skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a very good purpose for 1099s exactly as they exist today, particularly those who work many small jobs for lots of different companies. Someone like a freelance journalist might work 8 hours per month for 20 different publications. In this instance, it makes total sense to treat the transaction like a contractual B2B relationship between a sole proprietor and a larger business. It doesn't make any sense for that person to get 20 sets of benefits packages, or figure out how to split their benefits 20 ways.

All of the reasons we made the concept of 1099s in the first place are still valid. We just have a few high profile companies who are abusing their purpose.
This is probably what you're looking for: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
That requirement should have been removed around Y2K. Before that it made sense because at 35 you'd still not know much about the world.
"During March 5–14, among patients with respiratory symptoms evaluated at one of four Santa Clara County urgent care centers serving as sentinel surveillance sites, 23% had positive test results for influenza. Among a subset of patients with negative test results for influenza, 11% had positive test results for COVID-19."

Seems to me like Santa Clara was just testing sink people to me
It's just a lower accuracy level of estimate, not an invalid method. For example you can know that an infected person that had no known contact with another infected person means that there is in fact at least one other infected person out there. Yes, not as accurate as random population testing, but it's a difference of degree, not kind.
I have a personal email address that’s only used for family or close friends. I then create a different email for each website using email alias. This way if I start to receive unexpected emails on one alias, this alias is probably in hands of a spammer and so I disable it. With this setup I rarely have spams and avoid leaving the same fingerprints on the Internet which is good for privacy.
You're right -- they do not and are instead restricting to certain specific classes of number fields. Proving some notion of modularity of all elliptic curves over all number fields is surely completely out of reach at present.
Yes, I believe the questions you're asking aren't particularly interesting, or at least you could answer them just as well as any public answer could with approximately 5 minutes of research. And you're not going to get anyone willing to share really anything not already public on these topics. Security work is sensitive.

For example, here are four statements I believe to be true:

1. Google has a track record of transparency when security is compromised.

2. Google has a better-than-average track record of detecting security intrusions.

3. Google is the target of state level actors.

4. Google has not recently publicly acknowledged any successful attacks by state level actors.

From these, one could reasonably conclude that Google is adept at rebuffing nation-state level attacks. Putting specific $$ values on things is a bit reductive, since at some point the weakest link is paying every member of the security team $100 million instead of any form of technical attack.

> If your answer is a $500 Million bug bounty is absurd, you can look at some of my other replies under my original comment for why I believe that is actually too small.

You're making a (fairly common on HN) mistake of assuming that the bug bounty value is going to be anything near the value of the compromise. If I can extract $X from a compromise, I'm not gong to pay you $X, I'm going to pay you $Y, which is less than $X, and probably much less than $X. The market for compromises isn't enormous, so it may not even be possible for you to sell your compromise to anyone but me. So then if you turn to the bug-bounty offering company and try to sell your compromise for $Y, you're committing blackmail, so the companies offer $Z, < $Y.

So yes, I think you have deep misunderstandings of the state of the security industry and those are miscoloring your mental models.

> If it can not be done safely, then it should not be done at all no matter how hard you try if human lives are involved.

This is blatantly ridiculous. Risk can't be fully mitigated, and most systems aren't life critical. You're jumping from "a bank was hacked and people's personal information disclosed" to "this kills those people", which isn't a reasonable jump.

I actually can't believe that someone's response to "are there people capable of speaking on software security" is "we shouldn't attempt to build secure software, because it's too hard".
This is a bad situation that is nowhere near as urgent as TFA makes it out to be. Especially that we are, and let me check my notes here, currently dealing with an unprecedented global pandemic.
Here's the study from the Diamond Princess which elucidates what the percentage of the population is asymptomatic: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
WebRTC should be capable of multicast, so nobody should be having to send X-1 streams for X users. I say should because it's incredibly hard to find out which parts the the WebRTC spec browsers actually implement. I just found an article from Mozilla from 2018 that just blithely mentions in passing some nebulous future date "when WebRTC is (hopefully) enhanced to support multi-user conversations." WTF have I been doing with more than 2 people in a WebRTC session for the last 5 years? What the hell has been going on in WebRTC for the last 9!?
Considering they are not bringing machines out of rotation or draining connections in the example given with the errors, I assume that more than 10 machines produces too many errors or takes too long to have two versions of the code deployed, and wherever they pull from is not scalable. All those problems can be easily solved though.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique

At a high level, it argued that basing predictions on historical data is problematic. The details of the argument are somewhat specific to economics, but the principle is more general. That's also why people recommending stocks say "past performance is no guarantee of future results."

One of the key issues is that circumstances change, and information about such changes will often be external to a data set.

In the Lucas critique, policy changes are an example of this. You can't predict future economic performance based on past economic performance if relevant policies have changed. But any complex situation has such factors that are external to the data that one can easily collect about it.
Plain EC2, backend in PHP.
Seems like it would be beneficial if codemods would accompany such features if possible.. is it possible in rust?
I consulted for over a decade, and my clients always reimbursed for travel and lodging. And they picked up the bill, when we went out for dinner.
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"Diamond princess is a non-stochastic sample, with all its attendant biases."

But isn't it a non-stochastic sample in the right direction ? Which is to say, the demographics of budget cruise line passengers are almost a worst-case. They represent the most susceptible cohort.

What we can infer from Diamond Princess is that the general population will, all else being equal, fare better statistically.
I think it's simple. The US postal service uses postal inspectors to try and identify packages containing narcotics[0], and yet we don't make them liable for the packages they miss. Any attempt to moderate undesirable content on a website should not then make you liable for the content you miss.

[0]: https://www.uspis.gov/about/what-we-do/
These are non-issues if Orgs is setup appropriately for your company. There are plenty of ways to screw up your configs that cause issues, Orgs like the rest of the services need to have some potential issues mitigated. No different than having too many domain administrators.
Founders rarely stay long after acquisition and Instagram seems to be doing quite OK.
China's Five Year Plans are very big on numbers.

I don't think I've seen one where China has ever reduced a target related to economic expansion. I'm kind of surprised they even need that much more power at this point, since the country is fairly developed, where growth tapers off and energy efficiency starts rising.
The ability to use your own client. For instance, I can use Thunderbird. Another person can use XNews. A third person could use gnus. Many news clients have sophisticated client side filtering capabilities.

I haven't used discord, but based on some brief google searches, these appear to be features that discord lacks that news clients have.
> Never in my life have I added water to fresh eggs before scrambling them.

It's what you do when you run out of milk. It tastes better with milk so try not to run out of milk.
You're right, I don't live in the EU and forgot the distinction. But the point stands- users should get a choice, there shouldn't be a blanket ban.
I can't remember exactly where it is mentioned (it is somewhere) but in SWI-Prolog you need to put

:- use_module(library(clpfd)).

at the top of your file (or just use_module(library(clpfd)). at the console)
Google Meet lets you do that too, in fact I was doing it earlier today, but until now I hadn't thought that was in any way remarkable... is it really?
This, unless we do that there is no way to establish true IFR so we wont know until its in hindsight how deadly the covid is? I dont know why this is not the priority 1 for the CDC.

on the similar lines, Germany is doing something clever, they are mixing samples to do a kind of binary search with covid tests so they can clear a large number of people with few tests. we should do that without waiting for antibody tests etc. it should be noted that this approach would only work if the infected sample set is very small so the window of doing this is going to close soon.
Yarn https://yarnpkg.com/features/constraints
Google knows who they are: They're business partners.
They are looking for antibodies to the spike protein on COVID-19. So if a person has those, then it's proof that they've been exposed to it.

Antibodies are unique for each virus, but there can be "cross-reactivity" where an antibody for a different virus also binds to COVID-19.

Yes, it is possible that there are people out there who have antibodies that bind to COVID-19, who have never been infected with it, but rather have an antibody that cross-reacts with COVID-19. But it would be a very rare occurrence.

So having COVID-19 antibodies isn't a perfect was to tell if a person has been exposed, but it's a very good way to do it since antibodies is highly correlated with exposure.
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I'm surprised at the 12 deployments per day, if that's truly to production. There's bugfixes etc., but feature wise Slack has been... let's say slow. Not Twitter slow, but still slow, in making any user visible changes.
Bloomberg is a private company.
Doesn't guaranteed termination just mean it isn't Turing complete and thus by definition can't solve all problems prolog can solve?
It's stalking in the sense that it is unwanted, creepy, and follows you around persistently.
Take a look at your microwave oven and ask yourself why it has so many buttons. 99% of the time you are using it for one thing only. To heat an item for 15, 30, 60 or N seconds. On high.

Yet every single microwave is full of dozens of other buttons. Multiple other functions. Lots of features, bells and dings.

Why?

Because somewhere along the way, people thought they needed these extra features to sell their product. They thought they added value. But in the end, they do not add value to 99% of their users or their actual use. They are superfluous and yet, they remain on every microwave oven sold.

This is what digital ads have become. A kluge of processes and jargon chasing a rainbow of perfect, efficient ad delivery. Something that is impossible to achieve.

With the FB and Google and Amazon, owning the sell side market, you do not have a balanced marketplace. They are not adjusting the cost of the imp, conversion, or click or engagement or the N based on efficiency, or competition, or depreciation over time. They are in fact doing the opposite. They are adjusting the price based on none of those things. Only their ability to sell all those buttons, those features and those extras...

And in the end, the advertiser just wants to sell more of X or achieve more of Y for as little as possible.
Yes, but I was responding to a claim that we already had "solid numbers on the fatality rate". They're far from solid. We have a small sample that gives us an idea of the CFR, for that demographic, but this tells us very little about global IFR.
Because I do not respect the brands or general reputation, so I would like to know if there is substance underlying the reputation. If the reputation is built on truth instead of marketing, I would hope that there are examples of substance where they achieve what their reputation says they can do. I believe this an appropriate general strategy if one does not believe in the reputation, so this is not really an unusual level of scrutiny, it is just that I do not believe in the brand where as you do (not that there is anything wrong with that).

As for random commenters, since I can not use the reputational apparatus for information, I would need to get direct information. There are likely people here who work with the stated individuals, so there is a non-zero chance I could get that information. Hopefully random commenters would not lie for no reason, but to deal with that I avoid incorporating information that can not be cross-referenced.
Idk what you do if you add a new column that's populated in the new version and you rollback.

I think that one depends on what you are rolling back and whether you have your application code somewhat isolated from your underlying database via a well-defined API.

Assuming that you will at some point need to populate your new column for all your pre-existing records in some well-defined way, you can handle rolling back the application code as long as you have a version of the database API that still provides the interface the older application code requires. You might no longer be updating your new column with new data at that time, but the data you did get is still there, and when you later want to move your application code forward again you can populate the new column for any extra records that have been added to your database in the meantime just as you did on the initial migration.

Given the practicalities of a multi-step migration involving both application and database schema, you might already have the necessary extra code in your database API to support running old application code against the new database schema, and even to fill in any missing data for that extra column according to the same rules you used for migrating older data from before transition and ensure any new constraints are satisfied. So this way, you can wind back your application code but not damage your new database.

If for some reason the database schema itself needs to be rolled back, and you can't just fake it at the API level, things become a lot more difficult as you have potential data loss issues to contend with. Likewise if it's possible that the old application code would not maintain any new database records in a way that satisfies all required constraints and you can't handle that at the API. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to happen very often in practice.
Many would argue so.

There are things everyone agrees about, but for everything else, constitutionality isn't really established until it's been enacted and then ruled on by the Supreme Court.

Would the Supreme Court allow such a move to stand? It's possible, especially without clear evidence that the campaign and resignation was planned and executed specifically to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/aws-farga... PV 1.4 comes with Single 20gb Volume.
Wow, this is news to me. I always assumed there were time-temperature curves for pasteurization & sterilization that applied to bacteria regardless of the medium the pathogens existed within. Food safety is actually pretty complex and often gives me hesitation when cooking sous vide (for instance, botulism spores from garlic can easily survive anaerobic sous vide conditions).
I agree - I also remember a comment a while back from someone on the google ads team and a lot of the targeted ads help small businesses the most.

Large brands already have a lot of market presence and a lot of money for advertising campaigns. Small businesses that can find targeted customers that might want their thing on a nation or country wide scale get huge benefits from that and would be hurt the most from losing it.

People have such strong and over-confident ideological positions without really knowing the issue in depth or thinking through consequences.
This is why I love Visual Studio Code. With SSH remote connection it's basically the best of both worlds.
There's quite a nice plot from a review paper of D.E. Shaw Research that lists the timescale of several biological processes (and compares it to other experimental methods), https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-bioph... (Figure 2). Anton has been extremely helpful for studying the basic science of protein dynamics in academia and has been applied in industry (namely at Relay Therapeutics), but drug discovery is a long process so we still haven't seen the fruits of those long simulations yet.
I don't think it's been very helpful, since computational modeling in general doesn't seem to be a cure all for drug discovery challenges
Wave was brilliant, but in classic Google fashion it was developer-driven instead of UX-driven so it ended up as some platonic ideal product instead of something that actual lead people to do things they needed to do.
That "note" is simultaneously wrong and obvious.

Wrong: They've announced plans to also implement inbound DANE. Given that the domains in question are all child domains of mail.protection.outlook.com, they'll have to sign outlook.com some time before end 2021 in order to support inbound DANE.

Obvious: This requires some planning and perhaps also fork-lift replacement of the old (out-of-spec) DNS load-balancers. The fact that it'll take some time is not unexpected.

Ciao, as you may already know, I don't usually bother trying to debate religious zeal.
Not an expert, but this is something I've been wondering about too. But then I had another thought, What happens if people refuse the random test. Even if those who refuse are only a small amount of people who get drawn in the covid testing lotto, that likely introduces a serious compounding variable.

So then the question is, do you go out into the general population with law enforcement, and force people who were drawn in the testing lotto to be tested at gunpoint if they don't comply? I think the answer is that we don't have the will to do that. And perhaps even if this would be incredibly valuable data, it would be morally wrong to gather it in the way we'd have to gather it to have a truly random sample without such a confounding variable.

I am not a doctor, not an epidemiologist. Just some random thoughts.
I've got red silents - they're not as clacky but silent isn't quite right either
I read this recently and found it to be helpful to frame my (very shallow) understanding of AI. It felt like less of a firehose than AIMA.
Not it didn't. Rust error handling is glorious comparing to exceptions.

Rust community is just full of perfectionist and we love to argue endlessly about how to improve stuff even more, which is very refreshing. In many other PLs people just keep their heads down and crawl in the mud.
Taniyama and Shimura only formulated a conjecture about elliptic curves over the rational numbers. They didn't come up with a statement about elliptic curves over number fields, and this article is about work to generalize modularity to number fields. The Langlands program, on the other hand does, help enormously with such generalizations. It's not trivial to formulate a correct conjectural generalization of modularity of elliptic curves over general number fields, and some naive analogues don't work at all...
Wired published a well researched article a short while ago laying out the arguments in a little more persuasive manner.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-ad...
We agree. I just think that everyone should receive the same benefits (1099, W2, in between) from their employers: none — and employers should strictly be in the business of paying workers their market worth, and society should ensure that everyone enjoys a minimum standard of living via a safety net.
Tax it.

Advertising, in general, is under-taxed. Should it even be tax-deductible as a business expense? Overall, in the US, most people are maxed out on spending. The savings rate is low. Advertising does not stimulate demand, it just moves it around, while adding cost.

Think of a tax on advertising as mutual disarmament for manufacturers. Less spent on fighting with competitors, more price cutting.
I’m sure that’s true, but they are not obligated to. That is what we are talking about here.
Some coming features of Scryer Prolog for those interested:

- Automatic detection and compilation of partial strings

- Streams, including sockets

- Garbage collection in anticipation of very fast yet logically pure I/O

- Improvements to the instruction dispatch loop (many opportunities for enhancement there, probably a good place to start for a beginning contributor)

In the past few months, we've added delimited continuations, tabling, partial strings, and Markus' CLP(B), CLP(ℤ) and format libraries. For a hobbyist project I'd say we're moving at a fairly quick pace!

Longer term, we're interested in:

- JIT compilation to native code (Cranelift seems a good candidate?)

- Low-level integration with Common Lisp environments

I'd love to have system-level contributors, although library contributions are always very welcome!
You're quite welcome!
Just imagine Babar going crazy horny and you got yourself a book in sexual education for the new millenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant
To me it reads like an interview with Systrom.
> I dont know why this is not the priority 1 for the CDC.

What actions would we do differently based on the result? Not knowing is frustrating for everyone, but we should save our resources for stuff that's actually going to improve outcomes.
Yes. Bloomberg uses their publication to manipulate the stock market to the advantage of insiders. This is completely obvious based on the huge number of absolute bullshit fabricated stories where they and their anonymous sources are the only starting point.
I would say that Googlers can make time to fix things.

In the parts of Google I've seen, engineers are largely given projects with a timeline of weeks or months and left to structure their time themselves. You're usually given more projects than can feasibly be accomplished in the time allotted, and learning which are high priority and which to let slide a quarter is a bit of an art, but as long as your projects are moving forward you can usually structure some time for paying down tech debt or a side project, either an official 20% or just experimenting with your area of responsibility outside any roadmaps.

I tend to structure my weeks with Tuesday as the designated day to fix anything that's broken or, if everything is running smoothly, to pay down tech debt more for the opposite reason, so that I don't get caught in a rabbit-hole of fixing things that aren't broken and neglect to make progress on the new work.