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Right, unemployment by itself means little unless you have the labor market participation rate for context.
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The nice thing about precision nuclear physics is that often lower energies are enough -- most accelerators actually have too much energy to measure the proton radius for example. And energy recovering linacs for these energies can be build quite small. Think Basketball court.
Turns out that once you invent a system for "acceptance" (p < 0.05 or whatever), people will game it. Who knew?
Disagreed. Even with post-tax earnings of $15k/mo and paying $4k for housing in SF (which is more than what literally anyone I know living there pays for their housing), you are still getting $11k left over. Sure, let's subtract another $3k from that number for various little expenses and a bit of fun money, and you have $8k/mo saved up. That's a far cry from "nothing".
this isn't true, employers are granted the ability to nominate a number of employees based on the number of people they employ in the City

the employer is instructed to allocate such that "voters nominated should reflect the whole diversity of an organisation's employees, including gender, ethnicity and seniority"

the employees nominated can then can vote however they want (secret ballot and all)

the employer itself can't vote

the firms I've worked for in the City handed asked for volunteers each year, and then selected people at random from those volunteers

(and there simply aren't enough upper management per votes allocated to stack the ballot that way)
So, the Federal Reserve?
Raytheon is trying to have it both ways, they want to tow the US government line, but they also sell more advanced camera systems (including to governments outside the US). This article illustrates the contradiction well and the title is a snarky way to reflect that.
This is the best reply. We really don't know, and only greater horizons provide greater certainty of a recession.

Further, we're now in a society where a third of the population lives in a perma-recession where they have not actually recovered from the previous one -- while another section of society lives in permanently good times -- so it is hard to gauge recession from looking around you.
GDPR protects the rights of EU residents (vs only citizens). As an American, if I reside in the EU, I am protected by GDPR.
Paging rayiner for an "actually this is good" take
> I guess the issue arises when we got people working full-time hours but still being classified as an independent contractor.

Why though? There's plenty of contractors in other industries that work exclusively for a single client, often for 40+ hours per week. In technology in particular it's more common than having multiple concurrent clients (per person, not per consultancy).
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Trying to read that made me appreciate Tony's work to create video versions of his essays.

I watched every EFaP video and never noticed Taylor existed. :-(
> "Nearly every stylistic decision you see about the channel — the length of the clips, the number of examples, which studios’ films we chose, the way narration and clip audio weave together, the reordering and flipping of shots, the remixing of 5.1 audio, the rhythm and pacing of the overall video — all of that was reverse-engineered from YouTube’s Copyright ID."

Copyright and the rabid defense of IP by corporations shapes so much of what we're allowed to see and talk about and how we have to address those things. There's no telling how much better these already great videos would have been if they weren't shackled by fear of censorship or attack by media cartels.

These guys had the time, skill, and energy to figure out how to work around the problem, but I can't help but wonder how much stuff we're missing out on because a system designed to encourage the creation and propagation of creative works has been perverted to control and suppress it instead.
> Nearly every stylistic decision you see about the channel — the length of the clips, the number of examples, which studios’ films we chose, the way narration and clip audio weave together, the reordering and flipping of shots, the remixing of 5.1 audio, the rhythm and pacing of the overall video — all of that was reverse-engineered from YouTube’s Copyright ID.

Wow. Talk about “the medium is the message”.
Carroll postulates that all the necessary degrees of freedom are already just sitting there in hilbert space - it's only when the states become orthogonal to each other (e.g. "branching") that we no longer have access to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLfMXvQqX8
Thanks, this is my first post. I was had no idea this event took place. Wild to think about all that was going on at that time. I would change the title if I could.
Maybe the recession will never come?

What are we going to do now without the recession?

In a way, that thing was a solution.
Just looking at shifts in the national unemployment rate will never render an accurate assessment of the labor market. It simply overlooks how, why, and which folks are leaving jobs or accurately reflect the under-employed.
This seems kind of bogus to me. Yeah, I can see how someone could construe it as such, but I think there's a perfectly legitimate reason to mention possible citations in the review. If I get a paper that covers something I've written about in the past, I feel perfectly justified saying, "Gosh, this has been published before. Perhaps you should cite this and explain how your work is new."

I do it for other papers and I don't see why it would be wrong to do it for my own. Oh, I can understand how someone can twist it sound nefarious, but that doesn't seem the best solution to me.

More citations to prior work is a good thing. More discussion about what is truly novel is a good thing.

And let's be honest, my salary won't change one iota if I get another few citations. The idea that this is somehow selfish is really bogus. Citations aren't worth that much at all.
Well, there is certainly is a kind of mind control used by many ideologies. So, ideology based mind control certainly happens. Also, hypnotic mind control is possible to some degree. I guess it depends on what is meant by mind control, because some forms are very common and not at all controversial.
Light does not experience time at light speed - it is stuck in a static moment. So from our stationary perspective, light takes 111 years to come from a 111 light year distance, but from light's perspective it takes an instant.
That's China paying Iran for oil.
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Apparently he's including equity in that figure, not just salary. With that in mind, those figures not super out of the ordinary for devs in SF.
He's probably as free as he could be. Certainly more free than in US. Russia is scoring against US by simply letting Snowden live free. Then even if it will be hard for you to believe, some countries grant asylum to asylum seekers, simply to comply with international treaties
That's an excellent point. Using the "only a sys admin" example was pretty weak. I just chose it quickly as one example of his trustworthiness level from the report. A better example would be that Mr. Snowden claims he began collecting files after James Clapper's testimony, but in fact he began 8 months earlier (third point in the Executive Summary, page iii).

My main takeaway form the report is that Mr. Snowden was misleading/dishonest about elements of his past and motivations. Read the report for other examples of his misrepresentations, mainly that he never reported his suspected abuse of government programs via established internal process and he took and shared material on much more than the programs he was concerned about.

The discussion of the programs themselves is certainly much bigger. I view these programs as the nuclear weapons of our age. It was inevitable that they would be created (with similar capabilities in the hands of other governments and corporations), and there is always the risk of misuse. While the US Government is not the ideal owner of these tools, I generally trust the USG more than other countries and corporations.

The problem with intelligence agencies is that you rarely hear of their successes, and almost always hear of their failures.
other issues aside, isn't not being able to reach the footer on infinite scrolling pages solved with a sticky footer?

it can even be sticky at 2X or 3X the screen hieght so that it doesn't get in the way of the freshest/most important content near the top of the (very long) page.
Reposting the same thing is fine. It helps new people find the content.

Regurgitating a meaninglessly mangled version of something (intentionally or not) on order to plagiarize without getting caught, is terrible pollution.
I'm wondering when we start using biologics to attack parasites. We've started using bacteriophages in trials to serious success, but I cannot wait until we start using something analogous to that to take out malaria.

The reason I say this is malaria is a nasty pathogen whose ability to develop resistance is well documented so even though this is an exciting breakthrough, we will always need another exciting breakthrough on the horizon to continually fight it.
Reading stories like these make me feel like it’s only a matter of time before this happens to me. Frustrating.
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This is percentage of drivers, not percentage of hours worked.

It would make sense that there are lot of drivers that don't drive very often. They might even have stopped driving altogether, but didn't cancel their account.

It's like a website talking about total users that ever signed up, instead of 7-day active users.
The essential problem is photonics sounds great in principle, but once you account for all the energy in an actual implementation, you end up falling behind in bandwidth and higher on power to electronics, until you reach a certain critical distance where light wins.
What areas of the world satisy the constraints: (low funding, very intermittent power, high levels of cigarette smuggling, low corruption)?

I know of a lot of smuggling that will generally be unbribeable if caught, like human, ivory, or drug smuggling.
Man this one is wrong lol
More like borrow + sell when high, buy + return when low. Doesn't flow off the tongue as well though, have to admit.
You may be confusing the exchange with a broker. With a serious commodities broker, you’re using the services of the broker to trade on an exchange, e.g. the CME. The broker does not particularly care whether you make or lose money, so long as you don’t actually go negative.

In the US, securities brokers are very heavily regulated — see “regulation NMS”.
I guess my question is if the conscious observers are themselves part of the universe, what caused their waveform to collapse? And what is the special 'observation' part of their material properties such that it can cause collapse? Why don't other material configurations cause collapse?
They're not even able to compete. Neither Uber nor Lyft are profitable.
A very clever thing they're doing is conflating being an employee with not having flexible hours, as if part time jobs don't exist. Fast food chains don't hire independent contractors and yet lots of people have flexible shifts.
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Could someone please help me understand everything I would want to know in order to create third-party JS widget, like twitter embeds or facebook ads, in the shortest amount of time?

I am okay getting 80% of the value in 20% of the time, for now, and would love to know of any guides, pitfalls, and best practices for writing such widgets.

Basically, I will consume anything you're willing to throw my way so I could get from 0 to 1 asap. Appreciate it!
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I've lived in the US (fully private), Australia (universal healthcare) and Switzerland (a weird system somewhere in the middle of universal and fully private) and I've only had issues like you describe in the US. So based on this (very small) sample, it seems like there's little correlation between the funding system and the quality/access to care.

I don't even think it's a matter of funding. For good care, Australia has relatively low spending, while Switzerland has quite high spending. For bad care, the US and Sweden both spend quite a lot (per OECD [0]).

[0]: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
Some benefits, like retirement and health care, can be provided by the government. We already pay FICA taxes -- they could be expanded to include Medicare (for all) and perhaps a more generous retirement package.
The comments on HN are quite often regurgitated, especially for the political topics rehashed every week.
Cool I look forward to Uber drivers showing up with a rickshaw or giving piggy back rides.
Or more importantly in this case: sell high, buy low
Single data point checking in, ride share imo was a massive boon to people like me in the self employed lower middle class. Many of us already own cars and pay for our own health insurance. For people like me who make too much to qualify for state benefits but too little to 'climb the ladder' these sorts of jobs have been great because they fit easily into our schedules and the pace of the work is enjoyable to many of us.

From my perspective, and I do realize this is relative, people wonder why the middle class is shrinking while failing to realize that a lot of these pro-worker laws are only good for certain types of workers. I'm not saying people poorer than me don't deserve help because I haven't been helped yet, but the issue is precisely that it seems (again, relative to my experience) that no one except the lowest income bracket actually attract political attention right now.
Some thoughts on differential equation notation – functional vs. classical
Is woke puritanical? That really doesn't match my understanding of it
It's not just the constant "anyone have good ____ recommendations?" posts. For whatever reason, there is a tendency for local subreddits seem to be much more vitriolic than most places on reddit (and that's saying something). Threads about local happenings or even something as simple as posting a picture of the skyline seems to bring immediate, intense ire from some always-lurking posters. And God help you if you post an article about local politics.

r/Austin is particularly bad about this, but I've frequented several other city subreddits and noticed the same.
> and some I could find in the history books maybe..

Where you would also be, at that stage.
Spoken like a single man with little or no other life costraints
Oh, I think banning flavored pods is dumb, but then I also think vaping is dumb. My point was that it's unrealistic to expect reason on the subject, because "an order of magnitude less" is hard for most people to reason about when you can list the name of people who have died.

People want action now because the numbers are low now, and if a couple of years from now we find out things aren't so bad, presumably deep-pocketed companies will push for rescinding the laws.

It's not great, but it's hardly realistic to expect politicians to make laws based on science, even in administrations that aren't anti-science on the record.
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Out of curiousity, I did persist and scroll all the way to the buttom. It took a few minutes - 1972 separate cryptocurrencies can appear in that table
The simple solution is to ban the use of contractor workers in the taxi industry. It's too precarious of a job, and one that many people rely on for a sole source of income.

This would take the pressure of other industries that use independent contractors, such as tech.

Right now a couple of bad actors like Uber, are ruining the independent contractor category of work. Forcing states to put more laws in place.
> The confused look told me I was asking an odd question: processes in BEAM are as isolated from each other as console apps running in different VMs in VMWare server. These processes can send messages to each other but they cannot access each other's memory. It was truly a mind-blowing revelation!

Not quite: the messages sent are kept in shared memory (which is reference-counted). Cycles can't occur due to immutability. But with everything else, you're correct. One reason for this, is that every thread has its own garbage collector! This allows multithreaded garbage collection without stop-the-world pauses.

Source: Did a bunch of research into BEAM for implementing my own multithreaded GC.

BEAM really is beautiful!
It now costs $350k a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in a big city
Are these actually "salaries"? Because I know a few SV types who also include one time signing bonuses, discretionary bonuses, restricted shares, and a host of other stuff that isn't salary in their stated salaries. It makes it hard to conduct comparisons.
I see, so when people use nMM they're using roman numerals to indicate million units?

TIL

That seems rather spurious and ambiguous, considering people generally use nK for thousand units, and mixing roman numerals now makes metric nM a collision with thousands.
It stops at 1972. I thank my flywheel scroll button for that.
If the lack of chargers was causing issues, it becomes a business opportunity. Electricity is everywhere already. It's really not an issue.
You're absolutely right, it seems I've made a typo inadvertently. It's true that less people become addicted than not.
Reversible computing or dumping the information to spin can get around the landauer limit. The Margolus Levitin theorem is more brutal.
I don't know your environment but these fresh grads around me their attitude is unlike the attitude of the fresh-grad in my time thanks to these crazy salaries.

So while you can say that sounds like "sour grapes", I do have to say that there is an increasing sour grapes among the fresh grads.
Which he should, for liquid stock of a publicly traded company.
It baffles me how financial analysts can try to answer such a question by only focusing on the domestic economy. Economies are so interconnected, the next recession is likely to be a global recession. Alarm bells are currently ringing all over the world, but the U.S. is isolated to some extent due to its currency status and relatively stable markets.

It's like standing in a room on the top floor of the Titanic and measuring whether the boat is sinking by measuring the water level on the floor in your room. Meanwhile, if water is getting into the rooms below you...
OpenResty seems like a great way to do that.
So basically their tactic is to eke out a few more years out of their business model as their fight with California over the classification slowly snakes its way through the courts to the California supreme court, and hope that in the meantime they can come up with a better business model?

It is actually not a terribly bad idea. They have the money to pay for the slow court battle, and it is strictly cheaper than complying.
Trypophobia inducing
I mean, as far as I am aware, that problem is due to the propulsion method. Would a nuclear based rocket not be able to solve this issue? My understanding is that it would.
Ah, I wouldn't be so sure. John Ioannidis's work does a great job of showing how science as we've defined it can generate results that are wrong. There are plenty of phenomena that can't be easily sussed out using the scientific method of controlled experimentation. The simplest example is if you need two parts A AND B to generate an effect. If you add A, you get nothing. If you add B, you get nothing. The scientific method suggests that both A and B do nothing. It takes a bit more clever work to recognize that both are required, but the scientific method insists on simplifying the model.

The point is that even science isn't well-defined and we need to be super flexible.
Out of curiosity, how reliable are all of the metrics we use for measuring economic health? For instance, how reliable is the unemployment rate when it is a highly political number with lots of incentives to misrepresent (ie the chronically unemployed are excluded from the count)? Beyond that, how much are these indicators just fudged or straight-up lied about?

Everybody is happy to agree with me when I say that China fudges their numbers, but when I say other countries are capable of the same thing they tell me I'm crazy. I am not an expert on China by any means, and I don't believe other countries report their economic health in the same way; but I also don't buy that everything the US and other western countries say is gospel.
I would recommend reading Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter if you'd like to scratch that theoretical itch playing out one specific way.
For the kind of trader that clicks on a computer all day, fees and spreads (which are not always easy to tell apart) can easily dominate price movement.
Every time I think I’m closer to understanding matters of time and space...
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That's reasonable. However in many cases reviewers push some very tangentially related paper of theirs that is far from what you describe.
Yeah, even being charitable, I don't see how Uber's model[1] is remotely reasonable. They pretty clearly take direct control over the relationship. The rider deals with Uber, and the driver deals with Uber. Nothing at all like the ebay/fiverr "hey find someone to link up with" model.

[1] Edit: To clarify, I mean "the model they're promoting of what their core business is", i.e. the claim that "they're a lead-gen platform they license out"; I'm not saying they're business model is financially non-viable.
Ok but the last 6 years the market has generally only gone up. If you are doing technical analysis, you would expect to actually be profitable in an expansionary period. The problem is if you trade the same way in a deflationary period you will lose all of your gains.
Drat! Now I'll never get my $4.6 billion inheritance!
Basically just saves what you would've lost to wind resistance and gravity while getting to that height, while adding the complication of accelerating from 0 to orbital before falling back into the atmo.

Space elevator ideas usually have the hop-off point all the way out at geosynchronous orbit to solve the velocity problem. Which is.. a really tall elevator.
Re: Fiction.

The really good fiction doesn't always have the conclusion at the end -- you just think that that's the conclusion. Of course this presupposes that there's a sequel that the reader is not aware of just quite yet. (The sequel may not even exist yet, but if the author's narrative extends far enough into the future then you can get that feel.)

I think a decent example of this is the Three-Body Problem, although the first one does have a sort of abrupt ending. A weaker example would be Banks' Culture novels, but that was more about there being a whole world out there -- the actual narrative did usually just end at the end of the book.
it's also pretty limited; they're not available in my state, for example.

The partnership-with-local-concentrate-producers plan means, as far as i can tell, that the quality varies wildly.
He's a unicorn. The rest won't be able to pay up $100k quickly.