skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of HN comments are here like "I know people who prefer to be contractors", "My sister's neighbours little brother actually doesn't want to be treated with respect by Uber", blah

It's a willful misrepresentation to characterize these merely as anecdotes. Polls/surveys show that drivers overwhelmingly share this sentiment[1].

> This is utter nonsense. Being a contractor means being self employed. You don't get paid leave or sick pay. It's a risk taking and doesn't make any sense in the gig economy where the wages are close to minimum rates.

This is not a prerequisite for being a "contractor". That the rates are "close to minimum rates" is a reflection of the market demand for the labor.

> If you are truly self employed then you have a skill which you can market, you can charge fees which allows one to put money aside for things like unpaid leave or sick days.

Again, this is nice in theory, but not necessarily true for all self employed contractors.

> If you are truly self employed then part of your job is building customer relationship, building up recurring customers, increasing your business through marketing, word of mouth, etc.

Again, this is nice in theory, but not necessarily true for all self employed contractors.

> Uber drivers are NONE of this.

Correct, but that doesn't change the fact that they are not employees.

> They clock into an app which belongs to someone else and they have no share in.

This was true before Uber/Lyft, where taxi drivers had to pay for the privilege of driving a car with a medallion that belonged to someone else. They were independent contractors under that arrangement.

Today, Uber/Lyft drivers report to no boss and can decide to drive whenever they want on a whim. They can drive 20 hours one week, 2 hours the next, and then take a vacation indefinitely with no repercussions. When Uber/Lyft announce layoffs for cost cutting, drivers are notably not affected. Insofar as drivers have experienced less work during COVID, it’s because there are fewer riders requesting rides, which suggests a rather direct rider-to-driver relationship.

> They can't even negotiate their own fees. That itself is fucked up.

Yes, Uber drivers can’t really set their own rates (this is changing soon), but that’s also not really a prerequisite for independence. There are loads of platforms where the intermediary only buys services by providers at set rates and sells them to a buyer, where the providers are not literally employees of the platform provider, eg: health insurance. This was also true of taxi drivers before Uber/Lyft came around.

> It's complete nonsense in extremely disingenuous by anyone here to suggest that an Uber driver is a self employed contractor and that this is good for them.

This is a borderline rule breaking content on its face, but just to engage with it, how do you know what's good for them? Maybe get off your high horse and speak for yourself.

[1] https://www.cadriversurvey.com/
Every time you start the develop branch it displays a huge message saying "Version 0.300 is almost out!" (with a description of how stable releases on master branch are the current objective) and it's been displaying that message for 3 years. There is a rolling branch, but the release branch isn't rolling. Spacemacs is usable but the project is calcifying, I wouldn't recommend anyone hitch their cart to it.

Like, I'm jumping ship as I write this. My job for the next few days is converting my config to Doom.
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The commenter above was talking about a literal wheat cracker, not a firecracker. They were mentioning how much energy is actually stored in grain(it's a lot).
Per developer and I think that covers all mobile and desktop platforms.
Came looking for the reference, and found it - but there are fewer and fewer mentions of SPARQL with each of these HN discussions. I think people just think "oh some semantic web crap" and move on without realising how powerful RDF etc. really can be when used as simple tools, without the 90s hype of changing the world with linked data.

At least the old ideas are resurging in the form of Neo4j (essentially a triplestore) and Cypher (essentially SPARQL).
Well. There have been stories of independent truck drivers that are being forced to leave California because they can’t be independent any more.

Jason Snell, a long time editor of Macworld, was let go years ago and decided to do podcasting and blogging full time, but he still wanted to do freelance writing. The new laws passed in California made it more difficult.

The only reason the gig economy is bad is because we have an ass backwards system
where your health insurance, unemployment insurance, etc is tied to your employer.
It wasn't strictly polymorphism, but the term you wrote led me to a article[1] where it mentioned "alternative parent". This alone instantly made the problem more understandable for me.

[1]http://duhallowgreygeek.com/polymorphic-association-bad-sql-...
When are we having a Hippocratic Oath for politicians ?
That's why we have Mastodon now, where everyone can choose what to censor themselves.
I, and many others I know, aren't far right and support it. We just don't want the government to print money at will.
I tried to google it, but all searches are pointing to xkcd :D
Russia Covid-19 Vaccine Release Could Put People at Risk, Industry Body Warns - Bloomberg
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> it happened on Earth almost as soon as the oceans formed

But that might have been the final item in a long list of requirements. Maybe life form quickly (on a planetary-scale of quickness) once they are met, but who knows how long that list is.

TBH, I think people fixate on "life" because of some star-trekkian fantasy about aliens, and specifically, other space-faring aliens. There are lots of interesting life-forms on earth that are ignored. We have a lot yet to learn about chemistry, let alone the biochemistry of bacteria, algae, mould. Dolphins and octopi have yet to build boats, let alone spaceships (arguably the monkeys are ahead on this game).

TBH, I'm more interested in what kind of interesting materials and phenomena might exist on other planets. As for life, I think its more interesting to think about what kind of alien environments we can seed with life (and what would form) rather than the moon-shot of actually finding life we are exited about.

Also keep in mind: life or not, it might be more likely we find something else interesting or dangerous. e.g. some kind of adaptable self-replicating enzyme, but made of something more durable than protein (and reproducing in the environmental). Consider the rubber-eating contaminant in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
With the FCC 2.5 GHz Rural Tribal Window[1], I would expect a lot of the tribes (or their designated org) will be trying to put up their own data networks. Its nice to see others that have already succeeded, as it seems like a pain to get any information on what equipment is needed.
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You should take a look at the declaration of independence for the US. There are two types of right. The first kind is agreed upon by society like you said, the second kind are inherent to anyone and they originate from a common understanding of a creator endowing all humans with equal rights. Self evident rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as they put it.

But regardless of origin, a constitution defines what the country is made up of. Constitutional rights are a contract where the government is allowed to govern and secure the people if and only if they secure those rights and follow the articles of the constitution.
We definitely seem to be in an era of stability. My stack of choice (React, GraphQL, Relay, Django) has remained unchanged since late 2015. A few things have changed, i.e. I no longer have to hand-roll my own SSR solution, because things like Next.js exist. But what represents the bulk of my code is largely the same tech as it was 5 years ago.
unless you happened to criticize the chinese govt and travelled via hong kong at a later date.
Bitcoin is also pushed by far-left extremists, anarchists, nihilists, centrists and adherents to loads of other schools of thought. From the BTC-maximilists I've come to known, some very active in the community, I'd say it's not representative of BTC proponents in general.

Though I don't think I'd like the top BTC whales of today to effectively run the global economy.
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It makes some things simple and insanely fast at runtime, at the cost of making other things impossible or if possible horribly awkward and just as slow as in any other programming language.
> fueling further investment and purchases

Well, yes; this is standard velocity of money stuff. It is detrimental to the economy to hoard money, and even more in a ""hard money"" situation to hoard the hard money, whether that turns out to be gold and silver or just dollars in a collapsing non-dollar country.

But if you try to close the economy as a result you end up with mercantilism, and having to forgo all sorts of opportunities for cheaper, better products because you have to buy from the local entrenched elite producers instead.

Plus it basically doesn't work in the oil age for most countries because they have to import oil.
If you perhaps look at my comment again you will notice that I said the conquests, not the period of colonisation. The point, which might have been easy to miss, was that getting up and invading another nation in the Middle Ages is a rather different proposition from getting up and invading one close to the turn of the 20th.
A Job ad as a markdown file in repl.it :D that's cool. You should add a CLI for applying for the job!
Should obesity be redefined to curb fat shaming?
Really? I have a pfsense firewall and it struggles with gigabit over just one route (80% efficacy), I cant imagine it faring better if it had 5 or 8 gigabit streams at once like the ER-X or ER-lite.
This XKCD is incorrect, 20130227 is also a valid ISO 8601 date.
The past year in Lebanon has been like that. I'm sure if someone wrote a script about this for a movie they'd be told to just "tone it down on the grimdark shit okay?" or something.

1 - Oct 2019: financial meltdown (still ongoing, local currency has lost 80% of value vs USD since then with no end in sight. Banks aren't giving out USD deposits either, you get to take them out in local currency and lose the difference in exchange rate)

2 - Protests, riots, etc... (since the meltdown and still ongoing)

3 - Pandemic, lockdown (Mar 2020, still ongoing with rising cases/day since measures were relaxed)

4 - Huge explosion takes out half the capital and what remains of the economy (The Beirut port runs about ~70% of all the sea trade volume of Lebanon).

The whole thing is literally stranger than fiction. Someone described the latest disaster like so: "The most shocking thing about the Beirut is explosion is how none of negligence and incompetence that led there is shocking".
You know the entire purpose of the company that runs this site is to fund businesses that aren’t profitable enough to exist? Only two companies that YC has funded have gone public.
You can self-host Web Wormhole

https://webwormhole.io/

Or use the addons that are available for Firefox and Chrome
Increased presence of law enforcement in schools does not improve safety
Wow. Putin is basically making Russia a test bed for the rest of the world. Imagine if they start inoculating people en masse and it just plain works. Would the rest of the world follow?
We allow users to sign up for a free trial for our product, you have to put in your name & email address. After the trial expires, we send an email that says "Hey So-and-so, your trial ran out, click here to give us money, etc." Some enterprising spammers filled in the name field with spam URLs and the email field with victims' email addresses, in order to spam them. So the victim would get "Hey hxxp://buyfreerolex.com/, your trial ran out..." spam emails, from our email server. Obviously we've fixed it since, but it's absolutely wild the length spammers will go to.
You're pointing out a problem there. The tools and processes around moderation (censorship might be too strong a word) are pretty lacking.

Let me consider with two cases.

For one the issue of a company making the rules, e.g. Facebook imposing prudery worldwide, even in places where things like a bare breast are not considered as such (yet?!). Why should someone half a world away physically and maybe even further morally have a say in what people can or cannot post in e.g. Europe?

Another is bans/ignores/mutes by users, I would say. The tools for these are absolutely lacking. Mutes or bans are usually permanent and there is no way to do anything about it. It's like solving every problem with a sledgehammer. (If I wanted to, I could go and mute or ban anyone I like to on e.g. Twitter and they would have absolutely no means to explain themselves, appeal the decision or have any expectation that their sentence is going to be over one day.)

Maybe social media should be rather treated like public infrastructure and should have to provide services too all while leaving any moderation problems to other entities (and should just have to execute their decisions instead of both deciding and executing).

/rant
At minimum some ORMs let you reorder things which makes SQL 50% better.

Smarter ORMs do what you want. Linq is magical.
You're under no legal obligation to pay if you make a bid.

Using a stolen credit card, on the other hand...
>"Churchill resident Cynthia Underwood delivers groceries to a home in Swissvale, just outside Pittsburgh.

As part of a program run by Neighbors Helping Neighbors and involveMINT, the Rankin native earns "time credits" for her service."
Privacy, and learning to use enterprise equipment
Ohh. Thanks for linking this. I'm excited for this.
> You wouldn't have seen them...if you were looking in the direction you'd be blinded instantly.

Feynman disagrees: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/04/what_its_like_...

I don't think his statement "bright light can never hurt your eyes" is correct, and I think "I got behind a truck windshield, because the ultraviolet can't go through glass, so that would be safe" is pretty questionable: glass filters ultraviolet, but I don't think it blocks it completely.

But fact is: Feynman looked at an atomic explosion and he wasn't blinded.
This reminds me a lot about the Moscow theatre siege (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisi...): they thought they had the best stuff, and ended up killing so many.
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Have you tried using your own ideas on yourself first? For a person who writes often that "education is important" a lot you seem not to know the differences between Excel and Libre office, what means that you preach empty slogans that you dont even apply to yourself.
We do see World War 2 in its historical context, and we manage to discuss them all the time without making absolutely sure to work in "well we should all be grateful to the Nazis for the advances in science and technology that they drove, let us consider Both Sides" at every opportunity.

We are simply asking you to extend the same intellectual grace when discussing and teaching about colonialism, which by-the-by was going on at the same time as the world wars.
It's not that simple, D has UFCS (Uniform Function Call Syntax), which makes object.method(args) and method(object, args) equivalent calls.

Also there's a non-language related advantage of dot notation. Type the name of the object, press dot and IDE will show you what things you can do with that object. You don't have that with other notations.
parent is talking about servr side frameworks like laravel, django, asp.net core mvc etc. Not node.js SSR framework

For those, it is much more easier to add vue as a script tag. also easier to setup Vue, compared to react.
Imagine if people die en masse 6 months later?

or even if they don't die, they could develop many kinds of problems; that's why testing vaccines must take time and procedure, it doesn't seem to be the case here..
Of course they do. They make everyone start over with zero points literally every time they play.

If you can imagine showing up to play a friendly football game against a rival high school and noticing they have 5,340,322 points already on the board because their families had been playing the game for decades, then you’ll start to really get it.
There are various online blacklist check tools. Examples:

email: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

DNS blacklists: https://www.ultratools.com/tools/spamDBLookup
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Yup. If you build a communications platform, it will be used for spam. If you build a hosting platform, it will be used for porn. If you build a linking platform, it will be used to spam links for porn.

Anything else requires a constant uphill battle of content filtering and deletion. You could call it censorship, but it's a necessary reality.
Why is dot special? Fortran uses % (if I remember properly) IDE's can complete after a % as well as after a dot.
> Though of course then the trouble is, if AWS is simulating specific behaviour, it won't be exactly the same as real problems when they occur.

If Amazon simulated power failure, or network cable disconnect, or potentially even corrupt writes to disk, I personally feel it would be indistinguishable from the event really happening.
Except that look elsewhere seems to be understood as free beer around here.

$5000 is not the price for small developers by the way.
I don't think treating query languages as a standard is the right comparison here. I think it's great that programming languages have evolved from C or PHP quality languages. I view SQL like PHP, I can write it if I have to, but it's certainly not a language I enjoy working with. EdgeQL has its flaws, but it still looks like a big improvement over SQL to me.
The (more local) news I'm reading, it was apparently known to be dangerous immediately, and regularly reported (~twice a year), just never actioned to remove it. To me that's where the criminal responsibility lies. The beating-around-the-bush has begun though.

Port authorities (who were the ones reporting the danger) were arrested.

skimmed, since I'm on the clock, but holds the key info: https://www.mtv.com.lb/en/News/Local/1088201/Lebanons-leader...
Russia claims to be first to have developed a Covid-19 vaccine
You don't know how common voter fraud is. When it's easy to do and you can't be caught, as in other people's ballots coming to your mailbox, many will do it. They do it. I know someone who voted on behalf of another in California because ID is not necessary. There must be many more others doing the same.
Was it legal "to take a closer look and see the links they are sharing"?
The starting assumption is that free and rational adults are choosing to work for the wage and customers are choosing to pay a sufficient price, so it should exist. That's not working backward, or dissonance--it's an acknowledgement of reality.

It's a different unrelated group claiming that it shouldn't exist if it doesn't provide the pay / benefits they think it should.
> If you let 1000 people flip coins 1000 times and count the number of heads, you'll see an extraordinarily high number of heads among the most successful people.

Not really. If you do this experiment you are virtually assured that all the people will get between 400 and 600 heads. Not a single one will get 601 heads. Not a single one will get only 399 heads.

Zuckerberg is not one or two or ten standard deviations away from me. He's thousands of standard deviations away from me. Luck alone cannot explain his success.

Edit: For fun, here's a code snippet that shows the range of the number of heads that 1000 people get when flipping a coin 1000 times. I ran the experiment 10 times.

import numpy as np

for seed in range(10):
flips = np.random.RandomState(seed).binomial([1000]*1000,p=0.5)
print(min(flips),max(flips))

This is what you get:

442 556
455 546
453 550
452 551
446 557
444 552
435 549
446 564
454 562
452 548

You need to run this experiment many millions of times before you see a minimum less than 400 or a maximum higher than 600. As you can see most often the range is much tighter.
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I'm surprised that you don't see the changes between RR3 and 4 as drastic. It's a completely different API, and unsolved a problem which had (admittedly imperfect) solutions -- kicking off data fetching prior to navigation.

I try to resist hyperbole, but if it wasn't for the brand value of owning the name "React Router", it should (or would) have been released under a different package name.
In those rare cases, you can do post processing on the data in code if need be. I personally don't see it fully as either/or but as mostly SQL with enhancing the data in rare cases via "traditional" code.
No, it's just another hype.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18360847
I quite feel you have managed to miss the entire point. This might help out a little: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108231
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> Anything else requires a constant uphill battle of content filtering and deletion. You could call it censorship, but it's a necessary reality.

Depends on how you structure it. If they're paying to list, then it makes things a lot easier.
If you are ok with using older versions of Firefox(2014), they are pretty lightweight and much faster than Chrome or current Firefox.
multi-hops[0] should probably be mentioned as well. Using those one can for example open a file using sudo via ssh:

/ssh:you@remotehost|sudo:remotehost:/path

Doing any further actions on a file opened that way also applies the hops there as well. For the example above opening a shell or running a shell-command would run those through sudo on the remote host.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Ad...
I mean you don't write good library. They are both hard to use.
By the logic of your own joke, they would be a 4x engineers.
Part 2 blog: https://thebinaryhick.blog/2020/05/16/walking-the-android-ti...
The US President is granted wide-ranging authority to regulate international commerce

The executive order doesn't outright ban the use of TikTok (the app), it just places a ban on "any transactions subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with ByteDance", which in essence makes it impossible for people to find the app on an App store. It's almost identical to the Huawei/ZTE executive orders. It's a bit like an economic sanction on a country, which may also include companies that engage in media/speech.
Everybody was cargo culting. My personal experience to jump off the bandwagon
Local currencies feel like non-malicious ponzi schemes. At some point they're gonna start to die, and anyone holding it will slowly just lose out.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean that X tonnes of a random substance blowing up will be as destructive as the instantaneous release of equivalent energy that a nuke delivers
Which is a perfectly reasonable position whether or not someone agrees in this particular case. We have lots of laws that, for some combination of good and bad reasons, keep services from being as cheap as they might otherwise be.

I have trouble being upset that fewer people will want to afford higher Uber prices. People managed before Uber and it's mostly a luxury good anyway. To be honest, when Uber's management changed, the sensible thing--VC money notwithstanding--would have been to start pricing the service at what it cost.
You are always free to take any action you are physically and mentally capable of. A government can only restrict that freedom by enforcing laws, they are unable to make you more free.
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