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Uncomfortable thruths: US tech rules because risk capital is extremely cheap due to the petrodollar backed up by the planet's largest military force.
Like software engineers, lawyers make big bucks because they can spot problems in complex logic. A smart legislator is going to do everything to make sure the courts interpret the law as intended. Othetwise, what's the point of passing laws?
Which for some reason finally matters.
DOD needs to harden common Linux ecosystem shotgun parsers with formal parsers.
Yes, Twitter can be a gold mine of great remote freelance development positions too if you know where to look.

A website like this is great to make finding those positions even faster.

I tell my story of how a single tweet landed me a $10K fully remote front-end freelance gig here: [REDACTED]

P.S. - If you're interested in learning how to find remote freelance positions yourself on Twitter then I have a free PDF for you that shows you how to find them, structure your profile, etc. Get it here: [Medium.com Link: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-your-next-remote-freelanc... ]

Hope it helps and thank you for releasing tweetjobs, OP.

EDIT: Removed first link to my website and linking up to Medium.com post instead of a PDF file. Sorry if this came across as clickbait...
Peace and understanding after being a 0311 and 0313 in the Marines during 2006-10
I thought we were talking about the extortionate bills from this state-run hospital. What does lobbying have to do with that?

Also, at the risk of not getting that question answered, what does lobbying have to do with people being underinsured?
China blocks US video-conferencing tool Zoom
Isn’t space and time considered continuous?

What about the Planck distance then? What’s that all about?

It seems to me that on a microscopic level and small time scales, a small change in input will lead to a small change in output.

This is certainly true in classical mechanics, but what about quantum mechanics? Are the quanta the result of a continuous process? Can an subatomic particle wind up on mars, exceeding the speed of light? with a certain probability?

HERE is what bothers me. The instability of certain physical problems (small change in input leads to large changes in output, like where a pencil is going to fall if stood on its tip). How can this happen if the composition of continuous functions is continuous???

In mathematics we have abstractions such Real Numbers and infinite sequences of functions that can converge to discontinuous and even really weird functions in the limit.

But in the real world it seems that we have some sort of minimum, like planck distance, or simple measurement error, that preclude us from reversing a process after a certain point. Maybe THAT is where unstable problems on the macro scale come from??

Pilot Wave Theory seems to say that everything is deterministic and the uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics comes from us being unable to observe the process that leads to the result. But PWC requires us to abolish the idea of locality, which to me is a special case of continuity.

Anyway can someone please explain this to me? As it regards quantum mechanics? Leslie Lamport’s paper caused a big watershed moment for me and I’m still reeling from it:

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/buridan.pdf
A gentle reminder to every one that Uber and Lyft (though mostly uber) broke the monopoly that was considered un-breakable. Such companies aren't supposed to provide a "living wage", they're supposed to be "gigs" on the side. Some people to live off them because they don't have jobs at the moment, but I'm not sure that makes it incumbent upon the services to change their models. You can have a day-job and also drive a bit for a ride-hailing service. They've provided more opportunities for people to pick up some extra work, in an industry where the previous option was zero dollars for any one trying to drive a taxi on the side.

Bear also in mind that cities may have an ulterior motive of their own. Always ask, "Qui bono?" They sell expensive licenses, and don't like a revenue stream being lost (even if it's better for constituents). Maybe this is for the better, maybe not; but the motive of the cities is likely self-interest.

On the other hand, Uber's long-term play is quite possibly self-driving cars. I'm guessing that this is the route all taxis will go eventually, but it's also worth considering that Uber is not sustainable without continuing investment as it stands today.
>Am I the only one seeing a problem with someone driving on the sidewalk? Did this somehow become acceptable?

You're not the only one agreeing that driving on the sidewalk is/was unacceptable. But the article mentions the following which may indicate that this was not deliberate:

>>It is thought that the driver could have had a medical emergency, such as an epileptic seizure according to the latest police findings, causing him to accelerate at a fast speed.
With their support for things like Wahhabism, the blockade of Qatar and the war in Yemen, the Saudis are doing pretty well at causing upheaval in the Islamic world even while the oil still flows.
Yes. Just like with Madoff, and other huge scams and fraud schemes.
that seems geographically/culturally ignorant rather than racist, but maybe i missed it
> "The time resolution of the data is not good enough to tell us."

Is that actually true? What's the sampling rate and subsequent Nyquist frequency? It's my impression that the sampling rate given by ice core samples is surprisingly high (something in the neighborhood of year-by-year.)
You're trading registrar trustworthiness for email provider trustworthiness. I'm not sure what is better.

I suppose I should start actually paying for email, and go with protonmail or somebody like that. If they have decent and competent customer service, that would reduce the chances of getting hacked.
But it's not a limitation of the tool (the tool does provide gold-standard evidence); it's the stupidity of the researcher using the tool. (The tool works perfectly well and does, in fact, constitute the gold standard of causal evidence.) In your depression example, it's the stupidity of a researcher who fails to consider why a 1-in-6 success might be significant, or fails to consider that the umbrella disease "depression" can be multiply realized by different physiological mechanisms, which in turn require different treatments.

Your beef isn't with RCTs, or with the notion of RCT as evidence. Your beef is with researchers who don't know how to think.

Your complaint is like saying, we should stop considering hammers to be the gold-standard of nail-hitters because some idiots use them to try to turn screws.
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Agree with this. Another factor is that even if you don't go under, the grill is higher up. If the impact is centered on the legs or pelvis you might have serious damage, but will most likely live. If the impact's near the chest or head, there's a lot of delicate vital organs.

The increase in trucks and SUVs is a major reason why pedestrian fatalities has increased so much over the past decade. (Though the auto industry has tried to shift the blame to cell phones.)
> WeWork is one of those strange entities that's greater than the sum of its parts

Or it's one of those entities that claimed to be greater than the sum of it's parts often enough that people started to believe.
Since MS acquired GitHub, GitHub also has free private repos
A former employer of mine tried to have redundant connections. They had two fibers from two different providers, going separate paths from their Dallas office, etc. However, the 2nd provider utilized a 3rd provider as a regional carrier. And for about 100 miles between Dallas and Chicago, the fibers were run in conduits that were side by side. We discovered that when a single backhoe took down phones, data, etc, to all our southeast Region offices. (it also affected many others). Found out the hard way, that the 2nd providers redundant uplink also went through the same connection. Good luck tracing your fibers all the way from end to end.. Most of this stuff is all contracted to 3rd parties, and most don't want to give you detailed maps.
> I'm not a fan of all these moves to treat drivers as employees for one simple reason: you can drive for more than one company at the same time.

This is a non-point. People often have more than one job, and they're considered employees at each of their employers.
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> This type of articles is the last thing we need right now, it all piles up on the narrative that the consequences of climate change are really not that bad and there is no real urgency in doing anything about it.

Actually it does the opposite. The climate change deniers have for so long hinged on the fact that people openly lie about the climate to push an agenda. You can't fault them for that...and having people who are proponents of doing something calling out the nonsense/lies that their allies say, actually emboldens the climate change position. If you can't even hold your own viewpoint accountable how are you going to hold deniers accountable or change their minds? People have focused so much on shoving a viewpoint down people's throats that they have completely forgotten how persuasion works and that you need a social movement to have a political one.
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And considering carcinogens specifically, they're so ubiquitous in modern life in various tiny quantities that eliminating credible risks becomes an exhausting goose chase.
I'm okay with this.

Software development contracting, as it is right now, is intensely problematic at pretty much every level.

Hiring closely-managed contractors to work on-prem basically creates an underclass in the industry: they're just like employees, except they get no insurance or PTO, and they're excluded from most company functions, and it looks bad on a resume because they're rarely at one company for long. Hell, they tend to get treated differently because they typically wear guest badges instead of employee badges. This is simply harmful, and while a lot of companies may feel like they're financially pressured into doing so, society has a vested interest in stopping this practice.

On the other hand, hiring a remote consulting company where you give them a requirements sheet and say "do your thing and get back to me with something that fulfills this"—i.e., actual, proper contractors—inevitably turns into a nightmare. I've seen these consultants go incommunicado for weeks at a time, find every excuse to push deadlines back, and when they do turn something in, they turn in a pile of awful code that needs to be rewritten by the actual engineering staff. My experience with these people has lead me to start referring to them as "dairy farmers" because they just milk their clients, and every one of my colleagues who I've introduced the term to has fallen in love with it.

Honestly, I think software engineering contracting should just go away. Either you create and exploit an underclass or you get screwed by dairy farmers.

The only way I can see to save this situation is to legally delineate "temp employees" as a class. Temps would be employees in every way except that they have a fixed term of employment stated up front (where "fixed" can mean either a set amount of time or until a specified project is delivered). They would have benefits and PTO, just like other employees. They would be employees for the purposes of who can attend company events, what kind of badges they wear, etc. It still wouldn't be perfect because the short length of employment would look bad on a resume, but it's a far cry better than the current situation. And if it costs companies more to hire them, then that's just the cost of doing business in a society. I've seen the same arguments used to demean basic dignities such as minimum wage, overtime laws, mandatory sick leave, paid vacation time, etc., and they're all spurious.
I agree with you, all this madness has to stop someday I hope the good people take steps to change something and stop looking the other way.
As someone with a physics background, I'm struggling to think of a theory under which AGI is impossible. We have an existence proof for GI, and no evidence from neurology of structures so unique that we could not build an analog of them.
I think we need to care about our parent too. As they become old, we are just fly away from them and they will struggle in their stage as us. Damn life.
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There are temporary or limited term part-time jobs, though. There is no real need to hire and then fire folks. Simply hire as a seasonal employee. This is what retailers do around Christmas, for example. Sometimes they'll hire an employees a permanent employee afterwards, but not always. There are folks that take these jobs year after year - both around holidays and during summer breaks. Sometimes this isn't ideal and sometimes it is pretty perfect for the employee.

But these are not contractors. They are employees. The company pays all of the applicable taxes and handles payroll. The company is responsible for workplace injuries and so on. I don't see where this is really a big issue - and hiring these folks as contractors seems more a thing to take advantage of folks.
Pretty cheap as far as PR schemes go. Letting his children leave and speak openly to the free media would be a PR disaster. Killing them would be a worse one. But keep them where they are and under threat of death while giving the appearance of comfortable, consensual living, and everybody wins, right? It at least offers sufficient plausible deniability for Pompeo to continue to ignore the SA government's historical and ongoing affronts to US sovereignty, which is all anyone with a real hand in the stakes cares about.
Americans' fear of losing their jobs grows
This.

Explainable AI is a emerging field, I hear about this necessity specially in NLP and Law. We expect to understand how some decision was reached, and we'll never accept some computer-generated decision if it wasn't explained how each logical step was done. And just giving millions of weights of each neuron won't give us that, because we won't be able to reach the same decision with just those parameters.

We know that IA is a bunch of probabilities, weights and relations in n-dimensions. Our rational brain can know that too, but can't feel it.
What's lost in all this is that classes are simple and understandable. Introducing all these new paradigms removes that simplicity. Everyone is ready to hate on classes but they have been robust structures for a long time
If you are not in the US then this will not be your default.

And if you are in the US and your ISP is not Comcast, then it's probably Spectrum, ATT, Charter instead. Not highly trustworthy companies either
No sane company will leave the second largest market and GDP area of the world, it would take a really lot to make them go to "greener pastures".

That isn't necessarily true at all. The EU may be a large market, but that doesn't necessarily mean it represents a proportionately large contribution to the revenues of any given business that trades with EU customers.

For example, in the world of small tech businesses I operate in, I know of several examples who do offer their services to EU customers like anyone else. However, with hindsight, those businesses would have chosen to give up the relatively small proportion of their business that comes from elsewhere in the EU some time ago, if that also saved them the time and money they spent complying with ever-increasing levels of EU red tape. I even know some people who feel so strongly about this that they voted for Brexit because of it.
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> And even if we could detect a missile flying at low altitudes at 20 times the speed of sound, we have no way of stopping it.

Looks like author doesn't know what he's talking about here?
I suppose the problem is the other contaminants, because tritium removal isn't too difficult. Cost must be the real problem. Nothing cheaper than dumping it in the ocean.

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Is this a Volvo joke?
Did you read my second paragraph?
Here's my issue:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...

https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-dispar...

So while what you say is true, my potential network is necessarily limited. Working in retail, I still met plenty of people who wouldn't even let me assist them because of my race. I think this may go beyond personal qualities.
That feature should have been included with the very first versions of iOS and Android, same with a system that allows users to freely turn on and off individual permissions.
It's unacceptable how so many years after launch users are still forced to either accept all ridiculous permission requirements of apps, or not use the majority of them.

But I'm glad Apple (hopefully) takes this step now to stop helping Facebook etc. hide their spy activities.
You pitch the business is a fully vertically-integrated lifestyle where people live, work and send their kids to school

I can see how this would seem compelling to a 22-year-old Google employee of the sort that gave us Google Glass and Google Plus, but was there any research done that this was a thing that normal people would want?
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Trump Fired John Bolton
Rate of uninsured people increases for first time since ACA rolled out
Experimenting with same-provider DNS-over-HTTPS upgrade
Good question. There is a bunch of information about it on the Internet, here's a post that seems somewhat informative:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/how-pedestrian-airbags-wo...

But note, they have moved on to trying to avoid striking pedestrians and/or reduce injury through reducing speed.
You see the part where he's speaking from experience?
> Polar Bears and Other Species Are Not Dying But Flourishing

Lets base it on reports of a couple of big name species and declare everything is fine. Facts!

if you read zerohedge you have long since decided that facts do not at all matter to you.
Dark Territory, by Fred Kaplan. Same topic as this thread.

Also either Puzzle Palace or Body of Secrets by James Bamford. Topic: NSA.
Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20921531
Same here. I think the work-life balance that remote work provides is understated in our society.

I get to be far more involved in my kids day-to-day, I know their teachers, friends, and generally what's happening in their lives.

I think of the alternative (what I grew up with, and what a lot of my friends with kids are still doing) and it's sad.

Barring the awful circumstances of the article (my heart goes out to the author) spending time with our children shouldn't be a chore to fit in.

Hug them, tell them how much they mean to you, that's important. Being present in their lives though, for the brief period that life affords us, that is essential.
Good job. But at least your job as a coder you can work anywhere. But some of us have the job that have less choice than another one. But that depend on our priority, our family, our career. our love one.
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`useContext` is excellent. React.context is a solid alternative to the likes of Redux and Apollo, but takes a fair amount of boilerplate to add to a class based React component. But with `useContext`, applying global state is a breeze. A lot easier to manage than Redux, at the very least.

The only real dislike I have, is in how `useEffect` confuses the React lifecycle. It took me a little while to grok the lifecycle idea, but it was/is a useful way to conceptualise what happens to your components at runtime.

But now, you have to remap all that knowledge to the hooks workflow. It's not a huge challenge, but it's yet another overhead.

Indeed, starting out, our team ran into a number of issues with infinite rendering loops and the like. Took a fair amount of reading to discover where the pitfalls were.
> yet when they just dip their toes into kubernetes world, when they switched their docker image registry to run on kube, they've quickly discovered glaring omissions like missing liveness probe and storm of errors on any version update.

You are right, we had some missteps with the Helm chart that were unfortunately not discovered by others or us. Our test cases of scaling registry up and down worked perfectly in all our synthetic tests we did so it was not obvious to us that the liveness probe was missing. In hindsight it is quite obvious but at that time we had 16 other charts to write and some things did slip through. For a number of other services, community and paying users were reporting issues that we solved as we went further. Registry is one of the components that receives traffic in bursts so for majority of users this was probably never an issue or it was one of those "gremlin" moments.

For GitLab.com the things are quite different. We hold 2PB of data in docker images alone and there is continuous flow of traffic. For GitLab.com scale, none of the services we are porting to K8s have the luxury of the bursty traffic so we are careful in how and when we switch over traffic. The good thing is that all the edge cases we found are fixed and now in the Helm charts releases so that users can really put this on k8s as ready. If you are curious on all the issues we had to cover during this process, see the main registry migration epic https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/gl-infra/-/epics/70 .
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