skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, right? I pretty much did a similar thing in uni. I think I might have paid like $100 over seven years of uni for textbooks. I've figured out when to go on Caltrain for free, too.

There are lots of life hacks to not spend money. I used to think it was my responsibility to pay, but honestly, if I can get away with it, why would I?
Great Sarcasm. I said 'I hate to play the misogyny card' and I do, because I knew people would hone in on that and ignore what I was trying to say, such is our political climate.
Entitlement is wanting stuff for free, quite the opposite.
I am not sure of the source of that link but it is the only one I can find on the first page of DDG that suggests Apple has more than 50% of the smartphone market. Even if we take that link as fact it is not enough to constitute a monopoly.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/620805/smartphone-sales-...
https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor
https://mobilestorm.com/digital-marketing-blog/u-s-smartphon...

What percentage of the Battle Royale genre does Fortnite own?

>Otherwise we'd already know the outcome from the US vs MS case

Microsoft had over 95% of the market and two decades later people are still arguing whether they actually had a monopoly.
I don't think the job market being garbage is Ubers problem to solve. If the job market was flourishing drivers would still be "unhappy" with their experience on these platforms and AB5 would likely still be a thing. Uber offers a convenience. I think drivers like that convenience so much so that it prevents them from seeking traditional employment and leads them to want to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Buses, trucking, shuttles, delivery, emergency, construction, medical transport, etc. Many exist that are unfilled right now. Explain why they're unfilled and yet ridesharing has so many people?

What rights are missing? Be specific.

What's lacking in the power balance? How is different than any other contractor position? Is it a problem if contract writers are told what to write? Is it a problem if contract tech support are told to deal with customers? Why or why not?
That’s a technicality. In the case of a loan payment, it isn’t Citibank’s money they are wiring, so you cannot just say “this was a loan payment, it’s just they keep it”.

Of course it’s acceptable that this caused confusion with the receiving party, but it does not mean they can keep it. It’s not the money from the party that was supposed to pay back the loan.
You're right about buses, but I don't think that's inherent to buses, just how we've implemented them. In other countries, buses are comfortable and air conditioned and basically anyone and everyone rides them. If we could figure out how to make them safe, clean, and comfortable, then of course they wouldn't be empty most of the time, and would run at capacity(which would be a good problem to have).

Rail I think is obviously preferred long term, but setting up a fleet of electric buses could be done in a matter of months, vs a simple limited rail that takes many years.
You can't let the market decide because the market is doomed (in the treating-people-as-human-beings sense) by the lack of infrastructure in the first place:

- no healthcare means you're a slave of whatever you can find,

- tipping culture means your employer can pay you shit
Most of it comes through my vantage point. I see myself as a facilitator of his curiosity, not someone who is here to feed him information.

-If he's curious about something and asks why, I don't feed him answers. I say "why do you think?" If he says, I don't know, I say, "well let's find out." and we find out together. We ask an expert. Eg, if we're walking my a neighbor's house and he wants to know why their dog is barking, I encourage him to ask the neighbor. I make sure he's intellectually satisfied. I say, does that make sense?

-I also ask him a lot of questions too. I read him a bedtime story every night. I try to get him to guess the words. If we're reading about a duck. I ask him "what sound does a duck make?" I ask him if he likes ducks, why or why not?

-I let him do what he wants to do. If he wants to watch Octonauts, I let him watch Octonauts (but I make sure to engage and ask questions). If he wants to go to the park, we go to the park. If our desires conflict. For example, if I'm tired and I need to go home, I tell him we're going home and I explain very clearly to him why that is my need.

-I model a learning mentality to him. I ask questions. I am curious about the world around me. I am curious about him and his interests.

-I'm not afraid of his boredom and his frustration. If he tries to draw a drone and is upset because it doesn't look like a drone, I encourage him to try again. I remind him that nothing great ever happened on the first try. I gently encourage him to keep trying, gently remind him how exciting it will be when he achieves it.

-I celebrate his learning moments. I notice when he mastered a new concepts. I point out to him how much his speech has improved. I even ask him how he learned all the words, so he can reflect on his own process.

-These are a few of the many ways I support his learning. They come to me naturally. I trust my natural instinct as his caregiver to support his growth into a happy, healthy, curious intellectual.

-I always allow him to engage him in projects he's passionate about, even if they seem difficult (like drawing a drone). If he's passionate about the outcome, he'll push through his frustration and in doing so, learn to learn.

-If he is upset with a choice I made, I always explain my reasons very carefully. This often forces me to reflect on my own actions as well - and models a type of being in the world that is reflective.

This might be interesting to you. It's a guide to types of inquiry, different ways you can use questions to guide children's learning:

https://elearningindustry.com/inquiry-based-learning-model
Why is Prop 22 the magic answer for these companies? Have we really reached a point where having mandates in state law is the only way for companies to treat their workers better than the absolute minimum? Call me naive, but it always feels like we're at the finish line in this race to the bottom.
Wish we had a fully-accessible article.

But on the topic at hand, what about loosely coupled bots that individually use broom lasers to break down debris in manageable pieces?
>We can afford to pay people, but the problem here is that it's not just me paying you a bit of money to cover your gas, insurance, mechanics, and time; it's also me paying for tens of thousands of employees and cloud datacenters and all the rest to connect me to you. That's a lot of overhead, and it's duplicated by virtue of multiple companies being in the mix doing the same thing.

Having a high overhead and not charging customers enough to recoup it sounds like a flawed business model to me.

>Also, it was never really supposed to be a career - it was supposed to be something you could do on your way to work to help subsidize your own commute. Making a career out of a side job is certainly one's own choice, and I don't want to get in the way of that, but... are people getting benefits and guaranteed hours for busking, or being a living statue? Are people guaranteed a certain minimum pay for their lemonade stand?

No, but they're also not told that they can make a living, get benefits, etc. for busking, being a living statue or running a lemonade stand. They understand from the outset that none of that will be happening. The difference here is that Uber/Lyft imply - if not state explicitly - to their drivers that it can be their sole source of income.

If it's supposed to be a method of subsidizing your own commute, shouldn't Uber/Lyft be restricting who drivers can pick up to only those customers who are heading in the same direction/on the same route that the driver has told the app they're going?

If it's supposed to be a method of subsidizing your own commute, why do Uber/Lyft assist car-less folk with obtaining rentals?
Attack is stretching the term sightly, I admit. It’s possible for a malicious style to reorganise things on a page in a misleading way, or place a lewd image in a background for example.

Edit: As for scripts adding things, the CSP prevents the style attribute being applied iirc.
Stadia and it's ilk are not running any apps other than video streaming and input capture. The apps and games you play via them are run on a remote server and I/O is streamed between it and your device. If that's running "unapproved apps" then so is twitch when it did Twitch Plays Pokemon.
World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock
This is a pretty absurd argument to make when the alternative is quite literally these jobs not existing at all as almost just happened at midnight tonight.
What happens in practice is that people try to make ends meet with two or three crappy part-time jobs, because that's all they can find.

(Insert plug for UBI here.)
Our economy has become so overwhelmingly top heavy that the majority of the population is losing the ability to take part in it. The middle class used to be the mean income, but these days the mean has drifted so far from the mode that the distinction between middle class and lower class has all but vanished. Just taking a brief look at the 2014 census numbers, the mode income was centered around $22,000 a year while the mean was $75,000. Let that sink in. The largest percentage of the US population makes less than $25,000 a year.
That's a predetermined shift. Your only option is to accept it or not. Not work when and where and however long you want.
'Fraud' is an overstatement for someone described as doing their job sufficiently 99% of the time.
And there's plenty who are fine with this setup. Why should they get screwed over? Calling the removal of worker choice a right is truly perverse.
Everyone keeps saying the substitute for Uber/Lyft is taxis. Maybe this is HN bay-area bias but it is just wrong. The substitute for Uber/Lyft in 95% of the US is driving your own car! Driving your own car has significant externalities, eg. More need for parking, more emissions, more drunk driving.

I don't live in CA but used to do a fair amount of work travel out there. If they don't have Uber/Lyft in the future, I'll just make work get me a rental car.
That's a pretty breathless article. It specifically mentions Google but never compares it to Google Earth. Only Microsoft can do it, except it's already been done.
I have started reading more in the last few years, and much of it comes down to using goodreads - I hate the app & site, but I like keeping track of what I've read and whether I liked it. And you set a "reading challenge" every year. I've been aiming for 20-26 books per year, and the little nudges it gives me help me keep on track - I only missed one year since I started, and that was because I got bogged down in the fall reading a 1000 page book that I didn't like.

all that to say: I've been enjoying reading MORE since I've increased the amount I read - everything stays fresh, and I just devote a bit of time to reading each day and a bit less time to (the internet, mainly)
Them forcing Uber and Lyft to close down is socialism.
In a child comment you make the case that racism is when some group holds "tribal/identitarian" notions about an "other" group and attributes essential characteristics to them. You say this has existed throughout history and did not begin in modernity.

Ok.

That doesn't actually disagree with the "20th-century theory goo" though. The goo says that colonizing European empires created "new discourses" about race that served an ideological function in their empire-building. That's a far cry from "those people over the mountains there are barbarous."

The notions of "whiteness" and "blackness," as they still function today (against increasingly strong currents of critique) are clearly something different from that. In pre-modern times, a Viking and a Frank wouldn't have seen themselves as having anything in common. But now (anachronistically) they're commonly "white."

It seems like the confusion here--and I see it repeated all over the place--comes from a failure to clarify terms like "race" and "racism."

There's "racism" in the sense of a prejudice against some other-group that we can identify because they look or act different, and they live over there and we live over here. That has probably been around as long as different kinds of people have been encountering each other.

And then there's "racism," the ideological function where European empires constructed whole new ideas about groups of people that previously would not have seen themselves as having anything in common, in the service of expansion, extraction, domination, slavery, etc.

If you think that's all goo, that's fine, but you need to provide a stronger counter-argument. None of the purveyors of the 20th-century goo actually believe that no one hated other-groups before modernity.
Try reverse engineering or data recovery sometime.
S&P 100, Russell 50/200:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_100

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IShares_S%26P_100

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Top_50_Index

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Top_200_Index

See also global:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_100

Given that the most popular high-flyers are tech companies, you can go with the NASDAQ perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ-100

Though generally speaking, diversification generally gets better results:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/should-you-invest-in-the-sp-500-i...

And don't forget some bonds, so when the inevitable dips occurs (e.g., March), you have something you can liquidate to rebalance:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...
the option is to provide the infrastructure for the market to figure out, but you need some baseline first, and we don't have that baseline. Decouple healthcare from having a job and you're already halfway there, like the rest of the world.
Also for some reason many apps refer to the Mac OS 11 beta as "Mac OS 10.16" which furthers the confusion.
The goal of regulation is to stop the race of the bottom at some point.
In 2015 in Germany, popcorn time users received ~$1000 fines. The use is similar to peertube, many users were not aware these files were shared with other users as well but they were still in violation of the law.
Before Java was a thing, that utility would have been written in Turbo Pascal, Quick Basic, Visual Basic, C, C++ compiler, none of them available for free.

At minimum one would need the Shareware or PD disks tax to get hold of some similar compiler.
alternative is to provide healthcare as a human right?
Yes of course, because of how important search engine optimization was in 1976. Nothing has changed in the business environment between now and then.
I think you're gas lighting us by ignoring the fact that this personal risk is taken at personal choice. If someone wanted the arrangement that comes with an employee/employer relationship there are jobs that offer that. But not everyone wants that, some people prefer, for their own reasons that are really none of your business to be an independent contractor. This is about choice plain and simple.
I wouldn't be surprised if drivers are underestimating their costs. The true cost of vehicle ownership is rather murky and I doubt many of these drivers are self-taught accountants.
They can find work elsewhere then?
it's the best because it was chosen by the people of a democracy (more or less). if it's not good they can change it
And I better hope the court thinks like this as well, otherwise the whole legal safety net of the banking world just became more like Bitcoin (and even they can just fork the whole blockchain in case of an error, like they did with Ethereum).
I'm sad that here was a rare chance that people voted on something, and the effects of the vote would have been palpable.

We'll have scare tactics, stays, negotiations, changes to the bill, etc., all leading to a complete lack of shock and awe. People will not pay attention, and continue assume the effects of votes is nothing. And I wouldn't want to convince them otherwise.

To be clear, this comment doesn't assume people actually want Lyft to leave. Whether people are thrilled or filled with regret, it doesn't matter. I just want them to feel the power of a vote.

:(
I think a lot of those entities aren't griefers-by-design. Some of them really believe in what they're doing. This makes them scarier than the garden variety 4chan-er out for the "lulz".
Why? You wrote a function, not a macro.
The obvious difference is that those game developers have the choice to be exclusive to the epic store, or steam, or neither or whatever. They are making the choice.
Imagine a distributed, open-source, bit-coin like version of Uber. There's no company, drivers get 100%, set their prices, and somehow a distributed protocol allows people to broadcast a bid for a ride, and nearby drivers could accept it.

It would

1) workaround the law, there's no employer, no company, and no one to sanction
2) be impossible to regulate or shutdown
This is all a shit show because the infrastructures in place are currently doomed for the market to succeed:

- no healthcare means you're a slave of whatever you can find,

- tipping culture means your employer can pay you shit
A sad state of affairs. Population loves the service. People lining up in droves to be paid to provide it. Government stomps it cause reasons.
Isnt the alternative for most people to get a ride from a friend, family member, or coworker? I get not everyone has someone they can rely on for that, but most people do.
You're assuming that trained pilots somehow had no idea what they could safely do in their aircraft. Why?
Forgive me if this completely misses per the disclaimer in my first comment:

In the driving example, can the differentiable loss be a derivative of a quality scoring algorithm, possibly another NN, that measures episodic quality at various time and distance-based intervals?

For example, the RL systems loss/reward function attributes a quality score to every 1 second or 1/10th of a mile.

My guess is that there are well known problems with this assumption. What are they?

Thanks for the response!
When companies like Uber/Lyft depend on safety nets like unemployment without ever paying into the system, what’s happening is that our children are paying for returns on VC capital.

People profiting from these types of companies should feel bad about themselves.
It only enabled the technological foundations to do all of the above.
if only the people who were driving as an addition to their primary job, uber would be severely hampered. the ease of access and response is predicated on full time uber drivers
Certainly! My whole life it has gotten more expensive and lots of people can't afford it. That's not different than New York City or London.

But unlike many other states, the population of California has not actually gone down (see below). Maybe it will, but why is that a problem when traffic and housing costs are such an issue?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=populat...
Capital has an immense amount of leverage in the market, and the only way for that power to be counteracted at scale is through government action and/or labor organizing. Individuals can't will a reasonable employer into being on their own.
Yup, I did not enjoy the 3 body problem either. Haven't read any of his short stories, though, so I'll look in to that.
Because traditionally compilers for a specific OS were extra pay.

Ironically that you mentioned GCC, it only came to be, because Sun made their development tools an additional payment to the base Solaris price.
The solution to "stop the punching" isn't to demand oppressed people not be upset. The solution is to stop punching down. We stop racism by reversing the material effects of racism, not by spreading an imaginary "color blind" ideology. The last thing we should be doing right now is pretending that race doesn't matter.
It wouldn't matter if your IP is observable or not. It is not illegal in the US to download material even if you know the uploader did not have the rights to it. But uploading/sharing as in the case of peertube is illegal if the uploader did not have the rights
Usually it's called a cons cell in this context, not a tree. The base lisp structure looks something like this:

data Obj =
| Cons(Obj car * Obj cdr)
| Symbol(string)
| Nil

(Nil is important, cannot be elided.)

In c:

typedef enum { Cons, Sym, Nil } NodeType;
typedef struct Node Node;
struct Node {
NodeType type;
union {
struct { Node *car, *cdr; };
const char *symbol;
};
};
Yes, but it would be pretty pointless to get yourself tested 3 months after you suspected you had the virus.
communicate by structure what it does..
clamp(lowerBound, val, upperBound)
What does that even mean? We're monsters for giving people choice?
First, let's not play whataboutism. Certainly the US isn't perfect. That doesn't make what Russia is doing ok. Second, Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship. That's probably not the best example.
Not in my experience. If you are agile, you can fix the architecture as needed. You end up with poorly architected code by deciding to continue building on top of something when it is no longer suited to purpose. That can also happen as a result of big investments in planning. That investment makes it very hard to rationalize architecture changes when the requirements change mid project. Which they very often do. No amount of planning protects you from the unpredictable.
Why proactively clean Python 2 up?
Still different, black cabs usually calculate the fares the same way as yellow cabs, but more expensive due to pre-reservation and luxury vehicles; which are not necessarily the case with RTRS.