skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t this kind of separate from Amazon’s actions though? Unless you’re positing that Amazon is actually acting in the interest of their employees, or thinks they are?
I've looked in the past. I thought about modifying my old Gravely (which I've since sold), but I lack the machining skills. The drivetrain is super simple, but some adapter plates would be needed. But I think the problem here comes down to weight. It would be very hard to have a large enough battery pack while still having it be maneuverable.
I prefer a book on api design with haskell rather than this theoretic book.
I've heard a few people say that, this graphic makes it look about the same though: https://i.imgur.com/fbo1UIU.png

EDIT: I am an idiot. It does say it's faster, though the chart makes it look pretty close.
It would be self-optimizing if they were just waiting in Whole Foods parking lots, not hanging phones in trees. It's a case of optimizing for the metric, not the objective, by exploiting the divergence between the two. This is generally pretty distinct from a market self-optimizing.

The objective is "closest driver", the metric is "closest phone that connects with Amazon's servers", and the divergence is exploited by this multi-phone syncing/dispatch setup. (In this case, the divergence is unavoidable, short of unspoofable, unremovable microchipping of anyone who wants to pick up gig work)

Though it seems like a pretty easy fix: just lower the granularity of the location query.
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I was going to move it, but it looks like they posted another version there. Thanks.
Python is not technically superior to other languages enough that you can rhetorically ask that question. It’s main advantage is the ecosystem and network effects. If a bunch of people, especially the people who work on numpy, scipy, etc., decide to work on developing libraries for other languages like R and Julia, the data science ecosystem would switch over in a few years. Similarly for other fields people might switch to languages like Elixir, Haskell, OCaml, Go, Swift, Scala, Ruby, Kotlin, etc.
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Get a fully managed wordpress from wordpress.com. That will cost you a few dollars per month and you won't have to manage Linux/PHP/SQL or any plugin. There is a bunch of themes included that look pretty good overall.

GitHub Pages are also a good suggestion but they don't come with comments, stats or themes. There's quite a bit of development and design to do to match squarespace/wordpress.
Molecular Property Prediction Benchmark: SMOTM June 2020
My whole family was poisoned by inorganic Arsenic/Manganese oxides from an arsenopyrite blast furnace[0]. It contaminated the air, soil and water[1][2]. Despite my family living in the fumekill, and me growing up with severe uninheritable genetic mutations[3], we were never able to prove that we were poisoned thus ineligible for any settlement money. You would think it would be easy considering how many biologists from the city documented the ecological collapse of over 80 species in 30 lakes near my hometown[4] but such is life in the first world. Privatising profits and socialising costs make the world go round. </snark>

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[1] https://doi.org/10.1139/b63-089

[2] https://archive.org/details/studiesofterrest00ontauoft/page/...

[3] https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/mccune-albright-syndrome#i...

[4] https://doi.org/10.1139/f84-002
There are two failings here:

1) Twitter immediately revealing to the employee that they were under investigation

2) The FBI not considering #1 and being prepared to detain Alzabarah if he attempted to flee.

I'm not surprised by twitter but a little disappointed in the FBI.
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That exploratory work is still done... its just done one time by someone who is "best" suited to do it. Then you just stamp out projects leveraging that exploratory work.
> The constitution prevents congress from restricting free speech because it is a document written about what congress can and cannot do

This is not correct as a blanket statement. The constitution defines the powers of all three branches of government, not just congress. It also puts some restrictions on states and has some general prohibitions that don't just apply to government (for example, it defines treason). No other amendment in the Bill of Rights has "congress shall make no law" in it; they all just say certain things are prohibited or required, period. And subsequent amendments, such as the Fourteenth, place restrictions on States. Parts of the constitution are specifications for congress specifically. But not all of it.

The reason individuals and businesses can refuse to allow speech they don't like in their homes or places of business, or on their websites, is that that is part of their right to free speech--the right to control speech on their own property.
I agree, it seems they saw a bunch of phones hanging in a tree, so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt it is an existent phenomenon, but would also question the extent. It's interesting because the case here is that the gig worker wants to behave like an employee, basically polling the system and taking a job without evaluating it is akin to getting assigned it. It feels like the flip side of what you normally see.

Now the problem here is the why, that is necessity, desperation. And the who, which is that it seems some parties might be predating here, snapping up the gigs and basically scalping/arbitraging them.

The part I grapple with is that it's certainly unfair for companies to utilize gig workers and expect employees. Is it just as wrong for a company to stand by and watch their gig workers sort of organize themselves into employees?
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Right. So RFA was created by the CIA. In 1971 the directorship was transferred to the BIB. In 1994 the directorship was transferred once again to the USIA. In 1999, the directorship was transferred to the AGM.

All four of these organizations are under the direct control of the US State Department. Seems to me that this is just shuffling around to obfuscate who owns what. It still uses the same tactics, is directed by the same people, and operates under the same name, it's just a game of shell companies.

However, I never claimed it was still directly controlled by the CIA. It's still controlled by the State Department, and is indeed founded by the CIA, as there is continuity between the CIA and the modern RFA. By the standard that you are requesting, that is to prove that the CIA is still directly connected to RFA right this present minute, it's not realistic to provide such proof. However, there is proof that the RFA is still commanded by the same people as under the CIA, and that is sufficient.
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It is well supported by the project itself, we offer a variety of tools so that you do not need internet access, and this was also a hard requirement of a lot of our early important users, like Firefox and various distros.

Even with using crates from crates.io.
This is something I spend a lot of time thinking about myself - it seems like functional program ought to be > object-oriented program which ought to be > procedural programming. However, I've almost never seen a functionally-designed application "in the wild" and honestly, it's pretty rare to even see an object-oriented one. It seems like every program I ever dig into is mostly written procedurally, even if it's written in a language that supports higher-level abstractions. And, for the most part, software works. As much as I love the concept of pure functional programming, how do we really know that "functional programming is better" and that's not just wishful thinking on our part? Looking forward to digging into this - hopefully the author can make a better case than others have.
Britain Is Doing Covid-19 Research Better Than the U.S.
I bought one at the start of the year, it’s always the way I suppose.
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“Bad code that ships is better than good code that doesn't”

Maybe better for your bottom line (no criticism, we all have to eat), but not better for the world. Look around at our software universe: bad code that shipped, everywhere.

Bad code that ships gets us Windows.
The first failure might not be the best indicator of why it failed.

Or you may have much bigger problems but you won't know until you've fixed the first problem, which might not even matter anymore once you fix the big problem.
It says "Faster than 2080TI" right underneath it...
On the contrary, you need to defend the entire length of the track at all times from an enemy who can destroy any small part of it at any time and then just leave the scene to try again later. Yes, it takes much more effort than a driver just deciding to go on a rampage, but against a determined adversary the train is at a huge disadvantage.
My wife is in her 30s and she often fails reCaptcha and gives up on sites that require it.
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> I've heard a few people say that

probably because of, oh I don't know, the text right next to the 3070 dot saying "faster than 2080 Ti"...

(and I'm really only speculating here)

It probably won't be like, night and day faster than a 2080 Ti of course, it's going to be the same bracket judging by the chart, but I'd expect it to usually edge out the 2080 Ti by a couple percent based on the text there.
Once GCC is no longer the state of the art it is unlikely MIT/BSD licensed alternatives will have their contributions publicly released.
And then the oven 3090 reveal!
If one assertion fails early in a test, you lose any subsequent coverage from further assertions.

Maybe you can build your tests such that there's only one assert for each, and if that meets your needs, fine.

If not, or if you're in the process of refactoring your tests into single assertions, this way we can reclaim that coverage.
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Interesting perspective. As a native Californian I couldn't disagree more. In 33 years of living in California, the number of times I've actually spent any significant time thinking about earthquakes is very close to 0. I lived in Southern California at the time of the 1994 Northridge earthquake and it wasn't even impactful enough for me to remember it.

The maximum downside of an earthquake is tremendous, but the odds of a catastrophic earthquake occurring in your lifetime are also tremendously low. Earthquakes also have the distinct advantage of not being impacted by climate change. (AFAIK?)
I think it's a near-certainty that this person didn't have permission.

It's extremely unlikely that he'd be given permission to fly his jetpack in the approach to LAX, and even if he were, you can bet that air traffic control would be fully aware of it ahead of time.
Except that the city's negotiating abilities are so incompetent that these overtime $ costs (which in the past had guarantees like "required to ratchet up and remain the 2nd highest paid scale in the US") and expansion of employees numbers gets further baked into pension and debt costs far into the future.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/why-muni-cant-find-good-driv...
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/City-and-Muni-operato...
Basic Statistical Descriptions of Data – Mean, Median, Mode and Midrange
SUVs conquered the world – at the expense of its climate
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You got to use it for most of the year.
Dispersion of Data: Range, Quartiles, Variance, Standard Deviation
Even largely copied machines were typically adapted and 'localized' so I'm not sure this is really a much simpler or accurate explanation.
I wonder if the pricing will drop once AMD releases their ray-tracing PC GPUs.
Did you mean for this to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343643?
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Section 230 Reform Public Comment
I guess today is the last day to comment.

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People have definitely been tossing this idea around - basically your micro-car could "tow" a 10-ton self-powered autonomous trailer that locks in on guide signals from the rear and drafts your car. Much, much simpler than true autonomous driving - you don't have to read road signs, watch out for cyclists crossing against the light, figure out how to handle a 6-way uncontrolled intersection, etc. You'd probably want some feedback to the lead vehicle to modulate acceleration and braking to match the capabilities of the trailer.
DEC even taped out their opinion:
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

The successor to COMECON streisands the fun stuff:
https://www.wassenaar.org/app/uploads/2019/12/WA-DOC-19-PUB-...
Not possible, or not easy?

Davis' methods require time and work. Granted, his is largely based in meatspace, and I think offline communication is far more effective... but if I didn't think there was some merit to online communication, I wouldn't be trying here. Would you?