skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This produces a fundamental tension between the people who comprise the corporation and the decisions that the corporation makes: the corporation can choose to do things that are overwhelmingly unpopular with its employees without significant recourse, since the corporation does not operate according to the will of its members.

Sure, but it’s still natural persons who are actually making those decisions, no? After all, a “synthetic legal object” cannot actually make any decision. You seem to be conceding that the Citizen United did in fact protect the speech right of natural persons, you just complain about the technical aspects of how this speech act was performed.

> In other words: corporations are naturally susceptible to undemocratic power concentrations, where a small number of executives or board members use the financial heft of the corporate body to achieve their personal goals. Allowing those concentrations to then seep into our democratic system is fundamentally corrosive.

So you are only against Citizens United as applied to big and powerful corporations, but are totally fine with it with less powerful corporations? Say, you totally support the actual plaintiff, the Citizens United organization, in its right to publish the movie that was the subject matter in the case?

Also, given that you seem to believe that the government should be allowed to block speech by powerful corporations, what about speech by powerful and rich individuals? Should government also have a right to restrict speech of individuals if they are rich and powerful enough?
I agree, and I don't think it's as hard or complex as people make it out to be
They might be able to do so if they were reclassified as common carriers. Why? I'm not exactly sure, I am accepting the fact that common carriers are currently so constrained without understanding the deeper story of how.
from the article

> deception about pay and hours

> unfair contract terms

> anticompetitive wage fixing

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-f...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/25/bay-areas-doordash-to...

i guess you also would have had no problem when steve jobs and other SV companies colluded to wage fix?
https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/03/apple_wagefixing_clos...
Congrats, you're reinventing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic
230 is broad.

At the time, websites were mostly just hosts of content. The individual is posting on the website but otherwise the website is a tool.

This changes with recommendation algorithms. Nearly all social media is based on some kind of recommendation algorithm. Should that be covered by 230? It could be argued that it starts to get closer to an endorsement of certain content (and indeed, some of that recommended stuff is ads.)
They control your ability to work there. For some people these are the only kinds of jobs they can get, they are stuck there, trying to pay off the vehicle they got a loan for purchasing that they use in the job. They are kind of prisoners. Many of those people can't get other jobs that pay much. Uber can decide you are violating the rules somehow and cut you off (working too much or too little).

"People get into these agreements on their own choice" some will say, but these are often people without other good choices.
Not really a C++ expert, but two things I saw in the documentation and that came in useful were the "contains" method of maps and the std::span class for passing around contiguous sequences of objects without worrying about creating copies of vectors.
This is what I was going to ask about; if anybody had used Pi Zeros in a commercial product and if they would consider this (which is more expensive.)
anything that means people living near a thousand open or semi-open fires is vastly more unsafe.

wood in particular is the worst offender.

plus logging and transportation both are very unsafe industries.

spent fuel storage is a complete non-issue. even bringing it up shows the ridiculousness of the anti-nuclear lobby.

the only real risk is proliferation. which fortunately is again a non-issue in Europe, because the counties in question already have nuclear capabilities.
So you think it’s better to include a factor that is unknowable and whose inclusion has consistently led to wrong analysis when the exclusion of that factor would have historically led to better results?
I am not sure what you’re saying here about cropping. You can see how much of an image is available if you double click on same image. If your designer set it up in a billion of groups you may have to double click a whole bunch. But how is that different from cropping an image in illustrator? I’m not trying to be funny I genuinely do not understand what the complaint is here.

The resolution, I give you that, working with non-vector assets in figma is a bit annoying. But then again, I can export an image out of illustator at a 300dpi but if the original file was 72dpi, that will do absolutely fuck all.

As for not having time to go back to designers, I was not saying you do that every time, I meant, there is a way to have proper process when it comes to hand over to devs. Normally it’s a conversation you’d have once. If you work with people that have no regard for other people’s jobs, I don’t think it’s fair to be blaming the tool. I’ve seen absolute horror in design files on any platform.
Because life begins at conception.
> What makes this all feel in bad faith is that the Texas law is coming from the same group of people that are actively trying to censor everything. They're trying to ban books from schools.

There's a difference between censorship and curation. A school library is a curation of content designed to aid the curriculum. A public library is intended to have an uncensored set of books.

> They're trying to restrict information around abortion and transgender issues.

Restrict from the public library, or simply not include in their children's base curriculum at school?

> They're trying to censor information correctly stating that the Civil War was fought over slavery.

Hate to break it to you, but the modern (but pre-2010 at any rate) viewpoint taught in Canadian schools is that it only sort-of was. Slavery was the South's reason to leave, but the North would have fought the war over any attempt to leave - and Lincoln said he'd abandon his quest to stop slavery if it was required to keep the union intact.
American votes are fickle, and talking about running a universal healthcare system is easier than actually running one, especially for a country that has a perception of "government bad, companies good" created over the years by conservative propaganda.

I think the Democrats correctly recognize that there is not a deep belief in the idea that of socialized universal healthcare in America. In the survey you quoted, I would bet that about 20-30 out of that 70% support the effects of it (i.e. universal free or cheap healthcare), but would not support a tax increase to pay for it if needed.
Even that is subject to debate.

Is the telco responsible for maintaining an architecture where swatting is impossible? I think not. I think this limited liability is part of being a commons. The city isn't liable if a bank robber uses a road to escape. The Forrest service shouldn't be liable if a hiker trips and breaks their leg.

Full liability leads to full restriction and full oppression
Re going faster, exponentially more power is required to do so, and the infrastructure has a limit.

>No, we want legroom.

The Euroduplex rolling stock, of which the Avelia Horizon is the next generation, has better second-class legroom than any highway coach I've been on in my life.
You expect way too much of the justice system... The 'peers' on HN are very different from the peers on an average jury
It would take some time to fact check your assertions, so I only looked into the first one. It involved a single reporter, not systemic plagiarism by the paper, and she was fired when it came to light. The Post's ombudsman, who handles readers' complaints as well as internal problems, undertook an investigation.
>After consolidating a majority of the social space and literally gaining the power to set the public discourse, no company can be let to do whatever they want with that power.

>Not that current 'free' press is any different and that it does not need a major regulatory crackdown. But it has to start somewhere (...)

And so the mask slips and the agenda reveals itself. This is not about freedom, it's about control, and this is only the beginning. I wonder where it will end?
History is long, and capitalism as we know it is only a couple centuries old (and that's being generous). It's easy to forget that there was a before because it's very common to frame even old economic systems in modern terms, but things changing is the only real constant. There'll be an after too.
I can understand if people want to avoid using classes. But list/dict/set comprehensions make building complex data structures easier and more performant.

Usually, if one avoids OOP features of Python, that means he/she likes to use more functional features. And vice-versa.

I imagine it's the same with C vs C++. People use malloc/free, classic for loops and structs+functions only because that style fits their mindset better.
There wouldn't be disdain for Texas if Texas didn't do stupid things.
I like that framing. Reminds me of the scene in Good Will Hunting where he tells the jock what he's going to believe in what order just by listing the textbooks for his upcoming courses.
To be expected in the US. Try having a child.
> I have some bad C++ experienced, and I know enough programmers I respect who stick to C over C++.

Do you know such people who work on large software systems, as opposed to, say, micro-controller firmware, or kernel drivers and such?

(Asking as a person who maintains an important(ish) C library for embedded coders: https://github.com/eyalroz/printf)
It's barbaric and completely unacceptable in my view. Shameful.
Who Will Inherit the Family Business? Often, It’s Private Equity
We started putting captions on when our first kid was born, so we could still watch TV but have the volume down nice and low and not disturb her sleep.

It made a radical difference. We now tend to just have them on all the time. It's really mostly more modern movies and TV that we get value from it on, the audio mix is becoming such a mess with dialogue sinking in to the mix, that it's taking so much more effort to watch & listen. Put something on from 20ish years ago and the mix is totally different. That's despite having a sound system with a multiple speakers.
Not necessarily, but let's take your example. People often point that the gig companies aren't making any money, and the response to that is often along the lines of "well a business model like this shouldn't exist then".

So given that these companies aren't making money, what if these changes drive them out of existence? If gig workers truly don't have a better offer, well now they have no offers. What do this people do then?
I think it's better to make an estimate than to assume the decrease will continue indefinitely, yes. I do think that.
Hard for immigrants to get those jobs. They might not in the locations where those jobs are, or can't pass a background check, or might have been arrested for dui 10 years ago, or maybe once wrote a hot check (which must happen way more for poor people). A lot of uber drivers are immigrants without much access to the working world, nothing like I have as a us citizen with a college degree and history of working as a dev. If I just immigrated from Ghana, and I also was maybe driving some times on my buddies car and id because I wasn't allowed to for some reason. This is the underclass world a lot of people are living in.
been a bit since I've touched c++, but is there any reason to use trailing return types in that manner aside from solving scope issue with decltype on templates? I assumed this was a way to write functions to deal with that case and not for "regular" functions.

On another note, anything with "->" is just painful to write, same thing with the (in his proposal) ":_" instead of "=" for function arguments. Just annoying.
I don't really get where your passive aggressive reaction suddenly comes from? The main claim, that it's CO2 neutral is false, so I'm trying to get a better understanding of your specific situation and we can maybe also do some napkin math. To do that, you need to provide some details such as what happens to the material that doesn't get turned into wood logs. And if you also know how much gas is being used to provide a certain amount of cubic meters of logs that's even better.
I religiously have CCs turned on for everything I watch. Open Subtitles[0] is my daily staple. I sometimes miss little phrases/words in a movie, and if I miss them, the whole plot could be ruined for me and I wouldn't know what was going on. I pay attention to every word.

[0] https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/subs
Right-wing media and politicians spent ten years accusing Barack Obama of being of a secret foreigner just because he wasn't white. They will latch on to anything real or imagined to fuel their racism. They still haven't forgiven the left for the Civil Rights Act or winning the Civil War. I have zero interest in appeasing their mania and think the only plausible option is, in fact, to shove this kind of thing down their throats. That's how reconstruction worked. That's how the Voting Rights Act worked.

And in this case what Twilio did was of their own volition. It wasn't mandated by any statute. You're arguing they should be legally prevented from voluntarily enacting anti-racist policy? Do you another word for anti-anti-racism?
Some might say that you and your friends' ability to sit on the sidelines is a form of privilege not available to everyone. Along with this idea that in the past, politics was more polite, or less bothersome or whatever.

Maybe for some people, participating in politics has been a matter of life and death - something they don't have the luxury to ignore.
I'm pretty sure you can see the difference between a individual screenshot and a list of thousands of people based on some political scoring …
But there are always pressure to reduce public "costs" to reduce taxes. That European health care is better for the average person is not a given, it is something that Europeans need to keep pressuring to not lose.

I have seen degrading healthcare in Spain, for example, as banks received millions of Euros during the housing crisis money for hospitals shrunk. But when things got better it takes a lot of fighting to just get some money back into public services.

Part of what makes Europe such an amazing place to live is good public health care. It improves all well being metrics.
You must not have used Python or classes in C++, where the colon is ubiquitous?

Does `{` not require shift on your keyboard?
Even though English is my native language I’ll always opt for subtitles for any movie or show I’m watching. It just helps to not miss anything in the story or scene, and I never even notice them. Reading them becomes completely subconscious.
You'd be surprised. Folks will pick brands for political reasons, too. More, folks will band against brands for said reasons.

I mean, you are correct that there can be neutral discussions. Typically, neutral isn't as neutral as you'd think.
Speed has a massive effect on how willing I am to play around and develop better prompts. I can’t wait a full minute for an image, I just can’t.

What kind of computer specs would be required to generate typical SD images in less than a second?
You should consider the SNCF Carte Avantage, which is only €49 at full price but goes on sale half off twice a year or so. It saves quite a bit of money on rail tickets, and not just within France.
True but telephone is a common carrier and therefore bound by different law regarding the requirement that they provide their service to all members of the public.

The history of precisely how they ended up as common carriers I'm not entirely sure... But I think it has something to do with the fact that they had to get municipalities and communities to agree to let them run wires through their towns. Internet forum services did not have to make any such agreements because they're just sites on the internet.
All these problems are because gov do not offer health care and we have strange regulations that certain employees (not all) need to offer it.

So if they do crack down on “taking advantage” then a new set companies will arise: Uber-driver subcontractors. Less than 50 employees so they do not have all these rules and they offer services to Uber.

Same like cooks, security guards, cleaning and other subcontractors which do not have any protection but Google, Facebook and others depends on them.

In short, regardless what FTC does it will not help the actual workers.
This article feels like the next generation of "Millennials are ruining...." much like "Gen Y is ruining..." etc. articles that came before those.
The political views of HN vary wildly depending on both the subject and the thread.

People tend to notice either their own opinions or the opposite much more though.
Why? The materials needed for LiFePO4 batteries are very common, and we only need a few dozen large factories and refineries.

Compared to the size of the fossil fuel extraction industry, it's tiny.

The only question is how quickly we can build up to the scale needed, not if we can.
The ephemeral “stories” can get a lot of interaction, thats the primary way my circle uses instagram, the “posts” feature are pretty much dead, baring a once a year “photo dump”

For a creative that gets validation from simply having things seen, consider buying a more popular account on instagram and rebranding it. Theyve already done the work of growing the account with real users. You don't need to participate in that popularity rat race, just buy your own art gallery but with the mailing list of the prior owner.
Be the change you'd like to see.

What are the lines a person may not cross for crossing is an indication that the person is lacking information or decision making competence and thus decision making power is taken from them?

Some might argue for one extreme or another, the rest of us see it at some point between total and no decision making power with the line drawn at different points in different contexts. Besides drawing the line, there is the matter of who can draw it. Why would one think that on the main the FTC is better at making the decision in this context than the person making the decision?
For those who aren't sure what MeFi is: it's basically this site, but with a broader range of topics and a deeper sense of community, like certain newsgroups or mailing lists.
If you just want a polished offline maps app based on OpenStreetMap data checkout https://organicmaps.app/
The grandparent deserves a good rebuttal, and I don't think this is very good. This comment is effectively saying that the gig worker is in fact not a free agent by using analogies like slavery and indentured servitude, but these analogies don't map well to the gig worker's economic position.

I'm going to second the GP's request for a convincing argument, as I've also yet to see one.
s/on companies taking advantage of //
ooooohhh muahahahaah spooky "dangerous content" !!!!
I don't know about this specific crime, but a lot of crimes are correlated with arrest rate.

For example, there were places with a lot of illegal street racing that were able to drastically reduce the problem with slightly higher arrest rates.

Somehow the criminals have a mental calculus of their likelihood of facing charges (maybe just based on anecdata from media reports -- who knows!) and they behave accordingly.
My take after 20+ years in China living with WeChat and Alipay:

1) Green field: no or few incumbents or legacy platforms or regulatory capture to deal with - infrastructure in the West is antiquated and fossilized in comparison.

2) Open to change: People and businesses are living in a world that's extremely cut-throat and dynamic, and so they expect change, and are willing to try new things - the West is more conservative in comparison (e.g., the proliferation of QR code use cases seamlessly bridging offline/online that never took off in the West except when force by CVOID).

3) Free pass from platforms: Due to "be nice to China" Apple has turn a blind eye towards WeChat and Alipay running an app store inside of an app (which has always been against their regulations, and which MANY companies would like to do).

4) Hard work and (used to be) cheaper labor: 996 super-hard work ethic means they churn out features and blitz scale really well - they're just more aggressive.

5) In touch with the offline world: Companies in China have to deal with the reality of an extreme variety of users, from cities to countryside, from young to old, from rich to poor. They often build out big sales and support orgs of people walking around from store to store, across the country, whereas I think many startups in the West (often due to cost reasons) tend to do almost everything online.

And increasingly:

6) Government support. WeChat is pretty much the ERP system of China today. You can do everything through/on it. In some ways it's a utility. I guess every country could benefit enormously in terms of control and efficiency by having an platform that provides authentication, authorization, and payments as a base layer for all other apps. The government puts people / teams / divisions inside of organizations to ensure things are "running smoothly", but this works best if they have a few big companies to deal with - not a myriad of small startups. WeChat and Alipay are becoming more and more nationalized, and are already "too big to fail".

I miss not having WeChat in the West, though I'd of course wish it was done in a less 1984-ish way. Life has ballooned in complexity, and bureaucracy has gotten out of hand in the West... We need a radical streamlining in order to regain back our productivity (and not waste time filling out checks, waiting in line, calling/faxing, filling out forms, etc). Super apps, if done well like in WeChat's case, can offer that .

(I grew up in Europe, spent 20 years in China, and now living in North America.)
Yeah, I came to mention the Kon-Tiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
I mean, that's what this study is about. There is extensive discussion of the cost, production, and technology trends of batteries in the full text.
No Section 230 means more centralization of discourse, not less.
I'm willing to let the EU place their bet on this, and be the 2nd mover instead of the first one.

Early bird may get the worm, but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese.
>tax heavens are also way easier to use as a EU citizen

I suppose it's also correspondingly easier to avoid tax Hell . . .
> no one is being forced to work

Given that people need to work to live, replacing more/better jobs with fewer/worse jobs is absolutely a moral imposition on the working population.

Rationalizing this on the grounds that people are "free" to choose among the fewer/worse jobs is diabolical.
Because it’s not about growth it’s about the ability for a large team (and changing over time) to reason about a single code base.

Why not rewrite your entire business logic into a succinct DSL based on macros? Because making lower level or refactoring changes would be a headache.
> By your logic above, an indentured servitude would count as a "not being taken advantage of" and by implication, reasonable moral form of employment.

Sure? https://www.usa.gov/join-military
I think all of the hyperbole around slavery is massively disrespectful to actual slavery, which still exists in 2022. An Uber driver is not a slave.

But I do agree with you on everything else. I think that companies who want to hire contractors, should treat them as such, and not as employees for which they can reap the rewards of a contractor classification.