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FWIW, this is not my experience at all. As just one example, I was late to a wedding event in Phoenix shortly before the pandemic, was about to call an Uber ($35), and decided to take the taxi that had just pulled up to the hotel to save a minute. My total metered cost was something like $80.

The only place I've been where this is true is NYC, which have piled regulations onto Uber (specifically and professionally licensed drivers, registered vehicles, etc) to the point that it seems to have closed the cost gap with taxis (who of course are also subject to these regulations). That is to say, Uber the company operates in New York, but it doesn't operate "Uber the ridesharing service", from an economic perspective.

OTOH, I don't have a ton of data points, since even at price parity taxis offer worse service, less accountability, less traceability (eg for lost items), worse incentives, less price transparency, etc etc
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The formalization of what it means for modules to exist and compose with each other is valuable, but learning category theory as a mathematician would is not sufficient for grokking this. Category theory's insights are often obscured by terminology that fails to reify the abstractions at a level where its wide scope becomes clear.

The candidate I would push forward as the proper reification would be Mark Burgess' Promise Theory. Mark's starting point isn't, "what's the most general algebra I can form for encoding mathematical objects", but "what happens if I generalize points in spacetime to be a special case of any kind of graph". When you do this, you make each point in space responsible for either promising information to another point, or accepting the outcome of a promise, as bidirectionality cannot be directly inferred.

So if every point in spacetime cannot be assumed to be connected both ways, then you have to explicitly define the communication channels that exist between points. This idea unifies both physical and digital "spaces", as everything is now modeled as a communications network from atoms up. Thus, Promise Theory makes the connection between compositionality and information and the rest of reality more clear than categories alone.

Mark acknowledges that Category Theory and Promise Theory are both similar and related. For instance, they both deal with notions of interiority. And Mark encodes his axioms with categories. He's written several books on the topic, like "In Search of Certainty" and "Smart Spacetime", and has published papers on arxiv. I recommend "Smart Spacetime" to see how powerful this kind of semantics can get.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5563
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I maintain a project which has _a bunch_ of dependencies and tests im CI that it can compile on 1.41. That’s a lot of dependencies: https://crates.io/crates/insta/1.7.1/dependencies
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It was just a suggestion without the details carved out.

You could make it very explicit: X shall not be used for advertising purposes. In legalese, of course, so a judge knows what is meant.
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The categorical databases formalism is also known as 'sketches'. For example, here are some slides from NASA et al that connect to David's work but use this alternative phrasing. It shows how to use category theory to 'align' ontologies, with an example about voting. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ivv_wojtowicz_sketc...
Will employers pay a higher wage if the employee chooses not to accept them?

In my experience, most benefits are use-it-or-lose it.
> But with contractors, the IRS only gets that money once a year,

IIRC this isn't true. Non-W2 earners are supposed to do quarterly taxes.

> and often times they're missing a piece of it.

This is kind of a bigger problem, no? If it gets to the end of the year, and so many 1099 contractors don't have enough to pay their taxes that it is actually an issue for the IRS, it strongly implies that those contractors didn't understand how much money they were actually making after tax (and thus, didn't put enough aside). Contractors not understanding how much money they are actually making (in relation to the W2 option) is not a good thing.
Don't know how widespread it was, but for my wife who had bi-weekly Covid tests for work they also started testing the samples simultaneously for the flu.
I think it's less clear than one would expect.

What does set your own hours look like? If I hire someone to mow my lawn, and want it to happen while I'm at the store, am I setting that person's hours?

What does decide how you want to do the job look like? If I specifically want them to use an electric mower for noise reasons, am I deciding how they do the job for them?

Ultimately I feel like we are trying to shoehorn a fundamentally new model into preexisting paradigms, and as a result we waste time haggling over who is what. It feels like instead we should just say this is a new thing, and create a new set of laws to regulate it in the way that we think is best.
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Big caveat: in 10 years, the PS5 store and the XSX store will likely start to be superceeded by the gen 10 consoles. Epic would need to port their stores each generation, as well as ensure every game they host works (IF they are allowed to work). Making a storefront takes a considerable time and they'd need to make huge jumps every generation to port that work.

an IOS or android Epic Games Store will likely exist in a decade (of if not, it won't be because Apple/Google go bankrupt so much as Epic themself pulls out). it's a much more worthwhile endeavor, because they aren't tied to a single piece of hardware. Paying 30% for the console makers to handle their generational leap for them is likely worth it, so I doubt Epic will see much follow up here.

Now for other companies, who knows? As we see with Android, just because other store exist doesn't mean the native store doesn't have a massive advantadge. So it may not be worth the work even if competitors were allowed.
> For starters, go search Twitter for 'George Floyd'

Twitter is not a representative slice of the population or its feelings, so that's why your premise is right out of the bat flawed.
Also known as people and organizations paying their fair share.

Please. I'd love to redistribute my wealth to subsidize people's healthcare instead of subsidizing a tiny minority's bank account. Because that's what my low tax rates are doing right now - that and bombs.
This is really neat. It has me thinking about my own grandma who loves getting pictures on her phone, but is that the best interface for her? What if I could send pictures and they'd automatically print out, I think she'd like that even more. I think it's funny because that's a pretty easy thing to set up, but I never considered it until now.
Except if they weren't subject to App Store rules they would likely bypass the advertising ID and do their own fingerprinting instead.
I used to use ed when all I had was a single terminal screen/window and a compiler error message. Ed doesn't clear the screen, so you can still see the message. Vi or emacs would clear the error message away. Of course, in a multi-window situation, the compiler output is usually in one window or pane and the editor in another, so this is moot now.
Reminds me of Jonathan Harris's 2007 project 'We Feel Fine.'

http://wefeelfine.org/methodology.html

When I did some work on sentiment analysis using tools like Crimson Hexagon, it always felt like the data was skewed since what people post is different from what they say, which itself is different from what they do. Might need to be some kind of corrective filter that includes 'uncounted emotion' as a baseline.
I think it's best to talk about specific things rather than broadening every conversation to encompass the entire economic system and the problems with it. Probably someone wants to have that conversation with you, but that someone isn't me.
Example: at least a few years ago Uber forbade drivers to make trips that returned to the original location. Not sure why, but there are certainly legitimate scenarios. For instance, drive to grandma's senior residence, pick her up, back to your apartment for a family event.
Yes, this!

People need more stable access to basic needs: healthcare, education, food, water, housing, communications (some kind of basic phone & internet access). This will necessarily lead to greater labor market mobility and therefore greater market power by labor providers (i.e. employees and contractors).
>Here is a simple NodeJS implementation that is completely unsafe despite having non-transparent async:

What does that have to do with my comment?

I said (paraphrased) "Transparent async is bad because sync code can end up being wrong when async-ness is silently introduced into it". You keep responding with (paraphrased) "Explicit async code can also be bad." Do you understand how this does nothing to negate what I said?

(This discussion is frustrating, and the walls of irrelevant text you keep posting aren't helping.)
Agreed. I explained benevolent bacon to someone as “you’re not going to think ‘wow it’s like I just ate bacon’ but you might think ‘ok I don’t need to eat bacon when I’ve had that’.” For me, anyway, certain key flavors and textures are there, but it’s still a new experience itself.
Is there a good vegan substitute for hard, sharp cheddar cheese, or for blue cheese or gorgonzola?

I've never seen anything that comes even remotely close.
We've got a couple of local BBQ place's funded by proceeds from the sale of a local tech company. The founder just posted a video on Facebook yesterday explaining why their popular wings were being taken off the menu.

He breaks down their exact costs, why they're currently selling them at a loss and why they'd have to raise prices 50% to make the dish profitable.

A lot of people were angry when they announced the wings were being taken off the menu.
Here's his reply, I thought it was absolutely brilliant marketing.

https://www.facebook.com/Saddlebackbbq/videos/94074725667252...
Not all wealth redistribution is equal. There are a number of areas of wealth disparity I would not mind seeing flattened a bit in the interest of societal well-being. Some of those would come at my own expense as an upper middle class homeowner. A lot would come at the expense of the wealthy and corporate tax shelters. You don't necessarily need the kind of taxes you see in prosperous EU countries to make meaningful improvements here.
The TLD without the www works fine: https://makespace.com. Obviously something they should fix.
I strongly doubt that. If the product was inferior, you'd maybe see one purchase from someone accidentally buying it, but it wouldn't be sustained.

People want this stuff. We've transitioned our house to vegan milks because, quite frankly, we like them better and they don't have the same awful externalities that milk production has.

We still use some butter and cheese, and some vegan butter/cheese. There are definitely recipes where it doesn't matter which cheese/butter you use, and some where it does.
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This. so much policy is designed around the idea that people should work a 9-5 at a corporation, without any consideration for the fact that this simply doesn’t support a lot of people’s needs. We need more flexibility not less.

Ironically this completely flies in the face of any motion or ‘diversity and inclusion’.
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I don't think "natural" is not a very good metric or goal to begin with.

Is cheese made from milk natural? I think people only believe that because cheese has been around forever, so they consider it being "normal", while they consider the vegan cheese alternatives "unusual".

Cheese is both a pretty processed product and not particularly healthy.

It's true that there's some relation between "unprocessed" and "healthy" (eat lots of veggies and fruit), but neither cheese from milk nor from plants fits that category. Also that isn't a fundamental law, it's more a "rough guidance". There's no fundamental reason a plant-based product can't be as healthy or healthier as a similar animal-based product.
I tend to agree with this. I'm not a vegetarian, but if I were, I'd wouldn't eat imitation animal products anymore than I'd drink non-alcoholic beer.

I'm happy to eat vegetarian food. It stands on its own as delicious. One of the best "burgers" I've ever had was made with black beans and wasn't trying to imitate meat. (It was at The Vortex in Atlanta years ago.)

Imitation products that I've tried have always just left me wanting the real thing. Soy can be delicious prepared as soy and not trying to make it pretend to be meat. Tofurky. Yuck.
Coming out of high school, one of my first jobs (during my college years) was selling knives as a gig. Since we weren't employees, they couldn't necessarily say "come in on these hours", but there were meetings scheduled at the beginning of the day (where we'd get the next list of customers to call and/or sell knives to), among other stuff.

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There are also lots of Barbers who have to basically come in at certain hours to keep the barbershop open. Barbers however, are largely "gig" work by technicality. You're technically an independent contractor.

Etc. etc.

These sorts of positions are only "gig" because the companies are exploiting those workers. You really can't choose your hours in sales and/or barbershops. You gotta come in when the customers come in. You gotta close up shop and/or open up in the morning, (kinda like open / close employees / managers).

But they're "gig" because the companies want to avoid paying social security taxes, among other taxes associated with proper employment.

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Freelancing probably is a "proper gig". That's not the segment of the economy that people are talking about. There are true gig workers. And then there's the huge number of "non-employee / gig-work" where its just a collection of companies avoiding social security taxes.
sunlight already good at kill virus, this have been knowen for many year. study find corona is dead from twenty minute sunlight alone: https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...

so maybe not so efective.
What is a contractor?

They are person or company leasing labor aka providing services. The other items I listed were both services and goods.

The point is that you shouldn't force a platform to employ or act as anything other than what it is (a routing system). Uber is not directly employing people, it's connecting customers to produces of a service (taxis, effectively). It's also acting as the payment processor and price setter. Everyone can know what they're getting / paying ahead of time. It's a transaction.
Yes, for all the gig jobs that I'm aware of.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Last time I checked, Uber wouldn't let you simply fulfil your duties of transporting people the way you find fit, for example. It's really not a B2B relationship in any meaningful way.

For those who do, sure. They are not gig workers, they are contractors.
Cool to see so much discussion about techno on here!

I’ve been a huge dance music fan/nerd ever since I was a teenager and techno is my favourite genre, particularly the deeper and more hypnotic varieties.

Check out Donato Dozzy’s 2008 Labyrinth set for an idea of what I mean, it blew my mind at the time (still does) and redefined my musical tastes quite a lot: https://soundcloud.com/user-602354628/sets/dozzy-labyrinth-2...

Would be cool to chat techno more with people from this site (and further afield, but I guess I’m thinking the shared interest in tech is another thing in common), I find sites like Reddit don’t really work for me for whatever reason... would there be any interest in a Discord or whatever for techies who like techno? (lol, sorry). Could be fun to share musical discoveries and maybe lead to other interesting connections.
That depends on the type of gig. There are some gigs where experience and skill command a substantial premium.
Not sure about others, but I've paid thousands of dollars for ICANN renewal fees over the last decade... love the idea of "owning" real estate on the internet vs. merely renting it (and having prices go up every few years).
I looked into this space. The major problem with the evaporative approach is that takes way too much energy. Reverse osmosis is ~50x more efficient. The best way to get fresh water is to use solar panels to generate electricity and use it for reverse osmosis.

- 540kcal/liter Evaporate

- ~10kcal/liter RO
I live in an area where the cab service was especially expensive, so it probably helps Uber. In the old days it was $25 to travel the 4 miles between my house and the airport. Lyft is closer to half of that last time I used it.
There are a dozen or so of such platforms like this that already exist.
Not mentioned here but FB is rewriting the Relay compiler in Rust as well. Will be interesting to see how well it works.

https://github.com/facebook/relay/issues/3180

Personally I've had trouble with the Relay compilers watch mode not picking up file changes but that might be a Watchman issue not a Relay compiler issue.
I’d say you have the first statement wrong - some will give but only not if they’re forced, some won’t give anything in any circumstance, and some would give a lot of not blocked by the other two.

I don’t want to be chained to my employer for benefits, for retirement, for healthcare. It’s stupid to put a sociopathic entity with no accountability to you in charge of your basic needs.
It's bizarre and charming at the same time to hear music so similar to the colder, minimal kind of techno you'd expect to hear at a dark themed party in a shady club full of edgy young people, and see the happy, well dressed, colorful, smiling people in the video.
The situation has echoes of the scholars who a few years back submitted fake papers to journals, some of which passed peer review and were published. That was an attempt to backdoor the scientific method, really.

I don't condone guerrilla penetration testing whether its on the Linux kernel or a science journal, and I am sure that the ethical implications will be subject to much outrage and debate for some time to come, but when it occurs and is successful it is concerning because if a small team of scholars can do it, so can anyone else.

The inner workings of the Linux kernel maintenance has been kind of a black box for me for years, I just naively trust it works and my next update won't compromise my system, so it's concerning that this happened and will be following to see how this plays out.
That seems like an overengineered solution to a very simple problem.
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For starters, there's what many developed nations have agreed the minimum is, including: 2 or more weeks of paid time off, statutory holidays, parental leave and benefits, and –most importantly– socialised healthcare.

Some –certainly not all– have taken it a step further and offer pharmacare, daycare, a livable minimum wage, and free higher education.

Still, worldwide, there's an uneven or inequitable provision of other basics, such as disability benefits, guaranteed housing, food, and internet access. All of which I would argue is even more necessary for a good quality of life for all.
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Milk has quite a bit of sugar, many of the milk replacements are higher in protein and lower in sugar, or have different macronutrient profiles.

Also, I like the flavor and mouthfeel of things like oatmilk.

I'm also not convinced that milk is not a 'heavily processed' commodity. You are just using a pregnant cow to do a lot of the processing.
Yes, but it is unnecessary for the specific application. It also doesn't "encode" '@' which was more awkward. :-)
If I remember correctly, Prof. Drosten speculated about a heavy cold and flu season coming winter because we basically skipped one season.

Remains to be seen I guess, but this prognosis resonated with me.
Anything that tries to be like actual cheese fails miserably and trends to be mostly fat (coconut) and starch with flavour added. Nutritionally terrible, usually very low protein compared with real cheese. At least with cashew cheese you are eating (mostly) cashews with some flavour added. Still higher in fat and lower in protein than a low fat cheese, but at least it isn't just starch and fat.

I use the liquid from sauerkraut or picked gherkins, garlic, onion powder and some salt, with the obligatory nutritional yeast. Just think of it as a nice pate.
You can (and actually must) work in both directions simultaneously. We can't do nothing in the hopes of sweeping changes. You have to work within the system that is in place even if you are also working to replace that system (and many are).
Freelancing or being a contractor cannot be compared to being a gig worker. All discussion based on "I prefer being a contractor instead of employed" and then extrapolating that to gig workers is meaningless. For instance, a gig worker can't set their own rates, choose clients, no upwards mobility, often in an exploitable position etc.
I think really what is needed is a new employment classification to deal with gig workers. It's clear that they're somewhere in the middle between an employee and contractor/freelancer.
Since I'm in the employee class and not the employing class, I would like to see the opposite.
This is a blatantly false characterization. Uber workers can decide when and how to work.
Yes, I know. But you only figure it out after you've done you fair share of IPC and management of worker processes by hand. When you're a fresh student, this "fork+exec" just seems like a pretty ridiculous way to organize things: why not just launch the executable you want to launch immediately? Nope, that's at best postponed until the chapter on IPC, at worst it's never discussed at all, so you're left puzzled and with "okay, I guess that's how things are done, if you say so..." feeling.

Oh, and by the way: we have open()/fcntl() for opening files and then fiddling with their settings instead of one open() call with 20 arguments; we could easily have had launch() with the same parameters as execve() that would launch the new process suspended, then we could use... I dunno, even fcntl() on the process's descriptor to configure all those things and then send it SIGCONT when we're done setting it up.
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Are you sure there's really such a trend in HN discussions? I've never noticed it.
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Yes, LATAM has the wildest contemporary techno scene after Europe. The US had next to no techno scene pre-pandemic, a party or two in NY or LA each weekend was it, now its dead.
Yes, I also agree with this sentiment.
Much like vegetarian meat alternatives, I find it depends on how critical of a component it is to the meal. Meat substitute burgers are pretty good! But you can’t fake a steak. Similarly, a vegan cheese pizza just isn’t up to scratch.
That's an assumption made off incomplete data.
Hugged to death already :(