skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large U.S. cities are very different from big cities in rest of the developed world. I live in NYC. I've spent a lot of time in places like London, Tokyo, Sydney, etc.

London has a higher standard of living in many respects. The Tube is cleaner, operates more efficiently and you don't run into homeless and crazy people as often. Public spaces are more respected.

NYC has garbage all over the place outside of Manhattan and major social problems (homelessness, racial disparity issues that lead to resentment and crime). The school situation is horrible compared to the suburbs. These issues stem from America's historical racial problems. American's don't want to invest in public transit because many people think public transit will bring crime and underrepresented minorities. Schools in cities are bad because of a history of segregation. Garbage is strewn about the streets since public services are cut and people don't respect public spaces.

However, if you're rich and live in Manhattan you can largely avoid these issues by sending your kids to private schools and living around other rich people. Streets are cleaner, even subway stations are better.
Section 215 of the Patriot Act was not reauthorized, for one.
I think you've hit the nail in the head. I recently had a similar thought that the 'expansion' of the cosmos may simply be "the same distances divided into more chunks". I.e. initially, at the big bang, the analogy was 1/1, i.e. the whole universe was of distance '1' divided by '1', and as the universe 'expanded', it didn't really expand, it was actually the divident being incremented, which created more chunks in the universe. It is as if we have a computer display of 1x1 meter, and we gradually increase the resolution; the actual size of the display wouldn't change, but its resolution would.

Of course your explanation is much more scientific than mine, which is just a hunch.

Such 'resolution' increase of the universe would explain nicely its expansion.

I wonder if the creation of wormwholes that would allow travelling to distant systems in human lifetimes would simply be the opposite effect of damping of this frequence of our universe. By reversing the damping, the "resolution" of the universe may decrease and then moving from one place to the other would require a lot less time.

Also, could gravity be a change of this frequency by mass?
Surely the title should say "pro(of)gramming language", not "(proof)gramming language". What is a gramming language?
Also well worth look at Robert Carver's material, ex HF guy:

https://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

A google will turn up plenty of videos and interviews too.
How would blockchain make anything “unstoppable”? Malicious DNS records could still end up in the chain via other attacks. How does such a system handle establishing ownership of a namespace in the first place?
So in summary:

- The Guardian is more Blairite than Corbynite. This one is not a surprise.

- Relations between MI6 and The Guardian got worse with Snowden, and then got better again. This isn't shocking.

The UK is running out of top-tier independent media platforms. This is concerning. But the dominance of millionaire-owned right-wing tabloids, and the failure to implement any of the recommendations of the Leveson report is far more concerning.
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Not OP but I also have a timer for certain social media apps, including Facebook.

For me, the timer is just there to remind me X minutes have passed. Losing track of time while doing something, anything feels natural to me. It happens in real life when I stumble upon a friend on the street and we start chatting and it happens in social media when I scroll too much.

If I'm reading something and my time is up, I just extend that and able to close the app afterward.
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Agree and disagree.

Yes, the chips and sensors used in modern phone cameras are ridiculously good for the size and cost. And phone cameras started replacing budget and mid-price P&S cameras years ago.

But, Apple's move to a triple camera set-up is really compelling. Not only has the phone replaced the average P&S, it's now replacing higher end P&S. The main argument for a separate P&S these days is a zoom lens. Apple just made that argument moot (superzooms notwithstanding). You can now take landscape, snapshot, and portrait photos natively on the camera without stitching or cropping. That's amazing. Or, at least I think so.

I was considering replacing my wife's older Canon S90 P&S with a new Sony RX100 IV. I probably won't bother - I'll just replace her iPhone 8 with an 11 Pro.
'I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.'
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KFC is apparently creating a Colonel Sanders dating sim
No cache lines on a 6502, though!
Bakkt to Require $3.9K Down Payment on Bitcoin Futures Contracts
Is there a reason you chose a link to the Media Research Center for the polling on healthcare rather than the poll itself[1]? The Media Research Center (MRC) is unapologetically opposed to left-wing ideas. From their About Us[2] section:

>The Media Research Center is America’s premier media watchdog. Since 1987, the MRC has worked to expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media."

Is that a source that we should trust to have a balanced view of a left-wing policy proposal? While the poll does show that only 21% support abolishing private insurance, it also shows that only 32% oppose abolishing private insurance. So you have a lot of people that aren't committed either way when it comes to private insurance. Overall, 56% support a national program even if it leads to higher taxes (vs 40% oppose). So the underlying data is quite different from what you are presenting.

[1]: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/07/01/rel8a.-.democrats.a...

[2]: https://www.mrc.org/about
HAProxyConf 2019
Labor law jurisprudence allows for piercing the veil when a company outsources its primary revenue generating function.
You can have the batteries swapped out though. I had the battery on my 6S replaced twice. The first time I got it for free because of the degraded performance issue and even the second time was very well priced ($60??) and have the phone a new wind. However, now the power connector had become very loose and disconnects randomly when moved wrong. I probably could have that fixed as well for cheap, but want the new camera. On my recent vacation I took almost no photos because I wanted my wife to take all the good shots with her XR Max.
I'm on the fence though because I use ApplePay a lot and cannot imagine using that with FaceId and I also am somewhat attached to the audio jack. I don't want to carry headphones for my phone and another set for my Switch when on a long trip.
This guy is such a fame hog. Do you really need a full page face shot on the cover of your book? C'mon dawg.

As a side note, I wonder if he feels obligated to keep the stubble goatee since it's part of 'his look.'
I believe most of those contracted workers are still W2 employees, just at other companies.
Everyone here's talking about Uber, I would guess most of the unintended consequences will be less visible. Smaller companies, freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, that whole ecosystem might undergo a chilling effect.
I'm not exactly sure I'd call 4 a feature though either -- just dumb luck.

And from the reading, it sounds like this was intentional behavior: Make a random move if there is no clear good move.
I am not so certain about this. SPecifically, the claim that HIPAA anonymous datasets can be used to reidentify- yes, we know this is technically possible. But, the implication that's it's legal- I don't think that is specifically correct. By the terms of the law (of which I am far too familiar), if you did this you would generate PHI, which would fall under the privacy rule (and could not be resold).

I don'tknow the specifics about the data brokers you're describing, this is a huge and complicared area, but I think it's correct to say that companies cannot re-identify de-identified data and then resell it as identified data, legally, under HIPAA.
As another poster wrote, Twitter uses 1FA for SMS
Except not. Cookies (and just generally browser storage) for authentication and other purely functional needs are fine without any disclaimer nonsense.

Of course folk get creative and declare Google Analytics "purely functional." Really, Butlerian Jihad can't come soon enough.
Here's the thresholds: https://www.coveredca.com/PDFs/FPL-chart.pdf

Med-cal is basically poverty level coverage (138% FPL - $29k for a family of 3)

The main issues with can't afford (or more honestly can afford but it is very painful) healthcare are at the higher numbers as subsidies fade out. $83k for a family of 3 has no subsidies, but even high deductible insurance is going to go for $10k/year (meaning expected costs are realistically hitting above $13k). That's over 20% of take-home income.
There seems to be a lot of anti Chinese/Hong Kong/Brexit feeling going on here.

Is there actually a mechanism where this could be a problem for the UK/The West? Exchanges are pretty well regulated, I don't see how this is going to be a particular problem.

Edit: Spelling
> One thing I know he cannot do is drive a car

That's specific to your friend, not true in general. Lots of people drive with only one functional eye. At the visual distances involved, the depth perception provided by stereoscopic vision doesn't matter much. Especially with all the relative motion. My dad has been driving successfully for 65 years with only one working eye.
Canada does not require its citizens abroad to file taxes.

I'm sure there are other controversies and things going on, but that's what we were talking about.
The question is, can you really go fully renewable with battery storage? If power can be sourced elsewhere but it comes from nuclear or fossil fuels (as in the case of Germany and France), it would be a sham. If everyone went renewable, everyone would also have the same problem of seasonal variance.

If you want to go "mostly renewable" and do the buffering e.g. with natural gas as it is currently done, that's of course a far more plausible scenario.
Before caniuse, I remember my goto site was quirksmode[0]. Not only did it had the compatibility tables but also great advice and pages with test for everything.

[0] https://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html
I would love for that to work, but connectors take up space, and interop issues take up a lot of dev time. Just look at the enormous effort that goes into Lineage ports for hundreds of random devices— and those devices are all static, fixed configurations. How much worse would this be for thousands of permutations of off the shelf components?

As far as the physical side, how upgradeable is a typical laptop relative to a desktop? Some laptops let you upgrade the RAM, maybe the disk. But none offer processor, camera, speaker, keyboard, trackpad, internal wifi/bluetooth, or screen upgrades. PCMCIA is dead. There are hardly any removable batteries any more— and those that are do not have a standard interface or form factor.

So take all of those issues and shrink everything down by a further order of magnitude. It's not hard to see that making a phone with upgradeable internal components is a very tall order.
But surely the first researcher is also in a state of quantum superposition and they are 50/50 opening/not opening the box.

So how does time come into the equation? And does that mean that any observation is localised and there's no need for many worlds except in unobserved areas of the universe?
> jve is short for j onathani ve?

Nop
2FA over SMS is fine. It’s not a terribly strong second factor, but it’s decent, and far better than nothing.

The problem is when companies implement 1FA over SMS and call it “2FA.” That is a catastrophically had idea, and unfortunately it confuses people into thinking that 2FA over SMS is somehow dangerous.
This is some real investigative journalism that should overtake the pro-establishment propaganda that passes for 'news'.
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Wow, a gas discharge mixer! I couldn't believe it exists...
What exactly does Amazon have a monopoly on?

They are big and the easiest and most obvious to use and their prices are frequently good, but none of those are exclusively Amazon.
MWI is not incompatible with postulating the Born rule if you want to. It just doesn't elevate it to an axiom of the theory. It's like doing constructive mathematics: you're not denying the law of excluded middle, you can postulate it and it will have the usual consequences, but the core theory doesn't rely on it, and it's possible to hope for a more elegant alternative.
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I'm not necessarily in the 'build one from scratch' camp either, I'm just pointing out that there's a trilemma in enterprise systems. How fast you're able to get something up and running is just one factor and not always the most important one.
> As a business owner if you want to hire some other human being to work for your company then it should be your natural instinct that wants you to learn everything that makes the life of that other human being easy to work for you

Everything? That'd be thousands of pages of regulations to sift through and understand. So, no, there's no "natural instinct" to do that.

Kind of going overboard on the rest of it. They just want to hire some part time help, not staff a coal mine.
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SMS is only as good as the cell providers security, which has been shown over and over again to be terrible. It should never be used in any ongoing authentication.
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Soil scientist researches nature versus nurture in microorganisms
Really should have had skiing in Tribes on there. Holding down the jump button reduced friction to zero, so players could slide down hillsides at high speeds and launch themselves into the air by going over bumps. Every attempt at reviving the franchise has struggled with implenting skiing as a properly intentional feature, and not quite recaptured the magic.
This piece seems to be entirely about feelings of tiredness? That can be important in some sorts of performance but what the other effects of sleep. For instance, the quality of your NREM sleep subsequent to learning new vocabulary or REM sleep after learning new motor skills has a large effect on how well the training takes. Do we have any evidence that people who feel the need for less sleep, e.g., learn new languages as fast as people who get 8 hours a night or do they learn them as fast as people who get 6 hours a night but use stimulants to prevent feelings of tiredness? I can actually imagine mutations that give people faster sleep spindles or something but that's very important for evaluating the impact of these sorts of genes.
At a fundamental level, I trust the moral compass of the average person more than I trust the moral compass of government which has incentives to do the wrong thing.

The most basic tool of law enforcement investigation is the average citizen calling the police when they see someone doing something wrong. Unethical laws are more difficult to enforce, because the average citizen doesn't call the police when they see someone breaking an unethical law. Most people don't call the police when they see someone smoking marijuana, for example, because the average person has a moral compass which tells them that putting someone in jail for smoking marijuana is reprehensible. Historically, whenever the law has been wrong, many people have been saved by people refusing to report them: the underground railroad, hiding of Jews in Nazi Germany, gays under anti-sodomy laws, etc.

In contrast, I believe that when someone is actually doing something wrong, people call the police on them. If I witness a murder, rape, child abuse, etc., I would absolutely call the police. And while there are certainly high profile cases of people standing by and letting bad things happen, I trust people to do the right thing most of the time.

Pervasive surveillance bypasses witnesses as the basic tool of law enforcement, which takes the power out of the hands of the average person. This might allow law enforcement to catch more bad guys, and if that were the only concern, violating our privacy might make sense. But the flipside is that it allows law enforcement to put more people in jail who aren't bad guys--people who smoke weed, teenagers who sext, etc. As long as there are unethical laws, privacy is the fundamental tool which allows average people to trust their own moral compasses and not call the police on people who are breaking unethical laws.
Of course they don't have to schedule them. But if Uber has to take them on as employees, then Uber might reasonably want to take advantage of their right as an employer to force them to work certain shifts.
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In theory usage of SHA-256 or SHA3-256 should be secure against current known quantum attacks.
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And yet another is they don't have confidence in the public sector running it well.
I should have been more clear in my comment that we need to allow the lower classes free access to the subway. You're absolutely right that distance-based fares with no support structures would fuck a lot of vulnerable people.
>Not sure how you could avoid this vector.

While this is a theoretical problem anywhere, it's a practical problem when ordering from Amazon far more often than anywhere else. Going to a reputable physical store likely shields you from the second scenario nearly as well as the first. Also, in the case of Yubico at least, you can order directly from their website, which presumably minimizes the number of hands the product has to go through, thus minimizing opportunities for a counterfeit to be swapped in.
> using that information to sell you things.

The horror.

The threat isn't corporations. The threat is when the government goes rogue as governments tend to do unpredictably from time to time. The threat materialises in the government using private corporation data to target arbitrary minorities (although usually the educated, wealthy, foreign and free-spirited).

People seem to think that because it "could never happen here" they can just ignore the possibility. Then it turns out that that sometimes it can.

Privacy isn't just about the world as it stands today. Privacy is an acknowledgement that the present and the future are linked and that the future may be profoundly different from today. People aggressively selling you things is more harassment.
Birth rates in the US mean nothing if the birth rates elsewhere are high -- immigrants, legal or otherwise, will make up the difference.
The law allows for veil piercing in situations like that, meaning they could skip the temporary intermediaries and just treat Uber as the employer.

Believe it or not, they did think of issues like this when drafting the law. Especially since almost all of these other issues brought up in the comments are decades old and already addressed by existing labor laws.
Cellphone is extremely space constrained device, ATX main board case isn’t really valid argument. I build last computer very long time ago, but I think, that motherboard for Core 2 Duo also requires different power supply connector than Ryzen. Basically only the case and monitor are common components for both. I don’t think, major players want to standardize components. This might cost more and add limitations.
> complicated

Yes, like, say, having an accountant that can read and understand your taxes where you live in Italy and then use that information to file US taxes. And of course they'll need to understand the tax treaty between the two countries so you don't end up paying extra. Of course it's complicated and a huge pain in the ass! And that's with a relatively normal, stable, well-established country with a lot of US citizens living in it.

I should add: $400 is also a bigger deal when you live somewhere and don't earn as much as a software developer in the US.
Yeah. A lot of my attitude about pricing turns into pro-nuclear advocates treating me as Treehugging Enemy of Progress, and one of the things they point to is the always-in-the-future dream of small, simple thorium molten salt reactors. But the best I've seen on that is a company that promises 30 cent megawatts in 2030, but doesn't really have a working prototype yet. And it would take, what, two decades past that to really get that going at scale? We can't wait 30 years to do something about greenhouse gasses just because we really really really want to do it with nuclear.
If I want to truly understand something and retain information, I slow down my reading to a crawl and start taking notes on index cards.

I then later transfer those index cards into notes on my computer into equivalent "cards", which let me edit or
rework the information on the fly.

Sometime, I transfer some of the information into Anki SRS, requiring yet another rework into flash cards, and permanently anchoring the information into my brain.
To be honest I don't know whether he is allowed to drive or not, he thinks he isn't allowed and never pursued it.
No, those examples you give would be taken care of as part of the "B" part of the test. Plumbing and website design is certainly not the main business of restaurants and real estate agents.

The problem becomes if you need to hire a freelance programmer to do some work for your software development company. There the "C" part of the test becomes a lot more of a gray area IMO.
It's not about the complexity, it's the cost and risk exposure. Employees come with costs (workers comp being the big one) and risk exposure that 1099 workers do not have (and what the employer gets in the trade-off is more direct control). For someone doing menial work and getting industry experience on the side (most trades have entry level jobs like this) that additional cost/risk could be the difference between their position existing and just tacking the responsibility onto some other existing employee.
It's a shame that doesn't exist. I've always thought you could make an especially strong argument for licensing for embedded software people, for many of the same reasons that a PE is licensed.

It wouldn't be a requirement for a job necessarily, but not a bad thing to have.
a College degree != a professional license
Reference: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-was-told-epstein-belo...
I think in some areas of physics, such as high-energy physics, there is not much left to discover. The Standard Model works. What branches of physics are likely to see progress?
I speed read ‘naturally’ particularly I’ve been told that I ‘chunk’ & ‘visual read’. I have to take the reading experts word for it as to me it’s just reading.

All told I’d say it’s neither positive or negative. I’ve had to teach myself techniques to slow down especially on technical material but I can get through business style reading extremely fast. Different texts and contexts require different techniques.