skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which lawyers have said they're not contractors? (I haven't noticed anyone responding to my queries who's reported legal expertise – but I have quoted a legally-trained reporter who advances the same interpretation.)

In what way does a person under contract to perform certain duties, on their own devices, being compensated, in accordance with a legally-enforceable contract not fit this dictionary definition of a 'contractor'?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contractor

In what ways do they not meet this law dictionary definition?

https://thelawdictionary.org/contractor/

Or this one?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contractor

Compensated research panelists meet all these definitions.

Did you know that Nielsen restructured its payments to its similarly monitored panelists, because it knew it'd otherwise have to 1099 them, like any other natural person receiving compensation for services under a contract?

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/36602/nielsen...
This is a fist stage solution. The second stage is that the vehicles wander off to find something useful to do. The entire idea of parking and parking lots can be eliminated with some clever pooling of resources and predictive modeling.

The environmental benefits of replacing fields of asphalt and cement with greenery and open space will be huge.
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The obvious solution is to charge a small amount for road usage in places where roads are congested. This doesn't even have to apply to human driven cars if cities don't want it to (although it of course should for efficiency's sake). Self driving cars will need the ability to be pulled over by police, so at the least you can just give out big tickets to driverless cars that aren't paying the congestion fee when they are pulled over.
They didn't pass the bill because it was redundant. (Remember, it passed the House 128-4; there's no bipartisan divide on this issue.)

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/26/lawmakers-plan-fres...

> Under current state law, parents who arrange or knowingly allow the procedure on a daughter can be charged with the crime of aiding and abetting the crime of female genital mutilation or with child neglect or endangerment, according to a report by the nonpartisan Minnesota House Research Department, which noted that both of those offenses are felonies.

Side note: It appears the MN Senate was controlled by the Republicans in 2017/2018 when the bill was up for a vote, not the Democrats as you assert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Minnesota_Legislature

You should ask yourself where you got this flagrantly false information from, and why you were primed to believe it.
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Wouldn't another possibility be cities charging for entry to reduce traffic to maintain revenue after building the system - it's been adopted in London and Singapore among others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
Microsoft doesn't do consulting but has an enormous partner ecosystem.
Author's critique = 100% infantile sarcasm. I know infantile sarcasm. Read my comments if you doubt. Then both of us will have skin in the game.
On the flip side: "Geologic Time includes Now"
I would. I haven't used facebook apps in years, and I would certainly survive without google apps.
I still find it hilarious that perhaps the biggest threat to adoption of self-driving taxis in urban centers might be...electric scooters.
It might depend on the kind of information. If it's something like "What's the capital of this country?" there's a one-word answer. With "Is propel fitness water keto?" There's a simple answer, but you might be interested in more details.

For Is It Keto, those blurbs bring in a lot of traffic. The one for Propel is the most popular page on the site by far.
> Bell argued that Canadians accessing content from a US service with a VPN “unjustly enriches the US service, which has not paid for the Canadian rights”

Odd how 'free trade' doesn't apply to consumers. Are they not allowed to import digital goods?
I remember when movies first started coming out on VHS and Beta (yes I'm that old). The video store that quickly popped up in my town quickly realized that renting a VHS player would help with sales and rentals; costing something like $10 a day (with 1 movie rental included). The problem was that they only had 10 players, so that if you didn't reserve one ahead of time, you were playing the lottery on high demand days. On weekdays there were plenty of players available, but on Fri/Sat nights it was crazy. The owner didn't have enough capitol to have players idle on the slow nights, so the problem wasn't resolved until everyone who could, bought their own player.

I see the same issue happening with any ride service model. Unless some part of it is being subsidized, I find it hard to see how a company will be able to have enough capacity for peak demand while not wasting a ton of capital. And if people have issues with getting a ride service, they'll buy their own, further complicating the profitability margins of ride service companies.
The Buckaroo workflow looks like this:

# Create your project file
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And yet another development tool that wants to hijack my workflow. No thanks

Conan.io already does decentralization right and is well on the way on becoming the defacto standard package manager for C++. And all of that without constraining my workflows
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They have been using license plate readers for this for more than a decade in cities across Europe and Asia.
This is an often overlooked point. Once near zero accidents are proven, all types of vehicle design options become feasible. Super narrow, super light, etc. It may even be feasible to change the roads. I fear we’re a long way away though.
Envelope math is telling me that's about 30k/year before taxes. That would be a 6% annual return on half a million dollars.

Not exactly a recipe for the masses.
Public transit has other significant drawbacks.

IE, it can't go point to point, and is instead stuck in a movement pattern that isn't changing.
I think this is a case where if you had followed your own rules to begin with, this whole discussion thread could have been avoided. There was nothing wrong with your observation of possible incivility - I've noticed you're very attuned to it. You were absolutely doing your job by calling it out. However, the way you worded it gave no context for what was wrong (shallow), implied that the poster had not read the site guidelines (snarky), and ignored the small possibility that "cute" was not intended to be condescending (the strongest possible interpretation of what they said). It seems

I don't think it would have compromised your message if you had been both more specific and a little more polite the first time around. Something like "Your use of 'cute' appears condescending and snarky. This is against the site rules, which you can find here <link>." I think people are more receptive to that tone anyway, and if you do happen to be accidentally overzealous, you've allowed enough room for both of you to save face.

I realise that I too should have posted this comment the first time around, and my initial reply to you (a simple quotation of the site rules I believed you to have violated) was also shallow and snarky, in precisely the same way. So, sorry about that. By way of apology, let me express that I am grateful for the excellent work you do, and that I would surely be much ruder in your position.
If Hacker News wanted to discourage growth, they should have made the forum private and invite only.

There was never any real chance of this forum going mainstream, not because it was too ugly and awkward but because it didn't have any mainstream appeal. Negative reinforcements like making the text purposely difficult to read mostly just punish existing users.
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Getting kind of off topic, just curious (as someone who has visited all the cities on your list as well as SF and lived in another five cities): what is the soul of Phoenix? My impression (from an admittedly short trip) was that of a souless wasteland where people moved from ACed building to ACed building by ACed car. It was like the outdoors was a minefield or something.

Not saying my impression was right. Maybe there are limits on what can be gleaned from a trip, as suggested by the parent.
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It's indeed going to be very, very, hard to retrofit a package manager into C++.

You could structure something around CMake.

One immediate issue is compilation flags and platforms management. You may need to use some custom flags, for example, you need to compile against a specific architecture. You want those flags to be passed to all libraries uniformly.

But the horrible problem is quickly the compatibility matrix.

In other words, if you are making available, let's say you are using alib v1 and blib v2, you need to check the two libraries compile, link, and work together nicely. So when you upgrade one of the libraries, you need to check that compatibility again.

It's an important problem because if you're working on production software, you need to be able to build all versions and maintain them. And maybe you will have to upgrade only one library. You can't always be "current" everywhere.

So very quickly, using a package manager becomes more painful than having the libraries management manually with a couple of custom scripts.

I'll be happily be proven wrong by a package manager (and we tried a lot).
after reading through this thread, i find some very concerning things. The use of the word nontrivial is one thing. Calling something nontrivial does not mean you have expertise, there are a number of analytic tools that are being called non trivial or too complex, and that means it is non trivial to the caller. The rest of us who use these techniques as often as breathing find them trivial to say the least.
The lack of knowldege regarding just how extensively big data reaches into our platform is another. lets look at google, the practice of asking permission for something mundane like sorting pictures according to location can be accomplished by scraping exif data, but google uses this for an opportunity to turn on location tracking in the background. Facebook most definately does not refrain from background permission jacking.
The tools and API's laying around in the open for any one to take advantage of is another. win10 telemetry provides an intimate snapshot of a win10 instance, and any one can use that telemetry to fingerprint your hardware. Even encrypted telemetry is a highly individual number that doesnt need to be decrypted to indicate an individual machine across the internet.

The title of this forum "hackernews" is concerning, there seem to be no hackers here at all. All of the "non trivial" actions here are non trivial to those that know very little about CS in general, or have an extremely antiquated perspective on the nature and extent of system penetration as it stands today. A "normie" is not likely to know anything about lockpicking, but even an apprentice locksmith finds it extremely trivial, its just a matter of perfecting dexterity over a couple of months to be quick and slick about it.

Facebook is one of the biggest threats to national security we have in our back yard, and the lackadaisical attitudes displayed here regarding security, only set that threat in stone and perpetuity.
Same way as Uber and Lyft do it – they charge demand pricing.
Unions for software engineers... Interesting
I've always found it fascinating that naloxone (the drug administered to people who OD on heroin, since it counters the effects) actually does make the placebo effect go away (that is, placebos become ineffective). Makes me think that the placebo effect is very real and something like a self-induced opiate.
What competitors are you using?
I find it very unfortunate that Nortel Networks went down, it could have given Canada the ability to develop their own communication solutions, including 5G gear.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-CA/enterprise/services?activeta... we kinda do? Microsoft Consulting Services is directly from us, though the extensive partner ecosystem is also important for smaller customers.
"Quite clear" is not an argument, it's an empty assertion.

IANAL, but I know the rough outlines of US contract and employment law as a frequent party to contracts, occasionally to disputes, and as a US person who has both contracted others and been a contract worker.

If you have a contract (which doesn't even have to be written), you're a contractor. Full stop. And, an agreement to provide payment in return for performing certain actions (like installing an app, leaving it running, answering questionnaires, maintaining confidentiality, etc) is a contract, even if it's a clickthrough agreement. Ergo, compensated research panelists are 'contractors' in the eyes of the law.
"suddenly that no longer serves a narrative the left wants to tell"

Except that that was also reported mostly everywhere. Also, one sided 'evil-looking' harassment is news that is more interesting to most people because it might signal some trend. No-one (left or right) would have found a word-fight between evenly-wrong grey characters very interesting if that was the story in the first place. Because it just isn't.

That doesn't make the mainstream press left-biased. I think it actually isn't.
The existence of self-driving cars isn't going suddenly dematerialize existing automobiles. It would be, at the least, a long transition process for everyone to switch.

Not only do many people have significant capital sunk into their cars but a lot of people would have trouble affording the cost of using a self-driving taxi and some number of others would simply object for whatever reason.

Moreover, maintaining a car and using a self-driving taxi is even more expensive - cars sitting around still decay and require maintenance as well as insurance.
The article is a little light on details, but seems cool nonetheless. I’d like to see more details on the tensorflow modifications they made for parallel computing. I’ve never had awesome results using distributed tf. The parameter server model just doesn’t seem to take good advantage of a really high performance interconnect.
The problem is they are no longer best-of-breed for any of their markets, except maybe Office.

Microsoft doesn't break out Azure revenue, but by all accounts it's quite small compared to AWS.

And Office is very much under threat. If you work with young people you'll notice they tend to prefer G Suite apps over Office - most likely because Google has done a great job getting their software into schools.
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What makes them research panelists?
Biggest loser will be the domestic Japanese Camembert industry[1], as according to a Reddit poster[2] Japan only has 4 cheeses (Sandwich cheese, cheese that melts (とろけるチーズ), parmesan cheese (for pasta) and camembert).

But that could turn around as consumers discover new cheeses and then incorporate cheese into their diet more.

One thing I recall about Japan, specifically Tokyo, was how many French patisseries there were, so it would seem to me there's a huge untapped market for French Cheese and Wine to accompany.

[1] https://whatjapanthinks.com/2017/10/05/camembert-is-japans-f...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/1xwk51/is_it_true_th...
One could also interpret it as referring to a letter of the alphabet, just to add to the confusion.
I wonder why this is downvoted... MySpace and Facebook coexisted in a very similar dynamic for several years before Facebook opened to everyone.
Canada has been doing the same [0]. A lot of effort does end up getting spent on managing relations with the U.S. which overshadows achievements elsewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_agreements_of_Canad...
There is a good resource just forwarded to me by a colleague on trained models + a discussion forum here:
Modeldepot.io

Previously a ShowHN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496347
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Well, there is Microsoft Consulting Services, so it isn’t quite such a simple picture. But it is true that they haven’t gone down the IBM path.
Short answer, experience and employers.

My experience doing Web development in Java started with joining a team that was ramping up a project on WebSphere 5.1, alongside a migration from BEA WebLogic.

I went through a couple of WebSphere, JBoss and TomcatEE versions up to JEE 6, was the technical lead for an in-house JSF framework built on top of RichFaces, and on very last JEE project used PrimeFaces.

All the employers that I worked for, mostly used JEE stacks for their Java projects. Spring was the exception, rather than the norm.

Additionally, even if a bit slowly, many of the Spring improvements ended up in JEE and Spring also supports the JSR related to JEE anyway.

Nowadays I live in the .NET world, and the Java teams next door are happily delivering JEE based solutions.

So if I was suddenly asked to architect a Java based solution, naturally it would be JEE based.
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Microsoft already has a lot invested in Linux support. They're not going to switch to something with a fraction of the community and ecosystem even if it has a lot of good qualities.
Hardly. The countries already made these non binding commitments, there is still no penalty for breaking them, and they bear no resemblance to what would be required to stay below 1.5C or 2C (the supposed headline achievement of Paris).

They were not negotiated on either - they are just what each country has said it would do.
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No. There is a big, big difference between a economically productive use of the common spaces and this unproductive abuse.

Unproductive abuse is a DDOS attack against the infrastructure that inhibits economically productive use of the space.

Cities should tax unproductive use at a prohibitively high rate to stop this DDOS attack.
Do it with parental consent and supervision? Think child actors.
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You absolutely can still maintain that list under CCPA. What you can't do is sell your list of nefarious IP addresses. You could sell (or buy) the service of checking various IP addresses against a proprietary list of nefarious IP addresses.
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I’d imagine it’s a great city to be in conditional on being homeless. Nice weather year-round and you aren’t paying the exorbitant rents.
Folks at every business I know eventually talk crap or otherwise grumble. Whoop de do. There's very little signal in that, especially for a business like Microsoft where everyone is an armchair analyst and can't go five minutes without mentioning "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" because they think it makes them sound smart.