skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right, those are the tradeoffs and it's a matter of lifestyle preference. Having someone to help with administrative issues makes a tremendous difference, by the way, but all I meant was to share my surprise at discovering that not being an employee could be much more stable than I'd thought, sometimes even more stable than being one, and that the source of much of that stability can come from diversification of clients and products/services offered, just as with an investment portfolio.

Btw I think health insurance is the biggest problem here, in the US.

Anyway I didn't mean in any way that being employed by a company was some kind of bad choice, not at all!
Agreed. Capitalizm works best when the incentives are not all in one direction. It appears in this case some other incentives are at play be they looking for good PR, the threat of workers organizing or government regulation. It helps when the workers have some leverage on their side.
Exactly! I'm certain daddy-bloggers exist out there, but the mommy-bloggers are on a whole other level. Early childhood is just ... fluids ... everywhere. Having time for perfect makeup and lighting design is hysterically funny in it's unreality, but nonetheless, make MANY women feel terrible all the same. I can't count the number of ladies I know that deal with PPD.
My concept really wants to be a non-profit to avoid probable corruption in the name of making money. But it solves a significant real-world problem of global scale. Thoughts on something like that?
Counterpoint: I never smile while doing something physically intensive. I am almost always focusing on breathing technique (especially for cardio) or general form.
I think this is also one of those things that is easy to overstate. OSX has often annoyed me by how obviously unready it was for me, even though the login screen was there.

For the most part, though, I just don't notice it. One way or the other.
Are all of the people, expert resources, available to build this if the monetary and time resources were available? The societal benefit, as a safeguard at minimum, is obvious, however of course execution and adoption is the more challenging part.
And the dude who lost because of a corrupt DNC just forced the wealthiest company in the world to raise the pay of hundreds of thousands of its employees (while also incentiving Amazon to force wages up for workers at other companies) with a marketing campaign. Interesting times.
That’s sobering but good advice. It’s easy to fall into the “hey, they do care” trap just for some more money. Good advice also on looking into other places in the same industry - I’m still 3-5% too low for median!
By transactional count given that CloudFlare do ECC for their sign-on-the-fly DNS product, Its used far more than people might realize.

I shifted from openssl enc -blowfish to enc -aes256 recently, if somebody can explain why I should make another shift, I would do that.

for the ephemeral session keying in SSH, I would like something of low cost. I used to use ssh -c rc4 for in-house scp commands, the speed difference was visible. I use mbuffer pipes now for things like rsync but they are nothing like as convenient as ssh/scp, but significantly faster.

ZFS moved compression family. If you'd asked me if lzma was going to get traction I would have said no, but it only takes a few people changing code in common use to have an impact.
Such a conceited, inaccurate comment. It's quite obvious the various topics are open-ended and I fail to see how things like alternative energy generation or waste management are myopic "white guy" problems.
I'm surprised there is no mention of healthcare...
The task at hand is waiting. People love to be distracted from waiting without any evidence of progress. Isn't that why they put speakers into so many dial-up modems?
That this is likely a submarine piece for one of the linked products or quoted entrepreneurs shouldn't discount the value of discussion. There are only going to be more and more people working like this and it's a huge price to pay for the "freedom". I've effectively freelanced for 20 years and it's brutal, crushingly so. Until you're big enough to have someone handling admin/etc, you are doing everything and things inevitably get missed or ignored. For me, it's been invoicing and chasing up invoices - to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years missed completely. End result is all of the hassle and pressure but with less reward.

Building specific frameworks/systems to work within is absolutely the solution IMO. So, like Xero but with a focus on an exact industry/locale. One-button follow up of unpaid invoices, automatic setting aside of money for paying taxes, automatic advice on rates. Too often, people try to fit the tools to their way of working when I think they'd be better off fitting their work to the tools.
My Windows 10 machine, if I start it up before I turn the screen on (DisplayPort connection), shows the login screen with the background picture in what looks like a stretched super low JPEG-artifacted resolution. If I turn the screen on first, or if I use the login screen again later, it's fine. The background image is a local, high-resolution image file on my computer.

It didn't happen in early versions on Windows 10. It started with one of the major updates. My guess is if you don't have a screen on when the login page first shows, it down-samples your background image to some low resolution, and then just stretches it out to fit to your actual screen res when you do turn your screen on.
Take the complexities of society out of the picture for a moment and reduce the scenario to a family unit living on subsistence farming with nobody else around: if the family is somehow able to automate their food, water, shelter and energy needs, are they entitled to live forever on that work?
IANAL. Does using these data make your project need HIPAA compliance?
Considering that, as I age, my opinion starts to shift there regardless, the difference between wisdom and opinion is mostly academic.
They want to get in early, get a certain % of equity before the larger capital rounds are necessary to scale or build a technology to a useful scale - and not afraid of investing in that, though what equity they expect for that, is a missing part to the equation.
Gushing language. "it's new! it's never been seen before" yet "its what was used on the ISS"

so its new.. to this person.. on a sat.. but NOT new to space, not new to solar panel deployment.. remarkably familiar to anyone who has used a make up/shaving mirror in a hotel...
> I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The question "is there inherent nobility in work itself?" seems to be just as much a political divide as any of the current popular hot-button issues.

Agreed, there's a lot of meaty ethics and philosophy tied up in this issue.

For most of my life I've tended to believe in the nobility of work, that it gives my life meaning and purpose.

But as rates of automation increase my children (or more likely their children) may well seek different ways of defining themselves.

Before that can happen though there'll have to be some fraught and difficult changes to our societies.
It's still competing globally. Although it can be said that american coders are above average globally, to earn an American wage every one of them will have to be top 1% in quality.
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It's not just about signed laws. It's about pressure from many angles. I doubt Bezos liked Bernie's bill that was literally called Stop BEZOS. I doubt Bezos enjoys continuous media coverage saying Amazon workers need food stamps to survive. I doubt Bezos wants to be shamed in public by activists while eating out or something. All these add up.
And still fail. The state is dysfunctional in many regards.
I can't tell if you and GP are being tongue-in-cheek about FSF's RYF certification or not.

Either way, you got a sad laugh from me.
When Security Researchers Pose as Cybercrooks, Who Can Tell the Difference?
There is a learning rate finder for Keras:

https://github.com/surmenok/keras_lr_finder
> It cuts both ways at least, those with inherited wealth are just as unworthy as those who never accumulated any.

Not really. Because the idea is "To become successful you must be hard working". And if we take that as "iff hardworking -> successful" then the reverse is true "if successful -> hardworking". That's why so many people think the rich are hardworking, even if they inherited their wealth (or a sizable portion).
If you're looking for a slightly-more-native way to declaratively scrape (the data-binding aspect, at least) in Go based on CSS selectors, I wrote a wrapper around GoQuery that just uses struct tags for mapping. You don't have to learn a new language, and it should feel familiar if you've ever written CSS or jQuery. I've found it helps reduce a lot of boilerplate and makes things a lot easier to come back and read than what was previously a lot of nested GoQuery functions, selectors, etc.

Might be helpful and in a similar vein. :-)

https://github.com/andrewstuart/goq
The problem with saying what you like, is when people want to say untrue, hurtful things to advance an agenda. It feels like the article goes to the "I choose to wear the risks of saying forthright things" but doesn't canvas the "but.. what if something I say turns out to be materially wrong, or has harmful effect"

the "I don't care what anybody thinks" posture is not a problem for me in "trigger-words" sense. It's people who don't understand the problem advancing ideas from false, or weak positions.

What if somebody who is P-jacking does this? Sure, having the courage to stand up and say "hey! you're p-jacking" is laudable but you are forgetting the risk the p-jacker stands up and screams "green pop-tarts cause cancer!!!" at the world.

e.g. mercury adjuvent in vaccines...
You still have to put up plaster board (basically drywall) first before you float the surface with plaster. I can't imagine plasterers are putting up plaster slats in stud walls anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lath_and_plaster
I'm not really impressed by that idea. Pretend I copied your whole post, except it's about wanting to run a web browser. It's so convenient to grab an entire different device to tether into your computer to browse on, why would you want to use the built-in screen for browsing?
https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite...

What about these guys?

So you think digging tens of millions of miles of fiber trenches to bring gigabit internet to everyone is a more capex efficient solution than a few hundred nano-satellites in LEO blanketing the earth with connectivity? It will be low bandwidth but enough for farmers (what most people in the world do) to check weather, crop yield predictions, and market spot prices, or do remote banking from their village, or check medical information.
Stealing livestock. An artificial situation of our own construction. Not us both out in the woods chasing the same rabbit. Fox is a pest. We do not compete.
>> I broke into the top 10% with relative ease (judging by Strava)

> except that hard work can get about anyone into the top 1-2% instead of top 10%

Keep in mind that people on Strava are already self-selecting out of the general population, it is instead that 10% who are interested in measuring their performance compared to other cyclists/runners.

So these claims are equivalent. Top 10% of the 10% = 1%.
No, it's not a medical reality. It's a perception in the American system. Europe currently follows the high dosage antibiotic approach.
It could be, but from the article that came out, it seems like it's a lot slower. This example was over a year later.
In my experience, languages that try to bridge OO and functional ecosystems (F#, Scala, etc) tend to suffer from a lot of split-brain / "worst of both worlds" syndrome. You miss a lot of the advantages of FP unless you go all-in on it like Haskell does.
The earth core is still heated heavily by radioactive decay.
If it’s anything like the culture here now, once the Emperor made his proclamation everyone else breathed a collective sign of relief that it wasn’t on them anymore.
It's not interesting. It' cherry picking.
I'm a front line warehouse associate that has been working in one of their facilities for over 3 years. There are parts to this puzzle that the media isn't focusing on and some insights I'd like to offer on their general pay philosophies. I'm not very smart but perhaps I at least have interesting perspective to offer.

https://steemit.com/amazon/@chapekaloco/amazon-com-and-the-m...

tl;dr, my overall compensation has declined slightly as a result of this change but there are a slew of benefits Amazon will reap from this
I've worked on some medical apps and software before, and IIRC, HIPAA is needed for data that has touched a doctor's system, so for EHRs, lab results and the like you would certainly need to be compliant. Outside of those, I think fitness, sleep, and other data provided by third party apps and phones/trackers should be alright. But for this to truly be useful, in the future once EHRs are incorporated, compliance is a must.
Thanks, appreciate the answer.
Creating money out of thin ether. SPV exploit spreading in Ethereum Network
Quite the change in distance from the sun. Btw, kinetic energy is proportional to 1/r, and is at a peak at the perihelion. Potential energy is highest at the aphelion.

It's orbital eccentricity is ~0.94!
Also true. Not to mention for those of us in other the 5-eyes nations the movements that governments are making towards other invasive policies.
Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter
> The 24x36mm image size, which by the 1950s was becoming accepted as a standard, was also widely known as a rather awkward rectangle. It suited landscape photos, but little else—it looked too tall in verticals, and made composition difficult, especially for photographers used to the square shape common in 120 cameras.

I don't quite understand this part. If 35mm film was "standard" but photographers had a strong preference for square images, why wasn't there a proliferation of cameras that could shoot 24x24mm images on the same type of film?
You don’t see inflation coming? Even if Amazon plans to invest in robots the knock on effect up the wage ladder will still have a massive effect. You can’t just raise the minimum wage to $15 and leave the people previously on $15 on the same hourly rate.
There are a lot of unstated assumptions baked into that sentence.
I guess it might be because Japan started it’s colonialism relatively late. By the time Japan started, the British Raj was already on it’s way out.
In other words, this vulnerability is "the insecurity that gives us freedom"? That's what it looks like from a quick scan through the article, and if that's the case this is yet another sad instance where the authoritarian "security" community is openly hostile against user freedom.

On that moral point, a relevant comment I made on an article recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102434 Anyone who is actively finding and closing local-only "exploits" for ME, ones which require root access in the first place, is being actively user-hostile.
FreshBooks is $50/month and you can automatically send invoices and schedule reminders. This is a solved problem.
What is Chirped Pulse Amplification, and why does it warrant a Nobel Prize?
>The gains from automation have generally been enjoyed not by those who operate the machines, but those who own them. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the share of income going to wages in OECD nations has been decreasing since the 1970s, while the share being funneled into capital—into things like cash reserves and machinery—has been increasing.

In Australia these benefits have largely gone to land owners, as opposed to capital. See this chart:

http://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/unearne...

Even a scheme such as universal basic income would not help much as the benefits would end up being captured by land owners, via inflation of rents and land prices; unless this was addressed another way, for example with a land value tax.
I adore these obscure histories of standards we take for granted. I could see this piece being adapted into something like an episode of 99 Percent Invisible.
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The full bitcoin blockchain from Satoshi's first transaction is huge, but that's for a "full node". A "lightweight node" needs much less https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Lightweight_node . The amount of internet connection needed is fairly minimal.

Ecuador moved to the US dollar in 2000 because their handling of their own currency wasn't working (and maybe because oil is often traded in USD?). Whether Venezuela uses BTC or some other currency sounds like a good idea at this point. The corrupt actors in their monetary system probably want people to keep using their bolivar though, because that's what the corrupt people stole, are holding, and printing.
This is really good writing, and it is fascinating context. Do not sell yourself short. Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk
I can't tell if this is satirical or not.

When I have "free time" at work, I put that time towards refactoring, improving/expanding test coverage, and scouting out potential performance boosts through our logs, load records, etc.

Do devs in actual programming positions do this?
The answer is to stop offering a commodity and start offering something that's unique and valuable. See Patrick McKenzie's epic post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
Have you tried one of the grab and go stores? Took us an hour to get our receipt (presumably after human validation, who probably got tired of my tendency to pull drinks from a few spots back on the shelf).

You're probably right about the strategy, but it feels like there's a good bit of work to be done before they are ready for broader deployment (and even then are likely to be the small convenience style stores). Not sure it really matters if it's +/- a couple of years, doesn't seem like anyone else is thinking this way.

Great prices too!
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ok and then they ignore the freshbooks invoice
It seems to me that we are coming on a different paradigm of work. It makes sense in the industrial revolution to have assembly line like working. Where workers are "cogs in a wheel". But now we have tons of tools to do those strict tasks. After all, every programmer says you should program repetitive tasks.

So what do we shift to? A wider job duty and more creativity? Creativity is the thing that machines still fail at the most and (as far as I know) currently impossible to automate.
Ask HN: What interesting “hard-tech” startup are you working on?
I'm interested in hearing about companies in alternative energy, healthcare, infrastructure, transport, manufacturing, governance, etc.
Please get the facts before spreading wrong ideas. She has said that she never applied. Also some people are commenting (I don't know if this is true) that a professor has more paperwork etc to do for the same salary so she may want to focus on pure research.
486 too, and possibly the Pentium (P5) the last time I checked.
12 weeks is (approximately) a business quarter. Corporate finances are most commonly aggregated across a quarterly schedule.
Please don't do it, unless you know you are going to stay there (in the same project) for very long time and you know you can hire/retain and train new people in Haskell.

I work for a large MNC bank and in my prev stint with a different department, for whatever reason I had to inherit a not-so-trivial Haskell code-base which gave me really hard time. Although it was in BAU mode, maintenance was difficult and hiring was even more difficult, I couldn't even get help from other guys from different projects as they are all mostly Java guys, anyway I moved and I know the new manager is trying hard to convince his boses and business for getting fund to migrate it to Java.
Only if you can automate everything at once
Most CEO's don't do 'bad' as in illegal stuff, this is very rare. If they do really bad stuff their equity disintegrates.

The reason the golden parachutes exist is because CEO is likely going to be 'the end of the career' for most. There are so many reasons to get fired and it will probably happen. After that, there's not much else.

Nobody in their right mind would be a 'Big Co CEO' without some kinds of rewards even on the downside - many of these folks can make quite a lot of money in some other C-level position and do just fine right there. Why put your head on the chopping block?

You might also ask the question why athletes are paid gazillions for doing something fun, that they enjoy that comes with zero responsibility basically, and can often do very well even if they don't perform, although usually that's not the case.

And FYI most CEO's don't make gazillions of dollars, that's just what we see in the news.
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Of course it does. It's known when there's more money made available (e.g. student loans) then cost goes up (e.g. education tuition).