skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most gig workers should be given the opportunity to become franchise owners, not employees and lose their independence.

That could also solve the equity discrepancy, and give the workers real ownership upside.
Edit: I also stopped eating out about twice a month.
I think that talking about upsetting things does steer conversations in upsetting ways. A lot of things happen all the time. The choice of what one talks about is informative. You can frame an event in both negative and positive ways. If you mention violence, but don't mention togetherness, solidarity, courage (or some other positive words), that's probably a negative framing.

What's more, it's misguiding to say that people talk about things that happen. People talk about some of the things that happen. Media plays a big role in the selection. People also tend to adopt framings. Which is to say that people's happiness does depend on what's being talked about, if we agree that happiness is the positivity of thoughts held.
"probably result of directed energy device"

and in the same article...
"Officials cautioned that the investigations into these and other incidents have not reached a conclusion."

I used to admire the Guardian, but this is simply deceptive is it not? "probably" is a well-known weasel word and I would have thought the editors would not allow this kind of thing.

edit:
Having Googled around a bit, it seems like CNN has a much better article. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/us-investigating...
> I'm confused. Those are all different authors.

From the "Medical Hypotheses" journal the Forbes article is criticizing for poor editorial control, and citing those as examples. At least read the claim you're attempting to debunk.

> Once again, one can publish at Forbes whatever the hell they want. It costs a few hundred bucks.

Apparently that's also true for the "Medical Hypotheses" journal.
IF nothing else comes of this I've been much better about wiping surfaces and using hand sanitizer. I don't see myself going around indoors everywhere with a mask, but I won't feel weird doing it during flu season either. Hopefully it's a bit more normalized.
> There is no such thing on modern-day Windows.

There are a number of ways. For example shell extensions. Even Chrome, which took great care to not load them missed a few, which I used to get my DLL running inside Chrome without the antivirus complaining. This was some years ago, don't know if they fixed this (and is not really a bug, is by design, sort of).

> you would have neutralized any antivirus software.

That is extremely difficult and fragile. Much better to just not trigger it in the first way by behaving like a "normal" app. The user is also much more likely to notice a non-updating antivirus than some random process.
This is going to sound funny, but I saw a video on TikTok last night where a guy in the construction industry was saying that material producers for construction are price gouging right now.
Where were you when I was 35 and let go from a company I had worked at for 10 years. I was invited to coworker weddings, birthday parties, helped them move, you name it. Soon as I was let go, I never heard from them again. That really hurt for a long time.
What is the goal of this "scam"?
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You're putting a lot of weight on the word basically in your first sentence - the reality is that gig workers have characteristics that clearly fall under the classification of employees and others that clearly fall under the classification of contractors.

The problem with your argument is that because the law is ambiguous with regard to this situation, the labor secretary is effectively making law by choosing a particular interpretation of the law.

Though to be clear, I agree with you 100% that this is because Congress is just perpetually failing America through corruption, selfishness, etc., and that failure puts the labor secretary in an unenviable position of having to enforce laws that don't really work for the situation.
This very much depends. GitHub for example will return 404 for a private repository when you are logged out. The idea is balancing HTTP semantics with information leaking.
I feel like we should be trying to phase out this special "employee" classification that the gov't defined instead of expanding it.
I'd like to mention an important argument for some degree of wealth distribution:

A skewed wealth distribution monetary has a tendency to corrupt both government and markets. Therefore, it is in society's interest to prevent high levels of inequality. (I'm assuming some flavor of a representative democracy paired with some degree of capitalism.)

To some, this feels like a rather blunt instrument. Many, of course, advocate for more targeted policies: regulation of mergers, inter-generational wealth taxes, campaign finance reform. In my view, all of the above sound good, in practice, because making progress is hard work.
Time off is one of the greatest scams in the modern economy. Unless you work a position where the time increment of your work is less than the amount of time you take off, ultimately you end up being pushed to do the same amount of work in less time. You might as well have skipped your vacation or planned your PTO during a less busy time.

Really all PTO is for most salary exempt positions anymore is ability to delay work without getting fired. Now if you work in a position where you churn out things on a daily basis or less and someone will fill in for you while you're gone, PTO is actually PTO.
I see this complaint a lot. The answer is not for people to not use modern features of tools with frankly very reasonable cadence, but instead for distributions to adapt to a world where things are not distributed on CDs any more.
Are there any useful embedded projects? With very basic app dev or web dev skills, I can easily hack together a somewhat useful project - useful as in used by real people, solving an actual problem. Is that a thing in embedded dev?
> To totally misquote Steve Jobs, social media is like a bicycle for feeling bad.

I like that. What's the actual quote?

Edit: it's probably this:

> …the computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
The thing is though that, by and large, there never were "lockdowns" in the US. I'm sure there are exceptions but most people were free to go out in public if they wanted to (perhaps with masks/distancing), many types of "essential" businesses remained open, etc.
Why on earth do you want to decentralize personal belongings? I absolutely want my possessions centralized, in storage locations I own. That is the much more obvious solution than putting personal possessions on a blockchain. If you want to store digital tokens for your kids that you can be reasonably assured will still be there when they become adults, use thumb drives. Keep them in a fireproof safe if you're really worried. Somehow, my mom has managed to keep all the videos and photos of key events in my childhood safe and intact for 40 years without having to put them on a public distributed ledger. When betamax went obsolete, she transferred to VHS. When that went away, to DVD.

I really don't understand what this woman thinks she is buying. I guess this is a better storage medium for precious moments and collectibles than sending copies of everything to gmail, but so is almost any other way of storing something.
If you make it a choice, it effectively becomes no choice because employers will never agree to classify a worker as an employee because it would increase their costs and they have the ability to seek out another worker who would agree to the independent contractor status against their own interest because they need the job to keep a rood over their head and food on the table. It would give employers the ability to make it a race to the bottom for employees, like what would happen if minimum wage laws were removed.
One prominent example from recent memory:

"On November 2, 2017, Ricketts posted to both DNAinfo and the '-ist' network sites that both websites would immediately cease operations, a week after Gothamist writers voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. All content from all DNAinfo sites and all subsidiary sites were taken down. The next day, archives of the sites were returned to functionality. Ricketts's shutdown was criticized as being a mere act of retaliation after the two companies' workers had joined a union."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothamist#Shutdown
USC Researchers Develop Technology to Detect Internet Outages Around the World
In most discussions around this topic, Uber and Lyft are highlighted as typical examples. This article is no exception. But it includes the following quote from Labor Secretary Marty Walsh:

>“These companies are making profits and revenue and I’m not (going to) begrudge anyone for that because that's what we are about in America. But we also want to make sure that success trickles down to the worker,” he said.

If he's referring to Uber and Lyft specifically, then he's mistaken. Uber and Lyft remain breathtakingly unprofitable.

Would that fact change the way people think about this issue? I think it does... and advocates for reform think it does, too. Otherwise, why would they keep making this "mistake" when they talk about this issue?

As a side note: it's pretty poor journalism on Reuters' part to include that quote without any context or criticism, especially since they mention Uber and Lyft by name in the opening paragraph. Or, if he wasn't talking about Uber and Lyft, then Reuters' presentation makes him look like a liar, or at least embarrassingly misinformed. (He's the Labor Secretary after all -- he ought to know what he's talking about.)
It's complicated to design a perfect system at the beginning of organizing knowledge, it changes more with the ideas you get amd more you work on organizing than learn something new.

Like I started with Notepad amd later switched to Evernote in 2009 afterwards to OneNote.

I used to save links so that can referback as well. I wrote a small app, so that I can save small notes and links https://stash.bobbydreamer.com it uses firebase. Last year found out saving links is useless when the website upgrades or they possible close down. So I need to take a screenshot or copy that info back to notepad or some other means.

Now im back to saving in onenote, I have an half built website which I got inspired as next version of stash.bobbydreamer.com using firestore and writing content in markdown and viewing it as a HTML site. I liked I this idea but really do I want to do it is the thought.

Last year during lockdown I had rethought that should post my notes in organized way in my site so that I can referback easily ( https://www.bobbydreamer.com ), site uses Gatsby, so the notes are in Markdown, don't want to focus on design at the moment as working on lots of things, I never get anything done. There are so much notes I have and to make something complete, it takes time as ideas, notes and thoughts are not always complete.

Theres not much traffic to my site even being public, so I need not worry about it.

I have made my mind that it will be strictly off office work alone(study notes).

Currently OneNote and Personal site.
>Of course this ignores that Epic IS ALSO SUING GOOGLE. All caps because people are completely blind to this because it doesn’t fit their preferred narrative.

please research what the actual lawsuit with Google is about because casting accusations on others. Another response was kind enough to give a link (that was the first one on Google).
Employees, by structure of tax code, pay Government taxes prior to receiving their own salary. Corporations pay Government for access to labor market in form of tax on employees. People who own their own labor, like much of the innate structure of "Rights" that exist in lieu of Government administration, like 1st, 2nd, etc.. only pay the Government after all expenses have been deducted from revenue, and the self has been paid. This inherent structural shift, between the owner and the owned, is the fundamental source of tension being pulled at by this view of labor market. The Government owns its labor pool. People own root authority over a Government "of, by, for" those people. This is the fault line of civil Society, as presently defined in Constitutional literature. The actual source of American Sovereignty of course, demonstrated by John Hancock and peers, and recursively denied to all that followed, is directly personal. In other words, Amrica, and all Sovereign labor is issued by self-Sovereign authority, or else this dream never exists. Employees opt-out of this inherent structure, and by acting thus, degrade the labor market as defined by this labor Secretary. The Government can't pay for infinite wars and debt without employees paying the Government before their own lives. Structure yields results.. administrative enslavement -to- employment came about, at great human cost fought via war, and owners were victorious on both sides of history.. structure yields results..
A biological warfare zone more or less in balance but a "cesspool" is kind of gross and unnecessary. Bacteria aren't all bad, and if your digestive tract was suddenly without them you'd die from malnutrition if you didn't get nutrients through an IV
Why should the gig economy even be a thing? It seems really great for the companies (make huge amounts of money), pretty great for users (cheap taxis, cheap accommodation), and absolutely terrible for most others - whether that’s the drivers (I’m sure some are happy, but the fact is the pay absolutely stinks, which is how the companies want it) or people suffering from increased traffic (Uber) or the disturbance of community (Airbnb).

It’s just an incredible feat of mental acrobatics that hacker news convinces itself that the gig economy must be a good thing and must exist and it’s the government that’s behind, rather than the more obvious conclusion that _we have worker protections for a reason_ and these companies are not “disrupting” anything other than employment laws that protect the exploitation of workers, and other laws that protect wider society.

Just because some says it is “tech” doesn’t meant it’s good or we have to support it. Just feels like massive groupthink or lack of experience of the reality on the ground for most people.
In the video there's 15 seconds between the to Apples being thrown in the basket. The apple is dropped from enough height additionally to be damaged afterwards.
Domain name/identity and key pinning has always been the only useful use of NFTs that I can think of.

Today, to encrypt your communications with people, you use something like PGP or Signal which rely on "trust on first use (TOFU) but verify", in practice people don't really verify so it's more like TOFU. This means that if someone compromised the session at the moment where it was created (or re-created), then your communication are being snooped on.

Today, to encrypt your communication to websites, you use HTTPS which rely on a vast network of certificate authorities. Any of these actors misbehaving leads to potential attacks. Because of that, the Certificate Transparency project was created to _potentially_ catch bad actors, that is if you check for your own domains regularly.

Using a consensus-based registry, you can prevent (better than detect) attacks in both of these scenarios. Let people register their identity or domain name, and associate a public key to it that can be used to encrypt communications with the identity/domain, as long as the number of dishonest actors remain under a threshold no attacks are possible.

The only (albeit not small) downside is that by taking middle men out of the picture, the naive approach prevents account recovery from happening. So to be practical, you need to find the right middle ground.
Over 450 past Jeopardy contestants condemn a three-time winner made a three sign
I have been interested in degoogled Android for a while. I am probably going to go with Graphene, but have been looking at alternatives that have better app compatibility.

How does /e/ compare with Calyx? Calyx seems to be more popular from what I can tell but I couldn't find a very comprehensive comparison between the two.
As someone from a country with Universal Healthcare, I don't understand what "yes, I do want to choose my healthcare. I want to select the plan that best fits my life and needs. If you want a larger simpler plan that covers everything then you can choose that." means.

And I especially don't understand how it doesn't lead to exactly the problematic outcome we are talking about which is that poor people can't afford access to quality healthcare.

You don't "choose" what level of fire department protection you need. How is healthcare different? I suppose you can always hire your own private firefighter/doctor...

So long as you give people the choice, and it's based on PERSONAL financial contributions rather than government-organized taxes, those with less means will have less access to a finite set of healthcare resources and result in systemic inequalities.

I suppose I can imagine that there is some "ultra deluxe" version of healthcare where instead of crutches you get a wheelchair, and instead of a shared recovery room you get your own, and I do support those with the means to pay extra for something like that. But the baseline HEALTHCARE access part needs to remain the same...
The main exception I would grant to this is when you have ingredients in a recipe that you need to figure out vegan substitutions for. In this case you do want something marketed as the vegan version of it.

Eggs, in particular, need a valid vegan substitute. As an aside, if we could veganize all the different incantations of an egg it would be ground-breaking. Alas, I fear we are doomed to have 5 different vegan products to replace those incantations of an egg. 1 for scrambled eggs, 1 for baking, 1 for emulsifying, 1 for adhesion, etc.
People have been trying to make alternate-root DNS systems a thing for 20+ years, it has never caught on.
Ok, that's a better way to frame it than I was originally thinking. In that context, I'd say 'explainability' is too blunt of an instrument to be used to push back on a model than 'uncertainty'.

IMO, if explainability is the new way to push back on models we're uncomfortable with, it shouldn't be. Uncertainty arguments can be mathematically quantified and defended. Can the same be said for explainability? (Genuinely asking). If not, it's really just a less rigorous way of saying "I'm not comfortable with this model but I can't explain why."
When I was wwoof'ing I picked I'd say an apple every 2 seconds. But only until you have to adjust the ladder or empty your bucket into the big bin, etc. The thing is you have to be quite careful. Apples don't like falling down as that causes them to bruise.
I wonder if it's because folks who were feeling sick got tested for Covid first, and upon a negative Covid result, assumed (likely correctly) that it was just flu and didn't get a flu test
India Blames a Virus Variant as Its Covid-19 Crisis Deepens
After doing God's work upvoting anything that's grey, whether I agree or not....

Having hit this kind of thing when the Great State of California got interested in contractors a few years back I have to say that the cynic in me tends to come out on these issues.

So many people have a personal interest in this general issue, large companies who don't use contractors, large companies who do, health insurance mavens, the state wanting to extract a few bucks in things like unemployment insurance, people in the grievance industry, politicians generally, I think you basically can't trust any heartfelt opinions on the way-things-oughta-be.
Here is the photo of the hand gesture: https://twitter.com/whoisalexjacob/status/138739702692571955...
That's been borne out by data from several countries, children don't seem to readily spread COVID-19. Adults are the primary spreaders, which is sort of the reverse of the flu.
Love nano. Many of the keybindings work in bash too.

Check out:

https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/latest/cheatsheet.html
I think people in this thread are exaggerating the cost of golf - you can get a used club set for a few hundred and if you already live in a cheap area an executive tee time is maybe $20-$40. If you're struggling to pay your bills and work 16/7 then sure that's inaccessible, but then so would be most hobbies.
>Different virus sizes, different mask effectiveness.

Not necessarily - when speaking and otherwise spreading aerosols they start out much larger than any virus particles contained within them and quickly dry out and shrink if in air (i.e. not caught in a mask) [1, 1um - 500um, between Table I & Fig 11].

If they were on their own, the small 'nanoparticle' regime (1-100nm) shows fairly good filtration in a variety of media [1st image in 3] thanks at least in part to the diffusion of particles through filter media. It's not the same by size by any means (with smaller often being the most passed particle size) but it varies with filter construction and treatment [3].

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061903/
[2]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00022470.1980.10...
[3]: https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/56/5/568/159920
An agreement to be able to delay work without getting fired doesn't seem entirely like a scam.
Exactly. Fried onion rings will beat fake-mozzarella sticks every single time, simply because that dish was designed and intended to be vegetable-based from the beginning. Want to make classic onion rings full vegan? Substituting vegetable oil for lard is far less drastic than trying to come up with a substitute for cheese. Pizza? There are many pizza recipes that do not involve cheese at all! Try a no-cheese pesto or something.

It makes little sense to me. But I suppose I have relatively few food cravings. If you're trying to avoid dairy and and every week you just need cheese sticks or pizza, then I guess that's the market this is aimed at?
Dear Robot, please bruise my apples some more.
These kinds of cameras produce pretty high volumes of data, since it's picture + 3D dot cloud per frame. My guess would be even 1G over wifi wouldn't be enough throughput without some compression engine in place.
I'm not a clinician or public health policymaker, so I'm operating on the balance of probabilities rather than a p=0.05 standard.

If you consider the influenza estimate independent of equivalent estimates for covid, then there's a substantially greater than 50% chance that influenza's R0 is meaningfully smaller than that of the flu. If the estimates are partially dependent (i.e. methodology that gives a larger estimate for influenza would also give a larger estimate for covid), then that chance goes up further.

Moreover, we also have evidence in the actual observations of epidemic dynamics. Over the southern hemisphere fall of 2020 (northern hemisphere spring), covid cases increased more rapidly than influenza cases in countries that were entering their flu seasons. That's compelling-to-me evidence that covid in fact has a larger basic reproductive number, whether that be due to a fundamental difference in the virus or just the effects of low baseline immunity.

Now, your idea that the particular set of policy restrictions may be more effective against influenza than covid is very interesting. There's a basic horse sense to it, as well, since policymakers were largely operating from a playbook written for a flu pandemic. However, I do not think that "more effective" is a necessary component of the argument; "at least as effective" will do just as well given influenza's low baseline prevalence (out of season).

Remember, my original point upthread was not to explain every bit of the relative epidemic curves, but instead to claim that we really ought not be surprised by the difference. I see little need to resort to specialized theories to explain the broad outline, even though I'm sure they will be helpful in the details.