skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't work in sweatshops because they love the job, they do it because they are desperate

People don't work in sweatshops because they love the job, they do it because its better than any of their alternatives
Farmers Who Don’t Trust U.S. Data Vow to Hoard Until Prices Rise
> Why aren't there a few meta-reviewers, to review the reviews?

In principle, the associate editor managing the submission (and making the ultimate accept/reject decision) should be doing this for every paper. In practice, the workload is such that editors have an incentive to make the review process as automatic as possible on their end.
A Bart janitor makes $234,000 a year?! WOW
A very quick search suggests that earth will become uninhabitable somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion years from now. If we shot a probe to this life-friendly alien planet with some sort of primordial soup, even traveling at the speed of light it would take 4 billion earth years to get there. Do I have that right? Basically we'll never even come close to being around when it finally arrives, if it ever arrives. Has anyone ever thought about doing this? We've shot gold records out into space for aliens with turn-tables. Why haven't we tried this?
Yes, and even then they're incredibly low thrust devices. A light sail (whether solar or laser powered) may well be viable for sending a tiny unmanned probe to another star system (see [0]). It's really unlikely that it will ever scale up enough to take an average communication satellite the same distance, much less a manned craft.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
>Here's a pie-in-the-sky example: I almost always buy clothes in-person. I want to see what I'm getting, and want to avoid the issues (discussed in other, mostly Amazon-related, posts) that come from buying stuff online. But I often run into trouble finding the specific item (make, style, and size) on the shelf. If each item were tagged (possibly as part of the anti-theft tag), I could be led directly to where the item is.

Cool idea but tricky execution. There'd need to be a way to "claim" that you already picked it up (maybe NFC from phone to specific item you pick up?) otherwise you get people chasing each other throughout the store.

I'd figure it'd work better just to embed one in the price tag for the item on the shelf or rack it's located on; at that point it's a matter of the store being kept as organized as possible so stuff doesn't get mixed into other areas.
That's because these companies have purposefully misrepresented themselves as part of the sharing economy despite the fact that their core business models are nothing like Freecycle or Couchsurfer, or even like casual carpooling.
Don't forget your $1.8 million middle-class house.
Do you have any advice on where to start? any course?
I think GP forgot to build with the release flag instead of debug.
> At no point in my comment, or any other comment, have I said, suggested, or implied that anyone should stop buying/discussing cars or that SV new grads should stop accepting/discussing high salaries.

> It makes it even worse to see the casualness that people in this thread are talking about $200-300k+ salaries,

> This is the type of attitude that I fear really makes Silicon Valley outsiders have a good amount of disdain for SVers.

>>I have seen Americans casually discuss what cars they own and what cars they would like to buy. I have never once chastised them and asked them to think about the homeless and poor kids in Africa before casually discussing cars like an everyday thing.
> And why do you say that as if it's a good thing? Perhaps its this exact attitude of extravagance and wastefulness
At 111 light-years, we need to create a vehicle that can sustain several generations.
Probably a trick of being a student job. I didn’t dig too much and instead nudged her to spend time working on actual long term passions (personal training et al)
"You don't study something closely for 7 decades and not learn anything..."

I do believe that any qualified historian of science could point out to you topics in linguistics (origin of language), psychology (nature of consciousness), astrophysics (what's inside a black hole, if anything), and many other topics where more than 7 decades have gone by, with lots of smart people studying a topic, and yet at the end of that much time practically nothing has been learned.
Uber: AB5 doesn't affect us.
Also Uber: We are prepared to spend $60M to stop it.
Uber’s disrespect for the law is astonishing. I hope California cracks down on them hard for not complying.
>A very quick search suggests that earth will become inhabitable somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion years from now.

I'm 99% sure that Earth is inhabitable right now... perhaps you meant "uninhabitable"?
We can see in this specific case there was better cache locality and more data was served from the L1 and L2 cache with a drop in L3 cache misses (no hits, because it didn’t have to look in L3 for anything).

6 cycles for bounds checks that the branch predictor never had to rewind on is nothing in comparison to saving a couple trips to L3.
your question is confusing. when did you create the keybase account? BEFORE or AFTER 9/9/19? if after, do you have any older GH or HN accounts before 9/9?
As a matter of fact I know of one person who met a driver through Uber and decided to hire them daily to get to their job without going through Uber ever again. I think that this is extremely rare and that everything in Uber is set up to prevent something like this. Same thing goes for Airbnb and the obfuscation of emails.
There are a variety of ways to use lambdas in C, each uniquely horrifying.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2203/tips-for-g...
>You don't use Uber to find a driver you like and then hire that driver from now on. Basically, the drivers are treated as the fungible part of providing server to the passengers.

Which is also one of the reasons that Uber became successful. A lot of the "Uber for..." companies that provided more personal services like massages or house cleaning failed for this exact reason. As soon as a user found a provider they liked it was easy for the two parties to come to a deal for ongoing service and cut out the tech company. That is how a lead generating company works. Uber doesn't function that way because the provider and the consumer don't have an ongoing relationship because the drivers have all been commoditized.
Just curious, did you have the same feeling towards the many decades when law and finance new grads were making $200K-300K (and many still do)? Is writing reports about financial statements of a company or proofreading legal text a more worthy endeavor than making apps/websites that attract users? Are those new grads making meaningful contributions to society?
just make it sound the noise :P
Unless/until a lot more is written in Rust... not much. It uses slightly more base RAM to load the binary. Some of the bloat is things that in C programs would be dynamically linked in - it isn't that Rust is doing more, it's that C gets to share a lot of stuff and Rust has to bring it's own.
Not yet, but when eventually selling my house in bay area might just do it. How hard is it?
That's odd; when I visited Japan this past spring I used Google Maps on my iPhone practically everywhere while walking, and the biggest helpful UI element was the blue compass arrow that would point wherever I was facing. It was generally quite accurate as I can't even remember it ever really pointing a different direction from where I was actually pointing.
PRISM was an internal NSA web-form for sending what was considered (by some, but not tested in courts) to be legal data access requests to US cloud app providers.

It was a f---ing web-form for sending targeted, narrowly-scoped, legal notices. Nothing more, nothing less. It was not some magical all-seeing Eye of Sauron that gave the NSA a backdoor into every word you ever said online, your blood type, and the number of nose hairs that you plucked this morning.

The really illegal backdoor, unscoped intercepts, including the cable taps, were done without the consent of most (all?) of the companies in question, and were not done through PRISM, but rather through physical access to, say, cross-datacenter cables, straight up hacking, and similar means.[1]

[1] See: SSL added and removed here :v) https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...
Carve Out a Niche of AWS
Is it though??? (edited, thanks)
In case it's not clear from the post: You can create a free Domino account[0] and run/fork/whatever the project for yourself.

[0] https://www.dominodatalab.com/try
If the problem relates to the integrity of reviewers, I suspect you can't fundamentally fix the problem by adding more reviewers.
Something which I don't understand about paid fonts is: If they are shown in the browser as webfont, I can download (potentially convert to OTF/TTF) and use them on the desktop without paying for 280€ for the desktop license.

I appreciate that font designers don't want to work for free and that licensing is a model. My argument is: If you want to charge people for downloading a file, don't offer this file without charging. Exactly that happens when it is used as a CSS font.
See also the initial professional report at http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13100
> The exceptions tend to be metrics that require skin in the game to shift -- the yield curve inversion or S&P500 index

I agree with you on the S&P500, but isn't the yield curve fairly easily manipulated by the Federal Reserve and their rate setting activities?
Your assumptions may be wrong especially considering how far in the future we're talking.
So in theory, a highly-trusted reviewer should avoid regular reviews and be engaged in meta-reviews, because of that load.
It does take extra space, but ideally you'd store the exceptional error handling code out-of-line, so that they don't need to take up cache in the common case.
It would not take 4 billion years at the speed of light, it would take 111 years. That's what light-years are, the distance travelled by light in a year.
> The current employee model as codified in our tax and legal system definitely has lots of assumptions around only having a single W2 employer.

No, it doesn't; multiple W-2 employees is a common thing and the law has no assumptions that conflict with it.

(Multiple full-time W-2 employers, maybe, are something of an issue, but not merely multiple W-2 employers.)

> "Flexible" employee, where the employee has full control over their hours and availability, and to work for multiple employers, but doesn't have control over rates or how the work is done.

This seems like regular on-demand temp work, where pretty much every feature of that is routine, and has always been W-2. Sure, technology including platforms like Uber, et al., make it practical to have more rapid offer/accept cycles and finer-grained work assignments, but they don't fundamentally change the nature of on-demand temp work in a way which requires any different treatment legally than such work has historically been given.
FTA:

> But just because the test is hard does not mean we will not be able to pass it. In fact, several previous rulings have found that drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business, which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces.

Previous rulings have found his statement to be accurate. So you don't have to take his word for it, you can take a judge's.
OLN: My humble beginning for creating a backchannel for the internet
This is also reductive. If market value was the sole driver for selection of profession, we would suffer a critical lack of specialists in a variety of fields.
There are not a lot of equity cash traders left in Wall Street firms; but it's not like equity cash is the only thing to trade.
What I have a hard time understanding is the 3rd of the 3 tests that determine if a person can be classified as independent contractor. [1]

I understand A & B, but as for C, why does someone's normal job have to be in that same line of work to be considered an independent contractor? What does whether a person is a driver professionally, or a teacher making money on the side, determine whether they're performing work as a contractor?

Maybe someone more expert can explain.

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[1]
ABC Test that all 3 conditions must be satisfied for worker to be considered a contractor:

"...
(a) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; and
(b) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and
(c) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.”
I'd say even more than 20% per year, because you aim for 0.1%, but when the market goes against you, you may end up having a max floating -20% but that will close with a 2% profit that day.

The Broker will only cheat a little just to push you over the edge. As long as stay far-far away from the edge, you are safe. If you aim for 0.1%, even if they (broker, markets, price action) do their worse, they won't get you past 10% (that's x100 the 0.1% risk:reward you aim for).
I see.

I saw somewhere else in the thread that you yourself are a new grad, so I'll chalk this up to lack of experience but on sufficiently large products it is trivial to make incremental changes that will produce more value then your salary. In my own career I saved a big tech company 250k in reoccurring costs with a 9 month project I completed as a junior. Yes, that number is a rounding error for a large company but the value is clear.

Additionally, perhaps you have never built a team before, but the value of a potential employee extends beyond their year-to-year output. If, for example, I have great confidence that a currently junior hire will output ~$1M of value over a four year period than I am willing to overpay that first year as they grow and develop.

This isn't going anywhere interesting and I am uninterested in continuing the conversation further. Have a nice day :)

(There is a certain irony to me about this back and forth. A large portion of my personal time is spent volunteering in an organization that agitates for unions and other forms of direct action aimed at tackling the gross inequity of this society head-on. You're clearly keyed in to a real and present problem, but rather than suggest any solutions you've decided to whinge ineffectively about... developer salaries?)
If Uber shuts down transportation won't disappear. People will have to switch to modes of transportation that may be a little more expensive but actually allow the workers to make a real living without taking on all the risk.
> The confused look told me I was asking an odd question: processes in BEAM are as isolated from each other as console apps running in different VMs in VMWare server. These processes can send messages to each other but they cannot access each other's memory.

The isolation is really not that high. erlang:process_info[1] allows one process to observe an awful lot about another. sys:get_status [2] often works (depending on software design choices) and provides even more data. I would not run two applications that needed isolation for security from each other in the same BEAM or as part of the dist network.

[1] http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.7.4/erts-5.7.4/doc/htm...

[2] http://erlang.org/doc/man/sys.html#get_status-1
I see how it measures distance and direction, but how does it estimate height? Are there multiple antennas in the phone?
One difference is that in the US and other Western countries is that these metrics don’t only come from one state-authorized authority. Investment firms, news outlets, economists routinely check these metrics and offer their own. In China, someone saying that the government is wrong, won’t get much traction. Dissenting Chinese economists are actively censored.

While information freedom doesn’t mean the official metrics are accurate, lack of freedom is a warning sign and should be treated with extreme skepticism.
Compare to the difficulty of getting there in the first place, getting spin gravity to work right isn’t a big problem.
There's some truth in what you say. Very few new CS grads are making substantial contributions commiserate to their salaries. They probably do hit that level in a few years so maybe that balances out. But the companies/shareholders seem to be happy paying those salaries, and we might believe that they probably know what they're doing.
Strictly speaking, if you actually traveled at the speed of light, the trip would be instantaneous from the reference frame of the craft making the trip. It would still take 111 years from our frame of reference on Earth.
Ah, right. Basically I vote for firing a primordial soup probe to this sucker.
Unrelated to anything else:

Please try avoiding work with Elsevier journals, and instead prefer open-access not-for-profit ones.

Did you know Elsevier had a 37% operating profit margin last year?
No, but it's generally understood to be very unlikely [0]. And if something as well studied as markets exhibited NP in P behavior we would have exploited it by now (FWIW, markets appear to be an efficient approximation algorithm like evolution is; approximation algorithms (like evolution) being something we use all the time to solve engineering problems).

[0] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
You need to divide a signing bonus by three to average it over your average time at the company.
Very recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Number of employed Americans is at an all-time high, participation rate is not:

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf

For example, slide 15, percentage of the unemployed deemed as long term unemployed declined from 45% to 20% from 2012 - 2019.
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We tried the DW chip last year. It works astonishingly well.
>And let's be honest, my salary won't change one iota if I get another few citations. The idea that this is somehow selfish is really bogus. Citations aren't worth that much at all.

I'm not sure if this is true. Citations are the primary currency in academia. It's not about money; it's about prestige.

>More citations to prior work is a good thing. More discussion about what is truly novel is a good thing.

Again I'm not so sure about this. The problem is that most papers are not novel at all. There are some seminal papers in each subject that everyone cites. There are also papers that are closely related to what someone is doing. Everything else is usually a distraction.
This is why I use Google Voice with 2 factor authentication for my SMS. Google has no customer service to socially engineer.
All the AR capabilities in the iPhone is just a test bed for the eventual AR wearable. AR on the phone is just a clunky way to use AR, by holding it up to your face with a camera running. The U1 chip brings AR closer to how it should “just work”
for HN, they also require at least 2 karma. a little annoying because i only use my account for lurking and only have 1 karma.
secret mind control programs. The human brain, being a computer, is expected to be alterable. But the extent of secrecy, shadiness and memory-holing of secret government programs never ceases to amaze.
I hear this argument a lot, and I wonder, would anyone who has gone through an extended period of poverty agree with it? I went through this myself, and all the worker "protection" laws just made it that much harder to get back on my feet because they limited how much I could work. Or forced me to allocate some of my pay to benefits I didn't need rather than the expensive treatment I desperately needed to stay alive in the short-term.

I drove for Uber and it was seriously the only job I could get and it saved my life. I know of many other drivers who are battling disabling conditions who drive for Uber as well. Jobs that are as flexible as Uber are non-existent.

I find it really disappointing how many people debate this issue without ever actually listening to the people in poverty. That means talking to real people doing the job. Not just the protestors in the streets. And frankly, if you have time to protest, you're probably not that poor. The poorest of the poor work whenever they can and do not spend time on things that don't earn them money.
> CF is involved with serving vast swathes of the internet anyway

Too involved. Cloudflare also single-handedly killed web browsing over Tor with extremely frequent and hard CAPTCHAS, until users install a browser extension that sets a cookie encrypted using NSA's favourite elliptic curve flavour.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Much like their ability to offer free MITM CDN services to so many web sites.
the wikipedia pages for moons of jupiter and saturn are quite thorough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter

Zooming out in this visualization and changing the view angle a bit really helps to understand how jupiter sort of functions like a solar system vacuum cleaner, grabbing up loose objects that on multi-million year time scales happen to cross its orbit.
But Boston is ultra expensive. Like a mini NYC.
> the messages sent are kept in shared memory (which is reference-counted)

Only large binaries and slices of them use reference counting, other things are copied. And of course, if the process is remote, everything is copied :)
The only problem is the government first uses an estimate and the later retroactive adjusts the number I believe.
A bit ironic that it's suggested to us to buy the book through Amazon, a cloud services provider for the CIA (and otherwise shady mega-corporation)

See:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy
No single metric is going to give a full picture. However, to my understanding work force participation has been going up and there's been upward pressure on wages at the lower end.
You do realize we’ve straight up repealed an amendment before, right?

I wonder if people for the prohibition used the same ridiculous argument as yours in the past.
Looking at performance counter data is good, but I would have liked to see a real validation of the hypothesis that bounds checking is to blame for the extra branches and instructions. That is, modify the Rust compiler to not emit bounds checks (or maybe there is even a flag for this?) and look at performance and counters. I would imagine that this would bring the data for Rust to pretty much the same as C. But other compiler (micro-)optimizations might be at play as well.

Also, from the paper's Conclusions: "The cost of [Rust's] safety and security features are only 2% - 10% of throughput on modern out-of-order CPUs." 10% network throughput is a lot.