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Upwork can pay really well. You just have to find the right gig.

That said I loath upwork, the company has squeezed contractors for every possible drop, added subscriptions and all kinds of bullshit around communications.

I am no fan of LinkedIn, but would be happy to see Upwork have its lunch eaten.
For the last three years I've had to use my phone's flashlight to peruse the shelves in the Burbank store because they couldn't be bothered (or afford) to turn the lights on.

Fry's saved my ass a couple times. Once it was because I was about to fly out of BUR to Vegas to meet colleagues at a trade show (CES or NAB, can't recall) and they had blown out a transformer we needed for our display, I bought one on my way to the airport. It lasted 6 hours the next day before we gave up.

Another time, after transporting a PC the stock CPU cooler had gotten loose and it needed replacement (the alternative was running a machine that didn't have a backup without any cooling, yikes), and Fry's was the only store that had any CPU coolers in stock other than the Microcenter in Torrance.

It's sad. Now I'll have to resort to pleading with wholesalers to sell me units out of their warehouses. I've had to do this for several classes of components and parts for the last decade. One day drones will be able to deliver stuff from Amazon as fast as I could drive to Fry's, but that isn't today.
I think class is part of it, or it makes us assume motivations, but I think the differences in terms actually describe what's being done. If you move to a country to live there from now on, in violation of the law, you're an illegal immigrant. If you visit temporarily with a visa, but overstay or violate the terms, without intending to become a permanent resident, then you are overstaying your visa.

We probably assume something about the rich actor versus the poor janitor, but if we knew their intentions I think we could describe them accurately.

I also don't think there is anything wrong with the term "illegal immigrant". We have terms for crimes that are frequent or frequently talked about, e.g. drunk driver, deadbeat dad, arsonist, whatever. Immigrating, in violation of the law, is illegal and the people who do it are fairly called illegal immigrants to differentiate them from those that don't violate the law. I think insistence on "undocumented" is more of a rhetorical use from people who think immigration should be more permissive.
I can confirm; at least for the Seattle area (Renton, WA) location it opened to much fanfare, but went downhill years ago.

Elaborating; this must have been around the start of the consignment era. Looking back that's clearly what the deal bins and such at the front of the store were. It was a lack of new parts in the higher end sections that I initially noticed.
Thanks for bringing attention to this! That has bugged me a lot when debugging in different languages and I only stumbled over it recently when reading the Python docs.
The article was written by an organisation who petitioned the pollies to risk their political capital to the organisation some favours. Before this, the act specifically banned a digital platform (ie Google/Facebook) from changing a newspapers ranking based on whether the newspaper forced them to pay, or how much they paid. The act says the arbitrator is forced to accept one of the bargains offered (and no other amount), be it from Facebook or the newspaper, but the considerations in the act heavily biased it towards using the newspaper's offer. So the newspaper was free to drive a pretty hard bargain.

Here is what an Associate professor in regulation and governance, UNSW said changed [0]:

> the non-discrimination provisions (crafted as an anti-avoidance mechanism) will not be triggered in respect to remuneration amounts or commercial outcomes that arise in the course of usual business practice

So, now Facebook can tie the rankings (think: how many newsfeeds will a newspaper link will appear on) to how much the newspaper forced them to pay during bargaining.

Still think it was a capitulation?

[0] https://theconversation.com/this-weeks-changes-are-a-win-for...
interesting. I would have never guessed that our 30m long daily standups where my manager micromanages every minute detail into every person's work was not the best way to go about it. /s
Lenovo had a dual screen botebook with e-ink

https://www.engadget.com/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-gen-2-i-e-ink...
FWIW I use sd2scsi with great success on my original Mac plus and a gifted SE.
It goes further than that. It can even be the actual materials used to package the food!

https://www.treehugger.com/which-food-companies-dont-use-bpa...
I've never heard of fry's. Is it local to SF?
Interestingly, in Australia, major supermarket chain Woolworths used to have two parallel home brands: the bargain-basement Homebrand in stark black & white packaging, and the slightly better but still "designed in the DDR in the 1970s" Essentials. They had to ditch Homebrand, because it looked too cheap and was driving people to discount grocer Aldi, where you could get similar goods in packaging you wouldn't be ashamed to show friends.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/woolworths-is-killing-off...

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/discover/our-brands/essen...
Bombardier Disclosed Data Breach Affecting All Its Stakeholders
Bombardier, a Canadian airplane maker, has officially disclosed a data breach incident after some of the stolen data was listed on Clop ransomware’s leak site. Though Bombardier didn’t specifically mention it, it’s touted to have been affected by the bugged Accellion’s FTP software, which was a zero-day bug that affected several companies to date.
That's just a tweet from a random person, though. This is an actual news story, and Ars Techinca says this was the first new outlet to break the story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frys-....
>I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs.

Profit.
The article is about branding, not quality/value. The Kirkland brand logo and label design haven’t changed in a while and aren’t particularly modern.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Nietzsche

I wish this were the motto of all writers. There is already too much “sentence inflation” online...succinctness needs a comeback.
good, but what's the throughput and latency?
That's irrelevant for HN submissions. It's the same story.
California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous
It's not so much tech as understanding. 25 years ago Grocery CEO's may not have realized the power of brand to the same extent. Price/Quality product is it.

With the internet, photoshop, diversity in packaging, explosion of available artists and designers, better printers for test and packaging, more savvy PM's it's a natural progression.

They still are not that good frankly, there's a ways to go to improve.
Medical consent is "pointless whining?". There's also nothing personal or sentient about organ harvesting prisoners too. The desire to not have parts of your body kept alive after death is pretty common. Maybe it's a good thing the people of HN work on ways yo serve ads and not anything substantial.
Big beautiful windshields to see the sky with, but there has to be some way to get rid of the A pillars on these vehicles. So many accidents are caused by vehicles turning left/right into pedestrians crossing the street because they are blocked by these pillars. I guess holograms work but an engineering solution where they could somehow be eliminated would be better.
One contrail in particular took a sharp turn from the southeast and headed directly for Vegas. Its shape is what made me look up to discover everything else going on.

It has been very windy for many months, along with drought conditions, so the skies here have been clear. No monsoon to speak of either. I found it unusual given what seems to be the new "normal" of clear skies the past couple of years.
I describe this as the blamestorm. The focus is on an individual rather than how do we not do this again.
@cmckn - PM @ GitLab here - sorry to hear you had a poor experience with running our GitLab chart on k8s. We've been trying really hard to make this easier, but there is still some room to go especially on the documentation front: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/5273.

I'd love to hear what you had trouble with, so we can continue to improve. If you'd like, can also open an issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab/-/issues
Herd immunity means either you died or you didn't.

Those who didnt die are now the (smaller) herd and (presumedly) immune.
Google didn't blink. When the government said search was included Google threatened to withdraw search. Search is now excluded [0], and the threat is withdrawn.

Since Google stated it was prepared to share revenue from news.google back in June and now that is all that is happening, I'd say someone else blinked.

[0] https://theconversation.com/this-weeks-changes-are-a-win-for...
This thing of having one or two long paragraphs of rambling text before the writer actually gets to the point is something I find annoying.

It is so common nowadays that I find myself automatically skipping the first paragraph altogether.
> Rewriting Finder is huge and risky! When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd it caused problems they eventually reverted it when Vint Cerf called Tim Cook to complain.

But it's not the size, it's the focus, right? Rewriting Finder, without adding any additional capabilities, reduces technical debt and makes Finder faster and more stable. Adding QuickLook to Finder doesn't do any of those things, it just allows you to use QuickLook.

I have another theory though, and it's not the price—Apple has plenty of money—it's the development cycle. Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard had several years of life before they were replaced. Every OS since Lion has been replaced within a year.

> I heard a story of some meeting where "no new features" was branded close to release. Not something decided early in the dev cycle.

I hadn't heard this story, but I wonder if both could be true. The roadmap was probably planned early on, but the narrative could have been chosen later.

You can imagine an alternate universe where Steve Jobs walked on stage and announced "Snow Leopard comes with a brand new Finder, and it's better than ever!"
That employment application is seriously funny. So precise.
I know a guy who has a wife that's been supporting him for about ten years now. He's still on his first game.
If a comment is a nitpicking then it should simply be a optional suggested change.
> Every part of this is a made-up, unsupported, bad-faith, outright lie. No part of this is “more likely” based on my 30 years of experience of actually dealing with Apple. What’s actually more likely, in my experience, is Apple going above and beyond to cover repairs, even out of warranty, for issues that are even partially their fault.

You are engaging in projection.

> “Attempting to upsell” doesn’t pass the laugh test.

Then there should be no reason to force the user to come in to a retail shop to get approved repairs on their machines then, and apple can save lots of money by going to mail-in repairs.

> And it’s incredibly crass and irresponsible of you to toss around words like “intentionally grenade the hardware” without the slightest hint of evidence.

There's hundreds of examples in this thread alone.
I’m not sure I understand what you are saying. Are you saying that it’s funny to use contentious words?
Airbus A380 has a tail camera that any passenger can view during the entire flight: https://www.google.com/search?q=airbus+a380+tail+camera

Pilots can also operate a camera and many do record and share their travels on Youtube.
Censoring opposing, and even ridiculous views, is the dumbest idea ever.

#1) You might be wrong or #2) don't you want to know who those ridiculous people/views are? They readily identify if you let them.
Ask HN: Sales tax for single-person SaaS startup in California
Hi HackerNews.

I am a software professional based in California and have built a small SaaS product that I want to monetize. I have been reading on accepting payments and related taxes (income, sales, local etc). As I read online CA does not collect sales tax on SaaS products unless there is a tangible product transfer. However, some states do impose local state taxes that need to be collected. I found that products like TaxJar allow easy computation of sales tax based on billing address. I also see that products like QuickBooks allow integration of sales tax computation and helping with basic accounting. However, I could not find an answer to the following questions:

1. If I collect sales tax, how do I pay this tax in each state as I am located in CA. Will I need to obtain sales tax ID from each state?
2. If the above is trickier, is there a way I can shift sales tax (and/or local taxes) liability on the purchaser?
3. How are taxes handled for international purchases?

I am sure these are solved problems as there are/have been many 1-person startups at HN. Any guidance will help. Happy to connect offline to gain more information.

Thanks in advance.
> China has more raw economic momentum than we do

They also have a demographic problem: their boomers are retiring. Also they have crazy debt to gdp and they are 80% reliant on mideast oil. If iran goes to war with saudi arabia they are efffffed, even with belt and road, because that's three economic catastrophes converging.
"I think what this country needs is for the rich to pay more taxes, stronger unions to protect the little guy, and public services run for the public, not profit! Also, i hate socialism."
It's cool to hear about everyone's good experiences with Fry's in the 90s; maybe they would have managed to stay in business longer if they'd ever updated since that period. I worked at a Fry's (the lone location near Chicago) for a few months in 2014 and it felt like they'd never upgraded anything since the 90s. Not the systems, not the decor-- nothing. If they were trying to make it seem retro, it failed. It just felt _stagnant_. Sad and tacky. I would understand trying to maintain the 90s tech shop feel for their nostalgic techie clientele, except that most of the customers were average Joes buying TVs, normal laptops, or toys for their kids.

All in all it created kind of a miserable environment for employees. After I'd left, I went to a different Fry's in San Jose to buy a laptop and the worker helping me just openly admitted, unprompted, that they hated working there.

Of course, maybe not upgrading anything is actually part of the reason they even made it this far. Everything technically worked, after all, so perhaps the savings were worth it, at the expense of the experience for employees (and likely, then, customers). Do deal-seekers really care what their shopping experience is like as long as they're getting good deals? Perhaps not.
It will be interesting to see a third public company building a work marketplace. Upwork and Fiverr are already a godsend when you build a startup. But they still leave a lot to be desired.

From a buyers perspective, Upwork feels more solid than Fiverr. In terms of freelancers and system functionality.

One thing that is annoying on both platforms is that they send you an invoice after every gig. The first one that will offer to send you one combined invoice per month will win my trust in a big way.

In my opinion, the weakness of both, Upwork and Fiverr is that they focus too much on the demand side. It is really hard to find real experts. For example developers, who are writing clean code and refactor their stuff before they deliver. You usually get something that works but is a bunch of chaos under the hood. I think it is telling, that Fiverr's affiliate program only pays when you bring them buyers. They should find a way to pay for talent as well.

Speaking of affiliate programs: I think it is a mistake on Upwork's side to not have an affiliate program at all. Look at the biggest market place in the world: Amazon. Search for any product name on Google and you basically get a search results page full of links to pages that promote Amazon. Affiliates bring in qualified visitors so much cheaper then advertisements.
When I did my degree, the compiler assignment could be done in any language except for Lisp and Prolog as compiler implementation language.

The rationale? It would be a child's play if we used them.
holograms? What do you mean?
This is absurd. Not only we have no evidence whatsoever that any patents whatsoever are hampering e-ink in any way, but not only this does not prevent people here on HN from continuously claiming that, but in fact the very TFA's only source for this claim is HN ITSELF!

What's next, people will continue to repeat this bullshit while citing this article as source? Will we go full circle?
LinkedIn isn’t going to better

Anyway, I have good experience with Fiverr. Definitely has alot of amateurish people building a portfolio quickly though.
It seems like a good idea on the surface, but the volume is way too low, a traditional automaker wouldn't touch this. Fleet vehicles are also notoriously low margin, which is fine if you're rounding up sales of an existing model (like police variants of existing models). But it wouldn't be a smart play for a large automaker to build a custom low volume fleet vehicle like the USPS is commissioning here.
Well, LinkedIn also has stories.
"Privilege" is an everyday word with established meanings. If academics want to redefine it to serve their political goals, the burden is on them to make their case to the people. We don't have to accept that a word means something different than what it's always meant before just because some ivory tower elitists said so.

When someone wants to introduce a term to clarify meaning, they generally put two or three words together and create a unique term. When someone with a political agenda wants to create confusion and division, they choose common terms and give them new, contentious meanings.

A sibling has a better approach for this particular term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26247166
I used to be a freelancer, finding work mainly on Upwork, and I loathe them now.

What started as a 10% commission was upped to 20%, and they tried to do various tricks on both clients and freelancers to a point that I stopped doing freelance work altogether.

It was a great platform, and I don't think a 10% clear cut wasn't enough for them for an organic growth.

Another thing I loathe is LinkedIn. I'm sure many people find their next job through LinkedIn, but it baffles me why LinkedIn would even exist today, being an social network, communication platform, a portfolio, and all of them in a very awkward position, and not being very good at any of them. Now they want to be a freelancer market place too?
This is really not a new thing, ups and fedex have been using custom package cars for decades. It seems totally crazy to go with a military contractor for something that we have a mature industry for a la FCCC or Paccar equivalent
It's easy after a while... all the terribly written code is human made and the clean tidy code is GPT2, I for one welcome our new programming overlords.
I am 100% confident that whatever LinkedIn manages to come up with here will also be trash.
XS-Leaks: Is Your Website Exposing Sensitive Data?
>> Although I've never personally seen a UFO, I've heard enough stories to believe it.

Reminds me of growing up in fundamentalist religious communities where it was commonplace to hear of physical miracles. All sorts of people had stories of God healing people for example. And yet it never happened around me or on film, despite me spending over a thousand hours at religious services as the like.

Eventually I realized many people are just willing to believe things and succumb to simple cognitive biases.
> Every Fry's I have been to in the last decade has felt like the store was already in the process of going out of business.

Ars Technica says it's because they tried to switch to a "consignment" inventory model, but the manufacturers weren't going along: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frys-....

I had no idea that its competitors (Best Buy and Walmart) don't actually pay the manufacturers for their merchandise unless it sells.
I remember most people working on fiverr and upwork just to find better client. Later they will talk on private channels to avoid paying fiverr 20%. Fiverr is not good anyway they take 20% from workers (as well as some amount from sellers) creating a illusion that they only take 20%.

I guess more competition on gig marketplace would be nice.
There are actually quite a few of these sites: https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer

There is a new chart of how the ranking of these sites have shifted over time: https://public.tableau.com/profile/andrew.chase#!/vizhome/th...
I work through Arc.dev [0] and I like them. From what I understand Arc asks no commission, so I am not sure how they actually make money. You set your own rates and that's what clients pay. Perhaps clients pay a one-time fee upon finding a suitable contractor?

There doesn't seem to be a race to the bottom on Arc.dev with regards to rates. There's a vetting process, but not as difficult as TopTal imo.

You can get an idea on the rates of freelancers on Arc by reading the following: https://arc.dev/remote-developer-salary

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[0]: https://arc.dev
Can someone walk through the vehicle odd detail by odd detail and explain every design decision? For me this is fascinating because there are probably many small items that have a practical benefit that I don't even see on the first glance.

One question though: Why is the back slanted? Why doesn't it go straight down? Wouldn't that be preferable when it's raining, for example?
> Our device has 4G, Wifi and LoRa for comms...

How many of the sites are in range of a LoRa network?

I rarely hear of LoRa the US, although it seems like a great fit for many IoT use-cases.
Did it? I never heard of it.
I'm surprised no one is hosting funerals/wakes. Unless you're over 40 and from the West Coast, you probably can't understand how amazing Fry's was before, say, 2005. Fry's was my Disneyland. They had everything I wanted and more. Computers, Software, TVs, high end audio with demo rooms, car audio, electronics components, tools, test equipment, tech toys, geek culture, a well stocked music section, furniture, etc...

I think I first went to Fry's in the mid 90's in LA. The Anaheim store had a mock up of the Space Shuttle's flight deck. It was so cool!

Sure, they went down the tubes. Even 20 years ago, you had to watch out for restocked merchandise. But in their heyday it was a magical wonderland for young geeks like me.
Before the USPS cuts Priority Mail had an interesting niche.

I could pay just a tiny premium, and the packages I shipped __WOULD__ get there in 2-3 days, even cross country. That and being delivered by someone that handled the package gently, were the premium services they offered.

That trash-compactor-output who ran the USPS into the ground about a year ago ruined it though, and I really hope it gets fixed up properly.
Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5-year-old child
At a point in my life I liked that place but that was a very brief moment. I saw they did everything wrong, they staff wasn't knowledgeable and you wouldn't expect them to be at minimum wage. The isles I cared about most, the electronics component and the test equipment isles were always shitty, if I bought something it would never get restocked again.
Ridiculous. It just takes one skilled hacker to exploit SolarWinds and therefore obtain privileged access as per this software terrible security practice.

This hearing is trying to make SolarWinds an innocent victim here, where they should be responsible for delivering such insecure "spyware" themselves.