skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this describe actual entrepreneurship, or does it describe working for a number of platforms instead of working for a single employer?

It seems to me the platform is the entrepreneur, not the person logging into the app to try to hustle for fares.
More generally, it's an anything-that-improves-the-bottom-line engine.

And it turns out that hate, fear, and tribalism are great for that.
Obligatory add-on :^)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264927357415
> We're having serious conversations right now about whether this ought to be a special initiative at NIH to put more research into health communications and how best to frame those [messages] so that they reach people who may otherwise be influenced by information that's simply not based on evidence. Because I don't think you could look at the current circumstance now and say it's gone very well.

If people are presented with accurate medical information and they choose to ignore it, at some point you have to accept their autonomy. At some point "framing" becomes propaganda and if ends justify the means, the authorities would be willing to lie in order to get their message across, making the problem of trust even worse.
Any side effects? Lmao
The Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Turandot is available on Pandora. I recommend it for Franco Corelli alone, a great dramatic tenor. We may never see his like again.

https://pandora.app.link/UTGOvF2lNlb

Here's Dame Eva Turner’s massive voice in Turandot’s “In quests reggia”, Act II, Scene II. It's an old recording, but they don't make them like this anymore.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6SfhUzhO9E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOt8pfysxc
I'm a Republican and I'm absolutely outraged about this guy's situation and support his 1a rights unconditionally.
Does nobody remember the backlash against France for not participating in the wars in the Middle East? Companies publicly boycotted French products and went to the extent of replacing the word "French" with "Freedom" in words like "French fries" or "French toast".

Boycotting Jewish companies (for being owned by Jewish people) is antisemitic, but the goal of BDS is boycotting Israeli companies over accusations against the Israeli government the same way e.g. the US sanctions Iranian companies over accusations against the Iranian government.
I've been following the development of Robyn and I am excited to for it's future. Amazing work!
The money isn't reasonable for appraising. You are paid per appraisal, and the AMC will take 30-50% of that fee as a middleman. To even get to the point where you can make money as an Appraiser you need to be certified based on state level requirements. For my state

-154 hours of classes ($1000+)

-get initial license ($160)

-1,000 hours logged as a trainee of an appraiser (so anyone teaching loses money to pay a trainee or you work for free)

-apply ($35) to take and pass a state exam ($126)

- get full license ($175)

So it takes at least $1,500 and at least 6 months to even start making money. Then many appraisals require actually entering the home and taking pictures or a drive by, so there is massive amounts of travel on top of the paperwork. It's way more detailed than just picking a number for price based on X reasons, and anything that is inaccurate is on you to fix as part of the original fee.
So how many votes have you seen in the last 2 years for this Covid policy?
I haven't seen any. All the covid response I have seen is top down government dictates. I have seen nobody voting for lockdowns or restrictions
Connor Brothers Art for Sale
We are promoting Connor Brother's artworks, these bros have some impressive artwork skills which may mesmerize you, don't forget to take a look.
The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness
Relevant to HN how? It's a forum for general political debate?
Because of actual sanctions, not because the state of Texas doesn't like it.
As I understand it, supersymmetry was taken as a concept and baked into the strings concept, to come up with superstrings. So it’s not really a prediction as much as it is baked-in by the prevailing notions of the time.
The idea is that a significant portion of the visitors are undecided, hesitant, or are postponing the purchase. These tactics try to push these people for a decision. I personally react to pushing by closing up, so they lose me if they push too hard. But many people are not like this, or maybe they are just waiting a bit before committing, and that's when these methods can work.

And these are not new either, just old sales tactics, applied to the new context. The pushiness of these counters etc remind me of the Hard sell[0] for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_sell
Advent of Code 2021 in APL
that's super nice to know -- i need to upgrade a django app from 1.11 to 4 over the next couple of weeks!
>having teams installed (which is default in windows)

Teams is not default in Windows (at least my install) - I don't have it and when I have to do meetings in Teams and I am on my Windows machine I just open the meeting in Chrome.
And here’s the google definition for the term ‘retarded’ which was the word actually used. They are not the same word.

re·tard·ed
/rəˈtärdəd/
Learn to pronounce
adjective

OFFENSIVE•DATED
less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one's age.

OFFENSIVE
very foolish or stupid.
Can someone explain how software for generic computers does not count as "software as such", which the EPC excludes from patentability [1]?

What is the purpose of excluding software from patents, only to have the next paragraph (according to, in my opinion, severely mistaken interpretation) revert that exclusion? The following paragraph from wikipedia illustrates what a farce this is:

One interpretation, which is followed by the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, is that an invention is patentable if it provides a new and non-obvious "technical" solution to a technical problem. The problem, and the solution, may be entirely resident within a computer

So software is only patentable if.. it satisfies the same non-obviousness criteria that non-software patents are subject to?? In that case the entire text excluding software patents could be stricken from the law, without changing the law's meaning!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
audits are a signal for sure, but can an end-user tell a good audit from a bad audit?

Also as monox (who got hacked this week) shows 3 audits this year are no guarantee https://docs.monox.finance/library/audits
I would not use Gentoo if I had to compile the world to, say, update PHP.
I would not use Gentoo if I had to compile the world to update PHP.
is that this water lock thing for when you swim with it?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210931

May be brash of me, I would assume all water resistant watches have water lock, but the speaker thing sounds so apple-y.
Not wanting to do this, and the OP talking about eyeballing a reflow oven are kinda not the same thing. Not doing an ad-hom attack here, but you probably own a reflow oven.

Eye balling the reflow profile with a thermocouple you threw in there is brilliant! I have a thermocouple readout on my DMM. I could go do this today with parts I have right now. That is wonderful, thankyou!
> About reviews: Booking.com didn't allow me to leave a review,

We had a feeling about this. So we explicitly did not allow them to cancel, unless they refunded us. I had a hunch if they'd cancel, we also going to lose ability to leave a review. On top of that it would allow host of the apartment to re-rent the place for our days and essentially be paid twice.
The Customer Metadata Boundary
The exchanges are able to buy USDT for less than $1 and use it to trade against customers. Big advantages to them to use it, and also they don’t need banking relationships to acquire it this way.

FTX and Binance among biggest customers. Likely offering commercial paper to Tether in exchange for the USDT. Already established that Tether made crypto backed USDT loans to Celsius.

Here’s Tether’s customers:

https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...
The OP tweet got deleted, but there's another active HN thread that links to a different source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471535 ("Foone's account has been suspended due to copyright infringement")

https://twitter.com/AmberTuring/status/1468092692827496448
Directly to this question - paid sick leave (generally), limited protection from physical harm and healthcare (US). In Europe, extensive protection from the unemployment’s demonstrated nearly irreparable harms, including hunger and reduced lifespan.

Broadly - oh my goodness, this article is pure regulatory arbitrage amalgamated with some kind of hellscapish McKinsey/VC dross. Net - firms would like to reduce you to an expendable, unprotected line item without recourse to traditional employment law. There is nothing innovative or interesting here, a pure desire to extract maximum value from fellow humans without consideration or care for what we owe each other.

Enough of this shit, in particular the aggregation of labor for the purpose of building a surveillance sensor aperture for ads.
Where are we on the whole Django versus Rails debate?

(Not cannonfodder, I am genuinely curious)
How does GDPR violate personal liberty?

I am very curious if you can pinpoint what exactly from it violates personal libery.
I'm not sure you can assign blame to the safety test in precipitating the disaster (perhaps this wasn't even your intention). The overarching theme in the examples you mention is that the weakness was always there, safety test or not. I'd posit that Chernobyl would've happened eventually for example. It was a design with unstable boundary conditions operated in an environment of secrecy and disregard for safety. That's basically a situation where disasters are guarantee to happen. Nobody knows anything, the default operating procedure is to withhold crucial information and everyone is working under a "don't question your orders" mindset.
The Supreme Court includes a number of conservative Catholics, appointed by Presidents who were either evangelical Christian (Alito/Bush) or closely allied with them (Kavanaugh/Trump, Barrett/Trump), who tend to take positions on policies that are similar to that of evangelical Christians.

Amy Coney Barrett may be Catholic, but she was heavily favored by evangelicals, with specific interest in overturning Roe v. Wade.
That's a strange extreme. I mean, there are good odds that you're from the country that perpetrated Abu Ghraib, and for what -- a make-work war on the other end of the planet.

The whole Israeli question is really too complicated for a HN comment. All I'm claiming is that the BDS movement claims a kind of moral certitude that's not only not sufficiently grounded, it doesn't try to be sufficiently grounded. And while I'm sure many support "global progressive movements" out of the goodness of their hearts, the fact that there is such a movement betrays something darker. Remember that I said "xor" -- the firm anti-Israel position is naïve xor malicious.

Then: you don't have to be "firmly anti-Israel" to see many of their crimes.
Your jew friends are under quite some pressure to fit in and not come out as priviledged/zionist pigs/disloyal Americans/etc etc. It's not really an easy position to be in.
So? Everyday people want to "BDS" China for their human rights abuses, Russia for their territorial and cyber aggression. There are countries in the world doing shitty things in the eyes of some, and those people and orgs sometimes call for political and economic pressure to be applied.

Why should the government be able to punish individuals who voice such opinions, excepting diplomatic or national security roles?
Keep listening! Some of his best since Blueprint for Armageddon
> Name literally one concrete example of a concrete and specific problem better solved by crypto than a classical solution

Well let's skip past money transfer as it's too obvious

1. Collateralised loans: The ability to take out loans on crypto-assets without any gate-keeper or credit checks

2. Accessible market-making: The ability to provide capital to a decentralised exchange to operate as an automated market-maker. Traditional financial markets require multiple millions in investment and advanced software to market make, but this could be opened to anyone. Imagine for example being able to invest not in SPY, but in market making a SPY order book

3. Quick and final settlement. For example stock transfers still take 2 business days to clear, a tokenised stock on a blockchain could settle in minutes and irreversibly

NFTs have all sorts of uses for ownership tracking. An obvious one is event tickets - these could have anti-scalping measures enforced (only able to sell back to venue instead of being able to sell at increased prices to others)
i don't believe you. show me.
And what about all the legitimate use cases for censorship/banning?

What happens when the chain / ipfs is flooded with immutable CP? Anti-semitic content? Anti-Vaxx disinformation? Revenge-porn? Pii leaks?
So the same mentality as startups then, like Uber's CEO "Innovators Shouldn't Have To Ask For Permission Or Forgiveness"[1] or Facebook's original motto for developers being "Move fast and break things"[2].

Also here's a list of 11 startup entrepreneurs who "broke all the rules and achieved great success" according to this article[3]. Also found several people claiming that "Disrupters don't play by the rules"[4][5][6], and startups love to consider themselves "Disruptors for X technology"[7] to the point of parody in the HBO's Silicon Valley tv show, and even an entire startup convention named after it (TechCrunch Disrupt)[8].

Unfortunately, I think it will be tough to pin down anyone claiming anything is their "libertarian playground" (including the techbros that you're pretending are saying that), so I have to leave that one untouched.

Also, if getting hacked is all that's needed in order to get the mockery and derision of HN, then you pretty much all should be mocking yourselves, since the past few years have shown that there's almost no company of any decent size that doesn't eventually get hacked, and there's a good chance you're working for a company that has been hacked or will in the next five years.

In the last few years I alone have gotten notifications of having possible leaked data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Netflix, Target, Michael's, Equifax, and probably at least a dozen more companies, and I'm sure probably at least a dozen more on top of that never bothered to notify me.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130130/18445721832/ubers...

[2]: https://mindmatters.ai/2018/10/facebooks-old-motto-was-move-...

[3]: https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/328085

[4]: https://twitter.com/accenturetech/status/575606603644272640

[5]: https://youtu.be/NRjVcogNRac

[6]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disruptors-dont-play-rules-re...

[7]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/11/disruptio...

[8]: https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2021/
Africa’s taxi and mobility ecosystem is about to get greener
Great to see they have managed to reach their funding target. Donated anyway!
If this systematically happens to journalists, it is kind of limiting what can be said in places amplified by media.

I think this is exactly what happens.
Oh, my bad. I pointed to an issue on tor's gitlab about the email from Roskomnadzor. Somehow it got corrupted. Here is the full link:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues...
Previous conversation on the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27345075
May I ask what the projects were?
If you are coding in 5 different languages at work, then I am afraid you will have 5 cheatsheets open in front on you, no matter how good your memory is. Cheatsheet access can be faster than human memory access, especially for the infrequently used stuff.
Would you like someone to explain newton's method (Newton Raphson iteration), or the linked article?

(I could have a go at explaining newton's method, but I don't understand the arxiv article. In simple terms newton raphson iteration is an iterative method of finding the "zeros" of a function. You do it by evaluating the derivative of a function, and iteratively following that gradient until you find the zero point.)
CIA made electric dart (instead of blobs) gun in like 1960, if not earlier with effective range of 100 meters.
Ruby might get there eventually... https://speed.yjit.org/
> When it comes to businesses, the US government reserves the right to institute international boycotts. Companies may not, generally speaking, boycott a country (or people from that country, etc) unless that country (or person) is being boycotted by the US.

That is far from clear and has not been settled by the SC. There is a federal amendment from 1977 to the Export Administration Act (EEA) that forbade American companies from participating in the boycott against Israel that the Arab League organized. However, since then the SC decided in favor of African American organizations that in the 1960's had organized boycotts against racist white shopkeepers. The SC ruled that political boycotts was protected free speech and participating in them a constitutional right.

Another counter-argument is that the boycott against Israel is not maintained by a "foreign country" but by the BDS movement and other grassroots organizations around the world. Furthermore, the boycott targets non-Israel companies doing business in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories just as much as it targets Israeli companies. Thus, the EEA may not be applicable at all.

In either case, the EEA doesn't entail an obligation of contractors to promise not to boycott certain countries to be awarded government contracts, which is what this (and other similar state laws) is all about.
>Yes, if you live in a country with good worker protection (in the US a lot of "salaried" work is effectively freelance).

To extend this, in the US, this is pretty much every reasonably well paying position which falls into this category, so everything is gatekept by at-will, salary, anf exempt status. In principle none of these statuses are inherently bad. In practice, they're abused left and right by employers who have historically had the leverage when it mattered. At-will being highly standard anymore is sort of backfiring now during the pandemic with labor shortages now that labor has leverage for the first time in decades, so employers are getting a bit of the taste of the leverage they created against labor with people dropping and transitioning regularly to stay ahead of inflation or find better opportunities.
Correct, I was hand waving over the distinction but I suppose it's important. LoRa itself is the radio layer. I still think of it as something targeting industrial use cases, though there have been some neat hobbyist projects using it.
Nearly 70 ICU medics at Spanish hospital test positive for Covid after party
That’s surprisingly similar to my build-a-laser-to-traverse-the-core-and-then-beam-financial-data-through-it.

Current state of research: my remote cousins in New Zealand and I have made a “planet sandwich” by laying bread on the floor of our antipodal dwellings.
The key point to note is that this change applies to the public-sector only. It is a shift away from Sun-Thu work week to Mon-Fri. The half day Friday is for religious reasons. There is nothing we’ve seen so far to suggest the 4.5 days has anything to do with worker well-being.

The feeling on the ground in the UAE is that the private sector will have to follow suit - but no one is quite sure how this will happen yet. The announcement was very sudden. While rumours of this had been circulating for a number of years, this was announced without prior communication this afternoon.

There is some expectation already that private sector companies will be allowed to ‘contract out’ of the half day Friday requirement in employment contracts.

While the work week shift creates complexities with local (key) trade partners such as KSA which will retain Sun-Thu work week, the thinking is that this will benefit the UAE economy by aligning with those countries operating on Mon-Fri.
Just Set&Forget Builds Up to Four Passive Income Streams for Us Every Single Day
As someone who's used both - Rails packaging and environment maintenance has been so much less of a headache. Gems and Gemfiles and Gemfile.lock vs having to choose a Python package maintainer (Pipenv vs Poetry?) and deal with that has been worth it to me.

In terms of how they "feel" to develop with? About the same. Similar ideals - skinny models, service layers, REST-first but you can make it RPC-style if you want...
dir(module)

help(module.fn)
Adhering to the social norms is more important than family ties... When has that ever gone well? It might even be speculated that when social or religious demands grow that costly, it is in itself a bad sign.
I really like this idea, if not just to raise the price of BMWs.
Show HN: Binary_log: Write hundreds of millions of logs per second
Except for when you want to play certain games or use Microsoft Office to view proprietary .DOCX documents. I would say don't connect Windows to the Internet, but some games need Internet access to run, so you would be at a loss there. Messing with Office documents can be done offline however :)
As a whole, we eat foods full of sugars/carbs/artificial sweeteners, we eat too much food, and we don't exercise enough.
>If your use case involves being able to control user accounts centrally, why do you need blockchain for that?

AFAIK the accounts are not controlled centrally. How it works is that the project owners set up a site/webapp, which has javascript that interacts with wallet extensions installed on the user's browser. Members of the DAO uses the site to do various actions, for instance buying tokens or making votes. The site sends the request to the wallet extension to be signed, and then it gets broadcasted to the ethereum network. At the end of the day, the wallets are still controlled by the user, it's just that hijacking the site allows them to fool a massive number of users that don't pay close attention.
It's not really zero-sum though, because hedge funds are pouring billions of dollars that they don't care about losing in order to jump start the crypto economy. Who is the loser? Their investors who won't even notice? It's fake it till you make it. I think they're going to make it.
YJIT Benchmarks: Ruby YJIT benchmarks on real world Rails applications
The USB flash drive was neat but the embedded MIDI keyboard is pretty impressive!
> 1. Collateralised loans: The ability to take out loans on crypto-assets without any gate-keeper or credit checks

Margin loans have existed for as long as time - long before the SEC and Reg T. In fact, I do believe they contributed to the Great Depression. You can grab one from Robinhood for a tax deductible 5% or IBKR for a tax deductible 1.x%. No credit checks or gate-keepers. It's literally the least risky loan anyone can make to a counter-party. You just hit the "withdraw cash" button.

> 2. Accessible market-making: The ability to provide capital to a decentralised exchange to operate as an automated market-maker.

Yes, this is a great way of solving a problem crypto created for itself - illiquid markets for jars of air that is. In classical markets you can just buy shares in a market maker. Crypto's biggest market makers are centralized - Alameda Research and Cumberland/DRW. The latter is also a massive market maker in classical markets.

> 3. Quick and final settlement.

Yeah this isn't a technical problem, it's regulatory arbitrage. Settlement takes seconds in a classical system except when regulatory processes introduce delay. You can by definition "settle" faster in a MySQL store than in a blockchain right?

> An obvious one is event tickets - these could have anti-scalping measures enforced (only able to sell back to venue instead of being able to sell at increased prices to others)

Yeah that's something Ticketmaster can do today.