skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy to remember, but may take some time to grasp:

Arrays.sort( {lower_bound, num, upper_bound} )[1];

Next challenge: teach the optimizer to make that almost as fast as the min/max way ;-)

(You can’t reduce it to the min/max call because it also works if you accidentally pass a lower bound that’s larger than the upper bound. Worst-case, the above takes 3 comparisons, unless at least two of the inputs are constants)
The idea behind deplatforming hate is to reduce the reach of hatespeech to those that explicitly desire it and the platforms that willingly provide it.

That, in turn, reduces the funding of the hate prophets - many German alt-righters found themselves in a serious financial crunch after Youtube and Facebook booted them off so they could only solicit for donations on their lousy-visited Telegram channels.

Side benefit: when the people that post hate speech on mass platforms like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter, members of marginalized groups get this shit into their feeds. Driving the hate speechers away increases the quality of usage of the marginalized persons.
Thinking through this more. I've noticed that a lot of drivers work both Uber and Lyft (flexibility allows this). Would that go away in the employee model?
Well, actually it was the margins that did it, but finance can be a little abstract when you're populist.
I actually noticed this over the past month or so. It made a precipitous difference.
Three sincere questions for the group:

Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down."

When I read hackernews a lot, I get the impression folks think these app stores are some kind of public commons.

And my second question:
Who do you think customers will blame when someone uses an alternative payment approach to steal from customers? Google/Apple? The app provider? Themselves?

Third question:
What's a customers recourse once they are the victims of fraud or simply want a refund for whatever reason? How easy will it be for them to reason about what to do?
> If I'm understanding correctly, it's the same as posting the SHA hash of some secret data to twitter to prove you have some data.

Yup!

However, it's important to understand that the only thing OpenTimestamps can do is prove data existed prior to some point in time. It can't prove data is unique. Twitter however can.

A simple example is if I want to show off how good I'm at predicting which team is going to win some sports championship. With a Twitter hash commitment I can only pick one team; with OpenTimestamps I could just timestamp every single possible prediction in advance.

Which in most years would have worked! Though depending on the sports championship, this year that trick wouldn't have been easy because I'd have to have brute-force timestamped a lot of predictions to have a "Cancelled due to COVID-19" timestamp handy. :)
No, I think it’s two fold. One it means they believe increasing rates would make their business less viable and second it’s likely a tactic to force the government to reconsider.

The gov will have to weigh the benefit of people having affordable rides on demand plus people who want “side money” vs higher fares plus people who now are either out of a job or out of side money.
Most don't but bigger channels would. You may only subscribe to bigger channels.
I'm a bit confused by the article. It ended with a question about whether Brigade should keep that money but has only answered on the side of "Brigade is wrong. They should return the money back."
I'd be interested in how you'd propose to make that work when operators may be jumping in to a robot anywhere on the planet from one minute to the next. Require logging and reporting on when remote labor was used to support the tax jurisdiction you're operating in? It seems that would also require reporting to every locality you operate robots in individually, which is currently not necessary.

Would you propose to use the same method for other remote services such as call center support?
This seems lazy by CA.

We either have "full time = forty hours of work and tons of benefits that have been shoehorned into employment because our government doesn't provide it" or "part time = less than forty hours and you get abused"

I'm not privy so I won't pretend to have the right idea, but it seems like there should be a middle ground.
They exist, but those opportunities exist not in as numerous quantities because they are undercut by Lyft/Uber, which are only able to do so because they are operating unsustainably. The latter just need to either increase their prices to make the rideshare job more profitable and acceptable or, if that’s truly impossible as they suggest, I guess we’ll have to go back to cab rides.
Yeah! Hugelkultur is on my list of things to explore. Sadly we are not allowed to take the gray water outside or capture any water outside of what falls on the roof, nor are we allowed to divert any streams or anything, so if there's a longer drought we'll likely run out. Indoor water is not a problem it's just that we're limited on what we can do outside because outdoor water usage results in the water leaving the local water system and that water already has senior rights attached to it. We're also not allowed to create and kind of water runoff storage system like a swale or redirect water from the driveway.

We do have a ton of trees and shrubs and bushes and I'm going to be making some gardens with native wildflowers that should be able to resist the local weather machinations but I'd like to find some drought tolerant vegetables.
My initial thoughts:

> First hand lessons

> over eighty failed startups

I dunno... if you've got first hand experience in 80 startups then maybe their failures are because you didn't spend enough time in any single one of them.

Then I read the article:

> We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed

If you've analyzed the startups then I really don't think that counts as "first hand".
Also Sergei Skripal:

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

Using WMD to take out a single person does indeed seem like making a political statement.
Thanks for setting me straight. :)
I think your "at most" language is pretty expressive. You could do that as an alias for `min` and `max`

I think `at_most(at_least(num, lower_bound), upper_bound)` is much easier to understand instantly than `min(max(...))`.

I'm tempted to make these aliases myself in some of my development actually. I find a pretty big conceptual difference between "I want to find the minimum point in this data", and "I want to restrict the range of this number" that giving them different names will probably help the readability of my code.

(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)
We could banish 100% of hate if we just banished people entirely.
I use gitAhead as daily git Gui on linux. It's fast to run. Has a lot of git features, maybe not all though.

https://gitahead.github.io/gitahead.com/
"if you don't have any state to worry about"

You just add a db ip address to your app config? like any other solution. States work great.
Is there a book written by a soldier that explains why people defend/enforce the power of evil people?

Putin himself is not poisoning these people, someone is doing it for him. Why?

Doesn't have to be from Russia. Any soldier defending any evil person - why?
I'm a web developer using macOS on my home machine for personal projects. I use Linux at work so I'm familiar with both, I have no intention of dropping either in the near future. Both fill a particular niche for me while not requiring much cognitive overhead to switch between them. As
long as they don't do anything spectacularly moronic like insisting on the mac App Store as the only source of software or preventing non-Apple OS's being run then I'm unlikely to get pissed off enough to leave the Apple ecosystem.

"To each their own" is the key principle we're missing I think, personally my encounters with Windows have been by far the most frustrating and unproductive interactions with an OS, but some people wouldn't ever step their toes out of Microsoft land. I'm not sure how much of my dislike for Windows is because I'm simply too set in my *nix ways and how much is genuine bugginess and UI obtuseness as well.
$250m buys a lot of moral fibre these days.
The Big Bang theory was originally proposed by a Catholic priest (and mathematician, astronomer, physicist), Fr. Georges Lemaître:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

He "initially call[ed] it the 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'."
I’ve always wondered what is the best-run state
The State of California doesn't care about workers, they care about the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars they want from payroll and unemployment taxes, in addition to revenue from automatic withholdings for people whom would otherwise be below the reporting limit.
I don’t buy that. That would imply the company as a whole provides no value except that brought by the employees.
Hey, thanks, didn't saw it before.
For who may be concerned : https://basecamp.com/shapeup/shape-up.pdf
> Modern C# has Math.Clamp() since .NET Core 2.0; too bad it’s not available in desktop edition of the runtime.

Huh, that’s good to know. It’s also in .net standard 2.1. A shame it wasn’t added to Framework 4.8 (which I guess is what you mean by "desktop edition of the runtime"?)
Exactly Californians will succeed no matter what the government does.
I’d think a good ole fashioned taxi would work. Is there a reason you couldn’t or wouldn’t use one?
I'm mostly a server dev, and I'm keen on a nice strict Content-Security-Policy (CSP) header which rules out inline CSS. The benefits (preventing extensions etc. from injecting style in a way which may constitute an attack) outweigh the convenience of inlined CSS for components in my opinion.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
Yeah I wouldn't doubt if there's some Lyft shills in here.

Removing my tin foil hat now.
It trades the privacy problem of trusting YouTube with your "data" with the problem of trusting the entire world with your "data"
Europe is already essentially running on 3D Secure with 2FA. Becomes noticeable when buying from stores not having the EU as a significant market, usually American, which does not implement it. After the transaction is declined I'm forced to open my bank app and click the scary sounding "open my card for all internet purchases for 60 minutes" button.
The first "big" band I ever saw go multi-channel to connect with fans was Dave Matthews Band [1] In March of 2009, the band went from a blog-looking thing [2] that collected email addresses to putting every social channel front and center. [3]

By November 2010, they had iTunes Ping, Twitter, an iPhone app, Facebook, Myspace, the bassist's twitter feed all being pushed in huge tiles.

At the time this was extraordinary, since many artists did not have a handle on social at all and definitely were not pushing people "away" from direct connection like this.

I believe the idea was to allow many platforms to get between you and your fans/followers, but to allow the fans to choose which platform that would be.

As the OP suggests, this can be a lot of work.

[1] Coran Capshaw, the band's manager created an early dial-up ISP company in Charlottesville that went on to become MusicToday. was responsible for major tech advances in live entertainment

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090219153059/http://www.davema...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20101105102023/http://www.davema...
I don't think “places to be hateful on the internet” are in short supply.
The heart of the issue is big labor unions want more power, and independent contractor status is a threat to their power.
you won't find many because only Michigan and Texas have smaller departure rates as a percentage of their population, and California remains the most popular state for international immigrants in the US.
I was born in Russia and I despise Putin. He is the reason why I emigrated. He and his cronies brough the country into the dark age, from which it may never come out. He is, without a single doubt, Hitler of the 21st century.

* He consolidated all the political and judicial power. Destroyed, physically, politically or judicially all the opponents. Elections are completely fake.

* He completely controls all secret services, with vast spying network and formidable IT intrusion capabilities.

* He implemented full and completely legal surveilance state. Documented and legally mandated recording of all the cellphone communications, email, internet access logs. They urgently started building DNA database of all the citizens. Every citizen will be assigned a unique number to which all the data from all the agencies will be tied. Even a regular neighborhood policeman will have access to all this data. Cameras with face recognition being installed all over Moscow. Chinese-like internet firewall is being created.

* He controls the organized crime networks, in fact his whole gang who is in charge of Russia grew out of that crime syndicate.

* He leads and benefits from a group of very powerful "capitalists", serving the regime needs in many, many different ways around the world and internally.

* He completely controls all the media (bought out by his cronies or nationalized), which helped him create a blatant propaganda machine, rivaled probably only by Chinese and North Koreans. They can spin anything. People in Russia are utterly confused and don't believe in reality anymore. They are drowned in ridiculous bullshit all day long and conspiracy theories are being distributed by state TV channels.

* He usied this propaganda machine to create myth of the great Russian world and moral and intellectual exceptionality of Slavs. Constantly bringing up the great heroic ancestors and their achievement in WW2, and duty if modern Russians to not squander what they achieved. There's constantly talks about how Russia is the only true God's country, and that it's a moral savior of the world. There's an instilled feeling of victimhood, almost sainthood, of Russian culture. Everything that happens is somebody else's fault, a foreign influence, an accident, or sabotage. They truly believe that russians are the greatest people on Earth.

* He annexed Crimea, created instability and puppet regimes in many bordering states. His next possible goal is Belarus.

I believe, these are pretty much all the ingredients necessary to build a nazi/fascist state, and that is in fact exactly what they've built.
I wonder what new app will spring up in place of Uber and Lyft. This is a huge opportunity for some aspiring entrepreneur. Of course, they're probably bluffing and will be back soon.
This comment was quite the roller-coaster for me with that first sentence :D

So glad to hear that you're happy with the release, and thank you for the kind words.
These days the language of science in popular media always remind me of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World with science as a candle in the dark and while corpora analysis is cool to create a bunch of word stats I believe modern science (supported by the recent steady lack of change in its language as shown in one of the article graphs) has inherently a problem of discourse and not of words to be clearer to the layperson. Discourse in the storytelling sense that appeal to their specific audience, but also not like those flourish articles that start like a romance which are pretty preposterous. In that way, perhaps, dunno, it's impossible to have a language of science that is efficient today while at the same time trying to appeal to everybody as it would be impossible to have an universal discourse that appeals equally to a person on minimum wage and a trader with a nice suit... in the end any universal language of science no matter how well its words are selected will fail, due to bad discourse IMHO.
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Interesting, thanks! I'll have to see if this is allowed under our water laws
He is giving his point of view based on past experience. A lot of drivers see Uber as helpful side money, and that seems quite genuine. Those who see Uber this away are indeed seeing this opportunity taken away.
It absolutely will increase. But this is tempered by the current coronavirus situation
You are not nuts.
65% would go to creators based on minutes watched.

How many Patreon subscriptions do you have? Are those the only videos you watch?
The move seems to be specifically in response to the recent court order:

> Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman ruled Monday [August 10, 2020] that Lyft and Uber's thousands of contract drivers should be given the same protections and benefits under labor law as other employees of the ride-hailing companies.

> The judge said Uber and Lyft have refused to comply with a California law passed last year that was supposed to make it harder for companies in the state to hire workers as contractors, so gig economy workers such as drivers for the ride-hailing companies would receive health insurance, workers' compensation and paid sick and family leave. As independent contractors, Uber and Lyft drivers are not provided these benefits.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901099643/california-judge-or...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It sounds like you're saying that I'm somehow framing my opinion in a dishonest way, but I'm not sure in what way you're claiming it is dishonest.

Is it because my comment isn't pro-authoritarian/totalitarian?
> ..playing outside, singing, listening to fairy tales, going to hiking trips, to the zoo..

That sounds like wonderful early childhood activities, healthy for the body and mind.

Having gone to a Japanese kindergarten, I remember it being a friendly experience, similar to what you described. However, as soon as basic school starts (6~7 years old), it can get stressful depending on the region, public/private school, and parents' social class and expectations.
>different/wrong/naïve political ideology

Folks with this "naive" political ideology are shooting at people and kicking peoples head on the streets. Many innocent have died in the riots, much more have lost their business to looting.

I don't see conservatives having a hard time condemning the pizza place shooter or any other similar act, but I see a lot of leftists rationalism and even denying altogether the bad actions of their bad people. They even cheer their bad actors on.
If you're asking for better run states, it looks like Texas is doing well but I'm unfamiliar with most other states to give you a good answer.

As 20 year California resident, what I do know is that nothing has gotten better here over that time frame. Everything from infrastructure to taxes to city planning is much worse now than ever. CCPA is probably the only good outcome I can think of.
> You're whimsically sad you can't get more fun money to invest in stock, while the reason that ride sharing is being shut down is because it takes advantage of the lower class it depends on.

The American people take advantage of the lower class by tying healthcare to employment, and in an extra-cruel way where less lucrative jobs also provide insurance that is both more expensive day-to-day to the employee AND less comprehensive.

Uncouple basic benefits from jobs and so many of these problems go away in a much simpler way.
Maybe some of the drivers can come together to create a driver owned ride sharing app. A good example of this is http://www.rideaustin.com/
It would be like TriNet, but for drivers only
Humby: Create video networking spaces to socialize with others at any event
Even if that's what they do, so what? It is their website. They can do what that want with it. If you don't like it, don't use it. You are free to say and believe what you want, but that doesn't mean you can do it on my website.
If you are a small indie app, you can stick with the biggest or a popular store. Likes of microsoft and Epic will fight to get there own stores installed or Apple will loosen is grip.
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Perhaps the compromise solution is to ban the unemployed and low-income workers from working for mobile taxi dispatch companies, and only let people do it who exceed certain income eligibility requirements.
At the risk of starting a style debate, this may be easier to read if you write it like an if-else:

a > max ? max :
a < min ? min :
a
The vast majority of freelancers do not feel like they are being exploited.

Source: I run a company that helps freelance/contract software engineers find work.
What's that mean exactly? There are a lot of people having a hard time in this state.
One of the reasons I bought an iPhone is because there are no vectors for arbitrary software installation.
That's not a problem, the problem is converting a user into a paying customer and the payment method is one serious friction point that Apple smoothed out so nicely. I am not concerned that I wouldn't receive the payment, I am concern that less people will bother going through the payment process.
A UX designer breaks down the intentionally malicious design of Trump’s ws
>They clearly outline their definition of "hate content" in their post about it.

Am I missing something here? I read the post and it's not clearly defined at all. All they did is mention was:

>To generate and categorize the list of keywords, we used a wide variety of resources and AutoModerator* rules from large subreddits that deal with abuse regularly.
Young Earth Creationism isn’t the same as Flat Earth.

An argument I’ve heard before is that God made the universe relatively recently (10k years ago or so) but with the appearance of age. Something like God “fast forwarded” through time to skip to the part where humans started recording history. In that theory both the majority of modern science and a strangely literal interpretation of the Bible can both be true at the same time. The scientists are unable to measure that God “fast-forwarded” the universe because he didn’t leave any evidence of it.

In my experience the majority of Christians don’t hold that view, but instead see Genesis as metaphorical, and thus it actually fits in rather well with the current Big Bang model. So well, in fact, that early on a lot of scientists rejected the Big Bang as “creationist rubbish.”
I totally understand that it doesn't always make economic sense to own a car. But I confess that it's really hard for me to understand the mentality of not getting a drivers license if able to do so. So many of the activities I do when in the Bay Area (and elsewhere) are pretty much impossible without either renting a car or having someone else drive me which isn't always possible. I've even had jobs that I couldn't have done without driving.
Who forced Lyft to shut down? Was it the state, or did they freely choose to cease operations? Obviously, spin will characterize this in any way that's advantageous. But nobody 'forced' Lyft to close.
I interpret this as: the world is just exactly as it is, whereas "moving" is a concept formed in the observer's mind. IOW, the "true"/"hard" reality follows its own course and does not care about intertial frames or other conceptualizations.
That's what AB5 did. It allowed for a new type of worker that was still partially an employee but would also allow for flexible hours and the ability for drivers to reject rides.

That's what's so disingenuous about this campaign by Uber and Lyft. They're pretending that being an employee would take away all of this flexibility, but the reality is the legislation left that flexibility in place. This is entirely an argument about benefits and protections, but Lyft and Uber are trying to pretend otherwise.
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html