skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the definition of feudalism is:

- Royalty allows vassals to "own" land in exchange for a portion of the income from the land.

- Royalty has an obligation to protect the vassals while vassals have an obligation to fight for the land owners.

- Similarly, vassals allowed peasants to "own" part of their land and were obligated to protect them in exchange for part of the income from the land.

- Peasants often were not allowed to leave their land (effectively change employers). However, it's not clear to me if this is an inherent feature of feudalism.

In terms of whether any of this is analogous to feudalism:

- I think you could draw a pretty solid analogy in a situation where a corporation provided a major piece of property (e.g. a vehicle) in exchange for continued labor. However, that seems more like something you see in trucking than in the modern gig economy.

- You could maybe argue that situations where a person rents the property they need to do their job (e.g. a car for Uber) is analogous to the way that peasants rented their land. However, a better analogy might be to some of the schemes where, for example, employees are paid in scrip which they also had to use to purchase their tools.

- You could argue that, feudalism is analogous to how working class people in many cities are unlikely to ever make enough to own a house and therefore they only "own" them (via renting) as long as they keep working. However, this seems like it's more about inequality in general than the gig economy specifically.

- The fact that employees often have to keep working for bad employees in order to avoid being labeled a "job hopper", due to a non-compete, or just due to the difficulties of changing jobs has reasonable similarities to peasants being unable to leave their land. However, these are problems that are actually more common in jobs that are outside the gig economy.

- In at least one sense modern employment relationships are worse than feudalism: In feudalism the vassal has an obligation to protect their peasants while a corporation can fire an employee at a moments notice. However, again this isn't restricted to the gig economy.

Overall, I agree with you that feudalism is a poor analogy for the gig economy specifically. However, I think it is a fair analogy for some aspects of modern capitalism as a whole.
The amount of energy isn't relevant though? The road wear is.

Unless you're talking about like, indirectly taxing the emissions (since the UK is pretty bad, 300gCO2e/kWh). I would have thought it makes sense to just apply that, at the grid level, on all electricity consumption.
Because only the rich drive alot.
How do you decide who qualifies for four weeks pay? that is a significant cost to many small businesses. Do you limit it based on how many employees they have? How many hours the employee averages per week? The last time Congress set limits they threw low wage earners under the bus; the now infamous ACA twenty nine hour rule.

minimum wage should not be at the federal level, it is a state by state and city by city issue that should be based upon cost of living in that area. federal laws should protect from working without pay and discrimination. if localities wanted to protect low wage earners they woulds step back occupational license requirements for many positions and reduce the burden of fees and regulatory compliance as well; that twenty to twenty five dollar fee some states charge just for a license may not be bad for you or me but for the low wage earner it is very bad. having to pay five hundred dollars for a license to work is no better, but these costs exist and are not income scaled
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Thanks, that was interesting. If anyone is excited enough to try driving peripherals in userspace via hardware registers, I can recommend starting with a Raspberry Pi, since it has several well documented peripherals (UART, SPI, I2C, DMA, and of course lots of GPIO), and the techniques described in this talk are transferable.

A search for 'raspberry pi mmap' will yield a lot of good starting points.
I was going to complain about the (mis)use of the preposition choice “on” over “in”, then I remembered this is the NYT, and in NYC people “stand on line” rather than “stand in line”.

It also follows “Did you work on the computer?” Which asks if you used a computer to do something as well as “Did you work to fix the computer”. I however contend that in the context of the article “in” would be clearer. As in “ghost in the machine”.
Burning gas anywhere should be practically unaffordable, given we are likely making large parts of the planet unhabitable.
Eh, this is a losing battle for them. In theory any HTTPS server can be a DoH server if set up for it. One key for the future is to have so many DoH servers available for people in countries that filter that there is no way the government can block them all.
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When dosed with ivermectin, people's blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes. I guess it's better than nothing. But like you, I want that entire species gone.

Bite me and you die.
There's degree to unethical behavior, but I've become disillusioned and no longer thing it's an outlier on the market. Some things I've seen:

- When writing the paragraph you quoted the beginning of, I had mostly particular situations involving large corporations in mind. You see such shenanigans featured regularly on HN, and if people are outraged, they aren't really surprised.

- People I know personally worked in "pedestrian", small-business areas like e-commerce, customer service, shipping&handling, grocery stores, restaurants and medical care. I've heard plenty about practices that are common in these businesses - like bribing people to remove negative ratings, blatant copyright violation on promotional material, washing stale food with detergent to remove the smell and selling it as fresh, microwaving food and adding burn marks and then selling it as grilled, etc. Minor and major issues.

- Then there's plenty of companies like Groupon or AirBnB that an ethical person would shut down, or at least heavily rework their business model, upon learning how big a negative impact they have on the market at large.

- Then there's the whole advertising industry, which turns a lot of otherwise friendly interactions into adversarial experiences.

A lot of this is caused not (just) by ethical deficiency of people involved, but through market pressure. Consider grocery stores washing stale food: I don't know of a worker who's happy about it (but they do this, or else they lose jobs). I'm convinced managers aren't happy about it either - but they have an inventory that will otherwise go to waste, and they need to figure something out or else it's their job.

My standard of ethics is that of friendly cooperation. That standard is routinely broken in interactions with businesses, big and small (and I do my best to keep trading with businesses that do not break that standard). Thus I conclude it's the market at large, and not some occasional bad actor.
I live in Vantaa which is right next door while commuting every day to Helsinki. Only criteria seemed to be that I can't be a resident of Helsinki... Might have to apply for the fun idea and surprisingly great program.
It also seems that people have a tendency to represent things in drawing as either bubbles or stick figures. Even to ancient times, such as the humans from this cave paintint (Lascaux, I believe):

https://anthonyalvaradoanthonyalvarado.files.wordpress.com/2...

Or more recently:

https://xkcd.com/
If the content isn't inline, perhaps it's better to have the mail server fetch it when the email is received, so that the sender can't track whether you are reading it.

This has been discussed before with regard to external links to images. I think that always made sense, but it makes even more sense to do this when the core content is external. Then fetching it would be just another part of the SMTP/HTTP transaction sequence to deliver a mail.
Yes, another inanimate “visitor”. What’s with these headlines? It just doesn’t stop.
>If we ban loot boxes in video games, why dont we ban Magic/Pokemon card boosters that you can buy from physical shops?

Yes please! Or at least just the slot machine aspect. It would be great if you could buy a box of cards and know exactly what's inside.
I got a chuckle out of "GoJS 1.8 evaluation copy, not for production use" in the home page hero videos.
Because Gerrymandering is how the GOP maintains control of the country. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or other, we should see that as the biggest attack on our democracy.

When the GOP owns the senate, as they do, they attack California's sovereignty at every opportunity. We are net-givers to the federal budget, whereas moscow mitch is a welfare queen whose state is the biggest net-begger.

Our wealth, our culture, our environment are all under attack by a nation of right-wing christian terrorists who resent that us Californian libtards have created the wealthiest, most successful and productive society the world has ever known .. while all they do is shoot guns.

#calexit
I use Gnus in Emacs as my email client. I've got it set up to render plain text if available, but if the mail is only HTML, it will fallback to use Emacs' shr (Simple HTML Render) library. It's basic support, but works well enough most of the time to make the mail readable. Worse comes to the worse, I just open the HTML in a web browser. If I get to that stage, it's almost always spam or something else not worth reading.
Wolves wouldn't attack you, I guess you read one too many children's stories. The only possibility would be desperate, starving big pack of wolves and a lone traveler in the middle of nowhere. I've experienced it a bit, alone in winter mountains ski touring and camping, but even then they just carefully observe from distance and then move on.

As for bears, we have them back home in eastern europe, in fact vastly overpopulated given the area available and their territoriality. Practically no attacks on cyclists, hikers etc (yes like 1 every year or two something minor, more people die from ticks and tripping over stones and roots). If you make any noise while in the forest, they will notice you from far and avoid you.

That said, we don't have grizzly or polar bears, those are a bit different and majestic beasts.

As for general discussion, your point doesn't make much sense. We could wipe out just types of mosquitoes responsible for super-deadly diseases like malaria and dengue (and few others) and keep the annoying but otherwise harmless suckers still around. In my subjective opinion we wouldn't even notice the transition (at least not in the bad sense).
CS is interwoven throughout the entire curriculum, not just the final eight weeks.
>Never seems to occur to anyone that crazy high salaries might be driving crazy high housing prices

It's the only logical conclusion. Married couples, each making well over $100k, competing with each other will obviously result in higher home prices, unless you increase the supply of the homes that those married couples desire. If you look at a map of recent home sale prices on Redfin or the real estate websites, you can easily see where all the doctors/programmers/business owners live in a town.
> What are the arguments against eSNI?

Institutions providing internet access, but with an obligation or operational requirement to block certain kinds of content (e.g. insufficient network capacity on the free WiFi at a hospital to allow streaming video for all visitors) would not be able to do it at all.

Privacy proponents seem to forget that there are sometimes reasonable reasons to allow traffic to be blocked, and instead of looking for a real solution, are imposing ridiculous "solutions" on all Firefox users.
Going through ossu at the moment, highly recommended. Coming from a Physics background and working as a SE, it gives me the tools I need to "catch up" on my own terms.

Edit: Typo
> I think ultimately, this is the same thing

There's one big difference. Those stickers were immediately tradeable. Actually exchanging the missing pieces with others was most of the fun. If you can only rely on the packs, that's all social fun cut out.
I thought the same. A parasite boss may be a common phenomenon but searching didn't bring up any interesting articles.
The difference is what happens if the edit in an adult is unsuccessful. I don’t think people are objecting to edits that are net benefits as much as preforming highly risky procedures.

Though like most ethical issues people don’t have universal objections.
There is a system where it works more like the way you are suggesting -- it's called communism.

The key reason why capitalism isn't "Feudalism 2.0" is because companies compete in a marketplace against each other, and there is freedom of mobility between employees across those companies. So maybe you could say that anti-trust law is a key component to ensure that your analogy is false.
https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
Isn't the best solution for "last mile" for all of us is to walk it?
The Aesthetic of Programming [video]
KDE's Kate text editor got submitted to the Windows Store
Any chance you were screened for anemias? Carriers for sickle, thalassemia,and G6PD deficiency all have malaria protective effects and ties in nicely with yellow urine and jaundice. Hemolysis increases urobilin in urine leading to a more yellow color.

These are pretty common in african populations so I wouldn't be too surprised.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but this article suggests to perform training of DL models in production on the CPU?

Also why does the choice of language to specify my DL model matter that much if the low level number crunching is abstracted away anyway into a highly optimised component running on whatever processor / accelerator is most suitable?
Maybe just a little bit of a way to remove the dopamine high, or make it slightly worse, would be to have the kid physically hand you the money before they open the case so they feel the pain of spending the cash.
Forgive my wording, gerrymandering is the primary tool used by the GOP to control the USA. It's their strongest tool to cheat their way into elections, we've seen that clearly in North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

If we actually followed the spirit and intentions of the founding fathers, then California would already be grossly under-represented. Add to that the way the GOP rigs the elections via gerry-mandering and . voter suppression, and Californians are treated like slaves, not citizens.

They have all forgotten the battle cry of the republic, "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION".

#calexit
Energy of the 229 Th nuclear clock transition
The OP wants to eliminate petrol taxes on ICE vehicles to treat all vehicles the same way. Right now, an EV doesn't pay any petrol taxes, which are often used to maintain road infrastructure.
Why using plain text is better:

- readable under any mail client and any text editor

- smaller size files

- safer

- better accessibility and compatibility with screen readers
Wouldn't alcoholism be very correlated with total consumption?
> How do you decide who qualifies for four weeks pay?

You don't. Every full-time employee have right to paid holidays, like we have in every other country in the world.
I mean, I'm just thinking that's how it works with petrol/diesel already - we're taxing it on per litre basis, so if you drive a very efficient vehicle(or just drive gently) then you will pay less of that tax than someone who drives a very inefficient car, even if the distances covered are exactly the same. Obviously just because that's how we do it now doesn't mean we have to keep doing that forever.
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Because the result is that small landlords who can't deal with the fixed costs hassles simply sell out and consolidate into larger ones with more clout with politicians to weaken renter rights and legal resources to fight pesky tenants whom they simply don't want, or create shared blacklist databases like has been done in New York. If you're going to gird up for class warfare, realize that tenants are probably going to lose as long as zoning restricts your options
Country’s ownership laws, branding, cost of doing business. I can add numerous more reasons.
Any rent control is a distortion that should not be done. Open up property rights and get more high-density housing built. Done.
This is the best argument I've seen to support these price controls. They're a bad idea on their own, but as a response to another bad idea (landlord opposition to construction) they make political sense.

Sometimes the system has to break down before progress happens.
>Granted I prefer hard sci-fi, but the novel’s focus is really on style over science fiction. It’s IMO somewhere between space opera and fantasy.

How I looked at Gibson's work changed completely after I read "pattern recognition" when it came out in my early '20s - It was very explicitly about style, and I went back and re-read the older stuff which I read as a child, and yeah, you could also say that neuromancer is about style and fashion. It was interesting just how much reading the later book changed how I thought about the earlier books.

(Note, I still really enjoy Gibson.)
That doesn't mean politicians won't pretend like every piece of infrastructure is funded purely though state gas taxes in an effort to create additional revenue streams and justify increasing registration fees and whatnot.

Personally I'm fine with not imposing extra taxes on EVs. They're a negligible portion of road traffic right now and since they aren't heavy trucks they account for basically none of the infrastructure wear and tear.
Most road damage due to vehicles is actually caused by heavy commercial trucks etc. Taxing vehicles by total impact on roads makes more sense to me, as the price will effectively be passed onto consumers who buy products transported by truck. It might help incentivise development of more local rail lines which we need to be doing in the US anyway.
this is not 2007 anymore.Google changed algos considerably over the past decade to make this much less effective.
Writing is the best personal growth tool
"I have a question and there are a few people about so I'll ask it....(10 mins later)... ok no-one's answered... no-one's said anything, in fact. I hope they can see me. Oh well, I'll just browse away from this tab/close the IRC client and just reconnect later on or tomorrow and see if there's an answer. I'll just reconnect and scroll back up and see all the history I missed. It'll be fine... (next day)...Uh...where's my history?"
Interestingly, most of example sites given were launched within the recent year.
Government Orders Google: Let Employees Speak Out
if you want to be a brand, then you have to come up with a product or a service which is solving the common man problems.
Not in petro states, generally.

And you only need one culturally persistent counterexample for this to end badly.
Yes, exactly. My point was just that anecdotally, literally no-one I know who has attempted "day trading" style investing has made good money from it over the long term. In contrast, the one person I know who has attempted "value" style investing and done it seriously actually has made quite good money from it consistently. This is in line with the article's conclusions, but in another context: it looks like an individual trying to day-trade in today's markets is probably setting up to fail.
I was part of the development on a game which had loot boxes and we had a lot of talk about the reveal, building excitement, etc.

One team member had previous experience from working on casino games and he said that at least there they had clear rules for how they were allowed to handle it and who they were allowed to target.
People find order and structure attractive. Functional programming is associated to that.

I feel like functional programming - maybe more from a categorical perspective - is good at generalising and capturing lots of ideas cleanly. For example you could think of object-oriented programming as using comonads - Haskell is an object oriented language! :).

I feel like that power to connect ideas, and see how they fit into some "larger" structure is what is beautiful. Being able to say what is "really" going on behind the scenes (yeah well really you are just using monads to do x...), being able to draw connections, and then use that to potentially discover new ideas is what is attractive.

Usually other programming paradigms are not constructed from a more rigorous mathematical perspective, but if its a good idea, don't be suprised if you cant describe it with fp.
The only tool I'll use to clean my glasses
Regulatory capture
Do you have any links to the research about evolving to resist the gene drive effect?

There are bio-ethicists arguing that it's wrong to eradicate an entire species. There are also biologists expressing concern about damaging the food chain.

Regarding the former concern, it's only a tiny segment of our world that actually cares whether mosquitoes exist or not as part of some abstract idealism or wishing to preserve biodiversity. Most of us would be beyond happy to see this miserable creature eradicated.

Regarding the food chain, there are some 5,000 species of mosquitoes, of which only about 100 feed on mammalian blood. Out of those 100, nine species carry disease such as malaria and zika. If we only targeted those 9, we'd have a huge win while scarcely affecting the pollination and prey species role of the rest of the family of mosquitoes.

If we targeted the 100, we'd greatly increase the quality of life for not only 7 billion humans but also for tens of millions of mammals made miserable by blood sucking swarms. The great herds of reindeer of northern Canada, for example, deliberately run in single file, to reduce exposure to mosquitoes that swarm around them in the spring. Mosquitoes are a serious parasite up there; one herd animal can lose a pint or more of blood in a single day.
It's happening all around the world.

I'm in a US Rust Belt city that's lost population since the 1950s, and had flat growth in the region since 1970.

Yet in many neighborhoods housing prices have doubled to quintupled over the past 15 years.

Similar stories in a lot of other rust belt areas which I know are not booming. The urban areas are definitely more attractive than they used to be, but it doesn't add up. It makes me think the drive behind this is post-financial crisis monetary policy.
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Huh. It wouldn't occur to me, really, to connect the two, but I also am a huge fan of Jablokov.
I would read the john backus turing award lecture to see why people have such appreciation of functional programming.

In short it's makes it easy to compose things, using a simple core language.
Who decides what's good or bad? Who decides who decides? Where is the depth of knowledge, logic, and reason behind that? When it comes to good and bad we often lack these things and if we did I would wager we are not on the same page.

"things I like" and "things I dislike" are far more honest and genuine.
Whether or not it's profitable for Uber or any business to hire you, is that business' decision. It's not yours to make. And there is no evidence that ridesharing companies cannot afford to pay drivers more. What if prices go up 20-30% and the level of service stays exactly the same? Then it was a silly concern with no basis in reality. I don't think evidence shows that Uber will immediately fire all drivers if they must be classified as employees.