skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be a gig-economy job board for all those fearless souls who volunteered for a one way trip to mars to put that reckless abandon in service to the work of doing thankless life threatening tasks like ghost writing articles for leakers and whistleblowers.
Except this doesn't really have anything to do with London or Hong Kong the cities/countries. It's one publicly traded company bidding to take over another. They both just happen to have a city name in their company name.
There is also another reason: If Uber employs the driver and he/she acts unprofessionally, then it's a lot of work to fire him/her before they can hire someone else. (Uber does not want to drag passengers into any type of litigation)

If Uber deals with many companies, they can just reduce demand at the company with the bad driver and increase demand at another one. The company with the bad driver can then retrench him, saying they need to cut someone.

(Disclaimer, I know very little about Uber and the US and it may not work for them specifically. But the idea certainly applies to other companies)
no, i have friends in both China and Hong Kong. China suppresses peoples complaints, very well known amongst the Chinese even.
> * SMS (and automated voice call) are bad for [...] people with international phone numbers

Why is that? I'm maybe spoiled by my surroundings (Poland and Europe in general), but receiveing SMS text is free abroad. While using dataplan generally is not, so SMS is cheaper (free) as a second factor if you travel a lot.
I think he means Dominic Cummings and his links to Cambridge Analytica during the Brexit campaign
One option is a temp agency.
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"Buy when there's blood in the streets"
I think it's pretty bad that the phone companies facilitate this attack. I wonder if they have any kind of legal liability for their negligence? Maybe all that's needed to stop these attacks is for people to start suing them for the damages incurred upon being SIM-swapped? It should not be easy to steal someone's phone number.
i dont understand, everybody was saying theres a million trucker jobs unfilled
California was once the stronghold of conservativism, recall GOP God-head
Reagan had his political epicenter of Orange County. Now, California is majority minority and much more liberal. Could the same happen to Texas, Georgia, Arizona?
Was it your first job dealing with people? People are funny, and it can be hard to account for their motivations and ways in which they want things and make changes. Ascribing these anecdotes to Apple's advertising/brainwashing program is a little bit silly.
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Being able to swap modules out of your phone like you can swap components out of a PC is very enticing to DIYers.

With enough maturity there could be a new market to sell modules for very different purposes than phone manufactures intended (ie: you can use the drive bays in PC case for a variety of components, not just “drives”, and it will work as long as it interface with the motherboard)
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hugely important point.

helped a less-tech-savvy neighbor 'reset her skype' account that was tied to 'her phone number', only to find that the account bound to that phone number, which she had recently acquired, was publically searchable and connected with some sort of anime sex fetish subculture, presumably from a previous owner of that phone number..

she was using this phone / skype account for a job interview.

needless to say, a searchable skype account connected to her phone number with such a public profile could have had a hugely negative impact on her job search, and she wasn't even aware of it's existence until she happened to stumble upon it..

not good.
I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
people interested in this may also be interested in GDD Gas Discharge Detectors, they can also be used for mixing / heterodyning
This seems like terrible legislation. Yes, part time gig workers are exposed to harms that employees don’t face (i.e. lack of health insurance). But the ability to work flexibly and between lots of companies has huge upside for them and for firms. Why not tax companies who use these workers and put the tax revenue toward a special health insurance / social safety net specifically for gig workers? Mitigates many of the downsides and preserves flexibility.
The poster seems to be talking about illegal immigrants.
So children that's blind on one eye take longer to learn to recognize objects?
There are definitely sites (usually documentation) where I can press Alt-N to get to the next page and Alt-P to get to the previous one and I have no idea how that happens.
That's not really the problem. I can take the ATX case that I used for a DDR2 Core 2 Duo and put a DDR4 Ryzen in there. I can use the same PC screen for as long as I'm satisfied with it even if it lasts through four generations of CPU and memory technology. And because they're fungible, there are scads of parts available for the old hardware even if nobody really makes it anymore, because a stick of DDR2 from an old HP Athlon II works fine in an old Dell Core 2 Duo, much less between two models from the same OEM.

So why not with phones too? All it would require is to standardize dimensions and power connectors for system boards etc. It doesn't even require absolute uniformity. You can have the equivalent of mATX, ATX, E-ATX, etc. for different size devices, as long as the board dimensions and connectors for a ~6" phone are the same as for another ~6" phone.
Not all classified information a newspaper gets its hands on reveals illegal activity.

>Didn't happen from the leaks that did show executive overreach and abuse, so it would always make sense to make this protective claim and therefore it looses any credibility.

It doesn't need to have credibility if it's obviously true. If the Guardian has information on things such as sensitive military information or CIA operative locations and identities, revealing it could obviously result in loss of life and may not directly involve private US citizens in any capacity.

The idea that the pre-existing dangers of a profession are a justification to put people's lives in danger is just so ridiculous. If you put a bullet in the head of an enlisted man, just because he knew signing up his life might be at risk one day doesn't absolve you of being responsible for their death.
Amazon, Apple Google et al owe orders of magnitude more in taxes than Uber do. Get your priorities straight.
In this case, the lower fundamental would be something that permeates space (zero-point energy?), so the orbitals that are harmonics of the lower fundamental but not an atom's s orbital would be on other atoms entirely.
Right on, it sounds like the customer here was hooked on the unboxing experience or something like that, or was seeking out a distraction from life.
" safe-haven to run to if SHTF"

If S* is hitting the fan, aren't you assuming said expat lives in, to use El Jefe's words, a "S* country"? By conservation of mass, the S* comes from somewhere. Instead, most expats live in W. Europe, Canada, or Japan/Korea. Pretty safe.

" tax avoiding leeches in Silicon Valley don't feel obligated to contribute to the societies from which they extract their wealth"

Well, no. Ppl aren't complaining about paying taxes to the sovereign of where they live, even on their global income. That's another discussion. It's about paying taxes, usually mostly locally earned income, to an entity far away that has no jurisdiction and that provides nothing in return.
Anti-semitism (and prejudice in general) exists on a much wider spectrum than just "burning hatred", and it is entirely possible to be friendly with members of a group that you are prejudiced against. If, perhaps, you believe that Jewish people do not integrate fully and are not "properly British", it does not prevent you from also getting on perfectly well with your Jewish next door neighbour, but you're still anti-semitic.

And just as a tip, claiming that accusations of anti-semitism are a Zionist conspiracy is somewhat self-defeating.
> Live is not just made up of a series of random events.

citation needed

You can make all the claims you want. Everything is being made as it goes along, and if someone claims to have these powers and doesn't use them, they are either lying, deluded, or terribly cruel. It's awfully convenient, and really a sick joke, if the moment one has real agency, they can't use it.
> Ah yes. Americans are just dumb and easily duped.

I wouldn't say dumb or easily, but a large portion of us I would agree are being duped. I mean you have entire swaths of the country that believe "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is actually serious advice, and not the sarcastic and ridiculous statement it was originally coined as. The streak of individualism present in most places but especially in the States has been hijacked to great effect to make people more willing to vote against their better interests in the name of what's sold to them as "freedom."
>Canada...do as well without the silly system the US has in place

Perhaps you're forgetting about the evacuation of Lebanese Canadians in 2006, "Citizens of Convenience" and the associated changes in Canadian citizenship laws. It's not without controversy.
I noticed that recently and am wondering if I would be fine with the lowest storage option in the future. I have 128GB and have never gone above 60GB. I am sitting on 20GB's of local music that hasn't been touched since I switched to streaming music two years ago.
Most stock exchanges are owned by some "outsider" publicly traded company. The London Stock Exchange owns the Milan Stock Exchange for example.
Also, I need subdivisions in a metronome app.
Friend gave up probably one of the best tech jobs in the world because it was too boring. The company is owned by a foundation, so they think very long-term and have their employees welfare as one of the highest priorities.

Well, for him that was too good a deal, so now he's working 60 hours for half the salary.
Yes I'm not sure what "technology to build and network communities" actually is in terms of something that could be worth many billions.
I have heard statement very close to that made by people who were entirely serious. Glad to hear you were not.
So what's the implications of this for topological data analysis as an alternative (or complementary) framework to the convolutional approaches in image analysis?

(I'm being loose with language, but a CNN is not an optimal "hole finder", while persistent homology is not optimal for telling different kinds of fish apart.)
> So either it's expensive to hire a CFO just for that, or expensive in your time to learn it all when your main goal is to actually get work done that produces revenue.

This attitute is exactly why those laws are needed. As a business owner if you want to hire some other human being to work for your company then it should be your natural instinct that wants you to learn everything that makes the life of that other human being easy to work for you, but because you have no intrinsic interest in actually educating yourself what someone might need if they work for you, that is why you have to be forced into learning that by law.

It's sad that all you care about is someone getting your work done, because it's still a human being and that legislation is there for a reason.
Are you serious? You know that hospitals have taken people to court and gotten their wages garnished over not paying? You can't just let it "go to collections" because you don't feel like paying a $100k bill for having your appendix removed.
Worth clarifying in case you're unfamiliar with the Canadian system: There is a points-based program for economic migration, but there are also other immigration avenues (e.g. family reunification) and appeal processes (e.g. based on established connection to Canada) that are not points based.

(In 2018, just over half of immigration to Canada was via points system, with 28% and 14% family reunification and refugees respectively. [0])

The points based system isn't a panacea. As a Canadian, I see it as a tradeoff: I dislike the fact that it makes access to Canada easier for the wealthy and privileged, but it's transparent and predictable and (hopefully) aligned with the skills that help immigrants succeed.

I'm no expert, but there are other differences you could look at. For example, having family in your community is a strong predictor of economic success for immigrants, so if you really care about successful integration, you might want to prioritize family reunification. It feels like the Canadian and US discourse on this have started to diverge. ("chain migration"?)

In any case, a complicated topic. [1] I certainly don't know what system is best. But I feel it's a bit reductive to only focus on the point-based aspect.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ca...
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
The no-double-tax scheme means they still pay all their Canadian taxes, it's the US that discounts an amount in their tax calculations.
https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability?sort=score

There is only one other phone from the last five years (that isn't also a Fairphone) that has a score better than an 8/10 on ifixit's 'repairability score'. Well done!
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The Uber layoffs announced yesterday now seem to be strategically timed. If we assume the standard 3 month severance offered by big companies, the layoffs would free up cash at the end of 2019 - right when they’d need it for the increase in CA drivers benefits.
The distribution of the p-value, given that the null is true, is uniform between 0 and 1.

IF the null is true, you're equally likely to get a p-value of 0.01 and 0.87.
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Deutsche Boerse tried to buy LSE for years, but the EU blocked it in 2017. I fail to see how this deal would be any better; financial markets are global so why does it matter where the acquirer sits.
Its a meta observation of how we view p-values. He's saying that the same logic behind p-values and declaring something "statistically significant" when p < X (often 0.05), falls apart when applied to differences between two observed p-values. Essentially, you would say there is no "statistically significant" difference between an experiment that resulted in a p-value of 0.2 and one that resulted in a p-value of 0.05.

And the argument will hold no matter what threshold you choose for rejecting the null hypothesis. You can choose to reject if p > X, and for any X, there will be values greater than X that, applying this meta-logic, are not statistically different from X.

> At what point would this author say something is not consistent with the null hypothesis?

Gelman's argument, I presume, is against the idea of significance testing as a whole. Declaring something "statistically significant" is in itself a very problematic thing, as it distills the entire phenomenon, the uncertainty surrounding the experiment, and the uncertainty surrounding the researcher's decisions to a single, binary conclusion.

Gelman is a Bayesian (perhaps the most famous modern Bayesian), and the Bayesian philosophy is to focus on producing a posterior distribution of the phenomenon being studied. I presume the alternative to significance and null hypothesis testing that he was suggest would be something closer to a model where people are reporting their priors/data/posteriors, and the discussion focuses around the implications and replication of those.
The difference is that the company that contracted you isn't managing your day-to-day work.

Company hires you and says "we need a website that does X" and leaves you to do it. You might be a contractor/free-lancer.

Company hires you and says "we need a website that does X, you need to work in the office and/or use our hardware, and we want it written in React, and you'll be working closely with JimBob the Manager." You are probably not a contractor/freelancer.

Yes, there's some grey area in there. It's a combination of the three factors in the ABC test that determines employee vs contractor.
I don't think it's a lie, you've just misunderstood "Largest" to mean "Majority". The government is probably the largest individual shareholder, unless Reuters made a mistake.
I’m hope Google Voice on a dedicated Google Account makes this relatively harder for crooks to pull-off. In theory it should require a porting attack and in theory since you can lock your number on the Google side you should at least get notified by Google first about any porting attempt.
They are at it again apparently.
Wow, I thought Binney was just some random analysist news shows brought on to discredit the 2016 hacking thing. Didn't realize he was the key catalyst for the Snowden leak after the government shafted him when he tried to reveal the same NSA overreach using the "proper" channels.
It's really ½FA, worse than 1FA authentication because it's sufficient to clear any 1 of the 2 factors.
My iPhone 6s, with its weird turning off and on randomly at times and other funky behaviors, was (and will always be) my favorite phone I ever owned! I'm not joking :)
I'm not making fun of anyone. I'm interested in what's new in this book. MKULTRA is old news. Surely there must be something new in this book that previous books haven't covered. What is it?
"The proposed 31.6 billion pounds cash-and-share transaction would only go ahead if the LSE’s takeover of Refinitiv does not proceed, HKEX said."
Yes, "robots".
https://www.techidence.com/kiwibots-are-not-fully-autonomous...
With the advent of starlink, who knows what else can be outsourced.
Applying just now ;)
You can eat less meat and still understand that more needs to be done. There is no single “real solution” for most complex problems.
I'm not sure if I'm totally fine on 6 hours of sleep, or I'm just so used to it that I don't recognize the difference.
> If workers in this field want to call themselves "software engineers" and gain the benefits of a professional title

What are those benefits?
Not a security expert by any means and it'd actually be nice to get some feedback on this. I have a Gmail account protected with a hardware token and no additional 2FA mechanisms. I created a google voice # that forwards any text or voice messages to this email. The number is locked and cannot be transferred without having physical access to the google account. If I need to setup 2FA, I use the google voice #. The 2FA token is received via my secured Gmail. Any kind of social engineering attempts would have to go through Google support instead of telco. Is something like this worth pursuing?
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Sure, call it anything you want. But by your logic, there's no "single payer" anywhere on Earth because I can always just fly to the US and pay a doctor out of pocket (so I'm the "other payer").
These (incredibly small) requirements you list for having a small number of part time employees have been legal obligations for more than 50 years.

So yes, you have to fill out 5 forms, and write 4 checks, every year for withheld taxes.

But none of this qualifies for “it’s sad, it’s getting hard to be a small business”. They’re just things everyone in the US has been legally obligated to do for part time employees for an exceedingly long time.

So I don’t get the tone of this thread.
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Flaky tests are hiding in plain sight
I see you said you were in Italy, but just to be clear, in the US I have returned an iPhone bought in-store, nearly two weeks later, for a full refund.
Nothing of what you said is incompatible with the HK government being the largest shareholder.
Can you elaborate about what insurance companies can do in the US to someone known to have a rare disease? Can they deny coverage or price it higher than healthy people?
An ML bot could probably keep this mall alive indefinitely.
Indeed.

The current narrative being pushed is that Epstein was simply a pimp for the rich and powerful. It's clear there was much more going on though.
The new battle in Hong Kong isn’t on the streets: it’s in the apps
Yeah exactly...and taking time away from sleep is the only way because it's the only big chunk of time available.
If the second paragraph of "A Short Biography" is at all interesting, then you should definitely read The Destiny of the Republic.

It covers Garfield's unexpected rise to president, his assassination, Bell's attempt to save him, the nutter who shot him, and more.

For me it was also an interesting coverage of a time period I knew basically nothing about, immediately after reconstruction.
The UK is in the EU.
Humans are much better at noise removal than computers. Many people can look at an object and see what's extraneous to the basic form--what's left is the skeleton. Computers, so far, don't have the context to do this, and instead try to recognize objects based on visual patterns, etc.

Perhaps "weighting" models, allowing algorithms to look for centers of gravity and mechanical behavior would help. Humans exist in a 3d world, but we also interact with a simplified 3d world.

We don't worry about the plastic bag in the street because we can feel how our car will respond. It's trivial. There's no "weight" attached to the object.

Weight and balance are incredibly important psychologically (see the burgeoning popularity of weighted blankets), and that's a thing that's missing for computers. Having a tangible sense of the world in our minds gives us a huge leg up when relating to it.
Also, do keep in mind that by using DoH, you're also rendering anything like Pi-Hole useless. The solution of course being to use DoH from the Pi-Hole device [0], picking your own provider and disabling it on Firefox. Only step you need to change is the part where upstream providers are given and use your own instead of Cloudflare's default.

[0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
That's how Zuckerberg built his app before Facebook.
Mr. Ferris certainly has a lot to say about the process of learning, but I haven't run across him saying anything about this particular course.
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The California Consumer Privacy Act
That "flexibility" means precarity as the majority of gig employees do this full-time:

>In California, the legislation will affect at least one million workers who have been on the receiving end of a decades-long trend of outsourcing and franchising work, making employer-worker relationships more arm’s-length. Many people have been pushed into contractor status with no access to basic protections like a minimum wage and unemployment insurance. Ride-hailing drivers, food-delivery couriers, janitors, nail salon workers, construction workers and franchise owners could now all be reclassified as employees.

Also, classifying them as employees doesn't mean that flexibility is gone:

>Uber and Lyft have repeatedly warned that they will have to start scheduling drivers in advance if they are employees, reducing drivers’ ability to work when and where they want.

>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.

>In practice, Uber and Lyft might choose to limit the number of drivers who can work during slow hours or in less busy markets, where drivers may not generate enough in fares to justify their payroll costs as employees. That could lead to a reduced need for drivers over all.

>But Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said it would still generally be advantageous for Uber and Lyft to rely on incentives like bonus pay to ensure they had enough drivers on the road to adjust to customer demand much more nimbly than if they scheduled drivers in advance.