skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps Uber's solution will be to employ a company that employs drivers and let that company be saddled with all the awful paperwork involved.

Methinks the flexibility of dealing with temporary workers is more pertinent than the added cost. Pure speculation of course.
Thanks, I was looking at that picture, but somehow missed it.
Five “Introductory” Sci-Fi Short Stories
Thank you for the review.

I am not into voyeurism and sexually liberated enough to feel unashamed watching porn directly for erotic stimulation. So, I am rather looking for insights of a different substance.
Take it easy...
Most places they don't prevent what you describe. There are usually just some extra hoops to jump through and/or some tax implications.

E.g. I'm in the UK. I've been a contractor with multiple contracts as well as with a single employer both in situations where they are obviously acting as an employer, and in situations where they were genuinely not.

Here there's specific legislation to handle this now - "IR35", which ensures that if your contract is equivalent to employment you'll be taxed accordingly, with an "umbrella company" acting as an employer on behalf of the company that you're contracting with if that is the case to prevent there from being a tax advantage from pretending to be freelance if you're in effect an employee. It doesn't stop you from doing it - it just takes away the tax advantage and creates some bureaucratic hurdles.

But it's easy to avoid as long as you're not trying to avoid taxes, by setting terms that ensures it doesn't match the criteria. Employers are often keen to do this, and it gives you extra negotiating power.

E.g. when I was doing this, key points involved the fact I had a small marketing budget to bring in additional work, I didn't usually work out of their office, I controlled my own hours, I determined how to carry out the work, I negotiated my day rate, the contract had a defined end-date (we could renew, but there are pitfalls there), and so on. Another strong sign you're genuinely not an employee is a right to substitution (e.g. if you can provide someone else to do the work, when you're not available and that right is genuine). UK tax authorities (HMRC) has a checklist as to what they consider "deemed employment" and or that falls under IR35 (it's not an absolute set of criteria, but basically the more you look like a business, the more likely you are to be considered one).

So for high earners like software consultants with an actual reasonable power balance vs. the other side, this is rarely a problem. It cost me a tiny proportion of my revenues to make sure that I met more than enough criteria to be able to do as I pleased.

But most of the people these regulations are there for are in a substantially weaker position. If you're a low enough earner to not be in a position to work around this, then you're not likely to have the power to genuinely negotiate either.
what other companies are on your list?
One of my biggest pet peeves about human nature is around expectation. You do something nice for someone a few times and suddenly they expect the kindness. Now kindness from you is just normal, not a pleasant surprise. In fact, you owe them the kindness. You've created a debt for yourself. And if you cease in your kindness, you've now harmed them, you've taken something owed to them!
EXACTLY this. It'll be like - oh we proved it using X, but wrote code using Y and ooops, there is some difference so this doesn't count as a break in the proof. If that's the case, you have not in fact proved the contract, you've proved a different contract or code base.
Nuclear falls under thermal power plants. It would be redundant to simply add it to the list.
https://i.redd.it/5n4plnaub6641.jpg

It was their ham fisted way to show she would turn bad. Sharp teeth and a hisssss. Because we all know being evil changes your teeth so you can consist on your new diet of tearing the raw flesh directly from your enemies.

They wanted this https://i.redd.it/sftg7bb41eu01.jpg but dirty wouldn’t cut it, needed more, sharp and pointy, because everything in the new movies was made blunt force obvious for “mass appeal”.

The whole movie lacked any sort of grace.

And let’s not even approach getting started on Finn.
Yeah, the Julia-language equivalent is referred to as "scientific machine learning" but I don't like that either. I think "simulation learning" would be snappier and maybe more appropriate.
I think designers who can code are a bit rare. Unless you're bottlenecked by design or it's a market differentiator, just outsource it (whether that's 1, 2, or more contractors). Also there's no shame in rolling with Bootstrap, Bulma, etc until you're ready to invest more in to design.
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I don't care that they exist in many places. Corona is in 200+ different ethical and regulatory environments/societies, I think that that is likewise bad for society and hope we get rid of it.

There's enough other comments with the typical "nuance" you can read.
Didn't the quails cause a plague?
I don't think that is the summary, because a main focus of the post is that social media makes you do things that others thing are "worth consuming", so you can post it for others to consume.
Is there a IoC / CSP (ala core.async in Clojure) in Zig yet? Is it planned to have something like this? I could not find too much about that online.
> attaching an input to an output ... sync the clocks

This has to be done though. Otherwise, you would have periodic underruns or overflows.
Yes. Demand does ramp up and down every day, so you have to follow that. For example, in California the demand varies from about 22 GW to around 30 GW on a typical day.
Well don't forget the biases that are encoded in these percentages (I'm presuming these stats are not normalized by throughput, or revenue). A ton of these websites are basically "some small-time coding contractor is contracted to build a site for X commerce business that "needs a website"" (think: the pizzeria down the corner, or the dry cleaners). If there's even any interactivity at all, it needs to be cookie-cutter. Probably there are small firms and individuals that are responsible for hundreds of these, and some medium sized firms that are responsible for thousands. Copy, paste, customize, check off with contractee, publish.
I've been labelled controversial (amongst other things..) in the past for stating this but hey ho, I'll take another leap:

Aside from the "small changes, fast fixes" type of mantra, and "pairing is better than reviewing" that I suspect Martin Fowler is leaning on (and that I both support strongly):

There is a difference between having reviews, and enforcing reviews.

In my multi-decade career I'm yet to have a signle instance of the thought "thank god we prohibit changes that haven't been reviewed by two other people"

But I have lost count the number of times I've had the thought "I need to bypass this policy because shit's on fire and I've got a fix"

Then comes the question of quality of review when they are mandated.

I'll interject with: Code reviews are no inherently bad. Feedback is good. Collaboration is good. There are better methods of providing feedback than code reviews (I strongly object to the post-facto nature of code reviews)

Mandated peer reviews less so. Feedback is hurried, if not entirely absent, as it becomes another task that people _have_ to do. The time spent reviewing is rarely accounted for. There's a lot of knowledge transfer required for any non-trivial review to be effective, further increasing the demand on the participants.

Code reviews are another tool in the box, but they should not be used for every job.
No. All that s.230 does is declare that platforms are not the 'publisher or speaker' of content provided by another 'information content provider'. It isn't a common carrier provision, so platforms are allowed to make whatever decisions they like about which people they're willing to host, or what TOS/AUP they want to enforce.

For such a simple provision, it's astonishing how many people are writing bad (and sometimes bad-faith) takes on what it means. [Edit:] It's actually absolutely as straightforward as it appears. Which is not to say that it couldn't be changed (and there are reasonable arguments both ways) but confusing what is and what ought to be is a hugely annoying feature of many armchair legal analysts.
No, the discussion isn't about ethanol vs gas. It's about adding some ethanol to gas in order to reduce knocking. That means 10-15% ethanol.

I agree that 100% ethanol would require hermetic seals, but this is about ethanol as an additive.

GM were considering using ethanol as an additive, not 100% ethanol fuel. That would require massively changing up the engine anyways and wouldn't be compatible with straight gas.
Yeah but it if you just made a market that valued the ability to ramp up and down on demand then that could be fixed pretty easily. Some form of capacity market exclusively for low-carbon energy could do it.

https://learn.pjm.com/three-priorities/buying-and-selling-en...
I feel that the video didn't answer the question in its own title: why is it still a thing. People are “beating a horse” because it is a legitimate question why something slower than a car with no blinking turn signal and rough suspension is still a thing.
Sports is incredibly complicated with all the statistics.
Politics is incredibly complicated as well.

People are only given binary options.

People think well for themselves when given the information.
Patent examiners are given a relatively limited time/resource budget to examine applications. For that reason they will often reject early as a strategy [ETA: often, in my experience, with very weak "prior art" that basically matches some keywords], then allow more dedicated inventors to revise. This is mainly a filtering strategy, as best I can see. When your attorney quoted you $10K and suggested the patent would eventually be accepted, they were speaking as someone who understood the business and how the process would play out. It's surprising to me that you disregarded their advice and sunk $5K into the process only to walk away. Better to spend nothing than to waste $5K and get nothing from it.
Desktop browsing is the minority and shrinking every year. Google will always have more Chrome users on Android than there are Windows devices in existence.
Also, tobacco and alcohol have pretty much the same chemical and social impacts throughout (although there are changes in intensity, for example, ABV in beers have been increasing).

Social media changes its addictive by tailoring it over time for every individual user.
This isn't helping your argument. Why would they do that? Again, Linux is comparatively irrelevant at 1% market share. It's not worth the cost, which is why most games don't have Linux ports.
That's what you say, but I don't see how philosophers and their consciousness ideas can help with those.

If you want "mind portability" (I assume you mean "upload brain to the machine" here) you want to talk neurobiologists, people who actually study the brains. Probably also to computer scientists so you know how to build a machine to simulate that.

If you want "Intelligence augmentation" -- I am going to argue this already happens with internet and search engines. Next steps would come from same directions. And it is certainly not going to be philosophers designing direct brain-machine interface!

- Hibernation is fully biology -- what does conscious have to do with that?

and so on... I am 100% sure that whoever solves those very important problems will need to build solid theories and make lots of real-world, non-thought experiments -- something that modern philosophers which study consciousness simply do not do.
Facebook is used by 3B people.

When a company (or even more generally a social phenomenon) is so big, the only logical consequence is that it becomes embedded in the layer that it services.

In society not everybody is equal, a social movement with the massive scope that Facebook has cannot deviate from such rule.

Power law is a thing, you can't escape it, not even the Universe can.

It's not right and it's not wrong. It just is.
I had a smoker friend in college and I'd join him outside. Pretty soon all my friends in the group were those social smokers.
While I don't disagree with you, another thing Buffett has said is, we can't predict what interest rates will be in the future, so why bother?

You can only invest given the information you have today.
User generated content, comments, ratings. 3/3 would say so, yes. :-)
> The interesting thing is that the same kinds of comments were made about GPT-2 and I guess we'll see them with GPT-4 and so on, also.

What was exciting about the GPT-2/3 was how much better they were compared to their predecessors. It's that delta that's fueling the hype among the enthusiasts, as well as the anticipation of what might happen if the delta holds for another few rounds of iteration.
No, it's a forum.
Astronomers spot the same supernova 3 times, predict a 4th sighting in 16 years
Blablacar lets you set your own prices on trips, and they don't kick you off if you refuse fares
These days the preferred model seems to be the wave model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_model], which is exactly as you describe: changes diffuse out from a central area, and different places receive different changes. This is generally approximated as a tree in the common case where a bunch of changes diffuse out to the same place, then stop.
I don't think this is a problem. I guess most people will already have this problem when comparing the worthiness of livestock with embryos. I guess after all we will have to decide in favor of speciesism or we will lead very complicated lives.
Signal or custom forks for personal communications.
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Yes; however, as with human-caused desertification, sacrificing tomorrow for today ultimately leads all of us to doom, so those of us who aren't in those circumstances have a moral imperative to figure this out :)
You cannot go full renewable though, at least not if you power supply comes from wind. Even offshore fields have big periods without productions (because there is not enough wind, but also because there is too much).

I did the calculation for France a few years ago: if you wanted to run on wind + battery, on a typical year you'd need two weeks of storage! Nobody considers this realistic, and gas is expected to cover this part in the end.

Edit: I forgot the link to my model: https://bourrasque.info/images/20180116-moulins-%C3%A0-vent/...
And of a false dichotomy.
Over 200 Books for Japanophiles (2020)
But "Pixi" == "Pixie" when evaluated by humans
'Publish or perish' combined with the need for funding. Academia has become distanced from what it's supposed to be, at least in this area.
I'll look into this. We could bundle a terminal emulator like Hyper easily. Ideally we could get access to some sort of frame-buffers for other applications. I wonder how much control apple lets you have.
They delayed Covid once. And are going to delay Covid again.

The only way to eliminate it to a basic endemic state, is via the immune system.

And the fact that vaccines just reduce the symptoms and don't stop it's spread....means it's never going away.
Reality doesn't pay the bills anymore. 1,000,000 realities do, however.
The Universal Law of Reality
Anecdotally, one of my friends had a small family gathering at some point and everyone got Covid except for the smokers. Could easily be a coincidence given the sample size of like 7 people, but interesting nonetheless.
> In my opinion, it was amazing. Prior to graphical user interface, various DOS were the only interface in non-*nix world.

Microsoft was late to the GUI party. Other platforms like Apple, Atari, Acorn, etc had proper GUI operating systems long before Microsoft did.

Also DOS wasn't even the only non-GUI outside of UNIX. Micro computers had BASIC (which was a lot more powerful than DOS in some ways) plus support for Pascal, LOGO, and other languages on ROM too. They could also run other operating systems such as GeOS, CP/M and others many wouldn't have heard of. There were also LISP machines, dumb terminals which would access "green screen" TUIs, and a whole slew of other niche systems out there.

DOS won because IBM-clones took over the world. DOS won because the hardware was cheap to clone not because the OS was the best of the era. Albeit it's fair to say once the momentum got behind IBM-clones DOS then continued to dominate due to people getting locked into MS-DOS applications. But DOS was never a particularly interesting operating system. If anything, CP/M was more interesting because it came several years before DOS, solved the hard problems that people took for granted with DOS, and ran on systems with far lower system memory (it was also the operating system that IBM PCs were originally intended to run -- but I'm sure you all know the conflicting stories behind that piece of history)
It's almost impossible to promote art and music organically these days without being involved in social media. It's different than traditional sinful addictions in that way...

Product designers don't realize that each user has a different purpose for using social media, and totally different goals, while the basic narrative is that all of social media is dedicated towards selling products and building online celebrity status.

The real problem is that social media sites try to dominate the world without creating sub-communities for specialization, and they have also devalued and underestimated the value of being able to build followers in hopes of a focus on engagement and paid ad revenue. Social sites usually focus on one front page, and one script/method for success on them, and that's a massive failure to the different reasons users use them.

Social sites start out fair, with orderly time lines and visibility of individual accounts, but as year over year profit and user base increases becomes their focus, they grow corrupt and too big to change. They stop developing useful features and turn towards profit.

It's a cycle they repeat until their user base wakes up to the reality of it all and realizes all of their content will be deleted if they quit. It is a cycle of abuse and loss compounded by lost time... More like the year I spent wound up in GTA4 than like drinking Tequila and smoking Newports.
"HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong."

From https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ .
I happen to agree.
Nothing motivates people to do the hard work than money!
this :) so easy!
One of the most amazing things I learned recently was that the terracotta warriors in Xi'an were colored as well and met a similar fate shortly after the sculptures were exposed to atmosphere.
> Rust's memory safety and strong type system.

As a user, I don't care about Rust's type system, as long as the data I'm storing is valid. This is not a feature.

"Being written in *" should never be a feature. In fact, it never is and never will be.

> Replacing OIDs with UUIDv4s.

Why?

According to Wikipedia[1]:

UUID - Universally Unique Identifier. These are not
absolutely unique, but statistically unique. [...]

OID - Object Identifier. We tend to want to use these more
often as they are more structured and thus allow for some
additional ways to create Unique Identifiers. The structure
also allows for more accurate TRUE/FALSE comparisons. And
when it comes to diagnosing problems, their structure can
also come in handy.

So this decision seems a bit weird to me. Unless I'm missing something?

[1] - https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Creating_Unique_IDs_-_OID_and_UUID
Haha, absolutely, it's a terrible example with terrible design that I pulled out of thin air, but it was just to illustrate the point of how even seemingly innocuous changes can have major consequences.
The thing that drives me crazy is how hard it is to avoid it. I have plenty of real life friends, a busy career, a family. Still an old friend said "reach out to me on whatsapp". I can't even use the thing without agreeing to import my contacts. Or my Oculus headset-- which I really enjoy-- demands I have an account. Bummer.
All those things should actually be under the purview of the government, rather than businesses.

But that would increase government expenses because many more people would become eligible for the benefits. Using businesses as a proxy lets society implicitly restrict the quantity and quality of those benefits to certain people.
It is technically true, but requires all kinds of miracles, not the least of which is avoiding every trace of matter/antimatter between here and there.

Oh, and all light from the universe is now gamma radiation focused intensely ahead of the spacecraft cooking the whole thing.

An atomic nucleus sitting in deep space becomes an apocalyptic collision at 99.99% light speed.
>>Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI, a Startup Co-Founded by Elon Musk 23 Jul 2019

I mean you can argue fine points if you want but money is always the main factor. OpenAI has been dead for a while as far as "OPEN" goes.

OpenAI does however state in many places that they are very hesitant to approve any uses that could be "therapeutic" in nature. Understandable since MS doesn't want to lose money from medical malpractice lawsuits for their billion dollar investment.
This is, unfortunately, a win-lose game. If the US relaxed its requirements for nurses and doctors they could actually destroy the healthcare or many other countries. I've multiple friends that are experienced healthcare providers in Brazil that would love to move here but the rules are so draconic and complicated they have just given up.

In a way I think it's good they have these requirements in place as that means people in Brazil won't be without doctors but its also pretty awful for me to say something like this given I DID move here to work, so I guess anyone else should have the same shot.
Yeah, many scientists in my field have been justifiably skeptical of black-box machine/deep learning applications -- just sounded like the latest meaningless buzzword. I think this approach potentially is a big deal.

[Edit: by "this approach" I mean what the article is calling "differentiable physics" -- but I don't love that moniker. The "physics informed neural network" approach doesn't seem that great to me. It's much slower than doing an actual simulation, the resulting errors are larger, and you can't re-use results -- it's a one-off solution. The fact that you can use it to interpolate isn't that much of a selling point. The only nice thing is that you can throw any system of equations you want at it without having to design a numerical solver.]
I wonder if it has a corollary in the Buddhist concept of "impermanence." Ephemeral, momentary, "in the now". Give us this day our impermanent bread.
Datasea Announces a $4.33M New Contract
I also remember it - I’m pretty sure he was 42?

Some other things:

- might have been the Atlantic

- he talked about etiquette around things like flicking ash and smoking circles

- he talked about asking his doctor about starting smoking

It was definitely an interesting one
If these are known misleading public statements then can SEC prosecute them? I'd think these statements can affect the stock price and this is securities fraud.
I don't want to do victim blaming or shaming here but why would you use any fb product knowing well about their awful business practices like these?
This ruling against Uber doesn't seem to affect Blablacar, a European competitor that lets you set your own prices.

If anything, Uber should let you set prices, and show a competitive market price.