skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Specifically, what they will have to say about the idea of an open-source pacemaker is "No."

Not specific enough. What they would most likely object to is code you can modify. Code you can inspect on the other hand is a whole 'nother business. And one could easily guarante their pacemaker runs the code the manufacturer says it runs, by having reproducible builds, signing the source & binary, and have the device itself communicate (at least) a version number.

Being able to modify the source would be potentially even better, but if we could at least inspect it, then we would know of bugs & vulnerabilities (some of which have affected Karen Sandler in the past), and the manufacturer would have no choice but be shamed and correct the error.
I'm not a BEAM user, so I may be wrong, but as I understand it, that's not really true. Two VMs are isolated at a much more fundamental level which matters for security and containment. For example, two BEAM process, while they don't have direct access to each other's memory in the sense of say global shared variables, still have access to the same physical memory, the same disk partition, the same file descriptors, the same sockets, etc..

So I'd imagine there's potential utility in still running inside docker, as a means to deploy the expected OS, the correct assets, the version of BEAM itself, etc. And there are reasons to isolate all that with VMs, to prevent sharing of machine resources like disk, file descriptors, sockets etc.
> Special Relativity can be summed up in the sentence: “We live in a spacetime which is an M4 manifold with a hyperbolic Lorentz metric of signature (+−−−)”. General Relativity can be stated accordingly: “The Universe is an M4 manifold with a Riemannian metric of signature (+−−−)” which is a solution of the Einstein equation:Rμν−12Rgμν+Λgμν=χTμν.

It sounds like you get anti-gravity for free along the way to getting superluminal travel.
The transportation sector seems like a pretty good indicator. Maybe a dip in the number of semi's in the road over time?
I don't like Elsevier, but I always wondered:

Why aren't there a few meta-reviewers, to review the reviews?

That is, why doesn't the PC chair, or some key reviewers, have a look at the reviews given on papers to make sure that:

- They were respectful
- They were to the point
- They did not indicate obvious lack of knowledge of the relevant subject matter (this one might be a bit tricky)
- They were not self-promoting

That would really have helped a lot of conferences...

(but I actually know the answer: There's a dearth of reviewers as-is, so there's de-motivation to introduce this meta-review mechanism even if it would help review quality.)
This is one of the reasons why I like working for Netflix. My compensation is (almost) entirely base salary.

When I left Google, a substantial part of my salary was via stacked yearly vesting GSU (like RSU) stock grants with some bonus mixed in. That meant that my salary was heavily dependent on the whims of the market. It also meant that my cash flow was somewhat impacted by either doing a lot of extra withholding or doing quarterly estimated taxes, since the GSUs were taxed at 25% instead of my actual tax rate.

Just getting paid every two weeks is so much nicer, and so much simpler. And we don't have a Monday in January after annual bonuses are awarded when we spend all day talking about who quit after their bonus was paid.
Every article is a promotion for the author and company it’s written by. No need to point this out on every article.
> The big issue is that none of the drivers are upstream

Demand from the Linux kernel developers that the internal APIs for drivers are kept stable for a much longer time.
Considering the definition of recession is “2 quarters or more of negative growth”, the recession did end June 2009.

Levels of pay have nothing to do with whether or not we’re in a recession.
The more I look at this sort of project, the more I wonder if the "hyper-repairable" approach is worth it. How many of those phones will need repairs? How much more resources have to be spent, and what other trade-offs have to be made, to enable that repairability? (One of the trade-offs being less economy-of-scale because not as many people are willing to buy a bulky yet expensive phone.)

At which point is it better to just build 12 non-repairable phones instead of 10 repairable ones + some spare parts?

Take, for example, the user-serviceable battery with its thick casing. Given that you'd expect to swap it 1-2 times during the useful lifetime of a phone platform, does it need to be that easy to swap, or would it be OK to require some level of disassembly?

Not "melt the glue, pull with suction cup, pry open, disconnect 15 connectors, loosen two sets of 8 screws (all different), remove all innards, replace some single-use parts" level of disassembly, something like "losen two screws, pry off the back, loosen two more screws, swap battery" like with the Nexus 4: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nexus+4+Battery+Replacement/130...

We don't complain when we take a wristwatch to a watch shop at the corner to swap the battery every few years, waiting a few minutes and paying $5-10 for the service and another $5 for the battery. I would be perfectly OK with a phone that works like that: Repairable (especially commonly swapped parts), but not average-user-servicable.

Edit: Looking at the Fairphone 3, it doesn't look as bad. I remember looking at the Fairphone 2, which looked like a brick made of cheap plastic all around.
All this reminded me of an exchange where similar games were closed the fastest.
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How standard is the f \circ (g, h) notation for composition of n-ary functions? I do see it in Wikipedia, but I hadn't come across it myself until looking at Sussman et al. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition#Multivari...
On the other hand, to list some random newish things:

* Genome sequencing.

* New malaria drugs.

* Graphene.

* Better batteries.

* Deep learning.

* fMRI.

* CRISPR.

From the outside, the public doesn't care about the trials and tribulations of PhDs. Or irrelevant puffed up papers. Or the organisational politics of research.
This seems incredible even to someone living quite comfortably in London for far less. Are these figures for real?!
Stop trying to make china something they are willing to fight be. Stop financing authoritarians on your way to doing so.
It wouldn't be an end to flexible work times, but due to per-employee overhead costs, the cost/benefit to the employer from the number of hours an employee works clearly spikes at a few different points due to overheads. At 0hrs/week, there is no overhead. At 20hrs, this is another ideal point since while you do have to give your labor a lot of rights, you don't need to offer certain benefits (vacation, sick pay, disability, health insurance) in many states (notably this works differently in california). At 40hrs, this is another good point since you don't have to pay overtime rates (but at least this cost isn't a big spike).

Basically there's a bunch of laws that spike certain expensive costs for employees if they work different amounts. Therefore its not very profitable to allow completely flexible work times. Otherwise many of their Hawaii drivers would drive for 21 hours for benefits, and the labor costs would be higher than if you were required to either drive for 20 hours or 40 hours.

I think ideally employees wouldn't be mandated to provide any expensive benefits to full-time employees and benefits would be centralized and funded through more taxation instead.

But mostly, uber is complaining because labor laws are complex
If it turns out the market isn't viable at those costs (i.e. if people just stop taking rideshares altogether because it's too expensive), then it never should have existed in the first place.

I think we basically agree. The dangerous outcome is that Uber becomes more expensive for end users in California, Uber drivers become employees, but they make exactly minimum wage because that's the minimum Uber can pay them, and Uber's profits in California go to zero. (I doubt the Uber business will cease to exist because taxis are so bad in comparison.) Uber's market shrinks because they became more expensive, so they can hire fewer people.

Is that better for anyone? It sounds worse for both Uber drivers and for Uber users than the status quo. Unless you think that a minimum wage job is superior to the current job of Uber driver, and we really need more minimum wage jobs.
I don't think it's that much in conflict. If a 22 year old legitimately brings enough value to the table to justify a $200k salary, then sure, give it to them. But the reason we usually associate salaries getting bigger with age is because older people, on average, do have more experience and are able to bring more value to the table.
It's simple: if the Soviets have it, we should too.

I'd point you in the direction of Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare At Goats for more detail (the book is non-fiction, but the movie is fiction).
Sadly space is super complicated and you can't piggy back on these. To land on one you need to precisely match their speed so if you were to do that, you could already go wherever it was going in the first place.
They would be more like contractors if economies of scale favored open cross compatible ride sharing platforms, instead of proprietary institutions and and oligopoly.

If there were 10 ridesharing apps, and any customer could reach any driver using a different app, would you still consider the driver as having not negotiation power? The driver could uncheck "allow riders from uber" if they didnt want uber provided leads. Ride hailing should be as open as SMS, and then drivers AND passengers would gain power in the relationship. By using government to benefit consumers and shun proprietary lockin, the issues could be solved without creating a new employee class. The root need for that class in the first place is Ubers anti-competitive side.
> Science is incorruptible

You're taking that a tad too far. Remember, for long periods of time, certain disciplines were considered to be "science" which weren't quite that. It's not just individual personal failings.
A CEO getting an extra $5M leading a 100,000 employee company means each employee could have gotten an extra $50.

So i would argue it still about what the company can afford.
> you just placed a voice call with someone else

That "just" is doing a lot of legwork, though. How do you identify and find that someone else, so you can call them? Generally, you need some sort of unique identity. And how do you make sure that unique virtual identity connects to the correct physical person? Once you solve that, you can probably apply the solution to phone numbers.
What happens if you turn off Javascript for this website in the browser, or use a client that does not interpret Javascript?
I see a lot of cool space stuff in the tweet and in these comments. Can someone explain this to someone without an astrophysics background? What does the eccentricity of 3 mean, why is that important, and why is this discovery important? Thanks!
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for swinging on a swing. The swing comprises a seat for supporting a user that is suspended between two chains that are hung from a substantially horizontal tree branch. The method comprises the steps of: a) positioning a user on the seat; and b) having the user pull alternately on one chain to induce movement of the user and the swing toward one side, and then on the other chain to induce movement of the user and the swing toward the other side, to create side-to-side motion. In another embodiment of the invention, the swinging method may be practiced independently by the user to create the side-to-side motion from an initial dead stop. These and other features of the invention are described in greater detail below.

LOLWAT?
> In reality, just 21% of the public supports abolishing private insurance (which single-payer healthcare necessarily would require)

Several countries (Australia, for one), absolutely support private insurance in a single-payer world.

The US is remarkably ignorant about other countries, instead preferring to rely on soundbites and other biased drivers.
DNS-blockchain was already done, 8 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Location via time of flight is very accurate in terms of distance but not angle. It will require at least two septated devices to accurately pinpoint a third unknown device. And if those two baseline devices are moving then the accuracy is reduced. Android has support for location via wifi time of flight (802.11mc) where the baseline devices are your existing wifi access points. It makes much more sense indoors however it has two disadvantages: it won't work outside wifi range and it is much more difficult to make low power wifi devices.
https://jobs.aldi-hofer.com/hofer-kariera-si/job/1000-Ljublj...

They're offering 1.2*minimum wage for 30h/week.

For someone without any other qualifications, that's not bad.

I dont know where she worked, but most offer more. Ever barteding gets you 7+eur/h and tips in Ljubljana.
shroomery.org is a great forum.

(https://www.shroomery.org/forums/)
These people will complain about "the 1%" while being in the .1% globally. It's very strange to watch if you have perspective on global poverty.
Cool.

Save up 100k and move to the middle of where in India. You won’t be able to do your job, or talk to anyone but hey, you’ll be better off than most of the world.
Liberty is more important than prosperity.
Isn't it just a matter of discipline to avoid too large losses
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> A lambda object is intrinsically an object with an unnameable type and an overloaded call operator.

This sounds like a really restrictive, C++-centric way of defining lambdas…
>If you go straight up far enough you’ll be out of Earth’s gravity well.

While you could theoretically do this by accelerating directly up, You still have to accelerate somehow.
I'm surprised how much bloat rusts adds and how little it affects the speed.

Is there any other downside? Electricity consumption / heat? Evicting other stuff from cache?
> whether you believe it or not, it is a fact

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where's yours?
iOS 13 and Xcode 11 Changes That Affect Push Notifications
>teachers and nurses are actually starving

Citation needed.
>I wonder if some of the bounds checks could be eliminated by using iterators instead of loops

It can and often is. Don't use [] to index into data if you can afford not to. Anecdotally, rustc is also much better at generating SIMD-friendly code with iterators than idiomatic C/C++, but that depends largely on what you're doing.
30 kilometers per second is 67,108 miles per hour. That's a lot of probe impact energy to absorb.
You can generate paper keys in the mobile app. They count towards the device count.
I couldn't find anything with its approximate radius (it mentions about-earth sized and 8x the mass but that could mean anything) to make an evaluation of the likely gravitational force at the surface in order to make the evaluation of whether you could get off the planet cheaply.
Email him? He might send it to you for free. Or just pay the middleman, and he'll get paid too.
Doesn't surprise me that it wasn't original. I purposely left off the last bit to avoid "politics" creep.
If you think you can eat out with a family of four for $70/day in the city, you are sorely mistaken.

When I eat downtown with my family the bill is rarely below $100 with tax and tip for dinner, and that’s a single meal, with no drinks (tap water), and no dessert.

Even some place like B.GOOD (higher quality fast food) is going to be $50 unless it’s a “Kids eat Free” night.
Exactly we should be exporting anything their or doing business with them
Flirtey: Drone Delivery Startup
He’s gonna need that extra $2k now that the SALT deductions are gone.
The government seems to be solving the wrong issue. Shouldn't the government instead fix the
Whatever it is that makes being classified as contractor suck in the first place?
I would think in addition we'd have to see the ability to book with a specific driver for a future ride for 'lead generation' to hold up.
I follow a decent amount of video essay channels on YouTube, some better than others, here are a few that I think operate around the same level of quality as Every Frame a Painting:

Lessons from the Screenplay - Similar to EFaP but for screenplays (obviously)

Wendover Productions - Many topics but generally focuses on Logistics, Aviation, Economics, Geography, and their intersections

Ahoy - Video games, firearms, and their intersection

NoClip - Video games; Their format is more traditional documentary as opposed to video essay, but I feel compelled to mention them here due to their quality work (disclaimer: I donate to them via Patreon)
I wonder when they’ll get around to fixing airdrop? Nearby People just don’t show up most of the time.
The question isn’t whether they’re doing a job, it’s whether drivers are acting as contractors vs employees while performing the job.

Ironically, taxi drivers are also contractors. I’m surprised nobody has brought up the fact that the status quo pre-Uber was a contractor model as well.

The real problem is that the Dynamex decision is legislation from the bench that redefines “contractor.” The historical definition of a contractor was basically only c in the abc test. It will be interesting to see how the court decisions come down. As the press release points out, the precedent so far is mixed.
> 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.

I had a severe wrist injury from a car accident. I was told to start PT "ASAP", and given referrals within 24 hours of the injury.

I was then told that I'd be waiting 10-12 weeks for a PT slot.
Every single SYSV x64 ABI platform supports at least two uint64_t return values, which are the registers rdi and rax (Actually it might be rbx, I haven't done assembly for a while). So C is behind of the curve.

C is considered to be "High level assembly", up until it isn't. To be honest, YASM and other assemblers do "high level assembly" much better.

C is a simple, flexible low-level language. There is a feeling about C that I do not get from other languages, a specific way of thinking and a trend towards simplicity of feature (Ignoring GNU) that other languages (including rust) do not encourage or notice. It would be nice to see it importing some of the type semantics of ML and OCaml.
>> I wish there were an equally clever idiom I could trot out when people criticise professions they probably know noting about.

Isn't that "Pointy-Haired Boss syndrome"?
OK let me see if I understand the chain of inference here.

The government has been studying UFOs for 7 decades
==> The government has learned something
==> The government has acquired alien technology

I'm mostly with you on that first arrow, but you lost me on the 2nd.
How long ago was this? And do you own your own home now?
This kind of bonus is like the piece of cheese in the cage if it prevents you from leaving for a full year...

Also, academic research jobs should be high-pay! It's just that the unionization levels are too low.
Integer overflow checks are disabled by default in release builds, the author noted they were explicitly enabled in this project for additional safety.

(This is just for the normal operators, if you use e.g. checked_add() or wrapping_add() then you can be explicit about what behavior you want.)

[edit: oops, the overflow checks were only enabled for a separate test, see note from the author below]
I do feel that driver's being able to work for multiple ride sharing companies at the same time does make it a bit different from a normal job. A majority of drivers have both Lyft and uber enabled at the same time.... so are they employees of both? How should benefits be calculated?

If I am an employee of a company, they are probably not going to let me work for a competitor while I am on the clock with them.
> Our Rust driver is a few percent slower than our C driver

Please qualify the title: it's not generally the case.
When I say "deserve" I mean it in a broader sense that considers more aspects of our society than just "a company is willing to pay that much".

Sure, Facebook is probably willing to pay a mediocre engineer much more than they are willing to pay the best teacher in the world. That makes sense, because Facebook doesn't hire teachers and has no reason to pay a teacher a lot of money. In this sense, the teacher doesn't "deserve" a lot of money from Facebook, while the engineer might.

But speaking in a broader sense, do you think that a mediocre 22 year old engineer "deserves" more money and a better lifestyle than the best teacher in the world?
But at altitude you do get higher ISP, which is a greater limiting factor than drag/max-Q. The Saturn-V would not even get off the pad in an even slightly denser atmosphere. But lift it up to where the air is thinner, where its engines can generate more thrust, and it might have enough DeltaV to get something into an orbit.
I don’t know about US and Finland, but many EU countries have a “gross salary” (60-100k) and also a “gross gross salary” which is the actual cost to the company, which is another 10-20% on top of the “gross salary”. It’s things like social contribution. (In addition, the “net salary” is much lower in EU than in the US for equivalent “gross salary”.)
Maybe relaxing the rules will be an unintended consequence of the law.
LLVM is a really good backend that optimizes away a lot of it. Bounds checks, for example, usually get removed.
This is pure fear spreading. Why are you doing it - is the future really so terrifying?
HN is way too tame. You can't express yourself on here they way you can at a forum like Slashdot. Slashdot definitely has some out there comments but it's easy to ignore them and in no way has HN ever turned me on to new tech or knowledge the way Slashdot has. Not even close. HN is never funny. Slashdot has had me rolling from the interactions. It's because HN is like that boss that declares thier meetings as a safe place to clear the air, and the person is well meaning, but the participants know better than to cut loose.
I like how they both claim that the law does not actually apply to them, and that they are exploring working with Lyft and others on a statewide ballot measure in response to the law (clearly, implicitly, a referendum to reverse it.) They are careful to avoid making the self-contradiction explicit, but the implication is clear.
Many people have multiple jobs (even full-time jobs) and receive multiple W2s in the mail every year. I'm not an expert in employment law but I haven't seen evidence that the current multi-job system isn't workable here. You can have multiple part time jobs, and if one job goes over a certain threshold of hours then they have to provide you benefits. If you have multiple full-time jobs, all of them are required to offer you participation in employer-sponsored benefits, although you typically only pick one. Is that not how it works?
What bloat are you referring to specifically?
Responding to sibling: Five years to save up for a down payment on a $1.5mm home is incredibly fast. You seem to not think it's a lot of money. Tidepod's main point in this post (and throughout the thread) is that SV tech people don't understand how much money they have relative to the average person, as reflected in how they speak and think about it. This is a perfect example of that.
Brent Shavnore: The Most Astonishing Case of Image Theft I've Ever Seen
Ehang 184 passenger drone commuting in China
The more important group that loses without flexible hours are people who get by on a combination of part time jobs, or are training/educating themselves and need extra money to support themselves.
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