skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on where in the silence zone you are (I live in the NRSZ). There are increasingly strict zones the closer you get to the Observatory. Unless you were flying your drone close to the observatory itself, it's never been a problem. Folks in town have WiFi as well. Although the authorities can shut it down if they needed to, they're generally hands off unless it's a problem.
China sells minorities into 'forced labour' to benefit Apple, Foxconn, others
So your take is that since Google sometimes removes content that is actually legal, the solution is... to remove all content?

How is that in any way better than the current situation? Currently, there is a chance your video will be pulled from YouTube, and you might get your entire account banned... meaning a fraction of people don't get to use YouTube to host their videos.

If instead, we just shut down YouTube, then.. everyone doesn't get to host on YouTube...

I don't get how that is better
That's a fair point, they forbid you refusing short trips most places I'm familiar with. I wasn't really thinking about that in this case, mostly people asking you to take them sketchy places or belligerent customers which are the only reasons I consider it. An important distinction is it's local law that forbids that, not a company policy like with Uber.

Just a few days ago I had some drunk customers screaming at me in my cab and shaking my seat under the impression I was legally required to drive them. They earned a very long walk home to think about it.
"You're all fired."
No idea but some people (whose source I don’t know) say the virus can live on some surfaces to nine days. Guess one could use sterilants/disinfectants to accelerate that time dramatically.
It is - especially on OSX, it is very cpu and memory intensive thought.
Fascinating; did you guys stick almost exclusively to PlusCal (except presumably for writing invariants in TLC)?

I'm quite partial to just using straight TLA+ for everything because it's both what ultimately it all desugars to anyway and because it makes what you put in TLC and what you write for your spec the same language. Plus once you're in the mindset of TLA+, the syntax of PlusCal has always seemed more of a distraction than anything else, but it does seem that PlusCal is a lot less scary for an experienced developer with no TLA+ experience.
Wow, this got me pumped. Needs 2019 in the title though.
Do you use any special solution like Rancher or kubeadm?
Is there data or a study that says that risks increase from using masks poorly? I’ve looked into the literature and everything I’ve seen says they are significantly protective in real-world use.
Yes, many people work more than one job.
Problem with this is that any half competent team can put something like this up in an hour or so. Wallboards are for high level stats - like 1 or 2 numbers the team should focus on.

Maybe the tiles are super smart and can do uptime testing, log monitoring etc in which case this should be positioned as an uptime tester/log monitor etc
Why is it Waymo's job to take care of displaced drivers? Microsoft didn't have to take care of displaced secretaries.

If it becomes a problem, this sounds like something for the government.
> rampant tribalism and insistence one groupthink is incredibly strong

Could that be, because so much of programming is a group activity (understanding, maintaining, and evolving other people’s code), and thus actually benefits (in an evolutionary sense) from simplistic group think more than from innovation and perfection?
Google has a long history of "oops, sorry we did $badThing to your account. We see now that it was a mistake. Thank you for going viral on Twitter/HN/Wherever our employees happened to see it" as customer/creator service. It's not an accident that they don't have appeal systems set up for most issues, it's a policy.

> You don't need any virality to get a DMCA counternotice accepted.

Would you risk your livelihood that some engineer wasn't tired when they wrote the interface? Remember: if something goes wrong, your account might be toast, and you can't talk to anyone that can help you. Unless you go viral.
Coronavirus has mutated into more aggressive disease, say scientists
Ask HN: Why are PayPal fees larger than card processing?
Quoting from https://www.paypal.com/business/fees

If the funds you are receiving are coming from a PayPal account: then you pay:
In the U.S. a fee of 3.7% of the transaction amount plus $0.30 USD.
Outside Canada and the U.S. a fee of 3.9 % of the transaction amount plus a fixed fee based on the currency

I was expecting fees lower than Stripe when customers pay with their PayPal balance, and same as Stripe when paying with cards through PayPal.

How come PayPal is more expensive? Do they rely on customers preferring PayPal instead of sharing their card details with sites (even through it's in a Stripe popup, customers don't know about Stripe)
>This also assumes that the entity that made the original claim doesn't just come back and say that your counter-notice is invalid. Google doesn't actually check that they are telling the truth and will just suspend your account permanently instead.

Not how it works. They need to actually file a lawsuit.
It's of course possible to have a meaningful discussion about different types of branches, releases, changes and about what changes should be merged, when, and where, but ultimately there is only one good branching strategy: thinking.

Thinking about the purpose of branches, thinking about whether everybody is on the same page and what mistakes are possible, thinking about useful rules about changes and merging (possibly on a branch by branch basis), thinking about when to break and how to adapt the rules, and above all thinking about the objective of making correct and low-effort merges.

Adopting practices because a blog post says so is the opposite of maturity. As Gitflow is presumably a good fit for the project it originated in, any "alternative styles" are suitable for someone else's particular needs and should be treated as examples and anecdotes illustrating general principles.
Can confirm I am a software developer and it was relatively easy to find "just any" gig, but I am not working for Google or anything like that :)
While originally the Clock represented the threat of the power struggle between superpowers, it's important to note that factors such as climate change and bioterrorism are now factored into setting the Clock. The Clock's current position was explained as follows:

'On 23 January 2020, the Clock was moved further, to 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight, meaning that the Clock's status today is the closest to midnight since the Clock's start in 1947. The Bulletin' executive chairman, Jerry Brown, said "the dangerous rivalry and hostility among the superpowers increases the likelihood of nuclear blunder... Climate change just compounds the crisis".'

I think many can appreciate that the lack of appreciable action on climate change is at least as worrisome as the the threat of a nuclear exchange and it is looking increasingly likely we will miss our 1.5-2 degree targets.
Is this based on data or just a feeling you have?
> Here's a scenario: I publish an ad on a handyman site asking for a new shed built for £100.

But that's not a good analogy to Uber either. With Uber, neither the customer nor the driver sets the price, Uber does.
That people are able to do what's best for them is a faulty assumption and the key argument for regulation.
> The paper, by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, doesn’t use the term “slavery,” preferring to rely instead on the euphemism...

This is pretty essential reading
Don't you think asking $120/year for a white-noise generator is excessive?
go bankrupt

How many people would they really have to hire? YouTube alone made $5 billion in 3 months' ad revenue: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
In France, an employer can set working hours and working conditions, as long as both comply with the law. There are restrictions for safety and health reasons for example.

However, if the work is part time, employees can’t be restricted from working at another part time job, unless that job is for a direct competitor of the employer, in which case the restriction is sometimes allowed. (The idea being there could be a conflict of interest or loyalty.)
I'm not even sure Deep Learning is at the level where a title like "The Complete Guide" could make sense.

Deep Learning involves harnessing advanced, highly complex and rather ad-hoc algorithm to engage in systematic-but-heuristic prediction.

A complete guide would include all natural prerequisites, the common approaches, the best practices and the areas of application. But all of these are in flux as the field races ahead. Moreover, the field still needs "artists", practitioners who can figure out the black-art of training networks. So whatever it's virtues, the field today seems incomplete to me.
The problem isn't the scale of Youtube, it's the scale of the Internet. If Youtube didn't exist, we'd still have billions of people posting billions of videos, and who is going to take the time to police it all?

Extending your argument about Youtube to the Internet & humanity, I think you're arguing that if we cannot address these kinds of problems in our Internet, then we shouldn't fucking build it. I disagree. I think we're better off with the Internet even though these moderation problems are unresolved.
There were hawks arguing you could go a lot farther without triggering nuclear war. Early in the war there was a belief that soviet bombers could be shot down before hitting mainland US targets.
The good news is that we will be about 23 hours away from midnight in a few days.
You don't pay more taxes as an employee than you do when self-employed AFAIK.
I've seen multiple reports from channel owners who have not been given any such option; the message saying that the supposed "rights owner" has confirmed the dispute is presented as "final" (along with the copyright strike). Unless this has changed recently, or there's some obscure link to switch to the DMCA process?
The legacy taxi system, at least in the US, was ripe for disruption. No argument there. However, disruption doesn't necessarily require shafting "employees" out of wages and benefits. Reform to medallion systems (at least in the cities that have them) might have had similar benefits, without the negatives associated with "gig" employment.
That makes sense. I often find per user pricing to not scale well, though I recognize how well it works as part of each employee’s overhead in a fully funded org.
My favorite example of this is that Popehat (Ken White) was banned from /r/legaladvice.
Here is what seems to be a better link. Looks like it is outlawed in France but some other EU countries still allow it.

https://fullfact.org/law/zero-hours-contracts-uk-europe/
Does anyone have a good resource / tutorial how to learn powershell as both a scripting language and to be powerful in daily shell life?
What regulation do you have in mind that would degrade the Youtube user experience?
If it's a liveihood issue, there's a 7 day grace period for anyone that's monetized before the account is shut down due to blocks. And if Google was widely ignoring counternotices there'd be lots of stories about it out there. I think I've seen one or two that were quickly handled.
Where do you draw the line on that argument? Was the Victorian child labour cool too because they were willing to do it? Were the labour unions employees bad for everyone involved? If not, why not?
icloud, otherwise external storage
I feel unit tests are difficult to swallow to some people because they are not used to (or able to) develop code in distinct and definite units. And without units, unit tests are sort of meaningless.
What were the changes and it's negative results you observed?
Salaried devs in London are drastically underpaid, contractors make up the difference. Hopefully this will at least push up the salaries to a more reasonable level.
Why would you have the driver ride along for the long-haul, rather than have the truck drive autonomously between cities and then pick up a driver once it gets to the destination metro area for last-mile/unloading/maintenance?

The bulk of the time (= labor costs) from trucking is on the interstates, and as an added perk, this would allow truckers to work 9-5 and stay close to their families rather than being on the road all the time.
Except that neither the customer (the user) nor the provider (the driver) defines the price.

The middle-man (Uber) does. The middle-man decides what tools (car models) the provider may use to do it's work. The middle-man unilateraly sets the Terms & Conditions for both the customers and the providers, without any room for negotiation. The middle-man decides which providers may or may not get the gig. And the middle-man can cut anyone out of the platform at any time without giving notice or justification.

In your example, you fix the price. The provider (handyman) may use the tool of his choosing and, if things go well, the provider is allowed to give you his business card, and you to employ his services directly in the future.

The platform really is just a medium, just like the cork panel at your local supermarket, with an extra mediation capability / service.
Which is weird as in London low paid compared to SV. The Normal rule of thumb is 2.5 to 3x a FTE (full time employee) cost.

eg for me I would want to target £600 to £750 per day (possibly more if I was commuting to London) depending on whether its inside IR35 or not. This figure is low as I deliberately worked locally -

If the agency that pitched me the Grade 6 / 7 role in the civil service came off my day rate a contractor would be 1200 to 1400, a 7 is a full Colonel and 6 is between that and a Brigadier

I suspect the long term aim is to force the UK into the US model of a large part of the professional workforce being lower paid consultants.
Lumber hauling off road may actually be one of the easier applications because the road is usually dedicated to trucking. Logging trucks already assume they can blast along at full speed because if you use a logging road, you’re supposed to radio your position via CB to ensure the trucks know where you are and don’t hit you.
Why the Windows Registry sucks technically(2010)
Think of it another way. This statement:

> It's never disadvantageous to make more money (except if you're on government benefits as mentioned, where there are some weird effects).

is essentially equivalent to:

> If you're not on government benefits, where there are some weird effects, then it is never disadvantageous to make more money.

But if the wording was done the second way, you probably wouldn't have had a problem with it.
Zeno's Doomsday Clock.
Probably also an act of protectionism / hurting foreign companies
I have two long lived branches, develop and master.

* major features are done in feature branches, w/rebasing prior to merge

* minor stuff directly in develop

* master is auto deployed following successful CI, whenever we merge develop in to it

* we merge frequently, but not automatically

* we tag releases manually when we do merge

It's a more minimal version of git flow. Small teams so not much problem.

We could probably just drop the develop / master split and still be fine, but would force all changes to be in feature branches instead.
same here - losing face now with my team when I argued for GCP (and won) against AWS.
The world would not fall apart if we make it impossible to have YouTube, or, for that matter, if we make it impossible for people to personally drive cars. This would, however, make billions of people, who currently derive great benefits from status quo, very unhappy.

Billions of people use YouTube, and like it a lot. They like it much more than what was available before it, given how much time they spend on it now. They would be very unhappy if government decided that "this alone doesn't justify its existence". Why do you think the government back in 70s, government didn't just say "usefulness of cars doesn't justify their existence" and banned them?
A clock probably isn't a very accurate device for measuring how close we are to Doomsday.
Lyft doesn't exist in France.
On GKE, you can use a single cluster with multiple node pools to achieve a similar effect. Just set the right affinity on your job resources.
I think gitflow might be suited to mature product work where development is ongoing.

It keeps coming up in my consultancy work, usually on short term projects that either die or generally just get left to tick over where it's wildly unsuitable. Mostly because of the way it violates that principle of short lived branches.
Several things:

First, you say "more rights" as if that was just a detail. But paid vacations, sick/paternity/family leave, minimum wage, pensions, social security, right to strike, unemployment benefits and the like are not just a minor thing.

> If you try contracting as a coder for example, you are likely to get reclassified as an employee.

I have worked as a freelance through some brokerages/exchanges (e.g. Upwork) and there you set your own rates, your own conditions, and your own clients. I think it's a pretty different framework than Uber.

The issue is not brokerage/exchange or not, it's who controls the terms of the labour done.
So... all your income serious?
The source Wikipedia cites says he's still employed there:

https://mmee.uah.edu/people/destin-sandlin

Destin is studying Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. While an undergraduate, he was awarded the University of Alabama's Outstanding Senior Award. He is a full-time Missile Flight Test Engineer at Redstone Arsenal.
Then there's the other side of the coin: What your spouse loses when (s)he gains you.

Second-time-arounders who take their time and spend several years with their partners before marrying again tend to choose more wisely.

My first marriage: 16 and a half years. My (2nd) wife's first marriage: 18 and a half years. Our partnership: Four years as de-facto partners, 28 years married. 32 years together so far.

Big lesson from first marriage: When you "win", you lose. My first wife and I were always arguing and fighting. My second wife and I have never argued. We both refuse to fight. (We've had some terse words, but never a fight.) We agree on so many things that nothing else is important enough to lose angst over.
One thing Dropbox does well is transparently resuming a stalled or failed sync. The other solutions I can think of are more manual or the UX is very basic or obtuse. You could set up your own storage space on AWS and rsync (which has GUI tools available), but that's essentially roll-your-own Dropbox.

I work on large video files that I transport between locations and had an external drive that I used for a while but would end up forgetting or not wanting to unplug everything. I have settled on a high speed 64gb SD card that fits in any pocket or even my wallet. Out of all the fancy network tools I set up, this option has proved to be the most enduring.

Doesn't help with synchronizing which files are most current though. You might look at Transmit 5 from Panic. It has lots of useful syncing features now.
Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus
Here, let me reword it:

> it’s now so big that it must use automation to solve these problems or else swim in slightly shallower pools full of money hiring people
Three surprising reasons your words of wisdom probably aren’t worth much
Those agribusiness farms still employee people, and those people vote in the same ways as farmers, even though they may not own a farm
It's Ansible, plus the total lack of noticing when you've gone too far inventing cutesy nicknames totally devoid of any meaningful connection to the concept they are supposedly describing.
Got any links?

The only exception I'm aware of is a special agreement Google has with UMG where they ignore counternotices and appeals, but they also don't count as strikes and won't hurt the account in that case.
>> Is it really "exploitation" in the human sense of taking advantage of someone else?

Yes. Obviously. And whether or not the exploitation is "programmed" is irrelevant. After all everything is programmed.
It seems like you haven't read the articles that are linked to by the comment you're responding to.
On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 [pdf]
Every system has its point where it no longer can pay for care, especially when the procedures have a questionable ability to provide an extension to life at high quality, even the US system.

The difference is that on the US vast swathes don't have basic healthcare, which can often reduce the rate of complexities that require extreme treatment measures, like treating cancers early before they advance to a terminal state.
Ask HN: Are there any aggregators of GDPR/CCPA resources?
Wondering if there's an online resource that lists how you can download or delete your data on various online apps?

Eg. How do I download my Spotify data.

This seems like a useful thing to have given that online services offer ways to own your data, but do not really document the process or make it very user friendly.
Side note, I think they used the wrong gauge for the metaphor. An hourglass gives a better sense of time “running out” a fuel gauge also does a better job than cyclical pointers (that have no natural end)
Just the opposite.

/r/legaladvice is heavily moderated to keep it clean and high quality.

Ken White was banned for deliberate persistent rule breaking and hijacking the sub to make it popehatLegalAdvice.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7xpggl/what_i...
It seems to me that most of the authors objections stem from 100% strict adherence to git flow, which IMO is the wrong approach.

I loved the concept of git flow when I first read that legendary blog post. I learned a lot and adapted it into my own development workflow. I've bounced back and forth over the years in how strictly I adhered to the One True Way (tm) based on how well it worked for me in actual projects.

IME I think the best approach to git flow is to learn and understand it and then adapt it to your project's workflow, as opposed to strictly adhering to every tenet of git flow. I have multiple projects using different "amounts" of git flow - e.g. a large project with dev, qa, hotfix and release branches vs a small personal project with only master and dev.
Yes, I was unclear. I meant that I think it's coming back now. My feeling is (but it could be just colored memory) that for a long time people were happy with just changing the colors/borders/css of the standard components. Now I have the feeling people (or frameworks) code new <option> functionality from scratch in JS, thus making them look and function slightly differently on each site.
Honestly, I haven't found a need for it yet.

I am a student studying CS, and none of my coursework really requires heavy memorization for exams or assignments. For the most part, even if I need to remember some algorithm, it is simple enough that it can be derived or remembered for lecture.

However, my SO is pre-med, and consistently uses Anki to great success. Her exams are very centered on information which needs to be memorized, including standardized exams like the MCAT. I think this is where spaced repetition programs shine.

Generally, people don't need to memorize large amounts of information, they need a few facts and relations to each other. This can easily be achieved with hand-written or typed notes which an individual can review when needed.
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