skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>There are more considerations than just "number of jobs" vs "quality of jobs" in evaluating what is better.

And this is why I'm specifically and repeatedly not getting into the discussion of "which is better". Because that's a whole other discussion.

I'm just pointing out that when it comes to job creation, there's 2 axis. Both have pros, both have cons. You say X is better, I say Y is better, objectively there's data on either side, subjectively there's opinions on both sides, frankly I'm not interested in all that. Just pointing out that there's a rational opponent to your points. Not trying to be him.
Is that really a smart fight for the NCAA to pick? California has some big name sports programs, and the NCAA is an organization whose legality is not really firmly established. If the California AG decides to open a case investigating whether the NCAA is an illegal cartel existing to exploit the labor of their ‘amateur’ athletes, I can’t imagine it would go particularly well for them.
Also look up Sidney Rittenberg [0]. He wrote a book and there's a documentary on him. He was friends with Mao and imprisoned by him. He wrote a book [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPJB7H4/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
One point that is so basic that physicists often forget to explain it: leptons and quarks don't really have a "size," they are considered point particles. A proton is a configuration of three point particles though whether it makes sense to say that this configuration has some spatial structure is beyond me.

Also, mass has nothing to do with size, or "stuff"-ness. A proton has about 100 times more mass than its quarks (from binding energy), but an atom has less mass than its protons and electrons added up (from the loss of potential energy). A top quark has about as much mass as an atom of gold, but again is just a point particle. And photons have no mass but the energy of photons bouncing around in a confined space does have mass.
Simply asserting that you're somehow impervious to corporate power is not an argument. Individuals only have the absolute power to not transact in an ideal market where there is vibrant competition for your business, and our real market is far from ideal.

1. Persistent psychological manipulation (advertising), including political manipulation, based on knowing your weaknesses better than you know yourself.

2. Punitive insurance rates based on unreasonable inferences, especially for mandatory insurances. Like say doubling your auto insurance rate for buying more than a few beers per week. Or your health insurance going up due to buying power tools.

3. Blacklisted and prevented from working industry wide. A good concrete example I got from HN just the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulting_Association .

4. Prevented from or price-gouged when using vital services. For example - the unbanked (ChexSystems), recent Internet censorship (Visa/MC), Internet service ("six strikes").

The issue isn't the straw man of being "dragged out of your apartment by McDonalds employees", but rather being prohibited from buying food due to being uniformly banned from McDonalds, Burger King, and Walmart - say you've previously shoplifted but have served your sentence, are simply wrongly accused, or perhaps just didn't respect a sign saying to take off your sunglasses.

I know you're likely to respond to these by defining them away as not being problems in your paradigm, but paradigms are only as good as their constructive results. Our current politicatastrophe is basically due to people clinging to their chosen paradigm way past its utility. FWIW our modern society is indistinguishable from a "Libertarian Paradise" where USG is a private corporation that owns everything and who've you've contracted with to be here. An axiomatic approach of morality-by-construction doesn't work - the only way is to judge qualitative situation.
Not sure about dev-ops specifically, but eng salaries for 1-2 years experience are around 70-90k in general.

I would expect dev ops to be around that, maybe slightly lower.
Yeah, the summary (blood deadly to mosquitoes) seems completely unrelated to the rest of the article.

I'm disappointed by the quality of this article.
Taxi companies don't hire you, you're just another contractor for them as well.
This is also known as the Wigner's Friend paradox.

Your explanation is not the standard understanding of Many Worlds today, however. The party line is that world splitting happens when decoherence has become "sufficiently irreversible" (for some arbitrary definition of "sufficiently", since there's no evidence of genuine irreversibility anywhere in physics), which in almost all real-world setups happens almost immediately.
Not necessarily. My husband’s company that I was referring to was publicly traded, although much smaller than Google or Facebook. They took care of payroll taxes due on the value of the vested stock; we paid the income tax to the IRS quarterly. The value of the stock was included in his W2, however if we waited until we filed our taxes we would have incurred penalties, on top of a hefty tax bill.

Companies like Google may handle things differently, and companies that deal in RSUs may as well. My point still stands that you need to understand the tax implications of your offer.
Tiny Pacific Nation Is Making a Go of Its Own Digital Currency
'Irrelevant': panel pours scorn over Google's ideas for Toronto smart city
> I wish I could say otherwise, but I haven't seen a single thing change

I've seen intranet encryption between internal services become much more commonplace
Exactly. This goes double for when we are talking about investments.

If the proposed strategy really really works, then you would get investors and offer them a share of the pie. "Teaching" them accomplishes nothing and reduces your profits.
It almost sounds as if the journalist believes Ivermectin _is_ a bacteria and a drug derived from it is killing malaria. Agreed that this smacks of sloppy science journalism.
Striction BP Reviews
Unsubstantiated, repeated, insinuated character assassination plays poorly on HN.

Especially in face of repeated requests for clarity and/or specifics.

The initial question might have passed muster (I'd considered giving it the benefit of the doubt). Reading the rest of the thread, it fails badly.
A known liar making a truthful statement doesn't mean they have credibility.
Patron License 1.0.0
Many people aspire to provide for a family.

Considering tech companies earn fantastic profit per employee, the employees are not overpaid at all.
Most likely global population figures are reflecting the sign of the times. There was a period of 'irrational exuberance' between 1998 and 2004 where the 2100 projections suddenly dropped to as low as 8.4 billion, but after that we have been reverting to the projections of the 1980's and 1990's of 11B+.
I think this is the view that scientists if they are interested more in the task of prediction than anything else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9KGqr5Wtw
When I was doing cosmology, the scales we were talking about were absurd - "model this galaxy cluster as a point" scales. So it seems conceivable to me that enough GEODEs, well-distributed, could look uniform on this scale.
U.S. Engineering Salaries Jump; Smartphone Developers Win Big
I prefer REST especially for public/external APIs. It's more empathetic towards third party developers who may not be as intimate with your API as your internal team. For example, much easier to reason a few well-understood entities like items, users, and orders if I was building an e-commerce API then a list of RPC operations. I would add GraphQL can also be easier to understand as long as the entity relations make sense. Lot's of exciting stuff happening in the GraphQL world but it does have disadvantages also.
> I was very unpleasantly surprised that it was possible to lose a substantial part of my retirement fund contributions, taken out of my salary, after quitting.

To be clear, anything you directly contributed from your paycheck is yours and isn't subject to vesting. That's always your money. The part that may have vesting rules is the employer contribution.
The market is functioning as expected, to me.
Section 164.514(b)

"The following identifiers of the individual or of relatives, employers, or household members of the individual, are removed:

...

(B) All geographic subdivisions smaller than a state, including street address, city, county, precinct, ZIP code, and their equivalent geocodes, except for the initial three digits of the ZIP code

(C) All elements of dates (except year) for dates that are directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date, death date, and all ages over 89 and all elements of dates (including year) indicative of such age, except that such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older

...
"

This the "Safe Harbor" method.

You could use the "Expert Determination" method. However, date + time + location attached to health information in your first data set definitely doesn't meet the criteria. I'll eat my hat if you find a supposed "non-PHI" data set with those.

In fact, the criteria for expert determination is literally that re-identification cannot be performed (without already having PHI-type information).
Alien world found to have water vapor and possibly rain clouds
There are few popular books which don't end up at either your local public library, or on Library Genesis, within a few weeks, these days.

I'm a fan of authors being compensated. I'm an even bigger fan of information being a public good. These are not mutually exclusive propositions.
Yea, I dislike infinite scrolling because I'm a user, but these sites love infinite scrolling because there is no barrier to continuing to browse, in ye olden days there would be a load time when clicking onto the next page - in the modern world performance is likely not a concern or the next page is already loaded and just swapped out in the current view - but it is still disorienting to the user as that action will usually shift their view.

Interestingly the approach I think works the best (except for the poor input experience on anything that isn't a touch screen) is infinite horizontal scrolling since the footer and header elements remain expectedly stable while not overlapping any information the user wants to view... horizontal scrolling is very poorly supported by input devices and using the scroll wheel to move left/right makes the user think too much.
Similar happened here once.

For a century, people thought the mt. Bobotov Kuk is the highest in Montenegro. We even have a huge national park around it.

Then one geography teacher with small group of students actually climbed the other one, Zla Kolata, measured height, and concluded it's like 10m taller.
How does that work? Do you just have to buy a new special car seat that is safe for that weight? Convertibles only go up to 50 or so pounds, and those are for the European NUNAs.

Never mind. According to google, these are what we Americans call “high backed booster seats”.
CA is one of their few profit centers. It's also 10% of the population of the USA. No business would choose to exclude CA, and CA knows this. That is why they can get away with these heavy handed regulations.
> contributed nothing to fighting Soviet totalitarianism

I wouldn't say nothing. At the very least, they made sure that Russia wasn't planning to fire any nukes at us.
If the government has "extreme negotiating ability" that citizens lack, then why does it continue to allow price gouging on drugs?
I think they only have it in Texas as of now
Thanks! And totally agree. We talked about this leading up to this launch and went back and forth with it. The runkit example you see on the site is using the actual production Node SDK because we want developers to literally be able to copy and paste the code. So we also want to make sure the console output is appropriate for all environments. We'll find a balance though.
Diagnosed at 65 for the first time. It is effing real - not sure I knew what "attention" was before - not calm attention anyway. Don't take stimulants if you don't have the condition - or you just might give it to yourself. If you must try ephedrine - possibly illegal but still available online.
>If Uber and Lyft are using public utilities/infrastructure for profit(like roads), then they should be obligated to pay the government to use that infrastructure to get their jobs done. If you don't work for Uber or are a shareholder, do you want to subsidize their business with tax payer money?

Can you quantify (ballpark) the amount of money we're losing out on currently as far as roads and associated infrastructure goes? I imagine it's near zero as payroll taxes don't fund those, and the contractors are still paying taxes.
If they want it why do they keep voting in representatives who actively fight it the whole way?

This is kind of a pointless question, because the answer is complex and includes things like 'gerrymandering' and 'vote suppression', but it's still a fact that many elected representatives from both parties actively fight public health care.
Whataboutism is just plain dumb. One country doing bad things in no way justifies any other country doing bad things. Especially when there is broad agreement amongst most people that both things are bad.
Of course this will vary widely, but how much can people living in the bay area, working for FAANGS expect to save every month?

Can somebody share an estimated figure?
We Asked Prosecutor If Health Insurance Companies Care About Fraud. They Laughed
Men have higher sex drive after having a vasectomy
Sure, I'm not saying it has no use case. If anything it sounds like you're using it for one of the classic things computers are used for - essentially creating data so others can run a query on it like any other CRUD app. The part I like a whole lot less is basically the part that's been there ever since we entered Eternal September!
Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations
>Apple has long been outsourced a large fraction of its hardware innovation capabilities to other companies rather than having a full vertical ownership of the production line, unlike its competitors (Samsung, Huawei, etc).

Apart from Samsung which does Full vertical ownership, there isn't any other company which does that. And Huawei uses Foxconn as well, OLED from BOE, NAND and DRAM from Multiple Sources etc. There is nothing from Huawei that shows Full Vertical Ownership.

>While all the competitors are shipping 5G in their flagships, iPhone 11 couldn't ship 5G due to their hard dependency on Qualcomm. In short, the current landscape doesn't allow Apple to keep itself on the bleeding edge in the smartphone business.

Apple wasn't the first with 4G, but they drove 4G adoption. And 5G isn't even ready, all current 5G solution on the market are big, bulky and power hungry. But it is great people are driven into these marketing hype, only by doing so they could recoup some of their R&D investment. For Apple, they will move to 5G when it is ready.

Yes it didn't allow Apple to be on the bleeding Edge of Foldable Screen. Look at what happen to Samsung. Bleeding Edge means nothing. Not everything has a first mover advantage. Innovation doesn't just requires Bleeding edge, that is Invention. Innovation requires Invention that brings Value to masses, and for that to happen, pricing is often an obstacle.
Why don't got use GitHub wiki?
> It pretty clearly means that the amount of food produced every day is the amount of food that 9B people consume every day.

I don't think that's all very clear to start with, but if that's what it means then I still don't consider it a useful metric; it's a local maxima that is reducing our ability to talk about long-term sustainable planning.

"Market forces" are largely ignoring the changing climate and food production's part in that. I don't think it's useful to only think about the daily food production and daily food requirements, since our real requirements are to plan to eat for a lifetime, not just one day at a time.

> Modern agriculture is incredibly efficient.

I think this is only true for narrow definitions of efficient. Modern agriculture is extremely inefficient in terms of pollution and sustainability.

If we implemented your idea of modern techniques globally I think we'd be in for a faster-than-expected change in climate that could put large swathes of that new infrastructure and land use at risk.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world. For example, fake success is worse.
The law doesn't categorize based on job titles that have no legal meaning.

You really think Uber can get around this by just changing everyone's title to "Driving Engineers"?
What you believe the platforms are doing seems similar, if not the same, to “front running”, which is not allowed in the US
The American National Society of Professional Engineers provides a model law and lobbies legislatures to adopt occupational licensing regulations. The model law requires:

1) a four-year degree from a university program accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Committee (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET),

2) an eight-hour examination on the fundamentals of engineering (FE) usually taken in the senior year of college,

3) four years of acceptable experience,

4) a second examination on principles and practice

5) written recommendations from other professional engineers.
They also own close to a majority stake in OYO, with pretty much the same story. OYO is also entering coworking now after Softbank had to scale back on their planned wework investment. The common thread seems to be that real estate has a massive market size, in trillions, making it easier to tell a bigger and bigger story and boost valuations.
>That's great to hear. Unfortunately, his actions haven't really done anything in the US.

At the very least it produced some dissonance between democratic establishment and their support base. Bill and Hilary continue to tour the country and I attended their road show in Seattle. Crowed cheered at every statement until they got to, and I quote, “Snowden is a traitor”, which produced very confused and subdued cheer. It was very fun to watch.
Of course and it just further masks the liability chain and helps fund associated shady acts.
You are getting taken advantage of. Start looking at other companies and DO NOT disclose your current salary during negotiation. Your salary could double and you still might be a bargain in NYC.
It's not out of spite. Healthcare is a fixed cost for employees.
Overtime costs more per hour in pay. Undertime costs more per hour because the same fixed costs are divided over fewer hours. If Uber has to pay fixed costs, they have a greater incentive to minimize undertime.
I've always seen this as a workflow/business failure.

Obviously they had a great product -- everyone I've shown EFaP to loves it. They could have spun it into something of a personal brand (like, say, CGP Grey or Nerdwriter did). But instead killed it off because it felt like more of a burden than a reward.

Might have been on monetization, or personal perspective. In the essay they seem uncompromising on quality, but there are probably ways to get similar quality output with fewer hours by improving the workflow. I imagine if they made tens of thousands of dollars per video, or built a large brand of the video's success, they wouldn't have felt like such a burden either.
>If, indeed, the client is trading based on no information whatsoever, then the broker wins and the client loses.

If this were the case, wouldnt both sides just make 0$ on average over a long period of time? (or whatever the avg growth of the market was during this period)

I guess the broker would earn fees, but that still doesn't exactly sound lucrative
The strange thing here is that United States uses more public money to health care than European welfare states. So Americans already now pay more taxes for health than Europeans. Some aspects of the U.S. health care system are incredibly ineffective use of money.

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

There are reasons for this; some of them good (the best care in the U.S. is very high quality and leading-edge technology, and consumer protection through litigation tries to minimize errors); some are bad (e.g. because of litigation, legal costs are very high, and the system seems to carry a lot of overheads, and many people still lack coverage).

It seems the so-called Obamacare wasn't a very good approach, because so many people felt it was ripping them off. Clearly it is easier to build an efficient public health care system from nothing (like e.g. my country Finland did in 20th century) than transform an existing system (which the U.S. has and where there are lots of incumbent operators that have "assets" that they protect.
I think it's unfair to place the blame entirely on consumers when Apple capitalizes on a culture which places value on having the latest gadgets and gizmos.
we had a lot of EULA garbage, and support phone calls before the cookie warnings. Private enterprise loves red tape too.
The renewable capacity on the ERCOT grid is overwhelmingly wind-based since wind has been much cheaper than solar until the last handful of years. Its output tends to peak at night. I think a lot of the peak-demand opportunity for gas in Texas is going to be blunted by solar and battery projects coming online soon.

"Can more solar help Texas meet peak demand?"

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/08/13/can-solar-help-ercot-...

There is a truly awesome amount of solar on the way in Texas, with ERCOT’s July interconnection report showing 62 GW of solar projects. And while given the highly speculative nature of project development most of those will likely not be built, there are nearly 9 GW of projects that have interconnection agreements, including 3.2 GW that have a full interconnection study completed.

Those projects that can secure financing and get built will come online over the next few years. It is difficult to say which ones will be online by next summer, but a June ERCOT report identified 1.3 GW of projects with interconnection agreements and financial security posted that are expected to come online later this year, a number which should grow as the year progresses.

"Developer eyes world's largest solar+storage facility for Texas"

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/developer-eyes-worlds-large...

"Energy Storage Developer Buys Texas Windfarms With Major Battery Retrofit Planned"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnparnell/2019/08/24/energy-s...

"GlidePath Builds Merchant Battery Plant in ERCOT, Bucking Industry Wisdom"

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/glidepath-bucke...
If you have wealth, you can essentially create an income, on paper, to look like whatever you want, to meet ACA subsidy qualifications. Here's an example of a practical application: You could rent, or buy a home with your wealth. If you buy a home outright, you won't have the monthly mortgage or rental payment (you'll have property taxes, but let's assume those are far lower than an ongoing monthly rent check).

Withdrawing from pre-tax retirement accounts counts as income for ACA purposes. You've now lowered your annual expenses (and thus, your income) and can qualify for subsidies, but all you've really done is shift some of your net worth from investment accounts to housing, in order to reduce annual expenses. This example is likely more applicable to a person in retirement, as well.
Between WeWork and Uber (which is trading at a valuation below its raise in May 2016), SoftBank's Vision Fund isn't looking so hot. How will this affect other companies who took money from SoftBank?

I wonder if some of these companies have painted themselves into a corner by accepting such high valuations. Each round of financing is coming from greater and greater fools...except the public markets are not as foolish as SoftBank and sovereign wealth funds. This isn't going to be good for the employees who want some liquidity.