skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally on (A) this is massively beneficial to contractors. They cannot force you to work in an office or the hours you work which is key for a freelancer/contractor/creator/developer.

The items are already part of California's contract law well before this current gig economy bill.

California classifies 'independent contractor' as [1]:

1. Whether the person performing services is engaged in an occupation or business distinct from that of the principal;

2. Whether or not the work is a part of the regular business of the principal or alleged employer;

3. Whether the principal or the worker supplies the instrumentalities, tools, and the place for the person doing the work;

4. The alleged employee's investment in the equipment or materials required by his or her task or his or her employment of helpers;

5. Whether the service rendered requires a special skill;

6. The kind of occupation, with reference to whether, in the locality, the work is usually done under the direction of the principal or by a specialist without supervision;

7. The alleged employee's opportunity for profit or loss depending on his or her managerial skill;

8. The length of time for which the services are to be performed;

9. The degree of permanence of the working relationship;

10. The method of payment, whether by time or by the job; and

11. Whether or not the parties believe they are creating an employer-employee relationship may have some bearing on the question, but is not determinative since this is a question of law based on objective tests.

The key line for software developers who are independent contractors is "Whether the principal or the worker supplies the instrumentalities, tools, and the place for the person doing the work;"

Contractors that work in a home office, using their skills to bring to a company for a project, at their own place, time and tools, that is an independent contractor.

It could be argued that drivers that own their cars, that can choose to accept or deny a particular task, without it hurting their competitive rating, could be seen as an 'independent contractor'.

I think the gig economy bill from OP is targeting known companies that are taking advantage of this by wanting 'independent contractors' that they can schedule and dictate their day and use metrics against them when they aren't available at the time. They should pay people as employees if they need people available then have contractors fill in when needed. This will probably lead to some fulltime Uber/Lyft and the rest floaters that can be like the current gig setup.

[1] https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_IndependentContractor.htm
I get that the insurance has a value of its own, but what about the trading of futures specifically?

Suppose I buy a biotech stock at $10/share. They make a breakthrough, and the stock shoots up to $110/share. I make +$100/share, but no one has lost the corresponding $100.

Suppose I agree to buy an ounce of silver from you for $20 in January. If silver is $21 then, you effectively lose a dollar , since you need to chip in a buck to get me my silver. If it's $19, you can slip a dollar into your own pocket before buying the silver on the spot market. Regardless of how it turns out, the total gain is zero.

What am I missing?
Yeah, while I'm still trying to wrap my head around whether it's an effective solution, I'm not suggesting it doesn't work. It looks like some OSU students in Bend are have had success with it : https://twitter.com/ATBF_NPO https://www.aroundthebendfarms.org
I agree, this is a site that shouldn't exist, it's security disaster. Duo should blacklist all their numbers. One easy way would be to detect which accounts consistently confirm instantly; since humans can't do that, those accounts almost certainly must be connected to a subverting bot like this.
Yes there is. a) A 5 second delay might be a bug but a user would never notice anyway so it wouldn't be motivation to add "unsend", so this is probably nonsense. b) The second example is wrong (distance fog is way way older than the example they gave) which leads me to suspect the entire list is nonsense, and c) someone who worked on Gmail has replied here saying it is rubbish.
except for an explanation of 96% of the universe's mass
Sure, I read them. Many of them were about operations against US citizens. However, not all of them were. Here[1] is one example that comes to mind. That story in this leak is interesting, newsworthy, had serious repercussions, and was potentially unethical for the US government to do. However it is also exactly the type of thing everyone expects the NSA to be doing and it doesn't involve the spying on any Americans. This is the type of leak that will ensure that Snowden isn't embraced by the US government.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/snowden-nsa-sy...
Dark energy is simply a theory with a classical hidden constant, which solves all the measurements and theories, but does most likely not exist.

Until a better theory explains more (like the Mond or a better gravity theory), it will stay with us for a while.
I think calling Assange a journalist is very debatable. He certainly doesn’t comply with the ethical norms of the profession.
There isn't any. Not a single private health plan manages to be more cost-effective than the 3 government health plans, despite private health plans having the ability to pick-and-choose the cream of the crop and to offload unprofitable customers to government health plans.

BUT (when they actually provide health care) private health plans usually provide health care faster than government health plans. VA wait times, for example, still exceed 12 months in many parts of the country.
> just 21% of the public supports abolishing private insurance

That seems like quite a high rate given that it's a relatively extreme position of completely abandoning the current approach. It doesn't exactly suggest the current system is popular.
> Question is also, why would people speed read fiction?

This is a question I always ask all speed readers and the answers are always so muddled. I can never understand what they are getting at.

Perhaps I relish a good novel more than most, but to me the idea of speed reading a good novel sounds about as appealing as speed drinking a fine wine.
Reminds me of a person on HN that was telling a joke on a specific group of people, and another person came and said "that can be laughed about", and the initial person said "actually it's about all groups of people", and the other person said "that can also be laughed about".
You can get a computer engineering PE, which would probably be appropriate for the vast majority of embedded software developers. There was a software PE for a few years, but my understanding is that it was dropped for lack of interest.
Between myself and the people I know in NYC/SF, I would expect signing bonuses in tech, finance, law, and medicine.
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I actually think it is specifically targeting petitions.gov.uk, under the guise of the 'wider gov.uk' scope.

It's the only part of that site I can see BJ actually giving enough of a shit about to go out of his way and double down on at this point. The rest of the gov.uk stuff is already very well managed and instrumented (and a great public service).
I think this event led to a certain drop in the bitcoin exchange rate, which we have observed just the last 2 days
No, I received one with a startup in none of the above locations after negotiating salary and being ready to walk away.
I realize California is very expensive cost-of-living compared to the Midwest, but as a developer in Michigan I'm shaking my head at these salaries. The low end in Cali is high end here. Best I could hope for in Michigan even as senior is mid-100's. the highest number I've ever seen thrown around from recruiters was about $170k base, and pretty sure that was close to VP level. Can't complain about the low housing costs though.
Ah, so the NSA was the reason the cold war ended as it did? Via what specific actions/events?
I consider social media a place where you learn about other people. In the example you linked to, social media (in this case Facebook) is used more in a way to gather information. That is fine, but that was already possible in the days before we had social media, e g. through forums. While I applaud the particular use case, I don't consider this a strong argument in favor of social media.
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> Then there is no risk to hiring a new employee beyond the wages you pay them.

This is a gross oversimplification. Two risks that immediately come to mind, increases to the Employer’s Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance either through fraud(speaking from experience), or, in the scenario mentioned by gp, when you lay the worker off at the end of the need.

My comment also is a gross oversimplification.
The job of judges to a large extent is in protecting (their interpretation of) the spirit of the law - as can be seen with the recent situation on Brexit: Boris Johnson was apparently entertaining the idea of sending an extension request, then immediately follow up with a "disregard that, I didn't mean it!" letter to technically fulfill the extension law without really asking for an extension.

When a Surpreme Court judge was asked about that in an interview, the response was the diplomatic version of "you really don't wanna fuck with us".

I think the DAO fiasco also illustrated the opposite case: A community believing that the letter of the law is enough and deliberately not enforcing the spirit at all - until someone found a loophole and the community had to scramble to protect the spirit in an ad-hoc fashion.

My feeling is that situations like the above where laws are interpreted opposite to their intended goal are more a sign of regulatory capture and of groups gaining power that are fundamentally opposed to the goal - and not so much a fundamental property of laws.
This is a pretty tame use of the 2012 Linkedin breach. The breach also contained unsalted hashes which has mostly been cracked by now.

They all ended up in a huge collection (773 million records) containing email/password pairs from many different sources: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1...

With so many password variations for a user, you can do credential stuffing to crawl all the private accounts of an email to build a pretty complete profile of the person (not just correlate some linkedin profile like in this post). I am sure someone out there is already doing this for profit.
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drone strikes on people based on heuristics over metadata was the kind of logic that was operating at the highest levels of the intelligence apperatus, and not even congresspeople assigned to intel committees were aware of it.

people should know about the kind of insane stupidity that they get up to overseas that make the country less safe. or what, do you really think that that kind of stuff is what's keeping the terrorists from doing another 9/11?
That would be nice, but the conversion from HTML -> Figma is definitely most awesome for my needs. I start with a lot of designs that need to be reworked, but the other way is also definitely useful!
There are in fact whistleblower laws. The big question at hand is how it was handled. Snowden claimed to go to his superiors first, which checks off an important box. So the question is if he did that or not. I believe he was also supposed to attempt to report to Congress before he can legally go to the media. It's definitely a gray area and if you believe it is right probably depends on how much you trust the government and moral factors.
More or less. We can hope that something more clever would be possible, like in the novel Schild's Ladder...

Though we'd have to hope that, unlike that novel, we don't accidentally set off a vacuum collapse. That would be unfortunate.
200k might be normal but 30k would be below a entry level graduate many places.
Any more context on the $275,000 offer? Did the returning intern have a PhD in a specialized field, did their name rhyme with Midas?
That's dark matter, dark energy is something else entirely, with much flimsier data and evidence.
I've negotiated a signing bonus for one (small ~50 person) company.

You never know until you ask but I would expect it to be rare.
I was looking at something along those lines recently "TopoResNet: A hybrid deep learning architecture and its application to skin lesion classification" on arxiv.
But it seems like an apathetic kind of want. There are degrees imo; if the people truly wanted something they would exert more effort than this showing. As it stands people may say they want it in polls but won't even vote for politicians that will make it a reality.
Resource extraction... sure, but I think the issue is more that there will be no resources left to extract at some point. We are already wasting a lot of things, even something as basic as water.
may I enquire what steps you took to procure this link?
Great experience, but I just can’t say goodbye to facebook, it just magnetically drags me in. I understand all the mechanisms for displaying relevant posts and ads, but I can not resist viewing them.
There is a difference between and unwitting pawn, especially in a circumstance like that, and someone who acts with full knowledge as to what they're doing. I don't understand why this is difficult.
AIUI, the trick with colliders isn't so much creating high-energy collisions, but creating them exactly inside gigantic detectors that can measure what happens in those collisions, as well as the collisions having a known amount of energy and contents.
You read about him on progressive media, some principled journalists. But nowhere in the mainstream news
Transparency is hard for some reason at large companies. I think it's a mixture of wanting to maintain an image, plus complexity of systems that don't always make it easy to get information to end-users about issues.

For your Drive FS issue, I assume you're on Windows? I have no clue if this is backend or client, but watch for a new version: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7577057
Maybe that will fix your issues. I'm not sure how to check your Drive FS client version sadly.
Considering this would represent a continent-sized collider... I'll take it.
> If they're the only ones without a smartphone, they'll be single out

From South Park, season 3 episode 11, "Chinpokomon":

Kyle: Please Mom? Everybody else has Chinpokomon.

Gerald: Well, Kyle, that's not a reason to buy something.

You see, son, fads come and go. And this "Chin-po-ko-mon" is obviously nothing more than a fad. You don't have to be a part of it. In fact, you can make an even stronger statement by saying to your peers, "I'm not going to be a part of this fad, because I'm an individual." Do you understand?

Kyle: Yes. Yes, I do, Dad. Now let me tell you how it works in the real world. In the real world, I can either get a Chinpokomon, or I can be the only kid without one, which singles me out, and causes the other kids to make fun of me and kick my ass.

Gerald: Hm... Good point; here's $10. [hands it to him]

Kyle: Thanks.

Gerald: Wait, here's 20. Get one for your brother, too. [Kyle receives the other $10 and walks out]
This is rapidly becoming the case in the US as well.
This is new to me, as well. My company (or at least my org) does give free vacation time for any time spent working on-call crap after hours.
There is literally no (mainstream, "respectable") newspaper in the UK more nakedly partisan than the Telegraph. People actually call it "The Torygraph". If you don't think the Telegraph is hard-right, I shudder to imagine what you consider that to be.

The Guardian is the only remaining newspaper I trust to be unaffected by UK government agenda.
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I think the study shows that even that didn't happen for anyone in the market.
You're conflating employers and employees here, but it's employers who get the votes, not employees.
How about you answer some of your own questions.
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Not sure I understand what you mean by that. The rumored size is 4.7 inches, like the SE. The SE has basically the same innards as the 6s, so this seems like an upgrade to the innards of the 8.

Maybe we're saying the same thing? An SE with the innards of the 8 and hopefully a more edge-to-edge screen and possibly even FaceID would be warmly welcomed by current SE owners, I think.
Functional Programming, so much of my frustration with mathematics early in my education could have been allayed if just a small number of certain core ideas were planted in my head when going through it.
Thanks! Here's hoping it can take off and help introduce people to web3.
Not exactly true.

Signal doesn't really care about identity at all, it leaves it up to the users to decide if "Steve" in their contacts is who they thought it should be, if they're happy to accept that without proof or if they've verified it was who they expected in person or out of band.

Modern Signal lets users put together a profile, like a Twitter profile, and like the Twitter profile you might know somebody whose profile name is "Grim Reaper" and whose profile photo is the Discworld Death, without you believing that is their real name or appearance. Maybe you decide that's enough reason not to mark your friend Suzie ("Grim Reaper") as Verified in Signal. Most likely not. Other Signal users aren't informed of this decision and Signal itself doesn't know what you decided.

But it does default bind your contacts to Signal users based on a telephone number they've proved control of at some point. So if you don't verify anything, a message from you to "Steve" could be received by somebody who registered the phone number you've associated with the contact "Steve". Signal's creators rationalise that this is what an ordinary phone user expects to happen.

If it's important to you that "SIM Swap" isn't used to create an imposter Signal account with your phone number - a reasonable concern for some people, you can set a "Registration Lock PIN" for the phone number. Anybody else in the future who wants to use Signal with that telephone number will need the PIN or their registration fails.
Quite a few friends at Apple have offers that were paid hourly for the first year, and switched to salaried after that.
In my entire life, as far as I know I've only ever met one person who played the stock market manually and did well at it. It was almost a hobby for him. He enjoyed analysing individual businesses very carefully, and would look for clearly financially sensible opportunities that were effective at relatively small scales but overlooked by the big players.

A favourite type of investment that came up now and then would be a stock that had seen a sudden sharp drop in share price triggered by some announcement that sounded scary but actually made perfect sense if you understood the industry, so it panicked investors who were only looking at the numbers and left the price-to-book low or sometimes even below 1 at the time he bought. That's probably as close to a certain profit as you're ever likely to find trading stocks.

In any case, he almost always invested in "real" businesses and for the long term. He would set stops to protect himself, but he wasn't really a day-trader in the sense we're talking about here.

The last I heard, his average annual returns were something like 15-20% before taxes and fees, which is a pretty impressive record given he'd maintained it for many years and through both bull and bear markets. I doubt most people could do what he did -- the amount of patience and discipline he had were extraordinary -- but it was fascinating discussing it with him, and strangely satisfying to watch him do well by going with common sense and considered choices against a market that was temporarily confused about something.
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$275,000 first year total compensation because of the large signing bonus. The per-year TC drops a fair bit afterwards:

$115 + $60 + 15% of salary bonus = ~$192. Numbers in thousands.
That doesn't mean they know the law or can think through the consequences. Kind of a like a genie wish situation.
There is enough food—iirc we have enough now for 9 billion people—it’s just a completely unplanned and inefficient use of resources from perspective of resource use. A large part of this is 100% western diet but I’d be skittish to finger it as a primary cause—I don’t think that’s useful.

Also, not all food problems can be blamed on western climate change that we will always need to account for, like literal deserts in North Africa.
Yes it seems the tide is turning on China. If they want to play ball with the rest of the world they need to reform into a modern democracy and the CPC needs to go away. Otherwise, we need to limit the authoritarian contagion. China is pretty much exploiting Capitalist greed to get the Western world to sell them the rope to hang them with.
Neat and comprehensive. I've always been fascinated by emulation but had trouble finding the time to get started. Always wondered why universities never seem to offer courses on this.
But it wasn't discouraging the work itself, just it's submission here.
Well if we're going to be pedantic why not do it properly - surely there is no force boundary, instead there is a proximity at which the forces become significant. Significance being determined according to the situation being analysed.
Good thing nobody uses paper encyclopedias or almanacs anymore. Wikipedians are already addressing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kebnekaise#Height_Update_...
Specific laws aside, the pattern of facts still matters a lot.

I get what you're getting at but I'm saying that there are plenty of details that matter regardless of ease of proof that the object isn't yours or whether or not it's foreseeable have been left there under "reasonable" circumstances

Cars and phones are trivially easy to track back to their owner, with cash possession is basically ownership. Cars get parked places, phones get left places, cash does not get left lying around and if you leave cash somewhere you basically forfeit ownership of it since that's the cultural norm since ownership can't be proven.

The specific facts and details matter very much. Time and attempts to find the property by the owner are particularly important. There's a very big difference between leaving your phone at a bar and leaving your phone at a bar for a week, in the latter case the bartender has a nice new phone they can use.
And a slickly-produced YouTube video courtesy of NASA Goddard: https://youtu.be/amOdtYv5G4E
This reminds me loosely of a paper I found on arxiv recently: "Scene Representation Networks: Continuous 3D-Structure-Aware Neural Scene Representations"
People say this on this basis of hearsay, like he “selectively released documents” for which there is no evidence.
Not just specific companies, but largely specific areas (which have to compete with specific companies). New grads will, statistically, never see signing bonuses in their career, much less out of school. People paying bonuses for new grads is a sunk opportunity cost and a company should never do it unless it hurts them in some measurable way (cost-benefit analyses are important).

I've interviewed hundreds of people in Southern California, some who came out of google (does give signing bonuses) or Amazon (rarely signing bonus) and it has happened that Blizzard tempted some people with a little bonus...but these are uncommon.

People who jump company to company (google to amazon and back) don't get bonuses (as rehires), although that's outside the topic of "new grads".
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