its light weight, as well as raising its melting point by 800 °C so that, unlike ordinary aluminium, it can be welded.

Wait, what? That has got to be a typo. That would more than double the Al melting point of 655 C.
Medicare is specifically only for elderly people, not all.
Tesla Touches 2000 $
An important psychological milestone ?
The alternative to this that I use is "don't precisely estimate tickets more than a month out" because if something has 6 other tickets between now and it, things will probably change by then, so a precise fully-fleshed-out estimate will probably just wait time and not be any more valid than the "about a week" one anyway.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Russians in 2017:

"...the Russians, who typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor..." [1]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-clapper...
Is there a complementary "Books That Will Make You Dumber" article?
applies bullshit filter
Or just get it from github. Much faster and no delay in updates.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases
Who do you think ends up paying that money? Uber/Lyft? Not a chance! This cost always gets passed down the the individuals in the form of smaller cuts of the pie.
> That's the whole point: some people value purpose more than they value explanation.

Sure, but I don't think the debate is over whether creationists derive a sense of purpose from their beliefs. I have no doubt that they do. You'd never need to discuss things like fossils or evolution or cosmology to determine whether one derives a sense of purpose from one's beliefs.

My assumption was that these debates are about the epistemological status of these claims, which is largely independent of whether one derives a sense of purpose.
I read RideAustin was going to shut down[1] this year and so did Fasten and Fare a few years ago

[1] https://communityimpact.com/austin/central-austin/impacts/20....
Brigade did not provide their service either. A lender provides the service of lending money over a certain amount of time. This money is like a contractor paid by the hour, working at the borrower's service. Brigade should not be entitled to having that money back until that time has either elapsed or the borrower decides to alter the payments.

Another comparison would be me giving my wallet to a friend to buy something, then the wallet falls from his pocket into my landlord's hands, who declares this must be my next payment for rent. This does not sound fair.
Fitbit Study Suggests Wearables Can Detect Covid-19 Before Symptoms Appear
I've always had it the other way with New jobs: "whoops, we screwed up and didn't pay you, maybe we'll get to it next month lols."
Does it change anything in your perception of “coming into existence from nothing” if the total energy of this universe is 0?
I'd say the only way this would be better than min/max solution is that you can't accidentally flip it when writing the code - but IMO both suck at expressing intent, clamp reads unambiguously.