skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...making it difficult for drivers to plan work shifts and treat Uber as a full-time job."

So which is it they want flexible gig work that they can do at their own schedule in their own pace, or do they want planned work shifts in a full-time job. It seems what drivers are really asking for his money without any work. Because taking flexible gig work means you have the flexibility to work when you want without planning. So why wouldn't your employer also demand that same flexibility to say too many gig workers we're going to kick some of you out and you can't get back in.

It seems to me that this is just the nature of what we call "day laborers". I know the "on an iPhone" phenomenon people think this idea of day labor or gig work is new. It's not it's been around since the beginning of time. Day laborers show up at a certain spot people who need day laborers show up at that spot pick who they want leave behind those that they do not want and that's that. This is literally no different. Uber drivers wanted that flexibility day labor gig work and then started crying because they wanted a more stable income than what day labor provides. So they got the law involved to say well you got to pay people for standing around. Uber says fine you're no longer standing around for us so you don't need to be paid.

If you want a steady job get a steady job if you want day labor work you show up and sometimes you get picked for the day labor and sometimes you go home broke.
What attributes would be worth preserving that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to do?
the exponential acceleration of technology and currently-existing products such as polarized contact lenses, subdermal chips, and AR-sunglasses
Tangentially, I wonder how much of the research chemical ("legal highs") market is just companies releasing things to gather data for compounds that could be then commercialized.
Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows
Pretty much what TeMPOraL said. You can scan pretty much anything with fMRI and find results if you don't use proper statistical corrections. I have found "significant" voxels in a pumpkin before while doing testing. Our argument was/is that scientists need to have appropriate rigor in their analyses, otherwise you can reach ridiculous conclusions - like a dead fish looking alive...
On Food and Cooking by McGee. Hands down, authoritative resource.
> Instead of just a "Reject all non-essential cookies" button, corporations went the extra mile to instead have a "Manage preferences" button which opens some slow menu with like 70 separate checkboxes, all of which are ticked by default and so you have to go through all of them manually, which then makes like 90% of the users just cave in to the dark pattern and just click "Accept all".

That's straight up non-compliance. The law literally says that refusal has to be as easy as accepting.
People will hate on car dealerships until the automakers remind everyone (again) why dealership protection laws were passed in nearly every state in the first place.

You basically see this with Tesla: refusal to comply with local lemon laws, the CEO personally banning customers from buying his cars, repairs that take months, service centers hundreds or thousands of miles away.
> If I only cared about being legal, I would behave very differently.

While I wouldn't recommend you live that way, I also wouldn't call you a criminal.

Just an a*s.
> It looks like you can speak openly enough about it to say more than just "Hello Apple Global Security", which is the run-of-the-mill internet stuff we're trying to avoid on this site. If that's what you mean by letting out a quip, please don't.

> If your comment is motivated by substantive personal experience, that's great, but then the thing to do is to share some of the information that your view is based on. You know it, but the rest of us don't.

I didn't know Ashley by name but after having watched her video last night from the Mastadon link on this thread, I now remember I had seen her earlier posts. Either way she comes off extremely legitimate, I spent at least an hour reviewing the things she posted yesterday. It is impressive if anything the data she has collected.

Calling her a hypochondriac like one of the GP replies did, trying to convince the reader to brush this whole thing away as someone who is squeeze money out of Apple. Some of the response on this thread is immediately recognizable by people who have gone through it themselves as Apple Global Security damage control.
GitHub Copilot and the era of collective intelligence
Roast my pre seed startup landing page
I’m building the landing page for getmodulate.com and need support from this community.

We are targeting corporate users who often build and maintain analyses in Excel and struggle with too many hidden mistakes and time wasted manually looking for them. Our priority market is the finance industry (due to my background and network).

Looking for your help on:

- copy (is messaging clear; what questions were not answered);
- look-and-feel (does this website look visually clean and appealing, given I'm a non-tech co-founder building with carrd and learning the ropes)

Your feedback will help us massively to improve our initial launch and create A/B tests for different messaging.

Thank you YC community.
Why are you so keen to whitewash potential mishandling of dangerous chemicals and poisoning of the public?
You do not appear to have any more understanding of the situation that a layman. Your points to do not sound convincing and do not engage with the issue at all.

> How is it this woman was nearly killed, while the employees who WORK in the building are perfectly healthy

This is quite ignorant of how this actually works. How is it possible that Union carbide plant in Bhopal killed 16,000 people in one day but most employees were perfectly healthy?

> the next door businesses have no sick employees other thousands of residents in the apartment building are also not sick?

You are obviously wrong, have you ever tried going around your neighbourhood and asking people: "hey, there has been consistent release of dangerous chemicals, is anyone sick?". That's a population of thousands of people, dozens of people will have bronchitis, asthma, inflammation, cancer, god knows what. How do you know if it is related to the chemical pollution?

Perhaps dozens of people have felt symptoms and went to the doctor, and maybe they were diagnosed with Asthma or allergies or some other erroneous disease. Maybe they moved to the countryside by now, believing themselves to be ill.

Unless someone knocks on the door, polls the residents, takes blood samples and tests them at an independent lab, conducts statistical analysis of all the medical records, etc. you have no moral right to assert this.
Blackmagic Camera App for Android
An overly complex set of rules often breeds this kind of behavior; Functioning legally in a world with a practically infinite number of rules requires it. Fixing the unwanted behavior often involves making more rules… and thus a cancer is born.

Another common outcome is complete apathy for the rules. ie: nothing seems legal, why bother trying?
Did you read the report and specifically the areas of concern the EPA had? They seem minor at best. More than half of them are mislabeled containers that are too broad.
Look, I want my cyberpunk future. Stop pointing out that it's not going to happen in my lifetime.
>but wildly off-base to everyone else.

Sure thing, except no. The only assertion that is wildly off-base is yours.
C0de – SnailLoad (A Parody Song) [video]
Takeoff could even be wired (to be dropped at take off), or power could be delivered through a pantograph-like contraption.
From a hiring standpoint, the culture at R&R is “beyond absurd” / “jumped the shark”. They utilize an IQ test which has many extremely “cultural” questions — quite a few questions have nothing to do with IQ, just trivia you’d only know if you’re from a very specific background (white, old). Things along the lines of “What celebrity died in 1997 in a car crash involving paparazzi?” (Princess Diana) … “what sport did Jack Nicklaus play?”. I fit the profile they are looking for, and knew all the answers to these questions, but I still felt they were "beyond the pale".

This is for software programming. Their salary ranges are also unbelievably low and they avoid interviewing anyone with even moderately strong qualifications (which would be considered "mediocre" qualifications in any tech hub).
I’ve never seen a job excluding Colorado residents, and I live in Denver and search for jobs.

Employers just ignore it for remote work, or put a really big range. Big ranges are still useful since it’s always enough to make a decision on whether to apply or not.
> Instead of just a "Reject all non-essential cookies" button, corporations went the extra mile to instead have a "Manage preferences" button which opens some slow menu with like 70 separate checkboxes, all of which are ticked by default and so you have to go through all of them manually, which then makes like 90% of the users just cave in to the dark pattern and just click "Accept all".

That is not malicious compliance. That's outright non-compliance. Reject All must be as prominent as Accept All.
True, but IME showing your prototypes to people and getting ignored also seemingly leads to burnout (sample n=1)
Partly future-proofing, partly you want to have the best possible input data so that your output data, even when heavily compressed, can be the best it can be.
There is minimal effort. If the queue has room the packet gets forwarded. If the situation is any more difficult than that the effort ends and the packet is dropped.
CL-USER 100 > (defun unroll (n exp) `(lambda () ,(loop repeat n collect exp)))
UNROLL

CL-USER 101 > (unroll 3 '(foo))
(LAMBDA NIL ((FOO) (FOO) (FOO)))

CL-USER 102 > (eval *)
#<anonymous interpreted function 8020000EC9>

CL-USER 103 > (describe *)

#<anonymous interpreted function 8020000EC9> is a TYPE::INTERPRETED-FUNCTION
CODE (LAMBDA NIL ((FOO) (FOO) (FOO)))

As you can see, the thing is basically the same as a cons cell with two entries the type and the code:

(TYPE::INTERPRETED-FUNCTION . (LAMBDA NIL ((FOO) (FOO) (FOO))))

The above Lisp implementation does not use a cons cell, but a different type mechanism to easily and reliably identify the runtime type.

I picolisp this is hardwired into the interpreter. The interpreter will also need to check every time at runtime, if the list structure is actually a function and what kind of function it is.

In above Lisp, the type of the function is encoded during EVAL and the check for the type is then a type tag check.

for this example here, using the LispWorks implementation, it also makes no difference for EVAL if it is a function with 10 or with 100000 subforms. The execution time is small. No special processing of the list of subforms takes place. For example the code is not compiled, not converted to byte code, not converted to another representation.

CL-USER 111 > (let ((f (unroll 10 '(foo)))) (time (eval f)))
Timing the evaluation of (EVAL F)

User time = 0.000
System time = 0.000
Elapsed time = 0.000
Allocation = 184 bytes
0 Page faults
GC time = 0.000
#<anonymous interpreted function 8020001DA9>

CL-USER 112 > (let ((f (unroll 100000 '(foo)))) (time (eval f)))
Timing the evaluation of (EVAL F)

User time = 0.000
System time = 0.000
Elapsed time = 0.000
Allocation = 184 bytes
0 Page faults
GC time = 0.000
#<anonymous interpreted function 8020000839>

CL-USER 113 > (defun unroll (n exp) `(lambda () ,(loop repeat n collect exp)))
UNROLL
A sincere and big thank you for the response! The extra context and nuance are really useful to have.

My reading list is already kinda long, I think that spares you from having to dig out any references :)

My curiosity is perhaps most of what would interest a thru-hiker. I always want to learn more about how forests work, things like "bears would live here" - "these types of edible plants would grow here". If there are any books along those lines that jump to your mind - I would be very interested to add those to my reading list.

Thank you again for your responses!
Pet Care Became a Big Business
Not just planes, recently there was a problem at the ISS after astronauts docked. Embarrassing.

Anyway i was thinking more along the lines of fighter jets, etc…but then i realized that Lockheed manufactures most of the new advanced jets.

And point taken regarding bombs.
I'll second this. However, what happens if/when we build some automated system that deems anyone who questions this automation a terrorist? Or, what happens if such a system goes off the rails (and/or fails to allow a sea-change event in which this sort of technological oversight is no longer necessary.) If humanity wasn't suddenly rallying for AGI/ASI this might be a less important discussion point but, eh... double-edged swords.
> Controversial opinon: linguistic evolution is slowing down considerably.

Borg hivemind convergence is a bog-standard HN opinion. Although still controversial enough to elicit replies. ;)

> Smaller languages, which potentially could be a source of new words and grammar, are quickly dying out due to popularity of English. Icelandic didn't evolve much through last thousand of years because its speakers had little contact with speakers of other languages. English will do the same by simply eliminating other languages.

Mainland Scandinavian languages have plenty of foreign borrowed words from decades ago, long before most people had a reason to know English (or Latin or French or). Today though English in particular should have penetrated Iceland as much as mainland Scandinavia, but Icelandic (according to Icelanders) has plenty of neologisms instead of loanwoards (apparently eschewing lame polysyllabic words like “helicopter”).

Other Scandinavian languages (language communities) could have chosen the same route as they become more influenced by English than even somewhat mutually intelligible neighboring language communities. But they don’t. Proving that language communities can choose to take different routes even in an American Western World Order.
> because rich people just buy expensive bottled water

People buy bottled water for a lot of different reasons. For example, the fact that you don't have to keep track of an empty bottle, and then clean that bottle.

Reusable water bottles also have a lot of bacteria.

(Although, I freely admit I find it silly to drink bottled water at home or in the workplace.)
I've watched a playthrough of SOMA, no thanks.
Why are you arguing?

BTW: that corporation was very much into “proving right with math.” The Japanese really like math, and this corporation probably has hundreds of patents, describing testing and validation methodology.

Watts Humphrey once wrote a book that described a personal formal methodology. Can’t remember the name, but it was a really big deal, in the 1980s. I think it went a bit overboard, but it worked well, for folks that followed it completely.
> How do you implement namespaces? Is it just that you do this with all the commands you create for this company?

Exactly. It's super barebones but it works haha.
It’s like something out of some old Batman film: „we‘ll put the poison factory right in the middle of Gotham city!“
I'd hope that those I leave behind will love and respect me enough to honor my wish to never have a simulation of me created.

I suppose my practice of minimizing my digital footprint when possible will help with that by minimizing available training data. If I really thought that I couldn't trust my friends and family, I might also look into some mechanism to auto-delete my personal records when I die.
That it is a walking/boating city is exactly what is so great about it. It's a great place to simply walk and get lost in the smaller streets until you find a grand canal. It surely has grown on me.
I never trust e-tickets either but I save mine as photos. Quick and easy to access. Photo gallery works without an internet connection. Plus photos are synced to the cloud so this way if I have a phone emergency I would also be able access the ticket from my laptop.
Commented earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40776881, so this will be my last for the post…

It’s just nice to see folks wanting minimalistic but functional features. I’m ticking quite a few of these on a service I’m working on. You can see my blog running on it https://lmno.lol/alvaro

Not yet officially launched. Happy to share invites to use now (for early adopters).
It's not worth using ARM64EC for just for incremental porting -- it's an unusual mode with even less build/project support than Windows ARM64 and there are EC-specific issues like missing x64 intrinsic emulations and slower indirect calls. I wouldn't recommend it except for the second case with external x64 DLLs.
Tag team since the 1950s. Reinforcement learning is a great example of the back and fort—-Sutton and Barton’s major contribute (temporal difference learning) in computer science) followed by experimental wetware confirmation of this mechanism in CNS.
And the idea that they don't compete is an outright fabrication.

Not when almost all the dealerships in given region are own by the same family. Here the same group own the Genesis, Infiniti, Kia, Hyundai, Mazda, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Volvo dealerships in a 100km radius.

If I want a Mazda I can get a quote from Joe Cardealar or I can drive 50km and get a quote from his brother Steve Cardealar.
Apple is happy to deliberately create social strife among kids by blocking it's most social app from cross-platform use, just to eek out a few more phone sales. That would be bad enough if they weren't the market leader. The fact that they are brings it to the level of grotesque cruelty.

The point being, Apple is clearly willing to use every trick and scheme possible to maintain dominance and should be regulated as such. They are begging for it.
It makes sense, otherwise their business will be at risk.

For my analytics platform [0], I chose to go only with a paid self-hosted version. This way, the business model is aligned with the success of the self-hosted product. It's also nice to be able to provide support for self-hosting, to those who need it.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com
There's a very popular video from a dissatisfied owner who talks about all the maintenance nightmare of owning a Ferrari.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JgeU3X-2AM
Beyond a certain price, all goods become jewelry.
Tomato Architecture – A common sense driven approach to software architecture
It was funny for the NYT to have a small fail here. There is an AI-looking jpeg artifact impacting Gal Gadot's left hand in the crop that is not in the original. Oh well. It's garbage, rather than turtles, all the way down.
It'd be especially weird for them to pull out of the EU when it contains two of the countries most of their revenue flows through.
I think the implication is that these are people who trained in their home countries and were brought to Italy so the luxury brands could continue claiming a "rich history of Italian craftsmanship." In a way it's true but it's also lying by omission.
My current car is actually an XC60 T8 :-) It's a bit of a barge, but the 400bhp is "enough" to go fast should you want to.

>>Im sorry to say that in my corner of the US, an AMG Benz screams man-child rather than car enthusiast

That's fine, everywhere is different.
CCC is sort of an analog to defcon/2600/EFF
https://media.ccc.de/

This is sort of like NPR
https://www.inforadio.de/livestream/

The rest of the world learns English from hollywood, so I've started buying movies on amazon.de to get the German dub, its pricey though, teuros .
Not that car. A '93 NSX today will be bought by a new-money millionaire in his 40s as a nostalgia piece, his dream car from when he was a teenager in the 90s. It will be kept as stock as reasonable. Even the photographs are designed for such a buyer. An NSX on a crisp Chicago day is the definition of 90s cool.
>A bag of this sort gets dramatically less valuable to the clientele if you cut the price by half. They don't want a cheaper version. If anything, they want it more expensive.

There's a name for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
> I’m probably gonna get banned for this

Not likely, it seems it takes a LOT to get banned from HN.

But still, the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist.
Halo: CE was a big title on the Xbox even when it launched. It was probably one of the reasons to get the original Xbox. It was one of the fastest games to hit 1M units sold of the generation. Gamespot's review pretty much argued Halo alone was reason enough to get an Xbox.

And even if you're saying it was the second installment of Halo that had the franchise really take off, well, that was a whole year before the Xbox 360 was released and two years before the PlayStation 3. Halo 2 was an original Xbox title, not a 360 title.

And as others mentioned, the HD-DVD playback of the 360 being some big challenger to the PlayStation Blu-Ray is pretty overhyped. It was an expensive add-on. It was another $199 to have an external drive that came out a year after.

So $598 for an Xbox 360 with an external drive that can play a few dozen movies in the end, or $499 for a PlayStation with a built-in Blu-Ray drive. I imagine the PlayStation 3 could have come out 6 months later and it probably wouldn't have made much difference in the format war.

> Surprised 360 had any sales at all then

The 360 launched a year before Blu-Ray or HD-DVD existed. There were no other real off the shelf options.

> If you want to play new Halo with friends - you need an Xbox 360

No, the "new Halo" when the Playstation 3 came out was an Xbox release title. You didn't need a 360 to play the latest Halo until almost a whole year after the PS3 release.
> your industry

These are clearly not Canadian companies being protected.
For the price of a couple of SMS' I used to love texting GOOG for restaurant suggestions or businesses nearby.
Movement takes time. Those against abortion have been active for decades. Likewise those against gun control.

those may not be your side of the issue but it is clear a lot of voters care and are voting opposite of you.
Debate whatever you want, we do not have a direct democracy, which is what most people hear when they hear "Democracy". It's Representative Democracy. Supposedly.
MS Defender thinks you created your own Windows PC virus by writing this line
Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked, LA Times 1994
honestly, I feel the same way. for some reasons dynamic scope just feels "wrong" rather than quirky or weird, in that it doesn't fit my mental model of how a programming language should behave and what sort of bookkeeping needs to be the compiler's problem rather than my problem. never used picolisp, but I really wanted to like lush back in the day and the dynamic scope was the stumbling block.
I recently added a search feature to my site. I almost cracked open the Algolia docs … and then I just wrote a 4-line form …

<form action="https://duckduckgo.com/" method="get">
<label>▷ <input type="search" id="search" name="q" /></label>
<input type="hidden" name="sites" value="johnnydecimal.com" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" style="display: none;" />
</form>

…and now DDG just does it for me. Zero cost, zero hassle.
Part of the job of Product is triage on all sorts of things.

But I don't think there's hardly any developers who would've done something securely but didn't because Product said no.