skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber drivers are meant to be interchangeable cogs. I know this because I used to be an Uber driver myself.

We couldn't set our own rates. We couldn't make our own decisions about the rides we were willing to take. We didn't have our own brand. And there was no way for customers to request us specifically, even if they preferred to be driven by us. This was all by design. Uber drivers are treated as an interchangeable commodity, not as brands.

I couldn't even wait for pings within the warmth of my own home without getting a letter graded report for not having my phone in my cradle. And it's not just the cradle that was a factor. If you drove too "aggressively", or if you drove too fast, their idiotic AI would scold you (and before someone says it, yes, that functionality is turned off now, but know that it was only turned off around the time that Uber was trying to make the argument in court that Uber drivers were not employees. Also note that even thought that particular functionality is turned off, Uber still tries to micromanage drivers in many other ways, even to this day).

This isn't to say that app creators and youtubers don't have their own set of problems with the app store and youtube, they certainly do. But compared to Uber drivers, they still have a thousand times more freedom than Uber drivers.
Except it’s in no way your own island. I’m not sure I’d pay $3,000 to have the privilege of visiting a tiny island to make believe it’s “my own”.
> if you show high profit heat maps, you risk drivers flocking

What's the point if increasing fares if those aren't being used to incentivize drivers to take those routes?

It's not a real question. It's obviously to gouge the customer.
I'm sure Walgreens is being well compensated for this.

I'm going to assume they got a bunch of VC money with a pitch of "we found a space that doesn't have ads on it yet, and we can fix that". And now they're paying more than the value of the ads to Walgreens. They'll probably raise another round of funding off the "success" of this contract, and then bail.
Libraries are book focused but that is hardly all they do. They are much closer to community centers nowadays, what they provide is closer to; an internet cafe, movie rental store, concert and movie venue, local meeting rooms, 3D printers and a lot I'm sure I've not thought about.

they do too much to be innovated away, perhaps the book part could be but they do digital borrowing too so it's unlikely. Libraries only go away if we lose sight of how much they impact our community and are no longer willing to pay for them as a society.
If you’re boiling you have worse problems than particular emissions

Sorry, couldn’t resist
If you could make 1 big movie that pays out a lot (enough to cover the "duds"), then why not just drop the "duds" and keep making those big movies?

the current status quo is a natural evolution of the prior status quo. That's why i think you have to have a new status quo by finding an alternative funding model.

I think potential crowd funding is possible - a movie is crowd funded with no expectation of profit from the funders (they only get a ticket/copy of the movie for their backing dollar).

I don't like a state-sponsored funding model, mainly due to the ability for the state then to manipulate the movie against the artistic vision. This can't happen with a crowd funding model, since the crowd cannot directly manipulate the director (after all, the money is already paid, the director would not need to acquiesce to anyone but his own artistic direction!).

Whether these funding models can out-compete a studio big budget funding model remains to be seen. I'm not holding my breath tho.
>Yet about half of the electricity in NY is generated with natural gas[1), so most of the "benefits" this article touts, especially pollution, don't really exist.

You're right in that from a strict energy perspective, burning gas to cook food is more efficient than converting energy to electricity and then utilizing it to cook food [1], but that only addresses one small part of the downsides of cooking with gas. Among other things, these are the things that come to mind right away:

- Induction has the potential to be emissionless, gas can never achieve that. At its best, gas can be carbon-neutral if it is not fossil-sourced.
- Induction has zero local emissions, while gas is not great for indoor air quality.
- Induction can't leak lethal gasses into the home where it exists
- Induction is much less likely to cause an indoor fire and burn down the home where it's installed

>Same for electric car owners who think they're helping the environment. Nope, you just shifted the problem to where you don't directly see it but they contribute just as much. Probably more with the all of the inefficiencies added up from each steps of going from natural gas+steam+turbine→transmission lines-+multiple transformerscharging car battery.

The concern of direct energy efficiency is still the same as for induction vs gas, but to imply that it would be worse for the environment is abject nonsense. EVs perform better from an environmental perspective in all but the worst grids in the world (basically 100% coal power), and only get better as grids become carbon-free, while ICEs remain awful.

I'll agree that EVs are not the solution to our transportation-energy concerns, though. The solution is bicycles and trains, and transitioning away entirely from the car, which in all its forms is terrible from an energy-efficiency perspective.

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-c...
The sanctions in Iran were effective in pushing Iran to accept a deal that allowed us to inspect their nuclear facilities and ensure that no weapons grade enrichment was going on.

They achieved what they were meant to achieve.

Of course Trump tore up that deal, which made the sanctions mostly worthless in the end, but that's on Trump.
Also most stoves (at least here) seem to allow de-rating by configuring them to self-limit their current draw to accommodate breakers/circuits not sized large enough to handle their full capacity.
Ceramic is terrible. Every kitchen I have had with ceramic has it thrown out immediately since induction has been available.
No. You can also build a single file like in go. Its set to be even better on .NET 7
Wait, they are hiding the route for the benefit of all? Uber doesn't want the driver to know how far they have to travel but forced them to take a route after they accept.
2018 Macedonian referendum is one example of the contrarian. It was invalid as the turnout was mere 36.89% (most were probably Albanians). And (I think) in non other country that is a NATO member now, there was a referendum.

For a broader perspective: NATO was created to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” (from the horse's mouth)

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_137930.htm

EDIT: For even broader perspective: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
who rules the World-Island commands the world. — Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, p. 150

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hi...
It's more what it says about our government's utter incompetence. If we can't solve the problem of distributing masks in an arguably _light_ pandemic, what the hell should we expect when a worse one comes along...?

Global supply chain issues have clearly stuck around, and we're relying on another country on another continent to provide something that would classify as an emergency good. You tell me how that makes sense.

The downvotes are cute, this is a very legitimate concern though. There's nothing wrong with wondering why China releasing a virus is just an "oopsie."
I found a bug too!

How did the killer robots guy get Regigas without also first acquiring Regirock? :P
it s basically the points that Putin made in his speech before the invasion. He s pretty clear about what he wants and people should read that speech
Was this the first time using .NET for most of your devs?

> LINQ supports interleaving DB operations with not-db operations

This hasn't been the case since EF Core 3.0, it will throw an exception if something can't be translated to prevent this problem. Prior to this (EF Core 2.2), a warning would be spat out if an in-memory operation occurs. Due to this, I assume this project was a number of years ago.

> The logger would log the message and the affected class in different lines.

The default logging format is unfortunate, although it can be made a single line in .NET 5 onwards. This issue would've been easily solved by using Serilog, swapping out the built-in logging with a few lines of code. I don't know the last time I encountered a .NET dev that wasn't at least aware of Serilog as an alternative.
Mine doesn't have physical knobs, either. And worse, it has a flashing red indicator light, that blinks when it is plugged in and turned OFF. So maddening, had to wire up an external switch just to keep from getting angry every time I walked past it. Still, it is great for cooking, and worth putting up with these minor annoyances.
How was the statement not "fuck you, pay me"?
Huh? I don't think you read what I'm saying.

Here's a simple challenge for you.
Create a command line app (your csproj file should say Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"), ask the user to input a port number at runtime. Use this port number to start an ASP.NET service.

I have not had any luck to pull all the right nuget dependencies to do that so far. The only way to run asp.net app I could find is switching your whole project to be Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web"
I can't give you a step-by-step as this(collaborating with market managers) is not an actual profession that everyone does but a possibility that you can explore if you like to give it a try.

I guess you can message people from linkedIn and see how they feel about it and maybe they can give you more ideas. Maybe you can consider to get in the industry and become a market manager?
'DeltaCron' Covid Variant, Mix of Delta and Omicron – In at Least Four-Countries
Let me check
From https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/baseload/can-geothermal...

Some 42 million megawatts of energy reach the surface continually and are radiated into space as the earth cools from its initial molten state more than 4 billion years ago. No feasible amount of geothermal development could make even a small dent in this process. Furthermore, the earth’s heat budget is continually replenished by the radioactive decay of naturally occurring elements, and almost all of the energy associated with each decay event is converted to heat. Plus, the heat content of the geothermal reservoir rocks is continually replenished by conduction of heat from the earth’s deeper interior.
By that metric greece should be a superpower. They have the world's 1st navy too.

It doesnt work that way. Russia is not irrelevant, but almost-irrelevant. It can be cut off from the global economy without disastrous results
What if say i involved a few family members (or other trusted people) to be "partners"? Will the law still treat it as me the individual?
I haven't seen a stove yet in Germany (residential at least) that can't cope with all the phase inputs tied to the same phase.

They are just 3-phase because the utility demands 10+ kW loads to be 3-phase loads, and they often exceed that slightly.
Check out the install guide on e.g. some IKEA built-in models, specifically regarding the wiring instructions.

And US residential does have 240V single-phase available.
Induction stoves do indeed seem to be more expensive in the U.S, but they don't seem to be entirely out of budget for the average consumer: IKEA sells a few for around $600-800.

IKEA in Sweden where I live has induction stoves for as cheap as $300, and I would assume that similar prices will become available in the U.S in the future.
> sans financing and insurance
if the plant is already built isn’t expensive

?? What renewable isnt given that?
In the short term. By short term I mean historical short term. Anything less than 10 years is short and insignificant. Hopefully by then the entire world can be independent of Russia in perpetuity and it can wither away completely isolated from the West for eternity.
> Alan Kay’s 97 OOPSLA keynote

Is it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

Edit: I suspect it is this one, at 10:33 Alan says "Actually I made up the term <<object-oriented>>, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
I think you overestimate how expensive these reactors will be. Also they are part of a mix naturally. China has such vast energy needs they are still building coal, LNG, solar and nuclear all alongside each other.

My current feeling is that if they stick to their plan and build these smaller 600MW reactors that can mostly be built in factories and assembled on-site it's going to be a vastly different economic proposition than existing "big nuclear" that has been attempted in the West.

Of course there is no way to know exactly how it plays out but the inputs look good.
Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant more dangerous than first thought
Even with quantification, you may still want to do it anyway. If I remember the numbers correctly, eating a bacon sandwich everyday increases your risk of dying from heart disease by 25% - that takes the risk in the UK from 4/10000 to 5/10000. ^ Given the second number, I don’t worry about having the odd bacon sandwich. The exact example is irrelevant, rather everything in life has pros and cons, risks and rewards - you have to choose which one works for you. (I write this as an induction hob convert :) )

^ This is based on a vague memory of a lecture on Risk Communication from Prof David Spiegelhalter around 10 years ago.
I don't think it's due to manufacturing costs. Just look at how much insulin costs to make and the price it's sold at in the US.
In order to join NATO, one of the current requirements is having a liberal democratic government with civilian control over the military. Russia (and the old Soviet Union) didn't meet that requirement.

Perhaps Russia should try transitioning to becoming a liberal democracy first?
That comment implied that discrimination was okay unless it was against a protected class. It is reasonable to ask what they would do if there was no such thing as a protected class. Would they approve of all forms of discrimination? Or would they do as your sibling comment did and decide that actually the concept of protected classes doesn’t matter and one can pick and choose which types of discrimination are moral/immoral.

It’s very easy to have a belief that businesses should be able to pick who their customers are or that they should be forced to serve everyone, but any opinion in between is very difficult to make logically consistent.
You are mostly right, but mistaken in one significant way. Between the February and October revolutions of 1917, a nascent democracy was there. The monarchy has been overthrown and there had been reasonably open elections with diverse results to elect a body, that would decide the future of Russia. Alas, as bolševiks did not even come close to winning these elections, they disbanded the entire thing by force. But there is still hope. It could be done. One day I hope for a Russia that is not aggressive against its neighbors and cares about its people.
I'd guess a lot of the operating cost of nuclear plants is just the cost to break even - that's repaying infrastructure loans etc
No, they aren't. They raised $500m for Haiti and either embezzled it or incompetently wasted it. [1]

Their website contains claims that can only be described as fraud (claiming to help more people in an area than actually reside there, among other things).

There administration fees were well over 1/3rd in Haiti.

It's theft, basically.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...
> Like it's harder to argue breaking and entering if you secure a door with a bent clothes hangar or carabiner vs a padlock, even a bad one.

It’s not. How (and if) the door is locked makes no difference whatsoever.
> Who cares how they did it

Isn’t that sort of the whole question?

> the main issue is the fact this country is unwilling to build up local supply chains

We don’t have a command economy. It also doesn’t make much sense to pay prevailing US wages to produce masks that sell for $0.50 per unit, you would need incredible scale to make that work, you’d need to be 3M, who does make them.

> because they're too busy giving themselves fat bonuses by cutting costs while jacking up hospital bills on patients

What? People who run hospitals are unlikely to every be involved in manufacturing anything, it’s a totally different kind of business.

I’m not sure what you’re arguing here.
I like Colab for the most part since I'm biased towards Python, but being centered around Jupyter notebooks does have its shortcomings. Also, despite being a service offered by Google, I prefer PyTorch over Tensorflow.

For smaller projects, I generally find a Towhee pipeline (https://towhee.io/pipelines) that I then fine-tune on my 3080.
ASP.NET Core apps are actually straightforward console applications. In fact most of the application types you’ll run on .net core are configured in a main method in program.cs. The answer to your specific questions about mixing different services in one app will be some combination of the following links.

https://khalidabuhakmeh.com/hosting-two-aspnet-core-apps-in-...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/ho...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/ho...
They can work at frequencies and with electronic designs that are far out into the ultrasonic range.

You may want to check out those that apparently can handle non-magnetic cookware; those apparently run on higher frequencies to make up for the weaker magnetic effect.
In a nutshell, 1st party cookies only, and treat them all as session scope (or even narrower!), whitelist the handful you actually need. I use Forget Me Not[0] in my FF, and have essentially been doing this for ALL sites (except a select few I've whitelisted) for years.

Not only does the web not need 3rd party cookies (literally, I haven't allowed a 3rd party cookie in any browser I've used for like 10-20 years maybe), but it doesn't need hardly anywhere near as many persistent 1st party cookies as get set.

So these bounce-tracking sites can set all the 1st party cookies they want, but they'll only be effective for cross-site tracking me for a matter of seconds at best, which is not enough to accomplish what they are trying to do.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forget_me_not
Most people have their phones with them during and most don’t use ad blocker. Heck thing like insta or tiktok don’t even have adblock…
What kind of induction stove do you have? Mine just has knobs. I push down and turn them clockwise, physically, and it heats up. I push down and turn them counter-clockwise, it lessens the heat, or turns it off.

It's the same as the gas stoves of my childhood; I'm not sure how it could be simpler. It even has the icons indicating which knob is for which burner. Is your stove postmodern?
Can you think of a downside that's not fear-mongering?
I've been a .NET dev for almost 8 years now and I agree with the general positivity sentiment in the comments, but...

As many senior devs I also want to retire early from tech. But unlike many, even if I spend hundreds of hours in leetcode, mock interviews, etc. I'm not sure if my work experience would be even considered for an interview at FAANG. Of course I could interview at Microsoft, but it's the only one. Google, Amazon, Facebook, they don't use/hire C# devs at all.

I'm guessing the only path is to learn some Java and sell myself as a C#/Java dev in order to be able to at least get an interview. Any former dotnet dev here that has successfully transitioned into a FAANG position that wants to share advices/experience?
God, this.

I like induction stoves. Easier to clean, and do 90% of what I need doing in a kitchen. Not having to run gas lines is a plus, and for the other 10%, I'm probably working on a grill or using a dedicated burner anyway.

But the UIs are awful.

Stop turning yourself off. Yes, I do intend to cook the thing I put on you for six hours. Just fucking do it.

Give me a knob. Gas stoves use knobs for good reasons. You don't need to invent new UX, just give me a motherfucking knob. A knob without complicated family issues is fine as well.

My stove does not need Bluetooth or WiFi. It's a stove. I expect it to work with minor maintenance for 40+ years. Protocols are going to change a lot between here and there.

I am not installing your app. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Baphomet will call up and tell me he got right with Jesus before I install your app.

There has to be a market for people that want appliances that just... work.

Addendum: there are a few induction stoves with knobs, but they are definitely the exception, rather than the rule:

- https://www.bluestarcooking.com/cooking/cooktops/36-turn-ind...

- https://performwireless.com/7-best-induction-cooktops-with-k... (half of these are not full-size built-ins)
It's crazy because a lot of uber drivers don't make minimum wage. The money just isn't there
An artificial nose may be able to detect Parkinson’s disease early
> I am also not opposed to configuring environments myself rather than using managed solutions

vast.ai has pretty low prices and gives you remote ssh into a GPU instance that you then have root on (albeit containerized).

Having a local GPU is effectively a requirement for doing "development" work (e.g. getting an architecture and/or codebase to the point where you would even be able to start training). Unfortunately, getting your own GPU is just absurdly expensive these days and probably not worth it. In the meantime, colab/kaggle/paperspace can be _okay_ as dev environments. Unfortunately, renting compute on vast.ai all day just to do occasional dev work gets expensive pretty quickly.

For something in-between vast.ai and AWS, datacrunch.io has slightly higher prices, with remote SSH into a server and a few more "niceties" that you get with a traditional cloud such as CPU instances and the ability to use those to pre-load data onto disk.

If and when you are able to get a GPU - just make sure to get nvidia as they have a stranglehold over the industry. The RTX cards are great - I've been doing tons of multimodal work on an RTX 2070 I bought pre-pandemic for around 350$. It only has 8 GiB of vram but is actually quite similar to a server-style V100 otherwise. I assume it probably costs like 2000$ these days.

If you're interested in the realm of running inference/training on giant models (say GPT-J 20B), you may find yourself in lack of VRAM. Using libraries like deepspeed, you can split the work across multiple GPU's. I highly recommend investing time to learning multi-GPU libraries or framework-provided features like pytorch's distributed data parallel as the size of models becomes a limiting factor very quickly in the case of transformers. A sibling comment mentions that you will need institutional support for training such models. This may be true, unfortunately. All I will say is that if you are even mildly competent, the demand for that type of work is increasing a lot lately.

Oh and yes, there is a new-ish site called replicate that I have been using to allow people to run inference on models that I've trained https://replicate.com/ without needing to be a coder. A lot of people use colab for this but that platform is annoying to support in practice.
You seem to be looking for a lawyer. Asking concrete legal questions on a public forum is not a substitute.
Very true, browsing websites without AdBlock is already horrendous we can't allow it to bleed into the real world. We need to clamp down on ads with legal regulations, everything good is slowly ruined by them. Humans should have the right to live ad free as much as possible.