skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon lobbies to exempt employees from labor protections (non-compete)
It's absurd you think puppies raised with cats would try to eat them without human intervention. That's far from the norm.
Small nitpick, but the shuttle was technically reused. It needed some refurbishment, yes, but if that doesn't cut it, it should be mentioned that Dragon 2 is not reused for crewed missions at all (Used capsules will be reused for cargo missions only).
Thoughts on the future of customer service being run by robots? What impact will it have on the experience of a service being carried out with human interaction?
Nostalgia from childhood? Or are you currently not doing very well? There's more places to find help than you can imagine.

Let me know if you stuck, and I can post some resources.
The pharma will likely also be employing people who were trained on the public bankroll. Not sure what's reasonable there though, it's not like society owns your output because you had your education paid for.
In terms of EU R&D budgets, the UK is a net receiver by 63%. It contributes 5.410^9€, and receives 8.810^9€, says the Royal Society [0].

To find a stick to beat a dog in the EU budget is easy.

After looking closely at UK financial contributions to the EU, the conclusion of a London School of Economics study[1] summarises things quite more eloquently:
"In assessing the UK contributions to the EU’s finances, there are interpretations which are reasonable and those which are ‘spun’ to make political points, even though they are – bluntly – an abuse of statistics. A normative judgement about whether what the UK’s contributes (however
measured) to the EU budget could be better spent on other public projects or whether the ‘membership fee’ yields sufficient benefits to be justified is beyond the scope of this paper. But the evidence is clear that, although it is a net contributor to an extent comparable with several other Member States of a similar level of prosperity, the UK does not face an unfair share of the burden of the gross costs of paying for Europe."

[0] https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/eu-uk-fundi... (page 12)

[1] https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67030/1/Begg_EU%20budget.pdf
I read it in quite the opposite way! I think it's implicitly referencing that 'republican' is a clearing house of views as opposed to actually representing any specific view. As an example libertarians and religious types generally have relatively little in common, yet both tend to vote republican. And this is because the party works to give them each something they value. So, for instance, I imagine that the vast majority of libertarians are pro-choice, yet the party chooses pro-life as a platform to offer something to the religious types. And indeed it turns out even though pro-life is the party platform, only 44% [1] of 'those that vote republican' would support overturning Roe v Wade. So the platform doesn't necessarily represent the individual.

By contrast democratic ideology is becoming increasingly authoritarian in that there's extremely little tolerance for views outside the party line. You'll generally find something like 85%+ support for the party line on most any 'hot' issue. By contrast, you'll find much more diversity in 'republican' views. For instance 'gun control' is supposed to be a black and white division, yet you find 31% [2] of republicans support stronger gun laws and only 13% would support less strict. By contrast, and as usual, you find a whopping 87% of democrats supporting stricter gun control and what measures as less than statistical noise (3%) in support of less strict gun control.

So there isn't really any such thing as a 'republican.' I think 'conservative' also does not necessarily apply ubiquitously, but it's somewhat reasonable. By contrast there is very much a thing as a 'democrat' and the vast majority of people that vote for that party are indeed 'democrats'.

[1] - https://thinkprogress.org/pro-choice-america-majority-d89630...

[2] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/243797/six-americans-support-st...
Using MathML notation directly isn't a bright idea and MathJax rendering kind of works, but having a formulae renderer directly in browsers/document viewers is much better. Using a javascript library or even remote http calls (!) to render static formulae on client side is extremely slow, wasteful and limiting way to render mathematical formulae.
It's not a personal grudge to be against forcing proprietary formats instead of an open, standardized format for no reason other than keeping a foothold over competitors and monopolizing the market. If Office used standardized formats, compatibility between alternative office software would never have been an issue, and the end-user would be none the wiser.
Amazon is a great product and I am a huge fan, I run most game backends and APIs on AWS, so this is very disappointing...

> The protections would partially prohibit non-compete clauses — controversial agreements used by tech companies and others to block employees from going to work for competitors or launching rival startups.

> The bill passed the Washington state Senate Tuesday with the salary threshold set at $100,000 - the level sought by Amazon. Employees above the threshold would be exempted from the labor protection. The original wage threshold in the measure was about $180,000.

Amazon lowered it to pull in most software developers.

> Other provisions require some protections for workers making more than $100,000, including an 18-month limit on any non-compete clauses they sign and a requirement that employees must be compensated while they are barred from working.

At least they have to be compensated but this is still a troubling move from a company that was started by an engineer and devs have been a huge key to their rise.

California is innovative and non-competes are illegal. That shows that non-competes are anti-competition, anti-entrepreneur, anti-small/medium business, anti-worker and most of all anti-innovation.

NDAs are enough, non-competes are excessive. NDAs cover confidential information, existing clients and processes which should be covered if they were invented there, but taking someone's ability/skill that originally got them to your company to help Amazon is a bad move towards developers. Especially bad when Amazon runs a developer cloud platform in AWS where developers/startups choose which cloud to run on many times.

As a smaller company and freelancer/contractor, companies all the time try to give you 2 year non-competes non-compensated for a 6 month to year long project, laughable. Most of the time there you are bringing skills to a company that they didn't have, then they want you to not use them after? That is a no.

Let's hope more states go the way of California on non-competes and that if this ever goes to SCOTUS that it doesn't end up becoming law nationally. Though SCOTUS did recently uphold forced arbitration so that isn't good.

Bezos forgot, the MBAs and lawyers are in charge, ladders that built giants are being pulled up.
Basically money - it is in place of a monetary payment and is "converted" to money by the corporation. IMO it's interesting to see how low value privacy has for most people, while the value of the data is huge for a corporation.
Hey, thanks for your interest, sure would share the good update soon, it's on the way.
Real problems, real solutions,

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-3rd-Gen-Data-Blocker/dp/B00Q...

But are THEY made in China too? See how deep the rabbit hole goes...
The Grand Daddy Collection of Pitchdecks from 25 Global Startups
Probably not - but it is easy enough to deflect an asteroid's trajectory to avoid earth. Over astronomical distances simply heating a portion of the asteroid can provide enough thrust to sufficiently avoid a collision.
> That said, individual events aren't particularly helpful, the media might be omitting major events (or more likely, a lot of smaller ones).

I recall that the media did not label the Knoxville UU Church Shooter a right-wing terrorist in spite of the fact that he wrote an actual political manifesto prior to the shooting which reads - and I mean this literally - like a dumb guy quoting Ann Coulter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090327071401/http://web.knoxne...
Couldn’t agree more, and this isn’t exclusive to any of the other advice given here.

The son of a friend graduated from a CS degree last year and still doesn’t have a job. I told him if he wants to be a software developer, then he should just develop software, and showed him some scripts and games i’d written in Pythonista on my phone. Nobody has to give you permission. High quality dev frameworks can be got for free. You can run web apps on a free tier on Google or AWS web hosting. Developing mobile apps is easy these days and dev accounts with Google or Apple are very affordable. Get a GitHub account for your projects and build up some rep on Stack Overflow. You don’t even need to do anything super fancy or commercial, just interesting or fun or novel and demonstrate an understanding of a range of technologies. Put links to all of these on your resume.

Set yourself objectives. 4 months to get a web app running on Google App Engine (you can get a tutorial app working in an afternoon!). A month to figure out Github and upload it, and do this for future projects. 2 months to port it to AWS. 4 months to get an app into the Play Store, or App Store. All this can be done in spare time, half the time following tutorials and the rest on whatever your apps do.
Oh! Sorry, you had to see that. Getting it checked ASAP.
Would you consider putting a preview of a card on the homepage? I'm hesitant to click the download button on my mobile without much context.
Don't extrapolate our slow reaction time to mean more than just that! :) Low latency still matters. Think about latency when scrolling/dragging on a touch screen for example. There's a large difference in feel depending on latency, even if the latency is lower than your reaction time.
DeepMind is asking how AI helped turn the internet into an echo chamber
"It's got a Palo Alto zip. That's important to some people."

It was important enough for the Four Seasons hotel by 101 when new that they initially lied on their website and letterhead that they were in Palo Alto, not East Palo Alto. EPA isn't even in the same county as PA.
How can we go about solving this?
It obviously dependents on priors, and figuring out realistic ones is kind of the point. We haven't observed other life in the universe, so any result of adding up all those chances necessarily has to be low. The question is what makes it so low. And most importantly: Is it a check we humans already cleared or something still coming? That should be a huge warning to us.
The first time I saw this I found it revolutionary and was amazed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B6oiLNyKKI
That's why i mentioned bass-traps, which can be done with cheap PVC pipes in the corners of a room.
Oh nice!

`sort -u` is just as fast as `sort | uniq` for me but good call :)
> However most ad tech companies including I believe Google and FB are very leery of doing this "Harry" type of stunt and arrange data pipelines in a way that this cannot be done at any aggregation less than a few hundred IDs

I would be interested to see any sources about this (I’m not questioning what is said in the comment, just genuinely curious about this topic)
I agree, I've had the same experience with exercise and food.

I consistently eat one meal a day right now. The reason is that I simply don't need that much, and I am really hungry by dinner time. But if I want to eat lunch I do.

The "appreciate food" angle was what really helped get into intermittent fasting. The fact that my food tasted _so_ much better (the same food as always) made me appreciate feeling hungry for an hour or more before meals.

If I am hungry, I know full well that dinner is going to be good, no matter what it is.

Thanks for the reminder on this topic. I have taken a year off of running as an experiment for weight control. I found food intake was the primary mover for weight control, not exercise. I've lost a lot of weight with no exercise. Looking forward to start running again this spring. :) (got a little giddy from the reminder your comment gave me)
A locally mounted cloud storage directory may be all you need since the state seems to be kept inside the .puz file itself.
I've gotten this feedback a few times, so I'll see what I can do. If it helps, the PDF is only 165kb!
Microsoft Windows is surely useful. It doesn't mean that we want taxpayer money to subsidize it.
Here's an example of why MathML is attractive as a rendering layer (try Firefox vs Chrome, and look at native MathML latency vs MathJax emulation):

https://runarberg.github.io/ascii2mathml/

(it helps to have the LaTeX Computer Modern fonts installed locally, which for some reason aren't imported on this page)
The artistic value of AI generated art (to me at least) will come from the obsolence of human creativity and the strong feeling of void associated with the far-future idea that algorithms and processing power are starting to surpass our species in the only remaining way that made us relevant, and looking at the pictures in the article, we are not there yet.

I am not an art connoisseur, but as a layman those pictures do not spark any emotion in me. They are like random noise that do not convey any context. Whereas there are paintings that mesmerize the mind by connecting the viewer with the painter. The day that AI art will emotionally strike people is the day when it can deduce context from our world that is relevant to us, and the art in it is the creation of the empty feeling inside us when we realize we are now being emotionally moved by an algorithm, in a way only an exceptional artist could (or surpassing talent of such artists).

I am skeptical about current machine learning methods taking AI art that far. Perhaps ML will make for example great music by generating sequences out of training sets, but it's hard to see it creating a new music genre people will vibe with in the near future.
It could still be very useful without being wide-band!

Particularly with fan noise, there’s often one or two stand-out annoying harmonics while the wide-band noise is less offensive.
I read the link and rejected its pages of persecution-complex thesis and lack of worthwhile supporting evidence.

The grand jury compels activists to testify when they are involved with or witness to crimes and conspiracies. The witnesses are not picked at random or for political purposes, but some political groups that have violent edges will sometimes find themselves facing a society that does not share its appreciation of "direct action". Some of the more radical elements of the groups you mention _are_ criminal and dealing with the via criminal prosecution is much better than the alternatives (which is not to just leave them alone but rather to treat them as terrorists, traitors, unlawful combatants, or simply line them up against a wall and shoot them.)
(I'm going to ignore the personal attack and insult)

> If you want to talk figuratively, making mistakes does not constitute having your "head up your ass." Even making multiple mistakes doesn't warrant that kind of statement.

Making deliberate mistakes multiple times and resisting fixing them for 10 years does qualify as having their "head up their ass" (or asses if that's what you prefer).
MathJax is too slow for more appy and interactive use cases. With firefox's native implementation I have seen nothing but "instant" rendering.
I made a SaaS for incubators, accelerators to streamline their workflow
Not consuming porn at work is also good a way to avoid embarrassment...
UK Porn Block – Begins 1 Apr 2019
I believe you need enough advance warning and it's actually quite _simple_ as far as these things go.

Always surprised how little science there is in this stuff, both detection and diversion it is a real existential threat to humanity given enough time and yet militaries around the world are out there tilting at windmills spending all their cash on outdated bloated acquisition projects to kill each other better in the most peaceful time on Earth.
I just couldn't agree more with it. It's a trend now, people think that hosting in Switzerland somehow more secure than anywhere else due to their data protection laws. Which is not always true, and what you really get(from experience) pretty awful customer support in comparison to other hosting providers or co-lo services.
What better example to illustrate the Culture of Contempt then the downvotes of my endorsement of JBP's early work here on HN.

People wondering and debating here about what's wrong with America right now need to look no further. This character assassination that goes hand in hand with rewriting the history (e.g. music stations refusing to play Michael Jackson) is a typical element of fascism. Pretty much proof that the left is as fucking deluded as the right.

The only conclusion that one can make is that society deserves exactly what it is asking for (from climate change all the way to Trump). Fucking bring it lol!
Because when I was a kid, and I turned on my Apple computer, I found I could start coding right now... I mean right now. Write and run. No apps, no compile, no editor, nothing. It was just a bizarre and wonderful thing.

In 3rd grade I had a logo class, but I didn't get it right away because I didn't have logo at home. When I learned the "break" command from a friend, and some other command to show the code, I started printing every program I could. I didn't understand it, but it was like I found a secret world.

I tried to show my son how to program something, and it took so many things to even get started in every environment we worked in. By the time you got some code out, a lot of effort was expended on non-productive things. Things that he stumbled over just to get to the code.

With the Apple, there was literally nothing in between you and the code.

I found out about lo-res graphics from a friend and made my own animations by drawing the screen (I used graph paper to map out my drawings) and I was able to draw black over parts of it and then draw something else. I figured this out on my own from experimenting.

You can't experiment and "guess" through coding today, it's too complicated. Oh well, rant is over.
2k/day might be the total caloric expenditure for the average woman. I’m a somewhat active 190 pound man and my daily maintenance calories average between 2600 and 3500 (depending on how much I surf).
It's Fano resonance.
So, because we have a JS library, we should drop an effort to natively support first class math rendering in the browser?

That's why we can't have nice things.
These were my personal favourite as well. After both interviews I left feeling very enthusiastic about working at Pivotal. Both interviews felt extremely collaborative, and in both cases I actually _enjoyed_ my time, rather than feeling stressed as had happened in more "typical" interview processes.

For the day-in-the-life, I got to work on real problems that I would be solving, in the manner of working that Pivotal espouses, with the colleagues I would be working with, in the environment that I would be working in.

I think that these interviews are particularly suited to Pivotal's model of working (in particular the pair-programming) and are probably less suitable elsewhere.
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What sort of failed state does not mobilize to support and ease the pain of fellow humans living through such hardship.

By the way, “poor life choices” is not a valid argument.

Edit: ok, in view of the objections regarding the technical definiton of “failed state” let me reword it to “failed society”. It is closer to my own objection anyway
Doesn’t work in iOS safari.
I freedive and spearfish in that underwater ecosystem on a weekly basis between Malibu, Santa Monica, and Palos Verdes. It's fine, much cleaner than the wilderness around there on land.

As for the article, it's an interesting data point but who knows, there is a lot we are still learning about the ecosystem. There's clearly some strange patterns this year - warm currents have been bringing up large tuna to just off of Long Beach and that may be affecting plankton and bacterial populations, especially with the organics from the rain runoff seeding the waters. Domoic acid poisoning is a natural phenomenon but it's no joke.
yeah, but there is one latest awesome python course available https://www.edyoda.com/course/98, check this out !
In my experience all Americans want to help people in need, but when it comes to footing the bill, half of the population becomes very silent.

I don't mind paying 50/50 in taxes or around there.. I don't have to feel bad about not helping people in need in Denmark.

(Yes, yes, taxes does alleviate my personal responsibility for being a nice person who helps other people -- but small acts of kindness doesn't scale)
I still don't understand your point. In the scenario in the article, you've got some noise coming down a pipe and the invention attenuates it. By "PVC pipes in the corner of a room", it seems like you are talking about a way to remove resonant frequencies from a room - as some folks do to improve the acoustics of a room for a hi-fi setup. In the scenario in the article, the noise is in a pipe, not in a room.
All this points are good but I tend not to invest too much overhead time in my work programs.

- tmux (easy)

- iterm (easy)

Using zsh, no. Too much bloat and configuration for me. Fish shell (plus something like Fisherman) is from the start much easier to (pre-)configure.
The same with neovim. Nothing against it but I started my career with Notepad++, Ultraedit going to Sublimetext (in between some IntelliJ) and nowadays vscode which again is with less configuration a really productive tool. I never had too much time to spare to invest into a new editor concept and I also disagree with vim keybindings for daily work (python and web developer mostly). The terminal is nice but not the only productive solution.
VS debugger supports custom display visualization already: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/creat...

If you think the watch is slow it's probably because one of the expressions you are trying to evaluate is slow (eg getters doing more computation behind the scenes than you think). If you just watch plain data it's blazing fast.
As the article states, this money is to help them become more competitive in a landscape where there are a few large players that everyone goes to. The EU is very interested in fighting monopoly and cartel-like behavior, so this investment or similar ones shouldn't really be compared to investments into open source software, as they are funding what seems to be a SaaS offering and not just a desktop app.
Math is huge so how you approach this will depend a lot on your starting point and your goal.

Which branch of math are you interested in?

Do you need it for something specific to your career or is it just a hobby?

What's you current level - are you comfortable with high-school level algebra, trigonometry, calculus?

In any case, I second the recommendation for Khan Academy as a good starting point - not only for the range of content and Sal's silky voice, but also for their approach to learning: you get to practice topics until you "master" them instead of just watching/reading, maybe taking a test and then moving on to the next topic.