skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bank solving your issue as “acceptable risk” and trust, and it results in me being able to access my card and bank account, to me it’s “just fine”.

If google takes the path of rather locking everything down then risking to lose a cent, it’s safe for them and bad for customers... not fine.

Sure risk is never just dissolving into light, nuce smelling smoke. Someone has to take and handle it.

I propose it’s the company who makes billions to handle it gracefully for customers ...
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You're wrong. You'd better to reference to following articles:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_dis...
Is the application on the tablet showing test data or is that a live demo of the machine with the gentleman in the video?
The FCC is run by a Republican corporate shill. Nothing is gonna happen for a while.
It's funny how you assume there'a choice. Unemployment in Europe as a whole (including Eastern Europe) is ~20%. Depends on what/when exactly of course but it is. Government (non-productive by definition, by which I mean they don't add value, not that they're not useful) is easily half of the remainder. So Europe has 40% value-adding employees among the working age population, which is about half the total population, or 20%.

In America it's actually better, close to 30%. Everywhere else it's much worse. In the Middle East, Africa, most of Asia it's at most 10%, and usually less than half that.

That means that you could, not in 50 years when the robots have taken over, TODAY, kill 85% of the population and the net effect on the world would be ... nothing. GDP wouldn't drop by so much as a dollar. Today, 85% of all humans alive are useless for the economy (some are school children and will become useful, but you could assume that to be ~10% and you wouldn't be far off the mark).

So for doing everything we do today, and for guaranteeing the future, we need around 25% of the human race. Everyone else is economically useless.

Note that this figure has been dropping for 40%, and has been for essentially all of history, with only short blips where more of the human race is actually useful (like the 30 or so post-WWII years). Even 15% economically useful population, historically speaking, is actually high, not low. What I mean to say is that the neutral expectation should be that that number is going to drop, not rise.

So: no, a company should not ever be able to restructure. Every month, every day, every second we can keep that number up by even a small amount gives use one more month, one more day, one more second of the society we currently have, where people are actually somewhat useful. The alternative, if you think it through, I'm sure you'll see, is war.

Or to put it another way: we need these people to have a job much more than we need a few extra dollars of GDP.
Sure, adjustments are sometimes natural. The important thing is that is should not affect employees too negatively. Huge difference between a 1-day/1-month resignation notice without compensation, and a multi-month (or even multi-year) reduction process with incentives to quit. The latter makes it possible for basically everyone to get a new decent job and change over without gaps in employment.
Well, there's a reason America has a higher standard of living than Europe.
It kind of makes sense. If they had to appeal to the western image then they had to chose between capitalist Santa Claus and catholic Saint Nicolas.

Considering that Christmas was not officially celebrated in the Soviet Union and private celebration was repressed to a various degree then they were left with a single option.
Try Firebase remote configuration.
Yes you must respect the band duty cycle ! Check your respective country regulation.
That scenario is literally the exact opposite scenario described here, where an incredibly wealthy and powerful business titan successfully intimidated and destroyed a much smaller and more poorly funded source of journalism because he felt like it.

That, conceptually, is exactly the opposite of using small claims court to get justice from a giant faceless corporation.

People like Peter Thiel have literally never been intimidated by the legal system. They have the resources to exploit and manipulate the legal system, and then lobby to get the laws changed if it doesn't work out for them the regular way.
Isnt there a maximum average hours of work around 40 a week in Germany?
How expensive would putting a WWV shortwave receiver into a device? [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)
Yeah I'm on FF - can confirm my issue was related to the content blocking.
I haven't read the article. I was stopped in my tracks by the picture of the
Artemision jockey on his horse, in the leader. I grew up in Athens, just a
short ride away from the Archeological museum and I visited often, when I was
a child. The jockey and his horse was one of my favourites.

It was the horse that I was most taken with. You can see the attention to
detail that went into it- the skin is wrinkling around the joints, the muscles
ripple under it, the tendons and the veins bulge out - nothing was left to
chance. It was more than a thousand years before the figure of a living thing was studied
again with such detail and represented as faithfuly, in the Rennaissance, and later by the Dutch Masters.

We forget, I think, that art is a form of technology. Indeed, the word
"technology" itself is a composite of the Greek words for art, "techne" and
discourse, "logos". It may be more accurate then to say that technology itself
is a form of art- the art of making things. We call our technological devices
"artifacts" after all, don't we? That is - "works of art"!

Greek sculptural technology reached unprecedented heights during the
Hellenistic period, where the jockey hails from, as well as that other
masterpiece from the same, Artemision wreck, the Artemision Bronze [1]. Nothing
comes close, noone had been able to create such works before, and then for a
very long time after. This is no fluffy emotional judgement. Greek bronzes are
now mostly lost, their metal recycled away, and they primarily survive as
Roman era copies, in stone. But the Roman copies can always be distinguished
by their "third leg"- a prop added to human figures to, well, prop them
upright. You see, the Greeks knew how to make a sculpted human form (in
bronze or stone, cast or carved) that could stand on its own, unaided. This
skill was lost almost immediately after the Hellenistic time. The Romans
didn't have it. So their statues needed props to stand.

In a very real sense then, making those sculptures required knowledge,
technology. The knowledge to make beautiful things.

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[1] I could talk for hours about the Artemision Bronze and sound like a mushy
old fool. But if you're ever in the Museum in Athens, take a look at the pose of its feet. The back foot has its heel
raised, so that its toes are pushing down and twisting the leg around, to put
the strength of the whole body behind the force of the throw. At the same
time, the front leg is firmly planted- except for its toes, that are pulled
back by the tension of its own muscles as they counter the back leg's motion. It is a depiction of momentum. That was the
artist's target- to carve motion into the rigid metal. And it is a wisely
chosen pose indeed. A split second when the body is moving of its own will; a
few moments later, the man will have to rebalance himself in a way that only a
living human can. But at that second, in that pose, it is not easy to tell the
difference.
Your analysis is incomplete.

Some of the ways to achieve goal X are via layoffs, some aren't. You cut some possible routes to X, but you add more routes.

Not all routes are equal. Cutting a particular employee might mean that a vital convergent point is no longer possible to enter, meaning all routes now lead to failure.

Some of the optimal routes to X may require that management get paid a fair wage (rather than 40+ times the median), and that they reconfigure the company to enable them to keep all employees - everyone gets hours cut by half-a-day, say.

TL;DR - in short you're committing petitio principii, assuming the best way is layoffs, and thus concluding the best way can't be taken without layoffs.
The accuracy of this meme is stunning. I run an anime-related discord of 20-odd people and at least half of people there work in tech in some way. I've seen similar things in order such communities.

I wonder if this is just a cultural artifact from the time that anime and technology were both "geeky" niche interests (to a greater extent than they are now) or if there's a deeper underlying reason...
that missing comma made me reread that last sentence way too many times!
Hasn't the introduction of async/await to C# been rather successful?
Take Two is the owner of 2K Games. Take Two has a USD 12.4 billion market cap. Take Two refers to 2K as a principal office. Quite the endavour for your friendly agent. Best bet would be to found a startup that greatly enhances revenue on old games by, say, automatically remastering them and them pitching to Take Two. You can't clever your way around 12 billion.

Another thought: firms this size usually have their own M&A-team. Obviously you could buy the IP at an offer they can't refuse (but you probably couldn't Kickstart). Might sound snarky but there doesn't seem to be a market for old IP in games, which suggests they will not take your idea serious for 'normal' market value. That might be pretty economic. Big game producers need people playing new games, not having too much fun with (better) games from the old days. The hedonistic threadmill is what makes their firm the current size. Don't distort that balance by opening up the retro market.
And yet after years of speculation about its imminent shutdown, Hangouts still works to this day.

In response to the most recent reports of its demise Google explicitly denied the rumored shutdown date and committed to supporting classic Hangouts until all users transition to Hangouts Chat: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/12/03/hangouts-executive-...
+1 for this recommendation, but it's called turicreate now and can be found here: https://github.com/apple/turicreate
People who worked through HtDP: what are your impressions?
That's interesting. I always struggle to understand why people believe in a god (or many), or that the Earth is flat and dismiss Science and evidence on the other direction. From the point of view of something that you can't understand, and you choose to delegate to an Authority... and you choose which Authority to trust... if you've been indoctrinated into religion you'll be more prone to choose a priest/pastor or a magic book as your source of Authority, even in things like the origin of the universe and where does life and animals and humans come from. Other people choose David Ike as Authority and believe there's a reptilian master race ruling humanity for millennia, and so on.
Fantastic game, brilliant first player campaign.

There were a huge number of mods you could get for it from memory. Such as additional maps/campaigns to play through.

One of the first games I played online, the community was fantastic. Never managed to level up to get my crown :-( , it was a tough game to master online.

Is it possible to acquire the game on a steam like site?
I pay €35 per month for true unlimited 4G data. Looking at what T-mobile offers in America I am not impressed with their phone plan.
What is the source for higher standard of living in US compared to Europe?
In most of the indexes I have seen, some European countries are ahead of the US, and some are behind. Countries previously in the Soviet union are still lagging compared to western and northern europe.
Typically higher scores are better. If SpaceX used this query they would fire their 600 best employees. Or they use bad column names.

On top of the lame SQL reference this diminishes the true severity of firing 600 real people. We have no reason to think the firing was this nonchalant. This diminishes the work and humanity of everyone involved.

It appears to be a weak reference to stack ranking.

Do you have any reason to believe this is probdbly how they identified people to be let go?
Not a Thanos fan?
Downsizing via attrition means your losses are focused on those with both desire and ability to work elsewhere, and so you keep those who can’t or don’t want to.

“Don’t want to leave” is good, “can’t get hired anywhere else” is bad, and the presence of the latter makes it more desirable to leave even places which used to be fun.
This is a bad explanation. No one is saying that context doesn't matter. The entire argument for using the n word is precisely that context matters. If you use the word referentially, or otherwise not in a malicious way, it's not reasonable to be regarded as a racist.

This is the difference between a strange woman calling you honey in a compassionate personal way, and someone saying "does your wife call you 'honey'?" Or sarcastically "you're a real honey, aren't you?"
Is there any table/matrix to compare basically "for this use that"? Esp in terms of range, speed, bandwidth and power consumption (and maybe licensing?)?
Discontinuing Vespene
Commuting by bike has helped me lot too.

Also focusing more on the now then on future outcomes and past regrets has been a very effective way to reduce stress.

Stress comes also from having a huge todo list. Get psychologically stressing things done asap (ie giving someone bad news) to keep overall anxiety down and help focus on the now.
A philosophy professor argues kids should use more technology, not less
It's a cool tool, but it seems very biased towards bigger subs. If you let it loose on a small sub it will emphasize that big, kinda-but-not-really related subs over tiny-but-closely-related subs.
I think you skimmed the article too quick then because there are plenty of good and well supported arguments in it.
Sounds about right. EU Working Time Directive is something like 40 or 48, but my German isn’t good enough to read German law.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18890622
Source: reddit is not compelling, ever.
People in USA [I assume you mean] are happier and more fulfilled than those living in Europe?
It's always interesting seeing the textbooks that are renowned by professors/people with prior knowledge, yet disliked by actual students. The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a pretty famous example (iirc, the actual course was received pretty negatively by students).

I wonder how many people have actually sat down with a bunch of students and done a real experiment with textbooks. It's quite easy to think that a textbook is good when you already understand the material. Only by getting feedback from real students can you truly figure out whether a textbook is good. It'd be interesting to do a course with two different textbooks and the exact same professor and compare feedback/results. Perhaps they could even take the same final exam. Preferably at an average university. One problem with using textbooks written by MIT professors (such as Artin, Strang, etc.) is that MIT students are far stronger than average and can generally skip certain elided steps that other students cannot.
Not sure about Scotland, but in England you need the deeds to definitively define the boundary. What you see on the land registry map is just an interpretation based on available data. They do not actually know precisely where the boundary is located.
Mod 7 is not a bad idea but if that is the algorithm why do you care about leap years?
They are shutting down inbox though. I know the mail will stay, but I will miss inbox.
It's true that you cannot trip in the narrow sense, where it is gravity that pulls you to the ground after losing your balance. While floating through the station you can however get caught by a loose cable around the ankle, experience a sudden unexpected change of direction/rotation and bump your head into a laptop/wall/ceiling/floor!
Unpopular opinion but I'm a fan of this. In the Tesla case they mostly cut deadweight from the Solarcity acquisition and the resultant company has performed better for it.

If you don't have a firing heavy culture sometimes this is the only reasonable way to lean teams up again and ensure your best team members are not dragged down by mediocrity.
Definitely get a cheap sim card wherever he lands. The EU abolished all roaming charges for data and calls so he'll be able to use whatever data and calls he has in all EU countries.

Some countries have extremely good value pre paid sim cards with 20 gigs of data often coming in under €20 a month.
Personal transportation is one thing, but the figures for overseas shipping, airplane exhaust, and animal farming constitute well over 30% of total GHG emissions. It's scary. Nevertheless, eliminating fossil fuels in personal transportation (about 13%) is a necessary step.

Another benchmark: Canada's largest province, Ontario, gets 60% of its electricity from nuclear. It has more than twice the population of Denmark, and one-fifth that of France.

EDIT: I misunderstood. I see now you were comparing
a nuclear-dominant country with a wind-dominant one.
Dibs on your kidney.
Very, very cool!

Little bit of feedback: it only plays when the tab has focus - is that a browser thing, or something could theoretically be overridden?

EDIT: Opening the tab in a separate window keeps the sound running even when alt-tabbing away

EDIT2: The interactive cook book environment are missing a previous and next link at the top/end of each chapter, clicking back and finding which chapter is next is a little bit tedious.
I worked through it some years ago because I was interested in Racket. It is solid when it comes to programming, but if your goal is to get the Scheme feeling, the little Schemer would be a much better choice.

BTW a very nice introduction to Racket is also "Realm of Racket".
totally, bro...
In general, in USA and California, NDAs are extremely enforceable.
Isnt it the job of the government to make sure there is infrastructure in place for bicycles and motorcycles? That is what they did for cars after all.
The audience that SICP was written for seems to be basically a younger, roughly freshman-year Gerry Sussman, with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails.

I haven't done HtDP yet. I love The Little Schemer http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ , but I can't recommend it unequivocally, mainly because I've found (somewhat to my surprise) that it's not accessible to all programming beginners without quite a lot of extra in-person tuition. (And I'm talking about the early chapters here, not chs. 7-10 or chs. 8-10.)
I suppose it depends on what people are trying to learn. Programming and computer science are very different things.
Not at all. The only observation I'm making is that {ways without layoffs} ⊆ {ways without layoffs} U {ways with layoffs}. Everything you can do in a universe where layoffs are outlawed you can also do in a universe where they aren't. The difference is that in the former universe you have less options, and therefore less paths to success. None of that means or implies that layoffs are always the "best" option.
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“Genuinely” being basically arbitrary. What you do is you move people from role X to Y then, shortly after, you say role Y is no longer needed.
For 20 bucks you can get an hdmi audio extractor[1]. So for a little bit extra money you can simply connect the regular chromecast to your amplifier.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/slp/hdmi-audio-extractor/xc32yz93wutk...
Cordova, React Native, Swift: What’s Really Next?
Dog breeds really do have distinct personalities–and they’re rooted in DNA
The roads are not necessarily owned by the local authority, they just have the right to use it as a road.

Most roads started out as private land. At some point the road was adopted by the local authority. They can then define a highway boundary which is the land they have legal authority over. This can sit on top of existing ownership, who can retain the freehold.

You just see gaps because the owner decided to register the plot. The land registry will then try and guess where the highway boundary is, and sometimes get it wrong. But it is perfectly possible for the road to revert to the freeholder if the highway is removed.
Thank single-page "applications".
Even assuming your argument is correct and the world floats on with between 90-70% ‘dead weight’ as you seem to put it, GDP would fall significantly because you have significantly less consumers spending. Not to mention that society would pretty much grind to a halt because all the people doing intangible work that isn’t counted in GDP, like having and looking after children and replenishing our human capital.

We live in an imperfect world, and not everything has a utility function that is measured by headline figures
Also, i assume with a workforce of 7K not every single one of them is actually working with classified information every day.
It is supposed to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz, not Santa. (The article somewhat implies that Ded Moroz was a communist invention based on Santa Claus, but in fact this is not true.) And you can see even in the postcards and the article that he doesn't necessarily has a red dress, although I suspect (maybe some Russian can clarify) that the red dress is the influence of the West.
I think you are overestimating a bit: killing the government employees would reduce GDP. The government may not directly produce GDP, but it is essential for providing the conditions for business. Simply cutting away the peaceful enforcement of contracts and peaceful settlement of disputes privided by the government (two major purposes of the courts and police) would have immediate negative consequences. Within a few years you would also feel the consequences of nobody planning, building and maintaining infrastructure, or collecting the taxes to do so.
What I like about this project is that the game board is topologically a torus.
By being derivative.
Protecting neural networks from adversarial attacks, i think you mean. Protecting good A.I. from spoofing attacks is exactly the same as protecting human drivers from spoofing attacks.
Cutting top performers would result in disincentives that would reduce overall profitability.

They cut the bottom 10% of weak performers because they weren't up to the standard.
If NASA put out these postcards, we'd call them "marketing". Why is everything Russian "propaganda"?
The median American is richer than the median European (in basically any large country).

The SpaceX employees that got laid off are going to get other jobs and continue making more money and having more money to spend than their European counterparts.

Edit: A few reasons. One is that, since it's easier to switch jobs, good employees have more leverage. Another is that, since it's easier to fire bad employees, the expected value of a new employee is higher and you can afford to pay them more.

I think a big part of American prosperity is a result of companies being able to fire people. It's probably the most important bit of employment non-regulation that this country has, and it's a big aspect in which America is more worker-friendly than European countries. Other missing regulations, like working hours limits, vacation time regulations, don't benefit workers as much (or at all).
Those cards are for the domestic market (pretty obvious from Russian writing), and that's ‘native’ Ded Moroz, not Santa. He just does look that way, possibly due to earlier cross-pollination.
> A way for consumers to hedge on electricity prices. From a financial perspective, there's not a big difference between "You get this 20-year lease/financing for a 5kW solar setup for $80 per month" and "You're contracting for 900 kilowatthours per month for the next 20 years, at a fixed rate of about 9 cents per kilowatthour, regardless of inflation or rate hikes."

This is a hedge against improvements in energy production as likewise you may be locked into a higher rate.