skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the entire story and I did not identify any larger theme besides complaining. Is Amazon behaving immorally here (note, did not say "unethically")? Sure, I'll agree with that. If this was a concentrated attack on Amazon and their Flex program then I would be understanding. As it's written the article takes swipes at office workers (??) and laments a lack of a pension (because who gets that now-a-days besides gov/factory employees)??

To put it another way: I also order using Flex and I've never considered working a gig. Am I somehow supposed to feel bad because of this simply due to the author's hardships or feel bad about myself because I don't need to work a gig job?

Please help me understand the zeitgeist here because the downvotes surely aren't.
> Very few of them are driving to a job folding shirts and cleaning houses.

I think you'd be surprised how many of those people are doing just that. And you left out the third category of work: driving itself.

But I did leave out one important category: work requiring interpersonal interactions, like sales, particularly retail sales. But that is starting to go away too.
> But for non-owners, for people without capital, there is no longer any recourse. Sooner or later, something is going to have to give.

We still have an inalienable right - to work for ourselves directly, for our family and community. We can be self reliant with the help of human work + judicious use of advanced tech. We revert back to the self reliant farm or village, not to a new age of capital. Self reliant tech such as solar panels, water filtration, computing, AI, 3d-printers, robots and drones would help us achieve that, as long as they are open sourced and a maker culture exists around them. Do you think billions of able, jobless people would prefer to sit around do nothing and collect UBI rather than working to make more out of what they have? What would they do with their free time when they have little resources than to work for themselves and become more self reliant?
There's a lot of workforce shortage in many places in the EU (esp. smaller towns) partially because of low fertility and partially because of intra-EU migrations. Fertility is dropping around the world so the migrations will also lessen. Always increasing real estate costs and stagnant wages make it hard for immigrants to secure a living. EU population is expected to start falling within 30 yrs max.
> Was labour ever scarce?

Before the industrial revolution, yes.

> Was work ever an inalienable form of wealth?

In a society that does not allow slavery, yes.
And actually checking it out first hand seems like a pretty good effort at journalism as opposed to just writing a "think piece" from the comfort of the news room.
Depending on the context, you might actually want to "stagger-breathe" to avoid breathing right on the phrase boundary. You generally don't want the breaths to be noticeable, especially if it's in the middle of a long sustained note. Instead, you'd take a breath on one measure mid-phrase, another player would take a breath in the next measure or so, etc. to keep the note going. When I marched in a drum and bugle corps, we'd actually all have individually preassigned breath marks.

Of course, this only works well if you have multiple players per part. This ain't really practical outside of marching or symphonic/orchestral contexts.
Leds can flicker even worse than flourescent. Test it with your mobile camera, shove it up to the lights real close and see if it starts showing banding all over the screen. The calmest light you get is halogen or a normal lightbulb of the burning rust type.
The needle remains in the haystack.
If the box is too heavy, refuse to lift it. It's not hard. Amazon can't force you to.

If a dolly will help, you can pick one up for 40 bucks or so (ironically, from Amazon!). I keep one around, because I find it useful. Many occupations require you to furnish your own tools (and if you're an auto mechanic, that can run into thousands). I've bought and used personal equipment at every job I've ever had.
Priced Out of Health Insurance, Americans Rig Their Own Safety Nets
> less well-intentioned advocacy stuff

Can you expand on why you think some of EFF's advocacy is less well-intentioned?
I mean when we talk about the capabilities of monkeys we don't discount the stuff they do with tools.
Don’t flush baby wipes, or anything except fences or toilet paper. They clog drains and interfere with the sewage treatment process.
> As for not injuring yourself from lifting, that's a skill everyone should learn by themselves,

Without looking it up, what's the recommended technique to lift a 30 kg box from the back of a van?
Everything Goes with Everything
> We can be self reliant

Really? How? What exactly is someone with no capital assets supposed to do in today's world?
What "clicks"? It's Matt Levine. You can't even click on his stuff easily anymore; you have to subscribe to it.
I suspect the reason why many lottery winners end up broke soon is because most rational well adjusted people don't play lottery.

So it's not so much the winning that make people go crazy. It's just what happens when people who don't understand money get lots of it.
What do you mean by computer nerd neck? I do shrugs, which hits the traps, but I find my neck is a bit thicker too.

Front squats isolate the quads more - I prefer to do back squats, then isolate smaller groups with quad extensions and hamstring curls; the latter being good for the glutes too.
I'm not going to cut my arm off if Amazon ordered me to. Would you? Amazon can't possibly know what the state of your back is. Only you do, so take some responsibility for yourself.
Well, yeah, if I rub any other place on my skin with toilet paper sufficiently long enough, it starts to hurt. I don't see a reason why it should be different down there.
Discussed in 2016:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
The problem is how do you gain these explanations in the first place without appealing to inductivism? The process of examining a thing to propose a theory about its operation seems indistinguishable in my mind from the inductivist approach of deriving general theories from particular observations. Both approaches make the same assumption of a consistent underlying order behind the observations we make.
Wealth inequality and tax laws is the bigger issue here, not labor shortages.
Who had abbreviated WebAssembly as WASM? I know I know nobody use Watcom assembler (wasm) now, but still.
Network Access Control for IoT Era
This should be titled "how not to write". It's terribly vague.
The employer accept the job and fail to do it properly.
So self awareness is a prerequisite for seeing? Animals and infants can’t see?
^This.

Is it really worth the effort if you have to conduct your online life like a spy in a foreign land?

Where any mis-config or 'you missed a step' could expose you.
2/4 v. 4/4 is more about the number of quarter notes (beats) per measure (2 v. 4, respectively).

Similar deal with 3/4 v. 6/8. In 3/4, you have 3 beats per measure, subdivided into halves (duplets). In 6/8, you have 2 beats per measure, subdivided into thirds (triplets).
It really does. Our codebase is very large and I'm a member of the team responsible for the build system and language tooling. Java library resolving in our repo can take 45mins from a clean build. Python is better, and we've managed to lock it down to offline only sources so libraries never update on us out of the blue. I've been a gopher since the the first announcement and I'm so excited that Russ Cox discovered a simple way to declare and resolve dependencies that avoids the SMT solver nightmare that I've seen bog down progress in every major project I've been involved in, from Ocaml and Haskell to python, java, rust and javascript (security nightmares every night here).

One of my greatest hopes is I can convince my teammates that its be worth the time investment to transition all our dependencies management ecosystems into the Minimum Version Selection algorithm.
Many HNers may lack self-awareness of their own privileged situation, working in a field where employees are often showered with benefits unthinkable in most other professions.
Q-Yachts delivers first all-electric day cruiser yacht
It's not a matter of absolute truth. The question is why are we able to predict anything at all, even in a probabilistic sense? With maximum entropy, there is no way to distinguish between order and a really fortunate series of fair coin flips. Both inductivism and falsificationism need to assume prior order to justify the success of science, so they are both in the same boat.
It's a jobs program for plumbers!
A software archaeology screwup
Intuitively, this sounds correct. The class "Problems that can be solved by throwing money at them" is larger.
If you're getting asked about Angular in your interviews, its probably because you applied to a front-end job where they explicitly told you that you will be using Angular 8 hours a day.
* citation needed

That's not been my experience at all. I've been running my own email server for years and I've yet to hear about an email being blocked. I know many other people who run their own email server just fine.
No, he wasn't trying to defraud his shareholders. Quite the opposite - defraud his skeptics aka short sellers.
> For people with the lowest wage striving to make the ends mee the problem is of course lack of knowledge, time to acquire it, and time to get out of this local minima.

Also lack of opportunities for many.
Agreed. The differences are much clearer at equal BPM (or even equal measures per minute).
what is this stupid shit: "The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon." you guys are a big cult of worshipping rich people. its so obvious.
What model, exactly?

In perl/c[++]/#/java, you have to carry object around with a method (or use functors), otherwise you’ll call it with wrong arguments. In python methods are bound implicitly in a class, but explicitly in assignment (iirc). In Lua you’re explicit with obj:mtd() instead of obj.fun(). In js, obj.mtd() is eqv. to obj:mtd() in that sense, but you can bind() to anything.

Which model is preferable? ‘this’ is natural complexity, and under ‘use strict’ it behaves just okay. It is programmers who don’t care to grasp it.

Saying that as a natural js hater.
Texas prison system slashes price of inmate phone calls by 77 percent
I have a hard enough time getting Google to not stall in loading or redirects because they don't recognize me when using Firefox container accounts and things auto load in a different account. Or at least I did for a while until it seems the containers in question got enough history to be seen as legit (or were linked to my account...).

Google has expectations of what they get when providing you their service. If you aren't going to provide those juicy details when requesting search results, they just might make getting those results harder.
The point was that it was considered a 'fact' that ulcers weren't caused by bacteria.
I was wondering why the API makes you write transaction twice:

transaction->begin(transaction)

Why not:

transaction->begin()
Conservation International
And in the movies the life forms don't limit division, and probably exhausted the food (hence the barren planets they come from).
Say you are a jobless teacher. Then you teach poor kids and their parents pay you with food or money. Same for many other non-bullshit jobs - you can work for people who in exchange would render other services or payments back to you. When billions would be jobless, their needs would be ignored by the corporations because there is no profit. But the people would value their needs and work power, and find a way to make due with what they have plus work.
you beat me to this...
This is so spot on that I'm leaving this comment saying it's spot on with no other additions to the conversation, down votes be damned.
I'm guessing that fences might also be a slight problem for the sewer system.
I'm 31 and my lower back has started hurting and giving me issues, especially while sleeping.

I always assumed this would only happen much later and technology would have advanced enough by then that I could have gotten a robotic lower back. But here we are.

This is even with doing a stairwell run every hour and standing up quite often, and sitting at what some article stated was the best angle, 135 degrees or something.

I also do Pilates... So even with all of this sitting for 14 hours a day has caused back issues for me. Sorry to deviate from the toilet topic. Luckily that is one department where I seem to be healthy :)
If you add an overwhelming magnitude of noise to a signal, it looks like the signal disappears. But really you've just increased the number of samples required to filter out that noise (eg timing attacks using decryption oracles over a WAN). I doubt the situation becomes any friendlier as the dimensionality increases. And your noise isn't really even uncorrelated - why are you generally interested in medical things?

But the explanation is likely better analyzed in the context of open-world assumptions rather than closed. ie you'll just get ads (and eventually, insurance rates) regarding anal fissures, so as far as Google and the rest of the commercial surveillance complex is concerned, you're equivalent to a person earnestly involved with anal fissures. The concept of Poe's law doesn't invalidate their techniques.
I'm using ownCloud on one system and considering migrating it to another; should I switch to NextCloud instead? Seeking opinions.

For myself, my usage is small enough that I don't care if my "migration" is that I just copy over the two user's worth of data I have in the file sharing and set up the one shared folder I have again by hand. (It's a home cloud, not corporate.) In fact in some ways it'll be easier than what I was planning on doing.
I like a lot of his stuff, but this is some preachy swill. A whole lot of opinions with very little support.
product design and development is also a really big category. We have big productivity increases, but so far elastic demand just counters any work speed increase with more demands and design goals, making the sector very stable
I do it because otherwise I'm a really slow reader.

Somehow I have to read every word on its own.
Teachers don't get paid enough.
I liked the article. I didn't know about Amazon Flex and I was happy to learn how it works. The title is clickbaity, but the article is fairly nuanced. For example, she talks about a few other workers who don't seem to mind the job.
Even if you're researching pure mathematics you probably don't need rigorous, axiomatic set theory. Number theorists, algebraic geometers, probability/measure/ergodic theorists, etc all can conduct their work with just naive set theory.
Works fine for me on Firefox for Android (surprisingly, since a lot of these sorts of things tend to only work on Chrome). You just have to tap the things instead of hovering over them.
Space in Design Systems
I know rational people that play the lottery. I don't think it works to suggest that only crazy people play. Professional athletes who come into sudden wealth due to becoming professional athletes are also infamous for their financial struggles.

However, I will suggest that many poor people think coming into money would solve all their problems because money is very often the most obvious sticking point in their own life. In reality, they trade poor people problems for rich people problems and it doesn't come with some built-in education on how to handle rich people problems. (I mean a la The Matrix: "Download this to my brain." A lot of the advice they get falls on deaf ears and they are ill-equipped to sort good advice from bad.)

In fact, many poor people are incredibly dismissive of the idea that rich people have any problems. They often mock the problems that rich people have. So no surprise they aren't psychologically prepared to deal with the reality of sudden wealth in cases where they think "rich people don't have real problems."
Anecdata point: I had a lot of trouble setting up Nextcloud Talk with my own STUN & TURN servers. Even after I'd gotten that going, NCT video calls have been extremely unreliable, with it fully working only maybe 1 in 5 times, or worse. I still don't know why. Could be dependent on the kind of Internet each side is connected to (home network behind ISP router vs. coffee shop vs. corporate network with potential firewall, etc. etc.)
Please use it to analyze this thread :)
I believe that’s because you ask ‘what this really is’ and get another ton of bullshit articles that never do a strict definition of the mechanism, instead resorting to vague examples with bad names. MDN included.
You might need a new or different mattress. I would try sleeping on the floor for a bit.
I think denial is the only reason why one might find this result surprising. Everything else being equal, almost any life path will be enriched by extra money up to a certain point. That point is field-dependent, but it’s rarely low.
I've had a small setup running for quite a while now. I let the package manager take care of updates (I'm using Arch ARM) and then log in through the web client to let it finish updating the database. I think I had one or two rough updates after migrating from owncloud to nextcloud, but since then it's been extremely painless. Not sure how things are now, but I remember dreading each update back when I was using owncloud.
> I think never traveling beyond a 30-mile radius is more detrimental to society as a whole than an occasional flight

You know when you travel by plane, you fly over most of the terrain you might have encountered if you took a bicycle? What's more detrimental now? Twain wrote,

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

But read his books, and you'll see how he traveled: slowly.

> a carbon offset for a round-trip cross-country commercial flight is about $10

You can't buy yourself out of your contribution to CO2 in the air. That $10 doesn't remove anything. It buys piece of mind, and the hope that things in the future may be better. For now, the world keeps warming. There's no capitalistic mechanism invented yet that's going to change that.
> Many cafés do not serve coffee à emporter and do not have paper cups.

Apologies for contradicting you on the sole basis of personal experience, but you are, again, in my own experience, very wrong: you really have to find yourself in the poshest streets of Paris (with only salons de thé in them) not to find at least one café that serves coffee to go (in paper cups), hence my surprise at your point about restroom access.

I do not know enough of the USA to compare, but basically, you can get coffee and pee every 500m or less in Paris (for various prices going from more-than-reasonable to perfectly-obscene).

> If I stop to buy a cup of vin chaud or something, chances are the [kiosk] vendor won't even have a toilet for customers.

Will it be proof of my own defensiveness if I mention that kiosks in the US are also unlikely to have restrooms? (Unless those I saw in Phillie and NYC this winter are outliers.)

> My view of life in Paris compared to life in the U.S. comes from living in both places. It may not match your experience, but you are unqualified to tell me whether my description is "very off" from my experience.

Apologies if you felt that I was denying your experience of whatever country or city. You are absolutely correct: your Parisian experience does not match mine, which is what "seems very off" meant in my original comment.

> If people can pee in any café they stop in at for a cuppa, what's the point of these uritrottoirs? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As mentioned in the article, the uritrottoirs is to stop people peeing on the sidewalk. What those people will be peeing is not coffee but beer from cans bought in grocery shops or supermarkets.

If you have lived in Paris and been to Canal Saint-Martin, bords de Seine or equivalent places, you know exactly who those uritrottoirs are aimed at. That target population does not intersect much with the clientele of cafés.

Apologies for the long post and sorry again if my wording offended you.
In my experience, Nextcloud's file sharing features are great, working as expected. We use it mainly to share large files with business contacts, both directions. I haven't tried the desktop apps. We use the web interface and the mobile apps.
40 dollars isn't much for you but it can be a lot to ask for many people in this country to just shell out on a moment's notice. If you find that hard to imagine because you make more than that in an hour, then may be you should take a break and realize your experience doesn't extend to people whom the article is talking about.
Sorry, my (poorly put) attempt at a joke was that durians declare themselves.
When my kids were young, they went on a field trip to a recycling plant. As a parent, the most interesting discovery was the sorting facility we visited didn't sort plastic by type because you can't expect people earning minimum wage to sort LDPE from HDPE from etc. So what did the big commercial recycling facility do? They sorted plastic by shape. Things shaped like cups and bowls were sorted as trash, things not shaped like cups and bowls were sorted as recyclable. It was pretty clear at that point recycling plastic was just a for show activity.
I'd argue that its now even easier to combat spam using decentralization technologies. If you gateway all actions prone to spam with a signed transaction to a smart contract platform, where that execution costs the spammer real value for each action the spammer no longer has a unequal advantage. This means as an app developer I can mostly ignore combatting spam, that's now an infrastructure problem that the transaction miners need to deal with and handle. It's an empowering separation of concerns! Web 3.0 really shaping up to be a revolutionary development in humanities technology progress and modeling of the world around us.
Your steps go far beyond what most people do. However, the real significance is at the macro level. It's not about what individuals do, it's about the systematic effects.

Our system today wouldn't function at all if everyone acted like you (I'm not saying it would be bad! We probably should have a totally different system that would work for far more people living your way).

The real issue with consumption and waste-disposal lies with the patterns in the economy that encourage the creation of disposable products in the first place.

All that said, recycling can still be positive if done right. ANd separating glass and plastic etc. would be trivial if the producers of goods were set up more to make it as easy as possible.
Why do you think your attention span is degrading? Think about it this way: if you are able to concentrate enough to watch a movie, there is nothing wrong with you and nothing is stopping you from deep reading, but maybe just too boring and uncompetitive text (uncompetitive with other content and other forms of content).
We need some more creative thinking here.
If we base it off existing unions meh, but we can prob engineer something good.

A software eng that cant see this prob/solution most likely isn’t a good software eng and would benefit from said union.
Even if you criticize the external validity of the results, the internal validity of the randomization is still there.
This is the unsolved problem of "hypothesis formation." It's something that brains do that we do not yet fully understand. It's an active area of research. But the process of explanatory hypothesis formation is distinct from induction. Induction says, e.g. "Every crow I have ever seen has been black, therefore I conclude that all crows are black." (They aren't, BTW. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/whitecrows.htm https://www.quora.com/Are-all-crows-black)