skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job insecurity, low pay, working from home: we're all millennials now
How is that regulation enforced?
> I don't speak of those benchmark milliseconds things.The entire browsers was so slow scrolling was a problem and more and more time the entire OS (Mac os) freezes for 10 seconds or so.

Could it have been every 15 seconds?

I think I was part of the team that fixed that bug :)
> If you have a budget of some hundred million dollars and a very big and enthuastic community, then it's very easy to make money.

Please send some of those "3 easy steps to start earning $500 million a year" to the Mozilla, they could use them.
Great article. I just wonder if this bit is really true:

>Most of those market and technical forces are on the side of economics, not safety.

People seem to think about airline safety a lot, like, an irrational amount given the risk. I would guess that over the decades consumer pressure was a huge driver of safety improvements, and the increasing automation seems to have been a big safety benefit on balance.
It seems that everybody who has the first one loves it. I also pre-ordered the new one, based on that fact alone.
My point is she's not a hero unless you consider people who recklessly commit federal crimes without even the slightest bit of forethought heroes. Snowden saw a massive problem and was methodical and diligent in his process. Even if you hate what you did, he went out of his way to protect innocent people while still exposing the wrongdoing. To use a military analogy, Snowden tried to snipe someone surrounded by hostages while Manning just tossed a grenade into the room.
> If I don't want to follow the law, that's my own choice and I bear responsibility

Sure, but the law is supposed to be in service of the people, otherwise it's no different from a dictatorship. The fact than some 100k drivers are in the prop 22 coalition alone should say something about what _they_ want.

> I'm sure Uber/Lyft could have spent some of the $100 million

How sure? More sure than the companies actually doing the due diligence of crunching those numbers to make such a large decision? $100M may seem like a lot of money, but consider that this was a one time spend, vs the ongoing cost of things like an HR org, etc

> that would have been the thing to do

TFA says they would only realistically be able to hire a fraction of current drivers (and the drivers themselves generally prefer to be contractors), and service reliability for riders would plummet to boot.

One could put it in different ways: if a driver wants to be an employee, then why not seek employment at a taxi/transportation company that works under that model? (amazon is hiring, for example) Why not put a taxi sign on a car and go line up at the airport with a zoned price model as a sole proprietorship company? As a software developer, I have the equivalent of all these options available to me. It would be inconceivable to enter a software development contract agreement with a company and then turn around and say they are now obligated by law to hire me.
Then why do we train for it constantly in coalition exercises?
He did it for "without wearing out the internal eMMC". Does it wear out that fast?
Since these are root queries, wouldn’t your DNS server need to hit the root servers to ensure the TLDs don’t exist? Also your own DNS won’t be detected as DNS interception unless you replace NXDOMAINs with fake responses.
Next Debian stable should be released in less than a year. It’s been more than a year since Buster (current stable) was released. But yes the point stands that 3.7 will be all you get built-in for the next several months regardless of how many Python releases occur.
Whoops, I thought it was asking for Linux tablets in general.
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Of course not. None of these deep state fucks are ever punished for anything.
> If you have a budget of some hundred million dollars and a very big and enthuastic community, then it's very easy to make money. Even having enough money at all can make you money, though this might be ruled out for Mozilla because of their legal status.

Do you have ideas that can help Mozilla make money? Preferably without abandoning Firefox on the way?
> The city is concerned that upgrading cleanliness standards would require investments that would lead to higher water rates.

For anyone reading that isn't from around here, water is by far the cheapest possible utility in Philadelphia. Typically less than $20/month for even large scale usage. If that even doubles it will still be an order of magnitude less than what anyone in the city pays for electric and gas.
I organized a major ACM CS conference this year. Some thoughts .. you need to be super proactive. A super keen person would read the specific papers from before and ask insightful questions during Q/A. State your name and affiliation. Hear other people asking great questions and engage in discussions with them. If there is a conference networking app or coffee break session, make an effort to participate. In networking, best thing is to be interesting (technically) .. have some of your own original ideas/opinions or projects to discuss. Good luck!
Was going to say, I’ve run the stuff with whatever bits of cat5 cable I had on my desk, they’re not that fussy.
> Everybody on the net is always like "Just told my bank to block the transaction" - when I did that, in a EU country, my bank was very reluctant.

Depends on what it is. Any recurring SEPA payment I can get back up to 60 days. Separately I can block those payments. All from the app or their website, I don't need to talk to anyone.

I thought being able to get that money back, plus being able to block companies were SEPA rules. Meaning, applies to loads of countries (at least the countries with the Euro).
Yes and MS as well.
Do yourself a favour and check out Capture One.

It's a bit more pricey (at least more pricey than the Photographer CC sub), but feels so much more polished.

It's even better at handling LR catalogues than LR. Last time I checked migrating my those files took minutes vs hours (CO vs. the new LR).

I've been using LR for years (10+?, and other products for almost 20) and the only reason I haven't completely switched yet is laziness.
I think the ratio of people who know stuff stays roughly the same.
Honestly I think all of these ideas about what isn't and is a contractor are wayyyy over-specified.

To my mind, a contractor has always been just someone you are hiring for a particular piece of work. It's about one-offs. You are not hiring them for a year, in which time they will do an indeterminate number of pieces of work. That is what an employee with a salary is for. You are hiring them to do a particular piece of work. That is why you pay them per piece of work. So to me, the simplest (and only) test should be: "are you paying them per piece of work?". If yes, contractor. If no, employee.

I can't think of any occupation where the "employee" is getting paid on a per-task basis (rides in this case) and I would consider them an employee.

If I hire someone to write blog posts for me, and I pay them per blog post, they're a contractor. The employee version is someone I pay a set salary to based on their skillset, and then they output some indeterminate amount of work.

If I hire someone to watch my kids for me, and I pay them per time they watch my kids, they're a contractor, not an employee. The employee version is a nanny who lives in my home.

If someone is getting paid each time they perform a ride (and not otherwise), they're a contractor. An employee is someone that you are paying even when they're not driving.

I don't think "setting prices", "choosing which hours", etc. has anything to do with it.

If I hire someone to write a blog post for me this morning and tell them I need it by lunch time, I'm not giving them a choice of when they want to work – they need to do it now. But they're still clearly a contractor.

The question remains whether or not contractors under this definition need similar protections that are afforded to employees, and I definitely think this is a question worth debating/considering. But California conflating everything to be an employee seems like the worst way to approach the issue.
Similar with me. I was loving using UNIX at work on Suns ~1991/2, but it wasn't until I borrowed a PC with Coherent for a few weeks that I really was able to explore it properly, both in the sense of being to work as root, and having this excellent book. I was sad when I had to give the PC back, until Linux hit the scene a little while later.
There are no massive stars capable of causing a damaging core collapse SN near the Earth.

However, there could be binary white dwarfs capable of causing a "double degenerate" type I SN, unless recent data has now ruled that out. As of 2002 there were estimated to be ~50 undiscovered white dwarfs within 20 parsecs on our solar system.
Sounds like Kafka? (Only half joking)
Sometimes entire networks of systems fail.
I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear.

A plug for my own answer to this:

I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to every "RSS subscribe" button out there.
Absolutely spot on. I made the mistake mentioned in this blog post earlier and I wish I had focused on inbound and outbound marketing earlier.
The only explanation that 'felt' acceptable to me is to imagine that you're really playing two games instead of one. In the first game, you're right 1/3rd of the time. Then you get to play a new game where you're right half the time, but you can also choose to not play that game and stick with the results of the first game. Playing the second game (picking another door) is more obviously the right thing to do in this case.
That's not legal in Netherlands. You can easily cancel ages in advance (by law). The law was implemented because of too many shady behaviours by various companies.
Trinity Cube (2015)
I built and maintained a critical production web app using Iron for 3 years. Keeping anything like the performance advantage you see in simple benchmarks in a real app is a big challenge.
DNSSEC has to be supported by your ISP’s DNS server, which they won’t if they’re trying to intercept your queries.
This is ingenious!
One can always dream to bring the genre back.
That blog post is five years old, and most of the things it lists are now moot.
GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012)
That's a very bold claim. On what basis would you say that?
> - Everyone should get benefits

Yes.

> - There should be a limit on number of hours worked (regardless of type of employment).

I'm not getting into the specifics, my point is everyone should get the worker protections we have developed over the decades. If that includes mandatory time off, great, but it doesn't have to. I pointed to France's model as one potential example of how it might apply to non-employees like contractors.

> - Everyone should be an employee, and not a freelancer or otherwise independently employed

I don't care about the categorization so long as the worker protection regulations are being met.
Thanks for your insight! Although I tried to grok some of the papers submitted, I could only understand some of the jargon off-hand and I'll have to drum up some questions for the workshop on Sunday and be active. Might I ask which ACM conference did you organize? The conferences space is incredibly large and vast in disciplines!
I think that was the motivation behind the project-wide event-bus/queue that the Fedora distribution started to use:

https://lwn.net/Articles/608915/

https://fedmsg2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I remember having a play with it a couple of years ago, and it was nice to see the various messages flowing over it.
Very Epic. I remember this.
Corrected link:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/china-users-move-50-billion-...
Thanks for being honest. There's a huge amount of video footage of people being beaten by rioters.
Has Apple become increasingly hostile? Yes. Since inception? No. For example, my MacBook Pro from 2007 had a user-replaceable battery. I just popped the old one out, popped the new one in, 15 seconds, it was brilliant.
Data transfers in SD cards are CRC checked.

In addition, the card will by default start in a 12.5MB/s mode at 3.3v, which is 25MHz per lane. That's not DC, but it's definitely slow enough to run on some pretty dodgy wiring. It will only switch to higher speed modes if requested, and if it actually works (falling back to lower speeds otherwise).
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Do you mean that these scaling problems hapenned because ESB was misused? Or would it occur with any architecture or architectures (if different teams used different instruments) just because of sheer volume of data that needs to be processed by business logic?

May be I'm bad at phrasing this, but the point is, sometimes you have perfomance problems because you could write better code, or use better tech, or tweak requirements a little bit, or do something else a little smarted. But sometimes you have perfomance problems simply because you just do a lot of actual work.
If you ask your doctor about testing for potential "food intolerance", I imagine they'll know what you're interested in. Many (most?)tests will cover an array of foods and/or food groups with a single blood test.
By the usual law system. Police find the suspects, send it to the prosecutor, the court, lawyer, judge and all.
"A variable name can contain any UTF-8 symbols (except special ones, white-spaces; the leading character cannot be a digit) and is case-sensitive."

This is terrible.
As mentioned elsewhere: the initial subscription was for 12 months. Extending that in NL is only allowed on a monthly basis, or a new contract. This exactly because too many companies made it purposely difficult to leave.

It's fairly logical: the customer agreed on 12 months. An additional fixed term requires a new contract/agreement. In practice companies now try to keep customers. Plus need to actually be ok instead of relying on people not overcoming the fake effort that is required to leave.
To summarize, we were benchmarking for throughput: how long between the time you click and the time the operation terminates. For a long time, we absolutely crushed Chrome on most of these benchmarks. Firefox started faster, loaded pages faster, switched between tabs faster, JavaScript executed faster, downloads were faster, ...

Chrome developers were benchmarking for responsiveness: how long between the time you click and the user interface shows that something is going on. And that's all that end users actually see. Chrome showed its initial window faster (although it took more time until you could actually do anything with it), was slower at loading pages (but stopped its throbber earlier), slower at switching tabs (but the screen changed faster to show you that it was switching tabs), ...

Which ones were the "correct benchmarks" remains an open question, but it's clear which ones the users perceive/remember as being faster!

Of course, the better architecture that Chrome used meant that they eventually got faster at throughput, too, on computers that had sufficient RAM.
I recently wanted to get some practical knowledge with cloud storage buckets and my first choice was Azure (for no other reasons that name was shrouded with mystery).

Free trial, etc. I give my phone number (something like "for legal reasons"). Then it asks for my CC. I already hate it because it's highly dubious they need my CC number for a free trial since it's not needed to deliver the product. Fine, I give it. Then the process is declined because they don't like my rechargeable CC.

I am a happy AWS freeloader and potential customer now (well, for one year at least).
Sure, but that's like saying you don't need an airplane to go from point A to point B just because you were able to walk anywhere hitherto. It depends.

You may not need a sales team for distribution now, but that's due to selection bias, the stage of the growth PostHog is at, and what PostHog does. The product itself can be kept outside of the company's network, with a Javascript snippet sending events to PostHog.

Some products make it that some clients, especially in sectors that are heavily regulated or sensitive cannot just start using the software, and even if you don't need to engage them and reach them, somebody at some point must close even if it means greeting them at the door or formalizing a purchase decision.

It may not be a sales team/sales rep, but they'll need to sit down with someone and go over a few things, with legal, security, etc in order to green-light the purchase.

Some enterprise clients are afraid you might be a company that's really an agent of their competitor, and even if you're not, some clients may be afraid that a competitor might buy you and access sensitive information. How much this is true differs (sector, what the product does, etc.).

So, a product lead growth, great. I suppose there is an enterprise offering, with maintenance involved. There is a CIO/CFO somewhere who has the authority and/or purchasing power or who has the ear of someone who has either or both.

So, you don't need a sales team or marketing team or PR team right now, but wishing all the best to PostHog and given the product adoption, you might need them very soon. In fact, you probably already have them in the form of one or many of your team-members who are dealing with enterprise clients.

Disclaimer: perspective shaped mainly from my context. Custom, turn-key, data products for large organizations. From conversation, problem-statement, to data connectors, learning subject matter, model training & deployment, sometimes making hardware, and web application that goes with that for acceptable figures. The demand is high and we became the bottleneck, so we built a machine learning platform to make shipping these products way faster. We're trying PostHog for usage data, too, so there's that!
I was just told it wasn't possible. So I cancelled my debit card (take that, paypal).
> It works the same way when sucking air.

This is a good analogy because (being pedantic) you can't suck air either. You can only make a region of lower pressure, into which the higher-pressure air pushes itself.
The auto-reflow of HTML often puts things to weird places. I'm sure it can be done properly as well, but auto-converting a PDF or LaTeX document to HTML results in crappy layout. I always download the PDF when given the option, because the the actual authors spent a lot of time to make sure everything is at the right position and everything looks as intended. Sure if the culture changed and scientists now learned web dev instead of LaTeX and put in the same effort into producing production quality, polished HTML instead of PDF, it may work as well. But scientists need to send LaTeX and PDF to journals and conferences, so you can't expect them to put in double effort. Also, making sure that things look good in all browsers is just a way bigger job than making sure a single PDF looks as it should.
Did you read the rest of the article?

That was not a summary of why the old model could not be kept, just of why it was promiscuous.
The law states:

>it must be possible to produce and to correct roll and yaw by unreversed use of the aileron and rudder controls, up to the time the airplane is stalled. No abnormal nose-up pitching may occur. The longitudinal control force must be positive up to and throughout the stall. In addition, it must be possible to promptly prevent stalling and to recover from a stall by normal use of the controls.

Pretty much all commercial airliners are gonna pitch up if you're nose high and have the throttle pinned. Arguably the degree to which the MAX does this is novel. I think it likely handles like shit in that part of the flight envelope but does it really handle like such shit that it's not safe? I don't think so. Remember, this is basically a company truck. You just have to know it's an issue and be trained to operate it properly. Most people would be appalled at the braking characteristics of unladen semi-trucks but it's a non-issue because everyone who has to drive one knows that in those specific circumstances it will handle like crap. At the end of the day it is a matter of degree and opinion. Yes, you can win some quick virtue points by taking a stand in the name of safety and saying that nothing more than the most minor pitch up is acceptable but I think that had this aircraft gone for a FAA certification as a new type it would have passed just fine.
Every reference I can find gives about a maximum of 10 years as the on-the-shelf, unpowered, lifetime of flash memory. Do you have a reference to some other number?
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Yes, unless you crosspost to Instagram or Facebook and tell people in your videos about all three. Or is that frowned upon at YouTube and/or monitored if you have a high viewership channel?
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Wow, I'd never realised the total radiative transfer was that high! I guess this explains why those silver foil emergency blankets work so well...
Because having the training is preferable to nothing in the same way that having poorly equipped, poorly trained fresh recruits manning your trenches is better than nothing.
Airplanes? You're right.
Rockets?
Ariane is being eaten alive by SpaceX, and the bureaucrats won't move fast enough. They can't even agree on Ariane 6.
AI: Yeah France's really good at supplying engineers for Facebook. There's a reason why François Chollet and Yann LeCun have fled away.

Old companies in France don't build anything new. Maybe we do have startups, but do we have successful ones?

Concerning your last point, saying that the current 3000-pages laws are just "preventing you from treating people like shit" is a simplification.
I would love (seriously) to hear an example of a union that negotiates pay for its members but individuals successfully get additional raises or bonuses on top of that (not just for doing additional work). Teachers, pilots, public sector employees, all have pay contractually set. If you're a high school teacher and you ask your Principal or Vice Principal for a raise out of band you'll get laughed out of the room.
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>I can't think of any occupation where the "employee" is getting paid on a per-task basis (rides in this case) and I would consider them an employee.

Piece rate work payment exists in construction, agriculture, and other industries. People are permanently on staff, but only paid in direct relation to their productivity. It's an old trick to extract the value of labour.
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Thanks for the catch. I edited my typo so now everyone will be super confused when they read your comment.
> postgresql://data.splitgraph.com:5432/ddn

That’s actually pretty cool, to see a public URL with PostgreSQL protocol signifier like that.

Makes me wonder if any developers or DB Architects ever thought of putting their resume in a DB and putting a public read-only postgresql:// URL on their business card :D
This is mainly about web platform standards.

When google controls the only remaining browser engine, it effectively controls web standards (or in other words, independent standard documents lose meaning since Blink is the standard).

Google is then free to push the web technologies in the direction which benefits mainly Google (think AMP) and which further tightens their grip on the web.