skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not as good as it used to be, but Canada lets business owners do a lot of income splitting with family members across different share classes.

Particularly if you have children >18.

And if they’re under 18, just make them directors and pay them $100 for attending each monthly board meeting.
Yeah, learning real sql is a very useful skill. At one employer, I became the "sql expert" because I knew the difference between inner and outer joins. Which, if you know sql, means you know next to nothing. But knowing next to nothing was better than knowing nothing at all, so...
Blaming the consumer in this case doesn't fly because the consumer owns the device once they purchase it, and it is anticompetitive for Apple to lock out competing services on the consumer's device. The "Just don't buy it" argument also doesn't work for The Right to Repair movement.

Either way, end users have the right to sue Apple here, not just the developers.
Yes, anything that hides costs makes a market less efficient. This is so close to a tautology in economics.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but is a volcano the best place for an unbiased CO2 observatory? Even if dormant, I assume that CO2 vents out of the volcano naturally? Please note I am not trolling or trying to be skeptical, this is just an honest question.
>Increased cost of doing business

Are you sure about that? What would the insurance risk premiums be on letting amateurs drive tractor trailers.

Seems this would simply push the risks (future expense of an accident) on other people of the road.
while you're at it, disable javascript on sites that shows popups if it detects that you're blocking ads (not just with an adblocker)
I generally agree with the article’s point, but this:

> the contribution made by employers to the premium is exempt from the employees’ taxable income. This exemption cost the US Treasury an estimated $300 billion in 2018.

is just very disingenuous. Does the lack of an air or sunshine tax also cost them money?
I think your definition of "work" is different than most other peoples
Yes under 30 white with great social skills also known as good fit. Come to the Boston area, everyone looks the same and self segregates based on race outside of the office
A broken killing machine that's 'intelligent' is a lot more scary than a broken killing machine that's dumb.
> The Republic of Georgia

What is this?
Australia too.

They try to put a bit of a lid on it in more recent times.

But a mate went to an auction for a house in Sydney where a woman who appeared not be from Australia won the bidding and tried to pay the 1.25 million dollars on the spot, with a suitcase full of cash...

As side note: Later this year the Australian government will outlaw cash transactions over 10k.
The market is small. And that means, pragmatically, a professional farmer in search of a combine might be caught between a couple of bad choices - but that doesn't mean they endorse the business practices.
Huh? Apple pay requires double-tapping the power button and then authenticating with Face ID before the payment gets processed. Where did you get the idea that you can get charged automatically by "some anonymous dude"?
On how big numbers fail to move us
> b) is considered to be highly toxic

Do you have a source for that? It seems many thermal papers have BPA, but "highly toxic" seems like a bit of a stretch. If you have a study that shows adverse health effects in cashiers (or other populations) who handle these papers frequently, please share it.

edit: Just to clarify, when I think highly toxic, I think of things like Radium Jaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_jaw
Selective about the job hoppers, I mean. They do give solid comp but if you get a 100k signing bonus with a 1 year clawback you aren't keeping that.
I wish we could skip that step altogether, and have that info gathered at the POS and sent to me by the method of my choice (could be through an email, etc) which I could parse myself.

Some retailers already give you the option to send an email receipt which I assume is tied to the card used.
It is the exact same thing. The first cup of black tea brewed from given leaves has about half as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.
>The best way to ensure fairness and efficiency is to get the data out there and available, and make healthcare more like a market instead of a black box.

Markets without perfect information are neither efficient or fair; I think it's reasonable to say that no healthcare market can have anything approximately resembling perfect information.

Also the idea of efficiency in healthcare is problematic. Does efficient healthcare means refusing care to old people and to people who need heroic interventions and instead focusing care only on interventions that provide a high return of healthy productive years per $?

I would like a clear articulation of efficient and fair in this context.
Uber workers told to ignore 'pessimistic voices' as shares slide
Lets say two presidential candidates are having a debate. Does it matter if they actually believe in what they are arguing? Of course it does. Or two prospective parents discussing how to best raise a child? Of course it matters if they actually believe what they say.
Farm and ranch families comprise just 2 percent of the U.S. population.
https://www.fb.org/newsroom/fast-facts
Ok that's fair; I completely ignored the ~$36,000 deduction I'd be getting.
I've been wondering that, and there's evidence.

Tech does still get traditional nerds, who'd do CS even if there was no money in it.

But I wonder how many of the traditional nerds are choosing other STEM fields partly because of the perception of current CS jobs.
First of all, if you think the worst thing about these jobs is that they're tedious, you really should take a better look at the reports about the working conditions involved.

As for "having it both ways", you're presenting a false dichotomy. You're implying that the society must: either 1) preserve the status quo that makes those people work in those conditions, or 2) eliminate those jobs in a fashion that makes it worse for those people. Those are not the only options.

This is not really a completely new situation that humanity has never faced before. Throughout our history, there have been numerous examples of undesirable jobs being so tightly entangled with the economy that getting rid of them is problematic.

A few examples that come to mind are cocaleros in places like Bolivia, sex tourism for pedophiles in places like Sri Lanka, or child labor just about everywhere. I think that -- despite the horrific lack of empathy present in some other comments -- we can assume most people would agree that these are things we need to get rid of. If you study the history of the efforts to do so, you will find that going about it in a ham-fisted way only makes things worse. Despite that, nobody will argue that the only alternative is to just preserve status quo.
I'll give 4500 a whirl to see if it increases the success rate. It's a good idea. However it's not inconceivable to have sites like cafes that only allow 80/tcp and 443/tcp because that was an option in the UI on their wifi router for guest networks.

At this point if I was designing a VPN for client devices I'd have a mode that looked at as close to HTTPS as possible. There is one tool to tunnel over websocket but this was already sucking up too much of my play time. :)

Cisco AnyConnect, while expensive and bloated, works great as it initially connects on 443/tcp and then tries to setup UDP. If UDP fails it just sticks with the TCP connection and "just works".
And big corporations are getting a discount on health insurance due to the volume of employees. Tell me why I can't find 100 more relatively healthy people and have our own "insurance" where we pitch into a account and do payouts. Oh yeah, the high barrier of entry these insuracne companies created and we would have to pay the Obamacare penalty for "not having insurance."
This is fake news.

Google openly admits manipulating and censoring search results to promote lamestream media of the left wing variety.

Just compare results to duckduckgo and see what you find - what is actually popular online.

Google is PUSHING fake news because, like most of the left wing universe today, they just want to take down Trump. Which they also openly admit to.
> It's too easy to find facts and figures to support either side of the argument

I don't think it is too easy, to find such facts and figures. Can you give us some links to them?
A design pattern is a well-known way to do something. It's important so you don't reinvent the wheel.

They're different than external libraries, because usually the details of your application are closely integrated with how you implement the design pattern.
I've personally been trying to push this for years. About how much freedom would be had if we weren't basically in slavery to our job-granted insurance. I've found the right-wing people in my family don't like to hear it...
SSC is fantastic, lots of the posts there touch on this concept in one way or another.

I also recommend https://marginalrevolution.com/
A Supposedly Great Article I’ll Never Read the Same Way Again
>If you're not on top of the latest hacks and get some bitcoin that were stolen you'll be at a loss.

We are talking about blacklist that would make a stolen bitcoin, no longer a real bitcoin and thus be at lost. If you consider it still a real bitcoin, how can you consider it a loss? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. If it doesn't... it's probably not...

You talk about being on top of the latest hacks... isn't the same as being on top of the latest counterfeited money?
> If I ask my wife [...]

Wow, that's a pretty good analogy to this case, provided that you'd ask her that the day before and didn't wake up until late into the act (or at all, which I shouldn't be possible without assistance of drugs? but, I've seen some people "sleep like a log" through all kinds of commotion, so maybe it is).

Anyway, if what I read in this thread is all true, that would be a marital rape 100% and she'd get (or she should, according to the law) charged with rape if any of you ever mentioned the situation to the authorities.

Well, we're a bit too old already, but it looks like my wife and I were raping each other fairly regularly some years back. We even had fun doing this, which would possibly make it even more serious crime. This is, honestly, quite scary.

EDIT: What the heck? Have my downvoters never woke up next to their loved person and initiated an act as a "good morning" equivalent? Am I just so perverted that I should stay in the closet, or should I give myself over to the police this instant?

What I'm asking is: would the law actually go after both my wife and me (we weren't even married back then, BTW)? Wouldn't that be too much? Yeah, in the case of a one night stand it's probably the correct thing to do (maybe?), but the parent comment alluded to a long-term relationship, which I happen to enjoy (a lot :P).

Again, I'm no lawyer, I've no idea what the law says in this case, I'm but a hopeless pervert who both fucked and was fucked in a variety of circumstances and ways, including while being stoned, drunk and half-asleep (always with the same person, always safe, sane and consensual... oh wait, it couldn't have been consensual! yet it was. that's what I'm asking!) If I was to be persecuted for these acts, it's actually a serious matter for me - it means I can't write about our experiences on a blog under my name, for example. I can't mention it to people carelessly. I could endanger both myself and my wife. I'd need to hide it, I'd need to be ashamed, I'd need to try forgetting about it as if it was a sort of trauma. We've been through a lot of that already, yet there's still more coming my way? This time from people in blue instead of black uniforms?

If so, then there's something wrong with the law or public morals, or both. I don't live - and don't want to, either - in Saudi Arabia, but in an ostensibly tolerant society which accepts all kinds of fetishes without problems. At least I believe in that, but reading the comments and getting downvoted for expressing my confusion - made me start to doubt it.
A bunch of delivery companies did this in Germany around 10-15 years ago, basically helping people to start their own companies and then hiring them back via an exclusive business partnership to do deliveries for them. By doing that they conveniently transferred all the risk and hidden costs like depreciation of the delivery vehicle, maintenance, sick & holiday pay as well as social security & retirement fees to their "business partners", which were often not able to properly understand what they got themselves into.

This practice also spread to other industries like cleaning and building maintenance and became so abusive that a new law was introduced to counteract it, giving rise to a new legal term: Scheinselbständigkeit (false self-employment). The law basically states that if you are a one-man business that operates exclusively for a single client over an extended period of time you will gain the status of an employee of that company.

Hence I'm not surprised Amazon is trying to pull this off as well, I don't think they'll have much success with it though, at least in Europe (I hope).
I highly recommend learning PROLOG & understanding how to write your own simple planner system. The hairiest real problems are hairy because they're best suited to a declarative style (and programs written declaratively can be made much more efficient through more clever solvers -- given naive code, a clever solver has a much bigger efficiency boost over a dumb solver than an optimizing compiler does over a non-optimizing one -- although PROLOG itself leaks too much abstraction for many of these techniques to be viable in it).

I also recommend understanding message routing systems used in file sharing, like CHORD.

If you don't have a strong background in the math behind theoretical computer science, you might benefit a lot from an understanding of the formal rules around boolean logic, symbolic logic, & state machines -- especially, rules about when certain kinds of things are equivalent (since stuff like demorgan's law are used for simplifying and optimizing expressions a lot, and rules for state machines are used to prove upper limits on resource usage).

If you don't already, learn to use awk. It's a much more powerful language than it seems, and fits extremely well into the gap between command-line prototyping in shell one-liners & porting a prototyped tool to python or perl, and so it's a huge time saver: it is faster to write many kinds of tools in a mix of shell and awk and then rewrite them in python than it is to write them in python in the first place.
Issac Arthur has covered more modern near-future rotating habitat designs: (As well as much larger, further future designs.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86JAU3w9mB8

There are more recent designs which use solar panels and LEDs for lighting, which allows for the use of entirely stationary radiation shielding.
And the thermal paper used will fade out after a while, which can be a problem when you need it for warranty purposes. I scan the important ones, but it would be easy to have it already in electronic form at the point of sale.
The problem with cows is supposedly their farts and blurbs that contain a lot of methane- a powerful greenhouse gas.
Billingsley is pretty darn good. It might have left the connection as a dotted line given that the notion is no different from conditional expectation. The only connection you have to make is conditional expectation is a function and a random variable. You must have seen expectation taken of a conditional expectation. That should should convince you that condititional expectation is indeed a random variable. Since that r.v. was obtained by conditioning its not a stretvh to call it a conditioned r.v.

Any book that explains conditioning over a sigma algebra should suffice. You could try Loeve, Dudely or Neveu but dont remember if its mentioned explicitly.

BTW conditional expectation is really more fundamental than conditional probability. Its the former that yields the latter in measure theoretic probability. If you want to drink from the source that would be Kolmogorov.

Finally if you are reading Billingsley you are adequately qualified to call yourself a mathematician.
"I had no idea that RTL like VHDL/Verilog were FP."

They really aren't. I mean, not syntax-wise at least. Conceptually there are similarities, but really they are process programming, if anything. Processes are everywhere. Not OS processes, not OS threads, basically green threads. It's really asynchronous event-driven programming. Each processes models a distinct bit of hardware, with all the bits of hardware running in parallel. If you've done node or python's twisted then you are actually in a good place to understand. It's tricky though because there are several different language constructs for creating processes and it's all shared memory to communicate between them. If you aren't careful you don't always realize that you've created yet another process (the assign keyword tricks people). If you get outside the subset of the language that is synthesizable (able to be translated directly into hardware), like for simulations, you get to deal with race conditions and everything.
I take it you are a SWE. There's plenty of non-SWE folks at Google FWIW.
> So Apple has a dominant position in iOS app distribution

Is iOS app distribution a thing that can be dominated though, legally? In your example I get how stores and shoes are both things that can be dominated but what category of thing does iOS app distribution fall into? Is it still in the same category if one deletes iOS and just calls it in "app store"? Would Apple still dominate apps?

It's all confusing to me. I'm asking sincerely because I honestly don't know.
Fair enough. Watch the news. We can’t engineer complex systems without loads of issues. iPhone. The shuttle. Tax code. So, what makes you think we’re gonna nail it when we build one of these???
The effective total rate of taxes may not be 55%, but the rate on income earned would be. Who would work full-time in an ordinary job if it was taxed at 55% when they simultaneously get paid a generous UBI?

Also remember you counted in pensions into your budget, those are separate from taxes. So the net profit from working would be maybe 30% or less - ridiculous!
It'll be interesting to see what would happen if these contractors file their taxes as employees. I sure hope one does.
Bezos brings land area into it because assuming a 3% growth in energy usage per year, as has been the historical trend, we will need to cover the earth in solar panels in 200 years.

Something he doesn’t touch on is fission/fusion instead of solar, so I am curious about how that changes the calculus.
The Bay Area's Spy Camera Ban Is Only the Beginning
What chatbots can teach us about being human at work
A Noob's Guide to McMaster-Carr (2017)
AFAICS it's a registration-wall, not actually a pay-wall.
It's not live or die in America, in the worst possible scenario you may go into a deep debt, but they won't kick you to the curb if you're dying.
There ought to be a principle that packaging is evaluated on how much harm a 'careless' disposal would cause: even though a paper bag takes many times more energy to produce than a plastic one, it causes less harm when disposed of by dumping.
> That said, I don't see how the App Store is a monopoly. How would "monopoly" be defined to even formulate a case against Apple?

I think the argument would be fairly straightforward: the App Store is the exclusive avenue to distribute paid applications to iPhone users. In so doing, it acts as a single seller of applications to consumers and a single buyer of applications from developers, and its arbitrarily-set fees are incorporated into prices.

The fine parsing comes in whether "iPhone users" are a sufficiently distinct market to effectively make the App Store a monopoly, and I think reasonable people could have different opinions here.
You make a fair point. I’m also aware that their pivot toward emphasizing user privacy smacks of opportunism. Not only because they are a hardware company, as you say, but because their rivals had left the territory completely virgin.

But even given this motive, I view privacy as the single most important issue in the tech industry at this time. I therefore am very glad that at least one powerful company is making a stand against the most nefarious practices of the others. So Apple will have my loyalty in my purchases as a consumer until they move away from the positions they have staked out. And, I hope the market will continue to reward them handsomely for what they are doing.
IMO we do ourselves a disservice by thinking of space colonization as a "back-up". A better way of thinking about it would be that a civilization that can build these habitats, or terraform another planet, also has the technology and resources to fix environmental issues back home. These are of course not short-term goals - I'd consider a 500-year timeline for habitats like the ones pictured above optimistic. But I'd much rather we start now rather than wringing our hands over shorter-term issues like how we think of climate change now.
> That’s only true if you run a real business.

What's a 'real business'? In the United States, doing something for cash is an individual, legal right.
Socialized medicine is freedom until the government is the only provider of medicine and doesn't want to serve you for some reason, such as a shortage. Medicine is scarce, like food, and we've learned that it's dangerous to have the government be the sole provider of food (see: breadlines and starvation in various Communist nations like Venezuela today).

I have a real hard time agreeing with the concept that the government should have a monopoly on any necessary item, because then the government gets an unchecked choice about who gets the good and who doesn't.

Since we're talking in this thread about employer-provided healthcare, HMOs, I fail to see how recognizing that adding bureaucracy to healthcare didn't work leads to the line of thinking that the solution is to change the bureaucracy into a government bureaucracy and expect that to work better. To me this sounds like we passed a law that caused a problem (the employer mandate) and now think that more of the same kind of law that created the problem in the first place will resolve it?

No, we need a solution that is less encumbered with red tape and public policy, not one that is more tied to politics. Socialized medicine is just HMOs dialed up to 11 and with all choice (what little remains today) removed.

I'd like to just see the employer mandate repealed. Anyway, I'm ready for my downvotes for disagreeing with the hive, but I thought I'd try to contribute to the discussion. They're only imaginary internet points.
I have heard that but it is my opinion that companies valued >= $1B are becoming a dime a dozen. I work at one climbing that ladder and we could be displaced in 6 months by a better implementation.
This is a minor improvement in packaging. It's not automated picking, which will be a big deal if Amazon cracks that. They've been trying and failing for years now. Amazon gave up on their robotic picking challenge after 2017. Here's the winner of the last challenge.[1] Way too slow and not reliable enough.

Amazon has about 100,000 robots now. Most are Kiva machines, moving storage racks to human pickers. Here's what that looks like.[2] The pickers stay in one place, take things out of bins brought to them, and put them in outgoing bins. A laser pointer tells them what to pick. That's almost 10 years old, but Amazon has not yet been able to replace humans in that job.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljePt7Mh6U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE
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