skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between a salaried 40ish hours (plus or including commute), where the commute forms part of the decision to take the job, and you know you're getting paid vs hanging around, unable to commit to other tasks, in the hope that a gig appears for you.

If it doesn't, you not only don't get paid, but you've missed the opportunity to potentially earn elsewhere too.
Or we could live in a sane world where you're paid for all the time you spend at the behest of your employer and let people live where they want.

"Just quit your job" / "Just move" is the absurd thing.
Still not explaining.

Why are you treating him differently than the rest of the employees?
Ok but you’re not going to ever make any changes when you don’t understand or choose not to accept the terms/reality of the game itself.
It has good parity with GitHub on core functionality and a generous free tier.
Yeah, bitcoin decoupling big time from tech stocks over past month.

Why buy bitcoin when you can buy Nasdaq on leverage instead, which has better and more consistent returns than bitcoin? This logic has never made sense. If bitcoin follows the Nasdaq, just buy the Nasdaq, such as QQQ or 3x fund TECL or FNGU, and eliminate the idiosyncratic the risk of owning bitcoin?
Anecdotally, something that's helping me is treating software development the same way I treat yard work. The work itself on the surface isn't super interesting. In fact, most of the time it's pretty tedious and boring (mowing the lawn/rebasing an annoying set of commits). It's work that still needs to get done, so focusing on:

- doing each action correctly

- finding micro optimizations (if I turn the mower this way, I get that stupid piece of grass that I can never get without another entire pass)

- or, dare I say, finding joy in a job well done helps me get into a "mindfulness"(?) mindset

"Job" meaning everything from "put my shoes on" to "sharpened the mower blade well" to "made the pass with that mower perfectly" to "got all the yard work done". Focusing on the small bits first seems to snowball into the larger ones.

I think getting into the mindfulness mindset and finding joy is what has really helped me. The work itself is boring, tedious, etc. However, pride in a job well done feels good, which creates a positive feedback loop. This year, the yard work has felt less terrible and the yard is looking better than ever.

I'm not quite there yet with software development, but applying the same sort of strategy has been helping over the past couple of weeks. Not every day is omg-amazing but the good days are starting to outweigh the bad ones.
It may or may not still be feasible for these companies if they were paying minimum wage, but that's irrelevant to the fact that minimum wage is a requirement. Doesn't matter if the worker is already earning £100k in their main job, and 5 hours of "gig economy" work, those 5 hours are still legally required to hit the minimum wage.
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In my experience, this is business. I'm working on a product right now that would not pass the scrutiny of AGs or the CFPB. We will release and run for years making tons of money until the regulators catch up and realize what we are doing. Then we will ask forgiveness and compromise a bit. This is how self-policing works in banking and other regulated industries.

Companies like Uber skate along until new legislation is created that regulates them. Good luck with that.
I associate this style with soulless marketing campaigns. Thanks, marketing, for destroying language for me.
How can we be surprised by this? Isn't this, from the companies' view, exactly what gig work is _for_.

If you're offering a food delivery service, and you thought that end users + restaurants were willing to pay more than minimum wage for delivery services, you'd hire an army of minimum-wage workers and pocket the difference. If it's likely that people are willing to pay less than minimum wage for delivery services, then you've gotta design a way to pay people less than that by inventing something other than normal "employment".
Nice. I needed this today. I teach "Advanced" Web Programming and my classes start next week. I've been generally ignorant of most of the kazillion fancy Javascript frameworks and have more or less kept PHP as the base of the course. This is what more-or-less has felt right most of the time.
One thing I didn't take away from this is the extent to which gig workers they surveyed would prefer full-time employment but aren't able to find it.

If someone has the opportunity to work full-time but is choosing the flexibility of gig work, then I see this as less of an issue.

On the other hand, if someone is doing gig work because that is what is available to them, and they aren't able to make enough to get by despite their best effort, then something needs to change.
> don't fence yourself off

how else am i going to keep those pesky kids off my lawn?

but, i agree.
Except they are. They are standing next to their company branded bike, in uniform waiting for an order. They are not on their way to work from home or vise-versa. For all intents and purposes they are on the clock, except the computer says no.
The reason it never caused a global pandemic had nothing to do with how transmissible it was, and everything to do with early detection and limited Draconian measures to contain it.

SARS-CoV-2 was not only not engineered to bind to human receptors, it was not engineered at all and there is no credible person or source that makes this claim.
Yeah, man, I've been trying to tell people this for a while. Programming isn't overpaid; it's just the one field where market forces actually work to provide a livable wage that grows with inflation.

When I was working at a non-FAANG for normal pay, I was basically living the exact same lifestyle as my dockworker grandfather. I could afford a house and car, wife didn't have to work, one vacation per year, moderate savings.
Awesome. My commute time is now 5 hours each way. Please pay me.

Hyberbole aside, how would that even work? The further away from work someone lives, the more "commute time" they get paid? That has perverse incentives:

* I no longer take mass transit because driving myself is slower and I get paid more.

* I move further away, and take longer to get to work, and spend that time listening to audio books. My employer pays all that time, I'm doing a leisure activity, and I'm having a greater negative impact on the environment.
It's the closest thing to an answer to OP's question I could find, that was in English.
This is interesting! So maybe it was mainly inertia that propelled diagonal measurement marketing and there is insufficient reason to change.
When we can also get rid of 'minimum food' and 'minimum housing' and so on then we can get rid of minimum wage.

Actually there is a way to satisfy the 'everything is a market' camp at the same time as treating people as, well, people, and not just some resource that should disapear if it's not in demand.

Universal Equity. Not just Universal Basic Income, dispensed at the whim of government, but actual equity - everyone owns a share in the economy, whether or not they are employed by it.
Why would effective altruists or longtermists be putting more people into cotton fields and sweatshops? Have any of them proposed doing that instead of making life better?
It's also plainly true that any battery with too much power, when bitten and chewed, would form lots of electrical shorts in your mouth and burn the hell out of your insides.
I misunderstood the situation. Apologies.
Do you mean MS Flight sim 2020?
> Usually, that's a full-time job, i.e not compensated hourly.

This is the subject being discussed. Appealing to current labor conventions doesn't make any sense when talking about the problems with current labor conventions. You might as well say that tipped employees shouldn't be paid minimum wage because the rules for tipped employment allow you to pay them less than minimum wage.
Unfortunately I think the opposite. JS was a great prototype-based language, but very few understood those and tried to fit it into functional or OOP mindsets.

When they started talks about adding classes to the spec I knew I had to run away.
Guess responding more directly to the 'longtermism' argument.

If we , humans today, are so awful at making decisions (with our drive towards consuming, hierarchies, war), that we need to stop doing what we are doing, and focus on the future or we will die out.

Then, what I am saying is, there is no way to do that, other than to change ourselves to not be human. There is no way to form an organization, or re-work capitalism, or form a new government, to change the future, because all of the human based drives will remain and inevitably devolve to the current situation again. Over millions of years, we'll get what we have now, unless we change what we are. And the longtermism people are saying what we have now is no good, will lead to us dyeing out.

Because as the longtermist state, if we are heading towards dying out because of our current human decisions, then how can we do otherwise except to change our human reasoning.
We don't have a general minimum wage in Norway, because we don't need them. We have strong unions that have given us good tariffs for various industries, that acts as a minimum pay for that sector.

But there are some sectors (building, cleaning etc.) that do have a government set minimum pay, because they often would exploit foreign workers.

Actually, our foodora bicyclists a while back formed a union, striked, and got a tariff deal. So got rid of some of the problems around their gig-work.
Right, yes, that's how WASM is now, but what I'm asking is why didn't we give WASM access to the DOM? We could have, and we just didn't.
So, should the absence of an answer to the question of a standalone compiler be interpreted as that this will not happen?

Reason for asking: Without a stand-alone, open source compiler chain, Mojo will be out of question for one of the most exciting application areas I can think of: Computational biology.
Google needs to keep up, the people have spoken and this is exactly the main selling point for ChatGPT. Most users love how they don't ever have to leave the screen compared to Google that just sends you to a bunch of sites of unknown trustworthiness
Why would you spend 60 hours a week in something that gives so little returns? It’s not like you can meaningfully get ahead doing this if these are the numbers. Better to spend the other hours looking for other options or just enjoying yourself.
Service industry jobs often make you clock out and have rules against leaving the premises when off the clock. This is seen as normal and workers always comply.
What if some child wants to work in the coal mines? What if some worker wants to be paid in company scrip?

Unravelling worker rights is just a race to the bottom.
Understanding the power of bitwise operators
How would it work though?

If I sign onto the app to say that I'm available for delivery, does that count as "working hours", and the company is required to make sure that I make minimum wage, regardless of how many orders are paid out?

What if I sign onto the app, but then don't accept any of the deliveries I get offered? Then they'd be required to make sure I get minimum wage, without ever doing any actual work.

I do think there's a problem as things stand, but I don't think the solution is a simple one.
Agreed, if you read the biography (or even just the Wikipedia entry) on gates you’ll see how much privilege and access contributed to his successes. Smart? Certainly. A genius? I dunno, I think I could have done just as well (I’m no genius).
You can always leak and get an SEC whistleblower kick back. You know you're doing something wrong. You have the power to do something about that.
I agree with your fundamental point, but I find this quote somewhat confusing when applied to this conversation. Surely there are people who would have an equally great negative impact on humanity were they not working in a sweatshop, too?
Gig workers, especially food delivery, do a very low productivity job that consumers don't want to pay a lot for.

So, really, it cannot be well-paid. It's either crap pay or the job disappears.

This is a classic balancing act between jobs and workers protection/level of minimum wage.
The term “gain of function” is used by different people in different ways. It is a broad category of research and the misguided attempts to categorize it as dangerous in one broad stroke are not helpful. To quote Dr. Fauci:

"If all gain-of-function stops, you will have no vaccines for flu. You will have no vaccines for any of the other diseases, because all of that manipulates a virus or a pathogen to gain a certain function to be able to make a vaccine."
> A realistic set of mathematical equations to describe fern leaf or cauliflower curd development is needed

Well if we're talking about Lindenmayer's work on L-Systems being limited to abstract representations of plants, without getting into all the other structures we're seeing that AREN'T self-similar within the plant itself, yet still branching and perhaps representable by a totally different L-system representation from say the branching of stems and leaves (Say networks of vasculature within plants such as xylem and pholem, which we see as 'veins' within the leaves for example) - Then yeah, plants really are WAY more complex than that and they deserve a more accurate representation.

I think L-systems are beautiful and I really recommend anyone who's interested check out Lindenmayer's work on it all [1] but I think if this article has any point it's that we need more complex models to really do plants justice. I think that the fractal appearance of stuff like romanesco broccoli sure is cool but I think it's better understood as sort of a holographic projection of fractalline growth into 3d space rather than an actual 3d fractal

Like these models are super excellent for making renders of plants in 3D modelling engines but they're not REALLY plants, even if we can make them look incredibly realistic using just that basic level of modelling, some nice shaders, and some trig functions to make it look like it's blowing in the wind

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algorithmic_Beauty_of_Plan...
[1]
Bullshit. "Open Source" is well established, and has been for just over two decades:

https://opensource.org/osd/

That some people - like yourself - want to muddy the waters is neither here nor there.
Are both cell types functional?
The peak of social aspiration is not the the same thing as being normal. In fact, you can't possibly be cool and be normal at the same time (otherwise the average person would be cool which isn't the case).

The uncool are all uncool in more or less the same way, but the cool are all cool differently. This is why you can have cool queer people, cool conservatives, cool liberals, cool socialists, cool communists. Coolness has an inevitable character of transgression against norms. It is an expression of the basic human need to rethink and revise normal behavior, presumably in search of other ways of living that might be more productive, pleasurable, just, aesthetically pleasing, whatever. This is a necessary part of a functioning society. Queer people, among others, are a part of it.

Analyzing coolness doesn't make you uncool. Getting bent out of shape because someone wrote a fun little essay about being queer and slime molds might.
New Official Library for Integrating Next.js 13's App Router with Apollo Client
Another related interesting news: A Whatsapp board member has joined the current government in Brazil
https://www1-folha-uol-com-br.translate.goog/mercado/2023/05....
At least for me, this raises serious questions about Whatsapp integrity - why would it have such a close relationship white a government that is walking towards a totalitarian path and censoring competitors left and right? My guess is that it is much more prone to comply with government requests than the others
Diligent work aggregating this together. I'm curious what started you on this journey to keep this list going?
There have been some HN posts on this recently. Some quick findings:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/science/cauliflower-fract...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg5999

https://ournarratives.net/cauliflowers-fractal-pattern-a-key...

Even if not a "true" fractal, for the layperson, it's close enough and does a good job of showing what is a fractal.
Youtube can tell if an ad is blocked. They can then refuse to serve the video. Instead replacing it with an image that says "please turn off your adblocker" or the like.
HAMMER2 supports snapshots. I do not have any experiences with it though.
I agree; honesty is better. We should change "labor law" to "labor advice" or "labor suggestions."
Hi, you bought ice cream from my truck for 10$, would you also like to give me 5$? I'll give you some of it back if we make a profit one day. Oh, and I realize it took me a week to deliver the ice cream and it was melted by that point, but it would be nice if you could invest in our company. We are innovating in the ice cream space and innovation cannot have a price.
https://archive.is/HWgCM
You make a fair point. He’s actually a very reasonable person with a nuanced yet coherent policy platform, but those darn lefties just can’t get over his hands. As you said, they don’t have anything else; there is absolutely no other criticism that these folks have for Trump.
It is possible the reorganisation of supply chains post covid will be punishment enough in the long run. But a government that would unleash a biological attack on the world (not claiming they actually did, idk more than anyone else) is an existential threat itself. So an international effort of sanctions and pressure for regime change even at great risk might make sense, yes. A war would probably not risk ending civilisation more than a government which releases deadly bioweapons.
Run AutoGPT within a virtual container
Auto-GPT — which you might have seen creating an online frency recently — is a text-generating app that utilizes OpenAI's language models, mainly GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, to function independently.The app is essentially a combination of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models with a companion bot that instructs them on what to do. A user sets a goal for the app, and the bot uses the models and various programs to carry out each step required to achieve the user's goal. What makes Auto-GPT useful is its ability to interact with online and local applications, software, and services like web browsers and word processors.

If you are using AutoGPT to generate text and want to ensure the safety of your computer and files, it is highly advisable to run AutoGPT within a virtual container environment. The reason for this is that AutoGPT is designed to autonomously generate text based on the patterns it has learned from a large corpus of data. As it generates text, it may inadvertently access websites that are malicious or contain harmful content. By running AutoGPT within a virtual container, such as Docker, any potential harm caused by malicious websites accessed by the model would be contained within the virtual environment and would not be able to affect your computer or files outside of the virtual machine. You may choose to use Windows Sandbox too; however. it gets "resetted" every single time you exit it. It does not save its state.

When it comes to using AutoGPT, the old adage 'better safe than sorry' certainly applies, and the best safety measure available is to run AutoGPT within a virtual container environment - ensuring that any unexpected output is contained and cannot harm your system
To meet EV demand, industry turns to technology long deemed hazardous
The primary challenge with Pharo is the complexity of using this in a multi-user type of environment where the image is shared between people. How does one do that?
Do it then. But don't come back crying that you had to do some kernel hacking in order to make it usable, that's a part of the deal at this price ;)
The problem with that thinking is that by allowing it at all you open the door to employers taking advantage of both people like you, and everyone else.

Wouldn't it be better if, for people whose health/disabilities/etc make it so that nobody would hire them for minimum wage but would hire them for x% of minimum wage, that the government has a program to subsidise the cost to the employer so you still get minimum wage without becoming unemployable due to your conditions? Why do you deserve less because of health problems?
Evolutionary architectures series, part 4
That’s the point. The system is working as intended
Big banks could face billions more in FDIC fees after bank collapses
Some materials:

https://github.com/pharo-project/pheps/blob/main/phep-0003.m...

https://thepharo.dev/2021/04/07/a-taste-of-ephemerons/

But I do not know if Guille has some benchmarks.
A remark that struck me:

"Income tax returns will be automatically prepared on the basis of continuous, cumulative annual records of income, deductions, contributions and expenses."

~ John McCarthy, 1966

Apparently that still doesn't work.
The UK has an hourly legal minimum wage rate. The number of hours worked does not affect the fact that, according to the study, most gig workers are earning less than that per hour.

Respondents doing an average of 28 hours gig work per week will in some cases be using that to top up insufficient hours in a low wage conventional job.
> There may be people with a bad case of it, I assume it's on a spectrum like many personality traits, but the term is heavily overused.

> I see it mainly used when someone doesn't agree with the other person's line of reasoning.

I agree, but that's not what you said. What you said was "And we're all narcissists... that's nature. It's such a pointless and empty statement", declaring that narcissism, as a category, doesn't exist.

> Just right now, my denial of it nearly had you diagnosing me with it.

I did not "diagnose" you with it because you disagree with me. The reason I said it's a possibility is because you said that narcissism doesn't exist and that everybody's a narcissist. Depressed people think everyone is depressed, paranoid people think their paranoia is just normal skepticism. Our human mind projects a lot of our own qualities onto others. From your denial of existence of narcissism, I could only conclude that you either don't have a precise representation of narcissism in your mind, or that you do have a precise representation of narcissism but project it onto others as a self-defense mechanism. If my assessment is not true, please tell me what could the third reason be - why else would someone deny existence of narcissism?

But, we see now that you don't think that narcissism isn't real, only that Trump is just a little bit narcissistic, so this whole comment is pointless.
You can estimate Hausdorff dimensions of non-infinitessimal things, like coastlines.
It was more transmissible and critically people were infectious for 2-3 days before experiencing symptoms, whereas that period was less than a day with SARS-Cov-1, that was a critical difference.
I have to admit that I lack political knowledge for a good solution.

In my opinion, if your main source of income is from one company, you should be employed and have paid sick days, paid time off, disability, unemployment and all other employee protections.
Hum... A lot of people is working on JS codegen, so there are all kinds of knowledge bases, libraries, and standards for it. Also, JS itself got some changes to support it better.

So, yeah, it's a better target than most general purpose languages. It's surprisingly simple to generate, much simpler than to write on. It is also a worse target than most languages specialized on being generated.
Yeah, fair, totally get it. Wasn't aiming to spread FUD, and I know that FDB is a little hard to compare against... it is pretty magic with how it routes and shards :D (https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/keyspace-partitions-perfor...)