skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of what you say rings true but ... I think without the incentive of monetization I don’t think we’d see as much good content in places like YouTube.

On the other hand that same carrot brings a lot of baggage like: ads, and lots of crap (content farms and idiotic buzzfeed listicles and cat videos) some idiocy is okay, but we get flooded ...
Technical question: what is the difference between the Supreme Court ruling[1] (I _think_ I linked the correct Dynamex ruling) and this new law?

TFA states:

> The law implements a legal ruling last year by the California Supreme Court regarding workers at the delivery company Dynamex.

implements a legal ruling sounds suspiciously like "the court says that the previous state of law was ambiguous/incongruent and the legislature must pass a law to address it".

Can anyone shed light on whether I am on base or not?

[1] https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/dynamex-operations-west-...
New Catalyst Can Produce Hydrogen from Seawater – CleanTechnica
Boiling Frogs – Slow Recoveries Are Deep Recoveries with Flatter Phillips Curves
Same thing happened to me and my wife. The permanence of 2fa failing was something that didn’t exist until just a few years ago. For decades before that you could always get back in as long as you had an email. With that safety net in mind, it’s easy to go on “auto pilot” with using the internet and devices, not worrying at all about anything. And when 2fa came it kind of changed that with very little warning - or at least the warning wasn’t clearly distinct enough from previous-generation auth techniques so we (understandably so) didn’t pay enough heed. Fortunately it was only regarding an iTunes account so all we lost was access to a dozen VeggieTales movies, but it got me wanting to disable 2fa on my own account, but Apple doesn’t allow that anymore. Sigh.
There's probably hundreds of these libraries. Almost everyone chooses to just write their own.

I wanted one because in 2007, no project existed that was laser-focused on maximizing performance (I switch threads tens of millions of times a second in my emulators), was lightweight enough (I implement my own schedulers for my emulators), and was portable enough (I am not even aware of a CPU architecture libco won't run on currently.)

The library is extremely small, and being in control of it allows me to adapt and support new targets directly as needed.
It's not completely unreasonable. Here's a quote from Warren v. District Of Columbia

> A publicly maintained police force constitutes a basic governmental service provided to benefit the community at large by promoting public peace, safety and good order. The extent and quality of police protection afforded to the community necessarily depends upon the availability of public resources and upon legislative or administrative determinations concerning allocation of those resources. The public, through its representative officials, recruits, trains, maintains and disciplines its police force and determines the manner in which personnel are deployed.

> At any given time, publicly furnished police protection may accrue to the personal benefit of individual citizens, but at all times the needs and interests of the community at large predominate. Private resources and needs have little direct effect upon the nature of police services provided to the public. Accordingly, courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.

Australia [0] and England [1] are roughly similar (the only countries I googled; I don't have time to google more but I'd guess almost all countries are legally or practically the same).

In general in the US the courts are reluctant to second-guess police officers for decisions they might make in the moment. See also the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity that makes it much more difficult to prosecute police misconduct by saying if officers didn't know from a prior case that the exact specific thing they were about to do was illegal they can't be prosecuted. [2]

> Essentially, if you want to sue a police officer who you think violated your constitutional rights, you first have to convince the court that what happened to you was so outrageous that no reasonable person could have thought it was okay.

For example, according to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit it wasn't clear in 2001 that the govt's "enhanced interrogation" of US citizens, including the following, was torture [3]

> Denial of medical care for serious and potentially life-threatening ailments, including chest pain and difficulty breathing, as well as for treatment of the chronic, extreme pain caused by being forced to endure stress positions, resulting in severe and continuing mental and physical harm, pain, and profound disruption of the senses and personality.

[0]: https://www.robinsongill.com.au/resource/opening-the-door-on...

[1]: http://www.lawjournals.org/download/76/2-6-32-594.pdf&sa=U&v...

[2]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-poli...

[3] https://loweringthebar.net/2012/05/would-the-last-civil-righ... (this is a legal humor site, but it's by a lawyer and you can easily find a better source by googling if you want to be a spoilsport)
The issue here from the article, specifically, is Walmart cut them out of the supply chain after building their own dairy plant - the buried lede, and literally the last sentence.

So it follows: Walmart dropped Dean as a result of its continued efforts to vertically integrate its supply chain. This kills Dean.

And given we are talking Walmart here, I feel pretty safe assuming it's the key actor in this situation, not the 50 some million dollar almond milk industry :P
Get a Horse! America’s Skepticism Toward the First Automobiles
I bought one. If they hadn’t produced this I would have walked on Apple hardware. The only thing that is jaw dropping to me: the price tag.

I’m surprised to not see people talking about it in the comments. 3900 US without Apple care? Holy god. I bought the max spec or close to it in 2015 for 800+$ less. The differences are negligible, and then I spent an additional 200$ on dongles I don’t want. I’m probably not done. When all was said and done I spent 4600$ on this machine. I make my living on a computer and I need the pro part of the MacBook Pro, but it is still a really jaw dropping price for what it is.
Exogenous opioids are an exploit of our human AI system not a beneficial feature of it.
>...the vast majority of white wealth is not in the hands of the middle-upper class

You are correct on that point. More than 50% of the 100$ trillion is held by the top 10%.

On the other point, my point is the first $500k to 1million of wealth was due to inheritance... not the total wealth of the 1%.

Follow up: At one point, any white male could move westward and get free land (whether indegeous owned or not). 40-100 acres after a century+ of property value appreciation is quite a bit of wealth. The $500k-1m number I use as a baseline for white wealth is very conservative.
You can subcontract work to another firm, which has employees. Your contract is with the firm.

California believes that if you "subcontract" an individual to do the work your company is in the business of doing, you're not "subcontracting" with them at all, you're employing them.

That's not a ban on subcontracting. It's a ban on calling an employee a contractor.
That's fine, but that's not the same as the web being "append-only."
Ah, I see. So if a merchant supports paying with Apple Pay, they also support paying with Android, or any other payment provider that supports the same standard?
If I am correct, I think it's the Interstate Commerce Clause[1] of the US Constitution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause (note that the wiki article is the "Commerce Clause", but it mentions the "Interstate Commerce Clause")
Of particular interest is Winton's comments on patent sharing:

The steering wheel was one of my early patents, and it was the same wheel that came into later and general use. It is but one of more than a hundred patents I hold on different parts for automobiles.

I believe I am entitled to say I have never collected a cent in royalties from them, nor will I. Lawyers have tried to argue me into bringing suits for infringements, but it so happened we pioneers always worked together. We loaned ideas. We loaned tools. We loaned patents. If we worked out a good idea, we loaned that. You see, some 20 years ago there was a man named George Baldwin Selden, a lawyer and inventor living in Rochester, New York, who caused a lot of trouble and expense to the automobile industry by bringing suit against all of us for the infringement of a patent that had been granted him on May 8, 1879. His patent covered a machine containing the essential principles of an automobile.
Not if you didn't previously acknowledge using these kinds of documents as 2FA. I set 2FA fully aware that if I lose my recovery codes I'm done. I don't want anyone ever to be able to restore my accounts without the codes. There are so many attack vectors with government documents. Just one service hacked that I had to upload them for verification and that kind of information can become 'public'. Humans and social engineering are one of the biggest attack vectors nowadays because of things like "humans make mistake, let's reset his account because he knew the last digits of the creditcard used and uploaded an ID".

Gandi handles this nicely with a checkbox in the settings that explicitly tells support to never ever restore the account if 2FA is lost
Andy Raskin: To Create a New Category, Name the New Game
I don't have any problem auto-completing file paths from a dd parameter.

TBH, I didn't know about zshzftpsys, thanks for the knowledge transfer. Reading the manpage, I see

> type `which zftp' and if zftp is available you will get the message `zftp: shell built-in command'.

and I get

$ which zftp
zftp not found

As long as I don't zmodload zsh/zftp (and I certainly don't want to), I don't see any problem with this lib, now is there ?
iirc in a recent talk with Joe Rogan, John mentioned something about robots doing judo...
So set the floor and increase education. This regulation doesn't do any of that, instead it just removes that way of working as if these people can't make the choice for themselves.
VR sickness still applies, even if you have perfectly realistic rendering, infinite frame rate, infinite resolution, perfect tracking, and zero latency. It's caused by a discrepancy between the visual and vestibular systems. That problem cannot be solved by higher quality rendering.
What is stopping this text-only paradigm shift from happening? What developments are needed before this happens? Why hasn't it happened already?

Twilio has given the ability to programmatically text anyone for years. Why hasn't this hypothetical B2C text business developed yet?
Remember when Apple's keys had a dot on the D and K instead of a line on F and J?
And I read that Quake 3 AI operates on a fairly simple stack of objectives. Like, bot goes to pick up yellow armor. Bot sees enemy and starts shooting him. Bot takes damage and starts to retreat. Retreat is now the objective at the top of the stack. If the bot finds a medkit, he pops the retreat objective off stack, and goes to the next one - shoot enemy. If he happens to kill the enemy, he resumes the "get yellow armor" objective.
That's really cool. I wonder if someone has made a docker-compose file that sets up "ever" language's "best" LSP server so you can, with one command, get an IDE that can work with any repo.
For somebody like John Cormack, I read this as 'I am retiring'
I consider it something of a trap in fact.

You start writing a new emulator for the first time, dispatching entire instructions in one go, and so you don't even really need a state machine at all.

Then you start trying to get the timing better with opcode-cycle granularity, and in comes a separate state machine for every instruction.

Then you realize you need clock-cycle granularity to fix certain edge-case games (eg emulating the effects that occur during bus accesses), and suddenly the prospect of a state machine for every cycle of every instruction becomes overwhelming.

You would then be realistically stuck with the choice to either stop improving your accuracy, or rewriting things cooperatively.

Since I'm focusing byuu.net articles toward aspiring emulator developers, I thought it would be an important topic to cover.
Android developer account. I'd expect more than canned bot responses for 30% revenue share
IMO, this is biggest reason to use linters. I don’t really mind what the “standard” is, as long as everyone is using the same one.
I wanted help hacking democrats and got censored
Nice to see this site is CNN part 2
Total difference in cost? ~1500$. That seems a ridiculous difference for modest hardware improvement and the requisite gaggle of adapters. I’m happy with the machine, but it’s probably 500$ more than what I would have been comfortable paying for the hardware. In the past I remember feeling like what I was getting was worth it. In this case I feel price gouged.
It also says if you actually want to be an independent contractor... because maybe you just dropped $150K on a vehicle, then you can't write it off anymore, and you're screwed.

It bans people from having a choice.
Open source silicon design itself is at its infancy. You may be interested in this project: https://libresilicon.com/ . It has a very interesting history. I really hope that someday, this will grow into a room sized fab - like how 3D printing is progressing today.
Kafka on K8s – A Good Fit?
I’m going to not subtly at all say that if you’re pointing that out, you’re a racist.
Since most questions will not be "high-quality" (for any reasonable definition of "high-quality"), most new participants' experience will be of asking a question and being told "that's a bad question" either explicitly (downvotes) or implicitly (editing their question to "improve" it).

This describes the problem with SO remarkably well - how it constantly trends towards being even less nice than it was two months beore. I've gotten SO points and even been congratulated over some questions and some answer. But I'm still angry, seven years on, over having one particular question being deleted - it was my question and it was a question I wanted an answer to it.
Please do not use `pipenv`, use `poetry` or plain old `pip` instead.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612590
If it's QR codes as mentioned by people in this thread then those probably aren't easier to decode than a M-DISC would be.
Bridging the native app gap (Chrome Dev Summit 2019) [video]
> Netflix

Blockbuster employees' jobs?
Amateur (Ham) Radio Camp for Youth Being Held in Cincinnati, Oh
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs

procfs isn't a program but a pseudo-filesystem. Are you just meaning to say that the info stored in /proc and displayed by strace is very useful to you? Or am I missing something else?
you're possibly thinking of the problem of consciousness, which is a totally separate thing. AGI is just what it says on the tin - a general intelligence. That is, a problem solver that can operate at a human or greater level in a broad variety of domains. This ability is plausibly totally orthogonal to "having the lights on" - having subjective experience.
But only 1 USB-C 3.1 plug!

I guess we'll have to wait another few years.

I can see why this all is though, the limitations are going to be insane.
This article is about a suit from The California Trucking Association, a trade group and industry lobbyist representing corporate management, not truckers. You can learn about them on their website if you're curious. The only source providing a statement in the body of this article is the association's head lobbyist. Background sources seem to include a politician and an academic institute. No truckers.

I don't have any comment about the suit or the law, but I do think this is fine opportunity to discuss the nature of propaganda.
So? Should only people who can afford high costs be allowed to own three-letter domains? Worthiness is not defined by income.
Carmack is an accomplished and inventive engineer. He is not and would never claim to be the most important graphics researcher of his generation.

How can you rank him against AI researchers, a field where he has not attempted to contribute?
Wow, there are a lot of people in this thread arguing whether or not John Carmack has the right skills to help AGI, or about the specifics of his knowledge.

Do you all realize you're arguing about nothing?

Good for him for doing something he seems excited about. Maybe we should all stop gossiping and go do something we're excited about too.
>For the time being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home

Who will fund the necessary computing resources? If not FB, then he will surely be joining or starting a different org
Ha! I just said to my wife, don’t forget Netflix started as mail order DVDs and successfully pivoted to streaming.

At Blockbuster’s height they employed 85k. The majority were high schoolers in my area.
The actual law is here Title 18, Section 922, g(5)(B):
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922 I would guess that it's not enforced very often.

If your friend was visiting from a European country that didn't require a visa to visit the US (most of them) you'd be in the clear.

Some discussion for non-immigrant visas about halfway down this article: https://reason.com/2019/01/12/illegal-aliens-guns-and-strict...
No - I just created the equivalent to https for video; the "underclass" can still create, share and play unsigned videos - those would get low-trust warnings[1] (as they should, just like there is an "underclass" with no cert for their site). This wouldn't take away anything from todays' tech, only adds attestation for person/org behind videos they would like to mark as "official".

1. (edit) It occurred to me that some people may wish to manage the public keys independent of (say, Apple) and they could distribute via keybase or key-signing parties, so they actually don't have to suffer low-trust warnings. Now that I think of it, instead of merely signing streams, they could be signed and encrypted using recipients PK for 1:1 transmissions. Obviously law enforcement won't be a fan
This is encouraging. If you're going to work on artificial general intelligence, a reasonable context in which to work on it is game NPCs. They have to operate in a world, interact with others, survive, and accomplish goals. Simulator technology is now good enough that you can do quite realistic worlds. Imagine The Sims, with a lot more internal smarts and real physics, as a base for work.

Robotics has the same issues, but you spend all your time fussing with the mechanical machinery. Carmack is a game developer; he can easily connect whatever he's doing to some kind of game engine.

(Back in the 1990s, I was headed in that direction, got stuck because physics engines were no good, made some progress on physics engines, and sold off that technology. Never got back to the AI part. I'd been headed in a direction we now think is a dead end, anyway. I was trying to use adaptive model-based control as a form of machine learning. You observe a black box's inputs and outputs and try to predict the black box. The internal model has delays, multipliers, integrators, and such. All of these have tuning parameters. You try to guess at the internal model, tune it, see what it gets wrong, try some permutations of the model, keep the winners, dump the losers, repeat. It turns out that the road to machine learning is a huge number of dumb nodes, not a small number of complicated ones. Oh well.)
> He invented modern graphics as a practical problem by himself as the sole researcher

That is a ridiculous exaggeration. Carmack was clever enough to gain ~1 year advantage in performance over his competitors for the Doom engine, using Binary Space Partitioning, which was first applied to 3D graphics in 1969, before he was born. The Quake engine got a significant performance boost from Michael Abrash, who is a specialist in code optimization.
> alternating between running on your feet and then running on your hands

I mean, this is how most fast-running mammals run (if you interpret "hands" to mean "front feet").
Many people probably don't know that people fled to Venice to escape the Goths. Since then its charm has been open to all, even those without charm. (We call them trogs.) Many of us understand your loss, and hope that MOSE will bring relief from these miseries.
Google to offer personal banking accounts in partnership with Citigroup
It's hidden until you click the 'A' icon. What's the major problem here? It doesn't take up any extra space and isn't visible unless you actively open the feature.
> Is nuclear propulsion for ships a viable option?

Yes. There are half a dozen countries with mature viable nuclear naval propulsion technology, another half dozen in development. Hundreds of vessels already built.

The fuel cell technology is several decades away from being available to power ships, and we don't have decades to decarbonize the economy. The Arctic ocean is gonna be totally melted for the first time in human history in about a decade or so, and from there on the feedback loops are gonna make the race against global warming even more hopeless than it already is.

Go nuclear.
Correct google keeps two separate cookies one for ads and one for everything else. This was part of the agreement with the FTC when they bought Double Click. They are prohibited from joining those two cookies by that agreement.
Why would there be less supply? Because the drivers won't have the burden of payroll taxes or workers compensation?

Costs may go up, but they could very well go down--economies of scale in accounting, payroll, etc. Even if they go up, the real question is by how much, and the portion that would be passed on to customers; depending on elasticities of the supply and demand curves, some of it might be borne by the trucking companies themselves.

And then there's the elephant in the room: the presumption that the ABC test would necessarily rope in all independent truckers and completely destroy the business model. There's an outside chance that some segment of "independent" truckers--the kind driving the narrative--with multiple, varied customers and schedules of their choosing will remain as independent contractors, especially if they travel interstate.

More likely they'll have significant latitude in being able to incorporate themselves, so long as their business entity rigorously handles payroll taxes, insurance, etc. Because those things are trivial to automate--and I'd bet there's at least one startup founder on HN providing and bundling these services--the impact might prove minimal in the long haul. Independent contractors are supposed to be managing these things by themselves, anyhow; otherwise we're simply defending scofflaws.

The new test for independent contractors may turn out to be a bad idea, but it's not so obviously bad on its surface that we can make sweeping claims irrespective of context. Remember, UPS has more revenue and better profits than FedEx, even though UPS relies on unionized, employee truckers while FedEx flounders with their independent contractor model.

And the new test originated in court in response to legitimate concerns with the ride-sharing model. If it makes sense there, maybe it's worthwhile to keep an open mind about its salience in the trucking industry. Is independent trucking dead in Massachusetts; did trucking costs rise? Massachusetts has had a similar test since the 1990s and an identical test since 2004. I can't find hard data, just a few court cases (suggesting litigation might be minimal) and hyperbolic reporting by industry, bereft of revenue numbers.
Does the world really need another retro "IDE" (especially one written in Python).

Just use VIM, NeoVIM, or Emacs.