skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is almost surely going to be reversed on appeal because the Superior Labour Court has already decided that Uber drivers are not employees
Active Directory is a blessing compared to the hellish OSS alternatives. Don't reply with suggestions to use FreeIPA. It can be just as bad or worse.
Reminds me of a blog post from a couple of months ago where somebody was writing about "how to do X in emacs". The kicker was they were using doom emacs and didn't understand which packages or functions were actually allowing them to do their thing, nor that doom was highly customized. After getting eaten alive in r/emacs they deleted the post.

Hopefully this guy's post stays up and gets an added disclaimer about not writing shit like this without actually deep diving and learning the software they're comparing.
XAMPP, WAMP, Appserv.
netcat on a lan can do it for kids today
I think the other important angle is that land is often the foundation of other property (structures, improvements, etc.) You own land, but care so little about that land that someone else builds some other property on it. Then 20 years later you notice, and try to claim it back, what do you do about the structure and improvements? The adverse possession laws give an incentive to actual owners to exercise their ownership now, rather than incentivizing them to stay silent, so as to later claim the land and all improvements for free.
There's only a very small group of workers like in it who could benefit from being a contractor. But there is a vast number of lowly paid workers who are devestated because they can't get benefits. How do we trade off these things?
A 'regime shift' is happening in the Arctic Ocean
Ok. That's a reasonable answer and I recommend assuming good faith next time and not trolling.
You don't think that speech that condones, justifies, and glorifies slavery wasn't part of the reason why it continued to exist in the United States as long as it did? I find that a very odd argument.
My paranoia about my devices stability and its 2FA software (LG G4 bootloop victim) means that I keep two phones with 2FA verification and applications enabled - one stays safe at all times so that in case I lose or drop my new one I can use the backup.
Yes, I have one of them, so I will be watching this. Probably entirely too long to market for it to be of help to me but it is nice to know that it will be coming for others.
Their testing was probably along the lines of "Would you watch videos in a platform like this?" and "How much are you willing to pay for a service like this?"
The 25-Year-Old at the Helm of Lonely Planet (2014)
Well who would click on that article?
So a session token can downgrade an account from 2FA to 1FA.

I'm pretty sure Google forgot to inform users about this new feature.
I added "most" specifically because one of the other threads in the comments here is about not funding it through taxes (instead, through printing money).
>how can you justify having someone fired by a mob for something they SAID

I don't follow this at all. Of course people can get fired for things they say. This happens all the time in cases that have nothing to do with hate speech or other controversial issues.
I really hope that part of their use of funds is to hire a design team.
The only thing I want LibreOffice's UI to do is get the fuck out of my way.
> '"Means-testing"—as in welfare programs—specifically refers to payouts that have cliffs...'

means-testing doesn't imply cliffs, only checking (e.g., 'means' of otherwise survival) before providing.

progressive application is simply the continuous form of means-testing, rather than discontinuous cliffs (which are conceptually simpler, but create adverse incentives).

frankly, every fiscal program should phase in/out with income/wealth over the whole range (i.e., be universally progressive), rather than discontinously and/or regressively (e.g., payroll taxes).

in this regard, UBI simply says that instead of just being continuous, let's also make the payout function a constant.
Natural Language Processing in Apple Ecosystem
Another benefit of using the JVM is that you have a variety of languages to pick from that target the JVM and can interop with Java, which means you gain the benefits of all the libraries but also being able to experiment with other languages.
I think it was a good idea to rethink function keys it's just that for their current uses, the touch bar is worse. Things like steering a debugger is an eyes-on-the-road activity benefiting strongly from physical keys.

I would be much more supportive of ideas like "keys with displays" or a non-interactive strip to act as labels. What I dream of is physical pixels for tactile displays or a fleet of magnetic microbots that can swarm together to form switches, knobs and sliders at will.
A name change is all but certain, and has nothing to do with amazon.

I like your point:

Within the Southern United States, "Yankee" is a derisive term which refers to all Northerners, or specifically to those from the region of New England.
—from Wikipedia

Good luck changing the Yankees name!!
Every source I could find indicates this distinction as well as the fact that chemical active ingredients need a bit of time to be absorbed, unlike physical ingredients. Maybe you could provide an explanation for how your claim seems to fit for chemical sunscreen active ingredients?

Here's another excerpt from a different source:

> Chemical sunscreens use up to a dozen ingredients that, when applied, are absorbed in the top layer of skin. They react with the skin to absorb UV rays and convert them into energy before they can harm the skin.

> Chemical sunscreens aren’t as thick as physical sunscreens, so they are often used in sunscreens specifically made for the face as well as those found in spray bottles. Since chemical sunscreens need to be absorbed into the skin, they must be applied at least 20 to 30 minutes before heading outdoors.

> Physical sunscreens, sometimes called “natural” sunscreens, include two ingredients: zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. Together, these ingredients sit on top of the skin and deflect or reflect the sun’s rays. Think of physical sunscreens like a shield, while chemical sunscreens are absorbed into the skin. Both ingredients work well to protect from UVA and UVB (broad spectrum) rays. Since physical sunscreens are thicker, they can leave a white cast on the skin.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/cancer/about/focus-on-cancer/20...
Unknown, but highly probable. It is like saying, yea it is unknown if you press the light switch and the light would turn on. Unknown yes, highly probable - yes. Lockdowns have been since medeival times and always turned out to be a working soluction.
Worth saying, there is a whole village in China making living on oil painting replicas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViHZ_OdCDBg
Off-topic, but... why?

Is it lower friction to start up your team's blog on Medium versus the unified blog platform larger Microsoft teams tend to use?
Here in Norway it works something like this: if you are a contractor full time for the same company for three years (or is it five?) then you are considered an employee by the tax authorities and the company is required to either drop the contract or take you on as an employee.

I've probably got the details wrong but that's the general idea.
> However, one thing that no one ever talks about or thinks through is that a lot of that "waste" is someone else's job and pension. If you cut 90% of the staff at all welfare and other programs offices, those people need other jobs or have to go on the same programs.

Framed another way, we've freed up more people for more beneficial jobs. If those don't exist (and broad classes of jobs are eliminated all the time with practitioners finding alternative employment, so I'm skeptical they wouldn't) then your argument boils down to the ideal form of welfare for those people being make-work exactly matching their current situation. That may be the case, but it doesn't seem blindingly obviously true for any reason I can see.

> If everyone gets it, do prices just rise to meet that reality and soak up the "free" money.

Maybe, but you'd probably expect the opposite effect in most markets (and indeed, for similar policies like a higher minimum wage we typically observe small increases or small decreases in prices as a result). As a low-order approximation, the demand curve would have a (nonuniform) rightward shift where for any given item/price an equal or greater quantity are demanded because people are better able to afford things. Assuming a monotonically decreasing supply curve, that would move the equilibrium to more things being sold at a lower price.

That of course fails if any of the assumptions are violated (and ignores any other effects like increased taxation) -- e.g. at any price building new housing in the Bay is capped for all intents and purposes, so ignoring any other effects one might expect housing prices to continue to increase here. Housing in most places would probably eventually have a small dip/slowdown in price though, and commodities almost certainly would.

> We'll need regulations (and people to enforce them) to make sure housing prices stay reasonable for lower income people.

Arguably yes (though price fixing might not be the best solution to that problem), but that seems independent of the UBI question.

> but we should be helping more people and the well off can afford to pay 1% more of their largess to do so.

We should help more people, but I think it's more expensive than you're imagining. The top 1% of families make $400B (give or take $100B). 1% of that is an extra $500 per family below the poverty line, or $50 per bottom-99% family. It's not nothing, but $300/yr barely covers a single person's worth of beans and rice if they have the means to find a cheap bulk source, if power/water/time for cooking are free, if they're on the smaller side and not doing strenuous labor, and if they eat no vegetables or anything to offset that nutrient deficiency.
I've seen the future without paywalls and annoying javascript that hijacks your scroll behavior and it's amazing too.
How about you read the paper...

Third sentence:

> Moreover, restrictions imposed by the pandemic (eg, stay-at-home orders) could claim lives indirectly through delayed care for acute emergencies, exacerbations of chronic diseases, and psychological distress (eg, drug overdoses).

Summary:

>Large increases in mortality from heart disease, diabetes, and other diseases were observed. Further investigation is required to determine the extent to which these trends represent nonrespiratory manifestations of COVID-19 or secondary pandemic mortality caused by disruptions in society that diminished or delayed access to health care and the social determinants of health (eg, jobs, income, food security).
Offline mobs too. As a Japanese I completely don’t understand why most English speakers so casually disclose their identity so publicly.

If you post something in your real name, your colleagues WILL find it out and your boss WILL read it and your neighbors WILL scrutinize it no matter how woke your post may read. There WILL be consequences from being pointed at to losing your job and pension.

People using real names for app reviews, online comments, those are completely insane to me. Including shorthands like “John D.” Unless you are paid to do so that is.
The police budget of New York City is 10.9 billion dollars including 2.8 billion dollars for pensions.
My understanding is Cleese was making a blanket argument against what he perceives as "Political Correctness". I reject that blanket argument.

I also think it's not ad hominem to point out that Cleese is a borderline, if not outright, racist; I would give someone like Trevor Noah the benefit of the doubt if he made a sweeping argument against political correctness, but understanding Cleese's intent is part of the process of evaluating his argument. Had Cleese made a purely scientific, factual statement, telling people to reject it because he's a racist would be ad hominem.

To get back to addressing your question: in the last paragraph, I said "especially when those emotions are justified"; perhaps just "when those emotions are justified" would have been more precise and more appropriate (edit: fixed my original post).

For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with someone saying e.g. that the Chinese Communist Party is evil. Some Chinese people will be offended. However, as long as the speaker makes it clear they are not condemning Chinese people but rather Communism as practiced in China (or, tangentially, Communism as practiced/preached anywhere), I don't think a negative emotional reaction would be accurate.

"Kung Flu", on the other hand, elicits justified negative emotions, and the POTUS should not get a pass when he makes that kind of joke.
Google has recently pushed a payload that crashed any app using Google Maps SDK https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154855417

This one was a good one because the app cache was poisoned so the only solution was to ask customers to reinstall the app (after Google deployed their fix, which took a while) or upload an update that nuked the SDK cache on startup.
the previous poster presented it as a binary set of options but i agree with what you're saying - i think its safe to say we have all, at some point and in some scenario, been both victims and perpetrators. for me the answer is to simply move along with my life and associate with those who seem to be well intentioned and have positive world views. but going up a few comments relating to the cancel culture issue, for some that is simply not enough. they must become the enforcer, alert the world of the offender, until the offender is ostracized from society (judge jury and executioner perhaps). its hard for me to understand the motive but alas here we are.
Slashdot vs. Advogato – Reputation vs. Trust in Social Software
Far Cry 6 and the challenge of boredom
Hotwax: Coverage-guided binary fuzzing powered by Frida Stalker and AFL
Personally? No.

I gain nothing from Windows except overhead, particularly when it comes to servers.

I generally pare my servers down to little more than the kernel, a firewall and my very small handful of binaries for my application.
Programming at the Haskell REPL is a great experience, whether it's if you're exploring data, testing out a parser, or running an effectful computation with a given state. On the other hand when a language is impure like Scheme or Clojure I've often found myself needing to reload the REPL again and again to get to a clean state.
It is a very, very bad sign when the police start making lists of people who are trying to reform abusive police departments.
Then why even bother with 2FA? Just for the "safety feels"?

The point of 2FA is that someone that gets access to your account, such as by saying "they broke their phone and need access again", shouldn't be able to do it without the 2FA code.

I'm not sure if it's still the case now, but it must have been like at least a 4-5 years period in which auth codes/tokens were basically useless because Google would automatically fallback to SMS codes. Same issue - why offer with other "stronger" 2FA methods, if all of them will fallback to SMS?
> I hate the idea of closing it off to people that just want to side income.

Oftentimes this is a necessary side-effect of what (I believe at least) is good legislation. A minimum wage of $7 might close off a job to less qualified people who want to work for less, but on-net I think is a good policy.
Sorry, but a trackpad or TrackPoint just makes things worse. It's much harder to precision-highlight a chunk of text with those than with the mouse (or my Logitech TrackMan).
Yes, anywhere the fishing is good you can find evidence of a tribe. However, further inland (50+ mi) in the flooding swampy flats or “coastal plains” specifically around Houston there is little evidence of previous inhabitants.
Just goes to show how a functional product even with bad design can do well.

What are other software products / companies with horrible design but get the job done?
Thank you for the support!

That's one of the reasons I really wanted to make it a paid app so I had more of an incentive to support it long term and keep it updated.

If there's any suggestions you have or features you'd like to see added just let me know. Enjoy!
Oh, but this is giving a painting too much credit. A sculpture, of course, is truly three-dimensional - a painting can hardly be called three-dimensional in comparison. And this gives the sculptor too much credit, since it's just a creation of a stationary, dead object. True art comes from real movement of bodies on the stage. But this isn't true art either, for it's ephemeral. Clearly, a movie would have the most encoded information, and is thus the most credible art. But this is laziness, for anyone can hit record, it must be the person who photographs, who chooses the exact moment to capture, rather than the person who says "capture everything" that can truly get at the essence of art. /s
Now we just need an adversarially trained neural network to fill in detail [1] and we have a 21st century JPEG decoder!

[1] Implemented for a custom compressor: https://hific.github.io/
Enjoy, and congratulations on running a long-lived solvent business that actually answers its email.
Reminds me of gigabit Ethernet over rusty barbed wire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910263
I think it's maybe related to 2 things, especially for web development.

1. Unless you strictly design functions that are decoupled from any type of UI (such as your back-end "business logic"), it's not straight forward to do REPL driven development on its own.

2. If you're going to go down the path of using the REPL, you might be inclined to do TDD instead because now your efforts are saved to repeatable tests rather than a short lived REPL.
Not all regulations lead to regulatory capture, and this is not generally the pathway to capture.
And then someone uploads this image to twitter/facebook, and it gets triply re-encoded and resized with the worst algorithms known to man :(
The consequence of speech should be speech.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717010

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22157430
I'd also recommend Sour Grapes, which is about the vintage wine market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)
Maybe if Facebook were actually required to provide post-mortems, the developers would be more cautious about creating these outages in the first place. One thing's for certain, the silence is infuriating.
Would you like to judge how limited my speech should be?

For example, if someone feels me up, should I be allowed to post on Facebook detailing the encounter? Am I allowed to name them? Can I tag their employers?

If I read about someone claiming that they've been felt up, can I forward it to my friends? Can I notify my employer if they're working at the same company as me?

Essentially, can you determine a line where my freedom to speak ends?
A primary reason you might want to read something written anonymously is because it provides important, actionable information that is not available elsewhere. And the reason that information is only provided anonymously is because that information helps me but harms some other powerful group.

If, for example, someone posts a video of human body parts being ground up to make sausage at Mr. Fred's Delicious Sausage factory, I would really like to know that before I make my breakfast selection at the grocery store. But Mr. Fred probably does not want me to know that, which is why it's likely to be posted anonymously to pretect the author from retaliation.

In a world where some powerful groups are happy to have harm come to others, anonymity is a critical tool to fight back.
Current company: yes, but I also need the stupid IT Windows laptop because the company is full of Windows-only software, including internal websites that only work on very old IE (!!). They've been trying for years to migrate away to Google Chrome, but it's not done yet.

But keep in mind that "yes" as an answer does not mean good things. Keep reading.

Previous company: also yes, but I was forced to use the development environment they chose. And that was Eclipse for C++ programming, including an SVN plugin for Eclipse. When the manager saw I was editing files on Vim he explicitly asked me to not do it again and stick to Eclipse. I was in shock. I was also told do not use svn commit from the command line and use the Eclipse stuff.

A few months inside the company and I figured out why: most of the developers (except for me and the lead guy) were people with Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degrees who only took a 6-month course in C programming, some extra training and then were trying to be programmers (that included the manager). They mostly had no idea what they were doing: Eclipse was trying very hard to keep the codebase following a single coding style, but they often managed to commit wrong stuff. Build artifacts were in every single SVN repository. One of the most senior employees (7+ years developing C++ for them) once told me he was "not so sure what g++ did when it converted a signed integer to unsigned". The salary was great for everyone because the company had some very juicy government contracts. And we were rewriting the main system (basically the product of the company) from scratch because the previous one was too buggy to be maintained (according to them). I was the person who told them about the existence of Valgrind. Fun times, I can say I learned a lot :)

Thanks for reading my rant lol.
Please tell us more. What did you do next ?
Thank you for blogging here.
I get it, but the author completely misses the point when it comes to the exchange of power between people.

Think
man vs women
Black person vs police
Boss vs employee

suddenly culture A breaks down because people in power get upset and then abuse their power. I guess you can say "they are only in charge of their emotions" but when people can be fired or killed, it stops being a thing.

I've been in culture A (the military / still identifying as male): and there is a good time for it, you don't care about someones feelings in the middle of the mission

I've been in culture B (civilian life / out as a transwoman): Culture B is nice because when done correctly (sure it's hard), it lets people show their own emotional vulnerability and allows others to understand and take into account that there are people out there that grew up with widely different experiences other than yourself.

Also when the default norm is basically white male culture, once you see it from the other side you realize how bad it actually is.

(I'm aware I will probably be down-voted)
Microsoft made their consumer OS basically “free” and in doing so loaded it with so much telemetry, data collection, bloatware, and dark patterns, that it is unusable without significant and ongoing intervention.

So, no, I would not want them to have to find alternative income streams from their server OS.
In theory, yes, and I think most people here would store their backup codes properly. However, there are many people who don't store them properly, and don't think about it until it's too late. They lose their token, break their phone, or lose access in one of the many other ways.

Sure, you can say "tough luck", but then people will complain, reasonable or not, and Google probably doesn't want that to happen. I think this is a reasonable compromise when it comes to security and usability.
I am only familiar with Rackspace of about 10 years ago. Beyond the marketing speak, what is their competitive advantage? Are they doing AWS prof serv?