skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Michael Godier is a futurist and scifi author.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEszlI8-W79IsU8LSAiRbDg

He also has a podcast called Event Horizon.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw
Its always bizarre that they don't have activities involving daylight first so that school could run into the dark and nobody would care because you are indoors anyway.

Its basically that society used to require daylight to get anything done two centuries ago, and most people worked the farm by daylight, so fast forward generations and centuries and we are still structuring our lives around that - such that we are actually outside in the dark and doing our main activities indoors during the day.

Humanity is nothing if not set in its ways.
Unless there is some sort of authenticated encryption associated with the checksum, it can be faked just as easily with modified javascript.
For the first time ever, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails on ground landing
Yep. As someone who hired contractors at a company that competes with Google, I can tell you that this case was slide 1 for our training. Google already treats their contractors the best in the industry by far - free food, free transportation to work, etc.

Their hands are tied.
> Its a shame, I was able to do great things with the run-time generation API (which now defaults to an interpreter in UWP).

That's more to do with UWP being a AOT platform than it being deprecated; it should still work fine with .NET Core?
I work at very large OEM. We've run the numbers, and key fob exploits are _extremely_ rare. (most) Modern keys use rolling keys that are verified by the ECU, making cloning (let alone initial pairing) extremely time consuming. However, Keyless-go key fobs _can_ be captured and replayed (not necessarily exploited). 99.99% of the time that cars are stolen (which we find much more common in Europe due to small jurisdictions), someone will break a window, steal your keys, and drive your car away.

(wireless) Key fob capturing and replaying require far more equipment than NFC PVC card (credit card) cloning.
I hope this doesn't make things difficult for those of us who actually prefer being contractors. Becoming a contractor in tech (not at Google) is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

1. I mostly get to choose how much I work, currently around 25 hours per week.

2. Despite fewer hours, I still make more annually than I ever did working full-time.

3. I don't have waste time going to all-hands meetings, mandatory trainings, offsites, etc.

4. I can work on my own side projects without worrying about an employer trying to claim the IP.

Maybe you could argue there's less job security, but if you think you have much of that with at-will employment, you're fooling yourself.
Looks like a great idea. However as someone who spends all day in vim, I wish it had an option for vim bindings or at least some kind of modal interface.
"Millions dead in a decade-long reign of terror" = "You are not allowed to say bigoted things on our platform"

hmm...

This is just more fuel in the tank of the engine that pushes the idea in my mind that libertarians are just bigots who flock to the ideology because they think it excuses their positions under the guise of freedom.

Also, labelling free-market rationally acting rational actors voluntarily freely associating with each other to distance themselves from bigots "censorship" degrades and demeans actual, real, censorship to such a degree that the word loses all meaning and the legacies of actual, real, victims of censorship are trod upon.
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Is it the motion or seeing movement out of your peripheral vision?
and the apps script that can run inside Google Sheets is pretty neat as well
Sorry about that, I'm usually careful. If it can be changed, I'm in favour.
What has replaced reddit for traffic for you?
Clusters for reliability are very different from clusters for performance, and very well supported by Postgres.
D's runtime is called Phobos because the language was originally named Mars.
If a company provides your phone, then it has access to it, and if you don't want your company to have access to what you do on it, you use a different phone. If you want the convenience of a personal phone that you can check your work mail (or work facebook groups) on, then you grant access to that company.

Right, and as I said in another comment, my statement here isn't to suggest I don't know what a burner phone is. My statement above is because I'd think someone would either say "We use our personal phones" or something similar to describe how they talk about FB without FB knowing it.

Describing your personal phone as a "burner phone" seems odd and possibly telling that there's something else there.

There very well might NOT be, but as I mentioned before: the article doesn't really say much further so it's hard to know.
Some people are saying her reasons may also be strictly monetary, like having the option available to sell later.
I’ve noticed this too. I’ve never clicked any of them yet they keep getting recommended.

My other favorite example is Netflix and WWII docs/movies. Watch just one and forever onward they will be half your recommendations.
That seems pretty dangerous. Why not just have the car beep at you?
>When a shooting happened at YouTube’s campus in San Bruno, California, in April, TVCs didn’t get some communications updating workers on the situation, which left them feeling unsafe, the TVCs said.

Wow, that seems like something very hard to argue against. I hope that even if Google keeps them as contractors they improve communications.
I think there was once a time in the US, where as a developer you’d (on average) come out ahead financially as a 1090 rather than W2, but I wouldn’t do it anymore. The cost of health care / insurance for a family pretty much forces me to be W2.
No, contractor and freelancer unions exist.
Once there is no more competition Google can change how it open sources a project. Look at Android.
I'll add to the chorus if I may. XML is much better for text documents, and very much is a first-class citizen on the web.

More than anything, XML is trivially extensible, but anything you do with JSON for documents will require that you reinvent just about everything that XML already has (e.g., namespaces, schemas), and as with all reinventions, you'll probably do it badly.

I've said elsewhere here that jq is so much pithier than XSLT, and that's true. But once you have a very complex schema to represent in JSON what would have been a simpler schema in XML, jq will no longer yield short, simple, pithy programs. The advantage of simplicity that JSON seems to have here over XML is imaginary and ephemeral -- I wouldn't count on it.
most of the critics seem to miss the point that Facebook grew really fast

Growth rate is not an excuse for the evils that have been enabled by Facebook. It is perfectly within Facebook's power to slow its growth to a rate it can actually manage.

And don't play the "shareholder" card. Zuck is the majority shareholder, and can do whatever he wants with the company, including making it not be evil.

Is there another app that, indeed, connects the world?

E-mail. The PSTN. Text messages. Actual mail.

WhatsApp, YouTube, and probably several hundred others that I don't know about because I'm not much of an SMS person.
>Like I said it was a general statement, but professional athletes are kinda a different animal considering their "laobr" is in high demand and very rare at their skill level.

Er, what? That was the point.

You: Unions are mainly effective for low-skill, manual jobs.

ForHackernews: But they have them for professional athletes and actors too.

You: Irrelevant, they're a whole different animal.

Yes, the point all along was that the union model applies to different animals/worker-types.
It is a burner phone. What's silly is you have to use those techniques to discuss office politics with your coworkers.
Surely its inertial mass is going to remain the same? In the same way that positive and negatively charged objects behave more or less the same way.
You can do single master, many read replicas, which works fine for many, many use cases.
Correct. They are W2 contractors, not “independent contractors”.
Useful for tunnel part of commutes - a little annoying to have to remember to update, assume its a PoC for an app? something like the Economist's Espresso?

Be handy to have to hand when the wifi cuts out on the train as a distraction
Every company I’ve seen that needed people dedicated just to fix bugs was in a downward spiral with maintenance mode software. Those organizations outside really slow moving but well financed bureaucracies are disappearing rapidly as investors pull money by divesting or selling to larger companies that wind up casting off the unprofitable / non-growing lines of businesses they acquired.

It’s pretty evil IMO to hire people as FTEs into such organizations when you are probably better off with consultants that are at least used to short term gigs.
This is also the kind of 'hacker' mindset that got me interested into technology. But instead of fixing to see how it worked, I broke it apart to see how it did.
Please note that I am by no means an expert, just writing what works for me.

I think you pretty much have to do calories counting, at least at the start, until you get to know how much calorie something is. Probably not suitable for long-term, as it gets tedious. But good to cut on snacking etc. Don't overdo your calorie deficit, as it can slow your metabolism too much.

One thing that kinda works for me, is eating food high on satiety index.

I drink this smoothie everyday https://www.foundmyfitness.com/reports/micronutrient-smoothi..., but you have to drink it slowly and best to use a straw not to destroy your teeth. I prefer smoothie form because I wouldn't be able to eat that many greens otherwise. (Also numbers she gave is for 2 smoothies) It's about 500kcal and pretty satiating. Without fruits, you could fit it into keto just barely and you can skip the apple and banana, but I would stay with blueberries as they are super good food.

Apart from the smoothie, I eat some kind of meat + veggies for lunch, and I stick to the eggs for dinner + I finish my smoothie (I drink 2/3 for breakfast). So I am not following a vegetarian diet, but I added a lot of veggies.
I have been putting some real thought into this as an idea for client-side scraping and re-presentation [0]. I have come to the conclusion we just need a community maintained set of code that turns popular websites into APIs that people can program against. If you turn that into an easier-to-read-sans-BS page by querying the API, so be it. It of course needs to be deployed as part of the app, there are legal issues with hosting the API externally. I have started some work around this concept for my own personal use on pages that give me too much guff.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/82
That was a poor choice of words. Models of lambda calculus are invariant under beta-eta conversion, which is what I meant by program equivalence, but which is not the same thing as contextual equivalence.

Thus you get a representation invariant under computation. This remains decidable when you consider only normalizing programs as in STLC or related subsystems.
I will not name him, but I had a friend who worked at Facebook. At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat. His HR representative quoted said chat at him in a meeting.

Facebook will claim that this is ethical because your Facebook account is linked to the work systems and therefore your chats are company property. I will pass judgement - even if it had been talking shit on a purely internal chat application, such as a corporate slack, it would not be okay for HR to bring up talking shit - They would need to have had a dang good reason (A complaint from the other party of the chat that you had made threats, reason to believe you were discussing illegal activity or actively causing the company harm). What Facebook did was absolutely immoral, and it is clear that it is standard company policy.
Why clone? Why replay? You just need signal boosters so the key and the car think they are next to each other.
I have mixed feelings about this as someone who has worked as a contractor at a FAANG company.

On the one hand, many of the complaints are absolutely correct. Where I worked contractors were:

- Second class citizens
- Often worked on teams with other engineers, and ended up being in charge of a major part of the project
- Have subpar working conditions but are still required to come to the office (ie crappy working spaces with fewer amenities, often the inability to sit with their actual team)
- In worst case scenarios can often end up with abusive manager who at times will explicitly let them know their place as a contractor
- Get the runaround when it comes to discussion 'conversion' to full time employment. I've seen this happen only a handful of times

From what I've seen the ones most beholden to this crappyness are contractors who are non US citizens (after all if you are a citizen what's stopping you from applying to literally almost any other job... even at a large tech company). Contractors from outside the US are pretty much stuck.

On the flipside the bar for contractors and full time employees is VASTLY different. For contractors (at least in engineering) the interview process can be mostly boiled down to about five recruiter style questions on your area of expertise, or something as simple as "build a class that does XYZ, ok you're great for this role". No full day onsite interview loops with multiple whiteboard / architecture questions etc.

I'm not saying with proper preparation contractors couldn't do the same roles and aren't qualified, but they are also held do a different standard (for better or for mostly worst).

I've also seen many contractors leverage the name-brand of the company they worked for to get interviews that may have been previously inaccessible (yes, even with putting "contracting for X company" on your resume, Google / Apple et all still stand out to recruiters).
Well, if Google is such a horrible place to work for, my advice will be quit and sue them
Oh and also your simulation would most likely be part of the region you were trying to simulate, meaning you'd have to simulate your simulation as well. Doubly impossible
> devs can generate revenue for us in different ways, then it makes it more acceptable for us to charge them quite a bit more

Generate revenue for us, so we can charge them quite a bit more.

> The basic idea is that any other revenue you generate for us earns you a credit towards whatever fees you own us for using plaform. For most developers this would probably cover cost completely.

So devs can get credit (they can't convert to money I guess?), and Facebook gets more money. That's just win/win if you don't consider the audience FB "generates revenue" from, and then it also would depend on how much you would care to save, say $10 while generating $50 for FB, or saving $10 to generate $500, and what those figures would be.

Money isn't "made", it's always shifted around. Value can be generated, not money. So making money for Facebook means taking it from somewhere.
Microsoft losing that contractors case also had a lot of repercussions affecting legitimate contractors.

In the early 1990s before Microsoft lost, I easily got direct-1099 contracting jobs at various companies.

Afterwards, every company got scared and overcorrected away from 1099s. It didn't matter if you incorporated as "Joe's Programming Solutions Inc".
They insisted you had to go through one of their "approved vendors" which was basically just a middleman company set up to hire you as a W-2 employee. That intermediate company would then contract you to the 1099-averse client. Microsoft's defeat was when all the "W-2 bodyshops" popped up.

Instead of me earning $100 directly from a client, I had to find a W-2 shop to "hire" me as an employee and let them skim $30 from my hourly billing so I would only net $70/hour. It wasn't too happy about that but that's the closest I could get to being a freelancer. I really didn't want to be anyone's employee.

I believe most contractors share my opinion that the overall effect of the court judgement against Microsoft was a net negative and it didn't improve work conditions for contractors. Instead, it just made it worse by enriching middlemen we never asked for. It's also a net negative for the client company because they pay a somewhat higher bill rate to the W-2 company because they provide the service of "legal cover" to protect against a Microsoft type of lawsuit or IRS reclassification. It's a textbook version of economic inefficiencies.
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I'm sure some are using BlindApp, but that app is not very censorship resistant.
> In code that truly embraces "Lispy" lists, you cannot switch to an encapsulated list representation without making substantial changes to the code.

I think changing the list representation made sense in part because the rest of the codebase didn't use lists in a deeply Lispy way, for the most part.
It seemed to me that these "burner" phones were just personal phones sensationalized for the article.

Definitely do not want to rule that out, you're right to bring this up, but agreed. Calling your personal phone a 'burner', seems novel? Not sure if there's a better word there.
I get terrible headaches if I sleep less than 8 hours and I'm 27. Always wanted to have more time in my day but I get no time if I can't focus or function.

I'd hope someone doing something as high risk and important as surgery would be getting as much as they need regardless of how much that is.
Beef-eating 'must fall drastically' as world population grows
While I agree the CEO works for the shareholders he also has to keep his ship running. So sometimes the CEO will care about what employees say.

But I think at this point the CEO failed correct the problem of at hand and now will have to deal with every injustice a few googlers see fit to scream about.

From here on out all I can see is it getting worse, and then the shareholders firing the CEO and replacing him with one who will deal with sort of issues appropriately.

We can talk all day about what is appropriate, but I think many will agree you can't have your employees hold a company hostage over political beliefs. But then again, Google set themselves up with this problem with their silly hiring practices.
Rudy Giuliani Doesn't Understand the Internet
Baby, It's Cold Outside won't be played on some radio stations
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The trouble is that by the time the evening people get going, the morning people have already defined the world's schedules.
Relatively ignorant observer here. I thought things were looking pretty good on this front.

How does this headline square with "The U.S. Leads All Countries In Reducing Carbon Emissions" (Oct 2017)? [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-...
> So a phone used to duck surveillance from a powerful entity to conduct discussions about things you don't want that entity knowing about, colloquially goes by what other name then?

Yes. A burner phone is a device you use once or twice, then dump (burn). I seriously doubt bookface employees are dumping their personal cell phones after sending a couple shit talk messages to their friends about their employer.
Sadly, undo-tree is infamous for losing undo history. It's a wonderful package otherwise. Pity it hasn't been maintained in such a long time.
But it’s good for the members of the profession, which is the point of its existence. No doubt a similarly structured “programmers’ guild” would be equally good—for programmers.
Could simply putting the thing in a foil/metal lined drawer in your entryway do the trick?
Both. Scale is obviously helping prices come down with major projects for vehicle electrification in China.

The pace of LiIon research is accelerating as well. The big news of the past few years was Coulombic efficiency measurement, basically very precise ammeters that can detect the number of 'stray' charges lost in a charging cycle. The idea is that any electrons that aren't recovered are involved in some kind of unwanted reaction, and thus is related to battery degradation. This permits rapid testing of battery chemistry and manufacture.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
I feel like the tyranny of the masses is truer today than ever. There are too many adult children that can't handle life. They have to find someone to blame and cry for free handouts.

I have been a contractor in tech companies and have never had these experiences.

Healthy work competition exists every where. After all tis the law of the jungle and if you can't handle. Might I suggest you grow up.
This is the world's smallest violin playing just for Mark Zuckerberg.
Can use the Desktop Bridge https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop... with .NET Core 3.0 and the newly open sourced UI frameworks to get full Jitting and Store access (UWP is microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml)
No pull quotes from the documents that Parliament made public to illustrate the "context".
Agree in a very similar situation and hope to continue this format of working.

But that said this equality effort isn't about folks like us, it's about helping out those that need healthcare, holiday pay, etc. I'm on the side of those in need getting the benefits over our privileged lives being mildly altered.
This forum is to discuss issues and solutions rather than just pointing fingers at immigrants without no proof of data 99% :D LOL
1. Sell!

2. Read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad"
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ds...
This is another excellent visualization of MCMC algorithms: https://chi-feng.github.io/mcmc-demo/app.html#NaiveNUTS,bana...
IIRC for the Audi 5000s it was because the brake and throttle were too close and your foot or floormat frequently got stuck on top of the throttle. People would shift out of park not realizing this and go flying, not any kind of software or security issue.
It's very possible to lose your undo history if you use undo-tree. It's happened to me a bunch of times, and undo-tree is infamous for this.

Sticking to vanilla Emacs undo is supposed to be more reliable.
But you've sort of hit the nail on the head right there. Apple Store employees are likely employees because Apple Stores are a major part of Apple's business.

Apple hires hoards of contractors for all sorts of roles internally (experimental projects, kitchen staff blah blah).

Google popup locations are not comparable to Apple Stores.
I know you put the "/s", but in case anyone isn't aware, as far as we know the photon is its own anti-particle. So light from anti-matter stars would still just be light.
What sort of mention were you looking for?
That's why surveillance technology is so dangerous. The environment (company, government, people... ) changes but the tech surveillance capabilities remain.

Facebook engineers know exactly what surveillance powers the company has, and how easily those can be exercised.