skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, in Brazil all the companies in the chain are liable in a labor-related law suit. Before the 2017 Labor Reform[1], frivolous law suits by former employees were a billionaire market because it used to be a risk-free gamble - after the reform the litigant is liable for exaggerated claims and there was a 46% drop in labor cases[2].

When I look at any market where the labor code is excessively protective, I see high unemployment rates specially among the young - Brazil, Spain, France[3]... I don't know about causation but clearly there is a correlation between employee over-protection and unemployment rates. I think it is the law of unintended consequences[4] in action: the legislator intention was good (protecting employee) but the net result is negative.

[1] https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2017/12/brazilian-labor...

[2] https://www.capital-ges.com/an-insider-view-of-the-brazilian...

[3] https://countryeconomy.com/unemployment

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
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Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers
Balanced by TGV and the fact that infant mortality rates don't depend upon which zip code (or arrondissement) you live in.
My friend thinks he isn't allowed and that's based on his knowledge. He might as well be wrong.
Related problem (ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture)

https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bygh9j09KX
I believe Bunny Hopping in the quake series is a good example

https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Bunny_Hopping
This idea that understanding how to build a product means you do not understand why or how someone would want to use it is baffling to me. Yes, some engineers have no product sense and no taste. But there are plenty that do. As is the case for all non-engineering fields as well.
Only tangentially related since the following is not about "mind control" but about "psychological control". Seems like in 2007 CIA was still interested in that.

This is an extract from the section "Special Handling" in [1]:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
A well-trained espionage recruiter will search for vulnerable targets. Professional intelligence officers are trained to "spot" outward signs of trouble in a person's history or behavior -- such as tumultuous relationships or frequent job changes -- and to evaluate the deeper, more enduring psychological dysfunctions that may be at the root of the problems. These professional recruiters are trained do deploy sophisticated psychological control techniques matched to the vulnerabilities they have detected in order to manipulate, apply pressure, or induce a person to commit espionage.

Some intelligence services do not limit themselves to exploiting pre-existing problems, but may actively foster crises to enhance the target's susceptibility to recruitment. Common forms of such aggressive pursuit and manipulation of targets include emotional or sexual entrapment and financial manipulation through increasing the target's level of debt. A psychologically vulnerable target's grandiosity, sense of being above the rules, or vengeful impulses can all be manipulated in the service of recruitment.
#+END_QUOTE

What I found interesting was that the same terminology ("psychological control", "handler") was used also by stratfor's Friedman in the stratfor leaks [2].

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001407031....

[2] https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=202526&fbc...
So inform us. Present evidence for your opinion or keep your opinion to yourself.
And maybe someday, they'll be an actual alternative that actual power companies can by on an actual market.

But they aren't, not today, and they won't be for at least a decade. I don't want to wait, and even if I did, the market definitely will not.
Everyone can write an article about airline unions.

He just doesn't have the insider's perspective.

He can disagree with Sully's reasons why the seniority system is important for safety, but he should at least address it.
It's also unclear whether the UK will still be part of the EU by the time this deal would go through.
You have a point
Old Navy does this. There's a limit; 3 or so "loads" finally gets you to the footer.

https://oldnavy.gap.com/
Extremely unlikely. They won't even be allowed to clear Euros.
Preoccupy Wall Street.

I'm sorry. This is neither the place nor the time. I'll clear my desk within 15 minutes.
That's the number one reason I root my phone. Not to block ads, just to block Reddit.
Wow! He just spoke of how what he actually misses is the relationships and th mentoring. He clearly is thinkin of the potential employees as people first. Your attacks seem emotionally motivated. Not all jobs are slave and master relationships. I cant imagine anyone is motivated to learn and keep up to date on the current labor laws regardless of their level of compassion for those they employ. At the small end of the business spectrum hiring events are much more often "my sister knows a guy who could do this for you and he needs a job right now, wouldn't you like to work 50hrs a week instead of 70?"
Fair. But even this (at least in the US) is the flip side of the laws that in public areas I can take any photos that I want. And I generally like this setup -- I can snap pictures of friends and kids without worrying about proving my right to take those photos).

This should not be taken for granted -- in the UK I was twice (very politely) asked to leave because I was taking a picture and apparently a gov't building was in the background (and you need a permission to photograph those!!) and the second time because a school volleyball competition was played in the background. This is stupid because if I did it with a phone instead of a DSLR no one would notice.

Maybe some limits on commercial photography in public spaces makes sense, but I would not go as far as putting strong limits on it altogether. My 2c.
Thank you, my point exactly. Their infrastructure costs are terrible. Especially considering how easy their data is to shard etc (buyer and seller belong are in the same geo physically).
Terrifyingly complex?

We're talking about a Google search and a few forms...
COLREGs (international rules to not have collisions at sea on account of everybody is agreed that would be bad)

A.2b. "In construing and complying with these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances, including the limitations of the vessels involved, which may make a departure from these rules necessary to avoid immediate danger"

Basically, if obeying the other rules mean you'll get hit by an oil tanker, Rule 2b says ignore those other rules so that you don't get hit by an oil tanker. So yeah, Jack ought to order his engineers to go fix this.
> But surely the first researcher is also in a state of quantum superposition and they are 50/50 opening/not opening the box.

In this simple thought experiment we're assuming they're not. Imagine that the first researcher is definitely going to open the inner box after 10 minutes and then the second researcher is definitely going to open the outer box after 20 minutes.

> And does that mean that any observation is localised and there's no need for many worlds except in unobserved areas of the universe?

Well the whole problem with non-many-worlds is that it has this idea that observed areas and unobserved areas are different. Which can work in very simple thought experiments but gets crazy as soon as you try to apply it to the real world: any interaction between two particles can be seen as an "observation", every part of the universe is gradually "observing" every other part, how do you draw a line between which parts are in superposition and which parts aren't? Many worlds simplifies all this and says that everyone is always in a superposition, there's never a "collapse", and observing outcome A or outcome B with 50% probability is just what being in a superposition of A or B feels like from the inside.
Well LSD was very new at the time. Additionally people’s perceptions are drastically changed while on LSD, and those perceptions are highly variable based on set and setting of the trip.

Seems a very good candidate to me to get people to believe something they wouldn’t have otherwise.
It’s not snarky at all; this is an issue that affects me personally, my partner is type 1 and so I interface with this particularly disgusting aspect of American healthcare all the time. I could rant endlessly about how much of a travesty “care” for folks with diabetes in the US, especially compared to Europe.

I think you’ve misunderstood my comment though; I’m saying that’s how it works in many countries, and not in the US. The US clearly does not offer an acceptable base minimum of healthcare to its citizens. (EDIT: It's also a shame you've been downvoted, though, I think that this is a completely reasonable reading of my comment, even though it's not what I meant.)

I personally am of the “Medicare for all is not enough” persuasion. I’m left by European standards, and off the charts for the US.
> I bet many of your fellow Canadian taxpayers (of which I am one) are not so thankful for this arrangement.

Well, I pay absolutely all Canadian taxes to the full extent, and I can't make use of TFSAs; what do my fellow Canadians have any right to complain about?

> Then again, I fall strictly in the "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" camp.

Well, I am a citizen, and I've lived in Canada my whole life.
>> But this reasoning requires an in-depth model of the world. It isn't enough to just recognize the shape of a bag, because that could be a myriad of other things. Only by having a model and thus understanding of all these different aspects of reality can one make a prediction as robustly as a human.

This is a great summary of why I think current deep-learning based methods will never lead to 'intelligence' that is good enough to e.g. navigate the real world like humans do. They are all based on learning to recognize patterns to infer which things look the same as whatever was in their training set, but they have no semantic capabilities beyond simple classification.

>> And that is not a high bar, because humans are not good at predictions, let alone on short timescales. We are prone to biases, sensory errors, local minima from past bad experiences, basically the lot.

This observation I don't really follow, I would say the bar to match human reasoning abilities is extremely high for exactly the reasons you described yourself.
Snowden is a cartoon psyop like Manning and others. They give hope to cubicle slaves.
> Probably the CIA didn't kill them

Wasn't Gary Webb found with two bullets in his head? Sure, it's possible that he fired those himself. But it's still highly suspicious IMO.
Given that you can change the MAC address, how does throwing it away improve opsec...?
> $30 trillion in new taxes that will be required to pay for Medicare for All

Citation needed.

Here's mine. Global healthcare spending is currently $8 trillion per year, projected to rise to $10 trillion in 2022.

https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/life-sciences-and-...

US healthcare expenditure is a fraction of the global total.

Certainly a large portion of taxes to fund single-payer would be offset by reduction of payments to private insurers.
What about the software side? Fairphone 3 supports Android 9, Fairphone 2 supports Android 7.
I see no use in a smartphone with replaceble hardware parts if I cannot install at least security patches for my phones OS on the long run.
The wavefunction is the thing that is in a state of quantum superposition.

It all depends on whether you think the wavefunction describes the macroscopic world (MWI), or the wavefunction merely calculates amplitudes&probabilities for things that happen in the macroscopic, classical world (Copenhagen)

Is the electron it's wavefunction (MWI), or is the electron a particle/field that is influenced by the wavefunction (Copenhagen)?
Just a reminder that using data obtained illegal (e.g. the 2012 LinkedIn hack) is also illegal (depending on your jurisdiction, IANAL, et cetera...)
Writing was not a newfangled practice in Socrates' and Plato's time. It had already been culturally commonplace (or at least as commonplace as it was then) for generations.
Just because you say you will pay your employees and do right by them, doesn't mean someone else will do the same ... for every one of you, there's someone who will happily exploit someone else, and whether it can be attributed to malice, or ignorance is irrelevant.
i went to school with many kids in what were called "k-level" courses (high school courses in early grades before courses with dual credit were offered)

I often noticed how they could read MUCH faster than i could, and appeared to be actually retaining the information.

Me personally, if i read too fast im literally just "seeing" the words on the paper pass my eyes. I could read a sentence very fast, out loud, and not understand it.

I've always been a slow reader. My sister took speed reading "lessons"(?) when we were younger, apparently she had a problem with reading so my parents felt the need to enroll her in some type of weekend (speed?) reading program that was held at a hotel conference center in a trendy area of our city... it was probably snake oil because i only recall her going once or twice then never returning (perhaps the program was only a day or two long? even worse? how do you really learn anything?)

And I had her share the speed reading techniques with me in an attempt to learn to read faster myself but never could do so.

I dont think that speed reading is all that its cracked up to be.
This is great resource! I found codeflow is interesting but it seems a dead project.
When they say "usual course of business" they mean the revenue generating activity, not essential support functions.

I.e., Uber could not outsource driving if it calls itself a transportation company, but it could outsource accounting functions.
I created this which I am now monetizing by building extra features for paying clients:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

Would love to work with someone (coder or business) who can help me accelerate the monetization process.
Your average voter does not spend that extra money on either insurance premiums or "worse health outcomes." 2/3 of people who aren't on Medicare have employer-provided health insurance. For those people, employers pay 82% of premiums, leaving employees to pay about $1,250 per year for individuals, and about $5,600 per year for families: https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insur.... Note that the median household income for a married couple with kids under 18 is $95,000 in the US: https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/number-....

As to worse health outcomes: Minnesota has a life expectancy comparable to Sweden. Asian Americans in the United States have a life expectancy longer than Asians in Japan, Hong Kong, or Singapore. Looking at the averages skews the fact that much of our disparities in outcomes is not across the board, but the result of disenfranchised minority groups having much worse outcomes than the majority of the population. But your average voter skews more white, older, suburban, married, wealthier, etc., than the general population. The health outcomes for these people are not appreciably, if at all, worse than in Europe.

What you're chalking up as some conspiracy by "the rich" against "everyone else" is better understood as white middle class voters voting for policies that benefit themselves at the expense of disenfranchised minorities. It's not the "rich people" and "corporates" (which Europe has too!) but rather the majority's treatment of the disenfranchised minority (which comprises a much larger fraction of the U.S. population than in most European countries). (In that sense, I'd say that the extreme left wing has a better argument than the moderate left wing. In a world where white Minnesotans have similar health outcomes to white Swedes, while predominantly African American Mississippians live the better part of a decade less, race is a much more important issue than economic policy. And you can't blame the "corporates" for that.)
It's $30 trillion over 10 years (according to CBO).
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List of iPhone 11 Prices Worldwide
That was not immediately known to me, because in New York where my family member is a lawyer, something like the following will happen:

Company X owns Company Y. Company Y builds an apartment building of low quality and hides the defects. They sell the apartments to individual buyers.

The individual buyers sue Company X years later upon finding the defects. The judge throws out the lawsuit and says "you can only sue Company Y, because that is the legal entity who built the building."

The only issue is that Company Y is several million dollars in debt to Company X and has absolutely no way of repaying anyone who sues Company Y.
‘John Wick’ Is a Box Office Success! Part 1.
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum arrives on DVD, Blu-ray and priced-to-rent VOD this morning. The $75 million-budgeted Keanu Reeves action flick opened with $56 million in mid-May and legged out to $171 million domestic, +86% from its predecessor’s $92 million domestic cume, which was in turn +113% from the original John Wick’s $43 million domestic gross in October of 2014.

The threequel earned $321 million worldwide, up 86% from John Wick: Chapter Two’s $172 million cume in 2017 and 3.6x the $88 million that John Wick earned in 2014. In terms of movie-to-movie growth for franchises that don’t take excessive sabbaticals (sorry, Jurassic World or Mad Max: Fury Road), this was unprecedented. Can John Wick: Chapter 4 turn the franchise into an A-level worldwide blockbuster franchise?

It was able to jump so far from its respective predecessor twice in a row because it started small. We were talking about a film that earned as much domestically as Blake Lively’s (underappreciated) Age of Adeline. It was a real breakout sequel in 2017, but the John Wick franchise didn’t leap so high that there was nowhere to go but down. It wasn’t Pitch Perfect, which jumped from $65 million in 2012 to $188 million in 2015 and then earned $100 million in 2017, or Austin Powers which went from $53 million to $205 million to $215 million. A bump from $43 million to $92 million is significant, especially in this environment where originals struggle and prepackaged franchise-starters play like sequels. That said, there was room to grow.
I think part of it, is that it's much easier and palatable to talk about what happened a long time ago.

What is happening now is a 'conspiracy theory' until at some point in the future it becomes historical fact.
Makes sense. I agree with you
I guess it's hard to say, because we don't know what we don't know. The famous example is Newtonian physics which seemed to perfectly explain everything.... until new tools and methods came out that were capable of showing it break down under extreme circumstances. That's how we ended up with Einsteinian physics, where it accounted for the old model and the new observed discrepancies.

So... how do we know that we will not find some bizarre scenario in the future the throws the Standard Model into a similar existential crisis?

I say keep your mind open.
Maybe the long term solution is to put together an open source library database package that serves the needs of 90% of libraries without modification, and make it convenient to make high quality data available.
Yes, you can just add the Born rule as an additional axiom, but that undermines the whole point of adopting the MWI in the first place, which is to remain mathematically "clean" with no ad-hoc assumptions.
IANAL, but don't you need an s-corp for that?

This seems to be saying the same thing:
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/true-owner-llc-cannot-w2-inc...
Facebook does not get this right. I end up in a random place with content I haven’t seen is the back button all the time. It’s one of the things I hate most about the UI.
Just because successful websites do it doesn't mean it's a good user experience.
I'm struggling with the same problem: I'm a Lisp programmer who's writing a commercial game, in my case a Unity engine game, which requires C#.

I've opted for a less elegant, but technically simple strategy: I'm writing all the build tools/content tools in Clojurescript, and then writing only the core game engine in raw C#.

Next, I'm using http://bridge.net to cross-compile the game engine into javascript, which I can then link to from clojurescript so that all unit tests and 90% of all QA testing can be done via clojurescript tooling, without any C# in sight.

This allows me to deploy a commercial game in "native" C# without any performance penalty, but with as few lines of C# as humanly possible.
Well, yeah, because if we don't have these rules, part time employers won't pay taxes, their employees will have to pay tax penalties if they try, and they won't get insurance for workplace injuries. And these are bad things, so we make rules about them.

Now, maybe you'll argue that these are all steps that the government should be doing instead of the employer. And I agree, but they're done this way because there's a whole political aisle in this country dedicated to the proposition that the government shouldn't ever do anything. So someone has to do it, and in our scheme it's the employer.
We're talking about iPhones specifically.
Here a some experts you might want to listen to:

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-shut-down-a-n...

https://whatisnuclear.com/decay-heat.html

"In risk assessments, loss of decay heat removal accidents are usually the highest-risk scenario to release radiation to the public."
I don't understand how HKEX has this much money (or can raise) to buy LSE (or invertly why LSE is worth this much). Exchanges don't do clearing so essentially just a glorified piece of matching software running 24/7. HKEX has their own data center in the middle of nowhere granted which I've been to and yeah more impressive than say an Equinix such HK1 but still the figures don't seem right..
And that gets frustrated when, even though it's static content, it's dynamically loaded.
People with business degrees get a ton of crap in tech circles (god knows I've sent my share of snark their way over the years ;) ) ... but at the end of the day, there is value to someone learning those things, and people have been successfully thriving for decades as you mention under the exact same obligations. I think tech generally seeks to reduce friction as much as possible, even to its detriment ... like someone removing some log from a worksite while cleaning up, only to realize it was holding up something else. The original intent of the thing is lost over time
How do you imagine apple will remove an option from mozilla?

One option would be to worry about mozilla turning off the ability to disable this if they ever actually do that.
The standard model lacks gravity.
>Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him.

Oh, were you also with the NSA? For how long, and what did you do there? Or is that (let's put it charitably) an "Internet agree"?
The designers get paid to increase ad views and “engagement” and are doing their jobs well.
>Experts said that there is nothing in the bill that requires employees to work set shifts, and that Uber and Lyft are legally entitled to continue allowing drivers to make their own scheduling decisions.

Well yeah, it doesn't force them to. Who are these "experts"? If Uber takes on 100,000 new employees and all of the costs that go along with them, why wouldn't they also manage them like... employees? You can't have it both ways.
Also the largest producer of oil:

The United States, 15,647,000 BPD

Most is used for domestic consumption, but we're on track to be net-exporters.

It's been a while since I did any serious work on food policy, but the US was the largest exporter of grain for a while, too. Not the largest producer, not the largest consumer -- that'd be China -- but largest exporter.