skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most serious drivers use multiple ridesharing apps. They very much have other customers.

Drivers as a group are integrated into Uber's operations, but an individual driver is not. Nothing at Uber depends on a certain driver being available. Contrast that with most non-contracting jobs where operations depend on an employee being at work and doing their job.

Obviously there is no right of control of Uber drivers. They can choose to accept a contract or not, with no repercussions if they choose not to accept. The fact that the contract has clearly defined terms such as who to pick up, where to go, etc. does not mean the driver isn't contracting (since doing a job that has clear terms is the definition of contracting...).

Other than the 'short-term' aspect, Uber drivers are pretty clearly contractors by that definition.
I bet if you included the 70s and 80s it wouldn’t be the historic high.

Property crimes are obviously way up even if violent crimes aren’t so much.
All iOS web browsers are forced to use the Safari web engine, unlike on Android where the Firefox Preview (Fenix) and Firefox Focus are using a mobile-optimized version of Gecko called GeckoView.

Also, iOS Firefox doesn't allow the installation of add-ons.
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for all of these revelations to mean something. Hope it does eventually.
That is true but HN is overwhelming an American readership, which is obvious to non-Americans or anyone who lives outside of the US timezones.

Which isn't too surprising, all things considered, it just is what it is.

But given all too human "familiarity bias", it also isn't surprising that an American readership submits & upvotes primarily American sources.
Yep. It's likely that Icelandic speakers can read Old Norse, especially with footnotes, but they most likely wouldn't be able to understand the sagas if they were spoken aloud. And a lot of the reason Icelandic is as conservative as it is is because of a push towards purism from Danish influences in the 19th century.
Looking at those charts, I don't see any place where the tax cut kicked in. Looks like the trend just continues from before the tax cut. Looks like your mention of the tax cut is completely unrelated to unemployment figures.
Uber Blame Game Focuses on Morgan Stanley After Shares Drop
> ..your startup isn't so much about helping people make friends; it's about giving businesses another advertising opportunity..

> I feel that ethos of business is a big part of this problem, and it won't be part of the solution.

You're so right to point this out. Your original comment satirizes the narrow mindset of reducing a social and cultural problem to building/selling technological solutions.

Often the latter is not a solution at all, but merely another symptom of an underlying illness, the mentality that exploits society and human relationship as a business opportunity. On the theme of friendship and loneliness, Facebook is a prime example.
Didn't really expect this to reach Show HN! I made this because I wanted to be able to update a number (motor angle) with a control that could be changed any time through external input

Couldn't find any library on the topic, since all of them would just turn around sharply, risking breaking the motor. So I made this.
I thought reason for this is that Japanese are more homogenous than Americans, so it's much easier for them to sympathize with their own.
Who issues first advice on dementia: exercise and don't smoke
Maybe after a few years with a lot of stock appreciation. I don't know of any company that will offer it straight-up. If you do, let me know and I'll consider switching right away.
There are consistency guarantees that it's possible that you can't ensure with just application logic.

Suppose you are running a booking system for ridesharing. When you want to lock-in a passenger's seat, it's possible that consistency can be violated when you do it at the application level: both A and B request a seat after a query returns that there is a seat available, then simultaneously lock-in their reservation after seeing stale data.

It's also naive to think that validation in the application is sufficient. For, say, a webapp, there should be three places where that occurs: at the client where you can provide the most meaningful feedback, at the service to catch most consistency errors and guard against malicious actors while you can provide meaningful feedback, and at the database level for the most perennial and slow-moving constraints so that concurrency and your own bugs don't fuck up your source-of-truth.

edit: come to think if it, it's possible to do it without triggers as long as you can still express the constraint as a query: append a boolean field to each table with a TRUE check constraint, and use a table query mirroring the constraint to populate that field on every mutation.
Kinda. How many phone-screens do you do before an onsite is scheduled?
> I'm not aware of code reviewing built in to git itself

I guess you can pull a branch or email a patch and diff it with the diff tool of your choice.

There's a few options for gir review UIs, e.g. Gerrit or GitLab. Kind of unix-y, just have the VCS be a good VCS.
The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
Depends if Ethiopia believes the US will declare war against Ethiopia, or otherwise destabilise Ethiopia over one token Boing executive being detained fairly-indefinitely.
Funny I happen to be looking for a new job right now and have run into the programming challenge just last week. In my case I passed and now tomorrow I have my next interview with the them. This time I'm doing a web-ex with two developers who want to talk shop and take a peak at a 'recent side project'. I work with 10 other programmers and none of them have side projects to show; fortunately I have a few including one that makes a little bit of money. Should be fine but you never know what kind of random stuff they toss out and expect you to know.

Before this one I had a company ask me to write a sample iOS app with a list of data + a second page with specific validation rules for the form. I wrote that 3 weekends ago and sent it in, still haven't heard back from them, I guess they get 100's of applicants a week (it's a full remote job).
I disagree, CEO isn't a lonely job. You might not be more connected to your reports on personal level but you know quite a lot of other CEOs personally and might also have handful of executives working under you as your personal friends.
So far there seem to be far more of these vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs.

Is that a reflection of engineering differences or a statistical byproduct of the market share of Intel CPUs?

I run AMD not because of the security implications but because I feel every dollar that goes to Intel competition will push Intel and thus the entire industry forward.
In other languages, this task does not require a sort. It's just a for loop. The fact that you need a nested table and a sort illustrates my point about SQL making some easy problems hard (maybe harder is more accurate).
Really? When I was growing up lox meant liquid oxygen the fish was called salmon in my experience its only recently that English speaking people began to use the word for liquid oxygen for fish.
I honestly don't understand why families settle in this kind of case. It's one thing if the victim is alive and has medical bills. If they're dead, all you can hope to achieve is justice. Don't settle for money. Take them down. Make it actually hurt.
Couldn't you also embed data into images and upload them to Google photos, or is that discarded when they convert and compress the image in the backend?
> or four Srebrenicas, or roughly the entire historical body count of the Troubles.

If you're going to compare the 300+ million population of the USA with something, it's better to do it with (German occupied) Europe than a place with a population of around 1% that of the USA. It's also strange to bring in wars, civil or otherwise, and again compare numbers when the entire population of the island has a population of around 2% that of the USA's.

> If you tell enough people that X is a threat that is coming for them - that they are going to be victims of a holocaust - then eventually one of them will follow the logic that they can use their gun to avoid the holocaust by pre-emptively murdering the threat.

I suppose we should stop saying "win at all costs" or "some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that." because maybe a Liverpool fan will go on a killing spree.
Someone is going to notice a few accounts with insanely high storage usage, and then comes the ban-hammer. Enjoy losing your Google account!
Sorry but calling Bitcoin's Lightning network "internet cash" is incredibly misleading. Bitcoin is "internet cash". At least it used to be.

Bitcoin's version of the lightning network is a Rube Goldberg machine bolted onto a payment network and dressed up to look like a scaling solution.

Lightning network is a super cool technology but BTC's implementation of it suffers from crippling flaws that make it useless for Lightning's most promising use cases. Lightning network was designed to be a micropayment solution built on top of a low-fee base layer. It requires that low-fee base layer to deliver on it's promises. Since it's been built on a high-fee base layer (BTC), transaction routing is now a problem that can only be solved by sending your lightning payment through a large and highly connected lightning node and never closing your payment channels (because re-opening them costs too much). This effectively eliminates the p2p aspect that is required for "lightning bitcoin" to function as cash.

Instead, BTC lightning network has to function more like traditional banks where the node operator is the bank and the payment channel is the user's account. The transactions are like really fast SWIFT/ACH transfers except they only go through if the sender's account meets the necessary liquidity constraints. Those liquidity constraints actually make btc lightning transactions more like purchases made using a secured/prepaid credit card because you must have money tied up so that you can spend money. And like a bank, the lightning node gets to decide if they want to route your transaction to it's final destination.

It's also incredibly likely ( and arguably confirmed based on https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20... ) that BTC lightning nodes will be subject to the same rules and regulations as a traditional bank. If so, it's yet another centralizing force on BTC's version of Lightning. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking banks here. Banks are useful and KYC/AML are often good things. I'm just saying, "lightning btc" couldn't be further from cash.
> Leave the testing until the end? Is that best practice in some places still?

What testing, we'll let the end-user find the bugs and then fix them in the next version.
Chainstack: A Blockchain Control Panel for Large Businesses
Here's an example of a "complex" constraint. You have a restaurant reservation system, and reservations are stored as time intervals. Each restaurant has a capacity, and you need to ensure that a booking does not make it so that the restaurant exceeds capacity at any point of time.

One way to resolve it with triggers is to have a stored procedure fetch all the records that intersect the new booking's interval, and procedurally count the number of concurrent bookings at each record's start and end times; the constraint would be violated if and only if the count at any point plus the pax of the new booking exceeds capacity.
I used to interview Senior Devs when I worked for Amazon. It's strictly part of the interview training process not to ask purely algorithmic questions (and yet some still do). I chose not to and it gave me much better data points.

I chose my next role because they didn't ask me those questions and instead asked how I'd tackle problems.

Engineers have enough market power to change this if we choose. For some reason, we just choose not to.
Not necessarily. If it isn't tracking the user (recording his behavior or request) then it isn't tracking.
> "You can bet the company didn't ask for it." is your quote, thus my, "who cares what they ask for".

Wow, that's a complete misunderstanding of what I'm saying.

This was in reply to someone trying to shift the blame of a unions bad actions onto a "contract", the contract here is an agreement between the union and the company, so if it wasn't the unions fault it was in the contract it had to be the companies. I don't care about what companies do ask for (in this context), I do care about what companies didn't ask for so you can't blame them for it.

Unions should just make sure you get a fair shake, in reality my experience with them has been they make it virtually impossible to fire you no matter what you do.
But... Netflix... costs money?
This is a great comment!

Of course a company can only be a subset of the values of the world it exists in.
I too thought this was a given and have personally experienced it even just being a rung or two on the ladder. It makes total sense - what you do or don’t share or say becomes more important, the stakes are higher, and there’s just generally less people at your level to confide in
I'm self taught and blow most out of the water with software and hardware engineering. Most college degrees, even for CS majors, are a joke.
It seems like the most significant change is the series of values of that consonant. I don't think the -az in Germanic is significant here because it's a separate inflectional morpheme (and can be ø in the vocative, and in nouns in subsequent Germanic languages).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_grammar#a-stems

I'd agree that there's an element of chance in what's happened to the k since it didn't necessarily have to change back to resemble the PIE form, but I'm not sure I see the other changes as ever having moved far from PIE at all.
What I can't fathom is why Supermicro haven't sued Bloomberg? Their stock took a massive hit and so far no one has been able to independently verify Bloomberg's claims. Seems like a court case would be fairly easy to win for Supermicro.
My first interview in my last amazon loop was a canonical popular leetcode question (Alien Dictionary).

The rest weren’t, however. I surely got points off in my interview for pointing out how practiced Alien Dictionary was for anyone studying for an interview.
Why do state lines make a difference? Is there some geographic location where health insurers have a competitive advantage that major metro areas (certainly where most rideshare drivers are) don't have access to? If there is, which states are already reaping the benefits of market based high access to health insurance?

Also, you do realize that this proposed solution essentially disempowers state governments from being responsive to citizen concerns about insurance policy/practice -- if a state can't control who sells in their state, then the only government shaping insurance policy is national.

Bonus points if you can address how these locales address the issue that health insurance is a weird good from a market perspective -- the more an individual needs it, the less an insurer probably wants to sell it to them, certainly for an averaged risk pool premium.

I totally want to see insurance decoupled from employment, but as far as I can tell, the state line thing isn't an analysis, it's just a mantra that was/is frequently dropped into the discussion without explanation or support.
I’ve heard somewhere that some or all versions of intel atom are immune to both spectre and meltdown attacks. The bonnell architecture being just a supercharged 486 has none of those fancy features that are being exploited. Not sure about foreshadow since HT is present on Atom processors.
I was stunned by this revelation, but then I think back to all the other times Adobe has exhibited similar behaviour and it seems like they won't change. It's not like the CC suite is cheap either. To compare, Office 365 subscription provides so much more value for a better price.

For a very high-class replacement of Adobe products, I would recommend Affinity suite of products - they are a buy once, use forever kind. And Affinity Designer (replacement for Illustrator) is incredibly good - even better than Illustrator in a lot of areas. And price of Designer is less than 2 months of Illustrator fees. Beat that!
Google, give this man a job!
Depends how you encode it. A bunch QR codes, no problem. But encoding into the individual pixel, probably not so much.
What happened to peanuts? eggs? Dead cow? Those are proteins; peas are what I put in my food so my wife wont steal it.
I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.
It's true that the oecd definition kind of breaks on poor countries with low median income. But still the list is interesting if you look at the more comparable rich countries vs the US.
> dedicated mappers in my city have all turned to OSM now

That's very encouraging to hear! It motivates me to push more for using OSM in client projects, as it's the best alternative to Google Maps, especially if the latter starts showing ads.
Uber and Lyft Get Creative, but Investors Aren’t Blind to Losses
No- They just favor business owners and the above average earners more and are highly distrustful of those not working or not making enough money. Extreme capitalists!
The ATO has this page defining the difference: https://www.ato.gov.au/business/employee-or-contractor/diffe...

On the employee side: a driver can not delegate work, is paid per activity, takes no commercial risk, has no control over how they do their work and are not operating independently. On the contractor side: The driver supplies most of the equipment (that's if you don't count the massive server side investment as equipment).

So far tax purposes at least uber drivers are employees, so the question is why did the ATO give them an ABN in the first place?
https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/104124/20181018/chinese...
The engine for the first Halflife was a customized and modified version of Id’s engine, so originally they shared not only some principles but also code.

“GoldSrc is a game engine developed by Valve Corporation, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Half-Life. Elements of GoldSrc are based on a heavily modified version of id Software's Quake engine. “

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc
Nasa Seeks Funds for Return to Moon
The most despicable thing besides all these that Boeing did was to start blaming the pilots, trying to use xenophobia and blaming it on 'third world' pilots first [1] though it was clear even from the start that there is nothing any pilot could have done so close to the ground [2].

That was disgusting and has me lose the last bit of sympathy I've had left for The Boeing Company.

[1] https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/boeing-ceo-puts-partial-bl...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/db8a09b8-56aa-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc...
Third place experiments have a tendency to turn into impromptu homeless shelters.

Im' not saying we don't need shelters, but Pete and Bob from accounting are not like to chill out at one.
Boeing will definitely survive. It is a behemoth, both for export capital and for defense. Too big to fail.

Also, lots of planes require software to be safe to fly. It’s just the way things are nowadays.
So now I assume that the tariff strategy probably helps china. Just assuming the opposite of Blankfein is almost always the thing.
> If the Monsanto-funded studies suck, it will 100% be possible to point to the reasons why in those studies.

You can't read a study to determine that it's wrong because of something like survivorship bias, because you're not reading all the conflicting results that didn't get published. The only way to determine that kind of cause is to conduct a lot of independent research seeking to replicate the questionable study. That's more likely to happen if you discount and throw out the questionable studies, leaving you with a more realistic picture of the quantity and quality of evidence you have on the issue. If you take questionable studies at face value, you're more likely to decide that you have enough evidence to come to a conclusion.
This looks like a really good library, well designed with really simple examples. Thank you for sharing it!

I will admit that it took me a bit to appreciate the extent of what the library supports browsing on my phone. It wasn’t immediately obvious to me I could slide the tab bar on the main page, or that the component listing was in the hamburger menu after clicking the components link. So I had to go hunting a little bit. Also it is not possible to access the last item in the components list in mobile safari, the navigation bar obscures it. I’m not sure how much you’ll want to prioritize the mobile experience of the site, but if you do I hope this feedback helps.
yeah! let's hope no google employees see this ... oh wait
I think the default is the government reimbursement rate. This year it's $0.58/mi. When I worked at a pizza place in high school drivers were reimbursed at this rate. That's a similar market because pizza delivery drivers drive their personal vehicles and it doesn't matter if you drive a Prius or a Hummer.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-standard-mileage-rat...
Me and a friend came up with a similar idea of a sort of distributed file system implemented across a huge array of blog comment sections. Of course you’d need a bunch of replication and fault tolerance and the ability to automatically scrape for new blogs to post spammy-looking comments on, but I thought it was a pretty funny and neat idea when we came up with it.
I just flew in a KLM E190 "CityHopper" and the seating was significantly more spacious than recent 737ng experiences. Seat layout allows for large carry ons under the seats. No problem. 2x2 rows means football players don't get stuck in a middle seat. I also noticed the E190 noise level was lower than 737.
Peanuts are legumes, like peas, but present far more problems with allergies.
Eggs are far more resource intensive to produce than peas and also present ethical problems (e.g. what to do with male chicks - throw them alive in a grinder or suffocate them?). Cow production has similar issues, like water usage.
You left out step 4, without which 1-3 would just make everything worse for everyone: just like with car insurance, everyone would be legally required to purchase health insurance up to some minimal level of coverage. Not for their own sakes, but for everyone else’s, otherwise you end up with even more uninsured people seeking treatment, which is how we got into this mess to begin with.

Any plan which doesn’t minimize or zero out the pool of uninsured Americans does nothing but drive up the cost of health care, and in turn the cost of insurance for everyone else, in a vicious circle. That’s the whole point of the last 30+ years of never ending ideas about what to do about health care in America. The whole point is to break that cycle, not even getting in to second order effects like exploding Medicare costs or actual public health issues.
1. Stop using 'git add .' This is a bad habit I see people keep suggesting to new git users. Stop recommending it and stop doing it.

2. Never store your password in .git/config. Why are you doing that? That shouldn't be stored in .git/config.
How many people can recite their SSH key? Surely an SSH key is "something you have".
"the crop doubles in size every day"

for a brief spell, that is. otherwise it'd be jack's freakin beanstalk!
‘I Don’t Want to See Him Fail’: A Firm Takes a Chance on Ex-Inmates