skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add my 2 cents here as a Deliveroo rider (bicycle) in the UK.

I ride only a few hours a week on Friday and Saturday evenings for extra money. For this purpose it's good for me and the flexibility suits me. However, I would prefer to do a few more hours on weekday evenings but don't bother because every time I have tried recently I end up sitting in the cold with no orders coming in.

This is the primary problem with Deliveroo in terms of workers rights - they push the cost of supply/demand asymmetry entirely onto the "worker". What's worse is you will often be told that it is "busy" or at least "moderate" in terms of demand in a particular area but then can't get any work when you arrive (and if you don't get orders, you don't get paid). A few weeks ago I found myself in a supposedly "busy" area not receiving orders; in my field of view I counted 14 other Deliveroo riders on bicycles - when there are so many other people it's no surprise that you can't get order, even if demand is high. Ultimately, Deliveroo can increase supply as much as they want and it doesn't really cost them as the riders who wait around and don't get orders just don't get paid. The claims they make through the app about demand in a given area are often misleading as a result of the asymmetry, but it's unpredictable enough that you can never really tell.

At this point I only work the hours that are almost always profitable and don't bother with the rest. This is okay for me as I only need a small amount of extra money anyway but if I really needed the money it would be a lot more stressful.

This is from the perspective of a rider on a bicycle, my understanding is that things are generally a bit better for those on mopeds. I know a lot of riders use multiple apps like Uber Eats, Just Eat, etc. too which makes things better.

I'm personally a bit sceptical of applying the standard workers rights legislation to these companies - it makes more sense for Uber because most of the drivers do it as their full time job but I think you would end up destroying some of the benefits too (like flexibility) with Deliveroo. I do think something needs to be done though. Not sure how you would design it but I think any legislation should focus on the way they exploit the supply/demand asymmetry and make semi-fraudulent claims about demand to riders. We have the "freedom" to choose hours but there is no freedom around the information needed to make reasonable estimates of how much money you might make if you choose to go out and work.

The actual job itself is fine as long as you make money, it requires almost zero cognitive ability and is good exercise.
Watching 2001 again pains me endlessly for what could have been. What was just background technology in that movie (Skype and iPads) is the best we’ve managed from it.
Software engineer and a farmer here. distractions are overrated. i ditched mine and my life improved greatly. ive since learned that building and making things is much more fun than crappy electronics toys content or drugs. Passive entertainment is for the lazy and those that lack creativity. Try picking up a hobby like woodwork or blacksmithing. Having sampled all of those listed distractions extensively, i can say im qualified to make the assertion.
I think this is great. I will upgrade ChiselApp.com to use Fossil 2.15 as soon as it's released.

A bit off-topic, but the thing I miss most when I use Fossil (versus GitHub.com) is the ability to do code reviews and leave in-line comments on code.

Also, pull requests [0] would be awesome for some of my more public projects.

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/01d77b7259ea0b00b7065...
Old Radioactive Russian Spy Satellites Fall to Earth, and More Will Soon Follow
Yeah, but they built their own engine after they didn't find one light and powerful enough. Building ones own engine in that time was not trivial.
Yeah, good point. Some more: anime, manga, samurai.
Ryan Holiday is opening a bookstore outside Austin
yeah, after looking around some demo themes, was about to make a theme, got blocked by signup and closed tab
If you're socializing with co-workers you're also not working. One of the problems is the 8 hour work day. I don't want to be forced to spend 40+ hours a week with co-workers. That is why people aren't having healthy social lives. Work is draining their time and energy. Yes, people make due by creating social bonds with their co-workers, but I'd hardly call that ideal.
Aye, hence the "might". They'd have to accept well below market rates.
Is the ship still stuck? (in the Suez Canal)
Snow in Siberia found polluted with microplastics
Uggh yes. Which is awesome, but... damn! haha

Might need to delete and repost later?
I'm currently imagining a nightmare scenario where those gas station tv ads are playing inside of the car. I sincerely hope that day never comes.
> Unless you opt-in during Google Cloud SDK installation, Cloud SDK software does not collect usage statistics

It is opt in.
at least it has a transparent background....
That's basically option C really.
Read/listen/watch long form content about something you don't understand very well, and attempt to summarise it. Share your notes with someone else, and see if they understand.

Look for "active listening" skills.
You can't refuse legal tender as a business in the US. If you suspect counterfeit bills, you need proof (the marker or it lacks some security feature like watermark or strip) and then you're supposed to call the police immediately about it. You can refuse the sale in general... but that's a tricky one left to someone else to answer.
I'll paraphrase some of my other comment to explain why I think that "individualism" is somewhat of a red herring.

Unless you live in a self-sufficient homestead in the middle of a forest, there's no such thing as a "self-made man". Take Amazon for instance: they benefit from roads and infrastructure. But they also benefit from things like police and courts to protect their private property, just like they rely on a workforce capable of meeting their demands. Ultimately, they also benefit from a stable society and mostly wealthy enough population to afford their products! And finally, one can say that they benefit from the work of the people who invented the Internet, who invented computers, who made the American Revolution, the ancient Greek philosophers and the medieval mathematicians and Copernicus and Galileo and Newton, in short: directly or indirectly from the combined work of every single human being which lived and has ever lived. That's what's hidden behind the simple word "society". And that's why no person is "self-made".

For this, Amazon reaps enormous profit. They need to pay what's due: they owe a debt to society, for it was society that enabled their profit.

In a more practical sense, individualism is often found in practice to be pulled as a justification for privatising our economic output in the hands of a lucky few, and for ever-greater concentrations of wealth and an unjust distribution of duties and rewards. I'm suspicious of it on that count as well.
Can you remove sign up?
Sure, there's a certain logic to it.

I just think it's an unimpeachable example of the disconnect between biological and grammatical gender.
Human-Readable JavaScript: A Tale of Two Experts
There is a "!" missing from the title[0], should be

awk '!a[$0]++'

"removes duplicates while maintaining order. a feat unachieved by uniq or sort -u which either removes only adjacent duplicates or has to break order to remove duplicates."

Also, this version[1], which works with gawks from 2013 and after, changes the file in place as it goes, where the original version just makes the array which then needs to be printed/saved:

gawk -i inplace '!a[$0]++' file

(The original version seems to only work with files up to about 2GB.)

p.s. The current misspelled title using "Awk", raises another question–I was surprised that "Awk '!a[$0]++'" works too (on Mac at least). If I "ls Awk" in \usr\bin, it says Awk is there. If I "ls awk" it says awk is also there—but it seems they're the same file, and it's only pretending Awk is a file. AWK also... I never noticed that before!

[0] I sympathize—I once tried to submit a !!Con talk.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/320128
I practice rote memorization of some 340+ hentaigana with Anki.

It is completely brutal.

I reviewed this one 384 times already: https://www.benricho.org/kana/kana-img/f4f6.gif

The lapses are just crazy.

My second most reviewed, at 374 times, is https://www.benricho.org/kana/kana-img/f465.gif

Third, at 306 times, https://www.benricho.org/kana/kana-img/f4b7.gif
Not having social bonds out of work is definitely a problem with our society. It's fixable though, there are lots of groups outside of work you can connect with and start meeting people. The internet made this a lot easier.

> For others they prefer their co-workers over forced social socialization due to family relations.

Honestly, these are the co-workers I hate being around the most as they treat you like an outlet for not just social contact but often therapy or venting about their family. I literally never want to hear about a co-worker's terrible marriage (for an example I've had to deal with quite a bit).
The idolisation of the lucky geniuses who made that one final leap is unfortunately necessary because this inspires and motivates not just the people doing the work but children and public alike. Humans are attracted to celebrity, I’d much rather it’s the wright brothers than the Jenner sisters.
Of course it can beat that. Just swap "Call of Duty" with something that only runs on Linux.
That's fair - I wasn't really implying they were equivalent and that sentence is really just to lead into "I find problems more interesting than solutions", but you're right that I'm probably 'cheating' a bit.
Closer to a hundred million fold :)
First to launch with an assist from a rail and dolly. Dumont's was likely the first unassisted launch.
If I do the math but I store a lot of data that gets served by a CDN. It rarely changes and is requested enough that it will stay in the cache. I'm already paying for the CDN, so I can't save there but if can save on storage, it could be useful.

I'm not disagreeing with the point that that pricing is clear or not "hidden" but more that there's a use case here that can make sense.
Do you have a link regarding these 13 years?
Do people not understand how insulting it is to call people in poorer nations who work hard to build a better lives for themselves and their families by making the crap you buy "slaves" is? Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this?
Do you have a source for these numbers?
> making them wear a sleave so that the rest of us know that they demand to be treated "special" would be a good start.

Ooh, could we have Hugh Boss design it? Or why not take it a step further and keep a database of all the known autistic people and have them tattoo their ID number on their arm!

Glossing over the tremendous amount of incorrect and unfounded "information" in your hateful screed, you do recognize that what you're suggesting is what the Nazis did to the Jews and gays, correct?
There are some apps that are really necessary....a good messaging app, a ride hailing app, a map app, a decent browser, a notepad, a money sending app, maybe a couple others. The others are just a waste of time and I would actively prefer a phone ecosystem that does not support them. It's what I loved about Windows phones.
The biggest benefit to cutting out shampoos and conditioners and heavily scented soaps is that if you're outside, mosquitoes and black flies will mostly leave you alone without having to use bug spray.

Use a basic unscented or mildly scented bar soap like Ivory and you can go from having a cloud of insects plaguing you to almost nothing.
The Zodiac puzzle was not involved in the shooting this week. It's ok to solve the puzzle.
Strange, my experience is also the exact opposite. I really wonder why that is?

I'm running about 10 windows 10 machines, various builds, auto updates enabled. Some in a domain, some in a workgroup. The last time an update bricked a system, or even broke a feature, must be over a year ago.

Now on Ubuntu, I have the same experience as some other posters. I'm reasonably confident that I can update if I do it semi regularly. But the number of times I've experienced breakage that lead to hours of bugfixing during $DAYJOB, is way too high. Now everything is in its own tightly controller docker, no more random breakage (unless docker breaks, or a key expires...).

A debian 9 apt upgrade actually managed to render my install inoperable once. But that might be semi-unfair as it had to do with graphics drivers.

Are you running windows systems on semi-recent hardware? Or is it all decades old thinkpad laptops with shitty thirdparty drivers?
what is the release cadence of emacs?
jup. unfortunately, strawberry has some gtk6 issues after they upgraded. with gtk6 dark skins seem to be broken.
Go-App V8: Build SEO Friendly PWA with Golang and WASM
Czech takes it a bit further and changes declensions for plurals greater than 4 (it actually just drops some cases and uses the genitive plural form instead—I forget the details). I suspect this is an odd variant of the dual rule from some proto-Slavic language.
> As a general rule, if you’ve served your time, then you’ve repaid your debt to society and should no longer be punished.

If you served your time, you spent the amount of time in prison that the judge decided you should spend in prison. That's it. There is no repayment. There does not have to be any reparation, remorse or consistency to the punishment.

> Having employers apply extra-judicial punishment to those how have already been sentenced and and served their time is kinda barbaric

You probably don't want the pedophile repeat offender to work at your daughters kindergarten. He has no right to be there and he is unsuitable. Not getting a job is not punishment.
> How do you handle the problem of low interest?

We can seamlessly leverage more traditional storage as well as distributed endpoints. So in a way yes we can 'seed' it. We will likely wait until we have enough storage in a region before launching there.

> the egress pricing seems a little disingenuous

I have made small edits to the website to make it clearer it is 100% of data stored is free egress. This is definitely something we will focus on in the redesign.
A Complete Illustrated History of the Recumbent Bicycle
Once you kill all your heroes, it's pretty clear that a person (1) can do great things, (2) have completed those things in an environment of exclusion (not to mention Epstein) and (3) might no longer be the best person to lead.
sounds cool. wonder in practice how this will work out with patent encumbered video formats.
why is this even for debate. he wouldn't last a day as CxO or board member on any fortune-500 company.
It's up - for now :)
Family is fine, but working from home while my neighbors in the neighboring apartments are also all at home with their children - is too much.
Also, construction. I currently have two construction sites in my 100 meter radius. It's almost like they compete who can use the jackhammer more.
The First International Conference on AI-ML-Systems (AIMLSystems '21)
AIMLSystems is a brand new conference targeting research in the intersection of AI/ML techniques and systems engineering. Through this conference we plan to bring out and highlight the natural connections with these two fields. Specifically we explore how immense strides in AI/ML techniques are made possible through computational systems research (e.g., improvements in CPU/GPU architectures, data-intensive infrastructure, communications etc.), how the use of AI/ML can help in the continuous and workload-driven design space exploration of computational systems (e.g., self-tuning databases, learning compiler optimizers, learnable network systems etc.) and, the use of AI/ML in the design of socio-economic systems such as public healthcare, and security.

https://www.aimlsystems.org/2021/
Debt and GDP are measured with different units. Debt is an absolute number of dollars. GDP is dollars-per-year.

So debt-to-GDP ratio does not produce a number. It produces a figure measured in time. So it's not "100%". It's "more than one year".

That is, we're not creating debt faster than we're producing value. We have accumulated more debt than we can repay in one year. That's interesting, but it's not the kind of exponential crisis that "over 100%" sounds like.

The US has a debt, but it's not clear that it has a debt problem. That's what GP's post was about. By more meaningful metrics, the debt may be entirely reasonable, and in keeping with a productive economy. We should keep an eye on it, but it's not automatically a crisis because it passed a level that's less meaningful than meets the eye.
Canada’s carbon tax is constitutional, Supreme Court rules
In London the deliveroo motorcycle drivers are often very aggressive and dangerous. The company seems to incentivise drivers to deliver as quickly as possible without regard to safety or traffic rules.
This is really cool and easy to use!

Recently I've been checking what can be customized in VS Code and my approach was to just check what was modified by the theme. This makes the whole process more intuitive as you can just tweak the settings and see how it would look like.
I think Peter Thiel hit the nail on the head when he wrote that America went from being led by definite optimists ("I am going to invent the future and it's going to be great"), to being led by indefinite optimists ("the future's probably going to be great, but I'm going to focus on my investment portfolio"). The social capital shifted from inventors and innovators to bean counters at some point after the 60s.

FWIW I'm from the UK and we haven't been definite optimists since the 1800s.
Really? It was actually a lot better than I was expecting.
Show HN: Kite Modeler Reboot – I built an app to model kites in Python
KiteModeler-Reboot, which is a modern version of KiteModeler from NASA Glenn.

You can check out the repository at http://github.com/gpavanb1/KiteModeler
Well, if you can't reverse it, then wouldn't that make it really secure? :)
Why do you think the idea of aliens is supernatural?
I think the greater point is that we all watched nearly all of US government and all of US media take the opposite side to the Trump administration on this purely on a political basis.

At this time they were trying to eject him from office on the most ridiculous of basis. Nearly all of the media and all of government was focused on damaging him. Because of this they could not bring themselves to line up behind him and follow his lead.

Think about that for a moment. Love or hate Trump, in that moment, early next year, the right move for the nation --not for politicians and the media-- would have been to say: "Mr. President, what do you want us to do. We are 100% with you."

The media, in particular, could have been far more useful to the nation and the world. Instead of focusing on their usual nonsense and web of lies they could have engaged in real journalism and delivered actionable information.

Instead of NY and San Francisco politicians saying things like "everything is OK, it's just the flu, go to festivals, get in the subway, etc." they should have contacted the White house for actionable intelligence on why they were sounding the alarm as they did.

Remember that at the same time Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx where on TV telling us a tsunami was coming, New York officials (and our current President and VP) were saying this was racist, xenophobic and nothing to worry about.

Like I said, I hope historians paint the entire picture and do so with the truth.
Some countries kept revolution going for 50 years. Maybe you will not wear a mask, and smirk how you won, but system always gets its fair cut.
I'd be interested in that too, since audacious is what I usually run when I just want to listen to some random file, or live music where I need gapless mp3 support (what other players support it?) If I want access to my library I've been using Strawberry for that which is pretty good.
Thank you for the additional recommendations.

Unspeakably irreverent but great fun (though you've probably already encountered it) is Joachim Horsley's Beethoven in Havana: https://youtu.be/mZRb0FyAa9s
Lenovo liable for 20000€ in damages for refusing a 42€ Windows refund
Jitterdämmerung (2015, Updated 2021)
>This is in contrast to the endless trouble French speakers have with the English 'th'...

They have a whole country in the South to practice that sound...
Interesting; that shares structure with 虚. That also has some nuances of place reference.
Yes, we use it. It's awesome. Thank you again D. Richard Hipp.
DyslexicAthiest, for most of history dyslexics, and for that matter atheists, had a pretty rough go of things.

Are you sure you want to paint with such broad strokes regarding those on the autism spectrum?
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2... says, "This is a bug-fix release with no new features." But I don't understand what the bugs were.
Came here to say exactly this. There is so much arrogance in our industry, why would code from the past be worse?
I recall NPR in the US took some steps about covering stories like this based on what psychologists studying killers found from talking to them. They would try to minimize how often they mentioned things the killers wanted to hear in the news: The killer's name, limit describing the chaos of the event, avoid manifesto type discussions and just cover that aspect very generally.

Instead they'd focus on things that it seems like mass killers really don't like to hear about, the names of the victims, stories about the community and etc .... and in a lot of ways those actually seem like the more important things too.
Updated with a wider screenshot.
> They happened to be first but with the technology at the time it was bound to happen soon.

Whittle patented the concept of a turbojet engine in 1930. The first prototype wasn't created until 1937. The first British production jet plane (Gloster Meteor) didn't fly until 1943.

Some things turn on capital and access to facilities.
(2019)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20696695
I think I live in an expensive area. Rent is 500 euros a month (which is cheap, but I get what I pay for).
Phone is five euros/month. So is internet (shared).
I don't pay transportation because I think it should be free since I am not polluting common air with a car. Else I have a bike. Then I have 400 euros that need to be shared among food (which is swiftly shoplifted if expensive ;), clothing (which I already have plenty so I am fine) and nights out (which at the moment is rather quiet you know why). I cut my own hair or ask a friend.
Short period of more intense work paid for all the *ware. Rather fine I must say.

As I said my point is not to say that everyone should be like me although I like to show off how not-wealthy I am for the high of moral superiority.
My point is that thinking you need more money is often intricated with irrational emotions. It has happened to me various times to have someone I know is doing fine complaining about being "tight". When a person that's poor say "I have no money", it's means the account balance is dangerously close to 0,when a well off person says so, it means "I wish I did not have to cut down expenses so I can maintain my standard of living".
CoScreen exits stealth with $4.6M, multi-user screen sharing for macOS/Windows
> Non-profit/individuals non-profit don't pay anything.

> Everyone else/companies pay $0.01 per dependency, per month.

I don't get that dichotomy? People can do what they want, no? So are you simply saying that individual would be far less likely to fund open source software, while companies and assimilated would?

Or you would just want it to be mandatory for companies?

If the latter, that would be completely incompatible with Open Source.
The technology is impressive. How we're using it often is not.