skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely true for engineers. While I did have employer provided healthcare, I was hired as a contract worker at Google X on their flagship robotics research project as a mechatronics prototype engineer and later a test engineer. I worked for two years alongside full time employees on the same exact things as full time employees. But they got stock, parties, and other special treats that contractors did not. Almost 50% of the team - I think the legal limit - were contractor roles.

While I do appreciate that from their perspective it makes sense, it is also true that if we don't fight to protect workers, all jobs will go this way. That's actually why what an up-thread comment said is a great idea. If we decouple important things like healthcare from employment, then everyone gets important quality of life care without employers having to restrict benefits. If we do not fight for ourselves, we will end up in a situation where most people cannot access the basic necessities of life. Already in the US millions of Americans are without healthcare.
Speaking as a person who intentionally chooses to be a contractor, and refuses offers of permanent employment because I prefer to be a contractor, I respectfully disagree. I have these options because being a computer programmer (lately) gives me options. In any occupation where it is a "buyer's market", the employee has no such option.

Now, whether things like healthcare and retirement should be linked to employment in the first place, is a real and valid question. But currently it is, and the distinction between "employee" and "contractor" seems bogus in a lot of cases.
Thanks, I think I have mixed it up with the Van Gogh Museum. I should check out the Night Watch next time.
There are a few different possibilities, and some of them involve Option, yes. But doing this would still possibly create an annotation burden that the parent is complaining about.

My comment was trying to be pretty narrowly scoped to "why not use a reference here." You and your sibling are both right in ways!
Unravelling the when, where and how of volcanic eruptions
Well, that was with any dist, and not really a Debian issue.

Besides, last time I ran a GUI on linux was probably over 20 years ago.
I think your third point is key. For the first two points I believe that you can still be a contractor if you are choosing to do all your work for one firm and you're using their tools and premises to do the work.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nazi
... and if any of these contractors are in CA, then they (edit to add this: Instacart) will likely be sued by the EDD. The EDD would view this as a blatant way to get out of paying benefits (which it does appear to be).
I use a task tracking system. (gitlab issues)

I force myself to finish 3 tasks each day, no matter what.
Wait until you find out CygWin is a thing for decades and you could've used Linux style under Windows all this time
I imagine it is problematic that Python is already very slow, and then to pile up idioms with performance downsides on top of that is kind of rough.
The AMA is a union in all but name [1] and quite powerful [2]:

By money spent, the AMA is the nation’s third largest lobbying organization of the last 20 years, behind only the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Realtors. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2014/09/03/the-doct...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/06/why-we...
Generally speaking musicians are the last to get paid and the first to blame.
Operation Cuddles was a success
The article doesnt mention Prop 22 by name but the last paragraph is very clearly about Prop 22

> San Francisco-based Instacart and other gig companies including Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. last year bankrolled a successful $200 million campaign to pass a California ballot measure exempting them from a state law declaring workers were employees if they did work in the “usual course” of their bosses’ business. Emboldened by that victory, the companies are pushing for similar changes elsewhere that would make it easier to claim workers are contractors.
Haven't noticed any issues (London), but I do appreciate the attention FastMail give to their uptime and outages, given they handle something as critical as email.
That bandwidth limitation could be due to Infinity Fabric, which seems to be rated at 42GBps (x2 as full duplex, though)?

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/infinity_fabric
Some screen readers can do OCR on a specific part of the screen (e.g. an unlabeled image) on request. But while OCR is useful for getting text out of an image, most implementations can't discern the structure of a UI, e.g. which part is a button, which part is an edit box, etc. Also, OCR is typically done just once on-demand, not continuously as the screen changes.

However, VoiceOver for iOS has a new feature called screen recognition, which is exciting because it overcomes these limitations and provides some level of access to applications that are otherwise inaccessible. Hopefully other platforms will catch up.

Even then, true screen reading will be much more CPU-intensive than what screen readers currently do. And anyway, it's not here yet, except on iOS. So I will continue to warn developers away from toolkits that are inaccessible, in hopes that some blind person somewhere will be spared the pain of being blocked from doing a task because of an inaccessible application.
Gintronic: An ergonomic programming font (2016)
no aquihires?
Ask HN: Software/Programming Horror Stories
Something like https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-from-hell/
Chances are theres an EFI partition thats still unencrypted, too! This is where secureboot/tboot has its chance to shine.
Increasing AWS Lambda Memory Size = Saving on Your Lambda Bill
It's right there in the comment I'm replying to:

>Until one day half the planet dies from some side effect.
I'm strongly against 2A, just want to be clear. It's just a topic that brings out all of the 2A folks in droves whenever it comes up here. I think the rest of the community generally shies away from the conversation for that reason.

I should made that clearer in my comment. Apologies.
A proportionally represented Senate is just a duplicate of the House. It would have no reason to exist.

The whole point of having two separate bodies is that it requires two groups that are chosen in a different manner to both agree that a piece of legislation is acceptable.
In fact, no statements at all - just a single expression.
Why dont we develop on production server ???
I used to think I loved escargot but it turns out I actually just loved them as a delivery vessel for garlic, butter and cheese.
What you describe might be more robust in some situations but vastly less for software designed to be accessible. Take "alt" attributes in HTML img tags for instance, or various metadata attached to buttons that use an icon instead of text (like a play button, or a X close button and similar things).

You can see an example next to this very comment actually: the up and downvote buttons won't be accessible with OCR, but they have "title" attributes describing what they are. And consider that there's more to understanding a given user interface that raw text: radio buttons are tied to certain labels, there's hierarchy, all sorts of layout cues that would be opaque to a screen reader.

I suppose that ideally you'd want both: use native accessibility data if available, fallback to OCR when there's no alternative.
Well, honestly, if that's your opinion then change your circumstances - work on your resume and get a job with higher compensation, they certainly exist and the requirements for them and expectations on them are far lower than you think... And, most importantly, the price for failure is negligible. If you're a wiz with databases in your current position and are considering moving to a fancy silicon valley job with high compensation the worst that can happen is you'll fail your probationary period and still make a fair amount of money.
So this isn't Pluto VR? https://pluto.app/ - https://www.linkedin.com/company/pluto-vr
They value people based on 'visibility' at my place. Unfortunately, some people who get that visibility are just putting out their own fires. I had a tech lead that was not very good in my opinion, but the business and management loved him.

Sometimes I think about becoming a mechanic. They make good money.
1. Just works. Only issue I found is that Wsl2 will not update its dns resolver IPs when connecting to the vpn. There's a workaround script. So it's either exit the terminal and re enter it or run the script to update them.

2. This is my current pain. Windows file system is slow already and accessing it from wsl adds an overhead. Ideally I keep projects in Wsl2 storage and IDEs in Windows. I searched a lot for a solution but haven't found one. On the other hand, Wsl2 Linux storage speed runs circles around wsl1.
This is affecting me (East US)
Auto Tab Discard adds an option to your right click menu "Open in Discarded Tab"
i am really curious about the labor market in the few months. especially here in eu, the companies were holding their employees due to state subventions. that can end up badly when it is over.
Here's the details on how it works:

https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/
Enforcement. You need to be able to set rules, you can enforce easily. If you allow single person walking, what will you do if you see 2 people close to each other.

People will always try to avoid the rules, so in this kind of stuff enforcement is really hard. Better to have hard but short lived restrictions.
i love the burning man room! super cool. also try jumping and changing the sound radius
It seems like most Windows users use WSL2’s Linux VM.

Most Windows users haven't got a clue what Linux is let alone WSL2.
common BSD user vs. common Linux user
>> Note that most of Microsoft regards Linux mainly as a server OS. You are not supposed to use it on the desktop, instead you should use Windows there.

Then what's the point of WSL? To allow server software development on a Windows desktop? OK. But then what's the point of trying to bring DX graphics to linux?
Linked-list chasing (as in vlovich123's example) isn't bandwidth-limited as much as it is latency: SMT helps here because you're able to enqueue multiple wait-states "simultaneously".
> What good is a block if no exchange or wallet will accept it (and its coins) as valid?

It only matters what the other miners accept. If all the miners accept a block but "exchanges and nodes don't", then they have stopped updating their chain. What are they updating to if it isn't what the miners agree on?

> (1) need other nodes to recognize their blocks as valid,

No, they need other miners to accept their blocks and build on top of them.

> (2) need a reliable underlying network to propagate their blocks.

They have that, it's called the internet. Do you think broadcasting 1 MB blocks is difficult?

> If 100% of miners are producing blocks that the rest of the network isn't accepting, then 100% of the miners are effectively dead.

The miners are the network. If they all agree the other can either relay their chain or do nothing. There is only the chain the miners agree on. What exactly do you think relay nodes will do if they don't relay what the miners create?

> You sound like a very pleasant person.

This is the cry of someone who can't explain what they claim. I don't know where you formed a solidified but completely wrong idea in your head, but someone mislead you.

To recap: There is what the miners agree on or there is nothing. Relay nodes have no say in what a valid block is. They can relay valid blocks or not.
> My local pharmacy that I go to for the flu shot has more drugs than would even fit in a van - even assuming one does of each drug. This is typical for any developed country.

But do they have enough staff? Enough parking spaces? We are asked to socially distance.

California has 40 million people. W.Virginia has 1.792 million population. A lot of Latinos ..esp working in Ag fields in CA(I am thinking of that sector here especially) live in close quarters and use shared transport. There are many family members in one dwelling. Many don’t have insurance and are undocumented.
Unions bring democracy to the workplace.

Democracy ensures some modicum of fairness, but is slow, inefficient, and can lead to very bad outcomes when dealing with highly technical questions. There's probably a place for big, large-scale political questions (who should be president, should we stay in the EU) to be decided by direct democracy, but I wouldn't want that for trade or monetary policy.

The big problem I see with democracy, in general, is that it's highly susceptible to special-interest takeover. When a small group stands to gain disproportionately from a particular outcome, they will lobbby--HARD--to get that outcome. Even when doing so might be so harmful to the overall system, that it collapses, even if they get what they want.

The US analog is the SEIU/AFSCME organizing so hard that the entire government of a state, like Illinois, becomes beholden to what they want.

How did AB5, the TNC bill, pass, when it was overwhelmingly not supported by drivers and the electorate didn't want it, either? Teamsters pushed their agenda. Hard.

Unions will make no bones about running an employer, government, or other organization absolutely into the ground in the name of advocating for their members' interests. They do not care about taxpayers, customers, or any other constituency other than themselves and their members. And when it all falls apart, they'll just go to the next state/company/etc. and run the same playbook, over and over.
It's very harmful. Some things need to be outside the reach of democracy/the masses.
I'd probably still hit overload even if I had 3 days to devote to seeing the Louvre. I find I can handle 3 or 4 hours of a museum and I have to get out and do something else.

Of course, it really helps if you've been to a place before and will probably go back again. When I go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I basically have a mental plan for what I'm going to see.

A museum membership is really nice if you're in a place a lot. At a time when I was visiting NYC frequently and MOMA had just reopened after a major renovation and tickets were hard to get, I bought a membership. It was really nice to be able to pop in for an hour when I was in town and see some things I especially liked.
> Which sounds like traditional master/slave setup, with fail over?

Yes, thank you. I assumed that the emphasis on the speed of NVMe drives meant that master/slave synchronous replication was avoided and asynchronous replication could not keep up. In my mind, this leaves room for interesting future efficiency/performance gains, especially surrounding the "...and is backed up daily" approach mentioned in your quote.

The bottom line is that the old RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are as important as ever.
Geekisp Is Closing Down
A good argument can be made that money should not be a long-term store of value, and should only store value long enough to be useful as a medium of exchange. The idea is that it is better to lend your money than to store it, and that the best way for people to "store value" is to be invested in economically productive activities.
I still do, because people are stuck with these platforms, for reasons beyond our control, and I care more about people's access to applications that they need than about being a purist.
I never wanted a GUI on servers.
Show HN: Terminal-GUI Programmer Calculator
+1 for docker under Wsl2 is way better than macos
Such executive agreements are not legally binding on the U.S., however. Otherwise you have a situation where the president is making laws unilaterally.
Seems to be resolved, noticed it 15 min ago for a couple of minutes.
My first incident with fastmail and am very pleased with the fast and easy to find updates from the team.
Fourier Transforms improve the performance of a Machine Learning classifier
Twitter sued for not removing images of child sex abuse
Does this automatically generate safe API's as expected for Rust? If so, I wonder how they manage it? Did their metadata format have to be extended to describe the constraints on Rust callers and callbacks?
Jellyfin is free and open source software for one. I don't know the exact difference in the feature set but I have heard people complaining that Plex is focusing more on surveiling it's users to push ads. I just got Jellyfin working with linuxserver.io docker image on my rpi4 and it is pretty nice.
Handango and some others that I forget were the equivalent for the handheld Palm PDA.
Note that this trashes your disk I/O performance; AWS offers Customer Managed Keys as an alternative where you use their platform's encryption but with your own keys: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncry...
It is indeed a problem with insurance as well where it's more commonly called moral hazard. With insurance traditionally there are a number of mechanisms which can help mitigate this eg copays, deductibles, etc. - and there is (sometimes) a market for pricing of policy premiums and terms.

But it's far from perfect, especially in the US (at least as I understand the American system).
I'm in the western US. I noticed it for a few minutes and assumed it was my internet connection. Love these guys.
Microsoft are a gigantic corporation, they're not the good guys or the bad guys, they're collectively amoral and profit oriented. That will never change.

Being suspicious of their actions and their intentions is a very reasonable stance.
This is a huge issue Volkswagen and other car companies are having. As they shift to electric cars the Unions are pushing back hard as it takes a fraction of the employees to manufacture electric cars.
Saw a brief 503 once. Was back after 5 minutes.
I think that if you have to "find time" to do these things with a busy schedule, you'll always struggle. I'm not sure you can force it. The best side projects (or any hobby, for that matter) are things you can't wait to get to after work. Figure out what that is.
I was fortunate enough to take a workshop with Frankie Manning around 2004 or 2005 at the Atomic Ballroom in Orange County. He was an incredible teacher, and the ladies who got to dance with him to demonstrate moves were absolutely blushing. It’s such a shame that he spent so many years undeservedly in obscurity. I like to think that he knew how much he meant to so many people, but it doesn’t replace what he should have had. A wonderful dancer and a wonderful man.
Mine too. I now live just a couple of miles from the field in question and pre-lockdown had biked past it hundreds of times. Once I can go out again I’ll look at in a while new light. In more recent history the nearest village, Faldingworth used to be one of the UK’s atomic bomb stores...
Yes, wooden rings are better. Rogue fitness has high quality ones.
Moderation seems to be a very slippery slope. IMHO there's no way to truly win; policies eventually trend toward either absolute free speech or blatant censorship. This is the critical flaw in social media, as either trend is problematic. "The only way to win the game is not to play."
It can appear that way, sure. But it usually means broadcasting your ‘goodness’ visibly, to ingratiate yourself with certain people. It can also mean seeking to establish one’s moral superiority, creating a power imbalance for offensive or defensive purposes.
> Jobs for the sake of bragging about how many people are employed is just as useless.

They aren't useless in a society where the only means of survival is having a job.

In fact, in a society where the only means of survival is having a job, part of the social contract is 'everyone should be able to get a job'. Otherwise, you may get to meet a lot of angry, desperate people, with nothing to lose.
those EPYC CPUS are really epic
Does that meant it's compatible with any other language?
After you watch the socialy bareable video it would probably make more sense. Makes it pretty clear that adam is satoshi (i would say with a 99% certainty). Adam says completely different things about bitcoin today than satoshi did all those years ago. It's not definite that he was compromised but him taking back control over the project with blockstream and the direction he steered it in makes it pretty clear to me.

On Gavin, that's also explained pretty well in the video, also this reddit quote from gavin says more than enough for me (this was under a post named "How Craig Wright probably tricked Gavin Andresen"):
"I won't violate people's privacy or repeat things told to me under non-disclosure agreements, so I'm stuck-- I'm not going to say anything more, except I suspect someday the full story will come out (and it'll be made into a movie).

Of course, everything I was told could be a lie, and even professional magicians can be fooled sometimes (ever seen Penn & Teller's Fool Us show ?)."
Unless you're self hosting or using an alternate server Matrix.org will run into much of the same. Delivery can already be quire delayed occasionally on the main server, and it's barely popular in terms of big picture right now.
Wow, $45/hr is just laughtable. I know many freelance web developers from ex-USSR countries who charge more and their effective tax rate is below 10%.

Or did you mean this is $45/hr post-tax rate?
JS? can you point me to that?
How does funkWhale deal with piracy of music and copyrights?
What exactly is the problem with saying wearing masks is going to help us get out of this?
Jellyfin is fully open-source and doesn't require any third party authentication. It's not quite feature complete versus Plex but it is very close, and has never been a issue for me or my users.
I wonder how much do they save by not going public cloud?
Acting is certainly a high-skill profession, but even the in-demand ones are members of the Screen Actors Guild. They know why it's a good idea.
That doesn't work if the website serves the ads from the same domain as the content.

For example YouTube ads.
Maybe? Hard drive growth speeds have slowed down in the past decade or so. While there's no doubt that storage capacity growth will outpace transaction volume growth, and that eventually it would be feasible for a typical home user to run their full node (at visa's TPS). It remains to be seen whether that's 10 years away or 50+ years away.
How are royalties paid to the music labels?
Dendrite is meant to be good too.
Nobody's throwing anybody to death. You seem to be advocating forcing everyone hostage in their homes, all over a virus that's not particularly dangerous (eg. 0.05% death rate for thus under 40, median age of death = 82). That's outrageous, and of course people don't want that because it's torture, and completely pointless and unnecessary. What a position of privilege to be able to advocate this garbage while being able to work remotely when many have lost their jobs and businesses.

We never had any government mandated home hostage orders during WWII.
Wow, how did the fact that the G-forces will make it difficult to use voice commands or to interact with a touch screen not kill these F35 cockpit features a long time ago?
You are confusing "top" engineers/employees with top-technical employees, that is not the same at all. If you staff a company with geniuses in R&D and gray mediocrities in all the other departments I am pretty sure you know what will happen. You want great CAD designers, PM, QA, logistics, marketing people? Pay them accordingly and not like mediocrities.It is pretty obvious you have no idea what you are talking about.
However it's not just admins who'll be trying to keep Adobe products/services from autostarting and making it hard for those people who aren't sometimes seems like it's an Adobe goal.