skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I would argue that a marketplace is not part of the "means of production", at least not in any sense that Marx meant.

In a similar way that if a blacksmith (or a farmer) made something and went to the market square to sell it, he isn't a Proletariat just because he doesn't own the market square (which by the way, some would require rent to use).

Most gig-economy workers operate in multiple platforms (at least when possible) - drivers are on both Lyft and Uber, AirBnB apartments are also rented directly or through other platforms.

It's not the fact that the sellers don't own the marketplace that leads to exploitation, it's the fact that the marketplace exploits it's monopoly to extort too much freedom away from the drivers.
I visited Ukraine a few weeks ago and drivers in the dominant ride-hailing app (Uklon I think) can refuse a ride if the pay is too low - this opens kind of a bid system.
While the experience was terrible as a user it does change the dynamics completely.
Scientists Just Created Quantum Artificial Life for the First Time Ever
The rubber hose scenario is that someone is willing to hurt you to access the data you have on your device.

You trick them into entering a password that either wipes the data, alerts someone to the attempt, or dumps them into a sandbox that appears normal but doesn't provide the access they want.

What do you think happens next?
It's just human nature, I guess. There's people from whom antidepressants don't work, and there's people from whom therapy doesn't work (unfortunately, those are not mutually exclusive). However, it seems to me that the individuals with the combination (antidepressants dont't work, therapy works) have a much easier time making an impacting narrative given our current intrinsic and social biases.

My advice to those suffering from depression/anxiety would be to do their research and decide which treatment method they prefer, and to reevaluate once in a while how it is working, keeping in mind that it's very easy to get into a 'bubble' and discard or discredit potential treatment options. No one, no matter how smart, is able to overcome biased thinking.

In my opinion, there are only a few options that have substantial evidence going for them (by the so-called mainstream science): various SSRIs, combinations and uncommon antidepressants, cognitive-behavior therapy and mindfulness-based therapy. One should balance exploitation (taking whatever one thinks works better at a given moment) and exploration (taking one option that one hasn't tried yet) to maximize the chances of successful treatment.
To true. The author works for Rupert Murdoch, the same Rupert Murdoch that had to go before the UK parliament to explain himself.

ISIS is considered by Vladimir Putin to be a bunch of mercenaries paid for by the United States. Russian news shows share this view.

Really this story should be flagged as fake news has no business here.

It is laughable that someone in Moscow was behind a story designed to convince people in Albuquerque that ISIS is about to attack them, from the cybersphere or otherwise.
Oops, sorry about that. I had the Jekyll base URL set to http instead of https. I've pushed an update, might take a few minutes to appear.
ZeroPhone open source linux phone
The car (Uber,Lift), the house (AirBnB), the tools for making what they sell (Etsy,fiverr).

Only Uber (and other ride-haling apps I suppose) forces a price, all other marketplaces the price is set by the seller - AirBnB, Etsy, fiverr. In Amazon Turk the seller and buyer roles are reversed and Turkers only accept work that pay enough for them.

I would say it's more a product of the industry they are in - transportation is usually regulated to have a fixed price almost everywhere - then the nature of marketplaces in the gig-economy as a whole.
I suddenly found myself channeling him, I swear :)
Hmm that didn't work, images didn't load through https for some reason. I need to find out why and do a proper fix.
"Alternatively, you may select "Set My Preferences" to accept (or reject) specific categories of data processing."

And the privacy settings button appears prominently in the bottom right of the screen allowing you to change your settings at any time.

The Atlantic appears to be doing things right. Curiously though, if you disable ad personalisation, you get no ads. I'd be fine with supporting The Atlantic through advertising, when not being tracked.
that doesn't solve the problem it just offloads it.

wikipedia could collapse under the weight of being the internets authority of epistemology.
This part is a bit of a mess:

"16-bit Real Mode with insruction pointer pointing to address 0xffff.fff0, the reset vector. In this initial mode, the processor has first 12 address lines asserted, so any address looks like 0xfffx.xxxx. This fact combined with how addressing using segment selector (SS) register works, allows the CPU to access instruction at reset vector address 0xffff.fff0"

SS is the Stack Segment register. CS is for code.

In real mode, the instruction pointer is only 16-bit and can not hold a value in excess of 0xffff.

Ignoring those issues, the explanation still doesn't match what I've seen before in the documentation. If things have changed, when did that happen? The old explanation:

The CS base is set to something like -16, that is with all but the lower 4 bits set. This covers all of physical address space, with any higher bits just being ignored. The instruction pointer is set to 0. The result is execution that starts 16 bytes below the first address that is beyond the end of the physical address space. For example, with 44-bit physical addresses this would be at 0x00000ffffffffff0.
That depends a lot on the topic. I've seen articles on Wikipedia that were ridiculously wrong and couldn't be corrected for some byzantine reasons. For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme, despite it failing to meet the criteria on Wikipedia's own page on pyramid schemes.

I certainly wouldn't accept Wikipedia as correct on any topic that gets caught up in the culture wars. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is by its nature very easy to manipulate for small very intense groups who believe they're on a holy mission to cleanse the internet of "bad people".

This change being a case in point. I read all kinds of news sources, from the Washington Post to CNN to the Daily Mail to Breitbart. I wouldn't say Breitbart is wildly different in accuracy to any of the rest, not because it's great, but because so many other outlets (like the NY Times, BBC and CNN) routinely publish things that are false as well. CNN is practically a byword at this point for biased misleading nonsense, they publish stories that collapse all the time. Yet Wikipedia isn't banning CNN, only conservative outlets like the Daily Mail and Breitbart. Isn't that strange?
I probably do not understand enough of the blockchain technology but you announcing this ... why can't they ramp up their security?
As is sometimes said in management theory "it was a great measure until it was made a target".

Wikipedia is a good reference for what is and isn't likely to be factually accurate, but if it is going to be _the_ standard then it will quickly be corrupted by people pushing a non-factual agenda.

Also, Breitbart being loose with the facts isn't something that the social media platforms want to get involved in. If we count twitter as a publishing platform similar to Breitbart, twitter will spread much more misinformation (arguably in a more damaging way, flash mobs are scarier than anything a print media style organisation can do). You may as well prefix every single tweet with "Wikipedia doesn't accept this tweet as a valid source".
Gsuite is not free and it’s unclear if this product is even included as an addin for existing members. I see more “see a demo” and less “activate your account” which leads me to believe there will be a fee. So the answer would be revenue and more reasons for companies to use gsuite since it’s all likely integrated together.
They also list witholding a part of their wages until they've successfully completed the season.
Investigation of insider attacks with computer forensics
20% drop in US share of VC funding worldwide
> unless your idea of efficiency only means lowest cost to the company

I believe this is exactly what economosts mean when they talk about efficiency. It’s professional jargon. And yes it differs frim the common sense definition of efficiency.
Tailored to ml ethical questions will arise! some considerations here https://freeandopenmachinelearning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
It took me about a year to get to the point the author describes where I felt nothing and didn't care whether I lived or died. I wasn't suicidal--at last I don't think I was--but I was rapidly approaching that point. I was so desperate, I let the doctor put me on benzodiazepines for anxiety even though I knew from previous experience that I would not only become dependent but addicted. After seven years of that, I had enough and stopped seeing all doctors. I weaned myself off the benzos as no doctor I saw even knew how to do it nor did they want to. It wasn't as hard as I thought. After I was off that, the hard part started. Over the course of years I learned how to deal with life again. Eventually I took up running, my own meditation equivalent and soccer. Slowly things improved. It's not always great and many of the original problems are still there but they are mostly manageable.

I'm lucky to be alive really. I try to remember all this suffering at the hands of doctors and the pharma industry that could have been avoided. I will have trust a so called mental health professional again, especially if they are drug pushers. The conflict of interest was readily apparent throughout the whole ordeal both when taking antidepressants and benzodiazepines. It's funny how we demonize some drug dealers while having insurance coverage for others. And all this without a single shred of proof that these medicines work, that there is even such a thing as a chemical imbalance. Because there isn't. If this is what mental health doctors call facts, the entire establishment has failed and derailed into nothing more than making humongous profits from getting people addicted to the drugs they push. It's fucking disgusting.
I'm hiring into Dublin, Ireland, I think the expectations around timelines are different for me, especially if the candidate will be relocating.

I don't remember having anyone enter the pipeline and leave it again by their own choice before we've made an offer. I do remember there being one candidate who got dropped somehow who got pissed off at how long things were taking, but that was human error (or arguably bad tooling) more than bad process.
This rings hollow considering who is publishing it. The pot calls the kettle black.

The article is published by Bloomberg Media. Bloomberg Corp has a dark, deeply capitalistic culture. Management discards employees as if they were pieces of trash. Employees work far more than 40 hours a week, which was long ago deemed the acceptable number of hours an employer could demand without taking away from a worker's private life. Workers are placed into a gladiator's arena to compete for their own jobs, compelling them to play back-stabbing office politics rather than contribute work of real value.

Jacobin. The New Left Review. These are trusted media sources for the left, not Bloomberg.
Oh yeah, since I started scraping electronics I see how often boards are designed for multiple price points :) there's indeed a lot of place to toy with.
I wonder if it is just because of the fact that Norway has mountains. The risk of going to fast downhill, plus gravel is an issue without any risks of cars.

When living in Norway I remember that this was an issue even on a place where there was a separated cycle path. Which why going down hill to the train station it was with helmet and back up it was without.

When living in the Netherlands, I never felt that the road itself was dangerous like it was in Norway.
Optimize that ratio, ignore productivity, achieve glory.

That salary work mostly pays a lot more than gig work tells you something about the economic impact of both. Gig work might be more efficient than hourly pay for the same work, but it isn't maximizing overall economic efficiency, it's a middle man capturing more of the value.
We're migrating the last of our 7000+ computers off of 7 by December. Probably only a couple of hundred left running 7. There will be maybe a half dozen left on 7 for compatibility testing and because of legacy software. But 7 is functionally dead.
Active Expressions seem to essentially be a more seamless and implicit form of Reactive Streams, such as those from the ReactiveX family of libraries [1]. For instance, the first example given by the paper is:

var a = 5, b = 6;
signal c = a + b; // c = 11

a = 10; // c = 16

We can express the same with reactive streams, although it's more clumsy because of the explicit stream objects and subscriptions. Here is an example using RxJava:

var a = BehaviorSubject.createDefault(5);
var b = BehaviorSubject.createDefault(6);
var c = Observable.combineLatest(a, b, (x, y) -> x + y);

// Read the last value emitted by stream `c`
System.out.println(c.blockingFirst()); // 11

// Save and emit 10 from stream `a`
a.onNext(10);

System.out.println(c.blockingFirst()); // 16

This is, of course, way more verbose than the signal concept displayed in the paper, so I welcome the approach to make this reactive power more accessible. However, note that reactive streams offer a lot of control over value propagation - such as delaying, throttling or filtering changes - that will probably be hard to replicate with a system like the one presented here.

Also, when combined with shared-state concurrency, it might be hard to define and reason about which active expression runs in which thread. Reactive stream implementations have already tackled this issue with concepts such as schedulers [2].

[1]: http://reactivex.io
[2]: http://reactivex.io/RxJava/2.x/javadoc/
Those issues are due to policies, not software. For example, Google has "cookie cutter interviews" because they intentionally hire most devs as generalists. But another company doesn't have to do the same thing, even if they're using the same tech.
Because in order to "ramp up their security", they'd need more users which makes this attack harder. Security isn't like a knob that you turn.
> I mean this seems very reasonable from Apple's perspective. They're trying to avoid their brand being tarnished by bad repair shops with questionable repair skills cutting corners with cheap and unsupported parts

Okay, but instead they're tarnishing their brand by being hostile to consumers. I'd say that segment is quite a bit larger than any segment that experiences a shoddy repair job.
Isn't this massively illegal? You're basically DoSing a network. Possibly theft as well!
Like a dope, I dropped my iPhone Xs a week after I bought it and the back glass shattered. Everything is glued together on the back, so they had to replace the entire phone.

With AppleCare+, that's $99 plus tax. Without, it's $549 plus tax—half the cost of the phone.
How would you handle untrusted data?
example: downloaded from webbrowser.
I wrote this little thing in bash: https://github.com/vinc/pkg

I find it quite useful as I'm switching daily between Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and MacOS.
Marx discussed this thoroughly. The same thing is happening to salaried jobs, just to a lesser extent. This phenomenon was one of his bigger objections to capitalism.

All productive labour is being broken down into pipelined work streams where any individual worker performs as simple and as well defined a task as you can give them, and performs that task all day every day. This increases the economic efficiency of the worker, at the expense of depriving their work life of any meaning and turning them into an unremarkable, disposable, exchangeable cog in a machine.

Pretty much every industry in the developed world follows this trend, including tech.
Just to add my experience, the demo worked perfectly straight away (Chrome 70 on macOS). Really cool to see this tech, hope it's easy to integrate.
Yes, exactly.

It almost feels like secure salaried positions were actually the abnormal deviation in history, a small island of stability caused by a temporary surge of social democratic politics in the post-Great Depression era.
This is the actual article: http://archive.is/aCge1 It's mostly fearmongering about 5G affecting people's health which doesn't even seem to be that founded in the one other article he linked to, which contained different fearmongering about the potential health effects of 5G.
Work to live, live to work? [video]
I get the joke, but it is worth clarifying that schools don’t ban it because it’s unreliable, but because it’s a secondary source. It’s done to teach sourcing discipline.
>It's similar to a farmer selling his ware in a marketplace, which he must pay rent for. Would you say that because he doesn't own the marketplace (or store) he doesn't own his means of production?

This analogy doesn't hold in the Marxian framework. Gig companies adopt the "D-M-D" scheme, where they hire a worker to produce a service which the company will sell, earning part of the profits; the marketplace owner does not enter such a scheme, and its relationship with the farmer is not considered to extract surplus value.

>But even if you do think so, they are still much better off, Marxist-wise, from virtually every service worker, who own no means of production.

Indeed, people like the farmer - owning the means of production, and self-employed or with few employees - are a distinct class in the Marxian framework, namely the petite bourgeoisie.
Wikipedia = The Ministry of Truth
This article has elements of insight, but it seems oblivious to the main direction of causality.

What drives technology is stuff people want.

In that context apps are infrastructure too. I want to tell people something, so the app email helps me. And the infrastructure TCP/IP helps email. But from my perspective “I want to tell Dan the meeting changed” it’s all just infrastructure, a way to solve that problem.

The article implies that the infrastructure is like sitting there waiting for apps. But apps don’t just stroll along into the story. Apps come from needs.

People have a need for a way to send money for illegal stuff, and a need/desire for a medium of gambling. Crypto has risen to meet those needs.

Unless there are other demonstrated needs that blockchain solves there aren’t going to be more apps, or more anything.
Thanks so much for the answer -- I thoroughly enjoyed the OPA talks I've seen[0][1]. I apologize for mistaking OPA as a netflix product, I think one of the first times I saw it was as it was being used by Netflix so I assumed it was one of their F/OSS projects or built by someone there.

Did you guys build your own engine? I took a quick look at the repo but don't see anything that looks like a datalog library in your glide package list.

Last but not least, thanks for making and open sourcing such an awesome tool! Will definitely be passing the word on about Styra[2], I had no idea there was a whole company/more efforts behind OPA. I plan on using OPA in a bunch of upcoming projects -- it looks like a fantastic, stable addition to the toolbox of people looking to build robust programs/services.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEHeexPpgrA

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBJSIhs2xQ

[2]: https://www.styra.com/
Hiring is a two-way street, if you send me a Hackerrank test before I've spoken to someone about the basics you will have immediately lost me as a candidate. Not even Google is this deaf to the human side of hiring.
Using AWS Fargate Containers in Step Functions
Unfortunately, most teachers don't understand this, and they tell the kids that Wikipedia is normally wrong about everything.

At least, that was my experience.
I don't see how it can be. The equivalent of the capitalist's lock out, is a ban from or temporary closure of a platform.

An individual driver withdrawing his car is a resignation, or declining to do a particular job, surely? Go back to pre employment legislation times and it was pretty common to require a worker to own the tools by buying them themselves and take them to work in the local factory. The factory and machinery was still the means of production.

Consider a nationalisation where a state buys the means of production. They would nationalise the company that owns the factory not the individual workers and their tools. If someone decided to nationalise AirBNB or Uber they'd take the company and platform, not a thousand cars or houses.
> For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme, despite it failing to meet the criteria on Wikipedia's own page on pyramid schemes.

The language in the article [0] regarding pyramid schemes clearly notes that this is a concern raised by "various journalists, economists, and the central Bank of Estonia". An encyclopedia is a tertiary source and summarizes other sources. It has absolutely nothing to do with how Wikipedia itself defines pyramid schemes.

> I wouldn't say Breitbart is wildly different in accuracy to any of the rest

Sure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Ponzi_scheme_and_pyram...
time well spent
> Both are something your average first year CS student could put together in a weekend or two.

No unit tests in sight? Sounds about right.
> However, note that reactive streams offer a lot of control over value propagation

If I read the paper correctly, active expressions explicitly don't deal with propagation, only with detection. The idea is that you can use AEs to handle the detection part and then plug in your propagation mechanism.
It's interesting the author mentioned estimating but said they are not very good at it yet. I have read somewhere else that what distinguishes a senior engineer from a junior engineer is exactly the skill in estimating work.
great work, did you think about opening an API?
You might want to check debos [1], which I think allows something similar.

[1] https://github.com/go-debos/debos
From what I've read about it, it works to some extent as long as people believe in it. They want to get their clearance and believe cheating could be detected, so they tend to be more truthful. It's based on intimidation and observation. The examination starts when you enter the building and stops when you leave it.
But salaried work also needs things like a university degree (mostly). What I'm worried about isn't so much that there will always (or for the foreseeable future) be "skilled" and "unskilled" buckets of labor, but that there's this self-reinforcing loop that creates a permanent underclass of gig workers.
You where NOT taught to check that you are not turning into/across some one? WTH?

When doing a maneuver you check your mirror AND turn your head. If you are not taught this I shudder to think what else where left out of your so-called drivers education.