skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What affect will this potentially have on Uber/Lyft?
Not an expert by any means, but probably related https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator?wprov...
When the incentive to prosecute (i.e opportunity for resources gained vs opportunity for resources lost) reaches a certain thresh-hold there's action. Generally, that thresh-hold is high because the value gained from prosecution is low, even in cases were one party is quite apparently guilty.

The only real exception would be the "let's make an example of out this person" case. When crime is rampant, prosecutions might happen with greater likelyhood in order to deter more crime for occuring. An example would be pirating music. It is not feasible to prosecute people for pirating music, but suing 1 party publicly will get 1000s of people to stop instantly.
That reminds me of why I decided against buying a portable sawmill. The nice ones come with an amputation kit, so when you cut something off accidentally there's a tourniquet on hand to slow the bleeding.
> not sharing data with people you don't trust

That means basically don't share them with anyone, don't sign any contracts, don't work and live in the street. Because even your employer or real estate agent can sell them to anyone else in your model.
I doubt it'll affect agencies, since generally there's not a contract with the person but with the agency. No idea about the first case, this is definitely going to result in a lot of billable time for lawyers.
The last time I had looked into it, somebody on the Signal github suggested otherwise. I hope you're right but either way that doesn't change the fact that this problem is still present today.
And don't skimp on a quality accountant. I "saved" $2k one year by shopping for a bargain accountant. I've since learned his advice cost me between $50k and $100k in unnecessary taxes.
I'd just like to see a voice interface that has any attempt at natural error correction.

We do this in a hundred ways in English, emphasis, meta-words, too many to fold into a system. But with a little user prodding, I think you could cover enough of this ground to still sound almost natural.

Asst.: Would you like me to read that back to you?
User: Yes
A: The click brown ox...
U: The _quick_ brown _fox_...
A: Ok. The the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy log.
Is that correct?
U: No.
A: Which part [is incorrect]?
U: The the quick
A: The the quick. What should it be?
U: The quick.
A: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy log. Is that
correct?
U: No. Lazy dog.
A: Lazy log?
U: No. Lazy dog.
A: Spell "log." <Or "Spell" + recording of user's voice saying ambiguous word>
U: D-O-G.
A: Ah. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Do
I have it now?
U: Yes.
A: Say 'send' to send message.

Agreed that voice systems are an incredibly hard problem, but I suspect rule-based natural language correction systems would go a long way.
Certain companies deserve it?
It was a game. The sanity checks were added and workarounds were formed...
This seems like a good thing overall
I've never heard of it. What makes it so bad?
Edit: Ah, it seems to be people transitioning but doing so without the aid of a doctor. I mean, you shouldn't do it for obvious safety reasons but if you've decided you're doing it, a community of like-minded people is marginally better than nothing, at least you can learn some things that definitely don't work.
>If a naively spawned task or routine can be artificially restricted at a boundary point, that's enough for me.

Ok, and you have three options to do this:

1. Block
2. Opt into some system that allows you to defer blocking until later
3. Know when the callback will finish

1 isn't async, 2 is an opt in system, and 3 has a prerequisite of the halting problem.

That's it. You can restrict yourself to not using primitives like `Thread`, and instead only use futures or async/await style things, and that's a valid solution. Hell, your language could not expose a Thread primitive at all. But its solution #2. You cannot just take a look at arbitrary code and pick a point or points where thread execution is restrained.

If you can, it's because the language you're using prevents you from doing certain things. (for example, opting in to "all threads must be promises, and all promises must be awaited)
Do companies whose primary employees are programmers also employ contractual programmers? According to my observation, computer technology companies may have contractual workers, but only for other roles.
Interesting. Until this post, I hadn’t realized plain old username/password Gmail authentication had been blocked, in most cases: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6260879?hl=en
Delaware ain't the Caribbean.
Thank you! I can definitely do that when I get some time. Which animations in particular, and why?
This is how my wife joined her current (mega corp) employer with whom she's been with for years.

In her case she was on an educational visa (with employment rights ) at the time of the contract to hire.

She had sought employment for months after completing her degree so was really not in the best position to negotiate.
“These guys are a fraud. Come look a thing my online Academy. Call for the price.”

Roger Schank used to be a serious researcher. Also tied to consulting firms like Accenture.
That is not the case in UK however, which is where I'm drawing my (outlier, going by Wikipedia) experience.
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I’ve noticed the “increased” data speeds are basically just to speedtest.net.

We’re paying $75/month for >60MBit (can’t remember....) down, but we frequently get less than 6 to amazon and netflix.

I tried to downgrade my service, and they said the lower speed data options (without “blast” in their name) are only for low income customers, despite the fact that they are clearly advertised if I’m logged out.

Also, it is not just us. The average measured speed of comcast connections to netflix is 4mbps in the US. I don’t care that they’re ranked #1; it is well over an order of magnitude lower than what they advertise: https://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/country/us/

I wish we had a decent WISP in Silicon Valley (sonic is through at&t here, so you have to use a crappy at&t router that somehow breaks two-level NAT...)
I'm not sure this is a very good read, especially in the startup scene.

I have been in a position (for which I'm super grateful) in which young startups didn't have the funds to pay me my full-time rate, and so instead chose to pay me a weekly rate to work one week out of the month. I like to believe that I provided substantial value in that configuration - usually landing to review code, mentor newer programmers, and help chart direction for the subsequent three weeks (during which I'd be absent).

In this case, I was being paid quite a bit more than the full-timers, not less.

In time, they grew to be able to afford a more complete full-time cadre, and they people I worked with weren't so junior anymore.

I did this... I think half a dozen times. It was a great work config for everybody. If you can afford to travel to the work and you can really bring the fight for 5-8 straight days, I highly suggest it.
this is the 69 billion dollar question.
The thing about rubber hose cryptoanalysis is that it doesn't scale. Even the most depraved of governments will have to purposefully and deliberately choose their victims rather than vacuum and process all data they have access to.

Luckly, rubber hose cryptoanalysis is not a concern for most people, which is where crypto is needed the most.
Most companies that I've worked for have had them, usually for specific purposes (billing system related) but they've also had them as more general cases, for less than full time work usually (the people also contracted out to multiple companies). I don't know how common this is though since it's only a few companies and the people involved are all semi-related (Perl programming community).
I think this can vary a lot. Contractors often charge very high rates, but then they're called a consultant even if theyre there to do/create rather than consult.
It looks like there is a charity for this, if it interests you to donate: https://worldbicyclerelief.org/en/

But nobody's going to develop bike technology unless there's profit to be had. Best case, bike production becomes orders of magnitude cheaper due to all the investment and it becomes more effective to donate old/decommissioned bikes to those in need.

Reminds me of the successful campaign by Toms: https://www.toms.com/improving-lives

I bet these companies could do something similar once established.
Honestly I'd say that's a reasonable comparison.
This does sound like it would affect "try before you buy", unless the contractor has significant other work.

Does anyone actually do "try before you buy" in California? It doesn't work in a hot job market, and the job market is currently hot.
Microdosing LSD. I know some people who say it works wonders for them but it seems a relatively untested area. There is evidence that LSD increases cross-talk in the brain which would potentially help you with creative problem-solving. But there's not much hard evidence regarding anything about it.
Ouch. Some of my favorite gigs I've ever performed aren't possible under this standard. I question whether this will actually benefit contractors, but I have no doubt that it will benefit bigger, established players who already have full-time cadres.
I remember reading somewhere that so many people donated t-shirts to Africa that it devastated their local textiles industry. You can't just throw money (or garbage in this case) and expect it to magically fix underlying issues such as with infrastructure. Also, Africa isn't across the street: there are signifiant logistical issues involved.

Edit: found an article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/second-hand-cl...
Can some AI do it for me?
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Agreed, I think this is where I generally fall as well. Pragmatism as a philosophical discipline is often criticized as lacking a purity, but at some point we have to stop philosophizing and actually make policy.

Side note: I love your username :-)
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Is your product releasable?
In the Lime Bike app, some bike pins glow and if you ride them for more than 5 minutes you get a coupon. I assume they apply the incentive to areas with high density to encourage spreading the bikes out.
> Does anyone actually do "try before you buy" in California?

Yes. It's called C2H - Contract to Hire.

Over 2,000 Tech Jobs in CA that are C2H on Dice.com https://www.dice.com/jobs/advancedResult.html?for_one=&for_a...
Agreed, I've seen Scuttlebutt around but I can't help but feel that it will ever be mass market with that name.
That would seem NOT to be to whom this ABC criteria applies, specifically on the "independently established role." This seems to most address those who have less power in the employer-contractor relationship.
Sort of. I don't know if I'd call it irony, exactly—the physical metaphor would perhaps be that the garbage truck comes by once a week but I still have to remember to take the bins out to the curb. GC definitely gets overhyped for beginners, though. Most docs/tutorials "forget" (see what I did there?) to mention memory management until the situation becomes so complex that it's unavoidable, by which time the concept is unnecessarily difficult to map onto established patterns.
"30% less dense" doesn't have units, so you shouldn't have been confused about that part.
Give this a listen: https://youtu.be/27ZiixkruCY
Not in 1958.

The first COBOL compiler was available 2 years later in 1960. Algol 58 wasn't available until 1960 either.

The ALGO (Algol 58) manual for the Bendix: http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/bendix/algo6008.pdf

The first compiler for PL/1 was delivered much later, in 1966.

You could have suggested LISP 1.0 but that appeared in 1960 too (as an interpreter, the first compiler was written in 1962).

LISP, COBOL, ALGOL: 1960 was a remarkable year in the history of programming languages.
Similar store with me, except I was 4 months into a layoff when I took a 6 month contract-to-hire position. They made me permanent after about 3 weeks (it is amazing how easy it is to impress an employer when you've had a 4 month forced vacation), and been there 8 years. Never would have applied if I had been working full time somewhere else though.
EU Data Protection Authority: Billions are clocking into digital sweat factories
The key part of your clickbait article is this:

> It also signals that older males need to be mindful that vigorous cycling – as with any form of exercise – can be fatal if the rider has a serious medical condition like heart disease. It’s likely though that the exercise benefit of cycling prevents many more premature deaths from disease that it causes.

It would be interesting to break down the statistics on cycling to seperate those who cycle to commute, and those who cycle for leisure. I’d assume they have vastly different mortality causes.
User trn on Lobste.rs has a public one here:

https://ban.ai/multics/

I haven't tried to use it or anything. Just posting it for others.
Contractor are paid more, since they have to factor in the health insurance, taxes, unpaid vacation, perks, their own laptops, no need for office space, no 401k match. There is no reason they would ever get paid less. Maybe those with H1B visas who can get taken advantage of or outsourced contractors in Ukraine? Those contractors definitely get paid a fraction of US salary.
It's never needed if it's not in the original title.
I'm currently working as a contract to hire in SF
I'm not sure you could make the data statistically meaningful and have too many false positives to deanonymize an id. I think you're basically suggesting randomly grouping the ids so they average X real ids per grouped ID. At least if you just did it randomly instead of by hashing then there would be no danger of a dictionary attack.
I wonder how much of that is because they want to, and how much of that is cultural.

In my experience a lot of people in Western Europe want to do the same, but can't, because credit is much less accessible. Is using credit for that stupid ? Yes, absolutely. But I strongly wonder about denying people credit.
Why is everyone making 100,000?
If that's the case, wouldn't it make more sense to equip them with off-road bikes with features like a suspension, larger tires, multiple gears, panniers to hold bags, and other features than to give them heavy bikes built for riding in cities with step-through frames?
Slow ideas (2013)
2012. Would that be a big difference?
From personal experience (and admittedly stale by some 8 years), IBM had lots of contractors doing software development alongside full-timers. It was a pretty insecure position to be in because they would take the brunt of layoffs, and many I knew were gone by the time I left, with a couple of exceptions. Many were ex-employess who had been previously let go or were retired. Some were not, and all were basically indistinguishable from regular developers... they just happened to fill a req that merely funded a contractor instead of a full-time employee, depending on how the money was handed out to departments.
How to assess new solar technologies
Because people gravitate to things that are free, especially in third world countries. And not just because they can't afford it - it can be issues such as not having a credit card.

The reason whatsapp got traction in the first place was it was free (for a year+) when SMS was not. If Whatsapp cost $1 then people would use whatever was free.
> I would say similarly to hyphenation is TeX's ability to place page breaks optimally. I don't believe any web technology can solve this problem at the moment.

I wonder how hard it would be to just compile TeX to WebASM or something.... TeX is _ridiculously_ fast on a modern PC, hundreds of pages per second. All the libraries/macros might be problem, but I bet you could prepare a useful-but-minimal set that would fit in a MB or two gzipped.
that is very helpful. Thank you
It gets cold, but not near that bad or at least not for extended periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan,_Kansas#Climate
IME that's already happened and in some cases come back to on shore. Programming is fundamentally communication: translating business and consumer needs into technical solutions. If a remote team shares the language and enough culture to do that work well then the money will follow.

I'd guess that culture, needs, and language are diverse enough that it won't be a race to the bottom any time soon.
If a party must provide a service for users that refuse to provide their personal data, as long as it provides that service for users that agree to provide their personal data, then there can be no business model based on trading personal data for a service.

And by mandating an option to remove your data, it makes a contract where a user gives a permanent grant of their data to a service provider, in exchange for a service, illegal.
It's an odd comment, indeed. But it'd make no sense unless they mean weight on Earth. So yes, 3924.5 kg/m^3.

And fundamentally, it's an average for the entire planet. So it's odd to say "cubic foot of Mars weighs, on average". Because there is no such average cubic foot. But I guess that "mean density is 3924.5 kg/m^3" (or even "245 pounds per cubic foot") would be too confusing for many readers.
True, but talking about weight when other planets are involved without being specified is rather confusing.
I believe there's a wide middle ground where qualified developers in India can do excellent work, for a well-above Indian average salary, for American companies, and where the American company can get excellent talent for cheaper than state-side. Everyone is made better off when the American company decides to make this type of hire versus hiring no one.

The companies trying to hire/exploit developers for 8-10 Lakh are going to have a way worse experience than those trying to hire developers for 35 or 50 Lakh (and they deserve the experience, IMO).
Yes, absolutely. I've had several clients like that. Usually, the work centers around something that isn't their core business or a technology that their full-time programmers aren't very experienced with. Sometimes it's just a matter of fluctuating workload where hiring another person full-time wouldn't make sense.
Even companies like Google employ contractor programmers.
How will this affect the tax? The main difference between a 1099 contractor and a W2 employee is in the payroll and social security/medicare tax requirements. But these tax requirements are federal and this is a CA only decision.
Thanks for the quote. Wow. I wonder if this odd definition doesn't render "unidentifiable" to mean "almost certainly identifiable by someone, with a current technique" - since, given enough techniques, most of them will be statistically unusual. I admit it's a start, but mangling semantics that baldly gives me the willies.

The parallel history of cryptography is little more than a history of overconfidence re what counters were thought to be likely, and not. Do we really need to recapitulate that?
Back in the early 2000s, the hybrid models (the ones with a keyboard) became the most popular Windows tablet products. A keyboard is a pretty convenient way to work around the shortcomings of handwriting recognition.

Most owners eventually used them like laptops unless illustrating, or operating in a sort of "personal presentation mode," where folding the screen flat was convenient. For most people, handwriting recognition was a cool trick that didn't get used much (as I suspect it was for you, eventually).

The utility of a handwriting recognition system is ultimately constrained by the method of correcting mistakes. Even a 99% accuracy means that on average you'll be correcting about one word per paragraph, which is enough to feel like a common task. If the only method of correction is via the pen, then the options are basically to select from a set of guesses the system gives you (if it does that), or rewrite the word until it gets recognized.

But if a product has a keyboard, then you can just use the keyboard for corrections. But if you're going to use the keyboard for corrections, why not just use it for writing in the first place...
The interface is very much part of the design of a game!
I am a peer leader on Wayne State, the university inside Detroit, I dedicate a lot of my time to trying to organize students to come together and accomplish tasks. However no, I do not work for the city of Detroit, why do you ask?
Is the bad press actually costing them revenue though? News feed impressions are down sure, but revenue is up, and so are monthly active users.

Google+ was never anything like Facebook. We don't have a fallen social network to compare Facebook to, because we have never had a social network as big or as intertwined in our lives as Facebook.
Yep! We've been experimenting with a variant for security & fraud investigations at Graphistry. Our original experiments with just notebooks resulted in a few people on super early adopter teams getting a kick out of it, but in critical ~operational settings, having to deal with code was... not great. Mostly looked like siloed personal use.

BUT. The core concept is great. We made a form more focused on interactive investigation, so you can jump from an alert in a dashboard into a rich & interactive visual session with pre-wrangled data: https://youtu.be/B3ZZWx9WUEk?t=1m32s . Depending on what you see, can easily pull in more data, or refine what's there. And agreed, I think it'd be fun to try in big devops/netops scenarios!
What I find interesting is that free Carfax reports are becoming pretty common, which seems like a mechanism to deal with the problem of a market with only lemons. But I was browsing cars online and started looking for "good" ones, defined as no accidents and regular oil changes at the dealer, and interestingly they were almost non-existent. So in fact, the proposition that cars for sale will be lemons seems to be true even though the compensatory mechanisms exist. It would appear maybe buyers don't utilize information to their advantage, which reminds me of a recent article about how investors don't seem to digest all the information in SEC filings, even though orthodox market theory assumes prices incorporate all public data.
The two references in that document use it correctly, one is a document title and the other is contextual to a domain. The usage in the article is similar to saying "the foreign language" vs "foreign language". The former implies that there is only one where as the later does not.
I think you need to address converse the examples in the article in order to assert this.
The vast majority of "contractors" in the US are paid than their full-time equivalents.
One of modern Nomad's hardest struggles, is the desire to belong, and the inability or unwillingness to do so.
Great information there!

Perhaps sounds like a use case for a streaming parallel ADC board into GPU memory? Maybe an FPGA can run ADCs and buffer into a FIFO and transfer over PCI in large, efficient frames?
> Which animations in particular

All of them ;-)

> and why?

Please pardon my frankness, but they strike me as garish, jarring, and unnecessary. Every time they appear is rather unsettling and distracting, to the point that I've had to switch back to another app.

Again, perhaps it could be an option? I am sure that many would disagree with my assessment.
To me untangling abstractions is always more difficult then building them up from the given premises. In other words, I believe generalizing from a given example to any level of abstraction is a straightforward process, but descending from built-up heights of abstraction down to the level of examples is a bit more involved.