skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing, though. Wrongful termination lawsuits aren't "proof beyond a reasonable doubt". Most civil actions—including wrongful termination—need to show a "preponderance of evidence". That is, you need to convince a jury that the claim is more likely to be true than not true (e.g. 51%).

So, assuming you have evidence of the chain of events:

- Group shares salary openly
- Employer says: "you cannot do that", someone responds: "You can't say that", employer: "oh, ok"
- Group continues sharing salary
- Employer shortly thereafter fires 2 members that had shared their salary citing other reasons ("You had 2 1-minute late attendance events within the last 2 weeks")

If I'm on that jury, if that's all the evidence presented, that gets me to a "preponderance of evidence" that the termination was wrongful. At that point, I would need to see some evidence from the employer that the attendance events leading to the firing was not pretextual.
Why all the hoops? Companies have shamed us into thinking sharing salaries is bad. It's not. People should share freely, in my opinion it benefits all parties except the company.
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Problems with wireless headphones over wired

1. batteries run out and can't use until recharged. Even if that only took 10 minutes I wanted to use my headphone now, not later.

2. batteries die and are not replaceable. Bad for both pocketbook and the environment

3. interference can make them unusable. Try walking through a crowded train station and you'll find you get about 2 seconds of audio for every 5 seconds of nothing.

1 step forward (no wires) 3 steps back.
A related problem in cryptography is The Millionaire Problem [0] - how do two millionaires Alice and Bob compare their wealth (whether a >= b) without revealing any information about it? Many solutions exist. A variant of this problem is the Socialist Millionaire Problem (SMP) [1], it asks whether a == b, and can be solved with a minor modification to the standard Diffie-Hellman key exchange, which can provide a 2^128 level of security.

Comparing confidential numbers is an important question in cryptography.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_proble...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire_problem
I refuse to believe he wears sneaker-looking things in court...there are some very strict judges out there.
That goes against the whole “no developer needed” mentality that a lot of those services tout, which is a big selling point. I agree with you in that there’s a big need to improve developer tools, though.
why would i google it for you -do it yourself if you don't know instead if asking people to do it for you.

hint: it does not mean 'spec.' for example, on a phone, lcd screen is not a feature. oled screen is a feature.

now, what is not a feature for most people may be a feature for you. just like if you like tap water, a restaurant filling your glass from the faucet may be a feature for you. which does not make it a feature.

edit: since the snowflake replying disabled replies.. no. it's more like claiming 'lcd screen' in the spec is a feature in the world of oled phones. so not a feature.
> Wearing masks, not temperature checks, is what seems to be our best option.

Why are you framing this as if there is a single "best option", as opposed to a plurality of complementary techniques?

IMO catching/discouraging a few people who have a fever but aren't isolating is worthwhile.
Don't forget the folks in the 40's taking those old trucks and turning them into hot-rods.

The car modification scene is only slightly younger than the car.
As with all automotive parts, eventually the price will come down. Currently they are luxury, in some years they will be commodity.
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> I’ve looked on […] eBay where I could buy a slide rule but haven’t been able to find one.

What have on earth have you been typing in for search terms?

* https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=k%2Be+4081

* https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=k%2Be+4083

* https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=aristo+slide+rule

* https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=post+versalog+ii

* https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=sun+hemmi+262
You will blind yourself with your own high beams in heavy rain/snow/fog.
The state of New Mexico currently mandates the use of masks while in public with the penalty of a small fine (I forget the exact amount, but it’s only a couple hundred dollars). So in practice, the former is what is already being done. And yes, people do still complain, but as far as I can tell almost everyone complies.
Sure you are.
How was credit karma sourcing this data on your behalf from the credit bureaus. Were they paying the bureaus for this data from their VC funding. Coz then you would be the product . They would show this data to you and also try and sell this data to other financial institutions like loan and credit card companies .
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Engineers have an often-times pedantic fascination with debugging deeply detailed problems.

Consider a legal trial to be a giant machine executing a huge set of detailed and arcane and sometimes arbitrary instructions. Either the machine does the right thing (one side arguing there was no crime) or the wrong thing (the other side arguing there was a crime). What engineer doesn't love figuring out why the machine's behaviour is correct or incorrect?
> Facebook is the big bad social network that was caught playing with its users' feed to see how it would impact their mood. That is straight evil yet I would be willing to bet it never had any significant impact on their ad revenues.

How is this different from AB testing?
These are fair points, but the FAA report used the wording "extremely rare" (or similar) instead of a concrete quantity, and I find that extremely reprehensible. As we all know, "extremely rare" needs to be quantified. There are 44k flights in the US alone every day (pre COVID).

> MCAS breaking is rare

This is the part I'm not particularly inclined to agree with. The scenario is no longer breaking, it's breaking OR disabling. There are a host of new conditions that will result in MCAS being disabled according to the report. Some of these conditions disable MCAS for the remainder of the flight, and the way that I read the scenarios, it's certainly possible for these conditions to stack together.

Reading the report gives the impression that the FAA is completely incompetent. They didn't specify any rate of failure or disabling of MCAS, and the 'failure scenarios' that are proposed to be carried out in the near future are lacking in exposing these disabled scenarios.

Also, the FAA stated in the report that the plane handles similar to the 737 NG when STS is disabled; however, the MCAS automation disables MCAS and STS. There is no information about the rate at which STS has been disabled in flights in NGs, and no comparison on how disabling STS during the 'near stall' portion of a 'rare event' behaves in those planes.

They wrote this long-winded document that's almost entirely devoid of meaningful factual detail. It reads like a Boeing PR piece if I've ever seen one.
Those people practically don't exist, so who cares? They are a rounding error, if that.

It is desirable to maintain a college culture that is biased towards people who read about lots of different things, including yachts. Reading is good.

The choice of reading material matters. I don't count "The Cat In The Hat" and "Teen Magazine" the same as "The Grapes of Wrath", "Hamlet", "The Scarlet Letter", and "As I Lay Dying".
It's your class. You can decide what a grade is worth.

I had many teachers who would give better grades to better people.

Who do you think is "better" or more deserving?
There's a 'Professor Herning' whose YouTube channel has both good tutorials on their use, as well as comparing many models (and the various scales they have):

* https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorHerning/videos
It seems you're entirely oblivious to the fundament difference between discussing property ownership and whether a space is opened to the public.
I believe the captions of one of the Netflix shows used the word "sniggered" where it otherwise used "snickered" and it was considered a signal by some.
I bought an iPhone11Pro and bought a charger. Tried it for about 2 weeks, one of 4 times I'd wake up and it failed to charge. I stopped using wireless charging.

I think there's a reason Apple doesn't sell a wireless charger and that's because they couldn't get it to work reliably. So, they can add the feature to the phone but don't have to take any support calls on how flaky it is since they can blame the non Apple charger.
> Giving an IQ test for a job is illegal.

No, it's not. Using any criteria that creates substantial disadvantage to a protected class is illegal if you can't show a sufficiently close nexus to bona fide job requirements/performance, which happened to be found to be the case with the IQ test that was adopted as a direct replacement for overt racial discrimination in the Duke Energy case. But the legal rule that comes from that case is not “IQ tests are illegal”, and in fact IQ tests are used in a number of places in hiring (including, as became notorious in another case where the practice was upheld, being used where a score above a threshold was disqualifying in a particular police department.)
This is true, and it'll extend the size of the loop past the naive "once around the PRNG". However, 10^20k years is so much larger that it's safe to guess that even if you do your best to extend the size of the loop based on the behavior I saw there (the park puts in a certain number of people which stays fairly constant), you still end up with too few states reachable to ever prevent looping.

Assuming a roughly 4Hz update rate, 10^20k years is around 10^2.5trillion iterations.

The PRNG has fewer than 2048 bits (being very conservative), and with (let's round way up) 100 patrons exploring the same let's say 256 slots or so [1], you can encode an additional byte per patron, but you're still a long, long ways away from coming even close to the size where it's even close. That gets you a very generous 2^4608 (approx 10^1387) states you can reach, which isn't anywhere near close to the number of random iterations we can guess this will take. So it's safe to say the simulation as a whole will still loop, even with the state beyond the PRNG itself.

Note you have room to add a looooooooot more state in to my estimates before it's even remotely close. There's nowhere near enough bits available to encode things and avoid loops.

[1]: The number they can explore is not relevant, it's the number they will explore. I'm also naively assuming each of the 256 is equally likely, which is false, but is also a best case for this analysis. In reality the patrons tend to encode much less than that as they are much more likely to be towards the front of the maze.
Overly logical. They want a jury that’s easily swayed by their narrative.
If they were based in Norway you could just go to the government website and type in their name.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239
The Fast and Furious franchise is, not unlike the late 2pac, a reflection of the community. A percentage of America has always been modding their cars and an even larger percentage enjoys dreaming about modding cars - the films draw from that, not the other way around.
Mercedes has a good demo video about current state of this tech (EU only) - when you drive a car with it, it’s literally magical. Alternative tech uses a projector-like screen with 4K resolution, allowing for very precise light control.

Here is a demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0OJjvYPV3oc
Sure, but are they doing $1k+ worth of maintenance work a month per unit? Certainly not. Many landlords probably spend more time sending out bills than they do on maintaining the property.
If they are actually experts, and this is an actual epidemic with an equivalent death potential, then sure! Give me the gun. What's the problem?

Is the equivalent to a cloth mask a BB gun?
Suppose it's true that "there is similar report on every ideology, possible organizations" then that's a major problem, not the opposite of a problem. Not every organization that shows "any signs of possible violence" is tied to a foreign power, and a consistent attempt to discover connections in cases where they're likely absent suggests an incredibly high degree of paranoia among American intelligence organizations, which might be even more dangerous than them arbitrarily going after a single organization because of the political interests of this administration.
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Here's the other thing though. Law suits are expensive. Law suits burn bridges (you'll never get a recommendation from an employer you've sued). Law suits prevent future jobs (would you hire someone who sued a previous employer?). And wrongful termination isn't the end.

And things are rarely black-and-white. If your boss thinks you're a douche, it will hurt your career. If your next performance review is a 7 instead of a 9, that might not lead to termination now, but it prevents career growth, and gets you sacked next layoff.

I don't think anyone would every get laid off JUST for sharing salary info, but it would push a lot of people over the edge.

All I'm saying is be careful about how you do it.
Thanks for the copyedits - I've updated to "Joseph Redmon."
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It doesn't benefit top earners to share salary information. If I'm making more money than everyone else and the consequences of sharing salaries is equity than it is in my rational self-interest to keep my salary hidden because I'm unlikely to get any kind of raise until equity is achieved whereas I may continue to get raises otherwise.

You know what those top earners are going to do then? Quit. And then you end up with overpaid mediocre talent and a product roadmap that is suffering from the loss of top performers.

The more we celebrate victimhood as some kind of hero status, the more we shame and punish those who achieve and create success the worse off we're all going to be. A private company has every right to compensate its employees with its private capital anyway it wants, and they're going to want to do it in a way that achieves the goals of the business. They're not distributing welfare checks, they're a business.
Wow, after all the professional, personal, and legal information that's been related here, I feel pretty badly. Is it really that important to go get plastic surgery? I exercise and take care of myself, but have an exceptionally asymmetric face, so might it improve my prospects personally and professionally?
Or could they change the CSS so as to, say, have Amazon's website exhibit underhanded "dark pattern" behavior?
I mentioned this in another comment already, but this is what’s being done in New Mexico.

The mask order was extended to, basically, “wear a mask if you’re outside your house”. This includes exercising outside. Personally, I find that part a bit excessive; however, my understanding is that it’s meant to counter exactly what you pointed out: as long as there are any exceptions, some people will reason their way out of compliance. A 100% mandate is just easier and simpler to follow.

I now wear a mask when walking in my neighborhood after I noticed other people wearing masks too. Chalk it up to peer pressure I guess, but to me it’s a very small price to pay if it helps enforce mask-wearing in other contexts.
In aggregate yes, but many individuals still have perfectly valid reasons for not wanting to share their salaries locally. No one should _have_ to share that info in most roles (important leadership and financial roles notwithstanding), but no one should ever be discouraged from sharing it either.
They're also from a luxury brand that commands a premium price above and beyond its actual cost of supply. Give it five years and an entry level Hyundai will come with equivalent headlights and they'll only cost $100 to replace.
The lever and github links are broken.
Yeah maybe my words weren't nuanced enough, I don't have strong feeling regarding that particular event, but it caused outrage yet I'm sure there wasn't any significant impact to the revenue of Facebook.
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> There is no way to prove beyond doubt that ByteDance isn't having their data watched by the CCP

Same is true for Microsoft.

World powers’ signals intelligence services don’t only monitor domestic or domestically-owned traffic.
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jdefr, can it change what I read?
Few of the sources I find most useful (technical books, academic journals, historical magazine and newspaper articles) are available even with a library affiliation.

LibGen and SciHub are vastly more convenient and comprehensive.
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>It’s insane to me that we don’t just make masks 100% mandatory when you’re outside your own home.

We can just reopen reopen right now. Yes covid spread easily but we already know that majority of covid cases its either asymptomatic or only mild symptom.

At this point lockdown create more problem than it solves.
> You don't need proof that ByteDance is controlled by the CCP

Well, there is a counter proof. One of ByteDance's app (com.ss.android.essay.joke) was shutdown by CCP in 2018. Bytedance is a victim of governments bullies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/china-toutiao-...

> Vulgar content on the Neihan Duanzi app had “caused strong dislike among internet users,” a brief notice from the State Administration of Radio and Television said. The company was told to clean up its other platforms, too.
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all the services targeting this market? I've used Glide and find it "ok", and I'll try Stacker, but I'd love to see a "best" list...
Position. Like I can position myself to have the starting pose of a master martial artist... and just be completely bluffing my further competence in whatever technique you're thinking of.
This is a good time to take risks, because you'll still be able to recover from the failures. It seems like a hard time to get a job in the US, especially with any market corrections happening from COVID. If you can't get into Japan, there will probably be some good stuff in China and Southeast Asia if you're interested in Chinese. There has definitely been substantial research into languages in Asia, which I'm under NDA not to disclose.
Part of the problem stems from the fact that as cars age the headlight lenses oxidize and the original bulb's light becomes insufficient to light up the road ahead of the car. Some drivers are fixing the problem by swapping in much brighter aftermarket bulbs as opposed to replacing or resurfacing the lenses. It's easy to verify this by looking at the headlights of the offending cars after they've parked.
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> Even with the warning (which some US airlines paid for)

Are you saying that a bad input warning was an optional(paid) extra?
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Sharing your salary is absolutely not a “revolt” in any sense; this is literally a national worker’s right as an American. Bloomberg framing it as a “revolt” is a not very subtle attempt at casting workers using their rights as the agents of chaos when employers mislead, manipulate, and obscure.
Can it change what I read?
This is great. I started hacking on something very similar (https://ezmonic.com) but you took it all the way with NLTK and finding noun phrases. Another great addition would be to find rhyming phrases if it's possible given a number. Maybe add some rules to the Mnemonic system so that certain parts of speech are ignored, so you can throw extra syllables in when needed by adding some adjectives or adverbs. I'm curious if the flexibility to create rhythmic rhymes would aid in memorization, or if the added phonemes would cancel out the benefit.