skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that always bugs me with these arguments is that people don't seem to bring up the idea of creating a new legal class for these types of workers. Arguing whether those workers fit contractors or employees isn't great to read about because frankly, they fit in neither.

From Uber/Lyft drivers, to Door Dash delivery workers, to any other sort of up and coming on demand work which I'm sure keep coming and evolving, I believe creating a new legal class would be well worth the effort rather than arguing about where they fit in the current system.

This type of solution isn't easy. With all the arguments about if the drivers are contractors or employees, creating a new class of workers will easily be just as difficult; instead of legal fees for the law interpretation, it'd be legal fees for law creation.
Great article. One small mistake in it. Pretty sure it only fired 700 rounds/minute, not 7,000.
> For better or worse, reflex (time) based games will just not be played on Stadia by serious gamers.

True, but don't overestimate the importance of "serious gamers" to the industry's bottom line. IIRC, mobile gaming is now making more money than all PC and home systems combined.
> One obvious step that seems to be missing is having governments acknowledge this as a top priority.

It is missing because it's not possible!

Any government who doesn't have economy at its top priority will be overthrown. Economy can at most be slightly slowed down in order to push green policies, but that's it: anything more, and next government will be voted on the promise to restart coal mines!
It's what has to be done, we are growing too quickly and we are running out of land.
There are around 1 Billion people right now without electricity[1].

For them is already a hostile planet. I wonder if their governments care more about the environment or provide more people with electricity.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/number-of-people-in-the-world-wit...
For more shooting, and also discussion & commentary on weapon ergonomics & action match shooting, check out the InRange TV channel[1], where Ian is a co-host with Carl Kassarda.

Sadly, the InRange TV has to self-limit on Youtube due to rather stringient rules; for example, some of the build (including WWSD) series got either hidden or censored.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUNM9NqJqZXfRNeuW4_2sg
there's no East vs West Europe in aviation. All EU airlines adhere to the same stric EASA rules.
C++ Coroutines Resources
SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available
My guess would be that the latency of this approach would be far too high to be practical. But you could probably abuse the JPEG format to stuff bits of the video into image files. I think you'd probably still need to spend a fair amount of time buffering before you could start watching without lag.
> California state data shows 21 Solar Roof systems were connected by the state’s three investor-owned utilities as of Feb. 28. Only a few others were connected in the northeastern United States [...]

Amazing that Solar Roof got so much news coverage for what, in the end, amounted to practically nil.

I am frequently extremely critical of Elon Musk, but I cannot help but admire his marketing and promotion skills. I believe they are even above Steve Job's. And I'm not being sarcastic, I mean this sincerely.

Every other car company needs a huge marketing budget; Tesla has consistently been getting front page press coverage for free, for more than a decade.
If you had a big enough server, you could render multiple frames for each possible user action...
Fighting for the Right to Drive
A Nexus 9K is an expensive piece of kit, and is not a trivial switch to deploy what with VPC and other configurations being commonplace, so just powering it on will not deliver a workable product. I suspect most if not all deployments follow best practice and have a management VLAN with access lists control limiting the source address of the connecting client, and blocking access to port 22 from other networks.

* Edit * Plus the Nexus the backdoor is only relevant if the switch in using ACI, and not standalone NX-OS mode. ACI training is a 5 day course for advanced engineers. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certi...
Interesting - if I search for "install wordpress on cloud", I get a Google Cloud page (probably because of the major providers, Google Cloud is the only one that has "cloud" in its name) linking to a Google-built turnkey image https://cloud.google.com/wordpress/ . If I specifically search for "install wordpress on aws", AWS's docs tell you to install a Bitnami image https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/launch-a-wo... .

Google's page also says this, which I strongly agree with, though:

> Note: For automatic software updates and security patches, consider using a provider such as Kinsta or WP Engine which offers fully-managed WordPress solutions.

It seems sort of irresponsible to find people who aren't super comfortable with apt-get install and make it easy for them to run a WordPress they're responsible for security updates for; you're just setting themselves up to get popped. If Bitnami solves this, that seems extremely valuable, but my experience is most of the automated ways to patch WordPress come at significant risk of breaking important plugins. And managed WordPress is a reasonable product (almost everyone who wants a WordPress can just use a hosted, managed solution) and a thriving market already.
It never occurred to me that words ending in -gem in Portuguese were mostly feminine. Guess we don't pay much attention to these things regarding our native language.

I have misconceptions about other Romance languages as well. I often confuse genders when trying to speak French, last week I learned moustache is feminine, while in Portuguese and Spanish it's masculine.
Interesting follow-up: What _IS_ the natural decay rate of those substances? I tried finding some data, but wasn't really able to find any.
The tone and content of your post are both unhelpful and needlessly cynical.

When someone is curious about something it is most appropriate to just respond to what they asked instead of second-guessing their motives.
I think prediction failures are more likely to punish the opponents of the unpredictable guy. In a lot of online shooters, people with 300ms+ ping blink around unpredictably and appear to suddenly murder you out of nowhere, but they don't seem to have any trouble themselves.
I'd guess the opposite, that there is not a single video/series that have left any impact. I think they are quite internal to specific communities.

Maaaaaaybe Freemans Mind, but that's more of a comedy "series".
This pic does not say if it's talking about the total or the total per unit consumed, nor does it give a measure of what the total is. The chart is unfortunately not especially helpful in a vacuum. Which is not to say you're interpreting it wrong, I just cannot tell if your conclusion there is actually valid. Or if it's post-consumer (i.e. table scraps) or industrial (i.e. animal feed that goes bad) which dramatically changes the interpretation if animal production and cereal grain waste are correlated.
It means if you slip up and lose your domain, nobody can send you email (including 2FA, reset password, add a new email to your account, etc). You can imagine how inconvenient that would be. I use fastmail with a custom domain and that scenario gives me nightmares.
What do we have IPv6 for? I thought these 4G/5G networks run a TCP stack and telephony on top of it. Why do we phone numbers for device to device communication?
Hmm I was seeing that happening occasionally. It's just using the google maps api. What phone/browser were you trying it on?

Edit: Just made some adjustments. Map should work better on mobile now.
> 8 digits is only...

Sure, but the US with a much larger population only uses 10. 14 is bonkers, especially if it's just to preserve a method that basically wastes 3 of them.
And via RSS, it can brighten my day as a pleasant surprise, rather than visiting it once a ${SCHEDULE} and being disappointed. It's nice that way.
It's not surprising that solar panels aren't selling so well in the U.S. given how cheap your grid power is. Try paying $0.27/kWh and see how much sense it makes to install some rooftop solar.
Myself as well. Something reminded me of the Jean Luc Picard song and it popped up in my search results which sent me checking out a few old ones.
Good call, "When..." is an excellent book. In a related vein, "Algorithms to Live By" is useful and interesting.
Allied offensives in the Pacific during 1943-44
> they're often implicitly saying that they want to strip job security and labor protections from the people doing X and consumer protections from the people using X.

I'd say its much more likely when the average person wants 'Uber but for X' they mean cheaper prices for better service than X.
Taxis got completely destroyed by Uber because they are often rude, unclean, (unpredictably) expensive and scammy.
Hotels feel so much heat from AirBNB because AirBNB offers better 'suites', at better locations, for 25-50% cheaper.
Most people are only fleetingly aware of the problems these services cause by externalizing a lot of costs.
Link to the top viewed YTMNDs from tweet replies:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190512045939/http://ytmnd.com/s...
They should focus more on the fact that income hasn't risen to account for a number of expenses that makes it very impractical to have children (debt, schooling, housing, loans, etc.). This is what I feel is contributing more to the fact of lower births.
Good point! Let's not forget that, unlike the old days, it's kind of a standard to require redundancy and load-balancing from day 1, so not fitting machine's RAM hurts even more.
Or travel back in time a month. It was added in Safari 12.1.

https://webkit.org/blog/8718/new-webkit-features-in-safari-1...
Fitbit-style USB tracker proposed to improve cyber diligence
I think Vista was the least popular as you say, but I think that was because the upgrade path/incentive wasn't there.

The upgrade from XP to Vista meant a lot of software stopped working, especially from a driver perspective. If you're using some niche software that "just works (tm)", why change? Especially if it costs a lot of money to upgrade or your system isn't networked. The UK tried to upgrade its XP running backbone years ago, failed - and still got billet £10+ billion.
Deep learning could reveal why the world works the way it does
I worked at a small PHP shop for about two years. There was a ton of legacy code that was utterly terrifying: a 13-deep nested `if` and the like, global variables, etc.

I convinced my boss to let me start using Laravel. It made development worlds more sane. It made development orders of magnitude easier. Laravel does a lot for you, and they’ve thought about how to solve some tricky problems in clever ways.

That being said, I would never recommend PHP as the language to solve any given problem. It is now less of a terrible language and more of simply a mediocre language. I can’t think of anything it does particularly better than another language. For any given problem, there is most certainly a better language to solve it, be it Ruby, Elixir, Clojure, Rust, etc.

I’ve been working with Elixir and Phoenix for web development for a few months now, and it is sooooo much better. It’s hard for me to enumerate all the things, small and large, that reduce developer friction in contrast to even PHP’s best framework.
Trillian: Transparent,highly scalable and cryptographically verifiable datastore
OP is talking about the A220 (néé Bombardier C-Series), not the A320.
There are a lot of people who realized being an SWE/Developer was not the right choice for them. This is for lots of good reasons - not having enough interaction with other people, feeling too insulated from the outside world, not liking the day-to-day life of a developer, etc.

I've worked with ex engineers who are now in Sales, Marketing, Support, Management (Product and People), Education, etc. Some of them are amazing at what they do. One of the best developers and I know moved to the education team in their software company because they got tired of what it meant to be a developer. In that education team they can't release crap just because somebody decided to release something quickly - this was something they got disillusioned with as a developer.

You haven't "failed" as a software developer. You're probably just realizing that being a software developer may not be a fit. Nobody will fault you for changing to a different role. Anybody who has worked for longer than 5 years knows that after some point you need new and different challenges. Nobody will see you as a failure unless you say "I failed as a software developer so I want to do something else." Say "I've been doing this for a line and I want to do something different. Since I was a developer, these are the strengths I bring to the role versus somebody who has never developed anything in their life."

I say this for myself. I enjoy writing code and I think I'm a decent developer. But the thought of being behind the firewall (basically where I only interact with other people in Engineering, not users) of an Engineering Org just doesn't sit well with me. That's how I ended up in Data Science, where I interact with a lot of people and still write code.

A long time ago I took a career counseling course and the teacher (A PhD researcher in Career Counseling) said people typically change their careers 6 or 7 (don't remember the exact number) times in their life. It was hard for me to understand at the time, but after many years of working it makes sense. Some people change their career 5 times over 20 years at the same large company.
I guess it's good for workers: No one will work over what he is suppose to work and also will stop answering emails/slack/etc after work hours and/or in the weekends.

Employers have this stupid notion that the workers are slacking but in office setting IMO this would backfire by malicious compliance from the workers.

Also, good job Spanish Trade Union in making things worse for everyone in EU.
I'm glad there's a label for this that's not attached to the previous connotations of "anorexia." I'm a guy who struggled with eating disorder symptoms for most of my life, and hid them for fear of attaching AN stigma to myself.

Last year I got serious about researching the biology of eating disorders, and I'm convinced now that in 40 years we'll think of anorexia and its cousins more like type I diabetes than a mental disorder.

For example: did you know that it's possible to induce self-starvation and hyperactivity (hallmarks of eating disorders) in mice [1]? It's been known to science since the 1950s, but this fact is curiously absent in popular understanding of eating disorders.

This new understanding led me to start a recovery project, and happily it's working out: I've finally got relief from the awful mental fixations (like those described in this article).

[1] https://relative-energy.tumblr.com/post/183390573416/activit...
funny, because it's what React.js allows to do nowadays
Pilot error can be (and apparently was) a factor, no matter how at fault Boeing also was, and no matter how understandable the errors may have been under the circumstances. The Lion Air Pilots did not follow the trim procedures that had saved the prior flight, and the Ethiopian pilots didn’t keep their speed under control, among other things.
Can you address a device over a cellular network by it's IMEI number? I didn't think you could. You'd need a phone number as well. Could well be different over 5G though.
Not sure I understand what you are asking. What I mean is that in (non-academic, applied) finance - unlike many other disciplines - you relatively quickly get feedback on the predictive power of your models. Like climate, finance is also a complex system. You have to always be critical of the steps you took to arrive at your model and focus on your research methodology.

Therefore I would trust someone who was successful in financial model research to perform that "audit" of sorts. Someone like David E. Shaw, for example.
Of course, but the premise is that the small businesses don't know enough to make these evaluations anyway.
PHP isn't going anywhere. PHP is fine. Perl, Ruby, Python, all fine. That being said, for general programming TypeScript/JavaScript is the way forward. Other than PHP, I have loved all these interpreters. It's over. Accept the middle and move on. Everything else is nitch.
I'm impressed with the evolution of the language and the tooling around it, driven by the necessity to scale and maintain apps for big businesses.

Nevertheless, I would think that PHP is a hard sell for new projects and new enterprises. Unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool PHP junkie and you're bringing a team that is the same, there are a multitude of reasons why you'd want to choose a different language for web dev work.
What are you talking about is just a syntax. Which is not an issue for a PHP dev nowadays. I am typing much more custom method names than vanilla PHP functions. And when I have, my IDE shows me the right syntax after a few keystrokes.

So, it's apparently a good reason to hate, but by no means a reason not to use PHP.
Usually depends on the type of option. If they are 'double cliff' then the employee stock option will vest automatically, if they aren't then the emplyee will lose them.
You're the past now, dog?
I liked "Thinking Fast and Slow", but would recommend "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" above it in this space, as better bang for the buck (wrt time investment / value derived).
definitively much better than other programming languages out there, especially when it comes to MVP.

Fast, easy and flexible.

CakePHP is a wonderful framework and the community support is simply huge (orders of magnitude bigger than Java and C# for instance).

Don't forget that PHP runs 70% of internet (where also Wordpress and Magento are big helps)
Beta testing service – any developers interested?
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Please, contact me through the web site if you are interested and send your apps.

The service is free. But rewards announcements for useful reports and feedbacks usually brings more testers.

Who knows, maybe these testers will remain your daily users.

Also, I need your feedback if it is usable or not.

Regards,
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Can you guarantee safety?
There and Back Again: Or How I Saved My Site with Pipes
They dis-invested from their fossil fuel portfolio in 2016.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/gates-divest-fossil...
Einstein's Performance Review
OP said "pitches", so was talking about entrepreneurs and VC's, not average people.
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It could be, though with a bit of Googling I found this blog post summarizing scientific studies that suggest otherwise.

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2016/05/16/no-animal-...
Agreed, but I would say that the whole employment/social insurance system is due for a big "refactoring". We have this hodge-podge of sorta-overlapping requirements based on long-obsolete and assumptions and models about how the labor force works that's we're expecting to meet some desiderata that it also incentivizes against.

We've already lost the game when we're counting angels on a pin to decide whether you're "really" an employee so your employer can be forced to provide insurance or pay into unemployment. But these things shouldn't be coupled at all. Everyone, regardless of how they get income, should pay into an employer-decoupled fund that can pay out for unemployment or health insurance. That frees up admin costs from employers and cleans up labor markets to compete over things that are actually relevant.

Contractor vs employee distinctions should only matter for liability, not for taxes or benefits.
Wow, strong nostalgia. I haven't thought about that site since about 2006. What a strange and beautiful thing it was. I still never felt like I really understood it.
Given that it is a $30k+ piece of kit I suspect not too many people here have them.
A Preprocessor
It's usually fast for me with the occasional slow down.

From experience (did some code contributions to gitlab) when you work a lot with the filesystem, as is the case for platforms hosting git repos, you will have performance issues related to that, regardless of the programming language.

we host gitlab at my company for internal use, just switching from SSDs to HDDs made a big difference in terms of response time for big actions like opening a merge request, etc

I'm sure there are apps in the wild that get to that level of optimization where you need to decide on a different language. But what I've usually seen is you just slice that part out into a service and only rewrite that part.

I think stripe and others are basically doing this if they do hit the limits of ruby in very performance intensive workloads.
Yes. As others pointed out: without economic growth, population growth makes everyone poorer.

Also, economic growth is not our enemy here (nor is growing energy usage). In fact, properly applied, they're our friends in this problem. The trick is doing more of the helping stuff, and less of the damaging stuff.

I've argued this two days ago, so to not repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897547.
Maybe if you provide your own weapons...
There absolutely would be a difference. IME, people take this "performance is not a major concern when choosing a stack" thing a little too far and apply it too broadly, often without ever having benchmarked anything. When I can handle 300+ requests per second in one implementation and only 50 in another on the same hardware, that's going to be a big difference in costs that matters for everyone except fledgling businesses. I've seen 5-10x differences in performance between languages with none of it being attributable to anything the programmer did being suboptimal --just the language/standard libraries/runtime.
15 gigs would've been generous in 2005, now it's not.
Aah, the quip on the road network typeface... some highlights

> The narrower a typeface gets, the less legible it becomes. We do also know that we have long words in Austria, like “Gumpersdorfer Straße” in Vienna – so now they only use the compressed version, even for short words, because it’s easier for them. Then I get blamed because it’s not legible, but that is not my fault. Maybe it is because I should have said no. When you’re supposed to work for a bad company, like weapons or tobacco, the argument is: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will, so I might as well do it.” If I wouldn’t have done the compressed version, somebody else would have done it, maybe even worse.

> “Shit, Spiekermann, you are right – you make us look better!” – that was my big lesson here: You make them look better, that is your job. We have the skill of showing them, not just complaining about things that don’t work.

> My Dutch friend Lucas de Groot put it nicely when he was learning German: “We have to verglücklichen our clients”, we have to make them happy.
Palo Alto (like every vendor) has had similar vulnerabilities in the past with their web management. Typically management of a switch/firewall isn't exposed to directly to the Internet.
SpaceX plans to A/B test its Starship rocketship builds
Give me a call at [2607:f8b0:4004:802::200e] and I'll tell you.
Too bad there is no similar trick for atmospheric carbon.
I literally quoted the bit where they talk about the A320, saying that Airbus would have the same motivation wrt A320 as Boeing has with the 737. My comment is a strong disagreement with this assertion.