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The pop out address bar didn't bother me either, because I don't use the bookmarks toolbar.

My GF hates it because it partially obscures the bookmarks toolbar on any new tab. So her everyday usage is impacted where she opens firefox and clicks a bookmark. She hated it so much she looked through reddit threads and modified her about:config to make it go away, which is really saying something.
I agree this is a real effect - to some degree. But the degree to which it causes them to reform is the level of bad press/taking shortcuts which optimizes profit. Not abusing their workers in factories, well, that's a lot of workers and a lot of money; so far they've found it more profitable to try to buy good press. How long will that continue? I'm not sure, but probably a long time. I would caution people to not rely on that given that Amazon has been known to be pretty bad for quite a while with little reform. Rather than finding some optimum on Amazon's terms, if its employees are sufficiently organized they can force their own terms, although their ability to do that does depend to some degree on public perception of it.
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My personal take on what defines a "tech company" is a company that understands and respects that tech drives its business and thus treats its tech employees with respect.

Almost every large company is tech driven these days. But in a lot of them, tech is considered more of a necessary evil "cost center". The tech employees are treated as second class citizens compared to the marketers, salespeople, traders, etc. who are the "profit center".

A big investment bank (disclosure: I work at one) arguably has more tech running through its veins these days than say, Airbnb. But I would firmly classify Airbnb as a "tech company" per the above definition, and the bank as "not a tech company".
As a former Wikipedian, what's there to say? The evidence is still there, and was there for years and years. Deletionism was, and remains, a wrong-headed attitude that does not understand what makes WP qualitatively different from standard encyclopedic offerings.

There is not a motivating need to limit WP's scope, and indeed that is why WMF forked off projects like Wiktionary and Wikidata to their own TLDs. The main problem with WP is that it is far easier to be wrong than to be right, and the effort required to be right is linear in the number of words written. In short, the number of editors per page required for acceptable quality does not roll off with large numbers of pages, but stays relatively high, at around 1-2 editors/page.

Worse, the number of moderators per editor does not roll off either. The number of bureaucrats required therefore keeps growing, logarithmically but steadily, and the demands on arbitration committees keep growing. The committees themselves have long ago failed basic principles of legal legibility, leading to sprawling bureaucracy.

One possible solution is to fundamentally alter what we store. Rather than writing thousands of words of prose, we could use Wikidata to automatically generate articles. We already have factboxes which could be largely automatically populated, and many people only care about the factboxes. Prose would be limited to commentary and explication, but would not be the main bodies of articles. This is not just a pipe dream; LMFDB [0] exists and is worth examining as an example of how code and data can automatically generate the bulk of an encyclopedia.

But, let's be honest, the writing was on the wall when Esperanza [1] was dissolved. We are now somewhere between Bureaucracy and The Aftermath.

[0] https://www.lmfdb.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Esperanza
It's not just an open source problem. It's fairly trivial to scrape the keys out of a lot of closed source applications. When Twitter first mandated OAuth, I was able to grep a key right out of the apk of their native Android client.

OAuth with client secrets is fundamentally unsuitable for desktop and mobile applications, but that hasn't stopped virtually every major implementor from using it that way. The people who wrote the spec were too busy congratulating each other and downplaying concerns to seriously engage with this issue until it was much too late to do anything about it.

It remains a deeply broken standard, and the people who were responsible for it at an early stage are entirely to blame. Several of them have removed their names from the spec, but I'll not forget the role they played in shouting down critics who raised concerns about this very issue.
The maintenance is much more expensive and time consuming though. Most solar panels are install and forget for their lifetime measured in decades, with some small failure rate in the meantime. Plants however typically require maintenance multiple times a year and most have usable lifetime measured in months, not decades.
The exemptions were very imperfect. Even if musicians and certain types of performers were exempted, this legislation has had an enormous effect on theater organizations, for example, especially at the semi-professional / community level. It's typical for these orgs, which have very limited budget, to hire actors and the creative team (set designers, lighting designers, sound etc.) as 1099 workers. The money is simply not there to be able to pay everybody at an hourly rate for the amount of time that's actual spent on these projects, and the outcome has been that many theater companies are unsure whether they can continue to operate at all. Unless the thinking has changed recently and my understanding is out of date, this is a situation that continues to be worrying to both theater artists and directors of theater orgs.
The mass tourism boom in the year prior to Covid19 might not be the new normal.
Kinda amoral rather than immoral
Doesn't sound like you have much experience having "a job". What you are talking about is exempt employment. There is a three-part test for exemption in California and Uber drivers don't meet any of the administrative, executive, or professional criteria. They also do not pass the salary basis test. Unless Uber wants to start paying their drivers a regular salary, Uber drivers are non-exempt. Uber drivers are not even hourly wage workers, they are paid by the piece. This is the lowest form of employment.
the original comment was specifically saying AirBnBs severance isn’t impressive compared to europe, which is not true.
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Mine is late June / Early July in Italy of all places, and is not covered. They keep extending the coverage period though so I'm crossing my fingers.
And yet we still have an arbitrary number that is no better than just sticking a release year+month on it, though it is less informative.

I have been saying this from the day this was announced, so not sure this is "eight years late" or an eight year old unresolved bug.
Interestingly, there's some parallels between bicycle deaths and motorcycle fatalities. 126 male deaths, 16 female deaths (out of >800 total? I guess the deaths identified by gender are a smaller subset). The figures are similar for motorcycles, about an order of magnitude larger for men than women [1]. In part this is due to the larger share of riders being men. But even when we compare the rates, there are significant differences. This disparity typically indicates behavior-based risks. In aggregate, the majority of motorcycle-automobile collisions are the fault of the latter, but fatalities often result from risky behavior on part of the former - hence the gender disparity, since said behavior is much more prevalent among men.

Some of the purported reasons don't measure up. This article claims that the prevalence of larger SUVs and trucks are resulting in more bicyclist deaths, and compares SUV and truck sales in 2019 vs 1994. But the fatality rates among bicyclists are not substantially different in 1994 than 2019. There's actually an overall downward trend the in rate of bicyclist deaths [2]. The same applies to the rising speed limits and greater prevalent of phones - these don't seem to correlate with any increase in fatalities. The overall trend from 1975 to the latest data is a downward trend from a fatality rate of ~0.4 per 100k people to 0.3 to 0.2.

1. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gende...

2. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...
The interesting thing about capitalism is how it is driven forward by its own internal logic and motion of ever-expanding profits, which in the long run doesn't allow the middle class to comfortably exist without chipping away at their standard of living. We're slowly getting towards a vibrant class politics even in the US.
Oh well, that's unfortunate. Thanks though.
They're RSUs, Airbnb hasn't been given options for the last 7 years or so. Techcrunch is just reporting it wrong.
In my eyes, they are. Uber doesn't own any cars, they don't pay maintenance on these vehicles, so no matter what uber states you make, your actual take is far lower. I had a driver whose car had been totaled and was being held by the dealership, the driver was using a rental car to try and save up enough to pay the dealer. The people who drive for uber are often desperate and struggling, and given these two rideshare companies are famous for burning millions of dollars in VC money with little to show for it, quarter after quarter since they began, why not burn just a little bit more and actually offer benefits that any other employee in any other profession would already be entitled to?
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Sounds like a weird new euphemism for laid off, designed to make it seem less negative.
> So everyone should suffer until those exist because businesses are permitted to take advantage of them?

That's exactly the point. Everyone wasn't suffering and in dire need of rescue by the state of California. Now, we have a law that hasn't helped the people it was supposed to help and has put quite a few legitimate businesses out of work. Good intentions or not, AB 5 is worse than the old status quo.
Our server were affected. They added a cronjob which ran every minute wgetting a .sh file and executing it. Most of the time the server which the file was in was either offline or returned 404, but every once in a while it returned the malicious script. When this script got executed, it killed our nginx server, which is how we noticed something odd was happening. If it wasn't for nginx dying, we might have not even noticed we were infected.

Here's the contents of the sh script for the curious. https://pastebin.com/CbupwQMG
How come you can't cancel? Did you book at place with strict cancellation policy or is there something else?
I'm just saying it doesn't have to be either/or. Bad press has a real, if currently small, effect. Organization could have a bigger effect but is also harder to accomplish. All avenues should be explored.
K. Thanks for "refuting" a comment where I said "total antibody-based immunity will last a few years, based on our experience with SARS-CoV-1" with evidence that antibodies are gone several years later. :P
Tools need to be evaluated against your long term goals. It won't be easy to migrate and will likely face lock-in later. Consider the following before picking the right tool for your business.

Make sure the tools you choose give you the option to scale or remain cost-effective at scale. Some free tools can easily cost more in the long run.

If you are not sure, you might be pleasantly surprised by how well a spreadsheet works for now. This will give you a chance to delay the decision until you have more information.
> the company said that 1,900 employees will be laid off, or 25.3% of its 7,500 workers

Thought I misread that the first time through. What did those 7,500 do?
Unless you are running continuous load, the $4 PHP shared hoster is probably more powerful than $5 VPS.

I know some shared PHP host that cost $8/year and have larger memory_limit than the available RAM in $5 VPS.
I don't think so. If you go into the UI, bottom left is a button to "Create New Login".

You get 3 fields: url, username & password.

I think that's a fair choice though.
At my employer they withhold taxes from the RSUs themselves as they vest (taxes are withheld at the bonus tax rate using integer multiplication, I believe).

E.g.: you'll get Math.floor(x * (1-bonus_tax_rate)) shares and will owe no income tax (unless your marginal tax rate is over the bonus tax rate). After that point, you'll only owe taxes on possible capital gains from price at the time of vest to the time you sell.
honestly your only hope is for aws to spin off from amazon

personally i throw out every resume i see the work 'amazon' on, indicates a broken mind
i haven't done wordpress in 5+ years but oh my god it had everything that's bad about php in it.
> edit: as it's weeks and not days for Airbnb I guess it's pretty similar then.

You mean France's is significantly worse (12 < 15 at a minimum of 1yr or less)? Did you see the accelerated vesting as well?
You're not the target market. Those laptops are for people who want features. If Apple is serving you, stay with them.
Why? not everyone needs an overlarge and authoritarian government baby sitting them.

We became great as a nation without having to rely on a nanny-state to "protect" those poor poor people who are "obviously" unable to do it themselves...
I'm not a fan of Airbnb's business but this is highly commendable.

The severance package is the core metric to judge a company that is doing layoffs. In this case, it sounds like Airbnb did the right thing. Airbnb fired people well in advance of when they were actually forced to. This enabled them to provide an ethical severance.

Some companies wait until the last minute and then provide two weeks or similar. These companies should be publicly shamed for all time.
Honestly after getting used to it I like the change. Why? Because before it was often not easy to see if the input focus was on the address bar or somewhere else, and often I'd start typing and the input land somewhere I didn't expect. Now at least it's very clear, although I agree they could have done it better.
Don't worry, they'll claim that the 30 hours is a new innovation. Work only 4 days a week!
Yes, strict cancellation policy. For those following the drama, they keep extending their extenuating circumstances policy out but it doesn't cover most of the summer yet. Apparently the circumstances are only extenuating for the immediate future.
You might in the B group of an A/B test.

This happened to a colleague of mine not that long ago and I told him the trick is to report just about anything using the feedback tool and observe the most crazy bugs disappear in less than an hour as you get reassigned to tve A group ;-)

Another educated guess is a plug-in. I might have seen plugins that seems to optimize for ad click through by adding elements to move the ads just under yiur mouse pointer.
Thiel didn't just reference Hoppe - he praised him and spoke at his conferences.

In general, Thiel's political opinions are hardly a secret; you can read his own words at https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...:

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"

This is literally the primary thesis of Hoppe's book.

And note that Hoppe's isn't saying that promoting homosexuality should get one expelled from society, but rather from communities with "covenants" that restrict it. This arrangement is all about one-dollar-one-vote, so rich people needn't worry - they can live however they want, even establishing their own "covenant" if need be.
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Slightly different meanings there:

> Happiness isn't expected from an email in this context

What I mean to say is that I, personally would be unsatisfied (unhappy) with sarcasm as a tone towards a client.

> I found it to be unprofessional towards the clients,

It is not always understood that it is bad to be "unprofessional towards the clients", do not take it for granted that everyone knows that. In fact this person in the original example probably did not.

In my experience, while internally, one can be informal, even joke a bit and still be respected for technical ability, it is necessary to take a more formal approach outside of the org in order to be taken seriously.
Totally agreed. Those are very generous terms, no matter where in the world. Well done AirBnB.
There's a great deal of recommendations, fraud detection, global payment complexity, etc. behind the CRUD app.
WebGL 1 support in the wild is roughly 97% and WebGL 2 is 54% based on stats collected from a number of participating sites.
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I never claimed that Uber or Lyft coerced them to work, so I'm not sure where we disagree.
Aside from this article (paywalled), I liked learning from some story that certain financial / bank employees are required by the Fed or SEC to go on vacation and not have access to their email or phone for a certain number of contiguous days every year. Is this correct -- was it something to do with the Madoff scandal?

As I understood it, the idea was that to perpetuate a financial fraud, a criminal relies on being present and able to intercept / continue feeding fraudulent information to others and not be discovered. Or maintaining some fraudulent trading position.

The tactic I liked about this was the thinking about what's required to perpetrate a fraud, and make the conditions difficult or impossible for someone to go undetected.

Rather than retroactively finding the fraud and just trying to detect it better when it has already happened.
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Whats the difference between dependent contractor and W2? What do they get and what do they don't?
I am less optimistic than you. Early 20th was vibrant class consciousness. I don't see anything like that now. What I do see is simply the fall out from 100 years of neoliberalism.
The problem with any chrome extension is that there's no guarantee that the git repo matches the bag of bits that you're installing. No-prompt auto-updates exacerbate the issue.

Installation of software will always require a leap of faith that the publisher doesn't have ill intent.
Do employees have to waive filing unemployment to accept the severance package?

In California those can last up to six months.
Theoretically, no, but in practice if you know that "password123" hashes to "blaHb1ah" then you get a DB of hashed passwords and see "blaHb1ah", you probably know that person's password is "password123". (which is why you use salts to fix that). For all intents and purposes I just reversed the hash in this context.
Sadly the state of the internet means that only TCP and UDP will be widely used for the foreseeable future. There are a quantity of old routers which just throw away protocols they don't know, and they don't know much.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification
Two.js was fastest on my flagship Android phone with 5k elements. PixiJS was expected to perform best?

But on my flagship iOS device PixiJS got top spot, two.js close behind.
> the address bar already had a very prominent focus state with its thick blue outline.

Either I never noticed or that very prominent focus state was invisible in the theme I installed. So yes, it was definitely one of the most regular issues I had with Firefox and now it's fixed. Not in the most elegant way but it works for me.
Try and get Amazon workers to unionize.

That might bring something.
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This was great.

I failed the first time when it asked for traffic lights.

Then it asked to click on all computers and I just picked all the greyish squares since all the others were seemed like shots of "natural" things. Got in then.
i think you're saying this, but just to clarify:

RSUs (even facebook-style) are definitely taxable. With options, you're in control of when to take the tax hit. With facebook-style RSUs, the tax hit comes when the stock gets distributed (taxed as ordinary income) -- usually in the form of withholding some amount of shares.

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Important to remember with RSUs in pre-IPO companies: even though you might get shares distributed at IPO, you're usually subject to a lock up. This is unfortunate because if you receive stock at IPO, you have to pay taxes at them -- so if your company IPOs at $50, then drops to $20 when the lockup expires, you have to pay taxes on the shares you received at $50 value even though you couldn't sell shares at that value.
They also built their own low-level network protocol based on 0mq. Back when I tried it, it had constant keepalive issues behind NAT and would randomly lose messages (that was in 2014, probably better now).
That is a nice way to look at it. It'd have been on my buy list if it were public.
> imagine how much it sucks to be laid off

Never a good time, but especially in this environment!

I recall that airbnb workforce has become very marketing lopsided (vs. tech). Whereas tech folks generally have an easier time landing, I imagine the environment for the next 9-12mos being very bad for marketing/MBA folks.
Whenever I read something about how computers _really_ work (as in not just a nice easy to comprehend programming language) I realise just how much smarter some people in the world are than me.
Or it shows how much (little) people care for the work of independent journalists.
“ We can expect some of the biggest tech startups of the 2020s to start off as no-code Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).”

I’m excited for this. Many people have great ideas that they can’t execute because they don’t know how to code and their friends who do are too busy.
Depends on the state, some states are humorously called "Right to Work" states. Washington state where Amazon is headquartered would be a good place to start a union that includes workers from across the workforce. Pilots and Flight Attendants should barter together against the airline, right?
Sure. Both groups want an end to control by the state. They have different ideas about voluntary structures of power in a stateless society, but as they are voluntary I don’t see an inherent conflict.

However they have such different terms for things they typically get really upset at each other when talking. For example they use the term “capitalism” very differently. Socialist anarchists are against “capitalism” for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that is enables cronyism. However libertarians are pro “capitalism” and yet very against cronyism. So both groups are strongly against cronyism, but they can’t seem to get along well enough to fight cronyism together.

Libertarians advocate for “capitalism” which they see as markets unimpeded by the state. Anarchists also don’t want the state interfering in their exchanges. They may place rules on their exchanges but this would be on a voluntary basis, so they could seemingly coexist with libertarians who just want to rely on markets.

Both sides also seem to be against intellectual property restrictions. Another place to work together.

In my personal vision, an anarchist communist society could, and I think should, still take advantage of markets for certain situations. I think it makes sense for individuals to be protected by communal structures, but those communes might use markets to distribute goods in addition to politically coordinated exchanges.

Libertarians don’t want much of the above, but if it’s truly voluntary they’re not against it either. Though they are super touchy when you talk to them about this and they don’t accept any of it until they understand you really want it to be voluntary.

My libertarian friend also really surprises me sometimes. He said recently the state should release control of all hospitals to the hospital workers who have been running them. Like they did some kind of homesteading so they should be the ones to own the hospital. Well that sounds a lot like a worker owned collective!