skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a negotiation with severe information asymmetry.

The business does hiring many times, so they reap the efficiencies of scale and get increasingly adept over time at hiding the risks they offload onto the contractors.

To balance the information asymmetry, the contractors would need to pool their efforts similarly, and improve their ability to discover the true compensation. In other words, collective bargaining, with specialists who understand the full terms of the contract including all that's hidden in the fine print.

<snark cantresist="true">All those government officials who pass laws crippling unions should stop treating business owners like idiots who need "protecting".</snark>

Increasing unionizion has many side effects on the wider economy, and it's not my purpose to flog them. Instead, I'm merely trying to illustrate that each individual contractor is at a significant disadvantage when negotiating.
Just put economy in the middle, first and business closer to emergency exits.
I will admit, there is many a time I wish for a truck for its cargo and towing capacity. Happy driving!
Not only that, but unlike the crapware installed on Windows/Android, you can simply trash those apps and they take up no space on your system. 99% of users probably find the majority of those apps really helpful.
That's quite recent. Instant feedback, starting with the 24-hour news cycle and ending with social media clicks, brought on the bomb-throwers. In the 80s and 90s it was not unusual to pick up the paper and read an informed, cogent, well-reasoned essay about some topic that few readers might be interested in (and most might disagree with). All that's gone now, however. It's all just clan-based emotion-driven click-bait and grenade-throwing now.

I said I scan a ton of commentary. It used to be (ten years or more ago) that the majority would be, well, opinion pieces. Now only 5-10% or so are actually opinion pieces. Most of the time it's just cheerleading to people with more and more invective about things the audience already agrees with. There's really little value to be had.
From the top of my head, CoreOS. (It's built with Gentoo tooling, but intentionally ships without emerge etc. because you're supposed to use it as a base for Docker.)
I think GraphQL found it's place between backend and frontend as a data layer. Airbnb just wrote an article detailing this very use-case [0]. Perhaps it isn't suitable for public APIs.

[0]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/reconciling-graphql-an...
Yes, Autistici/Inventati are excellent too.
Is that true, do most people like doing the same thing every day? It certainly is not true for me

It depends how broadly you define “same thing”. I think many if not most of us would happily focus on programming every day.
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The other part of the allusion to Richard Brautigan's poem (emphasis mine):

"I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace."
I think unions would work best as a replacement for the "good" (to workers) part of "HR".

For any unionized category/shop there should be a grouping of unions (adding a new union to that group should require a simple majority among a voting quorum of all active employees) which could thus collectively bargain between a large business and/or group of businesses and the workers that make that possible.

I also like the idea that unions on strike (in this case, groups of them; they'd agree to go out on strike together and vote together for it) don't disrupt business, but rather nullify profits. Maybe they agree that during "strikes" all compensation gets divided by charity/etc. This goes for the workers AND the businesses; both of whom still have to pay normal costs.

-- edit --

I forgot one other critical feature. Just like employees might take an employee though any of the unions, so to can the employee switch unions (I assume seniority and compensation offers would be favorable to prompt such a switch.)
I read this as "I didn't agree with what he wrote; therefore he was trying to convince people that good is bad and wrong is right".
4 - be a student.

If you are registered to a university, Barclay's will have something to sell you.
> the pay sux

Strongly disagree. Waiting tables or bartending at high-end restaurants could be considered gig work. Wedding photography is gig work. I have a friend who runs a stationary side business as a "gig". These jobs, if you are able to market yourself effectively and gain a good reputation and some solid contacts, can pay extremely well. I have a nice 9-5 with benefits and stability, but my friends in the above positions earn about the same I do and work close to half of my hours.

That obviously isn't the case for everyone who does these, but I don't think you can make the claim "the pay sux" for all gig work.
I think the argument being made by TFA is that rules and structures can, if constructed incorrectly, privilege 'civil' advocacy for abhorrent behavior over discourse that accurately characterizes it for what it is.

Hyperbolically decrying minor things as atrocities has led to rules of decorum that assume no atrocities actually occur, and any heated argument is automatically bad.
That's correct. After 2 months of working and not being able to get paid, finally, someone at an HSBC branch accepted the letter from the agency and opened my account. With the statements of that account now I have proof of address and I can open as many bank accounts as my heart desires :)

Later I got a job as an UI developer in the City, but the first few months were hard.
Um. This is quite possible.

Talking on the phone is a unique thing, and takes more skill than talking in person. Not only does sound get somewhat distorted on the phone, but you don't have as many cues to take from when speaking. You can't see their facial expressions, for example. These help you understand words you aren't as familiar with. Not only that, but most folks are less patient on the phone than in person. You can be at an intermediate level of language and still have problems on the phone.

Not only that, but he's talking job-interview skill level phone-talking. Speaking in a second language is much more difficult under stress. This is exactly why I tend to use English instead of Norwegian with doctors and dentists.

In person, folks are more relaxed. If you forget a word, people fill it in. And with his job, he could easily learn the lingo he needed to do the job. He would have a limited context of things he actually knew, small talk isn't so bad, and for everything else you can ask.
One very interesting project is rejoiner: https://github.com/google/rejoiner

It translates GraphQL calls to gRPC queries.
I think particularly at _this_ time, when he is writing his good bye, this is the time to apply the principle of charity, this is the time to remember the good things he's done, and not the bad.

Remember that he's one of the guys consistently disagreeing with Trump (which is still rare amongst republicans).
The numbers I've seen for a TPU v3 pod are ~100 PFLOPs, whereas this article claims over 3 EFLOPs, so that's at least 30 TPU v3 pods. Arguments about how useful FLOPs as a measure actually are aside, that's still quite a lot of computing power.
And the current disastrous result is just as predictable and evil as Iraq. Maybe more-so because we have such a recent example of why it is such a bad idea.
This is nonsense because anyone can see that the technology facilitated outsourcing and offshoring and logistics. The productivity that should have been in the old industrial heartlands happened - it just happened in China instead.
I don't know if we need unions, but we need to recognize that the incentive for a business is only to be maximally profitable. And they are only responsible to their shareholders.

It would be nice if Governments properly recognized the value businesses provide with long term stable jobs, and aligned the incentive in a way that creates more stable and happy communities in the distant future.

Right now governments will give anything to Amazon to get them to move to town and bring all those jobs with them. But how much will we incentive McDonald's to keep jobs, and not to replace all their employees with perfect hamburger vending machines?
>Uber was not a surprise at all for me...

When I moved to the US in 2003, the lack of something like Uber was a surprise.

Not in the smartphone-app sense, of course (those didn't exist yet), but in the sense of regular-Joes-making-a-buck-giving-a-ride sense.

Back in Ukraine, there was no taxicab monopoly. You could hail a ride on the street simply by raising your hand - and someone would pick you up pretty fast. Some people did it for a living, some would use the extra income on the way to/from work if you were going in the same direction (not unlikely if you are standing on a major street going to downtown, for example).

The fares were unregulated and negotiated on the spot, but there was an equilibrium point for every route. (Unless you were a tourist, in which case you'll be almost surely ripped off - nothing any local would care about though).

And, of course, there was no rating system, which took away the incentives for drivers to go out of their way to maintain a nice appearance. Don't like it, don't take the ride; the next car is will stop by a minute later for you, the next passenger will be around the corner for the driver.

Other than the lack of ratings and fixed pricing, this worked like Uber works now in other aspects.

What might be surprising is that central pricing and ratings really don't make ridesharing much different from what I described. It made the system more accepted in the US, but the end result is pretty much the same: I can hail a ride anywhere from people I don't know. The system stabilizes at a price point and expected level of service.

And there's a remarkable similarity in the downsides of this system. My father made some money giving rides back in Ukraine between jobs, and while the short-term revenue looked great (compared to average monthly salaries), so much of it went into gas and maintenance that the whole gig was hardly worth it - and it took more time than a job.

This is what Uber drivers are discovering themselves right now. The ones who took out loans for their shiny cars are especially screwed.
> rare passionate rants

Wow, that's a really charitable way of spinning them.
> Is there any way to do a more fine-grained breakdown of where all that code is coming from?

See https://gitter.im/dotnet/corert?at=5b1af059178709146f21076f for some techniques to do this
This a good list, but with some exceptions. At work I use laravel (php) and it is reasonably pleasant, works well, and is fast to develop with. On the other hand, I have been working on a project with nodejs/express/sequelize, and I have to say I’ve been a little let down. I love JavaScript and I like node a lot, but the lack of features in very popular libraries is worrisome. I found myself really disliking sequelize, and express still doesn’t support async/await natively.
> One of the things that human brains do when somebody reduces their caloric intake is that they down-regulate that person's motivation to do stuff.

You are saying that just because I'm eating fewer calories, I'm going to have less motivation? That makes no sense. Sure, if I'm hungry (similar to if I am tired, upset, etc) I will have less motivation, but as long as my hunger is satiated, I don't see how that makes sense.

The real problem with us (myself included) these days is that we eat WAY more than we need. Cutting back to a more reasonable level should not be causing motivational problems.
Arc-standard [1] is the classical algorithm in question. See section 3.2 of Dyer's paper: "Our parser is based on the arc-standard transition inventory (Nivre, 2004), given in Figure 3".

Perhaps it's not still state of the art, but I don't see dependency parsing as a task in that suite of benchmarks, and NLP isn't my primary field, so I'm not up-to-date on the whether or not another method has outperformed it in the last three years. (I would be surprised if one hadn't.) At the time it was, and regardless, I don't doubt that the current state of the art similarly uses neural networks only as a subset of the complete method.

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W04-0308

Edit: I can't seem to reply to the post below me. There isn't an entry CMU/Pittsburgh in your benchmark. The paper refers to the Stanford Dependency [SD] and Penn Chinese Treebank 5 [CTB5], and reports 90.9/85.7, respectively, for LAS scores. I'm not sure if any of the treebanks listed correspond to these, but these numbers do seem in line to at least be competitive regardless of which treebank is used.
Ah, good. Thank you.
You consider people's disgust with Facebook's mishandling of sensitive data a 'fad'? I hope this fad continues and grows.
SaaS, because cron is too hard. (Personally I prefer systemd timers.)
They wouldn't, it's just the principle of the thing!
You worded it perfectly. Here in the US, we call that “the free market“.
Financial companies need a distraction from their massive leaks of data that you didn't voluntarily hand over to them?
2018071392 has the claims on page 23 of 33. They specify:

A DNN trained on simulated input

Controlling a "robot" based on actual input

That's pretty obviously a "devil".
Quite true. And yet there was immense pressure to do it, often from people who were vocal opponents of the Iraq war (notably the French government).
It is important to take your mental health seriously before it reaches crisis points. By crisis, I mean where other people make choices for you as a result of your forfeit of authority in the situation.

There was a situation in Canada where police incident reports were shared with the U.S. border authorities under a law enforcement information sharing agreement, and a few people were denied entrance to the U.S. as a result of historic crisis encounters with police. Cops aren't bad, but institutions can be callous. Similarly, the record of a mental health crisis (or failing to disclose it) can have an impact on certain kinds of insurance, security clearances, (as above) travel, custody agreements, and by extension, jobs.

Learn to stay mentally healthy, and realize that it is an investment you make, often at the cost of other immediate things, which pays off as the result of sound decisions compounded over years.
Posting an anonymous comment on Reddit? I don't know, at this point anything is as effective as that. I'm just tired of seeing these hotline numbers shared across all forms of media as if they were the solution to everything. Real therapy, as far as I know, is the only effective solution. There's no low cost solution other than maybe trying to form deeper relationships with the people around you.
Total typo, or rather autocorrect-o, but I’m running with it now!
The emergency door exit instructions specifically mention checking for fire outside as one of the steps.

It's also one of the requirements for starts and landings, along with "make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their full upright position".
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The world is always a poorer place without people with minority opinions, no matter how immoral or heinous.

Separate your politics from your rational mind. Freedom of speech means people making well-reasoned essays for things you might find horrible. That's the entire point, peaceful persuasion through reason and civil discourse. And if it were only things we found comfortable, we would stagnate as a species.

Running around with your head on fire in a moral panic constantly doesn't accomplish much for your side -- and it makes for horrible public policy. We should mourn the loss of any civil person who makes a reasoned and rational case for anything. Even if they are wrong, they raise a new generation on understanding why they are wrong and being able to think their way through the issues. In fact, the people who are the most wrong -- as long as they are civil, rational, and make well-reasoned arguments -- are the most valuable protector of a free and moral society that we have.

I swear I'm getting an inflatable copy of "On Liberty" and start beating people over the head with it. Western society went over this ground 200 years ago. Nothing has changed since then.
GraphQL has seen a lot of adoption, but the majority will be private APIs rather than public APIs like Github's.

There's no rules about how you have to use it, but the problem it was built to solve was communication between first-party applications and backends.
They will probably stop when Facebook stops being a shitty company. Don't hold your breath.
It's a shame windows on the leading edge of the blended wing are not very practical. Maybe one day we'll be able to make the composite machinery switch to transparents where a window is supposed to be.

This would probably also allow for much larger windows.
> flagship stores famously lose money due to exorbitant rent and are actually marketing expenses

That makes Macy's look much worse; show me the store commercial where a customer walks into the store only to be stymied by the staff's inability to understand the local language.
Clearly not everyone wants the same thing out of AirBnb. I mostly prefer an AirBnb because it'll be a much nicer space, with a full kitchen, for a similar or lower price than a hotel.

I find the traditional double bed hotel rooms depressing now.
David Simon isn't even right in the argument he is having with those who he wishes to die of boils - Non-nationals entering or attempting to cross the US border at a non-designated time or place is a crime according to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
One reason could be that the media companies saw there is high interest from the readership on this issue = they put more journalists to investigate all the shady stuff Facebook may be doing.
> from toasterlovin

>Then I make a comment about diets being extremely ineffective long-term interventions. You [naasking] disagree

Nope. naasking did not disagree. Here is what they said:

> from naasking

> Dieting also has poor long-term success because people see it as a temporary measure, and not as a lifestyle change as they should, ie. this is how I should be eating from now on. It's no wonder they revert back to previous body composition with that mindset.
Archive link: http://archive.is/jiO8k
So it's pretty obvious by now that we are actively at war with China and Russia on the cyber front. The question is, are we winning? Are we even fighting back?
It says right in this article:

>"The revelations come as Facebook is dealing with the fallout in March related to the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica, a political analytics firm that aided President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign"

For some reason they thought spying on everyone would only help the democratic party I guess. Seems pretty blind to me...
It’s hard to upgrade out of other guests near you slamming the door in the morning as they leave though. Or recycled air shared with a hundred other people that can make you sick.
It's not the breaking that's unethical. It's the not telling anyone.
This technology could fundamentally change our relationship to electricity
That has never been the point of an opinion piece. The point of an opinion piece is to lie, cajole, trick, etc people into accepting your opinion or viewpoint. That's why newspapers separate news from opinion. The point of the opinion piece is opposite of getting people to think. The point of it is to stop people from thinking. It's to get people on your side.
There was a look at local laws, and a lot of ordinances were passed re: home-sharing. I don't know why it transitioned to a national regulation.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/26/national/local-...
Created my fist IO game – bomb your enemies
Correct, it starts with events but as you gain some experience agencies start giving you shifts in restaurants. I worked at some seriously fancy restaurants. It was very interesting to observe and interact with extremely rich people or people in position.
If the war was promoted based on facts and logic, it would have been different. I was not against the first Iraq war nor against the Afghanistan war -- those were straight forward and not based on lies. The Afghanistan war didn't go much better than the Iraq war either, thus it isn't about the after effects.

The Iraq war was sold to the public based on lies and Charles Krauthammer was one of those key promoters pushing those lies. For a good segment of the population at the time it was very obvious this was being done.
Interesting, so does that mean there is no merit to the accusation made by euros that Boeing commercial is subsidized by Boeing military? I mean, I keep hearing people say that as received knowledge, but perhaps they are just thinking about technological cross pollination which while important, doesn’t help that much in bringing new products to market.
Maybe some internal employees are leaking the information?

If you're an employee with information about this project, and you see your CEO (say) pinky-swearing that they didn't share data at all, then you might be motivated to leak this information to a newspaper.
> What changed?

It's in the zeitgeist. The Cambridge Analytica scandal gave the public a tangible threat in Facebook's data promiscuity. At that point, the entire system is incentivized to dig deeper. Whistleblowers who previously wouldn't have thought of leaking start getting inquiries; legal teams ask for contracts to be re-assessed; Congressional staffers make calls; NGOs mobilize to start court cases, et cetera.

Similar to what happened post-Snowden in the E2E space.
You are off by a factor of 1k.
True. But Tor is the large anonymity network that we have. I2P is cool, but it's too small. For high latency, perhaps Mixmaster remailers via alt.anonymous.messages is still workable. Last I checked, there was a Tor onion news server.

I agree about unworkability for real-time communication. But there, you want to keep messages small. And use padding. Trying to make live streaming anonymous is nontrivial.
The original pitch was a black car service, but the legend that TK talks about, in Paris in the snowstorm of December 2008, was that he could ask “anyone there” to drive him, which is closer to carpooling.

(I was at that conference: everything went wrong, but it was mostly super cold. Cars were stuck in slippery snow, so someone suggesting the idea of carpooling sounds odd, but I suspect anyone there would have loved to wait out the traffic inside a heated car.)
It would be easier to feel sympathy for him, if he had ever apologized for his mistake...
> It reminds me in the early days of "smart phones" people would say where is the Linux phone OS we keep hearing about. They just didn't understand that Android was Linux based.

It's actually the people who believe that Android is Linux-based that are
mistaken. If you write for Android, you write for Android and nothing more.
You can't just run the application on a regular Linux (i.e. the one with libc
and X11), and if Google ever rips Linux kernel out of it and replaces with,
say, DOS, most of the applications won't even need to be recompiled, because
they were using Android's API/ABI.
> a no-censorship right wing Twitter alternative that is now in crisis ...

Without strict rules and strong moderation, most online communities devolve into a cesspool of trolls, sock puppets, spam, shills and ignorance.

The noise swamps the signal.

Twitter has come a long way in the last year by clarifying the rules, enforcing the rules, and suppressing the troublemakers that turned Twitter into a cesspool.

Twitter's signal-to-noise ratio has improved quite a lot recently.

Gab claimed to be the alt-Twitter for those banned from Twitter. But without strict rules and strong moderation, it's no surprise that Gab has become a stinking pit.