skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a quick read-through of the docs, I really love that the language is providing a fresh take on things without the super-junior promise of trying to “solve everything”. I’m impressed and will take a closer look.
I was skeptical that Russia was even influenced much by the Eastern Orthodox Church before the Great Schism, but I looked it up and found that it was: before the Great Schism, the Rus tried to invade Byzantium, which increased trade and cultural exchanges, and an important Rus ruler, Vladimir, converted to Orthodox Christianity.
I remember taxis before Uber/Lyft. They sucked. They were very expensive. Low availability - I once was stuck in the middle of one 200k+ city with literally no cars available after calling several companies. After an hour or so, I had to call friends to pick me up. Then, if you get a cab, you have no idea who is your driver and have no history and no resort if something happens - you could call the dispatcher again but they won't take complaints, as it's not their business, and even if you manage to get the taxi company's support number (provided such thing exists) they'd probably ignore you. Oh yes, and last time I used it half of the drivers couldn't even make a credit card transactions - you had to have cash (hopefully at least this one is fixed now?)
Because these cheap alternatives rely on questionable labor practices.

People with limited mobility deserve the same freedom of movement as fully abled people, however that cannot come at the cost of the workers who provide it. We should be asking for both adequate transportation and fully compensated and decently paid workers.
I find the extra words wordy.
Its a special model for Ryanair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#737_MAX_200

It was also named that before the crashes.
And I'm not saying you're wrong. Lots of people do think their hate speech is simple hyperbole, or that it's justified by misdeeds of the group they hate. But what's the point of a rule against hate speech if you're not willing to tell those people no?
The issue with efficient summarization is the necessity of context. For a message to be effectively summarized you require a bit of "theory of mind"[0], you need to have at least a decent idea of what the receiver already knows. This is something that, especially when done for a single message at a time (with no other info), likely doesn't have a global solution.

Edit: I should be clearer, I believe that the solution shown here does not have this capability, and the effort of using ML to do message summarization is flawed in the general case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
The universe is and always was infinite even at the big bang. At the big bang although the universe was incredibly dense it was so uniform there was no net direction of gravity to cause clumping. That and inflation rapidly expanding away any quantum imperfections beyond causal contact.
Then just install Apple Services or whatever and don't use anything else? How is the fact that I have a choice bad for you?
> Unfortunately many gig workers don't have the privilege. I'm assuming here but you probably had another job and benefits. There are many workers who don't, and are turning to Uber or Lyft just to put food on the table and are being forced into working without paid vacation, sick leave, or benefits simply because they have no other options.

Agreed, but is that a problem with the gig economy itself or our entire welfare system?

I agree we can make life better for the workers that remain on Lyft/Uber, but what happens to the workers who were "fired" as a result of reduced ridership?
> it does not pay a reasonable wage for anyone to live on,

Why is the purpose of a wage to live on? Many uber drivers drive part time for fun or extra pocket change. The existence of thousands of uber drivers -- who in my experience, have all been quite reasonable, nice people -- seem to directly contradict your claim that it does not pay a 'reasonable wage'. Clearly, it does for those invested parties.
I can see this one backfiring if someone's livelihood depends on their past predictions being correct. Now they have a strong incentive to double down on those predictions, and dismiss contradictory evidence.

Anyone whose livelihood depends on providing a solution to Problem X will assure you that X will continue to be a problem well into the future. This is visible everywhere in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.

I don't doubt that the people who run MADD sincerely believe that drunk driving was a pressing problem when they joined. But are they ever really going to tell you that drunk driving has been successfully addressed and isn't a problem anymore? Or that they were wrong after all, and it never was a problem? (I just picked MADD randomly. Substitute the mission-driven organization of your choice.)
What's the availability? I.e. are you actually able to get a ride within 10 mins in SV, for example? How about rest of California?
The selective attention test, aka the "invisible gorilla" experiment, and the finding that 50% of people didn't see the gorilla.
Why don't you go ahead and make hn a 50-50 list and teach them all a lesson?
I love the idea, I imagine it's in a tricky legal area though. And perhaps the people that could pull it off are all profiting off of the US healthcare system well enough to not need to pursue this.

I know the insurance plan that Utah government employees are on will pay you to go to Mexico to get your prescriptions filled. Airfare, hotel, and medication costs are all covered. Free vacation just so the company doesn't have to pay the US prices for drugs.
Irony is a quality of communication, not of reality. God doesn't make us sick in order to converse.
Anecdotally, I've tested this by having a network monitor traffic throughput and once a video is playing audio only, there is a noticeable drop in throughput which goes back up when you pull the video back up. Tested this a while ago so hopefully it's stayed like that.
> If you're an employee on the clock, you can't be on the clock for two different organizations at the same time.

I don't see why that would not be possible.
From Introduction to Elementary Particles by David Griffiths: a neutrino of moderate energy could easily penetrate a thousand lightyears of lead.
First, "the most natural thing in the world" has nothing to do with morality. Humans have the ability to reason, so we're able to look past our natural instincts and find the truth.

Second, I agree that having the option to be moral is a great sign of societal progress. I think shaming immoral people is now an effective evolutionary strategy. Social outcasts are less likely to reproduce. Survival of the fittest is no longer about who has the most food(at least in the us). It's now about which culture values reproduction the most is we're looking at the macro scale and usually vapid things like attractiveness on the micro scale.
I thought the same until I started sailing a UFO. You are going way faster than any cat or dinghies. Everything happens substantially faster and the water feels like pavement when you hit.
If the business model can't be made to work when they have to pay payroll taxes and provide benefits, then shutting down is the only reasonable thing to do. I expect it's both: they cannot or do not want to change their business model to account for the new reality, and are also hoping that a full shutdown will make voters angry enough to get AB5 repealed.

(I'm not convinced that's actually the case, though, but I don't know the math around this, so it could be.)
Nah, they're not. In the undocumented economy, there are lots of things you do that don't show up. It's not like you're filing taxes when you drive up to Lowe's and ask the guys waiting in the parking lot to help you with some construction. That shit is going straight cash-to-cash.

Those jobs are shittier (that's why people drive instead of doing them) but they will still exist.
Believe me, I'm very fiscally skeptical with government spending.

Moreover, public transportation costs in the US are outrageous. Each elevator in the tens of millions for an NYC subway station. It's a racket and unacceptably corrupt.

But we can tackle both problems, and should.

Even with hyper efficient spending, there's an external benefit that is hard to measure and value beyond the cold, hard cash needed for the infrastructure vs government-paid private rides.

I've been laterally involved in frivolous ADA lawsuits for websites before, so I also understand how even noble goals can become corrupted.
You mean the same taxi-service market that Uber has been notably unprofitable and bleeding investor cash for years in? But smaller and more niche? With more legal hurdles regarding accessibility and mobility requirements? Operating with only non-gig, full-benefit workers?

Yeah, sounds like a market ripe for picking.
And then once you know an industry, see a need, etc... "You raise money, you build something, and then you have a limited time to see whether your hypothesis about the market was correct."

;)
Because those laws led to low availability, high prices and subpar service. And now they will lead to it again.
I would use ideas from agile to build a rocket. Automative testing, keeping everything green. Just because there are millions of lines of code left to write before the rocket can take the first test fire doesn't mean I'm not keeping the code in shape that the current features could ship.

But my rocket needs to be ready when the earth-venus system is in the right stage or I delay a few years. Agile cannot handle this. Agile can handle getting rid of some features to meet the deadline, but waterfall can do priorities as well. What is needed is watching the end date and assurance that you will make it, or warning to add people before the cost of adding people is greater than their future contributions.
I'm not sure how true this is. Rural Americans young enough to not remember the cold war are pretty well aware that they (arguably) have more in common with the Russian people than they do with any western European people even if the geopolitical goals of Russia are in conflict of those of the US.
Why can't they start the clock once they accept a ride?
I think active antennas are harder to hide than you might think.
I dont think you really want me to answer that question...

That said..

>> taxes

This can never be free market, and some taxes (aka income taxes) is just unethical theft

> FBI, police

Should be funded in a variety of ways but absolutely could be privatized

https://reason.com/video/dont-abolish-the-police-privatize-t...

> Maybe we should get rid of army and hire mercenaries?

That is a little more tricky and would require an analysis of what we think the proper role of the military would be, but there are several proposals that replace the standing army (which is unconstitutional anyway) with something like the national guard controlled by individual states not the federal government
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> He has strongly held beliefs about platform rentiering and developer and app consumer rights.

I am excited for third-party Fortnite skin stores.
Nothing is stopping a regulated Uber/Lyft from doing this without underpaying workers. Minimum wage laws exist for a reason, after standard IRS tax deductions Uber and Lyft pay WAY under minimum wage.
You mean B738, there wont be any confusion, as this is the B38M.

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

https://www.icao.int/publications/DOC8643/Pages/Search.aspx
> The most recent tests of VASIMR have run at 200 kW and expelled ions at 180,000 km/h

Is this the power consumed by the device, or a measurement of the propulsion power created? It would be interesting to know the energy efficiency; i.e. what percentage of the input power is converted to thrust.
I guess the people there blazed it and lit up too much? /s
This could not be further from the truth. As someone who was driving full-time in Austin when this happened, I can absolutely say this hurt both the drivers and the passengers.

The apps were extremely buggy for both drivers and passengers causing missed rides, multiple drivers showing up to the same rider, etc. Fasten paid the best, but it still would only be marginally better if not the exact same as I was making with Uber or Lyft.

As far as what happened in Austin, there were absolutely no good replacements and us drivers (at least the ones I talked to) were very happy when they returned.
Your comparison makes no sense.
> at speeds above 20knots

maybe speed is a problem here. and if you are slow, it's a lot less.

Also burning at least 50€ (I'm not sure about tax exemptions for nautical fuel, but in Europe 1.5€/l is very likely) for a short trip of ~30km back and forth (which you could hike in a day - though not on water) underlines that whatever you consider "boating, the mass hobby" is something done (to great environmental cost) by a very, very small minority.

And yes I'm all for taxing the people with enough money to burn today so that they won't have to do that tomorrow - and reducing emissions of global sea trade as well.
I didn't know it was included by default. I'll check it out, thanks!
This employer is already doing that (and pays some of the savings out to the employee/patient)...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/business/medical-tourism-...

Though, I'm not convinced that's the "correct" solution from a broad societal perspective.
>A compressed spring weighs more than the same spring uncompressed.

This is false. The dilemma is that you can't "just weigh" a compressed spring without assistance. However, you can get around it by weighing a compression device with the spring, both when it's compressing and not compressing the spring. The weight will be the same.
Psalms and Proverbs are published record essentially. I meant more “written by the people who experienced the events.”

Prophecy falls into that camp. Much of the Old Testament prophecy is fulfilled by Jesus himself though.

Unfulfilled prophecy is tougher.

I generally refer to Bookenders as people who focus on creation and the end of the world.

The message is everything in between and fascinating.
>So you would stay loyal to the product no matter what it evolves into?

No. My line in the sand is Apple locking down macOS so that I cannot install applications outside of the Mac App Store. These "restrictions" that seem to annoy other people do not bother me. At that point I would just migrate over to Linux and maintain a Mac for any remaining Apple specific dev.

I'm not sure exactly where the line is on mobile. I don't feel restricted by the iOS ecosystem, but I do understand that others might. If there became a time where I wanted to abandon iOS then I would likely just go without a phone or get a flip phone. I refuse to use Android or any product developed by Google.
completely depends on the price point, if consoles can get low enough, the barrier of entry for great graphics in a single package will be hard to beat. exclusives will also help push gamers into consoles
Or we can agree that both statements are wrong, and we should not wait and see the effects of allowing one over the other (we already are seeing dangerous effects however).
I've read enough of the list that I think I'll hang onto it to check out stuff that I haven't read.

Obviously it's down to personal preference which of these are the best, but I'm curious how other readers feel about a couple of these (potentially contrarian views):

1. Speaker For the Dead is my favorite of the Ender stuff.

2. I like Endymion duo better than Hyperion. (maybe my favorite ever, actually)

3. The Stand is also an all-time great to me, especially in light of current events.

4. I think the author should read more Niven - I guess he didn't really like Ringworld, which is another of my favorites.
Can you expand on how that would work? Would you get minimum wage from each one?
I put off reading The Three Body Problem because I wanted to make sure I was good and ready to be amazed.

I've read Cixin Liu's short stories and thoroughly enjoyed them. He comes up with some amazing ideas. I even really liked the movie based on Wandering Earth, despite how it converted the story to more action.

I barely made it through 3BP and I don't have much excitement for the sequels. The story just did not grip me at all.
C++17 does have it... but it doesn't compile optimally. It compiles to something based on comparisons instead of the floating-point-specific operations. I tried this on a number of compiler combinations and didn't see anything that would emit min/max instructions for `std::clamp<double>`.

https://www.godbolt.org/z/MKqTvE
> The number of particles that exist is relative to how fast you are moving.

I thought the existence of particles was relative to how fast you're accelerating? If it's relative to how fast you're moving, wouldn't that imply that absolute velocity exists, i.e. that given two objects with known relative velocity to each other, we could potentially establish which one was "really" moving and which one was "really" still?
I really feel like #3 really means "Do they take my field of expertise seriously?"

The author's field of expertise is software, therefore only people who take software seriously are worth listening to.
Oohh nice. So kinda like a pipe.

I really think we deserve more syntax that allowed something like this, because otherwise one needs to read `(bar (foo a b) c)` inside-out.
What about this example? 'Driving For Uber, Sleeping In Her Car' (VICE News): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9abrZwnPThE

> The existence of thousands of uber drivers -- who in my experience, have all been quite reasonable, nice people -- seem to directly contradict your claim that it does not pay a 'reasonable wage'. Clearly, it does for those invested parties.

Maybe we can leave it up to the academic researchers and labor rights organizations? Why do you make a claim and link to no sources, please could you provide your sources?

Here are some sources I found:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/gig-economy/2016/08/25/for...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/29/gig-economy...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/the-new-resist...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-...

> Why is the purpose of a wage to live on?

This isn't a serious question is it?
This is what I don't get about the outrage against Uber/Lyft. Where is the outrage against regular taxi companies? They were using contractors long before and still are. Not to mention the corrupt medallion systems.
It would have been more accurate if I had said "voters in the US are paying more than what it would cost to provide healthcare for all".

But the point remains -- voters don't want to pay for it, but they are already paying for it, many just don't realize it because when they pay $500/month for healthcare insurance, they don't see the $900 that their employer is paying or the public subsidies to hospitals.
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I think here, "on the clock" also implies "available to drive" or "driving". I can't be driving two different people for two different companies at the same time, so I'm not really available to drive for both companies.
Completely false. If classified as employees, Uber and Lyft are suddenly completely liable for anything their employees do while working. They would have to do things like start taking inventory of their vehicles, start collecting employment verification documents, start setting up payroll, figure out how to not use their surge pricing model and switch to something else, etc. Even if you wanted to classify everyone as employees tomorrow, there is a huge administrative hurdle to overcome.
Yep. That's true
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It's false information. It's debunked multiple times. "Watching" means "placing or turning on an additional detector", which ruins interference pattern. To develop intuition, look at double slit experiment made at macro scale using walking droplet.
This is awesome - thanks for sharing! The commercial efoils have caught my eye but they're definitely outside my price range. Cool to see that you can get a efoil and a fun project a lower cost
That's your subjective opinion. Millions of riders and drivers think it's a great business, and full-time driving jobs already exist for those who want them.

Why should drivers not have a choice? What if flexibility is important to them? Why do hours matter they're a contractor? Should they not set their own time? Do you also oppose freelance writers or artists that work 40+ hours?
I've been getting into astronomy a bit and found this image to be awe inspiring: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Location...
You know, your house being on fire doesn't necessarily mean it's going to burn down. Quick response from firefighters can really do a lot to reduce the amount of long-term damage. Sure, you'll have some water damage to deal with, but that's manageable too.

Of course, if you just arse around in the house and don't get out of the goddamn way of the firefighters, it's gonna be a hell of a lot harder to put out the fire and I imagine there's gonna be a lot more damage before all's said and done.
Thanks.. Will give a try...
I guess you've never heard of being on-call? Tech and healthcare have very well established demand supply systems. Some mechanical service sectors as well - tow trucks, infrastructure repair.
I think some of us (most? all?) develop a tendency to act/be clever instead of act/be clear. When I resist that temptation, I ask for something like:

clamped(num, range=[ lower_bound, upper_bound ]);

and then have no interest in how this actually gets implemented.
I have found swimming in the ocean to be a very effective way to lose track of time.
A few of his videos:

The incredible values of edible weeds.
https://youtu.be/Ne39EwOffOU

20 types of Greens to eat during Lockdown!

https://youtu.be/g1_omHjjdMs

LOW EFFORT, Easy To Grow Plants in a Permaculture Food Forest, Circle Garden & Perennial Hedge

https://youtu.be/eq7ASQSVjGQ

The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka ~ CHAPTER 7 & 8 read by Krishna McKenzie

https://youtu.be/Ow4vqB1uODY
Correct. But the point stands about being able to only work for one ride sharing app. How could they possibly cover minimum wage for folks without setting a schedule and requiring that they not be working for other apps at the same time?
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Similar setup in Dublin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin
Your comment is extremely misleading. Texas has 8x the proved oil reserves (1) and 10x the current oil production (2). Texas produces 41% of the oil in the US. California is 4%. Texas also provides processing and distribution to the greater Gulf of Mexico oil production states. When it comes to quality of life indicators, Texas is clearly the bottom half in states (3), (4) .

(1) https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_pres_a_EPC0_R01_mmbbl_a...

(2) https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

(3) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings

(4) https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-live-in/62617/#main...
I don't know whether that's true or not, but I don't think it changes my point.
The statement was "The business model doesn't work if ..." and I'm saying that doesn't matter. Whether it's true or false doesn't enter in to the debate.
I apologize for my tone in my last comment. I realize now that it was unnecessarily harsh.

I don't agree though that it's out of a sense of charity or morality. I think it's a matter of self preservation, just acting on a longer timescale than others. Politicians don't want to live in a blasted hellscape any more than the rest of us. And I think a fair number have realized that taking unpopular actions now is the only way to avoid that.
Yes and yes. GPT-2 is pretty capable of this as well. You can try it yourself here: https://bellard.org/textsynth/