skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "What worker doesn't want to have access to paid sick leave?" Becerra said. "What worker doesn't want to have unemployment insurance at a time of Covid-19 crisis? What worker doesn't want to know that they'll get paid for overtime if they work 60 hours in a week or 12 hours in a day?"

Since when are we reasoning about workers starting from what they want? If we go by that reasoning, "What worker does not want to be paid 3 trillion dollars per year?". Work only exists in a narrow space between a consumer and a service. Increase the costs of running the service, and you don't have work anymore. That's not very hard to understand.
I just cancelled all of my streaming services except for Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, and I will go back to pirating everything that is not available on one of those three services. Yea, btw -- fuck anyone that thinks that is stealing. They aren't losing a dime from me. There has to be some loss for it to be stealing. If they can get DRM to the point that I can't pirate it, I STILL wouldn't be paying since I can not only NOT watch them on Linux, but I can't even watch HBO Max or Peacock on Roku -- FUCK 'EM!

Seriously, dropping support for Linux -- fuck you.
Ok. Uber closes down because it's not lucrative anymore. Drivers are out of a job.

Are they better off having no income?
I think Aaron is talking about seed and stage A rounds more so than later rounds
Storybook pairs extremely well with https://www.chromatic.com to give you that great test automation experience. Essentially Chromatic runs visual diffing for all your stories. You can run them on multiple browsers and even for multiple view port sizes.
Whats with the treand of why X should move to Rust these days?

Not saying Rust is flavour of the week but this happens with a new language every couple of years. Everything doesn't need to be rewritten. You switch languages, you might fix some existing bugs but you open lots of other ones.
You are absolutely free to disagree with your landlord by moving out and finding another place to live. Ideally there are no government constraints on either party (e.g. housing assignments, rental limitations and controls, etc.). I don’t really understand the rest of the point being made here. You wouldn’t have such a choice with a central authority giving you a housing assignment.
How to reach $1M in annual compensation
70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet
It’s not more concerning than a language that is compiled to assembler. It all depends on the quality of the compiler/transcoder.
The data looks like crap? They used search terms (!) and then had to estimate some data because they didn’t start collecting until after Covid hit.

Unfortunately, overall life satisfaction questions were only introduced into the mood tracker in April 2020. So, to consider how the pandemic and lockdown affected people’s general wellbeing, we had to attribute scores to respondents for the period prior to April based on their mood data (we calculated the scores using a statistical technique called regression).
I’m also referring to seed and A rounds.
We recently did this inside Google for LitElement (our web components library). We wrote a small Storybook-like system that pulls from the monorepo, and checked-in stories can both be displayed in a visual catalog, as well as run as visual regression tests. They can also be used for live development with our hot reload server.
Still good for shorthand, locations, coordinating communication by other means, and the like.
Let's hope someone figures out a new way to transfer money from VCs to people's pockets that is legal this time.
I think being able to touch type for the sake of typing efficiently is only the beginning.

In a sense, it's a mark of a heightened brain-computer interface. It's a freeing feeling when you don't have to use your sight for direct motor control error correction.

This is why I'm such a fan of programs with extensively configurable hotkeys/macros, tiling window managers, and (when constrained to Windows) Autohotkey.

Much more than typing wpm improves if you're familiar with your keyboard. It gives you a much tighter loop between your executing your intentions and affecting the computer.

This can be used for seamlessly executing macros or hotkeys in programs, switching window focus with barely a thought in a tiling window manager. Force multipliers.
It was covered in my public school education, but we did it in grade school (late 90s, early aughts).

I remember that back during the heyday of AIM and Runescape (which were incredibly popular at my school), students became better typists than our teachers.

A friend of mine is a high school teacher now, and has lamented to me how smartphones (particularly autocorrect) have ruined students' typing and spelling abilities.
XML is the only serious, modern document format we have and well within the realm of web browsers.
Note that you can have linear types (which is what gives you what you're talking about) in managed languages. You can have them as an extension in Haskell for exemple.

Rust is the only mainstream-ish language to really use them, though.
I don't know if there is a platform co-op specifically for ride-sharing yet, but it's not out of the question.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2018/01/04/the-platform-...

The problem is that the co-operative model is not successfully funded in the initial phases. There is little infrastructure for worker-owned businesses in this country. There is little guidance for getting investment and start-up capital when the overall aim is to primarily put profits into owners' hands and not investors'.

We need a government that supports these efforts first. A good first step would be to pass first-right-of-refusal laws.
Of course not, that’s the “hostage” part of the grandparent. I’m saying that taxi drivers and delivery services were better off before being “disrupted”. And I’m not talking about CA per se, but generally all western countries Uber operates in.

They may have a case in developing nations, I am not very familiar with the systems over there pre-Uber so I can’t comment on that.
Seems like a pretty tough time to start-up a taxi service right now.
> whereas with a federated network you have to trust your provider and all providers your friends use.

Currently, yes, you're right. However Matrix is actively working on eliminating this problem in various ways. The most recent reference I know of is [0].

However I don't think the state of things today leaves a clear winner. Right now it's a tradeoff. You can either trust Signal and put all of your communications in the hands of a single third-party (so single point of failure) or you can use Matrix and deal with the levels of trust you're happy to place in your friends' homeservers (but gain multiple points of failure).

[0]: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/dip_p2p_matrix/
I don't have any peer-reviewed papers to hand on this particular subject (they may not even exist yet), but I welcome your feedback on the reasoning that I gave as to why I think that this is, fundamentally, a solvable problem.
and this is why Trump is gonna win again! :)
They are conspicuously not having any action enforced against them, despite having similar labor problems as Uber/Lyft.
Also Microsoft/GitHub are sponsoring their build servers, so that's not a cost for Mozilla https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/07/23/rust-ci-is...
What tends to be missing from the ontology of these ideas is that a positive right without an inextricable and commensurate or contrapositive responsibility is just an arbitrary privilege, with the implication of some paternalistic guarantor who hands them out. This is why I treat activism as a tactic with skepticism, because people rarely organize and agitate to obtain more responsibility. I would argue a right without an associated responsibility just means privilege. Freedom is separate.

When people demand rights, they beg the question of first from whom, and second of what responsibility they must necessarily be taking on. When they demand freedom, they are rolling back the scope or domain of external authorities. Software freedom means using software without requiring permission. Freedom becomes an artifact of a private sphere of experience. This private sphere can be individual, it can be based on association, distance, or any number of other dimensions, but the existence of a private domain is the necessary condition for freedom. Rights on the other hand, are a public phenomenon, in that they are artifacts of an externally governed domain.

In this model, freedom is something outside the scope of governed rights, over which there is neither a guarantee or oversight. Freedom has a scope, and it can only exist within a perimeter that secures it from the external rights and privileges granted by authorities. All freedom is a limit on the sovereignty and dominion of external authorities, which is what makes it so provocative. It's also why "the rights of man," and "human rights," were so controversial initially, because they require a universal authority to enforce them.

The question of whether my exercising freedom may infringe on someones rights or their privileges becomes clearer when we measure it against whether it interferes with their responsibilities. When rights collide, the law is the tool we use to reconcile them. When freedoms collide, typically we either resort to negotiating rights, or defer to the principle of freedom and move on. When freedom collides with rights, we tend to negotiate an exception or set a precedent. But when freedom collides with privilege, neither can bear co-existence with the other.

This models why some people think others' freedom is privilege (because it is not a function of prescribed rights or responsibilities), and that rights and privileges for others breach their freedom (by expanding the domain of authority with imposed or without commensurate responsibilities). Hence playing loud music at 4am in a neighbourhood is a rights violation, and not an exercise of freedom, because it does not occur in a private domain, which is the necessary condition of freedom.
Eclipse is not an equine name?
This blog post discusses specifically what would be gained by moving to Rust, and why Rust. The word "re-write" does not appear. It is actually suggesting that new work be started in Rust. It even suggests that re-writing what's there is a bad idea!
MDN has some Python tutorials that are of lesser quality than HTML,CSS,JS MDN docs.

Those could use some work.
"Good founders".

I think it's prudent to at least take a minute, step back and examine the potential cognitive bias going on in one's head when the belief system is built on something like "there's plenty of food on the table for good people."
Mozilla was dead to me the moment they decided to financially support the encrypted communication services of antifa (riseup.net). Even though that donation was a drip compared to what the CEO pulls out of the organisation.

I straight up deleted it! And I make sure that any organisation I get into won't bother optimizing or even testing for FF since it has such a small user base these days that its not worth bothering with it, testing on the default android browsers and safari has higher priorities these days.

If the end users complain, we tell them to use ANY other browser now and they are happy with it.

This is what you get when you pose as an NGO that stands for values such as free-speech and openness while you do nothing but stiffle it behind the curtains. (Helping professional political agitators, that are renown for attacking peaceful protests etc is the opposite of supporting free-speech, so is getting your own CEO booted for having an opinion, controversial or not!)
Uber isn't the only company who provides this commodity.

If Lyft continues to operate, that certain class of urbanites will switch to Lyft before they complain to their reps.
Paul Saffo and Why Your Google Subscription Fee Is Overdue
The platform co-op is coming for Uber (2018)
Donate via check.

Write "Restricted funds - see attachment" on a check. On the attachment list check details and a restriction such as "Direct expenses for <blahblahblah> only." If you just do not want it to go to G&A fluff fund the execs use to live a large life, just exclude G&A: "<blah blah blah> purposes only. No G&A"

Regulations for non-profits aren't a joke. If they took your restricted funds, you bet they are going to follow the restrictions.

Non-profits may hate it but at the end it is money. So they take it. If they decline to cash the check, no skin off your back.

Source: lived in a non-profit land as a tech consultant. Heard constant bitching about big donors being smart and always restricting funds above a few hundred dollars. Execs of every non-profit that pretends it cannot deal with restrictions are taking the donor for suckers and are fleecing them.
Well, they wouldn't be looking for Earth specifically, they'd be looking for more resources which are everywhere. An intelligent and energy-hungry enough species would want to harness the power of every sun it can reach.

That growth would be exponential because acquiring resources provides more energy which allows them to acquire more resources even faster.

If an intelligent species doubled the number of stars they control every 2 million years, they'd have every star in the milky way in around 50 million years.

That's still like 0.2% the lifetime of the galaxy.
> the free world

Ah the famous free world where our social media posts are heavily censored, where lock-down was / is mandatory for a lot of us, and where protesting can cost you an eye (at least 20 people lost an eye last year in France's Gillets Jaunes protests).

Yes we still have it better than the Belorussians but free our world is certainly not.
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> Developers are notoriously cheap. If they have the option of Firefox with paid dev features, or a free Chrome, I'm pretty confident I know which one they'll choose.

Exactly. Especially since Firefox is one of the only non-Chromium based browsers left. If you pivot towards only courting developers and make it a paid product, you now have a product that no longer at all represents the browsers (and rendering engines) that users are using. Why test on Gecko when (now that it's paywalled) no one is actually using Gecko?
It'll force local municipalities to take care of their transportation needs directly instead of outsourcing it to disloyal mercenaries.

The cities that will be hurt are the ones that over relied on a parasitic business instead of investing in essential infrastructure.
Genuine question: what is proper management?
We love rewriting code from scratch
Pulumi Kubernetes Operator: A K8s controller that deploys cloud infrastructure
And child labor!
I'm a bit older than you, and the typing class I took in high school (or was it junior high?) was the best thing I ever did. That was in the '70's sometime and we still had mechanical typewriters. It was not yet obvious that keyboard skills would be super important in the future world, so I don't remember what attracted me to the class.

Later in college someone as a prank removed all the keytops from a time sharing terminal. Didn't stop me, I just sat down and started typing.
Just make the whole service distributed. Cut out Uber. Connect me directly to a driver through open source software.

Person A exists who is willing to drive from point a to point b for x price. I am willing to pay x price. An open source software exists to connect us both in real time.

Who will the government regulate in this scenario?
Ooooh, no black bar for the womanly scientist. Is it because the female gender is too smooooth and pettable and it might overwhelm the handsome young men here?
This is incorrect. Most ATP found in our cells is in the form of MgATP and magnesium is crucial for the regulation of ATP production [1]. ATP levels are tightly controlled within cells and although mitochondria may play a role in psychological disorders [this article][2] simply saying that less ATP means less anxiety is wrong.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960558/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997778/
> You're just a constant pain in the ass

Not as much with inattentive-subtype. Then you just spend lots of time reading and are somewhat disorganized.

Until you get to adulthood.
> If you're doing badly, why would you want to keep working on this for 24 or 36 months? That’s a waste of your time.

If you were writing a book and it was taking six months longer than expected, but was otherwise high quality, would you just abandon it? Or would you say that, you know what, in the big picture an extra six months isn't really material in terms of the expected benefits that will accrue over the next 20 years of my career?

I understand that by raising capital you're committing to provide a certain return on investment. But if you're actually making progress toward creating some asset of value, then structuring your business so that you need to shut it down if it's taking longer than expected seems to be not aligned with what would seemingly be in the best interests of any rational stakeholder.
Britain as a society was no doubt for and against slavery, given that its economy had major dependencies on slave-driven commerce and production. But that does not justify a purely cynical reading.

Most societies of that time did not even bother to outlaw slavery, let alone enforce those laws. There were contradictions within British society. That was an enormous advance over the many societies and nations that simply accepted slavery in that period.

Societies in Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Europe were open in their commitment to and acceptance of slavery as an institution. You could say that slavery was the norm historically. Britain was the exception. And as the exception, managing a global empire, it continued to have many interactions with slave-driven economies.
Would you be content with calling it 'somewhat democratic world'?
I am sure you are trolling now. You pick an example from some unknown dictionary, explicitly marked as offensive right there and pretend there is an argument if it's offensive or not. Is not this exactly what you had been accusing me of doing?
Anyways, my position is pretty clear - if you disagree and want your own language, I am fine with it, have a day.
I agree that lockdowns & SIPs are terrible. It’s why people dislike being grounded at home or like you said serving a sentence at home, etc.

Of course there are things we have to weigh, physical health threat vs mental health pressures and national security, etc.

But you are absolutely right that the media want to paint narratives. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s not so much collusion but rather it’s their nature to do that. So both on the left or right we get narratives. They feel obliged to herd people one way or another. It’s like they’re on a mission to getting people to not think for themselves. That’s the main objective.
Do you recommend any books / courses that could help give me some sort of curriculum around this knowledge ?

I unfortunately don't know what I don't know, so I'd need a bit of guidance to learn efficiently. Something like http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ maybe ?
Isn’t deleting expired encryption keys how Snapchats are ‘disappeared’?
https://jalopnik.com/holy-crap-the-mitsubishi-eclipse-was-na...
> I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you're learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.

In my experience, I did look more than intended to, and more than I thought I did. What really drove this home was not a blank keyboard but a mislabeled one (created, at the time, by popping key caps off and rearranging, being sure to preserve F and J).
Can you explain why? Why would a fork need anything more than hosting and a mailing list?
Wa-Tor, a population dynamics simulation
I cant make sence of your post. Could you elaborate?
Yes! Build something. Contribute to open source, do some charity work, personal project you care about, teach a class at a local code school/college, make a tutorial video, etc. When you have a track record of good work, people will find you.
One thing that I wish I'd known when I first started to use Cost Allocation Tags in AWS as described in the article -- they won't apply to any resources created before the tag was created & activated. Well, you can apply them but they won't return data to your cost reports. For some resources this is not a big deal -- any individual EC2 instance I can respawn pretty easily, or I'm not doing my job right. But there's lots of things in the accounts I administrate that would be far less trivial to re-create, due as much to organizational issues as technical ones. Being able to apply CATs to old resources and start getting cost data back would be a huge improvement for my day-to-day work.
I think it's deeper than that. It's not just that people can't reason with those concepts. It's that people don't want to restrain their own behavior.

Say I want to play my music loud at 4 AM. I'm probably not going to reason about other peoples' rights limiting mine, or whatever - not because I can't, but because I don't want to. I just want to crank up my music and rock out, I can't be bothered with philosophy right now.

But I fear that, if people will not restrain their own behavior, the only alternatives left are authoritarianism and chaos. And most people, after a taste of chaos, seem to prefer authoritarianism.
You left out that it might make people support Prop. 22, though it could also backfire. The other choice would be hire some of the drivers who are already effectively full-time and pass on the added cost to riders, but in the days of Covid, that won't make the same splash as suspending service.
> This practice only works if companies keep paying male workers more

Huh? That is completely unrelated to why this is done.
I think a lot of what he's talking about boils down to basic communication issues.

Venture Capital would be helped by a formal renaming of funding rounds. "Series A" or "Series B" is not indicative of what that money is for. Even "Seed" doesn't really mean anything these days. It would help clarify expectations for founders and VC.
In some current wars, civilians were able to use bluetooth and wifi p2p applications to circumvent the gov't blocks.
What happened after you reported them?
Among the things that failed in the design for healthcare.gov: the overall plan was to have each component built, to a specification, and then any two teams that were integrating components would test integration, and the whole thing would work.

Three pieces of the puzzle missing:

1) It appears there was no honest-to-God real end-to-end testing in the plan: no team to own it, no chain of responsibility if it didn't work. So cross-functional issues like total system performance were ownerless, and it is the nature of government contracting work to push blame away, not assert ownership where none is demanded by the contract.

2) Even in integration testing, responsibility was unclear when it failed. If the specification itself proved faulty, neither side of the protocol had ownership over fixing the problem; faulty specs led to pissing matches of blame-pushing instead of any party saying "Okay, the spec is now this, just fix it."

3) Since nobody had holistic ownership, no core infrastructure decisions were made. The whole project, under the hood, was a mismash of different databases, languages, messaging services, and protocols, owned by (and chosen by) each contractor with no thought paid to long-term maintenance of the app as a singular service. Each team had their own ad-hoc dashboards with no top-level view to allow anyone to understand why the end-to-end site experience was broken. There was nobody to own a concept equivalent to "Ops" or "Site reliability" who had authority to make judgement calls here; long-term maintenance was going to look like full understanding of dozens of similar systems doing similar tasks.