skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but have anecdotally been involved in similar law to this case where I was told:

Courts don't issue injunctions routinely "just to freeze things and be fair till the case plays out"; courts issue injunctions when the court considers that the party who seeks the injunction has a good claim and has every expectation of prevailing.

so by that measure, the judge freezing the assets means Citi has a good chance of getting its money back.

(also, I looked up Kelly v Solari on wikipedia and the case was from 1841. I don't think English Common Law from after US independence would apply)
Perhaps you were working with FORTRAN77 not Fortran >2003. No other language beats Fortran's syntax for numerical computing. Anyone who claims otherwise, does not really know modern Fortran. Basically, anything nice that one may find about Python, MATLAB, or even C++ Eigen library for numerical computing has been inherited from Fortran.
I agree and think that view of Russia is unfair to be honest. I’m Irish and the Irish have a relatively similar history (we had feudalism and colonialism and Russia had feudalism and communism - neither is democracy or “freedom”). Russia, and the Russian people, have done fantastic things in literature and science, and their history is amazing. I met a Russian girl recently and she called me her enemy. I was a little confused, but then she said I was British (I ain’t!) and the British are the enemy of Russia. She was very clear on this, it is how she viewed the world, or at least how she saw the dynamics of global powers. I had a great chat with her and we had great fun, I think, though, I was still her enemy at the end of the night. I think the same can be said of the “West’s” view of Russians, maybe not the enemy but certainly shady. It’s not helped by Putin and the poisonings but the ordinary Russian people are not really represented by him or by his actions.

As an aside, when I mentioned Putin, she called herself, mockingly, a daughter of Putin. Then she said, we had no playgrounds before he was in power, now we have playgrounds. It was a flippant remark, but a telling one all the same. The west neglected the Russians when the Soviet Union broke up. Bush/Regan celebrated a Cold War victory, which was a mistake. They should have embraced Russia and recognised the potential of the Russian people. I think the Russians have never got over being treated like this, which, obviously, has echos of the Germans in the 30s.

Sorry if I went on here, I think it’s an important subject.
I worked on two very large software projects (AAA games count, right?) and failure to make decisions in a timely manner was one of the largest factors in how much the project suffered, both staff and the product.

What I mean by that is, the project which did not decide things on time and tried to save the decision until they knew everything suffered much more than the project which decided in a timely manner and re-evaluated the decision in the rare instance that they were wrong.

It was greatly inefficient to have people sitting around not knowing if what they’re working on will even be used because they’re touching something that hadn’t been fully decided on yet, but was required for them to deliver on something else which _had_ been decided.

It is sometimes better to decide, iterate and reevaluate. Instead of attempting to defer a decision.
Months down the line your ideas might not even be relevant anymore. On my team, if you put stuff in the backlog, you're responsible for maintaining it. If you're not prepared to accept that responsibility, it belongs in a notebook or a word doc, not the backlog.
At least it's still Ruby. They wrote how they had to write non-idiomatic Ruby code to get better performance.
Good insight.

Coming together is tricky when there is no common grounds.

One side wants wealth to be fairly Evenly distributed to help the poor.

The other side helps the poor by creating so much wealth that that most poor people have a lot of wealth.

These days you can be considered poor and have housing, ac, heat, tv, video games, maybe a car, and weight problems because food is so cheap.

This only leaves those who truly can not or will not work. Severe physical or mental illness, etc.

Some can’t stand that inequality exists. Others “know” that destroying inequality means we create more poor people.

That’s not even touching right to own body vs right to life crowd. There is almost no middle ground in that battle. Either it’s removing a sac of cells or killing a baby. Maybe some wiggle room at the start, but none by end
It’s already taken. shrug It points to someone’s GitLab instance.

As a word of warning, the home page does feature a vector image of something that looks quite phallic.
Millions of U.S. Jobs to Be Lost for Years, IRS Projections Show
Well, Apple TOS forbids them using their own servers for updates (which btw Facebook ignores and gets away with)..

But what would be a fair price? Given how cheap bandwidth and storage is would $50,000 suffice? Surely that's closer to apples real costs than 30% of hundreds of million dollars they want now?
Ask HN: How are you using HN every day?
The issue with scripting engine for game is that for game your almost certainly need scripting engine with completely different semantics than whatever existing implementation will provide. Ie. you either need to save the state or replicate it over network, both with reasonable performance. And looking at various AAA games (from modding standpoint) there is embedded Lua or Python that mostly only changes state of some lower level VM, which more often that not is itself turing-complete.
No, it's still Ruby but built directly on top of Rack.
> When the news came out they were surprised. They thought he was the scapegoat.

Same. My initial thought was that Uber threw him under the bus. I still think that.
In what situation aren't investors borrowing from the future? That's basically the entire state of our economy right now: that the wealthy older generation invested heavily in the future, and then squandered that investment and stuck the younger generations with the bill.
If you see an individual paying hush money to conceal a breach, check the commit history asap.
Some of our governments are officially neutral, which means that instead of playing massive multiplayer monkey dance, they get to concentrate on improving quality of life for their own citizens.
So if your body was a democracy, you would lose.
this sounds like every parent of every killer ever “he was a good kid. he would never do this”
> are you saying that freelancing and independent contracting [and small business owners] should not be permitted under any circumstances

It's a good question and I'm not sure. I think my answer is some weak form of "yes." My goal is to enforce a good work-life balance, I think society benefits from a healthy workforce. So they wouldn't be impermissible per se, but they should meet those same requirements. However, obviously that's really hard to enforce for a contractor type situation, and some people genuinely thrive in their jobs in a healthy way. So, I don't know what the right balance is. I believe France has some mandatory maximum work hours regulations. Those might be interesting to look into.

I know some will argue this point, but I really do think it's clear that gig workers don't fall into those two categories, regardless. The power dynamics are totally upside-down between traditional independent contractors and SBOs, and Uber/Lyft drivers.
Show HN: My Take on Named Entity Recogntion Disambiguation (Nerd)
I am having fun with NERD (named entity recognition), please have a look.

Here are a couple of examples in case you haven’t heard of NERD.
- black cat: A short horror story by Edgar Poe || a manga by Kentaro Yabuki || a dark feline
- harry potter: A book series || a film series || the character || a journalist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(journalist))
- prince: A son of a king || A musician
A lot of this is based on the context around the word, which I am aiming to solve for a very short uncased text, since it is more common for search engine, and the lack of context is also a challenge

Stay awhile and have fun with the page. I’d like to see it as an early test for the system, please throw all of comments / bug / design idea in the thread. Thank you
Real-Time auto-smoothing on the GPU without adjacency info
yes, and also links and w3m
Why is this on SSRN? This is not an academic paper...it's not doing science or analysis, there is no data or statistics. It's just an opinion, and a facile, meaningless one at that.
The secret is that your status has nothing to do with what you want but the terms of employment. It doesn't matter if 100% of them want to be contractors the judge just ruled it doesn't count as contractors by law.

If Uber wants contractors they need to make sure the terms of their employment follow the law, including classification.
That's right -- I always wished they made a Phi with PCIe connections out to other peripherals. Imagine a Phi host that could connect to a GPU to offload things it was better at.
How did we go from a world where Microsoft got a half billion dollar fine for bundling a web browser with their OS to one where the vendor can stop the entire world from installing your app?
I'm assuming the details of exactly what the new implementation is have been deliberately withheld for some future post where they talk specifics (especially if it's something exciting like Rust/Elixir/Go). This keeps the focus of this post on the approach to migration, using the old implementation as a reference in order to burn down the list of divergences, etc.
> I wouldn’t bet my life on them being impossible to triangulate.

Don't bet anything at all. A drone with a phased array antenna pointing down will draw you a map directly to every transmitting base station that exists.
1) The place has no basement
2) He did not have in appropriate pictures
3) The "Emails" where all about going to have pizza and some turd burger made a connection to something that wasn't there"
4) that's all on netflix too
I absolutely cannot psychologically deal with the Monty Haul paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem I've coded it multiple times in multiple programming languages as a cathartic exercise. Despite seeing the results obviously printed out in a console in front of me, I just can't handle it. I lose SAN just thinking about it.
The reference to IEEE 754 is made later on, mostly to answer the question posted. I meant regular functions in C alike languages - Math.min/max - java/javascript, fmin/fmax - C++. They do the "right" thing to propagate the NaN
This is an unfair critique. The whole point is that the drivers will get regular employment (as opposed to being contracted) and will be able to unionize under any driver’s union (or create a new union, or even some other more generic union).
If I made such a store I would use the web hosting model, you have a super cheap plan and if you want more feature you pay extra, I would care about your sales similar on how web hosting do not care about what you sell from your website.

Why is web hosting so cheap and you have so many options? Because of competition, allow competition with at least 5 stores and you will see different prices and features.
This is especially interesting to me -- that the collective mentality of a people, first of all, is a real thing. And that it can really influence how the country itself evolves. And whether it can feed back on itself in bad ways and produce cycle of people and government and culture that lock a country into a bad situation...
In fairness Gmail has a good uptime record, so it's not the end of the world
Is the obvious reason because the sun is spinning? Or some other not so obvious reason I do not know of?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll let the author of the post know. I think David was looking to update some documentation before doing any more distribution.
in a big application you can throw scala and others into the mix and typescript would still be way slower.
Do GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other "gits" have an agreement with "the" Git?
There is a clear assymetry between the temporal dimension and the spatial dimension; but it is not clear to me that this implies a seperation.

We can distances with ds^2 < 0 timelike, and ds^2 > 0 spacelike. We say that events with a spacelike cannot influence each other; but there is nothing in relativity that requires that (unless you introduce causality as an additional assumption, which we generally do).

This gets more messy in general relativity when you allow for large masses (read. Black holes).

In the case of a non spining black hole, we spacetime is described by the Schwarzschild metric. Expressing this metric in spherical cordinates, you find that when you pass the event horizon the sign of dt^2 and dr^2 flip, where r is distance from the singularity. This means a "timelike" seperation means that events are closer to each other in the time dimension; and events with a "spacelike" seperation are farther from each other in time. That is to say, "time" behaves in the way we think of as "space", and "space" behaves the way we think of as "time".
I actually wasn't talking about UBI; I was talking more generally about automation eliminating jobs being a shaky premise.

However, I still disagree with you; UBI (as currently proposed) would provide so little income that most would still have to do at least some work to maintain their standards of living. Paying me $1,200 a month would not cause me to suddenly sit on my ass, for example. And, capitalism can still exist alongside UBI: if you want more money, compete in the market to get it.
> Wouldn't most companies keep performance stats for their contractors, and if one started refusing lots of jobs, stop giving them work? Seems like Uber is just automating what is a normal part of working with a contractor.

The easiest way to allow drivers to set rates, and I'm not sure if there is some reason they haven't already done this, is to just let the driver tell the app their rate, so that they wouldn't even be offered rides below it (which naturally might mean they don't get as many), and the service would just give the ride to the driver in the area with the best rate. Obviously that would mean that if you set a lower rate you'd get more rides.

> we should have a solution for independent contractors being put out of work.

It's kind of non-applicable to the situation though, because when you have market pricing like this, you never really get put out of work, it's just that the amount you get paid may vary (and fall below the point where you seek other employment). Does Uber even do layoffs of contractors?
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
there’s no point in trying to act rationally when the market is in extreme moral hazard mode.
Yes, I understand that the paper's author is only using a narrow definition of "tech" to mean non-software non-programming products such as silicon or lasers. It may irritate the author but if a word has enough shared agreement by others, it won't matter if he disagrees with it -- because _others_ will still use it.

Being identified as a "tech" company feeds into valuation. Uber, on the merits, ought to have a negative valuation. They bought growth by spending money from Softbank, funded by the Saudi sovereign wealth front. They subsidize every ride with investor capital. There is no plausible scenario in which the investors see a return on their investment.
U.S. law is based on English Common Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#United_States
> I agree, but I think the constraints are doing all the work in your statement

Yep.

> I've just been in the position many times in my own career where product managers are pushing to get something, anything out there so they can get "real user feedback"

Me too. There are a lot of bad product managers and even companies out there. But I have worked with great ones occasionally, so it's worth describing the ideal so we know what we are aiming for.

> I was responding in particular to "a quick prototype...

You're right that I need to qualify that because it more often means what you rightly assumed based on your experience. I guess I'm just so in the habit of demanding that we reduce scope that I too easily forget that "quick" more often means the compromise was quality.
I really don't understand how this is a crime. Bug bounty is basically hiring consultants to find bugs. They found a bug that allowed consultant to download all the data. Uber paid the consultant the designated bounty. It is a done deal.

Implications that this is an actual breach are large. Does that mean if I hire a red team of independent consultants and they managed to gain access to one of my backups, i have to report it as a breach? Thats the worst case scenario.

The best case scenario is all companies have to pull bug bounty programs because any bug found is now considered a breach. This actually very bad for the industry. Bug bounties are very effective part of a comprehensive strategy to safe guard customer data.
He's not accused of paying off the hackers. Rather he's accused of hiding the incident from an ongoing FTC investigation. They list various ways in which he supposedly concealed the hack from the FTC, e.g. they claim he set up up a false paper trail to make it look as if the hack was a harmless bug bounty submission.
27% is just a lower bound on infections. Many patients, especially those with less severe symptoms, fail to produce detectible levels of antibodies.
I’ve done plenty of fishing 40 miles offshore in NC on a boat this sized. I can’t imagine anyone riding 80 miles in the ocean for “fun”. It is 5 hours of suck to catch fish. 60 miles seems like more than enough for day cruising. That being said, this boat is a total no go in NC due to draft... day cruisers have skiffs and sandbar parties.
I'm sure given my other comments in this thread you can figure out which customer of yours is my friend. We're on the Swedish west coast where the sea is quite choppy most of the time, so it'll be really interesting to see how well it performs. Happy to provide you with feedback as best I can.
No need to rebalance if it is market cap weighted
I don't know who "we" is in your statement, but unemployment insurance is state by state in the US, not national.
>How would you build a rocket if you only thought about the next 2-4 weeks?

We're not building rockets. We're building business software. And the requirements for that are not a hardline set of rules laid out by the laws of physics. They are soft and fungible. Beholden to the whims of a product manager, designer, or client. Generally almost nothing is truly understood about the shape and function of the resulting software at the beginning of a development process. And sticking to a "plan" that was laid out before these things have actually been discovered is a recipe for disaster. Better to build in tiny, discrete chunks of usable MVP that can be used as a guidestone to the next desired level of functionality.
To recount a fact, in this case a false allegation while noting it was false ("I think the story was"), to the best of your ability, especially without malice, is not libel.

The US standards for defamation are explained very well here https://law.stackexchange.com/a/132/11158
I agree, it should be built in. But have you tried Zod? It’s amazing.
Is it not equally dogmatic to presume that the universe was nothing and then suddenly something and that nothingness is the natural resting state of experience and that before something-ness there exists nothing-ness?
One question for any attorneys here - if the FTC were not investigating the 2014 hack, would there not be any charges for these alleged actions? The indictment doesn't seem to mention any statutes violated except for in connection to impeding the existing investigation.
It's crazy to see the same politicians who push for universal healthcare also push for more coupling of employment to healthcare.
What I meant by "the same effect" is that division by zero or by a small number can both result in Inf.

You are correct that it is possible in general. However, in this specific project, the decision was to shut down the device for safety reasons if the CPU detects a floating point division by zero. In my opinion this reduces the availability of the functions unnecessarily.
Cool stuff! Will try it.
> (In a May online survey drawing responses from 734 Uber and Lyft drivers nationwide, 71% said they wanted to be independent contractors)

As others are mentioning, the survey was very simplistic and most drivers don't understand the full ramifications of AB5.

That said, I still think the majority of fully-informed drivers would vote against AB5.

Enforcing AB5 will very likely result in: 1) substantial increase in benefits 2) slightly lower base pay 3) half of drivers losing their job 4) scheduled shifts.

My guess is #3 is the biggest issue for most drivers.
Front page doesn't say whether it has obligate GC, which nowadays I guess means yes.
Others above me have mentioned the reasons why they need them. But I'll reiterate my emphasis on rough/relative timelines. Exact dates are impossible and the farther away a milestone is, the hazier the date is. As an example, a milestone a month away could be +/- a week, but a milestone a year away could be +/- three months.
tldr: rewrote the backend focusing on speed

Which is good. At Reddit they would have tried to rewrite everything on reasonML and then tried to prove at the end that it is now faster
Well yes, but a bit more like the villain in a low-budget Austrian 007 parody.
Yes, the trick there is that only MHD coils, and few chunks of tungsten carbide will be anywhere close to the plutonium jet, and most of thermal radiation will be emitted to space.
It explains that in the link they posted...

So GitHub is essentially outside the scope of the trademark policy, due
to the history. We also decided to explicitly grandfather some major
projects that were using similar portmanteaus, but which had generally
been good citizens of the Git ecosystem (building on Git in a useful
way, not breaking compatibility). Those include GitLab, JGit, libgit2,
and some others. The reasoning was generally that it would be a big pain
for those projects, which have established their own brands, to have to
switch names. It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that
violated a policy that didn't yet exist.
If we are in the 700 MW range, we can go with an NTR as well and solve the cooling problem with propellant.
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Lacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar from John Brunner and following the "see also" there.

Furthermore at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chanur_novels from C.J.Cherryh.

For me they were a blast to read. I fevered/longed for the next book to be in print.

Similar thing for the "Company wars" and "Hinder Stars" listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Cherryh_bibliography#The... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%E2%80%93Union_univers...

Go get this!