skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doing so enough times will lead to Uber penalizing the driver.

Apparently it doesn't hurt their profitability worse than not being free to choose their clients would. And I see pretty solid evidence of that: they're using this option extensively, I'd be surprised if they did that despite being worse off as a result.

For the waiter from my example "enough times" changes into "even once".

> Does that sound like a freelancer to you?

Well, I mean, if you were a shop trading on Amazon, and you'd keep on cancelling orders, I can imagine you could even get kicked off the platform.

I'm sure you also don't have much say when it comes to contract terms, the provision etc., and then there's the good ol' star rating just the same.

It doesn't mean Amazon is your employer though.

(By the way, a lot of Uber drivers don't drive for Uber directly. They get contracted by some smaller local company which rents them cars etc. Then even if you argue they should have employee status, it's not on Uber, one should hold that local firm accountable. But this fact is conveniently glossed over, because corporations).

> Obviously, the definition will change depending on the country.

Sure, and that's not just because along with the country comes such and such legislation - there's also the political / lobbying aspect.

When thousands of taxi drivers protest by blocking the capital (which happened in several countries), the powers that be do pay attention. Maybe it shouldn't affect how things turn out at courts, and in a perfect world it doesn't, but I think we all know that in our world it does.

So anyhow I'm not speaking for courts, only sharing how I see these things, trying to apply common sense here. Obviously at the end of the day these matters are settled in courts, but this goes without saying.
It took me a second to understand what this does, but wow what a neat project!

Thanks for sharing, this sort of overkill is my favorite kind~ Cheers @koins!
I went looking for a similar comparison a few months ago, and saw this: https://research.aimultiple.com/ocr-accuracy/
It compared ABBYY FineReader 15,
Amazon Textract,
Google Cloud Platform Vision API,
Microsoft Azure Computer Vision API, and
Tesseract OCR Engine. I ended up using OCRmyPDF / Tesseract out of convenience, but doing a second pass with Google Cloud Vision, AWS Textract, or Abbyy is somewhere on my to-do list.
I have no idea what that means relative to this conversation. Either I'm out of my depth or we're talking past each other. Either way, no big deal.
Show HN: Easy Docs – (HTML, JSON and Markdown) Doc Generator. For GitHub Pages
This is far from perfect.

I noticed there is a significant barrier of entry for people who just want attractive docs. This is my answer to that issue.
Do Europeans not have a fifth amendment equivalent right? What law compels Uber to give all data at all times to the police without a warrant?
OkCupid has completely destroyed its interface and utility, so whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
BD + PM are quite different roles, other than solo founders, rarely would those two functions be performed by the same person. Being neither one nor the other might be a significant factor in high rejection rate.

Gonna need more information:

post up your resume or LinkedIn in a comment, happy to take a look (I work in recruiting)
Yup. My back-of-envelope from past looks at this is that 5-10% of US GDP is purely drag from excess healthcare costs, i.e. we'd collectively be better off and our economy (entrepreneurship, especially) healthier if that amount of our GDP simply vanished, even though it would mean lower GDP per capita.

There's a quote from Obama in an article from The Nation years ago, that basically says we can't fix our healthcare system properly because it would put too many (white-collar make-work jobs program participants, essentially, under our current system) people out of work.
That's true, QR code is now being abused where they are not really needed, which is a very bad phenomenon.
I'm a little surprised that a policy with a deductible that high meets their requirements. Out of the many, many claims I've submitted the highest I've ever seen was $5k. Insurance is cheap enough that I question the value you're saving here but hey, you do you.

My entirely unsolicited advice is that you should be aware how quick you're going to need to cough up that deductible to get anything done in case you do need to make a claim. Nobody's gonna let you put that on credit the way they would with a typical deductible. They will want cash in hand.
> Apple reportedly hopes to “gain exemptions” from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to remove the steering wheel and brakes, relying fully on self-driving technology.

That sounds crazy to me given the state of self-driving technology. But it sounds like Apple.
I mean… first link I clicked as soon as I opened HN. I think my primate brain is attracted to colors ♥

Need to open the post and actually read it now!
Programmers back then really loved their fancy visual separators.

Nowadays I would be really surprised if I saw something like that, yet it's extremely common in code from back in the day.
It definitely does. Going the extra mile in a 5 minute way is not the hardest thing to do most of the time because of the minor consequence. The bigger the sacrifice gets, the harder it is to go the extra mile. It’s still best to do it as much as possible, but within calculated reason.
>> Getting a benefit from building a network is not lottery odds. It's certainly benefitted my career multiple times.

I have never been one to deliberately "build my network" and even I have had several beneficial things come about via my network.
Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Performant, and Managed NoSQL Database Service
> but no one is forcing users to install software from APT groups. That's a choice people make.

... what?
huh, I didn't even know it was possible to run WordPress on AppSpot.. I wonder how they deal with image uploads in WordPress
I know people who care greatly about the JWST but will go around the company slack belittling people for wishing happy new year, wielding a cosmic cudgel of unimportance on the day.

But everything humans find important are only that due to human and sociological constructs, whether calendrical or cosmological. Nothing matters, except what matters to you. The unthinking matter of nature is utterly indifferent (as far as we know or think).

– someone who drove a long, long way to see the same solar eclipse, no regrets!
Here’s an idea to speed up PRs - don’t do code reviews on every PR.

Gate your PRs with automated checks for anything you really want to enforce (docs, formatting, tests, etc)… but when it comes to everything else, leave that to dedicated code review sessions where the feedback will be less rushed, more thoughtful and far more likely to be taken constructively.

Works a charm for my team - mostly infra/terraform and python.
> It's hard to describe on a resume or give measurable achievements

You absolutely must give measurable achievements. Team size, number of documents authored, anything! Prove that you worked somewhere and didn't just take a paycheck for breathing.

> my resume (it's three pages)

Cut that down to one page.

> But most jobs have either not replied to my application or I've been rejected a week or so after submitting my resume.

You are still in the phase of your career where you are applying for jobs so rejection will be common. Apply for at least 3 jobs/day if you can find openings. Expect to put in hundreds of applications.
2013 called, they want their narrative back. ATM machines have cameras and does KYC.
There was nothing slow about society in that period.
X.org Server Hit by New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code
> Can generate these on Linux with the qrencode program.

If you're using Network Manager, you can also just run this command!

nmcli dev wifi show-password

You get the password as text, and a nice in-terminal QR code.
Happens a fair bit of time when parsing deeply nested structures (e.g. parsing deeply nested JSON structures) using mutually recursive parsers. I've generally resorted to either trampolining or explicit stacks.
I left PepsiCo in 2020, they are still eating shit like this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Macs never implemented UEFI Secure Boot. The Apple-specific Secure Boot can be disabled - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208198.
I don't get why this is difficult: charge the airlines more money. They will charge the passengers more money.

Either there will then be fewer flights and passengers, and the existing staff count can handle it, or there will be the same number of flights and enough money to hire more staff to handle it.

This is how a free market economy works, right?
so, why can't you sue them in your country?

If you are a citizen of another country doing business with Google it should follow that your country's courts have jurisdiction, if you're in the EU I imagine any EU country has jurisdiction (not because I imagine you are, but just as an example of how you might be able to pick a better jurisdiction - but that of course would be up to talking with a lawyer about)
Really sad to see people on the other side of this being duped into buying into a pump and dump. I can't fathom how some people think making money like this won't come with karmic consequences. Money is life. Taking peoples money like this can't be good.
I second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I've been working on a side project that uses Supabase (built on PostgreSQL). There was a post on HN yesterday on PostgreSQL full text search and now I want to incorporate that as well.
I kind of agree with you, these pictures do look like more of the same. But that's okay, the real exciting stuff isn't going to be pretty pictures, it's going to be what astronomers and physicists are able to learn by peering deep into the origins of the universe. The pictures of galaxies are nice to look at, but the real ramifications of JWST will take years to play out.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, this is where I figured I am falling short. It's due to the way our organization is currently structured and me being in charge of one of our products while also leading BD for some of our existing IP.

Let me remove some of the identifying information from my resume and I'll post it.
Ward No. 6
This meme needs to die of old people not understanding tech and privacy ramifications. Privacy is a concern for all generations, and you only have to look at history to know privacy’s importance. (Stasi anyone?). Branding all older generations as not ‘with it’ is ageist and counterproductive. If any generation is more concerned about digital rights and freedom it’s the older generation. Kids these days are feeding from the trough of surveillance capitalism and are sleepwalking into an Orwellian nightmare.
> Who is going to make Movdle to let people guess Movies next?

You're looking for https://framed.wtf/ – today's was particularly easy.
I'm banned for life from using adsense because my brother thought it would be a fun prank to repeatedly click the ads on my blog. I reported it myself before the next payout and received a generic "you have violated our policies" and a ban that's still there to this day some 15 years later.
I mean - this assumes the person is solving the correct problem and that everything is easily testable or being tested correctly.

I’ve reviewed many PRs where they were trying to add a feature or solve a bug but were not achieving the goal. It passed everything by whatever standards but only reading the code made you realize - it wasn’t going to give you the result you desired.
Because people want a call stack when an exception is thrown, so they can print it out, just the same way they do in JavaScript and every other language.

EDIT: Also as another commenter mentioned, this is a property exposed by the VM engine to the host environment, not something directly observable from within WebAssembly itself.
You can see different images of the Horsehead nebula and the differences in how colors are presented. They vary substantially, but not in any way that matters, at least to me on an aesthetic level. It's more like the difference between different white balances (which are, to some extent and in some contexts, arbitrary) in a terrestrial image.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula

Maybe one or another of them is more "true to life" but since human eyes never evolved to view this stuff, there's no reason to think that the best and most informative view of an astronomical object is the visible light one.
No its not. This is not French, we don't have a governing body. And they def can't expect us to use a name with characters we can't even type. No way am I looking up to copypasta the name every time I need to use it.
Revolut neo bank (GB) tried to enter the canadian market in November 2019. It was in beta mode for one and half year, then it has quit the canadian market!

Why? because they failed obtaining a bank licence!

It is very hard for a new bank to come to Canada. They have to "partner" with one of the 5 existing oligarch banks! Imagine.. as a business, you have to "partner" with a competing bank in order to operate!

Meawhile, Revolut has successfully opened in 10 other countries at the same time..

Tourists and strangers don't really catch how the canadian market is ruled by oligarch / oligopoly so few players/businesses.

There is NO COMPETITION here! Welcome to CanaRussia!

Sources:
https://portfolioplus.com/what-happened-to-revolut-canada-wh...
https://www.fintechfutures.com/2021/03/revolut-exits-canada-...
TikTok Urged to Set Global Standards for Kids’ Privacy, Safety
It's not—but it wasn't automatically dropped by the software in this case.
Autonomous micro-mobility systems could be the next revolution in urban mobility
Kindof off-topic, but…

> whenever a signed object is booted by the firmware, the trusted certificate used to verify that object is measured into PCR 7 in the TPM.

Is there a list somewhere of what each PCR is generally used for? I’ve had difficulty finding the information through Google searches.
> Hades classifies as well I believe. ... each "run" or playthrough you change the game state somehow (varies by game) so that the next run is easier / you have more in-game options for progression.

Usually this is how the community differentiates between "roguelikes" (i.e., like the original Rogue[1] - with no persistence between runs), and "roguelites" where there is some amount of carryover, like in Hades.

Of course, like any time you have a bunch of dorks arguing about nomenclature, there are a bunch of grey-area examples that people fight over as if it matters more than it actually does.

Anyway, tangent: Hades fucking rules.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)
Lofi girl legit had a massive community. My teenage cousins use the live chat as a hangout zone.
I think NASA’s funding generally goes towards doing science rather than optimizing their Fortnite streams
> One of the interesting aspects of giving a shit is that it will lead sometimes to you doing things which are not in your short-term selfish narrowly-defined "best interest" but because you give a shit you'll do it anyway. Some of these lead to long-term value that is very significant but you can't know at the time.

The feedback loop on these actions is so long that it's hard to understand the value of a positive reputation. It can take years of consistent positive actions before the long-term, indirect benefits of building a good reputation become apparent.

This is a constant sticking point when I mentor young people: It's easy to enter the business world and assume every interaction with other people is purely transactional. What's in it for me right now? Why should I help you?

It's also easy for junior people to think that changing jobs is a perfect reset button for their reputation or that the consequences of their actions will be neatly contained to the people around them. It can be a shock to discover just how much backchannel reference checking happens when evaluating candidates as well as how often they'll end up working with former coworkers again at other companies down the road.

Reputations are very asymmetric: They take a long time to build, but they can be destroyed very quickly. It can take years to see the benefits of having built a positive reputation, but it's an incredibly powerful asset once you've built it.
Fascinating. Highest financing incentive suggests a commensurately high interest rate. Can we assume there's no pre-payment penalty hidden in the contract?
It kinda is emoji…

https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Characters says emoji character is "a character that has the Emoji property". Let's check:

$ perl -MUnicode::UCD=charprop -E "say charprop(0x2665, 'emoji')"
Yes

But then, even some ASCII characters have this property, so maybe it's not a very reasonable definition.
> been fed an astonishing amount of propaganda designed to massively inflate the amount of minuses

Can you demonstrate that the pro-union forces are prevented from countering this propaganda, calling it "lies," etc.? In other words, maybe the workers heard the other side and didn't agree. Is that not allowed?

As for the "underlying threat" -- how is it "underlying"? Aren't the union elections by secret ballot? Are you saying they're not really secret, or what?
Is there a way to rapport an arcmin to a measurement that would be more easily understandable? Not necessarily as a multiple of grains of rice.
I only know one song by that artist, so my choice was obvious.

Funny enough, my first guess was "Bleachers" but they weren't a choice, so I went with "fun." Until today I had no idea Jack Antonoff led both bands.
Note that https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/pull/45 is actually fairly active; it doesn't look like "very low priority" to me.
Aren't emojis exactly that?
Uh, what's wrong with Taxis? I didn't use them often and perhaps I got lucky, but they always showed up on time and I always arrived in time (although, at least on two occasions, I wondered whether I would arrive alive -- the ride on Crete from the airport still haunts me twenty years later). With Uber I would face the same risks, plus drivers not trained for commercial transport of persons. And boy, did I observe some utterly clueless Uber drivers.
Ev Williams is a legend and his contribution to posterity is already assured, however it is hard not to conclude that he dropped the ball with Medium - which had a dominant position for the written word, and yet now looks to be superceded by SubStack and - ironically - Twitter, where threading seems to be the new blogging. It's not only about the writing / reading experience, its also about audience growth. Look forward to his next project
> OG Simpson

It's OJ, but thanks for giving me the perfect stage name for my 90s-pop-culture-themed hip-hop act.
Looks Nice, Surely Will Use For Future Projects!
> The EHT images are created using synthetic aperture techniques to create an effective aperture with a diameter of earth's orbit around the sun.

Small correction: The EHT is a synthetic aperture telescope the size of the Earth, not the size of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

Synthetic aperture telescopes need both amplitude & phase information from each observing station & have to combine the phase of simultaneous observations in order to create the final image. We can’t do this on the scale of the earth’s orbit, because we don’t have a radio telescope on the far side of the sun!

Maybe one day ...
If every ad network sustained website died I for one would be happy with this return to the good old early 2000s when hyper optimized content farms weren't a thing.
Kind of, but not really.

YouTube MCNs are more like book publishers: none of them are very large in number of supply-side entities aggregated. Some of them have "popular" talent that could very well get YouTube's attention on their own, but none of them are doing collective bargaining for thousands of creators. So there are still tons of them; so YouTube doesn't really relate to them on a first-name basis.

Like book publishers, MCNs mostly offer one of two benefits: either "we do the hard business parts of running a content-creation business for you" (not a lie, though it's a bad deal); or "we have at least one very popular creator, and so by joining with us, you're at-least-theoretically taking advantage of the attention they get." (When that's tenuous, as the popular creators aren't beholden to these groups and might leave at any time, and if they do, there goes your trump card in dealing with YouTube.)
> Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a subgenre of role-playing computer games traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Maybe this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31540909
Is your corporate apology coming from personal experience in Amazon or another "BigCo" where you can cite actual instances where a massive corpus of petty infractions has protected line workers from the malicious "people with the authority"?

Otherwise the parent commenter's conjecture as to how this surveillance system functions in reality is about as good and useful and thoughtful as your own. Maybe worth keeping in mind.
I wouldn't call it winning the lottery; it's just that people remember people they admire for whatever reason. I am early in my career, but I definitely have a short list of people I've worked with that I admire for a number of reasons (integrity, empathy, getting shit done, etc). I have pushed to work with them for those reasons, and I feel like I've gotten work people admiring me for whatever reason.
Blogger, Twitter and Medium. Thanks Ev. Still long for clutter free Medium interface.
From the other comments, I understand why it's there, but i wish they would photoshop them out.

The images take on a more synthetic and fake quality when the technical physical man-made constraints of our telescope get projected out onto the natural very much NON-man-made universe.

Look at https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7ETPF7DVBJAC42JR5N6EQRH.png and observe the incredible entropy in the nebula itself. The consistent, perfect, straight lines, of each star are jarring in the image.
First they tell me I can use their IDE forever if I pay for it. Then they go back on their word and prevented me from using the thing I already paid for. They’re being spiteful to their customers
ABM can be used to model human movement. In our project at university we used it to model how people evacuate a building in case of a fire. I remember seeing (I think on Nat Geo) how stampedes/crowds could be modeled/avoided at concerts etc.
I think Medium showed the world that you can't build a subscription business by commoditizing the content. I've read a lot of great content on Medium, but I don't remember who it was by, and that's why I never considered subscribing to Medium. Their content lacks the personality that platforms like Substack, and even traditional online newspapers like NYTimes, possess.
I'm biased since I work on a managed language that targets the web, but I strongly believe that it is a great use case for WASM.

Most programs targeting WASM are client-side apps with rich user experiences and I believe all but a small fraction of users would be better served implementing rich UIs in managed languages. Doing UI work in C++ (which I have done plenty of) is a special exercise is pain for almost no upside. GC is great.
> everyone is taught to hate anything that even resembles socialism

And yet polls show that the younger population has a largely positive opinion of socialism, or at least, much more positive than it used to be. So is this "teaching" ineffective, or what?