skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is when they are not actual employees so there is at least legal cover. If Google made them employee it would be 100 times worse.

Mind you, I am not somehow advocating that Google must not hire them. From a culture/ country other than America, I see people can be treated with respect but not paid lot of money mainly because there is not much money to around. But people receiving also understand not a lot of money can be given for certain tasks.

However modern media culture is worst. If Google were to hire full time, I can see headlines "World Richest company pay pittance for back breaking work". And point about job security , benefits would be forgotten.

One can check coverage of full time Amazon warehouse workers on how it plays out. I have never heard a good story about it. Or how other companies hiring warehouse workers doing compare to Amazon across America or world.
It's a common stance, just unpopular with workers.

Very popular with employers, of course: You get to avoid the minor risk of them embarrassing you; you reduce their job market value by preventing them from having a portfolio or any public profile; you remove non-work distractions from their free time; and you get to vacuum up any IP they generate outside of work hours.

So naturally, employers want to normalise the idea.
Ahh the old "Greater Good", the most evil phrase in the English Language

Anyone attempting to do anything for "the greater good" should be viewed with suspicion and disrespect as most at best what they are attempting to do no matter the intent will fail and harm more people than it will help

At worst is it just a shield to cover their immoral actions, or thirst for power

Every person that values freedom, individuality, and prosperity should reject any policy or law that is based on a "greater good" narrative
If anyone ever spoke to me like that, I would quit.
There have always been people who wanted to live in remote mountain/beach towns. Ski/surf bums are not new. What is new is being able to work remotely through the Internet for a company located in some place where there is more economic activity or being able to pile up enough wealth in places like coastal California to move to a remote area and semi-retire at a youngish age.

If you're retired on a fixed income in Austin and own a house you can defer paying property taxes until you die so there's no reason this person should have to move.
ERB vs. HAML
I do consider that similarly bad yes.
Could something like purgecss be effective with removing unused bootstrap classes?
Starlabs (https://starlabs.systems/) is coming out with a new laptop soon and it seems promising. Apparently they did excellent job with the trackpad for Mk IV and the trackpad on the Mk V looks bigger. You get open firmware if you're into that thing too.

Although fair warning I've never bought anything from them.
They do? TFA says as many as half they techs are FTE.

The alternative is not that they hire everyone as FTE, its that they hire and fire FTE to meet their labor demand, and then we get lots of doom and gloom and stock price dips about Google firing techs in Iowa or wherever.
I would say that one can still interpret it geometrically, but the difficulty is that it's not in 2D or 3D, but in a higher dimensional space.

Imagine you have a population of 100 neurons. To each one you associate a real number representing its activity. So a particular snapshot of firing would have 100 real values. It's a vector in a 100 dimensional space. Each individual neuron is one dimension. The high dimensionality of the space is what makes it unintuitive. But, after some familiarization you learn heuristics for reasoning about high-dimensional spaces and combine that with your 3D spatial intuition.

The 45 degree rotation is just some nice art, but you could think of it as representing a projection down to 2D.
How New York’s ‘vaccine passport’ app works
I was in Shanghai for a couple of days, and I really loved the night, in a Blade Runneresque sort of way. Even watching the smog-filled sky filtering the sun at dawn was mesmerizing, thank you jet lag... but I understand why living there full time couldn't be the best experience.
Interest rates are at historic lows. The Fed rate going negative has been discussed in months gone by. Lender money to borrow is a little tougher as with rates so low they may keep it in equities, or buy GME or Bitcoin where they have higher upside potential.
That is actually something I'd expect gp know/check before suggesting submit pr/make issue/submit patch. I mean, if the website repo isn't available - the only "better" way to give feedback, would be to submit a link/the text of the hn comment to the project mail list/chat channel etc.

I certainly think "open an issue/please make a pr" is a fine suggestion regarding FOSS projects in general.

Ed: isn't this the repo, built via github workflows ?
https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin-monitoring.github....

Beyond that; is there much cause to spend (any) effort to go from 0.5mb to less, really? Especially considering gzip?
And Intel in Folsom California
And if it's specifically about the night sky and it's integrity, are starlink and iridium satellites distopian?
> Employee-status may come with certain benefits, but it also comes with many drawbacks and burdens for the employee.

Not to the employees in question. Clearly the frame and interview content of the linked article is that these employees WANT to be permanent employees. But they're not allowed to be because their employer wants the flexibility to terminate them at any time. The fact that the two year contract exists is just a side effect.

Yes, there are real people who want to do contract work. They exist, though it's relatively rare and clustered in careers (software is one) where short term work makes sense. But that's not who we're talking about here. These are datacenter maintenance folks, they want steady work.

And off topic, but:

> I don't really care about healthcare of unemployment insurance.

This is something only ever said by young people who have never been sick (or had a family member suffer from) with a career-threatening condition. Yes, in your 20's it sounds like self-insurance is totally doable. Wait until you have four dependents or until you need to arrange for a parents' surprise retirement.
This back-and-forth has been getting very common regarding American businesses in recent years though. Without a doubt it's because the rest of the developing world are now having their middle class booms, and American purchasing power is being eroded.

And given the avarice of corporations and the negligence of our federal government, it won't be getting better.
I would lean more towards better use of encryption and firewalls for the sake of simplicity and thoroughness. Can anyone with familiarity describe a solution/strategy?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the UK you can make an unlimited gain on stocks and shares tax free in an ISA. The only restriction is the amount you can place in it per person, per year (£20k) and the vast majority of people aren't going to be putting that into savings in a given year.

If the rent is less than the opportunity cost of your deposit along with mortgage payments/maintenance taking into account possible gains in the house value as opposed to the stock market then it's plausible you could gain tax free assets faster via investing in an ISA than property ownership especially taking into account the extra opportunities you may be able to take advantage of by being able to move easier for a better job.

I personally am a home owner because I value having control over my environment (decorating, pets etc.) although that could conceivably be fixed via legislation as others have alluded to.

I'm not sold that avoiding home ownership is the best way to accumulate capital in the UK, but I don't think it's completely out of the question as you seem to imply.
In case you missed it: "Today, nearly 12,000 developers will see a new badge on their GitHub profile celebrating their contributions to the specific versions of projects and libraries used by NASA to fly the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars."
No, that's SOA. Microservices are almost always described as quite small.
>to avoid ad reads

Even without paying for podcasts, ad reads in podcasts are pretty much the most consumer-friendly form of advertising on the internet. There's no privacy invasion. The ads are pretty well targeted because podcast producers generally know and try to respect their audiences. And they can even be pretty funny and entertaining when hosts can stray a bit off-script.
It's a harsh truth that businesses are not guaranteed that their business model will work. It's part of the reason that in my hometown (50k population, $600k townhomes) some 90% of restaurants (and small batch brewers/distillers) fold within a year.

But the 10% that succeed, are succeeding in the same environment as everyone else. They do so by offering food and an atmosphere that people want, and that you don't find in another restaurant in the area, even though the price is higher (significantly higher than TGI Fridays). Sure, there's also a good bit of luck involved, but that's hardly unique to starting and maintaining a business.

And what else would you suggest? Forcing people to work for $14? Prevent them from being sniped by other businesses for more money? They're already getting loans from the government to hire more people...
Best Ways to Prioritise Your Product Backlog
Are the clusters on these graphs an "invention"?

The short answer is yes.

The nuanced answer is that that graph, like any graph, has a methodology behind it. Why did they use one set of genes, instead of a different set, or not go by measurement of 'height in cm', or by an analysis of ear-shape? And where is the cut-off for a cluster?

Do you find it in any way strange that someone from the Netherlands and someone from Greece are the same 'race' even though, on average, their skin-tone, eye- and hair-colors, and heights are strikingly different? I do.

People aren't all the same, and are less the same the further apart they were born, on average, but the classification of people into distinct 'races' is arbitrary.
I don't think the JoelOnSoftware article is that informative for this situation.

The IBM employee is being forced to represent IBM under his official email alias regardless of whether the IBM employee acknowledges IBM owns his work product around the clock.
at this point i have very little data that hasn’t been exposed from various leaks and honestly it makes me feel a little helpless - I’ve had my drivers license number, phone numbers, unhashed passwords, personal health info, health insurance, credit card numbers, my social security number, home address, security questions... and more! all leaked/hacked. All I’ve gotten for this poor data handling is a few years of credit monitoring.
If programming as a hobby, then start with something visual with a quick feedback. You don't want to get stuck in months long projects. When I was kid, I bought a book on video games programming and just typed in code from it. I still remember when I was able to move a box on screen.

Another option might be Arduino. After years of writing CRUD, my love for programming reignited when I was able to make LED blink.
How? If an asset goes up in value then that means someone is paying more for it at the end of the day. Thus, it’s less affordable...

If your argument is about splitting up land use by building higher, it still is true. At the end of the day, that land became more expensive and you are less able to purchase the land.

Appreciating asset and affordability are opposites by definition.
Yes, and zipper pants!
What people are warming to the ideas of socialism exactly?

The woke left?

Lol.
The Tenth Watch
What are the dark patterns in Brave?
Same for me, but I do think it is a good introduction.

It could just be my bias, but everyone I have met who did some Prolog after Java and C said they found Prolog difficult.

None of my fellow Prolog-first cohort seemed to have any problems with other languages.
Software spends too much of it's self-reflection time looking wistfully at the cool kids over in the arts.
let's rephrase what you're saying as so it's bulletproof:

All criminal societies have honor based structures but not all honor based structures are criminal.

What German language speakers refer to as "clans" can have 600 or even 1000 people. That's the size of a small town anywhere. Chances that there are people who end up in crime from such a huge sample is obvious. Add to it that the tight-knit structure of that community will be associated to that individual is a weakness in the eyes of another society where a family doesn't have more than max 20 or 30 people. (they won't say "this person is not part of the family", they may only say that person did bad which is not regular behavior for us etc) The loss of honor & face due to being then associated to the criminal elements in their group (in the eyes of others) is almost impossible for them to defend against. Much easier to say I do not know my neighbor who I only went to kindergarden with (but otherwise do not consider as part of my tribe)
What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?
timeouts/intervals are slowed down when in inactive tabs

https://gomakethings.com/the-delay-on-settimeout-and-setinte...
Woah. Wework is still a thing?
I don't understand that article at all. I see no weird dynamics. The company owns the work they pay me for, nothing else. In the games example they either paid for the game ideas or they did not. If the worker provided them that's basically admitting to it being done as part of work. Trying to protect against this small ambiguity by owning all my work is the wrong way to go about it.
Hm, weird. I had grepped for "link" et al just to make sure I didn't miss it. My bad.
Happy to answer any questions that come up!
Some very good insights that do not support the headline statement of 'how Spotify kills the system'.

Music distribution can be complex, with multiple parties, it's not easy to even get listed on Apple etc., so that's a situation where verticalisation is power.

But Podcasting is very much open season, anyone can do it and there are multiple 'open' channels.

I don't think anyone has any qualms about jumping away from Spotify to follow their favorite podcaster.

Of all the shenanigans going on with exclusivity, monopoly, privacy, this is not on the big list of worries.
"non-drinkers fare the same as drinkers when it comes to health concerns"

Except that is almost certainly not true and not backed up by this study. The study set out to find the number of daily drinks of alcohol that minimizes health risks, and found that that number is zero. What the paper states is that increasing your alcohol consumption will never lower your health risks.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-hou...

That link says 40% say they own a gun. Regardless, you want to ask how many people who are pulled over have guns in their car. Potentially it is higher because they were (in most cases) speeding, driving illegally, or license plate is connected to previous crimes.

Then you should ask, if 10% of traffic stops result in guns being found what effect does that on police officers. What if it is 25%? 50%?

I’m not saying it’s one way or another, but refuting your claim that it is certainly less than 50%, and suggesting that even if it is it has an effect on the officer.

I’m not sure what the solution is here, past holding cops who harm innocent people accountable.. but that doesn’t address the lack of safety the officer faces.
It’s true
Read the article - they aren't complaining about pay, they are complaining about job security. They are doing work that is going to be needed for the foreseeable future but can only work 2 years before they have to leave (for a period).
>What makes them services is that they should be able to be deployed without a bunch of orchestration of other services.

True, but you absolutely should still be versioning/tagging your releases for each service. It's not to provide sophisticated orchestration; but just to know each of your releases and be able to roll back to them.

Also I'll point out that some loose coupling between services is unavoidable even in the best case scenario. Sometimes breaking changes happen, or new features need to be taken advantage of. This necessitates some level of (perhaps ad-hoc) "orchestration." If you add a new feature to a microservice and rely on it elsewhere, there's an implicit dependency to that version (or later) of the microservice now.
There's a very clear explanation in the article about the reason for this from an employment attorney. It's necessary so that Google can falsely classify these workers as non-employees.

Under existing IRS guidelines, a company can't arbitrarily determine which workers are full employees and which are contractors. The business has to be able to prove when a worker meets certain key legal definitions about contract work, and, if they fail, they would be required to treat the contractor as if they were an employee, according to Figari.

"One of those guidelines is whether there is a written contract or employment benefits. The other aspect is, is the relationship a continuing one, and is it a key aspect of the business," Figari said. Companies will try to work around this by saying: "If it's cut off at a specific timeline, we were able to get by without them for six months. They are not a key aspect of our business, and [the role] is not a continuing one," she explained.
I'm a 90s kid. But most of my computer usage happened with Win XP and Win 7. I remember them quite fondly, and don't recall such blatant user hostility.
Prank Windows XP simulator
Study reveals: amount of crypto on balance sheet directly correlates with cringiness of founder.
I didn't see the response to your comment as implying wrongdoing.

I was also having difficulty understanding the point you were making.

You've clarified that now though, so thank you.
Try disabling javascript, then you should be able to read it. There are browser extensions to make disabling js a button you can toggle.
The Toronto area consistently adds >100k people each year, and added a full mega-person in the last 5. We have never built units for 100k beds in any year in the last 20. Don't hold your breath.
Truly getting at decoupled storage and compute and solidifying ML-based indexing is going to be transformative for log management. Establishes a new architecture beyond the "frankenstein-ing" of legacy solutions, and will also make centralizing data that much easier.
As a kid who graduated with a class of 28 students in rural small town America, I’d say we had a disproportionately high number of kids go to the Ivies, Stanford, or the Academies. I never once felt handicapped. Resumes look pretty good when you letter in every sport, star in every play, and run student government. And today I’m raising my children in small town America.
I think calling this censorship is like saying Applebee's censors beer because they stock Bud Lite over Old Rasputin.

Spotify is the owner of the content and pulled those episodes for the same reason all mass marketed content gravitates to the bland and benign - bland and benign is easier to sell to a large mass of people.

Joe Rogan was free (not just free, well compensated) as an indy and could have kept his lucrative gig, but spotify dumped a truck load of money in his lawn and he decided he'd rather have that. They even told him up front they were going to remove episodes, and the contract made it clear they could keep going. It's not really censorship when the creator decided to pull episodes to make their content more appealing to a mass audience of people in order to make more money.
Just looking at the messages received, it looks like they're triggering off a few different things to fall into the code path that looks for changes (the missing numbers are due to me deleting uninteresting messages):

<00133> 002A1272 P WM_KEYDOWN nVirtKey:VK_DELETE cRepeat:1 ScanCode:53 fExtended:1 fAltDown:0 fRepeat:0 fUp:0
<00150> 002A1272 S EM_POSFROMCHAR wCharIndex:0
<00152> 004E0A18 S WM_COMMAND wNotifyCode:EN_CHANGE wID:15 hwndCtl:002A1272
<00154> 002A1272 P WM_KEYUP nVirtKey:VK_DELETE cRepeat:1 ScanCode:53 fExtended:1 fAltDown:0 fRepeat:1 fUp:1
<00155> 002A1272 P WM_KEYDOWN nVirtKey:VK_RIGHT cRepeat:1 ScanCode:4D fExtended:1 fAltDown:0 fRepeat:0 fUp:0
<00174> 002A1272 S EM_POSFROMCHAR wCharIndex:1
<00182> 002A1272 S EM_GETMODIFY
<00184> 004E0A18 S WM_SETTEXT lpsz:02EDCAF8 ("*Example.txt- Notepad")

The one that seems to get triggered the most, indeed the one triggering it here, is the code path that also updates the position indicator, hence why Del isn't doing anything. Interestingly enough, they seem to be ignoring the EN_CHANGE message, and instead looking for changes explicitly after some events. Given the long history of Notepad, I'm sure there's some historical reason for that.

They do seem to be covering the bases checking for changes before anything that might lose data, like any path I can find to close the window, so it's a minor bug. They also check for changes on each and every mouse move message, so I think for most users, this state won't last long.
that's why I sleep with my shoes on
How many Google contractors/employees are on welfare?
This has an extra layer to it in that a lot of original experimentation was done with the 303 generating random patterns by removing the batteries for a period of time to reset the memory
This is impressive but I still believe Kubernetes is overkill for most organizations. Not everyone is running a Google / Netflix / Airbnb. Introducing complexity for no reason outside of, “Well Airbnb is doing it” (or shiny-object syndrome) has devastating effects long term. When things go wrong (and things will go wrong), fixing and cleaning up the mess tends to be more costly, both time and money wise.
You're being sarcastic, but it's a redeploy every 14-ish minutes.
...Yes?
This kind of thing is solvable. When I built my house in Park City, Utah, I discovered that the growth in the area is projected to overwhelm the municipal sewer system in the coming decade. So I had to pay an impact fee of $3,000 per bathroom in order to get my building permit. I happily paid $15K, knowing that the money will go to the budget of a new treatment plant. There are very few places where there's actually no water. It's mostly a question of the infrastructure being available (enough storage, for example).
not asking to get into an app namedropping war, but do alot of ppl use Notepad still? Kind of moved away from it years ago due to encoding, lack of some features etc
For a decade I've mostly worked on the kind of products that require operating in close proximity to mechanical, electrical and system engineers. It's thoroughly and consistently disabused me of the notion I see in software-centric areas that software is uniquely creative such that it's different than other "engineering" disciplines. They are just as - if not more - creative within their domains.

Software does have lower commercial expectations in the areas of reliability and quality, and that does seep into the practices you see in design and implementation. But I don't think it produces a difference in kind.
| a set HTML/CSS specs that can be implemented fairly easily

That could then be heavily optimized and used for cross-platform apps instead of the bloated, kitchen sink approach of Electron.
Yes, it requires that the idea is defined in a concise way that is professionally/contextually restricted.

Use "term of art" if you'd like. I think "jargon" is a commonplace alternative and I like it.
Why do people want intergenerational wealth transfer? Anytime we talk about billionaires passing down large sums of money to their children and creating dynasties out of it - it’s a bad thing. Yet, middle class to upper middle class does it and it’s a good thing?

I see it as problematic. Keeps the ground unlevel.