skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems very reasonable to me. I have a 150Mbit connection with a 1TB cap, but I can hardly touch 400GB at worst. I have a 4k TV that is definitely streaming 4k/1080 content for 4-5 hours daily, our work laptops are always on, connected to VPN and almost always running a couple of RDPs. Phones are connected and syncing all pics and videos over to onedrive.

I'm out of ideas to increase my usage. The only way I can think of that would saturate a 1Gbit connection is if you are hosting websites and services from your home, which is definitely not the purpose for the Jio home connection.
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AB5 was written by the Teamsters - an multinational Syndicate who couldn’t include and collect Uber drivers membership fees unless they were actual employees.

Its main architect, Lorena Gonzales, is a Teamsters woman through and through, by her own admission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_T...
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As an analyst, I often am faced with a choice between

- write a giant unmaintainable SQL query, or

- pull everything to my PC and use pandas, to take advantage of its ability to build up results piece by piece.

I wrote this library to try and enable that piece-by-piece development approach with SQL queries, without resorting to the mental overhead of full on query builders like SQLAlchemy or Linq.

Seeking feedback - is this useful for you? is it at the right level of abstraction?
AFAIK most companies's WFH policy is currently limited within US. Cross border remote worker need much stricter approval with possibly compensation adjustment & tax implications.
I remember FedEx was forced to reclassify it's delivery contractors as employees. Why Uber and Lyft any different than FedEx?
What's your point? Yes, these carveouts all fall back to a version of the law that is much more lenient on the definition of an independent contractor. That should be obvious...if there wasn't any pre-existing law that defined contractor, businesses would make every employee a contractor.
As a retired programmer who drives Lyft/Uber, it's always interesting to hear my liberal programmer friends take the side of the "working class" drivers against the Big Brother-ish Big Tech companies. I might have been one of them in the past. I'll probably be one of them in the future when self-driving cars replace drivers. But for now...

Most of the drivers who don't make enough money are bad at their job. California unions are encouraging these bad drivers to seek protection. I base this on talking to other drivers and taking rides myself. How is a driver bad at their job?

* won't do rides out of town because "I don't get paid coming back"
* won't do rides to the airport
* declines short rides
* won't get out of the car to help people put things or groceries in the trunk
* has a "my car, my rules" attitude. Won't allow drinks for example
* won't turn the radio down when someone gets a call
* male drivers bothering women who just want to get somewhere
* misses turns frequently
* talks whether the passenger wants it or not
* won't talk if passenger clearly wants to talk
* takes eyes off the road while talking
* fiddles with their cell phone while driving to look at texts
* goes too fast, tailgates, lousy driver
* talks politics, religion or sex
* has a body odor problem. doesn't use air freshener in car or shower before driving.
* has a dirty car
* won't take a different route if asked, or alternately, goes off route without explanation
* won't wait the require 5 minutes to pick someone up
* accepts a ride and then calls to see where they are going. cancels if they don't like it (Lyft)
* won't put on air conditioner when asked

I could go on, but these drivers don't get tips and don't make enough money from rides because they are not maximizing potential. Up to 70% of drivers are like me and do a good job, like the freedom to work when and where they want, and would like you to vote yes on Prop 22 if you are in California.

Thanks
Works for a given individual. Your metabolic system is so non-linear and feedback-ridden, that people have not found a way to “know” anything. Why do you think the science is crap?
There is nothing standing in their way to do the same with their software in a couple of years.
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I'm on a local fire department, and we've had this taught as one option to try and manage air use with the SCBA packs. I find it useful, but since I'm already conscious of breathing (with some slight effort to inhale), I tend to feel the need more than without the pack.

It does seem to help to hum (for some) or at least purse your lips (for me) to drag out the exhalation step without having to inhale right away. I would certainly like to be better at this though, those packs don't last that long.
The "what did you use before Emacs" question stumped me: only one of those even existed when I started using Emacs. :)
Please edit out swipes like "Have you actually read" and name-calling like "This FUD is nonsense". Those things destroy conversation and break the site guidelines, and your comment would be just fine without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Why would this icon from google

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Obtained when searching for a definition of a word on google i.e. "define terse" break the httpS on the site?

Tested: Firefox Android

Chrome does not seem to fail this way. Neither on the desktop.
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> Besides that: what happened to offline backups? How exactly are hackers coming for cloned, unplugged, HDDs/SSDs stored on shelves / bank safes? (I know several companies doing just that as offline backups)

I've heard, though I have no way to verify this, that some ransomware gets installed and just writes copies of itself for a while before really activating. The copies get backed up, and if you restore from backup you restore them and they get activated.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858219
His point is that they're not "wage slaves". They can freely move to another minimum wage job. The fact that they don't indicates that Uber is a better deal.
Actually it's not, you need to add it to your about text for it to be visible.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=firecall in an incognito browser window.
>not having Uber isn't going to cause me to die

Drunk drivers tend not to only kill themselves. I'd also like to point out that your argument for 'personal responsibility' has a lot of similarities with the 'abortions would stop if people just exercised abstinence' argument. The flaw is the same: people don't act responsibly[0] and others suffer for it[1].

>They can achieve this responsibility through, for instance, basic income, unemployment benefits or a social safety net.

Those would be reasonable approaches but instead CA seems more interested in hacking a massively useful service into unprofitably. It's akin to pushing mass transit by bulldozing highways instead of building subways.

[0] A lot can be written about why people don't, but its demonstrable that lowering the barrier to alternatives decreases irresponsible behavior.

[1] If you consider abortion and/or drunk driving to be social ills.
I take it as a "no". You nor California's government have no better options for them.

> The alternative scenario...

Another scenario is that Uber hikes prices, people cease to use their services because they are too expensive, and the company fails, and all these drivers lose their jobs, and customers lose the service, which will double-hurt the working class because rich people can afford their own cars and/or expensive taxis.

The drivers are not exploited. Had their have better options, they would be working elsewhere. You want to help them, give them better options, make opening business easier and so on. Not kill their options.

Ehh... I'm wasting my time... Socialists are the worst enemy of the people the claim to want to protect.
So how are they still in business. Do they survive by overcharging the few customers they get. One benifit I see is with lower maintenance cost.
Do you still have those installers, and if so, would you be able to post checksums of them?
1. Firewalls can monitor existing host settings and take them into account.

2. The 'dial-home' mentioned bypasses Windows's firewall.

3. External monitoring has shown that it does bypass firewalls (however, I cannot say whether that's all of them). So does security software such as LoJack (but that's somewhat unusual).

4. This includes ones with kernel drivers.

5. As the code is written to be invisible to other processes, firewall writers would either have to reverse engineer MS's code to stop it or know certain proprietary details about it. I doubt if any legit/reputable developer would risk using info gained from RE (certainty not to stop it functioning as MS intended). Nevertheless, some MS parteners know about it for obvious reasons.

6. From various news reports several weeks ago, it seems that XP's source code has leaked. That means if you are keen enough you can find the 'offending' code and verify the matter for yourself one way or the other (at least as far as XP goes). If you don't, then sooner or later l'm sure others will do so.

If I and others who share this understanding are way off beam, which I doubt having seen evidence, then please let us all know about it in a HN post.
Not perfect between English and French but certainly great.

The possibility to insert your corrections in the suggested translation and let the algorithm rewrite the following text make it a huge time saver when one needs to do a translation.
Actually, we didn't claim to have successfully done this.

More careful reading of the proposal and reports will easily reveal this.

The 20,000 lines of code was a strawman, but we kept to it, and got quite a bit done (and what we did do is summarized in the reports, and especially the final report).

Basically, what didn't get finished was the "bottom-bottom" by the time the funding ran out.

I made a critical error in the first several years of the project because I was so impressed with the runable-graphical-math -- called Nile -- by Dan Amelang.

It was so good and ran so close to actual real-time speeds, that I wanted to give live demos of this system on a laptop (you can find these in quite a few talks I did on YouTube).

However, this committed Don Knuth's "prime sin" : "the root of all evil is premature optimization".

You can see from the original proposal that the project was about "runnable semantics of personal computing down to the metal in 20,000 lines of code" -- and since it was about semantics, the report mentioned that it might have to be run on a supercomputer to achieve the real-time needs.

This is akin to trying to find "the mathematical content" of a complex system with lots of requirements".

This is quite reasonable if you look at Software Engineering from the perspective of regular engineering, with a CAD<->SIM->FAB central process. We were proposing to do the CAD<->SIM part.

My error was to want more too early, and try to mix in some of the pragmatics while still doing the designs, i.e. to start looking at the FAB part, which should be down the line.

Another really fun sub-part of this project was Ian Piumarta's from scratch runnable TCP/IP in less than 200 lines of code (which included parsing the original RFC about TCP/IP.

It would be worth taking another shot at this goal, and to stick with the runnable semantics this time around.

And to note that if it wound up taking 100K lines of code instead of 20K, it would still be helpful. One of the reasons we picked 20K as a target was that -- at 50 lines to a page -- 20K lines is a 400 page book. This could likely be made readable ... whereas 5 such books would not be nearly as helpful for understanding.
I'm not convinced rust was in any way better than other languages here. I'd spin up a quick implementation to proof my point, but the site is timing out for me, so that's probably not going to happen.
If workers get paid more in benefits and "rights," more people will become rideshare drivers. And then pay will get pushed down, until the work is just as undesirable as it is now, only differently undesirable, because the compensation is in the form of benefits and "rights," instead of cash that the driver can spend however they want.
It would definitely be networked with Happy Meal Ethernet.
I think if you're a pro, the $600 is not a huge deal, but it's far from free. $0.30/hr assumes that you're using their products 2000 hours a year, or 40 hours per week. I'd expect that someone like a photographer might use it 1-2 hours per work day, which ends up being $2-3 per hour.

For someone like me that has occasion to use something like Photoshop or Illustrator 3-6 hours per year, the $100-$200 per hour is quite pricey.
And how can we know that you're not a shill?
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Yes, sorry to have wasted your time... fora, not courts; places to make your grievances public and ask for justice.
Exactly. Employment and benefits requirement will completely eliminate part-time and flexible-hours workers, and other people that were really benefiting from this type of work.
For people like me unfamiliar with this.

Simply go to the [0]download page, look for "mini root filesystem" and download x86, or simply click this [1]link

Upload this to your iPhone. Then in the iSH settings find the "filesystems" section and click "import".

[0]: https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/

[1]: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/releases/x86/alpi...
While it's true that the law doesn't force companies to assign shifts to employees, in practice, it's always the case.

The reason is because ultimately, scheduling shifts is going to be both easier to manage and more cost efficient than letting employees choose their own schedule.

Uber has a good idea of how many drivers they need at any given time. This ideal distribution of supply will never align perfectly with the supply pool's natural scheduling preferences. You can try to use economic incentives to force these two distributions to overlap, or you can just exert control (that you rightfully have over employees) and force your employees to work when you need them.
Main street in downtown Culver City is closed -- for the single block it spans. It's something. It'd definitely be nice to see more of that elsewhere.
I spoke with a famous dean who told me, to the effect that, we have been instructed to focus heavily on candidates with the right gender and certain attributes (that you may imagine). Basically if you are not born in this pool, forget it.

By the way, politics has got really extreme. Networks are super important. I see a lot of local hires. In some places, they only hire their own students or swap with students at partner labs.

With these developments, I doubt funding academia is efficient allocation of public resources. I support cutting funds. This system will not produce science. It’s shocking how much money is spent, and how many people are in the chain, each outsourcing the problem to someone below, until a graduate student typically an immigrant will simulate something.
It's not academic literature, it's an op-ed piece. And every one of the 5 reasons can be challenged.

Especially the "less choice" one.
How do you think it should have played out? Laws were passed, special interests didn't like it and now there's a court battle. And immediately you say nothing can get passed that special interests oppose.

California has the curve ball of the proposition system. Its not that hard to make it to the ballot with anything. It can be a little silly but it is what it is.

How is this a term limits issue? What would you like to have seen?
I bet the warez versions install and "activate" just fine, though. Another well deserved win for DRM.
In somewhat related news, they just pulled undervolting on XTU for some people recently.

Speculation being that it was just non-K cpu owners.

:(
No script is a pain because it doesn't sync settings across other signed in browsers. It's great on the one computer, sucks for others.
The last cheese grater perfectly supports Big Sur, short of wireless drivers.
Thank you for the links! By the way there is a follow-up: https://beta.aceparent.me/#/battery2

And the related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24319839
British series "Yes, Minister" / "Yes, Prime Minister" immediately come to mind.
Only in theory. Sentences are hardly the same in other languages as the books are not one-to-one translations and a sentence in one language might be three in another. Even the paragraphs might not be the same in asian languages.
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>They found that the time clock on legislators terms made them more eager for "easy wins" rather than tacking complex problems. This was especially true of legislators who were hoping to jump into national politics.

Ah that actually makes a lot of sense to me. I did not actually consider that when you mentioned experience - a newer politician certainly has more pressure to put points on the board and it follows that they may introduce "buggy" laws.
Before I was diagnosed with asthma, I just knew that at some places (my mother in law's was common), I'd have poor breathing after a while. Just learned to relax through it, and the symptoms would lessen after I left.

I go to get diagnosed, and they give you a nebulizer with something that triggers symptoms if you have it. I didn't visibly react, so the tech did it again, then measured the difference in my breathing. Whoops, the lack of visible response meant that I should have stopped after one dose.

So, I couldn't leave until after enough doses of an inhaler that it went back to normal. About 7 hits, I looked like I was sunburned for a while.
Is a term limit of, say, 10 years, enough time to "get the feel for good laws"?
Might as well have called it xxxterm.
Simone de Beauvoir is not exactly a comment magnet on HN, is she?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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I stand corrected: AArch64 is the only other architecture apart from x86_64 to have a target platform that is a Tier-1 target platform.

Attaining this ‘badge’ is significant for Rust’s future though in a world where AArch64 Linux is astonishingly predominant especially in areas where Rust’s safety properties are a good fit.
I think the more fair deal would be employing them at a more fair job, as should be the goal of a responsible government.
Some differences that come to mind: no scheduled shifts, no uniform, much less control over how workers service customers, ability to set your own rate. I'm sure there are more.
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That's a fair point. Thanks for providing an explanation!
This is a school research project.
> Pedigrees are dumb.

"Pedigree", and other terms used to refer to the same concept, are nothing more than the reflection of the track record of an institution regarding scientific quality and training.

"Pedigree" also reflects a pre-screening of candidates with regards to academic and technical potential.

It might be true that I won't become the next Niels Bohr if I attend the same universities he attended or lectured in, but let's not fool ourselves into assuming that you'll learn the same from a course taught by amateur underperforming lecturers than what you would from a course taught by nobel laureates to a room of top-performers.
With all due respect, my experience has been the complete opposite of yours. Do you by chance have any evidence for these claims or are they simply your best guess asserted as fact?
Why are these limits imposed on consumers and not the major players allowing consumers to waste data like that?

Like instagram does not need databases of 8MB images for everyones collage. Youtube doesn't need 4k even now for some dweeb doing a tech review.

If they forcefully throttled entities, which then trickled down to consumers, the ISPs wouldn't have to extort consumers to help pay for everyone else's selfish vanity.
Uber is not a person and the First Amendment, whatever our current Supreme Court claims, is certainly not designed to protect its "speech." Additionally corporate "speech" of this sort where it impacts the welfare of employees is very much regulated.
I've also switched to Affinity back in March, because of the fact that Creative Cloud was becoming too expensive for me and my crappy 3rd world income.
AB5 can't override past precedent and Federal supremacy. That they didn't try is a sign of the bare minimum of legislative competency that I would expect from a legislature.
Most of the bullet points you listed are not a sign of bad drivers. Even you, were you a taxi driver, wouldn't take a long drive out of town if you weren't paid for the trip back, for example.

And yes, "my car my rules" because that is their car, and Uber imposes severe penalties for bad reviews.
Ask HN: Software to fix display hardware issue
Hey, HN.

A few weeks ago, a vertical line about 5 cm wide appeared in the middle of my Macbook's display. The colors inside the line are distorted in a regular pattern: whites are always pinkish-purple, blues are a bit greenish, greens are only a bit lighter, greys do not change at all. This is why I am using dark theme on MacOS and all websites.

I've consulted repair services and they are convinced it's the LCD matrix issue and there is no way to replace the matrix without replacing the entire display itself, which costs about 700 USD. At the moment, I cannot afford the repair.

I was wondering if there is software that can provide a temporary solution to color distortion. Maybe it can adjust the pixel colors inside the line so that they correspond to the actual rgb value they are supposed to be.

I realize it sounds kinda dumb and may not be possible at all but still.
For others it's a hellscape and for others - like me - it's a blessing.

I can work in the morning, make some lunch, work a while after lunch. Then the kids come home, I can help with their homework and keep working for a bit more.

I can even assist colleagues in different time zones, since my computer is near me at all times. Just a quick chat during my evening (their morning) will speed things up immensely by unblocking their tasks right away.

I've even spent parts of the week at the family cabin and at my in-laws. No one cared, my productivity didn't change a bit.

But I think I'm privileged since my company only tracks my productivity and are smart enough to not overwork anyone on purpose. And I've had one burnout already, so I can see the symptoms of overworking and relax well before I run into any issues.