skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not an employee of Uber. I accept their bids for rides when I want to and that’s it. I have no commitment or responsibility to them besides that ride and vice versa.

Yes, you have no commitment to them except following the very stringent rules and regulations set by them, without exception, when you decide to work for them.

> So this whole pricing argument is invalid and inconsistent with historical interpretations.

Merely being not being able to set your own price is not what makes you an employee. The distinction is a tax one, concerning benefits among other things. All "historical interpretations" are ultimately arbitrary like the very distinction between self-employed vs. employed. In the case of Britain, their opinion is pretty clear on this in respect to Uber.

> Another example is doctors here in Canada who bill out to the government at a fixed price schedule. Are they not self employed either? After all, they all bill the same entity and are not allowed to set their own prices.

I know nothing of Canadian doctors to say one way or another. Regardless, the distinction between being an independent contractor vs. an employee and being "self employed" or not are two different conversations. You can be legally an employee and be self employed, e.g. an entrepreneur. You can also be self-employed yet not be an employee, e.g. an independent contractor.

Uber is attempting to argue that its workers are both self employed and independent contractors, yet lack the full autonomy that someone in that position would have, notably, being able to set one's own prices and work environment.

A hypothetical service where you set your own price and profile, ala eBay + Thumbtack and are chosen would be the scenario that Uber supposes its drivers are already in.

---

This pretty much summarizes it: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4a493c30-578d...
Wonderful article. This really touched me -

"I offer no solutions. No wishful thinking, no politically correct language, or bleeding hearts can change a thing. I was only a witness who watched, with great sadness and a feeling of helplessness, the disappearance of a culture."
It's not about accomplishing anything. It's about the principle of it.

If someone thinks sending the gov't an extra $10,000 is money well spent, then they do it regardless if others do it.
Driving a BMW is not a representation of fact beyond maybe “I have permission to drive this BMW”, and would thus not be a misrepresentation of fact, material or otherwise.
Also see https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-silicon-valley-ceo-ind...
If people make enough to retire every three years at a 0% tax rate, then most people will retire or switch to a less productive hobby job, because the marginal utility of more money approaches zero after three years.

Tax those same people 90%, and they’ll work for 30 years.

There is evidence of this phenomenon from the early days of the automobile: Craftsmen building cars by hand could and did retire after a few dozen cars, further inflating wages by constricting demand of labor. In contrast, Ford’s screw-turning factory workers worked for decades.

I don’t buy that lowering effective wages decreases the number of hours most people will be willing to work.
Back in the days when a large part of Usenet was implemented using dialup modems and uucp, the routing was set up to optimize the cost of the calls: machines called machines that were nearby to take advantage of free or flat-rate calls, and when machines needed to make long distance calls they'd do so after 11pm when the rates went down. Thus, it could take days for articles to propagate to the edges of the network.

Also: Interesting discussion of this article from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321236
> unaligned [...] rather than embedding them in the middle of the main flow of text

I don't understand. The first and simplest use of CSS float that I learned is to embed an image into the text flow, with the text wrapping around it, http://allwebco-templates.com/support/S_textwrap.htm

I always thought that was its original purpose. And it is its effect in its purest form --- when you set the float property and nothing else. (Using it to lay out a page in columns, as the article mentions, usually takes juggling other properties, like margin, width, etc.)
FWIW, there is actually a pretty great technique for sussing out the degree to which environment and heredity impact various traits: twin studies.

Twin studies have repeatedly shown that genetics contribute from 30%-80% of the variance in most psychological traits. Interestingly, they have also shown that the shared environment (family, parents, socioeconomic status, etc.) has zero contribution to variation in psychological traits. All of the environmental variation is due to what is called the non-shared environment.

I highly recommend a book by Judith Rich Harris called The Nurture Assumption if this kind of stuff is interesting to you.
I would have thought that the porn rental market would've been hit much harder and earlier by the internet.
It's also just coming off an all-time high. The worst performer this session was the index's top performer in the run-up, which strongly suggests this drop was fueled by profit taking. One thing to realize is that the market sometimes just moves because of traders trading...
Thanks, this looks the closest to Solaris' dtrace.
(as acknowledged in its docs)
Special things start to happen with retinal projection + bufferless, clockless, stochastic rendering of signed distance fields.
(execve)...

Challenge accepted. :-) Might be just a matter of a shebang at the beginning and an 'exec' before the final $p.
A WM separate from clients is one of the most convenient things to me, and something I miss most on Windows and macOS. Try moving or minimizing a window of a misbehaving Windows app.

I hope Wayland is not bereft of this concept, and most well-behaved apps will keep delegating windows management to it.
1. Many of those productivity gains happen via outsourcing work to countries where wages are much lower.

2. Many consumer goods have become cheaper as a result. The biggest ones, though (Rent, education, healthcare) have not. Incidentally, none of them can benefit from 'productivity gains.' Well, healthcare can, but...
I wouldn't argue about this exact file since it's might be a bit more recent, but that game is about 25 years old. Do you seriously think keeping it on archive.org is bad?

It's very likely to not work on modern systems anyway (dosbox will work of course) and version from GOG likely wouldn't be installable on let's say DOS or Windows 95. And there is plenty of people who might want to run old games on some ancient PC for personal fun or for museum-like purposes.

Another option for open source projects it's to just use demo version which is 100% legit way to get assets. Though it's not always possible because some demo versions don't contain whole assets that fully-featured engine would depend on.
Thank you for the excellent description
"When the tide goes out you see who is swimming naked" - Warren Buffet
That's a great idea. Let's all quit our day jobs, and buy into the S&P 500.

At the end of the day, someone has to 'waste' money, in order for companies to earn money. A quarter saved is a quarter that doesn't end up on a revenue sheet.
> For the stuff that uses machine learning, I have to admit, I have no idea how that stuff performs

That's ok.

You're in good company with the vendors who sell ML cybersecurity appliances.
To collect a $560M lotto jackpot, make her name public. She refuses
He only pleaded guilty to 1 count of wire fraud and not all five that were charged against him.
> You literally can ask, why in the world do we do crazy procedures X/Y/Z? Because the auditors accepted it and we are too scared to change it.

I interpret it as the parent saying that they're afraid of making changes because they're afraid that the auditors won't sign off on it. "Scared" is a funny word to use when they could have called it a "pain in the ass", etc.
You probably won’t own a self-driving car, but you'll ride in them a lot
If you're a normal person, who had a decently sized/exposed market retirement account in 2007, it took you about a decade to get back to the same level, inflation adjusted.

Jesus! What was this average person invested in? From the bottom of the market to back to the prior peak was 3 years for me. And I was so heavy in equities I lost 1/3 of my portfolio's value.

Where does this "decade" come from? The DJIA is nearly 90% higher than the peak pre-2008.

And I know you said inflation, but that has been 1-2% per year since then.
> their claim they owned all my work at all times

How do they respond if you attempt to negotiate salary based on the expectation of putting in 8760 hours per year?
Blockbuster was hit hard by Netflix, which while it was on the internet was still physical delivery when it started killing Blockbuster (broadband penetration and internet-to-TV connections weren't yet common enough for living room streaming to compete strongly with DVD and then BluRay delivery.)

There were efforts to reproduce the Netflix DVD model for porn, but home delivery of porn always had a comfort issue, so they were never as successful against local rental as Netflix was against blockbuster.
Wow, very sad, obscure bug lol. I think your right that nobody turned off font smoothing, although i really don't see any reason why you would.
It's a superset of JSON, which is valuable.
One of my favorite quotes about C:

> Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
> Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

This is literally the opposite of what you are claiming. To quote wikipedia,

"The act was passed in part in reaction to the 1995 decision in Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co.,[3] which suggested that service providers who assumed an editorial role with regard to customer content, thus became publishers, and legally responsible for libel and other torts committed by customers. This act was passed to specifically enhance service providers' ability to delete or otherwise monitor content without themselves becoming publishers."

> 18 U.S. Code § 2257 ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257 )

This is the law requiring record keeping for producers of pornographic content. This has nothing to do with what we're discussing here.

> 47 U.S. Code § 231 ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/231 )

This law requires people who make porn available to not allow minors to access it. The closest thing I can see that relates to our point is that it grants immunity to ISPs for porn sent over their network.
Hope this spectre doesn't meltdown.
I know this is a place for software/web developers but good god, really? It was at best a minor tech article in a car magazine in the Wal-Mart magazine stands.

What exactly did you learn?

He kept saying the i3 "life module" (agile! AGILE!) was some magical achievement. Yeah, carbon fiber is neat. They also choose the grain direction of panels for optimum efficiency.

- We've been using grain direction on wood for what, thousands of years?

- We've been made cars "strong" for century. It's called a tube frame. And it's one of the main reasons dragsters/NASCAR drivers don't die on impacts that will kill most people in consumer cars.

What's actually important these days is not how "strong" a frame is. It's how it deforms to absorb maximum energy on impact so the passengers experience the least acceleration possible. "Strong" has been solved. And crush areas have been common for decades upon decades. The only new thing here is they're using carbon fiber. And the only reason they're doing that... is 1) "marketing" and 2) weight reduction because battery cars are very heavy AND very sensitive to weight for mileage.

Automotive companies aren't on the frontline of technology. They're on the frontline of CHEAP/mass-producible technology.

Simply putting some carbon fiber on a body is not magical to us practicing mechanical engineers. But I guess it may seem like "magic" to software people, the way mechanical people see IT/software as magic.

What's actually "Cool" about this company/video is how they can tear down entire vehicles and come up with accurate cost estimates, as well as the construction order. That takes a _lot_ of work and industry experience. But the technology in those cars? It's not even remotely new.
Boostnote v0.9.0 Release
"Gotcha" means "I understand you", its not an accusation or a condemnation.

Technology is not a moral issue, how people use it is. You seem to be confusing the two.
Here’s Ajit Pai’s “proof” that killing net neutrality created more broadband
Windows 10 S becoming a mode, not a version, as Microsoft shakes up its pricing
Is magic worth anything if it doesn’t work on 100% of its surface?

Isn’t “use magic, except in cases where the magical internals don’t apply—then be explicit” a strictly worse API than “just be explicit”?
It's very interesting to look at the number and complexity of parts in even an extremely old and thus much simpler car, then contrast it to cars today with at least 2 orders of magnitude more; this one for 1929-32 Chevrolets, for example, is already over 300 pages:

http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/parts/1929_32/index.htm...

...and from it we can also glean somewhat surprising historical facts, such as the fact that pistons were $1.75 each:
http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/parts/1929_32/2932mppl0...
Eh, I've read the "value at $0" thing and don't really agree with it. Admittedly it's very hard for a rank-and-file employee to put a reasonable value on an equity offer, but I think valuing at $0 is potentially leaving money on the table.

In the end, though, I'm going to pick a company that I'll be happy working at, regardless of the compensation package, so maybe it doesn't matter that much.
Webpack does that with chunk hash. Common chunks go into common.js, and my app goes into app.js, if I change my app's JS, only app.js gets downloaded which is probably 50kb whereas common.js is maybe 300kb.

The point is there is a tradeoff between speed & efficiency. If every line of code were its own file, you'd have a high amount of efficiency when only 1 line changes, but loading that would be a nightmare on mobile.
> "Gotcha" means "I understand you", its not an accusation or a condemnation.

It can also mean, roughly, «j’accuse»—or perhaps, “I have just proven the accusation against you”—so it can be ambiguous when context doesn’t make the intent clear.
How would startups gather BI information then?
Working on it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Good and hopefully they'll be cleaned out so we can have decent investments in quality cryptocurrency startups.
I’m not at all sure, but poking around on Wikipedia suggests that the idea of bytecode interpreters might have dated to roughly the same time as MUMPS, which means it wouldn’t have necessarily been the obvious choice at that time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
I think people love the idea of bad actors taking their picture because it intrinsically validates them. That guy with google glass is clearly out to take pictures of me. Oh the humanity.
Riots by themselves won't do much, but that depends on what's being destroyed:

> There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Violence is still by far the most effective way of preventing the machine (whatever the machine in question happens to be) from working. Peaceful protesting has achieved absolutely nothing for the last 50 years, it's a lie told to keep the masses in line.
Canonical forms seem a big win. And teeny parsers.
Quotes from exactly two people (a religious scholar and a literary studies scholar) provide the basis for the title.

There are no statistics quoted (if they are present in the original survey).

Furthermore, the quotes specifically do not doubt the scientific method -- but rather the applicability of scientific methods to the study of the human condition.

We all love science, but the scientific method is not applicable to everything - not even to all parts of what people see as science. For one, that's not how many rich areas of mathematics were discovered and developed (e.g. non-Euclidian geometry makes for a nice example).

Insofar, there are great obstacles to applying the scientific method to social sciences. Try building a predictive model for sin. Even if your model is perfect, it will only be perfect to you.

EDIT: the quoted paper, of course, doesn't support the title, and the quotes were taken somewhat out of context. See my comment below.
Isn’t this going to make shell scripts that were already fragile on anything but bash not only fragile but also harder to debug? Combining the engineering ideas of JavaScript and autoconf with the checkered history of shell scripts seems like a case of -1 + -1 = -5.
So what companies do you consider to be "role models"?
>Only 1 in 10,000 species reproduce by clones.

When you see a statistic like that it points to a filtering event in a species. Much like the previous type of banana was clones, once a disease rises up that attacks that type of clone there just isn't the genetic diversity and rate of change to save the species.
Can you give concrete examples of Google doing this? (acquiring a company just to shut it down, not using its technology)
Smash cut to a barren wasteland with no one and nothing left. Maybe cryptocurrency has a bright future, but I’m skeptical that any of the extent ones fit that bill. PoW is obscene, Lightning impractical, and it may just be that the whole thing is fatally flawed.
It wasn't just porn they didn't like, Blockbuster edited any movie they considered unsavory before the transition to DVD. The last movie I rented from Blockbuster was "Bad Lieutenant." The normal, R-rated cut is 91 minutes. The Blockbuster cut was under an hour. They cut so much of the movie that the plot no longer made sense.

I was so annoyed I vowed never to rent from them again.
Substitute “making music” for “programming” here, as a thought experiment. See how that reads.

It would still be correct. Low average incomes for musicians and most apps not breaking even is a signal in both cases that the current supply is more than enough, and you should consider other opportunities.

People make music in spite of the hardship. All of society benefits from their irrational, self destructive drive for creation.

There's a difference between the total and marginal benefit to society. If all musicians spontaneously quit and nobody replaced them, we'd be worse off. But in the actual world, if somebody is deciding whether to pursue a career in music or engineering, the latter probably has a higher expected benefit.
The earnings of the assets are generally like the assets: digital or paper currency, or their equivalents.

You can trade those for things, now. In saving for retirement, you're planning to trade the earnings from those assets for future things made by future workers.

Assuming the economy continues relatively normally, we'll be able to do that when we retire. (I don't think retirement is a ponzi scheme).

But, I do think it's worth considering things from that angle. For example, could everyone do FIRE (financial independence, early retirement)? No. At least, not unless in their efforts they created perpetually working robots to replace everyone who retired.

To put this in other terms, you could say I'm saying "if there aren't enough future workers, the future value of investments will decline, causing retirement shortfalls". Which, again, doesn't make retirement a ponzie scheme. I'm just providing another frame: money can be confusing. It doesn't work in the aggregate the way it does for an individual.
Interesting that most of the examples are in French. Does French possess more easily confused near-homophones than English?
Plunging saving rates? Saving rates jumped after the last crash. They are far higher in the US than countries like Canada, for example.
Could they pay a higher salary for maintenance to compensate? Like a reverse auction. Then it becomes something that the people who are most desperate for money will do.
here's a more detailed article with a chart back to 1980:
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/05/18/looking-behind-th...

This article suggests it's all micro-cap stocks:
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b15nlcmsmn57fx...
Estimating the U.S. Labor Share (2017)
Cool to see all the streets, they must be enormous
>You've got some good shots, but they're a bit grainy when you zoom in.

That is because I have a cheap lens and don't use a full frame camera. It's as simple as that. My camera has twice the noise of a professional full frame camera. And using a professional lens would mean I can lower my ISO further reducing noise. I have shot with a 500 F/4. Its incredible, but I can't justify buying a $9000 lens.

>With a staged scene you can use a flash or use the position of the Sun to make sure you have enough light so things don't turn out so grainy.

Sure, but that doesn't require a staged scene. I would just hang out with the setting/rising sun behind my back and shoot in a narrow 30 degree arc of where the light is the best. To your point, yes staged _anything_ is easier than spending hours finding the perfect shot. But I don't think what you're saying is indicative of how a professional or amateur bird photographer goes about producing their work. One other thing, rare birds don't just hang out in your backyard,, you have to go to them - they don't come to you - making staged photography almost impossible.
Google declared many times that they do care about freedom of information, do not endorse censorship, etc.

If their policies were a bit more cohesive, maybe the people who killed Reader would have remembered these declarations, and maybe decided differently.
I upvoted you and I appreciate the link.

However, regular taxi drivers in the UK and elsewhere are subject to almost all the same “suggestive of employee” points and have been uncontroversially classified as self-employed contractors for decades. Especially if you consider Uber to be the modern equivalent of a combination of the old system of taxi regulator, dispatcher, and payment processor. This despite regular taxi drivers also generally not using their own equipment or having as much control over their working hours.

For this reason the EAT decision smells like politically motivated bias again Uber.
> If I was them, I would add a bone conduction speaker in the stem so it can give you audible information as well.

It would probably be too heavy, part of their 'non-intrusiveness' goal is to make it be very light.
I consider this a symptom of the massive wealth inequities in contemporary America. As other comments have pointed out, this phenomenon is not unique start-ups. The most direct cause of the IPO decline is a lack of necessity. Public markets used to provide crucial injections of capital for investment and growth. Currently venture capitalists control enough wealth to provide those investments directly.

This point is made most dramatically by looking at the growth of private equity investment through the early naughts. Some relevant plots can be found in [1] which uses the data to advocate for deregulation, which I do not believe gets at the underlying issue.

[1] https://www.cato.org/cato-handbook-policymakers/cato-handboo...