skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A user emailed with the same question. I'll copy the answer here:

Users flagged it. This is the usual tug of war between upvotes, flags, and vouches.

We sometimes turn off flags if the article is substantive and we feel like it can support a thoughtful discussion. In this case, I'm wavering. I'm not sure how significant this information really is, given how many such things are happening right now (lots of moderation thoughts on that at [1] and [2]). The question is whether the resulting thread would be significantly different from previous discussions or not, or whether it would just get sucked into the nearest black hole, i.e. the nearest flamewar topic.

Wavering isn't a strong enough reason to override the community verdict so I guess we'll leave it as is. Sorry to disappoint—there's lots of room for disagreement about this stuff, and lots of interpretation involved. I'm not saying we're right, and certainly not always right, but someone has to make these calls.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22significant%20new%20informa...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...
Can you pattern match using variant and use it as a result type, or option type with associated bind, map and other functions?
Different people. Fire one side to fund the other. Many companies use COVID as an excuse to get rid of management mistakes too.
Intercom employee here. Do you mean embedding the Messenger in a React Native app?

I'll pass this convo along to the Messenger team. It sounds like a worthwhile thing to look into since RN is becoming so popular.
Most uses of martial law in the United States were against striking workers, including in California, so at least the government sees it as civil disobedience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_Stat...
How do you know which teams were laid off? I haven’t been able to find that information.
The new law merely codified a legal standard that the California Supreme Court had previously come up with (in Dynamex in 2018) as an interpretation of existing law.
Aren't you a bit worried what he might want to use the domain for, given whatever it is will be out there under your real name?
The content still exists and the best work is/was contributed by volunteers.
Is the existence of a unionized workforce against consensual adult labor? The expanded use of for contract work has largely been a tool to walk around legislation to improve labor standards.

In jobs where it is virtually impossible to organize others doing a similar task such as was the case with most of the jobs impacted by AB5, its totally reasonable for these folks to lobby the government to fight for their interests.
It’s easier to make change from the inside than out. I imagine more Mozillians probably means a stronger push towards E2E encryption, more data controls, stronger auditing, etc.
See comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762363
No they haven't. That's the point. This 'misclassification' only came in via this new law.
It is murkier, but in many cases there's a strong argument that employment is exploitative whilst still consensual.
Nah, I was actively soliciting people to follow it, doubly so given that it is an internal HN link and not an abstract article. It was just a subtle little chuckle of a post.
+1 on this, subpar transport would be a dealbreaker and this is a solved problem.
Love this - Intercom is ridiculously expensive. One thing that we use Intercom is for NPS campaigns and also the product tours. Although I'd love to replace Intercom, not having these features means we can't switch easily. I wish we only used the Chat, then this would be the obvious product to use.
Facebook blames coronavirus for failing to remove child nudity
I was looking at AWS Cost Explorer API, looks promising but don't know if it's granular enough.

after thinking about your comment on EC2, I think this tool could help smaller teams where you don't know who's doing what with the resources and you just need an upper limit of your monthly/daily spend.

about the last point, yes it's very hard to figure out. Also I thought most people check out the pricing page before trying out any aws services, wouldn't that give an estimate of what they are getting into (i.e. RDS, API gateway) ?

But again I always forget about the data transfer charges so you might be right about this.
Think of a project and start building it. One thing could be a Game of Thrones or Star Was API clone.
No job is consensual if you're born poor in capitalism.
Meh, you can quibble over terms, but I'd be inclined to count it. Yes, they committed a civil tort instead of a criminal offense, but they did so against an agent of the state.
There's little use for a drivers license if you live in a city, like the majority of Americans do. Drivers licenses must be renewed every couple of years. That means for many Americans, that they will need to get a license just to vote, and only to vote. They will also need to renew it at their own expense if they want to continue to participate in elections.
Okay, so Uber mixes both those scenarios.

I wonder if Uber has filed SS-8 to have the IRS evaluate the situation.

They have fixed performance guidelines (star ratings) and fire employees for not picking up jobs (rides). The employee also only works for Uber (not the individual customer, who is anonymous until the job is accepted), who determines the rate and is the ultimate decider if the completed work is accepted (they resolve all customer disputes and are the final say on whether you get paid, not the customer). Uber determines the method of completing work (e.g. how long you have to wait for customers before canceling).

Critically, these “contractors” are integral to Uber’s regular business operations. 100% of Uber’s product relies on its drivers.

On the other hand, they don’t provide equipment or set schedules. Clearly their mode of work blends aspects of W2 and 1099. But also, because these drivers are integral to Uber’s business, it’s possible they’re in violation by not compensating for/providing equipment. Again, the drivers are told who to pick up and where to go, and if they don’t do it while they’re on shift, they get “fired.”

The only factor that comes close to making them a contractor is the lack of schedule, and maybe the fact that they can go work for Lyft too. But every other aspect of the job looks like W2 to me. More checkboxes are on the W2 side of the guidelines.

So, California’s law fills in that logical gap by determining that, in this scenario, the workers are W2 employees.

If the IRS has a problem with the law in California, I assume they might have said something by now, or sued the state?
Interesting observation. I feel it's all about baselines: To decide if you have a lot of something, you need to compare your allotment to some baseline. You'll feel like a victim if you're more mistreated than your baseline of choice. If zero -- that in the ideal world with no mistreatment -- you'll always feel put out. If it's the median amount of mistreatment, half will feel good half bad, etc. Interesting that humans seem to statistically select their baseline as that just better than their current state.
> which seems really narrow and preferential, even by the standards of CA propositions

This is why the proposition system in CA is screwed. It's no longer being used in good faith. Almost every proposition is a law written by a lobbyist group who couldn't find a sponsor in the legislature so they take it directly to the people.

It truly highlights the folly of direct democracy.
I think you can safely "late bind" this. Learn about the XML config if/when you need it for something. If you encounter a legacy codebase that's already using it, you can spend a few minutes looking at the existing XML based ApplicationContexts and you shouldn't have any problem understanding what's going on.
right because with Google, the customer is the product.
What scenario can you think of where you have state updates while the user is scrolling?
Nope, I misread unpaid as paid.
My role is a bit delivery management and a bit account management so I have a lot of facetime (well, pre-COVID) with B2B clients and I am also responsible for making sure delivery teams are on track.

An average day for me is 50%+ meetings and the rest of the time is spend coordinating actions (slack, text, emails, JIRA boards, Aha, etc.) as a result of those. Right now I bounce around between a laptop (Surface Pro) and a paper notebook. I could also probably do most of my job with an iPad Pro but the idea of the split screen appeals to me enough for me to overcome the switching cost that, for whatever reason, the iPad Pro did not.

Having a decade old note taking system that I still actively use inside of OneNote is also a contributor to my interest. My biggest fear for the Duo is that the stylus experience is subpar, so I'll certainly be trying that out first.
> Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money

Well, they seem to have lost the focus of making an extensible browser (and mail client etc.)

But then, this decline was somewhat noticeable a decade ago alreadt, IMHO.
The effects of cycling infrastructure and bike-sharing system in Lisbon
Facebook is not a democracy. There can be no change from the inside.
> There are plenty of alternatives to Adsense but none of them are comparable.

There are two companies that could have helped minimize Adsense's monopoly but decided not to: Microsoft and Facebook.
I agree that how one frames the questions can lead to drastically different scores.

If I'm thinking about this in terms of my workplace, I would probably score fairly high due to the typical corporate injustices that many workers endure. But if I think about this on a personal life basis or overall basis, then I would score pretty low.
> Use a cheap blade grinder for a fine grind.

Don't blade grinders heat up the coffee bean as they chop it?

I don't think that makes for a flavorful brew, regardless of brewing method.
This is what I'm seeing:

/app/views/index.pug:40:173 38| .add-company 39| h3 #MozillaLifeboat > 40| p Mozilla has done two rounds of layoffs (#[a(href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-...] and #[a(href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...) second]). Mozilla has one of the most vibrant alumni networks, and Lifeboat helps connect Mozillians looking for jobs with people hiring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^ 41| h3 Other Resources 42| p A great place to find more people hiring and looking is the #[a(href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mozillalifeboat") #mozillalifeboat] hashtag on Twitter. 43| h3 Add Your Company Unexpected token `tag` expected `text`, `interpolated-code`, `code`, `:`, `slash`, `newline` or `eos`
> Everywhere I've worked where I'm expected to be reachable by phone offered a stipend to pay for the service.

Well your experience is more the exception than the rule today given my friends, family, and own anecdata.

> An abusive employer is going to make unreasonable demands of you, regardless of whether you use your personal phone for work.

Let me know when there's enough employers that most people without negotiating leverage can actually be employed by one that's not abusive.
"Combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism" and now Mozilla Lifeboat.

I mean, WTF, maybe you should actually build a better browser than Chrome instead of doing politics.
Lavendar is great, but umbels hit a broad variety of insects, especially predatory species.

Yarrow, fennel, Queen Anne's Lace, hemlock (do not grow this please), and many others.

If you are on the west coast, Ceanothus is even more popular among bees of all kinds than is lavender (also bigger, and with better life expectancy). Just don't plant it along a walkway, or people will be brushing past the 'bee bush'.
Congrats on the launch. Intercom is stupid expensive and this is a welcomed replacement, especially if all you use is the chat feature.
I like the concept of Jupyter Notebooks and I do use them extensively, but I can't use my emacs shortcuts which makes writing anything more than a few lines really annoying.

Especially, writing Latex Math without Auctex (emacs package) is very tedious. What's the solution?
You're putting touch surfaces way too far for a normal driver to interact with. There's a reason why many of the automakers are using knobs/buttons by the resting position of the right arm to allow for interactions while in motion. My Mazda even disables the touchscreen while moving for this reason. With no proprioception on a touch surface you need to watch where your finger is going and that's a distraction. Not to mention gorilla arm fatigue.

You might also want to look at what Cadillac has just shown for their Lyriq EV:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/my23-lyr...
Laws aren't allowed to be created as weapons, under US constitutional law this is often referred to as illegal taking, if AB5 was illegal taking these companies would've been able to get the law halted which it seems to have not happened.
This animated SVG is dope! Really cute, seems to be done only with SVGs and CSS animations as far as I can tell.
It's vindicating to read that Scientific American has finally used science to describe the out-group. Read it and weep, out-group!

Kidding aside, I have been guilty of at least one of these more than once in life, and it's really a question of whether it's a defining characteristic, and to whom. Treat it like any other cognitive bias, and recognize that noticing it in others doesn't protect us from it.
Yes, pretty common. They are intended to avoid a situation where you post your own copyrighted [1] content to their site, then sue them for displaying it without a license.

The long list makes it seem very broad, but this phrase constrains it quite a bit: "solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Site." This would prevent them from using your content in an ad, or selling your content to some other company, for instance.

[1] Under U.S. federal law, all content is copyrighted upon creation. I hold the copyright on this comment, and I have granted Ycombinator a license to display it on the HN site.

EDIT - here is the relevant sentence from the HN terms of use agreement. It's actually broader than the language you quoted.

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
>Also, there should be certain classes of things that one can’t erase that way. Should a convicted pedophile have the right to scrub the internet of references to their crime? What about a murderer?

No, but doing that would compel law enforcement agencies to expunge all public records and the news media to erase all relevant content related to a criminal matter. No one is suggesting the right to be forgotten is or should be that extreme. As mentioned in the article, there already are certain classes of things that one can't erase away, notwithstanding the fact that removing something from Google is not equivalent to removing it from the internet.
Be Nice to DevOps Engineers
I don't even have kids and camera is also the deciding factor for me.

For that reason, seeing Marc Levoy calling it quit at Google makes me pessimistic for the next pixels.

to be fair the 4 was already a bit underwhelming in that area (flagship level camera but unlike the previous generations it did not really push the enveloppe).
Airbnb revenue tanked 67% in second quarter
> the penny-for-penny equivalent financial transaction for receiving $100K worth of RSUs over 4 years, would be for me to receive $100K of cash

You still dont understand. Let me work this out for you, year by year.

Lets say that the stock grant is 25k a year, over 4 years. But there is a 50% chance, after year 1, of the stock doubling and staying there, and a 50% chance of it going to 0. IE, it will be worth 50k or 0$, which is an expected value of 25k.

So you have 100k of stock, and 25k vests on year 1.

Situation 1: you win the coin flip, and the stock doubles. Your 25k that you received, is now worth 50k. BUT, you now have an ADDITIONAL 150k that is unvested. The unvested stock has increased in value! If you stay for 3 more years, you get 200k in total.

Total value: 200k, over 4 years.

Now, lets look at situation 2.

In situation 2, the stock crashes to 0, after 1 year. Your 25k vest, is now worth 0$. As is, the next 3 year vest is also worth 0.

But here is the trick. What you do now, is that you quit your job. You do not stay at the company for 3 more years, to get the 0$ of stock. Instead, you get different job with stock that vests at 25k a year.

Total value: 0$ for the first year, + 25k/year at job 2. Which equals 75k.

Do you see how this is different?

You absolutely could NOT get the same value as this, if you were paid in cash. Because if you were paid in cash, then you would realize the full losses of situation 2.

> Any gain from them rising in price could have been realized by investing cash

No, actually. In situation 1, I receive 200k, and in situation 2 I receive 75k, because I am protected by the downside risk, by the fact that if the stock crashes to 0, I can leave the company and get my salary higher again.

This is not possible by investing 100k from the beginning.
Thanks for the detailed writeup. I think projecting future costs would be hard but someone pointed out in previous comments that service specific rules ( EC2, S3) etc could be more realistic.

Also what do you think about AWS Cost Explorer API? It looks like it can provide monthly/daily charges and we can build rules for customer tolerance, like you mentioned.
I’ve yet to experience any wireless connection with fidelity, latency, and bandwidth as good as fiber.
I flew short haul on BA last week and the flight attendant pulled his mask down under his nose regularly and the passenger next to me was barely using a scarf.
I was using an mask with a vent.
Should the airlines supply them?
Can’t rely on 300 random people to be “aware” can we?
Don’t blame social media for illegal hiking, researchers say
Compared to 1917 Russia? Huge success.

From 1917 until the 60s or so they vastly improved the lives of average Russians.

From the 70s until 1989, not so much, and then after 89 you can't really put it on the USSR since it didn't exist anymore.
Mostly from tweets from (former) members
This is a great reply. Reminds me of this post "How to Become the Best in the World at Something": https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world...
> I'd 100% recommend having stimulants in your toolkit, and chances are you're already supplementing with worse stimulants (like mountains of coffee or soda), so do give them a try, but be careful.

Have you heard of anybody managing their condition with caffeine pills or nicotine lozenges?
The key thing is ownership. I was part of a large government network buildout a long time ago that was like an ISP for state/local that also provided secure connectivity.

We owned lots of fiber, which was managed by third parties. The downstream customers benefited from better terms and buildout of the last mile infrastructure before private entities were doing it.

If we had the political environment that allowed for old style utility regulation, I would agree that commercial utilities would be better - the old dial up ISP market demonstrated how robust and effective competitive market prices were. But we do not have that environment today.
Did banks really refuse to process their transactions? That is union overreach I would say.
Oh wow, I've been waiting for a self hosted app like this (with chat!). It's one of the few things I've missed since swearing off third party javascript.
Privacy is very important to some people, but I don't think it's a good argument against the project. Their collection and use of data would have been under great scrutiny. And if you don't like it, just don't move there. It was a small experiment not a takeover of the city.
Same here. I think that should be prioritized as next feature, as it is required to do more serious thinking with this tool. Otherwise I like it.
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I’ll upvote, not downvote since this is worthy of discussion.

First observation... This stance only works if you’re so talented that you can succeed without outside help, and you have a boss that respects your value and can take ownership of building bridges for you. Those bosses are rare.

Observation two... Building bridges and helping others makes it easier, not harder, to get things done.

Observation three... Some people who take this stance aren’t worth it. Many folks take this stance to purposefully close their ears to ideas that could be useful.

Observation four... The person referenced in the article is someone who can be a huge net positive in building developer tools.
But was Uber unfair and unsafe? That's very hard to argue, especially when compared to the prior reality rather than a theoretical perfection.
NIMBY power is vested in those who vote. As long as its mostly older white homeowners voting in local elections, that will continue to be the only demographic local politicians cater to, without fail. If you want to fight NIMBYism, fight to make it easier for renters to be educated about local issues and vote in local elections. There really is no other way.
On the fennel, or any umbel flower for that matter, you should also be seeing adult ladybugs and lacewings (both eat aphids during part of their lifecycle) as well as hoverflies and predatory wasps.
Agreed, I think that a lot of info gets lost by over-aggregating and by over-summarizing
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133102.
When you say to leave F and K alone, is that because of the bumps on the keys for locating your hands?

I'm not sure I've seen a keyboard with F and K keys with bumps because that would be the index finger on the left hand and the middle finger on the right hand. Usually the bumps are both under the same finger (F and J or D and K).
Heh I was going to make a joke about it being related to the recent layoffs.
Yup, had to get it out quick so I went simple! Just a single SVG that I shift elements back and forth on, and rotated so it looks like it's floating!
Generate unique SVG based avatars based on any string e.g. email, username or id
Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case
This doesn't run on the network at all, so no. You're just listening to radio signals that are already out there.
COVID-19 situation has clearly showcased the vulnerability of the drivers regardless of the platforms, there's no merit for the drivers to be treated as contractors as they are algorithmically made to work beyond office hours to be eligible for the incentives.

I hope other states and countries follow the suit if California forces Uber to treat the drivers as employees.