skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so then Uber would just be paying taxes from the sale of the rides. I'm kind of confused as to why that would be an issue. But happy to hear more about it.

> If there's a cap on hours, you've now got a competing interest which says there's an incentive to NOT work while the market isn't surging- because you might cost yourself greater earnings down the line.

Ok so then is the cap 8 hours? 10? Is it 7? It seems to me that you're inventing more problems to solve a different problem than is worthwhile. You can have more drivers doing less hours, if the economics of it work (and neither of us know whether or not it does, and ironically enough I doubt the State of California does either). The point isn't to move goal posts around a set number of hours, the point is to illustrate that is exactly what you're advocating for.
> On the other hand, California also created a bill that targets two companies specifically; kind of its own special interest if you will.

And it's not like California just decided to target those two companies for fun. Labor unions lobbied Lorena Gonzalez to get AB5 passed so that they could have more dues paying members. So there's a clear special interest responsible for AB5.
> Women appear to be disproportionately willing to do low-status/non public-facing/schlep work

I don’t think this is true at all.
It keeps a terminal emulator for each input stream using pyte (pure python terminal emulator). Then draws everything using ANSI escape codes to put the cursor in different places :)
> And the worst being the attribute #[] syntax... why?!

Hah. Since the initial RFC was agreed, I think there were three changes to the syntax because no-one could agree. At one point it was going to be `@@attribute`. #[] is similar to or the same as Rust, I believe. It also has the advantage of being backwards compatible; while rarely used, comments in PHP can start with # instead of //, so older versions of PHP will just see an attribute as a comment. Of course, that also means that a comment in old code might now be interpreted as an attribute, but there you go.

Single @ is probably a no go because @ is already the error suppressing operator. Now, in my opinion that should be ejected from the language with extreme prejudice, but I doubt it ever will be.
Isn't Azure leading the turnaround, not Windows?
I also taught myself to program in 3rd grade and read the classics on my own as a child.

But also, I've taught thousands of students.

Your claim might be true in some abstract sense. I could believe that if we give all students personal tutors from a young age then most any student can learn how to learn on their own by age 10 or 15 or so. Having educated and involved parents certainly made that possible for me and I'm nothing special.

But conservatively 90% of students don't arrive at college ready for that level of self-directed learning. Consider e.g. that about half of college students are first generation college students.
Has anyone mapped a fully functioning "piano" to the keyboard?
This is the same guy who said "We don't hire .NET developers"[0], so he clearly has no problem going on incendiary rants that make people angry.

While I personally agree with this particular message, it's entirely inappropriate to send it over this channel. Especially considering most end-users, such as myself, aren't paying customers, but are employees of paying customers. I doubt this is going to trigger enough uproar in any tech company to have them switch their expense reporting software, but it does set a dangerous precedent. Are representatives from Jira and Asana going to start e-mailing me asking me to vote a certain way in my state elections?

If we don't push back against this, it will become the norm, and we'll have to deal with a cacophony of e-mails with voting directions from businesses every cycle. If you thought GDPR e-mails are bad, this will be much worse.

[0] https://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont...
No. Use pnpm (and Volta js) instead.
You need both.

If you make a bunch of art but don’t try to make it quality, you’ll grow very little.

You need to try hard many times and fail, then you get to mastery and quality.
I was caught by corona in the official middle of nowhere 3rd world country.

DHL from Shenzhen to here took almost a month.

I am very, very glad I can work remotely, and rack not so bad salary in a very cheap country to live. Yet, moving anything physical takes an extraordinary amount of time, and shuts down any productivity.
Evolutionary Anachronism
#spaceforce
It's an interesting find. The difference between these sites and spam sites is that they are mostly self-contained comment boards. You have to actually go do them to interact with them, where spammers were breaking the internet.

What clicked for me in this article is asking why I ever thought the internet was about ideas, what it might have meant pre-internet for people to be free of a "mainstream" in the old music and style subcultures, and what the consequences of "eternal september," really were.

When we say mainstream, I think we mean aligned to the dominant power, and the culture that comes with a mainstream is based on litigating rules for incremental advantage. Internet trolls use the higher bar for entry of tech focused platforms to harass people who are competing in the desperate political struggle for approval that is mainstream social media. Conversely, this mainstream culture is also the source of the visceral disgust some people have for lawyers, journalists, activists, and other people who affect being underdogs so they aren't held to the standards of honest people, and then antagonize others using those dominant rules as a cover. The same can be said for trolls. What it comes down to is this calculus of self permission to act like a piece of shit because you identify as the underdog.

It's not the platforms, it's the single idea that identifying as an outsider, resister, pariah, defender, or challenger, justifies cruelty because being "good," is defined by your chosen bugbear. The reality is the mainstream is not "good," the public sphere is an open sewer, and the only things that float in it are turds. It's not a right/left thing, it's a conflict between people competing for mainstream power and people trying to find freedom from that mainstream's domain, with some of each self-identifying as beneath decency.

The conspiracy-sphere of alternative internet platforms isn't the problem. I would defend the necessity of their existence because trying and failing and building new things requires real privacy away from the mindless predation of both the mainstream and the pariah net. Sure, take them down as a forcing function to make the new private sphere stronger with a higher bar to entry that is cryptographically enabled, but it's not solving the problem they think.
Oof, Texas A&M and Northern Colorado. That's a bit too far for a quick jaunt.
Press and hold space.

You're welcome ^_^
Maybe I was lucky and just had a string of good PFE’s, but my experience with MS support has been great.
Cookies aren't regulated by the GDPR[0] but instead by the ePrivacy Directive.[1]

Article 5(3) of that directive states that

"Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user."

In other words, unless the cookies are strictly necessary to providing you with the service then you must provide users information about what the cookies are used for, and you must offer an opt-out.

(It's also worth pointing out the generality of this Directive, too: It doesn't only apply to cookies, but also to things like localStorage).

The ePrivacy Directive is, as its name suggests, a Directive which is addressed to member states of the European Union which have all written it in to domestic law.

In the UK, for example, it was implemented as PECR[2].

[0] The ePrivacy Directive does reference the old legislation that the GDPR replaces, so you should consider the reference in the ePD to Directive 95/46/EC as a reference to the GDPR. This means the standard of "consent" is the GDPR's standard now.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

[2] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...
8chan was created when 4chan disallowed child pornography and their owner bought it when all this QAnon stuff started.
Folks in the status professions (banking, law,..) often tell me they want to become an entrepreneur. I always tell them, you wont do it. They attended the right school, joined the right firm, attained that corner office. As a founder they would give up all that, and their family and friends will tell them that they've made a massive mistake, for years, while it appears that nothing is happening.

Then they sheepishly admit that this is true.

As a bootstrapped founder when I was younger, even dating was awkward. People considered me to be quasi-unemployed, despite working 80 hours a week. It's really hard to do if you're thirsty for status.
Number 3 wil surprise you!
As an update to yesterday: After emailing our local Member of Parliament (Rt Hon Dame Cheryl Gillian), and reaching out to Openreach CEO Clive Selley, we've finally been connected!

A member of the Chief Engineer Technical Escalation Team was put on the case, who arranged for a Senior Engineer to visit us today. The engineer arrived early this morning, and immediately set about finishing the copper run from several poles away to us. Before long he was back at our door to handle the internal wiring, which he quickly noted had an unnecessary route bridge (I don't know what this means, but it relates to internal copper wiring), which was degrading the signal. After the fix, he got us up and running at just under 30Mb/s (7Mb/s upload) - not stellar, but this will do until our longer term plans come to fruition (a joint FTTPoD order with many of our neighbours, using the Government's DCMS Gigabit Voucher Scheme to bring us 900Mb/s full-fibre).

My family and I are extremely grateful to Clive Selley and his team for taking a personal interest in our case, and local MP Cheryl Gillian's staff for playing their part. (sadly there was no response from Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch.)

The engineer who ultimately got us connected today told me he was in the process of studying for a masters in Nuclear Engineering, and I wish him the very best in that endeavour!
This is what I call "empty content". It gives a promise: 1KW of DIY wind power for $30. And then it shows a bunch of pictures and some extremely basic instructions. From the page:

"Attaching [the DC generator] is mostly just a matter of stripping everything off the motor, attaching a pulley to the shaft, running a toothed timing belt around the wheel rim (with a layer of nylon strapping bolted to the wheel to protect the belt and give it something to grab onto) and attaching the motor to the pole frame as shown, with long bolts so you can easily adjust the tension on the belt."

Strip motor, attach pulley, build a tensioner. The text makes it sound trivial, but those are non-trivial steps. Attaching a pulley to a scrap motor can be quite an ordeal. Building a tensioner that works requires fabrication.

I'm not saying it's super complicated, I'm saying it's not "oh by the way make a tensioner" or "attach a pulley- done!" Glossing over details like that with a magic wand is what makes such projects appear even more unapproachable.
What nullsense is describing is a problem a lot of people are reporting during pandemic WFH.

It doesn't make sense to trivialise it, it's a real and significant problem. What makes sense is to understand it and come up with ways to change it.

Brains have a lot to answer for. So do social pressures inside homes.

Maybe your brain needs 2 x 1 hour chunks every day, staring out of a window with nothing you have to do, nobody to talk with, no pressure whatsoever, supported even by an effortless coffee and snack that magically arrive, to reset your brain between major contexts.

But in some homes, taking 2 hours of "downtime" will result in conflict on a regular basis, and it will escalate.

Maybe you'll get asked to do more chores. Fix things on the household backlog. Talk through things on the household backlog. Maybe you'll find yourself in conversations that prevent you getting essential brain-rest that you were used to before WFH.

There's a big difference in practice in domestic interactions between being physically unavailable because you're on the train or in a car for 2 hours, versus looking to others like you're doing "nothing" for 2 hours.

This is not a problem which can be solved by some little conversation. Even when other people understand, they don't feel at ease. It's a lingering point of conflict in many households, previously resolved by leaving the house and "having to go".

If you don't have other people at home, that are different issues at play, but a lot of people are reporting similar brain boundary issues with pandemic WFH when living alone too.
England's Covid-19 lockdown led to 12M adults doing almost no exercise
You can get a lot done if you have a competent programmer-archaeologist on board.
Ability to be under-paid or under-appreciated for the work is the real predictor here. That's why startups are a rich-person's game. The people who succeed by being "low-status" for a long time aren't really low-status at all. . . they are high-status in other ways and can afford to let their start-up garden grow because their sense of self-worth, and income aren't totally tied to it.
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I’ve heard this story lots of different ways and assumed it was a fictional allegory. If it’s true, I can’t help imagining some poor student in the “quality” group at the end of the class, after the big reveal, looking down at their inferior ceramic bowl and going, “well, that was a waste of time,” and then maybe there's a sad moment later where they give up their dreams of becoming a ceramicist.
People like to downplay this by saying you can be entirely remote with no problems. Probably true if what you're doing is CRUD app stuff that most people on the team have a good idea of how to do, but I'm skeptical that it works for other types of project/product.

I work with hardware and being able to have someone physically look at a schematic with me or explain something to me in person greatly shortens the amount of time it takes me to understand them.

Edit: I also think we don't know the long term effects being remote has on innovation. It seems like people congregate in cities because the rewards to being near people are greater than the costs. Is technology really so good now that it can offset all the years of evolution we've gone through to make us into the social animals we are?
hmm so HN became very toxic nowadays ... even a comment like this gets downvoted
> A large part of it is failing to adapt to the local culture.[0]

Did you mean to link an example of that with the [0]? I'm curious to read about that.
CPU vs. GPU: A Discussion about Hardware Acceleration and Rendering (2015)
Only 9 basically proves OPs point. I haven’t been near 4chan for over a decade but it was more like 9 times per post back in the day(a slight exaggeration)
The word you're looking for to describe the situation you're in is "capitalism".

Nobody wants to be "low-status". That's a terrible narrative. All that's being illustrated here is that being low-status is the default, and success is a matter of luck, not of merit or hard work.

Capitalism doesn't care how hard you work. It doesn't even care if you deserve the status you have (high or low). It cares about money above all else, even more than you.
Chance/Luck is surely involved, but I'd argue that you can make it far easier for luck to find you. If you get a degree in an upcoming field or start a company you're not guaranteed anything, but your chances are a lot better than if you're just slacking off.

Sure, at the end it's a dice role, but you can get a better dice ;)
Two Names, Three Opinions
I think arguments against PHP could be make against many other languages, ie: Javascript or python. But they are not done as much and I think this indicates that people make those arguments in bad faith.

If we say once a better language comes along, we should say that the old language is shit and should die, then sure keep doing that. But looking at the languages that you have listed above, none of them are dynamically type I belive although not familiar with a couple of them. For some small projects people might prefer dynamic typing, or if you are prototyping something.

Also the amount of libraries, frameworks and projects already written PHP is massive so if someone wants to do something fast, why limit people's choices by trying to convince everyone that the language is shit instead of letting people decide for themselves? It just feels like a witch hunt to me.
We're all Internet users here and reporting the news isn't what we are going to consider doxxing.
You're braindead.
They make qualitative arguments, nobody has any realistic prediction of what the probabilities are.

And the problem has never been making new theories, the problem is always that we have a very good model, and no principled way for choosing between all the possible theories that gives rise to almost precisely that model.

So people tried to invent reasons and so far nobody has had any luck. And Hossenfelder is correct that in hindsight naturalness wasn't a very good rule.

But by the same hindsight, no theory that could be detected in previous experiments would have worked either. In this view, making the experiments at all was a complete waste, we should just have drawn the winning theory from a hat and stopped all further work.
Or far more likely: Most revolutionary breakthroughs are first viewed as silly / insignificant. If they were easily recognisable for what they are, they'd have been discovered already (low hanging fruit). All of my successful ideas started this way.

It's not a willingness to be low-status; it's a willingness to persevere in the face of ridicule/obscurity while ALSO having an actually good idea that you have a chance of successfully iterating on.

The only difference between visionary and batshit crazy is success.
Why Is the First Sacrifice Rejected?
There's enough tailgating going on outdoors up in the north, I'm not sure a little bit of a nippy wind is going to keep anybody indoors :)
Was Ballmer a big proponent of privacy?
Thank you for this, needed a chuckle this morning.
Yes! I use colemak, so its rather annoying when there's games that assume WASD but use characters and don't let me rebind the keys.
Well it may be she is a great choice for that tax funded education as this is but a one year assignment and someone who is willing to put forth this much effort back by the creativity she did to be noticed is not likely someone to sit on their education.
> The Cold Equations

I never liked this very much, because the whole "we can only take exactly this mass, and an extra 60kg or whatever will doom us" thing is such an obvious design and/or process flaw. If you really are dependent on that (though I don't think the author made the case that they were, convincingly), you need to ensure it (by, for instance, weighing the craft); it's ridiculously optimistic to think that someone never accidentally leaves a piece of equipment lying around, say.

And even if you accept the absurd premise, it still doesn't work; the stowaway would presumably have used consumables (oxygen, if nothing else), and if you're that weight constrained you won't be carrying excess consumables anyway, so you're still doomed even if you lose the stowaway.

If anything, it's the same thing that bothers me about some 'softer' sci-fi; take a story you want to tell, and construct some completely implausible rules to make it work. To add insult to injury here, it's... not a very good story, IMO. Also, I believe Clarke hinted at a similar scenario in Islands in the Sky, published two years previously, though it didn't actually _happen_ there.
Deploying HIPAA-Compliant Software
I'm as big of a Satya fan as anyone, but someone who doesn't get enough credit is Ballmer.

It wasn't a coincidence that on the day Ballmer stepped down and Satya became CEO (2014), Microsoft also announced Office for iOS, Cloud first strategy, and a whole slew of cloud/Azure product announcements.

All of which was developed under Ballmer watch and he handed off the launch and continued execution to Satya.
No he didn't. He turned the company even harder to farming plumpy corporate clients whom they already had on software+service deals with "cloud" thing subscriptions. A Microsoft salesman who visited us last year was almost begging us to switch to Cloud AD from regular AD. This is how hard they are moving toward that.

It was just a long delayed admission that you can't make a lot of money on offline boxed software sales today.
It is, but it was invented so that Mozilla could build a radically more performant browser. That was going to be Servo until they decided that replacing their rendering engine was too high risk. So now they have a radically more performant CSS styling library and all the problems they set out to solve are still there.
It's not that the speed of light varies, it's that the "amount of computation" you can do varies. As you approach the center of the galaxy even the relatively efficient human brain starts to break down. The speed of light connection is that FTL requires so much computation that it breaks at a certain point relatively far out from the center. Other technologies have similar issues.

However, if you read carefully, and consider some of the consequences, it becomes clear that this is not a natural rule of the universe, but something technological, created by presumably one of the first civilizations to become highly technological as a defense against what would otherwise be a fairly vicious universe with constant high-tech civilizations fighting each other with frightfully powerful weapons, and perhaps a hint of compassion towards the not-yet-high-tech civilizations. That's why it can be manipulated with certain keys, in ways that would not be possible (lots of FTL signalling) if the Zones were truly a fundamental rule of the universe. (Notice also how the super-high-tech civilizations don't understand how the Zones work or why they exist, which if there were purely natural seems unlikely.) The Powers tend to last 10 years probably because that's how long it takes to either be accepted by the highly advanced civilization(s) that live in the galactic cores, or how long it takes to work out how to move there despite the Zones being in the way, or both. This creates an entrance gate against things like the main threat of the novel getting into your high-tech civ.

I don't deny I'm extrapolating a bit, but there's a lot of hints, especially if you add A Deepness in the Sky to the mix. Pham was probably sent from this central civ to fight A Fire Upon the Deep's main threat, if you read where he came from. The entire planet of A Deepness in the Sky is clearly from a super-high tech civ far beyond what Earth's depth could support, but it's from closer to the galaxy's core, not farther, which is why Pham went in to the galaxy's core after that story rather than out looking for more intelligent life. He in fact found it, or it found him, if you prefer.

Once you see there's a probably-even-beyond-Transcend civilization living under the Zones of Thought it mostly comes together.