skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> you trust the platform to carry out it's due diligence on your behalf

Isn't one of the central points of gig economy service provision that services are cheaper since the "red tape"/regulations aspect gets significantly less focus than before?

If I wanted to drive a taxi in London, UK, there are some fairly onerous requirements[0], which come with a cost.

So why did Uber and friends decide not to use the same list of requirements?

Isn't it about saving money (and time) so you can keep prices low and margins high?

[0] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
"Professional" dog walker. I was thinking about this the other day while my Lyft driver took two wrong turns while extolling the virtues of socialism.

Professional drivers used to be professional drivers.

'Professional' in the gig economy just means they have a smart phone and someones social security number.
Big Tech firms aren’t honest with us about all the data they collect
can't quickly deploy a service on my smartphone
TheDailyWTF has the best MUMPS (horror) stories!

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/MUMPS-Madness

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/isn-t-there-a-vaccine-for-m...
>> I can’t tell which ones care

Question - do you mean service companies that care (Wag/Uber/...), or service providers that care (DogWalker93/UberDriver93/...)?
Given the geographical size of Australia and states, and relative isolation of major centres from each other, and tendency of certain jobs to be more prevalent in certain states (mining in WA/Qld, defence in NSW/Vic/SA, etc), you will have to be a lot more specific. Relative pay and living costs also differ likewise between parts of the country.

Perhaps try looking at https://www.seek.com.au/, https://www.indeed.com.au/, etc.
I paid for and use Navicat and it has always been stable, fast and good. A little pricey as you say, but good.
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Some people have not watched Bladerunner.
It would be, right? If the government cracks down on any dissident accused of fomenting revolution, the very last thing you would do is talk about revolution.

I think any revolution is fairly unlikely while China continues to grow rapidly under the CCP, but if growth stutters or corruption becomes overwhelming (or if America collapses and stops buying Chinese goods), it could happen. The catalyst for most revolutions seems to be when people give up on trying to expand the pie and start stealing slices from less powerful countrymen, causing widespread resentment.

I'm just thinking back to other revolutions that have occurred, though, and they usually take people outside the country by complete surprise. I was a kid in the 80s, and the Cold War was basically a fact of life. I had an international relations professor who was in the Pentagon when Gorbachev was deposed, they had just completed their 5-year geostrategic plan, and nowhere in the plan was the possibility that the USSR might not exist. Same with the Arab Spring - from the U.S, it was like "What the hell is happening?"

Interestingly, it was not clear at the time of the American Revolution that it would result in a liberal democracy. It seems that the expectation at the time is that it would result in total anarchy (the way the Syrian Civil War has), with the colonists killing each other, and it almost did, and it wasn't until almost 15 years after Lexington & Concord that it was clear (with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution) that it wouldn't. And maybe that's the mechanism by which a wealthy & well-networked middle class leads to democracy: in states without it, a revolution collapses into anarchy and the elevation of a charismatic dictator, while with it the various interests need to negotiate and share power because each of them needs something that only the others can provide.
It's not unique to software.

Go to any play or recital, and the program will have an entire page devoted to donations -- big companies up at the Platinum level, medium companies and rich folks at the Gold level, on down to random folks at the $0-50 level. Until you get up to the Hollywood movie / arena rock level, art always operates at a loss.

Hospitals and universities also frequently have wealthy patrons. I'm sure there are other fields, too, that I'm forgetting or don't know about.

Solving this problem for the field of software would be very cool, and it's always a great idea to start with one particular domain. The big picture remains: how can people continue to do good and worthwhile work, when the economics aren't on their side?

I know many people doing work they hate, and which isn't in any way worthwhile, just to pay their bills. When I was younger, I worked for 2 years on a "death march project" that never shipped. I was young enough to not realize that I couldn't make a difference. The older and more cynical people knew all along it would never ship. The Invisible Hand can't always deal with the complexities of modern life.

I'm not even convinced that money is part of the answer. I don't care about money, except in that I need it to pay taxes, rent, health care, and so on. Maybe I watched too much Star Trek as a kid, but it feels like a post-scarcity world shouldn't require citizens to worry about cash, unless they want to do something especially extravagant.
Everything except the notifications has been available in watches such as the Citizen Satellite Wave and Seiko Astron lineup.

There are E-Straps from Montblanc that can notify you among other things.

There are also the "HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH" and "HYBRID MANUFACTURE" from Frederique Constant that could be interesting to you.
What does "PI" mean?

Also, the monitoring doesn't appear to be very public.
That potentially sounds like firing a whistleblower. She might want to talk to a lawyer.
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Have a look at Metabase. It's open source, web based and runs from a single JAR. Not the same as a full fledged management tool of course, but I like it for simple queries and charts and the price!

DbVisualizer also has built in charts that are simple but... not free/open source.
Not if the driver is not the claimed Uber-booked driver.
Well, police training in the US takes on average 19 weeks, whereas in Germany it takes at least 130 weeks (https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_7709638).

It takes 12-14 month to become a cosmetologist...
Some U.S. states have "social purpose corporation", which might work for open source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_purpose_corporation
Or if you don't mind the web based approach, Apache Zeppelin too.
I think they will have been re-printing new sand molds for each casting.
More Than Half of Coffee Species Are in Danger of Extinction
Sadly, the very fact that there are many alternatives means that none of them are good.

The goodness of an event planning platform comes from everyone using it. Metcalfe’s law in action.

I say this as a non-Facebooker, fyi. Events kept me on the platform well after the rest of it became net-negative.

I do maintain my social graph and as a result use Messenger sometimes. If someone really wants to talk I go elsewhere for the conversation.
Which is exactly what trace points are for.

More devs should learn about JTags, IntelliTrace, DTrace, ....

No need for manually writing printf-debugging and recompiling all the time, when the debugger can do that for you.
I don't think that freeware is really a part of the Apple Developer ecosystem. Most of the MacOS exclusive software I use on a daily basis costs $20-$30, a price I'm more than willing to pay for software like Pixelmator, DaisyDisk and Alfred that is significantly more polished (and Mac-ish) then the average piece of open-source software just due to the resources available to them.
Docker is not overkill at all. Having 20 servers to run a few very low utilization is overkill. When you run a whole bunch of stuff on the same server it becomes a lot simpler than installing them the traditional way. A lot of self hosted server software is not in the repos so you end up having to add extra repos and after you do that a few times I find that something always ends up breaking and ruining the whole OS. Its much simpler to keep the host os basically stock debian with docker installed and then if anything goes bad its contained.
Neat structure! I consulted my copy of Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. He says: "Union-find is a fast, simple data structure that every programmer should know about." Well... Now I do. :) It is simple, a 'backwards' tree with pointers from a node to its parent, which lets you union two separate trees together by just taking the shorter one's root and pointing it at the taller one's (or vice versa, but this way preserves log behavior). The path compression optimization seems to just be an extra pass in find(), after you have the result, to re-parent each item along the path to the found root parent so that any future finds() of any of those items will only have one lookup to reach the component root.

For the jump game problem, I'd expect DFS would still win almost all the time even when there are many branches because it doesn't have to explore every element of the input array except in the worst case (and you can greedily explore a neighbor without having to discover your other neighbors first), whereas to build a complete union-find structure would. Still, the fastest solution in general is probably just the single pass: if you have the insight that you can keep track of a 'max reachable index' and update it at each step to max(current-max, i + A[i]), bailing with failure if you hit an index > the current max and having no more jumps, or bailing with success if your max becomes >= the final index. (I never had this insight myself.) It could be slower of course, e.g. if the array was something like [bigNum/2, lots of 0s, bigNum/2 again in the middle, lots of 0s, end at index bigNum].
Yup, I am in the same boat and DBeaver works great just running standalone even without admin rights.
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and that is a federal law.

There is no such Federal law, as Federal law has no nexus in a local police encounter (unless there is a civil rights element).
Yup. Both our dogs are shelter dogs and we love 'em, but in the newest dog's case--he's probably around three, we've had him for about six months--there are enough issues that a lot of people wouldn't want to deal with some people just couldn't, while still being very good caretakers of better-adjusted dogs.

In ours's case: he's not a barker and he's incredibly gentle, but he's both dumb as a post (not the shelter-dog problem, and also usually just hilarious) and extremely timid (that one is) to the point of frustration. Speak excitedly? He'll slowly sink to the floor and look worried. Tape a cable to the floor with gaff tape? He won't go over it[0]--probably because he'd experienced an invisible fence, we think. Move a chair to the other side of the living room? He sits in the corner and quietly freaks out for two hours. Leave after such a traumatic furniture adjustment? You might come home and he's nervous-chewed something. (Like, to this point, five pairs of my shoes. I am literally bankrolling Nike by my re-purchases of Air Force 1's. It doesn't help that now he's figured out how to open the doors that don't latch in our house--we're doomed, I tell you. Doomed.)

He's a great dog. But we knew going into it that dealing with his issues would take some effort, and there definitely are people who could be enriched by having a dog (they're great!) but don't have the capacity to deal with even a relatively minor case like ours.

The downside to this sort of generosity of the benefit of the doubt, of course, is that then there are people who can't hack it and who create more shelter dogs. I don't have a good solution for that, of course. But my intuition is more good is created than bad.

[0] - His pathfinding is just not good. He'll go the entire way around the house to avoid walking over a scary black tape line. He'll also squeeze under tables, chairs, benches, etc. to avoid innocuous spaces or hop over the couch to avoid going around it. And this dog is a mess of Labrador, Staffordshire, and German Shepherd, with legs like a greyhound--watching him accordion on down to squeeze under a foot-high bench is hilarious.
Translating, after a period you spam users with marketing designed to get people who had a poor first impression to spend time getting a second impression. Informing users who didn't make the effort to google for support where the support channels are. I imagine it helps get the people who want baby sitters, but it certainly drives away the people who don't want baby sitters. I guess it makes sense if you goal is to sell managed services.
> The mechanism for this alone, with the rotor visible in the rear, is really fascinating to watch.

I can see the appeal of visible gears. But most mechanical watch aficionados seem to satisfy with the thought that the gears EXIST.

> it competes on craftsmanship

Not entirely sure what that means. It's not like smartwatches don't feature ingenuous engineering and quite a bit of manual assembly labor.

> it won't be outdated in a few years as will every modern smartwatch

That always seemed an exceedingly silly argument to me. Mechanical watches have been outdated for DECADES. By the 1980s, they were thoroughly outclassed in accuracy, functionality, and price.

Sure, in a few years, today's smartwatches will have been surpassed by better models, while odds are that the mechanical watch maker will, at best, have slapped a new paint scheme on the same old model. But in a few years, today's smartwatches will still outclass mechanical watches. And I don't see what's superior about stagnant technology.

> something that will be functional and repairable decades from now

For sufficiently small values of "functional", as apparently being off by 15 seconds a day is considered "well within their quality standards".

https://forums.watchuseek.com/f419/jaeger-lecoultre-watch-ac...
Providers. I only hire child and pet care providers I have performed a background check on, I’ve vetted in person, and who come with references from others.

I do not use ride sharing, pet services, Airbnb, or other such P2P platforms.
A few on here https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

I just like that Sequel Pro isn't electron based like so many dev tools are these days.
After reading the article, no, the Navy probably does not need more overpaid business consultants with powerpoints full of easy answers. It needs to do something about inexperienced, undertrained, overworked crews in its ships.

The CO and XO shouldn't be sleeping while their ship is crossing a busy sealane full of behemoth freighters driving on autopilot in the dark.
In the famous Ruby Ridge incident, a Federal sniper shot the Weaver's dog from long distance... because it barked.
Peering into the Future of Machine Learning Hardware
Seriously grateful for the app, I’ve used it (and maybe taken it for granted) for years. Does what it says on the tin.
I don't think you understand how little these gig apps pay. 1k deposit would exclude a very large percentage of the workers. And frankly - who in the hell in their right mind would PAY a company a grand so start working for them? That's sketchy af.
Now that's something I'd love to read about! My only comparable experience was during my most recent co-op where I used an Asus C300 Chromebook running Gallium OS 2.1, and it served me quite well for the work I was doing.

Although using modern websites when you only have 2 GB of RAM and a mobile Celeron chip is absolutely painful...
It's not difficult to do more than $50K in damage to a house, especially via fire.
> This is not an issue of people being conditioned unthinkingly to accept that TV is a low value activity.

Yet this is exactly the issue, as evidenced by the parent commentor spouting out an automatic "gigahours wasted in front of TVs are sad", that I have been focusing on this thread.

> People are making rational value judgements about their TV watching habits

While people could be making explicit rational value judgements on top of implicit pre-existing socialized values (aka. borrowed beliefs), it is the later that I'm interested in talking about (and is relevant to this thread).

> As to why people do things that they believe is a waste of time? Why did you write that long list of words. Did you believe I would read it? Did you believe it would add value to the conversation? Did you believe it would add value to your life? Or did you do it without really evaluating whether or not it was a valuable thing to do?

I wrote it to clarify your confusion which you seemed to get at first ("I think I understood ...") yet went on to proceed on the same tangent, in the next two paragraphs, that prompted it in the first place.
Have any cloud providers or open source projects started publishing their proofs of correctness yet?

Is it cheaper to hire someone who knows TLA+ or to find a consultant?
Sociopathic behavior is a huge red flag.

I realize this is an emotional subject, but everything we know about startups, the gig economy, and success in general says that it's actually a green flag.
We had a similar (but thankfully, less serious) thing happen with Rover. We booked a dog sitter for 4 days with a woman named "Leslie". When we showed up to "Leslie's" place, the lady who we met did not match the person in the photo, and barely spoke any english. We were on our way to the airport, so I really didn't have a choice at that point but to leave our dog (I realize now I should have done more vetting, or met this individual in-person ahead of time, but the person I booked - Leslie - had dozens of positive reviews). After dropping off our dog, we received extremely vague updates/text messages over the next few days, and no photos. Things like - "Your dog is doing great", "he is behaving so well", etc... Whenever I asked for a photo, they would say they'd send one the next day.

Needless to say, it became obvious that whoever was watching our dog was not the person we were communicating with. Thankfully, our dog doesn't have special medication, or a specific diet that we needed to monitor. Who knows what would have happened if there was an emergency, and we needed to get in touch with one another.

These services like Wag and Rover have literally one job, and that is to make sure you trust the individuals watching your pet. The response from Rover was completely thoughtless, and it was clear they were going to do nothing to investigate the situation. The fact that they don't care that people like this woman who clearly has some sort of questionable scheme going on just shows how little they care about protecting their customer's pets.
Leaving Mozilla and (most of) the Rust project
If you're talking strictly developer tools, I have GitUp and Hex Fiend in my Dock right now. If you stray out further into productivity tools, I have Hammerspoon, Jumpcut, Karabiner-Elements off the top of my head; on the command-line side MacPorts brings me many cross-platform tools.
When I hire an Uber I expect my uber driver to be vetted by Uber?

Beyond that

People driving under other people's Uber accounts don't have a license or are otherwise ineligible to drive for Uber (criminal, underage, etc) otherwise they'd get their own Uber account. Uber literally pays people to sign up as drivers - there's no legitimate reason to drive under someone else's Uber account.

Commercial Insurance would probably exclude coverage for any incidents that happen when an unlicensed driver is using someone else's Uber account.
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suggest some good docker projects for both academics and learning or cloud projects
Are we going to link FB posts on HackerNews now?
Foldable is still alive in Microsoft.
I care because it is a lie and manipulation.

Business done without a solid basis is often high risk. That risk unlikely to be worth it.

Finally, as a basic matter of principle, I do not do business with people who are dishonest.

Doing that is on par with debating liars.
"Relativity will try to realize its more ambitious long-term goal: taking this manufacturing process to the Red Planet and building a rocket using 3D printers on Mars."

Why not aim to build a fuel factory first, to refuel spacecraft for return trips?
There's one aspect of Facebook which seems to always be ignored by these "deleting Facebook" posts and it confuses me.

I've never really scrolled through the frontpage, I don't look at people's posts and photos, happy to message them through text or WhatsApp, but I absolutely need the events. Without them, I'd lose so much touch with all but my closest friends.

People tend to respond to this concern with "if they don't invite you individually they aren't that great a friend" but that's my point - they're not, but they're people I like and I like to see them a few times a year at birthdays and other celebrations, and I'd feel my life diminished if I didn't have them. But there are dozens, I don't have time to catch up with them for coffee, and I don't honestly love the pressure of one-on-one time with people who aren't very close to me, anyway.

People who advocate deleting Facebook, do you not have/want such relationships? Or do you not care for catching up in that way? Or do you have some solution? Because for me it's the absolute core feature of Facebook.
Twelve states and D.C. allow illegal immigrants to acquire drivers licensees [0]. Washington State was the first one in the early 90s, but the list also includes the boarder states of California and New Mexico. I would imagine if a state will issue a drivers license then someone has to be selling insurance, otherwise the license is moot as their would be no legal way to drive.

[0] https://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=...
Or one encounters federal police. DHS is out there and on patrol now.
Sequel Pro crashes when you close a tab in Mojave.
Also, most of my developer friends who have one booted theirs once or twice before disappearing in the closet. We used one as a home server, but replaced it by a NUC, since IO on the Pi is too constrained.

The Micro:Bit at least actually got a foothold in UK education.
pigs are often clever and affectionate, cows indifferent, and chickens dumb, but it's easy to get attached to any individual animal.

but it's also not hard to eat animals that we don't get attached to. it's not entirely contradictory in that light. just as we can love and defend the people around us and yet be callous to the famine and war needlessly affecting those elsewhere.
Do I need password manager software? Let's find out
Then one uses trace points like IntelliTrace or DTrace.
Yeah, IO constraints have made me dial back my use of Pi-alikes and have put a bunch of NUCs (or Gigabyte BRICs) in their place. I do still use my ODroid XU4 as a gimmicky little cluster for testing stuff, but nothing serious.

I do have one project idea for using my stack of RPis, though (a badging/console login system for fighting game tournaments) but that is waaaay on the back burner.
Principal investigator. Usually the person in charge of the research.
People are weirdly alone these days, their faces always in a screen. When you gotta trust somebody, blindly appears to be the only option.
You want to maximize the likelihood the dog survives.

Wag, however, has a huge financial incentive for the dog to die even if it could be saved, due to the cost differential between surgery and subsequent care vs. cremation cost.
Don't ask to ask, just ask
25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
Out of curiosity, why did you build PopSQL from scratch? How many hours would you estimate it would take to generalize Sequel Pro to support PostgreSQL? The license even allows proprietary forks.