skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* "shithole countries"

* "they're animals"

* "We can't allow these people to invade our country"

* "Mexican judge"

* multiple accounts of him calling black peope "n-gg-rs"

* "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."

* “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor"

* The Central Park Five ad (never mind that they were innocent, a racist wrote it)

* literally settled out of court for racially discriminating as a landlord

* They don’t look like Indians to me.”

* "I was the only person of color that I saw at an executive level in my entire year with the Trump Organization"

* Baltimore and Atlanta are "infested"

* telling US citizens of color "go back to your countries"

* wanting to swap Puerto Rico (again, US citizens he represents) for Greenland because it's a "dirty" island, "showed deep animus to its people"

* birther conspiracy

* agreeing with a supporter in a townhall who said "we have a problem in this country; it’s called Muslims.”

* Trump: How do you stop illegal border crossers? Supporter: "Shoot them!" Trump laughs enthusiastically

* lied about watching "thousands and thousands of Muslims" celebrating 9/11

* tried to ban all Muslims from entering the country

* tons of promoting racists (Laura Loomer, Jayda Dransen, Sebastian Gorka, Jeannine Pirro, Joe Arpaio, Unite the Right

* many actual racists call him a fellow racist (Christchurch shooter, El Paso shooter, Pittsburgh synagogue shooter)

I don't know what your definition of racism is, but I would love to hear how none of these incidents qualify.
Reddit admins have their own window of discourse and it's certainly colored by personal biases. But, it should say a lot that "Let's kill all the lawyers" would likely result in a ban.

Reddit risks closing the window of discourse so tightly that it becomes a Facebook, Instagram or Tik Tok. The problem for Reddit, of course, is that there is already a Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok.

I've already left the platform.
> Since I've really hit a dead end with OCaml (multiple times even), I'm still hoping I'll get Rust Stockholm Syndrome. There doesn't really seem to be anywhere else to go.

I think you have to come to terms with the fact that the perfect programming language does not exist and you will hit frustrations and dead ends with every language.
Isn't Joe Sullivan the CISO at Cloudflare now?

Edit: Yes. https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1296522269313785862?s=...

Edit2: full indictment https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1306781...
You have a good point.

But I think taken to the extreme: who wouldn't prefer a private air-conditioned taxi over 100 ˚F subway platforms?

In this hypothetical: we're assuming the facilities are good enough that the experience for the disabled is within reasonable parity.

On the other hand, if it means having to go 40 blocks uptown, just to find an elevator then head back downtown, the system is inadequate and my narrative doesn't hold.
The sequels have some big and original ideas that I don't regret being exposed to, but they were painful to get through. Especially the 2nd book. It took me months to finish because I just couldn't stay interested.
> The issue is that they're still considered employees which means predetermined shifts

Is there anything in California labour law or AB5 that requires predetermined shifts? What would prevent Uber/Lyft from allowing its now-employees to volunteer for an X-hour shift at any point that demand forecasts suggest it would be useful?
Ok, so maybe not a "fact" but the hypothesis of the False Vacuum:

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

This quote blew my mind:

"The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated."

I immediately went out and bought Greg Egan's "Schild's Ladder" after find out he'd used this as a plot device.
Organisations run on a charitable basis in this space on balance tend to be less transparent on impact than organisations run as businesses, which are better focused on effectively managing and reporting impact[1].

Oikocredit is probably my favourite and investing in climate-smart agriculture at the moment. They should also give you your money back.

One thing to bear in mind is that adaptation at this point is as important as mitigation.

[1]The reason being that on balance they have more resources available for management.
If you are required to provide your employees benefits, then you need to hire them for a certain number of hours to amortize those benefits costs.

And if you are hiring Joe to work 40 hours as an Uber driver then you need to make sure he works 40 hours that make sense. Thus benefits require a minimum number of hours, and a minimum number of hours requires a schedule.
Ironically, of course, Popperian falsifiability is itself unfalsafiable, and therefore does not meet its own definition as a member of itself.

Popper knew this, by the way. So the inverse to the trap you point out here is the claims that "if not falsifiable, then unable to be true/useful", which is just as specious.
> If you can't operate your business without independent contractors, then they aren't independent contractors.

This makes no sense. There are industries ALL over that depend heavily on independent contractors - it's incredibly common in construction, agriculture, trade services, etc.

And yes, the business absolutely can operate without any given independent contractor, but it cannot operate without access to any independent contractors at all.

Hell, what do you think a "general contractor" does on a job site? Because the answer is basically organize a bunch of independent contractors. They also couldn't exist if legally they had to hire every plumber/painter/electrician/drywaller/roofer/framer etc full time.

So while I think uber/lyft DO need legislation to address, I think hamfisting them into the legal model of full time employment is... fucking dumb.
When the monopolistic rideshare titans were banned in Austin there were local competitors within weeks. They kinda sucked for a few months, but by the time Lyft and Uber returned they worked quite well. They also paid the drivers FAR better, I heard on driver forums that it was easy to make over 20 an hour. Most drivers I talked to were very upset when Lyft/Uber returned, because they took over 50% pay cut.

With the technical might that is Silicon Valley, California only needs to hold their ground for a few months, then Lyft/Uber will become an afterthought
"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."

well they sure as shit aren't getting _anything_ now. What a hollow victory.
This is a dishonest argument. Compared to the United States, countries like Japan, Germany, and others in Europe have been much more successful at containing the pandemic, even with their extensive public transport systems.

Our transportation system is entirely based on individual travel, and yet we cannot keep cases under control.

Besides, this situation is not permanent. We should not live in complete isolation out of fear for the next pandemic. Instead, we should learn from our mistakes this time around, and agree on an appropriate course of action to protect against future contagions.
I agree, but there are base rules in most markets, which is why AB5 exists.

For example, an upstart McDonalds-like chain that uses App-ordering could charge much less for a burger if they paid $3 an hour. Consumers would obviously choose this chain if tyhe product is still good as it is much much cheaper. (Capitalism obviously doesn't have a conscience.) For this reason, we have minimum wage laws and (somewhat as a hack, I don't agree with the rules) health care mandates for employers, to create fair and legal playing fields to ensure that businesses' are taking action to better the economy and the American people.

I suppose a universal point I am trying to state here is: Corporations exist to better the people. Wouldn't it be overall more efficient if the the company paid fairly and the people who work for that company don't have to then request funds from the government? This ensures competition is possible by setting a floor on the race to the bottom costs.
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If they work fifty hours in a week then 10 hours would be overtime. This is something that's been enshrined in our laws for quite a bit of time now.

Outside of the fact that uber would have to pay them more, there is nothing stopping them from working five hours one week and fifty the next.
We haven't even agreed on what good means.
>> 27% of people have antibodies, thus 2.4 million were infected.

The immune system isn't just about antibodies. having antibodies, for this disease, means you were exposed relatively recently. People who had the disease months ago are now showing a lack of antibodies. That doesn't mean that their immune system isn't primed for this disease, just that they currently do not display antibodies in their bloodstream. Thus it is likely many more than 2.4million americans have been infected/exposed, potentially drawing down the death rate well below 1%.
It depends on what space you're working on (e.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line define an order on the real field union {-∞, +∞}).
I find that this is super convenient that this is happening during COVID restrictions.

I'm not needing a taxi/uber/lyft for leaving the bar. I'm not going out to a restaurant with friends. I'm not traveling for work/fun and needing an lift to the hotel.

My usage of uber/lyft/taxis went from 100s per month down to 0. If this change happened in 2019, I'd of had significant changes to my daily routine. Today, this changes nothing.
There have been 2 outstanding flight simulators on the market for the past ~20 years which more-or-less dominate the industry. X-Plane and MSFS are both excellent and both reasonably affordable. I suspect the lack of flight sims in retail has more to do with the fact that flight simulators are hard to create. When there is established competition with a great rep and decent pricing, it's nearly impossible to break into a market profitably.
I think this just reminds me if I went back to ReasonML from ClojureScript I wouldn't be having a good time
Uber will benefit from this, since the demand will go to Uber and they could see surge pricing.
The hacked emails pointed to the pizza joint. The social media profile of the owner did have inappropiate images and support for groups who support inappropriate relationships.

Someone thinking girls were locked in the basement and deciding to storm the place is a sign of a mental health issue. But his actions doesn't make the known facts false.
What you call a gun to their head has been there for a year now! The only thing that actually ended was their hopeless legal effort.

So no, it was made illegal a year ago. It was Uber and Lyfts decision to do nothing to prepare.
Basically this. As best I can tell, most of the flexibility Uber and Lyft want is the flexibility to pay people less and give them less benefits and prevent them from being able to unionize/organize effectively.
So you didn't talk to any drivers? None of those questions are for Google. They question your position, and it seems that's why you didn't answer.

Why did you ever work as a contractor if you're against not having a min wage and benefits? You claim that's "right" so what changed? Why impose that on others instead of choosing for yourself?

Flexibility means work when, where, and however long you want. AB5 removes this. Employee classification means preset shifts, which means it's only viable with fewer drivers working set schedules in dense areas instead of the fluid supply/demand with high coverage that exists today. This fundamentally changes the service from what consumers want, and that's why it doesn't work.
I just have a hard time seeing any uses for GPT-3 that are not dystopian other than better telephone assistance and voice commands.

The uses that immediately spring to mind for me are automated propaganda, automated spam that's virtually indistinguishable from real content, really compelling phishing attacks, and automated con artistry at scale... basically the linguistic version of deep fakes with all the ensuing use cases. I see this stuff killing the open web and any open communication platform.
Some quick math: 32 miles per second (see one of their linked articles, https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/conferences/vasimr-plasma...) is 155,200 miles per hour. Assume you accelerate at 21 MPH, which is about 1 g (100 KPH ~ 60 MPH, 100 KPH / 32.81 KPH/S^2 = 2.85 s, 60 MPH / 2.85 s). So at 1 g It takes you about 228 days to reach cruising speed, 2 g takes 114 days, 3 g 57 days. So I don't think this would not be useful to transport space crews? Still really cool tho.
Republican party is completely dead in California. Last time they had some power they kept manufacturing crises and shutting down the government. After Trump they've gone all in on the national Republican party's white-hot hatred of the state.
It's cute but if you used this in an innerloop (like a game, simulation or graphics code where 'clamp' is used often), it'll generate a ton of garbage as well as potential slowdown for no good reason.
The sun orbits the center of the galaxy every 250 million years, so when the dinosaurs were around, they were on the other side of the galaxy, compared to where we are now.
Fair. That was partially a Michael Che joke :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37G0D6s0J8s

I don't disagree that the writers are not indeed diverse. The phrasing of "diverse set of white men" was purposefully oxymoronic. It's just that the selection of writing gives the illusion of diversity which can be quite dangerous.
I think op is implying the difference in non-accrued interest. IE your payment at that point would be all principle, thus negating the loan and incurring over payment.
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And who is going to make the Space Force clean up our orbitals after a battle or war?

The idea of combat in orbit is insanity, the Space Force will just ground itself if war ever breaks out in orbit at any scale. It's like building a navy that would be unable to leave port if you were to ever actually use it. It's like... well, nuclear weapons, except perhaps less likely to result in human extinction.
Perhaps by having drivers commit to a single platform, an hour at a time. At the end of the hour-long "shift" the driver then picks which platform to work for in the next hour, or chooses to go home.
Well, you clearly don't read anything I write - this piece ends by saying Apple's IAP model is unsustainable and needs to be dismantled, and my previous post said big tech companies are going to become as tightly regulated as banks.
this reminds me of the letterman case. The guy got nailed for blackmail, he would have been so much better off just selling the info to a tabloid.
Almost all pilots use flight simulator "Games" during training.
If this were a serious logical debate, I wouldn't use it. It is indeed a fallacy, but it expresses a phenomenon in a way that is generally understood by most people. That is, acceptance of one link in a chain of events makes the acceptance of the following links easier. The fallacy is two parts, one that the above is even true (it doesn't make it easier in all cases) and that it leads to a form of reductio ad absurdum (gay marriage will lead to people marrying cats etc).

Sometimes logical fallacies get a point across in a way that is the most succinct.
In Physics 2 (Light, Electricity, and Electromagnetism), I could not derive the correct answer for calculating the flux of an infinite sheet.

TA: The flux is S for an infinite sheet.

Me: How? We have S for this side plus S for the other which yields 2S!

TA: For an infinite sheet, there is no other side.

Me: O_O
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> Yes, by common law, you cannot work for two people at the same time.

Please cite something to back this up.

> Moreover, you cannot have two companies paying you by the hour for the same hour.

Why not? Again, please cite a source.

If we assume that uber et al. have a baseline staffing level, during which time you as driver might be paid to be working for them exclusively, then sure, during that period of "dedicated time" you would only be working for the one service. But then in addition to that, uber might have on-call hours to accommodate surge. During this time, you as employee driver are free to accept or pass on rides. Like voluntary overtime, by the task (piece work). In your OT/on-call hours you can also be on-call for ride service #2, since they could have the same go/no-go optional work acceptance. So why couldn't you do this? And why couldn't uber/lyft employ people this way?

Your example of being a car salesman is a bad analogy for ride service. I am not "working" for the ride service until I accept the ride, which constitutes clocking in for an on-call task. Whereas being a car salesman that sells my personal car while on-duty with my employer is a different situation.
Giving someone a job they want is not exploitation. If gig workers wanted to be unemployed they could easily do that instead, but they chose to look for a job, someone offered them a job, and they took it. Why should the state interfere in that arrangement and take that job away?
There is something much funnier happening in Melbourne right now :D
Your edit and summarization is quite clear. Thank you for that.
Hmm... or maybe some smaller panels plus a really enormous and very very thin reflective collector for concentrating solar. Keep in mind that things can be very thin in space.

It would still weigh a lot though, and heat would be a major issue. You wouldn't want to melt the solar panels.

This would require someone much more knowledgable to determine if it's feasible.

Edit: I wonder if you'd get some amount of solar sail effect in addition to the plasma rocket? Of course this would help you one way and hurt you the other way.
If you look at quality of life indicators instead of economic strength, California certainly falls more than a bit but the red/blue divide grows even larger (1). From purely a quality of life standpoint, 8 of the best 10 are blue and 8 out of the worst 10 are red.

(1) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
At one time I flirted with the YEC point of view as a Christian. What helped me change both (I'm an atheist now) was exposure to more points of view and modest experiments applying biblical teachings personally. After years of twisting logic I could no longer justify the magical thinking. Because none of the experiments were convincing. (Don't forget that God can't be tested! Except when it comes to donating to his chosen leaders.)

And within the Christian communities I saw so much harm from the various biases and non-critical methods it was heart breaking. Sadly it can still be hard to leave when you're taught you're choosing pleasure, hell fire, selfishness, and abandoning absolute truth and love.
If you calculate all the money you will put into your mortgage loan over time, add it all up, and write a check for that amount, it will be more that your principal balance because of interest.
A million square metres is one square kilometre. It could be built but it would be heavy. A circular sail with a radius of just over 600 metres would do it.
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Yeti, an ML-family functional language for the JVM, reaches v1.0
I read that some 41% of people support prop 22 as of today, vs some 26% against (and 34% undecided)[1]

I feel like a shutdown would certainly bring it to the top of mind for people and help convert the undecided, but it already looks like it'll pass, shutdown or not.

[1] https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/california-propositi...
Ask HN: How do you rake production?
Ruby on Rails has rake tasks baked in. It let you run a piece of code meant to run only once. How do you do it in other environments/languages?

How do you fix some database items that got corrupted due to a bug? How do you ensure code review and time logs with the person triggering the execution? Considering that manual database updates in production are not a good thing.

I faced this problem with a couple of companies. There was never a good solution.

Does anything exist that I am not aware of?
OPs implementation requires 2 comparisons. I think this C expression is clearer, and will sometimes use 1 comparison:

num < min ? min :
num > max ? max :
num
Currently learning webdev, so I'll give the best answer I can:
You could probably use canvas and recreate all of Fortnite, but it would be a remake, not a simple port. There are existing libraries that could be used to load models and perhaps animate them, but... it would take a while, and there would be major FPS issues. Javascript is much less efficient than native apps.
That had interactions between protons and neutrons been but a tiny bit weaker or stronger than they are, the universe would probably contain a lot less carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process#Resonance...), perhaps precluding existence of life as we know it.
I am surprised he likes some of the classics as they hold up really poorly IMO. The Foundation books especially just... are not good viewed through a modern lens. I hate to pull the misogyny card, but I think there is only one woman in Foundation and she has no lines, just models a necklace for some space trader types. They also suffer from the classic sci-fi conundrum where a spaceman is flying at light speed while reading a newspaper and listening to a tape. It's not really excusable for me when people consider this like... the greatest sci fi book. Other authors were able to confront our social and technological future in a much more realistic and interesting way, not like, cowboys in spaceships.
Or you could could have such a business and allow people to decide whether they want to work there or not.
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To be equivalent, you'd have to say that McDonalds is able to provide food anywhere at any time. My house at 6am, downtown at lunch, late night at 2am. In fact, the only way to do this is to use Uber Eats or something similar. And no, delivery drivers have never been that ubiquitous.

Your definition of on-demand is more like a bus or train, not lyft or uber. i.e. you have to actually go to a bus stop or train stop, which could be out of the way, and you have to deal with their schedule. That's hardly on-demand.

Uber and lyft's business model is absolutely based on being on-demand. I would take a bus or train if it was even close to as convenient.