skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In NYC, your Uber driver is professionally licensed as a taxi/limousine driver and driving a vehicle that is registered as a for-hire vehicle. I'd bet this alone helps close the cost gap between rideshare and taxi, since there's nothing "rideshare" about it really - you're still paying for a professional driver with licensing costs, vehicle registration costs, extra insurances, sometimes even vehicle modifications, etc.

These debates about Uber/Lyft/etc employment status always seem to omit that there are two very distinct classes of people finding work with these services - one group is doing it part time in their personal vehicles, and the other group is doing it full-time in commercial vehicles. The interests of those two groups don't necessarily align.
So pointing out that EVs can't go all the same places as ICE cars is picking a fight? Also EVs take longer to charge, cost a lot more, haver fewer places to charge, charging stations are incompatible between some brands, and EV cars don't last as long. If EVs are going to replace ICE cars they need to be equal or better, not worse. And finally the fact that you suggest to post an itinerary so I can figure out how to get somewhere by EV is a huge red flag. In an ICE vehicle I don't need to plan out my trip, I just drive and fill up when I need.
With a cashew cream & agar agar base its not so hard to make a cheese approximation by yourself. Really not a lot of advanced processing needed. It gets harder if you want a more accurate emulation though
They didn't experiment on the kernel process itself.

And it would be counterproductive to set up the incentives so that people who aren't contributing in the first place can't.
Cashew cheese is really good, but it isn't at all cheese. It can be used in a few applications where cheese is normally used, but not in the vast majority of them.
I worked for a while on dynamic packaging models (user clicks on "flight+hotel", books the flight, and then is presented with a list of hotels at their destination). We used time between booking and date of travel as one of the signals, and saw that there was a pretty clear correlation between planning ahead and being more price conscious. I don't think it was a huge effect but it probably bumped down the target price of our offered hotels by a buck or two.

Unrelated side story about this: we also ran some experiments with bumping higher margin (usually meaning higher price) hotels into the top ranking slots to see how it affected conversion percentages. Normally the top slot has the highest conversion and it decays sharply from there. With these experiments running, for most countries you could see a clear change where the peak would move down to slot 2 or 3 or wherever the "natural" #1 hotel was (score one for our models, I guess). This effect was most pronounced with German travelers, and almost nonexistent for French ones.
Thought for Uber. License the software they already have (maybe at a certain rate and/or percentage of revenue) to the businesses and/or governments and let them handle the employee side of things
Yes, you can call it that. I'm not afraid of that word.
Do the people you live with also work from home and never go out?
without research, my feeling is that it is not a fertile place, but instead a resting place for foul substances and toxins that settle. So the damage is not like a tank running through a forest, rather it is more like stirring up a foul soup
What about for automated proving? The math community overall seems to have accepted evidence without explanation.
Class isn't just money, it's habits, attitudes, and the way others treat you, some of which are related to money, in a necessary-but-not-sufficient way. Besides, the vast majority of programmers in the US, let alone abroad, don't make enough money to sit in that class comfortably.

Upper-middle is "why of course our kids are going to a private prep school, what else would they do?" and "oh, where will you Summer? We're planning to just do Nantucket again" territory.

The dude who's made it at age 45 running a plumbing business is his own boss, has employees, has maybe triple or quadruple median take-home income because he's decent at business and works hard—but will still almost certainly not be perceived, or treated, by anyone, as "upper-middle". Not like a surgeon would be, almost by default, even in residency, or perhaps a junior investment banker.

My observation has been that programmers are mostly treated either as just expensive middle-class office drones, or pandered to as a substitute for actual upper-middle treatment. One key indicator, for office workers like us: where the hell are our private offices with doors that close? (yes, I know some places have them, but they're rare) Oh but we have foosball tables and catered lunch, so oh, look how respected you are, you little programmer.

We're probably closest to accountants, overall, in the social class we're treated as inherently belonging to and the class toward which admitting to being a "programmer" will drag you in most anyone's mind. Solidly, solidly middle.

Which, maybe, who'd give a shit, except that you actually do get treated better as upper-middle.
lot of fake food propaganda on the internet lately

fake meak was proven to be non-healhtly, and now fake cheese

if i want cheese i'll buy cheese, stop trying to sell me fake things as X, because it clearly is not the same thing

meat and cheese are what they are because the animals eat plenty of things and they are living creatures, you can't replicate this

can we stop promoting pseudo VC startups, they clearly are only interested in making money, STOP

also only americans will use "cheese" as a universal word

what kind of cheese? do they know it's not yellow and it doesn't come from an aluminum tube?
If I drove for Uber/Lyft for moonlight income, I would prefer to paid purely in cash instead of being forced to be paid in health insurance, pto, etc. since all of that would be provided by my primary employer.
We suspected my 2 y/o son had a dairy allergy, so we started buying pizzas with vegan cheese to see if that relieved any of his symptoms. I thought the flavor was horrid, but my son happily devoured the pizza.

Perhaps the best short-term solution is to stop trying to convince people these products are direct replacements. Maybe school lunches for kids that don’t know any better? I have no doubt it’s only a matter of time these companies develop vegan food on par with their meat counterparts, but we need to stop acting like they’ve unlocked the secret formula.
Are they mining in sensitive areas? Isn't there an equivalent of an underwater deserts with little life/biodiversity? Not to diminish this idea, but the ocean covers >70% of the earth so I would think this could be done somewhere with relatively little impact, but maybe I am wrong.
I know they're not, but drinking, eating, partying, and working with fun coworkers is fun...
What's the tradeoff? I mean, how smart you need to be to produce/understand something useful.

Modelling is about communication and understanding, if the language is expressive, precise and utterly abstruse for most people, it's a niche application at most (and it's likely very valuable in its niche).

There's a reason most informal methods become more popular.
> Obviously that's not happening

Do we know that to be true?
Rügenwalder Mühle makes vegetarian/vegan cheeses in Germany that are quite good when eaten cold, but probably don't melt well.

I generally prefer cheese cold or at room temperature anyways, and I wish I could get Rügenwalder Mühle in the US, but it seems like they don't export.

https://www.ruegenwalder.de/vegetarische-und-vegane-produkte
The Switch has cartridges, a SD Card slot, and internal (unupgradable ~32GB) storage.

Afaik, not every game is sold on a cartridge but I think every single Nintendo produced game is and anything you get from like Target is.

I personally install games to an SD Card but other family members are very big on cartridges since they're not effectively locked to a specific Switch.
Qualcomm Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results [pdf]
Gig workers only exist because the state has tied more and more programs like 401k and health insurance into employment. The fact that you can't hire someone without also worrying about health insurance is insane. That is what needs to be fixed I don't want my employer involved at all in my personal health care.
um, I was the commenter, and I clearly just picked racism as an example of the sort of viewpoint that you would be glad to see less of, to show that viewpoint diversity is not necessarily good depending on the viewpoint. You are really misreading it to make some weird point that no one is buying.
What about people that can not handle a normal job?

I have a chronic condition and for a year the only reason family didn’t end up on street is because of gig jobs.
Most days 12-16 hours a day in bed essentially blind in horrific pain. But sometimes totally fine. Disability straight up laughed at me.
From the parent comment:

> But going against it would have probably upset some *local* donators

In what way is it sensible to classify big tech as a _local_ donor? Hell, the very term itself implies very wide reach.
Don't get me wrong; I agree.

But then why does anybody read the article? Because the title is salacious. That seems pretty clear.
> stop thinking of certain vegan cheeses as substitutes for animal cheeses

Why do we even begin with naming vegan food products after the items they are meant to represent?

"Cheese" is made from milk. "Vegan cheese" as a label is specifically targeted at being "like milk cheese" and thus intends to replicate it.

If you want

> Why can't it just be treated as a food in itself?

we should entirely dispense with imitating, and create an entirely new food category whose principle is "vegan" and not "like real food minus animal". Invent new stuff. Ferment things from plants but do not reuse any labels that are derived from animals.

If you do not do this, people will still bring this up, because their expectations are intentionally shaped by how something is called.

Don't call vegan cheese as "cheese" if you want it to shape its own path as a new sort of food product.

edit: same with "cakes" which require butter and eggs in their traditional forms. Make something new but perhaps do not call it a cake? Make a new word that sounds catchy (we do all the time, and incorporate these into our language, e.g., Kleenex, google, "cloud" for servers, ...).
Ask HN: Amyone successfully verify fawkes claims of protection against AI?
I was working on a web frontend for fawkes (https://pypi.org/project/fawkes/) based on the research outlined here (https://github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes) which claims to be able to use image level perturbations to protect against AI image recognition systems. From the paper, the following claim is made:

"Our cloaking technique is not designed to fool a tracker who uses similarity matching. However, we believe our cloaking technique should still be effective against Amazon Rekognition, since cloaks create a feature space separation between original and cloaked images that should result in low similarity scores between them."

I was in the process of verifying this when I found that _no such guarantee_ can be made using fawkes. I documented my experiment here: https://github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes/issues/125.

Using Azure Face and AWS Rekognition, perturbed images regardless of the settings resulted in high degrees of similarity. In addition, I did a separate test using a perturbed image and another image with the same subject which _still resulted in a high degree of similarity_.

While the README claims "Python scripts that can test the protection effectiveness will be ready shortly.", no such scripts have been provided.

According to the fawkes website, their application has been downloaded over 300k times. If the protection they claim to provide is ineffective, then there are _a lot of people_ exposed out there with a misguided sense of being protected. This situation is further complicated by the apparent legitimacy of this tool due to its presentation at Usenix 2020 and its inclusion in pypi.

My question is this - has anyone actually validated the efficacy of this algorithm and have reproducible results to share? Or is fawkes yet another example of AI snake oil?
Because you can do things in an EV you can’t do in a gasoline powered car. EV’s can’t win the cannonball run, they can drive to and from every residential address in the US that a gas powered car can. Conversely, I can’t fill up a gasoline powered car at home or in a remote area with solar.
Well we do have a library call for launching a new process called posix_spawn(3), but it's complicated mainly because they are a lot of options you want to configure when launching a process: which file descriptors would you like to close, which would you like to share with the newly created process, what uid the new process should have, what working directory it should have, etc. It's just a large and complicated call.

But with fork/exec, all of that setup becomes just normal code you run after fork but before exec. You want the child not to have a certain file descriptor? Just close it after fork. You want to drop privileges when running the child? Same thing, just setuid/setgid/setgroups after fork. You want to set up resource limits for the child? Again just setrlimit after fork.

It avoids a lot of complexity in the system call itself. (Naturally, it adds some other complexity elsewhere.)
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I was looking for a way to embed docs in my open source project in a way that they're versioned and browsable from Github. And of course publish them.

The solution I used was Jekyll + Github Pages. Not particularly surprising but there were a couple minor caveats, so I thought to detail the experience.

If anyone from Github is reading, it'd be nice to have more themes for docs. I think embedding docs into the project is nice, but there's some clear resistance given that there's no easy to use theme.
I'm not afraid of the word. I'm terrified of its outcomes.

But hey, since we've already mortgaged our future so we might as well kneecap our present as well.
Heavily-subsidized dairy takes up multiple grocery store aisles: crickets

Vegan cheese simply appears: "we've been INFILTRATED"
I think it takes both parties to maintain a connection. I'm part of several Slack groups with friends and acquaintances from old jobs. We aren't as tight as we were while working together, but we aren't radio silent either.
"opposite direction" tends to imply "the same content, just with a different order/framing". Whereas the OP leaves out the majority (not all, but more than half) of what people tend to put under the term "computer science" completely
US investigating attacks with hallmarks of ‘Havana syndrome’ near White House
If you're smart enough to amass $1,000,000 in a brokerage account, you should be smart enough to know that it would be stupid to liquidate the whole account to pay cash for a house, better to get a mortgage now that interest rates are around 3%. In that case you only need to come up with the down payment, and then enjoy that sweet mortgage interest deduction.

You should also be smart enough to have a fair amount in a 401(k), in which case you can loan yourself the down payment up to $100,000 and pay no capital gains tax at all.

>they'll have to pay 40% on their entire gains

Wrong, unless your income is over $1,000,000. Otherwise your capital gains tax will be considerably less, even if you are stupid enough to liquidate your brokerage account to pay cash for your house.
Employers are only forced to extend healthcare etc benefits to employees, there's no law stating the employee has to accept them.
It should be noted that cheese is almost all process. It's just what it is. Unprocessed cheese is just milk.
With a lot of people getting tested for COVID "just in case" and hypochondriacs constantly checking in with their doctors, I'd guess that the percent of flu cases tallied might actually be a little bit higher than usual due to COVID
Sure that may be true, but to what end? To allow workers to ask for better rights rather than being at the whim of a microeconomy created by a company like Uber or others with their own control over "surges" and "down times"?

(new account, long time reader, victim of poorly self-managed passwords)
Drumcode has become the EDM festival gateway to many people and has earned the nickname "business techno". Gently bobbing along at 125-128 with predictable buildups/breakdowns and is very "FX friendly" on the mixer.
There are certain things that aren't in question about this. Enough income to afford decent housing and food, healthcare, etc. It's not so mysterious.
> that discourages contribution

I wouldn’t say it does so across the board. Rather, it filters contributions to only encourage those of the kind they desire.

There’s also the question of whether they even want “more contribution”. The less features, the less maintenance burden… Less maintenance burden, easier for fewer people to accomplish the work… Fewer people means less coordinating effort.

Simplicity seems to lead to a virtuous cycle here.
Backwards as it may be it's far easier to change a regulatory interpretation or judicial test than to make a fundamental change to government services, like healthcare.

>Many gig workers explicitly do not want to become employees, as there are many disadvantages to doing so

Then companies that want to attract gig workers can give them the freedoms that are set by statute, regulatory bodies, and precedent. Like setting their own rates and picking which contracts to fulfill.
Off-topic, but do you think its a problem that gig workers have no upward mobility? A worker with 10 years of experience will be paid exactly the same as a worker with 1 month.
that's funny. I have a project of recovering a game I wrote on Commodore 64 as a kid. It is saved on an audio tape. You can guess I have a strong motivation since it's for getting back something personal. I have the wav files ready, and regular conversion programs fail to recover it.

I have a few ideas, one of them being using a sequence to sequence NN. The intuition is that the output domain has a strong structure (C64 basic program tokens) so the decoder can learn to generate valid programs.
It looks like it is going to be funnier than this game :)
yes, discontinuities (benefits cutoffs) lead to gaming. i'm heavily in favor of removing discontinuities like this, where entities are incentivized to essentially cheat others (i.e., promotes greed). for instance, every tax policy (rates, credits, deductions, etc.) should be continuous functions rather than a set of cliffs.
We can also wait (not so long, either) for increasingly severe heat waves and droughts to harm the viability of the dairy industry in the US. That way scarcity and cost will take care of the job in a less gentle way, but there were be a lot of other incidental problems to cope with.
This should not come as a surprise, and it was largely predictable from the outset.

The flu has a base reproduction number (R0) less than 2 (https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/2020/12/07/covid-19...). Covid has an R0 in the vicinity of 2.5 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...).

In the meantime, public health measures like masking and distancing will work against both viruses. If people become reluctant to socialize because of covid (whether or not there be legal restrictions), they will also not spread the flu.

As a broad conclusion, if public health measures reduce the effective reproduction number of Covid to about 1 (stabilizing exponential growth), they will also reduce the effective reproduction number of the flu to something substantially below 1. Since the flu would have also had a low baseline prevalence in the summer of 2020, it is no wonder that we failed to see a flu season.

There's really no need for conspiracy theorizing.
The longest you can make notifications snooze by default is 2 hours. It is, of course, possible to change it. It also doesn't require root access, just ADB :)

https://www.xda-developers.com/customize-notification-snooze...
You said a lot of things in your first 2 paragraphs but at no point did you say "And then we hired women at a lower bar than we hired men"

"Women would fail interviews and be passed to the next stages anyway." sounds like it but the next stage isn't an offer - it's the onsite interview. If Google's process is anything like Amazon's, there is a screen-OUT stage and a screen-IN stage.

The screen out stage is primarily there to make sure not to waste the time of the full onsite interview loop. It's highly subjective and you are SUPPOSED to err on the side of letting people go through. You're SUPPOSED to have the most senior engineers on the team do these screens. But people frequently don't. They introduce their own biases, and managers use phone screens as practice for their most junior interviews. The outcome is qualified candidates sometimes don't even get a chance to prove their worth in an onsite loop.

So is it fair that some semi-qualified man didn't get a chance to prove their worth onsite but some semi-qualified woman did? No, but there is no way to make this process truly fair at the scale that FAAMNG hires.

So long as the FINAL process is fair, that's all that you can really do and ensure you don't hire unqualified people.

> They organised hiring events from which men were forbidden from taking part. And so on.

That sounds so much more insidious than it actually is. This is no more discriminatory than Women's Only universities. Or HBCU's. Amazon also does "women's only" hiring events. They have lower hire ratios because there is a pipeline intake problem too in our whole industry. But that's okay.

> More problematically post-hiring there were no real controls, so women were unfireable. Women who caused so much trouble their team rejected them weren't fired like the men were, but rather were endlessly moved around between teams. Hiring isn't perfect so if you filter out the bad men and leave the bad women, it's the same as lowering the bar for women - the bar lowering just happens at a slightly different place.

I have serious doubts of the reality of this statement. PEOPLE are essentially unfireable. It's extremely hard to get fired from a FAAMNG company once you're in. What you describe happens to all employees (being moved between teams).

> Firms have been given carte blance to discriminate against men by western governments

Just what way are you being discriminated against or oppressed? Making it easier for women to apply does not make it HARDER for Men. All the initiatives we discussed are IN ADDITION not INSTEAD OF.
Although the iPhone is a more popular device it doesn't fill the accessability needs of all users. Just as many countries have disabilities acts for manufacturing and civil engineering, shouldn't technology and platforms have something similar?
Counter-proposal: move the BLS and OSHA* under Commerce; abolish the remainder of the United States Department of Labor.

*Are there any more remaining worthwhile agencies under Labor? I’m going from memory here.
One thing I really don't like about a lot of these meat / dairy alternatives is how they use cheap PUFA oils with their bad health effects vs something better like coconut or avocado oil. I would also put butter / ghee / tallow to the list, but then it's not vegan.
They have power to create license. How about doing that much.
The second option also doesn't result in any big negatives for UMN associated personnel because the kernel devs take on all the work of enforcing stricter scrutiny.