skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stunning success of Uber/Lyft shows that there's a massive segment of consumers who were not satisfied by traditional taxi services and prefer the alternative Uber/Lyft offer. There's also a large contingent of drivers willing to become drivers under the current model. All of them seem to disagree with you on your opinion that things were fine, actually, just the way they were before Lyft/Uber arrived.

I agree with the argument I think you're implying: there's a minimum level of protection that everyone should be afforded. Though your assumption that your employer must be the source of those protections seems unwarranted. If people deserve healthcare then surely unemployed people also deserve healthcare. If people deserve a minimum standard of living, some kind of minimum wage, then surely even the unemployed deserve that minimum standard. And once even the unemployed have these protections, what does it matter whether you're an employee or a contractor?

Why not attack the problem from that direction?
For any app, you give apple effectively a binary (really it's a sort of IR), not the source code.
Enrollment is down ~ 20 % this year at my regional institution, even at community colleges, which usually experience an upswing in enrollment during recessions enrollment is down. Even at top-100 institutions, like the University of Vermont, enrollment is down ~ 20 %. Must be a good year to get into Harvard or Stanford. There's also the secular trend of decreasing student numbers, the echo of the baby boom is wearing off.

It's bad. Neither party has a political response to the coronarecession, public institutions had their funding cut severely because states can't print money, they have to balance their budgets. Private institutions will drop dead like bogflies. Ordinarily one wouldn't cry for any of the many low-ranked sectarian colleges that will bite the dust, but their faculty will compete in the labour market.

And no political response is to be seen. Traditionally, under Democratic leadership the science budget is bigger, but we haven't heard anything about that from the incoming Harris-Biden administration. It's really bad and makes you want to vote Republican because of protectionism and reduced immigration.

The only safe funding now is soft money.
Bringing it closer to home for many software developers, when we talk about the reliability of a system, we also use a variation on log probability (of success), but we call it "nines:" 99% reliability is two nines, 99.99% is four nines, etc. So
nines(x) = -log_10 (1-x)
I would love to live in a city where all the cars are small, quiet, and not too fast.

But logistically, how would cars enter or leave the city? If you wanted to travel by car with a few others to visit someone in another city ... do you have to take your small electric car with luggage to the city boundary, and then switch to a different car that can go on the highway (and has a greater range)? When you arrive at the destination city, do you then again switch vehicles to another small city car? So one trip needs 3 vehicles? Would the city boundary then have to be host to a giant concentration of garages where people keep their city-car until they return? Would people own the highway-capable cars, but be obliged to store them possibly very far away from their homes? Or in this story are the highway-capable cars almost all rentals?
Another idea I’ve heard is to take your life expectancy in days as beads into a jar, and move one each day (or night) into another jar.
Scalar product doesnt give you a function/density whatever, just a number (which can be important, but this doesnt adress the question)
I suspect that's a bit of an over-assertion as it's mostly working fine for me on two different Intel machines. Would be great to link to a bug or some more info and it's something that could very likely be backported if it's fixed in 20.10.
See also the chart "Life of a Typical American":

* https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Across the top it has column labels going form 1 to 52 (for the weeks of the year). On the left, it has row labels going from 0 to 90 (for rough life expectancy). These rows and columns are color-coded for different periods of most people's life: Early Years, Elementary/Middle/High School, College, Career, Retirement.

Go down the left-hand crows until you find your current age and you can see how much life you've lived and (roughly) how much you have left.

Some famous deaths (Hendrix, Mozart, JFK, Lincoln, Steve Jobs) listed/marked in article.

You can buy a 24x36" poster (US$20) or high-res PDF ($2) if you want a memento mori:

* https://store.waitbutwhy.com/collections/life-calendars/prod...

* https://gumroad.com/l/life-weeks

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

Someone created a page where you can enter your birthday and it will fill up the table:

* https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html

* https://github.com/bryanbraun/your-life
Author here. I think, for one, Markdown's focus is on writing for the web, and there rich text wasn't good in 2004 (where copying/pasting from say Word into WordPress was always hit and miss, and rich web editors were far less advanced than the Webflow's of today), and was inspired by email where plain text stayed the standard longer than elsewhere (especially on Apple products, where into the late '90's the main Mac mail app and the NeXT email app that turned into today's Mail.app both were plain text editors for sending email).

It would be interesting, though, if Tim Berners-Lee's original dream of dream of the web being somewhere everyone edited had come true, then if better quality rich text editing for the web would have shown up sooner.
Last year Apple introduced 2 flags on the network: “constrained” (the Low Data Mode toggle) and “expensive” (most cellular and personal hotspots). These are intended to let the app make intelligent decisions about what network requests to do. For example, “expensive” networks should disable background or speculative fetches and only fetch what the user asked for.

Presumably Apple apps that bypass the network filter are making use of these flags already, to avoid unnecessary network traffic.
TechCrunch is pretty trusted. I don't think they'd publish this if it weren't true. They'd be accountable for all sorts of libel
There isn't a "third wave" like they say in the nightly news, it's really more like regional waves.
Google weighs in after Stadia director says streamers should pay publishers
Apparently your pain and suffering is less important than getting the Sacklers.
To note, autofocusing adapters for stills already exist for the Sony E-mount system, however because of the closed API of the AF system it is difficult to enter the optical characteristics necessary for in-camera video AF.
I was arguing less for a specific tool, technology, or whatever, and more that the web as platform is constantly in flux and so "throwing it away" makes no sense.

You don't stop using the Interstate system bc a stretch of road is bad.
My experience with the new AngelList Assessments feature
Plone conference 2020 – December 5 – 13 2020 – Early Bird Registration Open
Isnt all sensory work ‘remote’ including our eyes?

I mean this question with genuine curiosity
Could you have someone walk towards the camera with a focus test card and form a map between the sensor and the focus data from the lens itself (FFT, etc)?

It would be something analogous to the 'learned indexes' paper.

You could then provide any tweening function to give you that focus feeling you need.

http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p1162-ferragina.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
> If the drivers are the employee of anybody, they don't get to choose when they work, or how often, or where. Some of the drivers need that, so they lose work.

There's nothing about having a staffing company involved that forces drivers not to pick when they work or how often or where. When you're a contractor, your contracting company cannot enforce those things, however, when you're an employee, you absolutely can have those things -- or not -- at the discretion of your employer subject to the terms of your employment relationship.

All having a staffing agency involved does is force a minimum wage, and an employer-employee relationship. They, the staffing company, take on fares from Uber and disperse them across their drivers. They pool the fares to provide a minimum wage and benefits, and then anything else above that gets distributed to the driver who created the specific revenue as "incentive pay" in exactly the way the parent suggested. Or as profit sharing proportional to work performed.

There's nothing crazy or unprecedented about this.

tl;dr: The company contracting you cannot tell you when and how to work, an employer can -- but does not have to.
> Anyone who even thinks about extensions has the fury of the mailing list wrought upon them as soon as they propose them.

If a central entity decided they could capture a new market by shipping “Gemini++: The One With DRM So You Can Watch Netflix”, I’m not sure why the “fury of the mailing list” would be a concern for them.

Given that users pick their clients, the folks pushing for fewer features would end up splitting the userbase between “people who agreed with them” and “people who didn’t”.

For an example of how this goes if a medium gets popular, the best example may in fact be HTTP/HTML/etc.
Microsoft Research presents PIVOT, placing VR objects into your hand
Ask HN: What Things Tend to Go Viral
There are things that go viral. We've seen a lot of articles, projects, or open source that go viral here at HN.

I have always wanted to go viral - whether that's an article or a personal project. I know you cannot just want to become one; it just happens.

What do you think the kind of article or project that tend to go viral?

I appreciate all your 2 cents.
> No second waves that are starting to hit other countries.

Sweden is actually seeing a second wave. Its death rate is still low.
Please: High performance build system inspired by Blaze and Bazel
So is it actually possible to put GPL code on the app store then?
I think the same thing from an RV standpoint. RVs have more complexity than cars, houses and trucks combined.

An EV chassis could converge driving, lighting, appliances, heating and cooling into one system, and make off-grid and solar a real possibility.
To be fair the context of the first writing in 1834 is to directly reference its use in conversation in 1833.
There were some game studios but they have closed. Konami and Square Enix. It would be very bad for employees. You would have 1 or two employers, then if you needed to leave you have to move to the mainland which is probably very expensive. Very easy to become homeless too if you are not rich as well because it is very expensive.

Hawaii is remote. 2000 miles away. You need a full day to travel to the mainland one way. If all you need is good weather and beaches then there is San Diego and Florida which are much easier.
> This would set a precedent

That's a really good argument. Personally - and admittedly this is purely speculation - I think they would find some creative way to conform to the letter of the law without a drastic shift in business model. Someone elsewhere suggested, for example, something akin to an agency model, where they pay some amount to a sourcing company, and said company then retains a pool of workers that service requests from all rideshare and delivery apps. They could spin it into an opportunity to become said middle man themselves and profit from competitors and/or enter different gig economy verticals. Or they could settle for some middle ground with some loss of coverage but still more or less the same service. Or find some way to devour or partner with the taxi industry proper. Etc.

The thing w/ regulation and precedents is that it doesn't have to be Uber. If a precedent is set by any other company, your hypothetical scenario of risk to profitability profile would affect Uber regardless, so it doesn't seem in their best interest to just part ways with CA and call it a day.

On an opposing note, something else to consider is that the rest of the country (or the world, for that matter), may not agree with CA policymaking, especially as the CA political landscape drifts more and more towards the radical left side of the spectrum.
Lumber and building materials for remodeling like my bathroom (shower and closet doors stuff like that), topsoil and grass seed/sod for redoing my yard. 2000lbs of lava rock most recently. A new water heater when mine went out. Taking loads to the town dump during spring cleaning. There is always something here to do. Not to mention the times I've been in the store looking at a new TV, lawn mower or anything else that I would like to take home immediately (I realize that delivery exists but the convenience is what a truck provides). I've also had times where I've gone to pick such things up and the local truck rentals were out which is super frustrating.

I also don't currently own a truck, but a small sedan so all of these recent things I had to wait/pay for delivery, borrow a truck, or depend on rentals so I'm familiar with "truckless" lifestyle and can say I would prefer at the least a beater truck for these tasks, at which point trading my current car would come out equal to a standard truck in that scenario.
Just bcause my house's door is open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

Making a mistake once or twice is fine. Attempting to enter my house 18,000 per minute? Yeah, it is probably illegal.

But I'm not a lawyer neither are you.
It's their main side hustle. Just like aspiring actors and musicians waiting tables to pay the bills.
Yeah, it scares me too. I am considering moving to Next Cloud, but for now I am using spanning.com to backup Google drive.
GAS syntax is particularly annoying for actual human use, although I enjoy writing (x86) Asm otherwise.
Have to admit much of this is outside of my scope but. So much of it speaks to me in ways of two people who found different latbs but enjoy that view at the mountain peak.

At q3 I wanted to be a game designer. So.e broken hearts, drug use, bad choices and eventually some yoga I picked up u real engine to complete and uncomplete...

And I decided android development would be a way to go. Often they emulate things that playstation Warner nintendo 64 levels sellout go for something super meeting Jewish or very early N64 depending on how it went...

Who would have thought those were actually more complex? I'm gonna get everyone will answer everyone who's ever actually done work back then... we have a lot to make things very accessible and easy to all now. But, Often enough that work is now done without the contrains and limits of storage processing (yay clouds, neuro-net and all that stuff.)

But it removes a certain level of co.plex thought. That creativity and genius is less often present that really just made so.eyhing standout.
If it's a prevalent notion, wouldn't the military take it seriously too and take precautions?
I'm sorry, but I'm lost, are we talking about this likelihood function? I'm guessing no, since that's an object defined in a statistical space, not in a probabilistic space:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_function
The reasoning I've heard is that greenhouses provide group isolation rather than overall ventilation per se, but there's usually also a trapdoor or partially open roof to vent the air, so it does work in some sense. This is what it looks like in practice in Chicago [0].

Indoor Plexiglass partitions provide isolation too but the level of isolation is more limited. Plus the air in a smaller indoor location is recirculated between partitions, whereas outdoors it is ostensibly exchanged at much higher rates.

Which makes me wonder, can't we build indoor booths?

The catch would be one would also need a HVAC that can exchange air outside the booths at high throughputs like aircraft cabins.

ACPH = air changes per hour = 60 * Q / L where Q = volumetric flow (ft3/min), L = ft3.

Aircraft cabin ACPH are around 20-30 (and through a HEPA filter) [1], while a restaurant dining area is 8-12 [2] (many assumptions here, like airtightness, etc), and no HEPA.

[0] https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/dine-and-drink-in-a-pri...

[1] https://www.iata.org/contentassets/f1163430bba94512a583eb6d6...

[2] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-change-rate-room-d_86...
> Effectively banning Uber will literally kill people, for starters.

The state is morally responsible for folks who cannot work, however, they don't have to achieve this responsibility by creating below-market-rate or otherwise crap jobs. They can achieve this responsibility through, for instance, basic income, unemployment benefits or a social safety net.

The moral responsibility of a state is not to make people work at all costs. It's to look after its citizens and to your point make sure they don't die. Americans tend to conflate the two but they are distinct.

Combining the two creates a weird world where the state needs to stay out of the way of individuals getting any job at all no matter how bad or underpaid, and that's not really the mission statement.

If you're talking about "killing people" because of drunk driving, I would suggest that there are plenty of other ways for folks to get home, between public transit, a designated driver, or yes, a taxi. I enjoy drinking as much as the next guy, but not having Uber isn't going to cause me to die. At some point personal responsibility comes in to play when the goal is to optimize for the greater good. I do think having Uber or Lyft is strictly better.
Interesting dilemma. Good for you though. I wish my parents had pushed me into cs when I was out of high school. Sometimes kids need to be put on a track they can follow.

https://www.leagueofstartups.com
60% decrease in startup time, 10% improvement in general runtime. Of course if you exceed the initial allocation the whole thing will crash. That could probably be worked around with a bit more intelligence in the allocator.

This was part of a class project so not available online unfortunately. It’s good practice to implement it yourself though! There are lots of resources online for implementing fast allocators.
Interesting...I wrote this to display a countdown in the i3 status bar:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

DIFF_DAYS=""

death_clock () {
DEATH_DATE=$(date --date 'YYYY-MM-DD -u' +%s)
TODAY=$(date +%s)
DIFF=$(expr "$DEATH_DATE" - "$TODAY")
DIFF_DAYS=$(expr "$DIFF" / $(expr 24 \* 3600))
}

i3status | (read line && echo "$line" && read line && echo "$line" && read line && echo "$line" && while :
do
read line
death_clock
echo ",[{\"full_text\":\"days left: ${DIFF_DAYS}\", \"color\": \"#0000FF\" },${line#,\[}" || exit 1
done)

Definitely not polished but seems to work if you fill in the "YYYY-MM-DD" with your expected date of departure.
Only thing I can think of is that pickups have better visibility, both to see out/down... and to see who is driving.

I've had a pickup and a van and it's easier to get stuff in and out of a pickup - you can walk around the side and haul stuff over your head and get in the bed and walk around. motorcycles fit in a pickup, or 3 of them.
This is actually probably quite a good move, and will trim off mostly low value, high trouble clients.
Employers can still share internally (same way public interviews can be shared as a heads up)
Show HN: Source code and build system used to generate the book Hands-on Scala
See sibling. But yes I patched cpython, it’s pretty easy to build yourself.
P(X,Y), when integrated along all possible diagonals given by x+y=z where z goes through all real numbers, is what a convolution is (of P(X) and P(Y) generated by those variables). This gives you the distribution of the variable Z=X+Y.

So, we're talking about the same thing, namely that multiplying two probability density functions pointwise roughly corresponds to a single point where X==Y (the same as X-Y==0), but otherwise doesn't seem terribly useful.
There are so many elephants in this room that they have every bit of marketing on full alert.

Marketing is telling half the story, the best half.

(except for the superbowl ad, which was inventing a story to tell)

It's too bad they didn't capitalize on a few more differentiating points.

"Full sized dashboard in front of you"

"We will sell you parts and a service manual."

"You don't have to hook your car to the internet if you don't want."
Chick-fil-a actually has been running kubernetes at all their stores for a few years.

https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...
You're not making sense. Reduction in mining rewards is not correlated with centralization. The Bitcoin ledger does not grow exponentially, it grows linearly. Higher hash rate is also not correlated with centralization. Despite exponential hash rate growth, hash rate distribution among mining pools has become more decentralized, not less.
>there is no logical reason health insurance needs to be tied to employment

It gives large corporations a competitive advantage.
> my personal income

Cryptocurrency mining on GPU instances? Alternatively, just offer the account for sale at half price; someone who needs it and knows he will use up that much credit before it expires will find it a great deal.

> public good, charity

Contribute compute/storage/CDN services to open-source projects? Folding at home, or similar distributed computing projects?
I always am curious when I see this. I've planned and deployed master setups in two separate 10^4 node count companies now. In my experience the number of hosts doesn't really matter (figuring out an architecture that will work with availability zones etc only takes a couple weeks). The real work is figuring out how to normalize and govern the repos. I haven't seen any sane ansible repo once it's beyond a few senior contributors because it's so easy to do whatever you want. Ansible is the ultimate small business tool, but it works very poorly in large companies.
There are users who can see the security benefits of such a system. And if you use your computre like an appliance to exchange data and authorize purchases, it's not too bad of an idea to use an appliance.

But my opinion is the exact opposite, Apple is not getting a penny of mine until they give their users the freedom that they deserve. General purpose computing devices should allow people to compute generally, without the blessing of some corporate deity.
This doesn't seem that crazy to me. But I do live in a relatively cold climate. Outdoor dining in 50F weather was a thing we'd do even before the pandemic hit. Heck, I've done outdoor dining below freezing in the mountain town where my brother lives.

The best way to combat cabin fever is to get out of the cabin.
The bulking aspect doesn't bother me so much, what does bother me is that it's not as good and the only major ice cream brands left that aren't like this are Haagen-Dazs and Talenti.
yes, i was using nginx-ingress. Thanks!
One of my exercises is a utility that automates creation of a local test cluster with the kind utility; you can get a test cluster with local docker registry and/or ingress (http or tls)

https://github.com/MoserMichael/kind-helper
Essentially all cream cheese, whipped or otherwise, contains gums anyway. "Real" cream cheese is kinda grainy whenever I've seen it.
Variable reward, drama, and incentives; Being promoted by a source of credibility helps as well. Why do you want to go viral? What are you optimizing for? Is the desire 'to go viral' a proxy for perhaps some other unfulfilled need of yours? If you have answers to these questions you find satisfactory go for it, otherwise I would look into why you have this specific desire.
I am in the process of building multiple sites with 11ty, one new, and a few are redesigns of older sites. I am in love with every part of 11ty except the documentation. I've learned most of what I needed to know from GitHub starter projects, GitHub issue responses and some YouTube videos.
The real question is did they really loose it or did people in the company steal it?