skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is easy to have a billion dollar company if you have borrowed two billion. And haven't spent all the loot on salaries.

The company has a cool name and the product area is divisive. Some say it is vapourware and nobody wants Oculus Rift style VR. Others are gung-ho. It's like Bitcoin all over again.

Although this tech is being done with AI, it was being done with non-AI approach two decades ago for movies/TV. But it wasn't as if people ported this tech to their smart phones from the SGI desktop monsters of yesteryear.
I repeatedly see very intelligent and successful people outright reject the possibility that conspiranoids can be intelligent but misguided. I think conspiracy thinking ("conspiranoia") is orthogonal to educational attainment/quality. I think it's much more likely that we are all susceptible to conspiranoia thinking (we all have the same cognitive biases and we all use good-enough but imperfect heuristics to decide who/what to trust), but that some of us just haven't been introduced to one we are amenable to by a person of trust+authority. Given enough {theories, people we trust, exposure} we will all start falling for some or many of them.

Of course the dumbest of us will fall for more theories, including the more incredible theories, but to pretend like any one person is immune is to ignore the step 1 of a 12 step program.
You can move to a cost per acquisition model, where you get paid when your traffic converts. There are tons of those around (including the Amazon program below)
That case you've seen speaks of the guy's inexperience and lack of understanding.

I have a problem with this rule because what I see happening is people taking it to heart and no longer thinking about what they're doing performance-wise. And then the program is working 1000x slower than it should, at no extra gain (and often a loss) of readability or safety, just because someone decided to use O(n) data structure where O(1) would do, or keeps repeating the same computation thousand times instead of ensuring it's done once.

So to your "let stuff work", I want to also add: "understand the work you're putting the computer through", and "don't do stupid things".
That doesn't explain why they would share that conspiracy with the masses. Doesn't it mean their insider knowledge won't be special anymore?

Perhaps it helps to believe something so outrageous the masses won't believe it.
I think they are in some cases. An employee can forbid you from working for a competitor at the same time, for example. This is usually a good thing - e.g. Apple doesn't want their Siri engineers moonlighting on the Alexa team after hours. I don't think contractors can be subject to the same sweeping restrictions.

I believe for employees paid by the hour, the employer can also dictate the number of hours per week and even the specific schedule.

Employers have much more control over their employees -- that's at the heart of the contractor-employee distinction.
If what you care about is lifting citizenry out of poverty, free markets have the best track record by far, despite countless attempts otherwise.
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My experience with e-commerce sites is they they tend to accumulate enough tracking and ad network scripts to ultimately kill performance.
> What work that any contractor does, given that it is work contracted for a necessary economic purpose within the business of the contracting party, isn't within the latter's usual course of business?

There are existing, relatively easily identified examples: tech companies hiring (on contract) workers to provide janitorial or cafeteria services, retailers hiring contracts to fix plumbing or install fixtures in their stores, landlords hiring individuals to paint homes, and the list could go on.

The "usual course of business" has a clear legal definition under California law: "the regular and customary work of a business, performed within or upon the premises or worksite of the client employer."

In the case of Uber, "software development" and "drivers" clearly are required in the "ordinary and regular and expected course of dealings" in their marketplace. The company's entire premise is built on connecting drivers to passengers via a software platform: they don't have a business without both of those things. One might argue over whether drivers' cars count as a "worksite", or whether remote workers working from home count as working from a "worksite" or "on premise"--but those arguments would be thin and shallow.
> But a person who does PCR analysis and knows the ins and outs of PCR tests that maintains that there is no such thing as COVID-19 is on another level for me. That’s the kind of purposeful refusal of the world as it exists all around us that I can not get my head wrapped around.

A person who specializes in analyzing viruses tells the author something counterintuitive and instead of re-assessing his own assumptions, he labels the specialist delusional. That last sentence, "That’s the kind of purposeful refusal of the world as it exists all around us that I can not get my head wrapped around", could easily apply to the author.
Or maybe the state is acting in good faith on behalf of gig workers, and it's the gig companies tying themselves into knots trying to avoid legislation who are acting in bad faith?
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I like the look and feel. Nice job. I used the example feed, and four post titles were retrieved, but I was not able to open the post by clicking on the title. Chrome on Android.
I’m curious, what do you use F-keys for? I’ve moved to a mech keyboard with no F-keys, as I've never had much use for them. I do have a few choice custom shortcuts, using Command-Option-based shortcuts.
It's key to write code that can be easily re-factored, because most of the time you come up with a much better idea a week later.
I get upset when I read essays like this that don't mention the role that the government plays in creating drudgery and destroying leisure. A good way to highlight this is to point out that in the US, the government at all levels spends about $20K/person/year. If that money was just redistributed to individuals, we would actually be living in the leisure-filled world predicted in the early part of the century. Instead the money is mostly just frittered away.
Don’t know how it is in America but here in Norway, stores are required to list per-unit price on the shelf for all articles. Makes it quite simple to compare stuff. So for example milk has the price for a carton on the shelf along with the price per liter, toilet paper has the price for a pack along with the price per meter, detergent has the price for a box along with the price for the portion required for running one machine, etc etc.

This makes it trivial to spot cases where the bigger bag is actually more expensive per-unit when you’re at the store.

I guess to compare between different stores you’d still need to make note of the per-unit prices that are listed but still it is helpful even if you went as far as that. I usually buy everything I need at the store closest to my home because they are very competitive on average even if one or two items might be cheaper downtown.
> I challenge your premise that it's possible to consider a labor relationship exploitative if both parties voluntarily enter into it.

This seems to overlook the long fights for Sundays off, Saturdays off, a 60 hour work week, a 40 hour work week and so on. When options on one side is "be evicted from home, leave family to starve" and the other side is "postpone additional revenue until someone more desperate signs up" - you have to consider what "voluntary" means.
Also learn to denormalize. Because performance matters.
It’ll also transit a tiny fraction of what a traditional subway would, and requires ownership of a car to use (assuming that a Tesla isn’t a requirement or at least preferred).

I’m thoroughly convinced that these types of systems, along with self driving cars, are purely fantasies to allow people to believe that we can fix all the problems of car culture without having to give something up. If you want to move a lot of people through a city, build a subway. They’re proven and effective. Stop trying to find a way to turn subways into cars, the result is always ridiculous.
This is awesome, does YouTube do this?

Searching media seems left out in general.

Although it's a quick way to get all the interesting things banned and cancled I guess. Being hidden still allows some innovation.
You have the right to determine your own fate. You can blow yourself up at home. Fine. Nobody cares. You don't have the right to come out and put everyone else at risk, esp. when it comes to a highly-infectious and potentially deadly disease.
ORMs that work for Postgres should "just work" for TimescaleDB. So while we mention Sequelize in some tutorials, if you have a favorite Node.js API client, you should just go for it.

As aside, you mention enjoy this developer Q&A that a community member published a few days ago that talk about his experience using TimescaleDB to build a crypto trading bot.

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-i-power-a-successful-cry...

Also, an earlier tutorial:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/analyzing-bitcoin-ethereum-a...
Ethnic Features extraction and recognition of human faces
You're technically allowed to edit code elsewhere I thought? The editor for Godot is there out of convenience. It's also Open Source and I'm sure you could raise issues about these problems. If they're not voiced in the proper channels they might not get resolved.
I think that's largely an attribute of the US legal system. The debates about legislation last so long and cost so much political capital that legislators are wary of making more frequent but smaller changes to laws.

Also, a law is not always needed. Frequently culture and society have ways to discourage problems created by outliers without turning to new laws. The problem occurs when issues (like conspiracy thinking and lack of trust in long-lived institutions / "the establishment") start to move from outlier status to mainstream.
Human solutions have problems too. Inconsistency, monitoring, access control. Every employee is a potential leak or Twitter takeover. Building systems to manage these things are difficult, painful, and could make Google do work they aren't very good at.

Also, we have no idea how their support teams metrics are doing. Maybe the automation is actually superior to human customer service.

From the outside of the castle, what we see is more a result of our projections rather than what's going on inside.
> It was like I possessed secret insider knowledge they all craved. I suspect people who believe in conspiracy theories feel the same way.

Then why are they always trying to spread their theories far and wide? Why wouldn't they do what you did and be "positively gleeful knowing that I knew more than them?"

How common are conspiracies throughout written human history? Why would modern history be any different?
I wish I could block domains from my google results.
I don't think there's a better stack in all of scientific computing than Julia + Jupyter Books. Lovin' it.
You could also interpret it in a negative way. They don't maintain _anything_ over there. How hard would it be to whitelist (can I still say that?) super high value, bulk sending, domains?
But EV incentives are not Tesla-specific. Anyone with a valid product can avail of them.

If you attribute EV incentives to Tesla, you must attribute the costs of the wars in the Middle East to the (ICE) auto companies.
AI=machine learning

room temperature superconductivity ?

successful magnetic confinement for long term fusion reactions ?

Or, defund military spending and re-direct the funds towards modeling a library of synthetic, production ready nanobodies for all known viruses, after all look at the devastating costs to the world economy from the most recent virus, covid19.
99.9% of Uber drivers would debate you on that. Flexibility to work when and where they wanted was the paramount reason for most of them to do this work.
Didn't Musk's "Boring Company" solve the problem of underground boring cost ?
Honestly, and I mean this with full sincerity, your response is exactly the point.

You just don’t seem to get the obviousness in front of you, just like almost all of Mozilla while the rest of the world sees how absurd and sad things are.

Mozilla has zero chance of survival at its current size without the browser tech. Instead of working on creative ways to monetize that, back when Firefox still had enough market share for it to matter, precious time was wasted on a wide variety of valueless diversions.

Mozilla without Firefox is dead. Pocket or a VPN service has zero chance of bringing in similar revenue. Zero. It was and is a giant waste of time.

And so here we are. Years wasted on what could have been real honest and creative attempts at monetization from competent leadership. They had 10 years to figure it out. Instead they played with whatever new shiny toy fell in front of them.

It would be a hilarious joke if it wasn’t so sad.
by hand? did you use some sort of post processor? because the output css shows some weird repeats:

```
@keyframes sea-Top-Deck-Inside {

from {transform: translateX(0);}

from {transform: translateX(0);}

to {transform: translateX(-3px);}

}

@keyframes sea-Top-Deck-Shadow {

from {transform: translateX(0);}

from {transform: translateX(0);}

to {transform: translateX(-3px);}

}
```

sorry if it seems like im doubting you, i am just really super impressed by this animation and wanted to understand how you put this together!

also: readme is really cool! love your podcast interviews!
Plenty of laws are broken. Drug control laws, white collar crime laws, whistleblower protections, copyright, IP, patent, child support & alimony, parent-child access / visitation, execution or the lack of it, gun control or the lack of it, fucking mandatory sentencing.

Shall I go on?

"laws aren't broken" is the kind of thing someone says when they've never seen "justice" in action, or are walking around with their eyes shut.
MDN is great and I'm thankful that it exists.

Having said that, I find the timing of this site very suspicious, as if it were part of a secret PR campaign for improving Mozilla public image, after the recents layoffs.
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? If the answer is no, then congratulations, you're a conspiracy theorist. Do you feel poorly educated now?
I haven't measured my water usage, but 5 GALLONS for a standard dishwasher, and 3.5 for a compact?

I feel like if I tried, I could use less water than that... I already don't run the tap while washing. I wet my sponge and scrub away. I only use 30-50mL of water at a time if my sponge gets dry, and my main water usage comes from rinsing.
Postal banking pilot included in House-passed appropriations bill
I don't think such a thing exists. It's a pretty niche topic.

The Mozilla foundation is a non profit which owns all of Mozilla corporation. Because foundation is a non profit, donations to it are tax deductible. They also cannot funnel money into corporation, either, as a result. It's not that easy to be a tax evasion vehicle.

It does mean that the corporation is not beholden to external equity owners; its just beholden to the foundation. But the corporation is also 100% for profit, although they evidently struggle to earn said profit.

Mozilla isn't quite a non profit nor a for profit company in aggregate as a result.
Interesting paper and I think anyone should read if only for the stories told, but if the only cases happened in the 1800s, then I don't think this is particularly relevant for deciding whether we should enforce consequences on foreign companies for IP infringement or not. The US also permitted racial slavery in that era - we ceased commerce both voluntarily and in an official manner with South Africa over their racially stratified society in 1990. Why would we treat China differently than Apartheid South Africa because of something that happened 200 years ago?
That's not true at all. As an example, a 4 bedroom 2,000 sq ft house in the suburbs can be had for around 150k. What sort of apartment can you buy in Sweden for that much?
What do you base the conclusion of that statement on? Other than stating there is a 'better' way you don't appear to have provided a rational as to why it is better.
I think the implication is that pessimists don’t try.
I thought this was pretty disturbing, the abstract doesn't even attempt to hide that it's about surveillance of Uighurs.

> "The result indicates that the average recognition accuracy rates of Tibetan, Uighur and Zhuang ethnic groups can reach 79% by algebraic features and 90.95% by geometry features."

Also the introduction has some Orwellian irony:

> "The research of the ethnic facial feature is of great significance for the science and technology and national unity. It is well known that China is a multi-ethnic country in which all the ethnic groups are interacted and merged with each other in thousands of years. Meanwhile, the facial features of each ethnic group are changing. In the progress of national integration, the national facial features has not disappeared, but evolved with new features. It is of the practical significance for the protection of ethnic cultures and the research of the development process to digitalize the preservation of ethnic culture and to study and find the new features produced in the ethnic merges."

They're 'preserving' the cultures of the group the CCP is currently actively working to destroy.

Technology companies should seriously consider their involvement in China.
Issues that may be intimately and inextricably bound up with the "free" speech occuring within it, perhaps.

You're also dramatically simplifying the processes that lead to things like Holocaust. The usual pathway involves several years (or more) of general speech-based demonization to soften up a population to the idea that the "other" is ... well, somewhat sub-human. The call to action comes much later, after you've sown the seeds necessary to have a significant population that says "yeah, well, i always did think there was something about those people ..."
Well, I'm pretty sure receptionists and booking (sales) people at hotels are service workers too - not just the maids. But interesting point about there being sub-contractors all the way down re: this thread (who is an employee).
The timing is almost certainly related, but I interpret it as the community trying to voice how important MDN is to everyone in an effort to convince Mozilla that it deserves priority, or at least doesn't deserve further cuts.
I'm a huge fan of sloth. I frequently take many months off between jobs, sometimes a year or more. I refuse to work more than 40 hours a week except for genuine emergencies (things like outages; being behind schedule never counts), and I'm close to drawing the line at four days a week. I always take at least three weeks off a year, and that's in a bad year. I take "mental health days" often and with no guilt. If you don't own your time, people will take it from you.

I'm perhaps speaking from a place of privilege, but it's not that hard to achieve. I've been doing this my whole life, from minimum wage jobs through decades of professional career.

Sit on the couch. Take a vacation. Quit your job. Say no to overtime always and forever. Blow off weekends often. Nothing is as important as others will tell you it is. You're going to die some day and when you're on your death bed you won't regret the times you did nothing.
I'd imagine that this is because the Big Mac is priced corrected with PPP, more or less.
> Filtering out the bad from the good is going to be very important if we don’t want to accidentally lose such minor marbles as our democracies, our health and our safety.

I really think that a better solution to this problem is to fix the shortcomings of our democratic systems. The majority of people don't believe that 5G towers cause COVID-19, or that 9/11 was an inside job. A stable democracy should be resilient enough to withstand a small number of wrong people.

But that's not the case for the US. The election result for the entire country (of 330 million people!) can be flipped by a few tens of thousands of voters in the right electorates.

I recognize that this is going to be a hard problem to fix. But I do believe it would be easier than trying to reverse the laws of economics that drive social media companies to do the things they do.
I have a degree in chemistry. This is probably fine unless used constantly or in excess, or if you water is too hard. Powder dish detergent contains sodium carbonate, which is more basic than sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). Bicarb is less soluble and thus acts as a very mild abrasive, but powder detergents usually are similarly abrasive, though I can't find any hard sources saying bicarb is completely safe.

Biggest issue would be hard water creating gunk buildup in the plumbing. Run the "good stuff" every now and then with drying agent and that should clear it out.

If you swap bicarb with sodium carbonate (washing soda) you literally have dishwasher detergent that might be a bit foamier.
> a Redis caching layer and a complex custom lookup scheme

Bane of my life. A few gigs ago, they had a global Redis cache, a Redis cache per server, an in-app cache, and then MySQL. Needless to say, there were many, MANY bugs that came down to cache coherency and race conditions between them.

[edit: it was a global Redis, not clustered.]
This is one website that like Rust requires its own foundation much like what happened with the Thunderbird mail client. This would be a great chance for Microsoft / GitHub to swoop in and maintain one of the more invaluable resources on the internet. I treat MDN like gospel when looking up anything front-end web related because it is usually spot on and based on reality.

Maybe a subsidiary would better serve it and we can all put money directly towards MDN. I know there are people who don't trust Mozilla out there who might be more inclined to give to at least MDN.
I have this theory, supported by anecdote alone.

In the US there is a "scam premium". The scammier a business, the higher the multiple.

Fabbing is decidedly unscammy. So according to the theory of scam premiums, everything associated with fabbing should trade at a discount.
The timing is no coincidence, as the MDN docs team was part of those layoffs. It would be a cruel act to layoff the MDN team while also trying to improve the perception of MDN's value.
Because for a true believer of a conspiracy theory, spreading the "truth" is an altruistic act.
High speed rail is also a bit of a red herring. In dense areas you’re not actually going to go fast! “Normal” trains would work fine and be helpful.

TGV and Shinkansen go really far! But what makes people in France or Japan take the train a lot is much more around local trains that are just going at normal speeds.
If you accept numbers from Elon you might believe this. Otherwise, no.
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