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I love Firefox and use it as my primary browser for years but few things which annoy me:

- Sending tabs between devices does not work. It sometimes arrives 12 hours!!! later

- Google Cloud Console has some UI issues on Firefox

- Twitter input field behaves extremely strangely when you enter an emoji and try to edit text afterwards

- I don’t understand why some html elements have a different appearance and default css attributes on Firefox mobile vs desktop
Doomed is a bit of a strong word. I personally prefer static types because they reduce the number of unit tests I have to write, and at a higher level (following from this) they can inform the design of a system in a way that encourages robustness. Algebraic data types are not really inherent in functional programming at all; as you mention you can do it just fine in a dynamic language and a good chunk of ADTs and type stuff translates to say Rust as well.
I mean, personally I think a year is a better time estimate for connectivity returning (and maybe 3+ for economic recovery) but you are also looking at some specifics to airbnb here - much of their growth was people converting long-term rentals to short-term rentals - many of those will either get locked back up in the long-term rental pool or go into foreclosure

You also have the case that like stock prices employee hiring is often based on projections for anticipated need in a high-growth business - it's such a friction point, you are trying to stay ahead of the curve to build the capacity to grow now and handle that growth 12 months from now
Hierarchy of Security Product Needs and Vendor Selection v1.0 [Satire]
Enjoy https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/ , by the same author.
They wanted like $1400/month for family coverage when I left my last job. I rolled the dice and went without it. It's available retroactively so if you need it later you can sign up for it.
I don't like non-competes at all, but I don't see how my comment refers to them.
1/3 is not a small number in this equation though!
From the title, it reads like the warehouse worker died at the warehouse. According to the article "company said that the employee who died hadn’t been at the warehouse since April 11".
'providing “inadequate” protections to its workers under state law'...

What is "adequate"? What would be adequate from any company?
We are quick to say inadequate, but at what level would we say "sure XYZ company did adequate job at protecting employees"?
The answer is never. The only "permitted solution" is complete company shutdown. But, would we stand for that? Would we tolerate Amazon shuttering her doors until this is over? I highly doubt it.

This bothers me not only for Amazon for pretty much any politician's perspective. What is "adequate"?
Not a dumb Q at all.

It's a call option, with no premium paid, a strike price specified [typically the last 409A valuation or other better proxy of current value], subject to vesting [cannot exercise before this date], but with an expiration some number of years into the future (typically 10 years from the date of the grant).

So you had it basically correct, except they don't expire at the vesting date.
I mean, is that out of character though? I was going to vote for bernie but if trump extends federally funded healthcare to everyone and abolishes private health insurance (which, as far as I know, wouldn't negatively impact his financial supporters as much as bidens), hell yeah I'd vote for him. One issue, done deal.
> Your FU money doesn't mean a damned thing if societal norms die due to a pandemic or disaster. If anything, they'll just make you a target for the actual collective when it gets bad.

We aren't talking about a French revolution type event here. In anything from Katrina to the Great Depression to even this current pandemic, financial security was/is crucial for maintaining your own well being.

And in the modern world where you can travel, it needs to be a truly global collapse for couple hundred thousand saved to not offer a path to safety.
Unstyled buttons look like Aero. CSS-styled buttons (custom color, border appearance) look like 9x.
> However, I cannot promise to keep every conversation strictly confidential, as I am obligated to report probable violations of the Amazon Code of Conduct and Ethics [1] in my position (including any discrimination, harassment, or retaliation of any reports of misconduct or concerns that are made in good faith by an employee).

narc spotted
> Crucially, Vitamin D gained via sunlight is significantly more effective

Do you have any citations for that?
The number of available suites spiked in Vancouver after this announcement.
right right, it was confusing to me that they mentioned COBRA but it does sound like Airbnb is paying, which is good.
I am only able to download the abstract. Is there somewhere full content available?
Did have to remember the linux law case of a few lines of code nearly got the case. Very hard checking about anyone copy a few lines. Not a good development short term. Good for historical analysis.
Coronavirus: Prof Neil Ferguson quits government role for 'undermining' lockdown
It’s definitely not _always_ just about code reuse, particularly when you start really stacking GHC pragmas and such.
It's pretty well-established that we (in the West) consume far more protein than we need. We don't need to go vegan but do need to reduce meat consumption.
Moynihan’s Law
Maybe I'm being a techno optimist but I really am rooting for Beyond Meat and all the plant based alternatives here. I've tried to go vegan a few times for both the ethical and environmental reasons but have never maintained and end up a 'reduceatarian.' I just think realistically the best chance for animal welfare is that plant based meats become cheaper, tastier, and healthier and just replace the majority of them, leaving only a high end segment of meat that was well treated; and then it doesn't seem morally wrong to eat since you're helping enable a net "good" life for an animal with your consumption rather than the horrible conditions most animals are raised in today.
maybe with a little bit of parmesan cheese in it also, yummmm
Even if we "open up" the virus won't be gone and society will have to function in a cautious state to mitigate the spread of the virus still. Lockdown was simply the most extreme portion, but the rest of the mitigation efforts will still have to continue at least until a vaccine is available. This means the economy is not going to return to normal for a long time.
It got as far as little preview content things for links and RSS, and never as far as RDF tuples. Ah well.
Makes sense to me. At a minimum people should know how reality looks.
> Save the animals

50Bn chickens each taking 1 square foot of space in an endless battery farm makes an area about the size of Delaware. Per year.

Save them, and then what?
I highly recommend start.me as new tab page. It can be a bit slow to load so I use the singlefile addon to bundle it into a self-contained HTML that I set as my new tab page. Nothing else satisfies me!
There are no free lunches. But do note that this is also factored in into AirBNB's/Google/FB/IBMs/Microsoft's compensation as well; They could have paid everyone more and let them save for themselves, but -- like healthcare -- factor it into the "employer's cost" of which "visible" salary+RSU+ISO+bonus is only a part (70-90% depending on many factors).

The main difference is that in the US it is optional, so only the well-to-do employers and only at good-enough-time do it -- so the expected costs are weighted by the probability they will do them (say, 30% - I'm sure they have a good idea) -- and they can bail out at the last second if conditions are unfavorable for them to do that.

In Europe the systems mostly mandate it. The difference is more striking with respect to pensions paid on retirement - they are "optional" for the employer in the sense that they could (and are) discharged in bankruptcy, meaning that after 40 years of employment, one bankruptcy event (we'll see many after the lockdown) is all it takes to deny those payments.

There are no free lunches, indeed - the cost of higher US salaries are unpredictable (and often unfavorable) future cash flows for employees -- and only in some industries are the salaries high enough to actually allow the employees to prepare for that.

edit: I've heard someone describe these forcefully-ensured severance and retirement funds as "denying one the ability to steal from their future selves". I think that's an apt description of what it is.
Yep. Ordered a freezer in March from Costco, delivery scheduled for June.
Other than programming language, what are the main differences?
Spies Snuck Malware into the Google Play Store–Again and Again
For a variety of reasons, unemployment is a split federal/state responsibility funded by insurance. The framework was established back in the Social Security Act of 1935. Unemployment is administered and has rules developed by states that need to meet Federal standards, and the feds fund parts of the system and keep the state funds solvent.

Benefits vary greatly. It has been awhile since I worked with this stuff, but IIRC Massachusetts is the highest payout ($750+) and places like Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Arizona are <$300.

Severance is usually part of an employee contract (if one exists) or commonly part of an agreement at separation where the employer gets some benefit (waiving the right to sue, etc).
I'd rate it as pretty likely that humans are the biggest animal killers. Most carnivores are supply-limited, whereas humans create billions of animals every year for the express purpose of killing them because there wouldn't be enough in the world otherwise.
If Wikipedia is to retain a deletionist editorial cultural, I'd at least like to be able to access the history for deleted entries and read old versions of such entries. As it stands, those entries seem to be permanently removed from public access (and maybe even on the back end.) I don't like that 1984-style versioning, which gives the message that certain entries never existed in the first place.

(I'd understand a small exception for copyright infringing content--that such content should remain unavailable when deleted.)
I think our arguments actually agree with each other: back then (and I concede now, to some degree), it was in the interest of a few to subjugate the many (as in, nobility carving out a political ruling class for their own advantage): if you could be rich and powerful, with little to no consequences, why wouldn't you. That's certainly in your individual interest. Collectively, though?

It could be argued that, because the powers that be willingly prioritized their individual interest over their subjects ' collective wellbeing (be it intentionally "Let them eat cake"-style or because they were just dysfunctional rulers who couldn't keep their subjugates from starving, it doesn't matter; either way they dedicated more resources to themselves at the expense of everyone), these rulers were overthrown: the United States Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, etc. were all products of the elite few irresponsibly divvying up resources for themselves to the point where their subjects decided en masse it would be better to fight to change the system and possibly die rather than live under present conditions; regardless of how each of those revolutions turned out, what is clear is that if the government (or whatever powers that be) prioritizes its own interests too much over those it supposedly represents, it, too, will be overthrown (or at least, changed by external forces).

Modern day governments have an intrinsic interest in making sure that doesn't happen, and a big part of that means making sure society is collectively content enough to not pull the plug. But now I'm just philosophizing.
Number of pixels rendered per second is much fewer on SE I suppose.
These types of pages and articles always draw out a bunch of weirdly sociopathic comments saying things like "mm, delicious" or "now I'm hungry", etc. Why is that?

It's possible to materially enjoy the taste of meat while simultaneously being horrified by the scope of man's destruction and industrialized cruelty. It's entirely another thing to revel in your own ignorance and disinterest of the issue. Really revolting.
This is wrong, those variants are value constructors. The type constructor there is “answer,” there’s only one of them.
Thanks for sharing, but that's yet another publisher I have to trust with "read and change your data on clients2.google.com, read your browsing history, manage your downloads."

It'd be great if chrome and firefox allowed open source chrome extensions to be compared with their git source tree, possibly with diffs between releases.

Still, though, how many people will go through that effort?
How about setting an example first and not worrying about other countries?
I wonder if 30% unemployment might also have an effect on rental prices
> What happens to your healthcare as a Californian the minute you travel out of state?

The same thing that happens to your healthcare when you travel out of country — this is an edge case that systems don't typically have to adjust for. California's single payer healthcare system could even guarantee travel health insurance up to a certain amount. It's something that happens so rarely that the state can probably cover it. The vast majority of healthcare costs go towards non-emergency care, anyway.

> Something so important should not be in the hands of states. There's a reason we don't have every state building separate armies and nuclear arsenals. Why have them create their own disparate patchwork of healthcare approaches?

Well we're not talking about armies or nuclear arsenals here. Decentralized healthcare isn't a novel concept, that's how it works in the European Union: there are open borders, no need for work visas between states, and yet they all have different healthcare systems with varying degrees of generosity.

In Switzerland, healthcare is a matter entirely left to the Cantons and is outside the purview of the Federal government.

In Canada, the single payer system is Provincial, and came about exactly like this: as a so-called "patchwork". Saskatchewan was the first Province to offer single payer in 1947, followed by Alberta in 1951, etc. By 1961, all Provinces had some form of a single payer healthcare system.

> The strength of any nation's economy relies on the health of its citizens, as we are now learning the hard way.

Sure, but we're at an electoral deadlock at the Federal level, partly owing to the structural nature of the Federal government that heavily encourages doing things at the State and local level.

The political will to do this exists in many States, it's just a matter of executing on it.
12-18 months minimum, probably longer.
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I think we completely agree.

Discussion like this, just reminded me that the "left" worldwide has somehow managed to loose huge swaths or the entire support of the working class in the last decades and are now often considered ivory tower elitists.

I think it is good to remind oneself, that if you want to help, you should sit down and listen to the people you want to help, and make sure that your action can actually have tangible impact and are not just to make yourself feel better.
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Some context for the scale of this:

“[F]armed poultry today makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% being wild. The picture is even more stark for mammals – 60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock, mostly cattle and pigs, 36% are human and just 4% are wild animals.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-ra...
The issue with the Dreamcast was 99.99% piracy. The console was brilliant, the games were brilliant, and it sold very well and was incredibly popular.

But anyone with a CD burner could make illegal copies. I was like 15 at the time, and hardly technically savvy, yet I had tons of pirated games for the Dreamcast. At least the PSX required mod-chips to play pirated games.

Sales were pretty strong for the console for the first year or so, and the first-party titles available were really strong. But hardly any third party devs made games for it, particularly EA, so the console lacked staying power. There's only so many games SEGA themselves could afford to release.
Just last week I was thinking we need solar cells wired up in a tree structure with batteries integrated into the tree so that we don't need to combine series and parallel or have the drawbacks of either. Is anybody doing that? I presume they would need to be connected with fluids, electrolyte in channels instead of with wires. Or have I just reinvented the tree?
Been using Pushbullet for years to send tabs between devices.
Yes, I still don't like this. I've got used to it, but when I was testing it on Dev edition of FF, it was covering half of my bookmark toolbar, and I couldn't get over it. I wish they had a setting to toggle it, which I think a browser like Vivaldi would implement.
Would it work like the warning labels on cigarettes in Europe with diseased lungs on them? Show what a factory farm looks like on the package and if you still want it go for it.
Let them live their lives and stop breeding more.
Then you will probably enjoy these:

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

* https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2016/01/01/0/

* https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/tags/supervisors/
(title shortened to meet limit: s/for/after/)

The only thing about this that surprises me is that he's British. I thought we Americans had the lock on "the rules don't apply to me".

And as for HN relevance, in my experience, "the rules don't apply to me" is endemic in our industry as well. Fortunately, in our case, that usually only results in drama within near-pointless corporations.

(The ZeroHedge headline is much snappier: Scientist Whose Doomsday Models Sparked Global Lockdown Resigns After Breaking Quarantine To Bang Married Lover)
A drop-in component so your product can do what exactly?

To be an OIDC Relying Party [1]?

To be an OIDC Provider [1]?

To be an OAuth2 client [2]? Keep in mind, being an OAuth2 client is probably not useful by itself -- you'll have to program your app to deal with the resource server's specific APIs to accomplish anything, and request the appropriate scopes for the situation, based on what you're doing.

[1] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#Termin... [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.1
I know these kinds of comments are meant to shut down conversations about meat-eating. Even if you find something delicious, it's possible to reduce consumption to have a positive impact on both the animals and the climate. After all, many of us love sugar (or alcohol or salt or fried snacks) but we control our intake.
First, you probably don't need to read academic articles to learn about functional programming. There's really nothing magical or complicated with functional programming. For instance, Scheme or OCaml are routinely used as beginner programming languages in schools around the world.

You can start with the basic concepts and eventually build your way up to more abstract constructs when you realize you need them. But even there, you don't need to know the academic terminology (or if you do, it'll make more sense when you get familiar with the language).

I frequently use monads and functors, yet I don't know much about category theory (and the little I know doesn't make me a better programmer).
Indeed, but again, I don’t care about that while I’m developing locally.
The workers would be creating a non compete for their own positions, and enforcing it against amazon hiring the scabs. Their right to do so is questionable, just as normal non-competes are, but we'll see how legal judgement works out I suppose.

This is all very interesting stuff. Exciting time to be alive.
Sure, you can go around punching everyone in the face pre-emptively. At some point you realize, everyone else has taken their ball and gone home and stopped engaging with you. You have become a bully yourself, and you still didn't get what you wanted.

I really can't think of a more fitting analogy for what has happened with Bernie bros over the past 6 months.
The whole emulation scene (well at least a very good part of it) is full of drama. That's fascinating; they somehow have the time for that after writing state of the art whole system highly optimized emulators, sometimes inventing new techniques on the fly...
Someone drives 40 hours for Uber one week, and then goes away for two months. How much health care do they get? Do they get cash or a week of benefits?

How much cash?

Same as the W2 employees but prorated?

Technically even full time W2 employees don't have to get health insurance or paid time off. So what if they company doesn't offer insurance or PTO to their employees. Are they off the hook?

Your system sounds good but unfortunately isn't tenable.

Ironically, if we had single payer healthcare that was funded by taxes, the entire thing would be moot. You'd pay into health care based on what you earned, and you'd get out the same as everyone else.
Global markets should price in externalities, and leave the moral questions up to each nation.

Cultural imperialism is so last century.
NL: starting point is one month per year of employment.
There's more detail to it, but that is the starting point.

This compensation does not sound "vastly more generous", but not bad for those that were less than 5 years employed.
It actually would be a great idea if the government encouraged companies (e.g. via tax cuts) to put a photo of real animals (taken on location by an approved government inspector) on the packaging of the meat product. This would create an incentive for companies to treat animals well so that the photo also turns out well and they get a nice tax cut for participating so it can be totally voluntary for companies to participate.

I think creating incentives for companies to be more transparent by offering tax cuts would be a great model for many industries and would give ethical operators a competitive advantage.

IMO, the government should put more focus on creating incentives which encourage positive behaviors because enforcing laws is difficult, expensive and their interpretation is often subjective (hence the need for lawyers).
I would strongly encourage you NOT to quit. There will basically always be people who take your place. Tech workers at Amazon have unique leverage to change the company that no external groups do. I work at Amazon and I'd rather you stay and fight the good fight!
This one is more generous, true, but the real question is, because the employer decides, how likely it is to be better than European countries that have the same standard for every employee.
For philosophical issues surrounding this topic, I recommend Michael Huemer's Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism: https://www.amazon.com/Dialogues-Ethical-Vegetarianism-Micha...
I think you might be mistaken on the flexibility of the infrastructure.

I personally don't think IP (tcp and udp included) will be used on Internet 2.0. Theres just too much baggage with those protocols.

Perhaps we'll see Internet 1.5 leverage encapsulation and build a huge underlying canvas for new protocols to blossom, but we seem to be approaching the point where anything with an IP address is too much of a hassle to maintain and a longterm security liability/commitment.

Just moving IP to the borders of a network would open up space for more secure protocols.

Its probably time we put the middle one behind port 79 anyways.
One is to just increase awareness that the autopilot act of going to a supermarket and buying meat has a lot of cruelty behind it and hoping that smart people realize that it's not sustainable or ethical. Eventually, no one can force a decision and a forced decision wouldn't practical in the long-term either.
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