skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We think they're suffering because they're saying they're suffering.

Zero people would care about this if there wasn't a huge outcry from the gig workers themselves! This isn't just paternalism, it's the gig workers themselves driving these changes.
Without any verbal or textual narration, it's difficult to determine what any given step is contributing to the end result.

Also, why does the video look like it was recorded using an 80's home video camera? Everything in the scene looks like the center of a heap of trash. :D
I have yet to see a convincing argument, here on HN or elsewhere, about how these companies are taking advantage of workers.

Most of us are old enough to have seen these companies spring into existence, so here are the steps:

1) 100% of people are employed or unemployed. Uber (for example) doesn't exist

2) uber starts existing, some previously unemployed people and some previously employed people start working for uber

3) those people that willingly took those jobs are being taken advantage of

What is the principal that justifies 3? People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral? Even if that's the case, I'd like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would.
You say this as if Democrats didn't attack socialized healthcare in every underhanded way they possibly could when Bernie was running in 2016 and 2020. Before 2016, socialized healthcare was overwhelmingly supported by Democratic voters, and even carried a small majority of Republican voters for a short time.

The Democrats fixed that good. Will providing healthcare to everyone end racism?
The Federalist Society is very poorly named, with aims nearly diametrically opposed to the Federalists it is named after.
> And when they starve or go homeless in the process of “learning the business”?

These are effects of the fact that costs of living are dramatically out of control, you can't just infinitely raise the minimum wage to compensate as this is only making the problem worse.
They do a lot of things besides nvidia based cards. They have a lot of talent and will do fine. This is clearly a survival decision though, I guess nvidia has become so bad they are just losing money hand over fist trying to maintain a partnership. This is why everyone went nuts when nvidia tried to buy ARM, it's an awful company, up there with Oracle.
Do we need automation more than affordable medicine?

I'll explain.. if extremely expensive life-saving medicine did not improve things to the point those meds became cheap, then I won't expect "cheap labor" to bring me benefit, it'll only benefit the companies.

If you really care about automation and want to see it happen quickly, then stand by workers, their rights and support the increase of minimum wage... Nothing makes companies rush into innovating more than a way to save a buck.
Fuel Hike Plunges Haiti into Near Anarchy
From the graphic in the article I would say there were less excess deaths in summer 2020 and 2021 than the other seasons.

For Spain, the most excess death were in spring 2020.
When I do annual reviews at my company we have someone be an unbiasing champion. They are looking for things like recency bias, familiarity bias, affinity bias and other cases where a speaker might be appealing to something that isn't demonstrated by data. That person's job is to call people out and say, "you just said you really like that engineers personality, but can you frame that against one of the annual review criteria?" Remove the gut check, focus on the days

You might say that we therefore looking at reviews through an unbiasing lens.

Using an antiracist lens could mean they had one person in the room whose responsibility was to tie the conversation back to data about employee performance rather than, "well, I have a hard time understanding person x, let's fire them."

It's not just black and white, there are many ways this could be an innocent policy by Twilio. It could be what you describe, it could just be "we nominated someone to speak up in the meeting, but didn't really listen to them much".

My point is that we don't know. You've made up your mind, but it's not that simple.
Well, yes, everything is political whether we like it or not. Even not having a character in a videogame that represents a minority can be a political statement. It's far too broad a brush to paint to be useful for anything
That being said, let's pray the Inflation Reduction Act fares better than ACA.
Yes it depends on those things, but inversion layers can happen anywhere and cover large areas. I think population density is a good consideration, but there will probably be days in the year almost everywhere where the dispersion is limited due to weather.
Factually incorrect. Obama was elected in 2008 with a supermajority in Congress and mandate to fix healthcare. He made it worse.

Californias State Assembly has tried to get UHC, it was blocked by Newsom. If it cannot be done in California then it’s clear the Democrats aren’t going to fix it and have no political solution.
BitConnect Promoter Gets 38 Months in $2.4B Ponzi Scam
S6: A standalone JIT compiler library for CPython
There was probably a great deal of that. We also played instruments together in an attempt to be "in a band". I didn't find the uppity know-it-alls until college. Discussing Delphi/Object Pascal with people via NNTP was definitely my gateway into, "everyone is smarter than you".
For all the leverage the US has militarily, what control did it actually exert in Afghanistan? What about Russia in Ukraine? War and occupation is one thing, but I'm speaking more of the consent of the governed. Do you think the billionaire class can keep hoovering up all the economic gains as jobs are automated based solely on their self-interested narrative of capital ownership? What happens when unemployment hits 20%, 30%, 50%? Are they going to send drones against the populace?

Even in China, the CCP's policies only work as long as they deliver a certain measure of prosperity to the people. Propaganda and police brutality can only take you so far before the people have had enough.
Lack of seating (outwith the conference rooms, I mean) is the absolute worst! Actually, I don't think I've ever attended a conference where there were enough seating and tables, which is super annoying at lunch time.
Yeah, I’m fairly certain things will be fine. Everyone’s consuming curated propaganda on their phones every single day. The little people won’t be doing much.
The semicolon cancer is still there. Good.
Conveniently leaves out how they were all paid full wage during the pandemic despite the office being shut down. The real story here is that the world is becoming too unaffordable for most people, and it’s going to hurt everyone big time.
No one has ever said that Carbon will forever be frozen at C++17 compatibility. That's just the initial goal.
In the hypothetical world, where press is a natural monopoly, we would be far less likely to allow the press to refuse to publish viewpoints they don't like. Or we would outright nationalize the press and lead to a different sort of problem.
And not just diet Coke.
To the extent the companies are colluding on rates, that hurts the sellers and the buyers on any marketplace.

If the company is using some AI model to resolve disputes against statutory and contract requirements, same problem.

Same thing again with deceptive conduct and misrepresentation, if you take a dollar from one million people that you wouldn't have without deceiving people, this is a good area for regulator (like FCC) to handle. Class actions as an alternative seem to end up with a worse result.
Who are they targeting, who is this for?
What would you think about this implementation?

-Private insurance is allowed to exist and compete with the public offering

-Everyone is entitled by law to the public health system for any kind of injury or health need.

-The hospitals used by the public health system are government-owned. They are run by government bureocrats and staffed with private employees (the doctors, nurses, janitorial staff, etc)

-The hospitals are managed by the respective jurisdictions in which they are, but they have to follow the basic model that the federal government imposes through the national health ministry.
I've been wanting to do a project like this for a long time, there are lots of places I have travelled and lived that have unique sounds that I'd like to share.

The only reason I haven't done it is that today's social media wouldn't provide a means for my work to be seen. On Facebook for example if I post anything with external links it covertly censors my content so that even my own friends cannot see it. Nowadays they downrank pretty much anything that isn't a "Reel", my still photographs are now only shown to a very small subset of my friends. Sound-only content isn't really attractive to news sites either so I just don't know how I'd publish it effectively.
Plagiarism on Quora
If I am not mistaken, there were still 70+ percent of all Americans that supported universal healthcare as of 2020.
Researchers develop a reactor that can destroy 'forever chemicals'
The framework laptop has an replacable. But you only need to look at the business notebooks, they usually have replacable batteries.
Where do you think those dollars go? Hospitals aren't that great of an investment, but insurance companies are
First-in-human study with Modulheart device for mechanical circulatory support
It is very odd that the New York Times hasn't published an obit for him. Maybe they will take some time to do so but I always thought that they had these things pre-baked.

I heard about his death elsewhere this morning and was surprised I didn't see it before. They have a ton of obits for less consequential people.

https://www.nytimes.com/section/obituaries
I kinda of want to go back in time when politics was sort of on the back burner. Both left and right wing politics is unrecognizable to me. Everything is politicized and taken into conflict where it need not be.

Maybe I was in college and didn’t pay attention to this stuff or maybe the world has really gone mad.

Start treating people as people and not some political entity embodied in an activist form. Most of my friends are on the sidelines, thankfully. I treasure my relationships more, there isn’t too much time to live.

I’m exhausted.
No need for a government-sponsored forum, when smaller forums are explicitly exempted from the Texas law.

The law at issue still allows forums with 49,999,999 or fewer users to discriminate based on political viewpoint. It only says sites larger than that need to allow all political viewpoints (but only if they allow any political viewpoints, and only if they have users in Texas).

Legal: Message board with 49 million users that says "no Republicans allowed."

Legal: Message board with 51 million users that says "no politics allowed."

Legal: Message board with 51 million users (none in Texas) that says "no Libertarians allowed."

Not legal: Message board with 51 million users (some in Texas) that says "no Democrats allowed."
In my opinion, the problem is that gig companies eventually "suck the air" out of the market and leave no room for those "better" jobs to exist.

Let's take Uber as an example: if you wanted to open a rival company following the taxi laws that Uber ignores you'd have higher employee and maintenance costs. Eventually you'd go broke: your drivers may be happier, but yor clients are all taking Uber because it's cheaper. And once you go broke, your drivers have no choice but to work for Uber. It's a race to the bottom.

> Where do we draw the line of interfering with an agreement between two competent, free parties?

Typically, when the deal is too disproportionate and/or one-sided. Anti-usury laws and contracts void due to lack of consideration are two examples, but I'm sure there are others.
> never hear Americans calling American regions provinces

We don’t have provinces [1], but semi-sovereign states. “Ontario province” is roughly analogous to the “state of Georgia.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province
Is there a reason it won't work on an intel Mac?
To me, it means understanding the basics of data structures and algorithms, and knowing when and how to apply them to solve problems.

A couple of examples:

Seeing a sorted list of items and knowing how to find an item in that list most efficiently (binary search) [0].

Looking at a map of cities and the roads connecting them (including distances between cities) and knowing that you can use a graph to represent the cities and use Dijkstra's algorithm [1] to find the shortest path between any two cities.

Essentially, being able to look at a problem and see how that problem can be mapped to (and solved by) a specific type of algorithm, then being able to implement that algorithm to solve the problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
> Where do we draw the line of interfering with an agreement between two competent, free parties?

Constantly. Endlessly. Daily.

We draw the line everywhere, all day, in every single aspect of lives. It’s the core concept of government, in fact it’s the basic premise of civilization.

Two parties can’t agree to enter into slavery. Or a Ponzi scheme. Or a restaurant meal where the cooks don’t disinfect the kitchen. Or a bank where there’s not enough reserves. Or an airplane that hasn’t been maintained. Or a verbal agreement to buy a house.

In all cases it’s because we’re not ok with the effect on society, like E. Coli outbreaks, plane crashes, bank failures, destitute old people, and lots of other stuff.

It’s not necessarily that the people themselves are being taken advantage of. Society is. The companies are externalizing costs and risks on everyone instead of absorbing them. We get to decide that’s not OK.
If social media wishes to be immune from lawsuits regarding the content it publishes, section 203, then it should not have the ability to censor such content for an explicit commercial revenue model.

I understand why people hate that opinion, because they want civil discourse and nearly free access to media online. Uncensored content pushes normal people out.

Those things are great, but are ultimately out of alignment with a commercial revenue model. The result is social media imposing an algorithmic bias to increase engagement, the results of which are often toxic, and that toxicity ultimately pushes normal people out anyways. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Maybe companies should be required to provide all their workers with three square meals a day, as well as housing, childcare, an automobile, clothing, and furniture.
the cynic in me says that those savings will just become profits for the companies and government through taxes and greed....so savings are relative. Also it seems to be highly dependent on solar mass adoption
I know what you mean - for awhile after 2016 you couldn't say anything remotely progressive without having your comments flagged by overzealous Clinton-or-nobody Dems. I almost left but I stuck around and it's gotten better. The no-U.S.-politics option made things easier.
Projects can't keep using an old compilers because of security patches though. At some point, the old versions are too old to keep the security up to date.

A more common example, what if a library that you use stops supporting the old version, and the latest compatible release of the library has a security vulnerability.
Hold on. Soft White Underbelly has NOT been demonetized by YouTube.

Some of the videos that Soft White Underbelly creates are demonetized, or as YouTube puts it, found to not be suitable for all advertisers.

Creating content on YouTube has been my full-time job for more than five years. There is a HUGE difference between a channel being kicked out of the Partner Program and videos being 'demonetized.' (Namely, that in the latter case, all of your other videos, past and future, can still earn revenue.)

Honestly, this just seems like the guy is trying to encourage people to pay for his "members only" content. I don't blame him for that, but afactual alarmist titles are not the right way to help him along.

YouTube's policies regarding advertiser friendliness are annoying, but they are mostly clear — and as far as I know, they have not substantively changed recently.
Well, it'd be pretty difficult to be lower quality than Jira.
These kinds of designs are good to drop into things like kiosk PCs and digital signage, applications where you don't need a ton of processing power but still require a full stack of network connectivity. You could upgrade the compute module to better versions with faster processors or more memory depending on your needs. These kinds of compute module designs aren't very helpful for IoT designs since you need a carrier board. If you need to make your own carrier board to fit your design, why not just use an already existing SoC board that has everything you need?
Your first claim is an opinion rather than a fact. From my OPINION there are more people covered and are benefitting from medicare and medicaid because of those improvements.

I don't have enough info to comment on your second point, but what I've heard was there were serious concerns in the bill and that's why gov. Newsom vetoed the bill.
EDIT: I am dumb, my brain automatically thought import std was "using namespace std" for some reason.
> This isn't just paternalism, it's the gig workers themselves driving these changes.

This isn't universal though. If you go to places where gig workers discuss these issues (say /r/UberDrivers) every post complaining about pay has people saying "if you don't like the fare, don't accept it!" and to be fair there are also lots who are not complaining about it.

In any event, I don't mean to defend uber. I don't favor their model. I would just say that it is NOT universal.
Reading old newspapers is an intoxicating cocktail. One part smugness of hindsight and one part affinity for the common struggle.

My favorite random book purchase was from a multi-generational bookstore in San Francisco. Like many, it had succumbed to the pressures of rising rent and declining interest in musty parchment. In their going-out-of-business clearance pile, I happened upon an oversized binding of newspapers from Manchester, England. Partially water damaged on the edges but perfectly legible. Upon opening the book, curiosity quickly escalated to bibliophilic euphoria. This collection turned out to be from the early 1940's during The Blitz when the Nazis were bombing the shizer out of England.

The best part... the Ovaltine ads. Apparently, Ovaltine used to be sold as a health elixir to calm your nerves before bed. I'm not sure how a chocolate malt drink aids sleep, but they must have sold well because the half and full page ads were in every paper. I've never had the pleasure of speaking with someone who grew up in Manchester during that time. What strange association they must have for Ovaltine. Comfort or terror? Hard to say.
I see his comments section had to explain what pumped hydro was to him.
(tl;dr: it's now archived and not under active development)

> We have stopped working on S6 internally. As such, this repository has been archived and we are not accepting pull requests or issues. We open-sourced the code and provided a design overview below to spur conversations within the Python community and inspire future work on improving Python.
The argument I’d make is that Uber game-ifies payouts, so it can be hard to actually know how much you’re making and it could take a while to realize if you’re profiting. Throw in some wishful thinking and gambling tendencies and you can quite easily take advantage of human psychology.

Separately - companies in the US take advantage of most employees. So I’d say any large employer could do with an FTC shakedown.
I think you've just discovered Curry-Howard isomorphism!
I don't blame the consumer, I just make fun of those who virtue signal as if they truly do their part, but again the consumer votes with his wallet, but society motivates him into a certain way of spending by bombarding him with ads, etc.

The problem is the system, you can't blame a cell in a cow for now behaving the same way as a cell in a cat, we're just that, cells that interact with one another, the emergent system is our society, and since we've become super connected with the internet, society could be seen as its own brain with its own consciousness and needs, and trying to think about it is as useless as a single neuron trying to imagine consciousness.

Honestly I'm just not smart enough to think about these things, it's a problem with too many variables, and while it can be modeled with analogies and examples limited by language, those are just useful for internet posting or entertaining conversations.
You should read Trekonimics if your into this way of thinking.
What's the difference between this and Diffusion Bee besides a nicer website?

https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-...
If Texas were shut off from social media, would net mental health and productivity of Texans increase?

I say we do the experiment and find out!
Oh, it's totally fraud! Unfortunately it's a fraud that is easy to get away with.
The problem is that heath insurance has widely different risk profiles, way more than something like car insurance. The most risky car driver is going to cost the insurance company a lot less than the most expensive medical insurance user.

Because of this, an individual buyer of health insurance is going to have a hugely variable cost of insurance, based on their risk profile. Currently, this risk is spread out by grouping employees of a company together, spreading the cost. That is why larger companies get much cheaper rates.

Health insurance risk is so varied, and so often not something the individual can control, that the only fair and efficient way to insure everyone is to create a single, large, cohort... spread the risk to every citizen via universal coverage.
You're arguing tactics vs. strategy though, the tactic is to optimize the current system, but the strategy is to fix the broken system.

A single Uber driver can and often does do both.
Except - I guess - CO2 free energy when it's dark and windless. Like in a typical November night <hen you like having your home heated to acceptable levels.
Elon Musk Enters In-Flight Wi-Fi Market with Small Satellites
people on enthusiast forums have been sold a bill of goods by a couple attention-seeking twitter stars like kopite7kimi.

remember his rumors about 4090 having a 800-900W TGP? That got wacked way down in recent months by more reputable leakers, and now the number is rumored to be around 450W TBP (more like 375-400W TGP), which is plausible given the size of the die (and much more comparable to the rumored 400W of the dual-die AMD products).

So, off by basically double.

https://hothardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4090-ti-allegedly-a...

Similarly he had 4080 at 600W and other Shit That Ain't Gonna Happen. Stupid partner boards pushing everything to 2x the official spec? maybe, but as a reference TGP? lol no.

if you believed that 800W was ever a plausible configuration for a consumer product, then I have a bridge to sell you. It was most likely some kind of engineering test bios that turned everything up to 11 at max clocks and he heard about that number and just didn't apply any common sense. Which, why would he when he could get months of attention off it from twitter?

People just race to buy into anything negative that is rumored about NVIDIA products and it's taken as absolute gospel as soon as anyone hears it. And the leakers have realized that and play into it.
A slow knife is a knife nonetheless!

I agree that CU was a culmination of decades of jurisprudence. But that doesn't meaningfully change the fact that it has had a substantial effect on corporate money in politics.
Grammaticalization