skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cannot legally own slaves, even if both parties are consenting adults. So clearly, your premise is flawed: there are absolutely things that the government can determine to be illegal. In California, this includes exploitative labor relationships (again, even if both parties consent to the agreement).

If someone wants to sell themselves into slavery, I say let them (though perhaps there should be an exception if they're not of sound mind). Or alternatively, maybe slavery is just the degenerate case that removes your agency, and should be disallowed on that basis.

I challenge your premise that it's possible to consider a labor relationship exploitative if both parties voluntarily enter into it.

> No, they got large enough by ignoring the law.

Sure, but I think this is unrelated to my point. I still contend that any voluntary agreements should be allowed, with size of company involved having no bearing on the matter.
> before accepting that the UX introduced by Chrome when it was released was superior

Both UX are still below Old Opera. Firefox is closer but still falls short.
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Are you able to briefly summarize the ideas presented in it? "Go read $book" sort of ends the conversation otherwise.
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Centralized moderation at scale is impossible to do for the same reason that centralized planning of economy is impossible to do: which is that goals, knowledge and resources are not known to the centralized authority that is supposed to handle the task.

But it is possible to give everyone tools to modereate for themeselves https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderati...
I have never used Uber so I'm a bit ignorant. What is so bad about a driver not wanting to pick up? Wont it just keep searching for the next one. It is not really different than if there for one reason or another no drivers are available nearby?
Something that helped me when learning, if you make even one character mistake at the end of a word while touch typing delete the whole word with CTRL+BACKSPACE and rewrite it as many times as it takes to get it correct. If you want to be more strict with yourself delete several words and start from there.
I've always found it fascinating that both speaker identification and speech recognition use MFCCs (which I discovered when talking with someone who had worked on speaker identification for their PhD):

* In the case of speaker identification, you don't care about what is being said; you care about who is saying it.

* In the case of speech recognition, you don't care about who is speaking; you want to know what is being said.

That both tasks use the same underlying features is very surprising to me. I imagine that it points to something very powerful about the mapping of the mel scale to psychoacoustics, but I'd be interested to hear other theories about why it shakes out that way, especially given that the research on the mel scale has been frequently criticized.
The Antichrists in the Church
Isn't that exactly the point? It's just extended a little, with "legitimate hobbies" and "normal socializing" not available. So take that away and then they are domesticated livestock? If you don't have the ability to do something with your time outside of your normal environment, that is definitely an indicator that something is really off. There is SOOOO much you can do. I wouldn't even know where to start even if I didn't have my job and was locked in a room.
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Firefox made the right call, they were never going to succeed against Android. Looking at statcounter, Kai has not been able to resist it either, dropping from somewhere over 4% to under 1%, while Android sits at over 95%.
Any interest in helping build a collaborative GPT-3 prompt response dataset?
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-08-12-ai-dungeon-scraper/

We seeded a collaborative GPT-3 prompt/response dataset and open sourced the scraper we used. We were wondering if this community would have any interest in helping out with it. Let us know what you think.
It is a competition, so everyone wants to be a winner. I have never found a real competitor that is avoiding to be leader of the competition.
It's clear to me that Prong B of AB5 is broken and it's not fixable, except by arbitrary exemptions galore. Rather than admitting this, the state seems hellbent on shoehorning this law into something politically motivated against gig companies.

All the actions on the state's part points to bad faith.
> But how do you reconcile with things like this. Free speech is better, but how much blood is worth it.

I mean, the only possible answer a free speech absolutist can honestly give is "as much as necessary."

As with any absolutist position, one cannot permit valuing human life over the ideal. Once you do otherwise, you're a relativist, and the ideal is diminished.

And let's be fair - even most self-described free speech absolutists are relativists at heart.
Well I work two jobs plus consulting, so it's like 30-35 hrs/job if that works!

I agree RE: consumerism. I save / invest most of my money and spend it on services like you (though I cook most of my meals since it's a hobby of mine; but same idea with a nanny, housekeeper, etc). I wear mostly free clothing from vendors and my suits (such that I need them) are all from Indochino; I drive a 12 year old used SUV around and live in a modest townhome in a not-great area of my city.

I have "enough." I enjoy work, a lot. I get the feeling a lot of people don't like working, or like their job, or something. It's not a chore. 70 hours a week producing and working is indeed a hell of a lot of fun. Especially for those years when it was gambling... but hey, what I do now is still almost as fun.

EDIT: Well, I have enough for me. Not for my family. To retire at age 40 requires a hell of a lot more money than I have now for obvious reasons, even if I don't plan on giving my kids a ton of money to live off of.
Yes and no. Kayaking needs transport to a body of water. Biking is okay, but some people find it hard to breathe with a mask on while biking. Musical instruments work if you have a private residence and already know how to play. If you don't many people prefer learning from a tutor.

Of course there are some things we can do by ourselves, but not everyone is made that way. Lots and lots of people would rather while time away. "Dumb" by Nirvana captures this pretty well.
1.3 billion Android devices sold last year worldwide.
While a good metaphor it still misses out easy identification. Women are often easily identifiable as such.
Take that $25000 and strap it to the front of your chest...
Simon Cowell Did Not Fall Off an E-Bike
However, if company A is in a free market industry they would not be able to sustain that 3$/hr.

Uber has been able to sustain their policies for close to 10 years now. Its pretty clear that drivers are being paid an amount close to their actual value. If they werent, they would be working for some other job.
I really don't like news organizations updating article content to this extent. Changing the title and dramatically editing content after publishing.

I'd much rather see a link to a followup article than editing after publish. Some "news" sites do some really unscrupulous things this way.
Wait, you can use Barkeepers Friend in the dishwasher?

I also love that stuff, but didn't know it could be used that way.
Everything is more important than that... until it's not. People don't know what they really care about until their assumptions are unchecked. When nobody HAS to use their phone for certain online actions, those actions likely won't be optimized for mobile, and people will care much more about popup tooltips, navigation, color scheme, logos and branding, extra random reporting, etc. Once people are forced to use mobile and it's not a couple minute experience once every week or month, then page load speed (and initial page payload size for SPA) become very important to those people.
The market reality is that the source of the chips can vanish at any time due to political reason, that's not a market problem anymore, it's now a political problem.
I really don't understand why people are so afraid to let the free market decide what works and what doesn't. Government intervention very often leads to poor outcomes.
If some guy sitting next to you on the train reached over and grabbed onto your junk, and then just stared at you with a smile...do you think you would be in the wrong to punch them instead of asking them to let go?

Once you move to physical assault, you lose the defense of "you should have just asked me not to do that!"
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Creators Exit Netflix Live-Action Series Adaptation
I don't get where the logical disconnect is happening. Or maybe it's just an industry trend that isn't explicitly addressed.

Comments here say that silicon engineering is one of the most difficult things that you need very specific education for. Yet salaries are flat and/or not very impressive for that education level, in this industry.

That says to me that there's a surplus of people interested in such jobs, or the current job market shrank compared to what used to be required to innovate and operate all these fabs.

And if there is a surplus of labor, it's cheap for anyone, not just China, to siphon off willing talent.

Or am I missing something?
Ask HN: Trouble focusing on improving outside of job
Fortunately, after a 6-month bout of unemployment after leaving a BigCo (on neutral terms that I could not control) I luckily landed a job at a fantastic startup in NYC in February. Given the current circumstances I cannot express how thankful I am to currently be employed in an org that supports me.

However, ADHD and covid WFH aside I'm having a lot of trouble gaining the energy or focus to continue improving as a developer. During my job search I was mostly studying for interviews which didn't really improve my generalist dev skills.

I primarily work in elixir but have side-project aspirations in JS and react. I'm scared now, because my skills seem to be growing slowly at work but otherwise be stuck in "tutorial hell" as is sometimes discussed elsewhere on HN.

I have the chops but I think my approach to side-projects / improving has just been too scattered.

I cannot emphasize how scared I am that I will become a complacent engineer that doesn't in time either start their own company or continue to move up the latter.

For context, I'm two years out of school.

Any help is appreciated. The startup I work for is also actively looking for React and Elixir devs - more than happy to make introductions.
Because the term freedom usually means freedom from something (government, corporations, etc.). However, the original article seems to confuse this with what is traditionally called liberty (the freedom to do as you please).

Your restated question doesn't pick up on this, you are just stating how someones liberty to do as they please interferes with your ability to do as you please on your property in a simpler format. No one is being freed from the other.
> Gutting the Servo team makes me wonder if management is going to move the rendering engine from Gecko to Blink.

Not happening.
4chan is one of the most popular websites out there, clearly that is a sign that people do want that freedom. What for me is even more shocking is that young people browse the boards in public and it's a mainstream discussion.
The average apartment in Taipei costs ~$620,000 USD.

Given that you need to go to school for ten years, and work like a dog, 50-60K is not a great wage for that environment.
Nothing different here from the patriotic sentiment in America. One should not be so surprised with something that is already so common in a particular Western country.
> Nobody - no group, movement, person, or authority owns the truth.

Putting truth itself on a pedestal doesn't really address the problem.

The problem is people are motivated by things other than a good standard of truth most of the time. Social media provides a medium where it is easy for emotion can rule over reason and advertisers profit off of it.

> If people use the internet to say the most outrageous things then do be it.

Let's say everyone online starts calling you a pedophile because a soon-to-be-ex-wife of yours decided to try to cause you harm. What then? Is posting your address next also free speech?

The issue is not the truth, or access to it, but the fact we have large numbers of people that act on things less than the truth and a culture/economy that seems to perpetuate that for those who aren't interested. Putting these people in the same network as people who really want to talk about and debate ideas isn't working.

There are standards of truth but people that aren't ruled by reason won't obey them. They'll go with their gut, or what their friends say, or what they think they should say to impress their peers, or what everyone else is doing. For people who over their lives have been concerned more with survival or overcoming trauma than a real exchange of knowledge or ideas, often these strategies work well.
US employment rate dropped from 61.1% to 51.3%. So, around 17% of the working population lost their jobs. However, that includes many people outside of direct customer facing jobs.
If someone is going to say human beings are more than just workers it would be helpful to say exactly what else they can be that doesn't involve work.
I was laid off and had 10 years of tenure. Salary, bonus, and benefits amounted to a TC of around 300

Mozilla’s layoffs were to get rid of the highly paid engineers, IMO. We have new talent coming in fresh and loose for a bunch less.

We also have a lot of cash in the bank. Mozilla is wealthy. CFO was asked to increase runway.
The issue is not what people prefer to live in. The issue is what owners of SFHs prefer to have next to them.
The Daemon/Freedom novels have an original solution for that

An highly advanced non-conscious AI takes over everything

Then people can rate each other. And gain experience levels like in a mmorpg. And then people work to improve their rating and levels

Hopefully the AI is smart enough to prevent fraudulent ratings.
You might not want to pop the emergency hatch when you're surrounded by vacuum.
An ad-hoc sales tactic from 1993 that involves pretending to be a male stripper to get attention for your software product, might not be all that viable in 2020.
Andrew Ng – What is the most important problem the AI community should work on?
For the uninformed, assault is "an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact."[0]

[0] https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Assault
Marc Andreessen's comments on raising too much / not enough ring true here.

See https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part6.html.
Show HN: Faceoffus.com: easily remove faces from photos before sharing
I wanted an easy way to quickly remove faces from my photos and I was learning about the different options for AI inside the browser. FaceOffUs.com analyzes a photo inside the browser, makes no network connections, and then adds a red dot over all faces. It's completely in browser and you can use it in airplane mode. No Google/Facebook tracking. Enjoy!
Hatch in the tube, not the car.
A little meta, but can anybody explain why recipe articles like this (but usually food) spend so long waffling on about tangential "oh we can't afford to bit run the dishwasher 24/7" nonsense, and not just get stuck in?

Is there some technical advantage to padding it out, or do they just like to see their own words?
Thanks! Made it quick from scratch with Express/Stylus. The database is Airtable. The animations are SVGs with some CSS.
Implemented in 1.13.0. Update is pending review from the webstores.
What impact does this have on the classification of drivers? When Uber takes $10 from a passenger for a ride, and contracts out a driver to transport the passenger for $8 then Uber has a booking for $10 and an expense of $8 for contracting out that ride. This doesn't change the fact that the driver is a contractor who sets their own hours and can drive for competitors.

Yes, Uber and Lyft are involved in providing transportation services but their involvement is in connecting customers with transportation providers. Calling Uber and Lyft taxi companies makes about as much sense as calling an Expedia an airline. Expedia provides air transport, but through reselling the services of airline companies like Delta or Alaska. Uber and Lyft provide transport by reselling the services of independent contractors. Uber and Lyft are taxi companies as much as Expedia is an airline: they're not.
This article sounds to me like a lot of hand-wringing and complaining that people are thinking for themselves and talking amongst themselves rather than worshipping at the ivory tower.

In other words, music to my ears.
> I would sit and watch my friends discuss the show (who hadn't read the books) and I would be positively gleeful knowing that I knew more than them. It was like I possessed secret insider knowledge they all craved.

That doesn't explain why they would share that conspiracy with the masses. Doesn't it mean their insider knowledge won't be special anymore?

If I had insider trade knowledge, I wouldn't share it on reddit or well anywhere.
> Its important to not that GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler received far, far, far more resources in the 2008-2012 timeframe and most of that has unlike Tesla not been payed back

Most has not been paid back? What figures are you using for this? My understanding is that the bailout was ~$80bn, but the final cost to the government was approximately $9bn.

When people complain about Tesla being taxpayer funded, they're generally referring to EV incentives, not the DoE loan. Tesla has indeed been supported quite a lot in that way.

But even if you value the environment at $0, other car manufacturers are going to benefit just as much from at least the FITC, so the argument is transient at best.
Some level of coordinated collective action is required. It is clear that our local choices have global impact.

The trick is finding mutually beneficial and agreed-upon strategies for getting along with one another.

Much of the trouble in the United States can be traced to Congress abdicating its responsibilities (under presidents of both parties). As voters, we are responsible for that failure. November is coming soon; it is an opportunity to choose those representatives who will choose the right thing over the expedient thing when the choice is required.
> KDE e.V does not fund any development. It's just there to help with legal matters, organizing conferences, sprints etc. KDE's development is primarily by volunteers and a handful of developers paid by various interested companies.

Right - my question is what would happen if Firefox development moved to basically the same model. A sibling comment to yours claims 50 full timers isn't enough to develop a browser, so maybe it wouldn't work.
Dara: we need to take better care of gig workers

Also Dara: if you force us to pay our gig workers more we’ll pull out of your market.
play with SwiftUI!
Others have said this in various forms here, but I don't think this is really a problem because the same logic that applies to multi-family homes applies to other aspects of your life, like a workshop or garden.

I have a garden at home, and I love it, but I miss my old apartment where I had to rent a community garden plot, and therefore got to know the community while I gardened. If I live in a co-op housing project and I'm a bit older and can't do repair work on my house, I have a neighbor who can do that for me. If I want a wood shop but wouldn't be able to afford a house big enough to build one even if I can afford to buy my own house, I can get together with a bunch of other people in my community and build that too, pooling resources and owning it jointly. If the internet options in my neighborhood are terrible (ie. I live in a place where my options are AT&T which goes out once a day and wants to charge me $100 before they'll even talk to me about it or Spectrum where I've gotten literally half of the advertised speed and just been told "sorry, our copper isn't very good in that area"), then the tech-knowledgeable neighbors can spin up a local wireless ISP and we can all share a bit of bandwidth depending on what we can chip in and have more reliable, faster, internet for everyone, etc. All of this makes me get to know the people in those communities, fostering neighborly cooperation and understanding. This is why any business I ever start will be a co-op, collective, or some similar model: everyone gets what they want cheaper than if they do it individually, and it builds community at the same time.

I sometimes think that the richer you are the harder it is to build real community because no one has to work together towards a common goal. Most (not all, of course) of the rich people I know if they host a party will have the single house that's hosting grill/buy beer and get catering and don't know their neighbors very well (or at all, in most cases). In a community I used to be a part of where most people weren't as privileged as me and didn't have great tech jobs, we'd all get together and throw a pot luck, each person contributing what they could and everyone knew each other because we'd had to work so much more closely to make the event happen.

TL;DR support your local co-ops and the co-op economy. Democratically run community owned businesses are hard, but well worth the effort.
Techdirt doesn't sound like a small website, so presumably it generates quite some money for Google.

How hard it is to gate algorithmic decision making by (sum_of_ad_money_from_customer(x) > SOME_AMOUNT) goto human_review;
I did only deactivate my account. I followed up on Twitter, and on a support thread and requested my account be fully deleted, and they didn't get back to me on either request.
“ His 1993 book Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (published by the University of Chicago Press; expanded in 2013) defends free speech and robust criticism, even when it is racist or sexist and even when it hurts.”

From the authors Website. Simple to Google - it has been reprinted Ted countless times and is very popular since being published in the early/mid 1990’s.
Executive Order on Evictions Likely Won’t Prevent Any Evictions
Prediction...employers are going to have to start paying for or subsidizing home internet, with some already paying for cell phone bills.

Then subsidizing home office set up/construction.
Please first define what is "work in the usual course of business". What work that any contractor does, given that it is work contracted for a necessary economic purpose within the business of the contracting party, isn't within the latter's usual course of business?

Gig companies are market makers. By their very nature they are sitting in the middle of transactions and would be without a job without the transacting parties. Are all transacting parties therefore employees of market makers?
Why are we putting touch screens in cars while ignoring the fact that touchscreens are inherently more distracting. We're having the wrong conversations about car interfaces.
You don't need to assume patriotic sentiment for this. The Chinese are paying a lot more than other companies, and the project is clearly fantastic. Even I would be interested if this was happening in my industry.
The area wasn't, the driver was. Keep up!