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Please don't take HN threads into political or ideological flamewar, and especially not religious or race flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: when an account crosses into using HN primarily for ideological battle, that's when we ban it - regardless of which ideology it's battling for or against. So please don't do that. Again: it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Yes, as others have said, it's based on the same open source CMS.

I've created zig.news for people who want to write about Zig but who don't necessarily want to maintain their own blog and to the work necessary to publicize it.

This should hopefully help more people write down their experience and opinions on using Zig and alleviate the problem of having a "blogger aristocracy" who has a much stronger voice than anyone else.

I briefly go over this concept in this 3mins long video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pUuj6eiEg
I hope über goes bankrupt and we forget about all of this insanity. In Germany where I live the taxi service is amassing, at least in my city can't say for whole country. They are quick clean the drivers are professionals and not some randos who will break rules to get there faster or drive so insanely that you want to puke. They know the city by heart and don't use navigators. Due to being professionals they are compensated more fairly than in other countries and they have benefits like all other employees. Also if you like using apps you can do that with normal taxi as well.

In my home country (Eastern Europe) I took übers that made me think I'm gonna die in them.
What does that matter?

Just because you can pick your own hours/work schedule, that doesn’t make you an independent contractor. At least it’s not determinative in the US under federal law nor any state that I am aware, but maybe that is the Dutch law and the court just got it wrong here
Can you limit the number of cores available to an application when you open it? I feel like there must be a way to do that.
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Always interesting to me to see how much "IT-first" educated people think that Fortran is a dead language. While when learning physics first you will quickly see how very much alive it still is (newest standard is "Fortran 2018" btw)
Every weather forcast you are seeing was computed using Fortran for example :P
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Now do people who live but whose bodies are destroyed by the virus.
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I see the advantage of a lot of unpaid drivers, but they also aren't morons.

Most Uber drivers say they make good money (all that I've met, too), which imo means better than a minimum wage job like warehousing or w/e.

They wouldn't do the job if it meant idling without pay. They couldn't, as it would just burn money.
I don't really understand what this is trying to say.

I feel like I agree in isolation with almost everything he says (science should share more data, corporations shouldn't be trusted to generate science that affects their bottom line, science is a complicated business with lots of opinions).

But sprinkled into it he seems to be attacking some technocratic elite of pundits and I'm not sure who he's talking about. (There's another article from the same magazine recommended as related that tries to define who these elites are and what they are up to, but if anything I'm less sure what they're talking about after reading it.)

America’s Smug Elite Is Harming Our Kids
The push to decouple skepticism from science turns schoolchildren into victims
by
Jacob Hale Russell
and
Dennis Patterson

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/americas...

Googling smug and elite brings up a lot of weird articles.

edit: found this enlightening:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-j...
I think the competitive advantages of Uber will weaken with all these legal challenges. In NYC, as Uber prices increased dramatically after the pandemic began to wane, folks just starting catching cabs again. The cabs use ride hailing apps. I no longer care about the rating system or any of that. It is fine.

In Israel, we use Gett. It's fine.
Yes, Uber, since their gig workers are now employees. \s

Under Dutch law, to be classified as an independent contractor you also need to be able to set your own prices and have a "significant" (the law is fairly specific but it is too long for a HN comment) say in exactly how you provide your services. The court ruled that Uber drivers do not meet this bar and are therefore not independent contractors. TBH, the "ZZP" construction used has always been a fairly transparent attempt by Uber and the other gig companies to evade labor regulations for their own profits and I'm glad that the court has issued a clear statement about it.
> "We know that the vast majority of drivers would like to remain independent," said Maurits Schonfeld, general manager of Uber in Northern Europe

That's funny, because the court's reasoning was that drivers in their daily work are almost completely dependent on Uber, which calls all the shots.
Yeah, no street racing, drunk driving.
Yes, my comment is only in regards to the two main towers. I didn't study tower 7 in detail, but from what I understand it was a building that had an interior backup generator with enough fuel for a week or two and that is what caused the large fire. But when the 9/11 truth movement was in its prime, most of the focus was on towers 1 & 2 and once I was satisfied with the explanations for those I didn't bother looking into the secondary claims about tower 7. Mostly because once you have the first two towers collapse all the heat and debris from the pyroclastic cloud it makes doing the math much harder. The heat calculations for the two planes were relatively straightforward, other than the degree of fireproofing displacement during impact.
I hope all the taxi drivers in Germany go bankrupt and we forget they ever existed.
If I hire a contractor to renovate my home to my exact specifications, by your logic they are my employee because they couldn't choose the "route" or "destination?"
Same as any independent contractor / self-employed person. In a sane country, they'd be required to pay into social security system themselves. In many countries, however, being self-employed is a tax loophole.
No driver - no problem. Communists will downvote this comment :D
It's funny that Uber decided to force employment laws to avoid paying social security, taxes and other obligations related to regular employment, but won't force employment laws to allow employees to work any number of hours they want whenever they want.
I dunno, I liked living in Manhattan and driving into nature every other weekend with my dog and wife. Turns out Zipcar is pretty shit overall if you actually like going to places.
Welcome to society. I'm not sure where you live but in every country I know of there are plenty of things you can't do with your car and/or your free time.
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Manna is literally Hebrew for "What is it?" It's basically the equivalent of calling it "Whatsit" bread, which might be a better translation anyway.
> > Accommodations that come from deepseated beliefs need to be treated with utmost respect.

> I don't think they need to at all.

Do you have a deepseated belief that people should not murder? What about people who don't have such a belief?
Please don't post shallow provocations to HN, and especially don't take HN threads into political or (god help us) nationalistic flamewar. None of that is what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then you're not going to do it for the money that uber pays.

As a ZZP you're meant to provide for your own pension, sick leave, disability insurance. No way what Uber pays is going to cover that.

This is why they're doing it of course, to avoid having to provide those things. But those are statutory rights in the Netherlands. And for good reason, otherwise if someone becomes disabled it ends up on the state's plate. We don't leave people by the side of the road if we can help it.
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In greek, the word "ergo" means "work". As a Greek myself, it seems like this etymology is much more common and used.

Similarly, when we say that something is ergonomic, it derives from "ergo" + "nomic" which means distribution of work. Distribution of work typically minimizes fatigue and that's also the meaning when we are talking about ergonomic chairs, keyboards, etc.
This is what certik tries to solve. I just don't understand why smart contracts need certik to be verified.
Don't forget the downside: now you have to prove you're over 18, either by submitting more personal info or using a 3rd party which then can track the sites you go to.

EDIT: apparently I'm talking about a 2nd, not directly related, bill. See one of the grandchildren comment.
What's that supposed to mean? Dutch people can still be self-employed - this ruling applies to one particular employer that has been pretending it's staff are self-employed.
Fear and Loathing wasn't portraying him, technically. The story is about Raoul Duke, who is his alter-ego.

Of course the two characters are very similar in a lot of ways, but it's not technically autobiographical.
That's not just taxes, he/she is including pension, healthcare etc. on top of not just employee but also employer taxes.
because it ignores the reality of european society: it's not a libertarian utopia, it's a society where the states do dictate things.

More specifically, it's blind to the fact that the parent comment is about existing regulation which is being abused.

It's like arguing with someone saying "you can't drive at 100 km/h in a residential area" with "well I am a CAN person myself, and I don' think we should say CAN'T".
Here in the Netherlands, where the ruling was made, it's definitely the case that being able to determine your own hours is one of the requirements of being a freelancer.

When I was freelancing, clients could not tell me at what time I had to be in the office, when I could live, or on which days I had to go, to avoid me being considered an employee.
Social security fees are added on top of gross salary (and normally not visible on your payslip) so it's not a tax per se but still a cost for the company.
To extend it, the "genius or insane?" trope comes from both being pretty much defined as to be indexed on things others can't see. The main difference is, genius reveals things that we realize afterward were always there, and insanity is mostly failing to cohere the perspective into something others can see as well.

Brain is also made to represent what a child imagines as "smart." Pinky as the genius does make the cartoon adventures more rich though.
The amount of time worked has nothing to do with it - contractors in other industries typically work long hours. The reasoning is that contractors should retain some level of independence, like choosing their rides, and setting their own prices, for example. Uber is micromanaging all driver's daily activities, which is antithesis of being independent contractor.
China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener” than regular uranium reactors, and so could help Beijing meet its climate goals. Yet is the country's investment in this also geostrategic?
I know you're joking, but I've seen multiple essays by Ayn Rand followers arguing that people are unfairly "bullying" (using that exact word) big banks, oil companies, etc.
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The idea that a designed machine could be competitive with living things at self-replication (the sole target of a multi-millenia optimisation process) seems… pretty unlikely to me.
Great to see that over 100 years of labour laws won by the workers' movements can't be innovated away in SOME countries.
Any alleged ambiguity in the Epic Games vs. Apple injunction favors Apple
I would like to Point out that the absolut number of environmental activists is hard to define. How would you start to count? Such a list would be a bad thing. So if there is no absolute number of all activist there is no way to compare dead and alive….but dead ones are more easy to count. And last thing…they are killed while trying to make the world a better place…the number of those people getting
Killed should allways be zero.
I'm french, I really don't know how the US are going to get out of cars, it's going to be incredibly hard or impossible.

Mandatory ride sharing by taxing gas, or heavily subsidizing public transport?

Uber would have an unique opportunity to group rides for small busses.
Hi, thanks for the link.
I've had a look earlier today but didn't find any "print quality book output" that I can download as a PDF.
Browsing your site, I can "Print to PDF" but that just gives me the webpage.
Is there a way to get the full "offline" book, properly formatted?
Thank you so much !
But why do they refuse to document that part? They don't want us to use our own firmwares?
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There has been quite some research on hyperbaric oxygen therapy and other neurological diseases.

My dad was involved in MS research in the 80s utilizing hyperbaric oxygen. After some hopeful results, no clear evidence was found.
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> That's not an argument.

No, it's a conversation. And I hope you're not fond of "thou shall not murder" either.
Wait, I live in the Netherlands and I wasn't even aware that Uber was around. Didn't they get banned years ago, with only Uber Black being allowed?
I find it dubious to call chance encounters even "encounters." Muslims are encouraged to pray in congregation, even during travel. You find a random Mosque with several hundred people and perform your prayer rituals there (for most busy people, that is only for Friday congregational prayers.) You are also encouraged to smile at and greet everyone, even though you dont know them.

As a former Management Consultant, i've been in dozens of random mosques in random cities (based on where my client happened to be.) In SF alone I've visited in five or six on Fridays in the year before COVID as I flew in for work meetings.

I dont know anyone at any of these, but you try to smile and greet people as you are encouraged to.

Now imagine you create a graph of where you've been and who else has been there. You can find all sorts of co-incidences because the graph doesnt account for the degree of connectedness (near zero)

Another reason others faiths often dont fully understand this is due to the workday challenge in the west. Muslim mandatory congregational prayers are on a workday (usually Friday 12-1 or 1-2), so we dont get to enjoy the community feel of a long congregation with socializing before/after that one could achieve on a Saturday or Sunday. Instead Muslims often find themselves rushing back to work for a 2pm meeting. If you're unlucky and your meeting starts at 2pm sharp, you are brisk walking back and swapping New Balances for wingtips on the elevator up.

The workday challenge also means that the congregational prayer is not in your home community, it is whatever is closest to your office. Sometimes, you have multiple depending on whether you're at the downtown or uptown office, etc.
> Probably going between their homes and family / friends / shops / entertainment venues / restaurants.

But in cities these places don't have parking outside. So where are they parking?
So you would rather pay less for a ride and let the driver take the hit? Wouldn't you be happier knowing the driver can cover his insurance, has pension, etc?

Regular taxi's might be overpriced, but you don't need to create an Uber to solve this problem.
This is not new or limited to AI. From synthetic biology to big data, grant seekers know that just referencing the current fads in the proposal can increase the probability of getting funded.
I think it is only "function" keyword. I'm not sure how strong resemble is.
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Once you have a publicly accessible demo, you should definitely make a Show HN of this! See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638, https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html for more info. (The last link gives instructions for YC startups launching on HN, but the basic principles apply more generally.)

Email hn@ycombinator.com if you want us to look over a draft (the same offer goes for anyone) - just please realize that we can't necessarily respond quickly; it depends on how brutal the inbox is that week/month.
On a more feasible scale, a similar idea could be better air filtration/ventilation. Better ventilation in homes or offices to decrease CO2 levels could be an easier way to achieve a similar effect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-ai...
...as long as all the participants are traceable entities with known legal jurisdictions.
Yes this.. We don't want ultracapitalism here. I make more than average but I'm totally fine with paying taxes. The safety net is there for me too. Capitalism is good but there must be a balance.

To an American it may sound communist (though technically it's more socialist) but it's our country, we can choose the system we want. And we've done an OK job IMO (In fact I wish things were a bit more socialist - this abuse of the ZZP concept has been going on for far too long).
If “epi” is above and “ousia” is essence, then this leads me to think: what is above essence? A Thomistic reading would suggest that the only remaining principle above essence is existence. So something like bread of existence/bring? This does sound like “bread of life”. Some may argue that the Greeks had no “concept” of existence qua existence, but they also didn’t have this word either, hence the neologism. And it would not be a strong objection: the Thomistic understanding of transsubstantiation also came later, but is the accepted view of the Catholic Church.
Yes, and that's by design. We are very often constrained from the start.
I read the title, and thought pixijs had moved to nim + webassembly.
Nothing is stopping you from being an actual freelancer. A large point of this ruling was that people working for Uber aren't actually freelancers, since they're not free to pick their clients or set/negotiate their own prices.
You should also have a choice to not use Uber; besides customer discovery, what does Uber offer you that's worth their bad pay and commission?

Plenty of old fashioned taxi companies that operate via a phone number or text messages. You don't need Uber if you want to be a freelancer. And as a court ruled, you're not actually a freelancer if you work for Uber.
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They do get to set the prices (the part gp forgot to mention).
Ah ha, so this is where the following concern comes from:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/age-verification-in-the...

And there was me thinking this was going to be another example of toothless go-nowhere governmental posturing.
It gets expensive when drivers game the system. What happens when a driver just stops driving? You have to fire them. Which can take quite a bit of effort. What if a driver calls in sick? You have to check that.

If a driver is an employee, who provides the car?
Yes, but that would invalidate a very large chunk of the possible usecases for eth contracts. After all, if you end up needing the courts anyway you might as well use a normal contract, and the whole advantage of eth contracts - to me at least - appears to be the feature that the eth contract is the entirety of the arrangement. So it can be used between two parties in entirely different jurisdictions without that creating an imbalance.
There is a full pdf in the repo (if you know where to look). I should sign-post it a bit better. https://github.com/xpqz/learnapl/blob/main/contents/_build/p...
you’re totally right, i missed that
It’s happening in the year of Linux on the desktop.
Autonomous cars are more expensive than drivers; the only reason they dislike having real drivers is that they have a voice.
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> The C programming language predates the time when using third party libraries was common.

The English language predates spaceflight, but has adapted. PHP predates proper security practices, but has adapted. Javascript predates the Document Object Model but has adapted.

For that matter, Javascript also predates the time when using third party libraries was common.
That may be the case but you can't just decide as an employer that you don't want to honour an employee's rights.

If things don't add up or can be done a cheaper way, talk to the government. Don't stop obeying the law.
Nice one Dutchies
It's been a few years since I looked into the enterprise HashiCorp offerings, but I remember there was an X seat minimum (where X was 10 I think). Larger customers will obviously have many more than 10 seat license/support agreements. The pricing was definitely "enterprise".
> At least when the controllers are all classes I can unit test them.

You can usually very easily transform lambas in function, so testing shouldn't be a problem.
> secular contracts and associations, and many of those countries are still fine places to live.

Sure, that’s a great answer for people who aren’t religious or whose religious practices happen to line up well with secular “contracts and associations”. Not good for devout people though.
> I just don't understand why smart contracts need certik to be verified.

How would CertiK sell their token otherwise? :p
This was actually less of a problem than it seems in hindsight — back at that time, package managers were relatively new and not often used as were dynamic libraries, so most things were just static binaries compiled from tarballs.
You’re citing a report that literally doesn’t make that statement. Where do you get this information?

Here’s an excerpt about Columbia, where I’d expect drugs to be involved: “Colombia was once again the country with the highest recorded attacks, with 65 defenders killed in 2020.* A third of these attacks targeted indigenous and afro-descendant people, and almost half were against small-scale farmers.”

If you don’t see the connection, you’re either not reading the report you’re responding to, or you’re leaving out information.
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> But in cities these places don't have parking outside.

You won't always be able to park right outside your destination, but between street parking and garages there's definitely parking in many places.
I'm quite content with the way HN solves that problem.
I skimmed the article for the pertinent table. Three observations:

1. There is no control group. Since people get better with cognitive tests with practice, we don’t know whether these improvements were due to the treatment or just the normal practice effect. (Though if I were a betting person, my money is on the latter.)

2. Cognitive tests are not noiseless. The same person may vary by a few points between repeated tests. The modest improvements on most tests found here might not be above this noise floor.

3. The most impressive result (memory) is almost certainly regression to the mean. That is, the group did unusually poorly on this task in the first session by chance, then they performed more typically in the second, which looks falsely like a big improvement.

Basically, I think this paper provides no meaningful evidence of cognitive improvement in humans. I can’t speak about the mice stuff, that might be fine.