jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Isn't it as simple as hiring as a contractor instead of hiring as an employee?

Having contractors simply turns the situation from "we have labour laws to deal with" to "this is an expense like any other", although speaking to a labour + tax attorney wouldn't hurt.

As far as your company hiring remotely goes, tell them not do it if this is their first time and everyone else is local.

They will get burned (almost always likely) diving in the deep end, so if they do plan on doing it, this is (roughly) how:

Find some obscure 50-hour task and give the contractor an opportunity to complete it (making sure it is possible to be done in 50 hours).

AFAIK, when working with "contractors", the tax-reporting burden becomes theirs.
In Belgium you get paid to do a PhD. For engineers it is competitive to market rates, for all other majors it's even much higher than what they receive in the private sector (but harder to get into/less possibilities.

This also applies for non-citizens.
And it's given by Maciej Ceglowski, the founder of Pinboard.
I don't understand the "mining without verifying transactions" part. You mean mining empty blocks?
This is also a interesting one : https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/2657075/ (most active users on Github by commits)
> Or maybe it's because we actually treat majority of people like little children.

At 42, I've felt this is the cause for quite some time. You see it in things like the adult Disney woman[0]. Part of it is playing it safe so as not to offend the conservatives with a nipple, but market forces have been driving movies this direction as well[1].

Gutting education to dumb down the populace hasn't helped.

[0] - https://youtu.be/vLIfkiF8NeQ

[1] - https://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris
This is a nice essay introduction depending on the type of spec you want to write:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona...
I'd rather Amazon and other companies decentralize their presence away from a few locations, and instead invest in the economy of other smaller locations. The benefit to those seeking affordable housing conditions is that this will reduce price pressures on highly-desirable locations by making other places also economically desirable (and moving housing demand around). The money spent on affordable housing will also go a lot further in those locations.

My selfish reasons for wanting this is that the Seattle area has become worse in many ways since Amazon became big - increased density has led to terrible traffic, crowded parks, impossible parking, neighborhoods that have lost their charm, changing politics, and other issues. Some may view those things as a positive, but I think most long-term residents of Seattle probably disagree.
This is really good advice. Myself personally, I have been programming for decades as well and struggle with the curse of knowledge.

Curious what other people do and what struggles they have had.

Having spent time studying Category Theory I see a lot of value to using it in my code but it is not common knowledge and often confuses others when you start throwing around terms like functor, monoid, monad, etc.

At the same time I don't want to write code that isn't as reusable or to that isn't as maintainable.

Are we as an industry limiting our own potential by deliberately not using knowledge when it is beneficial for the sake of greater communication?

My personal philosophy when working with teams is to exclude some of that stuff but slowly introduce it and train junior developers on some of the concepts in the hope that I can push that knowledge forward.

Curious what others think of this dilemma and how they address it.
Yeah they forgot the paragraph where NASA brings the rock home by hurling it towards Earth, killing 99% of humanity after impact.
I randomly landed and browsed through Courtney Loves Twitter today and she posts lots of pictures of partying in the early 90s with other celebs. It’s the antithesis of what is cool today. Just looks like a train wreck really.
It was discovered by an Italian astronomer in 1852.
Some options: Ghost, Hugo, Netlify, WPEngine
Personally, I use 4 different browsers at once when I'm on my Mac. Aside from the interfaces, I can't tell much of a difference between any of them. Sadly, I must admit that Firefox on the Mac is a bit lacking in polish.
I am awed by their business sense

How could a CEO inherit a company with as big of moat as Microsoft and not have piles of cashflow - no matter what he did? They spend $9 billion on R&D and what have they shipped? Windows 7, finally? Let me hit the start button - Windows DVD Maker, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, MS Paint --- I have an OS (that I just want out of the way) and a bunch of crap that comes with it.

Office, their cash cow and current defacto for businesses, is $400 for the Pro version! - this pricing model will be obsolete in a decade.

Xbox has been a huge loss leader, now starting to turn a profit. But this barely makes a dent and likely never will.

Zune? Kin one and two? Day late and a buck short. These flops would be very embarrassing for me, but Ballmer has no shame.
One more point: I would recommend building on top of the YUI 3 core instead of re-inventing it, unless you can point to something that you think they flat out did wrong. YUI 3 core is pretty small. The YUI team learned a lot from YUI 2 :)
Slaves we are, information is the soma of the gilded age.
I immediately embraced the 20 sources. I can't honestly pay attention to any more than that. This keeps me focused - I have to choose what feeds I'm going to watch. I looked at my google reader feed and honestly I had over 100 feeds in there but I really only ever read about 10 or so. I've found that for me, information overload causes productivity paralysis. So I like the limitation of 20.
Look for some soon. I was caught a little off guard with the pre-release of Jo, so I'm scrambling a little. :)
Some of them do run Windows on the console the operator the uses. Some run Linux, and some of the older generation scanners used SGI workstations. They run various RTOS's on the systems that actually control the scanner.
This is no different to any other company. There are some company who can call up Microsoft, or even call up people on the Linux dev team, if they know them.

This drastically reduces who you can develop for, and is one of the silliest reasons I have ever heard to not develop for the iPhone.
Can you ask them to invite me? My site Twicsy has over 6 million unique visitors per month but I only make about 1/4 what you make.
"You remember when Redhat supported Richard Stallman."
A few protips for nimble_parsec:

- ninja in a struct for your context, just generally a better choice due to the stronger typing.

- decide if your parser is a transformer or an analyzer. If it only analyzes text, then throw away all of the text after you use it and use the text stream as a contextual buffer. If it transforms, be consistent about the tokens you return in the stream. Use structs if you can.

- build intermediate defparsecs which create testable functions that you can test. If you like, fence them in `if Mix.env == :test` blocks to keep them from being compiled except in test.

Example: https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/blob/master/lib/zig/parse...
Charging taxes based on market value has been banned in the California constitution, with the passage of the disastrous Prop 13 in the late 1970s. It is the source of many problems in California.

Taxes based on percentage of value are limited to 1% of purchase price, with a maximum increase of tax paid of 2% per year, which is sub inflationary. Presumably if we had a loooong run of time with property values increasing less than 2% per year, newly purchased homes would still be taxed at market value, but that's pretty far outside the normal realm of market behavior.
I'm not sure why it looks that the URL is through the coral cache, and it's making the site really slow. http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2010/11/28/4-little-words/

It's a nice idea, though the word list may be refined a bit, and there could be larger word lists and something that takes account of nouns/verbs to create more cohesive sentences.
Was it machine translated? It was my understanding that it was the work on a nonnative speaker.

Which says a lot about Google Translate, or my reading comphrehension; I am not sure which one.
The world in general is a legitimate and respectable place for physicists to publish preprints, but you still shouldn't believe everything you hear in the world. I think that's the point. It's not that arxiv sucks, but that it doesn't lend any credibility to the things published there, so we need to be skeptical. For those of us who are not the author's peers, taking non-peer reviewed work as anything more than speculation is likely to lead to false beliefs.
Of course it's actually easier to use bgp to hijack and blackhole a route for an IPv4 address than it is to get new nameservers inserted for a specific domain at the roots. If folks moved to rely on a system that didn't involve lookups, it would become even easier to take them down.
how about a website that tracks these censorship activities
What we are seeing is the backlash against the idea that just adding points and badges will create a compelling experience. This is no more accurate than if you replaced [your favorite game] with a series of menus and button presses and threw in some random point and badge awards. The experience itself must be rewarding.

That said, "gamification" techniques can be a wonderful thing. Points are a useful way to highlight positive interactions with users ("you did X, this is a good thing, these points help you realize that"). Badges are a good way of providing metagame elements, both at the beginning of an experience (to shorten the learning curve) and at the end (to provide extended engagement). This all relies on a compelling core experience, of course.

I think that Dennis has been clear that Foursquare is a social layer on top of physical locations, not a game. That people generally see it as a shallow game can be considered both an example of the compelling (and perhaps overriding) aspect of the gameplay elements and an indictment of the core 4Sq experience.
Apparently sloppy = abstract.
Hey, I wrote the Art of Rails. You just made my day putting it on your list. Thanks a lot, ludicast.
For the first one, definitely could be split. You can already run that part without code generation - https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-check.html
You should look into Vit. K MK7, it's generally considered better than MK4.
I think this is just poorly written, or written to fit all use cases. There is a lot behind little league, and it’s not obvious until you get into it.

I was on a little league board. In my state, we had pretty strict background check requirements, and those providers were the “trusted partners” that were given sensitive information. Now, little league volunteers are mandated reporters in New York, so the government gets information for training enrollment.

The school enrollment information was used for eligibility... the eligibility requirement was to live or go to school in the territory. It frequently came up for kids in private school outside the zone or kids in shared custody arrangements. There are many edge cases, especially with shared custody, foster or arrangements where “easy” forms of required information just isn’t available for various reasons. Most “nuclear” families provided a birth certificate and any letter from a utility, bank or tax bill.

Age is very important for leveling kids appropriately and keeping them safe, which is why birth certificates are required — parents are insane and go to extreme lengths (I personally encountered forged documents, parents who delayed entry into kindergarten to age 6, bogus documents from siblings or cousins, etc) to try to let older kids play in younger levels. It’s a hazard for an 11 year old to pitch or hit against 8 year olds. Little League is used as a way for folks to get kids into elite travel teams, etc.

Marketing stuff was totally different and may vary by league. We wanted all communications to our folks to go through and be approved by us. “Bob the plumber” could hand out flyers, get an ad or have a blurb in an email campaign. The big companies (currently GM, Gatorade, Honda in my region) just push materials down and use contests to get personal data.
As one of the most annoying kids in the CD/LPMud scene I am likely still responsible for more MUDs being banned from InterMud than anyone else - I would wiz just about anywhere I could to stalk and occasionally harass friends and enemies alike. (The name Moles has been banned on most remaining CD muds since 1994.)

The one place they could never ban was the TMI/MudOS development MUD - I don't even remember what it was called, but looking at what the folks from there are doing today... boy, I should've spent a lot more time actually trying to get to know them instead of bugging the people I played with elsewhere.
Maybe backed was a bad word to use. I more just meant that it's creation is linked with scientific work having been done. That it has a value linked to helping science - not a direct one to one thing you can exchange for helping science. More so that accepting it means that you know that part of it came from helping science

> If you calculate the larges know prime number that number does in no way have or hold the value of work you put in to get it. the number is in fact worthless once it is known.

None of the projects on Gridcoin are currently for finding Prime numbers. There was one in the past, but it was removed from the whitelist per the admin's request. I also disagree with the notion prime numbers they are worthless once they are known, but I'm not going to go into that because it's not relevant here

With Gridcoin the work is meaningful after it has been done. Take for instance the biomedical research done by a bunch of projects. The proteins and the drugs they help lead to have massive impacts to a lot of people. Now it isn't something you can exchange back and forth through time obviously, but its result is something you can still see is meaningful

> literally donation by inflation

I didn't say it wasn't from inflation, but it's opposed to many making no donations at all and there still being the same amount of inflation. It's used a lot because it's convenient to setup and it doesn't result in any extra transaction fees or the like. The alternative in other coins is that people just don't end up sending anything more and just take all of the newly minted coins

> should be called stimulus lol

:/

not going to go into this

I think continuing this conversation is not going to really result in much. I'm not sure what exactly you are looking for that you see in other cryptocurrencies. I think this is going keep going in circles.
Not sure how else to make sure you saw this, but FYI there is an answer to your comment on a different HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285917
Can anything that lives in that firewalled environment reach out to the internet or have stuff reach in? If so, it’s only a matter of time before something gets popped and it’s a bastion to access everything else behind the firewall.

This isn’t even nation state level attacks, it’s pretty standard behavior for botnets and ransomware.
The Snapdragon CPU has plenty of power for JPEG encoding and likely even hardware accelerated encoders. The 640x480 8bpp navcam images could be entirely usable at a fairly lossy 40:1 compression ratio which ends up about about 8KB per frame, for a 90s flight recording at 10fps that's only about 7.2MB to record the whole flight. It would take a little under 5 minutes to send that back to the rover at 200kbps. The color high resolution camera isn't set up for high frame rate recording IIRC so that was never an option.

High quality 30fps video was never really an option but it's entirely possible/likely to get navcam video after a flight. The Snapdragon is also fast enough to do intraframe compression codec (even h.264) for the navcam video to be able to stream it live back to the rover for relaying back to Earth later like was done with the landing imagery.

The nature of Perseverance relaying through orbiters for high speed uplink to Earth was always going to preclude "live" video from any instrument. The only data important enough for "live" transmission is vehicle telemetry and even then that's only available for the portion of a sol (Martian sidereal day) that Earth is visible from the rover.
It is architecture-agnostic.

As currently implemented in rustc, it operates on an intermediate representation that has already had name resolution and some simplification done. As such, i think it would be rather hard to separate from the rest of the compiler.
Well, we all know that spending time in the company of achievement minded, practical people tends to help with achievement. After all, friendships are really just a regular series of communications with people we tend to agree with. We can even be changed / motivated by people we've never actually met, such as politicians, actors, preachers, whomever. So clearly you don't even need a two-way communication for this to work. It's also possible to be affected by an 'enemy' if you spend enough time with them. So clearly you don't even have to see the person as a friend to accept influence, although it's likely that the less you respected the source, the less influence they woudl have. And it's also clear that, unless this process takes place over time, it's unlikely to be 'life changing'.

I can see how a book of repetitive phrases would tap into the same process that causes us to be influenced by friends and other people we respect. The book is really just a way of a message being communicated back to us. You could probably think of it as a hack to get positive ideas burnt into your subconcious on a large scale. And also, it's obviously important that you respect the book (and by extension, the author). Friendships work when you let the friends have influence over your life because you value their opinion.

I read a lot of these types of books, and I've been questioned why. I figure I'm just going to spend the time either reading fiction books or watching TV, anyway, so why not?
Internet Explorer users, I should have made that more clear.
The idea of using web browsers are some sort of compute nodes in a distributed system has been kicking around for ages (I should know, I implemented one for my honours thesis almost eight years ago!).

The trouble with it is the limited type of work that it's actually useful for. For one, latency is a killer (we're talking people's home/work computer being used here) which means it'll only really work on embarrasingly-parallel problems, and secondly the inherent unreliability of the nodes themselves: a MapRejiuce computation will be terminated as soon as the user closes their browser window/tab. Unless it has some serious checkpointing or some other fault tolerance mechanism then I fear it'll remain, like all the similar systems that came before, better in theory than in practice.
We also may just not be able to fix it. Some things we just can't do, regardless of our science and engineering.

For example, we are the most prosperous civilization in history, yet we have record rates of suicide and unhappiness compared to more "backward" civilizations. In fact, the 20th century has been the most horrific in the history of the world, yet it was also the most advanced.

If akrasia is something we can "fix," why haven't we fixed it by now? Surely not for lack of trying.
This really deserves to make the front page, but in an environment as unfriendly to big business as this, I'm not sure it will.
I wonder why, instead of X-rays and pat-downs they don't just use dogs. I would trust that a dog would be able to detect a bomb on a person much more readily than a person who's eyes are glazed over after looking at the nth person's scan or pat-down. And they gladly work for just love and kibble. Of course the TSA claims they are able to detect weapons such as guns and knives too, but I believe metal detectors are probably just as effective along with secure cockpits, air marshals on-board, and a public ready to fight back if necessary. Am I missing something about dogs that would make this impractical?
I assume you didnt live in northern ireland in the 70s/80s, where stop and searches where normal way of life and where you could see British soldiers patrolling the streets daily
If it was that easy I'm sure they would. Netflix most probably has long-term contracts with fixed pricing and terms.
They sure have found a way to use this without credit to the originators. I thought it would be helpful thoough!
The fact that most of the largest headlines these days are all “Trump banned from X” shows you how important those websites are. If it these are “just apps” then it wouldn’t be headline news when someone gets banned. These are much more. They are monopolies in their own right but also they cooperate with eachother to simultaneous ban someone from all sites together. Now even if you allow the person they banned on their app on your app, or say you will such as Parler did, they will ban you from their payment processing system, their search, and basically everything they touch. It’s an attempt to blacklist someone from the internet and its only possible because they have monopoly like power. People will quickly catch on that “tech” is not one industry but many industries that no one player should dominate. There are only a few large players often control those industries and they collide with each other on things like moderation and bans.
Isn't it a bit tone deaf to post this project right now?
Pfizer have said it will only take a few weeks to tweak their Rna vaccine, if it does need to be changed.

Anyone know how long it would take AstraZeneca with a more traditional vaccine?
No, you’re absolutely right. As someone who uses UTC professionally in aerospace ops, trust me when I say your clock is still definitely tied to solar time even if it’s “off” by whatever. Try using UTC exclusively—I don’t just mean on your servers, I mean in every single aspect of your life—and you’ll see what I mean.
Sorry, I've only taken statistics 101. What's "concordance" in this context?
kraken significantly increased their transaction fees so there goes that dream
Interesting. Who were the 59 from finance?
Dude that makes no sense, sorry. Re-read my comment; my point is: high number of apps does not correlate negatively with importance of platform or value of whatever is created on that platform.
Can anyone comment on how the translations carry that quality?
I could read english and german and this sounds really interesting.
Smells like the same blogspam typical to sites like mashable and smashingmag. "n top of x" articles are usually junk churned out and a typical way for bloggers to get hits.
Thanks so much! Perhaps I should have hacked Dustin's Posterous...
The only state I'm aware of that for sure guarantees ownership of projects worked on in free-time while an employee is California. Otherwise, you're going to need to provide your locale.
... and then the third little big actually put some mortar between his bricks...
Later in the thread they say two instances are up but the third has most of the patients. If any of their patients die, they should be convicted of negligent manslaughter, not Amazon. Amazon explicitly warns that single instances can be lost. Any EC2 system needs redundancy, let alone a patient critical one!