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Nobel-prize winning physicist who coined “god particle” dead at 96
> their wildly varying build/metabuild processes.

Boost? I'm sure there's good reason for the -- sui generis -- build system. Always been too underwater to spend much time wondering about why that's a yak I'm shaving.
I've only ever seen them in Melbourne's inner east. There might be a few around the Brighton or Waverley areas, but I doubt anyone owns one anywhere else.
Aren't these buyout offers the worst way to trim headcount? The people most likely to take them are the ones who are good at their job, and confident of landing another one at a different company. The people least likely to take them are the mediocre ones who know they'll never land an equally good position elsewhere. If you want to keep your best people, this seems like the exact opposite way to do it.
Even if it were real, you'd get a ~3 minute flight time, so eeeeeh.
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In most European countries, your taxes get you all that and universal health care, reliable unemployment benefits and free higher education.
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My phone received a series of "presidential alerts" just before 5 pm as tornadoes swept into Canada's National Capital Region on 21 September. I remember thinking the alert title was a little odd for Canada, but I'm not sure how it's localized. It's a Moto G5+ US version, so maybe that text is baked in.
Edit: I see that some Ontario users received "Presidential Alert" in a prior test. I'm in Québec.
A slightly different wording is it comes to using the tech... which is either through services or through adoption / operationalization (which... with complexity... is very difficult)
The trio could have reached out to colleagues in physics and other fields, but instead opted for "poor experimental design."

They could, but the Bogdanov brothers did just that years earlier.
The big fat nose is funny looking, and the interior is barren. It looks like a child's toy.
Also "not rigorous research" != "effort would be better spent looking at more-substantive problems."

Rigor and importance are orthogonal concepts. Someone could do research of great rigor on a completely unimportant problem and people do bad research all the time on important ones.
very nice article. I thought I understood CORS but learned some new things:

* not all cross origin requests need to be preflighted
* to use credentials, server needs to explicitly allow credentials to be sent from client
Does Graunt state his sample size? or provide the datasource?

I cant find it. seems odd to dismiss the data i provided based on sample size when his data is not even avail for scrutiny.

> In the 16th and 17th centuries, 11.3% of fertile women died from complications of childbearing."

great, what was the average age of a woman at childbirth? We're discussing mortality after 21 right?
I never really understood why we have CORS. I mean, the problem with CSRF is that some random page can trick your browser into adding its authentication token to a request which does not originate from the authenticated page. So why the do we need the server to tell the browser that it should not send requests from other origins?

In my opinion, it would have been much better to improve the browsers to not include cookies in 3rd party requests automatically (only when they are explicitly specified via JS for example). It should have solved the issue equally well, without introducing some bulky server-side security feature to remote control browsers.
Imagine how much it’d goose the stock if they announced they were laying off Noble!
I switched to Syncthing with the main desktop backed up to S3 with zbackup (encrypted). Syncthing works really well (and faster!) when keeping laptops and desktops in sync for my case.
Only thing I can think of: If you have freedom of action (you can choose what to do with your time), then do something small, perfect, and seamless. Present it as a fait accompli. That's your foot in the door. Repeat.
Sedans in general have cratered. Everyone is back to buying SUVs and Trucks. Its like we are going back to 1999.
Plus Tesla just had a 6 billion dollar quarter selling the more expensive teslas. Wait till they sell the cheap version.
Try Australia.
I believe the intention is to trim cost
You aren't going to get a lot of support for OO in places where it isn't really necessary like games, and especially games with single developers. At that point the management of data is on the developer.
Essentially one is saying that if they fuck up the data, that's on them.

OO is handy in enterprise software where there are lots of developers who may not understand why things are the way they are, they just need to do something. In big, complex systems where a lot of things are going on, if you give someone a noose, they will hang themselves. OO can protect data from some (of course not all) unintended consequences.
For highly compensated people very close to retirement age (which is probably who they are targeting), 60 weeks pay is a mighty fine way to walk out. A non-compete tied to the industry probably dissuades the younger competent people from jumping ship
>Most of the warehouse workers are now making _less_ than they were before due to union dues.

If most of the workers are making less now, why would they vote to unionize? Before the union formed did workers get vacation and sick time, or were their unaddressed safety issues, or was management treating employees unfairly?

In the US it is a lot of work to convince people to form a union even when the benefits are clear. Companies will bring in professional union busters, force employees to watch anti union propaganda, many employers will illegally fire employees who are pro union, and they will threaten(illegally) to shut down the whole company if a union is formed.
Tesla also would not have survived without
government money.

And Tesla is one of two American car companies that have never gone bankrupt & taken government bailouts.

other car companies ... make and sell far
more cars every year than Tesla has made
since its founding.

Just looking at some data here [1][2] Tesla sold more model 3s in 2018 year-to-date than all of

1. Hyundai Accents in 2017

2. All Smartcars in any of recent years

3. Subaru Imprezas (excluding WRX/STI) in 2016

4. All Jaguars in recent years

5. Infiniti G-35s in 2013

6. Lexus ES in 2015

To have better sales than Tesla Model 3, you basically have to be a Nissan Sentra, Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Toyota Corolla, or some other extremely well-known line of cars from a reputable brand.

[1]https://insideevs.com/tesla-model-3-sales-epic-august/
[2]http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/hyundai/hyundai-ac...
I would agree with this, Eternum isn't so much an IPFS-based API as an API for helping with IPFS pinning.

I'd say IPFessay (https://gitlab.com/stavros/IPFessay) is much closer to an IPFS-based API, since it can run entirely on IPFS with no outside servers.
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-astronomers-wish-...

"Among the general public, people compare it to the aether, phlogiston, or epicycles. Yet almost all astronomers are certain: dark matter and dark energy exist"

"When someone puts forth the hypothesis that “dark matter and/or dark energy doesn’t exist,” the onus is on them to answer the implicit question, “okay, then what replaces General Relativity as your theory of gravity to explain the entire Universe?” As gravitational wave astronomy has further confirmed Einstein’s greatest theory even more spectacularly, even many of the fringe alternatives to General Relativity have fallen away. The way it stands now, there are no theories that exist that successfully do away with dark matter and dark energy and still explain everything that we see. Until there are, there are no real alternatives to the modern picture that deserve to be taken seriously."

For all the details read the rest of the article.
They are located in the united states. That alone is more than enough to push me away.
Try the Camry Hybrid. You might be surprised.
For those who may not know, companies do this so they can classify as many workers as possible as "exempt employees" meaning they are exempt from overtime pay and other worker protections.
A publication is not required to be true, but it should make some sort of progress towards making a true statement.
Don't make suggestions. Tell them, what they are doing wrong and why.. and then show them what to do. Trust seems like an excuse for being too lazy to adapt to changes.
Elon Musk says a lot of things, I’ll believe that they have a viable pickup when it’s rolling off the assembly lines. I’m also not sure that the market for pickups will care too much about having an EV. All in all it’s a very different market with a different customer base than luxury sedans.
You have no power to "negotiate" as an Amazon warehouse worker.
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what do they all do? I imagine regional/vertical sales or procurement roles from the before-internet scale era?
Oh, that's great. Then a matter of browser support I guess!

Mozilla has a bug here (about Transfer-Encoding): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477516

Couldn't find any mentioning zstd in the public Chrome, WebKit, or MS Edge issue trackers.
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Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account
I would dispute that, in that big car companies have much deeper pockets, and thus have been readily spending on new tech, e.g. the big automaker acquisition of Cruise, Maven, Chariot. They seem more responsive to the changing nature of the industry.
COOL ARTICLE, THANK YOU FOR POSTING.
Ask HN: How do you handle user money that you have to return
I am thinking about building a system where customers would put money into their account and they can use there balance to purchase things. Whats the best way to store the money and keep track of who's is who's. I am planning on using stripe. Thanks for your help in advance.
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Well this is effectively meaningless. I can see why everyone went over to analytical philosophy. Color is the absence of light and all that. Anything you propose willl have some categorical membership grounded in something measured and observed. The only thing you get in the interpretive weirdness are rules that may or may not be consistent. Not to mention the more serious issue of incompleteness and undecideability. I think that’s the whole issue.
When she says that one of the accepted papers was based on a premise of trans equality does anyone know to which paper she is referring to?
(But turns out pauldino's comment points out it is in the "content coding registry" at https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parame...)
I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing here.

It's a prototype vehicle, where the self driving features are experimental and not certified by a third party. Extra safety systems are necessary that might not be reasonable once the tech is polished and regulated.
That's been obvious to me for about 20 years. Ever since I read the case study in The Innovator's Dilemma explaining that electric cars would take over around 2020.

If Elon should burn out and crash Tesla, it will still happen. Only instead of being Tesla delivering the death blow, it will be those electric golf carts growing up, turning into full cars, and wiping out traditional automakers.

Either way the underlying dynamic is the same. As batteries become good and cheap enough for mass cars, there is an opportunity for upstarts who only do electric to take on gas cars.
I appreciate the thoughts here. I do believe the market it limited to a degree, partially because so many people just get the same check week to week or whatever.

However the trend is growing, it may be that a third of the US workers are 'gig economy' right now, but the market is greater than 57 million people, as there are plenty of other workers who have a varying paycheck depending on many factors, not just freelancers.

Security nightmare? Not sure about that, as I mentioned in original thought, I don't trust a phone app or a desktop app to a cloud app for those reasons, I know many do for their accounts however, so it can't be that terrible. This is also why I want a bank or credit union to have this option within their system / their online portal though.

Useful rules more complex? I disagree here big time. I could save a tone of time and stress, as could so many other people I have spoken to. Every uber / lyft driver I have spoken to is not prepared for self employment taxes. Construction workers and so many others would greatly benefit by setting up percentage based rules - put 30 percent in other account for the tax man alone would be life changing for many.

Of course you could market it with other bits of standard advice - whatever that it - put 10% of your money into a rainy fund, put 10% for your church, put 14% into retirement accounts or whatever the popular advice is.

I have seen that my two banks have systems in place for making transfers already, within the same bank is simple and fast, and to other banks or phone numbers even is not hard and those systems must already be setup to handle "overdrawn accounts, closed account, renumbered.." and whatever the so on is... I don't think this is difficult to add on to.

It does not need to be complicated, someone could even setup a little pie chart GUI with some standard rules that many benefit from, 30% here, 10% to there, 10% to other there - xmas funds - label your own goals..

This would be a huge benefit to many, and it could also go on those banners at the bank - hey setup your auto split to your X fund with our online system, meet your goals with our auto split feature, etc. (kind of like the keep the change from debit transactions can be sent to your savings account) -

I'd like to see an option to auto move percentage to HSA accounts and such as well - I could see an 'advanced rules' mode to set it so that there are min and max numbers as well - and an email report of what your bank auto-did for you each week or month - this is not that complicated. Could be setup in excel in minutes right?

This should exist already.

First bank that does this may get all of my accounts moved to it, and will get lightnight word of mouth from others in the gig econonony, adn proably lots of adcounts suggesting - hey do this to save us all the end of year grief - auto and easy.

Other professionals would likely suggest this kind of system in fact I think they already do (X percent to retirement, etc) - but there is no system to do it automatically - silly.
I am another disappointed by the new Gmail UI. A quick list off the top of my head: Compose and pause buttons are huge (and I never use Pause), side bar got much larger, new font is less readable, "Compact" density option is still less dense than previous design, notifications are at the bottom now, and it's slow.

I've disabled: Smart replies, nudges, hover actions, Smart compose, icon buttons, multiple inboxes, etc.

I just want a simple clean interface. I'm going to revert the font through the details in this article and then just hope Google UI teams start to come to their senses. So many broken UI's in their products in the last year.
Someone told me something along the lines of "Every event in your life can change your life entirely - you get into Harvard or you don't, you get the job or you don't, you win the tournament and go on to become a champion, or you give up on the sport when you lose. Every little decision can be a fork in your life, though most aren't."

Sure, it's oversimplified, sure some "bad-seeming" things are good in the long run, etc. But I find the fork part interesting to thing about - the fact that one little thing can spiral your life of in a completely different direction.
I would love to have a multipath vpn on my phone - prefer wifi on connection, but automatically fall back to lte when responses take too long to arrive.
Yeah, I worked at a public school district where everybody who was neither hourly, nor a teacher, nor someone high in administration qualifies as a "manager". Pretty much the entire IT team was coded as a manager. It really just meant "salaried, 12-month, no overtime, non-instructional employee". Outside IT most of the people actually did manage people, though.
Had a friend at a yuuuge company (comparable to Verizon) and their title changed as they spent more time with the company w/o their role or responsibilities changing a lot throughout the years.

After 7-8 years at the given company this friend of mine became a "VP" and first I was "WOW, look at you!", but then he explained that he is doing the same sh*t, maybe a tad bit more, but this is how they get their promotions, etc... so they had tons of "Managers" and "VPs"...
Musk is not known for delivering on time.

I'm sure at some point he'll deliver a pickup truck, and it will probably be quite popular. But until he actually starts delivering it, it's kind of pointless to plan around.
Rising life expectancy is used as a justification for pushing pension ages ever higher, when, as you note, it's really just means people who reach working age work for longer.
It's $50k
So long as it's milliamps, it should be okay.
The case for electric cars taking over by 2020 is looking pretty darn wrong at this point, isn’t it?
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Moreover, it stands to reason that much of that excess (beyond assets) value is predicated on their unit economics, which depend on fulfillment costs, remaining good.
And the ideological errors "leak" into broader culture, they warned in their confession.

"...peer-reviewed journals are the absolute gold standard of knowledge production. And these concepts leak into culture... the problem of corrupt scholarship has already leaked heavily into other fields like education, social work, media, psychology, and sociology, among others—and it openly aims to continue spreading. This makes the problem a grave concern that’s rapidly undermining the legitimacy and reputations of universities, skewing politics, drowning out needed conversations, and pushing the culture war to ever more toxic and existential polarization. Further, it is affecting activism on behalf of women and racial and sexual minorities..."

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...
I agree. Lighting has made great strides. Everything can now be controlled to the needed wavelength, it’s actually amazing to see how far we have come. It’s very satisfying.

Fruit picking is very tough. I feel that canopy management and spacing and everything else has to be standardized for the machines. Apple picking has a number of autonomous options now. They even have been able to figure out sorting and packing. The problem though is soft fruits. Like strawberries and raspberries and blackberries. Really difficult. Growing them indoors makes it really easier, but it’s the grip and their bruising tendency that is the problem.

Cabbage has been mechanized. It’s a beautiful thing to watch. There is no need to make it autonomous because the labour needed isn’t picking and bending and working in the sun..they can be in the shade in the deck as the machine brings the cabbage to them and they can inspect and pack them. It’s easier but still repetitive manual labour. But not brutal like those working in the field to harvest. Cabbage, lettuce, asparagus, sugar cane, sugar beets, corn and soy, of course..grains like Millets and barley etc are all easy. If there is one thing to crack it’s plants that have continuous and multiple harvests. Like eggplants or peppers or tomatoes(heirlooms and cherries. Sauce tomatoes and those for processing are already automated).
You're right about the flood planning, I just checked. It's worth noting that the chapters in the Bible are likely modern too.

Abraham lived for 175 years, Moses suspiciously lived for exactly 120 years, some medieval commentators claim the genesis verse is a reference to him (although there is no other proof).
Ya I generally think CORS is a waste of time. It would have been better to provide a hash of the file we're linking to and trust that rather than where it came from. Which is precisely what Subresource Integrity (SRI) does:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subresource_Integrity

Sadly even though this is an obvious concept and trivial to implement, it took them over 20 years since the web came out to get it in most browsers. The cost to society of having thousands of copies of the same commonly used files (like jQuery) hosted locally on countless servers rather than having a centrally hosted version already cached from previously visited sites is staggering to contemplate. I'd really like to know who was behind the holdup on deploying SRI.
India: Facebook in Trouble Again, Data Breach the Size of 50M
> The incentive includes three weeks’ pay for every year of service, thanks in part to profit-enhancing benefits from new corporate tax laws.

I genuinely had to check whether this was some kind of a parody site. "Corporate tax cuts are great, companies can now afford to give bigger severance packages!"
Not at all. Having reviewed papers, my goal is to make the underlying experiment as clear as possible for readers when the paper is eventually published. I care about the methods being clear and the analysis being sound. I am absolutely not looking for "I think the authors are lying" warnings because this way lies madness.

If we expect reviewers to reject papers they find weird or suspicious then a lot of excellent scholarship will be rejected because established researchers are stuck in their belief systems. It also leads to serious problems when an author has obtained some hard-to-get data set and this is now a downside when it comes to review.

If the results are garbage then that will come out later when people work with the ideas presented in the paper.
> But we have set it to never charge over 80% of capacity to maximize that limit.

New Tesla owner here, hadn't heard that!

Will you not charge above 80% even on trips?
The two values you're comparing differ by 60x.
I suspect there is a point of diminishing returns with this though; the extra complexity in the type system gets you less and less benefit but at a greater cost to code complexity/comprehension. It could explain why the mixed Scala/F# paradigm has more industry usage than Haskell right now. i.e. I am trading a type system that has a little more expressiveness for a large amount of libraries, ecosystem, rock-solid VM, testing, corporate buy-in, etc. In a .NET shop for example its much easier to just drop an F# DLL into your codebase (in VS create a new F# project in a few clicks); there's no need to change anything else (e.g. build machines, build tooling, testing tools) since it's all IL anyway; same goes with Scala and Java.

My experience in coding functionally has shown that mutation (especially if localized and doesn't leak outside of a function) can really help functional code become a lot faster. From what you describe C# is slowly becoming an F# clone; which may be a good thing or not. Still think that if you need these features you should move to Scala/F#/Ocaml/Haskell though since I suspect these features will be added to C# in a clumsy/compromise way given its roots (e.g Scala and F# already have exhaustive pattern matching, async streams/iterators, better type inference, etc.).