skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my mom used to defend chicken plants on this issue - should workers be paid for the time they spend donning and doffing their smocks and hairnets? the law was ambiguous -- I was put through college on the money from these cases!

One of these cases eventually made its way to the Supreme Court [0], but they ruled (in favor of the plaintiffs) about the validity of the collective action, not about whether the Fair Labor Standards Act covered donning and doffing (it does, at least so I believe.)

It seems like donning and doffing is considered as time worked because it's a "principal activity" under the FLSA [1], and that includes waiting time. Seems like being frisked would be a "principal activity" as well - it's essentially doffing - so waiting time would be included too.

Someone could make a pretty penny bringing a collective suit against Amazon over this.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Foods,_Inc._v._Bouaphake...

1. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/field-assistance-bulletins/...
Thanks for the feedback!
I was wondering the same thing.
No. You're missing the added complexities of supporting human life in spaceflight.
Even if it works well in the lab, it might not work at scale for any number of reasons. Definitely a potentially huge breakthrough, but let's not count our chickens before they hatch.
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If you rearrange often cubicals are cheaper. However most places replace the cubes (gotta have the latest shade of neutral off white) when the do the every 5 year rearrange... Offices tend to feel more permanent and so are less often changed. Once again making them cheaper. (though they will repaint offices once in a while)
You claimed AWS was helping them perpetuate mass murder, a claim you're going to have to back up. A sales pitch like that isn't even in the ballpark.
Sure, another example:

“... a number of American cities have passed “living wage” laws, which are essentially local minimum wage laws specifying a higher wage rate than the national minimum wage law. Their effects have been similar to the effects of national minimum wage laws in the United States and other countries—that is, the poorest people have been the ones who have most often lost jobs.”

- Thomas Sowell, referencing the Public Policy Institute of California’s “Scott Adams and David Neumark, “A Decade of Living Wages: What Have We Learned?” California Economic Policy, July 2005, pp. 1–23.”
The 25-Year-Old Behind Curative Inc, and L.A.'S Covid-19 Testing Plan
I don't think anyone's really answered my question but you've hit the closest to it I think, so I'll rephrase it in the hopes that you can clarify it for me: what do we _need_ Category Theory to do that the other branches of math cannot do either in the absolute sense, because its core axioma contain something that other branches of math don't, or in the practical sense of something it VASTLY simplifies in application? On the theoretical example, I could tell someone that using graph theory, I could prove things about visiting nodes and vertices that I couldn't simply with tree theory. On the practical example, if someone came to me and said, "Why do I need abstract algebra"? I could point out to him that if I had a vehicle with a really complex set of tires, that if you could prove an isomorphism of permutations of the tires was a group over the set of permutations, you could create a rotation schedule that would move every tire to a different spot of the vehicle on each rotation, maximizing their useful life - I don't think there's a LESS abstract branch of math that could do this. What would be an instance in either case for graph theory?
It's a pretty large community now with big personalities and polarizing figures. I think the documentary Ecstasy of Order really made things grow.

CTWC is a serious deal that you need to train for, though you can't really make much of a living on it yet like you would with DOTA or otherwise.
Meat packing and agriculture jobs in the US are presently incredibly dangerous, under-regulated (wink-wink regulated large corporations who have immense political power through lobbyists and trade PACs), and often done by undocumented persons who cannot get compensation if they are maimed or killed. Interestingly, these industries often advertise wages in Central and South American countries' newspaper to encourage migration, legal and otherwise.
Your YouTube video mentioned earlier in the comments was fantastic, thank you for that!
I think that's taking things a bit too far. Of course, the ultimate goal of every for-profit corporation is to make a profit. But along the way, most of them are providing value to society.

So much of the Internet as we know it is built atop AWS. Many people are able to shelter in place with minimal impact largely because of the groundwork laid by Amazon, during more than a decade of not being profitable. That includes ordering equipment to work from home, ordering home goods to avoid going out, running the compute infrastructure that powers teleconferencing tools like Zoom, providing entertainment options through Prime Video, etc. etc.

How many families are staying in touch through Facebook Messenger, video chats, and just plain old photos? How many grandparents feel less alone because they can see their family members and a wealth of photos every day? How many old friends reconnect because Facebook exists?

Google makes the world better in so many ways that I can't even pretend to address it exhaustively. I personally have been able to experience remote places thanks to Flights, Translate, and Maps. I use Search hundreds of times a week... the world's knowledge is more accessible than ever before thanks in part to Google's efforts to organize it.

I think it's totally right to call out companies where their behavior is poor. I think we need to demand—both through social pressure and through laws—that companies respect privacy, treat workers well, and minimally impact the environment. But I think it's taking it a step too far to claim that the world is worse off for the effort of FAANG employees. Even those working on ads... if there's no ad revenue, none of those other benefits exist.
So your perspective is that only employment which requires advanced thinking deserves good conditions and a living wage?

What is society to do with people who don't have sufficient brain power? Enslave them? Throw them in the wood chipper?
Yes. It's like, if you analyzed reasons for romantic breakups, you might conclude many were "It's not you, it's me". Which is not "the reason" in the strict sense of a single condition that, if you constructed a counterfactual scenario where it wasn't true, the breakup wouldn't have happened.
>Almost as if 'software is eating the world' is not the key to unlock Utopia, as techno-optimists would have you believe.

I'm starting to agree with this as well.

It used to be that organizations were made up of vast bureaucracies with a thinking, breathing, human being at every level making decisions. Institutions could be imposing and callous, but there was always a "flexible" human element to things. They never had the level of completely monolithic, soulless, hyper-optimized determinism that modern technologically driven corporations have become. Google was the pioneer here, with their default customer service stance of "go away, we don't care, there's another billion where you came from". But more and more the world has become an automated meatgrinder with no room for people beyond their immediate economic utility. The machines alone determine your worth as a human being, and unsupervised, uncaring algorithms can make or break your entire life.
Only bad for the party they are being extorted from. Which is essentially what happens when a monopoly over your labor supply is in place.
I decided to switch back to the (new) MacBook Air instead. I feel that had the butterfly fiasco never happened, this generation of laptops may have just dumped the Touch Bar entirely, but instead, there were so many general keyboard complaints (escape key specifically, general Touch Bar complaints, and of course the butterfly keyboard complaints), that it is reasonable that they are trying to see if this new "reduced" Touch Bar will stick, but it's just not for me. I feel that the fact that the Touch Bar has not made its way into any other keyboard (desktop keyboards or even iPad keyboards), is somewhat of an admission that it's not that crucial.

It's a really weird feeling, because on the Air the keyboard has once again returned to just being something I don't think about. I'm not ecstatic or something. Just overnight I stopped getting infuriated at my machine and feeling like a complete idiot when I'd see an email where I sent "butt" instead of "but" due to repeated keys. But it's like fixing a dead pixel, my experience is not amazing now, it's just not an issue anymore.

The problem I've always had with the Touch Bar is that I'd lightly brush some random button and all of sudden I would have triggered some action. When I first got a Touch Bar MacBook Pro, I could swear we had some weird state-resetting bug in our website. Turned out, I would just every so often accidentally hit the refresh button on the Touch Bar. Do "normal people" ever refresh a website? I feel that refresh has basically become a pro-level feature now for development. Anyways, I ended up just manually removing just about every button from the Touch Bar.

So, back to where we were 3 years ago as far as I'm concerned (on the Air).
The exchange reads like textbook example of broadbrushing. Somebody raised concerns about negative long term effects of censorship, your reply accused them personally of believing that 'Covid-19 is caused by 5-g towers'. They never even mentioned Covid19 or 5G.

> Are you saying that the truth is "Covid-19 is caused by 5-g towers"?

vs. a reformulation, to capture your stated intent:

> Are you saying that we should allow the circulation of obviously wrong ideas like "Covid-19 is caused by 5-g towers"?

Just because some of the 'Covid19 is caused by 5G towers' crowd also believes censorship is a bad idea, we can't infer that everyone / a majority of people that believe censorship is a bad idea are also believing 'Covid19 is caused by 5G towers'. Alas, our brains are very prone to this kind of elementary logic error, which makes the broadbrushing mechanism so powerful.
Honestly, the take away from these discussions is to get a desktop PC.
These are all examples of hacking. Finding a way in is the goal it can be a clever way but sometimes doing the obvious is more clever.
I just finished writing a new feature for internal use using S3. I hadn't even considered Backblaze at the time, but now that I am seeing this news we may end up using it, considering there is virtually no cost (to switch) and we haven't deployed yet.
It's clear to anyone who isn't mainlining USA jingoist media that USA is failing the current test, hard. It seems likely that expanded unionization would help us make wiser and more humane decisions. We should have laws like the ones you describe. The legislative process seems incapable of producing them, however.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200409045004/https://www.oann.c...

CNBC interview with Smalls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HUGc7R8hw
All hail to fax, but only now in the time of COVID-19 has the Supreme Court Of The United States accepted that telephones exist -- let alone as a means of communication, but also as a matter of legal deliberation.

I wonder how long it shall take to have electronic communication to be accepted, legally, as normal and standard across the board.
Yeah, everyone says level 19 is really hard on an emulator. I can't judge how much harder because I've only played on emulator and 19 is tough in any case :)
But the CPU on Air 2020 is passively cooled which means the case fan has to work twice as hard and you get hard throttling if you do anything that needs sustained work.
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CMD+up and you in `computery stuff`. Don't understand the problem
If you actually rearrange often cubicals make sense. I haven't seen that in my experience, but that is me.
I tend to agree with this. I do think that this article (as with most) brushes far too easily over the tension between tech debt and new features.

It's not uncommon to have a product person (or even team) that spend tons of time doing analysis to find high-value features. When they show up with some slick Powerpoint/Excel thing that says "If we build this feature we make $BIGNUM", it's extremely difficult for some dev (or dev manager) to come up with an effective counterargument for working on tech debt. Partially because it's not their main job, and partially because quantifying the impact of tech debt is extremely difficult. And it's very easy for that to happen every single planning cycle, even while everyone makes appropriate noises about tech debt being super important and we're totally gonna address that but we just can't justify not going for that $BIGNUM cash first!

I wish I had a solution for that - I don't. If anybody else does I'd love to hear it. :)
Not to be nitpicky, but wouldn't Sam's Club be considered a competitor to Costco?
I wonder how many people buying Macbook Pro's this year are trying to load up before Apple starts the ARM migration, thereby avoiding what may be a rough first year or two
I appreciate your perspective but I still stand by my comment, with a slight caveat. If you are in a situation where you are open to learning and you can not then the problem is the teacher. Even if you have a learning disability it is going to be the responsibility of the teacher to recognize that and move you somewhere else where you can be more productive.
I think it depends if you actually intend to learn something or not. College is really only what you make of it.
> my counterclaim was limited to the ability to learn, not perform or achieve accolades

The ability to perform is something that is learned. I'm not abusing the word 'learning' here.

It makes little difference though, as my point applies just the same. The most difficult things to learn (in the narrow sense) may still be beyond the abilities of many. I suspect this is true of many areas of advanced maths, for instance.

> you can do something useful with just knowledge, for instance, teach others who can/will exceed your performative abilities.

Sure.

> becoming an MIT professor is fraught with confounding variables like luck and politics, so that's not a great example of raw talent/intelligence trumping all.

No, the example is fine. Without a high natural intelligence, you won't even be in the running. It's necessary, but not sufficient.

> actually the best athletes are also highly intelligent

I didn't say otherwise. It doesn't impact my point, though. The average person doesn't have the natural gifts necessary to make it as a top-flight professional athlete. That takes both natural ability and hard work.

> people have limits but the inability to learn generally isn't, and shouldn't be, the limiting factor.

For most things, sure, we're agreed.
Personally it feels like without a "Hold" mechanic the battle mode isn't very well balanced
Few points.

That strain is said to be characteristic to large horseshoe bats from Yunnan

Bats in China don't seem to live so far north, and away from the coast. More so, for larger species.

The very few bats known to live near cities, are all small insectivorous species. SARS carrying bat species don't normally like living near humans.

Bats are not considered food, even by nouveau riche weird meat eaters in China.

The above mean that there should be no bats sold on wet markets. First responder reports confirm that.

1. So, out of where did the SARS strain very close to the wild virus came out from in the middle of a 10 million people megalopolis?

2. From where did the story about bats came out from to begin with?

3. It is now near certain that first reports of influx of respiratory patients happened as early as November, and it had nothing to do with the seafood market. If so, how media were first able to connect the dots to the market, and do it so quickly, and confidently?

4. The first report incriminating the market came out few weeks after first evidence of the government sending censorship directives, and instructions on outbreak handling to provincial authorities.

5. It means that a low key regional newspaper broke out a report at the same time when even a squeak about sars outbreak got people into trouble.

6. The amazing synchronicity with which top tier national medias republished the story of an obscure regional newspaper is clearly unnatural.

7. The way how zealously Chinese media came out to blast earliest reports doubting this outbreak originating from the seafood market even before that became news in the West stands out. Are all of them subscribed to the same obscure American academic journal?

8. Chinese government is no stranger to manufacturing bizarre hoaxes

Normally, this is not what Chinese government would cover up. The concealment of original SARS outbreak only happened after the fact of its existence becoming public.

What was covered up in 2003 was not its existence, but the lacklustre emergency response after it became clear that they completely screwed up.

Similarly, other natural disaster coverups only happened after it becoming clear that somebody screwed up.

I.E.: the Wenzhou train collision. The cover up was made not for screwup of signalling system designers, but to make the emergency response look "adequate." The guy wanted to render it a "small, manageable derailment accident," and not to show hundreds people dying on his hands while he did nothing.
This is an amazing insight, very very well done!
Sorry for the stupid question, but what is a "memory-safe SSH server"? Thanks!
It's much easier to do it without people for a simple reason: Risk. You can do it without concern of getting it back so you can push the limits til you tune it out. If they had to land with people spaceX couldn't have ever figured out self-landing rockets.

Imagine writing a program and you couldn't debug it fully because if it crashes someone would die. Autonomous spacecraft always were the 'easy' part, humans are the hard part.
You may already know this, but it's very tricky to package Golang projects in official debian repos because they require that every dependency be a separate package. This is a ton work both upfront and to maintain in the long-term, so we haven't made much progress on that front.

We'd love to get some help from people who are more comfortable with the debian ecosystem though! It's definitely something we want to achieve, but for the short term we had to make the decision to simply release the .deb via https://gemfury.com which provides us with free APT repo hosting for open source projects.
The cases are randomly generated; It asks for unique values of a random column in a random table. Sometimes it asks for unique password hashes... It's an edge case I didn't account for.
Hmmm... I see a correlation between taste of bread and evilness here.
I am. 13 release is planned in the 3rd quarter. The next commitfest is in july.
Here are a couple to get you started:

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2011/c...

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...
Does that really seem reasonable to you?

Should we assume that social isolation, lack of physical activity, change of habits, being laid off a job and worse health care (preventive for example) have no impact on the number of deaths? That's quite a big assumption.
Let's talk 2013 vs 2015 :D
I doubt DE salaries work the exact same as regular SDEs...

They probably get refreshers along the way too
I wish there was an odometer for electronic devices.

edit: Yes, I guess that would just be a counter. But it'd be fun to see how many miles a relic like this actually has.
A year or two back chrome implemented media controls for tabs that have media on them. Before I realized (and disabled) that, I thought the media keys weren't working on my 2014 MBP. That could be happening to you?
Isn't this incompatible with Net Neutrality?

I think Cloudflare already was against net neutrality, but people who believe in that principle might need to avoid Backblaze as well if that is the case.
I have been thinking about these issues since the beginning of the crisis, and the two big questions I have are:

1) What do you do about bonds? A very large proportion of all debt is packaged into bonds, and reducing their yield will have a substantial effect on many pensions

2) Who is going to pay the wages of the people paid to administer these loans? Are they going to accept a deferral of their wages?

I am not trying to dismiss your idea; I had many similar ones early on, but I couldn't figure out how to square the circle.
I'm not sure I see how having a great work environment and culture and compensation package justifies helping a company perform its primary function, if that primary function is harmful. I'm not reducing companies like Facebook and Google to their data and ad practices, those practices are their core business model. It's literally why they exist, despite what they may say. GM makes cars, Facebook and Google collect personal information to better sell ads. The awesome benefits and coworkers and cool problems and neat tech don't change why those companies exist. I'm simply questioning why people still work there, assuming they know what they're helping build. Ad tech. That no one wants or needs.
Cloud wars – interview with DevOps expert Tarun Arora
Apollo 11 was the previous year, that's why I thought that it's easier if a human can help with controlling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
Commute is partially under the control of the worker, where I decide to live has a huge impact on how long my commute is. I can freely decide to trade commute for money, making it my responsibility.

Waiting in line to be frisked is something mandated by the employer. They control whether or not I have to do it, and how long the lines are. Since it’s under their control, it’s their financial responsibility.
" ... in the event I die I'd rather the S3 bucket I hand over to my wife/kids in my last wishes look like a real filesystem rather than a bazillion blobs that require a special tool ..."

You'd need a cloud storage provider that just gave you a plain old UNIX filesystem to do whatever you want with.

It's too bad nobody does that ...
> I feel that the fact that the Touch Bar has not made its way into any other keyboard (desktop keyboards or even iPad keyboards), is somewhat of an admission that it's not that crucial

It's worth noting that the Touch Bar is driven by an entirely separate processor that also handles Touch ID and some other security stuff, so porting it to an external accessory is probably nontrivial.
Profit sharing at a company that "wasn't doing great" is not a promise to be paid more.
Maybe privilege is the wrong word (I never used that word in these discussions), and race/gender is completely tangential to this conversation.

I'm not trying to say that the status is unearned, either, but I see why developers wouldn't want to agree with me. It's not humbling at all, and can appear arrogant.
So many people don't realise that Free (Libre) software can be sold, and that there exist several ways to monetize Libre software to successfully support creators and Devs.
Changed: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786
Hmm Facebook paid quite a lot of fines in the last two years. (worldwide) would be interesting how much, when you add them up.
If anyone wants to play, this is the most full-featured online version I'm aware of: https://jstris.jezevec10.com

Free to use, default mode is battle royale, can easily enter 1-player sprint modes (e.g. 40L) or set up a private room to battle friends
Ace in the hole is a strong word. Starship's progress is breakneck by the standards of any aerospace program, but they've still got another booster (Super Heavy) to develop. Then they'll need multiple launches to get the vehicle into orbit and refueled before it can perform a TLI.