skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone asked the gig workers how they feel about this? Do they want to be W2 employees?

Perhaps the real problem is that the IRS makes it such a massive PITA to be a contractor. You need to withhold your own taxes, pay nearly 30% of your money to the government, etc. Nobody likes that, and unsurprisingly, a lot of contractors fail to meet the requirements.

You know who really doesn't like it? The IRS. When most of the population is on W2 employment, the IRS has a constant revenue stream of payroll taxes and automatically withheld income taxes coming into its coffers every pay cycle. But with contractors, the IRS only gets that money once a year, and often times they're missing a piece of it.

Also – just putting this out there – a population of contractors would have much more power in a hypothetical "tax boycott" than a population of employees. I could imagine some social movement convincing all the contractors in the country to boycott the IRS and skip paying taxes one year. I doubt "the government" is anywhere near competent enough to conspire against this possibility, but the existential risk is there. Surely they would prefer that the peasants don't realize the power of collective tax resistance.
Perhaps it is the compsci glasses talking, but this is just one very specific instance where someone figured out a way to map the DFT problem to a neural net. I agree that it is unfortunate that it is being presented as some kind of big discovery, and that the fundamental lesson is either still undiscovered to the author or just unclearly communicated, but there is still good intention in there (sharing something you've learned and eliciting feedback).
I guess that is what is happening here...fixing any problems using the existing model instead of trying to figure out new ways of fixing the problems to fix the new model of employment in some industries.
> Conclusion: it's sublimating all the time and being replaced.

In the long-term, yes, it will eventually reach a steady state. In the long term, though, we'll all be dead.

In the short-term, on timescales that human beings care about, no, we can release too much of it too quickly, before the system reaches a steady equilibrium. Methane has an atmospheric half-life measured in decades, so getting too much of it, too fast, can significantly spike temperatures.
i am not liking the way many of this is packaged. any other product and hackernews would be angry for the "deceptive packaging", but because the hackernews like this product, they are give it a freepass.
So my wife and I are vegetarian and I love certain vegan cheese, the naturally cultured ones where you essentially have a plant product that is cultured with cheese bacteria.

My experience with this stuff is similar to a lot of things in vegetarian diet, which is that the problems come about when you start trying to create imitations of animal products.

I do not want to suggest that people "just don't like vegan cheese because they're expecting animal milk cheese" but I do suspect that if people would stop thinking of certain vegan cheeses as substitutes for animal cheeses, they would feel really differently on average.

I also don't want to suggest substitutes don't work to a certain extent in certain cases. Impossible burgers, for example, have really pushed a lot of limits in that regard. But I do think that a lot of times trying to imitate just fails miserably.

I tend think of naturally cultured cashew cheese as pretty good. I just think of it as a cultured nut butter, which it is. I still love animal milk cheese, but I wouldn't just expect to substitute cashew butter for chevre, for example, nor would I expect to substitute cashew cheese for either one.

Maybe the article is poorly framed in that regard. I guess I just see it as a fool's errand to try to approach vegan cheeses as imitations. Why can't it just be treated as a food in itself?
I remember when 'gig economy' first was talked about, it was about professional type digital nomad type stuff .... but when I think of it now it's just a bunch of folks delivering food and driving people around.
> reality doesn’t line up with your preconceived notions

I'm claiming this precise thing, that you're arrogantly presuming that everyone can just hole up in their house like the elite class of people who do nothing but berate the (almost always) lower class people who do not have the privilege to stay home.
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What, specifically, are those disadvantages? And are they actually related to employee classification, or are merely privileges not usually granted to employees?
Tham is awesome! Really working all 4 decks during his mixes, with multiple tracks looping in layers.

Dax J and Hector Oaks also need a mention - Hector adding a sparkle of punk to electronic mixes.
Likely works for larger EV type batteries though..?
How would working for competing apps work ? Would drivers be considered employees of both Uber and Lyft ? Do they have to log a certain amount of miles driven in order to qualify as an employee ? I'm interested in seeing how this all works out.
As someone allergic to dairy, just being able to find more vegan products at my local grocery store is wonderful. Dairy-free chocolate is a lot easier to find.

Sadly, vegan replacements for dairy products generally don't hold up, but having something close is better than nothing.
The cut off would likely be at 29 hours. Health benefits are mandatory at 30 hours+.
The idea is interesting and the website is designed very nicely, but the subjects themselves are extremely lacking. For example the "level 22" Simple Harmonic wave is simply three graphs of a sine function with no other explanation. What is there to learn from that?
Slightly off-topic, but... am I the only one who is troubled by the fact that the explanations of "fork and exec" are almost never, ever, discuss the rationale for picking this design instead of "CreateProcess()" a.k.a. "just_launch_this_exe_file()", or even acknowledge this alternative design? A student would probably expect that to launch an app, there is a system call that would do exactly that: you pass it the name of the application/executable file, and it launches. Instead, there is a small dance of duplicating itself and then re-writing one of the copies--try not to get tangled up in the legs while doing that!

The fork+exec has many unobvious advantages over CreateProcess, but also disadvantages, and one of them is that it's, in my opinion, a completely unexpected approach: I can't think of any other system object that can only be created by first copying another already existing object and then overwriting the newly created one if needed. Files of any kind (folder/pipe/socket/etc)? Memory mappings? Signal handling? Process groups/sessions? Users/groups? The processes seem to be unique in this regard. How did people come up with this approach? That would be an interesting discussion, I think.

Instead, it's just described as the completely self-justified, with description of "zombies" thrown in the end for boots: and the zombie processes are pretty much an accidental artifact of early UNIX design; if the fork was returning not only globally visible (and therefore unstable) PID but also an fd associated with the child process, neither wait/waitpid syscalls nor reaping duties of PID 1 would have been necessary.
Only the plumber is a contractor/employer scenario. The rest of the examples are irrelevant.

Individual plumbers are often contractors. If they work for a larger plumbing company, they'd be an employee. There are specific criteria at play here:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...

> A worker is an employee when the business has the right to direct and control the work performed by the worker, even if that right is not exercised.

Uber sets the driver standards, how the work should be done, policies, pricing, etc. They clearly have some aspects of an employer/employee relationship. The line's a little blurry in spots; I can see both sides of the argument, and I'd say it's clear the law didn't anticipate this scenario.
Sure, plenty have done it for health reasons, but your comment implied that it was the majority reason. Maybe it is, but I don't know of any good statistics on this.

As to whether the plant-based substitutes are healthier, they probably are when compared to the thing they're replacing in nearly all cases. But if you want to optimize your health I'd expect a plant-based diet based on less processed foods would be much better.
It wouldn't produce an immunity, it would just keep the innate immune response active enough to prevent the average small cluster of COVID or flu viruses from replicating and growing into a full blown infection. This wouldn't even give the adaptive immune system a chance to develop an immunity to either of them.

If someone went to the COVID or flu ward and had someone cough in their face, they'd still get infected because that kind of exposure is generally too much for the innate immune system to catch.
on NPR recently, tuberculosis [ TB ] rates will likely increase for years and years VS had covid19 not made its appearance.
As far as comparisons go, let's try this on for size.

Which of the following causes more harm in total:
(a) a ransomware gang attacking the computers of a hospital, thus endangering the lives of its patients; or
(b) law-abiding citizens adhering to a historically contingent economic system which leaves millions of people without access to healthcare?
It's also going to be pretty bad when an employee-driver ends her shift 1 hour away from home and she has to drive back without the ability to make any extra money.
Who is forcing nano on you? Why do they get to tell you what text editor to use? Blink twice if someone is holding you hostage at your computer, no one deserves a life of nano use.
The two largest blockchain are PoW. XRP, Cardano, Polkadot, the next in line by marketcap, are PoS.

It is also somewhat misleading to portrait Ethereum PoS has an eternal promise without acknowledging that real, significant steps have been taken in the last year towards - the Beacon chain launched and thousands of ETH are locked up semi-permanently, withdraw-able only on the PoS chain.

Finally, importantly, users of a PoS chain do not have to defend a PoW if they prefer not to, much in the same as you can eat Vegan food despite the CO2-cost of the environmental impact of meat production.
Rust and other languages with strong type systems don't magically make your code bug free but their type systems are more expressive.

If used correctly this can make all sorts of states unwanted program states unrepresentable. Rust's shining feature is its linear types but that doesn't mean the only kinds of bugs it eliminates are memory management related.
The most important news to me, Patrick Walton is now working in Facebook?

Seems lots of people left Mozilla.
I'm thinking: Free health care, paid time off, a robust safety net, better protections for workplace safety, etc. Level the playing field.
"It makes sense if you realize that everyone wants everyone else to have a good quality of life, but everyone is also trying to pay/sacrifice the least to achieve it."

And what defines a good quality of life depends on who you ask.
Detroit techno is a completely different beast to the modern European techno scene. Less than 1% of DJs playing at Berghain are black. Modern techno is dominated by Europeans.
Computer science isn't science.
I'm tired of this laziness. I don't care about vegan cheese - I am vegan because it's better for me, the planet, and animals. Boohoo if I can't find some cheese that tastes exactly like cultured milk from a suffering animal.
It makes sense if you realize that the current US Labor Secretary is a product of union politics (he was as union leader, and most of the political goal of classifying gig workers as employees is to make it easier for the AFL/CIO and Teamsters to unionize them.
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If you removed the garlic and herbs would it taste any good?
There's lots and lots of samples being tested for flu. Is the theory then that there is some bias where the hidden cases don't get tested for flu at all and only mistakes are sent for testing?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

It says right on the page that Covid makes the data difficult to interpret, the thing I'm pointing to is the 900,000 samples tested.
VSCode has intellisense, debugger, console, etc. It definitely fills a niche between a text editor and an IDE, IMO.
> For example, require freelance employers to include expense tracking and calculate workers earnings after expenses.

Should that be up to the freelancer? Ever Uber driver I’ve ever known knows their costs down to the cent. That’s what freelancing is all about.

What would be more valuable is required financial literacy courses as a condition of high school graduation. And restricting predatory student loans. But the Big University lobby would stomp that effort out quickly. Education has had higher inflation than even health costs — due almost entirely to the funny money from essentially unlimited student loan availability.
>Assuming they owned the medallion rather than working for someone else who did.

That assumption would be wrong 99.9% of the time in NYC pre-Uber/Lyft.
Genuinely curious; what kind of math are they using to stock shovels in hardware stores? I've never heard that before but it sounds interesting.
In my experience nowadays Uber drivers are just Taxi drivers who started Ubering in their own cars. I was thinking the other day how I used to get mints and water bottles and maybe a conversation. I get that about 5-10% of the time nowadays. I started using Black more often because I've taken dates in some Ubers that were practically falling apart, I'm worried about our lives in some of them along with some crazy driving.

Also nowhere near the rudeness of cabbies but they HATE only having to drive a 5-20 blocks to take you between neighborhoods. Always hoping for that 30 mile ride.
It's just as bad in Madrid where the public transportation is actually OK, and not everybody owns a car.
That depends on the timeframe.

If you take 1 month, that probably would be around 10: 2 major interlinked ones, 2 require support and are not (currently) receiving new major features, and about 5 open source dependencies of the first 4 I had to submit patches to.
But none accept a single newline as a message while at the same time rejecting truly empty messages.
So your complaint is that Rust library authors are too excited to use new stable features as soon as they are available, and your preference would be for them to wait e.g. a year before adopting new language features, so that their code keeps working with old compiler versions?

Hard to see this as a problem with the language per se. What is the language supposed to do, ship working features but ask people politely not to use them? Not ship new features even if they solve acute problems?

As a library consumer, if you want you can just stick to >6 month old versions of all the libraries you depend on, and they should work fine with your 6 month old compiler version.
The long term play isn't to use self driving vehicles anymore. Uber sold off ATG and Lyft just got rid of Level 5. They're dependent on others delivering commercial SDCs for them and anyone with the technical chops to do that isn't going to find the infrastructure of a ride-share service very difficult. As Uber and Lyft have both demonstrated, it's also straightforward to sell VC dollars for pennies to build up transport market share. The dominant theme of leading AV companies seems to be massive capitalizations, so it's hard to imagine the ride-share incumbents being highly competitive there either. It's hard to imagine a situation where their most profitable markets don't get immediately disrupted, leaving Uber and Lyft to figure out profitability with only the long tail low margin areas SDCs won't be deployed to for years afterwards.
Depends on your area of interest. How to build a game boy emulator is pretty well trodden as it's usually used as the beginner's guide to emulation.

Here's a step by step guide in JS, for example: http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-C...
I hate driving.
Just as a word of caution: There is Eurail/Europass and interrail. Interrail is supercheap but only available to EU citizens.
I think that's because it's got the wrong melting profile. Cashew cheese with either gelatin (if you're okay with that) or tapioca starch compares a lot better. And once it sets you can smoke it too!
I'd love for vegetable products to be processed skillfully enough that I wouldn't miss animal products. It's not the amount of processing that bothers me, it's the types of processing (and the types of additives.) Processed foods are on average terrible, but any particular heavily processed food might be wonderful for you.

This is almost the most important technology being developed right now IMO. Meat is killing us through environmental degradation and disease jumps from domesticated animals to humans. When I hear a "horror story" in the news cycle about there being no meat in a Taco Bell taco or somesuch, I'm like "if only."
Thank you! And the FDISK story is absolutely true. I can still remember my father's surprise at how reckless I was with his computer.
I'll second that. Not a mathematician either, and I liked that book too.
>Why can't it just be treated as a food in itself?

It can but if the objective is to reduce the world's, and specifically North America's appetite for animal products. You need to either aim to replace the current products or await a culture shift away from what is easy and cheap today.
Absolutely it 100% it should be I don't even see the argument that it shouldn't. The idea that you would be blocked for working a job because it doesn't meet some government idea of enough pay is crazy.
Great, but for lots of people that are lactose intolerant or allergic, it can be good enough. Some are better than others. I am not fond of Daiya, and prefer Violife. You also want to use less of it, and choose or modify recipes accordingly.

Most of the grocery store available ones are more appropriate for ingredient substitution. Cultured products like Rind or Reine that are more appropriate for eating on their own are less available.

In general, they are not cheese and it's not best to approach them as cheese as you would use dairy cheese.
If they are "independent contractors" then who exactly is paying for this time off, etc?
But with contractors, the IRS only gets that money once a year, and often times they're missing a piece of it.

I don't know the entirety of the tax law, but I believe that you're supposed to make estimated tax payments quarterly.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
We can use this but what's the pricing? I emailed you but instead you should have just put the cost up front save a lot of time.
By that logic anything with a guitar is rock music.

Techno has a vast range of styles.
Sorry for making error in terminology yes it is some Lawyer agency or what not, but result is the same. If someone can sniff your transport regardless who it is end result is the same, you do not have privacy and idea that you can copy something for your own or your family use is just plain wrong.

I mean you can, we can do "anything" but there are repercussions for each action.
Ok I guess this shows my ignorance on what constitutes human research (although I'm outside the US and definitions might be different here). I have to say this is a good response letter from the department.
I really don't get how people think impossible burger tastes like meat. It has the texture of a lentil patty with blood flavoring added.
I could see this, maybe each time the dial settles into its little ka-thunk index might also play “hello grandma” in the grandchild’s voice.
> Diagnostic delays are not caused by lockdowns. They are caused by an overwhelmed health care system or the fear of infection, both of which are caused by high incidence.

That's simply false.

It was reported that a lot of US hospitals layed off elective staff through most of 2020.
I tried a sample of Vegan Cheese once and it immediately brought to mind Arthur Dent trying to get Tea out of the Nutrimatic. It was something almost but not quite completely unlike cheese. It made me wonder if the person who invented it had ever tasted cheese before or had just read about it in a book or something.

If it had been something I bought from the store I might have thought it just had a short shelf life, but this was a sample from the vendor at a trade show. I tried it on the spot. Presumably it was as good as it was going to get. Also, that vendor was a complete jerk and set up their booth as far away from the water fountains as possible, so I was forced to hold that horrendous not-cheese taste in my mouth for several minutes while I rushed across the floor.
I think ReleaseHub is going for (b). The differentiation is that it would be a fully managed and fully configurable/customizable PaaS on your own infrastructure or even on premise instead of a black-box infrastructure owned and managed by the PaaS provider.
For my wife, she can get more hours and higher pay as an independent contractor. Part of this is because we get insurance through my job. They also give her more autonomy than an employee would have.
I totally get ethical vegetarianism, and appreciate that much animal abuse can occur within the dairy industry, but I don't think that's inherent. Of course, believing that and shopping ethically requires a great deal more selectivity and research (and willingness to pay more for food whose provenance can be trusted).

Not to pick a fight, but I don't get the basic argument that 'all animal husbandry = unnatural exploitation' given the symbiosis between species like ants and aphids etc. which I can just go and observe in my yard at this time of year.
Would love to see the whole concept of 'employees' blasted away and replaced with something more flexible.
Everyone knows that they are workers, right? Not just random workers that do something else every day, workers on their own devices but workers for a company and they works the way that company says.

Why not start from here and work on the employment laws to allow for the flexibility or whatever works for that kind of employment?

Why pretend that an Uber driver is a businessmen that may actually expend his/her business or go through other company stages? Obviously that's not happening, therefore they should have the rights and obligations of a worker, not a business.
Level the playing field

Otherwise known as, redistribute the wealth.

Heinlein's "bad luck" incoming...
There are several vehicles on Mars and all of them are autonomous[1]

* Sojourner

* Spirit

* Opportunity

* Curiosity

* Perseverance

* Ingenuity

[1] Albeit the route planning is controlled from earth.
The rules around that are pretty clear already. And in the case of Uber, you not only can drive when you want, you can drive for multiple providers at the same time.
We don't have a system where you hit 75 years old and drop dead. Everybody got a year older, and ~21% of those were baby boomers. The statistical impact of that on a year-by-year basis is minimal.
I don't really have an office but I absolutely do want to start flying for work again
I mean, they're not wrong about the perception. Ask most people, even those in tech, and they will tell you that tape is passé. Personally, while I know it is still used in enterprise backup, I haven't actually seen a digital tape in use in over 20 years.
A 25 ton prototype....