skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do a really simple thought experiment that provides a persuasive argument in favor of the many worlds theory. Or at least, it shows that wave function collapse is relative to an observer, not universal everywhere.

Start with Schroedingers cat: the cat is in a box, it’s in a state of quantum superposition. It’s 50/50 alive or dead. Now a researcher opens the box: the cat is found to be either alive, or dead, and according to the Copenhagen interpretation we say that the wave function has collapsed.

But, now take the cat and the researcher, and put the whole first experiment inside another box. Now the researcher inside the second (outer) box opens up the box with the cat. From outside the second box, we still must say that the first researcher is in a state of superposition, but when the second box is opened, the first researcher will say, oh, I’ve known the cat was dead for 10 minutes or whatever.

So, before we open the second box, has the wave function collapsed, or not? It depends on which researcher you are. But Every part of the universe is in some sense “in a box” until information passes to it from another part of the universe. I give you: many worlds.
And 80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

(Would be interested in any links to studies or economic models in this area though.)
Given the trend regarding consumer devices towards laptops and 2-1 devices and decreasing desktop sales, it is more like "you used to do with a PC".
The problem is that it is not enforced by the automated system. Instead it is enforced by sales people who have ability to override the system, including people like the blue shirts at Best Buy. Yes, they are not supposed to, but they can.
I’m surprised the LSE is even worth that much. It’s not like exchanges make that much money. The bid is 15X revenue.
I think the point is that perhaps only the richest 1% actually need to own their own private automobiles. With good enough alternatives, it is possible to push car ownership up out of the middle class, and that's ultimately what's needed.

Otherwise, the whole thing is just half measures that make it harder for poor people to get around.
You could 1099 them but considering the likelihood of someone who's taking an entry level music job claiming the income on their taxes seems like a recipe for an audit for both parties.

Realistically you should probably do what everyone else does in this situations and pay under the table. Think of the lost taxes as billing the government for making stupid laws that can't reasonably be followed even when you want to follow them.
This will catch on faster than IPv6...
I think everything can be summed up like this...

you're planning to take a 7 day cruise to the Bahamas with your family of 4 this Christmas.

but you recently watched Patriot act episode on cruises and were shocked that a typical cruise generates equivalent of 1 million cars worth of greenhouse gas per day.

so you reached out to the cruise company and asks them what they can do to mitigate this appalling disregard of the environment.

the cruise company informs you that there's now a vegetarian or vegan premium meal plan that would cut down your green house consumption by about 10%.

you loved the idea and happily pays extra for the vegetarian meal plan, knowing that you're now doing good for the environment and thus saving the planet.
It is very typical.

Assuming Print on Demand w/ amazon. He's not doing that but we'll just assume to keep it easy. And list price of $24

Amazon takes $5 to print
Amazon takes $9.60 royalty

That leaves $9.40 or 40% available.

Of that Macmillan takes their cut to cover editing, covers, advertising, etc.

And what is left is probably $2.40 for each sale.

For Self published folks (going eBooks this time). Assuming you list for $10 and get a 70% royalty from amazon.

You'll earn $7 for each sale.

But, then once you factor in advertising (on amazon which goes to amazon), your earnings for each book drop to maybe a 5-30% royalty range. And that assumes you can sell your book for $10, which most self published cannot.

I have friends who sell $10k worth of eBooks/mo who make $2k/mo. So 80% goes to amazon and 20% goes to them.
Yes, but not only. Please read my other responses.
Oh, Worldcat data quality is definitely very problematic.

At it's best, it definitely doesn't represent _every_ library copy.

It requires libraries to register their copies with the central database. All of these libraries are different organizations with different software, at varying stages of 'legacy', trying to interoperate with each other, usually without very well-resourced IT teams. Then WorldCat has got to figure out when copies at different libraries are copies of the "same" thing, and what "same" means.

The worldcat database is very useful, but it certainly has data quality problems.

Amazon also says "4 formats and editions": hardcover, paperback, kindle, audiobook. Technically I'd say these are "formats" not "editions" -- the text is the same in each, although you might consider the audiobook a separate "edition" maybe, as it's not text at all, it's a whole different sort of thing. (And the Amazon UI hides it behind a 'more' link, although still just referring to the whole list as "4 formats and editions").

I'd guess Worldcat knows 3 of those 4 -- maybe all except kindle. Worldcat, like Amazon, is not really capable of distinguishing "editions" from "formats".

I'm not sure I'd consider the "3 editions" a "data quality" error exactly, in this case. It does point to some of the complexities of figuring out what's out there in the bibliographic universe, and how to model it in a consistent way that makes sense to users. (What _is_ an edition vs a format anyway?). Amazon gets data and corrections from people trying to sell books there providing some data entry/correction labor for free. And Amazon's website and data are _core_ to their business. As well as from other DBs like ISBN. Worldcat has to try to piece things together from a bunch of disorganized under-funded non-IT-expert nonprofits, who may consider "getting good data to WorldCat" not the highest among competing priorities, along with other DBs like ISBN.

Neither WorldCat nor Amazon are _great_ at determining "what separate editions/formats exist of this thing, and how do they relate to each other" in the general case. Cause it's a hard problem. Amazon does well enough to sell books apparently. They each have strengths and weaknesses. For things published decades before Amazon existed and/or no longer in print, WorldCat will do better in some ways.
> Also not an accountant or lawyer, but I think that if you're paying someone by the hour, and directing them as to how they should do they job, they need to be classified as an employee, not a contractor.

> This means a W2 instead of a 1099 [...]

I'm a freelance developer in NY and this isn't the case. When someone requests me to do work for them they tell me what they want done, we scope out the project and then I either bill them by the hour or by the project depending on what's going on. Sometimes I work 50 hours a week on that project, sometimes 5.

But in all cases, they send me a 1099 at the end of the year. I might be considered some type of contractor in their software since most of the companies I work for auto-bill me through some software but in no case have I ever been declared as a W2 employee. Everything you wrote is true if they were a W2 employee, but that means being officially hired and defined as a full time employee.

Also I've paid out a lot of people for contract work as a freelancer and my accountant said it's no problem. I just give the numbers and he provides me the 1099 to send out. It's been working like this without issues for years.

This is partly why freelance or contract workers need to and can get away with charging more per hour. They get no perks of being an employee. Health care is super expensive and we essentially pay double the social security taxes since we're both our own employer and employee. There's also no free lunches or other employee status perks like matching retirement funds, etc..

But on the flip side, getting hired as a freelancer is a huge win for business owners because now they don't mind paying higher rates for a freelancer since they are off the hook to provide all of those W2 benefits and also avoid paying a consistent salary even if there's not much work to do (typical scenario where you're clocking 8 hours a day but only 2 of those hours are productive things). A freelancer might get 5 productive hours in for that day, charge for 5 hours and after a week they clocked 25 hours but a salary worker would have clocked 40 and was productive for less than half (not due to laziness but there's just not enough "real" work to do).

After factoring in everything, if the freelancer is technically 4x or even 5x the salary worker's hourly rate the business still comes out ahead.
Because it is a interesting avenue to investigate if someone wants to know more.
>it looks like HN folks are not in favour of these integrations, including me.

I have no idea why you think that random HN discussion afterwards (in response to an article filled with misinformation!) would have any bearing on how Firefox is developed.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/

>Is there a link to discussion?

There's been about 1.5 year of extended discussion and iteration over DoH, yes. I'm sorry but there certainly isn't just a "single" link!
> So how are (seemingly most) parents getting 4 hours of sleep for extended periods of time

If this is happening and you're not a single parent and your kid's not got chronic health issues, you're doing something wrong. And actually unless both those things are true you should still be able to manage 6-9hrs (though with one or two interruptions, admittedly). Most parents do not manage to screw themselves this badly for very long before figuring out what's up, I'm sure, because the solutions aren't exactly rocket science (take shifts to ensure 5-6hrs uninterrupted plus more with interruptions for both partners; go to bed earlier)
>>If this law is applied fairly, it affects taxi and limo operators as well

Many of those people are already employees or owner/operators. That's why Uber, etc. was able to undercut their fare rates.
It recommended me "20 ORANGE SNAPPY GRIP -Bucket Handles -Mining-Gold Prospecting-Gardening" under the customers also bought... I guess I'm just not leet enough. This in spite of the fact that I've actually bought a few external wifi adapters from amazon.
https://edwardsnowden.com/donate/
"I've experienced deeply was how absurd violence, as well as pride and hatred are" - something super useful for the CIA if it can be reliably reproduced
This reminds me of when the Infocom folks moved from the functional MDL to the micro-friendly ZIL, while keeping much of the syntax of the former: http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html
You're correct: You could TOTP from a java phone app, a tablet, an airgapped computer, a non-airgapped PC you were really confident of the security of, and so on.

That's why I said "bad for" rather than "impossible for" :)

After all, you'd still be excluding all the people who don't have any of those. Like my 90-year-old neighbour who only has a landline phone.

I've helped maybe 50 employees set up VPN access at my workplace, and at least 2 of them said they didn't have any way to TOTP independently of the laptop we were issuing them with.
I'm just old and jaded I guess.
If I know that I'm traversing and processing facebook/twitter/reddit links, doesn't "nofollow" already indicate user generated content? (Even if some "nofollow" links do not do that, I can probably separate those based on their position in the documents.)

If you're going to treat specific sites specially, then go in all the way and be prepared to have your logic understand any/all aspects of their structure. Or else, don't bother.
The difference is that there is main payer and extra insurance that not everybody has. Or rather, most people don't. Think Medicare but actually cheap and working.
Also choosing a good wordpress theme helps a lot. :)
OK, rephrase the question to "Does the way we've programmed computers to learn happen to resemble the way that humans learn?"
ML won't be used to find cures, but to diagnose and classify disease. For example, CNN features could be applied to medical imaging to learn to detect various diseases, and that algorithm could replace the "quick read" that physicians order when the Radiologist isn't available to do a full read.

Another possible use would be to identify septic or nearly septic patients and alert a clinician to intervene.
Building an Event-Driven Pipeline in AWS Using Serverless
Agree antitrust regulation is screwed up, and agree self regulation against pollution is good for the environment.

but, the particular case here isn't entirely about industry cartels and antitrust - it is also about a single state's political influence over national policy, with antitrust being (mis)used as a proxy for the fight.

This same publication has no qualms complaining about undue influence of a single state nationally when it comes to terrible texas history books (and so, extrapolating, when it aligns with editorial policy):

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/the-hi...

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/09/mexican-ame...

and, unsurprisingly, it conveniently ignores this dimension in this article,
and similarly doesn't speak to the also current topic of antitrust investigations into the undue influence of (editorially-aligned) tech giants.
I'll second this. Caffeine is a reasonably powerful stimulant and most people have a long term dependency on it.

Cutting down consumption and going to bed earlier definitely made a difference to my mornings, and I've found I can usually swing less sleep. I often find myself getting up at 4:30 or 5am, which isn't so bad in terms of free time--I get a lot done at 5am.
My guess is Downing Street, Boris Johnson and London's massive network of CCTV, but I'm not sure.
Django import data from 3rd party API with pagination
The criminals doing it took it serious, the atrocities were real and the list of victims whos lives they ruined is rather long. Once people hear MK ULTRA they think about staring at goats and LSD but the darker story behind it is the research on sensory deprivation, on torture to break involuntary subjects more reliably. From the school of Americas to Guantanamo to by now most regimes across the world, they all have to thank those "pioneers" of modern torture. The Canadian Dr Cameron who got the funding for his work on psychic driving through MKUltra isnt mentioned in the article but his work on the subject cant be described as anything but monstrous.

edit: "A Question of Torture" by Alfred W. McCoy is a good book on the subject.
Scientists create embryos to save northern white rhinos
"Data privacy campaign groups and Labour have expressed alarm after it emerged Downing Street has ordered departments to centralise the collection and analysis of user information from the government’s main public information website ahead of Brexit."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/no-10-request-...

Edit: I wonder if this includes the petition site?? Can't say that I'd be too keen on the Dark Lord Cummings getting the details of my personal petition history!

Edit2: Yes, I know that's not his official job title, at least not yet.
You'd think London (Brexit) and HK (huge demonstrations) would be rather preoccupied now.
“all funded by the largess of child molesters.”

I thought it was mainly funded by corporations?
I think that object recognition is hard because humans have much more data than computers. People see with two eyes which can focus on different distances, so our brain has 3D data to learn from. We later learn to recognise the same objects on pictures.

Computers usually start from flat pictures, and that trips the learning process.

I have zero data to back it up. Just my hunch :D
And if you're a Coca Cola employee, that's one of the benefits provided.
I’ve lived in Alberta and I’ve visited many parts of the US where the Mighty Truck is the preferred method of transportation, and their mileage is less than desirable. Then there is heating that must be done in the winter which will most likely be still done by burning nat gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

Shows Iowa as 14th on emissions per capita and California is 6th from the bottom. So what are you trying to prove?

Aside: Iowa Farm Bureau is an insurance company that pretends to be the voice of farmers and “grass roots org”, it is also big a lobbying spender. Which makes me doubt both your intent and sources.
It's worth noting that at their inception, null hypothesis testing and p-values were separate methodologies; there was even a bitter rivalry by their chief developers (Fisher and Pearson).

It wasn't until much later textbooks started to merge both. It may be worth to review Neyman and Pearson's attacks on Fisher in this matter.
That depends on who you owe the debt too, do you owe the debt to the IRS or another government agency? Yes, they can take your stuff and garnish your wages.

Do you owe the debt to American Express? It depends on the state in the US, they can sue you, and try to garnish wages and take assets that way. But some states have laws against things like wage garnishing, it also costs money to sue some one. So if $costToSue > $expectedDebtRecovery they aren't going to sue. They usually just sell the debt to a collections agency who just calls you relentlessly trying to get you to pay, and since the collection agency bought the debt so cheap, they aren't going to throw more costs to collect the money by suing. If they can get any money out of you just by calling, it's a win for them.
It depends if they’re part-time or full-time.

Companies are not required to offer health insurance to part-time employees. Employers with more than 50 employees are required to offer health insurance to full time employees.

(IANAL)
typo on my part, sorry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
Email Recipient Sequencing can represent an unspoken corporate status
Potential future earnings when London becomes the offshore Hong Kong of Europe will probably be higher.
This amount doesn't include refinitiv, the value after the refinitiv deal brings it towards 50b
i don't like this phone
Purity isn't in contrast with pragmatism; what Haskellers refer to as purity is referential transparency.

You can still do this kind of work in Haskell as well. It is a great imperative language.

Though as someone who has written assembler compilers in Common Lisp... it's felt relatively easy to do in CL. I've only heard people talk about writing control software for drones from Haskell. I have no idea how one would do that in practice though.
You should also factor in the 'setting an example for other vendors' value. They're showing it's quite easily possible, and are shaming other vendors a bit in the process.
Sheesh. “All your data are belong to us” gets more toxic every day.
He's just talking about a legal reorganization. "Uber Drivers LLC" contracts the employees which is wholly owned by Uber. I don't see how this would actually help them though. Under the new law, Amazon Flex drivers are also categorized as full time employees and the child company would still bear the costs of that
I wonder how this effects companies like Google which contract out most of their workforce.
That must be terribly reassuring to the families of car crash victims.

But maybe there's a reason why an automobile accident happened in the first space. Live is not just made up of a series of random events.
This type of behavior has been rewarded throughout history. Spending insane amounts of time and energy on things nobody else could dedicate the time to is what made Michaelangelo, Edison, Tesla, Newton, the legends that they are.
One thing that concerns me greatly is debugging network problems.

Up until now, you could use dig, nslookup and other tools to see how your computers resolves to help you figure stuff out.

Now what do you do?

also what happens when firefox uses this cloudflare, some other X application will start using Z, and the third Y.

Also I work, and used to work for many small shops (under 50 people) in different industries. Its standard practice to have internal domains, sometimes even having different things on the same domain (ie mail.comany.co is diffrenet
server form inside and outside the network).

If you don't have AD (increasingly common here with apple and linux laptops being the 95% of users), you will have to go to each user on every device that has firefox and help him fix the settings.

I would say just block it at firewall level, but it's not trivial, without breaking sites that use cloudflare.
I've heard about this lab. They really have great merit!
I have a “+1” bookmarklet with a similar goal. It’s not very smart, just finds the last number in a URL and increments it, but that’s usually good enough.
Redit live threads on major world events aren't tied to a subreddit. They report developing stories from many sources.
No, because the energy of the electron is known and is always quantized.
I think if that were true, we’d see other orbitals that are harmonics of the lower fundamental, but not a harmonic of the s orbital... which we I don’t think we see in practice? (If we did, we wouldn’t consider the s orbital to be fundamental.)
Sure, I think that he should have the literal freedom to do so, but that does not excuse him or Apple from being roundly criticized and berated for it. Like freedom of speech, your right to say something doesn’t make that thing right.
There's nothing that makes Cloudflare the more "privacy friendly" 3rd party. "Privacy friendly" would be a mechanism by which my desire to communicate with "example.com" involved my computer and the computer at example.com with no third party in between.

As it stands Mozilla is switching out our local ISP for CloudFlare without asking our consent which means my traffic data is now spread around one more company - that seems like less privacy.

And I am not looking forward to finding out the fun ways in which this will break our local DNS.

The idea that Cloudflare is in way more trustworty than my local ISP is at best naïve. All this creates is another huge centralized pool of data with no oversight whatsoever except the promise of some company that is currently growing fast, that they will not do anything with that data. Come the times when money becomes tight again, we'll see how well that promise holds up.

Sure, encrypting DNS is a good thing. But this is just like trying to make email more secure by using a 3rd party encryption gateway - all it does is moving around who to trust.

That's not privacy - that's just silly
There is a "people will mostly replicate/extend articles about X, and ignore articles about Y" (groupthink) effect that I imagine is also very relevant.
So the trade off is always "more jobs" vs "better jobs". A company can hire 10 people at 10 dollars an hour or 20 people at 5 dollars an hour.

Which situation is you believe is "better" depends on your end goal: Are you trying to make more small jobs, or are you trying to make jobs meaningful in their earning ability?

Framed another way, the people you know driving for "a little extra cash" are chipping away at opportunities for someone to be consolidating those jobs into a single, better job.

Not going to debate which is actually "better", because that's just personal opinions/economic model preferences.
I haven't done any physics past high school but isn't dark energy basically "Our equations don't work out, let's give our error term a name and act like it's all good"?

I'm sure this is oversimplified or outright wrong, can anyone correct me?
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) by Charles S. Peirce [pdf]
The next evolution will be foldable phones that can unfold into tablets. Smartphones in their current form have essentially peaked, I agree.