skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In France, by law hourly employees get medical insurance, a certain amount of paid sick leave, unemployment insurance and also contribute to a pension plan. These benefits are partially paid for by the worker and partially paid for by the employer. Hourly workers must also be paid at least a minimum net wage (after deductions for benefits), currently 7.82 euros per hour.

Contract workers pay for their benefits themselves. They’re legally required to pay into the national health insurance plan and to make payments into a pension plan, but the rest is optional. There is no required minimum wage.

Whether it’s better to work as an hourly worker or as a contract worker essentially depends on how much you’re making in each case.
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Probably not a big deal? The fed still thinks weed is illegal and if customs is doing their job, above-board imports won't be permitted. The existing smuggling industry is probably already cornered by cartels and don't pay much for their supply anyway.
We've banned this account. Posting like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
I love Zachtronics games. I’m one of those weird people who like debugging fictional software. Still weird though!
Coronavirus looks like it might give American millennials everything they were hoping to get from Bernie.

A virus which for young people just means they stay inside for a couple weeks, while simultaneously triggering a massive transfer of wealth from rich old people to younger people and the government (inheritance, taxes) , frees up substantial amounts of housing, reduces the social security deficit and replaces years or decades of medical care costs with a trivial temporary spike.

This virus is looking like a dream scenario for left-wing / liberal ideologies and people who have been craving 'Creative Destruction' of the current system. While there is an initial emotional response that it feels bad to see the upside in some elderly people losing the last few years of their life, ethically it seems no different or maybe preferable to losing years of labor to taxation to accomplish the same outcomes.
There are several pages that does this, another one is huffington post. I just don't visit them as I assume what they're doing is hostile to the users.

I'm in the EEA (almost EU) for reference. GDPR is valid here as well.
> they'll almost certainly call a local company and ask for a cab to be sent over

In my experience they just step outside and wave one down.
I was just trying to get a release candidate of PowerShell 7 working on macOS and Windows yesterday. It was a frustrating experience, because many essential keybindings are broken out of the box on macOS (Terminal.app, iTerm2) and Windows (using the new Windows Terminal). For example: ctrl-space is the usual shortcut to trigger menu completion, doesn't work.

It's not difficult to make custom keybindings once you figure this out, but many people's first encounter with PowerShell is going to be missing some critical UX features. Not a great situation.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/issues/639
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/879
It would be a valuable experience for you and the health of Twitter, though.
Sure, that's entirely possible.

I'm curious to know if you knew from the moment of your birth that you should look at the operator table in this case, or if you learned that mitigation on a particular day. If the latter, what might you have done before you learned that?
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Where, in France? Considering they are employees in the Benelux I find that implausible. Especially considering that the OP is about a French court saying that Uber was just trying to find a loophole so they wouldn't have to treat their employees like any normal taxi company.
Sorry, it's my bad that people start comparing my service with Trello. In a nutshell, we are more about data organization and Kanban is a small feature that is baked in.
I've been programming for over 20 years primarily in languages in which this can nominally happen, and I think I've literally never seen it happen. I've been in situations where I expected a method and it was missing (e.g., Python code expecting a vaguely-file-like object to have seek, receives a socket), but that's the closest to this sort of thing I think I can say I've come. I've never had a case where I called a method that I expected to be one sort of thing, and got a method that was actually a completely different thing.

I used to worry about this sort of thing, but now I think that any language designer making a new language should just consider it a non-issue. If you happen to make it impossible for some other reason, sure, cool, I guess, but don't put even a little bit of effort into worrying about this case.

(Note I'm not saying it can't happen, or even be bad if it did. I'm sure it's happened to some people, and of that set, I'm sure there must be at least one person with a story of how it went really badly wrong somehow. I'm just saying that compared to the sorts of issues that affect every programmer in your language every day, worrying about this edge case is not productive. If this is your biggest problem in your language, or even fits into the top 100, please let me know about your surprisingly perfect language as I am very interested in using it.)
Earth Day is about to turn 50 years old. Is it time for a new vision?
> The question of whether the deregulation will do anything at all is still open to be seen.

Because not all variables are well-defined and outcomes known is not a reason to do nothing. You don't always just wait until you're neck deep in the consequences to begin considering the solving it.

If there's a well-established tendency for a problem to occur, it's prudent to consider measures that may prevent it and/or have contingencies ready for such events. Especially when there is documented historical precedent AND potential solutions.

Moreso when it is regarding a resource that having reasonable access to can have very real, material effects on people's lives. The obvious examples being clean water, electricity, and various means of communication, reliably and affordably available. It's hardly a discussion at this point as to whether internet access is one of those resources, so it seems entirely acceptable to risk overshooting on protecting access.
The truck will be collecting storing and probably uploading a huge amount of evidence from many kinds of sensors during such a heist, so good luck getting away with that. Would make for a good Ocean's movie.
> Then what? You have 20 palettes of dog chew toys or asian pears....? Some of the goods have serial/tracking numbers.

Your comment made me laugh. Very true. Besides the fact that there is no black market for 20 palettes of dog chew and asian pears, the other problem is that unless you successfully steal a few highly valuable items, you would need one or multiple trucks to carry what you've stolen from that semi. You probably don't want to use the semi you just stopped, because it could have multiple GPS trackers onboard.

If you knew that you were stopping a truck full of laptops, then maybe it would be worth it somehow, but as you pointed out, laptops have serial numbers... And then what, you load a few hundred laptops into a van, but your van is now "burned". It's been photographed and you need to dump it somewhere, further complicating your operation.

Then, I don't know, it seems to me like people just love to come up with imaginary reasons why self-driving cars/trucks can't work. They seem to fail to realize that, well, we can come up with even better safety measures. You could make your automated truck very hard to open. It doesn't need to have a lock that can be opened by a human with a physical key. It can have an electronic lock inside the door, shielded behind a 5mm thick steel plate, that's completely invisible from the outside.

You could also install a remote-controlled drone on top of the truck (value < $1000). The truck has cameras all around that record continuously, and as soon as the truck gets stopped (or even slightly before), it phones home. A remote operator sees everything the cameras saw. The thieves waste precious time opening and unloading the truck, and just when they're about to take off, the remote controlled drone starts up and follows them around for as long as its batteries will allow (~10-20 minutes), informing the authorities as to their position.

If robberies of automated trucks became rampant, I'm pretty sure we could come up with many ways to mitigate the problem. I mean, heck, we could even install pepper sprayers around the truck. But the robbers can just wear full-face masks, you say. Sure they can, but those masks aren't foolproof, and it's an additional piece of logistics they need to deal with.
I’ve been both a contractor directly for companies, and contracted through contracting companies (being an employee for a contracting company is usually called being a consultant, which I’ve also been). In either case I would not assume that I could arbitrarily sub-contract my work out to others.
It's just easier to trick people and prey on psychological triggers than it is to make totally truthful ads and high quality, reliable products and services.
I'm not sure why everyone is so surprised. Part of Google's monetization model is to offer developer-friendly software for free, then charge a small fee once it crosses the headache-to-replace threshold.
For comparison, running a HA master node in London on n1-standard-1 will set you back ~93 dollars per month. On top of that obviously you'd be figuring out how Kubernetes works, what the best configuration is among other things. I don't agree with the blatant bait and switch, but it still works out way better.
How does versioning differ based on a 1:1 or a 1:N, or a N:N?

It doesn't.

No matter how few or many dependencies you have, when they are updated, the dependent system must either update or not update.

There is nothing new in regards to versioning of dependencies. It has always been hard to do, and with microservices the versioning story has not all of a sudden improved.

What people that are new to versioning, seen from a somewhat autonomous systems perspective, this is something you must have a strategy for.
Ads and security are both extremely important to Twitter. It's hard to imagine any product concern being more important than those two, other than perhaps uptime.
DragonFly BSD 5.8 Released
Look at Vultr too. My last 2 support tickets were responded to within 2 minutes and solved within 10 minutes. Their support has always been good, but unlike almost all other companies, it seems to get better as they grow.

I run a Kubernetes cluster on Vultr and I haven't had any problems.
(Great, a Campanulaceae that looks like a mix between a Caricaceae and an Apocynaceae... damn you, mother nature)
Medallions are a US permit, this article is about a ruling in France.
More than one in four commuters has fecal bacteria on their hands (2006)
In that case I guess you probably shouldn't be trying to keep score in regards to your vice.
Related, from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17170593

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978769

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667755

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9947237

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492835
How would you query for a path or cycle of arbitrary length in GraphQL?
This is quite frequent in countries of the ex-soviet block. Most of the language classes we had were about rote memorization and recall of words without context.
> people don't rob 18 wheelers

Haven't you seen the documentary, The Fast and the Furious (2001)?
Having a CoC ensures moderator actions (bans, etc) are applied evenly when communities grow so large, they need multiple moderators.

People that violate CoCs probably don't care to read them anyways, but I don't think that's the primary purpose of such a document.

I would speculate the author of "No Code of Conduct" hasn't hasn't ever had to confront the complexities of moderating a large group of people.
Thank you for this. I am prescribed 50mg Elvanse and feel slightly worried about its long term effects - and also feel its effectiveness decreasing. I don't know where this ends. I don't want to keep increasing the dose, but without it I'm very ineffective.
If Waymo is successful, there are potentially massive impacts to the population of the US. Trucking is a major industry.

The Luddites weren't mad about the advancement of technology, they didn't destroy looms out of religious or anti-technological ideals. Many of them were skilled loom operators. They were squeezed out of their jobs by the race to the bottom, and they were angry that there wasn't any consideration for the paradigm shift they were experiencing.

If Waymo turns trucking into an automated business (or even just reduces the number of humans needed to haul cargo), we could be in for a similar situation. I wonder what Waymo is doing to help support the existing drivers, regulating how we should care for the many millions of humans this could impact, etc.

I believe automated vehicles will someday be safer and more desirable, but we need to ensure that they aren't also the villains in the disenfranchisement of millions of people.
Could it be that they're just bogged down in fire fighting and paying off the tech debt accumulated over years?
(Genuine question, as someone who has never worked in >50 eng company, I always wonder how those companies tackle stuff like this.)
Workload identity is a GCP-specific beta feature for mapping to GCP IAM, right?
Beige Book – March 2020
Why would they want to police it? Surely Twitter is perfectly fine with you posting screenshots of things of interest (obviously within obscenity and legal restrictions).
They are reinvesting a lot.
No Gitlab ?
The world produces more than enough food to feed everyone so this isn't a simple zero sum game. Individuals deciding to grow khat are, in theory, exchanging their grown goods for food to feed themselves (or else they are quite poor at planning for the future). Let's say the khat grower switched to corn, now the farmer just has a bunch of corn - does this somehow benefit his starving neighbors? If he can afford to share his corn with his neighbors he could afford to share even more food when growing khat.

So the question here isn't whether a farmer should grow khat or corn and how that effects the food supply - it's whether land distribution, the opportunity to chose what to farm, is distributed in a fair enough manner that everyone has the opportunity to avoid starvation.

It is extremely likely that a corrupt country doesn't have a decent allocation of land and has favored designating a lot of land to specific influential people, but whether those people grow khat or corn doesn't matter at all except in terms of further securing their influence.

If it's more lucrative to grow cannabis than growing cannabis means you've produced more food - the only issues arise when the supply of food is artificially limited (for instance due to import sanctions) and the value of that cannabis isn't convertible into food - in this scenario, then, the value of cannabis would tank and it'd become nearly worthless - or we'd have a scenario of uneven enforcement where an external to the country entity (like a drug cartel) is funding the farming and removing the product from the local market for re-sale elsewhere where the value hasn't tanked and, in this scenario, the best response is for the government to legalize the substance so that the market can equalize the value of the cash crop toward an actual value in terms of food.

Honestly, most of these weird market effects is because the US absolutely hates drug production and has a "war on drugs" that they actively export... All while constantly consuming truckloads of the stuff. If things were legalized in the US a lot of these problems would just naturally correct themselves - barring that legalizing them overseas removes a lot of the power that cartels have. This is since, if the product is illegal, only the large criminal organizations can afford the distribution network - if it's legal then a drug cartel can just purchase the drugs on an open market and allow farmers to individually make the choice of which crop to grow without worrying about people with guns.
I agree, but I'd like to see some practical advice for alternatives, especially from a blog that has a docker focus.
Why would the USA not be corrupt just because it's a powerful nation? It covertly surveils its entire population and can strip citizens of their rights if they think they're terrorists. If anything, their power just makes the corruption worse.
> it is just hard to get onboard with making Anki cards for myself

I just scraped some info from various sources, and used a bit of text processing to clean it up and get it into the semicolon-separated format for import into Anki.

No brainer.

You don't want to be making large numbers of Anki cards using its unwieldy UI.

> in making the card i've already internalized it

When you're making a new card, it may feel like you have it internalized, but that's only for a half hour or so. It's just short-term memory.
yes, UBI's first- and second-order effects are designed to corral the citizenry into more control and dependency on the elite, rather than the stated intent of providing security and freedom.

besides, it's just as straightforward to offer every citizen a part-time job with the government that's worth $1000/mo and avoid most of its unintended consequences.

i would have supported yang more had he not staked his whole campaign on UBI, as he'd otherwise made some sensible arguments.
You are overrating how far truck drivers would go to resist a robbery. That's not their job, and the load is insured - even if a driver is there, they're not going to do anything to stop you.
https://runnable.com/preview-environments/

Runnable has the same offering, now bought out by mulesoft.

They charged per user.
I appreciate that. Thanks for being available on hackernews and helping relay feedback.
> What exactly are these people doing all day?

Maintaining the infrastructure needed to deliver ads that are targeted based on real-time event streams collected from users' interaction with the website and app. Stuff like that.

That's my guess, anyway. It's the kind of thing that can keep a lot of developers very busy, but not something they'll be talking about much in public.
Python's default (stop and raise the exception in the caller) is almost always what you want. A stack of ten function calls should not have ten try blocks; that's a waste of effort and very hard to read.
Start with 7 spoons. Or 8. It doesn't really matter because you just need something to start with, then you adjust it if it's too little (you had more energy after running out of spoons) or too many (you ran out of energy but still had spoons left).

It's up to you what you spend spoons on. If you find that deciding what to eat is mentally costly, then yes, spend a spoon. Or set a habit to not make decisions about food and eat the same thing for lunch.
But is any of this really stuff that should take 1000 engineers to build? Tweet length? GIFs?

I don't question that those engineers are working hard. I'm sure they're not sitting around twiddling their thumbs. And I don't question that there aren't some genuinely hard, complicated problems to solve at Twitter, particularly around scaling and security. But from a structural perspective, I do still kind of wonder if companies the size of Twitter and Facebook aren't just an extended, very public example of Brooks's Law.

Anecdotally, I've been in large teams and small teams and I work equally hard in both environments. But even with the same amount of work, somehow, more stuff gets done and more products get shipped from the smaller teams.
Protection from outgoing is the same as protection from incoming if you don’t look at it only from your own perspective, right?
Rent or buy, the issue is that if a harvester breaks down in the field
it could be 3 ~4 days before a technician gets to the field, diagnoses
and has to order a part, wait for said part and come back to your field to
replace it. That machine being down for two weeks during harvest could
mean the farmer losing a whole lot of money.
An edit button should only be allowed if it removed all Likes/Retweets/Comments a tweet had. And at that point, what's the point
This isn't 4chan. Troll accounts aren't welcome here.
Wait, how? If it's on the mask wouldn't it be on the face if the mask wasn't there? What process puts viruses on masks but not faces?
3ish? Haven't actually kept meticulous records but the workload is a matter of circumstance.
>Taxis pick up at taxi ranks or off the street.

'Radio' calls and calls they've privately arranged with customers as well.

>Taxis have regulations set by an organisation.

That would be local by-law in most cases.

>Taxis (in most places) have rules that say they must take the most efficient route.

You can't intentionally ripoff customers but the fastest route and the cheapest are often different. You can take whatever route you want as long as the customer is cool with it.

>In most places, taxis aren't allowed to refuse a customer based on destination.

You absolutely can refuse a customer as long as it's not descriminatory, like most other businesses.

>Does that mean that a taxi driver is an employee?

Some drivers are employees, some are best compared to franchisees and others are totally independent.
Trucking will go the same way - it is far more efficient (and allows you to grow faster), therefore market pressure will drive every trucking company to autonomous.
Why say "ride sharing"? It's not sharing a ride. You can't use uber to basically organise carpooling. It's buying a ride.
> I should also point out that most people in the US face similar conditions to those in Wuhan. The extent of infection is not known, and therefore protective measures are not in place. We have been actively discouraged from "buying masks" and told that they are ineffective.

Not exactly. I'm hopeful that differences between the typical American lifestyle and the typical Chinese lifestyle will help make the epidemic less severe in the US.

Americans are more "spread out" than Chinese: we often drive personal cars instead of taking public transit; our homes are freestanding with more private space per person; our public spaces are often less crowded, etc. I think open offices are even more common in China. Hopefully that extra distance will help.
Awesome! This reminds me of something similar I built, called Bracket Based Decision Making!

Site here: https://bracket-based-decision-making.firebaseapp.com/
Code here: https://github.com/weaversam8/bracket-based-decision-making
Nope. Probably about 50% coding.
Life isn't like a movie. Anyone who has the knowledge (of the vehicle and its surveillance systems, the schedule, the cargo onboard...) and the capability (skills and resources) to pull off what you're suggesting has plenty of lucrative legal opportunities. And any cargo load valuable enough to make a Hollywood-style heist actually worthwhile would be transported by more secure means.
A lot hinges on whether one considers level 4 or level 5 to be "self-driving".

I wouldn't want to own a car without a steering wheel, sometimes you have to do weird stuff like park on a specific patch of grass at a rural wedding and it's going to be easier to do that myself than try and convince a robot.

But a car that can a) handle 'most' driving for some value of 'most' and can b) safely hand over or come to a stop under basically all circumstances including a sleeping driver? That's actually a much simpler task and it's a very useful vehicle. I would want one of those even if I lived somewhere where road conditions were such that I had to steer it myself on a daily basis.

Like in Arizona, once you got to paved road you could enter an address in Phoenix and kick back in actual safety, without having to worry about taking over at a moment's notice. I think that's achievable in 10-20 years, and it could be less.