skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't my intention to be inflammatory and I don't consider myself a zealot. My comment has generated a lot of interesting discussion and that's a good thing, and probably worth the down votes.

I wrote C for a long time before I ever even heard of the spiral rule. I do think that the "declaration follows usage" idea worked a lot better before C declarations became so complex. I'm not claiming that the C declaration syntax is wonderful, it isn't. I just think that the C++ style of pretending that int* is a pointer type is misleading, since that's not really what's happening grammatically. Yes, * is a type token, as you say, but it modifies the identifier, not the type specifier. But since the style now is to only declare one variable per declaration, and to always initialize it, then in practice it isn't actually all that confusing.

I have always wanted to write a compiler and I'm sure I would get a new perspective on these matters if I did. Go has done a lot to clean up C's messes. I haven't used it much, but I'd like to know it better.
Having no input into the rate is meaningless. If they can decline work below a given rate then that's equivalent to setting their own rate -- the rate is set at the point where they start declining work. Obviously that may mean they don't get as much work, but setting your own rate doesn't grant immunity from supply and demand.

What would make this a lot easier is if the apps would just allow you to set a rate below which you're not willing to accept work. The reason they punish you for declining too often is that they don't want the rider to have to wait for multiple drivers who regularly decline all offers before finding one willing to accept it, so that would solve that because you wouldn't even get the offer.

I'm curious to see how this shakes out in the end, because we keep getting these decisions where they say they're employees because X, but then won't they just change X to make them contractors again?
No, because I never got into a consistent habit of it and just stopped trying. Either the weather wasn't suitable or the sun was in the wrong position when I had a few minutes to do it or I'd forget. The dermatologist also wanted me to face those surfaces with the plaques/nodules toward the sun, and that was never terribly convenient when I had nodules or plaques on the bottom of my feet or my knees.

There are days where I bask in sunlight and others where I'm mostly in my hidey hole (esp. with the pandemic), so nothing too consistent. My post wasn't too clear about that, but yeah, I had stopped the dermatologist treatments (other than T-Gel shampoo) prior to the Vitamin D thing.
I've had similar experiences with JS libraries, but not so much with React. The React team are much better at managing to keep things backwardly compatible than most.
Deconstructing the power structures of large-scale social computing networks
man, so many planets have subsurface oceans, there must be a lot of species of eyeless space whales across the universe
Why not? They currently do just that...
His point is that Uber and Lyft are not like normal gig platforms because of this.
You set your own rate by accepting the ride or not?
No, but I would like to see a more compelling narrative and supporting evidence for what is actually a pretty huge claim.
The US is not a democracy for the vast majority of Americans. It is an oligarchy posing as a democracy.
If Uber and Lyft are forced to classify drivers as employees, doesn't that mean these companies will try to lock them in? For example Uber won't allow their drivers to work for Lyft, and vice versa.

If this is the case, I think Lyft will die very quickly because as far as I know, most drivers prefer Uber over Lyft.
The question is whether there is a source of energy for that subsurface ocean. If it's geologically dead the entire thing could be uniformly quite cold. Unlike some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn it's not headed by gravitational tidal effects.
Prior to Keynes, the US built it's wealth on slave labor. The cost for human rights is high.
One amazing snippet that is contradictory to human beings: octopuses are color-blind across their entire body (with their physical eyes as well as their "body" eyes) but they are excellent camouflage artists! How is that even possible. Don't you need to perceive color to be able to take it??
APC deliberately designs their battery case so that the battery will die.
Just a side note, but written passwords are also susceptible to being leaking via photos/videos.

I've seen a few cases, including one where a government agency was hacked after a news report where you could see a password written on a white board.

So keep them under the keyboard.
That's one of the reasons why the US makes it only to spot #25 on the democracy index and earned the "flawed democracy" label.
The amount you lose when training at BW is considerably less than not training at all - studies show retention of size for months and months - and in a pinch I absolutely would go for a program that emphasizes bridges and planks and hanging. As for the rest - training goals can be multidimensional and this influences the optimal methods a lot. Training for martial arts, for example, tends to mean training for overall coordination and mobility, as well as strength and stamina. Judo players, MMA players, they can be strong, they can benefit from weights, but they aren't bodybuilders or powerlifters or strongman competitors. Eddie Hall, a strongman champion, has been covering his training for a boxing match on his YT channel, and while he does still do his presses and squats, he's slimmed down a ton.

There is an argument around calisthenics having too many compound movements and gaps in difficulty progression, which makes it hard to overcome specific bottlenecks. But what calisthenics absolutely is great at is mobility and CNS engagement. Combine calisthenics with a yoga mat and doorframe bar with bands training to add more granular progression and isolations, and you have some really good overall coverage with minimum equipment.

NB: One major reason we have historically seen more material about weights than bands is that it's easier to compare weight progression apples-to-apples. Bands change difficulty with slight changes in grip position, hence results are harder to compare.
Star Trek replicator technology v0.0.0.0.0.1
This feels kind of like the article equivalent of a political cartoon: sure, it's accurate and worth a chuckle if you squint at it from a distance, but it's been done to death and I'm unsure if it's a productive portrait outside of the instinct to say "lol sooooo true!"
React hooks is influenced by Dan, the author of Redux, not a fan of them both
Also a large genetic component of the Irish population is shared with people in the Iberian peninsula.
Being from the south, I couldn't relate to anything in this article but I really enjoyed reading it. The author has a good writing style.

Is this really the trichotomy of the Bay area? I thought it was interesting that none of these groups are turned out to be Trump supporters. I think it would be fun to contrast this mode of thought with the thought of people in flyover territory, as was done with these groups.
Assuming it was their phone number.

What options do they have now, if they abruptly stopped using that phone number for some reason 10 years ago and had no realistic way to know which 275 utilities were hitched to the number (or even if they did, couldn't contact support for reasons described in the article), for example:

- because they couldn't afford to pay the bills for a while

- or moved country

- or changed contract and then found they couldn't port the number (happened to me) and lost the old number

- or someone took their phone and they were unable in practice to recover the number or continue using it

- or they were ill in hospital for long enough their phone contract expired and they could not have dealt with transfer issues at the time
This is certainly the (fairly robust) legal argument. My hesitation is that I think a significant amount of drivers prefer and would benefit from the arrangement that Uber and Lyft have set up, and it's a shame that we aren't discussing how to write legislation to fit those people in.

It just feels like forcing everyone to be an employee will box out a large number of happy part-time drivers who weren't too concerned with setting their own rates.
Do you really believe those aren't decades away for door-to-door?
Modern driver-assistance technology 'far from reliable': AAA study
NIST’s Neural Network Model Finds Small Objects in Dense Images – NIST
In fork lifts it also acts as a counterbalance.
That option is still completely possible under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is "The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed."

I work as a 1099 contractor under my own LLC consulting business. This is valid under CA law. The law is meant to protect people who are unfairly classified as contractors outside of a trade.
I seriously doubt there's anything in labor law which would prevent Uber from allowing flexible (fractional) hours to their workers, so long as those hours pay at least minimum wage.

Uber isn't against this because it would make it impossible to run their business, they're against this because they're being forced to pay into things like unemployment which will make it more difficult for them to be profitable.
My current job refuses to replace old UPSs that have died, because they have a generator to keep the building powered in case of loss of power. But that doesn't keep your PC running for the moments it takes the generator to spin up.
I must have confused it with some other fire suppression system I heard of, then!
Agreed, I'm fairly new to React this year and while it's been a rough learning curve for me it's nice how stable it is considering some of the example code is pretty old and it still mostly works just fine
Excess Deaths Associated with Covid-19 (CDC Website)
The Chinese government has shown no interest in cooperating with many western governments. Even though the Chinese government is, in some ways, an “enemy”, most of the 1.5 billion people living in China are not. We should be interested in what the people have to say and I’m sure the people of China are interested in what we have to say, too. We should be building connections amongst the people, not walls.

I’d even say that’s the entire point of the internet - sharing and inclusion. There isn’t “our” internet and “their” internet - there’s just the internet.
You have a choice in how it’s developed and so ethics applies. In all fairness doctors don’t choose their patients and legal aide do not choose their clients and yet they are still ethically bound.

All of this fear and crying about management only demonstrates a gross ignorance of what ethics are.
It's ultimately the passenger who would afford or not afford whatever rate. If drivers were truly contractors, Uber would just act as a a middleman and take a cut of whatever rate the driver set.

Edit - Or allow customers to set the rate, and again take a cut of whatever that was.
I do feel like react has won
> In addition to this technical documentation, we have also included a selection of artistic, cultural, and historical works, to help describe the overall cultural context in which this archive was created.

Since a lot of the culture described later is specifically related to Western culture, I find it interesting that the Bible is not included.

For good or ill, the Bible had a profound cultural effect on Western civilization, and specifically the King James Version on the Anglosphere.
Cloud Spending Hits Record Amid Economic Fallout from Covid-19
Make it hard to accidentally call and hide it in the docs somewhere with items related to testing.
And the very place where that happened now has a database again but without any of that information in it. The lesson that no database at all can exist seems like the wrong one. Pretty much every EU country has a database of citizens that is also then used to define who can vote where. It works fine. Those same places also do a census as a completely different effort for different reasons.
Some ideas: https://gitlab.com/esr/upside

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7839
Turing Completeness is pretty mundane. You just need GOTOs and IF statements, and registers/variables. Thats it really. Its not hard to acheive at all.

The Emperors New Mind by Roger Penrose discusses the opposite idea, that consciousness has a non-computational element that could never even be approximated by a turing machine. I don't really agree with it but its an interesting book.
“Giant atoms” enable quantum processing and communication in one
I’m not sure where you get that idea, but that’d be some serious No True Scotsmaning.

https://help.doordash.com/dashers/s/article/Dasher-Ratings-E...

https://driver-support.grubhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600298...

https://taskers.taskrabbit.com/2018/06/01/acceptance-rate-wh...
Who is forcing a person to become an Uber/Lyft driver?
As someone who grew up in the Bay I find it curious to make the distinction that there are three.

There's South Bay, East Bay, North Bay and the Peninsula.

They're all very different, but lumping in the Peninsula with the South Bay feels hamhanded given that most of the South Bay IS NOT like the Peninsula.

It's kind of an in-joke that nobody actually knows where Silicon Valley is.
Regardless of whether this decision is correct or not, Uber's financial situation is of their own making and shouldn't factor in to the ruling.
Using artificial intelligence to smell the roses – News
Isn't drawing a cartoon character very different from drawing a scatterplot?

I'm not sure how the end conclusion about practice is relevant. I see how practicing would help in both drawing cartoon characters and drawing scatterplots. But I don't see the link between the two; it seems to me that practice would also help people who e.g. play an instrument.
I hear you! As a lazy slob, I find that it's really important to remove any possible obstacle to working out that my mind can latch onto. So being locked down with nothing fun to do and time back from my commute has actually been a godsend for my physical fitness.
100% agree with all of you in this. I was once rejected for "taking too long to dive into coding." I was only given 20 minutes to solve an algorithm, and was clarifying input and output, edge cases, and pseudocoding before implementing.

The process is very very broken indeed.
This lawsuit was filed by the state of California - this is how the government is providing it. It might be weird (and it is really weird to look at the US) but most of your regulations seem to work by hoping people do good things and then trying to sue the bad actors enough times that everyone backs off of doing not good things.

I'd love to see the US government actually step up to the healthcare plate though - especially after so many years of terrible FDA & Dept. of Edu. policies have led to widespread obesity. Personal responsibility doesn't really work as an excuse when your entire country is an outrageous outlier compared to the rest of the world - that seems more systemic.
The corollary to this is that Uber and Lyft will now be able to exert more control over drivers.

Contractors have certain legal freedoms that employees do not, such as setting their own hours, being able to turn down work, driving for both Uber and Lyft, etc -- that last one seems pretty common.

I wouldn't expect those freedoms to last long after they are reclassified as employees. After all, this is Uber and Lyft we are talking about. We know how they behave. Now the government has both increased their operating costs and given them the ability to exert more control over their drivers.
We allow the second system to exist because it is meant to play some very small part in our shared social vision, and it is meant to pay for its associated costs. If it wasn't designed to bear the cost of paying its workers a wage that we collectively deem to be decent, then perhaps it was poorly designed and deserves to be reevaluated. I think that judgement belongs to all of us.

And if we consider all of the locally owned retailers that have gone out of business due to Walmart's (admittedly efficient) business practices, then saying something like "Walmart doesn't need to exist" really isn't that all that crazy.
Netflix runs on AWS, they are doing chaos engineering quite alright on it.
Is the amount a driver makes totally transparent to them ahead of accepting a ride, sufficient that they could refuse anything that makes them less than $XX/hour or travels to an area they don't want to travel to?

Are drivers removed from the platform if they refuse too many rides?

It seems like the drivers actually have very little power to enact any effective bargaining over rates in practice.
The difference being the employers have buying power for all their employees and can keep costs down, as opposed to individual buyers on the exchanges.

The problem with switching healthcare in America is that any new system that doesn't allow Americans to think, "I've got mine, you can worry about you" is difficult. Whether that's forced exchanges where everyone pays the same or universal healthcare (where everyone pays the same).
Not all contractors set their own rates. Sometimes they bid on an already published rate. Which is what happens here. Uber/Lyft tell you what you will make before the ride starts.

If you accept, you just set your own rate.
Drivers who use the Uber platform in California are now able to set their own rates.
One of these days I will summon the courage to try the famous English jellied eels :)
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The site has never had any of that.

Did you go to the right site?

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

What URLs are you seeing this on? What browser and OS?

I wonder if anyone else can repro what this new user is describing.
Opinion: The only reason Canadian telecoms and the Canadian government haven't officially announced an outright ban is because of the delicate situation with Meng + the two Michaels. They've almost certainly, behind the scenes, committed to it.
spaceX when? 2048?
I can think of a couple,

1) There are too many in/out points and encrypted paths in and out of the network to actually make this worth spending time on. Think of walling off the entire country, yet there is still air above the wall, movable earth below the wall.

2) It creates a false sense of security if you're on the "clean network" and may make some developers less considerate of securing apps, websites, etc, and some consumers of questioning the security and privacy of the apps they install. I.e. it weakens those within the "clean" firewall.
> Why not? They currently do just that...

Right now they do that for contractors. After the drivers are reclassified as employees, things might change.
Abuse?? Nobody is forced to work anywhere in the U.S. If they can find a better situation they should. Why hurt their situation with regulation?
You should read into the rights you have thanks to unions. Things like weekends ans OSHA spring to mind.
The answer for contract software engineering is: "Technically, but not really". You interview, then they offer you a job/ contract which pays a certain hourly amount, and you can accept/decline/counter offer just like a full time job.

The equivalent here would be something like, "Okay candidate, I offer you a job as a contractor and the contract says you get paid based off of this algorithm. Accept or decline?"
I had to stand around waiting for a bus in 0 F for a few years of my life. Did not detect any life around that bus stop.
I'm pretty sure hooks weren't his idea. Can't remember where he said that. The fact that he enjoys communicating doesn't mean he is the only one working on react.
The chaos of Tony Wilson's digital music revolution
There's a surprisingly big list of languages not supported, just off the top of my head: Standard ML, OCaml, Rebol, Elm, PureScript, Racket, Lisp-flavored Erlang, Common Lisp, Zig, Perl 5.

Most of these even have JavaScript targets already.

Edit: OCaml is supported through Reason Node.js on BuckleScript.
For truckers:

a) a class A CDL takes a lot more effort to obtain than a regular driver's licence. there's a much more constrained supply, so you don't end up with a race to the bottom on the demand side as much.

b) the quantity of hours truckers can work is set by the federal Department of Transportation. with electronic logging becoming mandatory, that'll cut down even more on people being able to work off the clock.

For taxi drivers:

you absolutely do end up in this situation. there's just no multi-billion dollar company to make headlines about. medallion owners in NYC are all shady characters too.
https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleev/early-voting-faq.htm has the official FAQs from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth and says you can look up whether your ballot was accepted. It's not totally clear what reasons they might use to reject a ballot though.
I thought flextime is totally a thing.
I'm a bit lucky that I bought a barbell, squat rack and bench 2 years ago trying to save on gym fees.

I can't imagine what my fellow strength trainers are doing.
In a lot of ways this gives them more power over drivers than they had before.
They look nothing alike because they're not plotting the same data?

In the links you posted, the graph for France shows new deaths per million, the one for Brasil shows new cases.

This is a graph for deaths comparing France (total lockdown) and Sweden and Brasil (no lockdown):

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

Brasil never had the peak that we had in Europe. And the difference between the total lockdown of France and Sweden's business as usual is visible but not dramatic.

I find it incredible, and humbling, that we understand so little about the spread of a simple respiratory virus.
Your friends could still be considered contractors under this law. One of the provisions that allows you to remain a contractor is that "the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed." The other prongs of the test have long been part of IRS law.

I work as a 1099 contractor doing software engineering under my own LLC consulting business. This is valid under CA law. The law is meant to protect people who are unfairly classified as contractors outside of a trade, not restrict choice of those of us already working in this capacity.
funny how most react devs were using currying directly when they were calling redux lib.

still think it(redux) was a misplaced usage of currying.
No new feature, yet contains breaking changes.
It was in the Washington Post at the time but I don’t know if I can find the link. Long time ago (Reagan era).

Edit: Yes WaPo, May 24, 1981. Pre-www, so no link.
Things might also stay the same. There's inertia in the current system and the drivers clearly value their flexibility. Why would things change?
Well, since Sweden did little to "flatten the curve" they had more death, earlier. That won't change the total. Look at the number again in two or three years.

Not that there's a reason to lose sleep over six thousand dead in a country of ten million (some 80000 die every year anyhow).
How do you test diesel generators which back up a nuclear reactor? I understand you do it during the plant downtime, but don’t you require something at the other end of the network that consumes the 1GW you generate?
Online crime is likely to rise with all the people who're locked at home with nothing to do and are newly unemployed.
> protest is allowed and encouraged in the west

It also comes with great cost.
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