skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason for this is that you can be compelled by your totally-not-employer to pretend to want to be a freelancer.

That's why different countries have various guidelines, e.g. if you economically depend on 1 contrahent (you fill in one invoice a month to the same one company), you are not self-employed, if you can't organize your own work however you like you are not self-employed, and so on.

So in general if you are driving for one company and 75% revenue comes from them, you are really not a freelancer.

This was and to a degree still is a big problem in e.g. Poland, where if you are unskilled you can be compelled to accept so called "trash contracts" which deny you any employee rights, but you are cheaper to the employer who exploits you.

It might be foreign to Americans who in general have extremely poor worker protection laws (even worse than the trash contracts I mentioned), but in many other countries it doesn't really work like that.
They can choose to not work with you and instead work with another client that has specifications that fit better with their work.
The issue is that minimum employment rights are less effective in general if it’s possible to opt out of them. For lots of people, they’re not worth sacrificing earning potential for (this is one of the reasons contractors exist).

Most people wouldn’t think that a person earning a high hourly/daily rate working in some big enterprise, or a freelancer that takes home a respectable annual income is being exploited. But lots of people think that lower income gig contractors are definitely being exploited. I think the truth is actually a bit more complicated than that, but in any case, the law in most countries is that a person must not be allowed to enter into any arrangement that resembles employment if a set of minimum entitlements aren’t provided.

One way of looking at contracting arrangements is that they’re simply a way of bypassing these requirements. This never used to be a contentious issue, because contractors used to be primarily high income earners. But now that there’s a new class of lower income contractors, they must be protected, and the regulatory response has generally been to outlaw elements of contracting agreements in general.

A more sensible approach, if you wanted to achieve this outcome, would be to apply these regulations only to contractors that bill below a particular rate. But that would require making legislative concessions for high income earners, and nobody cares about doing that. I’ve been a contractor for years, and I can guarantee you that nobody is being exploited when I bill some huge bank an especially high hourly rate for months on end, but anti-contractor regulations routinely interfere with my ability to do so.
Well, you can fool all of the people some of the time, so it was possible for many years.
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And when the court orders that the parties do something that the eth contract cannot permit (and has been formally proven to prevent from ever being induced to do), how does the eth contract handle that?
Next week on HN:

School teachers able to determine which students have been using their phones in class by looking at battery charge before and after.
It's true that the EU has no federal executive body, however, no country can simply go and set corporate taxes to 0 without an uproar. the cross border phone network is unified for example.
The were Cyprus and Malta selling passports to the highest bidders without due diligence done,kickbacks and honey traps, you name it, it happened.
https://euobserver.com/justice/149810

There is a limit on how much can and can't be done within the EU, it's not a gravy train buffet.
There is peer pressure and potential, let's call it cascading effect.
Some lawmaker will hear about this and try to get it passed in another country as well.
I struggle to think of one state which would simply accept Uber as some great Enterprise idea, look at the history here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_ridesharing_comp...
Most places banned and this bit.
In December 2017, the European Court of Justice ruled that Uber is a transport company, subject to local transport regulation in European Union member states, rather than an information society service as Uber had argued.[99]

So at best, tolerated for the time being.

In Europe, working without full compensation is typically called illicit work(instead of side gig), not extremely frowned upon, but the main job has to have proper compensation.
It very normal and expected to get 4 weeks paid holidays or more, sick days covered, insurance in most places, pension contributions etc.
Uber tells you to get a car, petrol, pay insurance and take jobs when available, and get none of the above, who are they kidding.
Your perspective on self replicating nano bots as well as some other comments I have read here paint a picture of immense change in a short time once the technology is released into the wild. This view seems to ignore the fact that the capability to reproduce and to adapt are not the only factors.
Any green and grey goo has to cope with the limitations of it's surroundings. Here are some examples:
* available energy sources (food, sunlight, wind, geothermal engery, ...)
* the rate of energy conversion into the energy source consumed (electricity or sugar/fats, etc).
* processing power (along with it's energy efficiency)
* energy consumption/efficiency when interacting with the environment
* speed of reproduction
* speed of adaptability (through intelligence or evolutionary techniques).

I don't wish to downplay risks involved but even if someone creates an intelligence that can outsmart them or a replicating system which they fear may over replicate the creator should be in control of enough of the environmental factors to keep it under control long enough to reduce their creations access to energy, resources. The real risk (from a perspective of self preservation) is not limiting their creation enough or overlooking sources of energy, information or whatever needs to be limited for this system.
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You can be a freelancer just fine, nothing stops you from doing that. But not within the Uber framework because you aren' a freelancer within that framework. So this is pretty specific: the Uber framework does not check enough of the boxes that would allow their pseudo employees to claim they are freelancers, which effectively makes it just another tax dodge, which it always was.
A random collection of blog posts that have "principles" in their title, summarised on a single site.
I found some instructional videos on how to make the chamber, looks very easy. It's only 5 PSI of pressure and an O2 mask. I already know how to make O2. This might be a fun project. On further reading, these aren't legal to have in the home in some countries due to fire codes.
Julias package manager?
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>> It is not an interesting take to say “but GPT-3 isn’t actually intelligent!”. Everyone knows.

That's not the impression I get from the discussions on HN. The impression I get
is that a substantial minority (if it's not an actual majority) of commenters are convinced that it's qualitatively different than earlier
language models and that it can "understand" text. 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.

Even what you say about GPT-3 performing "logical" tasks (by which I assume you
mean what is more often referred to as "reasoning") is an example of that kind
of overenthusiastic misunderstanding. It's a language model. It can predict the
next tokens in a sequence. It can't reason. If the next tokens happen to
randomly match what you'd expect to see from a system capable of reasoning, then
it can appear as if it's performing reasoning, but that speaks more to your
expectations than to the system's capabilities.

And in my experience it's been extremely difficult to convince people of this
and to remind them that we know exactly what GPT-3 does and there's no super
secret hidden magick to it that somehow makes it capable of doing something it's
not designed to do. OpenAI itself of course are the ones responsible for this
confusion because their published papers are full of unsubstantiated claims
about the ability of GPT-3 to do things other than predict the next tokens in a
sequence (like "learning the rules of arithmetic" etc).
Interesting; moves a lot closer to zero-friction yolo-merging with zero review. I get the impression that many of the FAANG companies have deployment processes (e.g. blue/green) which allow that without too much risk.

I would note that anyone outwith the web world will have a lot more trouble if it's at all difficult to "undeploy" software in the event of a problem.
"Nudge techniques" should be banned outright.
You can do deployments with dependencies by building a distribution package of your own software, using the distribution's packaging tools. The tools do work quite well. The real problem is that this only works reliably for a single OS distribution. To support another Linux distribution, you need to redo the packaging. Even distributions that use the same package format (such as rpm or deb) are not quite compatible, since the names and versions of the dependencies vary.
I'm not passing a value judgement, that was simply an "historical" account of what happened.

C had such a powerful influence on computing that it didn't need to adapt to the world, the world adapted to C.
For technical things where I'm a newbie, I'm trying to learn-in-public [1]. I write a TIL usually at the end of the day, it typically goes quickly.

In those cases where the matter is private (maybe 1/4 of all), I attempt to document it in company's knowledge base or at least share it in the company chat.

All other things go to my personal Obsidian.

[1] https://marcel.is/tils/
Aluminum and metal particles. There are various (inconclusive) studies suggesting a tie between metal particles in the blood/brain and dementia. Ever notice that foods now say thing things like "Ingredients: baking powder (aluminum free)", that you can get "Aluminum free" deodorant, etc?

Liking to stack the deck in my favor, I've moved to all stainless steel and cast iron cookware.
Well, maybe something more along the lines of a contribution towards UBI, or similar. This is a concept I first heard come out of the US, from Musk maybe?
Over the long run there is no way that autonomous cars are more expensive
We can invent something new : The year of the Linux driver
I think a semi collaborative site for design principles across multiple disciplines. Kind of a nice idea in principle, just don't know how useful it is in its current form.
Thanks, will read.
What is considered AI is definitely on a constantly changing continuum. Take for instance the calculator, when introduced it eliminated the need for a team of human calculators who for difficult computations manually cross-checked each step. Some attributed the first commercially available mechanical calculator with human-like intelligence. Over time, such tools become so wide-spread that it is considered an affront to compare it to human intelligence. So now, we don't see calculators and autopilots as AI.
Aha, such odd behavior by them
Do you have any better use cases for those constexpr techniques? maybe we could make simpler code to CRTP?
I believe the thinking is(someone else please chime in if this is incorrect):

When the deep value creators are fighting for attention/views against "view efficiency optimizers", the deep value loses out, making it harder for them to make a living.

Same reason quality journalism is on decline. It's a hard problem to solve as it occurs naturally in a competitive environment.
Thanks Matt, added the link to the top of the README.
Beginners are probably the target audience for most YT content, across every topic, because it is easy to show people how to do beginner level things. The larger issue with tech content is as soon as a software technology is eclipsed by a new version with breaking features, the older videos are mostly useless to beginners. Experienced software engineers know that there are many solutions to common problems and answers can often have an "it depends" type of answer.

A lot of the difficult problems at work are specific to the constraints we have so I would assume the same case for nearly everyone else. Most of these problems have nothing to do with the tech stack or specific language features. In software development the actual programming is the easy part, integrating systems and dealing with scale are the harder parts of the problem.
I agree that banning all ICE vehicles in 5 years is not a practical nor worthwhile goal to pursue.
That's not really about cities, more about cycle paths between them. But there's a relation of course.
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>a machine can check that code X matches definition Y

You shouldn't just check against a definition Y. Ideally you'd have a set of properties that the contract must hold, then prove that X satisfies those properties. It's generally much easier to specify such properties than to write code implementing them, compare for instance an "is_sorted" function to an efficient "sort" function, so it's not just the same code written in a different language.
> To activate it, look under the search bar after you have results for the button marked "Tools".

Hmmm, what search engine is that with? Guessing not DDG (?), as that's not showing a Tools button.
I am looking for a real custom search engine for months now. I tried google programmable search engine, bing custom search and was even building scripts for duckduckgo, but nothing really worked for me.

For example, I have a list of 7500 company websites and I want to search them regularly for keywords, like product names, company names mentioned on them or if they have a some references to certain industries.

This could be a solution.
I'm a consultant in The Netherlands and for this purpose I control my own BV. Similar to an LLC in the USA.

But I don't drive a taxi, I do computer stuff. If you want to legitimately be independent in NL you can. I have a few friends in the construction industy(plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc) who are ZZP'ers.

There are a few options open to people who legitimately want to be independent in their work, and this has absolutely nothing to do with this ruling. Or about Uber.

Uber is lying when it says that 90% of Dutch Uber drivers want to remain independent. There have been protests of Uber drivers wanting exactly this kind of ruling from the courts. And two major political parties (Groenlinks and PvDA) have been fighting for this. Uber is full of shit and they know it.

Here is a better article on the ruling.
https://www.ad.nl/werk/rechter-uber-moet-chauffeurs-in-diens...
One of the things that I found interesting was that as you become more expert in a field you take less notes. At the start of your PhD everything is new but by the end you know the name and research group of everyone in your field.

What does not go away is the need for a flexible and low friction way to collect and organize things like journal articles. Some sort of mental ontology about your field replaces the need for actually writing lots of stuff day to day.
google and apple devices will integrate with this and will forward the results with your hospital and they will send you the meds and directly bill you thru insurance or credit card.
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At least those researchers know they're bullshitting. Game developers earnestly throw around the term "AI" as if what they were doing was actually AI, and not just meticulously hand-scripted spaghetti code.
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12 reports in 7 years?

This is the needle in a haystack of needles problem. Of course it's obvious in hindsight.

But cueing the entire civilian ATC / ANG system to potentially shoot airliners out of the sky within 30 minutes?

Expecting that to be in place, even with overwhelming in number but unrealized reports, is unrealistic.
I feel it's just legacy in terminology - "means of production" imply "things you use to make stuff", because stuff was front-and-centre when it got coined as a political term. For most of the known history, humans didn't have much stuff. Making stuff was what seemed to bring all the money; logistical chains, being shorter, didn't seem that important. Additionally, all the stuff made was concrete, material things.

But if you extend the meaning of "means of production" to cover not production of stuff, but production of more abstract economic value, you can see that the same struggle between different groups of people happens today, over not just material goods, but also virtual ones, as well as services. So Jeff Bezos definitely owns the "means of production" of logistics service.
But that isn't something that would drive user behaviour until the search is actually taken down.
> Are some of these drivers not working for other companies also? In that case they really are freelancers/entrepreneurs not employees...I think the decision will be appealed.

That's a pretty bad test on it's own. Plenty of people working in restaurants work for multiple companies, they're still employees.
Exactly, one way or another we pay anyway. One is instant, to the Uber app, the other is clandestine and not immediately obvious.

I am more happy to know the driver can make a living from it.
The parasitic disrupting companies can feel free to ask for more investor money.
Uber is taking advantage of this while they can.
as soon the threat of 10k fine per infringement is set, they stop. They only listen to violence and threats, oh well so be it.

As for expensive prices, let the Europeans sort it out themselves.
As some Dutch media, (not all), persist on their annoying habit of copy pasting ANP press releases and not doing much of real journalism...or not linking to original sources even if you paid for their subscription services...I am adding some original resources here:

The Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) has around 1 million members,
is both a trade union federation and a trade union and launched the lawsuit.

The FNV's pleading notes for this lawsuit can be found here:
https://www.fnv.nl/getattachment/Nieuwsbericht/Algemeen-nieu...

The fact sheet is here:

https://www.fnv.nl/getattachment/Nieuwsbericht/Algemeen-nieu...

Court statement:

https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...

The court veredict:

https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:...

( you can access the original PDF from the drop down menu on the right or the link below)

https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/InzienDocument/GetPdf?ecli...
Don't forget UL94 as well. You can already buy it at select airfields.
One thing I like about DOS is that it is an useful OS and bootloader. In the win9x days it allowed me to use the computer even when windows broke. I see no replacement for it in the free world, freedos has no support to linux file systems and it is becoming increasingly hard to run it on modern hardware. I really would like a modern replacement for it.
According to the article: "a driver may only refuse a few trips before being logged out by the system", that plus the fact that they can't set their own fares and Uber can retroactively lower drivers fares, was the main reason Uber lost the case.

If Uber let drivers reject as many rides as they wanted and allowed drivers to set their own fares and negotiate directly with their clients, then they may very well have won the case. But then they would also be a very different company.
So now that they have gotten bored copying Java Spring, they start copying Express.js?
Depends on how often they crash.
C++ has all of these problems, but Conan and vcpkg still exist. They aren't perfect, but they're so much better than nothing.

You're also ignoring the fact that Linux isn't the only operating system in the world. Some of us write multi-platform software, and package managers make it so much easier.
> The ideal solution is, drivers being given the choice.

Choice is real only when you have options. Here, the option of having a fixed-income, fixed-time taxi driver job will get out-competed in the long term because it is more expensive, so the other option will be to have no job. Not paying into social security and pension funds saves a lot of money! It may even seem beneficial to the driver in the short term. But it offloads the costs further down the line to society or the driver personally (when reaching pension age or getting sick).

Maybe that type of innovation is simply not good for society and better avoided.
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So work part time, on the clock.

Obviously this takes the company to provide those sorts of jobs. The problem for Uber is that they won't be able to —as easily— have slack staff, because they'll have to pay them minimum wage to wait for new fares.
Stainless steel cookware typically contains aluminum for the part that retains heat, whether that be a disc on the bottom of the pan or sandwiched in the walls of the vessel. Steel doesn't retain heat well but is prettier and more durable, so it goes on the outside. In any case, it should be a safe choice if you want to avoid ingesting aluminum.
I guess that tells you how long I've been using a modem that I own?

At $14 per month you can get a pretty nice modem if you invest six months of payments ... my current modem is seven years old at this point so it's saved me over $1000.
> In this instance the Nim and JS libraries have different names

They're both named "Pixie" and they're both graphics libraries. I assume you meant something else than what you literally said, but I'm not sure what
Wow, super cool and mobile friendly. May I ask what tools you used to make this?
I don't believe that was GP's point. Setting your own hours is not anathema to an employer-employee relationship.
It would be fantastic if this sort of functionality was upstreamed. I think it would really appeal to the audience that uses/hosts Searx.
You don't have to suspect these things, because they are correct. Almost all spray sunscreen has been found to contain benzene:

https://www.valisure.com/blog/valisure-news/valisure-detects...
Couldn't you easily fake that with GPS spoofing anyway? You probably can get a ready to use app from the same store you got the covid app from...

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We had a country that pretty much effectively ran on that principle. The Soviet Union.