skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same thing about 72 hours ago, I mean 3 days ago. In certain fields, like filmmaking, freelancers don't charge by the hour. They have a day rate. You pay them for the whole day or not at all. Some let you hire them for half a day.
"Strawberry preserves were a treat I didn't realize until I was an adult."

We didn't have much money when I was a kid so my parents grew pretty almost all vegetables we ate in our garden. We had a patch next to our house and a bigger outside town. Back then I hated helping them and I just took fresh fruit and vegetables as granted. Only as an adult with own household I realized how great this was.
I really don’t understand the hate towards Elon / Tesla on Twitter? Can somebody explain? I understand finding truth, but some of these truth finders seem like they go into the extremes to knit pick everything as evidence of their theory.. am I wrong? What am I not seeing? $Tesla vs TE$LAQ?
I mean, the entire domain name infrastructure is set up so that someone along the path can revoke registrations, all the way up to ICANN itself.

IME you're much more likely to be banned by the registrar than the registry itself. Registries want people to use their TLDs, so they're not going to reject post-registration unless you've changed how you're using the TLD and it's violating the rules they originally laid down. Registrars are much more consumer facing and will act accordingly - i.e. GoDaddy banning Gab.
Suppose you know nothing about license plates and I tell you that license plates work one of two ways, either every license plate reads "ARW 357" (it's just a meaningless tradition) or every plate has six randomly selected numbers and letters and there's equal probability that either explanation is true. THEN you observe a single car with a single license plate with the value "ARW 357".

Does this single observation tell you anything about reality? I would argue that it does - it should strongly suggest to you that you're in the "every car is ARW 357" reality. Similarly, if you draw a ball from an urn and it's red, and you know you've drawn either from the "urn of red balls", or the "urn of one million green balls and one red one" you should be pretty confident you've drawn from the "urn of red balls".

If one theory can explain your observations but the explanation is highly unlikely, and another theory explains your observations and the explanation is likely, the second theory is more likely to be correct all else equal.
He doesn't necessarily have to. But when he defines "natural zero" as "the empty set", and someone asks "what's the empty set?", and you say "natural zero", you're being circular.
> A way to automate the production of median-literacy shitposts on the internet tuned to whatever you want to propagandize

We already have this: it's called mechanical turk (or the 50 Cent army, if you prefer) and it's happening all over the place. I'm not sure computer-generated posts would make much difference.
what do they offer that the amazon version does not ?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think you, I and the author are all in agreement that a pattern of such misestimation is a problem, and that a full-time hire is a good-faith claim at the stability of the job for at least some time. Your point that assessment of executive performance should include employee welfare and thus this misestimation is also well-taken.

But the question that really interests me is: conditioned on having made that mistake, what course of action should Activision have taken wrt these employees? Executive pay could be lowered for fucking this up, but given that it wasn't driven by a resource squeeze, the employment status of these employees wouldn't be affected.
I have been using this instead of other online scheduling apps for various clubs that I am a part of, and I'm hooked! Allen J. Lee - whoever you are, where ever you are - you have changed my life for the better.
>because it gets harder and harder to luck into that kind of money.

But it also gets harder and harder to get that kind of money by skill and hard work. Large amounts of money are more difficult to obtain by any means than small amounts of money. That tells us nothing about the role of luck.

And again, if you are just going to assert that obtaining vast wealth by hard work and skill is more likely than obtaining it by luck, then you are begging the question.
I'm guessing you make more than minimum wage. Which incidentally is $18.29/hour here in Australia (about US$13.)
"Of course, it's much better when it's your friend's apple trees and they're begging you to take a few bags home before they're indundated with rotting apples :-)
"

In Southern California it's Tangerines. Suddenly everybody has them for a few weeks.
> So essentially they asked for anonymised lists of phones (i.e. not even the actual numbers) that had been in the locations where the suspects had been, then cross-referenced these to find potential suspects, presumably finding some phones that exactly matched the reported movements of the suspects which they then made a second application to de-anonymise.

In what conceivable way does that count as an "anonymised list?"

Suppose Google happens to sell geodata for everyone in your area of town to a third-party. Are you reassured if they tell you, "It's ok, we removed your phone numbers first."
> is it correct to say that most of these attacks require access to the device that you're trying to crack?

Some, yes. A classic example of a side channel attack that doesn't require physical access:

An authentication server which naively compares passwords (or even their hashes). Say they just `if (request.password != expected_password) return Error.403`. This type of naive comparison which will use memcmp or something similar creates a timing side channel. This happens because it compares the passwords one byte at a time, and returns early as soon as it finds a mismatched byte. So the length of time the server spends authenticating the passwords is dependent on how many bytes the passwords have in common. i.e. "password" != "deadbeef" takes 1 comparison, whereas "password" != "peadbeef" takes 2 comparisons.

So an attacker can submit 256 requests to the server, cycling through every possible first byte. Whichever request takes the longest tells the attacker what the first byte of the password is. So they fix the first byte, and then repeat 256 times for the second password. And so forth until the password is cracked.

This takes only O(N) time to crack, where N is the length of the password.

Though this is a simple example, it ends up being a very common attack vector. And as noted, this can be performed remotely.

(In practice things are a bit more complicated, but make attacks like this no less of a threat. You first need to determine the password length (easy, same timing side channel). And then you probably need to submit several times more requests per password attempt so you can average out the "noise" of request times. Rate limiting, etc ameliorate attacks, but are no excuse for not using constant-time algorithms.)
It's similar to the way in C you can malloc memory for two data structures, and then check which pointer is smaller. Say, one pointer points at the data for Mario, and the other pointer points at the data for Luigi. You look at the raw pointers and notice that the Mario pointer is a smaller 64-bit number than the Luigi pointer. That seems absurd or arbitrary because why should "Mario" be "smaller" than "Luigi"? But it doesn't really matter: the game still runs fine and nothing breaks as a result of the arbitrariness.
This does not meaningfully change the result; as far as I'm aware you can just change the A/B ratio to account for the density of the atmosphere and treat it as any another layer. Even accounting for this, speed does not have a meaningful effect.
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Romance novel authors aren't D'Arrigo taking 25 years to write Horcynus Orca. Their reading public isn't highly discerning about the quality of the prose (while often having exacting requirements regarding the specifics of the content), so it probably makes economic sense to publish drivel as fast as possible.
this kind of comment not only is useless, but brings nothing to the discussion.

not only that but, this is not reddit. citing a subreddit means nothing.

and yes, some people are too important for a product.
> You cannot show just "one" unattached to anything else.

Also interesting to try to show "zero" of something. Zero is fun because it took longer to exist as a number than one & two, and there was some debate over whether it should be a number. "How can nothing be something?"
One way to think about it is: why not do everything on top of a network like Workers? Does it actually make sense to deploy services to a single location when they can be trivially started up near every user?
Online discourse is already a net harm to society. Destroying it would be a good thing.
What a terrible site how it “cares about my privacy” but requires about 20 clicks to opt out. Is this even how it is supposed to be with GDPR I wonder?
One site was even worse than that today (I think it was Forbes). Opting out showed a spinning weel for like 30 seconds and failed, requesting that it should be repeated. No thanks.
I don't understand how Russell's paradox comes in. The set of all eg. pairs does not contain itself.
ICANN's.
How could I know if it's "absolutely necessary" without being a medical professional or consulting one?

What a terrible system we've got.
Groups of primates grow up to only a certain rough number, depending on the species. After that communication problems, jealousies, etc, prevent the ones on top of the pack from being able to manage the situation.

As someone who barely uses social media, I don't really understand what someone means when they "communicate" with 60,000 people. I envision a guy standing on the concert stage with a megaphone and 60,000 below him.
Scholars over the last few decades dispute this, saying that immense advances occurred during these "dark times", in mining related technology in particular during the middle ages. Also clockworks, and much more. The Romans were great implementers but not renowned for innovation. As with so much else, the truth probably lies inbetween.
It's far more likely to be a poorly understood natural phenomenon that we will later make sense of. It would be the millionth example of that, compared with the _first ever_ example of life not from Earth (capable of building interstellar tech!). We need very, very strong evidence to overcome this hurdle.

We know for a fact that the universe is filled with strange and interesting dynamics (not involving alien life forms) that we don't always understand at first. We don't yet know where else life may exist in the universe, if at all.
The code is not optimal, because there are implicit conversions to int (32-bit values) which are quite expansive. There should be explicit casts to uint16_t, like this: dest.r = uint16_t(uint16_t(dest.r * invAlpha) + uint16_t(c.r * c.a)) >> 8;
There are a few good approaches, but an easy one is adding chia seeds. A tablespoon of chia seeds has 9 grams of fat (omega 3 mostly but not DHA), 4 grams of protein and 11 grams of dietary fiber. I usually soak them for about 5 minutes while i prepare a protein shake or coffee, and then add them into said protein shake or Greek yoghurt. Most people don’t get enough dietary fiber, so this is especially helpful to your productivity if it means less miserable constipated toilet time, like it did for me.
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Likely no (the peculiar distributive laws seem unusable to me). But I have come across similar rules that I think may have a real usage. It sometimes seems to me that it might make more sense to keep 'factors' attached to 0s, such that x-x = (1-1)x = 0x might be 'sound', and to keep track of 'powers' of 0s by having factors of 0 attached to 0s: (0)0 = 0^2 != 0, etc.

If you keep factors like this, then you could implement L'Hopital's rule without the result only being true if considered under a limit: say, lim(x->0) (5x^2/ 3x^2) = 5/3 could be computed as (5)0^2 / (3)0^2 = 5/3.

This is not like Wheels though; it requires that any power of 0 be a distinct number. I of course have no idea if it is sound or meaningful, but I do find myself thinking about it a lot.
It's the "I don't want to say aliens because no one will listen to you if you say aliens" conundrum, which does a disservice to the science by pooh-poohing any intelligence-spawned possibilities while wildly speculating on naturally-caused possibilities.

The reality is this is an extremely alien object, no matter if it was formed by intelligent beings or spun off from a star. Maybe this is a solar sail or maybe it is a giant snowflake.

And, contrary to the author's hand-waving, there is nothing that says an enormous, impossibly thin solar sail can't be formed by randomly bashing an infinity of rocks together over a near-infinity of time - after all, LIFE ITSELF comes from just such an action, so pretty much anything is in play if that is the standard!
Infinitesimals [1][2][3] are probably the best example. Though there's a whole range of theories, the basic version is just a magic number, d, such that d^2 == 0. So (x+d)^3 = x^3 + 3dx^2 + 0, giving us a more "natural" path to get to the notion of derivatives without resorting to limits. They get hard to manage, though, so they haven't really made it into the mainstream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_analysis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_infinitesimal_analysis

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number
They don't, and there's a massive cultural imbalance. Buddy of mine works for a upto company in Portland but his colleague got a talking to for gasp taking 2.5 weeks off in a year. I too work for a up to company but I ALSO have a legally guaranteed minimum 21 days off a year.

There's ALWAYS a limit. Try taking a year long holiday and see how that goes. With UPTO the limit is up to your manager.
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> That said, I try to keep myself from calculating how much time I 'need' to save to offset the time it took me to get everything set up and to get comfortable with Emacs/Org-Mode ;).

Between increased efficiency, less proverbial papercuts from alternative ways of doing things to cause your death, and things you just didn't do before you reduced your friction, switching to Emacs/Org-Mode has probably paid for itself many times over :).
Because the name is a brand that sells books so long as the books are good enough.
> For instance, #3 blinding lights, is easily mitigated by #2 non-ambient/thermal vision.

No, because you need to use your susceptible-to-blinding eyes to use the thermal-vision system. Also, of course, the fact that I have blinding & thermal-vision systems doesn't mean that my foe does.

> #4, sound weapons are going to effect everyone in the tunnel, so offense is limited.

That's true in general of acoustic weapons. Presumably if they can be made directional above-ground they might be made directional below-ground — or they could be treated as acoustic 'grenades,' in that they are deployed prior to ingress.

> #10 foam grenades, are less effective for concealment, and ineffective as cover, most outgas toxic and flamable vocs. Existing procedure of collapsing tunnel has neither downside and accomplished with existing, legacy, and improvised tech.

A small amount of slightly-carcinogenic gas beats getting shot. Sealing off a tunnel connected to the one I'm in seems far preferable to collapsing it and possibly my own. It also could make rescuing civilians who've taken shelter in the tunnel system more possible.

> I won't even touch on headlamps, and insisting on an actual live canary.

I'd trust an actual live animal a lot more than I would some lowest-bidder system.
I quit 3 jobs in the last 5 years and time tracking by management is high up on the reason list. I will now refuse to work for any organisation that does it.

The code and design quality turns to shit in such places. Everyone is trying to keep to the beat of their allotted time. Here’s your shovel. Dig a tonne of soil. You have 2 hours. No one is thinking of hiring a JCB because well thinking about that takes time from your time tracked task.

Places that don’t track time probably get better results although they can’t prove it with metrics. Compare it to parenting, why aren’t we timing nappy/diaper changes? Oh because it’s mostly instinctive. A bit like programming!

Sure we need to make sure we are on track but this can be done at much a higher level. Story points used properly fill this goal. Where I work we use them but there is no punishment for not meeting the story points. Not even a frown of disappointment that when we added up some numbers from a random distribution, they didn’t add up to some arbitrary number. Story points are a useful indicator, but they are part of a vector of information. We didn’t meet the story points because we worked on some technical debt, because ... for example.

So in conclusion don’t you dare track my time and pull me in a room because I didn’t dig that hole quick enough.
I belonged to an indie game community where the only people making money were the ones making development tools and selling it to the community.

If you want to make games, really what you need to actually do is make a game and don't stop until it's done, and wrap yourself up in your customers, not other game developers.
Do you have a source for that?

I read somewhere how the police once solved a crime by analysing a cigarette butt left behind in a stolen car, but within a few years it was quite common for them to find that a stolen car had its ashtray filled with cigarette butts apparently taken from a public ashtray: even joyriders were clever enough to thus outwit forensics. So it would seem weird to me if armed robbers or professional burglars were carrying switched on phones, and most crimes are committed by people who commit multiple crimes, as I understand it, people who have plenty of experience of how the police and the courts operate.

In online discussions there are always people who claim that criminals are idiots, but I don't think that's accurate. I reckon that when it comes to crime, most criminals are in effect a lot more intelligent than I am with my elite university degree and so on. But in general, the older I get, the more aware I become of my own limitations and the less likely I am to dismiss anyone else as an idiot.
Weird still is "Oumuamua's velocity (being) within 5 km/s of the median Galactic velocity of the stars in the solar neighborhood" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11364)

That means the system it originated from if a natural object would need to be coincidentally that close to our median local
I don't understand your assertion here. Should private individuals not be able to invest/lend money to others?
I agree with you. I've seen people take 8 weeks for a similar reason. Over that time period they checked in, fixed a few bugs related to work they had done but were generally gone.

In a strict PTO environment that would have been almost impossible for them to do.

Some people are going to respond and be upset that they want to work exactly 8 hours, get exactly 41.5 hours of PTA and get paid that way. That's fine, although I hope they are giving the company back money for browsing HN.

I on the other hand like the freedom and flexibility that unlimited PTO provides along with a flexible work schedule. Do I end up working more? Probably, but I have way less stress. I much prefer working that hour on a rainy Saturday instead of the beautifully sunny Friday.
* Watergate

* Iran Contra (does history repeat itself, or do we just like making the same mistakes?)

* 5 million emails "deleted" under the Bush administration

* The Iraq War

* DNC Hacking Scandal

* Use of executive emergency powers to bypass legislation based policy purely to inflame racial sentiments and dog whistles.

* Transferring nuclear secrets to a foreign government illegally <--- You are here

Just a short timeline of events under Republican/conservative U.S. administrations. There's definitely not a pattern or anything though.
Life is a pretty rare occurrence, as far as we're aware. So I think I can forgive the author for not being sold on the "aliens" conclusion just yet–it's probably a good idea to look for alternative conclusions that might be more likely first.
Godaddy banned Gab for political reasons as well. While you can split hairs and say that's just a registrar, you can also split hairs and say that youtube is just a hosted content platform. If you're thinking of running another infowars then I would advise avoiding registering domains with any major tech platform in general.
Heroku is a really good option for beginners (and it's free!) We've got a few repos on GitHub that can be forked and deployed directly to Heroku:

https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/start...
$45k is "new car" money, plenty of individuals on this site could afford it if they wanted. Don't even have to be that serious about it.
You might even say the unattached "one" is more real than the fork. At the end of the universe, that fork is long gone, but "one" is still there.
The best we can hope for is to weather the next two years without suffering damage to our nation that's truly irreparable, and that the brazen cronyism on display will be a reality-check for all who would otherwise dip their toes into casual corruption. God help us all.
Coming from a planet that launches a lot of alien spaceships, is it that implausible that it could be (or could have been) an alien spaceship?
https://brunoluiz.net

This is my personal blog, with random thoughts and guides around software development.

Until last year, I was using my Medium to post stuff. But, as I wanted to own my content and not have issues to post code snippets (Medium is horrible on this), I moved it to Gatsby + GitHub pages. I am still missing some stuff, such as a comment system, but this will be solved soon.

Having my own content in Markdown makes easier to transport it around, even to other systems in the future -- if Gatsby proves to be not that good. And, as it is ReactJS, it is quite easy to tweak the starter theme.
"Reification" is the term to search for if you wish to delve into the extensive Philosophical bibliography on this topic that's accumulated over the last few centuries. Within mathematics "Intuitionist Mathematics" is the rubric for the anti-reification view. This relies on computability as a substitute for "existence." The Intuitionist view has pretty much triumphed.
This is very interesting, but I'm curious how it scales to higher levels of management. Of course, if the whole company is only 20-30 people, those higher levels don't exist. In a large company, a single low- or mid-level manager may have more direct and indirect reports than an entire small 20 person company, and a high-level executive may have hundreds or thousands of indirect reports. At this level, it seems to me like it may be possible to maintain this "work when you want as long as the work gets done" style of scheduling for developers at the bottom, but it feels like it would work less and less for managers and executives who will spend more and more of their time in scheduled meetings.
It's like releasing a car without giving access to the specific fuel needed to run it.
Another way to state this would be that given our current understanding of the universe, most objects that get close enough for this kind of encounter will have a nearby origin.