skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you make a sufficient enough case that AB5 should be scraped, merely that some folks (freelance journalists) were happy with the status quo to the detriment of wide swaths of gig workers (Uber, Lyft drivers).

I'll support a third worker category once gig platforms aggressively support the safety nets (universal healthcare, some sort of income protection besides unemployment) those classified workers would need. Until I see Uber and Lyft yelling as loudly for Medicare for All as Bernie Sanders, let them crumble under a torrent of damages at the hands of the court. Go for the cash reserves while they still have them.
The equivalent Python would be:

result, errmsg = do_stuff()

if errmsg:
error(f"Error in do_stuff: {errmsg}")

print(result+5)

Assuming that errmsg is 'None' when do_stuff() succeeds.
For those who are interested in the accounting side, I highly recommend Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit [1]. If you don't have an accounting background, all you need to get value out of this book is a basic understanding of the double entry accounting method, and understand the four financial statements: balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and statements of shareholders equity.

After reading this book, I found myself digging through earnings reports to look for signs of shenanigans, and have found cases that raise my armchair-accountant eyebrows.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Shenanigans-Fourth-Accounti...
you are claiming the developers of PHP are incompetent? bold claim, coming from a throw away.
What is an "800 soft" apartment? ... Oh, do you mean 800 square feet? For non-US readers: That's 74.3 m^2 (square meters), but that figure could:

* include/not include walls

* include/not include balconies

etc.
Yes, "areas (that were) hit hard" is more idiomatic in this case.
Anyone able to get past it?
No need to scrap it, but instead use amendments.
Can lyft drivers work for uber? I've seen that happen I think.

This seems different than google employees working for microsoft - which I think would be prohibited.

If these workers are misclassified will they have to work for just one company? Will uber/lyft then be able to set their working hours?
What if a Chinese company decided to make bootleg Nintendo machines using these sources and sell them?

They would probably sell the console and a bunch of games as a single playable kit.
Threadripper will be faster unless you need the memory bandwidth of EPYC.
Gives new meaning to "telephony"
I think most people do learn scientific notation, but the correspondence with floating point representation is probably not learned. It is not necessarily an obvious connection for a person who uses floats as "decimal numbers", which is the mental model I assume many programmers have. This post is enlightening because it shows how obvious the connection is.
> I'm not your personal shopper.

The point was - there's no option available. Nobody but Apple seems to be capable of doing it. That's what this thread is about. If you can't think of any counter examples then that's an argument in my favour not yours!
> Lots of IPV6 requests coming from HN.

It's funny you mention that. I intentionally disable IPv6 a while back, because it kept breaking things for me.

At some point either the router reset or my OS settings did (or both) because I recently discovered it was back on, despite not doing so myself.

I'm guessing it's on by default in enough places now that you'll see mostly ipv6.
Ask HN: How would you monitor your Kubernetes cluster?
What are the current best practices? I you'd go with prometheus/grafana, how would you deploy it? Would you use a dedicated one for k8s?
Are you service-meshing? Would you use its own prometheus? You have a completely different setup, with other technologies?
>There were corrupt officials, plagues, bad people.

How is this rosy-eyed?

I think many people today use the idea that even though some things are miserable today it ok, because they've been miserable always. It's a sad, self-defeating coping mechanism, a lame justification for how things are.

It's possible for some things to have been better in the past, much like some other things may be better in the present. Progress like regress is unilateral.
I liked the OP’s dashboard. Maybe it’s not “exceptional” but clearly a good amount of work went into it.
As someone who has never lived in SF but vaguely heard of their issues with homelessness, that article is super eye-opening. It talks about city bureaucrats and homeless advocacy organizations, but not so much the attitude of the general public. Aren't democracies supposed to have feedback loops that will eventually solve this problem? If they haven't gotten there already, at what point will the general SF citizenry get pissed off enough to elect leaders focused on fixing this?
That's the problem with 99% of the laws they make. They attempt to write with good intentions, but completely lack the awareness of how such a law would be enforced.

In their eyes, the journalists should have been FT employees.

Uber and Lyft have the capital to fight it and it's not like other states don't exist. CA isn't worth it if they can't make money here. Would really make the new carpool lot they did for LAX a waste of money.
According to this paper, 8% of DIMMs and 32% of machines suffered from at least one correctable error per year. Without ECC, that's an undetected and uncorrected error. The average machine in the study had over 22,000 corrected errors per year. The paper observes that "memory errors are not rare
events". If you're running without ECC, you are quite likely to have some undetected corruption, which could range from a single erroneous bit over the lifetime of the machine all the way up to constant unexplained crashes and file or filesystem corruption. There are plenty of use cases where it doesn't matter but for workstation use you presumably care about the results.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
That MOE would be extremely conservative given that the proportion of interest is far from p=0.5; the classical MOE would be +- 1.96 * sqrt(0.9 * 0.1 / 1200) = +- 1.697% -- but of course it's not a representative sample as you mention.
No, but in the source you can get a message if you are the first to solve it.
The people who both think like this and are core developers of the input stack are literally the reason we cannot have nice things.

"Here, it's moving, what else do you want?"

The input experience in Linux is an example of the "Soviet style" pattern. Quoting the "Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies" book:

"You have probably used some of these Soviet-style products that do more or less what they are intended to do but in a way that you find awkward or irritating. You find that the products’ usability is not what it should be; their look and feel is unattractive; they lack certain security aspects you feel are needed; or they contain cultural references you find disconcerting or offensive. These are failures to meet the products’ non-functional requirements—those that make them appealing to the humans who use them. Such requirements are every bit as important for eventual acceptance as the functional requirements."

Whys and hows of this are also explained in this attempt: https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/172/. TL;DR is that to make a good design for anything, be it a city park, or a gas stove, or a software product, you need to widen your comfort zone to include other people besides yourself.
Agree that the US is doing a half-baked lockdown (being generous), inconsistently, and is opening up far too soon.

However, looking at the data, the death rate is only increasing; recent weekly series starting 06-April is: 3.0%, 4.1%, 5.4%, 5.7%, to 5.8% yesterday. This is actually low, since today's case count is the wrong denominator, as it has a certain amount of deaths built-in but not counted and this is still in a growth phase. Using [deaths]/[cases_on_day_-7] produces the most consistent numbers for a death rate of about 7.1%.

Neither the changes in contagion rate nor death rate, even with the half-baked lockdowns, even approximate support for your contention that lockdowns do not work.

They in fact support the opposite conclusion, even half-baked measures reduce the spread, and better measures would be better. The best are proper full testing coverage, tracking, and targeted isolation, as implemented well by South Korea.

As to your contention about the contagiousness, it is known that it is not nearly contagious as, say Measles, but is more contagious than Flu.
This made me laugh quite a bit.
> if they are mental ill, then get them on the medication they need.

What if they don't want to be on medication?

> if they are on drugs, get them into a program like NA and give them the medication to combat the withdrawl.

What if they have no interest in doing that?
This is so surprising to me. I use Fedora on Thinkpad T580 (Fedora keeps the kernel very fresh (and has best/latest hardware fixes in it)) but I can't get the palm detection to fail for me even if I try. It just works with the out-of-the-box settings for me.
I really appreciate this research. Serifed Fonts make sense for legal briefs. The fact that so many judges are drafting documents in monospaced Courier is rather surprising, though I guess the skeuomorphism may have some appeal to typewriter nostalgia.
The thing that I immediately think of when I see this are the old threads on programming fonts here on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058946
There was a ton of variety, but everyone was using a monospaced gothic font.
Research: Effects of Covid emergency containment measures in Italy
Just another anecdote but I was a kid at the time and remember the selling point for Dreamcast among people I knew was specifically that you could just copy the games. Everyone had stacks of CDs they’d copy for new console owners.
there are PE deals that are genuinely value-creating. i worked for a company that blossomed under (partial) PE ownership (until it was sold and the new owners bungled it). the problem is that the incentives and the actors in PE are often aligned against this sort of win-win deal.
Early Hydroxychloroquine Is Associated with an Increase of Survival in Covid-19
Parent is probably thinking about the books in this series: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Manual-Version-Definitive... , although the "official" X11 documentation, in the form of man pages and other docs, was pretty damn good (albeit I don't think it was 11 volumes).

Just seeing that cover brings the taste of coffee and very late nights spent at the lab back when going to bed at 2 AM and waking up at 8 AM to go to class was pretty easy.

There was a whole series. I don't remember how many volumes it had, it may have been 12 but I'm not sure. It covered a lot more than just the protocol, and it was extraordinarily comprehensive. It included pretty much everything you needed to know in order to write X11-related code.
(I work at Google on Cloud Storage).

"Developers are supposed to" is a scary way to start a sentence. ;)
Warfarin is also literally used as rat poison, with the same mechanism of action.
Opendoor Resumes iBuying
> Clients MUST NOT pass access tokens in a URI query parameter

I've been wondering about this lately. This makes sense from a security perspective, but the primary alternative is setting a header like Authorization: Bearer, which makes your request subject to browser cross-origin restrictions, and all the fun that comes with CORS. In my case, the extra round-trip required for the CORS preflight in this situation is simply a non-starter for my application.

It would be nice if there was an escape hatch for developers who understand the risks. More background in this SO question I asked a couple days ago:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/61563348/943814
Name is derivative of CGP Grey "Humans Need Not Apply"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Shotcallers versus Worldbuilders
Achoo, tag you're it
What would be the distinction between "employee" and "dependent contractor"? Unemployment benefits? Health insurance? Minimum wage?
That won't help with data races in drivers. MMIO can even race and isn't well specified.
The page has 86(ish) WCAG contrast errors mostly related to link colors: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://stripe.com/blog/acce...
Well there is always the case of iterative releases of games of a genre. So Pokemon Silver vs Pokemon Blue. It is going to based off of the original source code. So writing maintainable code is desired (from the dev at least).
> CA isn't worth it if they can't make money here.

When they write laws like this they know that CA represents 10% of the population and more than 10% of the wealth of the nation. No company would pull out of CA like that and they know it.
I'm vaguely remembering a talk I saw at Microsoft Research in 2013 by someone who studies psychoacoustics at a university I can't recall. They created an acoustic model that predicted certain qualities of a sound (wetness, harshness, brilliance, etc.), trained with data where subjects assigned such qualities on a scale for many example sounds. They used this to create 2D synth controls using the salient parameters. I believe this ended up being a somewhat popular VST plugin.
> And you're content with YT effectively having the ability to choose the way "public" discourse is censored?

This strikes me as a backward way of approaching the problem.

My opinion is that it's not only acceptable for YouTube to ban certain categories of videos, but morally obligatory. It would clearly be atrocious for them to officially permit ISIS recruitment videos in the name of freedom of expression, or in the name of never taking down political videos (ISIS is political, after all).

To put that another way then, my position is that:

1. A video platform like YouTube clearly needs to have, and to enforce, a content policy. It seems obvious that it cannot be a free-for-all.
2. Videos with political content cannot be granted a special exemption from the content policy on the grounds of political videos being special.

The question then is what categories should be on the ban list. It clearly shouldn't include ordinary political videos. It clearly should include recruitment videos from ISIS or neo-Nazi groups. It clearly should include dangerous misinformation about COVID19.

There may be contentious edge-cases, as there are for just about any matter of policy. That doesn't mean YouTube should run a free-for-all. That's just not a reasonable option.

If you want a free-for-all, a centralised platform like YouTube isn't the place to start anyway.
Guide on Certified Mail: Format, Certified Letter Tracking, Automation
We all got lucky on this one. The outcome could of been much worse, like secret leaking and rm -rf. We record everything that saltstack does and the scripts didn’t even upload anything from the infected servers.
One of DigiCert's Certificate Transparency logs was likewise open to the entire Internet -- and likewise compromised [0]:

> I'm sad to report that we discovered today that CT Log 2's key used to sign SCTs was compromised last night at 7 pm via the Salt vulnerability.

Several other "high-profile" sites have been compromised as well, including LineageOS and Ghost. I expect we'll hear of many more in the next few days.

---

[0]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/ct-...
Touchscreens and Spacecraft
Git absorb: automatically find the PR commit to put fixes into
> Love that idea. We definitely want to ...

Hi Shaun,
I appreciate the you take the time and respond to everyone here, but it's all "thank you I love the idea" with rather platitude answers (plenty of chrome extensions do not take privacy seriously..). It sounds like an interesting premise but so far there's no info on what toucan does. Could you try to explain a bit some of the basic questions people have here?

E.g.

- what exactly am I learning? Can you give an example? Is it just factoids?
- how does toucan work? What are the sources of learning content?
- is there any pedagogy or methodology apart from showing relevant info next to sites I'm looking at?
- what is your business model? Ads mixed in with the learning content? A banner ad related to the content? Selling usage statistics? Scraping websites for a search engine? ...? Clarifying this would also clarify...
- why should I trust you with my browsing data?

Good luck in any case - but a bit more info would be appreciated :-)
Of which google is a prime offender. 20 minutes ago I repeatedly clicked a google ad because my search goal was there just before it popped in.
There is an old saw: emacs is an operating system in desperate need of a good editor.
What do you mean by "very old"? This study, which is the only comprehensive public data of which I am aware, says that onset of DRAM errors occurs after 10-18 months.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
> Your link states that in general they are not seeing over-representation from people born outside of Norway.

Was a bit hasty with my attribution. See my [4] for more relevant quotes.
Also padding as far as the eye can see.
It is reasonable to suspect SCOTUS hopefuls are politically motivated before appointment.

After appointment, there is nothing to be motivated for. They hold the highest possible position in their career path and political support or approval no longer bears any utility.
I noticed this after upgrading my OS and thought something horrible had happened. Turned out to be true but it was intentional by Mozilla. If it's not broke, break it I guess.
Two things prevent me from switching away from 1Password: 2FA token support and shared credentials between multiple users (a shared family vault in 1Password). I could probably deal without the latter, but I definitely don't want to give up my auto-fillable 2FA codes.
You say “nobody cares,” but I and many people I know and work with do care! I understand your point of view but maybe you should try to understand where others are coming from.
The big difference is that sometimes users will expect a certain complexity or some unnecessary steps, so providing a way to do that will keep them from being surprised and make their existing training work.
Correct about spacing. More accurate reproduction here:

https://www.volkerschatz.com/science/float.html
GhostBSD 20.04 Now Available
Why let things crumble and not nationalize them. California can easily buy or capture them both and provide a better service. All these gig workers will become public sector employees.
Probably not the right venue for a deep theological discussion, but ya, don't you give the right answers in tests? Like if it was a test of faith about God's existence in an atheist society, the right thing to do would be to proclaim "God exists". But here, the test is to pretend that the lie is true to everyone else, but in your head, to know that this isn't the right answer?

In this moral framework, I wonder what the right ethical thing to do when another creationist is the customer? Do they both accept the lie^H^H^Htest of faith?
How Much Is My App Worth and How Do I Sell It?
In Japan, the ‘Murder Hornet’ Is Both a Lethal Threat and a Tasty Treat
You can read Uber and Lyfts proposed solution here:

Earnings Guarantee:

Drivers always receive at least an amount equal to 120% of minimum wage, plus 30 cents per mile compensation toward expenses, with the potential to earn more and no limits on how much drivers can make.

Health care

Health care contribution equal to 100 percent of the average employer payment toward a Covered California Plan, or $367 per month to a driver on average.

Drivers start earning this amount at 15 hours per week and reach the full amount at 25 hours per week

Drivers can earn multiple contributions from multiple companies

Occupational accident insurance to cover on-the-job injuries

Automobile accident and liability insurance

It looks like this may be settled at the ballot box.

https://protectdriversandservices.com/get-the-facts/

Full initiative:
https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/19-0026...
> Everyone knew that masks worked

Well, that's disingenuous at best. There's still fierce debate as to whether it's worth the general public wearing masks.

Pro life? Communism? You're really digging now. How about capitalism? Lots of people die because of capitalism. Shall we ban any debate about capitalism as well?

Freedom of speech is one of those issues that will never be resolved because there are no clear boundaries. We all agree that there are some things that people should not say. That's why we have things like libel/slander laws. I'm sure you wouldn't like it if someone was going around trying to convince people that your father likes to give blow jobs to dobermans. You would, rightfully, want that person stopped. Is that suppression of freedom of speech?

The question is: where does the boundary lie? This is where we have the debates.

> Should we ban anyone who says that cell phones cause cancer?

Possibly. The difference is we have not (to my knowledge) heard any stories of engineers being attacked because of this whereas there have been a number of stories in the news recently of engineers being afraid to go to work because of idiots attacking them because of these ludicrous coronavirus 5G stories.
That article is one of the most deeply disappointing to me - even as a composer who doesn't like traditional music theory. It starts with some criticism of traditional music theory I agree with, then goes and... reconstructs several aspects of traditional music theory anyway. Also has a common case of worship of the harmonic series but then conveniently stopping at stuff like 7:4, 7:5, and 7:6 ratios.
I bought historical option data in the past directly from CBOE [0]. Depending on what you need the prices are very reasonable. E.g. for a single symbol ~$70-$80 for a year depending on the interval you need. There is a big discount if you just buy all the symbols.

I cannot recommend the stock prices though. Somehow there were just a lot of mistakes and you can get them from other sources cheaper.

[0]: https://datashop.cboe.com
The existence of AB5 has had a chilling effect on all 1099 work in the state. That should be the argument against scraping it or at least amending it significantly.

> let them crumble under a torrent of damages at the hands of the court

That's the problem though. Uber/Lyft can weather the storm with their cash reserves, many of the other companies can't. So they just bow out of the system entirely because they can't afford the risk nor the lawyers to even figure out if they are at risk.
Correct - there was a long-term memory T cell response. However, see sentance immediately preceeding the one you quoted - basically SARS-CoV IgG antibodies ("IgG Ab" below) were totally absent 6 years after infection. So, antibodies against SARS are not produced long-term, unlike many other types of viral infections, and unlike the desired mechanism of most vaccines.

"Six years postinfection, specific IgG Ab to SARS-CoV became undetectable in 21 of the 23 former patients. No SARS-CoV Ag-specific memory B cell response was detected in either 23 former SARS patients or 22 close contacts of SARS patients."

here is HTML version of article https://www.jimmunol.org/content/186/12/7264.long (DOI 10.4049/jimmunol.0903490)
I don't think the filenames of the source files would end up in the final ROM.
That's still crazy. I live 10-min walk away from downtown and SLU (where Amazon campus is) in Seattle and pay a friction of that for a nice 1bd (and still think it's too expensive).

SF is crazy.
I vaguely remember in the Startup podcast that Gimlet Media went to non-VCs before VCs would get in on their thing. And they did eventually do a $200k crowdfunding campaign. So clearly the argument "No VC = Scam" doesn't work. I do buy that the scam rate may be higher. But I think allowing yourself to be scammed some amount is probably okay.