skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument is actually the inverse: currently uber has no driver employees, the only way to change that under this law is to assume they do, then you can use that to argue any new driver is an employee. You need a first set of driver-employees to argue others are now employees. But there has never been a first set of driver-employees. Its actually a little confusing that that is required as it seems to allow Uber etc to skirt this definition (unless they have been taking on drivers as full employees without my knowledge?)

I'd be interested to know how many creators YouTube "employs" or how many retail workers Ebay has and what their percentages are. This is where this whole thing confuses me: If Uber drivers are employees (and maybe they are?) then basically every major tech company has millions on employees they have been misclassifying. Paying them all minimum wage with benefits and taxes deducted etc will be a massive massive change for these companies.
It could also signal that they're unable to deploy capital to innovate (and bring future cash flow).... MicroStrategy has been an acquisition target for many years.
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If most assets are still rising and breaking all time highs in a downturn economy what it really means is that the dollar is falling in a race to the bottom with all other fiat currencies.

People avoid holding money by buying stocks and housing, not because of natural P/E ratio but forced by the continuously devaluation of cash.

What "money" do you expect businesses want to hold in this situation?
It sounds like the benefit was in complying with the decades old regulations, not anything that had been added in 2006.
How is GraalVM different from Eclipse OMR [1] ? Seems both are doing AOT and modular language development.

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/omr/
This is the best stated argument I've seen on the issue. In general society suffers from workers. Even if health insurance were covered by the state and not the employer (removing the bulk of the burden from having employees), I would still want many of these points to be addressed.
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They do not care about the environment. Bitcoin contributes a lot to global warming by design.
These prices are insane! And the weird thing is that the site's showing multiple (in some cases dozens) of bids for items like single perfectly ordinary, even boring looking T shirts for over $100 dollars. Who'd be bidding at these prices and why? (Note: I have absolutely no knowledge of what the Fyre festival is/was or its relevance to anything, but even then, what makes it momentous enough for these prices?)
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This table was also featured at Astronomy Picture Of the Day website (APOD for short) few days ago [1]. Judging by the tags in the tweet, author took it from there.

[1] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200809.html

P.S. After the comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is gone, pictures are again diverse and range from different fields of astronomy ;)
> Also as far as I can tell, there is no worker co-op owned by the drivers anywhere in the world that treats members/drivers as employees with benefits. Why is that?

http://www.unioncabpdx.com/

The world is a big place. I'm sure there are others.
It’s so crazy that it might just be completely crazy. Behaviour that is grounds for an investigation by shareholders.

In a world where the governments can’t support their own currencies, nobody will give a shit about Bitcoin.

“I don’t trust the real hospitals because of medical negligence, better get my amputation done by that guy operating out of his garage just to be safe.”
Yeah LSP is taking over. I don't think category 1.1 is going to last.
Issue with this is that the data science/tech market is only a fraction of available companies with roles.
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Tangential... but who exactly is Microsoft's president? I always thought that "the president" of a company was the CEO (that's how it seems used in my native French anyhow). What's the difference here?
Heh, true. It's pretty clearly meant to mean that the constraints for simple assignment apply as constraints for initialization too, but if you were to argue that the constraints of simple assignment are imported as semantics for initialization, and therefore violations render the behaviour undefined (not requiring any diagnostic), I wouldn't be able to point to anything that shows that to be wrong other than common sense, and common sense can be wrong. The same applies to the return statement, which says "is converted as if by assignment" outside of its "Constraints" section as well.
I wonder if using Instagram Login has helped them filter out spam accounts.
There is nothing in California employment law that prevents open schedules. Uber can have employees with exactly the same working agreement. The main difference is that Uber now has to pay into things like unemployment insurance and workers compensation.
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We could do a lot better than SQL. It's just that nearly every replacement falls into one of two traps:

A) Not being able to express relational semantics.

In general, every programming language replacing its predecessor allowed to express about the same semantics, even if it wasn't natural to the new language.

One can write imperative Java/C++ even if the language doesn't like it, and successful functional languages allow escape hatches for mutable objects.

The various NoSQL languages typically fail this hard.

B) Not offering enough of an improvement.

Minor improvement isn't worth the 'yet another query language' burden. EdgeQL doesn't fall into A, but it may fall into B.

NULL is an annoyance, but not big enough to justify another language. Throwing an exception instead is a very double-edged sword. The author needs to show far more improvement to justify a new language (I'd have liked to see more examples of composability for instance).
Haha, that’s an amazing external motivator!

Currently I am on a quest to like exercise for its own sake, and I am coming from a place where I strongly disliked it. I am surprised that I have found a way to like it at all.

I’ll be blogging about it in a month from now as I would be on month 3 then :)
Scale indeed.
Check out sane-emacs for a sane yet simple starting config.
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No, the Pandemrix vaccine was almost certainly the cause of the narcolepsy epidemic in Finland and Sweden in 2009-2013. The case seems to have been a very unfortunate coincidence of a specific booster used in this vaccine (squalene), genetic susceptibility of the population (large incidence of a specific autoimmunity mutation), and one protein in this specific vaccine evoking an autoimmune reaction against orexin-producing neurons in the brain. Orexin is a naturally occurring hormone in our bodies that regulates wakefulness, and the lack of which is the cause of type I narcolepsy.

My understanding is had any one of these three unfortunate factors (the bad booster, the bad population genetics, or the bad protein) been removed, the vaccine would have likely been safe. Further, only children and adolescents were ever susceptible to the harmful side effect.

The specific vaccine (Pandemrix) was not used in the United States, as the CDC notes.
Another article on same topic, without the misleading title:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105860
Interesting, I ducked around a bit and couldn't find anything from Krugman on time banking. Like bitcoin, time can't be inflated/deflated.
I'm American, but I'm surprised I've never heard any arguments about reparations for their former colonies, as I've heard plenty about reparations for the practice of slavery in the US. I mean de-colonialization happened much later than the end of slavery in the US, and it would arguably be easier to implement. Has the idea been brought up in public thought in Europe at all? Some cursory googling revealed it has been brought up, but I'm curious what public discussion and sentiment is on the issue
At this point in time, I believe that "investing" in Bitcoin is, in fact, a short in the dollar (for Americans).
Because now money is given directly to people due to covid. Before money just went to wall street.
No inflation? Look what new money has bought and you will clearly see huge inflation: stocks and housing.

We don't see shopping cart inflation because it's countered by the technological cheapening of the production. And the key fact that new money is not being given to people buying groceries.
It caused inflation in assets, not in goods.
Fair enough, but this is a bit splitting hairs. AB5 codified the standard put forth in Dynamex (which was decided in mid 2018), which was much stricter than the previous standard, the Borello test, decided in 1989, and that test more or less followed a common law interpretation that had been the standard.
Ah, so that’s why the site’s so trigger-happy with the excessive-activity bans that it’s nearly unusable unless you’re logged in.
They actually thought about buying Twitter: https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-ceo-bob-iger-abandons...
I second this emotion SO HARD. Is sql weird? sure. But (IMO) the hard part implementing|using a sql database is _not_ the syntax, it's the storage, query planning, consistency. Don't like SQL? use linq or one of the bazillion DSL libraries that "compile" to sql. SQL databases are so unbelievably extremely useful, and the minor syntax quirks between different DBs are a minor issue compared to the huge amount of commonality that they share.

Also FWIW, I'm not sure that writing a sql validator _is_ all that hard. The grammars for any dialect are readily available and really not so hard to turn into an AST with any of your favorite tools (ANTLR, lex/yacc/bison, any of a million PEG parser generators). In many cases you don't even need to, we do static analysis of spark SQL using their own parser, for postgres can use the parser straight out of libpg.

I guess the OPs point is that if you can validate it easily, you can understand it. I'm certain I could write a lisp parser in 10 minutes, but I don't think that would mean I immediately understand all Clojure code (which is often pretty obtuse). You still need to learn all the underlying concepts and data structures.
EdgeDB is built on postgresql and has excellent JSON integration.

https://edgedb.com/docs/datamodel/scalars/json#type::std::js...
Using prettier-js-mode I don't worry about messed up indentation; any problems are fixed on save.
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He didn't miss the point. It's standard whataboutism. You see the same arguments concerning Native Americans in the US where the proposition is that since they didn't all live in peace, their extermination shouldn't be seen as out of the ordinary.
The only tricky part for me was having to build gcc (for newer libgccjit). But it wasn't too bad. And you might not have to do that at all depending on your Debian version. Hour effort approx.

There was some minor brokenness native comp caused to my setup so still not using this branch. But most stuff did surprisingly work perfectly well.
> heritage to PDF's basis in the Photoshop PSD format

Is that really so? PSDs are through and through binary, while PDFs smell more like PostScript with extras...
I've never been to Japan, so can't comment on how authentic anything in the UK is, but ...

We have 'wagamama' which at best can be said to be japanese influenced, and a few chain sushi places (like Yo Sushi) across the country. They really aren't all that great. But if you look at some of the smaller/independent Japanese places that are around and about, they seem to be far better quality. I think London probably suffers from its centre being dominated by chains.

But on katsu ... I've had Chicken Katsu Curry in the UK, sure, but also in Australia, in Singapore and in Bangkok. If that's not a big thing in Japanese Cuisine then quite a lot of the world might have grasped the wrong end of the stick!
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This was a good exploration of your approach. The interactive usage inline with description was very helpful. As some have pointed out, some expansion in certain areas could improve it, but still good.

As a side note, I'm looking into using your libraries. They do seem fairly solid and efficient.

Thanks for putting this out there!
>> -extract method

> I don't know what this is, sorry

You mark/select/highlight some lines of code and then you hit a key, and this creates a method out of the code. The IDE is smart enough to see what is the "input" and what is the "output" of these lines of code, and will create a method with the right parameters and with the right return value. But usually, the IDE doesn't support all such code blocks, for example, if there is more than one "output".
This already exists in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and China already flouts those rules. Your plan has been tried and does not work.
>I assume these folks have actual intel to take this big decision.

They sure write like they do. But they act like gamblers hoping for the next big score.
> Yes, your time could be worth more when working with traditional currency, but by that logic why would anybody volunteer?

Yeah but lots of people's times are theoretically worth more with this than with traditional currency was what I was getting at - anybody whose job is undervalued by companies but who can turn their skills to the benefit of others can earn more valuable time credits than they could earn money.

For example a janitor might have the handyman skills to build some IKEA furniture for you and earn more in the way of time credits than they would in money from their normal employment, without having to go through all the work they would have to become a handyman as a job or small business.
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Like where in Europe?
For a new grad, my opinion is run-of-the-mill software engineer at any tech company, or tech-initiated company.

I may be wrong, but from my experience a new grad won't be able to do much systems thinking on their own right out of the gate. The one exception of course being if you join a startup as one of the first couple of engineers - but then again, a startup hiring a new grad as one of their very first engineers is probably a red flag in itself.

My thoughts on the matter is that pretty much every software engineer wants to move into more systems-level thinking, whether that be as product manager or a systems architect. But, just like most other high-paying industries, you do have to put in the time a bit as a software engineer and make the mistakes necessary in order to fully understand not just what makes a good system, but why those decisions make a good system

Just like every investment banking new grad wants to be the one making deals, it's not going to happen (or, not going to happen effectively) until you've gotten some years "in the trenches" built up. As a new grad, this was frustrating for me to hear - and it's still frustrating as I'm only a few years out of college, and still not doing much systems level decision making. But, now I frankly understand why I'm not making those decisions yet. This is one of those times where no matter how much you study or practice, only real-life experience will prepare you to do that type of job properly.
I don’t see the issue with these kind of protections. If there were none, some massive corporation would come in, make a cheaper, worse version with the same name, and put the original makers out of business. Consumers lose, small businesses lose, local communities lose, and the only winner is BigCo.
You can do that with old diesel engines but new ones are too sensitive and destroy themselves if you try to run them on anything but diesel.

It mostly because the high pressure pump use the Diesel for lubrication so if you use something else the pump destroy itself sending tiny metal shards down the pipe and into the injectors.

That's why accidentally running a diesel car on gas turn expensive fast. The contrary is much cheaper as just have to flush the fuel lines and you're good to go.
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I find weasling my way into traditional companies looking for work as a sys-admin is pretty stable work if you don't mind managing legacy corporate software. Otherwise lots of my friends started at help desks and jumped over to what they found more interesting.
I feel conflicted by this expectation from people that bitcoin will continually grow ad eternum, just because the supply is limited.

I'm a believer on cryptocurrencies, but bitcoin being a first generation project, still has several pitfalls, such as transaction throughput, slowly trying to be addressed by other projects. What happens when people start flocking to ethereum, cardano, eos, or something else? Will it retain demand?

Maybe it will, considering that gold is almost as worthless, and it's still used as a major hedge against financial turbulence. But it's something to keep in mind.
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Their stock has risen 12.4% today so far (NASDAQ: MSTR)
I use qutebrowser, where the choices are: download or pdf.js.

I guess the extension to use pdf.js with Chrome is pretty popular.
can't pay taxes with it == not money
Can we control this to a certain extent by including a Captcha in register page?
In order to exist as functional part of modern society you pretty much have to be on at least a couple apps that exfiltrate all your data and metadata. Sure you can DIY everything but that comes with a huge time cost that most simply cannot afford.

The point out preferring one's data in the hands of a regime that doesn't have jurisdiction to send jack booted thugs to kick in one's door still stands.
Given that I’ve seen 25TB MySQL databases, RDBS scale up juuuuust fine. Just... have someone on hand who understands them if you’re going to go that high.
I like this line of thinking way better lol
I've been using web-mode and it's awesome. Works well with jsx. My config is here https://github.com/sufyanadam/.emacs.d
I love SQL, but I liked the analysis in this article. However, the EdgeQL language that was proposed looked horrible to me. It looks more like a general purpose programming language than a query language.
No, if you look at shadowstats, the house/rental prices, or the Big Mac index, you can see that there was significant inflation in the past 50 years. Governments are changing the measurement of the inflation to try to hide it.
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With a visual representation, diffing may be as easy as clicking next/previous between versions as you would images in an album. You could of course add more bells and whistles with highlighting.
Some countries may be realizing that they can’t afford to drag along for ‘just a few more months’ while their economy is tanking. There is some risk here but it avoids other risks.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just propose Datalog?
Key would be SEC approval.
you can give dollar bills instead of stickers as a reward, would that change your perspective?
We don't even know for sure that P≠NP
Most relationships, I have encountered are just one-many, many-one, many-mane, one-one, indirect, direct or graphical in nature.

You want flat result, aggregated result. Why does this have to be blamed on the data relationship and not SQL language itself?

For any graphical type of relationships, I find SQL utterly hard to express my queries properly. It feels like a assembly language at that point.
It's undeniable, but arguably not surprising from an institution that has really distanced itself from artistry over the past 30 years. The incessant deluge of cookie cutter marvel garbage reveals that it's only about maximizing profits to a global audience, and China is a huge market.
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There is high chance that the 21K+ bitcoins are spread out over multiple wallets. Most likely hardware wallets, spread out over multiple geographical locations. I also don't see what the benefit would be for MicroStrategy to publish a csv files with all their wallet addresses.
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What concerns me about his idea is that businesses would be less incentivized to take payments if your money was closer to expiration. This could lead to situations where my dollar is worth significantly less near expiration than someone else's dollar that just got stamped. In this respect, businesses get screwed because the money that they just accepted is slowly deflating in value.

Expiring money basically incentivizes short term thinking over long term goals. Businesses won't save for improvements, retirement won't exist, etc.
Mmmmm office steak.

China has an interest in anyone not Donald Trump being in office, since he's picked fights with the CCP and started a trade war.

Russia got him there in the first place, and wants to keep flexing, as it allows them to damage both China and the US.
Your last paragraph is non sequitur. It is perfectly possible for the syntax to not be the interesting part, and for SQL to have been successful despite bad syntax. The underlying idea is brilliant, so the first syntax that exposed it sufficiently well got baked in as a path dependency, even though the syntax sucks.
What's the point of drilling someone about only one specific danger of an extremely dangerous object?
I thought for sure the title was a typo for "caves". But no, they are complex cakes!
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Does this apply also for incorporated /limited liability corporations owned by the contractor, in the Netherlands?

In Sweden, if you want to become contractor, you have two options - start a limited liability company of which you owns all shares (Aktiebolag). Or you can start a business in your own name (Enskild firma), which legally is not separate from your own liabilities.

In the first case, you are making yourself employed by the corporation you own. I do not know if there is any legislation that prevents that business from having just a single customer. But I know that in my own case, my business have had a single customer the entire time it has existed.
> arrange pre-set shifts for the drivers to optimize for supply/demand based on time of the day.

Do you mean something like peak hours split shift schedules that bus/train/ferry drivers have?
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It turned out bad in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The follow up question is, how come the different elements aren't uniformly mixed within the earth. Or perhaps formed into stratified layers with the densest at the centre? E.g. Why are there 'deposits' of gold relatively close to the surface? Something to do with interaction of the physical and chemical properties of the elements with local variations in conditions?
It seems like the WASM folks have a plan to address it in the future. https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/16
Ok, boomer.
> So imagine you are using something like React/Angular or other templates you want your IDE to understand this templates and not highlight the syntax as errors, if you use a function/object defined in a js file in a template you want the IDE to make the connection. So when you want to see where a symbold defined in a .js file is sued you want to be found int the template file. You could have 2 different components that both have a thing called name - you want the IDE to not confuse this and consider this 2 different things as the same but be correct.

Why imagine? I have emacs open and it's doing this with React right now (tide mode).