skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they have to be paid minimum wage I think uber will be playing a much more direct role in setting their work hours, not just whenever the app is turned on. They probably can't prevent them from taking a second job but they can prevent them from doing their second job when they're on the clock of the first. This actually solves a common complaint lately of drivers cancelling one ride while they pick up someone on another service.

> Another interesting consequence is potential to introduce stricter employment contracts that might say you can’t drive for a competitor...

This aspect is good for uber, there are many ride sharing apps now and drivers will flick between them and uber has zero competitive advantage. As private contractors they're free to recommend others to clients and this will go away. Bootstrapping competitors will be much harder.
Naturally by "sum types" I mean "sum types plus the associated language-level conveniences that make them reasonable to work with". Perhaps case statements may be enough. Perhaps arbitrary lambdas are needed. Anyway, they're not reasonable to work with in Python. I'm not particularly familiar with C++ but I doubt they're reasonable to work with in that language either.
Social media is about getting attention via free, easy to use, and highly distributed platforms. It has _very little_ to do with being social or staying in touch with friends and _everything_ with being a mini media business with the goal of growing your following and influence enough to make money (somehow). Social media is simply a free performance.

Unless you're building a personal brand or selling something the work required to achieve growth it doesn't make sense for most people.

You're better off making group chats and using private iCloud Photos albums to be _social_ than posting on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Canada, so very noble in accepting people of all kinds... when it's popular. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Czech_Republic_...
Too bad the refugees didn't apply for asylum in any number of stable countries they passed through first.
The real question is: if you already writing the services in Go or Elixir why would you want a Rails app on the top? You could very well implement it in Go or Elixir. Theoretically it is possible though.
So what's actually going to happen? I'm still confused.

Ridesharing drivers will now be paid wages, not based on the time that they have a passenger? Will the ridesharing service have to pay for the cars and their maintenance?

From the article, it seem the only effect is that drivers are going to be scheduled in advance, and flexibility is going to be decreased.
I wish more people saw how fragile our grasp on the past is -- and how much we still don't understand about our emergence at a basic, basic level...
I don't know the answer to this, but I've always been genuinely curious: how accurate is the Date object?

setInterval's minimum interval is ~15ms [1], so shouldn't something like...

setInterval(() => (new Date()).valueOf() % DESIRED_TICK_INTERVAL < 15 && tickTheMetronome(), 15)

...get you within 15ms accuracy, and it can probably be reduced in Chrome et al?

[1] http://www.adequatelygood.com/Minimum-Timer-Intervals-in-Jav...
Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values
You are missing the point.

As somebody pointed out there are millions of applications that can use Rails because scale is not a problem for them. If all those millions of applications do 1 req/s then you have 1M req/s served with Rails instead of something that is more reasonable. The CO2 production of these low scale Rails web app quickly add up.
I have a coworker with a newborn. She falls asleep at her desk sometimes. I totally get it, and I feel for her, but I don’t think it’s correct that women thrive on little sleep after childbirth. The truth is: nobody thrives on little sleep. Humans need sleep. It isn’t entirely clear why, but we do, and the effects of sleep deprivation have been studied. Cognitive function declines, disease risk goes up, and in the worst case you start falling asleep at inopportune times, like while driving.
I don't think any professional photographers will give up their DSLRs or Mirrorless/System Cameras in favor of an image sensor smaller than their fingernails.
Some of them are, just not on every country. Here are the examples for Portugal and Germany.

https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especi...

https://www.vdi.de/

Although you can get by without the admission exam, some kind of state projects do require it for any engineer putting their name on the contract assignment.
Progress on the Collatz Conjecture
Real C++ programmers use the hell out of features added because of demonstrated industrial need. Many of them were copied from ML, others Haskell entirely lacks. Haskell has some features C++ doesn't need, that would just make programs harder to understand without actually making the language more powerful.
In my experience (Sydney, Australia) they tend to get professionals to shoot with a quality DSLR, then they get pimple-faced Photoshop jockeys to flatten the dynamics and punch in a fake blue sky.

This new extra-wide camera is interesting as it's fairly rare for a consumer-targeted camera to exceed a 24mm (FFE) focal length. Even in expensive professional lenses, getting to 13mm (FFE) is fairly unusual. Most ultra-wide glass stops at 16mm.
There is tendency to cynically comment "Yet another..." but I don't see how repetition makes this any less relevant. Social media seems to have clearly negative effect on most people. Herd animals have deep fear of being left out and that keeps people using them. They create little or no value.

If you have to send mail or message to people you want to interact with, it's more personal and works better.
Well, I would assume they offer healthcare to people who are working or are disabled and not able to work. It's not like you get healthcare in Europe for not putting anything back in the system. Freedom of movement is not a problem in this case.
Virgin plastic pellets are the biggest pollution disaster you’ve never heard of
Two texts I keep on my desk that are a bit more rigorous than most:

- Oppenheim & Schafer Discrete Time Signal Processing (the Bible of DSP)

- Manolakis & Ingle, Applied Digital Signal Processing (good discussion of orthogonal transforms).

A lot of what I know about transform analysis comes from self study of linear algebra/vector spaces with some reading here and there in commonly cited papers. Might want to pick up a text on that subject, it's the same idea but more rigor than an engineer would use.

There's also a book I haven't worked all the way through yet and is dated, heavily based in EE concepts (non negligible amount of circuit theory) and extremely rigorous called Theory of Linear Physical Systems by Ernst Guilleman. I picked it up last week actually and quite like it.

It has a lot of information and approaches with Fourier/Laplace methods, which is interesting since it predates the FFT and has so much information on concepts that engineers 50 years ago would need to build their intuition with instead of through tooling. I picked it up for the network theory/dynamical systems angle (which relates to some stuff I'm working on) but the rigor is definitely higher than what you'd see in those more digestible books.
I guess that's why Apple seems to be positioning their Phones for `Pros`. I kind of feel like it's the `Note` equivalent of Galaxy series. And also for the same purpose, the showed videos of Professional Videographer shooting videos with the iPhone 11 Pro. Those are the people who'd probably take out raw video/pic and edit it in Premire or lightroom.

This opens a huge area of business for them, if they can convince ad film makers devices because the current set of filming devices that they use aren't inexpensive.
No you shouldn't be writing in Ada. Embedded software running all kinds of sensitive workloads, from pacemakers to routers/switches use C for it's superior tooling, universal support across compilers and chip vendors, massive user base and decades long best practices (like NASA's C coding guidelines) to mitigate some of C's potential inadvertent misuses.

Not to mention the bevy of advanced niche features, like SIMD support, and custom GCC extensions that lend superpowers to C coders that other languages typically lack.

Sure, ada may have it's benefits for certain narrow use cases, but for non-hobby projects spanning tens/hundreds of engineers, considering real world vendor support for ada and missing talent pool, C is the obvious choice
> but it wouldn't hurt and possibly help to remove it once user generated content has reached certain milestones, i. e. user karma, or hitting the front page.

Wouldn't that also give a lot more incentive to reach those milestones illegitemately?
Before C was even a thing, plenty of computer systems got developed in Algol dialects for systems programming, like ESPOL, NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, Algol RS,...
Rich Hickey on Datomic (2012) [video]
I'd be curious to see what shorting across the transistor would do. It would probably reveal whatever behavior they wanted to avoid.
To be fair, the WHATWG HTML "Standard" is also nothing more than a Wiki, or even just a collaborative space where everything can change at any time.
> only speculate

You can speculate more accurately based on past trends in absence of transparency. In both Tashpolat Tiyip and Halmurat Ghopur, the sentence was "death sentence with a two-year reprieve" which is almost always commuted life imprisonment [I think somewhere in 2], unless the accused is found to have intentionally commit further crimes.

>This unique sentence is used to emphasize the seriousness of the crime and the mercy of the court, and has a centuries-old history in Chinese jurisprudence [1].

We'll have to wait and see if these two actually get executed, if they aren't (likely) then it's possibly political theater by Chen Quanguo. Hence timing is interesting aka suspicious. If they are, then they likely committed something serious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1758492017ENGL...

Particularly relevant section on Xinjiang executions post Strike Hard in section 6.3.
Thinkpads are usually pretty solid, and I like the (relative) repairability compared to MacBooks. But I agree there are plenty of issues with stupid stuff on modern Lenovo machines and their qc needs to get better to justify their prices.
Several countries in the EU (e.g. Nordic countries) offer single-payer healthcare services and the EU does have freedom of movement, so such a step wouldn't really be "unprecedented".
The "Java" Youtube channel has a few "new" videos from the Summit in 2012 (e.g. on Graal, Truffle, Lambda Expressions):

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jvm...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmRtPmgnQ04CMUpSUqPfhxQ
Open Tech Salary Sheet (Originally Reddit Tech Salary Sheet)
tldr; view reddit's tech salary data here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13icckT8wb2ME3FTzgGyokoCTQMU9kBMqQXvg0V3_x54 and share yours here https://forms.gle/u1uQKqzVdZisBYUx7

After a comment I read on Reddit's r/sysadmin last night I shared a way for tech workers to share their salary information publicly to hopefully benefit everyone in their next negotiations

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d2g4hm/reddit_tech_salary_sheet/

Currently the sheet has over 1200 responses after x-posting to a number of tech focused subreddits.

I think this crowd of people would add valuable data to the set.

Please share your data and/or let me know how to improve the form.

Most importantly I'm concerned that there is a huge gender bias in the responses right now (my best guess as to why is due to the media I've shared this across) - if anyone has any ideas how to share this sheet with larger female populations please let me know.

Please feel free to share this yourself
The title is kind of clickbaity, but the most important note in this write-up is the following:

> I don’t see myself ever going back to social media. I don’t see the point of it, and after leaving for a while, and getting a good outside look, it seems like an abusive relationship – millions of workers generating data for tech-giants to crunch through and make money off of.
Lol, where did you get the idea that smtp servers need more maintenance as users increase? What if I told you I’ve witnessed a team of 3 manage a mail system of a university of over 100k active email accounts?
I actually laughed at this comment. I was wondering the same thing. Although this is a cheap shot, how could I resist mentioning that Ada's FFI functionality is updated every 20 years on average and is still ahead of the curve.
The battery issue with smartwatches drives me nuts. My Citizen uses a solar panel, and it's been ticking for years. It should last about 20 without needing a change of battery/capacitor.
Hahaha. This is a much easier read, and yet, almost equally informative.
In Hungarian the same word (eloadas) is used for both play and lecture.
Project Loom Update
Even though California is much more lax on immigration, undocumented immigrants that work here still work "illegally". And I-9 Audits are conducted by ICE, not California.

Like SpicyLemonZest said, it sounds extremely unlikely that Uber and Lyft, being public, would risk filing fraudulent I-9s.
Oh interesting. So there'll be a rise in the drivers I had recently who work for a dude who gives them the car to use. Just a little more paperwork.
Composition and Modularity with React
(Un)Informed Consent: Studying GDPR Consent Notices in the Field [pdf]
Not a native feature, but SleepWatch is fantastic.
I'm happy with my DELL XPS laptop.
This is the really amazing website, that provides the very informative information to the user & i have also find out a website that is also in the favor of the users is https://seersco.com
They do when they embedded device happens to be a phone, tablet, POS, medical monitoring device, ...
Rigged demos are everywhere. I raised a few million in VC with a rigged demo and then after the investor was on my board was really wrestling with how to tell them and readjust their expectations. Halfway into my first sentence they said “I know they’re all like that. How much of it was fake?” And then we moved on from there.
For others, see https://www.usenix.org/conference/10th-usenix-security-sympo...

(You can recognize individual people from keystroke timing now. And I don't think this is patched in openssh.)

It isn't good if a remote non-MITM attacker can see the exact timing and cache associativity of remote writes. It doesn't seem from the article that they can monitor timing of other data, but then they also say the CPU does not reserve specific parts of cache for DDIO, leaving open the possibility of recovering information about local process memory/cache operations, the obvious candidate of interest being RSA calcs. I would not be surprised to see more attacks come from this.
So how come Ada, Delphi, C++ Builder, VC++, .NET Native, D compilers happen to be much faster?
You can bet your bottom dollar that as employees drivers will be afforded no freedom to double dip. The only reason they are able to at the moment is because companies held back on initiatives that they feared would classify drivers into employees. Now they will have no such fear and gig work will be strictly controlled. Prices will go up simply due to the loss of efficiency from multiplexing gain that gig work provided the economy. California never fails to take every opportunity to reduce market efficiency.
Let's not pretend that hosting an OSS chat server is a walk in the park for every enterprise just because you personally got one up and running in a weekend.
Speaking of JOVIAL: I found this great talk by Jules Schwartz on the development of JOVIAL.
https://youtu.be/sXjCqa4W4iQ
It's a great, quite humorous watch.
Do you still need to apply flux before desoldering?
You have a right to health (as in nobody can stop you from being healthy). Healthcare is a service that others provide and can't really be a human right.

A better healthcare system requires the government to do something rather than an individual corporation. In fact it's the tight coupling of healthcare to employment that makes it such a nightmare already, and companies are not against a more universal system because it would greatly reduce costs and overhead.
Men who beat their wife daily are not majority in any culture.

You can walk into a village or bar full of strangers and you don't automatically get into a fights. You don't have to maintain your position with constant violence.

I doubt there is human culture where average adult gets into violent confrontation for status monthly.
Boris Johnson Secretly Asked for an Amount of User Data to Be Tracked
It's also because the smartphone became mature. Many of the earlier iPhones had gigantic deltas: 3G, Retina + front-facing camera, Touch ID/secure enclave, > 4 inch display.

Now (or at least for now) the changes have become more iterative. The delta between several generations are still nice, but between individual generations are less enticing to immediately upgrade.

In the end this is not bad. Upgrading a still perfectly working product every 1 or 2 years is quite insane and taxing for the environment. A lot of credit should go to Apple for maintaining iOS support for old iPhones. This makes it possible for people to keep their phones longer or hand them down. Or for people with lower incomes to buy older generations and still get upgrades.

Of course, slower upgrade cycles are bad for manufacturers. So it's smart of Apple to increase revenue through services (Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+, iCloud Storage), rather than forcing their customers to upgrade perfectly-fine devices.
I have the same feeling. Sure, manufacturers still try to experiment a little with their folding phones etc., but overall the software and hardware changes very little from one generation to the next.

I bought my last phone over 4 years ago and it wasn't new back then. The only reason I'm thinking about buying a new one is the software version. But it probably won't cost more than $200, because that's already enough to get better hardware than I got 4 years ago for double the price, and I don't have an issue with performance.

Needless to say, I don't quite get how flagship phones still sell so well considering you can do basically everything for a small fraction of the cost. Is there really a mobile game or other app out there which requires top specs? Would such a game even sell enough quantities?
Can anybody here with proper experience break down the "ABC" test for me? It seems to me like the "C" part (that the work is "part of a company’s regular business") applies to literally any company who would hire a freelancer to work on their product or service.
If they fired 1000 engineers, at $250k/year each, that would come to about $1.2/week more for each monthly active driver.
I have a SE for work but a Xiaomi Mi 9 for personal use. I just can't get used to iOS and the small SE. Cant type a decent message on it and the UI, although easy, just makes me feel I'm missing out on efficiency.

Not to mention I don't really care for apple products besides my old iPod (and of course the old stuff like the Apple][).
Android runs on a processor that operates, or not, at the pleasure of the baseband processor. The latter has complete access to all memory, and complete control over the Android's CPU cores. Android and the cores it runs on have no access to the baseband processor's memory, or any control over its execution.
Nuclear plants are great for base demand for these reasons (ie, the power that is always needed 24 hours round the clock, 365 days a year).

Alternative energies can provide some of that, meaning that plants need to shut down because outside of providing base demand, they're incredibly expensive to make power from.
The best part of the talk, IMO, was on the restartable sequences. :)
Not that type of blind.
Basically given a scenario, take a picture with n number of phones varying in quality/price. MKBHD the Youtuber then found that a worse quality camera came on top as the "best" quality for twitter/instagram users because that bad quality camera over-compensated with over exposure and some other factors (as far as I recall).

Essentially, camera quality in this day and age doesn't matter, unless you're a "pro" (which I predict 90% of the people who buy the 11 pro aren't)

Case in point: I have a SE and it takes photos fine. I'm not any model or pro, so taking pictures of basic day-to-day events or things is good enough for me.
> California loves making bandaid state fixes to federal problems, I think this is the wrong way to go.

You just hit the nail on the head. The real problem is that California is grossly under-represented in government, thanks to the founding fathers and gerrymandering. We have to slap together these hacks because otherwise we would wait centuries to get any real change out of the Fed.

As for "USA's democracy", screw the USA and its' democracy. As a Californian, I care about California's democracy, not the GOP's federalist plutocracy.

Republikans look at California as a rich man to mug who won't fight back. These laws are how we fight back. The USA needs us, we don't need them.
There are 2 DC fast chargers in the city of Berkeley, California. That's at best a total of about 400 miles per hour of charging, for a city of 120k people. EV boosters radically overestimate the widespread-ness of charging infrastructure.

At a much more common 6.6kW charge station you're getting 25 miles per hour of charge. I can put about 350 miles of gas in my car in one minute.
Family trapped atop waterfall rescued after sending SOS message in bottle
This is more about the state collecting more taxes than actually helping workers, especially with ride-sharing drivers used as bait.

People can already be full-time drivers if they wanted. Those jobs have existed for a century. In reality, the vast majority of Uber/lyft drivers already have a FT job and drive for secondary income with the time and location of their choosing. Retirees, students, fixed income, disabled, and many others who are just supporting their families.

Shifting them to employee status will cut many supporting incomes while adding a few more driving jobs with strict conditions, basic benefits and bare minimum hours. Many more will suffer than gain (if any). Another case of California having some of the worst politics in the nation.

For those downvoting, I would like to know what exactly you disagree with here.
I disagree with your assertions as healthcare is not the sole motivation, since massive Medicaid expansion has already taken care of that problem. The bigger issue really is that companies are not paying into unemployment, medicare, SSN and skirting around minimum wage by claiming everyone is a contractor.

As for immigration, the main issue that is that many California families are a mix of American citizens and illegal aliens that have lived here for decades
not only will they cap it as you have said, but generally you aren't allowed to be employed by multiple employers. almost every driver drives for both companies. the drivers are going to get shafted here in total earnings. they will work fewer hours and make more per hour, but won't be able to drive crazy hours on both apps any more.