skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how about linking to a cspan recording, or an archived news article, or perhaps even the presidential archives and actually providing evidence instead of just more anecdotes that you "think" happened.
Did I miss when Denmark elected Trump because the people completely distrust the elites and wanted someone to burn it all down?
"rescue" seems to imply "error," whereas "exception" means simply an unusual / non-normal condition. Does Ruby encourage exception handling as control-flow besides error conditions?
Honestly, saying that the NSA has done maybe one useful thing in its entire existence and that everything it does could be replaced by "simple detective work" just shows you to be incredibly uninformed and ignorant about what the job of the NSA actually is.
I think variation selectors are intended for the case where even knowing the language is not enough to select the correct glyph, e.g. because they have been unified in a national standard despite different variants remaining in use. If one of those variants happens to be used in another country, you could of course use it to fix at least some cases, but I don't think all unified characters have a selector for each of their country-specific variants.

Even if they did, the Ideographic Variation Database [1] doesn't exactly make it easy to use variation selectors for that purpose, because you only get an example demonstrating what the glyphs should look like. To find out which glyph (and hence variation selector) to use for a given language, you'd need an additional database.

[1] https://unicode.org/ivd/data/2017-12-12/
https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/doingbus/hire.htm

NY posts all of the requirements for hiring a new employee on a single page. It's a simple process, and even simpler if you use a payroll service provider.
so, a failure in measurement sparked a mystery which went on for decades. i wonder how often that happens in science ;P
Maybe it is wrong to ask insurances to insure people with pre-existing conditions. Perhaps such cases should be considered charity or social help, and convered by the state? Just wondering if reframing the problem as such could help. I'm not from the US, so not sure what exactly the issues are.

It seems healthcare.gov is not good enough yet? I don't think classifying government institutions as startups is really correct, though. They have infinite money supply and no requirement to be profitable.
Don't forget a W4 form!
> OP's post was edited

For the record, the original just said (as quoted in the above response) "The main difference is that the MWI has trouble explaining the Born rule." Upon reflection I decided that wasn't really the main difference, that the main difference is the difference in ontology. But the fact that the MWI has to recover the Born rule from the linear dynamics is a major consequence of this difference in ontology.

The jury is still out about whether or not self-location uncertainty actually allows the Born rule to be recovered without begging the question. If it works, it would be a major breakthrough. Personally, I'll give long odds against.

[UPDATE]:

> There are not additional 'worlds'

Um, what do you think that the "MW" in "MWI" stands for?
Show HN: GeoTessellator, tessellated vector grids from OpenStreetMap geometry
I'm still confused how you can avoid tell someone how to do their job. A SW contractor can't be told which language to use or be connected to company source control or use existing company software libraries? A carpenter can't be directed in some fashion beyond: 'YOU, GO BUILD HOUSE FRAME'.
1. Not necessarily a bug. Just slow software.
2. Not a bug.
3. A real stretch to call this a bug.
4. Seems lika a real bug without researching more.
5. Not a bug.
This was an incredibly enjoyable read. A lesson to take away is that many of the ideas of Lisp can be taken advantage of without reeling in the entirety of an existing stack.

Writing a Lisp parser is easy. Walking Lisp code is easy. Serializing Lisp code is easy. Adding a new primitive is easy. Adding very basic syntax transforming macros is easy. All of these are virtually trivial if your host language is a Lisp, as was the case with Co2.

What they didn’t do is what many people might think are table stakes with Lisp: writing a garbage collector, writing a runtime, supporting lambdas, and so on. Those are unreasonable asks for 2K RAM on a 6502. I wouldn’t say they wrote a bonafide Lisp, but they made use of many ideas of Lisp successfully to write a game that is very surprisingly readable while not being too abstract over assembly.

Since Lisp began in the 1950s, it has always needed to stay tied to the low level. Even today, with SBCL or CCL, you can write your own assembly code. One relevant thing to the article is Baker’s COMFY 6502 language for writing assembly code [0]. A few implementations can be found on GitHub.

[0] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/sigplannotices/sigcol04.pd...
> It will probably come as a surprise to you (it did me several years ago), that it’s not simply up to you and the company hiring you if you are considered a freelancer.

Where do you draw the line?

Let's say you hire someone for 3 hours to help you out for a specific task. A "I would like X done with Y" type of scenario. Are they now considered an employee?

What if you asked someone to do a code review for 5 hours where you precisely told them what to do, but it's on them to determine the state of the code? Also an employee? Does your answer change if you asked them to do this 1 hour a week for a year?

Here's another example. A company hired me to do X. This ended up being a ~100 hour project. They gave me a checklist of deliverables and a pretty decent break down on how to implement everything. They let me choose the tech (but had suggestions on what to use) and how the application functioned was defined by them. Am I an employee and if so, what if I worked 20 hours a week until it was done vs 50 hours a week -- does that change anything?

Scenarios like the above are really common in the freelance world. You get a super wide range of work thrown at you (as you know).

I've talked with a number of accountants over the years and always told them everything I've been up to. I was never once recommended to classify myself as a W2 employee, or be on the hook for hiring a W2 employee for short term contract work that I provided someone. It's always been 1099s in and 1099s out.
Just look at Alibaba. The government likely owns even more shares through proxies or threatening of families.
> I'm in the US, but my understanding is that the public gets a minimum level of heathcare, provided by the state. You can additionally decide to pay extra money for fancier care if you want more than what you're getting.

Sorry if this comes off as snarky but,

"fancier care" like, for example, the required dose of insulin?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/another-person-has-di...
It doesn't matter how you call it - they will be unable to earn extra money by driving, that is the issue. If they relied on that money to make ends meet, they may not be happy anymore.
And that attitude is the reason we have so much overhead and useless garbage being produced instead of valuable labor. Just because I don't want to learn the intricacies of labor and tax law doesn't mean I won't pay my employees well and do right by them.
Quantum Intercal
Another new book just published on data privacy:
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age Hardcover – September 10, 2019
by Brad Smith (Author), Carol Ann Browne (Author), Bill Gates (Foreword)
https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Weapons-Promise-Peril-Digital/d...
Still the benchmark for all these video essays. My wife has used the videos in an introduction to film analysis class. Truly a great resource
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Google’s updated Nest Mini speaker might be able to hang on your wall
I remember when Google Reader came along was probably the first time I saw infinite scrolling and it was glorious! The best thing ever! I don't want my RSS feeds any other way!

But for anything else? Not so much.
Link to talk?
The last time I had a hard core technical interview was in 1999. I had been working for 3 years and they needed someone who knew the ins and outs of cross platform C development.

By the time I got back out on the market ten years later, I was already 35 and I was able to talk about projects, architecture, trade offs involved in shipping, etc and I was applying for mid level roles - partially because I had become an expert beginner “engineer” even though I was good “developer” and they were getting me cheaply.

Eight years and three jobs later, my engineering skills had caught up with my age and I was applying for jobs where they needed a “change agent” or “someone who could speak experience into the team”. Now, I rarely get asked any programming questions. It’s mostly architectural and soft skill questions.

But, in the grand scheme of things. There are only two reasons anyone is interviewing for a job. Either they are being forced to find another job because of a layoff or the current environment has become inhospitable or they are choosing to find another job for more money/new challenges.

In the former case, where I need to find a job now, I need my resume to be buzzword compliant so I can find a job/contract fast. I also need to be ready to for more technical interviews especially for contracting.

In the latter case, I can be more picky and find jobs where they are looking for “principal developers”/team lead type of positions and the interviews tend to be more architectural/theoretical.

On a side note, I’m not sure what I want to do next. If I choose the cloud consulting/“digital transformation consultant”/“enterprise solution architect/consultant” route. Knowing a little about everything will come in handy - including something like Graph QL.
I want to be an independent contractor without getting tied to a company. At least, this was the best part for me in the gig economy where I can drive Uber and rent on Airbnb and make money doing multiple gigs. I don't want to be an employee of either Uber or AirBnb.
Type 2 diabetes is not just about insulin
>> One thing I know he cannot do is drive a car.

You are allowed to drive a car if you only have one eye, though.

Besides - I don't really think I myself use the perception of depth from my stereo vision as much as I know that the cars on the road are all standard dimensions.

There's not so many objects on the road which have similar proportions of dimensions but are different in size so are easily mistaken.

You have enough distance information by simply observing the visible width of the car in front of you.
> But when the industry makes as much money as it does, the costs of generating that spin are relatively cheap compared to the profits it secures.

In H1 2018, the largest 8 insurers combined made $16.6 billion in profits: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/from-aetna-to-wellcar.... Facebook, by itself, is about on the same level, at $10 billion.

Are you saying that Facebook alone somehow makes sufficient profits to convince an entire country to vote for favorable policies? Including the thousands of businesses, shelling out $1 trillion+ for private health insurance coverage?
It's as much of a strawman argument as the Twitter image is, then, since the image is literally a picture of a hospital bill.

One argument doesn't mention the subtext of socialized medicine, and the other doesn't mention the subtext of insurance.
Close, it's the probability of it happening by chance given that the null hypothesis is true. Unless H0 is objectively and absolutely true, it is not the same as "probability of it happening by chance."
Exchanges are largely publicly traded and thus owned by large swaths of individuals, not nation states (though Hong Kong & China are different).

For euro based exchanges the ship has largely sailed even with where their corporate parents are based with giant impactful exchanges like Liffe being owned by external companies.
Unless your ISP is running Huawei equipment. ;)
Does anyone know if the Fairphone 3 will support Android Pay? I've asked their support a few times now, but I've never gotten a clear answer.
It's a direct result of their shortsighted, nationalistic decision. The article says it's motivated by a hope of remaining a global economic power, after...breaking existing ties with a global economic power.
Eating Your Own Dogfood Is Just Not Enough – By Justin Hunter
I'm not an audio developer (maybe aspiring in some ways?), but had to do some work for digital radio previously and my experience is similar.

> btw, on Firefox 69 (macOS) only the pre-scheduled audio made a sound :)

Also similar experience here, same version. Also "stop" didn't stop the pre-scheduled audio. It continued until 20 ticks.
"Yes, there's some grey area in there."

From my experience, I've never seen a software contractor that could avoid being considered an employee if the eyes of the state government fell upon them closely.
> very cheap prices

Citation needed on this one. Not my experience at all.
It sounds pretty much the same, but is distinctly different. That's where much of the confusion in the popular press comes from.

The difference is that, as highlighted in your quote, there is some null hypothesis that is assumed when discussing p-values.

For example: what is the probability of drawing x>2 when the underlying distribution is assumed to be a standard normal distribution N(0,1)?

The probability is small in this case, and could provide evidence to reject the null hypothesis (i.e. the distribution is not standard normal). It doesn't tell you about the probability of drawing x>2, it only gives evidence to reject (or not) the null hypothesis.

The wiki has more elaborate explanation. And probably better examples than mine.
> the main difference is the difference in ontology

Sure, I'm not sure how much Science has to say about ontology but I'm interested in the outcome.
Contemporary Front-End Architectures
Conversely, Copenhagen-like explanations need to explain (or postulate) a decoherence/collapse operation that violates all the usual rules of QM: it would be non-time-symmetric, non-unitary, likely non-local (propagating faster than light), ...
Being the largest shareholder of HKEX does not mean they're the majority shareholder. Every ownership percentage you've quoted from Bloomberg is an aggregate across multiple investors except the 13.78% owned by the government.

I suspect you assumed largest meant majority because of the number of board seats the government controls. Interestingly, it appears that's unrelated to the government's financial stake in the entity. Securities laws in Hong Kong permit the Financial Secretary (a member of the Executive Council) to appoint up to eight board members. The government's authority over HKEX board appointments is outlined in Section 77[1] of the Securities Futures Ordinance.

[1] https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap571?xpid=ID_1438403466...
For somebody who has never had formal training in statistics and similar discussions, what is a good/book to start groking these concepts?
Good documentary on that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Worlds,_Parallel_Live...)
> If you talked about the massive surveillance from governments people tossed you aside as a paranoid lunatic.

I wonder how much that was any given person, or just that the availability of such surveillance has increased dramatically.
Everytime my macbook pro break, it becomes a session in anger management, because it's hard to fix or required lot of money to fix.

If an easily repairable phone breaks, it's not a big deal.
One thing that I find disappointing in this legislation is that I wish it did essentially the reverse: instead of forcing the drivers to be employees, I wish it loosened the control Uber/Lyft had to bring it down to the level of what should be expected for independent contractors.

The biggest issue for me is pricing - the fact that drivers have 0 input to rates always made the IC designation fiction. But if the apps worked eventually like a reverse auction, where drivers got to set their own rates and you could then choose based on distance and cost, that would be much more of a true marketplace model with independent sellers.
Or instead, if you're really not willing to learn something you'll do with every future hire, you could just use a small business payroll service provider that specializes in this sort of stuff to do it for you so that you don't risk prison time.

Payroll might be complicated to learn the first time. But it's like riding a bike, once you learn it's trivial to do.
> As you can probably guess from the high service-developer ratio, we ended up with lots of “separated” yet tightly-coupled services. This hurt us a lot.

This isn't related to Conway law. This is just the team ignoring key design principles, or lacking the discipline to follow these principles.

If you have a small team it is unavoidable that people will work on, or own, several microservices. This does not mean that coupling should increase.
You don't have to spend the adventures. If you absolutely cannot stand to miss the opportunity, there is a mechanism to spend multiple adventures in one action. There's a job board in town that uses 5 adventures at a time, and you can work at the bar for N adventures. You can straight up trade adventures for meat in one click. Log in from your phone, spend all your adventures at once, then log off. Or write a script that will log in and spend all your adventures for you, without bothering you at all. It's all https requests.

The 40 rollover adventures combine with daily consumption limits to give you an easily attainable 200 adventures per day per character. That's about 3 hours of play, if you aren't using automation aids. If you accumulate adventures to the cap, and then play them all the next day, you can use about 360 adventures. At the risk of the statement haunting me later, 200-360 should be enough for anybody. If you want to play more adventures, you can always play more than one character. Or, as you mentioned, if you want to play for more time, you can spend more time playing each adventure, to be more optimal.

You can't ever escape tradeoff #2 if your personality is susceptible to obsessing over things. If you play Tetris too long, you might dream about falling tetromino blocks. The important thing is the Asymmetric folks aren't trying to profit from obsessive player behaviors by throwing wildly non-synchronized countdown timers on everything.
I did; she gave abstract examples of "look at the post office" or "look at the DMV", which I guess in her mind are examples of government inefficiency.

I don't really talk to her anymore due to her saying some really horribly racist stuff about my wife a couple years ago, so I'm afraid I won't be able to get her to elaborate more.
Like other laws, it doesn't prevent anything. At best, it provides people who are inclined to prevent it a framework which helps avoid getting so bogged down in unending debates about where to draw lines about the boundaries as to never be able to take coordinated action.

At worst it demobilizes action when people get the mistaken idea that the existence of a law is sufficient to guarantee correct behavior without vigilance.
Interesting strategy. Recently I was having a look at the price of Gold and it seems there is a recession brewing. However, I feel I already lost that train and so I was thinking about buying Swiss currency / Indexes as it is very stable and generally speaking a safe bet when the rest of the world is economical turmoil.
Aside from the fact all of my side projects are currently abandoned (in search of wellness).

I use Trello, and have found organising ideas by value and difficulty has eased the burden of having 100+ side projects.

So.. I have multiple columns identifying which projects I will work on: "backlog", "will do", "won't do", "in progress", and "finished".

The "tickets" are also colour coded by difficulty: green - easy, orange - few days/week, red - few weeks/months.

Depending on how much time I think I will have free in the next few weeks, I pick a difficulty, and will only work on ONE project at a time (This is the only rule that stops me picking things up then abandoning it half way through).

I haven't been doing red projects in the past few months as they require more energy than I currently have, the green ones are the most fun, usually done in a night or a weekend, then I will not start another project until the next week to give myself a rest.
> infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-)

This is actually what facebook does when you're offline. When it runs out of content to show, it cycles round and shows you the same content again.
I understand the reasoning from Aramco's side, but still I'd imagine that would be a bit of a gut punch to Singapore. They've been working hard to position themselves as "Hong Kong, but stable and independent" for some time now.
Yes and no.

Eliminating the pre-existing conditions restrictions was life-changing for me and a lot of people I know; I'd had a surgery in 2005 that, up to whenever Obamacare was passed, excluded me from buying any health insurance from a private insurer.

They all declined me as having had a pre-existing condition (having been operated on). Obamacare taking that away? A good thing.

The medicaid expansion was significant for several of my friends, too. Suddenly, they qualified for medicaid! Again, big improvement in their quality of life.

Lots wrong with the ACA, and for my part I wish we'd had the public option, but overall I don't think it made health care worse; just changed the good and bad to affect different people.
Cool this is good to know, I will not trust that my phone number is mine anymore.
If you aren't going to have a GC, "rich" runtime or lambda support, what does LISP really bring you over FORTH? And implementations of the latter on 6502 have been commonplace since the 1980s...
Funny thing that he helped creating it. His early career fame was nearly all due to saying "the evidence says X is true, therefore, let's make X true in our theories" on the face of older, important people.

Then, after becoming older and important people he throws something like "God doesn't play dice" into the world. Fortunately, he had very few of those moments, but makes one wonder if that kind of thing is inevitable.
If you are choosing to leave a company on your own terms you can be selective. If you are leaving because of layoffs or the company exploded, every week you wait you’re losing money.
You are not alone. There are many that agree with you and even apple did, before it hindered with what the "shareholders & wolfs of wall street" needed.

https://youtu.be/O99m7lebirE
Unfortunately, tyrants—inclulding demagogic ones—rarely uphold laws that interfere with their tyranny.
> Number porting should require an SMS to the existing SIM

This is done by some carriers in Russia as far as I remember.

> with the ability to respond NO to cancel the proces

There is no such possibility, but you can visit carrier's representative.

> A mandatory time delay (12 or 24 hours) could be imposed.

Some carriers do this for SMS. Here is a quote from one of the carrier's website:

> To protect you from scammers, after replacing a SIM card SMS messages from banks and commercial online services will be blocked for 24 hours. You will be able to send and receive SMS from other users and popular messengers and applications instantly.

> SMS is an extremely powerful authentication factor

But it discloses person's identity and location.