skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so against prop22 it pains me so here I am ranting on the internet.

What's going on is a negotiation between the state and these companies that are able to take advantage of a gap in how insurance and other benefits work. Instead of actively negotiating with the state, Uber/Lyft/Doordash and many others have simply asked to maintain the status quo, screw the drivers, just business as usual.

Drivers do not get benefits. They deserve benefits. Lets fix that.

Instead Uber/Lyft and others have chosen absolutely insane negotiating tactics. Literally their only solution is to

1. exempt all drivers from getting basic benefits like health insurance

or else

2. we're turning off our apps in California

This is madness. No on 22.
Saving the code for some random app? No way. I'm too lazy to save a restoration code for my gmail account...
In general I would not expect much privacy from a stock Android device on any chat tool considering they shamelessly ship lots of third party blobs carriers demand be included, some of which like OMA-DM toolkits have sweeping permissions on your device.

On Apple this is less true, but it is also a centralized black box that grants you no freedom, and apps can be banned at any time with little recourse.

You could use something other than Android like PostmarketOS or Librem5 however odds are Signal won't create clients for those platforms considering Moxie has stated publicly he prefers distribution through proprietary channels in order to collect usage stats. Moxie has also stated he will actively fight any third party clients that try to join his network, so we won't likely see many of those attempted for alternative platforms either.
At least the app isn't prompting them to submit a photograph of their filled in ballot.

Yet.
Open source contributor / maintainer here: I don't strive to write perfect software, I strive to use software to satisfy my constraints.

Software is tool to be used, not a holy artifact that should be polished for its own sake. The time I've spent working on software is only a proxy for the things I really care about.

- Sometimes I need to pay rent, and will work for projects that are a net positive when compared to the status quo.

- The rest of the time I'll volunteer my software engineering skills on projects that are closest to my ideals. These rarely generate revenue, but push the envelope a bit and help me develop relationships with other like-minded folks.
> Commercial software has an incentive to pump out new features to get more customers.

Not if it's SaaS.

Vendors of rented software have no economic incentive to develop new features, or even fix bugs, because they get subscription fees without needing to do any work.
Well, they’re not employees, so... /s
Why the crocodile-like gharial is returning to India’s rivers
Ah yes, nothing like an employer telling employees how to vote (and yes, I understand Uber sees them as independent contractors).
The fundamental point is that he's doing this for good reasons, beyond the trivial in issues lists of a git backed repo: he believes in what he is doing. And, he's doing it in ways which cryptographers I respect relate to: its visible work and its open to critique.

I have my own kibbitz about stuff down in the weeds, I think the decision to make a cellphone/SMS identity key in the recruitment and to have one device per identity is a design issue for me and my use case, but I understand this is not a black/white thing, and there were noises made in 2019 about moving to a different model of identity, I an content to wait, but there is the vague meta-question if the ranking of this kind of idea gets exposure too: How do we know the thinking around identity and recruitment?
IRC has a objectively better user experience, since I didn't have to dox myself to some shady corporation to start using it.
That would be illegal in most jurisdictions.
FoxConn's Wisconsin factory will be built the moment asia foxconn's factories are banned.

No more no less.
My experience upgrading Ubuntu and Arch installations says otherwise. I gave up years ago and always do a clean install now.
> You can do that, of course many of us do. But can the average user? Does the average user even know this sort of tracking goes on? And that just blocking cookies is a small part of the battle?

Well, if the average user can't configure their browser to block cookies, then forcing every website to implement a popup to re-implement cookie blocking on a semi-voluntary basis (a feature already available on the client side) seems nonsensical.
The Tau Manifesto shows how using tau = C/r makes the geometric meaning of Euler’s formula (and hence of Euler’s identity) even clearer. Disclaimer: I am the author of The Tau Manifesto.

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-euler_s_identity
Let me try. You know the concept of oppression, like "men oppress women" or "whites oppress blacks". You can talk about each of those separately. But what happens when you notice that everyone has both a gender and a race? Should e.g. a white woman be supported as a victim, or rather attacked as an oppressor?

So you get intersectionalism, the updated philosophy of "Oppression 2.0", which says that there are multiple axes of oppression (such as gender, race, sexual orientation, etc.), and instead of dividing the world into 2 groups, you need to divide it into a matrix of 2^N groups. And the idea is that multi-oppressed people have more than the sum of oppression... for example, black women face all the oppression that white women face, plus all the oppression that black men face, plus some extra oppression unique for them.

It is still black-and-white thinking along each axis of oppression. Like, it would be a heresy to suggest that women have some disadvantages, but men have some disadvantages (albeit less than women) too. No! Women have disadvantages, therefore men have no disadvantages, end of debate. Etc. However, it introduces the extra nuance that e.g. white women may have some disadvantages that black men don't have, and black men have some disadvantages that white women don't have. However, black women trump them all at being oppressed, absolutely (i.e. don't you ever dare to mention that e.g. police kills more black men than black women).

So far the theory. What it means in practice is that now you can dismiss any person by finding someone who is more oppressed. For example, in the old days, if you were in a feminist group, and you were a (white) woman, you were considered a good person, end of debate. That means, white women were at the top of the pecking order. These days, if you are in a feminist group, and you are a white woman, you are considered a good person as long as the group complains about men... but if you try to make an argument about your own oppression, if any black woman decides that you take too much of the spotlight, she can silence you using the intersectional argument. Of course, she can in turn be silenced by a black lesbian woman. Who can in turn be silenced by a... well, it doesn't go on forever like this, because at some moment someone is a too tiny minority, so people will just ignore them. So, maybe the black lesbian woman actually does not have enough political power to silence the black straight woman. Sometimes the black woman doesn't have enough political power to silence the white woman. It depends.

So, whether you are a victim or a villain, depends on who opposes you in the debate. Which is kinda what this story is about. There was a white woman, she tried to play a victim card. After losing against a stronger card, she failed to humbly accept the defeat according to the rules of the game. Therefore she received an exemplary punishment. According to the rules, she is a villain, therefore she deserves all she got. Maybe from our perspective, this is completely disproportionate. But arguably, she made the choice to play this game, so perhaps she deserves it partially.
Alternative you can link an email without it being a necessary condition.
@dx87: “It could also just be done as a thinly veiled threat to discourage people from working there”

Yea, those damn Ruskies are so stupid they left their name and home address in the compiled files.
This "Reply All" podcast episode explains the history behind this pretty well: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
“Brutalism is beautiful”? Brutalism is cost-effective, and the rest is making a virtue of a necessity IMHO. Chacon à son goût/À chacon son goût, as long as you don’t force people to look at it everyday. But neighborhoods must live with the buildings long after the architect moves away to that charming Greek island, hence the problem. The eternal problem of urban architecture and public art in general...
Luxor, a Crypto Mining Company Is Hiring a Senior Back-End Engineer
I wasn’t even against prop 22 originally... Uber improves my QoL! But the campaign they are running is so extremely dirty that it pushed me against prop 22.
As far as I can see, everyone has switched over to driverless printing via the Internet Printing Protocol.

Apple calls it AirPrint.
Microsoft calls it Universal Print.
Google killed CloudPrint and has adopted IPP as well.

What's left of CUPS seems to be the ability to allow a machine attached to a legacy printer to function as IPP print server.

Newer printers support IPP out of the box.
But is it the right password, or the duress one?
Fascinating. Do you think things would've turned out differently for you and your brother had you attended public school? Private?

I went to a truly terrible rural public school and I see many areas where that has held me back. Success was something to be ashamed of there. Loserthink was king.
The general rule is that you don't divest yourself of an asset unless you are going to buy another asset or make an investment that better serves your financial goals. Cash is just money, but equity will work for you 24/7/365 for as long as you let it. Everyone has different circumstances and preferences though, so there's no universal answer.
The exact opposite is generally true.
This is why I've stopped working on free software.

Yes, the minority ruin it for the majority, but the majority, at the end of the day, don't have to read my inbox.
Injection molding is really hard. I can program and I find it to be harder than computer science, by a lot.
A friend of mine had children that went to Steiner schools and they weren't taught to read until they were 7, and he said they could read adult level books by 9.

It appears there's evidence that this is true in general[1] (though the author suggests they could go even faster if they updated their methods further)

I also remember reading in a Tony Buzan book his speculation that learning to read too early interfered with the, what he claims, is the natural eidetic memory potential in children. I don't have any of his books here to find the reference, unfortunately. Perhaps there's something in it, perhaps not.

[1] https://theconversation.com/steiner-schools-should-adopt-mod...
Illegality of action didn’t faze Uber before.
> But these conversations often lose sight of the main way our projects produce social good: through good work on our mission.

At the risk of being maybe a little plaintive: what happens when that mission is bad? It's not clear to this (government-funded) researcher that good (meaning quality) work, even when it's always open-sourced, translates to a good (meaning ethical) mission.
Thanks for this, very cool.
Obvious attempt at regulatory capture. Follow the money behind 22, the intentions are obvious.
It's not gone, it's become annoying: go to the three dots menu and select "share...". Then look for a thing that says "Chrome" with "print" under it.
In other words, a 1970s childhood.
Free software ≠ non-commercial software

That’s a false dichotomy.
Really hope it works out! Good luck to you and your team.
It is really disgusting how Silicon Valley has embraced the tactic of holding other people's livelihoods hostage while they try to make a few percent more profit.

Epic is doing the same thing with the Unreal Engine code. They deliberately violated Apple TOS knowing it would get the account banned, and then they try to leverage all those other developers who are going to lose iOS support against the big bad Apple who is taking away your livelihood, all so they can establish their own store and make a higher percentage of the revenue from the sales other people's work (to be clear: they already make money from the sales of games based on Unreal, they just want to make more).

It's not just Uber, it's part of a broader trend tech companies adopting this tactic. It's seriously disgusting, this is the lowest thing to come out of the Silicon Valley techbros in a long time.
I can see how popular free software can be more reliable since you have a critical mass that uses it regularly as well as can fix bugs as they come up. However, there's a bit of survivorship bias here. Free software that is unreliable may never reach critical mass in terms of user base as well as open source developers, i.e. a sort of "Great Filter" applied to FOSS
Please stop doing this. Fishing for product insight on such broad opinions in an open forum does a disservice for Gitlab the product and the team. If it was a natural question... But this is so canned, every gitlab employee here does it, sounds flaky and impersonal. Almost troll-like, maybe even arrogant tbh.

You really don't know why Gitlab is not an issue tracker like Jira is? I'm sure you do, or at least you should know. Being an issue tracker like Jira is not even a bad thing! So why try to look like you think you can be as bad as Jira?

/rant (from a Gitlab fan)
With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling.

> Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch of hackers just can't do this.”

Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.

> Barton P. Miller and his colleagues tested the reliability of Unix utility programs in 1990 and 1995. Each time, GNU's utilities came out considerably ahead.

That's great, but it's 2020 now.

The FSF has done awesome work, but they might be better served presenting modern research and evidence about the reliability of free software.
On Android, Signal sets the flag on the text entry box that disables IME personalization, the same way that the text entry box works in Chrome's incognito mode.

Whether or not Google respects it is not clear, but it does show a little incognito mode icon on the keyboard.
Except if you read even the beginning of the article you learn that she was accepting submissions from black people as well. In other words, anti-white, or, at least, white-exclusionary. What everyone used to call “racist”.
I was home schooled in grade school (1-6th) and went in Junior High. There was kind of like a large group of home schoolers, all of them tested very high. My test scores for a private Catholic School at the end 6th grade, they wanted to put me into Sophomore in High School. Thank god my parents understood socially it would have been hard.

There were 80 kids in my home school group that were in my grade, maybe half skipped a year when they went to school. That's a small sample size, but not that surprising as most home school parents highly value education.
The NYT article claims that 'the psychologists Peter Gray and Gina Riley published a 2013 survey of about 230 unschooling families, they found “a wide range in terms of socioeconomic strata.”'.

I followed the link and the source is... flimsy at best. The lack of numbers here is conspicuous, especially when combined with the fact that most of the respondents were stay-at-home moms, not something super common among the American working-class.

I do not think the rise of this phenomenon is unrelated to the increasing number of affluent, young white parents raising their children in urban cores while remaining afraid of the school system.
There does not seem to be any text to say this is Coinbase-inspired. The FAQ does refer to Tesla's and Coinbase's corporate mission statements, but there is no claim or indication that this code of conduct is inspired by either.

Perhaps that part is commentary added by the submitter?
The sheer dollar amount of contribution comparing support (~10 mil) vs opposition (~$184 mil) shows how much power imbalance exists between workers vs. corporations.

The drivers are the essential part of their business so those who work full-time should be entitled to get benefits. Period.

Source(s): https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
Can you shed some light on what the premium offers are going to be?
Generally, in decreasing order of importance:

1. quality and quantity of false statements on the record (if any)

2. retractions (if any)

3. accuracy and reliability of their data

4. accuracy and reliability of relayed data from third parties

Repeat for their individual contributors, affiliates, etc.
Well, obviously it's superior if you have an executive summary. This thread's context is:

* CA

* Many pages of disclosures

* A recommendation to use C-f in an electronic copy to find the right things

That's not going to work. In CA, for instance, you'll receive a disclosure telling you about leaking tanks on your neighbour's property and so on for a mile or so. And no one, literally no one will provide you with an executive summary that they'll stand by.

But you know what? It doesn't matter. It's your house. Read what you want. C-f if you want.
I really don't think folks like nullc (one of the prominent critics here) need (or care) to signal rank here. Saying that's driving the criticism is an easy way to write it off.
Seems like the exact opposite is happening right now. Since he isn’t issuing a blanket denial, people think that means it’s not fake.
Are you using two accounts or is this two different russian agents posting?
Certainly, for all-staff messages. It prevents reply-all storms.
Not far off from that, it seems:

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1318277154908536833
im already no on 22, where did you get the 2% higher profit figure from?
Good is purely subjective. The project by definition targets what the creators thought were good?
It would be helpful if you could let us know how you managed to send that e-mail.
Perhaps I should have said “anti-competitive”. As you note, it’s very difficult to survive as an app developer on other platforms, and that’s bad for users ultimately.

I would like to see the US crack down on anti-competitive behavior in general, but especially in cases where companies are deriving value by gate-keeping some large network. To this effect, I think Apple is a relatively minor problem compared to social media networks. Consumers have no meaningful choice (hopefully I don’t need to elaborate on why Facebook vs Twitter is a false choice) and it allows social media companies to get away with all kinds of awful behavior, but especially the ability to steer the course of democracy (by determining at scale who is exposed to which ideas and at what potency) and then selling that as a service to the highest bidder or even serving as an attack vector for other states to steer our democracy (or other democracies for that matter). A monopoly over the flow of speech is intolerable for a democracy, and at least in America where conservatives are concerned about censorship of conservative speech by Silicon Valley progressives and liberals are concerned about Russian manipulation, it seems like a naturally bipartisan concern.

Edit: genuinely wondering what downvoters are objecting to in particular? Do you not believe that social media companies have a monopoly over their own networks? Do you disagree that they can and do steer public opinion and thus public policy? Do you disagree that this is a bad outcome? Perhaps it’s a bad outcome but regulation is an ineffective solution (e.g., libertarianism)? Educate me.
Are you really in charge though? Discord has deleted servers over political speech. It sounds nice and agreeable and all when you're calling them out for being "Nazis", but the fact is that there's no due process or chance of a fair appeal if you're arbitrarily labelled as one of these "Nazis". You have the illusion of being in charge but are ultimately a feudal serf.

Anyone actively and freely communicating on an actual independent platform is instead seen as a liability to the public because there's no implied threat or leverage over their community.

https://blog.discord.com/our-stand-on-racial-equality-320088...
Battle for Wesnoth might be a counterexample to your argument about games: http://wesnoth.org It's an open source video game that's of high quality with good user experience, developed by lots of folks over a long period of time and available on many platforms.
If you've heard 5-10 plausible meanings for "intelligence", and every one of them is heritable, then you can be pretty sure that "intelligence" is heritable even if you're not sure which particular meaning someone is using.

And the article says: "on average, psychological traits are extremely heritable, at around 50 per cent." It's hard to argue for a definition of "intelligence" that wouldn't be a psychological trait.
> The bad guys can also be IN the government.

Yes, possible, focus on the "can/might". In general I would say that it's less likely (on the other hand there will always be 100% chances of the opposite, meaning that there will always be N bad citizens brainstorming about how to use "the system"/"any system" for their own advantage).

> When the government consistently omits threats from state bodies in its risk analyses, then the public tends to overlook that danger and ...

Well, it can be true (meaning that in general people are probably more prone to accept compromises when they feel threatened), but such a general discussion is in my opinion out of context here. Monero was designed to handle transactions in a way that pushes privacy to the extremes, unluckily at the same time the same mechanism can be used as well by criminals.

Personally I think that "currently" the ones benefiting of the features offered by a cryptocurrency like Monero are mostly criminals as I don't think that most people have a strong need for highly-private transactions (might change in the future). Monero's other features of flexibility/access/etc... (to e.g. be able to trade in 3rd world countries without the need to have a bank account) are already offered by other cryptocurrencies.
> They should implement their own keyboard or find a way to disable text prediction - and educate their users.

They do disable personalized text prediction. You are just misleading readers.
Watch Rewind, created to celebrate the fsf35 birthday
It provides forward secrecy and deniability. Your chat database doesn't prove that I said what your database says I said.
I'd say for most students, the vast majority of time they spend in school, they're not learning anything. The content of curriculums are usually quite short and can be crammed in a few weeks by a dedicated and intelligent enough student. For students that need more time, they often disengage anyway and all the time in the world won't help them learn using the same techniques.

I used to be a math teacher, and when a student failed the final exam, I'd spend a few hours one on one, then they could take another exam. The students that pissed around all term and bombed the first attempt often quickly picked up most of it in the 1-1 sessions and passed the 2nd attempt. I jokingly suggested to my boss that maybe we should scrap classes and just divide up my hours on 1-1 sessions with every student for greater efficiency.
I am just an user of Uber (not a driver) and Uber has been showing shit like this on my phone.

https://i.ibb.co/7yQLdY6/7865-CBAD-6928-4637-958-C-011736362...

I haven't used the app for a year or so.

This is fucking ridiculous. I have uninstalled Uber and I will also recommend all my friends to do the same.