skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was having 100 clients is a strong sign that someone is a contractor having 3 is not. It’s also just one of ~20 factors.

Also, length of relationship is judged on how renewable it is not how long it lasted. You can fire anyone on their first day.

It’s really a question of how open ended the work is not how long someone spends doing it. A restaurant always needs people to cook food and a league always needs a referee as an inherent part of it’s business model. On the other hand a company might only need an architect when designing their new office, aka it’s inherently a finite business need. That architect can largely work at a location and time of their choosing, the referee needs to be where and when the games are taking place. Similarly, an Uber driver needs to be picking someone up at a specific location and specific time going somewhere else or waiting 1 hour doesn’t work.
Maybe you all can agree that insurance and lottery are the same in that only a fraction of consumers come out ahead, and are opposites in terms of smart vs. stupid.
^ things that will get you instantly unelected
Palantir, the virtue signalers' rally point.
apparently there is now a phone with graphene in the battery https://blog.mi.com/en/2020/08/11/a-decade-of-innovation-xia...
Beat Saber: Why Custom Maps Cannot Be Made with Legal Music
On http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/pk...:

> Symlink Style Package Management

For this I highly recommend https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/zpkg/ which I have been using for years now. It works wonderfully.

Environment variables and their defaults:

ZPKG_SRC = ~/.local/pkg
ZPKG_DST = ~/.local
ZPKG_DB = ~/.db

It means that if you install anything from scratch, you have to `make install` (or the like, depending on the build system) it to, say, `~/.local/pkg/foo-1.0` and then run `zpkg link foo:1.0` to install (i.e. link) the "package". After that you just have to make sure you have added `~/.local/bin` to your `PATH` environment variable, and `~/.local/man` to your `MANPATH` environment variable (in your `~/.bash_profile` file). Seems to do the job. It does lack a README file for which I may contact the author. In any case, `zpkg --help` should be of tremendous help.

By the way, I have noticed that someone created a package manager with the same name, but its initial commit was in 2019, while this one's was in 2017.
why do we need to do this again?
This is masterful work. I love the move from the now well understood s6 to the s9 in blind fashion.

I just can't believe how dumb it was to put a memory read command into the older NFC chip! Maybe nobody thought about security back then?
I brought this up in a grand-cousin thread, but to what degree does numerical analysis matter here? I mentioned [0], which is a must-read paper for folks doing numerical work, and the author brings up two examples (sections 9 and 11) where averaging over an ensemble of pipelines could not just fail to converge on the right answer, but actually mask systemic biases in the ecosystem.

If your effect of interest disappears with slight changes to your pipeline (perturbation), then maybe the effect is weak or chaotic or unstable, but also maybe there is a systemic bias in your pipeline!

[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf
'Crysis Remastered' can run in 8K, if your PC can handle it
The solar system is actually not stable in the long term. Early planetary development was violent and chaotic, and the planets shifted around a lot more than you might think.

We can't project orbits out indefinitely, either; multiple studies show that our ability to go out more than a few hundred million years are suspect and very dependent on starting conditions, which can obviously be easily perturbed by unknown bodies. Since we get star-sized approaches at Oort Cloud distances on the order of every few million years, that probably puts an upper bound on things.
In areas where that works it’s more of a social insurance and government run. In the us medical insurance is a rate subscription service, similar to say Costco.
The US Government tries the same trick.

Social Security is a called an "insurance program" although it is completely unrelated to conventional insurance. The closest financial instrument is a Ponzi scheme, which is illegal under US law.
The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'
I disagree, in JP they had the intent of not having any effect at all on the environment (outside the island).
What does that have to do with the fact that the number of telegram users that voted for the opposition candidate exceeds the official number of voters that voted for the opposition candidate?
That is only true in a zero sum system. If insurance can get say 3% profit margin but allows for others to take a riskier approach which overall produces 7% more profit by allowing slimmer margins both can profit. There are risks to that sort of leverage for both parties, especially in black swan events.

It is akin to loans essentially - the one taking them may be giving profits to others but that doesn't mean it isn't cost effective.
Dev makes Minecraft-style real-time group building in VRChat
Relatively long time Signal user (2+ years) from Belarus. Was in the city when internet blackout arrived.

I don't want to waste your time on how i moved 30 people to Signal and preached about security and signal being the best pick on the market. Hell, even my family is on Signal.

Now, let me tell you this. The `anti censorship switch` did not work during the internet hiccup. In a moment all that fancy stuff just ended up being.... useless.

So check this out, i have family members living outside Belarus, they have Signal installed. But i am not able to message quite blatantly simple phrase "i am all right!".

Next thing happened i fired up Telegram, hooked up SOCKS5 proxy and was capable to reach out my family members and asked friends to go on Twitter and get @signalapp's attention same evening outage started. Zero reaction.

Signal was and is dead silent. This makes me think that, come on, people Signal caters to the USA users only. They won't care for others. Moxxie denouncing american police for their brutality, you've been to Chernobyl, you know what Eastern bloc looks like. Guys over here are three times more fierce than yours. But your company somehow makes a statement to accommodate local protesters, now what have you done to aid anything outside of cozy California?

Lesson i've learned, that on the verge of something Belarus experienced last week, Signal has zero value.

I even own the debug logs to send 'em so they will figure why the censorship circumvention wasn't working, but i'm drop dead sure i won't hear from them.
Not being a hothead to get rid of Signal straight away but definitely i have to tell you my trust in Telegram's resilience grown
> Is it valuable enough that you'd consider paying for access?

I would definitely use huge part of my training budgets for this if that would be an option.
This article actually inspired me to try and solve the problems outlined in the post. Because who knows if or when sites like BeatSaver will get shut down or specific songs removed due to copyright claims. Even Beat Games' CEO has said it is a problem[1].

https://github.com/idolize/saber-song-patcher

You just provide your own purchased or ripped copy of the song (pretty much all audio formats are supported) and it should just work™. The tool will verify the song is correct regardless of format/bitrate/etc using fingerprinting technology, apply any patches the mapper configured, and convert it to the proper format for Beat Saber.

Obviously this approach is not strictly "better" than the current 1-click system gamers have today, but at least there would be a viable alternative.

[1] https://uploadvr.com/gdc-beat-saber-ceo-mods/
Thanks for those points, we're trying hard to succinctly explain what we do.

We start by saying it's not email because it's easy to think plum mail is yet another email client, which it isn't.

plum mail hosts the conversations so it can manage the state of pinning, conclusions etc.

email addresses are just a user identifier it will email people if they are not on plum mail, so we don't require someone to be on plum mail for you to start talking to them.
We have seen time and time again that there is a vast chasm between the number of people who say they will pay for a resource and the number of people who actually do so, when the rubber meets the road.
You don't need a legal education to be a judge? Very interesting. Could you give some more information about this. Are judges elected or bureaucrats? How does someone become a judge? What parts of the US have this system?
They really should go after Apple for its misleading "DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA" (and in tiny letters underneath "made in china").
You pay twice as much as regular employees, whose employers cover half of it. It's not an accounting trick, since the half the employer pays is not included in your net income. The same applies to public pension payments, although freelancers can opt out of them.

For those who are curious, I wrote a plain English introduction to German health insurance: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance
buildroot is used to cross-compile Linux systems. It's a tool. Linux from scratch is a guide that users are supposed to follow to learn more about Linux. It's mostly an educational tool.
Yes, only true for black spheres. It’s size invariant though.
Only thing I’ve ever seen from them is a super handy react component library.
Lots of blog posts, tutorials, etc. blah blah blah.

How many complicated applications have you built with Redux at their center? Because that's the part that's missing from your list of qualifiers for being an expert.
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Did.app Passwordless Login System
Yeah, that's the better approach. I'm mostly responding to this link's framing in the subtitle

> This finding highlights the potential consequences of a lack of standardized pipelines for processing complex data.

Lack of a standardized pipeline is not a problem in my mind. Replication of findings on multiple pipelines is more convincing that results are not computational artifacts or analysis quirks. Replication using independently acquired data is of course even more convincing, but that's can be expensive and difficult in this field.
I did quietly lurk until I came out as trans, when I stopped being invited to join them. No great loss to me, but you can understand why I was hesitant to speak up in them.
Did you considered doing it anyway? If a one-off run reveals some previously unknown flaw in the test suite you could present that.
Then again, the AI system Eurisko won the Trillon Credit Squadron game twice in a row, each time with novel strategies. You might say that dogfighting is more constrained by laws of physics we already know, and so this won't happen. But wouldn't you hate to be proven wrong?
>I entered Iran (as I was obliged to by international law) as an Iranian citizen.

Having multiple citizenships confuses some people into thinking they will be able to pick and choose which citizenship they will be treated as. Reality is that if you are a citizen of the country you are in, they will treat you as their citizen first.

The headline is disingenuous leaving out that it the person is an Iranian citizen. Their Canadian citizenship is not relevant in Iran. I have both US and Canadian citizenship. If I got into trouble in one country, I wouldn't expect the other to be able to come to my aid. As a Canadian, I should expect to be treated as a Canadian while in Canada. As a US citizen, I expect to be treated as a US citizen while in the US. Iranian citizens should expect to be treated as Iranian citizens when in Iran. That doesn't mean Iran's treatment of their citizens is moral or just, it does mean getting another country's citizenship is no shield against your other countries of citizenship.
i stumbled on "stability' too, because it's a static quality.

rather than robustness, i prefer to use the term resilience, a dynamic quality, since efficiency is also a dynamic quality. you can trade efficiency for resilience and vice versa (as the parent poster switched to later).

edit:

i should add that i don't entirely agree with the thesis of the article, which exhorts us to slow down, thereby trading efficiency away for resilience. there are a number of ways to add resilience (and trade away efficiency), and in some cases, slowing down might be the best, but it's certainly not the only, or best, option in most cases.

for housing, an example used in the article, we could add more housing to create resilience, which requires reducing friction, like increasing the throughput of permitting/inspections while generally reducing zoning/regulations.
> Only if you put zero value on the peace of mind that comes with having insurance against risks

Only if you put zero value into seeing your savings go up with the amount you saved on insurance.
Thanks for the correction. I only played around with it for a few evenings and intel was the only thing I managed to virtualize. I think they're relevant because being able to virtualize it is an aspect of not being a dumpster fire.
Some people don't want to spend that much time with their families and choose to go into fields with others who feel the same way. Not saying these are bad people for wanting that lifestyle but it doesn't have to be that way ( see DHH and Jason Fried)
Can confirm :)

I once bought a pci card with Intel Gigabit. Slashdot comments were very positive about this being the best card with the best drivers. Oh wow, just looking at the kernel dmesg was infuriating. Reset upon reset, where the NIC would just be unavailable for seconds. Even a major update (I don't know, 4x to 5x or something) did not even change anything.

Currently my laptop updated to linux kernel 5.7, where Xfce and Xfwm just break down and get stuck. Going back to 5.6 makes everything work. Nope, I don't trust Intel to make good Linux drivers. Will not buy again :( I never had this in 20 years of using AMD/ATI.
Yes, this is the point I am making. Sample size is but one of many factors that influence the reliability of a poll, and it is not the only consideration for good polling technique. A large sample does not mitigate those factors.

If there is an issue with the underlying polling technique, making the sample larger does not guarantee more correctness. You simply end up with a larger set of bad data.
sadly, very easy:

1. arrest person.

2. torture until you get the chat app unlocked. (which is readily verifiable and very practical to get with torture).

3. arrest everyone else based on the chats after cross-referencing telegram accounts and phone company records.
The replacement is demonstrably worse than play music. Play music had good recommendations and a reasonable interface. I don't understand why google keeps doing this to good products that under any other organization would be front line.
REST and JSON because arbitrary querying is a huge YAGNI.

That said, the presence of GraphQL is a great signal that a team is infested with architecture astronauts, so I suppose it has its uses.
Right - and I think that's generally what you'd see people doing.

I'm not even sure it's necessarily an intrinsically bad pattern - there can be short-term opportunities and circumstances that make a strategy worthwhile for a number of years but not further. I think the issue broadly is twofold. First is the collateral damage - companies forming and dissolving is fine for the investors but murder for the employees, who's livelihoods and health insurance become precarious. Second is that we've applied this to the entire economy in a way that makes us incredibly vulnerable to systemic shocks - see America's toilet paper supply between the months of March and July. Again, on an individual company-wide basis, it might still have been more profitable for Procter & Gamble to do whatever the hell it is they did to make 2-ply an impossible technology to reproduce domestically in 2020, but on an economy-wide basis, the fact that Everyone did it was a goddamn disaster.
We offer more features than would be possible with an email group. plum mail hosts the conversation and certain features like pinning require a user to interact with the conversation within plum mail.
So is this battery state of the art? If so in what aspects? Charging speed?
Does anyone have a good primer on (and I guess this is embarrassing to not know it) modern warfare and the statistics.

What I think I am looking for is a short Dungeons and Dragons style combat set of rules, and a blog post walking you through the issues.

I mean something like "Jet fighter A: can fire missile X with 50% chance of hitting other jet at range 200mi"
I think but you’d have to ask insiders if it works for them or inspite of it. In my industry it the latter where product arrives late and there is enormous recovery costs that are rarely mentioned or properly accounted for, everybody up top just sort of pretends it’s not routine when it actually is. Typically these sorts of things don’t make it out to the general public in press releases though. Holding a bit more product and some spares would have been far cheaper then the constant recovery effort.
Using Telegram is my guilty pleasure for sure. They just added video calling and it, like most of their other features, Just Works™.

Just don't send your passwords or whatever to your Telegram buds and you should be alright. Funny enough, here in the UK Telegram is mostly associated with shady stuff like drug dealers.
Healthcare is quite variable in the states. I for example have good insurance with my job so I have a max out of pocket spending limit of $2500 per year and I can also put $3500 per year of pre-income tax money into a health savings account (HSA) to use for healthcare spending so it's a total non-issue for me. The people that really get hosed are usually the ones that don't get it through a job such as if you are self-employed and those plans can run over 10000 a year and have really high deductibles.

As for the income tax wedge, between federal income taxes, social security, and medicare mine was about 27% on 221k income as a single person with no kids. It helps that I was in washington which has no state income tax and sales tax was about 10% there if you were curious.

edit: forgot state unemployment insurance which ranges from .2% to near 6% depending on the number of claims.
An AWACS has never been flown in an area where it is likely to get shot down. That RADAR is a nice juice target for a HARM, and the maneuvers you can do in an AWACS is not nearly what you'd be able to do in any fighter. I don't understand what you are arguing. Are you suggesting an AWACS would be more likely to survive an attack than a fighter?
Yesterdays science fiction more often than not is today's science. As long as you leave time travel, wormholes, fusion and aliens out of it has surprising applicability.
Apple likens Fortnite creator to a shoplifter in court filing
Best "cab ride" video ever!
Unless I'm mistaken, according to Amazon's 10-K in 2002, they showed a Net loss of:

2002 - Net Loss: -$ 149 million

2001 - Net Loss: -$ 567 million

2000 - Net Loss: -$ 1.41 billion

1999 - Net Loss: -$ 719 million

1998 - Net Loss: -$ 124 million

Source:
https://www.evernote.com/l/AUlIcX9k_elHUY7Fjsg749afPPxh3verZ...
> Mi 10 Ultra is also the first to have mass-produced 50W wireless charging, capable of powering the device to 100% in just 40 minutes1, a speed that is equivalent to 50W wired charging. It additionally supports 10W reverse wireless charging.

I think there is some cooling aspect to it as well
The first time I did this in 2001 it took me a week. It's still up there as one of the most educational things I've ever done. A perfect graduate level class would be "here's a box full of computer parts, at the end of the semester I'll give you the grade you display on a web page served by the computer you build and compile from scratch".
Good article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/when-yo...

Also federal judges don't need to be lawyers.
Ideally, but so far my experiences with simple benchmarks and with ruby-prof have shown that CRuby doesn't make such optimizations:

https://repl.it/repls/GargantuanThistleLink

Result from sort: 3 in 0.9785124980007822s
Allocated 3000001 object(s)
Result from ternary: 3 in 0.3205206830025418s
Allocated 1 object(s)
Result from clamp: 3 in 0.5030354310001712s
Allocated 2 object(s)

Interestingly the ternary comparison is faster than clamp.
And going after those tiny pieces would involve a lot of other people who are innocent
> Charge. Money. For. MDN.

Sure, put up another barrier for those trying to learn web development.
What's worse is that I heard rumors they don't allow slave labor either. Labor laws, ugh, they're the worst.
Kudos to you for that!

It starts with, “We need accuracy for this problem statement” and ends with “wait, lets find and prep the data first”. Timelines anyone?
It's so funny people are against the idea without realizing the mosquito species they're trying to eradicate is an invasive species and shouldn't be there anyway.

Number 1 killer animal of Humans in the world: Mosquitoes, by far.
I bought one of these last year; the specs still look about the same AFAICS. Paid just a smidgeon over 2K€ with 64 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD. A little better than 2K GBP for 32 GB.

https://bestware.com/en/schenker-slim-15-red-edition.html
Coffee and espresso, latte and coffee and more – the difference
After British dehousing people wanted to have a roof over their head, beauty was not the first priority.
Psychedelic Therapy Raises $30M Needed for FDA Approval
Have you noticed a strange pattern when people talk. When someone refer to people they don't know they tend to default to their own gender, unless there is a cultural clue, in which they then default to that clue.

I find it a interesting quirk of human behavior. It not very noticeable unless you listen for it, but once you do, it is a very noticeable during a conference with a high rate of speakers that do not share your own gender.
Is this because of prop 47?
I wouldn't think twice about paying $20/mo for MDN. My employer would probably even reimburse it.

Same goes for Firefox's dev tools. They have some great features that Chrome doesn't.
>So their operators claim. But it's not clear why that would be true and I haven't seen any numbers to demonstrate it either. Have you?

Telegram had to survive Russia's attempt to ban it, so it evolved a number of strategies: using push notifications to deliver IP-adresses of not-yet-blocked servers, using socks-proxies, the evolution of the MTProto Proxy encrypted protocol, and finally resorting to steganography to mimic ordinary https traffic, thus evading the DPI.

The attempts of the state censorship agency to block the telegram servers were hilarious to watch: at one point they had 0.5% of the IPv4 address space banned, and broke a lot of stuff (AWS, Google, DigitalOcean, OVH, etc). Telegram was still working, of course.
Unquestionably! It's that valuable of a resource. I wonder if a license could be written that allows free use for individuals but requires businesses to pay for access. Obviously it would just be on the honor system but a lot of businesses would pay for the license just to cover their butts.
Two, because I've spent the last 9+ years of my career working on the same couple apps :)

But both were pretty complex - true SPAs, no routing, lots of complex client-side state manipulation going on.

In fact, the first one is actually what inspired everything that I showed in my "Practical Redux" blog tutorial series, since I couldn't show off work stuff publicly.

But hey, if that list of stuff I've done isn't good enough for you, apparently no one in this world qualifies as an "expert" in any topic :)
TL;DR
Author who is paid to write words, gets confused when a word has more than one meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency =/= "efficiency"