skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reasons too complicated to get into in a comment, the taxi industry has typically avoided most of these minimum-wage arguments because of the way those systems are designed. The taxi lobby is a lot more entrenched than the ride hail lobby (and for some bizarre reason, it isn’t criticized the same way, even though it is every bit as awful and exploitative — and more so in some areas - than ride share giants ) is my guess for one. Even our dysfunctional city council won’t want to take on the taxi lobby, not that Seattle has much of a taxi ecosystem anyway. Taking a taxi in Seattle is one of my last-resort options, and I moved here from New York City, and am not anti-taxi as a concept, the Seattle cabs add just terrible.

Of course, Uber and Lyft didn’t help themselves any by arguing vociferously for years that they weren’t anything like taxis, largely as a way to avoid having to pay drivers similar to medallion systems. Now, there were some good reasons for this, especially in markets like Portland, that used to have really restrictive pick-up policies for taxi cabs — and in areas like New York and Chicago, that have strict limits on how many medallions are issued and how many cabs can be on the road at once, but these companies can’t have it both ways. They can’t argue for years that they aren’t taxi companies and then complain if legislation means they have to pay more than taxi companies.
I wish I could ditch excel but I use both viewing the data and doing some ad hoc calcs is much easier for me with excel.
I realised after few years, that's what good managers do. They mostly ask right questions and let the team make the decisions and solutions. This way team owns it and have greater sense of ownership... By probing correctly you arrive at decisions rather than directly telling decisions. This works. Speak less and listen more.
I think the general point is 'if it works for Google, you should feel relatively safe adopting it for your own use'. It doesn't mean it'll fit every single usecase.

If what you need is something that is super efficient over the wire - or any other such requirement not filled by Protobuf - then maybe look for a different protocol altogether. Or design your own!

But for the rest of us - the '99.999%' - the trade-offs are well understood and we'd rather go for the tool we know than reinvent the wheel or use a less maintained tool.
Are the microplastics just in the ocean though? I thought they were turning up just about everywhere now, even human placentas[0]

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
Exactly. That’s exactly what Uber and Lyft want to avoid.
I thought the author addressed this pretty clearly in the article. For his specific use-case he was delivering a JVM agent.
Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells [pdf]
> I would say just ask your questions here, there are lots of managers on hn. Maybe linkedin if you can sift through the self-promotional drivel.

Management/leadership related posts do show up on HN, although the discussions sometimes struggle to move beyond hashing out whether career progression for developers does or does not eventually require a move away from making technical contributions directly and toward managing other technical contributors.

Somehow, neither side seems content with the answer "it commonly does, but strongly depends on the individual and the organization they are a part of".
I wonder if there's some kind of monkey business going on with being able to maintain production and shipping numbers by "shipping" to some intermediate location. I grew up south of Detroit and remember a time period when Detroit Metro Airport was being used as a storage facility for acres and acres of excess new car inventory.
People took 278 million trips on an LA Metro bus in 2019, which is more ridership than on any bus or rail system in the United States outside of NYC. We also have the most light rail ridership in the country. (but who cares about that?) Our public transit gets a really bad rap. It is certainly not as good as NYC or Chicago or, probably, Seattle, but maybe you could use Houston as an example in the future.
I read the short story several years after seeing the movie and I was completely blown away by how good it was even though I already knew how it would play out. Far and away the best short story I've ever read and it isn't even close.
190 is about the highest you can get because water and alcohol form an azeotrope. To get to 200 proof you need either benzene or huge pressure swings added into the mix.
> Two solutions were proposed: keep manual operators, or improve the safety of the automatic system.

After Southall [1] the drivers union felt the correct approach was to double man trains. It is surely not a coincidence this would also have meant more members and thus more power and income for the union.

That accident would have been prevented by ATP (fitted to the train but disabled because the driver had not been trained) or AWS (fitted to all British trains but disabled by the driver due to a fault).

The ATP system would have braked to a halt to avoid entering an occupied track section. AWS would have audibly alerted the driver to the signals (showing a Preliminary Caution, an ordinary Caution and then Danger) and if the driver did not react, braked to a halt. With neither it appears the driver simply did not see the signals because they weren't looking and so did not react until far too late.

The correct fix of course is to require trains to have working AWS/ ATP and use it. Operating trains with more humans is a worthwhile work around to get a faulty train back to a repair yard as empty stock, but makes no sense in passenger service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southall_rail_crash
It's been about 9 months of heavy restrictions. The few movies you maybe wanted to watch, you've watched them months ago. Even the most pro-lockdown people I knew are getting sick of lockdowns and breaking the rules.
I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives.

Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality
It was ecosystem collapse; I saw it happen. The flash portals were kept afloat by an enormous amount of advertisement money that flowed through flash portals and to game developers and animators through sponsorships and site-licenses (make free content and get paid to do it!). As content moved to the mobile app stores this money dried up, and with it the entire ecosystem.

The simple format made it easy to upload content both for the portal and the developer.
The tools made it easy to get started and to grow.
The funding made it easy to start, find your footing, and stick around long enough to get good and eventually great.

As the format was attacked and HTML5 didn't work well with the old tools, and as Steve Jobs pushed app stores forward, it all came crashing down.

I saw it happen in real time, these forces evolved together.
> Taxes are easier to do now with automated tooling. You can also get VISA or MC debit cards that will automatically sell your crypto from say, your Coinbase account at point of purchase.

That's a nightmare from a tax perspective. Every single one of those transactions is a taxable event. Imagine having a separate line on your taxes for each time you visit a fast food restaurant.

> You have far less privacy in the regular banking sector.

If I have your bitcoin wallet address I can see everything in it and everything you do with it. This is not true of banking.

> FDIC deposits wouldn't make sense. Banks needed the FDIC system because they do fractionalized lending with limited reserves. Bitcoin cannot be lent out in this way. It's true you have to trust whatever exchange you store your coin in if you want convenience, but you can also quite easily store Bitcoin in a wallet that you control, and back it up with physical keys that you can store stamped on some titanium in a safety deposit box or wherever you like.

With FDIC, I know if I deposit my money I can get it back. If the bank doesn't have it the government will cover it. If Coinbase loses my money, unless they have enough to cover it from other funds I'm hosed. There is no recourse. A wallet I control is even worse, now I'm entirely 100% responsible for the security of my wallet, and I'm not trained for that, nor do I have the resources to be truly effective.
Sorry for being misleading. I didn't think about the other interpretation. It sounds intriguing, by the way. I'm thinking I'd like to learn more about it.
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A lengthy lockdown will obviously reduce the virus dramatically. Who is doubting that?

"If the 'general rules' both administrative and social were enforced in the West, we'd probably have a revolution."

Everywhere there was 'peak COVID' had lockdowns - but if the lockdown were as severe and controlled as Wuhan, or as consistentely interventional as Taiwan or Hong Kong, there would be revolts.

Much of that they did would be probably anti-constitutional and definitely challenged in courts by those who disagree.

If the police or medical authorities were going through facebook accounts for contract-tracing, there'd be a revolt, certainly in America, probably in Australia. The 'public health' issue is secondary, there are just enough people who'd consider that to be 'anti Constitutional' that it'd be a serious problem.

Politicians everywhere are testing the limits of what they can get away with, this is not a joke.

There are protests all over the Western world not being covered by the press because everyone is afraid the populism could get out of hand.

Case and point: Christmas. If this were any other time of year, the lockdown would have come sooner, but politicans were far too afraid, so in most places, they waited until just after. The UK had no choice to go before XMass.
We already have a negative income tax. It’s the Earned Income Tax Credit. The issues are that it isn’t distributed through out the year and it’s not high enough.

The EITC is not a liberal or conservative issue. Every President Republican and Democratic since 1980 has supported it. I don’t know if Trump has said anything one way or the other.
I help maximize production of thermodynamic entropy.
> if your project has anything to do with the following topic, you can forget about online advertising: poker, blockchain, porn

Can you clarify this?

Does Google Ads forbid advertising on these products?
What a shitty thing to say.
You’ve put words to my opinion here. Thank you for stating it so concisely
Private America shouldn’t be responsible for providing a livable wage. The government should be. Just tax private corporations enough to pay for it.
> once a foreigner understands the difference between a Chip butty and a Crisp butty, the doors of the most exclusive private members' clubs will never be closed.

Heh.
Well, the insane thing to me here, is exactly that. Every country immediately jumped onto the lockdown bandwagon, presumably because of peer-pressure, to avoid being shamed. We jumped into this and sacrificed fundamental freedoms without being able to quantify what the short, medium and long-term consequences of a lockdown would be, or how long we'd need to stay into lockdown. I think it's quite possible that the medicine could be worse than the disease, but that discussion hasn't even been had.
In the early days, people would share Flash projects as .EXE files, and those would "just work".
FWIW, I personally know a couple very successful restauranteurs who descended into despondency and alcoholism to the point where they are effectively non-functional and will likely never open a restaurant again. These people aren’t accounted for in the damage but they are shadows of their former contributions to society.

These people aren’t dead but they are asymptotically close to it for all practical purposes. Even if things opened up tomorrow they would have nowhere to go.
When the adults take charge in a few weeks, things will go much faster. Six million New Yorkers got smallpox vaccinations in one month in 1947. There is no leadership now.
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/history/new-york-smal...
This is such an insightful interview. I love reading interviews like this because they always give away a bit of the secret sauce that enables people like Knuth to be so creative, and passionate about their fields. I thought this quote was especially awesome, because you get to understand that what one sees on the surface, is not the whole picture, especially for someone like Knuth.

"I think that what I’m most guilty of is that I say something but I say it in such a smooth way
that people don’t realize that I’m being precise. They think I’m being informal when I’m really
meaning every syllable."
I’ll also add that you can achieve some of these effects without linear types, but linear types are more flexible. For example, a classic way to work with a file in Haskell is to use the function withFile:

withFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> IO r) -> IO r

You pass a function to withFile, and the file handle is valid for the scope of the function. However, this means you can’t do the following:

open file A
do stuff
open file B
do stuff
close file A
do stuff
close file B

Because the usage of files "A" and "B" don’t nest, you can’t achieve it with withFile. But you can get the same level of safety using linear types.
Scratch is really for learning. There's no good way to create serious distributable results or version/manage/reuse scratch code. It provides a very basic Newgrounds alternative for young kids, but not much more.
Why are employers covering healthcare at all? This also shouldn’t be the purview of private companies.
Note that this case was decided in Australia. It certainly isn't the Soviet Union, but neither is it the USA. Especially where unions and employment law are concerned.

It's also worth noting that the Fair Work Commission has been stacked by the current government, which is formed by the investors' party, but the Federal Court is genuinely apolitical. The workers' party has spent most of the last 30 years in opposition.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/07/coali...
I'm currently working to use more NextCloud. My prime objectives are for notes/b9kmark keeping and photos/media.

So far the setup was pretty easy on my VM but I kicked the tires with their VM image first. And so far the Android app is doing mostly OK. There is a lot to get into. And extensions out the wazoo.

I've not had to work with any community (yet) cause so far, it's just work - or there is some config I need to tweak (docs are great!)

With their VM and docker images tho, super easy to kick tires.
Complex numbers just allow you to add a dimension to real numbers (so think vectors) while allowing handy operations (rotations). So they end up being useful in all sorts of places, although you don’t have to use them.

An n qubit quantum computers allow you to “visit” 2^n states but to to store only a few states. A n bit computer allows you to store 2^n states but to visit only a few states (for n large)
That's the answer to all management questions
A public health professional who does health policy and community outreach is a bureaucrat, not a scientist. The subset of epidemiologists who do research are scientists, whether they have a Ph.D. or somehow got into it without ever having graduated high school. Some of the bureaucrats are also scientists but most aren’t.
I probably have the principle off a bit. It's troublesome to keep track of when each year is two separate loans (one in my name, one in my parents'). All I recall for certain is when I refinanced a year after graduation I had to borrow 118k to cover the whole thing. I finish paying it off this year (total of 5.5 years, 4.5 on the refi loan + 1 year of paying before that).

At least at the time I went (2011 to 2016), federal loans had two modes - subsidized and unsubsidized. Subsidized loans don't begin to accrue interest until graduation, the unsubsidized ones start accruing on day 1. They only accrue interest on the principle though, it's not compounded. If you don't pay off the accumulated interest within 6 months following graduation, it's capitalized (added to the principle).

My parents always told me that their gross income determines whether or not you can get the subsidized loans, even for the fraction of the loans in the student's name. They always complained how it didn't take cost of living, home ownership, or how many children you had into consideration. Sure, they were well enough off that they could have probably afforded to pay for me, but my 2 younger siblings and I were all college bound. I would have never assumed or expected them to pay for my schooling anyways. I wasn't raised that entitled.

The first year I attended UC, the Parent Plus loans represented something like 80% of my borrowing. The first year was at 7.8% on my parent plus loan, 5 and something on the ones in my name.

I get that I'm in an enviable position to have been able to easily handle that due to tech industry income, but I work with a ton of European expats, all of whom take jabs at me for coming from a country that doesn't cover higher education for their citizens. Always stings a bit.
The amount of simplified and not well-actual information we are crammed with in our lifetime is enormous (not only in physics). So much bullshit that isn’t even wrong and it lives happily in our minds for decades. Once I realized this, I tried to re-explain many things by studying them in ways that are accessible to a full-time employed layman. You may find it annoying and/or pedantic, but I’m very grateful to such authors, popsci enthusiasts and participating scientists for helping me on that hard path. Thank you all, guys!
That’s why I mentioned I’m sure they are everywhere, so maybe I’m overcautious.

At the same time though I’m certain any marine life is subjected to way more micro plastics than those on land. So consuming anything that functions as a filter is gonna have high concentrations of it. At least that is my logic.
Still on Windows 7 at home, Windows 10 at work, there's a keyboard layout bug that I've sadly tolerated far too long in Windows 10 (maybe the last 3 years?), Windows 10 keeps resetting the layouts and even lies to me telling me I'm using the EN-US layout although the symbol keys say otherwise.

The work laptops have Swiss German, French and Italian on them, for my user profile I use EN-US and German (Germany). But every once in a while (actually very often) Windows would decide, "Oh you're using the French layout now". Or the Swiss German one. Even though these layouts are not listed as configured when I open the layouts control panel.

Great job, Microsoft!
I know these countries are often compared. My point is that it is not a very good comparison to make in all cases. And mind you, the original claim was that a comparison between Sweden, UK, Spain etc. was not valid "because you should compare Sweden to Denmark and Norway". Where should you draw this imaginary line of which countries can and cannot be compared? Sure Saudi Arabia and Sweden are pretty hard to compare, but why not include the baltic states? Germany? US?

It's also very strange to me when people compare the nordic countries they forget that there are real differences between them. The difference in immigration policy is one plausible factor for a different response to Covid. I'm not claiming that the high death toll is caused by immigrants, I'm claiming that the lenient Swedish immigration policy adversly affected the death toll, compared to a more strict one like Denmarks. Is that a straw man argument because it doesn't fit a specific version of reality?
I remember configuring NSPluginWrapper in order to get the 32 bit Flash plugin to work on 64 bit Linux (and FreeBSD). God that was nasty, as soon as YouTube launched the html5 beta I erased Flash player from every device I owned.
A sketch of twistor space:

https://theportal.wiki/images/1/11/Penrose-Rindler-Clifford-...

A Penrose slide pack:

http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/online/Html/Seminars/Fall1998/Pe...

For example, slide 19:

http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/online/Html/Seminars/Fall1998/Pe...

An original manuscript with fully formed illustrations:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/penrose/Penrose-TheoryOfQuant...
Why does the first part of your (first) sentence imply the second part?
The two parts are separated by the word "makes".
TechCrunch: Bike shop owner in LA turned the pandemic into opportunity for area
China is a society that traditionally (from its culture and also political ideology) values "the collective value" more than the individual value. It has always been the case, which is important to understand the mindset of the government and the Chinese society in general. The "unemploytables" constitute a "problem" to society, which must be solved. This is not much different than prostitution is a "problem" for most countries. If you follow Xi Jinping's rule and his propaganda (which I doubt), his big agenda for 2020 is to "eradicate" poverty, this makes it easier to understand what is really going on in Xin Jiang. Xin Jiang happens to be a place where both poverty and radicalism are intermingled, so their approach could be different than say, Gui Zhou province (where it's mostly poverty). But this year I've read so much from CCTV (CCP's media) that they lifted people from poverty by giving them "a means of living".
How is it acceptable to deliver a car with doors that don't close?
Coronavirus variant from South Africa found in UK
The author argues that a tool like Flash the authoring software should exist, but makes no argument about Flash the runtime.

An authoring software just like Flash could exist for the HTML runtime -- it isn't the nature of HTML which is the problem. Thus it's not HTML which has to "catch up", but vendors of authoring software.
That very much depended on how they installed Flash. If they downloaded the plugin via the Adobe website, it depended on whether you got the ActiveX control version or the Netscape version. For computers in more recent memory, you didn’t need either: just a copy of Chrome set as your default browser.
Reddit mods please stop automated blocking
You're cherry-picking a few specific examples on the Democratic side, and comparing it to a party that literally ran - and had elected - a QAnon senator [1].

This whataboutism and false equivalency is extremely toxic.

Are dems perfect? Lord no. Does the MSM make mistakes? Absolutely. Is one side actively engaged in a war on truth? Yeah, kinda.

> However I don't think mistrust in the MSM is "ideology" associated with one party. Fox News is the MSM for many people and they've given us many reasons to distrust them.

I watch an awful lot of Fox, and let me assure you, they positioned themselves very much outside the mainstream media. They railed against the MSM non-stop for 4+ years by name. Unfortunately, they were hoisted by their own petard when they called Arizona for Biden. I was watching it live, and I nearly spat out my whiskey. They got hucked into the MSM bin by Trump supporters and left for dead on November 3, 2020, around 6PM PST.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/qanon-candida...
AWS Developer Forums: S3 Block Devices
Disagreeing, not missing.

The lack of this specific kind of tooling and community is a clear problem. But is "HTML5" a foundational cause of the problem, or is it a scapegoat? People can legitimately disagree.
The point is, even if there weren't lockdowns, the psychological toll of the virus would be huge. Plenty of people would self-isolate anyway out of justified fear of the virus. In fact, being surrounded by people who recklessly disregard risk is even more damaging for those who are cautious. It is difficult to separate the cost of specific lockdowns from the overall mental toll of living through a pandemic.
... On Windows. They never worked for me on the Mac.