skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now employment law says that if you offer benefits then you have to call them an employee. But if you call them an employee, the expense is so high for the employer it isn't worth it unless they work many hours a week.

This basically fixes that hole and creates a middle ground -- a person who has the flexibility of a contractor but the benefits of an employee if the work enough hours, without getting classified as an employee.
We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
I think the goal of this thread is to scold me for "blaming the victim", which is unjustified. I'm not blaming anyone for being fed up with school, I certainly was fed up with it myself.

The point is that no matter how injust "the system" is, no matter who is to blame for your predicament, there's always a way for you to make your situation worse still.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
That is a silly discrepancy.

Of course machines are capable of valuable discourse, because humans are biological machines, and humans are capable of valuable discourse.

Intelligent contributions are welcome whether they come from silicon-based or carbon-based life.
Shouldn't the IF EXISTS be done after starting the transaction? What happens if the key is deleted before the transaction can start?
It astounds me that there isn't a mobile version of Populous.

It seems like the perfect interface for it, and I can't understand why there wouldn't be a market for it.
The King's Quest games were absolutely brutal. Actions performed early in the game could prevent you from winning at the end. I found this list: http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Unwinnab...

The only reason we beat these as kids was having a near infinite amount of time to waste.
Both IDEA and MD5 are depreciated in the published OpenPGP standard. So implementations don't have to implement them. If they do it doesn't make any difference other than a bit better backwards compatibility. Since everything these days prefers better algorithms there are no negative security aspects to supporting IDEA and MD5.
Explanation of Python decorators
> Overall this feels like yet another hit piece against remote work...I really don't understand why these keep cropping up. Are commercial real-estate conglomerates paying for these?

I appreciate the perspective you shared in the rest of your comment, but was this bit really necessary? Just because someone has had a different experience than you doesn't mean that they're a corporate shill paid to manufacture dissent.
wouldn't it be more straight forward to just look at revenue. The weird Hollywood accounting doesn't really matter to the question of 'does piracy significantly affect purchases?.'
Inverse the gain porn —- Don’t buy TSLA on the day everyone is posting screenshots of their $4M accounts —- Ride the wave of the self-fulfilling DD.
For me it would be Steve Barcia [0], the creator of Master of Magic (MoM) and Master of Orion II (MoO 2). (MoO 1 wasn't as great as the 2).

I surely played thousands of hours just with these two games, over 20+ years.

A while ago I tried to get in touch with him (among other things I started a tech podcast and I wanted him as a guest), but I couldn't find any way to contact him. I messaged him on Linkedin, but never responded.

What a pity. I would have loved to ask him how was his life when he developed these two games.

Fun fact: MoM has an incredible mod, called Caster of Magic, built by this lonely Japanese developer. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Barcia

[1]: http://seravy.x10.mx/Wordpress/?p=2027
It is very strange that we have to emulate physical goods with music and videos. The underlying technology would allow copying with a marginal cost of zero. The problem of course is how to feed the artists and all the other people in the industry if we give out the content for free.

One thing that I believe doesn't work is a "culture flatrate" where you pay a fee and can access what you want. In the end, this is not much different from having a tax, and having the state pay the artists. And I really don't want the state to decide what is art and what not.

What I really think we have to do long term, and I'm totally serious, is to move to a post-capitalist society, and get rid of money and the requirement to do wage labor. I'm convinced there are many pressing problems - climate change, rising inequality, the fact that many people are overworked despite productivity increases - that we cannot easily solve in our current society. It's like our political system has collected too much technical debt.

I know, Joel Spolsky says you should never do a total rewrite, and I think this applies even more for your whole society :-) but I believe strongly we're in for a serious refactoring and core replacement. And the content industry is only one small symptome of that.
The opposite of a call is a neutral or short position, not just a short position.
Somehow the industry booms (at least the ones controlling ownership and distribution), despite all these cookie monsters.
I learned it as meaning—

Global Regular Expression Parser

that seemed plausible enough I never questioned it.
Interesting position. I like it.

It took me a bit of time to realize you can make money “out of the money” with options.
Is this a specific suggestion that you believe a significant fraction of news articles are written by bots? Is it a jokey way to repackage that tired everything-used-to-be-better cynicism? I really can't tell!

And, by the way, journalism never was as matter-of-fact-only as everyone somehow assumes. Even you parents probably grew up in a Hunter S. Thompson-world. Your Grandparents had Hemingway who, despite the short sentences, didn't exactly crack the Shannon Limit in his war dispatches.

There have always been different styles. Just read the headlines only and you're almost back to the 19th century, when news-tickers actually ticked, and every tick cost a dollar, and a dollar is an hourly wage.

But I'd suggest actually understanding the purpose of narrative journalism and occasionally indulging in it. I've seen that complaint so often, and from a certain type of person almost exclusively, and I'm starting to wonder if it isn't some sort of psychological phenomenon, with guys (it's always men) fearing that anything less dry than a phone book rubs up on them, and their masculinity and rationality might suffer irreparable harm from exposure to yucky "feelings".
The other way to look at it is that HN comments are indistinguishable from GPT-3 generated sentences. Hell, even a standard Markov chain would suffice.
I've been going down the academic NLP rabbit hole lately, and at least in my domain (unsupervised key phrase extraction), the problem isn't the papers, it's the code (surprise!).

Let's start with the fact that in applied NLP, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face by any number of pre-processing issues. And let's set aside the fact that in the end it's all going to regress to supervision, without which you can't optimize. Let's also set aside the fact that performance against a "gold standard" SemEval dataset doesn't mean shit in a lot of real world applications.

So you try out the standard issue "top of the line" algo, like YAKE, which is so fucking slow in pure Python that it'll choke a Bayesian optimizer. You sit around for a while debating whether or not to port it to Cython, having little idea if the effort will pay off because you aren't sure how well YAKE is going to work to begin with and it might get bested by another algo anyway.

So you go looking through the literature and you're delighted to find that within just the last few months, there have been some really cool and promising algos coming out with solid benchmarks, and there's code available to boot. Yay!

So you download the "weakly supervised" statistical one and it turns out to be a fucked up polyglot of Bash, C++, and a stale version of OpenJDK, some of which you have to compile yourself with g++, and then you have to dump your corpus into text files even though you've already got it in memory, run it through a tokenizer you neither want nor need, and then read the results back out of other text files. Sure, there's a docker version. It's full of bloat and solves some of the more negligible problems at hand.

Then you download a graph-based algo and it's such an undocumented mess of spaghetti it might as well have been written by an Italian restaurant. So you spend a really unreasonable amount of time just trying to figure out which function even takes your text as an input, and you read through a bunch of other functions trying to figure out if it needs to be pre-tokenized or not and if it wants the input as sentences or not or whatever. It also wants your input as a text file.

Then you download a language model-based algo and you think you're going to run the BERT variant you have at hand, but you double check the paper and it happens to perform way better with ELMO and then if you're lucky you don't spend a whole day trying to get AllenNLP running because you're using WSL on a laptop without a GPU and the non-gpu Tensorflow dependency is shitting itself all over the stack trace. You finally get the environment going in all its bloated glory even though you just wanted the pre-trained ELMO model, which you finally get deployed to Cortex or whatever and breathe a sigh of relief. And then it turns out your corpus is so domain specific that your matrix is sparser than swiss cheese because it's chock full of unks.

What have you learned after all this? That building an ensemble model which plays nicely with spaCy or SparkNLP is going to be an order of magnitude harder. Have fun!
The short answer: yes, this is partially the reason.

Options trading is making a bet that a stock will go up or down. To accomplish this, you buy the rights to sell/buy stock at a given stock price (we call this a strike price). You do not OWN the stock, you borrow it, with the guarantee you can exercise your right to the buy/sell the stock once it hits the strike price.

When you trade options, you typically don't buy the right to buy/sell individual stocks, you buy the right to sell 100 at a time. This means if Softbank buys 4bil in options in companies, they now have the risk/reward of 400bil in the market. In order to give Softbank the rights to the stock if they were to exercise their options, banks must back those options with shares. You may see where this is going. By making 4bil in options orders, Softbank has caused banks to be forced to buy 400bil in stocks, pumping the price.

TLDR; Softbank forced banks to buy 400bil in stocks, effectively pumping the market
God, this has been so true for me. I was trading puts on the massive increase in US Covid cases, but stocks just kept going up. And now we're hitting ATHs while economists are predicting the worst GDP decline ever. Gold and Stocks are both rapidly rising, which isn't really logical, since Gold is a save haven, usually.

I looked back at gold vs stocks and the last time stocks and gold rose at approximately the same speed, was just before the 2008 crash.
I hit some sort of a paywall after reading the first paragraph or so. Is there a summary?
"almost" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, as is the word "cheap".

Paying for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max and still not coming close to "almost every" movie isn't cheap.

And, yes, we want it from a single origin. It's not our fault that the movie/tv industry is a dumpster fire.
worksinprogress.co has shown up a couple times on Hacker News, and I haven't been impressed with the level of thinking any time I've examined it.

The historical stuff in this is tripe. Rome taxed extensively. Tax exemption was a thing tied up with military land grants in the last western empire. And then general taxation and bureaucracy emerged again well before 1500. I have a good book on this, but can't find it on my shelf right now...

Plus there are plenty of places where the governments are not as bureaucratic as they are today. Just not in the developed world.
You're right in a way but the term AI has come to encompass all software of the machine learning type, systems that imitate the process of intelligent thought. It's shorthand at this point, unfortunately inaccurate but ML isn't as well known and every character counts in headlines so longer descriptions are saved for the body.

I don't like the way some words are used, and I complain about it too: https://coldewey.cc/2020/06/common-bugbears-of-modern-online...

That's our right as fellow users of the language. But unfortunately (such as with "begging the question" or "flammable") we're much too late to make a difference. AI is, I think one of those cases.
Heaven forbid someone have hobbies.

Also, "why the f* would anyone want to be part of their little nerd club."... You say on HN.
If you want to play snake in Excel, you can do that too!

https://aaronfrancis.com/2013/remaking-cellphone-snake-in-mi...
You can look back and see where public sentiment may have been skewed to support a mission.

Now you can't.
>Yes. So?

There's a difference between compiled binary and uncompiled code. I guess if you're working in an interpreted language that never gets compiled, like Python, you might not notice the difference so much. But even then, this is not using an API for a separate service that exists on a different server. This is something that happens in your process.

> ...processes...

If your string processing library has to live in a separate process in order to sandbox it, then yes, you are creating more problems than you're solving.
I don't understand why INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ... DO is even a thing.

Yesterday there was a item on a piece by rachelbythebay about checking for and dealing with unexpected conditions in your code as a practice that separated professionals from ... er, idiots.

This would appear to be a prime example of that antipattern -- in general, not just in SQL Server. If a tuple snuck into your relation while you weren't looking, don't you need to rollback and find out the current state of things?

edit: Rachel's piece: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/09/02/check/
I know 3 flight attendants and they are quintessential perennial bachelor(ettes). Two of them fly SF-NY all the time and have friend groups in both cities.
Me too. Nucleo_nlog skin though.
ADOM had similar issues. You kill a cat any time, you miss out on a later quest. Instead you just had to fight the cat lord. Missed out on a very powerful ring.

And it was so, so easy to kill a cat. You use the automatic repeat-move key and auto-hit when you collide with a monster, and if you ever find a cat anywhere that way, its dead. People would rage-quit and start all over, it was that frustrating.
A manager who is your friend is either a bad manager or a bad friend. One day he will have to decide between you and his own managers interests.
What do you mean by "you weren't looking"? The SQL statement which is doing what you tell it to do, when there's a conflict.
I read the interview in rockpaperscissors and he seemed like a good faith person. The Godus game, well he put it in Kickstarter, and he actually filled most of the promises, but as you should expect from Kickstarter, any pledge should be viewed as bet. People that know Molyneux better won't give pledges as he loves overestimating and overhyping things. Nevertheless, the interview teached him to be more careful when making estimates and promises.
Not a big deal until they notice and ban your account, or randomly decide to require more info like you phone number or drivers license. Then who knows if your purcashed hardware or games are even usable anymore.
> -- For the developer who works by tickets on very concrete things and this is nothing new, WFH might be great.

You're right, everyone who doesn't live in San Francisco is just mindlessly churning through tickets all day.
Uh, I disagree? Some of the best scientific discoveries of the 2000s came from insights found in old papers (50s, 60s, 70s). For example, optogenetics.

And now with Transformers, Hopfield learning and continuous Hebbian dynamics are making a small comeback. I mean, sure, don't implement the paper verbatim, but it's depressing to discard decades worth of work and insights only to rebuild it all again. Our disregard for past 'unsexy' work is one of the largest inefficiencies in science, hands down.
This is the blockchain trilemma: Decentralization, Scalability or Security, choose only two.
I still use Milkdrop2 for visualizations when listening to music within Kodi.

"ProjectM" exists within Linux as well, but I've never gotten it to work properly on my laptop.
I don't lack imagination; my imagination just has enough structure to distinguish between realistic and unrealistic scenarios.

We should be orders of magnitude more worried about all the carbon dioxide we're dumping into the atmosphere, than the failure modes of an engineered hole in the ground.
The problem is that "the industry" is not a monolith. There are big players with multiple revenue streams that are insulated from the ups and downs of consumer sales. There are smaller players down to individual artists who are just trying to make a living.

A better gauge might be the condition of the industry at the lower tiers, all the way down to some musician just trying to sell a few albums to augment their income. It's possible that the "free" content available from the top tier players helps keep the lower tier players from getting ahead in the business.

I realize it's not a perfect analogy, but I'm thinking about Microsoft in the 1980s. They made their money from OEM licenses and enterprise sales, while the "free" copies of their software erased any chance of competing with them in the consumer market.

Had they done this deliberately to discourage competition, the police would have come knocking at their door.
You can dislike WFH while also disliking centralization in a few cities with housing shortages. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Can Epic pull this off? It already did
Part of that is due to the fact that most of the market is now passive investment. Being pension funds, endowment, etc etc.

The latest numbers i have seen is that 80% of the market shares is controlled by institutional investors.

That is a looooot of the market tied to a set of investors that cannot bet on anything else than up due to their own long term problems. At this point, the market is better viewed as a gigantic retirement fund/saving account than as a way to decide on price.

Once you look at the market that way, a lot more of the behaviours make sense.
> My social interactions really do revolve around my family and long time friends. It's not a large group, but I'm not a social butterfly either. I have a hard enough time keeping up with those social interactions. Who knows, maybe I was born for remote work.

> Overall this feels like yet another hit piece against remote work with a lot of anecdotes and not much else.

I think you've answered your question there. It is an unfortunate aspect of modern society that for many people, work is their only opportunity to socialize with other humans (other than trivial interactions with the cashier at the grocery store, and so on).
This page shows that there was an "art" to making a good Winamp skin. You couldn't just pick a background picture and make all of the buttons transparent, or else the GUI became incredibly difficult to use. You had to balance the theme with usability.
Real-Time Sketch Recognition Game
yes. you are absolutely correct
My advice is to have money and buy your way out of it. Cool Cool.
Protective gloves.

I was hoping for a description of the proper fit and function of regular gloves - you know, driving gloves, accessory gloves. This seems to be a lost issue - you just buy gloves that sort of fit and live with them. Or buy elastic 'one size fits all' gloves and have numb fingers all the time.

Some day, before I die, I'd like a pair of gloves that fit properly when I buy them - fingers the right length, no constriction where they connect to the palm, no seams chafing, wrist covered properly. You know, gloves that 'fit like a glove'.
It certainly doesn't provide as many protections as being an employee. Hence the compromise part. The reason they don't want to classify them as employees is because of the onerous cost of doing so. At the same time, the people doing the work want the flexibility of being a contractor while getting some of the important benefits of being an employee.

So yes, it's a compromise, but it seems like a pretty fair compromise.
The modern version is foobar2000 which is 1.8mb exe and uses a few mb of ram. It loads and runs instantly.
Yes.

- Small children don't really understand "mummy's working, talk to me instead." Interruptions are death to productivity. Children can't interrupt you if you're not present.

- Most daycares are closed or at reduced capacity.

- Nanny services are harder to find and come with risks.

- Time at the office is time resting from the kids, and time at home is resting from the office. If it's all one place, there is no rest.

My wife and I are finding it easier to alternate childcare instead of try to do everything at once, and being out of the home during the work time gives rest and focus.
I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction. I have one USB Plextor but they command a high resale price. The point is that basic bus management should be sorted out and it clearly isn't.
Being born in SF or in some african village is the biggest predictor of wealth.

This makes borders the most impactful form of discrimination.

Of course a lot of people in wealthy countries are not so happy with remote work (but offshoring cobalt mining is ok)
ctrl-f "llama"

ONE post? seriously?

I'm disappointed!
You should be able to do this with IntelliJ e.g. where you can inject a language into a string. This is quite handy as you can reformat and open the string in a separate editor if needed.

The caveat is that it does not work well if you are composing the SQL queries from multiple small parts.

see https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/running-injected-sql-sta...

I suppose that other editors or IDE can do similar things.
Thank you for sharing your insight.
Eh? The founder of NuScale did not create the company as a Ponzi scheme. The two founders raised money from a guy who was running a Ponzi scheme.

NuScale founded by Paul Lorenzini + Jose Reyes

Michael Kenwood Group founded by Francisco Illarramendi

Michael Kenwood Group was managing some half billion dollars and funded and owned lots of things, among which was NuScale. Of the half billion, Illarramendi funneled out a tenth into funds he managed for personal value.

I hesitate to speculate but did you, uh, did you read 'funder' as 'founder' and then construct the remainder of the story around that? Usually when you raise money you don't get to look at the books of the guy you're raising from, so how exactly were they supposed to know the guy was busy embezzling?
"man -k" (or "apropos") will let you search for commands. It is pretty primitive though, definitely not a Google quality search.
Location: Denver, CO

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Angular 5+, NGRX, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.JS

Resume: https://github.com/mkarbows/resume-repo/blob/master/MK%20Res...

Email: megan.karbowski4@gmail.com
*now trying to block this (oops)
> it actually benefits even market participants who don’t have access to it

How?