skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea is that we're in a local maximum for "how good is the current arrangement for society as a whole". Any small change to the arrangement is going to make things worse for one party or another, and probably even make things worse for society as a whole. But there's a chance that a bigger change could get us to an even higher maximum, where everyone is better off, both individually and on net.

It's hard because you can't just jump there, there will be some people or entities that are worse off during the transition. Also there are unintended consequences so things might not go as you expect.

Usually to (attempt to) make changes like this, it has to be a government doing it, because it's a coordination problem and you have to force people to look past their short-term self-interest for a little while.
Yeah, I pitched it as a way to know how good your tests are at catching common bugs. Still no dice.
I think the ultimate sticking point is benefits and payroll taxes, and what a lot of the friction is that it's piecework that doesn't have a "conversion" to hours (which are how a lot of our benefits are normally calculated).

What really needs to happen is that conversion rate needs to be established for this kind of work. So if an average driver can do 20 fares per day, times 20 working days per month, then a "full time" uber employee drives 400 fares per month. Or figure it out on a per-mile basis - like the average fare is 4 miles (let's say) so the average driver does 1600 miles/mo.

Figure out the per-ride or per-mile fee and roll that into the fares. Done and done.

(frankly this is being generous - delivery drivers and waitresses are paid "per fare" too, and we still expect their employers to pay for their benefits.)

Really what needs to happen though is we implement government-provided universal healthcare and maybe a basic income, and then you can have all the wacky gig-economy payment schemes you want.
Come over to my house and I'll show you...

That's why haven't had a drink for the last 5 years
Let this be a lesson: assume that journalists muddle everything else as badly as this.

Treat the news as an indicator that "something happened"... maybe.
The gig economy exists only because of the rapid advancement in technology. When the law catches up with that maybe it will be fairer. Until then they take and cut corners on whatever the law hasn't caught up with yet.
Ughhh, you do realize that there are software systems out there probably just as complex as rockets, as they are, well, used in rockets themselves to control the physical parameters.

You do know what the end-state is. It's called the minimum viable product, MVP. The most successful product owners are ones who are technical and can bridge the gap between the business requirements and technical implementation. For example, there would be no SpaceX and vertical landing of rockets if it wasn't for Elon Musk, who is both an engineer, a businessman, and an entrepreneur. He gets the full picture and can talk to all divisions of the company with incredible competency.

If you have a product owner who knows nothing about building software, in charge of a software product, you'll have a much smaller chance of succeeding, than if you had someone who was both business and technically savvy.
> Name any political, cultural, economic, literature, sports achievement in last 30 years to come out of Russia.

Russia remains prominent in the literary world. Contemporary authors like Sorokin and Ulitskaya are widely translated into other languages. If anything Russia's decline in those other respects makes its authors more competitive internationally, because "Novelist X captures the gritty reality of an oppressive state" has been since the Soviet era a dependable angle to market books to foreign readers.
WWJ celebrates 100 years since launch as nation's first commercial broadcaster
disclaimer: I'm a maintainer on Crossplane.

OAM is an optional feature of crossplane - you don't have to use it if you don't want to
Jobs don't work like that, though. To be able to pass up work is a luxury - the employer really has the upper hand. This is doubly so at low wages: No Food & no shelter unless you work isn't a free choice. Doubly so when the bits of safety net available require work in many cases - if they truly exist at all. (been years, but Indiana had zero cash help for single folks without kids. I guess adults could just go die on the street). Wage slavery sucks.

Now, if there were a real safety net - UBI, or something else that gives enough to live a normal life and afford a computer, internet, food, shelter, and reasonable hobbies - well, then, we can reconsider. Until we have choice with viable options - including not working for exploitative employers - then we might be able to do such things.
"specialty Z processors made for running Linux."

This isn't really accurate WRT what is happening, the IFL (https://www.ibm.com/products/integrated-facility-for-linux) is little more than a normal fully unlocked PE that is only licensed for running linux. Its just a cheaper way to get an unlocked PE.
Prostitution should not be an option for anyone.

How is:

"I was so poor I had to sell my body so as to not starve to death but selling my body made me depressed and so I spent all my money on drugs leaving no money for food, throwing me into a life of starvation."

...better than:

"I was so poor I could not buy food."

...really?
Doesn’t Uber pay all that too? I feel like I’m missing the point.
x86 has instructions that execute conditionally. Most conditionals in higher level languages get compiled to conditional jumps, but using conditional operations this isn't necessary. The same code path is taken in all cases, and the instructions effect is what is conditional.

In the case of cmov, it is either a nop or a mov dependent on the state of the conditional flags. Using this construct instead of a regular mov guarded by conditional jumps has better performance in some cases.

On my machine gcc is outputting a combination of conditional jumps and conditional movs at all optimization levels
In Germany, even the slightest acceptance of violence usage against capitalists and Nazis is going to get you a shitstorm from the far right to the center/left left.

The result? Just look at how effective militant French protests have been in keeping neoliberal attacks on worker rights at bay, and how unsuccessful German protests have been.
IBM's profit margins are so high they sell you a machine that's fully configured because they know you'll pay for the upgrade that's already delivered but deactivated in a year or so.

If moving off the mainframe becomes cheaper, they have a lot of flexibility
There's a lot of hard problems in space, though. We've solved a few of them - enough, at least, so that talking about large nuclear reactors in space should not be dismissed as a hoax.
What most of the people in this thread don't realize is the reason that Uber became large?

The smart ones will understand that Uber's entire subversive cross border growth tactic was tracking cops, which is a felony.

They hired Eric Holder to do the clean up job with workplace harassment as the cover story.

Eric Holder is not the best sexual harassment lawyer, he's the best lawyer to go close private backroom deals with Attorney Generals in all 50 states.

Uber not only did this domestically they did it in places abroad too, india etc...

They were able to fly under the radar long enough to circumvent localized taxes.

Medallion holders pay taxes into their locales, Uber does not.

TNC liceneses are a small fraction of the profits generated.

AB5 California Contractor/Employee Policy:

To hire a contractor, businesses must prove worker

a) is free from the company’s control

b) doing non core/critical work to co

c) has an ind. business in that industry.

Must meet all 3 or be classified as employees.

The lack of property taxes, more pension fund shortfalls, etc... means that California is racing to collect taxes.

The first levers are things like weird fees on receipts, then it moves to applying payroll logic and taxes to businesses (employee vs. contractor), then to wealth taxes, and then the real big kahuna is the VAT taxes.

The VAT taxes are coming.

Taxi cab drivers were middle class and medallion ownership created wealth.

Uber exploits its contractors, operates at a loss, and is propped up by political nepotism and cheap laundered CCP cash.

David Plouffe's job was to run an astroturfing campaign in every major city.

He had trouble written all over him. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-david-plouff...

Uber is a revolving door of corruption at the highest levels.

Uber circumvented taxes in every city they approached by bribing the State with TNC's and hiring from the revolving door.

People don't talk about all the thug life things Uber did to grow.

I always call BS whenever some Uber shirt tucker comes my way and says "marketplace dynamics" and "intelligent routing."

Uber is an amoral company that built political firewalls against regulatory realities, not one of brilliant technologists.

Also, here's me with $50k in uber credits: https://twitter.com/datarade/status/1080608107409993728?s=20

It took me several years to figure out the subversive truths of Uber that made it large.
So, I'd say the Network is a bigger deal than Agriculture. Agriculture was important for humans to settle down, it definitely shouldn't be underestimated just because we take it for granted now, but the Network enables human culture to scale enormously further than it could have otherwise.

In my opinion that Network begins with the Treaty of Bern in 1874, but you could make an argument for the Congress of Vienna near the start of that century if you squint hard enough. The big deal is connecting people, in the case of Bern by enabling everyone to send and receive letters. The latest iteration (an electronic digital network, the Internet) is just a further iterative improvement on that idea.

But Programming is even more fundamental because it's recursively meta-applicable. Improvements in agriculture don't apply to themselves, but improvements in programming do and that's enabled exponential growth in capabilities.

The seed is present in abstract ideas by Turing and others near the start of the 20th century, but the practical application definitely begins with "Amazing" Grace Hopper and her "compiler" (we would not today classify what Grace designed as a "compiler" but that's what she called it). Grace saw that the job of processing programming symbols to turn them into machine code is exactly the sort of symbol manipulation that you can practically program computers to do, and so designed such a program, starting a process that continues to this day and we now all rely upon without thinking about it. When you improve the compiler program, you get a more capable way to write programs, including the compiler program, and so on forever. That's how you get from slaving over a stack of punched cards to Lisp REPL in about a generation.
What's a cheap, reliable way to have cloud backups for videos?
Not sure what you mean. Are you saying later round investors in Uber are funding profits for early round investors? I could see some tech investment structures as possibly resembling MLM due to winner-take-all effects and outsized profits going to the earliest investors. Though this isn't a property specific to Uber
So, I wasted my outrage in another thread complaining about this only only for a judge to put this on hold. :facepalm:
> I knew people would hone in on that and ignore what I was trying to say

You were forcing your reference frame onto a science fiction novel and presenting that as critique. Complaining about newspapers and tapes in space is actually more of the same thing, except explaining why it's not a good way to treat fiction would take way longer.
Ok I'll bite. Can you point me to something that shows that rideshare drivers would be hungry and homeless were it not for progressive generosity? Literally any sign that they disproportionately rely on public assistance? And to the extent they do, which they don't, did Uber and Lyft create that situation?
I'm curious if this issue would be as contentious if we had a single payer health care system? It strikes me that one of the major issues with this kind of employment is little access to health care.
That’s not the situation. In the absence of Uber/Lyft (they being positive for disabled mobility) there appears to be no choice: it’s bad slow disabled-specific transport vs... nothing. And the argument was to not do things for disabled people that were uneconomic.

So yes, I’d like to give disabled users the option of using all public transport, if they choose. (Having lived in London, many underground stations are actually pretty good - and certainly not below ‘human decency’.)

But I’d also like that disabled people have other options, including reasonably-priced taxis.
No, you and I are different.

We would likely be guided by a sense of personal ethics and our own values, which would make us consider returning money even if through a technicality we had the legal right to keep it.

At the level these companies are interacting at, there's no such thing as ethics of this kind. The legal system is the values system, and if they can make money on a legal technicality they'll do it without further thought.

They're more like great vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming their blood funnels into anything that smells like money, as someone more eloquent than me once noted.

Worth remembering if you find yourself dealing with large scale financial institutions.
I find it hard to blame Trump solely for the fact that capitalism has gloriously failed to provide anything in way of an adequate response to a global pandemic. And our government for longer than trump has been captured by our economy. A statement like "more than twice have died unnecessarily due to covid" is rather hard to take seriously. As if there was something reactionary anybody could have done to prevent _all_ the covid deaths.
Few people will realize that COBOL is actually a very low level language these days.
Ok, I guess that does make sense. Still, it does have the drawback that all distribution must go through Apple, and you need to now need to pay to develop software for the platform :(
Why is a quickly arriving taxi more important than workers rights?
Yes it's more comfortable, for you. But this model is just not sustainable for most people.

Don't forget that this thing is subsidized. It never proved to be profitable. These companies invested huge amounts of money in lobbying all over the world, fermenting social unrest and subverting democracy for a failed business model.

They try and play a long game where we both lose workers rights, and have only bad
monopolistic transportation available.
How would you build a rocket if you only thought about the next 2-4 weeks?

Okay, I’ll bite...

I’ll grant you the 2-4 weeks part isn’t quite right for building a rocket; but the key insight of Agile, of developing in small steps and staying flexible, definitely applies.

You do not start by designing the entire rocket before building anything. Your rocket won’t work. You start, you must start, by building a series of prototypes and exploring the design space. As you do that, you gradually refine your ideas of what’s possible and how to do it. As far as I know, every successful rocket design has followed that path.

Sure, at some point along the path, you put together the blueprints for the final design. So there’s an element of waterfall in there. But staying agile is still critical. Unexpected stuff is sure to come up and you have to retain the flexibility to deal with it.

As others have noted, software is somewhat special in that it’s cheaper and faster to build than physical stuff, can be copied and refactored much more easily, etc. And that shifts the agile-to-waterfall balance where you can realistically talk about working entirely from short term requirements.
Correct. Uber drivers should play by the same health insurance rules as other workers. And under today's laws that requires they become employees.

Ideally health insurance should be decoupled from employment status, but until then, we should all play by the same rules.
I suspect you're being disingenuous since I never said either of those things, so I will ignore your second question.

As to your first question, I've never met a consultant that enjoys all the benefits of the full-time employees at the companies they consult for. The term "consultant" sets the expectation that one would not enjoy those benefits during their work there.
> Macintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant.

So typical of Umberto Eco. A true genius of language. I feel lucky some of his more complex work was originally written in Italian - it's easier for me (native Italian, but living in the US since 2012) to read certain things in the original language, rather than in English.

I bet you would need to be quite literate to fully appreciate his works - if you read the translated English version.
Of course there are, but as with any not so liquid and extremely volatile asset, the interest rates are going to be horrible. It's not like a car or a house.
And, if those other people did it, then I would be saying this about them.

“That’s how the world works” is the oldest justification for injustice.

If capitalism really is just a spreadsheet feudalism that deprives even the yacht owners of human moral autonomy, then maybe it’s time to burn down the system. NB: I don’t buy it, and I think markets can function alongside patriotic responsibility.
Poking fun at your own ingroup is the joke.
Thanks for responding, and for this interesting work! I think you understand the thrust of my point. It might have been better stated like:

> Designers of the WebAssembly spec explicitly chose to scope it's goal of a 'secure sandbox' to only include securing the host's memory from the WebAssembly VM. They have succeeded in this goal (modulo implementation deficiencies).

> However, they left open the question of how a developer might ensure the correctness of their program running in the sandbox. This paper explores the consequences of that original design goal for such a developer, and concludes that all the regular binary exploit mitigations may still be useful for ensuring program correctness.

I agree with your qualifications; sprinkling some WebAssembly on your app doesn't magically make security problems in the original code go away. If it's vulnerable it can still do damage to everything you give it access to.
What stops you from using criticality in a breeder setup? Once you can produce enough plutonium, you have yourself most of the ingredients for a basic gun type weapon.

In any case, you have everything you need for a dirty bomb.
I definitely think static websites are the future of blogs. Fast, light, minimalistic, browser-friendly and moreover totally under your control. You be the boss!

Don't want Google Analytics prying on everyone? Just have some 3rd party script for counting views, or just remove it altogether. So much customizations and moderation privileges, I think it is the only place to truly express yourself, not some FB, IG, Twitter etc.
> Exactly. "Does their livelihood depend on being right" is a chicken-and-egg problem. Applying this principal only makes sense if you have a preexisting bias against activism in general, which some people actually do.

I'm not sure I get how this is a chicken-and-egg problem, except perhaps in the sense that if what you have is a chicken, every problem might look like it can be solved by selling eggs.
There's some interesting theories about what was happening before the big bang in the Joe Rogan interview with Brian Greene https://youtu.be/FHAA_1Guxlo
Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs
Is there anything on the ballot to create a third way ? I believe Prop 22 is to simply exempt some companies from AB5, right ?
Because they aren't good at selling agile.

Why do people ask for estimates or fixed bids? It's to manage risk. And how often do projects not go over estimated budget? Even fixed bids are poor at managing risk. Lots of consulting companies will walk away from a fixed bid contract after months of work at the point they realize they will lose money on it. And honestly, what's the quality of work once the contract is no longer profitable? We've all seen it. Everything is a quick hack at that point in a desperate effort to achieve the minimum that could be defensible in court. A fixed bid project means the consulting company and the client have opposing interests: the consulting company wants to get it done as cheaply as possible and will make every shortcut they can get away with. And the client wants every last bit of quality they can squeeze out of the contract for that price. No wonder it so often ends in dissatisfaction for both sides.

What are the options for the client when the consultant says "sorry we didn't actually finish and we are out of money"? They either pay more or have to be willing to sue the consulting company. Most companies suck it up and pay more. This is so endemic to the industry that most companies put extra in the budget for software project overruns no matter how tight the fixed bid contract is.

So one way to sell agile is to help clients understand how it can help manage risk better than a fixed bid contract or always inaccurate estimates. And how it can be used so that the interests of the consulting company and the client are better aligned.
I would take the figures from Project Orion with a grain of salt. It was very much a cocktail napkin exercise.
Xeon Phi was supposed to be easy to program for, because it ran Linux (albeit an embedded version, but it was straight up Linux).

Turns out, performance-critical code is hard to write, whether or not you have Linux. And I'm not entirely sure how Linux made things easier at all. I guess its cool that you ran GDB, had filesystems, and all that stuff, but was that really needed?

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CUDA shows that you can just run bare-metal code, and have the host-manage a huge amount of the issues (even cudaMalloc is globally synchronized and "dumb" as a doornail: probably host managed if I was to guess).
> instead of expecting customers to foot the bill.

Either way, the customer will be paying this bill.
Very much true. I've had the pleasure of doing this stuff on both sides.
metalinter?
It could also be good public transportation. Much more efficient.
I feel like there is a general pattern. The left tends to prioritize all the good ideas: gender equality, racial equality, income gaps, etc. The right tends to prioritize systems that actually function in the real world with real people who are sometimes jealous, stupid, unethical, liars, etc. This is just a case where the first group has run amok without talking to the second group. It's the good idea of everyone should have good benefits without taking the time to design a system that actually works in the real world.

You actually see this sort of dynamic in startups where you have two people at the top. One is the creative one who pushes all the boundaries and stuff. The other person is the more pencil pusher/lawyer/business type who makes sure the bills get paid on time.

Lots of good things happen when you can get these two types working together instead of hating each other.
That’s so vague as to be meaninglessness. Everyone has to work to provide for themselves.
You gotta send the wagon trains West before you build the railway.
given that the average tenure for a rank and file at a tech co is like 3 years, no i don’t think a significant number of them really think they want to see a tiny number of big tech cos maintain their monopoly so their RSUs go up 15% a year
You know, software projects are under no obligation to follow semver. I abhor this newfound conformism in tech.

Plus, after nearly a decade of programming I can safely say the benefits of semantic versioning rarely materialize. 99% of the time you just upgrade to whatever latest is, major or not, and deal with it. For all I care they could be releasing Typescript v736.8B