skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading the Zerohedge blog for sometime now, I trained myself to spend time on posts Authored by Tyler Durden and avoid posts Authored by affiliated sites. In general you get some value when you read posts directly authored by Tyler Durden.
Depends on the business model. Some businesses cannot operate without outsourcing manufacturing to China. China also has more potential for growth than US and Europe combined.
That's really a pity (I am from Europe and would love to participate too!)
You think that's some kind of exception? All kinds of cyber criminals also work for western governments/agencies as consultants. E.g.:

"Since 2000, Mitnick has been a paid security consultant, public speaker and author. He does security consulting for Fortune 500 companies and the FBI, performs penetration testing services for the world's largest companies and teaches Social Engineering classes to dozens of companies and government agencies."
Are you referring to SAAB?

If I recall correctly the company was not going to make it during the Great Recession, and no buyers wanted them. So the Chinese bought them but still couldn’t save them from their ultimate fate.

The Chinese owner tried to revive the brand a couple of years ago with an electric vehicle, but I guess that didn’t work out after all.
You will end up with significant battery life reduction. Just saying.
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This is huge and is a subject I feel strongly about- especially for defense software.

Parts of the US Government are already sounding the alarm over this. see- https://innovation.defense.gov/software/

Basically, we are too slow. The contract acquisition process and waterfall development moves at a glacial pace. I have some serious doubts we will ever adapt since it would require a restructuring of the way our defense industry operates.
Fox news should not be allowed as an information source on HN. I read FN each day along with a number of other major publications and FN is bottom of the barrel for honesty or trustworthy reporting.
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Border image property with svg was one of the first approaches I tried and tried. It got about half way to about half the options and required more setup than just a single CSS file.

I got slightly further to what I wanted with border-mask, but still fell really far short.

Some of the biggest limits on both of those is: 1) the size definitions is only 4 numbers so same-edge corners share a dimension (reasonable but very limiting) 2) changing the color of the border required more effort than setting a css property 3) doing more than using a color was a no-go without hands-on svg work and dom insertion required. 4) applying it to a larger element meant the border got wider. You'd have to have separate svg parts for each width built in, which sucks.

It took almost a week before I realized I could do everything I wanted by using clip-path. As soon as I did though, I went all in. Clip path was the most work up front but resulted in the most possible options, the easiest setup, and the easiest general use. Borders and the inset are full-featured CSS backgrounds that support practically anything, the augs along the edge could have different positions with simple css properties, it scaled to any element without changing the border width or inset distance, and it all worked out of the box with a single CSS file added to your project.
This is related to his research. His latest podcast goes to it more deeply (there is a transcript): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/09/09/63-s...

The goal is to derive emergent spacetime and gravity from quantum mechanics.

Some features of their theory:

* Finite dimensional Hilbert space. Quantum field theory gets boot.

* Spacetime is entangled degrees of freedom in a way that semi-classical spacetime geometry emerges. Things are local because they are entangled not the other way around.

* Spacetime expands because initially untangled degrees of freedom become entangled with the rest of the the universe.
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I was the CEO/cofounder of Bloc, an online coding bootcamp. Our mentors started out as tutors but we eventually converted them all to employees and learned a lot about California labor law in the process.

What was frustrating about the labor laws is that there were never any clear rules about what constitutes a contractor versus employee, there are just some "smell tests" and guidelines but it's ultimately deferred to the judgement of California's labor bureau.

> a person providing labor or services for remuneration shall be considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation or business

The new laws being proposed here don't look much different from the guidelines that already exist, they're just more black and white leave less room for interpretation. I think the most troublesome one for startups is "the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business", but it shouldn't affect general contractors unless they're working for a general contracting company.
What you describe is word2vec which is one kind of word embedding that is pre-learned. Often (with keras at least ), embedding is learned simultaneously with the deep learning network. Keras uses index of words to progressively adjust a set of randomly initialized n-dimensional vectors. I’m telling you because I feel it may be the case for you too. The various kind of embedding was very confusing at first.

However, I just marvel at word2vec when I stumbled upon it. Encoding of meaning as vector dimensions was mind expanding for me.
WeWork Bonds Drop Below Par for First Time Since IPO Filing
It is to prevent re-infection of those already vaccinated.
> I was a senior in high school. Almost every classroom had the news on (except for one teacher who insisted on holding a calculus quiz as scheduled). We watched the towers come down as it happened.

Same but a year behind, right down to our math teacher being the only one who insisted on teaching class as usual (trig, for me, though she'd teach my calc class the next year).
But many of the non-Turbo variants also had turbochargers. Thus, in Porsche-land turbo no longer means turbocharged.
I learned how to type on a typewriter in a typing class in middle school, early seventies. #OldSchool

What helped me get good (but not excellent) was to write lots of English. Lots of that was/is email. Lots more than 140 characters at a time.
> is that legal?

Probably. Investors were amply aware of Adam’s self dealing. It was abundantly disclosed, and they accepted it as part of their investment.

Their wager was the self dealing was a fair cost to pay for WeWork’s growth. They didn’t count on public equity investors being a savvy bunch.

There will almost certainly be lawsuits, but the only moves that look like they crossed clear lines one can’t disclose oneself out of were those involving his hiring his family members. But again, probably a civil dispute by someone turned down for a promotion or similar job.
> A wiki's not the same usecase as static site, a static site is for marketing and wikis are for project management. I mean maybe people would use it if it weren't crappy? I would've been happier if the wiki didn't exist and I didn't invest time into wrangling it. ATM it's just a frustration.

Hi! I'm the current PM for our wiki's and I agree that the experience isn't up to par at the moment. As Sid mentioned, historically wiki's were not a priority as many users weren't coming to GitLab for those features. We're starting to see shifts in that thinking as we've penetrated deeper in to some markets so we're working to adjust accordingly.

> It's not dataloss but it deletes text in the same line as wiki internal links. And what kind of wiki doesn't use lots of internal links. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/67132 This basically makes the wiki unusable but it's marked as "backlog".

That issue is interesting because it's a link mechanism that relies on the underlying wiki project that we use. (i.e. that's no common markdown syntax). Discoverability of things like that is limited to some power users who know that we're using Gollum underneath and know of some of the supported syntax. What we've seen is that most users don't use that functionality and instead just use absolute links in markdown. This likely explains why the upvotes are so low on the bug report as well.

For comparison, we've seen more demand to support linking to projects: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20726, than within the wiki itself.

As an FYI, I've also asked a couple of our engineers to take a look at that specific issue to see if it's something that can be relatively easy to fix. No guarantees on anything here, but we'll try to get a bit more relevant engineering information to assist in understanding scope.

> If you really do feel this way about the wiki then it should be clearly marked in your marketing.

That's a lot of what our maturity pages are trying to do. We're being honest with ourselves and with our users about where we think the functionality of certain features are. In fact, when I started we had the Wiki listed at a `Complete` maturity which I reduced to viable: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

If you take a look at the wiki strategy (https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/wiki/) our next focus is going to be on making editing easier and improving navigation. We think these things will start to move the conversation forward for users and we'll see more adoption.

Even more, if you think we're not moving in the right direction with the Wiki's please be vocal on the issue tracker, or open an issue for the Wiki Strategy or even a merge request to change something. We're happy to have the feedback, and don't hesitate to tag me on wiki issues I'm @phikai on GitLab as well.
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AFAIK we aren't doing that. Once you've been caught doing criminal activity, you pretty much have no chance of getting the security clearance required to do cyber work for the government. They're willing to overlook criminal activity if you are up front about it and have never been caught, but any sort of criminal record is a showstopper for cleared government work.
interested in hearing more people experiences with React Hooks.
> Why not put 1/3 of your insane military budget towards a new mission of going into the places you have the worst reputation, the places you have wronged the most and start building up their infrastructure like water plants and schools?

The critique you refer towards is familiar when we talk about terrorism operations that spin off from less powerful nations, and for many years the "war on terror" has been about detecting such small scale operations that can definitely be traced to all the nasty things the US has done for many decades.

However, this article is mostly referring to Russia and China as the most critical actors in this style of warfare; these are relatively large and powerful nations who have shown to be adversarially aggressive to the US and many other nations so I'm not sure how there would be "peace" with them other than allowing them to continue to wreak havoc in their neighboring nations and territories unchecked, not to mention that they would continue to launch direct attacks on our internal processes, which wouldn't actually prevent a world conflict from occurring, only hasten its arrival. We have already been attacked quite severely in this regard with great success.
Micron regrets it, essentially having a significant amount of their chip IP stolen by Chinese firms they were involved with one way or another.
Hong Kong is outside the great firewall.
So first things first: NSA needs to stop abusing its powers so that people can actually be proud to work for it?

Stop spying on and collecting all of "Random Joe's" emails and chats, and start targeting people who are actual threats to national security (and don't misinterpret any random petty crime as "national security issue" to give you an excuse to abuse those powers either).

Economic espionage or to help corporate friends should never happen either. No, it doesn't matter that "China does it, too".
Thanks for the feedback. I just spun up a test MR (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...) to understand if I could quickly see what was bothering you on cycling through unresolved discussions but it seems to be working ok. Would it be possible for you to elaborate a bit more or link me to a MR where you can replicate the breaking functionality?

I did notice there's a bug where the hover text doesn't go away after clicking on the "Jump to first unresolved discussion" button and I've created an issue to fix that (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/15462.)
Hasn’t Django supported Python 3 for a few years?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/python3/
The issue behind Uber and Lyft is not compulsory work. The problem is that the depreciation, injury risk, and opportunity cost of the job is misunderstood and people are being taken advantage of. In your argument, no one is forcing them to be taken advantage of and our society should eat the cost.

You could use your same argument to say that businesses don’t need to legally pay minimum wage since someone is willing to take less.

These conditions are bad for everybody and create a depressing effect on earnings for workers.
With so many people wanting to bet against it though, those put options would end up mighty expensive.
People generally disagree with me, but I think the absolute failure of our administrative state to get _anything_ right poured gasoline on the fire that is general distrust in government. It was way too easy for someone like Trump to just repeat "Iraq" on stage to remind everyone that "the experts" have failed us in spectacular ways.
Inspirationl Quotes are a great tool for social media
Hi,
If you are into social media marketing, you might know that experts insist on using quotes in social media marketing, here are some interesting links from popular and recognized sites:

> Quotes are always re-shared like crazy. This is one of those things that’s almost sure to work no matter how many times you do it. Quotes never get old. The fun thing about sharing quotes is that it will get more re-shares than comments - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/boost-social-media-engagements-using-quotes/
> Quotes and text-based images are a simple but effective way to boost engagement quickly with your Instagram posts - https://blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-post-ideas/
> Now they are some of my most shared content on every platform, not just Instagram. Easy to make, effective and attractive, you should add them to your content regularly - https://imninjas.com/blog/social-media/create-awesome-eye-catching-instagram-content/
> Humorous, inspiring or motivational quotes always perform well - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysondemers/2014/06/25/100-killer-ideas-for-your-social-media-content/
> Quotes work well because people can easily relate to them, so they get liked and shared easily - https://louisem.com/7214/best-inspirational-quotes

Also, looking in internet I found several tools for creating them in a few steps, selecting a background, adding your logo and then writing the Quote. But it becomes really boring a repetitive task if you try to craft a couple.
So, this gave me the idea to create an app to generate visual quotes customized with your brand logo and URL, saving the time of creating them by hand. The result is ViralQuotes (https://viralquotesonline.com).

I'm not writing this only to get some clicks, also I want to know what do you think about Inspirational Quotes? Are still useful for social media or are they burned and out of fashion?
Well.. in some countries, games/programs were even broadcasted on public FM radio stations.
That discussion is pointless without a definition of war. If you read some of what Moscovite thinktanks/ideologists produce, you'll find very little about guns and arms, but a lot on psychology and influencing.

War to them is total war. There is no difference. Everything can be weaponized and will be used. There is no choice.

Changing that line of thinking is first very different from western lines of thinking. Second, I'd say peace-movements in such environs have yet to take root, let alone produce the progress the West has seen since Vietnam.
I moved all my repos to GitLab almost 2 years ago. I just use the online version.

One of the main reasons I moved was because of price (free), and the available CI. I use a $5 DO droplet to do all my CI running - which gets me unlimited usage. It's awesome, and has only had to be rebuilt once it 2 years due to unresponsiveness.

I've been a big fan of the CI - I use it to build my Docker images, then they get run on k8s. Note - I do not use the AutoDevops feature - so I really don't know how that works for people.

I pack the `gitlab-ci.yml` file with my main building steps and all the other tasks I need to run: deploying to k8s, deleting pods if necessary, running db migrations, stuff like that. It works great - everything just works at the push of a button. And now that I've ironed out the `gitlab-ci.yml` file, I don't even have to think about it anymore when it comes to a new project.

Honestly - I like GitHub's UI a bit better as it's a little more modern, but with GitLab's free private repos - it just lured me at first and I'm content for now.
> The cost of maintenance is very high in the Python/Django stack those days!

True, but the community has done a great job managing this over a long period of time. It's most costly if you haven't been investing along the way.
Oh thanks, seems to be a good article .. but I really could not send it to a non computer guy ...
From your second example... that sounds like it’s going to affect construction workers too... a lot of contractors just hire construction workers day to day to expand their workforce. Would that become illegal or is it different in construction?
The only responsible thing for Apple to do here is remove all networking functionality from the iPhone. If the iPhone 11 has a cellular modem, they blew it.
This will be a very interesting topic to talk about for me, I beg and hope that it will not be subject to "automatic" deranking.

The topic getting controversial, by far does not indicate it being unworthy of discussion.
This is a good distinction that more countries should adopt. As usual, technology and business has changed faster than the law. Seems like the employee/IC dichotomy is too blunt of a distinction nowadays.
If that's true, then I would argue that Uber and Lyft are contractors not workers:

> First do you know how to do the work and use your own expertise to adapt to circumstances or do you follow specific direction, training, and escalation procedures as dictated by management? ... If you know what to do and get only summary instructions then you are likely a contractor

Surely Uber drivers already know how to drive. I'm not sure whether they're under obligation to follow GPS instructions.

> Second, if you are hired by a cleaning company to extend their cleaning capacity using their methods and equipment then you are likely an employee, but if you are hired by a software company to sweep their floors whenever they get really dirty then you are probably a contractor.

The Uber driver uses her own equipment although you could argue that they use Uber's methods.

> if you do cleaning on your own for various clients and are hired to do cleaning then you are likely a contractor, but if you clean for one client by their instruction and with their oversight and support then you are probably an employee

In my experience, almost every single Uber I've been in drives for Lyft as well.
I knew about the Denver area’s potential at the time but the high real estate prices were a problem. Part of my objective was to get years ahead of a big boom and save money before it got too bad, and I managed to do that fine in Asheville. The region has a lot of the same issues as smaller towns in the US without any industries to accelerate its growth besides craft beer and tourism. The healthcare industry is entirely because of the massive retiree population that are typically snowbirds that don’t contribute to state and county taxes besides property taxes, so its everyday population is starved for government resources relative to its size while it has the highest property values in NC (well, it was until 2016 last I saw). So basically Buncombe County was the lowest earning but most expensive part of NC to live in - this is not a recipe for sustainable growth. I really liked the community and it was a really good place to live if you could afford it. Chattanooga is much better off in comparison although I’m curious about how it’s done at attracting a sustained tech industry almost a decade after its investments.
This discussion is only orthogonal to the point about nobody being forced to work for Uber/Lyft/whatever else. Nobody is contending that people are being forced - therefore the discussion focuses around other questions, i.e. the core tenets of liberal egalitarianism, the nature of consent (also a metaphysical question), domination and subsumption under capital.

For example, this book review was posted on HN a few weeks ago: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-ru...
I agree with you, if money is being used to do good the source does not matter.
>Both the passengers and the fighter pilots were willing to do whatever it took to prevent the plane being used to kill a lot more people on the ground.

considering all the passengers are dead, you can't make that claim. We'd all love to believe the passengers were selfless, and it definitely made for a great movie, but pretending like we knew what their intentions were is disingenuous at best.
Also maybe they knew things about cooling buildings without AC that we have forgotten.
> ... the most profitable companies continue to be concentrated in a select few HCOL areas that have comparatively better rights for workers.

It's rather odd, then, that these profitable companies keep reusing the same playbook—create companies whose value depends on undermining and/or ignoring workers' rights/protections, particularly by depending overwhelmingly upon placing workers in positions where they have to choose between exercising and enjoying these better rights or earning an income. It's almost like the people creating these companies don't think they have any sort of legal, social, or ethical obligation to respect and perhaps improve workers' rights and conditions, as well as avoid shifting the burdens of their business model onto their "contractors".

It'd be pretty awesome if these profitable companies would make it part of their core mission to be better than their competitors and peers where their labor practices and outlooks are concerned. Of course, they probably wouldn't even be profitable/highly valued in the first place if they were actually employing people at fair wages and treating them as first-class members of the companies.

I'll be the first to recognize the incredible convenience of Uber, Lyft, et al. And as a person who has never even paid attention to the cost of a ride—or when I have, summarily forgotten about it minutes later—I would feel infinitely happier being a customer if I knew the driver wasn't feeling obligated to drive for both companies just to maximize their income potential for whichever one has the next ride—because that is the typical answer I get from drivers on the few occasions I use either service and directly ask them about it when I notice they drive for both services.