skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I know a person in Seattle who just acquired a (used) car because of this. Not because they wanted to, it is expensive for them and they don’t have much money, but because the alternative no longer made financial sense. They had been using Uber/Lyft previously to live their life.
From skimming the bill, they assume you’re at 50% utilization, so for every minute you have a passenger, you must get paid at least two minimum wage minutes. So it doesn’t matter which platform or if you’re idling.
During the previous crypto craze a few years ago I built a .net service that continuously scanned 100s of sites for crypto news for specific keywords (configuration of sites and keywords stored in xml files) and texted me alerts when keywords hit, in an attempt to apply an event-based investment strategy to the crypto space. Given the immaturity of the market, small events often led to irrational spikes, and I made some money on quickly acting before the news became too widespread.

I started getting too many alerts so I built a machine learning based system to weed out uninteresting/unrelated stories (basically a spam filter, was 98%+ effective). By this time the service had a database of 100,000+ headlines for crypto stories, so I had good data for the filter. I built a UI to quickly allow me to train the ML algorithm by manually rating stories as good/bad and give me the ability to train/retrain/enhance the models on an ongoing basis as my crypto interests changed.

When the market crashed I lost interest. Was already full time on something else as well. I had visions of deploying the system publicly as a SaaS product, allowing people to sign up, and replacing the config/xml files with a nice web-based UI, and then charging something for it.
I don’t mean to diminish the gravity of such numbers but don’t projections like this ignore asymptomatic cases? How many of those projected to die here have already contacted it but are immune for whatever reason and never got tested? The death rates across age ranges can only account for confirmed deaths and cases in that range, no? Without testing every single person in an age range we can’t make accurate projections because we can’t know the percentage of “immune” people, no?
>No, it isn't.

Yes, it is.

>Your argument is just veiled prejudice to disenfranchise your political opponents, without any basis of facts.

Perfect description of leftism. Love it!
> Companies that employ workers below subsistence wages are actually being indirectly subsidized collectively by every single taxpayer.

Companies that employ workers at any pay that reduces their public benefit entitlement are subsidizing every single taxpayer, not the other way around.
I'm glad that this called out systemd in the very first section, because it told me that the rest of it probably wasn't going to actually talk about anything actually meaningful for security.

Edit: Oh god I hadn't even gotten to the end of that same section where it recommends Gentoo???? This article is written for people who read Cryptonomicon and took it a little too seriously.
Sure it could be more intelligent, but there would always be false positives. For example a Google employee's spouse could likely get correlated. False positives sounds like a bad idea for a system that tries to match personal and work accounts. Also in my case it would be harder possibly because I have a ton of personal Google accounts.

>A cookie shared between two accounts is even a stronger indication, as a person used the same browser to log in with both.

I never use the same browser for my work and personal accounts. But in theory that could run into the spousal problem as well for some people.
All cults and religions are based on flawed logic, justifying and reinforcing its viral load.

Not saying movements don't have some learning and constructive purposes too, but the core of the ideology itself is always full of flawed logic most effective in confusing people.
In the context of the tweet thread’s list the author meant that (1) Flash web deploys were a single file and (3) distribution was with a single URL, which could be emailed.
No, effectively I'm arguing that the US should check its own hypocrisy before pointing fingers, especially if it does it selectively (doesn't matter when allies / we do it), hypocritically, and as part of a power play/trade war. (Also, it wasn't "in the past", the US does bad things continuously. W. Bush, Obama -more of the same-, and Trump presidencies weren't in some distant past...)

How about both China and the US stop fucking over with millions, and people don't "patriotically" only point fingers to the other, and give their home team a pass (with much less, and much tamer, criticism, whereas it should be even more vigorous, it being their own domain?).
Could we, as users, do some fund raising and hire Igalia (or some other competent developer) to implement PWA support in Firefox? What would be the best way to organize it? Is Bountysource still a thing?
I didn't say it was brave or heroic to suggest it came from a lab.

But in many social groups such as HN you do have to be kind of brave to suggest it might have been a bioweapon. People who say things like that are often ostracized in many places online. Or at the very least you get called a crackpot.
The Flash authorship tools were free because 3rd party authors creating Flash content were assisting in the promulgation of a proprietary platform that was gradually replacing open web standards.

What? The Flash authorship tools were definitely not free. I remember Macromedia Studio used to cost nearly a grand. They were widely spread because, like Photoshop, Macromedia/Adobe didn't bother cracking down on piracy.
This is a good theory and I mostly agree but if you disallow password logins, private keys on servers and agent forwarding - how do you copy things server to server without going through your slow and possibly remote local connection?
That’s not sarcasm. As computer lab support back in college, iMac G3’s were the rage and the internet was new. The only working browser back in the day on those macs were IE. Good luck getting Netscape Navigator running on them (Phoenix/Firefox not created yet, Safari wasn’t even a thing yet).

Flash was the worst thing to support in those labs - some windows machines, some macs, some Solaris... gl trying to tell non-CS majors to move to a different computer...

I’ll admit, the authoring tools were great, everything else about flash was terrible.
Wages are correlated with inflation, in fact wages push inflation, given that they're the largest cost for most businesses. It's relatively hard to imagine how you'd have widespread increase in price without increase in cost of labour.

I’m going to step away from the word correlation because I think it will lead us down a never ending path.

Wages are not keeping pace with inflation. I’m not saying it needs to be 1:1, but businesses have managed to stunt wage growth at a much lower multiple. That is one hell of a tax on people’s wealth.

So now the question is, is what I just said true? Year after year there’s tons of data and literature on how wages haven’t budged in relation to inflation. The public is constantly being shown these arguments similar to Climate change.

I think ultimately the government doesn’t care that your earning power is not keeping pace because it is thematically consistent with what monetary easing is trying to do. The whole point is to not let your money sit around and appreciate, the whole point is to have your money in fight-flight mode at all times to keep the economy from stagnating. There is nothing in that policy that has anything to do with increasing your earning power or raw appreciation of your current wealth.

So be it, the failure here is that if the average person’s money needs to be put to work, there has to be more vehicles available to the average person. When your typical business doesn’t even offer a 401k, when wages only grow at a 0.1-0.3x of inflation, you can’t reasonably expect someone to stow away the max 5k contribution yearly in an independent IRA. Your average worker is simply not able to do this, and this is the failure I’m mostly speaking to.

Lastly, the word pension is a vestige. I worked at a large Corp that had pensions once. When I got there, there policy changed so that anyone after around the late 2000s would not receive a pension, and they would stop adding to the pension fund for those that came before. Millennial/Z will never hear the word pension again, so it’s not a fair point to make.

The best current generations can do is save for a down payment on a house, and be locked financially to the mortgage payment. To have a fighting chance at this in these crazy housing markets, you need to make some sacrifices to hit that down payment. Nothing else about our system is going to help you, and all monetary policy is trying to outpace you at this point globally.
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No, proton compatibility isn't really signified by the flag as it's not official support. That being said it seems Valve doesn't do much to help promote Proton compatibility either, as the only good resource I know to check compatibility is protondb.com (which you should take a look at by the way).
I’m ehhh about the musl suggestion. I spent way to long finding problems that were related to musl
Apple's Mac Mini is killing my Hackintosh
You are still hypocracizing here in the dark?
Confirmed this is correct with an online calculator. Strange, you'd expect it to go up with a lower wage and not down!

EDIT: Ah, i figured it out:

Gross | Gross New | Net Delta | Total taxation
2000 €2600 €155 31.00%
3000 €3600 €262 38.00%
4000 €4600 €253 42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall. Yes, taxes are high in Belgium but to add some nuance, you get a lot in return. (Free healthcare, free university education, pensions, social services, no capital gains tax)
We used SumoLogic at my last job, really nice for dashboards IMHO, much easier than Grafana, it's log oriented but works with any structured data you throw at it.
I think it was expensive though.
This issue needs wider exposure. I have had several clients go through the exact same experience; in fact, I have yet to see Apple honor anything close to the promised trade-in value (which was already quite low compared to the market).
Much like the referenced Excel spreadsheets becoming unwieldy, so does a dev's machine [0].

0. https://xkcd.com/1987/
Indeed. People run entire families on like $300 a month, where I've been.
I subscribe to r/jokes and honestly I find written jokes not funny.
Is this whistleblower just propaganda then?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540015
python3 -m http.server —bind 0.0.0.0 8080 is my favorite command
Why do you think this is a common problem? I've never heard of anyone leaving private keys on the server. Usually the ssh-keygen is run locally on their machine and the public key is deployed on the server.
> We are no where close to automating most basic labors.

Crap like this is giving us the motivation for finding solutions and getting closer.

Just like the danger of starvation is giving people the motivation to get off their asses and get to work and improve themselves.

We're pretty simple energy conservation machines otherwise. Give me a small stipend for weed, games and porn and I’d still be living in my parents basement.
I just don't think the interaction is particularly valuable. I looked at the globe and hovered over one PR. Maybe I'm just not curious enough!
Some of the recommended steps like removing machine-id to prevent fingerprinting are especially funny when the rest of the article perfectly describes how to get your system in a completely uniquely fingerprintable state via obscure knobs most people don't touch.

As you've mentioned, it's a hardening "guide" without specifying a threat model, so its value is very limited anyway.
In Australia:

- The lockdown in Melbourne was not dissimilar to China’s Wuhan lockdown.

- Police and Medical Authorities did go through facebook (publicly, not any kind of hacking) for contact tracing and policing of people breaking health orders.

- It was not anti-constitutional (because Australia has a different constitution) and Australia has specific laws that allow (in emergencies like pandemics) the Chief Health Officers to override existing laws.

- There were no revolts, in fact there is continued wide spread support for the state government in Victoria, and the federal government in Australia for their response.
Might as well use drones to bomb our domestic weddings as well... the republicans have the hypocrite vote locked up, wouldn't want to give them ammunition.
> The need for complex numbers in describing a quantum bit. Why do we have to use complex numbers when the system is very much real? What is the real world interpretation?

This isn't an answer to your question but an analogy. Negative numbers probably seemed strange when you learned about them as a child. After all they don't seem to exist in the "real" world. But they're still a useful mathematical tool for turning subtraction into addition, among other things. (And negative numbers do have real-world connotations, like floor numbers below ground level.)

Complex numbers are exactly like that: They are a useful tool for extending the idea of multiplication to "stuff that rotates or behaves like a wave", among other things.

Don't read too much into the names; "complex" and "imaginary" are meaningless labels that simply let us keep track of how multiplication and addition differ from those operations on so-called "real" numbers. Just like "negative" numbers should not be considered "less desirable" or "more pessimistic" than positive numbers, the everyday meaning of the labels doesn't apply in a math context.
Hybrid SSDs were available in 2007, Apple's Fusion drive in 2012, along with ReadyCache/ReadyBoost/ExpressCache/ReadyDrive (remember when some laptops came with a 32GB SSD in addition to their HDD?), the number of people willing to pay what this product is worth, but not just buy a bigger SSD instead, is probably very slim.
Interesting, my comment was solely in response to your complaint about naming convention... you've expanded your criticism quite a bit. I already anticipated your issue with naming being that few people used named cells/ranges -- again, it's not even in a menu or ribbon, it's present at all times, what else do you want? Not "the way it's taught"? Well, blame your teacher.

> You have to have variable names in Python

sure, but `(i, j, k)` isn't any more descriptive than A1 or B7 or CQ85759. `intOrderTotal` may seem better initially, until the summer intern creates `intOrderFinalTotal` (after tax) and `intOrderAllInFinalTotal` (after shipping and tax)

> every cell in a range has its own unique formula

you could use array formulas, or were you never taught those either?

> it's not the default behavior, takes extra steps,

Creating a Python virtual environment is not the default behavior, and it takes extra steps. So does using any packages beyond the standard library. So does source control. Or running Jupyter. Using classes, or type hints, or imports, are all not the "default" of one long script in a single file.

Excel isn't superior to Python, or the best tool to solve every type of problem. Excel has its place, Python has its place. But your specific little nitpicks here are a reflection of the user (who I presume is you) not on the tool itself.
I would like to have one for my mom, to pickup stuff from the market
Right, hadn't thought about that. I put my keyboard in Swiss layout while writing the code -- am I good then?
Interesting, I remember being able to pay cash a couple years ago, but now I see most airlines stopped accepting cash, ex:
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2020/07/07/sout...

Even Amtrak is now not accepting cash anymore:

https://www.amtrak.com/purchase-train-tickets

Looks like the only option left is drive a car and fill up at gas stations which accept cash (for the time being). I'm not super familiar with EV charging stations but I don't think I've seen one that accepts cash, if that's any hint as to where we are headed.

Dark times
The next big thing in retail comes with Chinese characteristics
I don't use the same browser for my personal and work accounts. Yeah guesses can be made, but they'll have false positives (spouses for example). For a system to link personal and work accounts I think false positives would be bad.
I'm pretty sure this is an incredibly common subject during voir dire. While this is probably more on the benign side of questioning, I remember being asked if anyone had negative interactions with law enforcement. I'm less confident, but I'm pretty sure followup questions were more specific to trusting law enforcement's testimony.
You are going to point out that there's no such thing as a Swiss layout, aren't you? There's SF and SG...
> Companies that employ workers below subsistence wages are actually being indirectly subsidized collectively by every single taxpayer.

I don’t see what leads you to this conclusion. It seems self-evident that people who get paid need less government-provided (ie taxpayer-provided) benefits.
Brain-activity while coding is different from language or math
One has nothing to do with the other, but you misspelled the Democrat Party.
Tell me more about the fair treatment of blacks with regards to the american justice system, Lord Baltimore.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
You know what other societal paradigm shift could be really amazing but nobody seems to have brought it up yet?

Working in the evening instead of daytime.

Specially in hot ass countries/cities.

I mean really, do most modern jobs really depend on sunlight anymore?

Right now most people's daily cycle is "Rest -> Work -> Leisure -> Rest"

We should give "Rest -> Leisure -> Work -> Rest" a try.

Some other radical ideas: Let people alternate between 2 jobs every week. Like say being a waiter one week then a store clerk the other week. Most professions like cashiers etc could easily handle this. The benefit to workers would be the option to gain more experience/networking/mobility and a safety net of always having a backup job if you lose one.
The minimum quality of the items Target and Costco tends to be better. Also, neither allows arbitrary third party items onto their platform. Their buyers choose the items they sell.

In essence, I don't care that much about the reviews. There are fewer of them, and they usually talk more about factual aspects of the item. There are very few "1 star, this is total garbage" type reviews because the retailer has filtered much more of the crap out.
Typical rabid dog argument.
No I don't work for Blizzard. When I did this, we were using a very fast custom wire format, but entirely hand-coded. Say flatbuffers without the code generation part. And having massive trouble with schema evolution.

Another group had already evaluated pb and found it way too slow. They had designed something similar but faster. I wrote my implementation of pb to prevent this, and showed pb could be fast enough. It was definitely the right choice at the time, as it gave us C++ speed close to the old format, plus easy interop with other languages.

> If protobuf works for Google then it essentially works for 99.999% of every other company on the globe.

Uh.. no. Google is a massive company, but if you browse the comments in this thread, you'll find multiple remarks like "this was built for Google's servers". Google have specific use cases, and they build software for that. The software may well be lacking for other use cases. I can totally imagine Blizzard wanting to write their own implementation, think of the benefits of reducing parse time in a multiplayer server.
logs of what? if a programmer hard-codes URLs, you really think they are following best practices elsewhere? further, how do logs help get back the millions of dollars that were lost?
Apple had a Pascal implementation, but it required floppy disks and more memory. They also had Logo and possibly other languages. Logo is an interesting alternative to BASIC since it's beginner-friendly. Microsoft (and other companies such as Digital Research et al.) supplied a number of languages other than BASIC (Pascal, Fortran, COBOL...) but they typically required more resources and were less novice-friendly.

BASIC worked out of ROM and a few kilobytes of RAM, and was easy to learn.

As you note, Turbo Pascal - a nice environment with a fast one-pass compiler - came out later. It does seem to have had a cassette version at some point, but it required more RAM than BASIC and was harder to learn. Nonetheless it was highly successful and its descendant Delphi is still used today.

It's hard to get Scheme to run in a few kilobytes, but it would be fun to try. Primitive LISPs did seem to exist on microcomputers but only gave you a few atoms and cons cells because of memory limits.

COMAL was largely based on BASIC but never caught on as widely.

In any case, I don't think Microsoft gets the credit or the blame for BBC BASIC. (There were also versions of microcomputer BASICs from companies other than Microsoft, dating to the early 1970s.)

disclaimer: I've only seen it running in an emulator like the BBC Micro bot; it looks cool though. ;-)
Something that seems to be missing here is retention. By giving this sort of flexibility to employees you will improve it. This will offset losses in producitivity, assuming a 4 day week created any (which is a moot point), as people become more productive the more they know about the company / domain etc.

Poor retention and high churn is a HUGE problem in most tech companies as half the people generally know very little about what they're working on.
I do. I argue he was not, but if you believe in the Russians, surely you beliefs the Chinese elected Biden. Just because you disagree doesn’t make it a conspiracy theory, only your insignificant disagreement.
at the same time, in UAE, the weekend is 7 days long for some people. inequality is the key to understand those societies.
>Some percentage of riders will forego the benefit of uber trips due to the higher cost.

This is not necessarily true. What you're assuming is that the demand is highly elastic - that a small increase in price will drive a large drop in use. It's possible it is entirely the opposite, a small increase in price causes no practically no drop in use. This would result in higher total pay. Either way, this will likely be balanced by drivers stopping driving for uber, or more drivers starting to drive for Uber. Uber will have to account for this by shedding excess drivers.

In reality if it's true that Uber riders are highly sensitive to price, then uber's entire business model falls apart since the plan the entire time was to gain a monopoly and jack up prices. If it turns out that jacking up prices means a huge drop in ridership then the value of their busienss is actually way smaller than what they claim and they are likely unable to run a viable business while paying minimum wage.
You're mixing up freedom and power. It's impossible to have a license more free than the GPL. The extra thing that permissive licenses give you isn't more freedom, but rather the power to withhold freedom from others. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html for more details.
I remember hearing about a mythical spreadsheet floating around for modelling something to do with our national grid a few years back.

It would take about 12 hours to calculate, and would error out before finishing about 30% of the time. It needed to be run once a day for something reasonably important.

I don't use Excel much these days, but I do point people to a video if they do plan on doing anything:

* [You suck at excel - Joel Spolsky](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c)
Original paper in full:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.045732v2....