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>with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies!

It's not if you are in the US.

You will get a 1099 from where you worked, you write it on your 1040 and include the 1099 with your taxes if I recall from when I was an independent contractor for a while.

It takes maybe like 10 minutes extra and 1099-ing is incredibly common nowadays (unfortunately) so not a super weird case.

And it's not regulation. You don't need to worry about anything besides getting the 1099 like you would your W2s and appending it.
Wow, they really screwed up. $3M is one of the bigger ones of these I can recall.

According to the FCC's notices linked on the page, they were selling at least 65 radios that weren't certified, and thus were illegal to sell. And 12 of those radios could transmit on frequencies the FAA uses.

Then they tried to ignore the FCC when it was investigating them, and didn't turn over all the information the FCC requested.

And then they made a bunch of bad arguments to try to get out of the fine. They tried to argue "no harm, no foul", since no one complained about interference. They tried to claim the 5th Amendment protected them (as a corporation) from self-incrimination, which thankfully is not what courts have said. And they tried to argue that they couldn't afford the fine, but didn't turn over financial records to support it.
> who sits on the Ministry of Water Resources’ Yangtze River Administration Commission

That's all you need to know. If you don't understand what I'm telling you, go watch "Chernobyl".
I would rather spend 3-4 hours working on a take home test rather than writing on whiteboard.

Last year, I did take home test for 5 different companies and all 5 of them invited me to the next round. I yet to have a successful whiteboarding interview.
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Thank you for assuring me I wasn't the only one wondering throughout the article: "I must be a really poor reader to have missed the topic of the article!"

I don't finish the article because when I got to that point it seemed problematic but not something that couldn't be overcome. Aren't all learners going to find strategies to learn something and then alter those over time with the right teachers and introspection?

I didn't finish the article but does it explain (perhaps after a dozen or so foreshadowing paragraphs) why this method could not be overcome once learned?
If anyone else was confused (I was and had to google), the practice of alternate nostril breathing entails physically obstructing alternating nostrils with a finger as you take breaths.
This is great marketing for NerdWallet.

When someone is so adamant about being better than one specific competitor, that typically means the competitor they mention so often must have something good going for it.

I'd recommend stopping mentioning them, and just state what problem you are solving.
I can send my cv privately to you.

About the leetcode thing, yes, I used to be pretty code. If you send me a link right now, I might not be able to do it, since I am living under huge stress right now, but with 1 week or 2 training I can get 80-90% in the coding challenge easily.
I think the real problem here is systemic, rather than being linked to any one cause. Reading is an active process, it's something you have to want to do. Kids mimic the adults around them, so if a child lives in a household or neighborhood where no adults are ever seen reading for pleasure, how is are they supposed to know that reading is something worth doing? Another issue is aversion to hard work: unless you practice the difficult task of trying to understand symbols you don't recognize, you're never going to get better at reading. Those sorts of mental hurdles are unpleasant for most, certainly enough to throw many readers off track.

On another note, who's to say there's any one best way to read? Surely there's more than one way you can get something out of a book. People's brains are wired differently, some might learn better one way than another.
News in the distant past was more sensationalist and overtly political.

News in the more recent past tried to be a little more hands off of politics. The market dynamics were usually such that you wanted to sell both to the left and the right. Some newsmen idealized this and sold the product with the idea of an allegiance to fact, and the idea that the facts would speak for themselves. Opinions were indulged on the editorial page (where advertisers fear to tread) and they could be safely ignored. Opinions were avoided elsewhere. Sensationalism was for tabloids; major papers achieved respect and a reputation and premium prices with their restraint.

News of the present finds the market dynamics have reverted; overt partisanship and sensationalism drive reader engagement again — but we’ve got a ways to go before we have overtly political journalism everywhere and widespread cases of yellow journalism like in the past.
In Thailand, I like to eat Sriracha sauce. The type I get at the supermarket, it's been manufactured in the US by Vietnamese immigrants, and then imported to Thailand, but of course Sriracha (ศรีราชา) is actually a place in Thailand (and the ultimate origin of the sauce, where it was created by _Burmese_ immigrants), so quite how I'm ending up eating American-Thai Burmese sauce via Vietnam in Thailand I'm hoping will give future archeologists food for thought.
I’m 57. I have no recollection of learning to read. Somewhere between 5 and 8 it became second nature. How strange. I never really thought about it.
We periodically hear calls to replace the D NNTP forums with "modern" forum software, but naaah, nobody does it better than NNTP!

Vladimir Panteleev did, though, write a web interface to NNTP:

https://forum.dlang.org/

which is also freely available:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
Not all research results in a publication, especially if the postdoc’s goal is espionage instead of academic credibility..
A good teacher in a school will also break up phonics instruction and weave it in throughout the day. The challenge of giving individual instruction to 20-35 students is monumental, though. Source: I'm a kindergarten and first grade teacher.
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The correct idea is Phonics, explained in detail further down.

The section "this is not reading" blew my mind, that people will make up words from pictures that aren't even on the page. Then I thought about social media.

Fascinating article, ColinWright is on fire today (3 front page posts).
I've seen a few takes on this mindset.

Personally, jobs that I thought the concepts/industry were interesting to me, but the work was far enough removed that it didn't sour me to the industry have worked out well. e.x. If you're a car guy, working on the software for an inspection company isn't too bad, you still come out liking cars, and wind up with some interesting stories.

OTOH, I've spoken with colleagues that have a bit more nuanced mindset: If they don't care about the product, that's fine, but they won't work for a company that sells a product they know they don't like, they won't do it.
Where do you put the weights? Do you have any additional information about this?
Why monitoring your big data analytics pipeline is important (how to get there)
Yes, What people eat is most important but Is metabolism not influenced from genes?
I'm fine with this, so long as the search engine optimisation is there. I often google for an issue with a particular framework or library, and rather than the first result being the documentation, the first result is somebody asking on SO about it. It would be great if the answer is "closer to the source", pardon the pun. It also means that related questions may be easier to find, and you may come across something else of interest while on the discussion page for that particular project.

It also means that rather than building up SO's capital, you're indirectly contributing to the open source knowledge base of a project. It'd be even better if the discussion were backed by a Git repo or something easily exportable so that you aren't tied to Github, though I suppose part of the motivation for this feature is doing exactly that.

Still, SO has been king for too long. And the king's crown has been looking rather tarnished for a little while now.
> but it's not clear that these companies have better alternatives.

It obviously depends on your definition of "better". And it's yet to be seen whether whiteboarding is "better" than pulling candidates out of a hat. You'll note that lots of companies that do strict whiteboard-style interviews are also extremely comfortable firing employees. Would you be "better" just hiring anyone whose resume seemed applicable, that could talk like a normal person, and then firing them if it didn't work out?
How can more companies adopt this and give candidates more take home tests rather than leetcode
It's great if you hover, otherwise it isn't obviously a link. It's not a whole lot better than good ol' '90s mystery meat navigation.
That just shows that beheadings are targeted at people who were already about to die.
There are different degrees of congestion from light to fully blocked. When I was 14 I was 80% congested until i turned 20. I had to have some nose drops or I’d be lightheaded from poor breathing.

What solved it? A trick that an old doctor told
me to do. With one hand hold with thumb on the soft palate and another finger (index or ring) on the forehead where the nose meets the forehead in a grip. Then jiggle the grip. The skull is made out of bones that are not fully connected so a jiggle does move the bones around and releases differential pressure in sinuses. That fixed me
You're right about the two different types of sweat glands.

And just to finesse what you're saying here:

> The smell is related to bacterial activity in the "apocrine sweat". Armpits don't smell because they sweat more; they smell because it's a different kind of sweat.

Even the sweat from the apocrine glands doesn't smell when it's produced. But because it is much richer in nutrients than the sweat produced from the eccrine glands (which is 99% water and the last 1% mainly being salts), it is a fertile feeding ground for bacteria. And it's the waste excreted by the bacteria feeding on your appocrine sweat that smells bad, not the sweat itself.
Bret is one of those presenters that makes you feel simultaneously enlightened and incredibly stupid for not seeing things so obviously how they are. I've read (and watched) that Richard Feynman had that same quality, and I agree that Alan Kay shares the same.
Factory-made CDs are duplicated by a physical process. Most bad CDs were made using an opto-chemical process.

The chemical processes are pretty much reversible, leading to dead CDs. The physical processes are much more robust, as you'd have to deform the actual base plastic, like cooking vinyl LPs in the sun.
Sounds fancy, but do you realize you can just simply cover it with a piece of tape or whatever, right? It's not a RFID chip like the ones used in dogs.

And a friendly reminder: to be identified, no implants are required, just your face. Or, carrying a smartphone with all your personal information, Internet connection and GPS.
Ok so make mastodon as easy as gmail. I can use Gmail.com or my own domain. Let me have same flexibility with my internet identity. I wish the USPS had gotten into the official Internet identity game. One place to receive legal emails, store my private keys, public keys etc. protected by law.
In the future, when looking at github becomes a standard hiring practice, companies will start going full closed source so that their talent can’t jump ship.
It certainly does depending on your application. Grocery stores use them for prices where you wouldn't want a glow and low power means you can run off a battery. If I integrated into my walls as a smart device I would want a subtle design without a glow. These are just two examples off the top of my head. The application matters.

Also where did this stationary context come from?
Unbelievable for me, an avid user of USENET in the 1980s who gloried in its sheer freedom to say anything, to see the tech world now cheerleading censorship.

The parallel to the steady stream of articles that disappear on Weixin daily in China is alarming.
Is it easier at this point to try and make Android secure?
Don't want any of those pesky political science or public policy majors around to scrutinize the government. History? who needs it, it's better to just not look at Australian history, incase anyone wants another costly apology.
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> The cueing theory was incomplete but has taken over because it usually works.

Except it doesn't.

> The newer theory is better, but has to fight its way in.

The “newer” theory is one of the two older theories mentioned in the article, both of which work better in practice and well as having better support in terms of research on how people actually read that the three-cue approach.

Three-cues seems to have taken off because it was easy to frame in terms of being a broad holistic approach at a time when that was fashionable for ideological/aesthetic reasons, and now it's gotten entrenched minds share and a bunch of commercial interests around it making it hard to dislodge organically. Kind of like MBTI only more prone to being abused where it actually matters.

> Teachers are required to have continuous training. There seems to be a breakdown between research and teacher education that isn't addressed in the article.

It's actually fairly directly addressed, as the vendors of both material for teaching reading and educational material and training on teaching reading are among those shoveling the debunked woo.

And in many cases it's not a matter of what teachers choose, but what district administrators have chosen and purchased decades ago.
I'd make the case that fish sauces were independently developed by different cultures. I think historians are overly trying to make connections in this case.

Fish sauce is very simple. You only need two ingredients: fish and salt. Any cultures living near an ocean can independently develop some version of fish sauce.

If there's any link between Vietnam and Rome, we'd have found traces of them along the Silk Road or maritime routes.

In Vietnam, besides fish sauce, there are other sauces "mam" made from different fishes and seafoods. Vietnamese people may have developed these "mam" before they developed the current fish sauce. Their fish sauce may have come from other "mam" than Rome.

Side note: The article appears on South China Morning Post. China often sees Vietnam as barbaric, inferior. Maybe, they couldn't see how Vietnamese could invent such a good sauce. :)
Is that wrong? It may not be correct to use that as the basis for teaching reading, but it describes what my reading process developed into.
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Furthermore:

> You know tens of thousands of words instantly, on sight. How did you learn to do that?

> It happens through a process called "orthographic mapping." This occurs when you pay attention to the details of a written word and link the word's pronunciation and meaning with its sequence of letters.

> ...

> That requires an awareness of the speech sounds in words and an understanding of how those sounds are represented by letters. In other words, you need phonics skills.

> ...

> when children don't have good phonics skills, the process is different.

> "They sample from the letters because they're not good at sounding them out," said David Kilpatrick, a psychology professor at SUNY Cortland and the author of a book about preventing reading difficulties.

> ...

> "The three-cueing system is the way poor readers read," said Kilpatrick.

> And if teachers use the system to teach reading, Kilpatrick says they're not just teaching children the habits of poor readers, they are actually impeding the orthographic mapping process.

> "The minute you ask them just to pay attention to the first letter or look at the picture, look at the context, you're drawing their attention away from the very thing that they need to interact with in order for them to read the word [and] remember the word," Kilpatrick said.
Do you think that a nuclear physicist writing graphics software rather than doing nuclear physics was a net win for society in the long term?
Ask HN: What currently impossible things would cheap fusion energy enable?
I don't see a solution for this. What you're describing is someone who's clearly good enough to take a project and rewrite it, and still be able to talk in detail about the code.

I'd bet they could also pass a whiteboard, pair-programming or take-home test too.

That they are willing to lie about it and pass off other's work as their own isn't something that you're going to identify in your typical code interview. Using interrogation tactics to try and weed out the frauds is going to be counter-productive, by driving off all the good candidates.
If you find this content interesting highly recommend the book / audible — American Kingpin[1] which is about Ross Ulbricht and Silkroad.

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Do a take-home project but don't make them write from scratch. Give them a mostly working starter application.

Sprinkle in some bugs. Start with easy spelling errors and go all the way to concurrency problems.

Ask them to add a few simple features and fix any bugs they find. Bonus points if they find bugs you didn't add intentionally. Good unit tests are also a bonus.

Give them a couple days or something. Don't count off if they don't get everything done. It's better to do a few things correctly that fix everything with hacks.

Invite them to email questions/suggestions to the hiring team. This person might be on your team so it's nice to find out early if they have good ideas or they hound you with stack overflow questions all day.

I've never had this kind of interview but it sounds nice to me. It's more realistic to real daily work. You can cheat by having someone else do the work but that's always a possibility.
One question is, if someone is doing elaborate deceptive work like this, gets hired and has no problems performing the job, does it actually matter? Some people mostly or entirely code at work, so this looks like a legitimate way to get a "good" project in GitHub that he knew well. It sucks that it's deceptive (which could be a major red flag), but it's also clear enough that he understood a large codebase well enough to explain it and modify and/or refactor it, which is honestly the majority of a SWE job. A lot of people are concerned about the "purity" of how someone solves an interview challenge, and outside of potential ethical red flags, people that "cheat" the system are often putting in a lot of work, and are as likely as anyone else to be capable of doing the work.
Anyone else sick and tired of FAANG worship? Lot of groundbreaking stuff came from smaller companies and startups.
Sorry for the ambiguity, I can't edit the original comment anymore but I meant "video chat" or "video conference".
That's why I wrote "ideal capacitor"
That's precisely the problem. That describes tools good readers use to understand meaning across a text, but teaching it as a way to recognize words is problematic.

> Adams thought this diagram made perfect sense. The research clearly shows that readers use all of these cues to understand what they're reading.

> But Adams soon figured out the disconnect. Teachers understood these cues not just as the way readers construct meaning from text, but as the way readers actually identify the words on the page. And they thought that teaching kids to decode or sound out words was not necessary.
As long as it does something beneficial who cares after all what the bias is?

I do. I hate being wrong about stuff.
A place I used to work had started their 'Google Cloud' journey, and the first thing the account manager did was teach everyone what GKE and K8S was and how it worked, regardless of whether or not it was required.

Just seems they were pushing it as a marketing thing rather than to solve specific technical issues. From my limited perspective I've seen it as a business issue, that turns into a technical one. i.e. inexperienced developers being forced into a complicated technology for the sake of marketing.
Find a therapist. They will help you. But one way to deal with anxiety is to fully confront it and go straight through. Let the anxiety overwhelm you and then come out the other side of it. But I’d recommend doing that with a therapist but there are books too that will help. Basically imagine the worse case scenario and what would happen. Would you get fired? Demoted? Loss of face? Laughed out of the room? Most likely the worst case is not that bad. You are clearly a good programmer/developer so think of that rather than the job you have. Imagine yourself in a bunch of terrible jobs. Do those define you?
> 360 is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 20.

But if you're trying to measure an angle, this is totally irrelevant. The angle is whatever it is.
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differences in scale/societal impact.
They also have to change the name. ITER --> GLITTER, to go with the fusion --> sun --> star theme.
Says the man living in a world plagued by short termism, where companies forsake their future to improve their quarterly report, where we have condemned generations to suffer climate change just so that we could have 15% cheaper electricity and enjoy oversized cars.

This going further down this path only lead to misery
$7,999 4x Nvidia 2080 Ti Workstation for Deep Learning?
> I find that more information is transmitted by eating lunch with the team and talking like normal people.

As an introverted and generally very socially anxious developer, this sounds like a dream compared to a standard interview, which has always felt to me more like an interrogation and generally very aggressive and hostile. I'm confident in my skills and I can communicate well in other situations, but the typical interview environment is cripplingly stressful to me. I would love to just get through a talkative lunch instead.
Seconded, his book “Rubicon” is what got me thoroughly hooked on Roman history.
Later in the article, Cueing or MVS are shown to be actually harmful to reading. This is backed by extensive research, and the final section shows how bad of a researcher Goodman is, still to this day. He is quotes as saying "My science is different."
Ahh, that does look very impressive. Well, then I certainly look forward to that. The current price point for the Librem 5 (showing up as $750 USD for me now) is a bit more than I’m willing to drop for it though, so I guess I’ll have to really think about this.
Yep, it’s even worse. There are some things that don’t have a definitive answer, like many aspects of CoViD. Some pages with what I would categorize as “inquiring” get removed just because they don’t line up with the WHO. This isn’t about questioning vaccines, but rather the unsettled questions around this new disease. Just gets banned... it’s not like I have a stake in that fight _other_ than dismay at private censorship of opinions that don’t toe a given line. It’s rather frightening.

But... many of the same companies will fill your search results or fill affiliate pages with quackery ads just fine...
Google continues to abuse its market power, and the industry has not rebounded, despite the remedy.
> I'm shocked you'd call a $750 bike "cheap" when that's undeniably high end.

It's not. If we're talking about buying new, $750 is about entry level for a real bike from a name-brand manufacturer. If you go to an actual bike store rather than a supermarket, that's what you'll pay. High end is multiple thousands. That's just what they cost, and if you actually use the bike for more than a year then it'll be cheaper in the long run.
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