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There is a major schism in this between the US and Europe (that I only learned about in a recent HN thread).

In the US insider trading laws are geared around protecting shareholders from insiders. Solving for the agency problem. In that case an outsider who finds non-public data and trades on it is likely (though the complexity of this is one of the downsides of the regine) not insider trading.

In many European regimes the goal is information parity. In that case outsiders can generate material non-public data, and thus illegally trade on it.

As someone who spent a lot of time under the US regime the European model blows my mind, but in objective terms there isn’t anything bizarre about it.
Site is dead :/ couple of errors thrown in the console.
Quick Tip: SQLAlchemy for MySQL and Pandas – Python Data
There is a step between 1 and 2, where you pay a per-month fee for an actual server that the provider owns. That was pretty standard operating procedure in the mid 2000s.
I don't think its fair to call the comments toxic. The OP is titled "HN-inspired" so its only fair to compare it with HN, no?
I understand your hesitation to read the books based on the premise of this article, but there is a lot of story complexity for why they created this computer that the article doesn't touch on. The scene is still perhaps a little cheesy, but it isn't entirely unwarranted.

It's also a small part of the story. I wouldn't judge the entire trilogy based on thinking this one scene is really stupid.
They were pretty indicative though. Trump only outperformed the national poll by 1-2 points and 2-3 points in the swing states. The whole 'polls are garbage' story that came out of 2016 isn't really supported by the data if you look at it.

The error has been pretty consistent forever, it's just hard to do a poll and have it line up exactly with reality because a poll is a sample in time of the thoughts of a subset that may not match who shows up. All of those factors go into why polls miss; some populations are harder to reach than others, news can come out between the poll and election day or bad weather could mess up your turnout model by keeping a lot of people home.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-are-all-right...
It varies from country to country. But in any case the inside information is information related to the corporation coming from inside the corporation. Poll results are not that kind of information.
Ongoing reads:

* Principles of Neural Design by Peter Sterling

* What Science Offers the Humanities by Edward Slingerland

* Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski

* How Do You Feel? by Bud Craig

Completed reads:

* The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

* Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi

* The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

* The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin

* Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan

* A bunch of trashy pulp scifi
Up close with New Zealand’s most notorious gang
And Loki has all three ;-)
Connect-Homes specifically state that they aren't made out of shipping containers, but they do make them in similarly sized sections so that all of the existing shipping infrastructure (road and rail) can move them easily.

We looked at modular homes before we built last year. The biggest problem I had with them was that I couldn't find a floor-plan I liked, and you always had strange, extra wide walls at the seams. Connect-Homes looks like they use a steel frame to increase the maximum span and reduce the requirement for thick seam walls. If I ever have to move again for some reason I would probably look at modular homes again.
I kind of wish I'd never read that. Every time something like this comes up I remember a quote from A Deepness in the Sky [0] and shudder at the thought that we will be stuck with crappy software forever.

[0] " There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it—the horror of it, Sura said—was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely. . .the starting instant was actually some hundred million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.
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Roman elections was complex... I wouldn't call it a democratic republic.
https://youtu.be/trrqslUpfdw
Is this not just an advert/spam?

This isn't an interesting submission about non-conventional home construction. This isn't a noteworthy example of website/ecommerce design. This isn't an editorial piece promoting interesting conversation.
Cool! I really hope this project is going to live long and prosper.
When It Comes Down to It
I bounced from the site before it loaded. Don't have time for such a slow site, sorry.
I played the game as a child, and so the reference wasn’t lost on me the first time I encountered DuckDuckGo – yet I recall my first reaction being “wow, what a clumsy, awkward name.”

It’s cute, but it’s antithetical to the idea of becoming a household word.
That would be illegal because the employees of firm have a duty not to share confidential info about the company.

But, say, inferring that a retailer will do well by counting cars in the parking lot or doing customer polls would be fine in the US. The customers can talk all they want.

(Not legal advice. I get this from Matt Levine, who is also not a lawyer.)
Boosting the development environment with Vagrant and Ansible
I have no problem with the license. It's free to me!
You have more then two people their is politics.

Work, home, school, government, church you name it.
I’m a non-claravoyant person and now a US->UK immigrant to boot. I often wonder how many people secretly hate me for doing something I’d be happy to change. Sigh...
I feel like I’m alone in asking this but does personal responsibility play no part in this?

She starts by admitting that she voluntarily signaled to these platforms that she was pregnant. They are ad platforms. She then goes on to admit that she continued to go back on the platforms after and then blames them for showing ads she herself engaged with at one point!

I don’t think anyone would ever wish someone grieving to be reminded of the source of the grief or say “too bad.” But I think a reasonable person could conclude this is a little unreasonable.
> (worst case, if the cache line were stuffed end to end with pointers)

Worst case scenario is probably a GOT or vtable.
That’s what happens when your CEO is Indian. They understand the caste system very deeply. What might seem outrageous to Americans is quite natural to them.
In fact there was a guy at my previous job who would be much like that. The person who had been doing my job said he had had a word with his (and my) boss and asked him to come in one day and pointedly ask him to do something. Boss threw in a bonus and after he had gone out asked mr chatty to stop bothering him as he had so much work to get on with.
I'm seeing about 15% slower raw speed than the bare drive, dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=1M count=512 is giving me between 68 and 250 mb/sec on a 2013 MBA with a nearly full disk, where in the terminal I'm getting between 78mb/s and 290mb/s.

ymmv, of course.
Good for her! I can't think of a better use of this technology.
AT commands are still in use inside your smartphone. On an iPhone, when the main CPU wants communicate with the baseband chip to make a call or send SMS or whatever, it literally sends AT commands.

In fact, one of the earliest iPhone jailbreak exploits relied on a vulnerability in the AT command interpreter inside the baseband.
> Yes, but the issue at hand isn't whether or not apps can or should be compiled to x32. That capability isn't going away (it happens entirely in userspace and is basically just a recompiled set of libraries).

If the kernel removes X32 support, I guess it won't take long for toolchains to remove it either. Why should they pay the maintenance burden of it if nobody uses it?

> This is a discussion about whether the kernel itself wants to run using x32 mode,

No, the kernel has never supported running in X32 mode itself. This is about the compatibility syscalls allowing a X32 userspace with a x86-64 kernel.
The primary disconnect is that the group of people in this thread who think it is fine, seem to think that the contractors are all software engineers who are in demand enough to have actual good arrangements with their contracting firms, and would pass a smell test for being an actual contractor. It would be difficult to find a problem with this arrangement as both sides are gaining a benefit beyond earning just enough to live

The majority of the contractors at the large tech firms are all the low paid jobs that aren't in software like custodial staff, cafeteria workers, physical security guards, etc. For those contractors, the contracting firm is effectively a legal fiction to say they aren't employees of a company like google even when they go to work their every day, take orders from google management, and they are usually let go by the contracting firm once google stops employing them. The contracting firms get around costs for layoffs by just closing up shop and reopening under a new LLC or other entity.

The fact that these people are being treated as lesser by the rich tech firms, solely for the benefit of rich tech firms, is what is making people upset at this arrangement
Indeed. Plato's definition of politics is "the relationship between three or more people".

That definition has served me well to remember over the years.
There may be some white papers floating around describing the tech but to my knowledge no academic level papers have been released yet.
The better question is: is it possible for people to be diplomatic? (with empathy and care towards each other and the environment).
The translator for volume 1 and 3 addressed this in an AMA, actually.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SF_Book_Club/comments/30xhj0/three_...

I enjoyed the 3 books. After reading the first one I was intrigued but it didn't blow me away. After reading all of them I am very appreciative of the epic scope, and while the it seemed to have less character development, the ideas more than made up for it.
> distributing that which caused the stock price to dip. Tesla has a definitive loss.

How did a stock price dip cause a loss to Tesla?
You know non-transgender people also get unsuitable ads, right?

It's not a "rejection" of your reality. AI and ad logic simply isn't very good, and apparently business sense isn't either. Maybe if there were products targeted at transgender people, somebody could make a killing with them.
yes exactly :), as if crawlers see exactly the same HTML of what browsers see after DOM load not the initial incomplete HTML sent by servers
Yes, it was used to jailbreak some of the early iPhone models.
I walk at 2.0 mph. This is about as fast as I can walk without becoming too overheated, but even then I need to wear light clothing and have a fan blowing on me. Walking at 1.5 mph would probably reduce my need for cooling, and 1.0 or less just feels too slow for me.
The way I see it, anything between two other pieces of another thing (separate pieces or conjoined, doesn't matter) constitutes a sandwich. If we accept the origin story (urban legend?) of its origin as invented by the Earl of Sandwich so that he and his friends can snack without getting their hands dirty during card games, then the sandwich can't be defined as a specific food item, but by the act of putting one thing between two others.
Furniture is anything used to "furnish" a space. If the shelf was attached to the wall after the wall is built, it's furniture. If it was built as part of the wall, it isn't.
There is no definitive difference between a push poll and a poll that is not a push poll. There are shameless push polls, but objective published polls are about as likely as objective public news; I'd need an existence proof for either. Published polls on how people say they will vote have virtually no utility for the vast majority of individuals. A small minority of individuals may need to plan for contingencies based on the likelihood of a particular result, but that utility drops drastically the shorter the planning window gets (i.e. the closer the vote is), which might be somewhat offset by a possibly greater accuracy. But instead of slowing as the date arrives, the polls get faster and faster.

However, the utility of a "push" poll goes up closer to the vote, because voters will have less opportunity to review and correct misimpressions that the poll gave them. Hence the time between polls goes to zero as time to the vote approaches zero, and why some governments feel that they have to step in to create a prohibited window before a vote.

Also, a traditional definition of a "push" poll is one that is meant to change the minds of the people taking the poll, but more effective in many circumstances, and definitely more common (because it is cheaper) is a poll which uses strange phrasing to get results that can be reported (after being carefully framed in a press release) in a way that implies far greater support or opposition for something that would be indicated by a more direct questioning. The fact that every vote is to some extent a Keynesian beauty contest, even if that's simply because people are convinced by ad populum and question themselves if they see that the crowd disagrees with them, means that even an "objective" poll would push.
It's free as in beer.
I don't remember seeing any polls asking 'who will win the national election?'. All the ones I saw attempted to answer the question 'who will individual people vote for in this state/nation?'.

Are you perhaps thinking of a model?
> I have never seen "panacea" used by anyone except those opposed to any public infrastructure

This is a good point; seems like an isolated demand for rigor. The bar we should be aiming to be above is "better than Comcast", which is a quite low standard.

> Corruption is simply something that has to be fought, period, but we do have the tools to do so more easily at the local government level then for more widely distributed private entities.

I like this way of putting it. At the local scope, you aren't fighting well-paid lobbyists; you just have to persuade a majority of people in your area, and that's a much more tractable problem.

The only problem here is that people tend to care less about local politics (turnout is lower, information flow is harder, etc.) which does add challenges.
So you would have house specific forms requiring massive reuse? You can pour into a typical form in an hour too. The hard part is the forming and installation of rebar. It might work, but it seems tough to make it marketable.
The same type of person that would be that inconsiderate of other people’s time in the first place. For many people that are that bad at reading social cues it won’t be interpreted as a reasonable request.
Yes, couldn't agree more with episodes 2&3. This TV series is a profoundly valuable introduction into how to think critically about art (and other cultural products).
If they held a fundraiser to help them succeed, I'd chip in.
Interesting – the animation doesn't show red/green lights on the Sola's bow, only way back on the wings – I'm a sailor and I find it very hard to guess where the Sola's prow is as she gets closer in the "Helge Ingstad natt" view.
It'd be cool to see the breakdown of the material cost, labor cost and the profit.
Is it possible to suppress human nature in my office full of humans?

Surprisingly, no.
Someone asking you if you have a minute for something work related vs someone chatting your ear off about non-work related things isn't the same thing.
Odd that the site does not use the font they are proclaiming is better.
> The whole 'polls are garbage' story that came out of 2016 isn't really supported by the data if you look at it.

There were a lot of garbage poll-based predictions (the Clinton 90+% ones) based on assuming independence of polling errors. Predictions with claims of quantified likelihood based on polls are a fairly recent media phenomenon, and I think some of the legitimate reaction to how bad many of those were spilled over into polls themselves, because people don't understand that the polls weren't the source of the problem. (Which fed into existing political narratives against polling; propaganda definitely played a role but there was a real issue it interacted with.)
Existential types in Rust
That makes no sense. I just started Notepad and it uses 180kb of memory. no kind of stripping will ever make VSCode even near that.

The extra tens of mbs of electron (zipped) is just because it is supposed to be easy to add those features and hack on it. Notepad needs nothing of that.

Heck, imagine what you could do in 4mb using only the things included in Windows. How large is notepad++?

edit: the minimal 64bit notepad++ is 5.8mb and the 32bit version is 4.5mb. That's so small compressing binaries or memory doesn't bring much.
Thats all the shorts were doing to tesla.. create fake news to affect the stock price.. whats the difference? (Serious question)
I like this idea and plan to give it a go, although I think you could be doing more to entice people to read each person's contributions besides just saying 'they wrote x words today, and it's called this, and it has these tags".

At the very least I think a super short blurb could be included, like a line or two (can be as short as a tweet or even shorter, you can take it from the beginning probably, just let the writer's own words attract people). Like it's either just the first sentence, or even the first half of a sentence, just something that has an opportunity to attract the end user.

I'd even consider a different emphasis. The title and the words are more important and should be more prominent than the author. The "@piotr wrote Strzelnica" makes it sound like they wrote a full piece, even though I think you should consider it to be more like a serial (i.e. 200 words in an ongoing work), and includes a redundant word "wrote" for each entry that's the assumed activity on your site.

I'd probably do something more like "Strzelnica 10" (10 being the number in the series), in larger and in bold, then the next few lines "Lorem ipsum...." the brief excerpt of text. Then at the bottom of that text, real small, the author's name, number of likes/feedbacks (one or the other), maybe a single tag, maybe the word count. But keep most of the other information on the entry itself. Maybe not even include the profile image.

If you really want the other information I recommend hiding it, because right now it all blends together and I don't get anything too interesting when I scan down the list of entries.

Anyway, my main concern is it looks too much like an engineer decided to include as much information as possible on these things, stuff that they would find interesting but most readers aren't really going to care about when scrolling through this and scanning for something to catch their eye, and I think more than anything the author's own words should catch the eye, not the 'info'.

But I'll still give it a try and hopefully it does well.
> If I was fired because of a legislation change I'd sue my employer for unfair dismissal

It would be because you showed up to work late, or your performance suffered. There is plenty of discretion for normal practices to become scrutinized when convenient in an employer-employee relationship.

This always leaves the former employee to spend time and resources trying to make some impossible correlation that could only be proven if the employer said the most amateurish thing possible.
hooking into readline is a clever idea!
My iPhone is constantly autocorrecting "fucking" to "ducking" no matter how many times I write the former and never write the latter, so this could be a huge thing.

Me: "Ducking Donald"

Siri: "Duck Search found a McDonald's two blocks away, should I reserve you a table?"
"There, There" by Tommy Orange - Fiction that explores how the Native American identity, traditionally rural with a heavy focus on nature, has changed since most Native Americans became urban, specially grouped in Oakland, CA.
How about Veronica. :-)

I first started using the Internet just after these weren't in use anymore but I worked for a local ISP/web host (remember those), and the boss and others had used things like Archie.

The ISP still ran a BBS at the time I started working there (and people were quickly switching to the Internet). We offered dial-up Internet access for people with Mac, Windows, and NT who wanted to use a Netscape, Eudora, Pegasus, et al. :-)

There was a service called Unix Internet where you could get an inexpensive account to dial in and explore the Internet from the command prompt, which was surprisingly fun.

These were the services I recall: BBS, dial-up Internet, dial-up Unix Internet, web hosting, co-location (i.e., we'd put your server in the basement/server room), ISDN, and T1.
It's been a while, but this is the startup script I'm using:

https://gist.github.com/wiredfool/0e1aa099a29f562cdc3ba30c36...

The hard drive images are literally a qemu image for linux kvm that's been qemu-img converted to a raw format, then the kernel and initrd were extracted, and stored in the mac file system. This image was originally on my linux box for a while, before I needed to go mobile on the laptop with it.
> Is it even possible to have good internet service in this country?

Yes. I have zero complaints about sonic.[0] They deliver reliable service at a reasonable price (cheaper than Comcast's intro pricing here), and have stellar customer service and punctual install techs. They also have a history of receiving all 5 stars on EFF's yearly "Who Has Your Back" report [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_(ISP)

[1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2017
The Dynamex ruling does seem to touch on this; Dynamex, in fact, seemed to claim that California wage orders would only apply to joint employers as the core of their appeal (this ruling seems to take that as a given; and extend it beyond that). This appears to be coemployment question that is raised in the original article.

I don't think the courts (especially CA ones) will look fondly on companies using intermediate corporations as veils to obfuscate the employment relationship in any case.
Interesting. Obvious question is, why is that two people is excluded?
Politics you agree with are often invisible, politics you don't agree with have a way of being very in your face.
I think you overstate the demand for poll accuracy. A hedge fund may want predictive accuracy but I still click on the poll that tells me what I want to hear.