skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That it works that way in other systems is not a defense of those systems. Rather, it is indicative that those other systems are similarly broken. Upwork has the ability to vet clients, which the freelancer does not. Therefore, Upwork also has the moral responsibility to perform the vetting of clients. If Upwork views a freelancer as a fraud risk, they can terminate their ongoing relationship with you. They may not require you to return payments for work done in good faith.

There are two separate agreements in play here.

1. The freelancer made an agreement with Upwork. In exchange for the freelancer performing work for a client, the freelancer will receive payment by Upwork.

2. The client made an agreement with Upwork. In exchange for arranging for a freelancer to perform work for them, the client will send payment to Upwork.

If the client fails to adhere to agreement #2, that doesn't give Upwork grounds to unilaterally cancel agreement #1. Upwork has been scammed, and unless they are claiming that the freelancer was part of the scam, they have no moral right to cancel agreement #1.

Edit: In support of this interpretation, Upwork's tax requirements indicate that freelancers must file a W-9 with Upwork, not with the client. This indicates that Upwork is the entity paying the freelancer, not merely acting as a payment facilitator between the client and the freelancer.

[0] https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211067918-Tax-R...
They think Robin and the freelancer work together secretly or are the same person and this is just a credit card fraud.
You're both right.

Irreversible transactions by default seem a good thing.

Court/arbitration is the right way when things go wrong.
If it was the same situation, Upwork would likely ask why you added so many hours manually. They warned the writer many times they had no chargeback protection if they billed manually.

It’s hard to reasonably blame a platform for capping its losses when confronted with a client who chooses the highest risk billing, despite knowing the risks well enough to write about them at length.

I don’t see where you or the writer would have a case. Heck, you can’t just ignore hundreds of warnings, discover they were good things to be cautious about and claim the company was wrong for enforcing the terms it told you about constantly.
Which is different/worse than the current situation where the author is being stolen from without even having the ability to vet their clients the way the intermediary does?
Holier-than-thou parents are still going to control what books children read at the expense of children's intellectual growth. A lot of parents underestimate their children and limit their children's knowledge through "family-frendly" censorship nonsense at the expense of intellectual growth, too. As a result, many children up with average I.Q's because society bullies them into being ordinary pawns of parents or government authorities. It is idiocracy. It is why geniuses and freethinkers are rare.

Watching television is not always detrimental to children's mental health. There are educational videos. Sometimes children learn quicker when they watch videos instead of reading. Not that I am against children reading books.

But I will say many parents are ignorantly flawed behind their pretentious attempts at keeping their children away from danger. Which this world was never meant to be safe completely despite what the delusionally optimistic people with fragile egos say.
This is a great idea but what prevents Upwork from kicking him off the platform for pissing them off? Or maybe there’s an arbitration clause in the agreement too?
> Maybe editorialized a bit

In a conversation about accuracy of statements and not making misstatements just to improve rhetoric, this seems like a weird choice. "No one actually said this, but it captures the zeitgeist (just trust me)".
It seems like the CSS used is shared under the MIT license by the author here: https://github.com/susam/spcss.
My favorite term they use in academia is "trainee" to justify low salaries. Trainees encompass High School Students, Undergraduates, to Postdocs, an age range from maybe 18 to 38.
> I think looking at devs contracting as "gigifying" is abusing that word and cheapening it for actual gig jobs which is an actual issue.

author is not a dev.

> Upwork provides a platform to get contracts but it's not quite the same as the auto priced marketplaces like Uber, Lyft, Doordash etc.

yes this is a great point that makes me reflect on the term 'gig', thanks for sharing it.

if the author was a dev contractor who was contracting through UpWork, i would agree completely with your statement about 'gigifying'. since he's not, i'd argue that this non-dev work is still part of the gigification because 1.) it's part of the shift where more and more administrative and creative labor, which was formerly structured as full-time (and in Europe, unionized) jobs, is being atomized and increasingly mediated through faceless unaccountable corporate platforms (where labor rights are shit on, exactly like in author's story), and 2.) one's reputation is stuck/held hostage on a third party platform (where things like author's story happen often [1]) who can essentially ban you and erase you (and your reputation/testimonials/positive feedback) anytime.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=upwork+banned+site:www.reddi...
I have a friend who used to be a commercial lawyer - she said one of the things that disillusioned her about the job is that regardless of contract it was often the case the party most able to be made to bear the loss ended up losing (ie whoever had insurance).

It’s easier for Upwork to force the contractor to work for free than to sue ‘Robin’ because suing is difficult and costly, and the contractor is over a barrel if he wants to continue with Upwork.
I’ve shipped a number of RN apps for my current and previous company. I guess I don’t know the extent of what some companies are doing with RN but every time I hear about having to dive deep into Native Modules for their app I always wonder what in the hell they are doing.

The react native ecosystem is huge so you really have to have some domain knowledge to be good at it in my opinion. I’ve read articles where the author was in Native Module hell and I just thought “oh well they could have just used this great package”. I know that illustrates a major problem with RN, but its exactly the type of domain knowledge that will make of break your RN experience.
I think the latter argument is 90% of the reason. Too bad this new generation doesn't have an opensource base of software to work with, or rather somehow didn't get acculturated to the existing one. Actually, that's probably because there were those few "killer features" such as offline messages that the existing systems didn't have.
Allowing credit card payments through a 3rd party intermediary makes this situation very messy.

Non-payment is actually a surprisingly common problem in the world of freelancing. You won’t see it if you have a handful of established, trusted clients. However, it crops up a lot if you deal with individuals, entrepreneurs, or startups.

As an individual, you can simply refuse credit card payments completely. You can also stop work completely until the client is caught up on payments.

With Upwork, can you even choose to reject credit card payments? Or are you forced to take the risk of credit card chargebacks?

As for recourse: The amount is high enough to get a lawyer involved. Go after Robin, demonstrate non-payment, get a judgment. I’m guessing Upwork’s legalese and corporate counsel aren’t worth going after.
Yeah it is basically the same as Afghanistan over here mate, you wouldn't like it.
That's totally possible, but laser tech exists beyond Brother nevertheless. And Brother does sell inkjets as well; so there's no 1:1 match between "Brother" and "toner".
This is such a load of crap.

I will agree with the argument that a greater tone range is required to present a greater diversity of skin tones but to imply that somehow the limits of a new technology has an intentional or unintentional bias on behalf of "Whitey" is just dumb.

The video throws up a few examples of good and bad photos and then makes the claim that they are proof that film was racist. I wonder if there are any good photos of red herrings?

The truth is photography used to require a great deal of skill in order to produce a quality image regardless of skin color and the examples given with mixed races, where one group appears "In a better light" than the other is more of an example of a bad photographer than a bad film product.

Is it probable that certain light meters had default "Ideal" values and the people reading them were biased towards lighter skins? Of course but to claim that color film somehow hurt people with dark skin is just ridiculous. There were plenty of images where the lighting was incorrect and the white people looked washed out like vampires or phantoms too, this video just chose to omit them to make a false and divisive argument.

Yes film companies like Kodak chose to market certain film products towards dark skinned people in the 70s but that is not proof of a racist product but rather a company targeting a demographic with rising purchasing power. In fact a better argument could be made that marketing towards specific demographics under the guise of inclusivity is manipulative and predatory.

I think in some ways because we live in an age of extremely low priced and high quality digital cameras, people forget the amount of work that was required to produce a quality photograph when color film first came out.

Edit* The Video also begins by mentioning the Shirley cards used in the developing of film, developing of film required just as much if not more skill than taking the picture. Again I believe the understanding of the amount of time and care required to produce a quality photograph back then is not understood by many people these days.
Consider contacting your lawyer. You likely have grounds to sue “Robin” and/or UpWork for wage theft.
I specifically did not quote Fauci, so I did not misquote Fauci. I did not quote Fauci because similar sentiments were being expressed by numerous people, including:

> “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” the surgeon general, Jerome M. Adams, said in a tweet on Saturday morning. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa...

If your intent here is to cast aspersions on claims that comments like this were made, then you are gaslighting. Anybody without serious brain damage remembers the medical technocrats and their media lackeys were signaling against masks early in the pandemic. The above article contains quotes from numerous officials, each worded in different ways but getting at the same message that I wrote above, that masks don't work for proles but do for doctors. Trying to make people question their memory of this is gaslighting.
Novak Djokovic visa appeal to be live streamed
>The 20-time Grand Slam winner’s case against the Australia Minister For Home Affairs will be heard by Judge A Kelly at 10:00 local time on Monday (23:00 GMT Sunday).

>Proceedings will be streamed live on Microsoft Teams, but those who join have been told: “Members of the public are not to provide their name when connecting. It is imperative that you keep your camera and audio off as this can affect the progress of the hearing. Any form of recording or photography is not permitted.”
We can’t have public schools and force children to go while we don’t have public health care too
Is there a simulator for all of this?

Or how does a researcher uses those manuals for requesting time?

Or are all request/approvals going through a core tech team?
Cat xxx.json | fx 'whatever' | fx

Is how I usually do so, if you don't want the interactive mode drop the last pipe
Bitcoin Attacks the Ultimate Ponzi Scheme
I wish there was a rule banning twitter threads. I don’t know who this is or any context about the situation and I don’t want to spend 40 minutes digging through a thread to find out. Its like they’re designed to make you feel first and think later.
No, i've read more about it.

The price hike was part of a government schedule to liberalize gas prices. But they were so dumb or ignorant that they've set the date in 1/1/2022, in the winter, which also happened to occur in the middle of an energy crisis. Kazahstan, being economically dependent on China is having problems with 12% unemplyment and the jobless youth has radicalised. People took to the streets to protest peacefully and requested theat the price hikes ar reversed, the resignation of the government and demanded that the former president, Nazarbayev, leaves and that the 1993 constitution is restored. The acting president Tokayev, used the protests to dismiss Nazarbayev and his allies in the government and the secret service and sieze the whole power for himself. This is when the protests turned violent. The acts of violence were most probably perpetrated by secret service factions loyal to the former president aided by criminal gangs and maybe also radicalised youth is involved. Tokayev ordered a state of emergency but the military and the security forces would not act on his orders, mainly because they take order from the former president whom Tokayev has ilegally dismissed. In a desperate attempt, Tokayev has requested outside help from the CSTO, which is mainly Russia, claiming that outside terrorist forces are trying to overthrow the social order. The key word is outside, because otherwise the CSTO cannot intervene in the internal affairs of another state. When the CSTO stepped in and sent troops, the Kazah military and security forces started to comply with the acting president's orders. Now Tokayev is basically at the mercy of the Kremlin and Putin will quite probably ask for favours in return. There is doubt that anything was planned except for the gas hike. It appears that the actors involved just siezed the opportunity to act in their favour. This is how transfer of power occurs in autocracies, sometimes even when it's carefully planned years in advance. For context, Nazarbayev hand picked Tokayev to be his sucessor but retained important attributes of power, for life, by changing the consitution in 2019.
Is it worth the hassle trying to guess what you mean by that very vague question ?

edit: ...in 2022.
I agree, just pointed out where the confusion might come from..
Not exactly; steak haché is minced (or finely-chopped) steak, as in Steak Tartare for example. You might use steak haché to make a hamburger.
I think that as a result of writing this and getting upvoted on HN, something will happen to resolve it. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
What alternatives do you see? Medium?
It doesn't have to be, there could be a deposit on cartridges and they just get refilled by Canon.
What does "leadership" mean here? I thought these systems were supposed to be decentralized and trustless?
Upwork is asking for return of payment from the OP. From the article's title: "Upwork is asking me for a $12,500 refund". From later in the article, this is not an isolated incident: "A day after, a few other freelancers whom we were working with, started contacting me saying that Upwork is asking all of them for a refund as well."

This is not the same as Upwork refusing to continue working with the freelancer. This is Upwork attempting to modify the terms for previous work done by the freelancer.
In this particular case, the problem is that the plugins require Dart glue code, and a native implementation on both iOS and Android. So if you run into a problem with a component, it's much more complicated to fix it.

In general, using third party components with native mobile apps is pretty straightforward.
I lot of these rebuttals are "I can't imagine your use case so it's probably bad/weird/not worth it."
I'm an anti-intellectual ball buster, so I'm triggered by the "ELI5"
conceit preceding a verbose summarization of the linear programming
problem. A better follow-up to the ELI5 condescension would be, "I
exploit discrepancies between what energy prices are and what they ought
to be for the benefit of my employer, and thus myself."
Reminds me of https://www.justwatch.com/ which is a non-API version. Did they roll their own? Do they use your service?
No, cameras' resolution is limited by diffraction that is a function of mirror size. JWST achieves that diffraction limit in range between 2 to 28.5 micron where most of it observations will be performed. As for sensitivity, installed instruments are state of the art, finding any improvements would necessitate multi-year research programs.

CPU it uses is RAD750, pretty standard radiation-hardened CPU for spacecrafts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750

More powerful and modern CPU would not enable any more science to be gathered and only increase chance of failure. Maybe some power saving could be achieved, but that CPU requires only 5W from 2000W produced by solar panel anyway.
>It's not your server. I hope you have everything backed up

but who cares?

who's going to read thru those 10s of thousands of messages where majority of them is just random talk?

also Discord offers better privacy/security for end users than self-hosted alternatives
Same. East coast USA
In my experience, email protocols are anything but simple as soon as some security or authentication comes into play.
I think this is just a propagation of the issues larger organizations may generally have with dependencies.
You don’t want your applications be dependent on the update cycle of other organizations/individuals. What if the bug fix does not get merged into the master fast enough? Do you fork? When do you recombine again?

But otherwise I agree, sharing code and making it better for everyone as well as delegating complicated parts of the application to others are well practices.
I got off from Upwork quite some time ago now. I hate the way they do business and throw developers under the bus at first bump on the road.
I am looking forward for the day that some Web3 equivalent is built and become leader in the space.
You can activate a menu, but it only covers very basic things. If you are confined to using only the menu, you might equally well use notepad.

For base emacs, the learning curve is not as steep as vim. I wonder if your problem was trying to do everything at once?

Regardless, emacs really is more of a long-term investment. It will take you years to be fully proficient. Personally, I have gone away from using emacs (including org-mode and vim emulation), because it took too much time to keep the configuration shiny.

My main issue with org-mode is that it's only really a first class citizen within emacs. I've not found any vim/vscode/etc. plugins that emulates the experience to satisfactory degree, and that lock-in means I've given up on org-mode.
I remember Delphi being pretty close back in the day, and it's still around[0] if you're willing to pay for it. Lazarus[1] is another option.

Apart from the underlying language, the experience is pretty close.

[0] https://www.embarcadero.com/

[1] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
I think you are right to generalise it to "context switch". Countless times I deleted my yet-to-be-posted, detailed Stackoverflow question, when after typing (ha!) it, i would realize my mistake.

I never tried duck - debugging, maybe should give it a go too
Discord is internet relay meme.
No.

With the hash-based algorithm you can go through every possible secret key and starting integer and check whether the result looks like English text (or whatever the contents are). If your English-text check is sufficiently good (how good it has to be decreases with the length of the text), then you're only going to have a very small number of matches, and one of those will be the plain text.

The above attack doesn't work on OTP because the above attack would simply yield a list of all English strings of the given length, and there would be no way to tell them apart.

Obviously the above attack is infeasible because there are too many secrets to check them all in a reasonable amount of time, but to be unbreakable in the same way OTP is, you have to be robust against even attacks that take an infinite amount of time.
According to [0], Serbia requires fourteen days of isolation of people with a Covid infection. Djokovic attended indoor events unmasked there and also appeared in public during the two weeks between mid and end of december while he should have been isolating if he actually had been infected. I am curious how they are going to explain this.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan/08/novak-djokovic...
Neat idea. But, I am checking Snowfall TV show (https://www.movieofthenight.com/series/Snowfall/643) for Russia and site says it is not available to stream in Russia, but it is in reality, via Kinopoisk (https://www.kinopoisk.ru/series/909854/).
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-drivers/servicing...

(assuming you're not doing significantly more than 10,000 miles per year) "For the first three years of ownership, your car will require an annual service inspection and oil service."

This seems to be the recommendation for US/Canada too...
Let the natural immunity develop quickly rather than dragging it out. Everyone is getting this disease.
CEO Who Permanently Switched to 4D Workweek Says He Did It for Selfish Reasons
Reminds me of the book No Rules Rules and Hastings unorthodox view on busy work. Hastings rejects a managers proposal for a promotion because an employee "works really hard". Hastings then clarifies that it's about impact, customer value, not busy work and how much of it you did.
> why should they have to walk away? why even suggest such a strategy?

Why would you want to continue doing business with someone who will unpredictability charge you large sums of money?
Technological changes are often precursor to societal change. But its not necessarily easy to predict what that societal change will be. Very often it isn't what the techno-enthuiasts think it will be.
You should put at the top of your comment that it's the (auto)translation of the article.

I also like to put the language in the title, something like "How not to be a scientific zombie [Portuguese]".

And if you are the author, I recommend to make an official translation in the site, and post here the translation. It may get more traction.
I’ve entered Apple stores with mask but then removed it and no one said anything.
You make a good point that altruistically helping the creator can also be a factor. Thanks for articulating this.
2022-01-03 Emacs News
I also don’t see dependencies as technical debt. In many cases they are the best implementation of a thing for that Language/Framework. Take react-navigation which is the de facto navigation library for React Native. You could argue that it should just be a part of RN but can you really make the argument that reimplementing navigation is going to give you less tech debt than pulling in this lib.
No, it uses an encryption scheme on the password to derive the field in /etc/passwd. It’s one-way (decrypt is not implemented) but it is encryption based on a rotor-design US Army encryption machine.
Edit: Navy, not Army