skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but for me Vyvanse and exercise really helped get things more under control. Environment also matters. Open plan offices are my kryptonite. My current office is open, densely packed, and loud, so I'm 100x as productive at home.

Also, it helps to realize that high stress, crunch time situations are where I thrive. Major outage bringing the company to its knees? I got this. I'm calm, even. Tight, almost impossible deadline? I work extremely quickly and deliver high quality results.

Simple bug that's super easy to fix with no pressure? I'll need three weeks to do it. 1 minute to fix it, the rest of the time for unit tests. I get distracted more easily during these times.

On the plus side, my tangents sometimes pay off. I get curious, add instrumentation, discover relationships between various metrics, and use that to save millions of dollars, sometimes tens of millions.

On the other hand, ADHD also has some emotional side effects and I thus have a higher chance of pissing people off without meaning too. I also score higher on various autism tests, so that could be a factor (though I've never been diagnosed). So my (sometimes) good work is balanced by a weaker ability to collaborate.
He's right though: Blockchain is (maybe) useful in a decentralised system between untrusted actors

Banking (and spare parts market) are the exact opposite: centralised systems between trusted actors

A bank would never accept a transaction from an unknown source, just like you wouldn't buy replacement parts for airplanes from someone you don't already know
I'm obviously not Pentti Linkola, nor do I prefer or support dictatorship.

The point is that we're told that we are in a climate an environmental emergency situation. But what are the emergency measures we take to respond to that? Nothing. Oh yes we want to ban plastic straws...

We are not doing anything now and the situation can only become much worse with the projected population growth (which is one of the root causes of our environmental problems).

This is the reality.
Perhaps the thing that is interesting me most about this is that, till date, we are learning the exact same thing about DNA, its structure, composition and other aspects just as described in this letter, which can be said to be one of the first communications of the discovery. There has been no change or alteration in the explanation, theory or even the nominclature. This might be a trivial observation, but nonetheless compelling for me.
IR is optical too; same phenomenon can affect both.
So the drivers think they are getting away with something (not being grubhub’s bitch) and the company is actually turning that misperception into profit. Sounds like good old fashioned exploitation to me. And I think if people had a first job that paid them a livable wage there would be no need for supplementary income. People don’t deliver pizza as a hobby, they do it for financial reasons.
How does that need a blockchain instead of a DB ?
This is why the advances in AI sometimes look scary to me. "Limbic capitalism" (great term, btw) existed and thrived long before the internet and AI era - tobacco, alcohol, credit cards, etc. Finding and monetizing a human addiction has always been extremely profitable. What worries me, is that the power of AI and the easy ability to reach millions of people at once through social media and internet advertisement will make finding new human additions and exploiting them easier than ever. There is nothing that can stop businesses from basically hacking the human limbic system (aka lizard brain) and monetizing it using the vast power of AI. Facebook just pioneered it, but many will follow.

The most dangerous AI is not the killer robots scorching the Earth a-la the Terminator movie. The most dangerous AI is the one that will make humans fall in love with it.
The bill also requires providers allow consent to be withdrawn at any time.
Bearing in mind these documents all start off as paper, I'm not sure that really answers the question of what blockchain adds in the way of evidence of provenance over a scanner and upload facility...

Aircraft part sales aren't trustless, and for a good reason.
You can only get to grandma's photo album because she put it on Facebook. She could have put it on Flickr, or iCloud, or numerous other places.

No matter which she chooses, though, to get to it a large number of people only have one choice for high speed internet access to go through.

ISPs are low level infrastructure tied to specific geographical locations. If you don't like the infrastructure where you live then generally you only way to pick something better is to move to another region.

If you don't like your photo hosting site, or you blog hosting site, or you online backup site, or your stock tracking site, etc., an alternative is a URL change away.

That's why different regulatory handling of ISPs and the places you reach through those ISPs makes sense.

Facebook is more like a bar or club or church in the physical world analogy than it is like a street. You go there to interact with other people who go there, but it is a destination, competing with other destinations that those people could meet at instead.

That said, Facebook does offer communication services, and so some regulation of communication services that makes sense would make sense to apply to both them and ISPs.
How is the second answer second-guessing? Replicating the feat is a question of both software and hardware. To give an answer that's just about hardware would require second-guessing the intent of the question.
> If you create a job market segment where employees are being underpaid, but they're accepting it because there aren't better options for them, the overall job market can suffer.

I think this statement is trivially true. The question becomes:

1) Are these people being underpaid, and would making them employees increase their pay?

2) Are there no better options available?

I am not convinced of either of these points. Uber's pay seems to be competitive [1]. We also have historically low unemployment. It is easier to get a job now than anytime in the past ten years[2], and much easier than the historical average. The fact that this is the case and people are still flocking to be gig workers should tell you that people want to be Uber drivers, they are not forced into it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/11/28/fare-d...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Congress already made this legal in 2017. This is Maine fixing the issue.
To me, the distinction comes down to: carpooling implies some kind of repeated/scheduled vehicle sharing (like coworkers coordinating a route to get to work at 9a every weekday, while ridesharing is much more ad-hoc/on-demand (like craigslist rideshares between Seattle and Portland to split the gas bill).

Definitely agree that Lyft/Uber aren’t really ride sharing in that sense though — the driver’s goal is to earn a fare on a trip he wasn’t going to take otherwise, while the original ride shares were a cost-reduction on a trip the driver was going to make anyway.
I've never seen microk8s work. It depends very heavily on iptables rules, and I suspect that if you have routes to anything on 172.16.0.0/12 it will work unpredictably. (I had a similar problem with a VPC that had subnets that conflicted with what Docker chose to use.) Obviously microk8s works for someone, but it's never worked for me. But I work at an ISP and our route table on the corp network is excessively large.

One of my coworkers tried to use microk8s instead of minikube and we debugged it extensively for a couple days, but ended up baffled. We had to setup some rules to forward localhost:5000 into the cluster for docker push; instead we got a random nginx instance that we couldn't figure out where it was running. Even after uninstalling microk8s, we still had a ton of random iptables rules and localhost:5000 was nginx... It was weird.

Minikube works great, however. You will still need some infrastructure to push to its docker container registry in order to run locally-developed code. Out of the box, you can persuade your local machine to use minikube's docker for building, but it runs in a VM and unless you use non-default minikube provisioning settings, it doesn't have access to all the host machine's cores, which is kind of slow. I ended up making minikube's container registry a NodePort so that every node (all 1 of them) can get at localhost:5000 to pull things. I then added some iptables rules to make localhost:5000 port-forward to $MINIKUBE_IP:5000 so that "docker push localhost:5000/my-container" works. It's kind of a disaster.

I also had to write an HTTP proxy that produces a proxy.pac that says "direct *.kube.local at $MINIKUBE_IP" so that you can visit stuff in your k8s cluster in a web browser and test your ingress controller's routing.

After those two things, I quite like it.

I still don't think minikube is a good platform for developing microservices, though. The build/deploy times are too long (and things like ksync don't work reliably, even if you generate a docker container that can reliably hot-reload your app, which kind of involves a lot of setup). I once again wrote something that takes a service description and a list of its dependent services, allocates internal and external ports, puts them in environment variables, starts Envoy for incoming and service-to-service traffic, and then runs the apps wired up to receive requests from Envoy and make requests to other services through Envoy. It took a while but now that I have it, it's great. I can work on a copy of our entire stack locally, it starts up in seconds, and is basically identical to production minus the k8s machinery.

I am still surprised I had to solve all these problems myself, but now that they're solved, I'm very happy.
it's not just annoying but also offensive because you're being condescended to
This will most likely result in a loss of many jobs. If Uber/Lyft is going to be forced to reclassify contractors as employees, there will be stricter guidelines on who will actually be able to work for them (which means less people working for them), because the company simply will not be able to afford to pay insurance and a higher wage for everyone and anyone that wants to drive for them.

Everyone has a choice: You can choose to work for Uber/Lyft and make extra money or get a job somewhere else that provides benefits and a higher wage. There is no scam going on and everyone is trying to make a buck. I see no problem with classifying the drivers as contractors.
If they want Facebook to be a public square, then they have to take the bad with the good - they should respect free speech, as defined by the constitution of the country they are incorporated in. They should lose the ability to censor anybody, or to kick anybody out of the square (sans illegal activities), or prevent entry to anybody who wants to come in.
That's just an argument for adding form validation to the websites, not for blockchain.
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Nope! It's kinda silly. We all call electrons negative because of how they were labeled 250 years ago. If he had labeled them positive the math involving electric current would be a bit easier.

https://xkcd.com/567/
The footage was IR only...

The pilots audio discussed 'seeing' the things, but it's not 100% assertained, except via post-hoc assertion by the rights owner of the video, that the pilots aren't referring to what they see on their MFDs.
My experience aligns with this. It makes total sense too. When we were young, much of our focus was on the "me", so we define the self using language oriented that way. As we grow collaboration, relationships, etc. become more important and even the focus of our lives.

Late bloomers also are late to this shift in my experience.

The differences between girls and boys is especially interesting and does make sense. I wonder hows much is nature vs nurture. Anyone have insightful papers on this subject?
I like being able to control the lights and temp in my house from anywhere. I like being able to play music with my voice. I use those features pretty regularly.

But... I have a phone for these things, and real speakers for the music.

So even though I'm not quite as much a privacy hawk, smart speakers still mystify me. They seem like a phone that you can't watch anything on or take anywhere.
>Now imagine for a moment that you're not better than everyone else at thinking for them.

I didn't read that in GP. Currently we seem to be very reluctant to admit that we're all vulnerable to being manipulated, and it might actually increase the total amount of agency available to individuals if we could restrict the ways we're allowed to manipulate each other.
I don't understand the implications of the second item in the test: "doing work that isn’t central to the company’s business."

How does this apply to business-to-business contracting arrangements, especially in the world of software engineering? Businesses hire contract labor from vendors all the time--are those laborers to be considered employees of both the vendor and hiring company now?
The complications are about drawing a line about what breaks the agreement and what does not. This is important when both parties rely on a third party to decide who broke the agreement, and justify penalties: Nobody wants uncertainty in front of a judge. In this case, neither Nazi Germany or the USSR really care about those things. If one party went over the line in a non-accidental way, there'd be would be war. It's not as if, when Germany invaded the USSR, some faux argument about the USSR breaking the agreement first would have made a difference whatsoever to third parties.

Therefore, what is best for large, highly militarized sovereign countries that solved their disagreements by trying to utterly destroy the other's regime might not work so well in civil life, where making sure we know exactly how he judiciary will interpret the contract is so important we incorporate in Delaware not just because it's cheap, but because we know how the judge will interpret the legalese.
sshpass works nicely.
> I call this “going up the rabbit hole.”

Love it, that’s great! Adding it to my lexicon.
Sometimes a living wage isn’t enough.
Your entire argument assumes that if you give a reason for bans/censorship, then people are allowed to appeal. But that's not the case - Twitter could easily write "This account has been banned by order of the Chinese government/for spreading hate speech/encouraging piracy.", without the chance for appeal. They just prefer to keep their users in the dark.
> My grandfather made windows as part of his business in the 1950's, most of his customers were farmers. ... There was no contract, just a handshake, and he never had to worry about the farmer taking the animal straight to the butcher.

Interesting. This sort of almost unnaturally-deep trust is actually very common to small, stable communities, with sky-high levels of social capital and a deep shared understanding of common obligations. It might be that having such stable communities around is an exceedingly-convenient catalyst to "jump-starting" broad-based social and economic development; a sort of "primitive accumulation" stage in the historically-materialistic sense where it's social capital that's being accumulated, not resources. Economic history would certainly seem to point in that direction. And it raises some uncomfortable questions about the future, since many people think of "late stage capitalism" and its social correlates as being highly corrosive of that trust-inducing social capital.
I just don’t understand who is being protected here.

When I talk to people doing these jobs they are glad to have them, and don’t have a problem with the terms. They like the flexibility and many are doing them as a stepping stone to the next thing.

If an Uber ride becomes more expensive, how does that benefit an elderly person living on social security who can’t walk well and has to get across town?
Good news for workers
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What you fail to capture in your framing of this problem are financial incentives and concern for the user experience. Twitter and Wikipedia are very different beasts. twitter needs subjective rules that benefit their own bottom line because they need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to increase and maintain users.
Or just expect, which might be more likely to be available.

Also, there’s sshpass
People ultimately do their values with their hands. Perhaps most people don’t care very much and what you hear are loud tech people.
More info:

http://www.eurotcl.eu/program.html#Buckman
This describes e.g. Heroku.
It's not that they actively discriminate. It's because ACA plans are lumped into one big risk pool per market and ACA plans, by nature, attract more expensive people.
I know solution to hiding OS from nmap. Use exotic OS, like ReactOS, XTS-400, Genode, etc.
I nicknamed my high school "City Name High School and Penitentiary" much to the dismay of my teachers and parents.

It's only gotten worse since then. We didn't even have cameras in the hallways when I was in high school.

My kids (when I have them) will not be going to a public school with cameras in the hallways. They deserve the opportunity to be kids and not be hassled for it.
> There’s actually an amazon owned apartment complex being built almost across the street from my house (in Tempe, Az), and I had been wondering if they’d do stuff like this.

What? Are you serious? It's one thing for Amazon to partner with builders & landlords, but another for them to actually start building themselves. I tried to research this, but came up with nothing except that Tempe does have an Amazon research center. Do you have any other links that would be helpful?
I don't want the banking system to be the pinnacle of computer science. As with space probes, aircraft, nuclear power plants, etc., running on old tech that's had a lot of the quirks shaken out already is a plus.

Side note: Saying "fraud is rampant" as an argument for blockchain solutions is pretty funny.
Nicely done. Drag and click works well on my iPhone with my fat fingers. Zoom also. I found the invisible boundary a little annoying. I laid out a Canfield base, but found the invisible boundary only when I moved a card up to the foundation. Grrr.

FWIW. Made me think, why have a boundary at all? Even better, why not have a snap-to grid you can toggle? A preset layout (save option?) which best lays out your gameplay.

Great job.
Your description is very similar to the refrigerator mother theory [1]. Genetic predispositions may be a factor in both your parents' behavior and your symptoms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
In most B2B contracting arrangements, the contractors are full-time employees of the contracting firm, and get their benefits from that company. (This was my first job out of college.)
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Second guessing is just called theory of mind in a complex world. You’d expect an futuristic AI to have this judgment too.
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For what it's worth, I feel the same way as you - so you're not alone.

I keep talking about the privacy issue to whoever will listen, but you're right that it seems most people don't care, even the people who work in the tech industry in the Bay Area. So, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Freelancers Union doesn't offer anything compelling for health insurance, which is the biggest expense for most freelancers and contractors. All they have is an ACA portal.
Well a teen today doesn't have a social role, except as a vehicle for future potential, to put it dryly. My grandfather took care of domestic animals while they were grazing (not sure what that's called) before he was 10, so economically that's a different world to what I was doing when I was that age. So a teen today can't really define himself in terms of social roles. We also have a culture of performance-based social-worth, so kids will be openly evaluated "you're good at riding that bike" or "throwing that ball" or "doing schoolwork", and the child's inner dialogue will be like that as well: "Joe is better at this competitive thing", "I am better at this", etc. The only thing that kind of baffles me is that the article says that teenagers mostly define themselves in positive traits, as if it's implied that they're being honest: it's quite counter-cultural to bad mouth yourself. I dispute that we have a significant bias toward defining the self positively, examples are too banal to list.
> It could be written once in C++ using Qt, Juce, or Fltk and be blazingly fast.

So, it was written once using Electron and is sufficiently fast.

> This has been done thousands of times over the last few decades. Where does this myth come from?

There are surprisingly few cross platform apps written using these technologies that are fast, functional and have any degree of visual polish.
“I don’t use them unless it is a non-medical emergency.”

I think the drivers would like it if you used it more, not less, because then they would make more money.
I wonder what federal law they are referring to there. I'm under the impression that there's no requirement for paid breaks.

(There's a requirement that short breaks be treated as compensated time for the purposes of determining when overtime pay starts, but that's not what your quote is getting at.)
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There is a new wave of activism in China that is being accidentally kick started from where the top leaders least expected it... Marxist study sessions!

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-...
I assure you that teams of PhDs have been working on it for years, same as with, e.g. cryptography. It's just a hard problem [0].

[0] https://cyber.harvard.edu/cybersecurity/Why_Information_Secu...
There was an interesting post on Reddit recently by someone who tracked their gut microbiome composition over a three-year period, with some nice graphs [1] and source code.

The data were compiled with uBiome SmartGut and Explorer
kits over a 3 year period. I directly parsed the .json
files they provided. The plots were generated with
matplotlib and the source code is available here:
https://github.com/isaacgerg/ubiome_longitudinal_analysis

Not sure how scientific this is, but it was interesting to me that someone would even do this.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/bnrkqm/oc_...
Just because something is voluntary doesn’t make it fair. There are many things, for many reasons, that are voluntary but unfair. Most of it is due to information asymmetry.

I would hypothesize that the gig economy gradually grows into a large economic underclass. And the larger it grows, the worse it is for each individual member. Maybe we should avoid that