skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers got fast enough that applications can now be usable and useful despite doing things in massively inefficient ways. That inefficiency is wasteful in terms of CPU cycles but it can also be helpful in terms of development cost as it means developers can spend less time on problems like designing efficient data structures. For example, an inefficient JS application that uses reference passing is much easier to write than an efficient application that requires the developer to manage pointers and memory addressing. That's a good thing for the 99% of software that runs on CPUs that are idle 98% of the time, and a terrible thing if you have a CPU-bound programme.

That inefficiency has a beneficial side effect too - it eliminates whole classes of bugs that come from devs doing hard stuff.
I store my passwords in Bitwarden and my 2FA info in a local Keepass database. I don't feel comfortable putting both in the same place and find Bitwarden far more usable day to day.
>As U.S. schools reopen, a study finds at least 97,000 students were recently infected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/world/coronavirus-covid-1...

Study referred to above:

>Children and COVID-19: State Data Report

https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Chil...
There's a lot of reasons but the number one one is because there's only a two party system here in the US and the Republican one by it's policies and histories is almost entirely reliant on non-white voters not showing up in the electorate. It's not quiet, in NC they've explicitly targeted voting days and locations that are predominantly Democratic and non-white [0]. Second is just our whole system, the states are independent and run their own voting so tracking movement between states is harder in places that having intentionally done something like motorvotor (where ID and voter registration happen together). [1]

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-carolina-voter-id/

[1] Again generally opposed by Republicans because it would mean more voters which demographically isn't good for them.
Surely, I do care about putting (good) food on the table and that seems the only motivation that keeps me doing this. But it used to be more manageable in the past and I certainly do miss those times when when you learned something new you felt empowered and almost giddy with joy. That happens less and less and I feel the dread coming down in advance when the new fad comes in and having to learn something new that isn't just better, in many cases something arguably worse and needlessly more complicated. Recently I had to develop an app in Microsoft Powerapps and while I admit to some good business uses the whole experience was an exercise in frustration. And it felt more like monkey around than programming if you know what I mean.
> I have several friends that actively choose to be contractors because they prefer the (legally protected) flexibility to decide their own hours

Those legal protections can be enforced by those who have the means to hire a lawyer. Yes, white collar contractors often get to enjoy the legally enshrined protections to decide how, when and where their work is done. They are often paid twice as much or more than their salaried peers to make up for the increased costs of self-employment and lack of employer provided benefits.

Blue collar workers working as contractors are almost always doing so not for their own benefit, but for the economic benefit of their employers. The workers get little say in how, when or where their work is done. Their pay does not reflect the increased cost of self-employment, and they are not offered benefits.

Uber drivers can't even set their own rates.

As an aside, there are plenty of people employed as employees with flexible hours and schedules in the US.
Same with electronic part datasheets. I need to be able to mark up and save datasheets along with the other documents which make up the design of a product.
It's not a planet is it? If Pluto is not a planet, Ceres certainly is not either.
Tell me about it. I'm shopping for non-employer family health coverage right now and I bet if people in the rest of the OECD knew what that looked like here they'd lobby the UN to send peacekeepers and relief aid. Country's great for making money, and also great at taking a bunch of it with little to show in return. And inconveniencing you for the privilege.

Five figures a year for another five figures of risk exposure, and none of it even applies except at about (optimistically) 1/3 of providers in one state—wrong hospital a mile from your house, you're uninsured. Travel out of state and get in a car wreck without getting some kind of travel insurance ahead of time which'll probably also find a way not to pay in the fine print anyway, like you're going to f#cking Colombia, you're uninsured. Ugh. This friggin' country.

(for those outside the US, you can translate "you're uninsured" to "you are definitely going bankrupt if you actually need a hospital for anything. If you're very lucky you'll still manage to get sufficient care before they realize you have no money left. And then if you also lose your job as a result of the health issue it gets really bad but at least you might get government insurance then, after it's too late to save you from permanent poverty.")

[EDIT] oh, and yes, that's about as good as it gets in my state—that's not, like, the worst option, that's ~ every option. Almost every insurance provider has left the individual (i.e. non-employer-provided) market, leaving bottom-feeders who've figured out new ways to deliver nearly-useless coverage while technically complying with the ACA, plus a few "non-compliant" coverage options that, aside from being crap (but at least cheap crap, instead of expensive crap) expose you to tax liabilities, if the Feds ever decide to start enforcing those again.
Apple is in the eye of a hurricane (US-China Tech War)
The first sentence really stood out to me...

"The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to..."

Isn't that a bit odd? Surely these things would be worded as 'is the United States Government approach..' It almost smacks of 'errr, don't blame us guys, it wasn't our idea.

Love the low res images of the logos too.
They do, though.

https://help.uber.com/driving-and-delivering/article/what-ar...

https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013077708-Accepta...
Sorry, no offense was meant. In my defense basic fish dishes are generic Western fare and burgers made up 50% of the mains menu. It does all sound delicious and that English take on ribs is mouth watering.
A really good point! I'd run a bit in the past - though not to this extent - and it's amazing the degree to which injury management becomes a part of running. I'm definitely an amateur compared to most people, but I've already learned so much about random human anatomy each time something breaks...
You will like this article of the relation of the octave to neural dynamics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2346780/
Unfortunately for utopianists, self-interest is how things get done that would otherwise never get done. It powers most open source work.

If a company or individual does something just to slap their name on it, so be it.

The combined open source effort vs Github's effort shouldn't be compared as it doesn't make sense. Just like it doesn't make sense to compare the work of a translator vs. the work of writing the original material—the translator is still doing valuable work regardless. The translator isn't "taking credit" for the original work.

You should compare what Github is doing with other endeavors doing the same thing.
Sorry, I'm really confused, how is moving from contractors to employees supposed to make covering certain periods of the day harder for uber?

Normal businesses with normal benefits that hire for off-normal shifts generally pay higher for those shift slots or find an employee that values that shift higher than mid-day and employers absolutely can have an expectation of business hours and fire people for failing to meet that. They can also choose to allow their employees to work more flexible hours but this choice is entirely disconnected from contractor vs. FTE.

In the service industry in particular (as you noted above) showing up to work outside of core hours isn't likely to result in any productive work - maybe that waiter could run inventory or do some prep (and actually 3 AM isn't insanely early if you get a big breakfast rush) but that's entirely disconnected from uber saying: "Darn - we wanted to give them flexible hours, but now that they're employees I guess we can't let anyone work after 5PM" that's just BS PR from the company.
https://www.luna-lang.org/
>Its worth listening to the concerns "of the other side" so that we have fair elections

We should also look at the lack of voter fraud on any widepsread level before we "solve" the wrong problem and disenfranchise a lot of people.

I suspect, from trying to find evidence on people unable to vote and people voting illegally, that we disenfranchise far more people than we allow errorenous votes.

It's simple to sample who voted, compare to actual people, and conclude there is no where near a voter fraud problem. (Most states let researchers do just this, and decade in and out, no fraud).
User-Managed Access (UMA) 2.0 Grant for OAuth 2.0 Authorization
I think people overestimate the importance of failures of the underlying cloud platform. One of the most surprising lessons of the last 5 years at my company has been how rarely single points of failure actually fail. A simple load-balanced group of EC2 instances, pointed at a single RDS Postgres database, is astonishingly reliable. If you get fancy and build a multi-master system, you can easily end up creating more downtime than you prevent when your own failover/recovery system runs amok.
Imported goods and services aren’t protected by 1A.

Software is protected by 1A, so there’s nothing the government could do to prevent China from publishing software or source code, and allowing people in the US to download it. But it can certainly prevent a Chinese entity from providing services to US customers.
Halon is a CFC and isn't legal anymore due to international agreements.
Then that is for the government to provide, not for a company to provide.
Aren’t typeclasses just a better version of codata?
Yeah but drivers currently are free to choose their hours however they like. Surely allowing them to continue to do the thing they already do and the platform is designed to allow them to do isn't going to cause the same problems as a waiter not showing up during normal meal hours...
I'm not surprised. Uber and Lyft try co classify their workers as contractors when it comes to taxes and benefits, yet undermine workers abilities to actually be independent contractors when it suits them to do so. If you want to be a platform that helps connect drivers with passengers, then be that app. You can't then go in and set rates, not pay per client, not give contractors the ability to work for the customers they want, etc. These companies have such a strange culture of hubris and trying to skirt the law, its only a matter of time for that to catch up with them.
So I think the biggest question here is whether, as an employee, Uber/Lyft can set hours for a driver. Some specific implications:

* Will we see employees (drivers) get a say in their shifts? An employee can be asked to work a 3AM - 9AM shift for example.

* Can not arriving to shifts on time be grounds for dismissal?

* Can refusing a shift be grounds for dismissal?

* Can incurring unapproved overtime be grounds for dismissal?

* If a driver is incurring overtime, is that reflected in the pricing that consumers pay?

* Can Uber/Lyft systemically set employee hours to like 29 per week to avoid FTE status?

* Will multihoming (ie working for multiple "gig" apps) be grounds for dismissal as a conflict of interest?

I see a lot of ways Uber/Lyft could retain significant power over drivers.
Check out Nowinstock.net. It worked for me!
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362460/uber-lyft-driver...
I don't know where this meme started. Taxi drivers have never set their own rates and have always been contractors.
Yes. As far as I'm aware, Uber and Lyft drivers are not able to set their own rates on the platforms.
I second you on that. The number of times I've had to rewrite code because a framework decided to break everything with little warning.. I don't even want to think about it actually. I get wanting to make code better but gesh people, do some planning and figure out a direction to move a project.

Also it seems JS devs don't understand semver either. Massive breaking changes in patch or minor versions are just evil.
Crypto Vulnerabilities in AWS S3 SDK
What OS do/did you run on it? Thinking about repurposing an old 2011 Mac Mini as a server, it should still be more than capable, but since it stopped getting newer macOS versions a few years back it wouldn't get security updates, that kinda worries me.
Sure, but it wasn't that, it was "compatable with a contemporary system that did not survive as long as our system"
> Seriously html is used mostly for delivering spam and porn.

Oh come now. I know we all like to hate on the modern web but this just isn't true. Wikipedia, CNN, Amazon, etc all use HTML.
Seconding Cyberpower. Even their cheaper ones do better than BackUPS and don't fail to pass mains power along if the battery fails a check. The PFC Sinewave you linked do some nice power conditioning. It's a big help for me when my house switches to backup generator.

(Why yes, I live in California, land of multi-day power outages. Why do you ask?)
Efforts to actively monitor/keep track of citizens are suppressed by the left. There is even an effort to stop the government from asking who is a citizen and who is not. If you think this is because of humanitarian reasons, you are sorely mistaken
I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

If you're just interested in general fitness, no equipment needed, there are any number of online workouts to follow that will give you a great whole body + cardio workout using nothing more than your body weight.

(though I bought both a spinning bike and a set of dumbbells at the beginning of quarantine... I've finally reached the point where the dumbbells aren't quite heavy enough for everything, so I've been watching eBay for a good deal on additional weight plates since as you noted, it's hard to find workout equipment)
Recently I flipped and tried to talk about the things I like. For example, have you heard of Waru? Waru is an interdimensional jelly being covered in gold plates that is in constant pain and wishes to go back to its own dimension but can't without taking the power of the force from children. This is probably the most creative nonsense ever thought of for star wars and it comes from one of the novels considered just absolute trash, the crystal Star.

One of the things I really disliked was how much the Jedi purge was interpolated in the original EU stuff before revenge of the sith. It really played on the idea that it was difficult and time consuming and oversaw by Darth Vader and the Emperor.
No defence needed, and yes, the burger has conquered the world :)
The first paragraph uses the term “dwarf planet”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet
They are both just placeholders until we have robotaxi networks. 5-10 years max.
I identify with this so much.
If you hang around the Repl.it community a bit I think you'd be convinced that this is not their motivation :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort

> According to Allied Ordnance Publication AOP-38-3,[1] a NATO publication, a battleshort is "The capability to bypass certain safety features in a system to ensure completion of the mission without interruption due to the safety feature." It also says, "Examples of bypassed safety features are circuit overload protection, and protection against overheating".

> For example, the electrical drives to elevate and traverse the guns of a combat warship may have "battleshort" fuses, which are simply copper bars of the correct size to fit the fuse holders, as failure to return fire in a combat situation is a greater threat to the ship and crew than damaging or overheating the electrical motors.

> Battleshorts have been used in some non-combat situations as well, including the Firing Room/Mission Control spaces at NASA during the manned Apollo missions — specifically the Moon landings.

As a side note, with great apology to those who may have lost their lives due to the consequences of real-world battleshorts - this is actually a really interesting analogy for the "war room" scenarios we find ourselves in at startups. Risking damage to morale and productivity can be acceptable if the alternative is irrecoverable loss of the startup's reputation. But this also can't be a sustained state of affairs - these types of procedures are meant for a battle, and risk compounds if you don't return to a steady state. Perhaps adding "battleshort" to our lexicon would make it clear that "doing things that don't scale" is often necessary but not without its costs.
But this isn't characterised in the text as a US government initiative. It's "The Trump administration's" - see first sentence. Very odd.
Who would take a job anywhere with that type of leadership though?
We make all of our money from the education market through our classroom products and believe me teachers don't need more languages to teach nor in a hundred years will they teach a hobbyist language.

So I invite you to provide a compelling case for how this is a call for free labour.
Do you want to add the CCP to that list?
I would only add that, regardless of the severity of your condition, if a hospital discovers that you will be unable to pay they will simply send you home untreated.
Can Origin whitelist specific fonts? Google's bugtrackers & Android docs are an absolute trainwreck without whatever wonky Webfont they're using.
> Projecting today's morals,values & information on to a past people who did not have those who were raised when the norm was the norm.

Of course we can and we do that, that is the only way we progress as a species.

Killing and enslaving is objectively wrong, no matter if you are 15th century peasant or 20 cent soldier.

What next? Ethnic cleansing are/were not so bad as they result in strengthening of national coherence? Eugenics is simply caring for the future generations?

Its a slippery slope argument giving a pass to past actions as they 'didn't know' its bad what they had done.

> Savagery existed throughout mankind and to think otherwise is silly.
I have not said that you are building a straw-man here. I advocate not to call the savagery act anything but savagery.

>Every land had tribes who may have formed an alliance but also would have just as likely killed & enslaved others outside their tribe. _Every_ land.

So that gives me a right to kill you and enslave your family?
Uber can say that drivers can set their own rates but they can only afford certain rate. Wouldn't this work?
>Their business is providing riders with drivers. The driving is not their business.

Can't you use this excuse to bypass that clause altogether? eg. a pizza restaurant that classifies its delivery drivers as contractors: "their business is making the pizza. delivery is not their business".
In actuality these actions aren't so different, I could offer my services to Microsoft at 200k an hour and they're free to decline me.

I think the real issue here can't be resolved by an examination of terms - it involves a power dynamic where Uber contractors are extremely at disadvantage when it comes to being able to set your own rates. I don't know if Uber even has someone on staff that's qualified or expected to negotiate with independent drives that are interested - they have a posted rate that you either accept or they walk away. And, the worst part, they change that posted rate for BS reasons constantly in a way that people can't predict, it makes for an unreliable and misleading income.
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U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme
I’ve also had a customer who used Gremlin to dramatically improve their stability.
What are use cases for such models?
I too use double conversion UPS. Liebert Vertiv GXT4 in my case. The power in my neighborhood is sloppy and the power company refuse to replace the transformer until it goes out entirely. The neighbor has a septic pump that creates nasty spikes. I've had multiple APC UPS literally catch on fire. It's always the tower models with the real time voltage regulators that catch on fire. The floor power strip models have been rock solid, but they would beep every time the neighbors pump kicked on. I tried power conditioners, filters, isolation transformers, but in the end, it was the double conversion UPS that cleaned everything up and the Liebert has provided reliable power ever since. Some day I want to go solar, but I would have to move somewhere else first.
You're right. Health insurance was originally fought for by the unions, which was why they are historically provided by employers in the US. Other nations underwent similar demands from their people, but it ended up being tied to government provision, not corporation.

With employee unions being neutered in the past century, and exponential privatized healthcare cost increases, you start to see broad swaths of employees go without insurance in the US, while other countries nationalized their healthcare to keep costs down and continue providing it to their people.
Eepp: A cross-platform C++ UI engine with CSS styling
Trying to stop information from spreading is akin to Prohibition and will cause far more trouble than it solves. This is presuming that censoring it isn't inherently counter-productive to begin with.

Child pornography is a strange example. Someone would serve more time for possessing an image than molesting someone. This is based on the notion someone might be distributing it or doing something else.

Some NGOs bizarrely make the claim that possession of child pornography is worse than committing a physical crime.
Honestly, I cant understand why people wont just admit this to themselves/the public.
I once attempted a TD using the same graphics as you :) but didn't get further than a visual demo (as I usually do hehe..).

It's live at https://emh.lart.no/github/yargled-js/dist/ (might have to zoom out due to a bug) and source is at https://github.com/emnh/yargled-js
> I have several friends that actively choose to be contractors because they prefer the (legally protected) flexibility to decide their own hours, among other things. It's a personal decision, and there are upsides and downsides in both directions.

What "legal protections" are you talking about? Uber can put out a notification right now that if you don't take 1 ride in the next hour that you are banned from the platform and there's nothing your friends could do about it.

A contractor gets to work w/e hours they want because they are their own boss and collect their own contracted work. Uber basically forms a new contract with a driver per-ride. There's no promise of future rides, and Uber has every right to withhold new rides for whatever reason, including that they do not like your schedule.
Unless the hobbyist language is created by the teacher :)
If you don't accept nearly every ride, you are kicked off the platform...