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I don't know about the real damage it can do to our eyes, but I always preferred "dark" themes in every software I use now and I used in the past. It simply feels more comfortable to me.

I have used it even in some in Microsoft Word with the white over dark blue "mode" or "theme, but I think they removed it in Office 2010 (and annoyed me a lot). At least in the last Office versions it has the black theme that do practically the same.
The answer is yes. There's even a notion of 'categorical normal form' that extends 3NF that guarantees the direct representability of such relational databases as set-valued functors. Spivak talks about it in e.g. http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/informatics/FunctorialDataMigra...
The stock price is sure acting otherwise. I think uber's businesis cash flow positive, simialr to Amazon and Tesla, but that cap-ex and other non-recurring expenses are erroding profitability.
I broadly agree, certainly so with all the vegan cheese approximations I've tried, but I don't think it applies to cakes. The cake recipe I grew up eating (in a non-vegetarian, lower middle class, US household) was "accidentally vegan". It absolutely passes the test of "if you didn't know you wouldn't know". Incidentally I think impossible burgers pass that test too, and beyond burgers only barely don't.
It depends what you are comparing it against. I've had the Burger King meatless Whopper and found it was no worse than the normal Whopper. If you didn't tell me and I wasn't paying attention might not even notice. But eaten 'naked' side by side with a real high quality meat patty, there is no way you can confuse one for the other.
I mean the elephant in the room is that that "sentiment analysis" is flawed and crude and does not correlate in any meaningful way with actually "happiness".
Any source for this claim? (I kind of trust you, just wondering if you have a specific source to offer)
Decent housing where? If I want to live in a high cost area but can't afford it then should the government make up the difference?
Selling something at below cost to gain market share is a classic anti-competitive tactic. This aspect of Sony's business model vs. Apple's seems like it would be very unflattering for Sony if they had more market share. It's lucky that Sony still has strong competition in the form of Microsoft and Nintendo[1].

My personal take is that by saying "Sony is different though" Epic is trying to provide a fig leaf for a platform owner that could cause them real financial harm if they got on their bad side.

Edit:
[1] Isn't it interesting thought that the 3 console platforms don't compete on what percent cut they take from software published on their platforms. All 3 are 30%.
I've asked the same question when we saw all the people at the bank disappear to be replaced by computers (you can look at like scenes from older movies with TONS of people at the bank doing processing I assume).

Robots, unfortunately, move capital from labor to owners.

I'm not proposing robots are bad. You're kinda screwed once they're out in the wild, if you don't adopt them you can't stay in business eventually (without some sort of pivot to a niche market segment).
10 years earlier than they would have been expected to die without catching COVID. From anything, not just the flu. All-cause mortality includes flu deaths, yes, if that's what you're asking?
Here's a step-by-step guide with code examples if you want to try everything from the walkthrough on your own: https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/tree/develop/document...
Interesting setup! Does this mean you've got to download your entire DB on every deploy?
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"The existence of an explanation system in adherence to the NIST's proposed guidelines will in itself signal that the underlying recommender can be trusted"

Not for long. This is trivially forgable with current AI tech. It's easy. Your AI tells you that X is in category Y because there's an 80% match on reason 1, a 65% match on reason 2, a 45% match for 3, etc. etc. Reason number 2 is, for the sake of argument, outright racist, and the person running this AI knows that, so they simply hand you an explanation with that reason removed. You have no way of knowing whether this has happened, neither does anyone else, and people continue to accuse your AI of bias. (Especially after I "helpfully" normalize the reason factors for you against the list I handed you, not what came out of the AI.)

Any human-comprehensible explanation produced by a program is certainly human-editable, and almost certainly practically editable by code.

If you were going to design an AI architecture to provide you parallel construction reasons systematically, it would be hard to produce something better than a neural net.
> It seems backward that the government, instead of fixing government policy and laws that disadvantage independent workers, wants to force independent workers to become employees so that the government doesn't have to fix anything. It is abdication of responsibility for social outcomes.

Quite the contrary: the government acts to prevent a ruthless race to the bottom as someone who skips e.g. on health insurance or on worker protection laws (e.g. daily work time maximums) can outcompete someone who sticks to the rules.

Especially with health insurance, the government has to pay the tab of those who skip it and then can't pay for the hospital.

> Many gig workers explicitly do not want to become employees, as there are many disadvantages to doing so.

The only reason I see why people want to voluntarily go gig worker is schedule flexibility - they don't want a regular full time or part time schedule because of children, elder care or whatever. And for what it's worth employment regulations should be made more flexible in that regard, but it must be prevented that employers go and abuse it to exploit their workers (e.g. by arbitrarily cutting their hours).
https://csunplugged.org/en/

“Computer science” is a terrible name. Astronomy is not called “telescope science”, and biology is not called “microscope science”.
I'd call that "rich", a category that spans a lot. There's private jet rich, and then there's "don't worry about money much, if it all" rich. This, with the caveat that I assume there's a job backing that accumulation of $1MM, which pays better than most. Another way to put it is that 7% of U. S. households hold millionaire status (meaning $1MM in investable assets, excluding house and retirement plans)[0]. If that ain't rich, then I don't know what qualifies as such.

One could call it "upper middle-class", and I'd accept that. But "solid middle-class" it ain't by any stretch of the imagination.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millionaires-america-2020-50-...
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From your link, asparagus "the largest environmental footprint of any of the 56 vegetables they looked at, including its land use and water use", with 5.3kg of CO2 per kg of Asparagus. According to [0], "The average footprint of beef, excluding methane, is 36 kilograms of CO2eq per kilogram" - so even the worst vegetable imported from the farthest part of the world is 10x better per kg than beef.

Also, I think that article you've shared is pretty clear that going vegan is better, it's just not 0 cost to the planet.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
> It is pretty common for mid or senior level white-collar salaried jobs to have a decent amount of freedom in working hours within what is functionally reasonable for their role.

That is so disconnected from reality for the majority of American workers that you might have broken me. But lets start with salaried workers have a job .. Their employers don't care what time you work as long as you get that job done. How exactly would that work for Uber? quotas? avg 2-3 rides and hour or ur fired?
So what is the difference then?

Generally what you're describing is a full time employee... that's kinda the thing you didn't seem to like.
This is one thing that confuses me about the drive to classify Uber drivers as workers. Admittedly anecdotal, but when chatting with drivers, it seems like a fair number drive part time to make some extra money. I don't think they really want to be classified as employees of Uber.

That said, I'm not really sure what the solution is. If drivers that drive more than X hours per week have to be employees, I wouldn't be surprised to see Uber attempt to limit hours for each driver.
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The original post talks about "want", which has nothing to do with intricacies of law, which I, and I assume most HN commenters, are not qualified to judge anyway.
Don't blaspheme against the FOTM gods. Today is the year of the Rust. Wait until next year when $language is the next shining beacon of not-having-to-deal-with-legacy and Rust itself goes to the dustheap where Cobol and Fortran and Python 3.6 now live.
There does seem to be some evidence the Great Pyramid is be built on top of an older structure. However the bottom several layers are cut directly out of the bedrock which makes me hesitant on that theory since it fits so perfectly with the layers above.
Aditya's commits--though some were low-quality and/or buggy, including the one you linked--were not part of the intentionally deceptive "hypocrite commits" project.
> An uber driver can't choose where the work gets done because the where is part of the gig itself.

An Uber driver can certainly decide how and where their work gets done by using the car of their choice, except they aren't allowed to. Uber decides what vehicles they can use.

> Seems to be we're fundamentally trying to force an old classification to a new set of jobs.

There's nothing new about delivery driving and taxis. What's new is that companies are pretending that an app means that they shouldn't have to play by the same rules as every other employer.
Given high number of buggy patches being accepted it seems kernel developers could use bug-bounty program.
These are all nice and currently somewhat famous as much as tracks from that era go.

The question here, and most of this stems from the deephousepage reference elsewhere in this thread, is that in the actual 80s tape recordings (I've got an archive of most of them) from say WBMX or WBLS or any contemporary first hand accounts, I don't see these tracks playing prominently.

The more heavily played are things we may find less interesting today such as Pamala Stanley - Coming Out Of Hiding https://youtube.com/watch?v=M6G8dKgsEG0 ... catchy 80s pop, ok. You listen to the old recordings and this song comes up frequently. Also Bobby Orlando's dozen songs that all sound the same come up a lot (the flirts, divine, ronnie griffith, i spies) probably because their similarity in bpm and key made them versatile toys for the 80s dj.

Our perception of the past through the lens that the modern world "as a context" creates defines a narrative that we impose on the events.

I'm interested in I guess two things here. From simplest to hardest

1. What's the perceived reality of who heard/influenced what and why do we tell ourselves that

2. What's the actual reality and where's the evidence?

We have the mighty Memex machine at our fingertips and can immediately call up forgotten songs from far off lands with a few twitches of our fingertips. A Japanese synthesizer album from the 70s, a bollywood orchestration from the 60s and say a funk song from the Bronx in 1971, immediately recognize a through line and claim "aha, these are connected". But how would this fiction be possible in "before the internet" days? Records traveled, ok, Goa beach parties were real, sure. But I want to be careful in trying to remove my "person of the future" context in trying to understand the past

For instance, there's a bunch of Mexican knockoffs of italo disco tracks in the 80s and they could get away with it because Italy and Mexico are far away from each other.

I wrote an article about this 4 years ago, let me quote it:

The 1987 Mexico release Trebol ‎– TI - 71161, produced by J. Brenner of Mannequin, "Boom Bam" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLt7SwaN90

is a nearly 100% knock-off of the 1986 Italian release SQ 87504, produced by Miki Chieregato and Roberto Turatti, of Paul Lekakis, "Boom Boom":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ovsnO7Akg

So yeah, that's an example of the context warp.

Now given that, who actually heard and owned what and how it happened is tough. Famous people know how important origin stories are and so they tend to not be great self documentarians. It makes the whole thing tricky especially since not very many people take this as obsessively as I do so the records are continually destroyed and altered
This is a nice proof of concept, but it's not anywhere production-ready.

For instance, this apple harvester is using UR5 robot arm. It's a very research-friendly robot that I like to work with, but it's nowhere ready for outdoors.

Its reach is just shy of 1 meter -- not practical for apples as well.

Their choice to place an Intel RealSense camera on the wrist of the robot means that they have a USB cable running through the robot. My experience shows that even heavy-duty cables only work for hundreds of hours in such a mode and then require a replacement.

The soft gripper that they use is a good choice for the task, but it depends on compressed air, which means an extra tube running through the robot arm - usually it means even more maintenance required.

Still, this approach can be productionized, but the end result might look very different from this prototype.
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Doing compile time is one way it is useful and I think that's the most common thing - that's why the tutorials show the resulting assembly instructions.

However there are other ways the trick can be used. If the compiler (or the programmer) determines that the program will be doing repeated division by a single quantity (say in a loop), you substitution a calculation of the multiplicative inverse of the quantity first and then substitute multiplication by that inverse for the repeated for the divisions. So you can extend things beyond just division by a constant.
Not to mention that the people forced into the "gig" economy are often ADOS, black and/or latino. It helps to cement their bottom caste statuses in this country. The white/asian people on HN cling to their classist agenda and aren't willing to talk about race because of how privileged they are and how segregated their workplaces are. They just don't know the experience and make abstract claims about what is fair based on class.
You put into words what I've been feeling for a long time. So I guess you're not alone. I 'cope' by just turning it around: finding some meaningful project, decide what I want it to be, and then find out one step at a time how to get closer. That starts with me finding out - and then being comfortable enough with - a big overview of the project.
Somehow I keep coming back at the 'work is like a hill' metaphor from Ryan Singer in his book Shape Up (from basecamp). https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.4-chapter-13#work-is-like-a-h...
indeed should have pointed out its the classic 8051 with a crazy clockspeed to compensate.

silabs simplicity studio is the only out of the box eclipse based IDE available for 8 bitters that i know of as well. i believe this is covered in jay carlsons amazing $1 mcu writeup. which is also good details for someone curious from this article
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19851744 )
Isn't that a similar idea to the Hilbert program, which failed due to godel's incompleteness theorem?
I have played around with Pluto.jl, and colleagues of mine use it for research, but I keep going back to Jupyter. I tend to have long running cells that are pulling information from external sources or training models, and triggering one of those cells accidentally will waste a lot of time running something that may not be reliably interrupted.

There is talk about putting in execution barriers that would help with this, at the risk of making Pluto more complicated for users:

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/discussions/298
Your ability to eat as much food as you desire is synonymous with living in a first world country.

The ability murder as many animals as you want is not the desired state I look for when thinking about the world in which my child to grow up. A future in which that is synonymous with status is backwards - to me.
> want it to happen while I'm at the store, am I setting that person's hours?

> If I specifically want them to use an electric mower for noise reasons

The fundamental difference is you, as a customer, can want these things, but the person doing the mower is self-employed and they can negotiate and figure out whether or not they can come to a mutual agreement with you. They could also just simply not come to an agreement with you and the worst that would happen is they don't get your money, and move on with their work and life.

It's different than if there was Uber Mowing Co. that managed them and forced them to forgo their lunch and mow your lawn while you were at the store or be fired.
Somebody have to make new CEO salary formula.
(Standard salary * improving current performance ) - increasing debt + reducing debt + (long term strategy completion % by expenses)

No stock options. If he wants stocks, he/she needs to buy.
Yeah, same. Guess the old saying "if something's "free" then you're the product" hits home here too. Forcing the mobile app is a deal breaker.
Isn't the solution here to turn contractor vs employee issue into a question of choice and benefit for the employee vs the employer? If retirement, time off and health benefits are also equally available to contractors then people can make the choice for the type of work they want without being disadvantaged.
In Finland Covid can be diagnosed just by flu like symptoms, even with a negative test result for Covid.

Not sure how much this affects rhe stats. Practically no cases of influenza are recorded, though.
That's a very odd assessment, but that's, like, totally your opinion, man.

> I think there's value in hiring people who have been trained in a standardized process that prioritizes chains of responsibility, detailed analysis and reliability over (velocity, flexibility and bug-tolerance.*

You write this as if that's what CS people are taught (to make crappy systems and crappy code), which may be a common feature of many programmers, it is not the thing they're taught to do in school. At least not if they halfway paid attention.
Indeed - this is the real problem. We've bolted on so many things to the employee/employer relationship that should not be there. It's no surprise that contractor vs full time questions become so fraught when as a matter of policy, we've made that distinction hugely important.

I want there to be more flexibility in work arrangements. That would be awesome, but the only way to make that work is to sever Health care and retirement plans from employment.
Depends on what do you mean by window. If the window lives in a X server and you clone the client, window will obviously not get duplicated.

It's quite clearly defined what gets duplicated and what gets shared on clone()/fork(). There really is no ambiguity.
I was raised Catholic as well, and went to a Catholic school. I've drawn heavy parallels between the Catholic church in the 90s to progressive rhetoric. You're not alone.
Definitely, although the legislative slog that would present makes me believe it'll be tough to get there.

Part of the Uber/Lyft "ickiness" factor is that you have a giant company that has defined a "contracting" relationship with 100s of thousands of individuals. That is big power and capcity differential. Its not unreasonable to expect that the gig service companies be required to provide more services for their drivers than, say, local independent window washer who contracts individually with many businesses. Automatic tax payments, minimum wage for callouts and depreciation payments for self provided equipment are not unreasonble past a certain scale point.

That being said, the people I've known personally who have drove for Uber/Lyft (around 4, so a small number admitadly) really were doing it just for a bit of extra cash on the side and would not have wanted or been able to be an employee of Uber/Lyft.
Under the law as it is written, the labor secretary is basically correct. It's not the labor secretary's job to rewrite the law. What congress should have done several years ago is to address the emergence of the gig economy with a new designation that is distinct from both independent contractors and employees.

Lots of issues in modern US business arise from laziness / stupidity / corruption / uselessness of Congress.

I believe that there should be reform and that we should be working towards a better legal environment for informal workers and companies that want to use them at scale facilitated by technology. You can believe that and still recognize that the law as written would not support a definition of these workers as independent contractors (because they are not and it really is not a gray area due to the way that they are managed/directed).

It's also an issue for the US that we can go many years under an enforcement regime that assumes that we basically have this new category of worker that we are, for reasons of convenience, defining as independent contractors, but that the law clearly states do not meet the definition of independent contractors. Then we get a new administration that decides it will enforce the law as it's written instead of tacitly recognizing the fake pseudo reform of non enforcement that we had from earlier administrations. That isn't good government.
"Please help us rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic!"
What were you using for the "real deal" though? If it was a frozen patty that included textured vegetable protein and other things alongside beef, as so many do, I can understand. I can't understand mixing up an Impossible burger with a decently cooked 100% beef patty.
I'm guesstimating that a human worker plucks an apple every 1-2 seconds, sustained?
I don't understand your concern. You're upset that new features are not backported to older compiler versions?

If you have some reason to not update your compiler, then don't use those new features, and use dependency versions that also don't use those features. Go back a few releases if you need to.

If you do need those features though... Then just upgrade your compiler?

I'm not aware of any compilers/interpreters that work the way you want here. Maybe Python 2 for that painful decade of overlap...
Relying to myself to mention another thing: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64796 is adding support for a #[cfg(version(x.y))] tag that will allow crates to more easily provide additional feature when using newer compiler, while still being compatible with older rust versions.
Boom. Got it in one, although I expect that a few flu cases are being blamed on Covid.

Maybe in a couple more generations of improvement of telepresence we can mostly eradicate infectious disease. Next up: We each get a nutrient bath and direct hook-up.
In a competitive environment automation doesn't actually help business make money. The increased margin quickly gets turned into discounts that competitors will trade to grab more marketshare.

Areas where there is automation but prices continue to go up have issues with competition - banks are a great example because banking licenses are impossible to acquire.
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