skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is of note that voluntary euthanasia is becoming a more important issue at the present time. Due to various medical advancements and improved analgesia and supportive care, suffering is less now than at any other time in history.

One possibility is the particular life experiences and trajectory of the boomers is driving the phenomenon. Or maybe it is just the growing number of elderly and increasingly infirm.
> For those of us on [systemd powered] debian based distros:

What about those of us who use Devuan or any other non-systemd distro?
3 Cuts on Brands: consensus, conflict, interface
Front-end = Nuxt (vue) + Vuetify.

- Simple, great abstractions, many enterprise grade components

Back-end = Firebase (Firestore db and Cloud Functions)

- Simple, cheap/free, scalable
Cockroach is a DB company. Customer acquisition cost is in the thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

The steps I mentioned above are what, maybe a few hundred dollars. Trust me, their lead generation pipeline most likely already subscribes to this and utilizes it with minimal concern.

There are plenty of CRM tools that can flag out BS domains and/or low value not worth it domains.

If you are a person who gets by using 10minuteemail, you are not their target market. So will their target demographic.

The extra hop is very necessary for prevalidation. And they will be just fine with it.

You on the other hand, being the cheapskate that you are, have to commit an extra 5 minutes every time you generate these BS emails. Obviously you don't value your time as much. And that is why, again, you are not the target market because you extract no business value from accessing the knowledge they spent time and money aggregating for you. Your getting the PDF is inconsequential to both them and yourself.

So go ahead, no one really cares.

EDIT: Lol, you was not referring to you specifically, just the folks who think they are being smart or outsmarting corps by using these services like 10minutemail or whatever it's called
I thought postwar America was known for investing in real estate to great wealth-building effect? I’m not sure how worthwhile other time periods are for comparison as our economy is so much different.
A single clonal lineage of transmissible cancer identified in two marine mussel species in South America and Europe
https://elifesciences.org/articles/47788
Does shortsightedness and astigmatism matter much for VR or are the hardware lenses so strong that your eye incorrectness becomes just rounding error?
Yeah...they can buy other 737 variants. The MAX may be one of the most fuel-efficient 737s on the market, but the 737NG line is still in production.
Not to mention Tile charges an ongoing subscription fee for zero-cost features like alerting you when you lose connection to a Tile.
Even if you fall afoul of the AB5, all this does is move the burden of proof to the employing company that the people employed are independent contractors. If your people are all happy being independent contractors, you're probably going to be okay.

The fact that SB Nation would rather fire all these people rather than even attempt to comply simply tells me how much value SB Nation places on them.
The problem with starting from a low voltage is that even low power levels result in significant current requiring the use of large conductors - or at least a connector capable of supporting those conductors when needed.
I totally get and understand being scared at losing part of one's income, especially in place like California, but I agree with you. This is a step in the right direction and removes the ability for companies to continue to exploit 1099s.
FWIW those comment sections are talking about swift 2 and swift 3. Which are considerably older and lacking many features that clean up those concerns.
You can't assume that '+' has special meaning that can be stripped away.
When you see an IPv6 address mentally block out the last 64 bits. A /64 in IPv6 land is the equivelent of a single public IPv4 address for most practical purposes.
There is a distinction. I can compile code while reading, but when I'm compiling, then I'm in compile-time.

In a compiled implementation, code needs to be compiled before it gets run. When I want it to be compiled, I have to call functions like COMPILE or COMPILE-FILE.
Making it a contemporary review.
Probably because they do piece work on their own time with flexible hours and no set schedule?
Friedman Unit
It should, from the docs:

> A full ARM environment is created by using Docker to bootstrap a QEMU virtual machine. The Docker QEMU process virtualises a machine with a single core ARM11 CPU and 256MB RAM, just like the Raspberry Pi. The official Raspbian image is mounted and booted along with a modified QEMU compatible kernel.
At some point, the poor camel's back is going to give out and one of these thousand cuts is going to kill the golden goose. This is probably not the one, but piling up misguided policies decade after decade is destroying a state that should be a utopia.
I bet some variant of this will be their solution.
I am half-happy to see this happen to Boeing. I just only want the execs to suffer for the Max and the tariffs against Bombardier. I don’t have any ill will to the lower level employees.
Well, one could argue that quality of life is quite subjective and who better to judge that than the person themselves?

Quoting the article, "Then came the elective death in May 2018 of Nitschke’s friend, the 104-year-old botanist David Goodall, who refused to declare any serious condition beyond being “tired of life”" - there's a precedent there.
given the nature of the product, is it possible to create a 'meat-alternative' product like the Beyond products without processing?

Although 'processed' seems to be pretty ill-defined, the fact that the entire category of food could not exist without lab-style production efforts seems to me to indicate its' processed nature.
Plenty of people who are employees have flexible hours and no set schedules.
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Those people also aren’t helped by having their employment taken away by this legislation.

I have a friend with health issues that mean that he’s only able to work some of the time, and can’t predict when. Gig economy jobs are the first time that he’s been able to earn any income beyond his disability check. I hope this bill that tries to enforce the “normal” full-time employment relationship doesn’t deprive him of that.
That's exactly what they have to do and some are. However, forming and running an LLC can have it's own headaches depending on the type of business you're running. In some industries, running as an LLC would cost you more than you'd make as an IC.
Most manufacturers already do this with fluids. You are required to use their oil and oil filters or you 'may' void the drivetrain warranty. We just bought a new tractor last spring and this is part of the new deal when it comes to purchasing a new tractor.
I thought this would be an issue when I deployed IPv6 on my home network, but it turns out that I memorized the prefix pretty quick and the host part you mostly end up ignoring.
Why not? On most major hosts it has a special meaning, and otherwise it is a relatively ridiculous thing to just add willy-nilly to your email address. We keep your verified mailbox address, the one you gave us, for sending mail.

I doubt we'll ever turn away a customer by preventing registration of a new account sharing the prefix to a plus sign in their email address with an existing customer.
I'm pretty good at finding decent reviews. I'd never post my process on a public forum, but I apparently don't have as much trouble avoiding sponcon as a lot of others.
Tesla Cybertruck now even gets its own garage: Cybunker – Electrek
> some.email@mydomain and someemail@mydomain most certainly do not deliver to the same mailbox.

That's why we keep your verified mailbox address for sending mail; but there's no good reason to consider them different for the purpose of identity.
Julia is better suited for differentiable programming and machine learning. Something like frontend/scripting with Julia, and computing cores with Rust, as an alternative to the ubiquitous Python + C/C++ stack. And there are already more or less established frameworks for Julia:

- FluxML[1] for machine learning

- Zygote[2] for differentiable programming

- Turing[3] for probabilistic programming

- Rich support for GPU[4]

[1] https://fluxml.ai/

[2] https://fluxml.ai/Zygote.jl/latest/

[3] https://turing.ml

[4] https://juliagpu.org/
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What if you're just publishing a few articles a month?
I'm guessing we'll see more stories like this as the compliance departments of companies realize their new found liabilities. Especially once the lawyers start pumping out ads. I'm wondering how freelance networks such as Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, and YC's own Gigster are going to react.
Having the spent almost the entire past 5 years living happily houseless, I need neither your judgment nor your support.

I do think you are being malicious, though, and I think you know that you are just totally incorrect.
Do you need to hold your head really still? What happens if you move your head after scanning?
Yeah changed to gender neutral pronouns as I should have written it in the first place. Thanks.
I feel like if spies were sneaking around farms disabling tractors they probably wouldn't do it via a software thing. Lighting them on fire or shaped charges on the engine seem harder to reverse.
This is really cool. Do you guys have an API (or do you plan on having one eventually)?
The code gets compiled (and macro expanded), before it is running. That's a definition of compile-time in Lisp.

In an interpreter version of Lisp, the interpreter may expand the macros at runtime.
This person already has a full time job.
As a Seattle bus rider, I would have to disagree. A few outlier homeless (e.g. those who shit on the bus) can create irrational triggers among the general public which decrease bus use.
How about Python based frameworks? Django/Flask? I know they are not suitable for Mobile..
Israeli pancreatic cancer treatment could extend lives of 3/4 of patients
"Native advertising" was originally ads that were served by the site itself, first-party. It's advertisers who have co-opted it (yet again), but that doesn't mean you have to go along with their preferences. Typing isn't hard and "sponcon" (sponsored content) is already perfectly cromulent jargon, as well as being shorter.
I wonder if it is like in Minnesota where there is rural support for right to repair...but they vote for representatives who oppose it?
This suite of tools looks like a fun way to teach kids programming while boosting their writing/storytelling skills and even a gateway into game programming.
The nonlocal declaration is considered usage if you use a global statement in the same textual code block preceding the global itself.

That is what makes it a syntax error.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/turning-the-corner-in-...

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The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman,[1] is a tongue-in-cheek neologism. One Friedman Unit is equal to six months,[2] specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War[3] even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit
> That suggests Congress would probably love the idea.

If that were true the law would already be in place.

The economic benefit for consumers is not destroying the ability of the planet to sustain life.
Seems that the option of running as an IC is going to disappear for many, no?
Many of the freelancers impacted by this bill do not have a full time job, and this bill won’t give them that, it will just take what they have away.
Yep, it's either the truth or conspiracy fantasies, no other positions...

This is why people don't take climate change as serious as they should
JD is on where near a monopoly on anything other than green paint. Mahindra, Case IH, Kubota, New Holland, and on and on are all equally available, and in most cases cheaper, alternatives that function just as well. We own both a Case and a Kubota.
And yet California is the 6th largest economy of the world and growing.

And after purging most of the Republicans from the Assembly somehow hasn't had any budget issues. Imagine that.

So, I'm still waiting for that inevitable exodus of Republicans from California so my housing costs will come down. I hear tell that Texas is your utopia. Could y'all hurry up and leave already?
I’m not an AB 5 expert so don’t know what the qualifications are nor the exemptions but piece work is a classic marker of IC work.

I don’t know that I’m for that but it’s common enough that changing it would of course cause strife.
Turning the Corner in Afghanistan
That new law makes it impossible for us to continue with our current California team site structure because it restricts contractors from producing more than 35 written content “submissions” per year.

(From a link found in her first paragraph: https://www.sbnation.com/2019/12/16/21024100/thank-you-calif...)

A lot of writers do it part-time, have other sources of income, have medical coverage and the like via other paths and do contract writing by choice because it makes sense for them.

This law seems to be throwing the baby out with the bath water.

/2 cents from someone who does writing as a 1099 worker. Thankfully, this doesn't impact me because I no longer live in California.
I just started looking into and according to a few of my sources it isn't ready for primetime due to crashing issues and other problems with linux kernel versions
This is SB Nation, they have >100 separate sites (one per sports team in the leagues they cover, plus some extras), and they each have an "editor-in-chief" which is specific to that site and manages that community. It's not always their day job, as in this case it isn't.
That's not a problem but a feature of government. Otherwise the government will just focus on dirt roads and horses. Don't like taxes? Move to Somalia.
It doesn't matter if you move after the scan, so long as the orientation of your head is the same, you're good. You do need to stay pretty still during the cut and we have the screen + camera up front to assist you with that.
> you match case-insensitive, but you always store the case the user entered in directly.

You still need to normalize the unicode for either search or display, unless you're only allowing ascii or something.

E.g. for the column you store for search and to guarantee uniqueness, casefold and then normalize to NFKC. And for the column you store for display, normalize to NFC. (And obviously you need to sanitize user input before doing anything.)
Being downvoted for having an opinion? Good god people.
Amazon's shipping fleet is on par with FedEx or UPS, and yet smaller than USPS. Most consumer shipping is not done by Amazon
There's a challenge in HackVent that involves unicode:

http://whale.hacking-lab.com:8881/

I'm not sure if the solution is unicode collisions like in the article - still trying to solve it...
Why do you think advertisers moved to moving ads, ads that fade in over the page once you scroll a little and can be assumed to be focusing on the page, reading? Autoplay video that moves down to the picture-in-picture corner? The more annoyingly distracting the ad is, the better. Or so advertisers think.
No, I specifically said the gold price change suggested the consumer price inflation rate wasn't measuring real inflation; so obviously I don't think changes in the gold price are having an immediate reflection in consumer prices. And I think in the timeframe you indicate they stopped QE and people noticed the gold price had risen much faster than new money had been created so scaled back.

Picking 2010-2015 is cherry picking the date substantially more than 2007-early 2019 when we're talking about QE spurred inflation. If I were cherry picking I'd go 2000 to late 2019 and get 19%. I'm just going a little pre-QE and then the lowest rate of return post-QE so people can't accuse me of cherry picking in favour of my argument. If you pick practically any pre-financial crisis to basically any post-crisis date it looks like a real rate of return.

4-5% real inflation lines up pretty well with what we'd expect inflation to be if we assumed doubling the money supply halved the value for money. So if asset inflation is a little high and consumer price inflation is a little low the theory seems reasonable.
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> This is because "compiler" is referring specifically to when assembly is emitted

SBCL has both an in-core compiler (compiles to machine code in memory) and a file compiler (compiles to machine code in an file).

SBCL also has an interpreter (relatively new and which usually is not used), which executes Lisp source as data.
The effects of this law are complicated -- I can't say that it's clearly a net boon or a net fail to me.

While I sincerely empathize with Lawson here, I can name off the top of my head a dozen restaurants, several grocery stores, and a handful of B2C startups in the Bay Area that have historically misclassifed most of their cooks, dishwashers, waiters, cashiers, stockers, warehouse, and shipping & receiving staff as independent contractors. Many of those misclassified employees would rather[0] be employees with basic protections such as overtime pay + some degree of protection in the event that they are injured while working.

At the same time, I know of some folks who are completely out of work as a result.

[0] I know because I asked some of them, and was one of them in a past life
Yeah Python is a clear powerhouse on the server, but as its weak a target in browsers & mobiles I didn't list it as a candidate for end-to-end development.
> GCP’s network looks much better than either AWS or Azure’s networks.

> Not only do their top performing machines beat each network’s top performing machines, but, so to do their bottom performing machines. Even their least performant machine (n1-highcpu-16 in figure 10) is consistent with AWS’ maximum network throughput as seen in our tests.

> This is especially impressive because last year, AWS outperformed GCP in our network tests. It is a credit to GCP that they have improved their network performance and we are left wondering exactly how they accomplished this improvement.
No, it does more than simply move the burden of proof. Writing articles for a media site is always going to fail the ABC test; it's clearly "integral to the company’s business", no matter how strongly the writers look like independent contractors in other ways.
But this person is losing her "passion project", so it must not be worth the intended consequences.
(/s)
We already see a hint of this outcome in apps we use today. Our Facebook feed which consists of content-rich widgets is the product of an algorithm's best attempt at predicting what content we want to consume and how we want to consume it. However, this article is about context, not content.

> I lament the day that unpredictable icons line a toolbar changing as often as I change a tool.

If you visit booking.com it's unlikely you'll ever see the same website twice. That's because their product team is continuously A/B testing, trying to come up with the best one-size-fits-all solution.

Although their designers' decisions are based on usage data, the data will only tell that button A outperforms button B, not why. And that's because our devices are unable to accurately measure what we're doing and what state we're in.

With the right data algorithms could make layout and even component level design decisions, but tailor them to individual users instead of user personas.
It appears like this is true for some foods at least, dairy in particular. I believe Scandinavians have a much lower rate of lactose intolerance than equatorial cultures
Anybody else think it's interesting that this article is so focused on AB5 - and almost completely ignoring her employer's responsibility in this.

What's blocking her from being hired in a properly classified position on a part time basis?
You say it's not obvious, but then you ask:

> So, what do you do? Allow people to shoot up in a shelter?

And the answer is yes, obviously. Safe-injection sites and opiate maintenance programs work.

And you also go several steps further by ending drug prohibition entirely. Prohibition has created an environment where the only opioid drugs available are highly concentrated and easy to smuggle, just as alcohol prohibition converted a nation of beer and wine drinkers to whiskey addicts. With raw plant forms of coca and poppy available, we'll see far fewer people shooting up heroin or smoking crack (just as we see today in places where cultivation and consumption of these plants is commonplace).
There are few exceptions to the new law, and even the exceptions have to pass the Borello Test.
Ultimately we're forcing a bunch of societal burden onto employers. So you end up with a bunch of admin overhead at the employer to manage all of these additional requirements and maintain all of the admin burden at the regulators to ensure that they are doing their job.

Wouldn't it be better to just tax companies for 1099 like you do unemployment tax and pivot that over to a state-managed healthcare and retirement benefit that 1099's could opt in to for some reasonably low cost?
Senders don't get to dictate how a recipient encodes their addresses.

RFC 822:

The local-part of an addr-spec in a mailbox specification (i.e., the host's name for the mailbox) is understood to be whatever the receiving mail protocol server allows.
I would never use a managed database service again.
This sounds contradictory to me:

If Amazon wants to run a delivery network it should [be an even larger monopoly]

...

Federal antitrust action against monopolies and monopsonies would be helpful too.
Drink Water, Be Grateful, and Read
I don't know California employment law and I don't know the specifics of AB5, but I have some experience with "backdoor parlor tricks." They are most often used by corporations looking to dodge various obligations. I have seen big tech companies outsource entire departments of their operation in a way that some schmo shows up to the same company every day and gets their marching orders from an employee of that company. They do this for years. But they are not employees, or temps. They work for some "contractor" whose only contract is with the company in question.

Why doesn't SB Nation want to treat these "contractors" like employees? I don't care at all for California, but I have a hard time seeing them as the bad guy here. This editor claims many people do so much work for SB Nation that they can't fit into the small box carved out by AB5. Before I get too worked up, I'd ask for a definition of "small box." If you're putting in 30 hours a week for SB Nation, and they are your only contract, it's pretty clear that you are an employee and any other arrangement is a dodge.
Because companies complain that it adds 20% - 30% to their labor costs.
It would have been met with less scepticism and maybe some genuine concern if one of those "many" had written the article instead.
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lab meat would fit the bill I think ?

I am absolutely not an expert on that topic though.
I think those only kick in if the number of employees is large enough.

The article doesn't mention that detail so you may be right.
Cost is the most obvious one. There is likely no shortage of writers to take the position that aren’t governed by this law.
13 years of support may very well be above and beyond the norm in the software industry, but that doesn't make it "basically forever".
A classic vision of AR where Idiocracy meets Stephenson: https://vimeo.com/8569187
A side project helped my resume stand out by 10x
What industries does an LLC cost that much to run in?

I've had one for years, it costs less than $250 annual to actually maintain the LLC.