skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From watching friends, for higher end jobs? you are almost never terminated 'with cause' - I don't know even one programmer who got fired from a fully paid programming job (I mean, a job paying six figures, not a "shadow IT" gig.) who has gotten fired in a way they couldn't collect unemployment insurance, even after a PIP.

For low end jobs, retail and the like? it's pretty common to be fired 'with cause.' even for small things that I do twice a week, like being late or something.

I suspect that it's because employers only pay unemployment insurance on the first $7K or so of wages they pay an employee in a year, so while an increase in their unemployment insurance rate matters if they are paying retail rates, it really doesn't if they are paying programmer rates.

The funny thing is that I don't think any of my programmer friends would fight it either way; it's not worth the effort. But friends working retail? yeah, sometimes it makes sense to fight it... and their employer actually gets up in court, and argues why this person they paid almost nothing and then fired shouldn't get what amounts to a pittance.

The whole thing seems kind of unfair and messed up.
A certain amount of skepticism is healthy, and can help protect you from being "manipulated, bamboozled and seduced" in various ways. But when you make mistrust of authority your default position you lose out o the advantages of learning from the accumulated experience, expertise and wisdom of other humans.
This is not how the argument against “ethical consumption” goes. There never will be anything close to enough soap artisans to meet even a tiny fraction of the demand; and even if production would be greatly expanded, the product would still be unobtainable fore a large majority. Therefore, buying handmade soap from the farmers market will never be more than a fashion statement.
Are there any prominent neural net / ai / consciousness / neuroscience researchers that have done psychedelics and have meditated extensively apart from say Sam Harris or John Lilly.

To me having experiential insight into the nature of the mind and consciousness would appear to be extremely important since it is simply impossible to understand how much your state of being can change if you haven't been there. From a cursory look, most if not all of these even highly praised western philosophers or researchers just seem to be engaged in pure guesswork or academic masturbation instead of having anything concrete.

The eastern philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc on the other hand detail thousands of years of research into consciousness via rigorous exercise by monks, yogis, meditators, that only now (beginning in latter half of 20th century) seems to be making rounds here in the west and some of it is being validated via FMRI and psychedelics studies.
> The increased use of browser mining has made it a lot easier to convince people to globally disable Javascript (or install noscript/etc).

Has it though? Do you have any data to back up this assumption?

I can't find ANYONE who is tech illiterate who understands any of this stuff and those that I know are tech literate either don't notice or don't care about JavaScript. I've only ever met very, very few people who disable JavaScript and when they do it's always been piecemeal.

I haven't been able to find any statistics regarding who does and doesn't disable JavaScript, their group size, etc. It would be really interesting to know!
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What happens if you just go to sleep? Is stuff you learned right before bedtime easier to remember?
> buying decisions have far more influence on the way goods and services are marketed than the way they are produced.

But if I buy Fair Trade products, even if they're from Unilever/P&G/whatever, don't I still influence the way they are produced? Sure, Unilever would still be producing non-Fair Trade products, but only because other people are buying those.
Nobody wants to have am account you have to top up. You need to plan ahead, there would be multiple systems not completely overlapping (or some sites being cheaper with a specific billing company), and a myriad of other reasons. You would need to sequester multiple monies, and some you might ever use like having $3.12 left on a gift card, but multiple cards.
What? How so?
> Having sex with an unconscious person, even someone asleep, is against the law

The allegation is not that he had intercourse with someone unconscious.

The allegation is that he re-initiated sexual relations with a coitus partner who was initially asleep and who then woke up, asked about a condom, then later regretted not stopping because of the lack of a condom.

There is a distinct legal difference between non-consensual intercourse with someone drugged or passed out and engaging in petting of a naked person who did the naked-nasty with you a few hours ago to see if they're keen on round 2...
Tell that to a Venezuelan, who can provide a family with a single antminer.

It will make sense to you in 5 years.
But do you think another NeXT-Situation would be actually possible? As in: We'll scrap our biggest product for something developed more or less from scratch?

I know sunk cost is a fallacy, but in this case, I suspect the sunk costs to be rather substantial. And catching up with OSX development from the beginning sounds like almost an undoable task to me...

Or do you think other parts than the main OS should be the target of the next NeXT incident? If yes, I'd be interested in which ones. User-facing software only?
Ask HN: Best companies that help consultants make sure they get paid?
I started doing some consultant work in the bay area and I am shocked by how hard is to get companies to pay you at the end of the work. In my case, that means 50% of the total.

Many companies just stop replying and, even when I get the money, it often takes a significant amount of time (and stress).

Is there any good company that can take care of this? By for instance giving you X% of the money up front and then they take care of collecting the 100% and keep the delta. I tried to look into debt collection agencies but seems a very messy world totally unfamiliar to me.
Influencers like Logan Paul and PewDiePie? They have their own brand safety issues.
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So... Folks love t mobile. Better get out of Verizon while you still can.
I wonder what happens if people meditate during the resting period.
you could take a screen shot of a google maps picture..
The article is from 2017, what makes you think it has changed that much?
Browsers do not provide such caps for JS CPU usage. Maybe they should.

This is extra bad when you're viewing on a phone, tablet or battery powered laptop.
Btw, "fundamentally wrong" is a misquote.
Maintaining code quality when nobody cares
But you have to realize you’re in the minority in this country.
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> Bear in mind that these 100 engineers have niche skills and most of them feel that VR is their life's calling; they're not interested in generic computer graphics. They are overpaid, underemployed, and miserable.

Except that you just made all that up. It is a huge major if. Especially that part about calling and the part about them having only niche skills.

Guess what those "best ones who leave" will do? You guessed right, they will do not VR.
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> should you censor a word that's otherwise perfectly fine
because of its use in slang?

Yes, you should. What is "slang", how about we just call it what it is: Language.

Also it began being used as a racial slur in 1837 so the point is completely moot anyway.

> Well North America is around 320 million people (not sure if that includes Canada at around 36 million). So the chances are that an English speaking programmer also comes form North America is probably quite high. Over here in the UK the word "coon" is recognised as a racial slur (so add 66 million more people). Probably the same in Australia and New Zealand (29 million combined) Unfortunate but the name could be more important than the project

I agree wit this guy.

I donno change the name or not. I'm not going to be telling my co-workers to check out "coon-hub" anytime soon.
> these are all the same get the cheap one

I’m always surprised when people feel this way about toilet paper. I have literally spent two weeks in pain after switching toilet paper brands once. When I later moved countries, I was very wary of the fact that I would have to switch brands.
The last two paragraphs is where it gets sleazy. They're saying you'll "help support the evolution and growth of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies" (a.k.a. paying Salon from your electricity bill), but then allude to the fact that this technology COULD, theoretically, maybe, be used for all sorts of good stuff. Never mind that what it's actually going to be used for is, again, paying Salon.

I approve of their transparency, and I don't have a rational complaint against the method of revenue generation at the moment, but the last part there is an attempt to put lipstick on the pig
This is so cool. Obviously it's a big financial risk to take this route, but it's great to have a large company actually fighting the good fight. Mad props to Cloudflare, Newegg, EFF, and all others in this battle.
This is a problem when you build ten, build a thousand and you'll have an engineering force able to more accurately predict things.
I don’t like the timeboxing aspect. It’s putting pressure on the candidate. I don’t know why the website says there is less pressure when it’s time limited. Do you have a study or other evidence to support this claim?

For code exercises I set when recruiting I send a pdf out and then expect a zip file or link to GitHub or bitbucket with the solution. I might give an advisory along the lines of this shouldn’t take more than half a day. But if the candidate screws up and starts again that’s ok. Mistakes and wrong turns are taken all the time in the real world. It works very well. Simple. No complications. And free.
Honestly that just sounds like lazy closed captioning software xD
I like the gist of this (I think take-homes are the best way to evaluate a candidate), but making it time limited seems weird. You're basically taking a test that you haven't studied for -- that doesn't seem fair (or fun).
I have heard of people running ZFS pools that were hundreds of TB in size. Not sure if they were using those for huge SQLite databases. ;-)
Addition by Subtraction
It is as legal as any silly website eating all your CPU. Time to fix JS engines to prevent such abuse. Make them a real virtual machines while at it not sombre half baked efforts - that would also help with security holes.
BMW actually puts out a press release every month detailing the exact number of cars it sold in the preceding month broken down by model: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/attachment/T02776...

Other manufacturers do similar things.
I think you mean the A class:
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/vehicles/pass...
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Yes, I agree but I would want to try it for fun, in a controlled environment, open space area.
They did a static analysis and fixed a null pointer dereference here: https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/8b0553239592
lol. Amazon employs almost half-million people, and still, a layoff of a couple hundred make it to the news.
But did they move because of the lack of broadband, or in spite of it?

And by the standards of your last paragraph, anything beyond a nutrient slurry would be considered a luxury. Not a compelling argument.
the 11 fold increase was for people with previous neurological damage.

For healthy people it was 10-30%
Thanks for your comment. I'll think of a way of improving the documentation accordingly.

Actually, that code snippet is pretty much what's going on at https://bottoml.in/e/. There are 2 things I've removed from the example code because I thought they were irrelevant: 1) Loading GitHub Gists through their API 2) A code snippet that makes it possible to host single page apps on GitHub Pages.

I thought both of those things would be irrelevant because most probably you don't need either if you have your own backend.

In case you do need that code it's here: https://github.com/kantord/bottoml.in-e/blob/master/src/inde...
Pretty sure the parent comment is talking about Germany.

Smoking bans in restaurants and bars have made a significant difference in most states.

If I remember correctly, we had a non-binding agreement between the health ministry and our national restaurant and hotel organisation at first, but this did not change much.

Even most smokers I know agree that the laws were necessary, and that they are thankful for them because otherwise they would not go outside to smoke.
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Many channels can be more efficient than digital. When I did advertising for after sale services for cars, the most efficient channels were physical mail, then radio, then specialized magazines, and then digital. Main reason was demographics and lack of focus in digital (very hard to convey a message that is not super basic).
I think you need to take a closer look at the Coalition - Five Eyes nations, plus a few lap dogs - and see just how nefarious the relationship has become.

Australian Defence Force troops, for example, are a puppet military force deployed in places where it would be illegal to have American troops. ADF can get away with doing a lot of things the Americans cannot - just like their counterparts in the Israeli Defence Forces.

The truth of the matter is, there really is an inner state within our states, consisting of the coalition of military entities, and yes: they do rely on each other to do each others' dirty work. This should come as no surprise to any citizen of a Five-Eyes state; the new world order is well and truly upon us.
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It's great to see people, esp governments, using OSM. It's strange you had that problem with the one-way street. OSM definitly doesn't require that everything has photographic evidence.

I suspect a concern was copyright infringment. Is your GIS data public domain? If not, then it's copyrighted[1], so 'copying' data from that into OSM would essentially be a type of copyright infringement! What's to stop you adding all the info from your GIS data into OSM? All the road names, all the shop names, all the addresses? You see the problem?

If you go there, physically, and look at the sign, or take a photo then the source of the data in OSM is your eyes, not the GIS data. Requiring someone to go there is essentially a form of "clean room reimplementation" of the data, and hence has no copyright issue.

OSM prefers "local knowledge" so if you, personally, know that that street is one-way, because for example you're familiar with the area, then that's an acceptable, copyright free source.

[1] Before people jump in, yes the USA has a 'all map data from the federal government is free' that's not the case everywhere, and yes, under US copyright law non-creative pure facts aren't copyrightable, and hence there's no worry, but in some countries (e.g. the UK) you can copyright non-creative things which you spent effort collecting ('sweat of the brow'). OSM is erring on the side of caution and being strict. And OSM is not a place to experiment with the grey areas of international copyright law)
The A class used to be such an ugly car but I must say I really like the look of the new model. That one designed as an electric car (which the concept car would be) looks very compelling.
You only need to prebuild files, where the include statement is included. Ideally this task would be also automatically done in future by sneaking into the build system.
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OSM doesn't generally demand proof from people. I suspect the root cause was avoiding copyright infringment, not abuse.
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Advertisers want more targeting control on which exact content their ads are displayed on. Why doesn't facebook grant them the ability to run callbacks based on that data so they can effectively moderate the demonetization themselves?
Plus you can rarely use LTE as general purpose internet. Data cap, limited speed, sky high bill, or something...
And so it goes the way of Mir. Not even Musk could fund such a project privately as there is no short term profit.
The article is on a site called "Plagiarism Today," so they may not be entirely unbiased on piracy issues.
Many variables are marked as optimized in debuggers - never in Inspector.
This even happen sometimes to me, when compiler optimizations are disabled.
GDPR is reasonable. How Facebook handles user data is not.

I'm sure, they'll mostly ignore the law at first, and if they get sued, they'll claim having a legitimate interest [1], but that will be their strategy, because actually complying with the law voluntarily would likely cost them more.

And yes, especially Germany already had a very similar law in place, but Facebook did not actually need to keep to it most of the time, because they were operating from Ireland. GDPR does not care where you're operating from. The fines would have also not been much more than operational costs for Facebook (the highest fine placed in Germany for privacy violations so far is at 300,000€).

[1] section 1 f): https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
> Has it though?

I have personally succeeded in convincing more people to disable javascript in the last few months than I have since Javascript was introduced in Netscape Navigator 2.0.

> this assumption?

I'm offering personal experience, not an assumption.
2017 was the year that made it run easily on a macbook. Which was neat. But it ran hot so I went back to OS X.
> it could just be him raping or sexually assaulting two women in Sweden

1) He is not accused of that

2) If we're gonna translate legal charges we should be consistent and honest -- Assange is accused of what the rest of the world calls 'sexual misconduct'

3) This article is showing the intense and continued irregularities in this case that are so large as to be visible from orbit. Even if Assange is guilty as fuck it does not change the verifiable nature of "special" treatment he has received, implying a strong political motive

4) Conspiracy is a collaborative effort to break or subvert the law -- the national governments pissed off at Assange are asserting preferential treatment to support a political end. That's sketchy, and maybe scary, and maybe immoral, but totally legal.

5) US military and top leadership gets egg on face in every paper in the world at the same time, and gets nailed by every diplomat in the world at the same time, and... what? Says 'no biggie' and walks away? ... That is improbable. That would be historically uncharacteristic.
People say and write all kinds of things. Just because this Dennet guy is known in whatever field he's in (I don't follow Western philosophy at all, it's still playing catch-up to Eastern thought from two millennia ago) doesn't mean his opinions should be taken seriously. I don't think he's a "philosophical zombie" or any other such inane term -- but people throughout the ages have believed all sorts of strange things even though the truth is sitting under our noses the whole time.
I think Substring in Swift is something similar?
this is great news for those wanting to create a Mediacenter PC
In a relatively recent discussion, I think on HN, Metcalfe apparently aadmitted his "law" was intentionally overstating the case.

My view is that networks also see an unavoidable per-node cost function, and that this ultimately defines network size. (You can work the relationship backwards to find the actual value.) I've suggested this to Odlyzko. He's not yet invited me to co-author a paper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutat...
It was funny because a fresh account worked for me until I confirmed my e-mail address, then I was suspended until I gave them my phone number.

If they are so desperate to not have me as a potential user, then they can have it...
You can use the same toolchain to convert PyTorch model to Caffe2 through ONNX. Caffe2 supports both Android and iOS. There is even a tutorial: http://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/super_resolution_with_...
Please do share the link to your post when you publish it. I really want to know pros and cons of OSM especially the gotchas if we want to fully support it.
Because you (as me) interprete dualism a little broader: I like following dualities:

Unity <-> Duality

or Unity <-> Seperation

or No-THING-ness <-> Things

or the whole <-> the parts
Physics provides us with certain density of information in a volume and that is considering advanced quantum storage.

May I remind you that flash, DRAM and SRAM already are 3D structures.
-OT, but related - for the same reason, offshore vessels set their autopilot targets say, half a mile off the oil rig/whatever they are headed for - just in case someone doesn't pay attention as they approach.

I once saw a nice enamelled sign on a bridge stating 'Whoever programs a target on target will be promoted to figurehead prior to arrival at said target.'

(And, in that position, being the first to regret their sloppiness. Plus, they will somewhat soften the impact. Cough.)
Great walkthrough, but was a neural network really necessary for detecting how far off the time on a mechanical watch is? I didn't read the article that closely so maybe I'm missing something but just intuitively a machine learning model and neural network seem like a lot of work for something like this.
To a cluster fs which ZFS is not. (And not all of it.)
Facebook to me is that place where everyone is. I love reddit and have been there about a decade, but I'm the only person I know there. If I meet someone new, or join a local group, I can always catch up, or connect with them on Facebook.

I think Facebook in general acts like a greedy business with data gathering and over advertising. It's toxic in that respect. It's a shame something as "open" as Diaspora didn't take off. I still think a new social platform might still arise from something like a chat app (like WhatsApp), but ultimately risk getting bought by FaceBook as they fear losing their stronghold in the market.
I tried visual studio once.
It does not allow me to include all kinds of code in the edit-and-compile feature.
Also the code I enter in a REPL, I usually don't want to see in my projects.
Finally I miss the intermediate feedback of printing the values, when I have entered an expression.
> "What's the phi of the population of China?"

Small, because if you cut it in 100, you still get 100 functioning parts. Can't cut the brain in 100 and still get functioning mini-brains.
Do you know if there is a 'method' to train executives to work on OSM data update? We would like to devote more resources for OSM especially in South East Asia but we are afraid that the work might not be scalable. Right now, most of our execs just google the information e.g. highway toll and update it.
I'm interested to know why you think it's unintuitive. Certainly it matches my personal experience very well. For example, I have certain Anki cards which I see and immediately think "oh God, not this card again, this one's really difficult" whether or not I actually know the answer to it.