skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drove for Lyft for a while while taking a break from software. Then I got t-boned by a red-light runner.

Fortunately no one was injured. I was on my way to pick up a passenger, but it was only me in the vehicle.

When I went to make my insurance claim to fix several thousand dollars worth of damage to my car, I discovered that despite having done a lot of research when trying to buy the right insurance with a rideshare rider and which was compatible with Lyft's own insurance, I wasn't covered. I had to eat the bill.

Fortunately, I was a software engineer moonlighting and I had savings to take care of it, rather than a typical Lyft driver living with far less cushion.

This sort of thing doesn't happen when you're an employee. The essence of the gig economy is doing away with hard-won labor protections and increasing profitability by offloading risk onto workers, creating the statistical certainty that a fraction of your workforce will experience circumstances far more tragic than mine.
> But is that good enough, in this case? Should it be legal to front-load your business by promising something, and then going back on that

Did the user agreement - or even the marketing - at the time this was offered stipulate that unlimited photo storage would continue forever? As a user I never interpreted it that way - there's no free lunch.

You can get your photos out onto your own hardware using Google Takeout easily enough.
This is a very broad claim. Here is a factual refutation:

https://spacenews.com/nasa-certifies-falcon-9-for-highest-pr...

From the article lead:
>NASA has certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to launch the agency’s most important science missions, giving the agency new options that could result in lower costs.

NASA sees reducing launch cost as a top scientific priority. The mission of Starship is to do the same.
the first part feels standard to me.

can anyone clue me in on whether that second part is as batshit crazy as it sounds?
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Such companies do exist. They are usually run by friends of the people working in procurement at various companies.
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> The fundamental problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions

And yet, we continue to heavily subsidize the miss/over education of more who will be un/under employed upon graduation, and who will have no hope of paying off student loans.

Instead of heavily subsidizing these schools that have billions of endowments, we should be requiring them to provide their own financing. If their product is so great, they should have no trouble standing behind it.
Depends what we call a civilisation collapse. It doesn't have to be a complete annihilation. It can mean the rise of tyranny and demise of democracy. In that sense I don't think there will be any safe location in the world.
No, hence the "over"
I'm detecting a bit of judgement in your reply, too.
Are you referring to the The Great Reset?

https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
I forgot, yes I took it together with K2 before sleep.
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Maybe I'm too left-leaning, but doesn't it feel wrong to deny people the possibility of seeing a doctor, calling in sick if they don't feel good or earning enough money to afford more than Ramen at the end of the month, no matter their line of work?

It's great that the HN crowd is primarily privileged from an income point of view, but I find it hard to fathom that people lose sight of the fact that not everyone is this fortunate, and those less fortunate also deserve to live a life without fear of getting sick.
This did cross my mind! Specifically, just forwarding to something other than TCP. Doesn't sound impossible if we change interfaces a little bit.

Thinking, we can make dialing the provider responsibility. I didn't want to block the goroutine there, but it could just spawn another temporary one for dialing.

Then the manager can be generic over ReadWriter, and optionally try if whatever it has is also Closer.

Beyond that, I think Docker talks gRPC?

P.S.: Note that I made this AGPL. If you planned on creating some sort of product out of this, best start fresh from the golang.org/x/crypto. Might even be simpler in the end, because I feel like a big part of lazyssh is management of resources, which in Docker is (probably) local, cheap and almost instant.
Haiku is not BeOS, but a continuation of it. Under the hood, the internals (especially the kernel) are very different from BeOS', to say the least...
While we are talking about Google Photos, I'm sure people will be thinking of how to extract their photos from the service.

I'd love to be able to recommend rclone here, but the Google API is just too limited for downloading photos: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations

Stripping the metadata and the resolution changes is unacceptable. (The resolution change only seems to affect videos for me but others have seen it on photos too).

I know Google engineers will be reading this - please fix the Google Photos API so it can be used to upload and download full quality, unaltered images or videos. I'm certainly getting the feeling that the Google Photos Web app (which is excellent) isn't eating the dog food of the Google Photos API.

In the mean time use Google takeout to extract your images.
My husband drives for Uber, and I’m glad the proposition passed as it is.

He drives the way Uber was originally envisioned. He goes out some nights if there’s a surge, and in the morning on the way to work he points the app toward our stores and grabs a person (pre-pandemic) or a food delivery (today) on his way in.

It pays for gas money, car maintenance, and then some. Some months he makes a few hundred dollars. Some months over $1000. He can work when he wants, and make as much or as little money as he needs.

I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not. I understand that some people want it to be full-time, but I wish they would stop trying to make Uber something it’s not. Had the law passed, people like my husband would have had to quit working for Uber. It would have unfairly punished the part-time and “free time” drivers in favor of full-time drivers.

I still think we need a third class of employment, but that’s not what was on the table here.
I'm very skeptical this would work as a for-profit business, especially a VC backed one, because their will always be pressure to take a bigger and bigger piece of the revenue.

Interesting that their social proof lists a bunch of silicon valley companies that are probably about the least likely to have the issues I described.
I also balked at it until my credit card gave me free delivery and only 5% fees. The final cost is cost of food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfectly OK with!).

This comes out to a real marginal difference of about 4-6$, which I don't really care about.

Edit: people keep mentioning markups. I see those much more often on GrubHub (actually, every place is marked up on GrubHub except big chains), but don't see markups my regular set of local restaurants.
> They can buy a PC with GNU/Linux preinstalled then.

That's the problem: non-tech people don't know they can do that. Besides, why would they buy a PC with "GNU/Linux" preinstalled if they don't know what "GNU/Linux" mean to begin with? Almost everyone out there knows what "Mac" or "Windows" means, and so they buy Apple stuff. Again, marketing.
Not to say this would have worked at your company, and not to say it's perfect, but I think the "HACK" of the bottom-up approach for software like JIRA or others is that it is priced in a way where you can get your team at a company using it and showing demonstrable value from using it on a free or very low-cost (AKA your personal credit card) tier.

Then, when you go to make it official, you have much more power in the negotiation.

If it's working well, making the "shadow IT" SaaS tool an official purchase typically goes:

Team Lead: Everyone is using this tool, we're about to go above the free tier and need to purchase it.

IT/Finance: You should have gone through the process, you need to fill out these forms.

VP/CEO (to IT/Finance, seeing value of tool): Just get it done
I agree. Having too many educated people is a bad thing.
I keep floating the idea of royalties.

FOSS purists object, leading to the libre vs gratis rabbit hole.

I'm now revisiting Hintjens' (ZeroMQ) advice around trademarks and licensing.

Maybe there's an angle around trademarks. Like maybe you can call your fork "SuperWidget™ compatible", for a fee.

Dual licensing seems obvious. But maybe we need some new revenue sharing licenses better suited for cloud providers and SAAS. (A life time ago, I used libraries in my shrink-wrap. So negotiating price feels familiar to me.)

Libraries kinda "feel" like music sampling. So I've been skim reading how that world handles royalties. I like that they have boilerplate for all the most common scenarios.

I'm also alert to case studies and financial reports about existing efforts, successful, failed, or otherwise. This solution to funding might just be as simple as mimicking success.
well WinSudo.exe DisableSmartScreenAndCallVirus.exe Virus.exe might work if the first two are not smart screen detected yet. a simple program might not be detected by smartscreen yet.
More like ethnic and gender studies, probably.
F the poor, aye? Gotchu fam. Jesus would be proud.
It would actually work rather well, that’s the whole point of bootcamp.
The next thing Bannon said he would like to return to Tudor England. Was “head on a pike” a euphemism in 14th century British politics? Then Jack goes into a quip about how people used to hang traitors. Did you not hear the rest of the conversation?

You are bending so far incredibly backwards for a guy with an incredibly poor moral compass that’s slinging death threats at a public servant who already has to hire body guards.
I use infomaniak's kdrive, which, I think, has a reasonable price: 64CHF (=~USD) per year for 2Tb.
I expect that the issue is more likely that 99.999% of people are using the service are doing so "normally", but the 0.001% who are not are using disproportionally large amounts of data/abusing the service at the detriment of others etc.

I have no doubt that there are people out there doing shady/dodgy things to abuse the free "unlimited" storage and pumping in huge huge huge amounts of data or have hacked up some crazy system to use it as some sort of hacked-up rsync, using it for bulk image classification instead of spin up their own service etc etc etc

Charging a relatively small fee to high users while leaving it free for the vast majority seems like a fair way of trying to slow down abuse to me - I think they did the same thing with the Google Maps APIs a year or two ago (i.e. turn down the free tier significantly and make it cost a small-but-not-zero amount to stop people abusing it)

I currently pay £1.33 a month for more storage - so like half a starbucks coffee. Seems fair to me considering how many years of photos I have in there.
Are you actually saying stop and frisk isn't compelling data for systemic racism? Damn man, that's pretty much common knowledge at this point.
Has anyone cracked the "DRM" on this? Can I just install a hacked app and have it think I'm a pixel owner? Does it just use the EXIF headers to identify the device?
SLS is not "for science", it's a jobs program for Shuttle contractors.
I have only read a handful of these in my life, but the material weakness does sound strange, but the rest of it just sounds crazier and crazier
Ah, the foundation trilogy. Prepper culture apocalypse fairy tales – but for academians.
Agreed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Sure. Once you solve the fundamental purchasing problem, you have all kinds of options up to an including building a sort of hodge podge AWS.
Microsoft says three APTs have targeted seven Covid-19 vaccine makers
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> That's nice, but the obvious solution to prevent all this outrage would have been to grandfather in old user accounts: anyone already using Google Photos has no storage limit for compressed images (as before), but new accounts have the new limits. That allows for fast growth with insane offers at the start of the product cycle, while switching to a more profitable model for later users.

The fact that Google didn't do it is another reason why one could call it a bait-n-switch model.
My friends have at least 1TB. My one buddy who was the biggest google advocate has 10TB+. He moved all his photos there and deleted them off harddrives etc.
If the 2020 elections proved anything, it’s that money doesn’t buy elections. Bloomberg tried in the Primary, and tried again in Texas on behalf of Biden and the Democrats and their portion of the Texan Congressional election actually shrank in a State the mainstream media was selling as a swing State.

Money gets you into the game, it doesn’t get you over the finish line.

Back to Prop 22, Uber didn’t buy a law, Californian voters bought this law with their votes, and punched a hole in an even worse law that screwed over 1099s with exceptions for the legislature’s preferred constituents. Now the California State legislature faces a choice: repeal what’s left of AB5 or let the gimped version stand without hitting their prized targets. A total repeal of AB5 would have been even better, but this will do for now.
As a disabled person who has also benefitted immensely from Uber, I hear this a lot, and it is really frustrating.

No one will help me, especially progressive leaning people. You don't get political or social brownie points for helping disabled people the way you would for other minority groups who are struggling. We are constantly ignored and forgotten.

I was in a situation where I needed money for healthcare that will never be covered by insurance, especially government sponsored universal insurance (EDIT: it will be covered eventually, maybe in 10 years). Gig jobs played a key role in my ability to purchase that healthcare and survive.

Regular employers will never hire me. Unions will never let me join them, because I can't meet their requirements and make life harder for their able bodied employees. Gig work is the only option.

Healthy people aren't nearly as caring as they'd like to believe, especially progressives.
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People who want it to be full time, in reality want it so they can install unions and then leech money of the workers with no options.
There is no evidence of longterm damage in healthy people, just anecdotal reports. Millions of people have got this disease and recovered. We often hear with shrill panic reporting about mass groups getting infected, like the Ozarks around 4th of July, then no follow up reporting because everyone recovers.

Here is a graph of who is dying in Massachusetts from Covid https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2020/09/02/who-is-dy...

It’s overwhelmingly those above 80 years old. Completely disrupting the economy and lives for people under 40 makes no sense no matter how you want to warp logic.
It's not about the ability to write programs, but the ability to write programs that influence your base system in a meaningful way. Yes, you can write programs, but can you write a different /bin/init for your system? I'm not sure you can (either because Apple will not let you, or your lack of ability to do things like setting up a system to be used). Maybe you can, we're wrong about this, and more power to you. But it's quite likely that you can't.
Sure, and the war on drugs delivered crack to black people and got them addicted and put them in jail. You're being obtuse if you think black people are more likely to be absentee fathers, drug addicted, and impoverished by the nature of their genetics.
Welcome to flaky test: Bio-Edition.

Now even he may know the pain and suffering against which any Tester has a duty to fight.
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A part of me thinks that sounds like a fun retirement project, to become the primary maintainer of a useful but unglamorous OSS project; another part of me, looking at how my predecessors (already-retired programmers) apparently disagree, suspect that by the time I retire I'll either not want to deal with the burden, or have more fun things to spend my time on.
They completely broke Alt-Tab in 20H2 so no, it's not.
Emacs, for instance. Now ~35 years and still going strong.
"Overly bureaucratic and suffocating organizations" will always find someone who wants their money. A place I used to work was happy to pay SaaS company A 4 times more than SaaS company B was charging for exactly the same service, purely because company A could send quarterly invoices and B couldn't.

"Overly bureaucratic and suffocating organizations" might be a pain to deal with, but they are also fairly price insensitive once they've decided that they want to buy your service, assuming you make it easy for them to give you their money.
The $146 million figure is specifically for new engines that are no longer designed to be reusable.
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The food delivery market at the moment feels a bit like the daily deals market from 10-12 years ago (with Groupon and Living Social).

Sure there's a market there, but is it really big enough to sustain multiple large IPO'd start-ups...
He has to attack the person because opposing the idea of people making a living wage makes you look like a callous idiot.
Came here to say that Formly is fantastic! It's pretty much the only thing left i like about Angular.
Any future projects will be written in Svelte if my team has anything to do with it, though.
I think it's terrible that the next step up from that plan is $999/year up to 20TB. Consumers shouldn't have to pay in orders of magnitude for storage they "could" but are not yet consuming. I'm not sure what I'll do when I hit the 2TB limit.
This is the same problem we had with TiVo: you could get the operating system, tinker with it, and run it. Just not on your TiVo. What good is having the source if you can only run it on toy hardware? You need to be able to alter the code on the tools you use so you aren't beholden to a company that drops warranty and support within 5 years and may never fix the problems you have even while it's supported.
You do realize that militant Basque nationalist paramilitary groups are disarmed and disbanded since more than 10 years, yes?

It's like saying Irish is controversial because the Provisional IRA existed as an organization in the past...
Replacement rate is highly field dependent. Certain fields (e.g. applied math, some physical sciences) have excellent career prospects for PhDs in industry, in which case the number of lifetime advisees for a given professor can greatly exceed 1 while remaining under the replacement rate for academia. Other fields have much worse prospects for PhDs outside of academia, in which case the replacement rate is much closer to 1. (Granted, there’s always a fudge factor to account for people who do PhDs just for fun.) I’m not sure where Turchin’s field (ecology/evolutionary biology) falls on this spectrum.

It’s important to point out the obvious: the replacement rate for academia is exactly 1 PhD student with faculty aspirations per lifetime of each professor. Anything >1 and academia must grow exponentially to accommodate every single PhD student who desires a faculty position. It is shocking how little this basic, obvious fact is discussed within our ivory towers.
I feel like the email they sent is a master class in misleading. The feeling and subtext make you feel like nothing is happening or you'll be better off:

> To build for the future and welcome even more memories, Google Photos is changing its unlimited high-quality storage policy. Starting Ju ne 1 , 2 02 1, new photos and videos backed up in high-quality will begin to count toward users' 15 GB of Google Account storage, which is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.

> Your Pixel device will not be impacted by this change. High - quality uploads from your Pixel device will continue to be free and unlimited. This exemption only applies to uploads made from your Pixel device, not uploads from other devices or via photos.google.com.
Right now all you're doing is engaging in virtue signaling.

How about you go off and split your Mozilla salary with this woman and then once you provide proof of this then we can have an honest discussion.

Just to be clear, nothing at all is stopping you from doing this.

You wouldn't be so awful as to claim that your labor is more valuable than this woman's, would you?
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An addition to all the comments in this thread, from a finance point of view, consolidating the tax treatment of multiple resold items would be nightmarish if you want to launch this service internationally. Additionally, the mismatch of billing structures would lead to the hypothetical reseller either keeping margins (big turn-off for onboarding I bet) or keeping wildly volatile short-term liabilities on their balance.

It just seems like the author is looking for a band-aid instead of the real problem; a heavily bureaucratic procurement system in their company.
I periodically try out Safari, I guess I'll have to try it again.

The last time, the thing that kept me from switching was inconsistent or confusing behavior around the URL bar auto-filling suggestions. When I focus on it and start typing it would fill in URLs with a lag, and so I'd try to navigate to a page, but just as I was about to hit Enter, it would auto-suggest some different path or set of parameters and then my Enter would navigate there instead.

It also (I guess to appear speedy?) would always speculatively load the root page when I'm typing something. So if I'm trying to type in "localhost:4000/somepage", it would issue a request while I'm still typing that for "localhost:4000/", which would inevitably cause me confusion when developing by triggering breakpoints and stuff I wasn't intending.
you should be able to run x86 vms through qemu. Just like running arm vms on x86 today
Probably because someone posts "correlation does not imply causation" as a rote "I am very smart" reply to any published study, regardless of the actual contents and claims of the study.
I personally close tabs as soon as I'm done with them. If I see I have more than ~10 open, I purge them of all but the pinned tab(s) and maybe the left most 2-3 which is generally where I keep the tab I for the ticket I am actively working on.

On my personal machine, I'd be surprised if I ever get above 5 non-pinned tabs open. I open a tab, look at it, close it, rinse and repeat.

I have the same habits in my IDE and Finder windows and iTerm and Sublime (which I mostly use as a scratchpad). If I have more than a few open, I inherently think I am doing something wrong and go to clean it up.

Frankly, I've always viewed the "hundreds of tabs open" as a sorta hoarder mentality. You might need that tab in the future, so you don't ever close it. Even when it is obvious you will never need it, you still don't close it. Even when it makes finding other tabs unusually difficult, you still do not close it. It clearly has no benefit, but you're afraid or unwilling to close it (I use "you" in the general sense; not indicating you, tobr, specifically)