skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the widespread fraud is the more important aspect

Agreed!

In the five years preceding 2020 the US averaged ~2million people claiming unemployment (high of ~2.4, low of ~1.7): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCSA

Amazon's employee headcount alone could make up half of that figure, at ~1.3 million in 2020: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...

Add a few more big corporations and I agree we have a very widespread problem:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/number-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/num...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/num...

They told me the wealth will trickle down, so why are we looking at the people already on the bottom to get the money flowing when there's a clog? I guess we're on the Golden Standard after all.
A prime example of a problem solved by Georgism and LVT.

Honestly there's something broken with the way fundamental property laws work when we allow something like this.
Having VS 2019 (which is free as Community Edition) is not a really high requirement, it's probably already installed by any developer developing on one of the MS stack.
Is it pornography? is it art? a performance? Just money changing hands?

I understand why some or a lot of people would watch but I don’t quite get what it is they are watching, or even if they know themselves. For a moment she put a stethoscope on her heart , nothing visually erotic and she started to stream her heartbeat. I am kind of perplexed. Any thoughts ?
Unfortunately the two parties that hold the reigns of power only stand to lose from such a system... so it isn’t gonna happen.
These engineers are not hired to invert binary trees.

They're hired to change glorified forms. If they need to invert a binary tree, they will google it in 30s.

My friend (40+) prepared for a couple of months and got hired at FB a few months ago after a career spent in smaller companies. Great comp, mindlessly boring job (the usual, change this form button, change this endpoint) but hey, now that FANGs are remote and you don't need to commute to an office, they're worth a shot.
He's already thinking of quitting but unfortunately he already forgot the algorithms exercises and he doesn't want to do the same interview dance again at Google with the hope that things will be better over there.

Whenever I've been in the hiring manager roles, I skimmed over people not knowing theory well and I read with interest their CVs and their personal project (and asked them about it!).
Your behaviour is exactly why I didn't want to work for a FANG and I pursued starting a business instead of growing my career as a IC.
In my deep blue State, progressives have had control of the government for a long time. They sent the better part of a billion dollars in unemployment aid to literal Nigerian scammers. No one even disagrees that the cause was gross negligence and incompetence. “Mistakes were made.” Somehow, the person responsible for this hilarious and shameful episode failed upward and is now a member of the Biden administration.

I’m sure “conservatives” are responsible for many ills but where I live this isn’t one of them because they were never involved. If you want to fix it, you have to be honest about the problem.
There are several companies that will let you customize and personalize face masks with any pattern you want. I had a half dozen of various patterns printed a year ago.

1 https://github.com/BruceMacD/Adversarial-Faces

2 https://towardsdatascience.com/fooling-facial-detection-with...
how so? if you dont have money you must allocate lots of time to kid after work. if you are wealthy, 1st thing you might not work all and 2nd thing you might have nanny or two, who take care of heavy lifting.

"doing whatever you want" does not equal to "stuff that satisfies for very short periods of time (i.e. not only drugs, games and tv)"
I'm not sure I would call this facial recognition; it's a facial identity scan. These states are not surveilling applicants for unemployment.
Sorry, just a typo from the brain. It's a config option - with a few in the 300 series, mostly choosing a permanent option
How can one trust it though? Presumably the key has to make its way into the drive to actually decrypt the data. How can one be sure the key was actually deleted and not archived somewhere in the controller’s storage?
Identity is fraught because we leave it to revenue collection agencies (DMV).

Usually interstate sharing of DMV records is only allowed for law enforcement purposes. So a traffic camera can look up your records, but a permitting agency cannot.

Other uses are usually not allowed unless specified by statute. DMVs sell everything, and other agencies buy that data back from companies like ID.me and others.
The people aren't being cast aside, but their skills aren't as valuable as they were 10 or 20 years ago. That's true for many people as economies change. I hope people who make a living drilling for oil also see less demand for their skills in the future.

Is it sensible to retire instead of re-train at 59? Maybe. But if they chose not to, or weren't able to, there should be resources available to learn new skills.
There seems to be a huge overlap between people who are staunchly anti-vaccines and pushing Ivermectin. I wonder if there is a link.
I've had Outlook suddenly start sending family member's Gmail addresses to spam on multiple occasions. I truly don't understand what's going on there.
> principally because building value is partially determined by the rental rates of that building

I've seen this cited a number of places, but I wonder where it originates. Like, could the head could be cut off the dragon by changing the rules on this— maybe creating some kind of system where the rental value is discounted x% for each month that the rent is not actually collected by a tenant using the space for its intended purpose (no "parking" the space as pop up storage units or something).

But yeah, is it banks, lenders, appraisers? Is this an actual rule or just a rule of thumb? As it stands, it seems there's basically no mechanism to push down commercial rents ever— it's an up-only ratchet because of this rent-derived-value thing.

> It's disingenuous to pretend the law has to use the broadest, most abusable definition of any word to create loop hole counter arguments.

Indeed, and usable definitions for a non-pretend business are I expect well-established in the context of things like shopping malls, where tenants have exactly this kind of agreement with the landlord not only that they will maintain a functioning storefront during the mall's operating hours, but that all the other stores will be occupied and operating too— no mall store wants to operate surrounded by boarded up windows any more than a non-mall store does, and it's the responsibility of the management to keep all the storefronts occupied.
Tenants ask for things that family might not necessarily. Also you can leave most of the building in poor shape while keeping up the units you're letting family stay in.
well, the registry has types. files are raw binary data that is almost entirely untyped. how could they possibly enforce typed data without diverging from the filesystem metaphor?
There could be bits of plain text data left over in over-provisioned storage set up in case a block goes bad (e.g. a flash cell that can no longer erase).
Ask HN: Viable Alternative to Kindle and Kindle Store?
I've been a loyal Kindle user for about 8 years. I have all the normal qualms with it, but I have to admit the books are convenient and cheap. Now I've suddenly run headfirst into a DRM issue that's preventing me from reading a book I need for work and I'm ready to throw the whole thing out, provided there is something better.

Is there a reader and store that provides similar availability, price, and convenience but without DRM so that I can share my books and read them 50 years from now?
I took the author’s perspective to be within the context of wealth-building, i.e. the world of work/professional focus/etc. Within this context I thought his point was well-made: it isn’t that agency is more important than all other things, but rather that having agency, while one goes about building wealth, is of paramount importance.
From what I gather, it's cramming, not learning, and at the expense of the learning that can happen fortuitously. As a kid, I learned music, electronics, and programming outside of school, and developed an interest in the creative side of math. I did no test prep yet still got into a good college.
Wealth is being able to go to a restaurant, look at the items on the menu, and worry more about calories than cost.
‘I’ve seen 40 on one dive’: invasive lionfish threatens ecosystems in Med
https://archive.is/AXoiD
Yes. When your family get sick , just ask driver to send a note.
Acme Corp's unemployment insurance premiums go up when their employees file claims. It's in their interest to deny claims. You'd be moving fraud around somewhat.

Is it possible that the total fraud would be lower because most businesses would prefer to follow the law and not be busted? Maybe, but it's hard to say.

In California the UI office will get in touch with your former employer to verify your claim. So there's that at least. Not to mention, what do you do when people lose their jobs because the employer has gone out of business?
Smartparens is another emacs mode for structural editing as well.
You can decouple the browser engine from JS, e.g. use Apple JS core with Chromium/blink
The restrictions on JIT aside, my understanding is that there's also a separate rule that you can't have any web browser engine except the system version of WebKit.
Don't count Redash out yet. ;)

Although Databricks acquired it and is EOL-ing the hosted platform at the end of November, the main piece people care about and use is OSS.

There are people working to spin up a new hosted platform around that OSS piece, to continue things on and provide continuity to existing users.

Saying that as I'm one of the people involved, and used to work for Redash prior to the Databricks acquisition.
Where are you getting that 50% don’t pass the high school entrance exam? It’s not pass-fail. Which high school you get accepted to is based on your relative score, yes, but I haven’t heard anything like that 50% number going to vocational schools. Many students with lower scores end up going to private high schools.

And I’ve never heard that high schools don’t teach calculus. The Chinese people I know who went to the US in later high school years and for college all found that the calculus classes were repetitive for them.
This is unbelievably cool.

It feels a bit like diving into a new fantasy book or TV series; there's so much to explore. Everything's just so radically different from the world you're used to, and every new fact you learn hints at dozens of other systems you don't yet know anything about. Really a fascinating introduction.
This is a pretty small project, and, furthermore, it is by its nature supposed to support a lot of different systems, so I personally don't know if it makes sense to rewrite it (and in Python out of all things: maybe then better rewrite it in a compiled language, so that you can distribute it as a binary?). So I'm hesistant to say one should do it: it might do more harm than good.

But if this wouldn't bother me, I would really want to rewrite it. Just look at the source. It is 11K LoC. It is very modular by nature, since there is a lot of stuff that is "the same, but slightly different" for each OS. It is really simple by nature, just a few dozens of directives, each of them should answer 1 pretty straight-forward question. So it should be fairly easy to read (and it actually makes a practical sense even for a user, since this is so much of a collection of knowledge about different OS, not so much a "real program"). But it's not (I mean, it's not easy to read, assuming you are comfortable with bash). And it's not badly-written bash-script, quite otherwise. It's just… bash. How exactly you'd improve that would depend on the language of choice, but every "proper" PL should make it possible to write this very thing in such a way, that reading it "entirely" in a few minutes would be trivial, and wouldn't require scrolling through 11K LoC. Just separating all ASCII-art from code and making a separate class (if we use Python) for each OS implementation with a common interface, extending 1 or more base-classes (for OS families) would improve it greatly, since it would take me literally seconds to see all directives it currently supports, and to find their implementations for the particular system I'm interested in. After scrolling through some maybe 200 LoC you'd feel that you know everything that it does, and the rest 10K LoC (or whatever it would be) are just "details".

So while actually suggesting to rewrite it in Python might show some lack of analysis, I wouldn't bash anyone for wishing it would have been written in Python.
Probably the author wanted to use some C++20 feature.
Unemployment insurance is part of the social safety net that is paid to the State. Among many other issues with tying this to the employer (much like with healthcare), the employer may not even exist anymore but the former employee is still entitled to unemployment.

States that weren’t doing it from the beginning did start checking with employers to determine if a person was actually unemployed.
Works fine for me from .de

Besides that I like your site. thx for mentioning pf-badhost. Didn't know that.
It's called a disability accommodation. Legally in the United States they can only ask is if the mask is needed "on the basis of a disability". They cannot legally ask what disability it is. The Rehabilitation Act and also the Americans with Disabilities act applies in this situation.

There is another law for air carriers, and the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not apply once you enter an airport. For airlines/airports/flights the law is called the Air Carrier Access Act, and it applies to flights to and from the US. In that case, you may need a note from your doctor.
I've been using mxroute.com for my business and personal emails for 6 months.

Anecdotal, but my biggest client has said my emails no longer tend to hit his spam folder since I've made the switch.
I've used Phaser myself, but not with Adobe Animate. I did use to make Flash games back in the day, but haven't in a long time. I no longer have any artists to work with, so I mainly just draw basic shapes or make basic 3D models in Blender now, and use either Phaser or Monogame, mostly.
Plans for largest US solar field north of Las Vegas, Nevada scrapped
The main thing of interest (to me anyway) that seems to be missing from the articles I can see on this is references to energy density. Is it equivalent to Lithium Ion? Better? Worse?

There's some tantalising research from a few years ago that suggests it could get way better energy density, but the same comes up frequently with battery technology.
I really despise how these job posting sites consistently refuse to have return links to the company itself. Why does the icon on this page not go back to your corporate site? It's maddening.
The Vampire is a proprietary closed-source FPGA core that has nothing to do with the spirit of the Amiga. Their emulated CPU and chipset has glitches and issues are the order of the day.

A miSTer FPGA is a much better option, being completely open. An original Amiga 500 is not crazy expensive yet, and WinUAE is also an option, being the best and most accurate software emulator for the entire range of the Amigas (a lot more accurate and faster than any Vampire).
I imagine this will simply shift online to outside of China. Bonus if tutor speaks English. You can kill two birds with one stone.
There's no evidence offered to support the click bait headline, other than the obviously self-interested opinion of the CEO of a company selling a solution to prevent fraud:

"Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, a service that tries to prevent this kind of fraud, tells Axios that America has lost more than $400 billion to fraudulent claims. As much as 50% of all unemployment monies might have been stolen, he says."
It is possible in theory to recover some information from overwriting flash data with zeros, it’s also possible in theory for well designed modern encryption to be broken but neither of those are guaranteed at this point.
I think you’re assuming that everyone has a relationship like that with their parents where frank discussions can be had, or problems solved. I certainly did not and I’m sure that’s true of many people.
So solve tutor and education access issues earlier in the education process. Everyone suffers when the world’s best institutions aren’t allowed to make the most of the world’s most promising graduates.
The literal motor part is different, but much of the rest of the car hasn't changed that much. Breaks, alignment, interior components, doors, glass; paint and body too.

Edit: post archive.is link in thread.

The article is focused more on the design specialists involved with ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) motors and related parts. They probably do need retraining, and it would be a better service to all in the economy if such training were part of a government lead plan for all workers in need of a new field, though still paid for by industries that are in sunset.
https://remarkable.com/

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000265873... (epubs)

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000265871... (PDF)

(disclosure: i have one, I love it, no other association, I intend to eventually build some sort of Internet Archive integration for it)
I had mine three weeks apart, I wonder if I'll get different responses to the booster when it comes through (at this stage) next year.
> The admission numbers are not changing because of tutoring

Why is that the only metric? Why not average learning level? Or the average interest in science? Or the number of grad school applicants?

I ask this because i have trouble seeing extra time spent in education as zero sum wastage.
You can disable embedded chrome in Google app; https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7013866?hl=en&co...
yes, you just need a midi controller, actually, not even that! just the freely available samples/soundfonts, then load it up in your daw or sequencer
Er, just as a historical note, one of the primary uses of chroots was for packaging. Just like how Docker does it. That, in a sense, was even the original motivation. The security usage of chroots was a later innovation.
> I think it’s exceptionally presumptuous to claim that the kind of people who contribute to these decisions weren’t thinking about effectiveness and tradeoffs. I’ve seen some of the papers they were passing around about effectiveness of various restrictions.

What were those papers? In fact, they had no data about effectiveness of many (if not most) of the restrictions when they passed them early last year. They had absolutely no data about economic cost either.

> I’ve heard stories about internal conversations over economic concerns and pressures and secondary impacts.

You make it seem like I should praise them for having conversations about economic concerns, as if it was some kind of going above and beyond, instead of barest of the bare minimums one would expect from government officials enacting highly disruptive policy by fiat.
Sociopaths are gonna sociopath.

The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: team B of the pentagon/soviet fame, Vietnam, civil rights, tobacco, trickle down economics, Iraq war, climate change, fishery collapse, gay rights, war on drugs, nationalized health care, covid skepticism, covid vaccine paranoia, hydroxychloroquine, injected disinfectant, and now invermectin.

At this point is pretty clear: in that epistemological partisan context there are only carnies and rubes.
Re-training is just a way to console someone to get them out the door of the company and then keep them busy for a year or two. It kicks the can down the road and puts the problem into the hands of someone else. No company will willingly hire people in their 50s (I'm 52 btw) unless it's a government job. They only other way would be to be given preferential treatment via quota/diversity; female, minority.
isn’t the great firewall preventing this?
Quantity != quality.
Overwriting flash data isn’t going to give you access to the data. It might in theory be more secure, but I would favor encryption at rest rather than simply overwriting plain text.
I’m 85, and while we had chat rooms and IM in high school, and a few kids probably had LiveJournal, 2003 was really the beginning of social media as we know it, with rapid adoption in 2004+. Texting wasn’t really a thing before ~2000, and not a very popular thing until at least mid aughts because of pricing. I think every young adult basically had a mobile by 2005.

So I think there is some real line right around 85/86 where, for those younger than that, technology/social media as we know it today, didn’t exist in High School.

Other examples would include Google.

Also, for my age, Wikipedia was really emerging during college and exploding/maturing at the end (2007). If you were born, say, after 88, you would have started college in the wikipedia era (and those born after would have had it available in high school)

That said, I think you could unequivocally say that those born after ‘90 are much different than those born before ‘85, but between those years it’s a little bit muddy.
I don't know the specifics about their iron based battery. However, the concept of iron based batteries have existed for some time and the energy densities are pretty low. My guess is that will be the case here since they are targeting grid storage rather than vehicles or electronics.
> > Yes, the conditions of side loading (needs a free developer account, must have app signing refreshed weekly, etc) might not be palatable for your taste

> have to remember every single week to "refresh" my app, otherwise it won't work the next time I need it

Did I not fully state that up front? Just because it doesn’t work for your needs (or mine for that matter) doesn’t change that my point is 100% correct, to say that sideloading isn’t possible on iOS is fundamentally wrong. Fake imaginary points (aka HN votes) be damned, I’m not going to cave to the Android fanboys. Apple/iOS has many faults, so I don’t get why folks need to focus on something that isn’t factually correct.
The discovery of a a vaccine side effect that causes a long term issue.

City properties prices to go up and rural properties prices to drop slightly

Food prices and other cost of goods increases

Businesses (mainly service) raising prices to outset additional covid costs and to make up for the year of hell.

The Vietam variant becoming the dominant covid strain

China not buying as many US bonds/dollars as economic war heats up.

Social causes fighting each other for the spotlight

People becoming more jaded and self centered
From the article:

> Engine and transmission plants accounted for about 44% of all automotive factories globally in 2018, according to data from research firm IHS Markit. A Morgan Stanley report in 2019 estimated that a full transition to electric vehicles could lead to three million lost automotive jobs and cost auto makers tens of billions of dollars in restructuring costs.
IMHO, containerization technology (Docker) has changed the game for self-hosting. I run a bunch of different services all segregated in their own containers behind a Traefik container that rounts to all of them based on domain/subdomain. I don't have to spend a bunch of time wording about incompatible libraries or versions because everything is self-contained and I can upgrade each service individually without worrying about affecting the other services for the same reason. I can configure it all up simply with docker-compose.
Ack yeah that's annoying. Here you go: https://formenergy.com/
‘It’s too late’: US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine
Where do you buy books for it?