skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mostly right, although the way I see it is this: there are a few subclasses of independent contractor. At the top are people with high hourly rates who have niche skillsets and want to work on their own with minimal involvement in the company with which they have a contract. In the middle are the perma-temps involved in the Microsoft lawsuit or at H-1B shops, usually fairly well-paid but lacking many benefits like stock grants. At the bottom are the precarious underclass of people outlined in the article who make close to minimum wage. Then of course you have the gig workers (Uber, Instacart, etc.) who are paid piecemeal.

It used to be the people at the top could have their cake & eat it too, where sometimes they'd have long open-ended contracts with a company directly - maintaining independence but also getting a steady paycheck. Now they have to shack up with one of these bodyshops that gets a fat cut of their labor, which disincentivizes the setup. I was certainly glad to get out of it; the whole operation felt shady from start to finish. Politically, this class of people used to be available as cover for the entirety of the contracting workforce. Did lawmakers really want to rob these All-American Mavericks of their Freedom? Anything that further disincentivizes the mock W-2 job route is a good thing IMO. The current situation of course is not sufficient but it's better than the free-for-all it used to be. I guess you could say it has hightened the contradictions.

Some might say given the reality of these distinctions within independent contractors, we should segregate protections based on income. I don't think that'll work. Any policy targeted at helping only those of lower means will quickly become a policy to be watered down further and further and further as all the incentives in the system are aligned toward greater exploitation. By including all classes of independent contractor in any legislation, we make it stronger against attacks that would land hardest on the worst off. If that shuts down some avenues of employment for people at the top, well, so be it. I don't think scoped contracts will ever go away.

Worth noting this entire thing is to some degree a sideshow of the larger debate about health insurance and how it's tied to employment. If medicare for all were passed, a lot of these issues would just go away.
Same has happened with MobiKwik in India & seemingly no action whatsoever has happened
First, ambitious people will find ways to figure out if they're succeeding. There are good ways and bad ways.

Second, objective rank ordering does exist. You can deny it or dismiss it, but it's there:

- Who's fitter?
- Who's prettier?
- Who can run/swim/bike farther?
- Who makes more money?
- Who got in to a "better" school / got the better job / got promoted faster?
- Who's got more friends?

Then, the biggest zinger of them of all: who has more status?

Humans may never know the entire leaderboard, but we're exceeding good at knowing our local neighborhood on these kinds of ordering systems.

You can say that these things "don't matter", but to a vast fraction of humanity, they do matter. And as social animals, I'd argue that humans are more or less programmed to care about these things. Maybe not everyone, but imo, social status is core driver of human behavior, just like hunger and sex. And status is all about rank ordering.
Considering that their pricing page doesn't mention any storage prices, I'm guessing it's some sort of self-hosted cloud solution, rather than storj which is closer to something like s3.
A/B testing!
It really feels to me like a Silicon Valley VC-universe fad. I haven't heard anyone in the real world mention it.
Yes, maybe you’re right. But in this case at least the problem was clearly “located” in the design departement.
I guess I don't know the right podcasts, but in my opinion, most of them are lazy marketing efforts by large corporations. I don't want to listen to native ads. And this is basically everything Spotify seems to suggest to me in the podcast section.

I fled Soundcloud because they couldn't get their shit together, it seems Spotify won't be competing forever as well. Their app has random stutters on modern hardware, and is cluttered with podcast stuff. All I want is music.

I liked JRE, but even as a Spotify user, I don't listen to him anymore.
I think they are factoring some core capabilities of Visual studio into language servers and vscode gets a subset. Do they are protecting big VisualStudio.
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Math for machine learning: visualize matrices as linear transformations
After the battle of Agincourt, the Armagnac and Burgundians civil war changed forever.

Time heals all wounds. The French became a major power later, but there was a very bloody time. I don't think anyone wants to "Agincourt" their own political leaders.

Regardless, the Armagnacs were severely damaged due to Agincourt. The somewhat neutral Burgundians had much more prominence after the battle.

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In the short term, King Henry V (of England) is named the heir to the throne of France. It takes nearly 30 years before another battle routes the English forces and forces England back to its island.

I'd say having a foreign king declared heir to the throne, while nearly eradicating one major political party (Armagnacs) is a pretty big deal. France doesn't make any major moves until the 1500s, nearly a hundred years later.
It seems to load fine, but in case that changes again: https://archive.is/0Oiit
Biometrics are simply the equivalent of tapping a FIDO2 button. They don’t increase security as much as they are a signal to authorize that prevents less dedicated users from opening the device. The device, not the biometrics, provides the security guarantee to replace a password.

You can opt to replace any biometrics with a device-specific password that is more secure than other passwords because it never leaves the device or even an additional two-factor key, at the option of the device maker.

For example, you can use a separate FIDO2 key within Windows Hello for enterprise use cases against Azure AD instead of using biometrics to sign in to your computer.

Folks can choose what level of security they are comfortable with. For me, personally, and everyone I know, passwords are much easier to steal and reuse because they leak regularly, can be tested multiple times without consequence, and so on.

To be clear, I’m saying password managers are awesome but device-based security is more awesome. Add a local password to your device based security is more awesome still, but then so is having a friend approve your request or other additional layers of security. Biometrics are the new PIN code “minimum” not the best we can do but better than sharing one string of text with the rest of the internet and assuming it will never leak.

Note that the risk model is roughly identical if a device is lost. Just as with a compromised password, you would have to visit websites using the device directly and revoke its access. This is made simpler if you combine FIDO2 with OAuth2 because then you only need to de-enrol the device from Microsoft or Apple. OAuth2 provides an additional layer of protection because it can tell you when your device is used, and can add additional security factors such as notifying you when a login occurs that not every site might build. OAuth2 does this by replacing passwords with timed tokens depending on how it’s configured, so at minimum new tokens are logged.

The same applies to the use of short-lived credentials in AWS or other cloud providers vs using permanent secret tokens. When using permanent secret tokens, like passwords, these are often very hard to rotate without consequences because you do so very rarely. They are also subject to reuse on different machines. By comparison, a short-lived token can use machine identity on a cloud server to add an additional layer of protection, and depending on the authorization system could validate a local device, use of a second FIDO2 or biometric device, validate the server requesting delegate permissions on your behalf, and validate the duration and scope of data being accessed, all at the same time.

In highly sensitive scenarios, one could even use asymmetric encryption stored on devices to ensure that any intermediate or delegate servers cannot decrypt API responses, only the recipient of the data. Of course, you need a model to trust your client app, but App Stores notarization and containerization go a long way to making it easier to wipe and redeploy secure machines frequently, such as with every system update, optionally leaving user data alone.
Oddly enough, I do. Seems to be a visual bug only.

Win 10 20H2 build 19042.928.
Venmo adds support for buying, holding and selling cryptocurrencies
> I continue to be amazed by the overt disdain long-time locals have for second home owners

Housing can not be both affordable and a good investment.

Given second homes are an investment, by definition having one means you're helping make homes unaffordable.
"After my one course in linear algebra, I knew eigenvectors and eigenvalues like the back of my head. If your instructor was anything like mine, you recall solving problems involving eigendoohickeys, but you never really understood them."

-- Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, from An Introduction to
the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain
Was the source code in question sold?
Nah. I think that companies need to verify identities better. All information about me is probably out there in some form but there is still only one "me". Verify "me" better.

Companies who are tricked into doing things with stolen credentials should be held accountable.
Well, I suppose that Warren Buffet and similar are all renting then.

I think that part of the problem is thinking of your home only in terms of an financial investment. A home is a place for living, you are always going to need a place for living. Despite appearances, you don't need a maximally diversified portfolio for living.
As an American with an EU passport, thanks for the idea. I had been leaning towards moving/retiring to Grenoble, France for the engineering university nestled in the Alps, but I will look further afield.
Oh, didn't know only a commercial macOS version exists.

Edit: Not sure about tooling ecosystem in macOS, but IMO it isn't worth that much.
That's OK. not all advice is applicable to all people. For some, they'd rather start small with something that sounds "cool", like say meditation. For others, they are lost and a quick chat with a doctor (or friend) would seem easier. And some just want to stop worrying about it, and one pill per day to change their life sounds perfect.

Normalizing all those options is what's important.
reminds me of mobx (which I find very simple). an entity is just like an observable, no?
While 100% on its face this seems a bit reductivist, it sounds like the argument I make about “just deal with the 30% App Store take or don’t make a business” which I guess I should revisit.

Sure this small bar could literally pay more but if that means their business model doesn’t work then that probably means many small bars/restaurants business model won’t work in the area (unless they have old/low rent). So does that mean you’re ok with all small places being replaced with TGI Fridays?
It will reach an equilibrium

>while the people who live there look at it as preserving what makes it livable

And they're free to buy up all the land and choose what they want to do with it
Can monitoring indoor carbon dioxide levels predict how Covid-safe a room is?
In a similar vein: Five books. It recommends books by experts on a particular topic.

- https://fivebooks.com/

"In case you’re new to Five Books, the format is: an expert, a topic and the five best books on that topic, explained in an interview. Tip: you’ll normally learn quite a lot about the topic from our interviews, even if you don’t get around to reading all the books."

Some random lists:

Best books on Sin: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/paula-fredriksen-on-sin/

Scientific differences between Women and Men: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/scientific-differences-betw...

Favourite Science books for kids: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/science-books-for-kids-alic...
You are completely missing the point. Nobody forces IBM to act this way. Sure they can - legally. It's still morally wrong.
Filebase announces $2M seed round to unify decentralized storage (S3 API)
Demystifying the effects of Covid-19 variants on vaccines
Climate Change Indicators and Impacts Worsened in 2020
> Reorgs, bad managers and other aspects are included in the salary. If you can deal with that, ok; if not leave but this do not give the right to bash publicly someone.

As a enterprise, employee loss and bad press are included with with bad managers and bad policy. If them are ok with that relations they cannot complain. (I understand that if you raise your voice you can have consequences in your next job search)
Buy a point and shoot with WiFi.

Put a rPi in your other pocket.

Run chron.

At least it's not a pony and free M&M's.
Aside from everything else, I have great respect for people who find bugs in widely used and long-established software. Even though this may not be a major bug, I admire the bugfinder just the same.
Only if it is indeed a zero sum game. I think most agree that on a sufficiently long timescale life is not a zero sum game, so everyone optimizing for their own quality of life increases the size of the pie for all.
There's a bug in notepad that lets you turn your computer into a marquee. Making the text big and turning off wordwrap causes the text rendering to lag behind your typing. Here is a demo video I threw together. It's good to have in your pocket for if you're ever bored at fry's or something, that said the update speed is a bit jarring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y9oeCWeGc
That contingent consists of those who have been wrong about crypto for 8 years, so to acknowledge their error now would require them to account for how their ideology and weltanschauung are at in conflict with the world as it actually exists.
I agree if they own the land. Telling other people they can't build duplexes/apartments on their own land is illiberal and authoritarian
From what I know the sport models have more limited processing capabilities to older models so its not feasible to port Rockbox to them. Think it has something to do with the drop in market size for mp3 players in general resulting in the quality of low cost parts declining.
You might want a newer model flash board, I think they're pretty reliable these days

I want (which does exist) A classic, with a 2T drive, with a supersized battery (10x the original) and bluetooth. I'll probably have to wait another decade till my current one finally kicks the bucket though!
How to implement a persistent file-based cache in Node.js
Maybe at night!
Two full days of Zoom meetings with 10 minutes of required meditation in between meetings was considered the less stressful option? That sounds miserable. If I had to do that many meetings or was asked to spend my breaks between meetings doing required meditation, I would quit my job. An hour and a half long meeting every two weeks and daily half hour meetings is already too much. Just assign my work to me in a project management tool and pay me to get it done. Why are we torturing ourselves with meetings?
Or you know, a centralized database.

The problem is not that your SSN can be leaked, the problem is that it shouldn't be trusted in the first place.

How is it a thing that a bank can give a loan to anyone claiming to have my name and SSN, without verifying that, and then hold me legally responsible for their lack of judgment? And the court protects the bank?

The problem here is the banks are being dumb, and rather than letting them suffer the consequences of that stupidity - the court makes it my problem. The legal system has seriously failed Americans here.
I don't necessarily disagree. I think UBI is an important thing to study and consider as we increasingly displace workers with the ever-moving capability of tech, but it will undoubtedly have some unintended consequences.

I do think it's important to point out though that you lose unemployment if you work, so there's direct incentive there.
The article answers the question twice.

> 1,500 illuminated drones formed into the game’s logo and characters before transforming into a floating QR code that links to its homepage.

> (Caption) THE FLOATING QR CODE LINKS TO A VIDEO GAME'S WEBSITE. PHOTO: BILIBILI
That's a great call-out, and one that's particularly relevant when you work at bigger companies. For instance, what can you confidently say isn't part of Apple's reasonably anticipated future business?
My tinder's rejection ratio :)
macOS is using "dot on top of the Close button", to indicate both that there are unsaved changes, and that if you tried to close the window, you would get a prompt asking about unsaved changes.

Simpler, more elegant, better integrated solution, consistent across the whole OS.

"Asterisk in the Title Bar" is a very unrefined solution to the problem.
I also wonder if those are feature releases or they have 125,000 bug fixes
C++ 20 Modules will save us (eventually)
You don't need any of that, but not because Windows is somehow "better" but because it's Windows "culture" to package almost all dependencies with the application, while on Linux application use a bunch of libraries that are part of the distribution.
That's the trade-off. Either you have things simple or expressive.

But I'm strong supporter of approach where you start with the semantics you want and work hard to make it work as opposed to simple to implement semantics you don't want because it makes programming harder.

I prefer TypeScript approach than C++ one.
Uncensored satellite internet may weaken dictatorships
Many people really forget how brutally poor Singapore was not long ago. After being kicked out of Malaysia for wanting equal racial rights they had no land, resources, army or wealth. Any reasonable assessment would project them staying third world for a long time.

As boomers were entering adulthood in 1970, the GDP per capita in Singapore was US$900, in Australia it was $26,000.

Australian pensioners are the wealthiest of that cohort on the planet. Due to rampant property gains and incredibly favourable tax laws, technically you can live in a $10M mansion and still collect a full pension + benefits.

The two countries took wildly different trajectories and as such have very different attitudes by the generations that grew up in that time.

For a thousand dollars or so you can get setup and run your own hawker stall a couple hours a day in Singapore, lower that cost to a few hundred if selling sundries. The only equivalent I could think of for Australians is weekend markets which are full of oldies, but those are transient tents on some grass which are usually quite competitive to get and are once a week/month things.

Undoubtedly there's many who do need the income even in old age, but there's also a big cultural difference and many don't really consider retirement a thing. They may work a lot less, but have no plans to stop until physically unable, this is pretty common attitude to see.
I think that can happen, but doesn't have to. It depends if the person integrates into the local system. There are usually some wealthy people in the area to begin with, like doctors, lawyers, etc. If the community feels you are a part of it, then the wealth shouldn't be an real issue.
Very similar to the introduction of IR35 legislation in the UK.
Lumber Prices Soar, but Logs Are Still Dirt Cheap
Yeah, I played around with this a little bit. It seems like Notepad knows the document has been changed, the bug is purely that the title bar isn't updated in this one case.

Which actually seems all the more odd because it does get updated when you move the mouse, use the arrow keys (or other non-inserting keys like Alt+F4)
This is also what Google suggests:

> Please associate your commit with your google.com email unless:
- You have a history of contributing to the repo under a different email before your employment at Google
Source: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/

> The release process applies to all types of projects: personal (at home), 20%, and new Google open source releases that aren’t part of and following the release process of an already-established Google open source project (like Chromium or Android).
Source: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/#patching

It’s a bit less strict, but signing work that I’m doing after job with my job e-mail doesn’t sound fair.
Subfloor heating systems aren’t just a water boiler in the basement and bunch of dumb water tubes?
Lets see if I can blew you mind even more:

Today I found a bug in the editor of the Commodore 64. It has been there for at least 30 years.
Yes, but then, people get all puzzled and surprised when they read that, median household wealth, is bigger in Italy or Spain than Germany.
Why HEY wanted to take on Gmail
They have the $15/hour contractors lugging batteries, hell yea they should invest in automation, but unfortunately as you point out the legal environment does not incentivize them to do so.
An Airbnb for an Entire Hotel
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but you’re pinning it on one arbitrary part of a very large system. Why doesn’t that mean the business’s rents are too high, or that property values are inflated, or that certain whole sectors have too low prices, or even that maybe we don’t need a coffee shop every twenty feet?

If a coffee shop can’t sustain livable wages, there are a ton of moving parts that could adapt. I imagine the problem is credit. It’s artificially hard to lower that shop’s rent because the landlord still has to deal with their mortgage price (and so on around the whole economy).
ERCOT's dismal failure the past several months has once again shown the fallacy of this thinking.

Raising prices to infinity cannot induce supply of a good or service for which there is simply no capacity to provision. Nor does discrimination by price for life's essentials result in fair or equitable distribution when there is a tremendous inequality in purchasing power among the population, much if that itself the result of random chance, inheritence, or nonproductive gains.

There's another market mechanism for addressing probabalistic risks, which is to prepare in advance, to assess penalties for failure to provision, to maintain stockpiles and emergency response plans, and to move stochastic future costs to present expense through mechanisms such as risk premiums. These create present incentives for managing such risks, and are based on data and modeling which ground those costs in the likely long-run and widespread average experience. Moving expenses to the present also creates opportunity and incentive to manage, mitigate, and avoid risks.
You're not accounting for the benefit (from your view) due to the reduction in real estate prices in the cities losing population.