skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I understand those terms to mean.

A contractor is effectively a non-permanent employee: someone you hire for a fixed period because you have irregular work load and you need some extra people temporarily. I say effectively a non-permanent employee, but it's really skirting the edge here: if the relationship is too much like an employee, then the contractor is an employee for tax purposes.

A consultant is someone you hire for their expertise. They're a specialist; they tell you what you should be doing, rather than doing work you specify.

https://www.itworld.com/article/2801854/know-the-difference-...

https://www.crunch.co.uk/knowledge/tax/consultant-contractor...

IT contractors are also usually employed by contracting companies that take care of accounting and other overheads, and if they do things like marketing and referral, they'll eat a significant chunk of the fees too. I don't think there's a significant difference in organizational structure between contractors and consultants in this way. It's mostly that consultants address the problem at a bigger distance, and are more likely to be drawing up the plan, rather than working on the execution.
I am in a similar situation but I already put my notice. What I did was speak to my manager and then speak to the founder. Both of them agreed that I should take the new opportunity and move on. Go ahead and talk to your manager/founder. They'll not feel threatened. They will support you with good advice.
The CLI tools, SDK libraries, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks are all there, with various levels of convenience. This is not how you would go about setting up non-trivial infrastructure if you were serious about it.

That said, if you can't understand what they are doing with the console, you would understand the equivalent CloudFormation file even less because you probably don't have the mental model of all the moving pieces interacting.
University of Oklahoma gave false data to US News college rankings for 20 years
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In Ireland we've just agreed a 5 billion euro rural broadband scheme which will involve laying fibre that goes to 540,000 rural homes. 3 Billion is the cost to the state, 2 Billion is the private investment and the private company will own the infrastructure after (I think) 20 years or so. The whole thing is going take several years to become functional and I think 7 years to be fully functional.

So my question is: how likely is it that something like Starlink could provide an alternative in any meaningful timeframe?
The interesting thing about this is that the work neatly fitted with existing theory:

> Drozdov et al. observed this isotope effect and found that, compared with the lanthanum hydride samples, the critical temperature in lanthanum deuteride samples is lower by almost exactly the amount predicted by the theory.

So like the article points out:

> From a scientific standpoint, these results suggest that we might be entering a transition from discovering superconductors by empirical rules, intuition or luck to being guided by concrete theoretical predictions.

Whilst this result might require huge pressures, steady progress towards a theory of super-conduction is an exciting thing indeed.
But, still, 0.6% increase in costs would be amortized over the lifespan of the project or not?
Similarly, Pompeii is overcrowded while Herculaneum is merely averagely busy and Villa Poppaea is deserted. All within a short drive of each other at Naples.
That's a very interesting viewpoint on the matter. Previously I had just nodded along with the "Everest getting spoiled" stories, but you have made me think a little deeper, so thanks!

I wonder if a lot of these appeals for people to stop climbing Everest are from climbers who want everyone ELSE to stop climbing Everest.
Every piece of plastic you have ever encountered still exists somewhere. Think about that. Humans create a STAGGERING amount of trash and we need to stop.
Sure, but those people don't want GC either. Not to say that all languages that are not C++ are garbage collected, but the people who complain about manual memory mgmt are not the ones who care about those things.
It was in the UK too - the worst part of which was the games that developed for ST, as the most limited platform, then ported to Amiga. So many Amiga versions were no better than the ST because of that, as it was obviously cheaper than supporting both platforms properly.

The two most impressive things about the ST were the late addition of midi, and that it was designed and launched in some absurdly short time - six months or less?? - which explains many of the compromises, and it getting Gem.

Having had Amiga snatched from under him, Jack Tramiel wanted a fast response to spoil their party. Tramiel who'd only left Commodore the previous year.

There's so many what-ifs to play with this timeline.
When someone slashes a Rembrandt:

The replacement paint need not be absurdly toxic mercury compounds.

The backing might best be supported by something modern, such as a glass fiber mat.

Likewise with buildings, we can get the old style with modern materials.
Without hardware, you're not solving any problems. Glass bead game != solving problems.

At no point in human history as this sort of "detailed theoretical wanking" turned into progress in science; the hardware comes first.
I tried to do the sales tax management myself but ended up with incorrect calculation on some occasions. I would highly recommend getting a professional tax consultant for guidance. They'll know how to handle tax for your project. Once you start making revenue, the cost of consultant would become affordable.
I really wish we had high speed rail in Australia. I'd pick a 600km/h train over a plane any day.
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What you describe is still common practice in the language, but the mechanisms no longer use a new or delete to achieve that.
Good. This kind of software is a mirror to the data fed into it. People on the edges of society (that the people making the mirror might either intentionally or accidentally ignore) will get fucked over tremendously by this technology. We should put a complete ban on it. Even if it means gimping my photo organization programs.
> [...] little more effort and seek out those beautifully hidden places that the entire world doesn't know about yet.

And then keep your mouth shut, as well as not post any pictures or videos publicly.
To be fair, the hike to Half Dome is about ~18 miles (9 each way) and only the very last bit is super crowded. If you skip the cables you still have experienced 99% of one of this country's most beautiful hikes.
Driverless cars: Cambridge University model cars 'talk' to avoid jams
"Big Data" doesn't mean "makes Excel slow down" or "needs to scroll in Excel" :) If you can fit it on a thumbdrive you can buy from a Walmart, it's probably not 'big data'.
It’s there for very rare purposes, and it’s considered a code smell if you ever use that feature.
This has been debated extensively on HN (and is still being debated actively), but all I hope is that people realise sooner or later that the level of safety you can acquire in a society is inversely related to the level of privacy individuals can have.

What I personally hope for is that people achieve a balance between safety and privacy.
But temperatures haven't increased significantly and especially not when you compare from late 1800 to mid 1900 thats almost the same increase around the 0.5 long before any significant co2 emissions from us.

Thats the point here.
It's not, but it actually won't be too long until the patents expire for it (a quick google says 2027). The same used to be true of mp3. It was ubiquitous, but annoyingly not open, and now it's both.
google refuses to support this on desktop linux though, it requires a patched chromium build. The only reason vaapi support is there at all is because their chromeOS uses it.
Assisting people in an effort to steal classified materials is not in fact something journalists fo all the time. The moment you cross the line from just receiving classified materials to paying for or helping to attempt steal, your stepping into criminality.
Probably don't even need the gyro, just a weighted gimbal.
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Naive, irrelevant question. Is kph the correct way to signal "kilometers per hour" in English?

I think I have seen this before in videogames maybe. Is it an US-only thing?
Just 3 km/h less than Japan’s current prototype (but approaching production) system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0_Series
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I guess it depends from the country and the type of contractor.
In UK, with a limited company, you pay less taxes (at least until next April). If you are under an umbrella company you will pay more taxes because you’ll be paying all the taxes of a normal employee plus the taxes of the employer. No idea if it is different in US and other countries honestly...
The greyscale text is way too light. Very hard on the eyes.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometres_per_hour,

> Internationally, km/h is the most commonly used unit of speed on traffic signs and speedometers

kph isn't incorrect, but it's not as commonly used.
Only if you are in the US. For the rest of us the price will probably drop.
"I'm traveling around asia without money please support my trip" - how is this not begging? Also: begging, busking, in this context, no difference.

If you want to travel, have the funds. Why on Earth would I support someone else's trip when I could save that money for my own?!
The distinction is somewhat ill-defined, I agree

But how would you classify something like SETI. Looking for radio waves that show a pattern. To me, that would be "searching directly for intelligence".
There is a hypothesis in ecology named "the mesopredator release". It states that when big predators are hunted until extinction, small and mid sized predator populations increase dramatically.
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It does on 19.04 I just installed it this week.
I've been using the Chrome extension I built [1] to set a task and block distractions that aren't relevant. This turns my browser into a less distracting environment which is a big help.

Even more important is setting the right physical environment - I'll try to find a relatively quiet coffee shop that doesn't play music (or at least not pop music). This is still fairly suboptimal though, especially because I am addicted to people-watching. After a couple of hours I usually find myself observing the facial expressions of baristas as they go about their job. The best working environment I've ever found was when I used to sneak into the psychology experiment cubicles at my university - small, isolated white rooms with no visual distractions.

Taking a small dose of dried psilocybin truffles (about 0.25g) can be quite helpful for focus. It puts me in more of a third-person view where I'm less likely to get distracted by external things although it also makes me more emotional which can sometimes leads me to get distracted by internal things.

I've used modafinil in the past which definitely aids focus (I think partly because it alleviates depressive feelings) but the long half-life ends up affecting my sleep and it becomes a negative trade-off in the end.

Morning is definitely the best time for getting work done. I find it very difficult to reach the same level of focus after lunch so I try to squeeze as much as I can into the first four hours of the day. This might be related to nutrition so I could do with experimenting with my lunch diet to improve this.

To-do lists and calendars are helpful to a point but I'm so bad at sticking to them that I often end up feeling deflated.

[1] - https://deepmode-website.herokuapp.com/
And you can go further afield for a similar experience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenchiemsee

I've been there, it's pretty amazing, shame he ran out of money to finish it off!
Just so I have good arguments when talking to someone about this specific point, can you or someone else please go into more detail on why this will happen?
QNX isn't US based, it's canadian.
Well obviously there ARE clear differences between SV and Wallstreet- but largely those barriers come from more concrete places. If you are managing money you generally have regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities. For example, you can't expect to be hired as an accountant without a requisite CPA exams. Whereas there simply aren't the same systems in place for most places in SV. It's worth noting that this is part of the reason SV gets a bad wrap when it moves into regulated areas with the attitude "Let's disrupt"
General question about video codecs: why are codecs tied to resolutions? Why can't some codecs be sued for resolutions larger than some maximum? This is probably the one thing I never understood about codecs.
The UN is precisely as powerful as the security council members make it. Most of them are increasingly loathe to bother with herding cats in the UN when its legitimacy is increasingly being undermined by corruption and hypocrisy.

It's not quite reached League of Nations irrelevancy, but it isn't far off.
Nouvelle idea: maybe we should just lock people up who violate people's safety instead of taking away everyone privacy ;-)
I meant the governments of South America which were being spied on and I believe it was all of them.
Etcher does have really nice UX for casual users though. It couldn't really be much easier to use.
In the UK it was too late for me to watch unfortunately.
I think evaluating the skills is not difficult within the timespan of an interview, if done right.

Let's sit down at a specific problem I am working on. Let me tell you what I'm doing with the tools that I have. Your past work was in some way similar, and you can relate to what I'm doing in some way. Either you can jump right in and take over the keyboard, or you can tell me how you solved a similar problem with your tools and frameworks. I can show you how it's done with my setup, and teach you a few things in the process - which you will easily pick up as you have related experience. You got either questions that are exciting, maybe challenging me how I am doing it, or maybe teach me just a keyboard shortcut I didn't know, proving the time and effort you spent on this. We are both excited to learn a lot in a short amount of time and I know I want you to work with us...
"Also, I am told a constant issue with pills is dosage is deeply uncertain, hence the MDMA deaths issue at Australian festivals"

I'll admit I haven't kept up with the research since I stopped going to house (now known as 'EDM' apparently) parties 20 years ago, but back then it was well known that 'mdma deaths' were actually people dying of dehydration or because of hearth issues due to combining mdma with other drugs. What's the status today? Do people actually die from mdma itself, or just in circumstances where mdma is involved?
It isn't. Judging someone by their ethnicity is.
In three years they developed the technology needed, more likely just ripped off the tech from Siemens on the Shanghai line.
Yeah, I visit /dpt/ regularly. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
On the other hand if we concentrate nature tourism to a handful of places then all those other beautiful places will be left alone and remain beautiful. Everybody dumping their trash on Everest means that there's no trash on any of the other mountains.
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I for one have been using a Honor (Huawei) phone for over 3 months with DNSFilter app running 24x7. Blocked all google domains after I installed the necessary apps from playstore. I don't see any problems if google shuts of Honor/Huawei devices permanently. I'd say it will be a benefit of Honor/Huawei phones. It will be the most privacy friendly phone out of the box.

Edit-
I use Newpipe instead of Youtube. So thats the alternative for the last google service I'd need everyday.
Fuck me that's funny. Well done.
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I ask, safety from what? From citizens or the state? Your statement implies that the freest societies are the least "safe", and the most repressed are the "safest". While you might be able to hinder criminality on the part of citizens with total surveillance, the cost of giving anyone that kind of power is too high.

Relinquishing privacy puts a society on a path where all power accrues to the state, to the detriment of all citizens.
ok, it makes sense, but then the consultant is kind of the 3rd option in my previous post but his job is to advise rather than actually do all the work, right?
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I’ve been a software developer since my teens. QBasic, Pascal, Delphi, Java, C# (chronological). Last 13 years I’ve been working on a system that was initially created by a small team lead by me. It’s evolved over the years with many people coming and going. Objectively it’s a big ball of mud.

Never went into management because I can’t handle people. I have no savings, no friends. I don’t connect to people. I’m married and have two kids. I have huge debt that will take another 25 years to pay off.

Am I a failure and since I already know the answer, how do I change it.
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Wouldn't help. The only 2 viable stores out there are the apple and google official ones.
Yea but no updates for the rest of the world either. What you get with the phone is basically it, no more updates after that. Now that I think about it, the new phones won't probably have GApps in general, so no market store -> no apps (I'm sure there'll be a different market app, like Amazon or someone's, but let's get real, who wants that?)
If you were talking 200-300/day revenue would you hire lawyers? It's in that zone where you have to seriously consider
Yes. It is, in principle, possible for someone to lie about their needs though I'm not sure why they should.

It also doesn't tell us where the need in question ranks on the Maslow Hierarchy, but those at top are still needs.
About half of the frames get dropped for me.
https://i.imgur.com/MeLQXST.png
'You aren't stuck in traffic. You are traffic.'
Not specific to facial recognition but covers it and the deeper issues. It is a thorough yet accessible primer on the many ways bias can creep into these systems:

https://parametric.press/issue-01/the-myth-of-the-impartial-...
Have you tried this Italian audio course?
> What I find interesting is that Apache Licensed software can be relicensed even in proprietary form (as long as you make it a derivative work, with your derivative bits with a proprietary license), thus the easy way out seems to be to have a non-US entity make a proprietary fork of AOSP. I do not see a legal reason why this company would not be able to sell AOSP to Huawei under these conditions.

IANAL, but: any such fork would remain a Derivative Work of AOSP in which Google would hold some copyright. When Huawei came to redistribute it, they would need licenses from all the copyright holders - this company, Google, any other contributors. Normally this does not matter: the Apache license states "each Contributor hereby grants You...", and You is defined as "an individual or Legal Entity exercising permissions granted by this License".

No doubt the US government can enforce whatever capricious fines it likes within the US. But I find it hard to imagine a European court finding Huawei guilty of copyright infringement for distributing Google work that came with a clear, simple license granting them permission to distribute. If the US government wants to say that Google can't grant that permission, that's between Google and the USG. And given that the Apache license states that the grant of permission is "perpetual, ..., irrevocable" and came with a copy of AOSP that Huawei has no doubt downloaded and read years before the current crisis, trying to revoke that permission now doesn't work either.
I'm not really sure which is which but the webm version looks way way way better to my eye. Not even any comparison really.
when you talking about balance, you must associate a timeframe with it. the amount of safety you get by sacrificing a single unit of privacy can be changed through technological advancement.
Admittedly only been four of those places, but they where nowhere near as bad as those pictures show. Those photos all seem to of the most crowded space the photographer could find in the middle of peak tourist season.
At 340Km, a 1.5 degree beam covers a circle of just under 9Km diameter. Let's call it 50 square Km.

Population density in Boston is over 5000/sqKm, so 250,000 people have to share that satellite. If 10% are subscribers and they use it 10% of the time, that's 2500 simultaneous users.

Starlink has claimed 20Gb/s per satellite, which gives 1 Gb/s per 125 simultaneous users in this high-density area. That's not great, but it's also not awful.

In any less population-dense area, it can be reasonably competitive, especially as the end-user deployment model is expected to be "here's a pizza-box sized antenna: make sure it's pointed in this general direction of the sky, and give it power and ethernet."
I assume a large company like Huawei can replicate the play store experience. Is there anything stopping them from creating a mirror of the most popular .apks?
This is gatekeeping and bullshit one at that. I travel because it's an activity that I find enjoyable, just like I find many others. That's all the justification anyone ever needs.

In comparison, I also move to a new country every ~2.5 years on average because I get bored of the place I live in after a while, and that does nothing to reduce the enjoyment I get from traveling to new places.
You won't need any third party ones on Windows soon enough.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
No-one knows the type of char + char
I believe that if Google doesn't license AOSP to Huawei (whether by their own free choice or not), it might be that they are in violation of the Linux kernel GPL2 agreement that they have made with Linus / Linux Foundation.
> all I hope is that people realise sooner or later that the level of safety you can acquire in a society is inversely related to the level of privacy individuals can have

What leads you to think that this is always true? Do you not think there are any other solutions to reducing crime other than increasing surveillance?
After working in a web agency for years, my number 1 red flag that the project is going to go badly is the quality of their current website they’re hiring you to fix/replace.

If it’s solid but just a bit old or needs more features, you’re fine. But, if it’s crap, look out.

The quality or lack of is never down to the the people who built it (unless it was by the MD’s nephew or something), especially if the client blames them for it.

It just shows they can’t run a project properly and whatever you end up with will be just a slightly newer pile of crap. And they’ll slag you off to the next lot.

Number two red flag is if they say at any point “You tell us, you’re the experts!” This can be translated to, “We don’t know what we want but we’re going to reject whatever you say anyway.”
I fully agree. Google had to comply, but it is not in its advantage because it shows that Google is too much powerful and that is problematic.
That is still slower than subsampling.
> Which part do you oppose the most?

The one where you lift property prices so high that nobody can live in the city centres anymore.
Once this is globally available how would a nation state block access? Does a system like this really equalize access?
Are there any tools to check wether exceptions produced by this approach are safely handled? I can imagine this implemented in linters.