skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The new law merely causes Uber to share more of its profits with the drivers.

If you actually use the microeconomic model of supply and demand curves that you refer to when you talk about “elasticity of demand”, you’ll see that it is by no means clear that it will cause Uber to share “more of its profits” with the drivers. It all depends on shapes of the supply and demand curves, and the exact amount of minimum wage. You might very well find that the total amount of money paid by Uber to its drivers is reduced, as a result of fewer rides being taken because of higher prices of rides.

To know the actual outcome, you’d need the data that you don’t have, and that Uber only partially has. However, you seem very confident about the actual outcome, almost as if you assumed it before making an argument to justify it.
There's a great on this by the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
Am I the only one who thinks that this is largely the fault of the social media giants?
They seem to have just announced these fees... why would they then not charge them instead of just not creating them?
I can’t remember the time zone offset between PST and PDT, and when the switch happens.
Some notes about motivation (game development)
This isn't correct.

People who care about status see "intern" as a low-status label, and well below their "CEO" high-status label.

The fact that he spent time with an intern indicates that he doesn't care particularly about the status of these labels. In many cases this is called "being nice".
The math doesn't look too good, at least in the US.

There are currently about 100,000 vaccinations a day in the US. Ignoring the vaccines that need two doses, vaccinating 300 million people at that rate will take 3,000 days = 100 months = 8.3 years. At 1 million vaccinations/day, we're still looking at 300 days = 10 months. Logistics is not my thing, but a tenfold increase in vaccations may be a little optimistic. Better than an infinite wait, though.

I got a robocall from my regular pharmacy the other day, telling me that they would be involved in distributing covid vaccines "soon".

So I am definitely going along with the main idea about acting as if everyone I know (or run into on the street) has tested positive.
Big endian is also much easier to read as someone who reads from left to right.
Advice to a Motivated 17 Year Old?
I’ve slowly been transitioning into a senior developer. It seems the closer I get, the more management/supervision I do, so the less time to work on my skills.
No, the null hypothesis is unknown origin. Science doesn't just default to either explanation without evidence.
Yeah, this feels like the outcome of echo chambers. The whole idea of "repeating a lie often enough makes it true" is happening constantly on a personalized micro scale.

In the past you had one nutter yelling on the street corner about the pedophiles in the pizza shops, and everyone kinda walked on by, thinking man, that guy's nutters. Now he's in your house, 6 hours a day. And eventually, you're like, man, those pizza shops, we've gotta do something about.
Python version of data.table has very fast CSV parsing (compared to Pandas), and it didn't have issues like those you mention. Even if data.table had issues with CSV parsing, you could probably use Apache Arrow to parse CSV into arrow table and then convert it to data.table (but that is probably suboptimal).
How to avoid Griffin or Kate dying
Well, I'm with you there :) I'm all for getting rid of twice-yearly (biannual? semi-annual? perhaps hemi-annual?) offset changes!
No.

World+Dog has generally switched to Apache or BSD licenses for most things.

Which are, for most any dimension anyone cares about, more free than *GPL.
The Russian collusion conspiracy theory lasted for years, was broadcast on all the MSM news channels, and included many sitting congress members, without any evidence that it was true. Millions of wasted dollars later, and Mueller came up with nothing. The Russian collusion conspiracy theory was the most prevalent conspiracy theory of the last 4 years.
Only 72% of Americans trust that their country landed on the Moon in 1969.

The Republican Party ought to take a long, hard look at where their campaign against facts is leading them. It’s not even the party of Nixon anymore.
In the same sense, you have never met anyone who believes Q is the “ultimate provider of truth” and not just some secret spy cell or whatever. I used hyperbole to illustrate a point.
This is a direct result of the degradation of journalism.

When you notice that mass media has a political agenda, you stop trusting them. You look for information somewhere else. If you are not very educated and don't have time to do serious research, you fall for conspiracy theories, since they are the complete opposite of mass media.
> It doesn’t apply to businesses that the EU has no jurisdiction over

It applies, though indeed it doesn't matter in the immediate future because the EU won't be able to collect on it. However, I would expect it to prevent that company from ever being able to open a EU-based subsidiary in the future, so it's still a good deterrent (that is, if the GDPR was actually enforced).

In practice though, the worst offenders which the GDPR is supposed to protect us against (though again the enforcement of it leaves much to be desired) have big EU presences so it's not a problem.

> EU residents are, of course, free to not do business with those they don’t want to

The problem is that companies that the GDPR applies to seem very determined to be doing "business" with EU residents even without their knowledge or agreement. This "business" is of course about collecting, reselling or using their personal information in nefarious ways.

Indeed, if the solution was as simple as "don't do business with these companies" we would've never had the GDPR because there wasn't a need for it.
I don’t think the Constitution prevents Congress from delegating precise decisionmaking to agencies of the executive branch. This seems to be a recent invention by people who want the US government to be even less effective than it is today. Because trust me, having Congressional staff micromanage regulatory agencies through a committee process is going to lead to vastly worse outcomes than what we have right now.
It's strategic, smart, and absolutely legal.
Yes, but not entirely as a policy of the government.

The industrial complex that was built up during world war II was unprecedented, and the post war boom enabled it to grow further, allowing for things like secondary supply chains, "related" niche industries, and creating many very large companies which went beyond manufacturing products into finance, among other things.

The thing is, after the first generation of management of those companies aged out, the second generation didn't have any idea about the unique circumstances that allowed that industrial base to be created.

They chose to believe it was because of American superiority, American know how, etc.

So when they couldn't sustain the levels of growth and profit their predecessors created, the industries started eating themselves, with mergers, acquisitions, corporate raiding (Private Equity) and regulatory capture to allow it all to happen. Achieving short term gains by shipping jobs offshore was just a necessary thing to "get theirs".

Boeing was once one of many, and now it's one of the last.

The US will be unable to rebuild that industrial base for the foreseeable future, because the unique combination of the post war boom, the government sponsored head start in the war, and the emergence of new technologies just don't exist any more.

Jobs going overseas aren't the problem, really, so them coming back makes little difference. The problem is that our huge head start after World War II is gone because it's eaten itself, and now we need to start over.
I strongly suggest you read the Mueller report. It's not what you've been led to believe.

"Mueller and his team of prosecutors have now indicted 34 individuals and three Russian businesses on charges ranging from computer hacking to conspiracy and financial crimes."

"Those indictments have led to seven guilty pleas and five people sentenced to prison."

If this doesn't line up with what you've heard, don't believe me, read the actual report. [2]

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
Sounds like a Chromebook.
Yeah it’s an endeavor formed around trust. We have to trust each other.
I would worry about long-term neurological damage with this kind of lifestyle.
FWIW, personally, I would pay for no ads and maybe brief definitions of the words that I have just crossed out, but I would be turned off by microtransactions like boosts, extra life's or skins.
> Cross platform my butt, Flash was only ever "cross platform" on Windows, and occasionally on Mac.

Flash only ever worked properly if you were running it in Internet Explorer for Mac OS 9. Any other browser/OS combination and you were looking at low framerates, audio/video desync, or both. Linux was worst of all.
Well, The Psychology of Computer Programming might help too…
/sarcasm is needed on the internet. Not everyone is a native English speaker, and even those who are have very different ideas around humor and written verbal queues.
Like the Nazis did it, for example. That's the experience that keeps several European states from keeping tabs on race, isn't it?
The Mueller investigation indicted 34 people. Seven plead guilty and five were sentenced to prison.
You're basically saying that unprofitable companies shouldn't be allowed to legally exist.
i remember cheering apple on as they were killing flash because of how abysmal it was on linux. I do miss flash in a way, but also good fucking riddance
A senior engineer does not have to lead other engineers to be senior, only have the ability to do so if called upon.
“Do not buy this label maker. Brother is intentionally trying to screw you.”
When was the last time you saw a web app that was a single html file and nothing else?
This has been expressed, but I do not think it is true. Yes, the original linear logic doesn't have anything like a "linear kind", but that's mainly because it's a logic not a type theory. The classic A → B = !A ⊸ B could be interpreted as something like A → B = GC A ⊸ B, i.e. making the ! an in-language type constructor not some sort erased modality.

I'm not expert at this stuff, but when I was interrogating this before, I found the thesis behind https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/linear-non-linear+logic as a quite old example (1994, only a few years after the first LL paper from Girard in 1987) of separating the linear and non-linear worlds as two categories with an adjudication between them. This is very compatible with linearity in the types.

That all said, I will admit that the "quantitative type theory" line of research gives the current LinearHaskell a big leg up on integrating with dependent types. See https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/linear-non-linear+logic for the latest plans on that.

I certainly have no retort. My big complaint about the status quo is we can't even have things like Rust's `Box`, but I have no idea what the operational semantics of `f : pi (b : Box<T>) ...` might be, let alone the static semantics!
> If public transportation is not reliable, make it reliable.

Because people who don't use it don't want to pay for it. There is a lot of opposition to public transport that doesn't pay for itself. There is also the horrible feedback loop of "only poor people take public transportation" stigma, making it more difficult to break even.
Couldn't one expect at least a job offer?
It doesn't offend me, I would just like to hear how a blockchain would help here.
True evil is the forced enslavement of the Uighurs by China. Why does HN spend so much time bashing Google for shutting down products or even possibly abusing monopoly power and so little time fighting true evil?
I do wonder if this will be possible some day. Breast milk changes daily. Even kissing the baby allows for sensing pathogens and alters milk chemistry to optimize survival.
"THEY REVERSED THE POLARITY OF THE ADAPTER."

Is there anyone on the HN crowd that can chime in on how common this is?
Was there really any need to single out one party? I could list a bunch of conspiracies that are accepted truths among most proponents of the other party, but I'll be flagged and banned.
When someone puts a video game in-front of me and asks me to turn it into an app, I will be searching for this article for hours.
Thanks! I will share this.
If I recall correctly, it has always cost roughly as much as Photoshop during Adobe ownership. That is to say: prior to the Adobe CC pricing model, Flash cost many hundreds of dollars. I did a quick spot check on Archive.org and it looks like "Flash Professional 8" had a retail price of $700 in 2006. $20/mo is definitely a lower barrier to entry than a one-off $700 payment.
I don’t think zoom would do that. It’s not really their core competency. They might buy the company if it becomes big though :P
This one is not paywalled:

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-china-approve-major-investment-...
> Haskell remains at the bleeding edge of general-purpose programming - more than ever with each release.

This is worth pointing out one more time. As far as I'm concerned it's the most expressive language I've ever used, and is what I pick if I want to write correct software and am OK spending some time yak shaving (not that you have to with Haskell, I just know that I will).
What do you mean

They know very well where they've wanted it to lead. Do you think otherwise?
In the current incarnation, sure. But the real "problem" is the internet where people with niche ideas can find like-minded people and let their ideas and followers grow from there.

Sometimes the results are benign. Sometimes they aren't.
That's a heartbreaking article. I don't understand why the governments didn't issue waivers to repatriate the crew.
> contractors", except for that pesky autonomy part.

Wouldn't setting your own working hours, literally minute to minute, qualify?

Also, setting prices as a driver also exists, at least in CA: https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
I've noticed a lot of comments that are either in support of the GDPR or even those that merely provide factual information about it or correct misunderstandings get downvoted.
I'm wondering whether the first steps ought to be to make current driving much safer through automation - like detecting drunk driving, falling asleep, and such and limiting speed, refusing to start, alerting police and/or nearby vehicles etc. The lessons from that might better inform the long tail of cases that autonomous vehicles will eventually face?
are you suggesting programmers don't hardcode URLs in quick-and-dirty (and sometimes, even production) Python scripts/code?
> This is a direct result of the degradation of journalism.

And, you know, a political ideology that believes the media lies about everything. The current President of the United States himself says it constantly.
Why debates over inflation are pointless (2014)
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What is happening with Ayushman Bharat in held Kashmir?
I use both Excel and Python, and like both. They solve different kinds of problems, even within the same context.

Excel is fantastic for what I would describe as linear modeling, building a graph of effects in single data models. I reach for Python when I need to fundamentally transform the data model at points to answer the desired question. That is difficult to the point of being impractical in Excel, especially if the data model is large or exploratory. Python is more programmable in this regard but also lacks the strong static typing that would be useful in such work.

I can’t imagine not using either.
People get killed by others' driving mistakes all the time.
Until you come to Japan and realize that most of the streets don't have a name, and the addresses look more like random numbers than coordinates :)
It is however exacerbated by algorithms designed to feed you content they know you'll react to. It's no longer that the fringe conspiracies are there for you to go find, they're out there, finding you. This is a novelty in human history. Certainly at this scale.

Unless you count the Missionaries, and I'd say that was altogether pretty successful.
> I evaluated job offers based on which one will maximize that free time

How can you tell which jobs will give you how much free time? Besides commuting (I hope to work remotely forever), at many big companies, amount of free time greatly depends on the team you land on. Either way, there seems little insight into true work life balance of a company.
Yes, the first vaccine was found to be effective on November 9th, 6 days after the election making it clear that anyone that believed it would be released before the election was a fringe crackpot lunatic that deserved to be derided by the media.
Specifically Secure Boot[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In...
Not Google search, but many companies are exploiting cheap labor over seas for different industrial use cases because our algos suck. Not just in manufacturing, there are tech companies outsourcing labeled data for tasks like object detection (Hive.ai as anvexample). Whether it makes you depressed or not, humans are cheaper than algorithms, and I don’t see that changing unless we abandon the current paradigm for ai/ml.
Maybe this reflects a lot more on the environment & social circle I grew up in? In that context though:

I think if the alcoholic nature of extracts were more widely known to teenagers, more would take advantage. But it also doesn't come in a convenient "party" format. If you could walk into Walmart, buy a half-gallon of sanitizer for $10 (well, pre-covid you could get those sizes for cheap, now not so much) and mix it with a gallon of fruit punch, then you've basically got the ingredients for a typical small 4-8 person Everclear & Fruitpunch highschool basement party without the hassle of tracking down that >= 21 friend.
To be fair it doesn't matter what Google's intent is, I use this feature for that purpose all the time.
That's the thing, most Excel workbooks start out as a one-off then gradually get adapted and extended until they're load-bearing.

They're often built by specialists in another dept who definitely wouldn't consider themselves programmers.

Doing it 'properly' would probably mean having to spec put the problem, get a budget, maybe wait a few months for someone to look at it. And the same thing every time the requirements change.

Excel is available today and they can get started solving their immediate problem straight away.

After it's been in use for a couple of years and shown value someone takes a look and sees the Lovecraftian horror it's become.
> Yes it kinda sucks that they killed third party repair...

Just had the screen on a 2018 iPad replaced by a third party. Worked out fine.

Is 3rd-party repair “killed” only for the latest Apple devices by virtue of some new hardware attestation stuff?
S/he is a bullshit artist.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ap-f...
I think it's remarkable that the FDA issued this non-binding guidance on hand sanitizer manufacturers, in March of 2020:

"In response to the demand for alcohol-based sanitizers, certain entities that are not currently regulated by FDA as drug manufacturers have requested guidance on the preparation and distribution of hand sanitizer products for the public’s use."

"Because of the public health emergency posed by COVID-19, FDA does not intend to take action against firms [9] that prepare alcohol-based hand sanitizers for consumer use and for use as health care personnel hand rubs [10] for the duration of the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of HHS on January 31, 2020, provided the following circumstances are present:"

"[9] Specifically, FDA does not intend to take action against firms, for the duration of the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of HHS on January 31, 2020, including any renewals made by the Secretary in accordance with section 319(a)(2) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 247d(a)(2)), for violations of sections 501(a)(2)(B), 502(f)(1), 505, or 582 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 351(a)(2)(B), 352(f)(1), 355, and 360eee-1), provided circumstances described in this guidance are present. These circumstances include (but are not limited to) preparation of hand sanitizer products using only the ingredients and formulas set forth in this guidance. FDA plans to continue to sample hand sanitizer products at the border and in distribution in the U.S. for quality issues, including potential contamination and impurity levels."

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says ‘science teaches such and such’, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it." The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, p.187

https://philosophynow.org/issues/114/Richard_Feynmans_Philos...
Misleading title. The article is not saying we need more than equal safety; it's saying that self-driven vehicles are perceived as more dangerous and people in the study wanted them to be 4-5x safer than human-driven vehicles to overcome this.
Write yourself a scheme in 48 hours using F#
That's an interesting point you brought up.
The list of authors doesn't include Michael Nielsen or Andy Matuschak so I guess not.

(Aside: I learned so much from Quantum Country!)
I wrote a templating library that was used for a Slack close we developed a number of years back.

It parses the HTML with embedded code, and generates a Lisp function which is compiled on the fly thanks to Lisp giving runtime access to the compiler. Whenever the source file is changed, the code is regenerated and compiled.

Other languages do the same, but in those cases they have to generate source code and call the compiler as an external program, and then load the generated code into the running program using dynamic linking. The Lisp approach is much more efficient.

Thanks to the quality of SBCL, the templates execute with native performance, which is something very few other solutions do.

The project is unfortunately not documented, but the code is available here: https://github.com/lokedhs/lofn
I don't think it's particularly brave to admit there is a chance this came from a lab. I want to see evidence before I change my prior, and it's a very small chance, but I suspect if people framed it in terms of probabilities, we would find more agreement.

However, labeling the perspectives in heroic terms does a disservice to your ability to more accurately predict the future. Most people with crazy theories end up being crackpots.
I definitely remember downloading SWFs and running them from my desktop. I don't recall having problems getting them to run. Just wanted to add that my experiences match up with what you're describing.
Did NewEgg do that? Damn. Irritated with Walmart for the same reason. I want to know what I'm getting, dammit.
I started reading the title and almost had a heart attack thinking Donald Knuth died

Edit: Title was "Professor Donald Knuth on Writing and More, an Int..."
I never though about how it can fulfill peoples need to be important, relevant. But yeah I think that is part of the appeal.