skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's different though. Part-time retail workers pledge their loyalty to Walmart from 9-13 and to Best Buy from 18-22. They're not instantly choosing which boss is paying better for the next 15 mins. You actually have to get someone to cover your shift if you need a mental health break or something -- otherwise, your relationship with Bestmart is strained and you might be out of work.

For all of the phoniness behind phrases like "ride-sharing" and "gig economy", workers have never had a more horizontal relationship with their bosses -- except, perhaps, in higher pay-grade service sectors where "bosses" are referred to as "clients".
Spark is based on Scala.
The issue is very challenging, but it needs to be solved regardless. IMO, the key to do it right is transparency.

For example, reddit does that, and unlike FB they’re not afraid to talk to journalists about their content policing, see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569778

A quote from that article:

Melissa Tidwell, Reddit’s general counsel, told me, “I am so tired of people who repeat the mantra ‘Free speech!’ but then have nothing else to say. Look, free speech is obviously a great ideal to strive toward. Who doesn’t love freedom? Who doesn’t love speech? But then, in practice, every day, gray areas come up.”
> If someone drives for Uber for 1-ride per month should Uber pay $1000/mo for that driver's health insurance? How about 1-ride per week? How about if they have the app "on" but never accept a ride? Should they be paid for the time they didn't do any driving?

We already account for these situations due to part-time jobs. NY requires a certain amount of wages be met to be eligible for unemployment benefits, for example.
I don't think It's strange at all, if anything it gives them access to data they wouldn't have otherwise.
Interesting that WebAssembly could have such a big impact on the viability of the web version of your product! How much faster was WebAssembly than JavaScript for your Kantu tests? Were the WebGL issues because not all uses had WebGL enabled or because of GPU-specific quirks?
Germany gives tax breaks to people buying real estate to rent it out. If you buy real estate to live in it, you are strictly worse off, when it comes to taxes.
That and trying to get people to understand that "free speech" as a concept is separate from the First Amendment.

Facebook is trying to abide by the principles of free speech. Yes, they could try to censor their platform, but they choose not to in most cases.

And make no mistake, it _is_ censorship. Censorship is not limited to government intervention.
It's not just Senators, plenty of Constitutional experts disagree with you as well: https://www.vox.com/iraq-crisis/2014/9/12/6134159/is-obamas-...

It's interesting how you dismiss things you don't agree with as "magic words". What is the existing AUMF other than a set of "magic words" that gives the President the ability to send soldiers into any country at any time for almost any reason?

Any idea how many countries we are currently fighting in based on this AUMF? Does it bother you that there were/are soldiers fighting in Niger without Congressional knowledge? Did all of these terrorist organizations exist when the AUMF was passed? If not, how can it possibly apply to them?
In many European countries finding a pot of gold buried in your back yard means you have to hand it over to the authorities and maybe get a "finder's fee". You're not allowed to keep or sell such historical artifacts regardless of their monetary value.

I don't know what happens when human remains are involved. Common sense tells me that they would never become the "property" of the land owner.

And of course there is a chance that some artifacts are treated differently than others. A T-Rex fossil is 100% naturally occurring while minted coins or a sarcophagus are not. They may have even been at some point property of the state and as such could be treated as national patrimony.
I don't disagree, crypto functions reasonably well as a direct replacement for cash. But for the same reasons people don't carry cash they won't want to carry crypto either. Crypto can become completely mainstream and not change anything about how banks and payment processors function.
Efficiency Gains of Optical Interconnects at Exascale
Yeah but the BMW i3 is a direct competitor. And it costs $50k and is a much better car than the Tesla model 3.
> They said "I was part of the problem".

You are.

> Because it's quicker to turn around and have a human conversation with someone sitting a yard away than type, take screenshots, and beam them over the network?

No. Because, if everybody does that the office gets loud and distracting and also nothing gets documented and people have to waste time asking and answering the same questions again and again.
No. (At least to anyone who's followed his career.) That dude is a total class act.

As a side note, the article mentions a Seb Montaz-Rosset film that features Kilian called "Downside Up." It's... maybe one of the craziest things I've ever seen. Ski mountaineering is amazing!
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/downsideup
I for one hope that no recession/depression hits.
I think you may be mistaken on the 40's to 50's part.

What you don't see from experienced, well aged professional software engineers is they probably don't want to work in SV or at startups because they may see it as silliness (take home pay beating out lottery ticket options). They don't care much about new & shiny frameworks, etc. unless it helps solving a problem in a better way. They probably have seen new tools/frameworks come and go a few times.

Maybe look for opportunities to work on tougher problems to solve. Maybe explore other options like project management or people management? Don't be fooled into thinking those are the only path to more salary though.

It's also common to forget things with how many libraries and apis we have to use. A common concept in a lot of these is pushing complexity down the stack so you don't have to have it in mind when doing things. Least used things get forgotten.
> shocked to see the list of partners involved

Google and Microsoft?

Think of these companies' retail successes:

- Google has basically zero retail services that are not designed to support its ads business. Chromebook and Pixel devices are arguable exceptions, but as hardware devices irrelevant to this proposal anyway.

- MS has Surface, Windows and Xbox.

Google's moneymaker - Ads - wouldn't be affected by portability since it has no retail customers. MS's products are equally impervious.

Facebook on the other hand would be existentially threatened by this achieving ubiquity. If social media becomes federated, their monopoly rates charged advertisers would fall to competitive levels.

There is Microsoft's LinkedIn and it would be very interesting to be a fly on the wall of the discussions between its execs and the MS execs overseeing this data portability project. Either they don't take the project seriously or MS thinks they may gain more imports into LinkedIn than exports. Or at least enough to come out even.
> This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights.

Not in this case. In New York, taxi drivers are licensed but not employees. Uber and Lyft drivers are all licensed by the TLC, so they're no different legally from any other black cab service.

The situation may be different in other cities, but in New York, all of the established precedent so far classifies TLC drivers as independent contractors or self-employed.
GP is giving an economic rather than a social justice reason for making it a protected class.

I don’t think I agree with him, but that doesn’t make it “not a reason”.

Reason I disagree with him is that if workplaces rearrange themselves to not need physical presence, all the jobs suddenly get done by whichever genuinely third world nation can put high bandwidth internet connection into literal shantytown slums the fastest.

If this was a gradual and planned-for change, starting with boosting the salary expectations of the poorest in the world up to our level, that’s one thing. Doing it to solve housing cost differences between rural and urban areas in developed nations will just blow up in everyone’s faces with unhandled side-effects.
Though, the report of apps which dupe users have been there for iOS too,much less, probably due to various factors like: low % marketshare, better vetting process as you said.
How is the app-uploading mechanism different for iOS, Android? Is it too do with the fact that Android has a more open system.
> I'm talking between 200-500k population

Are there many walkable cities with populations in that range?

> I'm not sure where you're getting your $250 figure from.

Including getting the script.
I'm glad I know the tenor of the conversation here. Enjoy yourselves
Is Uber actually giving out car loans? People are getting those on their own.

It would be like if someone leased a lemonade factory from a 3rd party in order to use my app.
The size and reach of FB poses new questions:

- Is it (de facto) public utility.

- Does it have a public service responsibility.

- Should there be "program content regulation" equivalents for internet social media?

- Should FB stick to removing only illegal content, or should it start doing social control. Misinformation is not generally illegal and what is not socially acceptable is much larger set than what is illegal. Removing Holocaust denials is a start, but what if all FoxNews content disappears too?
> Facebook seems to be making every effort to navigate them in a principled way

I, an adult, can not share pictures of a certain part of day-to-day life with other adults. It is legal to do so and common on other platforms (e.g. Twitter).

What principled position have they taken here?
But neither company would pay you as a full time employee when you're jumping between jobs for both in the same hour/shift.
Exploiting iOS 11.0-11.3.1 Multi-path-TCP:A walk through
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Kanban for E-Mail
Well said, and totally agree. They've had too many whoopsie moments and seem entrenched in not learning or changing what is fundamentally broken in their management and business model. They have no legitimate place in research or academia.
If you reread, I think you will find that I'm not asking people to do research, but rather to back up non-trivial claims of "fact" with actual evidence.

Ideas matter.

Culture is not an imaginary concept. It is real, and it matters. You can safely ignore it in the short run with few problems, but ignore it in the long run and you will may suffer dire consequences.

Certain words have very precise meanings, that's why we have synonyms in our language. Improper choice of words matters, to varying degrees. As does improper "choice" of "facts".

The degree to which an individual and overall collective society understands and correctly interprets (to the best of our ability) reality, and honestly acknowledges the that which they know to be true, matters. Some lying may be justified in an "the ends justifies the means" sense, sometimes, but be careful that you don't get into a habit of it lest you lose the ability to recognize when you're lying. This goes doubly, at least, for the media. Repeat something enough times and people start to believe it whether it is true or not. In practice, perception is reality, and I think you can observe this theory in action in any internet forum, including this one (on certain topics), as well as the overall political discourse we're enjoying in the West at the moment. And when I say this, I am keeping in mind this: https://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html

Censoring (via outright deletion/banning, or via imperfect downvote-based mechanisms) sincere and legitimate opinions that may differ from the current mainstream fashion can result in perception bubbles forming within social media communities. In the long run, this can affect people's perception of reality, and it matters. The universe doesn't care whether you agree or not.

I hope you might reconsider the content of my past and future posts with these ideas in mind.

EDIT (since I am currently censored):

> Great! Both you and the guy that you are originally challenging seem to agree that facts and truth matter. So what's the problem?

He is stating opinions as if they are facts, that's the problem.

> I think I'll do you the favor of not addressing most of the rest of your post, which seems a little... unfocused.

Consider the possibility that it isn't me that is in need of a favor. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris
> InfoWars caused a person to shoot up a pizzeria.

You could say the Beatles caused Sharon Tate to get murdered.
Zoox Flashes Serious Self Driving Skills in Chaotic San Francisco
I'm encouraged to see that their "vow to resist" seems to mainly involve trying to outperform SpaceX, as opposed to asking for legislation/regulation to give their rocket program special status.

EDIT: At least that was the gist of this article, it seems like other sources suggest they may pursue legislative avenues as well.
> That seems like a far more legitimate "independent contractor" relationship than the one Uber sets up between drivers and riders.

The relationship that Uber sets up between drivers and riders in NYC is exactly the same as the relationship that all FHV services in NYC set up between licensed drivers and riders. Uber operates as an FHV service, no differently from any other.

EDIT: Before downvoting, you may want to look up the facts here. In NYC, unlike some other cities, Uber and its drivers are licensed by the TLC. There is literally zero distinction between the operations of them from any other FHV service.
For me the best way to learn design patterns were:
1) Do small changes in big codebase (you can do contributions in github)
2) Get code reviewed by more experienced people

In that case you will start to realize that having some specific design patterns make not only your life but all other developer's easier.
Just wondering to what extent the fed will raise interest rates as promised tariffs raise inflation.

The president might be persuading them otherwise. Look for his Twitter campaign to continue.
I think the following quote is the QED for academia ruining any chance at actual research:

“What I had was an out-of-control intuition that these algebras were key to understanding particle physics, and I was willing to follow this intuition off a cliff if need be. Some might say I did.”
America’s Abandoned $6B Missile Pyramid
"Issue opened two years ago".

Visible work done on generics, beyond go generate, zero.

Unless you also want to teach me how to check Go's source code for the pull request related to that issue.

Until then it is all just smoke and mirrors.
If speed is a concern and you're working in R, you should use data.table instead of dplyr. In Hadley Wickham's words: "We optimise dplyr for expressiveness on medium data; feel free to use data.table for raw speed on bigger data.". Although personally I don't think data.table is any less expressive.
Me too. It's a great way to experience HN.
> But they also aren't a totally independent contractor either as their livelihood is so closely tied to the platform of a private entity.

Does this also mean that, say, an iOS developer could be considered an employee of Apple due to their livelihood being closely tied to that platform?
We're only about 5.5 billion years away from intelligent species being either very common in this galaxy, or completely nonexistent.

Which is to say that we need to start building interstellar transport vessels soon.
I work in a largely open space environment, and it's fine. The thing that makes it fine is that our desks are on wheels, and we are free to relocate to any part of the company that we like, no permission needed. (Well, the other big components are (1) a fair amount of uncommitted or otherwise fluid space to move around in, and (2) a large degree of freedom and self-determination).

Want to make a team? Find a room, move your desks in there and ->poof<- you have a team. Need to sit nearer the two people you're working closely with this week? Just move your desks together for a while, while staying in the same room as the project. Need your own office for a month or two? You can probably find one, or at least find an out-of-the-way corner that is quiet.

I've worked in open-plan spaces where you had assigned seating, and it was fucking miserable. An open plan combined with autonomy and trust works pretty well.
>...the average employee is only productive for 2-3 hours per day

This sounds true to me, so let's assume that it is. If the average employee was unproductive for most of their day it stands to reason that employers would have a great incentive to only employ workers during their productive hours. Assuming the average employee is only productive for three hours a day, the employer is overpaying their employees by about 60%.

The problem seems to be how to eliminate the unproductive hours in a way that also benefits the worker. The way I see things working out is employers asking more of their employees for a smaller amount of compensation. Great for the employer, but I really don't think this is the kind of worker empowerment people are hoping for.
Exapunks, new game from Zachtronics studio (Shenzhen I/O, SpaceChem) )
SpamEatingMonkey offers a set of RBLs allowing you to look up domains which have been registered in the last N days with a simple DNS query (where N is one of 5, 10, 15 or 30)

https://spameatingmonkey.com/services

I've not used this myself, so I'm not recommending it. I only know that it exists.
The BLS data you seem to be referencing[0] categorizes the various forms of contract workers based on their primary job (i.e., where they work the most hours). It is possible for a few part-time gig workers who have other jobs to replace a full-time traditional worker without increasing the number of contract workers reported in that data. Additionally, many independent taxi/limo drivers work for their own businesses, but employ a variety of 'gig' jobs (Uber, Door Dash, etc.) to get clients. It is not clear to me whether the BLS data identifies these as contract workers.

So, you might be right, but without better evidence and a more complex analysis from you, I can't really buy your conclusion.

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm
> Is Uber actually giving out car loans?

They were, but spun it off. https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/uber-sells-its-xchange-lea...
> I've got to imagine that at least a portion of drivers feel like it might be uncouth to discuss something like that and opt to not complain.

That doesn't stop other service workers in similar "gig economy" relationships from complaining (including drivers for other ride-hailing apps complaining about the app I've used to hail them).
We're certainly not improving the console only because of WSL - WSL has highlighted a lot of functionality that we could improve upon, yes, but we're improving the console because the console needs improving.

I'd say that we're conceding that the linux commandline application model (having two streams of characters) is more portable and cross-platform compatible. The Windows Console API isn't particularly well designed and it's incompatible with *nix terminals, so instead of us trying to force our shitty API on them, we'll just adopt theirs.

I certainly care about developers. I know everyone on my team does. I know that there's not a tom of goodwill between Microsoft and external developers, but there are a lot of people at Microsoft who are working really hard to try and fix that.
It's clearly in the realm of opinion.

Also, it's the only part of his post you have issue with? Why is that?
It does have subroutine signatures since 5.20. And there's autobox.
I find myself in a very nuanced place with these sorts of discussions. I don't know what the right answer is.

I _don't_ think the right answer is anything goes (even if you attempt to let the community police that with voting). I've seen many small forums self-destruct due to the dedicated action of a few committed individuals to ruining it -- either explicitly (due to a grudge) or implicitly (a commitment to getting their way at any cost). Misinformation is terribly difficult to combat, and can lead to real harm to real people.

I _don't_ think the right answer is heavy moderation. I even feel like hacker news goes overboard sometimes (though I do enjoy the irony of comments here railing against calls for moderation on FB). A ministry of truth is never a good idea because it creates a clear path to corrupting the truth by controlling an entity.

I do think it is reasonable, however, to consider certain things to be settled facts. Humans breathe air, the earth is round, the holocaust happened, slavery is bad, racism is bad. Of course I have no answer about where the line is drawn between what I just said and a ministry of truth.

In my experience, the most successful communities are intelligently moderated, however, including IRC. Though the moderation was more about banning people and keeping channels on-topic than suppressing certain ideas.

The best answer I have so far is social consequence -- disagree vocally & publicly, block early, block often. Of course there are a whole slew of downsides here too, but I haven't seen anything better.
I can tell this article isn't worth reading due to its stupid title. Why would anyone think assessing the state of the world is not difficult?
Slack, email, or IM don't break my concentration because I ignore them when I don't have time to answer questions. It's not as easy to ignore someone physically tapping on your shoulder.

There's a very simple way to not interrupt someone working: try to catch their eye. If you can't, they're probably busy. Write down your question and move onto another aspect of what you're working on. You might even realize the answer to your own question while working. Maybe you will collect multiple questions, and you can ask them all at once rather than interrupting someone multiple times.

I've certainly had days where I got nothing done because people asked me a question every 10-20 minutes.
As outraged as people pretend to be, they'll still buy the next game.
True. And as a feedback loop, lack of sleep causes people to be more anxious because the calming part of the brain is too tired to function well.

Good sleep is also needed for the brain to process emotional situations to work through them. Sometimes the situation is so much that we wake up from that. The book on sleep by Matthew Walker has a section on treating PTSD and veterans awaking from bad dreams that they ultimately needed to get through to process their fears.

That book also has some suggestions for getting more and better sleep -- many of which have been mentioned in replies to your post.

They include things like:

* go to bed and wake up at the same time every day

* avoid caffeine from any sources after 2 pm (or depending on your metabolism, earlier or maybe even at all)

* avoid alcohol as it interferes with good sleep

* avoid electronic screens before bedtime

* especially avoid blue LEDs before bedtime (use something like Flux on laptops)

* have the bedroom be cooler at night

* don't stay awake in bed -- get up and go back to bed when you are sleepy to associate bed with sleeping

* avoid exercise or heavy eating for at least a couple of hours before going to sleep

He even suggests setting an alarm as a reminder to tell you when to go to sleep.

Here are some other ideas I collected for moving from depression onto an upward spiral of improvement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15455259

Of course, it is all easier said than done when you are depressed. Sometimes one small positive step can lead to another though. It helps a lot if you have a supportive community.

Good luck!

P.S. If you decide to change jobs, consider looking at idealist.org and also reading "Disciplined Minds" by Schmidt and "The Three Boxes of Life" by Bolles.