skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can go back and forth on the yes/no for the questionnaire, but its up for interpretation which is why this will probably go to the Supreme Court one day. I disagree with how you interrupted a few of them, but even looking at that, you seem to mostly agree with mine. This was helpful: https://www.argbackoffice.com/arg/1099_irs_checklist.pdf

See, #1 to me is an obvious no (you pick when to work, you don't have to work the same area of town). If you worked for a taxi company as w2, they may tell you to work a certain neighborhood or only to/from the airport.

#3 is a yes.

#4 is no (you can't subcontract out your uber work, because its dependent on your DL/driving record).

#5 - probably a no. "hired, supervised, or paid individuals to assist the worker" it would clearly state, providing a service (an app), but it means actual people.

#6 should be no - what makes the relationship continuing?

#7 is no (some drivers pick nights, or weekends, or after class), #8 is no (there are many less than FT drivers)

#18 should be yes -- they can work for other gig work apps that do similar things at the same time, not just 1 company, thus servicing more of the general public

I am happy to not be a lawyer :)
I had a boss who, well, you know how good bosses are supposed to be umbrellas and shock absorbers? He was the exact opposite. Whatever the fashion was in admin, he would go along with it. We got this whole song and dance from him a few years back about the new performance ratings that sounded not entirely unlike stack ranking, and that "five" was the max rating, but you would never get a five, but you were expected to be a five, despite that you wouldn't ever get a five, in this bizarre, self-negating informational tidbit. I saw the hot-shit new-ish hire start revising his resume behind his eyes.
So, I'm not that into Elon Musk's actions here, but the headline makes it sound like it was working in Crimea, and he decided to block it. It was already not working in Crimea, and he declined to turn it on. I still wish he had, but the fact that he's sticking with the status quo on this particular point is highly relevant. It's more like "staying out of it" than it is like "taking Russia's side". At least on this point.
You win! :-)
It's not "beyond niche", it accounts for 95%+ of worldwide stored energy and is the de-facto energy storage mechanism that all new battery storage technologies are compared against. It also has round trip efficiency comparable to the li-ion batteries (80-90%), which is incredibly hard to beat.
Love it. This should get more love imo
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Indeed. I met my girlfriend on a relatively novel dating site called The League.

It was recently purchased by Match.
It doesn't really solve anything, I suspect some palms got greased to get it up for a vote and the rest are just "oooo-ahhhhhh new tech!" people in the legislature that voted for it. It's fairly harmless so the governor signed it into law.
one of the reasons why tech culture has an 18-24 month half life at jobs... it's almost impossible to get a market competitive internal promotion. "not doing performance reviews" and only doing normal 1:1s + an occasional dive doesn't solve this problem at all. i've seen and been at plenty of places that do junior -> mid -> senior pipelines fine, but senior -> exec? it never happens despite external exec hires having extremely high miss rates and very high cost of miss. 100% blame this one on classism + unwillingness to trust people you know vs the shiny outsider.
I don't see the whole point. It's like creating yet-another-ntp-implementation while other well-known implementations are known to be working good and safely on billions of devices.

It is easier to report a security issue to ntpd or chrony instead of creating a new one.
If you still have faith in the system, more power to you. You seem to think all these three-letter agencies exist to help each other. I shared your optimism before I started having to deal with them on a professional basis.

The most the FBI will do with such reports is, if substantive enough, occasionally tip off industry partners to current trends from two years ago. Useful intel, but woefully outdated.

The hardest part is even getting them to listen to you in the first place-- you need to bring them hard evidence and facts. Like taking on sprint tasks you know you can't achieve, they will not take on cases that cannot be resolved.
Ironically this is exactly what they were trying to avoid by just requiring a Facebook account for everything
Loginwall - anyone have a summary?
I’ve heard they still maintain real name basis for the Meta login requirement though…
Correct, the bit about acknowledging the rating for a paper trail is literally from the last month
There is some and they are some of the bigger titles, Resident Evil 4 VR and Bonelab for example.
>Wayland is an "opinionated" culture. Everything the core devs don't like is not allowed.

False.

If your use case is so important nothing prevents you from making your own protocol and implementing client and compositor support for it. It's exactly the same as X.

(Note for those unfamiliar: I'm not saying "make a replacement for Wayland". Wayland is a collection of protocols that define one or more objects and the formats of their requests / responses / events. Showing windows is part of the xdg-shell protocol, etc.)
As far as I know they still stick to "guild" as the official term, but virtually everybody calls a guild a "server"
I think Raspberry Pi and everyone else more than caught up with Pine64 on hardware logistics problems.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/that-florida-analysi... is the correct link.
Men behavior is at least partially shaped by dating dynamics. Women tend to prefer partners with higher social and economic status than themselves. Men care less. Search term hypergamy

edit: typo
Well, I'm not suggesting HN karma is some kind of indicator of merit, only that it's the best indicator we have of whether someone's held in a high opinion on HN, which is what GGP was talking about.
That's the first case of rigged I ever saw.

For your "pre-Hilbert" space, I never saw that either but likely my guess at what you mean would be correct.

Can go ahead and take the completion (maybe the same as what used to be called the "normal completion"), but the result will have a lot of functions that are not differentiable and, thus, not quantum mechanics wave functions. So, I would be reluctant to take the resulting actual Hilbert space as what physics was talking about.

If we are going to talk seriously about a subject as serious as quantum mechanics, e.g., to try to understand what is known and maybe to try to clean up what is commonly called its many loose ends and maybe make progress in some applications, e.g., condensed matter physics, super conductivity, maybe even something as common as just why a grid of wire reflects radar waves, maybe connecting with gravity, dark energy, the first second, the Casimir effect, Hawking radiation, and I would include entanglement, then IMHO we need to be as clear as possible on the definitions, theorems, proofs, passing between physics and pure math, etc. After all, often in the research, we are trying to replace some of what is accepted or find what in the past was not discovered. When I see sloppy, I'm not making progress but looking at some at least some little research problems.
Why do you think so? I have a hard enough time finding a qualified candidate of any variety.
Worth adding some context to this study. We've known about subsidence in our area for many many years. The Houston-Galveston subsidence district was created almost 50 years ago by the Texas legislature to regulate groundwater withdrawal and manage subsidence. https://hgsubsidence.org/ It's worth noting that this regulation has drastically slowed subsidence, but not completely halted due to the groundwater problem, and an exploding population.

One of the top priorities of the subsidence district is getting the area onto surface water. That is, 60% reduction of groundwater usage by 2025, and 80% reduction by 2035. There's quite a few huge projects underway at the moment, including a multi-billion dollar expansion of our surface water treatment: https://www.nhcrwa.com/projects/northeast-water-purification...

USGS has a network of sensors that you use to see subsidence here: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e5c75a...

Of note is Katy's subsidence, which I believe is from hydrocarbon withdrawals.

I believe what this study does that's new is analyze Sentinel-1A data and correlate it to hotspots in the Houston area, which is actually super cool.
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Seems like you interpreted my use of 'enforce' quite heavily which isn't a good representation of our work culture. "We practice" would have been better phrasing.

If you read the rest of my comment, I mention that we regularly solicit and apply feedback to our process which gives the team the opportunity to "self-organize", as you say.
The problem right now is that graphics cards are on the "general hardware" side of the Wheel Of Reincarnation right now.

What developers want are SIMD co-processing cards with good software support that lets you push a framebuffer over a wire occasionally. Nothing more. That's going to commodify the graphics card market--a place where NVIDIA really does not want to be.

If you look at modern game engines, they are taking more and more of the responsibility for rendering the graphics and basically want the GPU drivers out of the way.

Intel could slaughter NVIDIA right now. It won't because you have to throw an enormous amount of resource at the software, and that's just not in Intel's DNA.
Truth is the first casualty in war.

There is a cyber war going on right now. Remember nothing is as it seems, and certainly the headline is not the truth.

TL:DR; Always try to fight the war on the other guys land, not your own. Don't let the land be your mind.
Houston is an experiment in what you get when you YOLO building regulations. One should expect them to re-learn all of the lessons of the past that caused those regulations to be written. It's basically a case study in technical debt from an urban planning angle. The lack of regulation made it cheap to build and allowed the city to rapidly expand, but also allowed it to sprawl almost beyond reason and caused it to become the poster child for poor city planning and a costly reminder of how hard it is to go back and try to fix problems after the fact.
> or perhaps don't think they're good enough

Or perhaps it is not your business to decide what blacks should think?

Imagine if you're hiring in a region where blacks are 10% of the population, but only 1% of resumes you receive are black folks (and if your pool of candidates is low, 1% can literally mean zero candidates).

Your mindset seems to be "those poor blacks don't understand which jobs they should apply to. I know better than them, I'll help them". You still think you are superior to them. You're not a hateful racist, you're a virtuous racist. Still a racist though.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ab-

That aside I'm really fasicinated by those fast planes.
I mean, it's now public knowledge that the SR-71 leaked fuel between gaps in the fuselage onto the tarmac. Because of that they only fueled it up a little to get into the air without leaking too much.

Then after take off, speeding up until the thermal expansion closed those gaps, and full aerial refueling directly after that.

How did they solve that with the Valkyrie I wonder? Did similar things occur there, or were of no concern because of different materials, dimensions, make, etc.?

Edit: > my dictionary claims it's colloquial...

Not more so than The front fell off! :-)
Just wanted to say this is amazing!
Can't comment on the specific contents of the linked research paper, but just a note that space-based measurements of subsidence have become a lot more routine with the development of Interferometric SAR (InSAR). You can get spatial maps of subsidence using the ~monthly/weekly overpasses of the radar, to ~several cm accuracy. It works better over some terrains than others.

People aren't wired to notice subsidence, which has meant that large changes due to groundwater pumping and oil/gas extraction have gone "under the radar", and that's changing ;-).

Large subsidence can cause problems including seawater infiltration into the water table, permanent loss of groundwater storage capacity, and disturbance to infrastructure like roads and pipelines.

Subsidence is also one of the few ways we have to get insight into large-scale groundwater withdrawals (land goes down -> water being taken out and not replaced).

Here's a summary with a nice motivational picture showing meters of subsidence over multiple years in the California central valley: https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/land-subsidence
https://archive.ph/7wBrD
So? It's a text editor. It's not like it's dependent on continued uptime of cloud services to function...
I just saw that icloud.com has a domain registrar built in (for receiving emails) I would say that is as "consumer" as it gets, no?
If you're talking cost then maybe. In the right places such as hospitals, very likely. I'm questioning that we should do that indiscriminately in other places such as in homes. We have highly developed immune systems, let's not risk weakening them. And not doing it costs nothing at all.
> a rewrite for the sake of safety is not sufficient imo

I would disagree; I think a rewrite for the sake of safety, especially when we are talking about a piece of server software that deals with untrusted clients, is often worth it.

Certainly it isn't always: rewriting huge, complex pieces of software for the sake of anything (including safety) may just not be justifiable. Like, sure, maybe the Linux kernel would benefit from a rewrite in Rust, but I don't think that would be a good idea.

NTP is a fairly small protocol, and at least the server portion -- where I'd be the most worried about memory safety issues -- can be implemented in Rust without too much difficulty. As I understand it, NTP clients can be a bit more complicated. But I still expect they're much less complicated than many other types of clients.

> Are they going to maintain that forever and push Linux distro and the industry to move to that new solution?

Why not? That's how open source Linux software works. Someone builds it, and if there's enough interest, it gets adopted, and attracts new contributors and maintainers over time. If there isn't enough interest, it withers away.

That may not be your idea of the best use of your time (and I might agree), but who are we to tell others what to do with their time?
I clicked through and it's a livestream of Carmack's VR avatar somewhat out-of-sync with his voice.

I think it's live now and hopefully there'll be a transcript later.
Right, but here we're talking about Microsoft, one of the most valuable/profitable companies on the planet. Microsoft doesn't have to make do with a crappy pipeline. In fact, they have the resources to make it harder for the rest of us to have good pipelines.

And again -- I am talking about process smells. Women, Latinos, Black people, etc. are gainfully employed in roles where they ship software. (If you work in tech, you know the "CS Majors only" objection is a red herring given the breadth of roles at large tech firms.) If your process is unable to find them, that speaks to your process specifically (because someone else did find & hire them!).

Understanding why your process is bad is a good thing that every team should continually work towards.
Through most of the 2000s, I had an ever-growing server sitting in my apartment closet. I upgraded it from IDE (a couple gigs) to SCSI drives (25gigs!!!) and spent a lot of time learning Linux throughout. It was ugly to navigate NATing, etc at that point but I ran eGroupware for a long time.

Now I have a couple of small devices for monitoring, logging, and sharing and run them behind ngrok. They're quick and easy and I don't have to set up anything else.

Disclosure: I work for ngrok (as of last year) but used it since ~2014 already.
> rustc has three already

Can you expand on this? What are they? I would've thought rustc outputs only 1 IR?
>But what I remember feeling most magical was the idea that there was somebody visiting that server on my desk. There was somebody coming from a long way away and going inside. An electronic homunculus.

You can relive this feeling by seeding a few torrents. I sometimes check up on my torrents and try to imagine the person behind the Moroccan IP address grabbing my Drop Dead, Gorgeus discography.
Zuck is hellbent on convincing us that whatever he believes, is correct. And mostly what he believes is whatever can make him money.
My car has push start (like many new ones) & has no keyhole inside (it has one in door to open the door). Although it has a seat/slot for the whole key to go in, in case of low battery. I assume that will stop the alarm. :-|
No.

In fact if you're intrigued I recommend you read the TAPL book first as a prerequisite for this book: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/

Even then, it might not be suitable for you because learning to be a developer in a language is very different from being an expert in the implementation of a language (specifically the type checker). Just flip to the appendix of the book and look at those type deduction rules; do they interest you?
OMG, I’d achieved to remove it from my mind. Ooob, the olds times in the apps world
I meet more and more people these days who are so used to working with Big Cloud they have no idea how easy is actually is to run your own hardware. AWS never raises their prices but hardware keeps getting cheaper, faster, smaller, and more energy efficient. You could probably host a simple site that did not have crazy traffic on a pair of old android phones with full HA and keep it in a shoebox!
Thanks a lot! Do you have any feedback about the "blog" page?
> I don't know what Google are getting out of this.

According to the story, this was the cost of Coinbase migrating its data platform and services ("Coinbase Cloud") to Google Cloud.

Note that "Google will enable a subset of customers" to do this. That it won't be a generally-available payment option points to this being largely a marketing/PR stunt.
The overwhelming majority of NTP deployments (by device count) don't benefit from any of the complexity or flexibility of chrony and ntpd, but do suffer from the memory-unsafety of those programs, and pass that unsafety on to the rest of us. The case for a memory-safe 80%-use-case NTP server is very strong.
I think your view of the situation is certainly a valid way to look at it, I'd just disagree that the end state of taking AB5 or a similar law national is going to result in this this worst-case-scenario situation that you describe.

For one thing, AB5 has since had a "cleanup law" passed to help alleviate unintended consequences.

I think it's also more than fair to say that Uber and Lyft abuse the rules on independent contracting, and I think there's a very decent argument that their entire business model isn't viable in the first place without below-minimum wage compensation (after expenses).

If shuttling people around the long distances of the suburbs for casual frequent trips was economically viable, taxi and livery companies would have already offered the service long before Uber and Lyft thought of the idea. Uber and Lyft are both exiting California, and to that I say: unviable businesses don't have the right to exist, and while you can say it's a net negative for the poorest workers, that's kind of like saying that banning child labor is bad for poor families.

An enforceable minimum wage is the tool used to force companies to properly compensate their workers in industries where the labor supply is always be greater than the labor demand, and in my view Uber and Lyft completely skirted that by dumping all the risk and downside onto their "contractors," who were never given the same negotiation and job selection rights that a normal contractor has. They were given a switch to go on or off shift and that's about it.

When it comes to things that happen in Australia and the issues you bring up with teacher and police unions, I think you're tying together separate issues that are not related. The status of Uber in Australia is not related to the status of Uber in the United States, and it's not at all related to labor law in the United States. It's a different country.

The union status of teachers and police isn't at all related to any independent contractors in the USA. To my knowledge, AB5 didn't lead to the creation of any new unions or a mass shift to W-2 employment.
You mentioned phones, which reminds me how much I wish there was a nice toolchain that would allow for hosting a webserver or maybe a federated social network of some sort on old android hardware. There are millions of old smartphones sitting in junk drawers and it's a shame they can't be put to good use.
> if an attack has the ability to delete an entire file system / encrypt it, they really have the ability to delete the snapshots as well, ..

How so?

Let's say you have one machine holding the actual data for working on it. And some backup server. You could use btrfs send over ssh and regularly btrfs receive the data on the backup machine. Even it they got encrypted by ransomware they wouldn't be lost in the backups. As long as they're not deleted there how could a compromised work machine compromise the data on the backup machine?
Some of starting to rearrange the letters to be DIE. Companies are going to die as they become paralyzed trying to placate differing views and opinions... or parts of their workforce are going to protest or cause internal strife/trouble...
That's right, DoS in Rust is still a thing you can have. But it's no worse than in memory unsafe languages, since memory unsafety can also lead to DoS (and in a much worse way - there are methods for managing panics, managing segfaults is much harder).
The idea that Rust is more mainstream than Haskell or OCaml sounds pretty crazy. I like the language but it's much younger and you don't see established companies using it the same way.
To be fair, chrony, at least on my system, is not running as root. I'm not sure what mechanism it uses to set the system time, whether it's capabilities, or a setuid helper program, but I think it's safe to assume that, if compromised, the only malicious thing that it could do would be to set my system time to something incorrect. Which isn't nothing, but also isn't much, either.
AWS Activate is now open to all startups
~3.65 days of a year. I suspect a lot of small projects nail this.
Performance reviews exist because they are an accountability mechanism by which senior leaders can go, “okay at least twice a year some kind of feedback is delivered to all employees from their manager”.

Their effectiveness can be disputed (totally fair!), but my experience when they go away is that every manager does their own thing, and that leads to even worse outcomes because it’s harder to wrangle training, level alignment, and accountability out of ad-hoc periodic feedback (which will surely have varying degrees of frequency, depending on the manager).
A bunch of old people deriding VR while kids love it? Probably safe to ignore the old people at this point (yes, you, 30 year olds).

I ask every kid that comes over to baby sit for me the same thing:
1. What do kinda think of VR and do you want to try this headset?
2. What do kids think of cryptocurrencies and NFTs?

I don’t have a lot of data points, but VR excites kids, they know what NFTs are, and they are ambivalent about cryptocurrency.