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The Core Guidelines are great, but don’t attempt to go as far as Rust.
How about a different perspective.

Freelancers doing gig work are a drain on society if they fall back on to social safety nets when not employed. It's not in society's interest to have these people paying taxes only when they feel like it, especially if it ends up cannibalising slightly less efficient industry which reliably keeps people employed and paying taxes.

Not entirely serious - I do have sympathy for the position that gig work puts otherwise idle labour to good use - but I do think Uber and many similar companies are extracting efficiencies that hadn't been locked out with laws only because the tech to extract them hadn't been invented yet, a kind of regulatory arbitrage on a functional status quo.
To be fair, there are at least three distinct groups:
1) Employees being let go
2) Employees continuing
3) Students - current and prospective

Any statement has to balance the message across these three. For example, a statement that's "too negative" about future prospects risks spooking people in #3 - causing further damage to the business, as well as to people in #2.
If your object IDs are 1, 2, 3... then attacker can check all the IDs. If instead each object ID is a 256-bit UUID, then the attacker can't make a query for every possible object ID.
> Learning more languages is almost always good

Learning for the sake of learning and betting on it for employment and professional use are very different beasts.
The phrase you'd have used to describe this when it wasn't just how everything works on a good OS is "Lightweight mutex". Here's Be explaining the "Benaphore" for example:

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue1-26....

Note that when I say "typical scheme for using it" I did not mean, that your program should implement such a scheme itself, instead futex is intended for the sort of people who implement the concurrency features in your language or APIs to use - and this is how they'd go about doing that to deliver the features you just use. So, for most of us this is interesting to know about but unlikely to impact our day-to-day practice.
That's because it's not.

First off, the statistical chance of developing a clot is already pretty damn low.

The odds of that being a fatal clot are even lower than that, as now that the side-effect is understood and you can monitor for symptoms, it's typically a very treatable condition.

In the end I guarantee you that, thanks to the poor government response and irresponsible reporting around this issue, more people will die from Covid as a consequence of people delaying or refusing vaccination than will die from this side effect.
That's a weird theory. Also, I'm Swedish, not Norwegian.
If only it was just one agency from one country plinking holes in things...
I think there's some confounding factors since this version comes with other features that the consumer version doesn't even (e.g. dedicated support)
All great points. Not trying to nitpick, just trying to satisfy curiosity.
Here is another: you love cheese and are allergic to casein.

Not me, but the gal I am dating is allergic to dairy, and so we had some fun finding vegan cheeses that did not have casein. It was nice to make a dish that typically has cheese, that we both could enjoy.
I didn't know they had a built in email client, they didn't have it last time I tried Vivaldi and that's why I eventually stopped using it. Thanks for that info.
They don't allow that at MIT anymore. Anyway, I have a feeling those stories got exaggerated over time.
It's very cool, until something goes wrong with it. IMHO you are better off getting an external UPS and putting some other stuff on it.
Waterloo CS/Eng coop for instance, often pays itself off.
Honestly as someone (on the team) hiring for a job where someone else wrote the job posting, ignore the number. Just read that as "do you think you enjoy maintaining a codebase written in X".

Job postings are the fucking worst.
It doesn't work for me. Either than 5 min break comes too early or late.
Meta cheating. If they have to spend enough time to make the text scan and read correctly, that will do half the teacher's work.
The other solution is the exit exam to pass and graduate - no phones/apps allowed.
Iy would be easy to create a screen room inside a school room wherein no phone or WiFi would work. Blocking interdevice WiFi or NFC would need screen boxes.
Still, cheating is so creative and rampant that some sort of cages are needed.
Put the screen under the wall board to create a few WTF moments when they find they are cut off and get frantic.
The Bitcoin price has the potential to reach $1,820 by 2020 (2013)
I want the option of going in to the office when I want.
oh that makes sense. I forgot about meth.

Mostly it's me not understanding why so many people are captivated, excited and enthralled by something that sounds so caustic and abrasive.

It's admittedly extremely arrogant for me to say "well they must be on drugs because ahem, I am perfect." but you see parties starting at around midnight and going until 4pm the next day, there's something up with that.
Two or your comments are "SCI-FI_AUTHOR's world incoming". I must be missing something. This is supposed to be related? Funny? Perhaps you can take the time to explain what you mean.

Have you read moral philosophy or political economy? I'm not saying these are the only way to approach the ideas, but at least these provide a common ground for discussion.
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Elizabeth Zharoff

Just received one of the most blatantly irresponsible copyright strikes and takedowns yet. This one removed an entire interview that was 1 hour and 26 minutes long due to song snippet that was less than 30 seconds. The song snippet was used to give context to a particular vocal technique, and the overall interview promotes the artist and encourages people to buy their music.

This clearly checks every legal box for fair use (transformative, informational, small snippet, and ADDs to market value). However, we now have to deal with a strike on our Youtube channel as a result of this baseless claim.

The claiming company didn't even watch the video. We know - it's unlisted, so the only view on there came from us checking it immediately after uploading a week ago.

Of course, I'm submitting a counternotification. This should be cleared in around 14 business days unless they want to pursue a lawsuit (they won't, because they'd lose it). Meanwhile, I can't do the livestream planned for next Monday, as no live events are permitted when you have a copyright strike. There are other restrictions as well. My channel is endangered - 3 strikes and it would completely be taken down.

I hate that there are no checks for companies that make false legal assertions like this. YouTube's system favors them. I'd like to see more accountability; at the least, the other guy should be required to watch the video before they do so much damage.

Side note: I'm really glad that we have legal guidance that helps us to understand these things. A year ago, I would have been too scared to fight back. Now I know better.
Yeah don't get me wrong prepackaged food can be a big list of what!? On the other hand some of it really does seem reasonably made. At least until the Big Evil Food Co buys them out.
We sure are. But there is no reason to keep eating meat other than personal preference. We don't have to eat meat and given the environmental impact, maybe we shouldn't anymore. Sure things taste different but who cares, we've enjoyed the privilege for a long time, so let's move on.

What I mean is that there is huge amounts of money out there working hard on preventing us to move on through commercials and lobbying, things like that. Recently, right wing conservatism even started using meat consumption as a signal to show that you're not a liberal.
I don't know, not every aspect of our biology is an evolutionary advantage. Some just didn't have enough of a negative impact to get weeded out over time. For example we're rather squishy. Considering that built-in armor is a known-feature of other animals, the devs could have added that into the release. Honestly I would expect "not squishy" to have been in the initial human MVP release. I mean, they figured out that the mouth input channel needed to occasionally be used as an emergency output-- they had some idea of what they were doing, but still missed some obvious things.

Then again, if we're being developed by an evolutionary algorithm, why should I assume we're a full version release? It's possible we're still in the alpha stage. Or possibly some other developmental culdesac that just hasn't been pruned yet. We could be one of many incorrect answers to a recursive depth-first search algorithm, each iteration of which uses incremental parameter changes for the input of the evolutionary algorithm. Some dev one level up in the layers of reality might be getting yelled at right now for not using a breadth-first approach, or for using a resource intensive evolution process when the client just needed something "good enough".
Ask HN: How many employees control /u/dang?
it can't be only one person that is up 24/7 ?
Flying Pie Pizza in Issaquah WA makes incredible pizzas, and last I had it, they offered vegan cheese as an option.

I've had a slice of their vegan pizza and it's quite awesome.
This is making my spidey-sense tingle. It seems similar to Waubra disease (ie 'Wind Turbine Syndrome') [0]. A list of vague symptoms that no one can quite agree on, over a vague timeline.

Think about the last 6 years. Have you or anyone around you had some weird health problems? How about the slightly older people that you know?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome
I just moved on to Big Sur since I got an M1... the previous MBP was on High Sierra, so you can imagine my culture shock! Big Sur reminds me of nothing more than Windows XP, and that's not a compliment.
Animals suffer from predators, parasites, hunger and thirst in the wild.

The only way to end all this suffering is a good nuclear armageddon.
Like this? http://www.casetronic.com/corporates/40-t1160.html

Not ARM-based though, but they do have a variant that can host 4 pico-itx boards: http://www.casetronic.com/corporates/42-t1040.html . I gather you may be able to convert that one easier to fit an ARM board, or RISC-V for that matter.
The last point is important. When you're in a university you take different courses over the years but they often reuse or are based on some of the material covered in earlier courses. You learn by repetition and as you go into more advanced topics you can often understand better what you learned before - because you learn connections between things.

But when you need to learn a lot of things in a short period of time you don't have time to reflect and think how it all works together.

I find this often in my programming projects. Each sub-project requires a lot of focus and concentration. That seems to make it easy to forget about the previous (sub-)project almost totally. Putting in lots of new stuff into your brain means some older stuff gets pushed out of there.

The more you learn the more you forget. The only way to fight this is to try to understand the connections between the sub-topics, but if you are in a hurry you don't have time for that.
Check out Bitwig, it's cheaper and more exciting (to me) than Ableton despite a very similar core workflow. Bitwig really shines if you like modulation and flexibility.
ALL countries are brutal. That's how they work.

To look just at China for the brutality of its government is to hide your head in the sand.

The 'One Child Policy' has been discontinued for years. In my opinion, the sooner the world as a whole implements a 'one child per woman' policy the sooner the world will be able to reach a population level that is sustainable long-term, and halt the overuse of sparse resources like water, fish, soil, and start to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Fried cauliflower is so good, thanks for reminding me about that!
The Cellular Industry’s Clash over the Movement to Remake Networks
The ability for them to sell products online and support curb side pickup.
People who don't work in travel would be horrified at both acceptable latencies in that space and just how old some of the formats involved are.

One example I used to tell people in interviews: ever tried to book a flight more than a year out? You probably can't, because the date format in a PNR is "APR29". That's the underlying data for basically all flights.
Maybe I am not the only one who types gi tpush like 8 times a day
I think this is correct, re: the Pareto principle.

I'm a Lambda grad (Full stack web, not DS) and at the end of the program, I was knowledgeable about a lot more than I understood; and that also includes being knowledgeable about a lot of my shortcomings that I was painfully unaware of before Lambda.

A year after Lambda working as a SWE and I am now finally starting to feel a sense of domain... I hesitate to call it expertise, so lets say domain 'comfort' when it comes to building and maintaining react or react-like FE applications and node BE apis. I've had a mentor at my company since I started and mentorship is necessary for anyone coming out of a bootcamp with no prior industry experience, IMO.

The expectations set within the bootcamp are reasonable, IMO. Instructors never made it seem like we were going to fully internalize everything we were being bombarded with. Practicing what you learn is crucial to turning any of the things taught into a skillset, and that is made very clear.

I imagine the outcomes are pretty good for those who get through the program, as well. They were great for me and most of my cohort peers that I keep in contact with. The ISA model, IMO, makes a lot of sense and I'd be surprised if Lambda couldn't make it work in the long run.
JetBrains took that approach in Space, also, only choosing Kotlin in order to side-step(?) the "groovysayswhat?" ambiguity and anti-discoverability of Jenkinsfile
I feel that immersive programs are the way to go. Teach each subject in 3 month chunks. Candidate can continue to apply for jobs with the skills they have learnt. Let's say they have acquired enough skills to find jobs at the 3rd, 6th or 9th month, they can leave the program. This compulsion to finish 4 years is nonsense.
for the challenge and for the opportunity - i disagree that all of china wants to remain censored and i think there's enough creators and hackers in the world interested to direct access to the chinese market.
Didn't they lie by wrongly saying the loan can't be discharged through bankruptcy? Surely that would make candidates less likely to join Lambda?

Why is it even in their interest to say that? It's not like them saying it makes it true. And if it were true, it would mean that Lambda is a bigger risk for the student who therefore may be less likely to apply.
I don't know where the line between "healthy plant-based flavours" and "synthetic imitation foodstuffs" starts and stops is I guess my difficiulty.

Most vegan cheeses I have are just fermented ground up nuts or soy.
Well, alternatively, the war was (in large part) triggered by Britain _restricting_ open trade via the stamp act / granting a monopoly on tea imports to a single company.
If you use Google or Apple photos you are connecting to their computers that are exposed directly to the internet, but I would much rather own my data rather than have these corporations own it. The question in my mind is why these NAS companies are so comparatively terrible at writing secure software.
i took parent comment to be a criticism of the model. This is not a school, the intention is not actually to teach anything.. lolz
I believe there’s been placebo controlled studies that show that masks to not stop the spread of influenza . I haven’t read the papers, just something I’ve seen mentioned on medcram.
Ask HN: Career Advice Needed
Hi everyone. I don't normally ask career advice of people I don't know, but I respect this community, so here goes.

I'm a software engineer with about 20 years of experience. I've worked in large and small orgs; on a website/service with 100-500 million monthly active users, and another with 10-50m MAUs; and on Big Science. I work mainly in distributed systems, and have branched out to database implementation in the past 5 years. I really love distsys.

The main economic forces that I currently see operating on my career are: (a) the ascendance of the small handful of cloud computing providers; and (b) the remaking of many facets of the economy by AI, much of this to take place in the coming decades.

On (a): I'm happy in my current job, but have found that only companies at the largest scale want to pursue the distsys approaches that I'm most interested in (e.g., gossip/CRDTs, consensus algorithms, etc.). Outside of those companies, it's difficult to get funded for anything besides, for example, leader election, or adopting a 3rd party distributed data store or cache.

OK, so on to my question... Should I:

(1) Stay where I am. (I'm lucky to work on something that I enjoy, even if it's not an exact match.) (In other words: don't worry about your 1st world problems.)

(2) Try to find distsys work at one of those large cloud computing providers.

(3) Branch out into another area, e.g., distributed machine learning, or data/compute management/scheduling systems for AI.

(4) Something else I haven't thought of.

What do you think?

I'm stuck in thinking about what to work on. Thanks in advance for your help!
The Apple Silicon transition is arguably something they have handled extremely well, with the only unknown being what the pro-level chip will be like. Hopefully it can all be over sooner rather than later and they can get back to work on general software quality.
Absolutely, a job is a job. Or at least, that's all it should be. Yet the current law treats it something closer to an adoption of the employee by the company.
that's the issue. latitude got a very, very good deal with openai and without it the economics just wouldn't work out.

people can't host their own models either as even their free-tier model needs tens of thousands of dollars worth of compute hardware and memory to run.
Why would someone use Neptune instead of just using Jupyter? I see how Pluto has a new value proposition that Jupyter lacks (reactivity), but it looks to me like Neptune simply removes that value.
Jamwerks Open Beta: High Fidelity, Low Latency, Collaborative Music
Some good friends of mine just launched an open beta of their upcoming software project, called Jamwerks Lola, that makes it easy to collaborate with other musicians over the internet. It's also fantastic for group audio calls. While latency can still be an issue, this is much better than the experience I get with Zoom and my drum instructor. Mac-only for now, but PC coming soon.

https://beta.jamwerks.com/
> The cloud could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet

Is this not the same as saying "The internet could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet"?
In NZ we limited the numbers that can be on the street at any one time and they're fine - just another part of the landscape now, people have even got over the "fun" of throwing them in bodies of water.
Yeah, I also got the number wrong - it's 73 cents on the dollar not 40.
My wife can't "operate" the TV.

Of course, part of that is how I have it set up (connected to Mac mini, etc.).
I agree that the prices seem arbitrary and high, but since there's no central authority competition could drive the prices down. Eventually I think we'll get to a Let's Encrypt level of service and all of this will be free, as I don't see a technical reason anyone should pay more than the transaction costs.

The high cost does prevent abuse though, as squatting would be a bigger nuisance than it is with traditional DNS if registration were cheap/free.
> They are a marketplace [...] negotiate prices on their behalf t

These two things are in fundamental conflict, which is part of the issue.
> Why not both?

Because they're alternatives to each other. You don't need both.

If people don't understand how to compare their alternatives, they're going to get screwed left and right, not just in the difference between employee and contractor. So we have to fix that more general problem if it exists.

And solving that problem means not only that you don't need to prohibit people from being classified as contractors but that doing so is a net harm. Because prohibiting it for the benefit of the person doing the math wrong (solvable the other way) is a harm to the person who benefits from the arrangement, e.g. because they want the more flexible hours that come from being a contractor instead of an employee.
> Most functioning adults can keep quiet about a simple preference but morals don’t work the same.

Handling difficult feelings without acting out is one of the definitions of being a functional adult. You may have that backwards, though it is very consistent with the pop culture moral / philosophical (behavioral?) flavor of late.
That's helpful and reassuring, thank you. I'm hoping to start attending in person tech events/meetups soon. Hopefully people are excited to be able to meet new people again :)

Congratulations by the way!
Ask HN: How would you hack the Chinese firewall?
The challenge of a lifetime is hacking through China's firewall - how would you go about it?
3000 containers/year is a pretty small drop in the ocean. Most dangerous chemicals that you don't want in the ocean are loaded in a way that they are surrounded by other containers, so they are less likely to fall off (and less likely to be shot by pirates and catch fire). It seems reasonable to assume that the vast majority of the sinking containers are filled with pretty harmless stuff
It's odd because most of the drivers I've talked to don't want to be "employees" but they do want all the typical employee benefits even though the corp that pays them would have no way of anticipating ROI in any given driver? Can they just say "enjoy your own scedule, but you have to work a minimum of X hours this week or lose your benefits" otherwise it's an odd thing to ask of companies.
> Eric Garner was killed because of the policies that created the a huge black market for cigarettes in NYC

I don't think that's why he was killed.
I've been critical of some of their comms before [1], but this statement seems pretty good. You seem to be working hard to read it in the worst possible light.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26948912
I'm self taught like you, my biggest regret is not sending out resumes earlier. Try to find small and midsize businesses they are the most receptive in my experience.
You can procrastinate away your entire life with "someday I'll surely take advantages of all the free resources on X that are out there and finally learn X and maybe even shift careers!"

Just think of all the things you never bother to learn despite having a latent interest even though you can open a new Youtube.com tab right now and fire away. It's hard to start, and then it's overwhelming when you do, and then you feel like a failure when you don't stick with it.

Isn't it worth quite a lot to snap out of it and finally do it? It doesn't surprise me that people find this to be worth thousands of dollars. When you consider how fatally expensive it is to procrastinate your goals forever, maybe these schools are a bargain.