skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elephant in the room is that the US labor market is, as a whole, already taking advantage of lowest earners across the board. They are getting paid less than the lowest earners from any prior time historically, while cost of living is only getting higher, and working conditions have been on a steady decline too - all this while the productivity they generate is at an all time high. For many workers, there is a total absence of a 'good' choice.

This is why when one company manages to lower the bar just a bit further and find new loopholes to exploit to pay workers less, give them even worse working conditions and benefits, or give them even less power and autonomy, it sticks out more than it normally would in a healthy labor economy.
Agree on the density, also initially I had that cool holographic cover facing out the open side of my bookshelf to the living room until one night a passing headlight beamed across it in the dark and I realized how absolutely incredibly creepy it was to have Lick as sudden posthumous voyeur...

On the idea and content, it reveals to me there was a great shadow world of ideas in those early days I think are still being "rediscovered" in the current time. We did an awful job of following through on visionaries like him, hell even Grace Hopper's simple 1955 paper on compiler thru compiler compilers didnt make a comeback until the shadows of the 70's, then 90's, and the past decade.

We imagined the world in the 50s. We invented it in the 60s. And then we entered a profit-driven dark age that is barely letting those results trickle into everyday reality. The future of computing is so far from what we conceptualize today we still don't even have the vocabulary for it. Conceptually this essay lays it out.

Try synthesizing a toy program in Idris2 with a lsp server and querying the compiler about what you are writing as you explore. It will open your eyes that we have just hit this reality. Don't be fooled by copilot, its the cheap plastic copy of real intelligence working with computers alternating their best strengths.
Hi! Yes I'm the owner which is mostly paperwork and legal and sort of "the vision thing." Loup is running day-to-day stuff and we have a 12-member Steering Committee who will hopefully be setting the priorities and keeping everyone on target. I can not stress enough that I am not making the daily decisions but I do know that yes being able to accept help (and money, but help especially) is really going to be a priority as we try to make the site more community run and much less of a "single point of failure" situation. The last few years have been hard for the world which also means hard for MeFi; MeFi had some MeFi-specific issues and problems which needed addressing and are getting looked at. For anyone who hangs out there, or who just has fond memories of the place but it's not your spot anymore, consider stopping by to say hi again, giving feedback (or money, but feedback especially) and helping MeFi stay MeFi. <3
> 1) 100% of people are employed or unemployed. Uber (for example) doesn't exist

Contract work (1099) existed for a long time before Uber.
a demo would be helpful please
Figma can absolutely crop images, and sometimes you want to know how much of an image is actually available. And why wouldn't you want to set the resolution? Appropriately sized images are part of proper compression and performance tuning.

And you don't always have time to go back to the design team and ask them to rework tons of comps just because you need to get an asset out of a Figma.
You do realize the reason the Democrats can’t fix it is that the Republicans block all attempts right? Like when 59 Democrat Senators, the President and a majority of the house (100% Democratic support) are attempting to pass something like Medicare for All as happened in 2009 — the fact that it was blocked because they couldn’t get a single Republican vote to break the filibuster reflects badly on the Republicans, not the Democrats.

The Franken recount and Kennedy death meant they couldn’t negotiate further and had to pass the reconciled bill for Obamacare without a Medicare buy-in option, unless they had literally any Republican cross the aisle - which they refused to do. It’s just such ignorant bad faith to claim otherwise.

And since primary taxation happens at the Federal level, the state-options are essentially impossible without the Feds giving states that provide universal healthcare the ability to not pay Medicare/Medicaid payroll taxes — again which is impossible without Republicans support.
If we'd just provide health care free at the point of service, we wouldn't have to worry about the taxes.
I would actually like this. Imagine if online discussion was so visibly bad that no one used it anymore.

Talk to real people. Go outside.
Fight the big wins, not the very very small ones.

I.e. be a pragmatic, not a fundamentalist.

Also: If you feel like you don't really understand a particular context: please do feel free to stay quiet until you have aquired an understanding of said context.
> which in turn means that corporations can do the same politicking (and political funding) that natural persons do.

How can a corporation do any of these without natural persons being actually the ones deciding on and performing these actions? Corporation is, after all, just a form of organization of natural persons, and cannot do anything on its own.

In Citizens United, government argued that the government can ban you from publishing a book, unless you’re completely self funding it: if any corporate funds are used in book publishing process (as they typically are with books where authors are paid royalties, it is likely that no books you ever heard about have been completely self-funded). Are you also supporting this position, that government can suppress your speech if any at any point corporate funds are used?
That 'horrible mess of weird ideas' did manage to keep the 'U' in 'U.S.A.' relevant even through a civil war and all that followed. Now that your country more and more starts to resemble the D.S.A. is is to be hoped the 'horrible mess of weird ideas' turns out to be strong enough to allow you to continue on the path set out some 250 years ago. For that you need more "We, the people" and less "They, the deplorables/-ists/-phobes".

You also need to let go of the nihilism which lies behind what you just stated, a statement easily disproven by ~250 years of history. It is very easy to pick out the warts in that history from the comfortable environment created in part due to it, far harder to set out a course to create that history and make it last for so long.
AV1
super app: "covid zero", red/green QR code app controls human movement in China.
unfortunately pep-484 changed all that. now you have to use static generation for basically anything that used to be at runtime previously, if you want it to have any kind of compatibility with mypy, pylance, etc.
I love craigslist, people who make craigslists ads are generally no bullshit serious about selling and every experience I have had was... fun, it honestly has been great fun meeting the people of craigslist lol.

I think the fact that craigslist hasnt changed look in 25 years or whatever attracts a certain kind of seller/buyer and that certain kind of seller/buyer is overall a really decent person who isn't trying to rip anyone off.
This is overt fraud, but borderline with subscriptions.

FIRST they requested users update payment information as if to continue their FREE accounts. THEN they billed users for a month's service.

It's called a "negative option" when the user has to do something to prevent additional charges. Normally that is illegal per US FTC (but legal in some countries). However, negative option contract terms ARE legal. That's when you agree initially e.g., with NYTimes that when your subscription is up, it automatically rolls over to paid tier X, putting the burden on you to cancel.

If, or since, most of these account agreements are 10+ years old, it's possible they ginned up some evidence of a negative option contract. It's almost certain no user has any information on the original terms of service. So then it's a question of who has the burden of proof, which leads me to wonder if there have been changes to that of late.

I hate to say it, but another option is that this company has been getting pushback or eviction from credit card issuers. This might be their way of imposing costs on them, to have to go through thousands of chargeback cycles, to spite the issuers pending their exit from the platform. It also might be a good way to get some cash from the issuers before declaring bankruptcy. Or, someone inside did this, on a Friday/Saturday, and they'll be gone before Monday with everyone's credit card information. Who knows?

To reiterate what others have reported:

9/17 title "Your Manuscript Account"

- $31.25 for:

- $12.50 9/17-10/17 5 users 50% off fogbugz

- $6.25 9/17-10/17 5 users 50% off time tracking

- $6.25 9/17-10/17 5 users 50% off wiki

- $6.25 9/17-10/17 5 users 50% off agile

9/16 title "Your fogbugz free subscription is expiring" (from a different sender)

"To continue using FogBugz, please add payment details to your account today"

(and if you didn't notice)

"Because you're already a valued FogBugz user, we've automatically upgraded your account to include up to five individual users with your new paid subscription"
Having run a mail server, I don't think it's reasonable to expect most people to contain the deluge of spam and phishing attacks they would get if just told them to "sort it out" themselves.
Too bad it doesn't work on Windows out of thr box without cygwin/msys trickery. The lippcap doesnt have an open source alternative on windows. winpcap is almost dead and npcap is not free to use.
Wouldn't you starve or go homeless even faster if you had no income but were paying for an education?

vs getting paid (a little) to get education.
This article doesn't suck. I've been on event staff quite a bit, seen 'em take all sorts of forms, and from my experience the author here is right on the money. Worth reading and believing.

The poorer events I've been to were generally marred by attempts to bring some special extra goodie of some sort, while failing at the things the author emphasizes: deliver competently and in a timely manner the salient things YOUR EVENT is about, while caring for the attendees.

It's really that simple. Your event is the purpose. If there's meaning to it, you're the one who has to bring that meaning. In doing that, you serve the attendees your message, your purpose, with a due respect for not so much THEIR purpose but the fact that you're proposing to replace whatever else they might be doing with your thing.

End result is not about whether they went away bribed with goodies, but whether going along with your purpose ends up seeming to them like time well spent. Ideally, they're so into sharing the experience with you and others, that they end up counting it a great, treasured experience.
I think the title is kinda vague. What FTC really tries to do is "Commission outlined a number of issues facing gig workers, including deception about pay and hours, unfair contract terms, and anticompetitive wage fixing and coordination between gig economy companies." That sounds legitimate to me.

If "take advantage of" is not well defined as you said, then it reminds me how intellectuals and young people loved Soviet Union in the 30s and 40s, and how European countries and Japan had so many communist parties and political assassinations after WWII. The word "taking advantage of" and "exploit" have such a great appealing to people's righteousness that even the US government can use them freely to gain support from a large number of people.

edit: read the actual announcement and added a paragraph accordingly.
I have no maritime knowledge, but I do handle a lot of incident reports. Yes, it's common for there to be 30 recommendations and 3 get fully implemented. Perhaps a few more get part implemented or people talk about doing them and it goes nowhere.
I've historically played FPS games. Recently stumbled onto Foxhole which is more of a large team strategy game. It's a sort of wargame that emulates multiple aspects of war beyond just the frontline fighting. Imagine an RTS, but you play as a single unit. Every item, weapon, vehicle, etc in the game has to be manufactured by players. Players then have to deliver those to the frontline. There is a whole manufacturing and logistics network outside of the actual combat. There are no combat stats, no killfeed, and very little incentive to play only for solo efforts. Even ranking up requires commendations from your team for playing support roles like medic. Everything is designed around teamwork and long-term efforts towards the war and I really like that. Especially compared to how most games are designed more recently.

What drew me to it was the potential for multiple ways of play. You don't just have to go out and shoot people. You can instead be the guy who digs trenches prepping for defense. Or building structures in a newly captured zone. Being able to switch between them at will. What has kept me playing is the community. Very few games have a player base that will stop what they are doing to explain things to new players. There are definitely goofy players. And probably some trolls. But I've never asked a question in chat and not gotten a serious answer.

While the game doesn't have the same appeal as say, Counter Strike which I thoroughly enjoy, it does have a refreshing style of play. You can play hardcore or casual or anything in between. And sometimes it's nice to just chat with folks while you're pinned down in a trench waiting for backup or a much needed shipment of ammo.
Its comments like this that have caused me to really lose faith in the quality of conversation on Hacker News.

By your logic above, an indentured servitude would count as a "not being taken advantage of" and by implication, reasonable moral form of employment.

Each of the following questions in your final paragraph are similarly shallow.

> People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral?

This is a straw man argument to its core. No one is, or has suggested that all labor should be abolished unless it meets a utopian ideal.

> Even if that's the case

It is not 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

Interestingly, this is the same argument that was used in favor of slavery.
I’m glad you only participate in companies and situations that appear to have evolved beyond egos and politics, but the reality is that most places still have these things and many people need the tools to navigate around them.

I found the article very helpful for communicating both up and down the power spectrum.

I had a direct report that desperately wanted to use Tailwind even though we already had a library of styled components already built without it. It took everything I had to keep the conversation positive while still disagreeing with him. Developers, in particular, can be divas and these tools are just as necessary in managing up as well as down.
Java and C# fucked up in that they thought that people really loved the objects, but missed that actually people really hated the pointers and the oo part was mostly a crutch to lessen thr memory safety burden.

And their development in the last 15 years is just trying to escape the oo cage they were put in.

Something that fixed C++ would have been a godsend in 2004. Nowadays... just a nice thing to have.
All it needs is a mobile app.. could finally stop constantly sharing location data to Big-G and Apple.
OK. But what about the idea that renewable energy costs have no floor?
It's disappointing they would keep that odd << syntax, which has always looked weird to me.

Why not take this opportunity to streamline the calling syntax? Streams are no different than regular function calls, e.g.

cout.output("hello").output("world\n")
The interface for one of those games is entirely text (sentences, not ascii art) presented before a prompt where you type a command, which will provoke more sentences and another prompt. I think it's perfectly legitimate to call that a command line, even if we might want to distinguish it from "the command line".
There's a link to a code on the `nicer website`: https://github.com/cbh123/charl-e
Ah, thank you for explaining, that makes sense. I think rust people (the ones I know anyway) don't think rust is perfect, or the end-it-all language. There already are a few warts (I'd say async really doesn't have the best ergonomics), but the language is a bit young for the community to find some really big issues?

The fact that `?` is baked in for Option/Result is a pragmatic choice that allowed rust to ship in 2015, not 2035, when the research on mixing effect systems and borrow checker is done. There were already enough innovations tokens in rust 1.0, and moving the needle forward on memory safety and decent type systems is having a positive effect on all the other languages in that space (Zig, Carbon, now C++/C++2…).
Number theory explained from first principles
1. So he says. I hope you realize that the creator has an enormous monetary incentive to lie about that, and that it is impossible to verify his claims.

2. "Demonetized," when describing a YouTube channel, means one thing and one thing only: that the channel has been kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program.

I don't know why you would adopt your own, materially-different, definition of a word whose definition is widely accepted. Doing so creates unnecessary confusion, and — particularly in this case — is highly misleading.
You're posting in a thread about a topic where they're literally trying to do exactly what the GP is saying. I don't know what you view as a 'middle road' given that their starting negotiating point is 'users cannot be banned for any reason ever'.
Ontario is also the name of a smallish but reasonably well known American city which might be relevant.
The Offer on Paramount+ really gives a chilling pitch for The Godfather [1]. That some fall for the Strong Man stereotype and project it onto Vito and Michael is wrong. There's so much more to it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWZBKFrlgks
They won't (don't?) delete your online life, they just lock you out of it. They'll still maintain your digital profile so they can add to it, just not let you edit it.
There’s an Unusual Thing Happening in the Housing Market
Some people don't agree that the system is even broken.
One country moved their soldiers across the border, the other didn't...

Tell me, when did Ukraine EVER attack Russia?
Well good news, odds are SCOTUS will clarify.
I think it's related by sharing desire to say "... it seems extremely overpriced" (as well as any tool that solves a problem that does not cause you pain)
> Since insurance is now available for purchase on the open marketplace, there are whole classes of employers who don't need to worry about including it in their benefits packages which they offer.

I'm not sure what you mean by "decoupled." I could buy private health insurance prior to the ACA and it was cheaper (at least for me it was). Also, I wouldn't call the marketplace "open." Right now health insurance is like the internet in that you can only purchase it from local providers and you can only realistically use it at "in network providers" without the cost becoming astronomical. The lack of competition is what is artificially keeping prices high. Case in point: my dental and vision insurance can be used in all 50 states with a huge number of providers and costs a fraction of what my health insurance costs.
To do discovery to find the proper forms, and what they have to fill out in them, and to get their legal department to make sure they're doing it correctly, has significant costs.

You bought your card before Brexit. They're honoring the deal they made with you—not their fault they had the ground pulled out from under them with laws you consented to.
"protecting America's consumers". As a consumer I like Uber, but I don't understand why I have to pay hidden fees for everything, why I can't easily unsubscribe from something, why I receive spam constantly on my phone and email, why I can't easily cancel a flight if I realized that I made a mistake right after buying it, why my rent can dramatically increase arbitrarily, why medicine is so expensive, why AirBnB can display fake prices on their page, why I can become broke for receiving a paycheck, why healthcare is tied to my job, why...
This product looks comparable in both price and performance to the Raspberry Pi Zero WH.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
I think it's a good question to ask, because I agree the social justice cancel war feels a bit silly, generally speaking. But you equated one of the most violent crimes with misdemeanor petty theft of a 50 cent candy bar. That doesn't make any sense.
Prolonged screen time linked to early puberty in girls due to blue light
The Fastest BigInt In The West (2014)
I'm not sure telephone companies or shipping services are a good analogy here, though, yes, that's an example the opinion uses. One key difference is that telephones are generally one to one or one to few communications, whereas social media platforms are a megaphone to speak to many people? Do other forms of mass communication require you deliver any and all speech?

If you're going to say social media is like a telephone, I think you have to at least consider in what ways it actually isn't like a telephone.
Archive link, sans paywall: https://archive.ph/OgsQs
> hundreds of years

Yes hundreds of years of Ukraine being oppressed by Russia (also western powers at times)... Meanwhile when did Ukraine EVER attack Russia?
Yet Facebook and Twitter literally base their business model on sorting out what you get to read. These companies manipulate access to speech when their algorithms decide what you like — and yes, this includes ads.
the Homepage link there includes a demo: https://github.com/omduggineni/termvideo
Exactly. CL works perfectly. No improvement needed.
How fast does Stable Diffusion run on an M1 Max? I'm using an M1 Pro and I find it too slow. I'd rather use an online service that costs $0.01 per image but generates an image in a matter of seconds than wait 1 minute for a free one.
Obama pushed the republican plan because it would get votes.

I didn’t say “vote democratic”. I said, don’t vote conservative. Two different things.
Nothing wrong with working at big tech. Nothing has to be forever. Get some stability and then focus on your personal life. A job is one dimension of your life, but most humans are multidimensional. Life is meant to be lived, try and relish a diverse set of experiences. It will reinforce the other dimensions.
The truth is, traditional, western mobile apps really suck, and create a lot of friction. Some of that friction only exists
to maintain Apple's and Google's competitive advantages (think web browsers being overly limited), but a large part of it exists because we choose privacy over user convenience.

As I understand it, weChat mini apps have the ability to reliably identify their users and keep their data across multiple devices, with no accounts and no user interaction. Imagine opening an app for recipes, adding a recipe and knowing that it's always going to be there, no matter the device, with no signing up, no figuring out a password, no complicated login screens, nothing. You open an app and it just works.

Same thing extends to payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay aren't terribly popular with users as they require extra steps to set up, and in app purchases have ridiculous fees and can't be used for goods sold outside the app.

The only western system that ever came close was probably Minitel[1], which was just too outdated technologically to survive the age of the modern internet. iCloud would also be a competitor if it worked cross platform.

[1] https://afridigest.com/super-apps-in-emerging-markets/