skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In "tech", it's not the same as a gig worker, because we tend to make a lot more money and have more sense of security, but I think volatility of income can also wear on us.

This is one of the few things I didn't like about independent technical consulting. I preferred to focus 100% on client's problems, not worry about keeping the work funnel full, nor worry about uncomfortable financial fluctuations.

At the point I abruptly had to switch back from consulting to employee -- in pursuit of money steadily appearing in my bank account faster than I could spend it, while I thought only about work -- I didn't have time to study for Leetcode interviews of my preferred FAANGs, so I sought similar high-skilled work in early startups...

Early startups have related problems, with looming end of the runway, and not knowing whether you're going to get the next round (slam-dunks can disappear before they happen), especially during the last couple years. On top of the usual stress of doing something new/big/hard in a small team, where the success of the company and colleagues hinges on you executing successfully.

Recently, it's not only startups. The last few months, we're seeing large stable tech companies (even the rich-kids summer camp lifestyle ones) laying off tens of thousands of people, and countless other tech people wondering about their own employment security. This coming right after the Covid-time sellers-market for talent.

Our situations in tech aren't anywhere near the same as being a low-income gig worker with little safety net. But we do currently feel some insecurity that might be new/reminder to us, and it's now harder to imagine that life is a meritocracy -- put roughly, our past comfort is as much luck as effort/merit.

That realization is a silver lining, and if we come out the other side, we should remember it.
How could you not get your exact expected outcome when your survey is like, did you not get paid well? Oh that sucks and how did that make you feel, poor sleep right?
How does Montessori address topics that may not be of much interest to a child but are still important and necessary in developing a well-rounded and productive member of society?

I'm thinking along the lines of getting all students a baseline level of maths even if their passions lie in words and language. Or perhaps vice-versa for the majority of this crowd.
"initiator" is the inverse of "terminator".
Building a Synth with ChatGPT
I admit this isn't for everyone, but having multiple sources of income really helps smooth over bumps. Especially if that income is 1099, where there is no withholding (and you have slightly more control over when the taxes are paid).
Wouldn't it be that way already? The punishment even for the whole extended period of time is still often nothing to big tech. Punishments need to be tailored to those being punished to cause equal effect.
Counter factual my child is at least 1 maybe 2 years ahead of public school education on reading, writing and math.

School, teachers, parents and children themselves are the difference maker. That said - thats the difference maker on all educational programs.
What does “treating a fork like a spoon” mean exactly? Additionally, many, if not most, foods don’t require a knife to be eaten at all. I can’t remember the last time I brought a knife to the kitchen table.
Yeah, is it just to make the grammar definition simpler?
Oh, i'm sure that people want to support Ukraine indeed, and they also want lower inflation and energy prices, just like they want strong social-protections with lower taxes.

But if you're telling me that people are happy with the 10% inflation, the energy bills and the mortgages, then fine, I feel better now, I thought this would not be bearable for very long.
One of my pet peeves at my last job was that the CI build and the local build commands were different, and produced notably different results sometimes.
Are general purpose channels still a thing? I used to meet a lot of people (and maybe even date someone) in #<country> or #<city> channels that have gone the way of the dodo from what I can tell.
I appreciate that there are corner cases that are difficult to solve with electric vehicles. I don't see how that's relevant to the discussion.
Wifi still blows my mind.
In the end, it is still a system for producing workers that fit in whatever the current regime needs, and I think there should be some space for "i dont want to be a part of this, there must be some other way to live"

This is an important idea of course, but I don't think that a 5 year old is really equipped to make a principled and informed decision about whether to withdraw from society--the authority they will challenge is really just trying to get them to brush their teeth and learn the fundamentals of reading; the kid is not going to think up alternatives to capitalism.
Yeah, me a few friends have an IRC channel for the same reason the parent post have a Discord server. Except I don't have to manage anything.
> I can't figure out why vehicles all need to be massive living rooms on wheels.

Because we have a free market and that's what people buy. Unless you think you can gain enough political advantage to force people to bend to your will, persuasion is probably the best strategy. The top three vehicles by sales in the US are all light duty trucks, so to a rough approximation the people you need to convince are "everybody."
I get a chuckle out of people looking for an outlet for their device while I'm carefree with my Port-a-Punch.
When I was young and in debt my partner and I did austerity for a while but it was difficult and sucked all the fun out of life. We agreed to two things to alleviate that, one of which was particularly relevant here. Both were patterned on a notion of honoring any increase in cash flow by spending only part of it.

We agreed that half of each raise would go to savings. We still got a little more spending money from each bonus or raise, but our effective savings rate went up each year, which helped immeasurably, both with our nest egg and in reining in our standard of living.

The reason we got in debt in the first place was overspending any new income. Our debt was mostly proportional to our income (or at least until we started planning a wedding, then it was Intervention Time).

It wasn’t just the money as we found out. Once we had a nest egg we no longer felt trapped in our jobs. That’s it a powerful force for good in your life and I recommend it for anyone.

The reason contractors charge twice as much as hourly employees is sane. You have higher taxes, you have an expectation of dry spells so you need to annualize your income, you are putting away a nest egg for unexpected dry spells (and ethical conundrums). You’re also doubling down on a narrow discipline and you should rake it in while you can because it is probably not sustainable. I’ve alternated between FTE and subcontracting for most of my career. Paradoxically I’ve had more learning opportunities while contracting than working salary, but you need a break sometimes.
I'm 90% sure I saw Michael Bloomberg walking about in Canary Wharf one morning. This would have been around 2015-ish. No security at all.

The other thing that makes me think it was him is that Bloomberg looked like they had setup an outside broadcast in one of the squares there as well.
Where are you imagining a combination of minimal road safety regulation and rapid EV semi adoption?
Please drink a verification can to continue.
My daughter still remembers when she realized we were lying to her for 7 years, I guess that is the best part of those lies, to teach the child to not always trust their parents (which I think its a good lesson).
why do you think Russia is doing any QE and why they would need it?..
Long-term the most likely charging location will be at work. Electric cars go a long way to solve the "doesn't generate at night" problem of solar, because you can charge them during the day, which generally coincides with being at work.

Also keep in mind that many electric cars have a range in the neighborhood of 300 miles, but the average European drives around 20 miles a day, so you'd only need to charge once every two weeks.
Ex sovitet/communist states prove that democracy is possible. Go ont hose countries subrteddits and ask them if they feel they are vassals or if they would prefer to be part of USSR,

I know imperialists prefer to see the small countries as brainwashed nations that need to be put back in their place and probably this is the reason Putoin is threatening this countries all the time, they show non brainwashed Russians that democracy works, that you can live better then during Stalin or Putin regime, that cooperation works.
Do you have a source on that? I understand diesel is a very efficient fuel.
> This was, in my experience, not true. Ask most Tesla owners as well.

I suspect "ludicrous mode" will be less likely in semis. Truckers have a pretty good incentive to maximize cost savings; they don't need crazy acceleration like a high-end consumer sedan might want.
Most of the things people below say ALSA didn't have, OSSv4 actually had. But basically, they made it proprietary, Linux switched to ALSA, and when OSSv4 became open source again it lost traction. But from my experience at the time, it had none of the problems ALSA had, it had none of the problems pulseaudio had, and it had none of the problems ESD had.

This is a clear case of when ideology won over an objectively better product to the detriment of all users for more than a decade.
> I don't think either that NATO is a threat in the case of Russia (unlike for Kosovo

You think NATO is a threat to Kosovo?
I don't want to blow your mind or anything but pretending to be a more moral person than you actually are is an effective way to gain power and wealth and an immoral person will not be honest about their motivations or intentions.
You can look up the Wikipedia article on the practice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

It has a fairly rich history, and evolution, as well as counter-measures, and counter-counter-measures and counter-counter-counter-measures.
With particulate sensors becoming a cool new toy, I think a lot of people have the misconception that all particulate matter is the same (because that is all they can measure, so they focus on that one number). They don't stop to think whether the particles themselves are water droplets, poisonous chemicals, or something in between.

I've had people tell me that campfire smoke is more deadly than cigarette smoke, because the campfire has more particles.
There's quite a few of these. Here's another one that I prefer the UI of and I think is a bit clearer:

https://grid.iamkate.com/
I feel like there is more context I'm not getting from the blog.

It's every day type costumes that involve some awkwardness to them + the irony of dressing up as nothing special / unusual?
I don't think it's just this, I wonder if there is maybe a certain genetic factor as well. My anecdote is not data but I know that I left home at 17 with a tank of gas and some clothes and ended up living half a continent away in a totally new situation entirely on my own. I came from a completely stable and supportive home environment, I just wanted some adventure. I don't think I'm the only one with this experience or even particularly rare.

Human communities have always needed a majority of members who are focused on family, community, and stability, but they've needed a minority of members who are more interested in the horizon - these people are the traders, explorers, settlers, etc and I wouldn't be surprised if there is some reproductive advantage (maybe your offspring are more likely to have a diverse genetic composition or something) I wonder whether there might be a genetic contributor toward wanderlust.
10-Minute Wake Word Detection on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE in New Tutorial
Stock price is down, but I think sales are still increasing.
If you're a homeowner in the US you've already lost this battle, but if you're a renter it may be a fair point
Now, people give good money to aestheticians to inject them with botox. The 20th c was wack.
As far as I'm aware, about 70% of Russians polled support the war effort.

I think it's a bad mistake to blame everything on Putin. Russians are not benighted victims of propaganda; they have access to western media and the internet (although maybe they have to use a VPN). I know that older Russians are more likely to support the war; and that the population is ageing.But it seems very unlikely that Russians will revolt, unseat Putin, and force a withdrawal.

It seems to me that Ukraine isn't fighting a dictator; it's fighting a nation. And I don't think Russia will concede, until it's defeated militarily. Russians seem to have strong nationalist and imperialist sentiments. So I reckon that if Putin wants to get kicked out, his best bet would be to end the war.

As people have remarked upthread, the sanctions haven't even fully kicked in yet. Even if they were lifted tomorrow, the effects would continue for a decade. If I were Ukraine, I'd prefer my neighbour to be a stable state; but I can't see it staying inside its borders while remaining stable. In particular, Russians definitely regard Crimea as part of Russia; it's their favourite holiday destination.
I imagine to force the other person to have to come find you. If they think they can still talk to you, they might delay going to your location in the hopes that they can convince you not to make them do all the work.
to be satiated on a vegan diet, you have to eat more... but I would argue that you "get to eat more". Eating is fun - more is better :)
I get a huge amount of amusement from the last comment there talking about waterfall being a cruel joke. Especially combined with the view of "Surprisingly, left to themselves programmers don’t revert to cowboy coding—they adopt or create methodologies stricter and more filled with ritual than anything I experienced in 1980." I can't but think of the waterfall process that my team is trying to build right now.
Yes. The only cars Ford sells now are the Mustang and the Ford GT. Sales were slipping on the sedans and hatchbacks because the crossovers get good enough fuel efficiency in comparison but are a lot more useful as a daily driver.
1. You publish two pairs (0, h(x0)), (1, h(x1)). It's your public key.

2. You publish h(x0) if you want to sign 0.

3. You publish x0 if you want to verify it. Your public key is unusable after that.
Elon is a large shareholder at Tesla and the board is his lapdog. But further erosion of his holdings there will slowly, then suddenly, enable Tesla to transcend being an "Elon company."

Twitter is just the most visible sign of Elon unraveling. Starship is a Space Spruce Goose. Cybertruck is a cartoon vehicle. A pile of dead monkeys is a bad look. Tunnels go nowhere, full of nothing. The unraveling of the no-longer richest man on the planet is under way.
Most Americans have absolutely no idea about what happened during the Boston Massacre except "British Bad", which is exactly what the propaganda wanted.
>it's just that nobody uses them.

that's a bold claim. not everyone bows down to the uber robber barons of the credit companies. i have no credit cards and am surviving life just fine thank you very much. i know i'm not alone.
Axed Meta Employees Say They May Receive Only Half of Promised Severance Pay
I think you're making a mistake by assuming that the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution were universal phenomena, and not localized due to the world being a much larger and slower place.
It doesn't impact those consumers, but that wasn't what this action by the EU was trying to stop. It looks like this suit as all about users of Facebook and Instagram being forced to agree to tracking to use the service.
You can get a cargo bike with a rack on the back or a tub in the front. My ebike can hold over 150lbs on the back and I took it grocery shopping back before I lived in walking distance of grocery stores
And all made possible by abundant energy from petroleum products.
Meta is betting on the long term. They're the leader of a very niche market _now_, but as XR technology improves, that market will only grow, and Meta will be ready for it, with years ahead of the competition at that point.

That's their bet, anyway, and we can speculate whether it will come to pass or not.

I'm inclined to think that the tech will eventually become mainstream, when headsets are as comfortable to wear as glasses. It's a prime opportunity for Apple to jump in near the tipping point, and claim to be the innovator, once again. It would be the mainstream push the industry needs, at least.

I'm less confident that Meta's verse will succeed, though. They've shown to be incapable of delivering an appealing product people want to spend hours in. And the Meta brand is tarnished beyond repair, no matter how many rebrandings they go through.
Sort of. You need to do a minimum of business in the state, usually $100,000/yr or 200 transactions. I don’t have enough customers in Utah to require tax payments.
Besides CCC, I'm not sure what kind of infrastructure you could use, if you expect (lets say) 1000+ viewers from around the world. Running it yourself would be a lot, and you'd have to reach out to CCC way before in order to set things up with them to ensure good service.

What alternative are you suggesting here?
Yes you're correct. But computably enumerable sequences of computable reals is also too strong of a restriction.
Let the design dictate the media breakpoints. Targeting certain devices will drive you to madness. Today’s common resolutions may not be tomorrow’s.
My entire role at my current company could be better served by spending $60k on software licenses a year, but they choose to pay triple that for me to create a shittier version of it. I'm not complaining, really, because it's been an enormous amount of fun and I've been able to solve a ton of interesting problems, but from a business perspective it makes absolutely no sense.
> reduce human mortality in most, *if not all*, U.S. metropolitan areas

FTFA
For people looking for more info on these strange licenses:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/coazye/what_does_rli...
When did stripe start charging extra 0.8% for recurring billing? I remember building my first online business with stripe api right when it came out and recurring billing was a feature, not an add on.
kinda like what radical reactionary (R) state legislatures have been doing with abortion restrictions since 1973 until the Dobbs decision, right?

Funny that. Not.
In a just world, of course they would have to pay back all that ad income, because as it turns out, they obtained it illegally and have been told so. Merely them thinking that it was not illegal and going to court does not make it suddenly legal and just to keep it. Like any ordinary citizen, of course they would stop doing the thing, that they have been warned about to be illegal, riiiight?
> I read that the rust compiler team checks itself against some massive list of popular crates to check it doesn't break anything.

Yes, that "massive list" being every single crate in the crates.io repository.

> Would it be a reasonable use of resources to run all those test suits and identify hot spots for community wide optimization?

I believe the approach on the perf side of things has been to take reports on crates that are particularly slow (even at one particular part of the compiler) and create benchmarks from those. I believe this is partly because running against every single crate would be too slow, and partly because it would be a moving target (as new versions of crates are released) and thus would make it hard to track performance accurately.
That tweet is as good as worthless imo. For all we know the entire $167k was from a single executive who had no moderation power.
That's not a "loophole", that's called living in a country of laws with due process.
I'm doing something similar but running a zfs pool off a usb dock and using zfs snapshot instead of hardlinks. Usb is slow but it's still faster than my network, so not the bottleneck.
Anecdotally, range anxiety drove me to pay an electrician to run a 50 amp circuit to my garage for faster charging, which has gotten us out of many "oh crap we have to leave in an hour and only have 10% charge" tight spots. It was crazy expensive since the electrician had to run a conduit around the entire house, but still an order of magnitude cheaper than buying a higher-range car.
TIL what is a "blind pack" aka blind bag or blind box. Also "pity mechanics". But I surmise from TFA that they are talking about virtual blind packs, not physical ones.

"ABSTRACT: Blind boxes are novel, gambling-like physical products that consumers can buy to obtain randomized content. [...] The relevant provisions, which include consumer protection and harm minimization measures such as setting age limits; publishing probability disclosures; and implementing “pity mechanics” that guarantee that the consumer will receive the rarer content that they desire after making a predetermined number of purchases, are translated and commented upon."[0]

[0]https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/glr2.2022.0012
I’m at a point in my life where I’d like to be semi retired. I’ve got hobbies with social implications and I’d love to be spending 15+ hours a week on them instead of 5+. But my retirement is not quite big enough and I will need boosters to fight inflation.

Also my family does not do well with retirement. If someone would pay 70 year old me for 20 hours a week I’ll probably do it.
This is disgusting apologism for Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No one forced Russia to attack Ukraine. No one forced them to target cities and civilian infrastructure. They are absolutely not victims.
Right. And the tech unemployment rate still went down despite layoffs up to November's doorstep. There's no data on November, yet. Will be interesting if November arrests that downward trend at all.
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Maybe this is just an example of the Greater Fool Theory[1] in action?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
This probably explains why the Tesla semi has only one seat (as a practical matter) and no sleeper cabs. True long range trucks will remain diesel for some time, and drivers swap more quickly than batteries fill.

I think we should spend a lot more effort on last-mile trucking first. To be fair, I think that's exactly what's happening. With the arrival of the Tesla semi, there are now two class 8 electric trucks, but there are definitely more than that already in the medium duty space.
I did gig work while homeless. I was homeless because of my serious health issues. The stress in my life was rooted in serious health issues and lack of housing. For me, gig work was the only hope I had of making a few dollars under circumstances where a regular job was just out of the question.

I'm not saying there aren't abuses and I'm not saying it's not stressful. I'm just saying it's probably more complex than this survey suggests and that I would like to not see people throw the baby out with the bath water.

Some of our efforts to "fix" what we think is wrong with gig work punishes the very workers it is intended to help. Having too narrow a view of such issues is not a good place from which to try to improve things.
How do we reduce tire particles being released during regular operation? Better materials? It seems like there's only so much we can do about the asphalt ultimately having to make contact with something with high friction.
You’ll be happy to know this is trending in the opposite direction though; GDPR max fine is 4% of global REVENUE (not profit), DMA is 20% IIRC.

It takes time but the regulators are evolving teeth.
What would be the value of such a database, even if it existed?

P.S. From reading the article, an email address if the only piece of PII that the form asks for. If you're really that concerned, I guess using a throwaway email address could be an easy option?