skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thing is cat 5 hurricanes happen every year (and are thus not freak storms), just not here. In the parts of the world where these happen, people tend not to live below sea level so even poor islands eventually recover after being hit.
Extrapolating form the current climate the probability for cat5 hurricane winds in NL is about zero, cause the mechanisms that cause these kinds of storms don't apply here. But as the climate changes, and the seas warm, you might see the general storm patterns change, and you might get into a different regime where such storms are possible. Take hurricane Lorenzo, the easternmost Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record. What was previously unthinkable just happened last October. If you extrapolate from this trend (more frequent, more eastern hurricanes happening in the Atlantic), I think it looks a lot less unlikely that one of those monster will someday make it to the North Sea.

Same with sea level rise: the currently observed rate of change is very manageable, and even a factor 5 higher can probably be managed. But what if we reach (or have already reached) a tipping point in the climate system that causes rapid acceleration of sea level rise? The existence of these tipping points cannot be derived from historical (say last 1000 years) observations, and therefore one might conclude that they don't exist. I believe such reasoning is known as the black swan logical fallacy. But from my casual observations, we are entering uncharted territory now (greenhouse gas levels, sea temperature, changing weather patters, changing jet stream patterns), so who knows what will happen.

Last point, look at the temperature 40,7 °C reached just last summer. Until 2018 the highest recorded temperature was 38,4 °C (in 1947). Some say this was a huge outlier, I think this is the new normal. I would love to know the probability of this happening taking the weather observations from start of record until 2018, would be surprised it it in the 1:1.000.000 range.

edit: Of course someone did the math (in Dutch) https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/hoe-bijzonder-zijn-...
This is not a postmortem of a failed startup, maybe a failed app.

The fact still is that to your consumer the software makes 0 difference. They will never know if you're running php or python, serverless or cloud.

It's all a moot point until you hit at least $10k mrr or something. If you are spending majority of your time on these technologies then who is working on getting the leads, sales, seo, and the other little million things that are equally important for success, if not more.
Setting the record straight on AWS and open source
Out-of-band pairing is a better idea, e.g. some key on the bulb has to be entered or scanned or read on the device.
Why wouldn't the collective amount of work performed by California companies be affected? It seems very likely that consolidating a lot of contractors into a few employees would reduce the total number of working hours needed.
I had perfect hearing in that ear, smoked a high THC joint, and felt immediately congested. Congestion usually makes hearing diminish temporarily. But the next morning I still felt congested and then spent several weeks trying to yawn it away and get my ear to pop. Three weeks later I went to the doctor who diagnosed me with "sudden nerve deafness". Medically there is no known cause for sudden nerve deafness and the doctor had no idea either. But I did have a cold the weeks before, so who knows.

So yes, it could be this was all just a co-incidence but the precise timing of it all should give everyone pause. I did Google for similar stories and I did find one person with a similar story who was immediately dismissed because no one ever heard of such a thing. I do wonder how many people restrain from reporting such effects since the counter-argument is to provide casual evidence or get a doctor to confirm which is often not possible.

For sure there is a gross disparity in tolerance these days and you should avoid sharing hits of THC with anyone if your tolerance is low. They'll be fine, you on the other hand may have an experience you weren't expecting.
Nine Health Threats That Made Headlines in 2019: A CDC Review
The collective amount of work performed by California companies is absolutely affected by the new law, because it's not a constant. The amount of work a company has to do is affected by the cost of performance. If costs go up, a lot of work is no longer affordable to complete, so that work doesn't happen.
Who Was the Buddha?
It's being downvoted because it's utterly fallacious. The democratic process has been captured by mass media and turned into a simulation of choosing change. Divisive bikesheds are played up to the max, while the fundamental substantive issues like this are off the discussion table. Any candidate that dares to break rank and bring them up gets labeled "fringe" and memory-holed by the maintream media.

The ultimate alternative is going to be voting from the rooftops, when we've finally become fed up with the results of their corruption.
His quote (my favourite) may help understand this value: “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
Yup exactly. I think most people didn't realize if they set X for a square screen, they could scroll all over the place. I'd forgotten that it was called a viewport.

And of course, my favourite was all the custom/customizable video modes that Hercules had silently lurking on the board. Some of the early 32-bit desktops (like the 32032) used 4-colour Hercules at 1024x1024. I don't think 16 and 8 bit PeeCees were capable of going that far, though.
You may have been a bit paranoid, wax isn't actually wax it's just pressed weed so you remove plant matter. When you smoke it through water it you're inhaling a healthier product because you're not incinerating leaves and stems, and typically you're doing it at a more controlled and lower temperature.
In Toronto they got in a spat with the city over street parking and pulled out about a year ago. Really unfortunate as it was a great service, and seemed successful in terms of adoption. There's a new one in its place called Commune Auto, but lacks the visibility, as those little Car2Go smart cars with their branding really stood out.
I'm interested in how they're pricing the S&P 500 before it existed.

Yes, you could just say, "the biggest 500 public companies in the US" -- but it's a little more nuanced than that, so it'd be interesting to see how it's calculated.
Equating jQuery and is_odd feels extremely disingenuous to me, and gives the argument a purely-dogmatic feel.
Sir, have an upvote. Spot on. Unfortunately, there are those - wired - to be dependent on it and know nothing else.

This is a very big, overlooked problem.
What happens to your money if you invest in an index fund and companies drop out of the index?
I guess hint was in the word "play", hehe
I think it's the least damaging time for those policies to be established, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing to do.
I misunderstood then due to the examples. As child porn is recognizeable.

But cobalt is just cobalt. You have no way of telling where it came from. Humans have faces, fingerprints and genes that allow us to have documentation that yes this person is a citizen and not an illegal immigrant, so you cannot use documentation for one person to slip by another that easily.

There is no such thing for cobalt. A document that states this 20 tons of cobalt is not dug up by kids applies just as well to a 20 tons that actually was dug up by kids.

That issue was with blood diamonds. A semilegit mine sold it’s own diamonds and blood diamonds as it’s own.
With maybe the note that $100 in 1928 was worth quite a bit...

I am drifting into another point entirely and your point still stands.
I don't think they will touch handicapped toilets.

So of course everyone is going to form lines to use that toilet. Maybe they constantly prop the toilet seats back up to the correct angle until the seats break.

This reminds me of the hostile designed public benches and seating to prevent people sleeping on it. It just ends up making everyone hate it.
Eller’s Algorithm (2012)
Depends on what you mean by "the high end", but I agree with you overall
1. Conflict of interest has nothing to do with whether it’s open source. If I submit a Wikipedia article about my completely uncommercial personal project it’s still a huge conflict of interest. Rule of thumb: don’t submit Wikipedia articles about yourself, your project, your employer or your employer’s project. If it’s notable enough eventually someone without a conflict of interest will do it.

2. Tons of companies use open source for marketing. This one is no different as far as I can tell. Even had the chief marketing officer submit a Wikipedia article for their project.
Actually show me a single instance of the thing I asked for.

It doesn't matter how many filter buttons they provide if no products that even vaguely match show up.

Used to be there was a list of "people who looked for that bought one of these things", but that is gone.
Amazon, Apple, and Google take a crack at a home IoT networking standard
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The End of a Decade: Breathtaking Open IT Innovations
It's not just SV. One major company I worked for had only one validation requirement on the code we checked in which was the ensure that the copyright header saying that the code was owned by the subsidiary in Lucerne, Switzerland was present. That had to be for IP and tax purposes because nothing else makes any sense to me why that would be so important. It was not a Swiss company. So all the code and business products of value were offshored to some tax-friendly locale. Although I never thought of Switzerland as being particularly tax friendly.
Yes, searching for a local file or program 100% of the time because I would never intentionally search for anything else from there.

That's specifically for Windows Start. If Ubuntu or Siri "web searches" are clearly distinguished from OS searches, then of course I'd expect them to send data somewhere.
I re-read the four novels some time back (Ham on Rye, Factotum, Post Office and Women) and they were still effective. My reaction to them was a bit different from when I was in my 20s, of course (I'm now 50), and also knowing what I know about his actual life. The vastly exaggerated womanizing came across as sad and desperate. He was driven and gifted and downplayed both of these things to create an impression of a life idled away. I now realize it was an affectation.

I didn't realize it at the time, but Women really ended on a "And they lived happily ever after" vibe. At the end of the day, the books boil down to a search for love and understanding.

Of course, that's just my impression and you may disagree. For sure the guy was a hell of a writer. His ability to create a certain atmosphere in only a few sentences was without peer.
> The pushing is a slog, but then you reach the top and WOW BOOOM the rock cascades down the hill and it's AWESOME!

In the original myth the rock rolls down alright, but it rolls down over our hero and then he has to go down and push it back up again knowing what will happen.
This is very nice example of the contrast in the two nomenclaturess, so thanks for that.

The problem with "V7 -> I" is precisely that it hides all the internal structure and encourages rote learning. Rather than encouraging the musician/composer to think about what that resolution actually consists of in terms of shifting intervallic relationships within the chords, it encourages you to just learn the transition itself.

Which of course is also its strength!

You might think that after centuries of musical composition across many different cultures that we'd have fully explored all the 4096 scales that exist within 12TET or even all the 4096 scales that exist for any given 12 tone tuning system.

But this is far from the case - witness how revolutionary Messaien's modes were. The conventional language is great for conveying meaning/intent/practice if the goal is to remain solidly inside the parameters of western musical practice circa 1100 to the present day.

But it's fairly inadequate if your goal is explore the rest of the music possibilities presented by psycho-acoustics, or even just those derived from (say) musical cultures which use microtones.

I also note that there's not a single comment in this thread regarding rhymthic structure, again reflecting the western emphasis on a particular (simplistic) understanding rather than the highly developed music cultures built around rhythm across Africa and Asia.
It's not surprising, but the narrative they prefer is that they're working for the benefit of union members against capital, not against hardworking independent contractors who are already making less money than them.
But that's a result of the Agile way of development. The MVP is "be able to drag a program to the terminal and run it", and the next feature, way down on the backlog is "allow the user to revoke permissions granted by dragged-in apps"
Ah, the familiar pseudo-libertarian argument: the Rights of the Individual Trump All…also, my child is not an Individual but parental chattel to do to as I will.

Mate, that’s not Libertarian, that’s “Egomaniacal Authoritarian From Hell” with a footnote that the ONLY authority they recognize is their own. Does not look out of place on r/RaisedByNarcissists.

So do you really want to go down that road? Because it always ends on parents who think it perfectly fine to have sex with their own kids. Always.
The fed’s balance sheet went from roughly 4 t down to I think ? 3.5 T and now it’s ramping up again at the top of cycle + lending hundreds of billions a month to banks in the repo markets. Given the pace we’re going at now I doubt we’ll be able to sustain the pace in a recession
people who get RSUs in California pay about 50% (state plus federal) tax on it.
Where is that tax break again?
Sure there is; it's typically better than no job. I've also done side jobs with no benefits to pay for college, and would have had much more debt without doing so.
Google certainly likes to let forkers ride the rewrite rodeo, when it comes to key-components- in its open source.
I'm glad they're appealing, but I have a feeling his publishers (MacMillan and Holtzbrinck) will eventually cave.

What's more messed up is that they're going after the money he made from speaking at events:

The judge ruled that the government is entitled to any proceeds from those public talks, though it’s not clear how that ruling might be enforced.
The thing is that pretense is cheap - everyone and their dog has claimed some sort of grand pretense from the Aztec priests keeping the sun shining to every bandit, warlord, or mobster claiming "protection" when they rob people. Trusting anyone at their face value is being dangerously naive. Look at actual incentives and actions. You may find some organizations or individuals whose actions actually align with or are consistent with professed values in more than a post hoc rationalization but that is very much not the default.
You're right, but I meant that implicitly in my comment:

> it is ok to just work to make money, and find meaning in other parts of your life.

That you have to make that clear is a testament to how crazy work and more specifically developer culture is these days.
Sure there is; monitor the process and when it terminates remove permissions. It's not like the kernel doesn't have ABIs to do this.

I'm sure its not _that_ simple to implement in actuality, but from a back of the napkin design perspective its not too hard to appreciate.
If as he says "none of us wrote for StR for the money" then a change to how the money is allocated should not affect him in any way, right?

If you get paid regularly for small amounts of work that's not a hobby, it's a part-time job. They're not remotely the same thing.
The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
It still doesn't make sense. If this is the better approach, then why isn't it the default.

Why is it enabled (in a way that is extremely difficult to reverse) by copy pasting something in the Terminal?

I'm pretty sure this is a bug that will likely be resolved in a couple of minor updates.

Edit: Also, this is extremely user hostile. And it is security hostile. The user and securoty hostile bit isn't giving access when the user pastes a location in the terminal. The hostile bit is completely ignoring the users action when they subsequently try to disable access through the File Access dialog. And it's security hostile because the OS is making it difficult to remove access, not enable access.
The bill [0] Says you can't write more than 35 articles per company excluding content that is provided on a recurring basis on a general topic, to be specific. So you could write 2-3 articles (of a non-recurring format) a month and still get paid. But of course if the company policy now becomes "We just don't want to keep track of the article count done by contractors, so we just won't ever hire any contractors", then you can't contract with that company. Is that on California's legislature?

> Together, over 200 people on California sites wrote thousands of blog posts in 2019 [1]

Even if "thousands" is 9,999 and "over 200" is 201, that's about 50 a year on average. Likely there are some contractors that are way above 35, and some are below. If that's the case, they could have continued hiring contractors for some things and hired full time / part time for others.

Will it cost more to hire 20% of these folks full time and pay benefits, etc., or would it cost less to create a policy that people can apply to be full time employees after their 35th article, or 30th article? Could they hire some people full time, some people part time, and simply contract with the rest?

Was this really their only option? Their best option? Only hiring full timers can also limit the kinds of things they can report on sine they always have to send a full time employee.

AFAICT here's the relevant section of the bill. [0]

> (x) Services provided by a freelance writer, editor, or newspaper cartoonist who does not provide content submissions to the putative employer more than 35 times per year. Items of content produced on a recurring basis related to a general topic shall be considered separate submissions for purposes of calculating the 35 times per year. For purposes of this clause, a “submission” is one or more items or forms of content by a freelance journalist that: (I) pertains to a specific event or topic; (II) is provided for in a contract that defines the scope of the work; (III) is accepted by the publication or company and published or posted for sale.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[1] https://www.sbnation.com/2019/12/16/21024100/thank-you-calif...
HIPAA compliance has a lot of ambiguity. You are correct if, say, your employer requested medical records from your doctor. However, any entity that works with your provider that is facilitating its business can still get your data without your consent.

JohnFen's comment is correct. This is why 42 CFR Part 2 was created; HIPAA was too loose with patient data.
I'm a contractor, I pay health insurance out of pocket.

Wouldn't trade it for any employment situation. Unstable employment leads to more fluid job markets, which in my experience has led to a more accurate reflection of the value of someone's work...for better or for worse.
Or maybe... just maybe... The government knows it’s illegal and doesn’t care.

When Congress found out about what was happening, they didn’t shut it down; They reauthorized it. Why? They don’t care.

Comey lied to Congress about the NSA and got away with it. If you think the government cares about what’s legal and what’s not, you’re sorely mistaken.

And he didn’t “flee [into] the arms of the enemy.” A simple google search will yield tons of results that state his passport was canceled while he was in Russia on the way somewhere else. Some even include quotes from the US government (who love to lie) stating that it’s true.
Andrew Huang's Music Theory in 30 minutes is a pretty good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgaTLrZGlk0
Yes but due to employment law a lot of them are no longer economic; hence the firings at issue.
And the fact that people who want to stay freelance can't shows that government involvement in the free market and taking away people's right to choose how they want to work doesn't work either.
The state always needs to serve the interests of the people. This cannot happen if state secrets exist.
The point is that there are also a few hundred people not working now, because their gig jobs were cut. At best its a zero sum game: fewer people make more money now. At worst its a net loss: the company saves money by eliminating a lot of positions and those few lucky union workers make more money individually but collectively they make less total money than the gig workers did before.
I'm seriously skeptical of that. It's plausible they didn't bother trying to get it to work in FF, and just thought "screw that". But judging by de screenshot of the stock price history alone, clearly FF has no trouble rendering that history - both screenshots are FF, right? It's only the UA header that was changed.

Incidentally, this is far from the first time google has been caught heavily optimizing exclusively for their own browsers, which, to be clear, is quite probably not explicit policy - but is monopolistic abuse nonetheless. Remember the youtube polymer redesign? The Edge HW acceleration-breaking invisible layers? I get the feeling they just don't test in other browsers nearly as well.
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So I figured I'd try Evo again after choosing to ignore them basically because their app is terrible, and I managed to count three issues in my first few minutes: It either takes way too long to populate the map with cars, or it just doesn't until your account is verified, or both. The pullout menu currently says "v[object Object]" at the bottom right (and I'm pretty sure it did this a year ago as well). And I can make it consistently crash by opening the map settings panel and pressing the OK button.

None of this stops me from renting a car (except maybe the map), but I don't think they understand that their mobile app is literally the first thing people look at when they hear about Evo, and if it's bad, many of them won't use it. Especially in Vancouver. Have you seen how many front-end developers there are in this city? A decent mobile app is worth a year's marketing budget for a service like this.

On some level, I'm excited for them because it's nice that the local company has this opportunity to win hearts and minds, but they definitely need to figure some stuff out.
Unrelated question: are you using PDF.js to render those?