skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enough of Upwork Shit
When you are the largest in the market or have monopoly in the market, there is nothing you can’t do. You can:

Charge excessively high prices
Force down the fair price of a gig to less than minimum wages
Block people’s access to their own hard earned money
Stop taking new accounts
Scam your clients and customers
Abandon existing contracts by blocking clients or freelancers
Violate your own policies
Force to use a bad service on high price
Apply algorithms to scam more people and make more money
Exploit clients and freelancers by imposing highest commission
Block anyone who raises voice
Stop providing actual customer service
Stop giving sh
That is exactly what the gig economy giant upwork.com is doing since a long time. Online freelancing communities and chat rooms are full of people upwork has exploited and robbed. Few references:

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.upwork.com
http://upworkfraud.byethost4.com/?i=1
https://hackernoon.com/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-5c62848bdf46
https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-Upwork

Seasoned freelancers would know what an apocalyptic change it has taken since it became Upwork. There is no more trust; there is no more genuineness, no more professionalism. It has become a wild wild west.

Upwork is a greedy marketplace that only tries to make more money for itself. Sky touching commission and service charge is not enough so they started blocking people to access or withdraw their own money.

We propose the solution

You get to know how you can fix a problem when you have faced it for several years. That’s how all issues you face in freelancing has been fixed by us. All these problems needed to be resolved but never seemed to be. Then the concept of resolving them born.

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Toogit born to solve these issues. Not to make money, but to make freelancing better and transparent than ever.
It looks to me that cats as a whole are more complex than human faces. I suspect we would get similar results with full humans. Cats have huge variation in color and pose that faces do not. An additional factor is that most portraits have the background in a separate focal plane while most cats are photographed against a complex background.
The human face training data was probably much more uniform: all well-lit photos of human faces in the center of the photo looking directly at the camera. Whereas the training set for this was probably any photos of cats, in any lighting conditions, with the cat in any pose.
Couldn't disagree more w/ the 9/10 part. That's the sort of thinking self-identified "rebellious workers" who are worried about others (mgmt) perceiving themselves as.

"toxic worker" is a pretty textbook definition now:
-horrible team player
-plays for the spotlight, claims credit in the spotlight, does little work privately
-if in mgmt, verbally/mentally terrorizes subordinates
-etc etc
And how is any of that fine?
Any experience with NetGuard? It has similar functionality and walks you through preventing the battery optimization from killing it.
Goiânia Accident
Not all conspiracies are valid, however, the particular conspiracy of "NSA covertly uses devices and implants to conduct mass surveillance both in the US and elsewhere, and has special relationships with the largest internet companies including Alphabet" is now quite valid and confirmed. Which means that in cases like that, it should necessarily be considered as a valid concern.
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...no?

You create a virtual "VPN" that filters out traffic based on hostnames. DNS requests that are not on the blacklist get forwarded to your DNS of choice.

Other adblockers for non-rooted Android (like NetGuard) work in the same way.
To learn more check out this link -> https://www.toogit.com/blog/post/why-toogit-is-best-upwork-a...
As with most simple recipies "just make a good movie" is unfortunately neither sufficient nor always the best path. Word of mouth on movies is far more likely to have a negative impact on theater going decisions than positive impact (if your friend says it sucks, you are far more likely to switch from go to no go than you would be to switch from no go to go if the same friend said it was awesome). In practice, what this means is that because positive word of mouth is so minimally impactful studios need to focus on high marketing value films rather than high story value films, because high marketing value films cause potential audience members to see a trailer or an ad and say "I'll totally go see that!" Yes, negative word of mouth can and will reduce the number who actually go see it, but final viewership is higher if you start with a huge population saying "I'll totally see that" than if you start with a "meh" response to the initial ads and try to grow viewership through word of mouth about how awesome your film is. Given these observations, Hollywood has made the rationally and financially correct but unfortunate for audiences decision to focus on marketability over enjoyability. These economics are quite different for entertainment as a service providers like HBO and Netflix, with the obvious results in quality of output.
Even at night when you don't use your phone, you are tracked and served ads. I use blokada and it blocks over 5000 ads and trackers in three days, 12 hours of effective usage, meaning 400+ ads/h: https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_phone_serves_me_400_ads_per_hou...

Blokada is easier to use that dns66, just one big button and you're done. It doesn't require root, but just like this app uses a local vpn (on the device itself, no servers involved).

For me it even blocks ads inside the YouTube app, which Adguard on iOS couldn't do...
50+, that sounds nice. I have 300+ and they are all 20 char random except where dumb sites required special rules like 14 char max.

Asking someone to brain more than 5 good passwords is entirely pointless. We just aren’t wired for that.

I’ll agree that secure paper is best for security, but not many people understand what “secure” is. A notebook on your desk isn’t, in a safe is. If I need to log in to AWS at the supermarket, that notebook does me no good.
Two creatures in this picture: http://imgur.com/TDeLYwF

One looks like a cat, the other...?
https://adguard.com has a similar approach using VPN. Would be interested to know if anyone has compared battery drain of the various apps
Every small creepy thing can be dismissed, but all these missteps shift the overton window.

- so what it's recording now, it only checks if you're still watching.

- so what they're storing it, the plane is a public place and there are cameras on the airports anyway.

- so what it's uploaded to the cloud, everything is cloud-processed these days.
He is Electrical Engineering and CS graduate from Princeton.
I Haven't Experienced Imposter Syndrome, and Maybe You Haven't Either
Reddit was written in Common Lisp, not Arc.
https://www.thevillages.com/

Of course that's only available to Boomers. "We've ruined most of society; let's find a place we haven't touched in which to hide from the consequences!"
Quick, someone make a slack plugin for this!
If it's available on F-Droid, it can support reproducible builds, so that's at least one defense against it.
https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
"forced on us by a twat" is not constructive language.
To be fair, the site isn't called "This is a realistic looking cat the doesn't exist"
I wish the play store would just let me filter based on app intrusiveness. Let me find things that don't use ads, don't have in-app purchases, and don't collect data. Looking at "paid" apps is NOT equivalent. Then I can maybe read reviews and get what I want. Once the quality bar has been raised I don't have any problem paying a few bucks (or more) for an app that behaves the way I want.
> Just make a good movie.
That seems obvious- but good movie does not mean high grossing blockbuster. Shawshank Redemption made less than the Bee Movie.
su root + adaway + afwall.

Accept no imitations.
It’s much harder to know where the car you are driving ends too. With bonnets that slope away at an increasing gradient you can’t tell. In older cars you could see the front of the vehicle you were driving. I also find my view obstructed by the wide A pillars, particularly on winding roads.
Completely agree. The problem with the "kill" mentality is that it doesn't encourage self-awareness of the ego, the "silent observer" as Eckhart Tolle calls it.
Is your second paragraph reversed? It seems like a collision is where you'd worry about someone having prepared two documents that they could swap.
So now we get even more of the same but machine certified?
The domain can as well be petsematary.com
It's helpful to keep in mind some parallels between actor systems and inheritance hierarchies.

- The tendency is to start extremely elaborate and become much more minimalistic with experience.

- The educational materials do too good a job at explaining advanced techniques without warning about how important it is to keep things simple in practice.

- A complex actor system or inheritance hierarchy should both reflect AND help tame complexity in the problem you're solving. If it doesn't meet both of these criteria, it should be simplified.

- There is no semantic reason that any relationship in a problem domain needs to be modeled by inheritance or actors despite being painful to program that way. The technique should only be applied where it helps.

I think (not from personal experience, but from what I read) that the big exception to the above is when you're using actors to optimize latency or throughput on a big multi-core machine. Then you will find yourself taking on complexity for the sake of maximum performance. I think educational materials often present techniques from these difficult, carefully-built systems as if they're helpful for writing simple, small services. This is also a parallel to inheritance, if you take a step back: high-performance data processing systems are the canonical problem for this era, just like complex native GUI programming was the canonical problem in the heyday of big inheritance hierarchies. Lessons from those domains can be misleading when applied to simpler problems.
You forgot to say what timeframe.
It's actually fairly rare for an animated sequel to outperform the original.

https://filmrust.com/2019/02/12/where-lego-2-went-wrong-an-5...

Incredibles 2, Shrek 2, Spongebob 2, and Despicable Me 2 were really the only ones worth making, vs gambling on a new property.
"toxic worker" is a pretty textbook definition now:

-horrible team player

-Unfortunately hugely effective at getting results

-plays for the spotlight, claims credit in the spotlight, does little work privately

-if in mgmt, verbally/mentally terrorizes subordinates -etc etc

It's just a truly poisonous person, who tends to be extremely performant so they can stick around in orgs, whose lack of interpersonal skills in the above realms more or less destroys teams in the long run.
The demographic of people that want to view the site on a phone?
I'm glad this doesn't exist. https://i.imgur.com/xrhRpAe.jpg
As stated in a sibling, it was our genuine intention to send out updates for those who want to get it. I agree it wasn't implemented in the best way and I should have reviewed the landing page, but it certainly wasn't because of ulterior motive.
In Chromium, the whole HSTS preload list is expired if it gets too out of date, as domains are both added to and removed from the list. So you're giving up real security by running an out-of-date browser. Not only are HSTS-preloaded TLDs not secured, but even, say, gmail.com or yourbank.com aren't. See: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/compon...

I think it'd be better to use an out-of-date list instead of nothing; I should go push for that again.
New Layer 2 Paper: Nocust – A Securely Scalable Commit-Chain
NOCUST is a Commit-Chain or non-custodial side-chain to scale Blockchains through layer 2.

We are very excited to release today an updated version of the academic paper, adding passive delivery (recipients can now be offline), adding an experimental evaluation with gas costs etc, explaining in-depth the collateral requirements (for instant finality) and having a new way to perform provably consistent checkpoints with zkSNARKS (also experimentally evaluated).

The paper can be found here:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/642.pdf

Happy to discuss it.
Also limits your use of an actual VPN as well.

Thanks Obama!
Some days I agree with you. Some days I don't.
Trolls Are Real
Then why haven't you replaced your commuter car with Uber?
No it isn't. Just make a good movie.

Lots of "good movies" (using any definition you want) fail to find an audience. And even more mediocre movies make huge buckets of money. If your goal is to make money then just blindly making "good movies" is probably not your best strategy.
Yes, categories are as long as they’re well-defined. Measurement instruments get better over time.
Not all good movies can have good/effective trailers made for them, and not all word of mouth can overcome a bad trailer.
U.S. High Court Buttresses Constitutional Ban on 'Excessive Fines'
Can we please name the space probe we'll launch to explore it "Dyson"? After Freeman Dyson, of course.
Might be that humans are not very good at recognizing differences between cats.
Show HN: ML Model That Predicts Your Mindset Based on Your LinkedIn Profile
A few of the authors of one of the Debian based distributions dropping systemd are friends of mine and all of them see things in that way, that the good old init is fine and there is no need to replace it. In the Facebook group where they use to stay the others I don't know first-hand seem to share this POV.
Pendulum: Python Datetimes Made Easy
And how did you fix it? Did you patch the compiler?
Well, it is not that similar. DNS66 is just a DNS changer/filter, AdGuard is a full-scale traffic filter and firewall: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-vs-adaway-dns66/
Near as I can tell, there's no way to run an actual VPN alongside something like this. I've been wanting to figure something out myself. Thinking more and more that I just want to set up a DNS tunnel to my home network and set up a PiHole there for similar functionality.
ecosystem and various beam details aside erlang has tons of great stuff but it is often difficult to use, which limits it hugely and makes it feel "old" etc.

Simplifying, modernizing, and exposing all of the tracing and debugging and releasing and other goodies inside of BEAM would be huge.
Regarding "sharrows", the alternative in my area to dealing with road rage is dealing with pedestrian rage, despite the sharrows being in a part of the city where cycling on the sidewalks is also allowed (and even preferred on certain sections of "shared road" where using the road could mean crossing traffic twice to go 30 yards).
Does this apply to the Sonos one, also? It has Alexa integration, but is a sonos project.
I would bet Stripe is the most used.
With enough orthogonal ideas you'll have a well rounded approach. Why would 20th Century Fox advertise their best idea?
Hell, some paid apps have ads which drives me insane.
I'm really tempted to register http://petsematary.ai and link it to this, but it's a bit pricey for a prank.
I don't understand why anyone ever though walkways, bikeways and driveways should intersect without strict rights-of-way, or run parallel without actual barriers between them. In low traffic areas, fine, practicality wins, but the 8-lane roads from a decade ago have turned into 8-lanes with motorcycle lanes between them (sometimes only imaginary, but still legally real), bike lanes (sometimes not as the outer-most lane), and mid-street pedestrian crosswalks that have very confusing, seemingly optional, signaling. People sucked at driving under far simpler conditions. They still suck just as bad and new obstacles and distractions keep being introduced. Strict separation is the only sane option.
The city of Miami Beach (not the city of Miami on the mainland) really does try, and I think they're doing a lot right - decent transit as a side effect of a tiny geographical area, lots of emphasis on walking and cycling and having a healthy populace, progressive environmental policies, etc... but they're a relatively tiny and extremely expensive locale, so their successes aren't exactly broadly enjoyable.
I found some horrific misses...
I saw this library mentioned in a StackOverflow comment. I hadn't run into it before. Wondering if anyone has experience using it.
Elon Musk Has Quit OpenAI to Focus on SpaceX and Tesla Challenges
Thank you, Firefox is one of my main browsers, I use Chrome basically for youtube playlist :D
On my block, they installed about 4 poles. The fiber splicing/install work took about 3 hours. Those poles will serve something like 150 households someday. This is a mid-density urban block with 1-4 family buildings.

It took Verizon two weeks to install external FIOS CPE equipment in my brothers’ subdivision, and probably yielded fewer homes.

That’s a lot of capital cost, and these telcos are looking for margins closer to cellular. They get that by eliminating these costs and getting better regulatory terms.
I got a cat that could easily fit in MoMA.

https://i.imgur.com/hmjhhq1.jpg
Depends on your horizon.
The difference was that 1990s conspiracies were all about secret government agencies doing secret stuff in secret places. Modern conspiracies are out in public. Pizzagate, still belived by many, is different than area 51. This visibility means belief is constantly reenforced.
> they drive with about a car's length of distance while going 45mph, shifting lanes without using their signals and other crazy shenanigans

this shit happens everywhere
Illicit iPhone App Store Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
30 years ago, I'd have been right there with you. Nowadays? Oh hell no. The threat landscape has changed.
I'd love to see a citation on this -- my impression (grew up in farm country) was that organic farming was significantly less yield, higher expense, and totally impossible to actually run a profitable farm on without raising prices immensely. People do it, but the market for food that costs 3x is relatively small -- most moderate to lower income simply can't afford it.

Maybe things have changed, but I suspect if they have everybody would have switched already. Obviously getting rid of poisons is a great target, but I've never heard from anyone in the business that it's even a possibility.
If it’s an interesting annecodte to you, I moved myself an 5 people in my company from 1Pass v4 to LastPass, no complaints from anyone and the iPhone integration is unbeatable.

Altogether I’ve moved 100 people to LastPass and some of those users have been not-exactly-power-users, yet, zero complaints from 100 people. A year later almost every single one is still using and the downstream effect of children/friends/kids is surely in the hundreds. They owe me a shirt or something really!

LastPass isn’t perfect but it’s pretty great for the price. What made you switch to 1P v7?
Neural Networks Seem to Follow a Puzzlingly Simple Strategy to Classify Images
> Forrest Gump didn't need any machine learning.

No, it just needed a massive demographic the studios could exploit the Hell out of by taking a semi-popular novel and Spielberging all over it.

You have a good point, but you used an imperfect film to demonstrate it. Forrest Gump was just about as cynical a film as you could imagine, and succeeded precisely as predicted. That kind of cynical filmmaking, explicitly targeted at demographics with earnings projections in place before casting begins, is precisely what this AI-driven concept will end up with at its worst.

A better example would be the works of the Coen brothers, or David Lynch: Even if you don't like them personally the fact remains they have an audience, and they most certainly weren't made to order based on market forecasts. They represent the auteur theory in action, being the products of distinctive creative minds who impressed their equally distinctive visions upon them.
I moved from The Netherlands to the USA then moved back to The Netherlands. Part of the reason for moving back was exactly this.
at least not on this plane of reality it doesn’t, maybe one of the inner circles of hell tho (yikes!)
Claiming I'm gaslighting is absurd and blatant rhetoric. It is reasonable for me to ask how the state can exploit the system in such a way which somehow defeats or undermines the checks on exploitation.
Also bigger blind spots. On the bigger trucks it's practically impossible to see over the right front fender, so any pedestrian or cyclist approaching from that entire quarter - not just at intersections but even more so at driveways - will be in mortal danger.
The way Google is dealing with AdBlockers at the moment soon all these VPN based apps will be taken off Play Store.
Good job. Thank you/the team for standing up for good basic principles.
MIT Scientists Are Using Lobsters to Develop a New Form of Flexible Body Armor
For those interested in the economic factors driving media production and distribution, Matthew Ball [0] is a great analyst to follow.

[0] https://redef.com/author/56d1e0f14f16158e36008235
Money was raised for purpose of hiring two specific developer but this sum of the money would be gone even if you hired two developer from east europe.
Born and raised in northern FL, fled north to escape all this and more the second I graduated college.
What you are describing is to some level the essence of consulting/contracting or at least folks that are in that industry. This type of abuser/abusee relationship in business is prevalent all over the place especially to defer blame when things go south (paying for someone to essentially take the blame) and also defer decision making . thanks for the food for thought.
> They also point out that the threat profile is someone who can read your system memory when 1P is locked (serious compromise already), but is unable to read it when it's unlocked

I can think of at least one situation where that would be the threat profile: someone steals your laptop.

Not a super common scenario, but not exactly unheard of either.
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As a teenager I used to run the Middlesbrough Emerald City BBS. It was great fun. It was on my parents telephone line, so was only online after 10pm. Still got loads of calls. Most people just wanted to chat.
Super interesting! Tried it already.
Hyper-Efficient Solar Panels Could Live on Your Roof Soon