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I think the only way to change Amazon's behavior is to hit them where it hurts: their bottom line. Right now these practices continue to be profitable - there are no consequences - and even among other giant corporations, Amazon stands out as worshipping profits at all other costs. I'm confident that no amount of internal advocation/culture-shifting will change that. The incentives have to be realigned.

So what to do in your position?

You could quit and encourage others to do so. However, a lot of people would have to quit over this issue for it to start registering on management's radar, so that might not be very effective.

The other major option I think is whistleblowing/bringing attention to the issue/garnering bad press for the company. This is what Tim Bray did, but there are other ways of going about it. You could organize a protest along with your coworkers, for example. However, there's probably nothing you can do that wouldn't expose you to risk. And Amazon has shown how it deals with dissenters.

What I would do personally is start looking for another job, and once I have a contract signed, then do something bridge-burning like organizing a protest or writing a blog post or whatever.
Work with Amazon Robotics to automate them out of a job. It's only a matter of time anyway.
Well, yeah, that's Boeing, but if I'm going to work at a startup I want options, I want lots of them, and I want a good strike price. After all, if it's not going to do damned well next year why am I even going there?
I think the argument is against the classification of "bad".
Its not bad compared to working condition in CZ.
Well, the difference is a bit bigger... so last year 57% were looking to move out, or 558.

This year it's 1200 * 90% or 1080...that's nearly double.

This is just a sample size though because, I for one have never heard of the site, so I doubt a ton of people use them for moving needs. A lot probably will just use U-haul and other resources for their move.

I could see a lot of people wanting to move from SF esp, if they've been laid off, how could you possibly afford rent in a recession in SF?
Yes, I agree. I also found out that Two.js redraws 5k elements even a little bit faster but it takes a couple of seconds to render them for the first time.
In France "cadres" (managers, most devs etc) will still be payed for three months (while you can work another job at the same time and get double income then), plus of course all accrued vacation days, and some amount based on your seniority at the company and its activity sector.

After the three months most people will qualified for regular unemployment.

And until you start working at another company you still get healthcare from your former employer's provider.

edit: as it's weeks and not days for Airbnb I guess it's pretty similar then.
What you say doesn't apply to a real job. I can't have a Google laptop and Facebook laptop and work for both companies at the same time. It's a huge distinction that drivers can pick and choose what they want to do at a particular time, by having both apps open and accepting whichever ride they please, or just stop working for the day altogether.
But we never will be because the professional/middle class is a buffer between labor and capital right? That's the beauty of divisive class politics that pits the middle class against the working class - we're discouraged from identifying with working class problems so that we don't support them in their fight.
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Airbnb hosts converting properties into 6-month or longer term rentals --> decreased supply for Airbnb
I'm in a similar position -- This is great, nice work! Looking forward to experimenting with the library.

There are a lot of similarly great React libraries that focus on just one high-level component. A few of my favorites that have saved me tons of time:

- react-grid-layout (https://github.com/STRML/react-grid-layout) for draggable / resizable grids with an easily-serializable layout.

- react-mosaic (https://github.com/nomcopter/react-mosaic) for tiling / movable window layouts.

- react-table (https://react-table.js.org/) for a very powerful, expandable table implementation.
In defence of the parent, I read days instead of weeks initialy.
>the threat of moving the factory overseas is an overpowering factor for the company.

Probably not for fulfillment and distribution
This situation is not a technology problem.
Jesus that's some rookie stuff right there
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Also a great format to count how many representation are wasted with redundant representation (ZeroS, NaN, +inf, -inf).
Going even further, those researchers are at ORNL, which is a DOE lab. (ORNL itself isn't a weapons lab, but other DOE labs are)
Yeah by most American standards, and also by most standards.
Certainly not by half, though
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You have two options: what Tim Bray did, or organize so that you have more leverage. The second way is probably more effective (there are plenty of developers willing to take over your comfy job at AWS who don't care about anyone but themselves and having a cushy job, so unless a lot of devs quit they're not likely to care), but it's also the harder and longer way. The Communication Workers of America do a great union organizers training, try reaching out to them.
Are there ways to try NDN-like networks today? I spend most of my time building P2P stuff and the "how do I connect my computer to yours" is consistently a major pain point. STUN/TURN can help, but there are so many edge-cases that hurt my brain to think about.
Primary thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083692
TCP pretty obviously doesn’t suck as it’s pretty much powered the internet for the last 30ish (maybe more) years. I’m sure it isn’t perfect for every purpose and maybe I can be improved but enough with the click bait.
Such an odd 'I told you so' comment in a thread about thousands losing their livelihood.
A lot of people playing in the public markets should thank their lucky stars that Airbnb did not IPO a couple of years back!
It's not obviously true that a 'micro cap' stock exchange couldn't exist that traded, among other things, equity for your favorite local brewpub. The issue is that there is a surprisingly large amount of compliance, accounting and especially audit expense that would go into such a thing. Without all that overhead, you just have a system ripe for abuse... and with all that overhead, you don't have a profitable investment opportunity.
You just repeated the "how everybody hates floating point to be explained to them" section of this article.
I would attribute it to an inadequate equilibrium, a local minimum that's simply too hard to escape at this point.
WebGL is the fastest for now. But not all libraries and browsers support it
Stripe looks great but after actually using it the performance is terrible - the api docs and the dashboard especially. Makes me wish they had gone with a css file 95% shorter and spent that effort on making the experience faster.
NYC Nurse Whistleblower: People Are Not Dying of Covid
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Biodegradable by definition.
I think NDN is largely orthogonal to the problems presented in the article.
Anyone who's putting their Salt master on the internet is having to deal with clients without fixed addresses. And it's not uncommon to have to deal with clients that aren't known advance which is when autosign scripts are used.

Sans the current CVE this is otherwise a service that is safe to expose to adversarial networks.
The drivers might feel that they need the job, and they even might feel “coerced” in some abstract sense, but most definitely it’s not Uber or Lyft that’s coercing them to drive, and you’d have a hard time finding drivers who believe they are forced to drive by Uber. They often believe they aren’t being paid enough, but if they feel coerced to work, it’s not by Uber, but rather by hard facts of the social reality they found themselves in.
Toll Group hit by ransomware a second time, deliveries affected
People may “travel” within their local area.
Predicted that weeks ago. AirBnb is super bloated, they have a similar amount of employees as the other major travel groups but only serve a fraction of the products and customers https://thehftguy.com/2020/03/23/will-airbnb-go-bankrupt-and...

Good to hear that they are giving a decent severance package.
Here you go - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrolltrotter...
i’m not super in the know here, but why would corporate financials be relevant to the tax obligations of individuals?
rr works today on cloud instances with hardware performance counters available, on Intel CPUs. For example it works on a variety of AWS instances that are large enough that your VM occupies a whole CPU socket. c5(d).9xlarge or bigger works well.

The performance impact of virtualization on rr seems small on AWS, small enough that we haven't tried to measure it.

On AWS rr is mostly feature complete. The only missing feature is CPUID faulting, i.e. the ability to intercept CPUID instructions and fake their results. This means that taking rr recordings from one machine and replaying them on an AWS instance with a different CPU does not work. (The other direction does work.)

(Pernosco uses AWS, but we have a closed-source binary instrumentation extension to rr replay that lifts this restriction.)

As I mentioned above, there's no technical reason AFAIK why AWS could not virtualize CPUID faulting; regular Linux KVM supports this.
> without worker power, attention on its own doesn't actually do anything

I don't think this is true. With enough bad press, it starts to make a difference both on the consumer side and the hiring side. I've turned down Amazon recruiters solely based on ethics before, and I haven't held an Amazon Prime membership in years. And I know others who avoid using Amazon unless they really have no other option.
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You can hike along the prehistoric shoreline of Lake Lahontan in Nevada, which at this point is relatively high up the mountains above the current valley floors. Many stretches of the prehistoric shoreline are marked by prodigious quantities of neolithic rubbish left by the peoples that lived along Lake Lahontan. It requires little effort to find artifacts in that part of the country, they are everywhere.
Direct debits on all valid ibans!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit

That's the fastest, almost not regulated way to go, because the system itself allows for longer claim times. That will allow you to go through easier
Don't forget incarcerated persons.
HomeDepot makes all their developers do this at least once a year, from what I've heard. I've always liked this idea (although I do wonder how effective it is?).
That's correct. they vote to advance their own political agendas. Those agendas also correspond to those of the appointing President's party. That's literally the definition of "politically motivated." The available evidence thus points toward individual Justices being politically motivated. Occam's razor suggests the burden of proof falls more strongly on the opposite position.
Same goes for stackoverflow.

Since the stackoverflow database is freely available I cannot see a single good reason why they haven't been outcompeted years ago.
> - Most libraries are implemented in C instead of in PHP, whereas with other languages people try to avoid native code as much as possible. This means that code is not memory safe, and understanding or contributing is close to impossible.

You want this in any scripting language if you don’t want memory use and cycles to balloon out of control for simple tasks. Most any scripting language looking for performance is going “how can I GTFO of myself and into C (or assembly, or maybe these days Rust I guess, in some circles) as fast as possible”.
How do you manage your online data/privacy?
Hi everyone,

I'm more and more concerned about my online privacy and more generally on all aspects of the "internet/computer" life. Until now I was using software like Chrome or "free" services like Facebook or Gmail.

I already switch to a personal email account hosted on a french host (OVH), and enabled PGP encryption on it. I'm using Cloudfare DNS resolver, until I've time to install DNS resolver on my own server. Firefox is now my default web browser, and I tweak all parameters on cookies. It is just a matter of time before I leave OSX for a GNU/Linux distrib (mostly because of the free software way of thinking).

How do you manage it ? Have got any good tools I can use ?

Thx guuys !
You might be surprized how many people are "stuck" around the world right now, and are staying in Air B N B's waiting for all the closures to end.

For example Argentina has cancelled ALL plane flights (in/out and domestic) until September.. and unless you have signed authority you can't even drive town to town. So anyone that was travelling there is now stuck, and are essentially forced to rent a place and stay put.

A few friends are caught there, and many others in similar situations around the world.
If this is accurate, it could be very educational. I was discussing these "loans" with my Dad who owns a business with a lot of employees and was worried that he was taking on debt. He explained to my relief that a great deal of the loan would be forgiven.

Not being a business owner and having to know the details of the program, I had assumed that these were merely favorable interest rates. Seems like the politicians could have branded this program better. It sounded on the surface like they were just loading up small businesses with more debt.
They do have functional infrastructure but their business is suffering a catstrophic shift. As I mention, a lot of the hosts are either going to go into foreclosure or they will convert to long term rentals. A lot of people were buying condos and converting them to Airbnb because the revenues were so predictable. That won't happen in 2020 and 2021. It will take many years for inventory to come back up to 2019 levels and less inventory means less revenues, even if people started to travel again, which also is unlikely in the next couple of years.
Glad to see the money they are stealing from those of us who can't cancel our summer airBNBs is going to a good cause.
How is it in any way cheaper. I mean yes, if you ship people to middle america it will be. But touting a "right" to housing in SF is preposterous, at $1000 / sq ft (and will only go up with more demand).
Americans widely oppose reopening most businesses
Not JavaScript or Go, that's do sure...
Airbnb employee here-- this is the consensus.
There is a "Secondary email" option in Firefox Accounts. You can also set a "Recovery Key".
The defining feature of tech is marginal cost of production close to zero at scale . Meaning, as you grow your business you increasingly automate away human labour. That's why Instagram was worth billions with 13 employees.

You're not a technology company just because you rely on software. Walmart makes software too, much more of it than airbnb actually. You're a technology company if you automate away human labour. This doesn't really seem to be the case for most of these 'marketplace' companies which is reflected in their margins. They just have to keep adding more labour as they expand.
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Yes, AB5 is a band-aid, but if that's all that is possible (politically speaking, it's become a third-rail) then you use the remedy you have at hand or are able to fabricate.

CA may be holding out for some increase of the public safety net at the Federal level in 2021 post-election, and might be forced to move on it's own if things don't turn out as desired.
Unless you realize that you're comparing severance package of one of top US companies to EU standard.
These things are complicated, being torn is what makes it an ethical decision. He could just walk out of there and burn a bridge, and if he hates working there that would be a lot easier.

His empathy is reflected in the difficulty of the decision and his situation is likely different than Tim's. Lets not put people down because they are looking for options before jumping.
Right, except that registering with the salt master is how your VPN is provisioned.
Typically my drivers do both and pick up whichever ride comes first. In the past Uber got in trouble for trying to ban this practice with shady techniques.
Organize! Start a union! (or more likely, get illegaly fired by Amazon for attempting to organize)

Find a lawyer first and be ready to go to the press & to court when they fire you for union activity.
Ask HN: How does your HR team do attrition forecasting?
> You could quit and encourage others to do so. However, a lot of people would have to quit over this issue for it to start registering on management's radar, so that might not be very effective.

A few months ago I was invited to an AWS recruiting event. For kicks, I accepted and went to listen to their spiel. There were quite a lot of people there. I'd say that for every software engineer at Amazon who quits in protest, there are 100x that waiting to take their old job. And with the market downturn we're experiencing right now, it'll only get worse. We have less leverage now than we've had in years.
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Beware, I have a feeling Amazon is one of those "if they say they wont rejoin or recommend the company in their exit interview we won't allow them to be rehired" companies.
Thanks. This was a very intentional decision to keep light mode as "also available".
There are numerous Firefox add-ons that provide this feature, e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng.... IMHO, the main benefit of using Safari/Screen Time for this is that it automatically syncs the same limits across all of your iCloud-connected devices, which is great. I know Firefox has a Sync feature but I'm not sure if any of the add-ons leverage it to provide a similar seamless cross-device experience.
I think the consensus of 'over' is when the world one way or the other goes back to well...as normal as it's gonna get. Personally, I think that'll be when there's better treatments for the effects of covid, I'm not too believing of a vaccine hitting anytime under 2 years.

But if we could halve the death-rate or more, it'd be pretty good steps towards getting back to normal. Also, if we could actually get people to wear masks and take it seriously. That'd go a long way towards quelling it.
Neato! I had seen a demo of one of their cases, but didn't realize they were actually in production, and covered up to 180W.

Thanks for sharing!

Ninja edit: Ooof $700-$1400 for the chassis and custom fab for the CPU block. If I'm going for silence, I'd probably just spring for the radiator case instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfbcD248n4Y&t=361s

Ninja edit 2: Looks like there's a retailer (rather than going through the manufacturer to Taobao) in the US selling it for $1090. Unsure where to price out a custom CPU heat spreader to integrate with this (per the Anandtech article, that was a custom component Turemetal made for one customer). Either way this is awesome to see available.
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TCP is only one of the transport layer protocols. There are 17 transport layer protocols listed in [1], including TCP.

It was never designed to be the all applicable universal transport protocol either. Or it was, but sane people realize that time window when TCP could be deemed universal is very short.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_layer
That would mean that a lot of people would avoid going to the US or other countries where health care is complicated and/or expensive. And I would harbor a guess that travel insurance companies will put in anti-pandemic clauses going forward. That has already started by the way, so who knows what insurers will cover in late 2020.
> the latter can imply working without pay.

the phrase ""volunteer" behavior" was about people shopping at Walmart, not people working there so I don't understand your point.
I can only hope this leads to a backlash against high growth companies staying private for so long. Along with their jobs, I imagine many AirBnb employees have lost a majority of their (paper) net worth because they were not given the opportunity to sell and diversify.
If anything you would want them to say "pay them with a 1099 but also you must follow these extra rules beyond the federal 1099 rules".

If you make them W2, then there are a bunch of federal rules you have to follow that may not make sense.
Is it just a certain time period? I've cancelled two stays and have received full refunds, but both were in April and May of this year.
Right, because a taxi app and mass-transit are the same scale of solution.
Compared to the upper upper class we are all working class. The sooner we realise it the better.
Sure, and Warsaw Old Town is also quite narrow. But the rest of the city is commie wide street style. I’m not sure what Vilnius is like but I imagine it’s fairly similar.
Yeah, TCP is the worst protocol except for all the others.
SCTP also lives on in the WebRTC spec for data channels, so all (modern) browsers also implement it
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Unionize! Anyone can join/form a union, and I think in the US it's illegal to fire you because you are involved in a union.
What you were supposed to do was not go work at Amazon, just like plenty of us won't work for Facebook, etc. Amazon being a terrible place to work isn't something new or foreign to us SWEs. Hell, every time they tried to interview me they'd tell me about how AWS is "run like a startup" and has very little do with the rest of the company. That's telling right there.

Don't let them have our engineering talent even if they offer you the moon (like Brays $1mil/yr). They should be fighting to repair their reputation to even be able to hire SWEs/etc but because people pop out of College and want to go make $120k (or people who only care about their income and not ethics) they have no problem keeping that boat full of new blood.

I cannot fathom making $1m as a SWE over 5 years while the massive majority of my company are treated like cannon fodder and it's well known throughout.. oh, everywhere. It's really easy to quit and sound like a hero in that situation. You're not a hero. You were still part of the problem that we've known about for a long time.
We will see I guess. Do they need to supply cars too?
You misunderstand the problem here. I haven't done 3-4 genuine attempts. I've opened and closed the site multiple times while reading this thread back-and-forth and only afterwards realized I still don't know what the service does. It fails to convey the message in an immediate way.

And I'm not even talking about the brutalist design here. As many others have pointed out there are good minimalist non-designed landing pages (pinboard, tarsnap).
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that is a pretty good severance. I was laid off from an ad-tech company based in SF in April and received 4 weeks of pay (I had worked there for almost 2 years)
> (Subsequent input delays are also bad for users, but subsequent input delays are usually only as bad as the first input delay.)

I'm not sure about this statement. It sounds reasonable but I can't recall seeing any research about FID being a proxy for all input delay throughout the entire duration of a session. I would hypothesize that optimizations that improve FID would also tend to improve input delay in general. My main message here is just that I haven't seen that research.
> Separated employees

Separated? Is this American english?