skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's orthogonal to whether the workers are contractors or employees.

Most companies don't let their employees work such flexible hours, but there's no reason why they couldn't.
An examination of Uber’s economics
I didn't intend to deny the existence of agency, only to point out that it's often unclear exactly how much agency we have in different situations, and it could be useful to acknowledge that this is a thorny subject.
Katyn was perpetrated by the Soviets.
Bristlebot: https://youtu.be/rUSTXUis_ys
Go crazy.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/316/the-cat-came-back/act-t...

This one?
My rationale for doing this with linuxatemyram.com was so that people would be able to offer this FAQ to someone on IRC or irl without having to Google up that one blog post they once read on that topic.

It also helped focus the message by removing all the notion that this is one of many articles on a general tech blog.
The analogy I use to explain this (which is, like all analogies of course broken at many levels): a tube full of marbles will produce a marble at the far end every time you push one new marble in, but the individual marbles travel really slow.
Agree on timing and execution, from my own founding experience, being early is as the same as being wrong.

https://biblia.com/bible/niv/Eccles%209.11
Well color me ignorant. I am going to have to looker deeper into both (esp Polkadot), I have been procrastinating that for too long now.
I don't think so at least if you look at the background of this journalist he writes 100% hit pieces on the tech world. 100% hit pieces.
Set up a website with blogs and embedded YouTube videos. Do import some of your blogs to Medium (but dont expect to get paid much from them). The real money lies in Google Adsense implemented on your site and YT videos.
The Plain View Project
Using Newton/Halley methods to find the zeros of a function on a Commodore 64
It looks like it was a slightly different system in various regions of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera
You know that'd be really interesting as spectacle (in my opinion). You'd pick a game that neither company has worked on and pit them against one another.

From a research standpoint though, it'd be a waste of time.
Some of the benefits claimed here are that in the paging model, even if you want to write a couple of bytes here or there (the FS metadata issue) you have to bring an entire page into memory, update it, then write the entire block back out immediately. They're suggesting directly making byte-level mutations to the PCIe device which (battery-backed to ensure consistency) tracks those changes and writes them back out when reasonable.

In terms of SSD durability, by tracking mutations at the controller you can avoid unnecessary re-writes so where reading may have been (page-in-block, interpret, page-out-block), reading can now be direct and limited to the range of interest.

At least that was my first-glance take.
With advancements in saved/pretrained models I think answer is or will be a raspberry pi. I think a more interesting question is “what is the smallest computer that can learn chess”
Some variation of this gain is implemented in various HPC systems as well. For PCIe response vs routing through the CPU/OS, you see all sorts of offload engines and CPU bypass technology being used in networking stacks. For small IO being stored efficiently to minimize the lookup->retrieval process, data-on-metadata in Lustre (I'm sure other scale-out storage systems have similar implementations).

The march is of course to have the devices on the most high performance bus that makes sense from a cost efficiency standpoint, hence their mention of GenZ and similar technologies. We're definitely getting closer in the industry, I was just using an FPGA connected to a GenZ bus that exposed an NVMe device this week! Early prototype, but it worked in Ubuntu 18.04.
Why Apple Needs iPad Apps on the Mac
Having research for the ‘well duhs’ is quite valuable
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A commonly made distinction between the two is that Heroku still exposes instances to you: You buy a number of "dynos". Whereas a "serverless" solution doesn't, e.g. lambda just spins up workers as needed and bills you for the CPU time used.
Are you building custom docker images as part of your local development? I'm curious if you've found a good way to push locally built images into the cluster since it doesn't provide a private registry server.
That's definitely a case where asking that question wasn't warranted. You asked a question about a factual thing. It's essentially a yes/no answer, not a "how to" answer, which are way more prone to the XY problem.
So you are a gomero ? What a diverse community is this HN !
> there's no reason why they couldn't.

Yes there is. Workers compensation insurance and other benefits have significant fixed costs per employee. If someone is treated as an employee, they'll be required to work a minimum number of hours to cover those costs.
> I'm not trying to make generalized ideological debates about the gig economy or taxation or any other of the typically religious arguments people shout at each other about online.

You are in a discussion attached to an article about a piece of proposed legislation. It was a policy discussion from the start.

> To an _individual_ it is important for them to realize that they need to account for the risk involved in what they are doing.

That is true, but is it novel information that nobody is aware of? That seems to be the standard you want to apply.

> And absolutely no, you cannot get an individual workers compensation policy because it would cost more money than the income from the gig. Its absurd you would think that exists.

Disability insurance is typically 1-3% of your income because the payout in the event of a claim is proportional to your income. For the low income in most of these professions that comes to somewhere around $50/month. They may decide it isn't worth that much, but there is no basis to the idea that it would cost more than their overall compensation.

> Please do not go into online forums and just shoot idealism everywhere.

This feels like a double standard that in practice just means that you would prefer it if people with contrary opinions to yours would shut up.
I used to use the scene in "the two towers" where they light the fire to let Rohan know that Gondor is in need of aid. I thinks I have to stop referencing Lord of the Rings because most high schoolers haven't seen the movie these days.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beacons+of+mina...
You can read it in English on Wikisource [1] among other places. The text itself is nothing new, it's been available for decades, it's just that few people have seen the Soviet-held original copies.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact
Not sure. But from a rough translation if it, it is quite literally the bullet points that you've been taught in school.

"Neither party will attack the other for 10 years, with an automatic extention to this clause, if neither party denounces the other."

"In the Baltics, the northern border of Lithuania is the border of the interest of influence of both participants."

"Each party is interested in a chunk of Poland, divided by such and such river. If both parties are interested in an independent Poland, we can discuss this later."

"Any disagreements regarding this agreement should be resolved through a peaceful exchange of ideas."
Interesting article. You rarely hear about innovations in the agricultural sector, even though it's so fundamental to our society - thanks for sharing!
Apple is a monopolist and now that the worldwide market for cell phones is shrinking it hates the thought that it is the highest-cost producer dependent on another monopolist. Qualcomm charges effectively a 4-5% VAT on the end-user price of a product. Qualcomm wanted to give the little guys a break. I worked on radio systems design and my wife worked directly for Irwin Jacobs. The big monopolist just fakring hates that the little guys have a chance. It's why you see Apple screaming louder than everybody ...

Apple is struggling to raise prices in everything they do these days. They invented the $1,500 phone. They make phones that more and more cannot be disassembled. They started soldering everything to the motherboards (phones, MacBooks). They now put lock down chips in the phone and the laptop so most of the hardware cannot be swapped out and repaired. They charge $500 to replace the back of a phone when Samsung charges $20. They make defective failure-prone keyboards and keep selling them 3 years after the market began complaining. They took out functionality and raised prices with USB C.

We are actually close to "peak apple" if you think about it for just 10 seconds. Growth under Tim Cook (mid-2012 to now) has been one third of growth under Steve Jobs (mid 2007-mid 2012).
I get this sometimes when I'm trying to learn about a suboptimal solution. I can even preface the question with, "I know this isn't the best solution but can you explain why it works..." Inevitably I get, "you shouldn't do it that way..."
I'm one of the fools who uses one of these spying devices. I know and accept the risks.

I'm in the Google camp. They are a less trustworthy company, but difference in reliability and interoperability is anything but subtle.

I'd be pretty pissed if I found out that my place was hard-wired to the inferior product on move-in day. My Google Play Movies account is pretty extensive, I use other things that don't work with Amazon (because they emulate Apple's walled garden). This needs to be disclosed up-front, not only for people who wisely avoid these devices, but also those who prefer the competition.
This sounds pretty absurd... I don’t think I believe their results.
I can definitely vouch for the quality of this course and textbook. It's one of the favorites in the CS program at Wheaton, and Dr. VanDrunen teaches the course extremely well!
The textbook does a good job of balancing the discrete math parts with functional programming and relates the two in a way that helps build your understanding of both.
I agree they were organic'ish (ie, word of mouth and ZDTV) in the beginning (1998-2000 or so). As for search quality, you're seeing their growth from the point of view of a higher-than-norm-IQ-intuitor-type-rational than from the median/typical/pervasive point of view. The majority of internet/Google users aren't the "early adopter" types. They mainly use Google because that's what's there on there phone.
Visualizing Hurricanes
As somebody who's used a 30 year-old kitchenaid and blown the gears on a brand new kitchenaid on the same recipe... the future sucks
...and yet, lightning still kills more people than mass shootings inside schools. Doesn't that tell you something?

These events are exceedingly rare and not worth the amount of political capital spent on them. Automobile deaths? Opioid overdoses? Those are worth it.
How is timing different from luck? If you can predict the correct timing, it's just better execution. If you can't predict the correct timing, it's just luck.
Direct link to The Plain View Project itself: https://www.plainviewproject.org/
A bigger problem for you specially, or for communities in general?
Entropic announced at jsconfeu, a federated NPM replacement
Interestingly if we can find a way to accelerate at a gentle constant 1g it is possible to take a round trip to the edge of the universe in the lifetime of the traveler

But what kind of specific impulse are we talking about? It has to be quite high, or you're talking about unphysical amounts of reaction mass. Even with photon rockets, we're talking about godlike amounts of energy. Or, we could find clever ways to circumvent the rocket equation.
If network speed and low latency are so important, then probably other boards should be considered since even the fastest Raspberry PI still implements its Gigabit Ethernet through USB and is limited to about 300Mbs; also its CPU performance lags behind many other newer and often cheaper boards.

This list might help. https://www.hackerboards.com/home.php
Despite all the sentiment analysis algorithms those posts are not routinely spotted and taken down...
To the degree that we're talking about actual newsPAPERS (and the use of the term "front page" leads me to believe she is), this is probably a simple question of space. If one guy shoots another, you can probably run photos of both. But if one guy shoots 10, a photo of one shooter takes up a lot fewer column-inches than photos of 10 victims. If you're really intent on running photos of all 10 victims, you'll probably scale them down, maybe arrange them 5 x 2 in one panel that's collectively larger than one shooter-photo but smaller individually.

In other words, mass-shooting victims are pictured less often, and smaller, for the simple reason that there are more of them. Maybe not the best reason, but that's precisely my point; no editor decides like "Hey the shooter is way more important and awesome, let's run his photo up front, and fuck the victims amirite!?"

This comment certified Hanlon's Razor compliant.
The brain also runs at a much lower frequency than a CPU. A neuron can only fire about 200 times per second, or 200Hz. This is important because power consumption is directly proportional to frequency squared.
Why not use a website like groupon?
As discussed earlier this week (with link to technical paper)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20055162
I am not a scientist but I think salt can make food taste better by increasing the electrical conductivity in the mouth. Tastebuds can work better. There is something called the bliss point with salt. Food tastes better with more salt, but just a little over that point food can taste horrible. Maybe that is a clue.
The invasion by the USSR is what caused the collapse of Poland. It couldn't fight a two-front war.
If you're a seasoned veteran here to answer my stupid question and the cost of answering my stupid question is to condescend then PLEASE KEEP WALKING. I do not want your help.
The war nearly started in 1938 over Czechoslovakia. Hitler was already determined upon war at that point, so he is right that it’s a split toe more complex than that. You have to look at the preceding years, appeasement and Munich.
Smart, catching on the "hate Medium & I'm leaving it" trend
Very cool, need to check that out.

However, isn't intensity equal to sum when it comes to light? At least in the visible spectrum, more energy just shifts the wavelength...perceived intensity comes from photon count.
Climate change is this generation’s duck and cover but instead of being burnt to crisp within seconds its over a course of decades. And I mean that they are the same not in the sense that it may or may not be something worth having a daily existential crisis over, but rather, today’s kids are being drilled by today’s adults that yesterday’s adults have caused this looming threat they are helpless to do anything about. It’s pretty unsurprising this will cause some mental anguish in children.

School shootings probably have a similar effect on children’s mental health, too.
There's another anti-pattern that I can't recall the name of, where instead of asking if something can do something, you make the claim that it can't, and let them refute you. It's excellent for something people get very defensive over, like Unix.
what is wrong with these people
People who face little to no consequences from being violent endorse violence. Water is wet. More breaking news at 11.
Have coached young children. Coordination is not innate, it is developed through practice.

Some people may learn faster but everyone can with practice.
Propaganda works. You see it in authoritarian regimes and in western democracies.
Future of package manager not controlled by NPM announced at jsconfeu
Most of these comments aren't racist but "just" inhuman and they show how astonishingly incompetent some cops are in social situations.

>“I would of pulled the trigger.”
This sentence on its own does not show any racism.
Indeed, B-2 doesn't fly particularly high, this comment seems a bit inaccurate.
I expect policemen, which belong to the forces of order, to be right-wingers. So I don't understand what this article means to say.
Your employer is collecting this data right now, as my link points out. And it's actually gotten better at it in the last few months, as I purged all of my purchases from Gmail that it detected, and then a few weeks later, it found more, as they'd refined their ability to mine more transactional emails.

It is absolutely mining email, and it's extracting purchase data from it, that isn't even used in Gmail or revealed to users in any visible context, it's buried in settings. What Google uses it for? I don't know, as you said, they claimed they stopped using Gmail data for ad targeting purposes two years ago. But they're definitely working on extracting this very valuable and marketable data... for some reason.

Is it possible that Google generically collects user purchase data, including from Gmail, and then whilst not using "Gmail data" for ad targeting, it does use the "purchase data" which has been generically made part of a user's Google profile? That'd be splitting hairs real close, but it'd probably be good enough for the lawyers.
A year or two ago I did something similar but much less methodical. I collected about 200 questions (a mix of stolen, modified, and original) and used a cron-job to post several of them every morning (US time) to AskReddit. I ended up with multiple successful posts. I seemed to get at least 2-3 with a score in the thousands every week.
But did they ... but did they ...

But did you ever consider that an AI can just aim better than you period?

I'm totally blind. I could enter a marksmanship competition and demand that everybody be made to play by rules that would work for me, but I then wouldn't be able to say that I'm the best marksman if I win.
The West hoped that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union?

That would mean the West hoped that Hitler would attack Poland as that was the only possible way that Hitler could even get to the Soviet Union at the time the pact was negotiated.

The Soviet Union wanted to modernize and expand. Hitler gave them that opportunity. If anything, it was the Soviet Union that hoped that Hitler and Western Europe would duke it out thereby weakening all their enemies.
Playing chess with my microwave everyday to input simple instructions is frustrating to say the least. I think we need to focus on usability over IoT for a lot of home appliances.
> This feels like a double standard that in practice just means that you would prefer it if people with contrary opinions to yours would shut up.

No. Those opinions on either side of the debate have been done to absolute death online. I can't imagine a single person you could find on this forum that could not list for you the common talking points(for and against) government taxation and regulation. That is what these comments are about. Not detailed, unique, and specific insight into this particular situation. Just mindless regurgitation of the same stuff we've all heard way more times than is needed.

> That is true, but is it novel information that nobody is aware of? That seems to be the standard you want to apply.

Most people I talk to about workers compensation do not realize how different the outcomes are for them between contractor and employee. The most common ones people are aware of is that they have to pay both sides of their social security. Unemployment insurance is also something that some people do not realize. During that last economic slowdown, the US government extended unemployment benefits for years to millions of US workers. Contractors will not be eligible for any of that assistance in the next economic downturn.

See how that information is relevant and specific to the original comment(not article) I was responding to? They discussed how they did not see many downsides with being a gig worker. I was bringing up a couple, especially workers compensation because of how dangerous driving jobs are.

I never said GrubHub should or should not provide that. I certainly never mentioned if the US government should do anything. I would recommend that you please go back to my original comment and the comment I was replying to originally for more information and context.
When I was a child I can remember my mother deciding the same thing when sewing machines began switching to plastic gears.
Yes, the most common type of XY problems I see is people trying to solve made up problems. It happens to everyone. Lately I was browsing the Google X website [1].

Here's the kind of stuff you find there:

WE CREATE RADICAL NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO SOLVE SOME OF THE WORLD’S HARDEST PROBLEMS

(Why would you solve the hardest problems as opposed to the most valuable ones? Oh well, let's keep going)

How can balloons deliver the Internet to rural and unconnected places?

(I don't know, but are we sure using balloons is really the most sensible solution to that problem?)

How can kites be used to generate electricity in unexpected places?

(I don't know why we'd want to bring electricity in "unexpected places" as opposed to places where it's required, or why kites would be the best solution for that either)

Etc. It's very easy to create very hard problems if you impose unnecessary constraints.

[1] https://x.company/
> "Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in the general population," the National Center for Women & Policing says. "A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general."

http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp#notes
Im surprised that "defining yourself" is even a thing that so many people seem to care about. It seems pretty unnecessary. I'm just ..me. If I was required to give a description of myself for some hypothetical reason then whether that description includes social roles, personality traits, or whatever would depend on the reason I'm being asked.
Having capability =/= using those capabilities.

Google Home/HomePod/Alexa have spying as their primary purpose. It's literally everything they're good for. Take that away and they're useless.

Phones can spy on you if you keep everything turned on, which I don't. As it's in their interest in it to make as much profit off of me as possible, it's also in their interest to oblige by my preferences. If I found out that they don't respect my choices, they'd lose me as a customer for life. 30% they earn from all of my app store purchases isn't a lot, but it's bigger than zero.
When you say "nation states" here, do you really mean states which are based on cultural/ethnic values and self-determination or do you just mean "country"?
Being the best search engine was irrelevant to their rise. It's just a thing that happened to also (supposedly) be there.

Supposedly, as its ranking algorithm was so heavily gamed by 2007 (already risen; popularity incentivized effort to game) it was a complete joke. Powerful illusion again, as they just covered it up and moved on. Also, internal tests from around 2009-2010 showed Bing was seen by users as producing better-quality results.

Not only did they not have much marketing at the beginning, they also didn't have many users.
People mentioned in the article seem to doubt about applicability in the real world. If nothing else, I think it brings video game development closer to being an automated process. A game could simulate various conditions and design an infinite number of complex environments. Am I way off?
I agree. Seems a lot of new kitchen devices seems to fail by either some plastic gears stripping or coming loose from the shaft. My mom has 50 or more year old stuff that still works but the newer devices all break. Even very expensive ones.