skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These gig jobs are used by millions to be able to make ends meet during difficult times.

Many countries have a better solution for this. It's called a social safety net.
This is terrible logic, as when does a corporation performing highly influential campaigns ever have the public interest at heart? In which case, the easiest way to show why this is a bad idea, is imagine if the roles were reversed (i.e. social media was instilling values you didn't agree with and thought were backwards). I don't have to agree with either side to think that allowing a corporation to have such influence over the formation of children is a terrible idea. Especially when said corporations have a long history of scandals (TikTok bowing to CCP, Facebook and Cambridge Analytics, Twitter...)

The only reason I can think of, for why we would be OK with this, is not a principled stance - rather, you just support the political views social media is instilling.
I know and it works on multiple lines too. However I never use it. Requirements change, refactoring happens, one of those literals becomes an interpolated string and all of a sudden I have to rewrite all the array. Furthermore %w() is just not nice to look at IMHO.
Point 3 is very true.

In my company at the time, they had a million rules and processes, but everybody had to drop everything because the son of an influential client could not get toy cars (!) into the new enterprise retail procurement system because of some incorrect logistical data. Normally you would get a ticket, analyze etc.

But he was the loudest/most influential, so everything else was unimportant. No Jira, nothing, just one angry email. Fix it for him alone, NOW! Billion-dollar company, thousands of clients but a dude with 20 toy cars won.

The issue was resolved (we removed the validation rules that were implemented before because "this is the filter for incorrect data, and we want to clear our data by restricting them") and everything went back to normal. Jiras, process and so on.
Out of interest where do you see growth coming from for Facebook? How many more people are there to get as users? Their advertising business is being hurt and likely to face further issues. The meta verse is, as yet, going nowhere.
I think you got this right, but the other thing is also that either of those approaches can work in the small, but they just don't scale. For the engineering side, at some point you need "architects" or people whose sole job is to maintain consistency of the whole system, and one way to break down work into smaller components is to define interfaces between components. This is crucial, throwing more people at a larger problem just doesn't work (in my experience) if you don't have this (and it can be entirely informal... engineering orgs tend to route around beancounters!). So the quality of people, not number or methodology is the main driver of success.
That is so drastically out of touch with the situation it's absurd.
And the systems were overwhelmingly used to throttle one type of political viewpoint.
That's expensive to most regular people.
Have you tried soy curls? I've been really getting into them lately. Soak them in some soy sauce and liquid smoke then air fry. Mmmm
I first had internet access in 1998 as a 12 year old without any money. It became a habit to find anything for free: mp3's on metager's "index of" searches, cracks on astalavista.box.sk, movies on IRC bots, 0 day software and games from scene FTPs, later on the whole P2P stuff like gnutella, DC++, torrent etc. and in the mid 00's the move to shared hosters.
The fact that I was 12 and didn't get pocket money made me find all my stuff for free and it sticked to this day, except it's either waaaaaaay more convenient to pay a few bucks, or impossible to get otherwise.

So over the years I stopped with my 500GB MP3/AAC/FLAC music collection and moved to Spotify (Which I still hate, because there's always indie stuff that isn't available PLUS stuff they remove, without informing me!). I also stopped pirating movies for some time because of Netflix, but after the democratization of streaming services and the return to walled off exclusives on multiple platforms, I simply went back to torrent streaming.
Software is another thing I ALWAYS pirate, the only exception if I use it professionally or make money in any other form by using it.

I am not proud of this, but saving a few bucks seems to be more important to me when I can. This is probably, because it has been ingrained into my brain for years as a child.

I worked in the Digital Marketing business for 10 years (AdTech and MarTech) especially working in Analytics and Data Collection and I never saw ads. Used modified youtube clients for years, uBLock Origin on Desktop AND mobile. Seeing the unfiltered web on friend's devices makes me wonder how they can even brows the web...
What a sad state of existence if you think this is true. There are so many incredibly tasty and satiating foods made entirely out of vegetables. Many cultures have a wide range of tasty plant-based foods -- India, Thailand, Japan, Mexico (just to name a few)...have you never had chana masala? Bean tacos? Any of a dozen types of curries? Veggie sushi? Vegetables add so much texture and flavour to dishes (even dishes with meat...).

Vegan food is not just salads and Impossible burgers. Get to an Indian restaurant and pick from any of a half-dozen to a dozen options that are entirely plant-based, and then tell me that there's no vegan food that tastes good and is satiating.
It is crazy. If the EU just wants to fully outright ban advertising - then do it - but set a standard and stick to it.
I'm impressed both by your outrage at requiring free, informed consent for tracking and personalized ads as well as this change resulting in "all of those billions [going to waste]".

To me it means one of two possibilities:

1. Facebook is incompetent, not only did it spend billions developing lackluster practices that don't fit the spirit of the GDPR but that money also instantly disappears because they are apparently incapable of adding a prompt for tracking consent and evolving with the regulatory landscape like every other company on earth.

or

2. Facebook relies on its relationship with its users being non-consensual.
He's going to speedrun learning moderation from "first principles". And we get to watch him learn (just like when he started banning people who changed their handle to mock him).
"People think they can just have the government mandate that businesses do XYZ for all their employees and all those jobs will continue to exist just as before"

No they don't. That sounds like something you think people think.
I think you make an interesting strawman, but look in the reverse direction. If companies put the same revenue figure per customer as a pricetag, and then offered a discount of 100% to opt out, would it work?

Have two pennies if you can answer that without a presumptive bias.
Most lucrative: my FAANG job

Most satisfying: my investment portfolio of passive index funds
I think it’s worth noting that Apple has a reputation within the media of being well, even if ruthlessly so, managed. It is plagued by fewer instances of manager misbehavior, and in exchange it gets a pass for not meeting other goals like low gender diversity. All it takes is one instance of misbehavior and a big payout to keep the person quiet and Apple looks less well-managed/ becomes a target for people to dig around for other evidence that Apple isn’t as wholesome as it seems.
What do you get from ChatGPT when it comes to boilerplate on software projects that already existing paid services like Copilot don't give you?
It's surprising how far the "American" version of the revolutionary war has spread, but it's probably because the British didn't care that much and afterwards not pissing off a friendly partner was more important.

Much of what is "taught" about the revolutionary war is obviously one-sided bullshit.
No. I have been programming for upwards of 8 years and I can tell you with absolute certainty that real coders use punch cards.
Twitter shuts down Toolbox and other projects for third party devs
Yes, but we know neither the size of the population nor the confidence interval had the full 120 students responded.

Secondly, non-responses may actually correlate to the topic questions! For all anyone knows, students may not respond because

- too busy studying

- too busy partying

- too busy with intramural sports

- too disillusioned, feeling that it will not make a difference.

Etc
elsewhere in this thread, there's a tweet where OP is bragging about getting three articles onto the front page of HN this week. Whatever this audience is, we are apparently the target.
Is CAcert still alive? I read the project kinda died
IDs issued by the state are generally free or very close to free as far as I'm aware. State-issued IDs usually have no requirements for issuance other than having residency in that state.

>Almost nothing requires double photo IDs

From experience, anything that is very and truly important has always demanded I produce multiple forms of identification. Usually 2 or more.
An everyday lunacy to me is people walking around using their smartphones and blathering things that if they only knew the technology imbued into that smartphone they might be crushed by the physical force of the irony.

Listening to some teenager complain about how they "hate nerds" or <insert pseudoscience> or <insert antiscience idiocy> with a device that is using quantum-level physics, materials engineering, electrical engineering, math, computer science, chemistry, unimaginable nerd-centuries of effort.

Modern humanity exists in a miracle of technology. Witchcraft to people only 300 years ago. And to say nothing of heating, cooling, transportation, agriculture, medicine, etc.

Transistor/Information Technology however may be building such a stack of technology dependence that is easily teetered and makes our whole civilization much more fragile to disruption. We saw it with Covid, about as insignificant a disruption as could be imagined, basically a test run for globalized trade and interdependence. Generally we failed.

But then again I'm reaching the age where "prepping" starts to infect the mind.
They're too general. I think we'll start to see progress when methods say something about what is being built: a small site, a worldwide site, an internal bookkeeping app, car software, or whatever. Each kind of project needs to have different directives and its own knowledge base.
They definitely do, I've seen it.

If the comment doesn't apply to you personally, feel free to ignore it. But don't pretend you can speak for everyone.
From google:

“ Understanding the state sales tax rules for your SaaS business is difficult due to the many different definitions and categorizations. SaaS for personal use is taxable in Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts. SaaS for business use is taxable in Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio.”

Meaning that you don’t have to charge tax in the majority of states. Meaning that it can be negligible. IANAL
In my case, meat substitutes were an off ramp from eating a lot of meat. They are more satisfying than a lentil burger or mushroom burger. Lost a significant amount of weight and meat substitutes helped. But now I'll splurge on high quality meats like bison or lamb when I do eat meat, which is much less often.

If I buy a meat substitute now it's to avoid the more dubious meats like "breakfast sausage."
You can improve without measurement by using reasoning and experience. As an example, Groupon drove itself into the ground by only improving itself in ways it could measure. They added many nagging features that a/b tests showed worked. However, the CEO ignored his less measurable feeling that this was cheapening the brand.
Looks like ThePrimeagen is one of the conference hosts/announcers
Is there a source for this? I'd love to also find out if there's some inverse with bootcamp grads, albeit that would be harder to track.
It's a WHATTABOUT. You go "Hey, children are starving to death..."

Then they respond: "WHATABOUT the drag shows!"

It has nothing to do with the children, it's just attempting to avoid the fact that they don't want to do anything about all the other actual problems.
Wow, I've been using MacUpdater but `mpm outdated` seems very useful for e.g. globally installed yarn/npm stuff too!
Seems like we went from "Millennials are ruining golf" to "Gen z is ruining the US Treasury" quicker than I expected.
Simple and Fast Single-Server Private Information Retrieval
In China, social media is regulated and enforces that children be shown content that is generally related to STEM or other achievements. No stupid dance videos, no memes, no stupid trends - it's "check out this algorithm I wrote!" Many of the top-trending videos on TikTok would actually be banned.

Is it malicious? I think so, though not everyone agrees, but the outcome is the same both ways: I would say it is indoctrination into stupidity, not an ideology.

Remember, these are the future soldiers who could, potentially, fight China in a Taiwan skirmish. If they only know how to communicate by meme, can't spell anything, have no sense of achievement, and all dream of being YouTube stars, you've won before firing a single shot.
> - Particularly B2B SaaS will likely have some % of invoice/bank transfer payment.

At what price point? I would imagine anything lower than... $200/mo? $500/mo? isn't worth ACH setup?

I could be wrong. Would love to hear relevant experience on what the cutoff is.
In practice, it doesn't really matter. Every breaking change increases risk as an end user and reduces the likelihood that I'll upgrade at all, instead of switching to something else more stable.

Then again, the number of times I've been bit by a "minor" breaking change causing massive headaches during upgrades has made me somewhat jaded on the topic. No matter how great the tool, I will always prefer something more stable for real, production work.
Tech people are the people who are are working from home, and are most able to cook.

Barbazoo seems to me to be talking about the opposite of the tech scene, the 90% of people who don't have (or want to waste) an hour after work to cook dinner. Or even worse, take a half an hour away from sleeping every day to have time to cook breakfast, all for dubious benefit.

Will processed, quick foods hurt you more than sleeping an hour and a half less a day?
Exactly! Between Uber and Airbnb I was to keep my family off the street while I recovered from some serious medical problems.

Some days changing a room over took me 30 minutes. Some days it was six hours. Same amount of work. Sometimes I drove for 10 hours. Some days I couldn’t drive at all.

Did this for a year. Would have died if not for these companies.
> Just because a methodology appears to work for one or even multiple organizations doesn't mean it's going to work in every case

the only justification for a thing is if it works. If they regularly do, as you just acknowledged they do multiple times, they're of value.

> and no one has demonstrated actual cause and effect

If repeated success S correlates with repeated use of methodology M, that's a damn strong sign of causation, and if it isn't, I'd still use it.

Actually your whole post is so relentlessly negative and petty (SCUM? FrAgile?) I won't give it credence. I personally use for my own projects TDD and plenty of comments in my code and it works (or correlates if you prefer...) very well with good results.
$130 is not "too expensive", especially when it's a one-time expense every 10 years. What level of destitute do you have to be for that to be expensive?

As for illegal aliens, they are illegal. They shouldn't be getting IDs issued by the government in the first place, be it state or federal, and should be deported as they are found.
Companies did just fine selling products with non-personalized targeted ads that were intended for a wider audience before there was an internet. None of this tracking is actually needed in order to sell ads or make a profit.
IDK, you'd have to ask him yourself.

What I was referring to was this plugin he made and gave a talk on in a past vim conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnos8aApa9g

Harpoon is really cool, especially if you only work with 3 to 4 files. The ability to switch files with two keys is extremely nice. It's just a very ergonomic and pleasant plugin to use.
I was interested so I looked it up. Apparently 42 states set a minimum age for handguns and 21 states have minimum ages for rifles and shotguns

https://maps.everytownresearch.org/navigator/states.html?dat...

Of course, none of them want a minimum age for social media access...
Efficient Market Hypothesis isn't all that great. Arbitrage can and does exist over extended periods of time.
> Brakes _do_ stop a car.

Sure, from a lay perspective. Though I stop my car routinely without ever touching the brakes. Even my gas car does a non-trivial amount of braking without using friction pads. But the point stands. Brakes don't touch the road, the tire does, so it matters not at all how you apply force to the wheel, from the perspective of the tire-to-road interface it's all the same.

If we want to have some fun with the physics, brake pads don't use dynamic friction to stop the car, either. Not most of the time, at least. Which is why they last as long as they do.
Isn't that just called a depression? Do words mean anything anymore? "The worst thing ever" pops up in headlines all the time and the world still chugs right along. Maybe I'm desensitized.
For the short story. A few years ago I was sitting a CS exam that was 3 hours of coding and then a defense where you explained what you have done on the board.

You had to compute a graph from a set of points (i think it was knn, not sure) and do stuff on it. At some point of the defense, this happened

Me: I skipped this question.

Examinator: why?

Me: If I compute it using the graph structure, it reduces to max-clique, which is np-complete. I looked for a solution using the point dara but didn't find it

Examinator: can you write an algorithm for max-clique on the board?

Me: here. This is exponential time

Examinator: it's worst case exponential time. But in this case it would have worked, you just had to try it

Me: urgh

Now I've learned my lesson: np-complete doesn't mean impossible
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VC Hunter Walk: “Twitter Employees: Time to Get Out.”
there has been no evidence that those donations exist except the word of a liar.
What is the reasoning behind calling 1536px ultra wide? 1920 is typical resolution on high end laptops. Wouldn't call those ultra wide.
Why don't a lot of frameworks and articles like this don't consider real ultra wide? Like 4k and above.
The problem with this argument for me is is seems to rest on the assumption that all of these gig workers would somehow otherwise be eligible for benefits at some other job and they are being duped into taking the gig work. I just don’t think that’s true. I think gig workers are mostly the same people that already don’t have good job with benefits prospects and whether they’re working for Uber or Walmart or a real taxi company would be in the same place.

So the argument that we must do this quick thing that continues to prop up a bad and failing system as opposed to doing something else that moves the needle on improving the system seems like false urgency.

You also don’t need to change the whole system, just one part of it. I find it hard to believe that in a state like California it was easier to get support for “all contract employees are now w2 employees, except for this long list of arbitrary exclusions” (which may or may not actually result in those employees getting benefits) than it would have been for “all people who earn at least 70% of their income from 1099 income are now eligible for MediCal and/or subsidized market place plans and unemployment insurance.” Heck if you really wanted to “stick it to” the gig jobs you could even add a new tax to cover this on any company that employs more than 50 (or some other number) or more 1099 employees in the state.

Instead we seem more focused on trying to make gig jobs work more like “real jobs” and that to me actively harms people who benefit from having gig jobs be available. And we know there’s demand for that sort of work, so why try and throw it out just because we’re too lazy to make real changes
For anyone using btrfs on their system, I heartily recommend btrbk, which has served me very well for making incremental backups with a customizable retention period: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
When someone can afford to let beans or other legumes or grains or seeds or nuts to ferment for some days, this provides optimal nutritional results.

However, when there are no conditions to do this, it is enough to use instead of fermentation just soaking in acidulated water (with lemon juice or vinegar) for a day or a half of day, and then wash the legumes/grains/seeds/nuts, which would still remove most of the phytic acid, which causes the problems described in the article, with the intestinal absorption of the minerals.
It would be nice if we could always just use an uppercase character to indicate the beginning of an item (sentence).
I'm not sure about the metric of "syntactically significant", though. Semicolons are definitely important for the compiler, but they're usually very unimportant for the human writer and reader of the code - if they are present, they can be ignored, and if they are not present, then the IDE can indicate that fairly reliably, regardless of where in the code it sits. When editing, they are rarely particularly present in my mind. And given that for the compiler - the only entity that does need to be aware of them - it doesn't matter at all where they go, it doesn't seem useful to emphasise them in this way.
The trick is to work on the things that won't need adjustments first, and delay the rest until information is more stable.
You were asserting, without evidence or even rationale, what "people think". So feel free to take your own advice and stop making up fantasies about how strangers think.
Why the Real Metaverse Doesn't Require a Headset
Yes this is a great use case we're targeting. I've used Streamlit in the past and it's easy to get started with, but I found limitations in terms of components, styling, and performance. Since we compile down to a NextJS app, we aim to have the flexibility of traditional webdev with the ergonomics of Python.
That's not a practical suggestion, since GitHub isn't self-hosted or open-source.
>If some people stop tipping, the restaurant is now paying the equivalent of $9/hour after tips and the restaurant has to pay $3/hour or the worker will quit and work for the retailer.

But it isn't a straight $9/hr. It is $10/hr some hours, $5/hr some hours, $3/hr some hours, etc. And as these studies suggest, that will literally kill people. We can't just say "here is the position we want to be and here is the quickest way to get there". We need to care about the people who are caught in the transition from one system to the next. Trying to enact this change through a grassroots effort of refusing to tip is the most painful way to accomplish this for the people who are currently stuck in that system.

>But if no one ever stops tipping, where does the change come from?

The same type of legislation that people here are complaining about. If you want to change the system for the altruistic reasons you suggest, put your effort into talking to your politicians. When the only work for change is withholding your money, it certainly seems like the motivation is selfishness covered with a thin facade of concern for the service workers.
Tracked advertising is not all advertising.
Well, wow, I'm going to take a look at this. Much appreciated.

Do you happen to know if the `get` causes allocation in the Java side there?
You are totally right, Laravel Mix really does make Webpack a breeze to use. But at that rate, you're using Mix and not Webpack :)