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I went to elementary and middle school (Blossom Hill and Fisher Middle respectively) in Los Gatos, where Woz resides. I remember he donated the Mac lab at Fisher (and I think Blossom Hill too?). My memory of this is a little hazy, but I'm fairly sure Fisher had introductory programming classes that I took also, which I'm sure he had a part in. This would have been around 1999-ish when that was fairly uncommon. I wasn't a theater kid, but Woz was also well known for being a big sponsor of the theater program as well, and I remember kids in the theater program at Fisher often got cool tech gifts courtesy of Woz (like the Game Boy Color before it came out in the US).

It's probably hard to attribute this to one thing growing up in Silicon Valley in the 90s, but I consider Woz a big part of why I'm a software engineer today. And as an adult, he's one of the engineers who I most admire both professionally and personally as a kind, curious, and generous person.
The law was drafted to formalize a set of legal criteria that was established and enforced by Californian courts. The spirit of the law was not to target Uber/Lyft. The letter of the law, according to the courts so far does not appear to clear Uber in anyway. We will see how the appeal goes.

Edit:

I don't see how you think the letter of the law clears Uber, Uber sea to fail every part of the test.

A) Uber does exert control over many aspects of how the work is performed, e.g. acceptable car models, acceptable ride acceptance rates.

B) The rides provided by drivers are central to Uber's business. Uber has no business model without its drivers.

C) Many drivers do drive for other companies and would pass this critiwia but some do completely different work and have not done any driving work independently from Uber. These drivers would not pass this criteria.
I think it's more a sign of this being hastily thrown together. There's a lot of last minute stuff going on to try to boost Trump's reelection bid.
The current headline is “Is this the best collection of Halo games yet?” which is confusing because it’s the only collection I’m aware of that contains all the main series games? And the headline here doesn’t match the headline in the article, in fact that sentence doesn’t appear in the article at all. And lastly... it’s a video game review. On the front page of Hacker News. For a game that’s not new or especially interesting.

Why?
I think you are stretching the argument beyond reasoning. Nobody would show up to walmart in between shitting in the street and sleeping in a tent and trying to live and remain healthy on food that doesn't require a fridge while hoping that nobody stole even those final earthly possessions while I was working. At some point where the bottom 25-30% are living like this people either organize and force change or collectively burn shit down and kill the rich.
> Just run your elections with paper ballots cast into metal boxes

The difficulty here is that elections in many places are organized so that it is very inconvenient for less desirable citizens to cast their vote. Find a way to make it equitable for everyone, and there may be truth to your assetion.

Mail-in voting has no such problem. Unless artificially created, of course, by hamstringing the USPS. Fortunately in Oregon we have those metal boxes you mention and vote-by-mail. So I can vote from the comfort of my living room at a time convenient for me.

Coercion is certainly a potential issue, but if it were a legitimate problem we'd probably have more evidence for that by now.
That's pretty region-specific. I've never owned a car or held a driving license and it isn't much of an inconvenience
I'm afraid you're repeating Uber's favorite talking point, which is that everyone should respect the worker's decision to be an employee or contractor.

Nobody disputes that Uber can have employees or contractors (or both), or that drivers should, in principle, be able to choose what status they hold.

The problem is that Uber currently exerts so much control over its "independent contractor" relationships that they have become, as a matter of law, employment relationships.

Moreover, in practical terms drivers don't end up with the choice they ought to. If they want any working relationship with Uber, they have to accept a mash-up of all the burdens of employment minus many of the benefits of being a contractor.
> The point is that you aren't going to stop someone determined to commit evil by making it slightly more administratively difficult.

"Both Mayor Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomos were quickly summoned to appear before the German Commandant, where they were ordered to immediately prepare the list of all the Jewish residents of Zakynthos. ... In a great display of courage and defiance to the powerful occupiers of Greece, the mayor and the bishop handed a simple piece of paper to the Nazi commander. On that scrap of paper, only two names were written: Mayor Loukas Kerrer and Bishop Chrysostomos."

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/01/25/the-unimaginable...
There is one. It's called us-east-1.
How about: store the otp secrets as well as the backup codes in an encrypted file/hashicorp vault/keepass (not with other passwords)/Authy, with the encryption keys being stored on USB flash drives and yubikeys, which can be put both on your keychain and in a physical safe. Many possible variants of this for different use cases.
I don’t know about these stereotypes. In my own case, I grew up and went to college in the southeast, moved here for the tech, food, nature, and sunshine, and totally ignore everything political because I’m slightly conservative which makes me feel like an alien around here. Will probably move back at some point to be closer to family but I’m not thrilled about losing the sunshine and nature.
Many years ago, I was in a group at Apple that interviewed Massalin. It was decided not to hire, as, while brilliant, there would be a net drop in productivity, as we would all spend too much time discussing the latest oddity. As one might expect, there was a stuffed koala toy on the table during Massalin's job talk. Brilliant work on the super-optimizer.
And the Politico one about the German intelligence findings?

Or the fact that Huawei is a de-facto public company, with massive subsidies by the CDB?

https://www.rfi.fr/en/contenu/20190530-huawei-key-beneficiar...

Huawei inked a $10 billion credit line with the China Development Bank (CDB) in 2004 to provide low-cost financing to customers buying its telecom gear. It was tripled to $30 billion in 2009.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-support-helped-fuel-huawe...

And it's funny, because they admit this is normal

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3043558/huawei-sa...

“Like other tech companies that operate in China, including those from abroad, Huawei receives some policy support from the Chinese government,” Karl Song, vice-president of the company’s corporate communications department, said in a statement. “But we have never received any additional or special treatment.”

There's no large corporation in China that got there without financial backing, and board control, from the CCP.

Thus, all major Chinese corporations are a extension of the CCP.
The other not so obvious fitness trend is VR. Its most popular game, Beat Saber, is a fitness game in disguise.
Yes, they absolutely were, and now they/we have nailguns. Screwdrivers became cordless drills, wrenches became impact drivers, etc. Tools and process on construction sites today look very different than they did even 30 years ago. (And that’s after millennia of “hammers”.)
Denial of service, metadata extraction, easy path to mitm if there's a zero day. Those are just a few attacks possible without decrypting payloads.
If I gave you a root CA's private key and my ip address you would not be able to mitm me unless you found a way to inject yourself in my datapath. Good luck with that unless you have nice backdoors to core infrastructure.
Is "Snow computing" when everything freezes up?
But isn't that like all contracting?

A software contract offers $50 an hour. I can either take it or leave it.

Uber offers $x an hour (or mile, or however it works.) Drivers can either take it or leave it.

What do you think is the essential difference here?

Do you think software contractors can somehow force clients to accept any rate they want? No. If they client doesn't want to pay above $x then there's nothing you can do but decline the job. Just like Uber driver can do nothing but decline the job, surely?
>There are too many cases where you might file taxes in one place but be eligible to vote in another. //

Is the eligibility wrong though?

There has been a sort of reverse Gerrymandering [1] in the UK where voters are instructed where to vote to have the most effect, people with second homes (which can include students but otherwise would seem to be exclusively rich people) might qualify this way in the UK.

Generally this indicates to me the need for electoral reform. But perhaps tighter regulation about where one may vote (restricting eligibility when one is eligible elsewhere) is also needed in some places?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
> They were "moved on" within the bank, because for security, management only wanted "people who could follow instructions", not "who can think for themselves"

And this is why we cannot have nice IT security practices.
"I'm looking for the right fit in a career and am open to many different compensation options".

and then after three or so more iterations of that:

"I appreciate your persistence but there's truly no single thing, including salary, that would convince me to accept or pass on an offer"
Question: Why does Texas allow a Texas Handgun License as an acceptable form of photo ID but not a University of Texas Student ID? It seems if we are so concerned about voting being easy with those IDs, we should let all the students with state issued photo IDs use them.

As for your question, supporting or not supporting voter ID is less about how difficult the IDs are to get, but rather that it is creating a requirement that makes both the act of voting and the preparation for voting much more time intensive. And this is all to solve a problem, voter fraud, that nobody has any evidence occurs at any appreciable volume.

But I'll just say, if a system existed where I could get a photo ID with no fees and no wait times, and I could do it on election day, then I'd be much more willing to support voter ID laws.
I honestly just tell them what I want which is at least 10K above what I make now or it's not worth it. And if they ask what I make now I just point out it's not worth leaving for something lateral.
> I still don't understand how voting in person is supposed to be any more problematic than e.g. buying groceries in person. Wear a mask, stand six feet apart etc., what's the problem?

Grocery stores don't have checkout lines that are hours long where you are standing around near the same group of strangers for an extended time.

Worse, the states with the longest, slowest voting lines also tend to be the states with less stringent mask requirements, less diligent enforcement of the requirements they do have, and more people who ignore the requirements.
I have an thinkpad x220 with some core-duo on it and 4GB Ram, can't remember, and it really was struggling with VMs. Didn't really cared much to check the specs. Just tried some debian VMs and it was less than satisfying.
> No one thinks that.

Just about everyone I know who leans even slightly left here in the US believes that requiring ID to vote is defacto voter suppression.
what exactly is their product? I can't figure out
It's not a tiny minority. 11% of Americans and ~25% of black Americans don't have acceptable voter ID.

I'd suggest reading through the ACLU's article on voter ID laws to learn how the disenfranchisement is targeted in practice.

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...

Edit: I'll put two of them into Swedish context.

First, some rural areas in Texas are 170 miles from the nearest location they could apply for an ID. That's about the distance from Stockholm to Karlstad, which is much more difficult to travel without a train infrastructure like Sweden's.

Secondly, the cost of applying for an ID can range from $75-$175, or ~650-1500 krona. I noticed in another thread you mentioned Swedish voter IDs cost 350 crowns. Our voter IDs cost 2-4x as much in absolute terms. Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage, but for reference ours is $7.25/hr ($14,500 pre-tax annually, assuming a full-time 40hr/week job) and our 10th percentile household income is about $14,000 annually (~$122k SEK). So a voter ID can cost a low-income worker about 3 days of pre-tax income, likely 3.5 or 4 post-tax.
I'm sure the author wasn't intentionally trying to revise history and probably didn't think about the term much

This sounds like you don’t think it’s disingenuous, just misinformed.
Oh no, not again!
> How are the records maintained in the US?

Fifty different ways ;-)
>> Drivers then could, over their local "$city Uber drivers" FB/WhatsApp group, agree to not take any ride below $X,

>This is, of course, illegal.

What law does this break?
Fyre Festival information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival
Emacs 27.1
GCP network slow? Anyone notice anything
Some pretty exaggerated stereotypes. A false trichotomy?
And then I might ask you "so why did you apply for deviation on this warning? Warnings are bad, right? So shouldn't you fix a compiler warning if at all possible?"

And then you might reply "Well no because this particular warning would require us to change some code that's really hard to change correctly so instead of spending the time and expense eliminating a potential defect we just left it in."
Every software contract I've ever seen offers $x a day, or hour, or whatever.

They don't just let you go in demanding whatever you want. There's a limit to what they want to pay. Just like Uber.
The book(s) acknowledges it's made of ice. You can't drink your entire habitat.
There will be a natural decoupling between our two nations. We did the same with Soviet Union when we realized their ideology left no room for long term peaceful coexistence (see the Long Telegram).

A lot of political leaders are realizing that the communism of China, while different in many ways to the Soviet variety, is still incompatible with the USA.
Surprisingly, it's the skill of doing less than I can. The act of holding back has actually significantly boosted my focus. I write about it in https://algodaily.com/lessons/how-to-have-a-slow-and-boring-..., but purposely moving slower does the following:

1. It makes you focus on the task at hand, since you're no longer thinking about another vector (speed)

2. It guarantees that your daily energy reserves are enough to keep you interested
> currently only open to +/-4 hours from Pacific time zone

Any ETA on easing this requirement? :)
> The problem is that Uber currently exerts so much control over its "independent contractor" relationships that they have become, as a matter of law, employment relationships.

Sure, this could be true.

But people should recognize that a possible solution to this, is for companies to provide more flexibility and control to these people, such that they stay contractor but also get the additional contractor benefits, as opposed to forcing the employee relationship.
God - Zelle is HORRENDOUS.

Seriously - check out your limits. I can ACH into the 100's of thousands but I can zelle basically nothing - I don't think you could run even a small payroll on zelle or make even a medium sized purchase with it.

The fraud story is horrendous.

The traceability and audit-ability of things is horrendous - seriously -> you CANNOT see where the funds are and no one will tell you / can tell you.

With a cancelled check image I get the back and I can trace down what account it went into if need be.

With a wire I get my reference number and can trace status that way.

With NACHA I can do Payment Trace Requests...

Zelle - forget it, the money is GONE and no way to trace who got it.

Zelle is horrendous and cannot die soon enough. How are people even considering this as a settlement service?

For context - Fedwire does something like trillions of dollars per day in activity. NACHA at least $100B per day+.
You didn't look closely enough. You were surrounded by it.
I think the intimation is that it's not only the NSA or the United States building such databases, and the assumption that the NSA would have the largest database may no longer be credible--not because they stopped gathering data but because they were surpassed.
I didn't just found it and wanted to share.
It’s also easy to sit in that same seat and interfere with an arrangement to satisfy your own moral stance without actually being affected by the outcome. All of these Uber drivers have phones, why are they always absent in these conversations?
Named arguments in much of the Rails API are received by the method via a single hash parameter, not as individual lexically bound variables.

In most cases, Ruby handles this capture via a double-splat operator in the parameter list.

However, Ruby itself does have both positional and named method parameters. The former contribute to arity and may be overridden and renamed in subclasses, and this remains true for Rails methods accepting positional arguments.

It is also the case that a hash is implicitly congruent to named arguments, although this is controversial and may change in future. I’m sorry to report that no-one has ever described this as “arg hash” or “argh” for short.
Pressure? Water unlike most materials expands when it freezes.
Regulation is written in blood.
The real question is why voter license proponents are against the idea of giving a free voter ID to every eligible voter on their 18th birthday.

Whenever voter license legislation is proposed, there are no efforts to make sure every eligible voter is able to exercise their right to vote.
Nearly every affluent liberal democracy on the planet qualifies as an oligarchy by the premise that gets floated about the US.

Similarly qualified: Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Iceland.

Have you looked at how many billionaires there are in Sweden and Norway? Oligarchy. Sweden has considerably more billionaires per capita than the US does. They're clearly not a democracy at all. The billionaires control the entire country including its government, obviously.

Ever look at the perpetual old money dominance in Germany and France? Oligarchy.

You're down to there only being a dozen or so liberal democracies that aren't in some way broken, severely tainted by money or entrenched power groups, etc. - if you use the same standard used against the US.
I agree. Seriously, don’t overthink it. Just come out and say what salary you are looking for and that’s that.
You'd have to maintain that mixture of manufacturers broadly across all the 'critical' bits of infrastructure for it to really matter and there's a lot of infrastructure to defend. Just disrupting payments or mobile data sporadically across the US could deal a big blow to a lot of businesses. Just look how poorly they've fared with the COVID disruptions.
To my understanding, at least for the public sector, is that the government will post a project. Organizations will then place 'bids' (that includes their contractor's price, time to complete the project, a general plan for how the project will be completed), and then the government will choose one of the bids.
Ensuring that the only options aren't time bombs is the responsibility of whoever came up with the business plan.
This reads like a satirical version of Robert Putnam's book Our Kids. I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the topic and likes their data interwoven with personal stories to bring it to life.
Along the same vein, "How to Write Shared Libraries" by Ulrich Drepper goes into much more detail than you might expect given the title.

https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
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All the water on Earth was drunk at some stage wasn't it?
I believe it would have been better to have Hooks as a separate library, not part of React. For the developer it is just another design pattern, not really an improvement, especially if you look at all the edge cases and issues you'll find around.

Personally I don't like the design pattern, a matter of taste. But it's very annoying now in the market to have mixed React and Hooks codebases, with all their issues..
Loosely quoted by Iris Chang in "The Chinese in America", when times are good Asians are glorified for being the "model minority" and have all the privilege that Whites have, and vilified as foreigners when times are bad.

Given the current political climate I'm worried we're swinging towards the latter.
but.. what if they lowball in the end? isn't that a reason to give up your expected salary?

IMHO I'd rather have the interview and negotiation experience than the time back. Practice makes perfect.
It's sometimes easier and saner to develop a new component on something like stactblitz or a new angular project than make a change, wait 20s+ for compiler+browser to compiler and load code and view the new change. And repeat. And losing the hot-reloading with state b/c of the OOP heavy architecture in some shops, well that's not helping speed up write/reload/view change cycle at all.

And as you write larger and larger apps, with hundreds of components, it's just ridiculous how poorly the first-party tools handle that kind of code scale. Your only choice it to buy into Bazel to maintain some sense of sanity and productivity albeit some of which gets diminished with the overhead of learning, using and maintaining bazel for the project.

Complexity on top of complexity, nothing about Angular is simple.
If the person living there is so inclined and successfully forges the signatures on the ballots.

At least in WA state, a signature is required on the exterior of the envelope, and it is validated against the signature on the voter registration form.
Ensuring stability with force certainly works at the small scale the project needs.

Nobody is talking about re-occupying North Africa.

Again, you're reading too much into this. Maybe go back to Portland with that rhetoric?
> 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

I'm sure the flexibility is nice when you are making $100+ per hour but drivers make a tenth of that and struggle to get health insurance
There's also massive amounts of variation between the companies in that group. Some are prohibited from taking source code off a computer located on premises (employees' take-home machines are "dumb" to the extreme in that they basically connect directly to their computers at work); others encourage their employees to use pre-production and internal products for personal use. As you can guess, they have dramatically different models for how to approach corporate security.
I'm not saying the companies need government assistance. I'm saying they and their drivers should be able to come to whatever agreement they want to come to (or not).
> $500 for a ball cap?

Seriously - if any more hilariously incompetent festivals come along, remember to watch the liquidation auctions.