skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A quick search gives us a figure of 220 watts of power per square meter of space based solar panel. This would mean a 200MW solar collector would need to be almost a million square meters in size. For reference that would be a square the length of 155 NYC city blocks on each side.

200MW/(220w/m2) gives us an area of 1,000,000m^2, a square 1000m on each side.

(side note: a NYC block isn't a very good length reference - they vary[1] from 250ft to 750ft depending which direction you're measuring. So the square would be 4 to 12 blocks on each side)

[1] https://streeteasy.com/blog/how-many-nyc-blocks-are-in-one-m...
"Laws like this exist to protect the weakest from exploitation."

maybe that was the intent but, in reality, you just destroyed your poorest citizen by taking what little they did have away. I get it, passing a law was the easiest thing for you to do because it shifts all responsibility but don't think too high of yourself.
For me it's material science misconceptions, corrections to what a kid / the over-simplified public conception are. As I'm not a material science expert, if I'm wrong or slightly incorrect please explain what actually happens.

"diamonds are forever"

It's appealing to believe that a crystalline structure, a pretty one too, might exist until actively changed.

Diamonds are not forever. What 'blew my mind' is that diamonds are the result of compression and very slowly decompressing. That slowly over time the outer layer leaves that state and turns to dust.

Glass is a 'liquid'

I'm much less sure about glass, I'm not even sure that science is sure about glass. Apparently one process for making glass in the old days involved something blowing and spinning discs of it to produce nearly flat segments. When installed the artisan making the window would place the thicker end down for stability or some other reason. I'm not positive if glass is a liquid or not, but the reason many people might think it's a liquid is that intentional selection bias when fitting the panes of glass.

The whole concept of glass possibly being a liquid though changed the way I perceive solid, liquid, and gas states. Those labels better reflect much more temporally localized potential change and interaction than they do to uniquely describe matter.

BTW, if there is an expert, is glass actually a liquid or a solid?
Isn’t there a shortage of trade workers already?

If the gov’t decides to fund a bunch of infrastructure projects, I don’t see a mad rush of people deciding to make a career in the trades.
Also chances are that no one has shuffled a deck in the same order as someone else has, ever in history.
This idea of micro-shifts sounds made up. Can you reference any companies that have this setup as an employer-employee relationship?
And for this particular use case, numpy has .clip(), that takes:

np.clip(ndarray, lower_bound, upper_bound)

And handles NaNs correctly.
This isn't quite right, or at least it's more nuanced than this.

One can in fact work two separate jobs at the same time without it being fraud (the only real "legal" restriction on working two jobs). You can also have two companies pay "you by the hour for the same hour" depending on the circumstances. There isn't a bright line rule that states this or anything, it comes down to whether one is committing fraud (and I agree it could be fraud in many cases, especially if done in secret).

The agent thing falls into the same category, and would depend on fraud and conflict of interest (loyalty, as you mentioned). And you can in fact be an agent of multiple companies or organizations at the same time, but things can get tricky (think of a hypothetical person being the CEO of Twitter and Square at the same time for example).

Your car example is also off the mark, or could be, because it's not a bright line rule. Loyalty to a company in Corporate Law is largely predicated on responsibility to the company via position or duties you've undertaken, and many cases have swung either way, and these can be hard or nuanced questions. Some small facts could change the whole car example, for example perhaps you only sell large vans, but the customer only wants a small convertible. In this case it might be proper for the employee to sell the person their personal Miata. It also doesn't consider higher level employees, executives for instance, and corporate opportunity. RE: "you cannot have two companies paying you by the hour for the same hour", sure you can, depending on the circumstances. Contrived example, but imagine a night security guard being paid to sit at a desk from midnight to eight am whose only responsibility is to have their butt in the seat. It might be okay for them to also be paid for a few hours of handling an online help desk for a third party employer for a couple hours, both being paid by the hour. That person is being paid by the hour by two employers simultaneously and it's not fraud or a breach of loyalty, especially for a hypothetical lower level employee who has permission.

Point is, these are not always easy questions, there is a lot of grey area, and you're really painting the agent and duty of loyalty thing as very black and white concepts when they're definitely not.
> it ultimately just comes down to paternalistic protection

Isn't this same 'paternalistic protection' the same force Silicon Valley uses to guarantee monopoly rents from 'intellectual property'?

"A globalised intellectual property rights system was immensely strengthened by TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) passed through the World Trade Organisation in 1994, shaped by a few US multinationals, backed by the US and UK governments. This has facilitated the commercialisation, privatisation and colonisation of ideas. Since 1994, the annual filing of patents has more than tripled, with the global stock of patents close to 12 million, each giving monopolistic control of some idea for 20 years or more.

Many patents result from publicly-funded research, diminishing the risk. But TRIPS allows corporations to receive monopolistic income for two decades, or use the patent to block others from producing something. Those claiming to believe in free markets should have opposed the trend, but reveal their class-based ideology by keeping quiet. There is evidence that the patent system hinders economic growth and innovation. It merely increases inequality and rentier capitalism. George Osborne, as Chancellor, made it even more blatant with his Patent Box tax break that in practice benefits multinationals coming to Britain if they have patented products, particularly Big Tech and Big Pharma. That tax break merely accentuated the plunder of the intellectual commons." [1]

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-...
You assume correctly. Although I do use Windows for my day job, my expectations for that OS are so low that I ascribed its performance shortcomings to incompetence. I'm not tremendously surprised to learn that self-sabotage was involved. Sometimes after I type my password at the Windows 10 lock screen, I'm treated to a 5 minute wait during which I get to speculate about what terrible decisions have got us to this point. I could cold-boot Arch on a ten-year-old netbook, use it to check the weather, and shut it back down in that amount of time.
I guess so. Both mainstream market mindshare and research freshness. The Ocaml Object System was quite liked at the time for the solid backing.
If wheelchair users prefer to take private rides, and it's cheaper than adapting public transit to their needs, I really don't see why we need to worry about this kind of issue. Most people view mass transit as generally undesirable, so they're okay with 'missing out' on it, and I don't think the disabled population is large enough to significantly contribute to urban congestion. I suppose that mass transit ridership will appear less diverse, but I'd rather not force people to use public transit just to make it more diverse.

Don't get me wrong; I'd love for everyone to be able to do everything, but trying to make everything work for everyone all the time can get Procrustean.
A big part of the push for 5G was very very cheap low-bandwidth IoT cellular connectivity. Guess what they'll be using that for.
I genuinely don't understand this argument. The fact that a platform succeeded despite security holes is not an argument against removing those holes. You might as well say that the malware explosion on Windows wasn't a problem because Windows still did well.
> Because it's the part that people should own after they bought it.

Why? Is that just an arbitrary principle? Why should "hardware" be something we have absolute control over, but "software" is not?

> You can play Fortnite without buying anything on the Epic store.

You can use an iPhone without using the App Store. But in both cases, it's probably just not as good of an experience.

> You can't use an iPhone without being forced by Apple to use the device the way they want.

That seems like some rhetorical gymnastics that could be applied to any product or service. You can't use cheating software in Fortnite either (or at least they presumably have measures in place to prevent it).

> Of course it would!

Okay, then you're consistent. I'll give you that. Presumably you think courts should require manufacturers of literally all electronic devices to provide an easy way for owners to run any software they want?
Hahah, you nailed it. People think that they can have their cake and eat it too, but the result will either be rides that are too expensive to bother with, or workers that are paid too little. The actual financials of this don't make sense unless we were to find some way of removing all the overhead caused by having gigantic companies as middlemen.
Right now people actually think Trump is stealing mailboxes to prevent people from voting.
Good for him for making the most of shitty situation.
Unsustainable (2018)
Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach
neither do i. all of the on-call folks I know must respond to pages; they don't have the option to pass on them.

that's just the existing on-call model. it's quite easy to imagine that a service overprovisions to account for people not being required to accept a "page". that overprovisioning specifically is so that people can hold multiple on-call type jobs simultaneously.
Everything starts with an assumption. However, in science, if the assumption's conclusion doesn't match the observed evidence, we reject our assumption as true, and we start with a new assumption.

As so, science doesn't have a "foundational" assumption (because it's willing to change its assumptions). Rather, science subjects assumptions to evidence - not the other way around...
How I Found Myself in a Command Line vs. GUI Meeting
Yes, that's correct. Though, I imagine Cloudflare will distance themselves now.

Here's his "why I am joining Cloudflare " post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-im-joining-cloudflare/

He was also a member of Obama's "Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity" : https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/0...
Which authors/books would you recommend that have held up over time?
I stand by what I said. It has worked. Has. It will not scale indefinitely. This is not a controversial statement. This is precisely the motivation behind genetic modification and continued research. It is why conventional agriculture talks about looking for the next green revolution.
I've got Hikvision cameras that I use with OrchidVMS
I can pull out the camera RTSP stream with a direct URL like:
rtsp://[cameraIP]/Streaming/Channels/101?transportmode=unicast&profile=Profile_1

which will open directly in VLC with a login to the camera

I've used some cameras and streaming setups to pull in the video stream directly, Samsung ones did this quite well.
Looks like his job could have been replaced with a script?
Why can't I early return in an if statement in Rust?
Looking forward to Redshift!

BTW, you don't need to navigate 10K tests... you only need to navigate the failing ones.
This is incorrect.

Determining whether someone is an independent contractor has always involved multiple factors. Flexibility of working hours is just one of the factors.

You cannot say categorically that having the ability to choose your own hours makes you an independent contractor rather than an employee.

Other factors include:

* What level of control does the employer have in dictating HOW the work is done?

* Is the worker performing work that is outside the usual course of the employer's business?

* Is it customary for the work to be performed as an independent trade?
Where can I see the definition?
I'm Sorry. I had completely misunderstood your comment.
Finders keepers is actually a pretty strong argument in a case such as this.

For instance, years ago, I had a business account of mine attached because an employee with signatory privileges had a garnishment against him.

The judge ruled that since the lender that seized the money already had it, and I couldn't prove that the money wasn't absolutely, definitely not the property of the signatory (who was not an owner), we could split the money.
The expression cosmic irony or "irony of fate" stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals with deliberate ironic intent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Cosmic_irony_(irony_of_f...
So, if I understand this right, your love for yourself is so coherent that these ramblings are synonymous with coherence in your mind.

In other words, your understanding of coherence is that it is subjective.

Is that right?
In the US, switching to EVs would save lives and be worth billions
I can personally testify to this. My rule of thumb as a driver was that I had to drive roughly twice as many miles as dollars I needed, i.e. $0.50 a mile.

It was absolutely a lifesaver and exactly what I needed at the time. But it's debatable whether it could have been sustained long term.

Personally, I think if instead of chasing imaginary Level 5 autonomy madness with billions of dollars, they had done the unsexy thing and simply paid drivers better, they might not be in this mess. It's pretty insane that they take half of every fare and still can't turn a profit-- seems like a clear sign somebody screwed up &/or made the wrong bet.
Given that nobody else has seen those documents the reverse is an appeal to authority and I find it relevant that said authority has a history of embellish facts.
> Would you rather get free rides everywhere you need to go or have to wait in the rain/snow/heat for the bus

At least in Toronto, the para-transit fares are the same as the regular transit system fares.

Sometimes they send you a taxi, but other times they send around a mini-bus that operates like an UberPool and may not save you any time.

Even if a Lyft/Uber would be cheaper, if the gov is subsidizing it, they’ll pay for the lowest priority to save 3 cents.
I never understood the way Uber wanted to win. There is essentially zero moat, especially because the drivers are not employees in their model. So even a small competitor can just slightly pay more to the drivers, and cost slightly less to the riders, to grow. The only way out is replacing the driver, and protecting that technology. I don't see either of that happening. If technology gets good enough, Tesla/GM/VW will have it too. And they have a cheaper access to cars.
“Underpaying” workers. There are many long term Lyft / Uber / Instacart contractors out there. They have communities, share tips, etc. They seem fairly well educated on how much they are getting, and decide its worth it to tghem. How can you say they are underpaid?
Interest accrues on a monthly basis, so if you pay it off now you won't accrue the interest on an ongoing basis.

In other words - over the life of the loan/mortgage you will pay $X in principal and $Y in interest. If you suddenly pay the whole thing back, then $Y becomes much smaller. So if you paid $X + $Y in a lump sum then you would receive some money back, is what they are saying. Because you have overpaid on the interest, because that interest never accrued.

(not sure whether in this case Citibank paid the full sum of the principal or expected interest or not, but yes, if you did that on your mortgage then you would be entitled to receive some money back)
MLM companies continue to be popular, despite the fact that the majority of people lose money by participating.

I agree that portions of the left can be paternalistic sometimes, but that doesn't mean Uber and Lyft aren't exploitative.
Did their business model work even when their workforce was on-demand?
In BC, Canada, Handydart is part of the public transit system. Paratranspo is part of OCTranspo under the Ottawa Transit system.

Cost would be basically the same as normal bus ride.

The municipalities could, you know, fund transit?

In the Valley, I was talking to some interns. It was a 50 minute walk, 40 minute bus ride, and 15 minute bike ride. Basically the only reason why you'd take the bus is you can't afford a bike?!?
Also if they only receive data, don't send / upload anything?

A old times radio receiver, it cannot be detected? Or can it

Or TV antenna? That receives only
Average American spends 34 hours weekly watching TV. Are they still watching it for enjoyment or is it a goal?
If all you need is a receiver, you're right that an antenna is reasonably difficult -- not impossible -- to locate. But if you want to request a resource from a satellite, you need to broadcast a signal. And that's very easy to locate. Even tightbeams are scattered and reflected, so can be triangulated by ground receivers.
There was a time my title was CTO, and I'd say to the devs, there is only one function in a company. Sales. Every minute you spend writing tests, is sales. Because at the end there is only one business model. More money in then money out. I'll frame it in a different fashion, often the issue is that developers believe that they are alone with in creating value. And that all of these sales and marketing clowns are just.... What you may probably come to understand is that.... you are a marketing person now! and that this does not make you a lesser person. Yes, you can still code. But your primary function had changed. And over a longer run... it will require you to gain new competencies. So how does a marketing person fit? simply. They are you.
Fdroid is full of malware? Since when? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
I also realized I should specifically address your "all or nothing" question, though: arenas absolutely aren't all or nothing :) In particular, a very common (well, by writing-a-compiler-in-Rust standards) pattern is to have two representations for your elements: one that uses Rc, that you use for longer-lived stuff, and another based on references, that you use for arena-scoped stuff. An extra term is added to the younger version that marks the use of a wrapper around an Rc type (recall that you can downcast Rc to reference, so you do not necessarily have to lose Copy to be able to do this, depending on your implementation). You can then implement a variant of generational collection by (prior to dropping your arena, i.e. the young generation), scanning any live objects using the young term type, and converting whatever you find to Rc nodes. The Rc nodes then persist as the older generation.

This kind of hybrid strategy is much more effective than using Rc for everything, and while it's still not as efficient as a proper garbage collector it still has roughly the kinds of properties you want from one. My experience (like that of many others) is that almost any workload you want to use this with will satisfy the generational hypothesis, especially in Rust where you only use GC for things that really need it, so hopefully you can see why it's sometimes worth going to the extra trouble to maintain several versions of the same type.

(Obviously, in OCaml, you can piggyback off the existing garbage collector and this is a nonissue).
Yes, thanks, we know. The Saudi Arabian regime is shamelessly and violently fascist, and corrupt at every level. What the fuck does that have to do with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and theft of the Crimean peninsula, and the commensurate response by the international community?
Which begs the question, why is he still alive and un-jailed?
In California though an issue with your "micros-shifts" is that California State Laws would apply things like call in pay for this and would also have to pay minimum hours for an employee showing up for a short shift. If an employee gets called in to do 30 minutes of work, the company has to pay the employee at least a certain amount of hours I think it's 2 or 4. So that micro shift of a 10 minute ride, Uber/Lyft would have to pay them 2-4 hours wages at a minimum. So the micro-shifts wouldn't work with current state laws.
https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/sta...
Lol. Do you think they'll pay more or less in unemployment benefits now that Uber and Lyft have left entirely?
Agree completely that this is far more dangerous and deadly than the flu (especially as a New Yorker who knows multiple people who have died from this disease). That being said, there is some selection bias in these results as those who were tested were much more likely to have been infected. These tests were not done in randomly selected people. Most who get tested have reason to believe they were infected (or were at high risk for having been infected). The fact that the 27% of the group of high risk people who chose to get tested showed they had the disease doesn't mean that 27% of all New Yorkers had the disease.
VP Is Doing Things Differently in the Product Org
I always come back to this:

> Fisher's Fundamental Theorem: The better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments. -- Gerald Weinberg,"The Psychology of Computer Programming"

There are always trade offs. The more flexible you make a system, the less efficient it is (most likely) in achieving its (now increased) goals. But the more efficient you make it, the harder it is to adapt it to fit additional or changed goals. Which trade offs you accept depend on your objectives, and sometimes your ability to spin up a whole new factory.
Alcubierre is a Mexican physicist, not Spanish.
Uber and Lyft granted an emergency stay
Relatedly, my dad always told me that thinking about the vastness of the universe "weirded him out."

My hypothesis is that he has narcissistic tendencies so pondering the vastness of the universe only highlights his own insignificance. I've noticed similar reaction from people who visit a large city for the first time and get a sense of how small they are in the grand scheme.
This really needs to be the top post. The fact of the matter is that there isn’t anything special about Uber and Lyft, and the competitors that popped up in Austin during their absence proved that it is possible to have a viable business and treat your workers with respect and dignity by paying them well.
Considering the number of abandoned tailings ponds etc, this seems pretty laughable in reality
Also importantly, you have to slow down at the other end.
But it is (physically) possible to be idle for both employers at the same time.
Uber operates in other countries which require them to use employees and not contractors (e.g. Germany), and it works fine. So it certainly isn't impossible.
Why are Uber and Lyft stocks now down on this news?
I've done tutoring for people in small increments like 15-30 minutes for questions before tests. That seems similar to micro-shifts though that is freelance. Lawyers have billable hours and work for multiple clients. Some firms do have compensation tied to billable hours as well. While it's not exactly the same thing the result feels similar to me.
I think that's somewhat uncharitable of a take. But fundamentally, I agree with you.

See my other comment. In this ideal, the experience for the wheelchair-bound is comparable to others. Not the current embarrassment we have in New York, for example.
That's Lyft setting the prices, not individual drivers.