skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With an optional do-not-block attribute.

Which would be honored just like Do-Not-Track? Seems only fair.
The same payroll taxes are paid whether you’re self employed or employed. Including Uber drivers. You just pay both sides of the CPP and EI if you’re filing as self employed.
> I couldn't buy reasonable health insurance for any price. Any price at all.

What?

Can't you buy personal health insurance with decent coverage for on the order of $500/month? And that's for plans with low deductables. $6000/yr for personal health insurance for an individual seems perfectly reasonable.

I'm concerned because I'm planning on eventually pursuing my own startup. If I can't get health insurance, this becomes extremely risky and untenable. If your post is correct, how does self-employment even work?

My understanding is that individuals can buy affordable personal health insurance. Am I wrong?
> Exchanges don't do clearing so essentially just a glorified piece of matching software running 24/7.

You just described Google, and they seem to have plenty of cash in the bank.
There is definitely a causation for high unemployment by such laws. But it actually goes even deeper.

In France for example, it is difficult for a company to fire an employee once they are legally hired.

Oracle, for example, has a policy of initiating an "intra-country transfer" where the employee is mandated to relocate from Paris to Montpellier. Not everyone wants to uproot their family like that. And then if they do accept the move, next year Oracle will relocate them to Bordeaux...
Otiginal article title:

Mexico’s ancient ‘caviar’

Nothing in the article suggests “ahuautle” being healthier than meat, only very, very rare to find.

And BTW also the original title seems a bit off, as caviar is easily available, though at a high price.

As a side-side note (more curiosity than anything else) the OP (MiriamWeiner) has 370 submissions (all for bbc.com articles) and 0 comments, could it be a bot of some kind?
If you want a college textbook, there are literally hundreds with titles similar to "introduction to probability and statistics" and you should choose the cheapest second hand book you can find (or that they have in your library). Content is mostly the same, of course the writing style will be different and some may be more appealing to you personally. Search engines are your friend for narrowing down your list.

For a popsci work, you could check out "how to lie with statistics", a classic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
1 is not even close to true. I was a Gmail SRE at the time. Sends did not take 5 seconds at the time, they were handed off to the MTA right away. The MTA had the ability to delay delivery due to other projects and Gmail decided to use that feature to build undo send.
I've seen Uber or Lyft in-app receipts suggest the driver is actually an LLC.
Photography in public places is a separate issue from long term stocking by companies. One can enable the other, but this does not mean they are equivalent. It's a very American fallacy to overextrapolate an individual right into a justification for commercial totalitarianism. But if an individual person were to suddenly start following you around and photographing you every few minutes, you would rightfully complain to the police. That this is being done at scale and for a profit motive should make it more worrying, not normalize it.
I'm just not convinced that's a straightforward question to answer. I once worked for a hardware company that outsourced new hardware development to a contractor. We had a guy in house for maintenance, and the occasional hardware bug that propped up, but we only designed a new box once every 5 years or so... it just didn't make sense to have the team in house. We did manufacturing in house, and we had a huge software team... but though our money came from selling the hardware, we didn't do that in house.

As the company grew much larger, we did eventually expand our product line, and did build a team. But for several years, we just had 1 dedicated hardware guy.
Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits
Section 230, the internet's first amendment
I pay taxes to the US (and not to the country I live in) on the small amount of passive income generated in accounts located in the US. I'm not 100% sure if this is the Right Thing to do or not, but it seems fair. But my taxes would be a lot simpler and less stressful if I only had to report this income (and on years where this was 0, not report anything at all).
> Choosing to run an errand, give me a break? You can’t be serious? Employees do that stuff all the time. That type of thing is not related to the distinction between contractor or employee.

If you work, say, in a restaurant and decide you want to go pick up your laundry, expect the shift supervisor to tell you no.

Certainly some employees enjoy that flexibility, but that is entirely at the discretion of your employer.
There's also zero public interest in publishing that type of operational secrets so it's very unlikely for them to be published on purpose, making it not-a-problem really.
Yes and no. I'd argue that the Born rule as a rule for subjective probabilities in a MWI context is much cleaner than a full Copenhagen-style collapse operation.
It is. I just never use the settings screen. See here for how you toggle it, including screenshots. I would expect that the new version will be similar.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-d...

Edit: I've just checked and there is the ability in the settings screen to set a custom DoH provider. So once your pihole can do it you can set it there.
Here is a similar point made by an unapologetically left-wing rag: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/29/8910387/me...

> Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan, as currently written, would cancel every private insurance plan in the country. Polling suggests that’s lethal: When told that Medicare-for-all would abolish private insurance, respondents flip from favoring the plan by a 56 percent to 38 percent margin to opposing it by a 58 percent to 37 percent margin.
> leave out the vital context and nuances in the topic they aim to analyze

Seems about par for the course for a Hacker Noon post. They're not meant to be read, they're meant to pad the career of the author.
Gravity, dark energy, dark matter. There is still a lot to discover.
> pretty sure we spend that extra money on our worse health outcomes and SUVs are terrible to drive.

The health outcomes in the US are better than the EU for people who have health insurance. The mean outcomes are worse in the US because of people without health insurance significantly bringing down the average, but people in the US who do have private insurance are not wrong to want to preserve their own (higher) quality of care while finding a better solution for those currently uninsured. (There are also some other factors like lower population density increasing emergency response times, so the outcomes in rural areas are worse and the US is more rural, which would obviously not be remedied by single payer.)

And "SUVs are terrible to drive" is trivially empirically testable -- if both SUVs and smaller vehicles are available and people willingly choose SUVs anyway, we know what they prefer. If you want to argue against SUVs then make the environmental argument about externalities that might actually hold water, not "SUVs are terrible to drive" which is a subjective opinion that millions of people evidently disagree with.
He didn't say to re-add it as an axiom. He's pointing out that the "born rule" (or something that gives you probabilities in the way that you need to agree with experiment) can potentially "emerge" i.e. be recovered (if they can find the right proof for it), without having had to assume that up front.

It's like when GR can "recover" F=MA, despite not having assumed F=MA that as an axiom.
The standard model still doesn’t explain gravity, dark matter, or dark energy. There are still ways to go.
> this seems to be the only sound option for default behavior

I think that is the crux of this debate. In my background, yeah, you fail hard when anything unexpected happens. It's the most straightforward way to fail safe.

But my background maps better to the financial case; I've never worked on avionics or anything like that. I can see the point, though, that, in that kind of situation, failing hard doesn't fail safe at all.

It's conceivable to me that different problem domains require different default behavior. (And perhaps, by extension, different programming languages.)
Einstein's theory hasn't yet been reconciled with quantum theory. That's a good place to watch for progress.
this is a great movie
Wallrunning in Doom is another nice one:

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Wallrunning
How come 10 years ago it was still ok to eat meat ?
> Even changing I9 documentation would be a massive improvement.

Is there something difficult about completing Form I-9? In my experience, it's one of the easiest steps of the hiring process to complete. Even if the employee is remote, you could have them send you a picture of their driver's license + passport which isn't too hard to do. What would you want changed about it?

Direct link to Form I-9: https://www.uscis.gov/system/files_force/files/form/i-9-pape...
If you do want to transfer it you need a 'higher' level of identity proof. Usually this means you have to visit a store/office of the provider and show a means of identification to get the transfer lock lifted.

This is common for many telcos, banks, etc.
It's not really that complicated. If it's a short term engagement (3 hours literally once), then 1099. If you need them for 3 hours every week, then consider hiring them as a part time employee ... it's a long term relationship at that point. If you need 3 hours every week and engage a temp agency, then chances are you'll get a different person (even if they send the same person a few times in a row). If you engage a "temp agency" that's literally just a front for one person ... that's an employee and should be treated as such.
I think the administration badly, badly mishandled Snowden and Assange, and allowed Russia to coopt them by isolating and threatening them. If they had treated them as whistleblowers and journalists (even if they had nefarious motivations), they could have kept them in "the west" instead of driving them into the arms of Russia. I don't believe that Assange was a Russian agent at the beginning but he was surely one by the time of the 2016 election.

There's a reason we have laws around a free speech and a free press-- they make the country stronger, even if they make it harder to govern.
Show HN: Gatsby photography site with masonry grid, page transitions, big images
Android as a platform grew enough for developers to justify making proper apps for it. Apple still has a slight edge in overall quality, but I'm not sure it's worth highlighting anymore.
No, because eBay's business model is charging sellers for services. They don't mandate what you sell, how you deliver, or what payment company to use (now that they no longer own PayPal)
If all fighter jets become stealthy, how will they fight each other?
I think the repairability of the Fairphone 3 is a huge step forward, but in the long run I want a phone that allows me to run an up-to-date OS for as long as I want. The Fairphone 3 will get updates for 5 years, that's not enough if you ask me.
Until about 30 years ago, California voted Republican and Texas voted Democrat.
I do the visual reading thing that is mentioned in the article. I get a sort of "movie in my head" when I'm reading, and often become unaware of the words on the page. Sometimes I have to pause to let the action catch up to where I am on the page, and sometimes I'll be focused on one character in a story and miss incidental things that happen in the book to another character.

I can read just under a couple of pages of a standard paperback in about a minute.
It's a pleasant way to spend a few hours.

I don't read non-fiction like that, though. It just doesn't happen, and I don't know how to make it happen.
And 25 years ago they bought Vancouver.
You wouldn't integrate it in the browsers, but instead you'd probably want it on the OS level.
That's an awful amount of boilerplate for a simple integer hello world.

Languages with these modules and import statements should be burned. (Starting with Python.)

For pete's sake, couldn't they at least combine this with and use into one keyword so you don't have to repeat yourself?

Or can't use be made to forgive a missing with and just get on with the show?

Do defense contracts pay by the byte or what?
Show HN: r/SpaceX Community Starship Loads Model Experiment
Yep, it's confirmed with p = 0.049
FedEx would also be affected.

This is one of the reasons UPS supported the bill. It creates parity between the two.
Does the self hosted version store all the data on the hosting system?
Ask HN: How do I find email address of a person from a particular domain?
I am trying to send out cold emails to potential clients as part of my product distribution. I have a list of companies (and their domains) along with the name of the person who works in that company! How can I find their email addresses?
I use Hunter.io as of now, but it does not always give me the email address. Are there any alternatives where I can find the email addresses as long as I have the product domain (website address) and the person I am looking for?
Another beauty from the California politburo.
Yes. If there was some uniform standard on how support workers were trained, what data they have access to, then social engineering attacks would drop dramatically. The leaking of data would not be as prevalent and it would be standardized.
Here are a few:

* Diffuse mode vs. focus mode. After focusing hard on a problem, letting your brain wander can do wonders for coming up with insights and ideas. The classic example is coming up with something in the shower after working on it throughout the day. I've focused much more on giving myself some of the non-focused time after focused periods (ex. going for a walk/run/swim, taking a nap or shower, etc). I've started doing this more for work, as well.

* How memory works (short-term vs. long-term) and along those lines, spaced repetition. All through undergrad I would cram, but spacing it out (with the help of Anki for flashcard-focused topics) really does wonders.

* Importance of actively quizzing yourself, practice, and working through problems as you're learning something.
It might be state money. Just seeing the transaction flow is gold. And once you have sold an exchange, you might never get an opportunity to buy it back.
> This article essentially just makes the claim that if you do nothing magic will make climate change go away.

No it doesn't.

> He didn't disprove the claim that vegetarianism will help lower carbon emissions,

I don't know if I'd say he disproves it, but he does present evidence that vegetarianism isn't a significant intervention.

> doesn't provide any real information for people looking to lower their carbon emissions.

Yes, he does.

> He also doesn't disclose he's the author of books that specifically claim that global warming isn't happening.

Nor is he obligated to. You didn't disclose in your post what your opinion is on vegetarianism, did you? This is just an ad-hominem attack, and a hypocritical one at that.

So basically, you made 4 statements. Two were flat wrong, one was an ad-hominem attack, and one was ambiguous. I downvoted.
But your ISP won't see them. They'll see that some requests are being made to Cloudflare, but not anything about the content.
> He didn't say to re-add it as an axiom

Yes, he did:

> MWI is not incompatible with postulating the Born rule if you want to

"Postulate" (as a noun) and "axiom" are synonyms.
Someone please help correct my intuition here:

the harder it is to find flaws in the Standard Model, the harder it would be to use such new physics in engineering.

Basically I'm curious whether continuing failures to find new physics can be taken as evidence that, if and when we find the new physics, it will be very difficult to apply.

I'm not against science for its own sake, however. Just more of an engineer than a scientist, myself.
Good writing! Have you seen this video of Michal Kosinski about the end of privacy? He talks about making inferences about intimate psycho-demographic information from photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBcTgzbtU&t=2468s
The problem with many worlds is why do I think I'm in a particular timeline? If many worlds is correct, there is no "I", there are many rapidly branching "I"s, which intuitively doesn't make sense. Of course, each "I" will have the perception of being the sole "I", but the overall view that there is no singular "I" is very counter to my self conception. I prefer to preserve intuitions over conjectures, so I count that as a strike against the many worlds interpretation.

So, it seems like both the Copenhagen and the many worlds interpretations of quantum physics are wrong, given a preference for non arbitrary reference point and preserving intuitions. Is there a reason that those two must be the only possible interpretations?
Maybe they will monetize some HK-LSE pipeline or something..
This is r/SpaceX community project curated by u/Czarified.[1,2,3]

> So What is a Loads Model?

> In traditional aircraft design, a coarse Finite Element Model (FEM) is developed to apply loadcases during the sizing and initial testing phase of the program. I believe there are other methods still used, and I don't really know how SpaceX is developing their craft, but there are significant advantages to this method. For one, the model can be used to determine the load distribution for internal structure during complex flight cases (including gross thermal loads). Additionally, loadcases can be created, applied, and revised to determine feasibility and flight envelope capability (or vice versa). It's usefulness is degraded when you start to consider re-entry effect, but as part of this project I'd like to explore that and see what we can actually simulate.

3D model/mesh (Starship.vsp3) designed using OpenVSP[4,5] — NASA's FLOSS CAD app.

FTR, Any contributions are welcome!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/Czarified

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/awy9t1/cslm_a...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/cgmvxi/community_st...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/d14032/community_st...

[4] http://openvsp.org

[5] https://github.com/OpenVSP/OpenVSP
You are, of course, free to argue that. But most advocates of the MWI will disagree with you. That's why they put so much effort into trying to derive the Born rule.
Honestly, I can't see why California is unable to roll out a single-payer plan. It's certainly larger than many of the countries that have one. In a single-party state, it should be a relatively straightforward thing to do.

My guess is that no one is serious about healthcare and that it's simply a get-out-the-vote scheme like abortion and gun rights.

"a difficult proposition to say the least in a country that guarantees freedom of movement"

Levels of benefits already differ considerably, no? If freedom of movement is a deal killer, than it seems to me that strict, highly enforced immigration laws would also be a precondition.
Project Alternator: The Scylla Open Source Amazon DynamoDB-Compatible API
That need not stop them. London was the pioneer of the Eurodollar market in the 70s, and the US treasury at the time tried to stop that.
On my Canadian cellphone, unless I get a US/Intl plan before I leave, it stops entirely all my SMS when I'm outside Canada. I'm entirely dead in the water if I rely on SMS 2FA.
That's a really strange comparison. You know that mozilla has an agreement with cloudflare under which cloudflare has agreed not to log dns queries right?
> A company can hire 10 people at 10 dollars an hour or 20 people at 5 dollars an hour.

No, it will probably exclude people who just want to work 2 hours some evenings whenever they have time to make some extra money, who'd make the full 10 dollars an hour like other drivers do in the time that they do work.
Don't Weaponize Exploding Offers
> If the discrepancy was real, meaning protons really shrink in the presence of muons, this would imply unknown physical interactions between protons and muons — a fundamental discovery. Hundreds of papers speculating about the possibility have been written in the near-decade since.

This reminds me of a joke. An experimental physicist walks into a theoretical physicist's office with a really cool experimental result, shows the printed out graph to the theoretician. He thinks for a while and says, "this is perfectly in line with theory, let me explain how". The experimentalist looks at the graph, scratches his head, says "uh, this is upside down", and rotates the paper 180 degrees. The theoretician thinks a while more and says, "well this can also be explained".
I disagree. Without knowing the details, there is no way to know for sure if the source of the 5 second delay was an actual bug. And the way programs where written back then, the space invaders issue looks like an unintended bug which was then simply kept in.
Sean Carroll's new book on quantum physics that came out yesterday is the clearest laymen's exposition of quantum physics I have ever read: https://www.audible.com/pd/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Audiobook...
So you want indefinite software support?

Technically achievable with open source, but even OSS projects come to an end.
> For the last 40 years, Google would never have been challenged as a monopoly because its products were free to consumers, hence there could be no harm to them, hence no monopoly. Same for Facebook.

Google and Facebook's primary products are advertising. Things like web search, email, maps, and social networking are part of their supply chain for building their ad product. (And people who use these services are suppliers who are trading our exposure to ads in exchange for access to search, email, maps, social networking, etc.)

Google and Facebook don't give away advertising space for free, and they both have very dominant positions in a number of ad markets.
They were already announced some time ago and are related to the catastrophic quarterly earnings for the last quarter.
it's quite incredible how much has come out of this glitch. There are many servers up on CS:GO dedicated to bhopping, as well as whole games built around it.
Better yet, don’t buy the book, and donate the money you would have spent to charity.
It won't matter, people from the rest of Europe will pay handsomely to keep all of their money hidden in pounds.
The London Stock Exchange isn't technically in London - it's in the City of London, an exceedingly weird semi-autonomous enclave where corporations can vote in elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
The two big differences between private and government surveillance is 1) law 2) quantity. Look at China how the private sector freely hands data over. But ask yourself, is it that hard for your government to obtain that data? Are they trying to access it? The answers are probably no and yes.

If you don't feel comfortable with the government having that data, I wouldn't suggest giving it to private corporations. Even if they are standing up to gov, it means things can change. I think Snowden uses the phrase "turn key tyranny".
I think Instagram does a fairly good job of trying to have both. When you've scrolled through all the new posts, you get a green "You're all caught up" break point. You can continue scrolling past it if you want.
how exactly do they plan to do that?

the EU can ban EU firms from using LCH, but they can't stop firms outside the EU using Euros

it'll just end up in a situation like the eurodollar
I'm not certain if the new design does it. The old one certainly doesn't, but RES[1] adds the functionality, and has a large user base. I often mix up native features and what RES has added

[1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/