skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not taking any position on that. It’s irrelevant to my point.
Well, in the early 1900s employers were literally hiring thugs to kill their uncooperative employees, in full view of the public. So I'm not sure it's a new or increasing thing.
The emporer still has no clothes. But as is the tech startup way, the investment round ponzi scheme has worked brilliantly. Pre-IPO investors got their profits and then passed the black hole to foolish stock market investors.

There are a lot of Uber defenders on HN. I suspect they are current or former employees or are people involved in other startups which play the same ponzi game.

Uber did do one thing well, and that was to create a modern and usually effective way for riders to get taxis on demand. Presumably (can't know as I'm not a driver) they also provided a good way for any driver to get riders.

But they've done so much so wrong... starting with willfully ignoring local regulations (which allowed them to charge less than legal taxis) and continuing with poor driver vetting and monitoring which has resulted in some terrible events occurring with drivers and passengers.

Uber should be held up as an example of how twisted capitalism has become and why regulation is often necessary and should have teeth when it exists.

The problem is that US politics is so dependent on and addicted to corporate finance that there is no incentive to fix this. It's more of the "as long as I cash out, I'll do things that are bad for the public". This is especially true when the people who write the laws are shareholders.
Whatever. I signed an agreement to repay (prorated) before five years over twenty years ago when these things were also quite common, and happily did so. It was clearly an inducement to not cut and run, there’s no way the repayment balances out the terribly high cost of the turnover event for the company. All this was obvious back then too. But I was quite grateful for what I was getting because it helped move my career forward and was totally worth it.
I mostly agree with the parent that just sales of all sorts are not a sign of cultural relevancy.

However, measuring said relevancy is a very subjective endeavor (due to the fact that it’s hard to objectively evaluate things outside of our own bubble). In my view it’s whether the artist is “talked about” and whether they are influencing the current music (and a broader culture) - that’s what makes them relevant. Kanye is still doing both of those things, so he is very relevant.

Donda (and Donda 2 to a smaller degree) was a very noticeable cultural event. Listening parties, album guests, the controversy around his romantic relationships (scandalous IG posts, etc), merchandise (tied to his big fashion releases)…

Billy Joel has none of that. Nostalgic concerts are definitely not a sign of relevancy outside of his fandom bubble.
The choreography of the story arcs is something I've realised is almost unique to Seinfeld having revisited it 20-odd years later now that it's on Netflix.

So many episodes are ridiculously dense with memorable moments. "Oh, this is the episode with X, oh, and Y... and Z". They way the storylines intersect and / or peak together is meticulously crafted as well.

And the character Newman, a uniquely beautiful Seinfeldian / Larry Davidian version of evil.
On the blockchain of course!
> I was more than welcome to not take the job if I didn't feel like I could meet the obligations.

Not everyone has this privilege. For too many people, if they get a job offer and don't take it, that means they don't eat that week.

Remember, friends, market solutions only work in an idealized free market, which requires the buyer to be under no pressure, information to be perfect, and alternatives that are just as good without the negative aspect under question to be available without significant extra costs.
It can be tempting to cast irrational actors as coldly logical, but if one does so one should be careful to infer actually logical motives.

Attacking Kyiv doesn't really make a difference to whether the West can access Ukraine's natural resources. Even attacking infrastructure, whole far more logical, would really only have a temporary impact. Insofar as the west actually needs those resources, then it will deploy its own immense infrastructure to get at them.

So, Putin's actions are only logical if he is also successfully attacking power structures of the west, to convince them that it is better to buy from Russia than deploy the capability to get at those resources. We could argue whether such attacks are happening but they don't appear to be working.
Uber was essentially a financial instrument for VC investors to pump and then dump on the public markets. It's main function was to produce creditability rather than be an actual business.
Narcissists have completely invaded and taken over every “safe space” as the predators they are. This has been my going thesis for a while now.

Most humans have natural empathy for each other. There is a natural sense of fairness, desire for equanimity and caring for others that is built in to our social systems. This was recently experimentally shown that all humans share two social traits: a sense of fairness and that unprovoked violence is unjust

Over the last 70-80 years society has made huge strides (though nowhere near "done") in supporting entire classes of people who have been systematically oppressed or otherwise victims of marginalization.

More importantly though, we as a society have decided to give more grace and patience to victims because they need healing and support - something that non-victims and non-protected people don't get because they simply don't need it as much.

Further we have systematically expanded the definition of what a victim looks like. I recall as a child that physical abuse was the only thing we would consider “abuse” but now we know better. Mental and emotional abuse can be as devastating if not more than physical, so we give grace to those who are struggling mentally – and usually in ways that do not present obviously.

As a species, we have righteously determined that it is traumatic, crude and uncouth to interrogate someone on their victim credentials in order to prove they are actual victims. So the barrier to entry for being part of a marginalized group is simply telling your story.

To people who aren't victims, this looks like a power shift but also a "break" from having to be a good person. Specifically there is a sense that political/social power is being systematically transferred from non-protected groups that have traditionally held power, to marginalized or protected classes of people.

Whether the above shift in political power is true or not is irrelevant - as the true nature of who holds power hasn't shifted in any significant way from what I can tell.

Malignant narcissists want to play life on easy and if throwing up a victim card just works then they will lie and do whatever it takes to be part of that group.

So what can a malignant narcissist to do if they aren't truly a victim, that will confer on them the most prized status, that of victim?

The answer is simple: Join a traditionally oppressed community by lying about your experience, exploiting the inclusive nature of the community so you can claim the moral high ground as a victim, usurp the organization for your own ends and continue to keep marginalized people oppressed.

Rachel Dolezal [1] is the poster child of this.

So, how do you spot it?

At least for me, the most obvious cases are when a person from a non-protected class, identifies strongly and loudly as someone from a marginalized or protected group - especially if that marginalization is subtle and/or non-verifiable.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
Some suspect Candace Owens may have had a hand in convincing him to do this - her husband George Farmer is Parler’s CEO.
What it could mean is nothing good. Less competition, more worker exploitation, fewer brand options, less incentive to provide good quality service.

Just like ISPs merging to become the one and only ISP in some markets, this could absolutely create a trend of only one grocery chain in certain markets.
The only project that I have came across that uses Crystal is Invidious.
As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money
funny enough PFG just acquired Core-Mark
Great, but it is just a way to build reliable software. Many companies run reliable software without using half of the suggested points.
The modern monetary system used to have all of the same obvious scams. They made participating in any economic activity risky and depressed local as well as global economic activity as a result. None of these scams are new and the regulations and tools that crypto is attempting to get away from were created as a response to these scams in the past.

To my mind Crypto has not yet made the case that it is better than the current system and the extreme impact that all these scams have on the currencies they are run on, e.g. high volatility in price, indicates that they are substantially worse as a currency than the US dollar.
It’s not, but if you say that you’re also saying that the people who’ve already put a lot of money into the system won’t get rich reselling their tokens.
Because Puerto Rico is filled with American citizens who also deserve those things, and it's a vibrant island filled with scrappy, resilient people?
Stoosbahn
It happened a few times that drivers picked up the ride, then they’d simply not move. It forces you to cancel the ride and in effect they get paid for doing nothing. Usually this type of scam happens at late hours and in areas where people are known to have partied so they dont notice or dont bother reporting to uber.
You don't even need night vision. Your eyes adjust to low light and can actually see better when the peak brightness is low. It's ironical that all the solutions we come up with to aid night driving involve increasing the brightness, whereas we should be doing exactly the opposite.

I once drove on a stretch of highway that used reflective paint for the lane markers. My feeble beam could light them up better than any HID could. It was very relaxing to drive in the dark and never once did you have to strain to make sure you can see the road. I think this is really the future of night driving.
Show HN: A practical C library that not depend on other libraries
Retail as a whole has split into economy and luxury. Brands serving the middle struggle. Since Walmart is tough to compete with on economy pushing most traditional stores towards luxury. They’ve also seen the growth at Whole Foods and such in an otherwise low growth, low margin business. I think Walmart is just constantly experimenting and their overall strategy is to be the economical choice.
Arecibo was never intended to spy on the Russians, nor is it capable of doing so - it's facing completely the wrong way.

Arecibo did receive military funding, but that was because the military was interested in the behavior of the ionosphere. It was always a general science and technology development platform.
Cursed GTK: Run GTK apps on the terminal
> They said firms like CRST and C.R. England train people for a commercial drivers license but charge more than $6,000 if they leave the company before a certain time.

This keeps coming up and is a gross misrepresentation.

These companies provide a driving school where you train to even be able to sit behind the wheel of a big truck.

If you show up with CDL in hand they don’t charge for any training but in fact pay you while you learn how to be a solo driver. Chances are they will also pay off your CDL school in this instance too if you work for them for a year or whatever.

If you want a CDL you have to pay for a CDL either out of pocket or some kind of tuition reimbursement scheme.

Any trucking company that hired people who were able to jump into the driver’s seat after the requisite day of bullshit video watching and said you’d have to pay for training if you quit before a certain amount of time would have drivers literally laughing at them. Like, “you’re f-ing kidding, right?” and hanging up the phone.
I'll bet anyone $10 that Kanye West will be president of the united states. If not this election, the next one. He will be a better Trump than Trump, a bigger celebrity, more unhinged, youth appeal and almost deplatformable.
I think moderation should be about the words that are being said, not the ideas that are being discussed.

A free speech platform should allow a wide range of topics, but it's not expected to stand for all manner of trolling and bad faith argumentation. I think that conflating the two is tripping a lot of people up in the debate about the topic.
> https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Ooh, I know this one. Nixon came up with a new strategy for jailing and enslaving opponents to conservatism and corporatism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

It was also about when thatcher first had a cabinet seat.

After that we had the end of history and the glory of the invisible hand of the free market raining abundance upon all.
It's not needed that's my point, the proposals for blockchain in most instances are best served by a WORM database and even that doesn't solve the actual issue of lying to the machine. The proponents all have a vested interest in something making their tokens worth while or at least bringing in new money so they can actually cash out. That's why NFTs exploded they were a great way to bring in new real money to allow people who were *coin rich to cash out to real usable money.
It's not accepted as fact, but an interesting theory on "WTF happened in 1971" was the "Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970" and how it made many actions, votes, etc, of the US congress more transparent.

The idea being that lobbyists were paying for certain types of votes when they were private, but that politicians could then vote their conscience anyway...because there was no way for a lobbyist to verify they got the vote they paid for.

But, once the specific vote by named representative became public record, the lobbyists could now see if they got the vote they paid for.
I was taught "Which do you want more of?" You want more desserts, so desserts has more s's than desert.
I've been telling people for years. All the HN darlings, all these amazing innovative unicorns, and Uber especially, only exist because of unlimited investor money and price dumping.

A while back I did a cursory search through YCombinators "most successful companies", and guess what: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485360 Hundreds of millions of dollars lost every year for years.
Common drugs could fight obesity and diabetes, say scientists
Wouldn’t this reduce the effect of “economies of scale”, leading to increased prices for everyone? I like that large companies give me cheap stuff.
Kroger is unionized
Depends where you live I suppose. I live in an area where there must be at least a dozen different grocery stores in a twenty miles radius. But I'm sure there's plenty of places in the country where that's not the case.
Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)
Its an estonian startup, very popular in east europe for instance and from what i read africa. I am surprised they havent entered the us market. It’s like uber but with better pricing.
I'm an Indian muslim, and I know many asian and middle eastern muslims. I also know a smattering of Sikhs, Hindus, jews, etc. I can't say that the religious attitudes of any of these groups seemed to be represented on tv. No one is saying it's a conspiracy. But it's not a conspiracy either that when you start interacting with many minority groups you notice in general they are fairly religious. And it's their experience that get's ignored in the American national 'christian right vs secular left' rivalry.
Err, how was Arecibo able to spy on the Russians? Were there satellites going right over the dish?
Three, if you count the short-lived "Bob" where he's a cartoonist.
It's a bit odd that 'The Economist' doesn't mention that the persisitence of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is fundamentally an economic problem. Malaria used to plague the American South and was eradicated through coordinated efforts led by the federal government, so we already know how to do it (DDT has been replaced by non-persistent insecticides, water drainage and cleanup of standing water reservoirs (i.e. old tires etc.) that form breeding sites, etc.):

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html

Compare that to say, Niger:

> "Malaria remains a major public health issue in Niger and is endemic throughout the country. Malaria accounts for 28 percent of all illnesses and 50 percent of all recorded deaths. Children under five years of age account for about 62 percent of the burden of malaria."

https://www.pmi.gov/where-we-work/niger/

Notably, France has pulled billions of dollars worth of uranium out of its mines in Niger, while doing almost nothing to improve the economy of the country (which would provide the resources to run a decent malaria eradication campaign), so it's really just another colonial exploitation disaster tale.
It's the same TSA. You didn't have the appropriate database flag at the time. Those are explosives dogs, looking for explosives not selfies.
No court is ever going give you that subpoena nor would it even be possible to comply with it even if granted.

Quite possible, but the details could be tweaked to be more viable. The underlying message of "your tools have done us wrong and we're going to drag your customers who benefitted in" could still get through.
It sounds a lot like debt bondage which is illegal pretty much everywhere.
And what is measured is not what becomes law, hence why I don’t care. The fact is the laws are direct results of hard fought labor battles, not productivity data or theories.
pgq: A Go query builder for PostgreSQL (fork of Squirrel)
> The post prompted backlash from several corners of the internet, including the Reddit community "antiwork," with some users arguing that tech CEOs like Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are lauded for working at multiple companies at once, while regular workers are punished for it. Others speculated that the engineers may have be working two jobs in order to make ends meet.

CEOs usually don't have a time requirement in their contract. Get a contract without time requirement and you can act just like a CEO does.

Or, even simpler, become a consultant and get paid for your results. Now the problem of course is, most of these people do it without ever intending to perform as well as they should, so this kills their whole scheme.

BTW the /r/antiwork is a complete shit show, seems like a comedy... Not sure if that's a place somebody should take too seriously.
I'm not a big fan of query builders, but I'm worried about the number of people using ORMs, and I think if they just used a query builder instead, things would be much better. So I decided to fork Squirrel and make it a little bit more attractive for people using PostgreSQL and pgx to give people looking for an alternative to writing vanilla SQL queries...

That said, you can go a long way writing your own simple pure SQL queries, so prefer that over using a query builder :)
It’s a reversion to the early 1900s. It correlates well with Robert Putnam’s newer book. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50124402-the-upswing
Food tastes better when subsidized by VC millions/billions.
A type rating allows you to fly a specific type of jet.

So, if you know how to fly Cessna Citations and Hawkers--- and you move to an employer with Gulfstreams, you're going to need expensive, type-specific training.

If you have $100k in type-specific training for what's now a popular jet, your employability and value to new employers grows.
If self driving technology reaches the point where it can operate commercial taxi services legally and more cost-effectively than regular taxis, the people holding that collection of IP and licences won't need to spend $100bn on an app company to find customers.
Very interesting development with affordable photorealistic cgi possible now.
1. Don't drink alcohol

Well yea but we're talking about people who do drink alcohol

2. Drink less alcohol, and switch to water at least 1 hour before driving.

I think this is a good solution, though of course different factors can and do easily disrupt this.

3./5. Pay for a driver/hotel

Hmm, I've only had a few and I feel pretty good. And an Uber is $50 just one way and I still have to pick my car up in the morning (if it doesn't get towed). Vast majority of people (hence why we have DUI and drunk driving problems) will choose to risk it.

4. Live where you can walk to an establishment that serves alcohol

This is tautological w.r.t the OP. If you could walk to an establishment that serves alcohol you'd live in an area where you could walk, which would mean you didn't really need a car. But that's not how we build in America which is what precipitated my comment.

Related to #6 from the poster below - you can get a DUI for sleeping in your car while intoxicated, you can get woken up because you aren't allowed to sleep where you are parked, you can get towed, etc.
The use of "Kamikaze" here, which seems to have been introduced worldwide today is really quite impressive in propaganda terms (and I mean that without any judgement, everyone uses propaganda) since it evokes the desperate last days of Japanese resistance against the inevitable.
I've had a similar experience, but by turning the cameras inwards, on my 8 acre property. I use surveillance to track animal patterns, keep an eye on my chickens, and get notice when someone arrives on the property. I've resisted pointing anything outside of the property, because frankly I don't care.

Another great use case is using BirdnetPi with all of my RTSP streams to identify all of the birds in the area. Ah...middle age.
> Pre-IPO investors got their profits and then passed the black hole to foolish stock market investors.

Funnily enough, in their IPO filing Uber said they might never be profitable. And still...
> The even-indexed (starting at 1) multiples sound like the same note in a higher octave

Actually, the power of two multiples sound like the same note.
> I imagine that companies can't just be used for free education.

It is not free education if the employee is working for them business. All benefits are part of the compensation in exchange for the employees’ time.
I like the idea of pushing the retry up to the caller, but in a lot of apps I've seen they've built up an in-memory object-graph from the results of calling out to other services. Wouldn't failing due to one bad service and asking the caller to retry result in every other service being unnecessarily hit?
> market wrangling etc.

Bingo.

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