skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at a small startup (although a bit more than 10), they used TriNet, an 'employee leasing'/outsourced HR vendor.

More or less, your employees are also employees of the leasing firm, and that firm has access to employer paid health plans from well known vendor. I think you select from a large menu of options (including employer/employee split) to make a small menu for your employees. TriNet also did payroll, AFAIK. I'm sure there are other options, but as an employee the presented menu was very similar to what I saw at Facebook and Yahoo.
Decoding the forbidden words in GitHub Copilot
Yeah you're right. I think I'm just too tired of people killing others and dying themselves that I'm just starting to feel schadenfreude instead of sympathy.
It's worth noting how little debate there was (or is) on any of this here in Australia, by the by. The government decides this is happening, and the media cheer them on. Any critical voice is instantly branded anti-science, told they don't care about lives, etc. The opposition parties, if anything, want more of it (irrespective of whether they're left or right in a given state). We're a reasonably small country, so often the media and the politicians know one another rather well (revolving doors, small social circles, etc), but it honestly doesn't feel like we have a free and critical media or opposition at all right now.

PS: Watch this short clip for an idea of what news looks like in Australia at the moment: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1429786126815010820
Reddit does a good job curating the content from its groups to its front page. Facebook no such facility, no r/all. Also, there are too many duplicate groups on Reddit, causing a lot of noise. Reddit managed to keep mostly one sub per topic which adds to the curation quality.
I know it’s a silly artificial thing, but I like the time limits on borrowing. It becomes a commitment and the deadline helps me read tons of books in a year.
To me, clojure fits that bill.
Apollo app and old.reddit with RES are the classic combo
HackerNews is an experiment.
good for everyone
That's a category mistake on your part, if not an obvious lie with malicious intent.
I didn't do much work in Chicken, but I chose it as a language for ops scripts that were to run on any old Unix box whose installed software I couldn't control, e.g. AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, RHEL 5.

Couldn't even count on Python 2 being there. It was either POSIX shell or statically linked native, and Chicken (with a few modifications) allowed me to do that on all of the above platforms.

Fortunately (in retrospect), none of my code ever found much use. Learned a lot about Scheme, though :)
Not getting vaccinated is a stupid decision, but smoking is not? Or you think people are spontaneously addicted to smoking, drinking, drugs? Or you think that people randomly decide to not get the vaccine because they just wake up stupid one day? Guess what, in a free society people can choose what they put in their bodies, regardless of how much pleasure you think they get from it, or how stupid you think it is.
Got a job offer one from one of those companies.

The SEC public disclosures are hilariously blunt on how just one of a handful autonomous rulers could have a spontaneous change of heart that would effectively tank the company.
>And Australia with its minimal vaccine purchase.

I wouldn't say Australia purchased the minimum amount. The two vaccines they settled on (very similar to the UK strategy) were AstraZeneca and Pfizer. With a population of ~26million people, they secured 10 million Pfizer doses in November 2020 and would cover the rest of the population with AstraZeneca as the global supply of Pfizer was severely constrained and Australia, being essentially low-risk, had very low priority compared to other countries. In February 2021, the government secured an additional 10 million Pfizer doses and another 20 million in April 2021. 20 million of the 25 million population would be covered on Pfizer alone, and once local manufacturing of AstraZeneca ramped up, the entire population again essentially have access to AstraZeneca. I don't recall the exact numbers, but I believe at one point we were producing a million AZ doses a week. AZ was never supply constrained.

Where it all went wrong though was that since Australia had near zero COVID risk locally, the Australian Immunization Advisory Group weighed up the risk of AstraZeneca clotting against chance of contracting the disease, and put out advice recommending Pfizer as the preferred vaccine for everyone under 60 (putting it simply, as this age changed several times).

Since Pfizer is not manufactured locally, this set back the entire vaccine roll-out, and put us at the mercy of Pfizer global supply (of which we already had more than enough contracts, but had to wait for fulfilment).
> You raise the tax rate so that land has more value/return having multi-storey buildings than single-storey ones.

The problem in SF is just that housing construction is effectively illegal.

So it doesn't matter how valuable the house you can't build would have been.
> remnants of the Swedish colonial project

If in a few centuries some part of Finland (say, Päijät-Häme or something) is an independent nation, do you think it would be natural for them to talk about the old days — our present — as "back when we were part of Finland", or should they say "our dark age of oppression under the bootheel of the Finnish colonial project"?
Actually it does. If you did not put it there but were instead set up good lawyer might be able to get you off the hook assuming you can afford good lawyer.

The so called "equal" justice truly sucks. I once saw government trying to deny legal aid to person X on a basis that the offence is minor and the risk to be imprisoned is low, never mind the fact that having criminal record can completely screw person's life later on.
I was actually being serious, your comment is more helpful though.
... then we could write a domain specific language for building web pages and another one for managing additional features, thanks to the power of lisp macro.
Regarding the last point, if you're a taxpayer paying for these benefits it certainly feels unfair that you are paying for the workers benefits.

I'd rather pay people to not work, personally.
Wireless key-logger hidden inside USB-C to Lightning cable
> How can you even search for this? Google results are not relevant to dust at all:

Try this: https://www.google.com/search?q=diy+air+%22dust+filter%22
That's right, businesses should have security controls in place commensurate with the size and extent of its threats and vulnerabilities. It is not pragmatic for most organisations to spend enough money to implement the most protective security possible. Traditionally we call this determining your risk appetite.

Overall, my experience from auditing the cyber security of many organisations is that they're not actually taking a risk based approach. They're not identifying their IT & Cyber Security risks and they're not identifying their specific threats and vulnerabilities. This leads to many organisations make poor security decisions by implementing technology controls that either aren't mitigating any of their risks or isn't reducing their residual risk to a comfortable level.
Cheaper if the lock is broken. Locks (that are broken easily) are cheaper than doors, which are not hard to break and expensive to fix

Who is going to pick a lock that is cheap and easy to break?
> This enables users to download an Android APK ... from a third-party which mirrors the Play Store apps (no credentials needed).

Will it allow the app developers to sign releases, and will it check the signature when an APK is downloaded? Ideally these third-party mirrors would also support binary transparency, using a system like this:

https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans
> Reddit is a bunch of hatred and disinformation today

Partly because they are in effect one of the most unmoderated large scale sites on the internet, which results in the toxic people going there.

But if you know how to find subs well, Reddit emerges as one of the best content sources.
Structurally different. Take a look at the many Discourse groups around today. There's none of the same pile-on tendencies that Upvote based sites like HN, Reddit, and Lobste.rs has. There's nothing to gain by piling on usually, since there's no karma-with-the-crowd.
No, none of those countries "used to occupy the other". No more than Finland at the moment is "occupying", say, Päijät-Häme or Ostrobothnia.
Is Facebook willing to allow pseudonyms? Unless they are, they are barely in the same market.
It pull in outside air, yes, but things are more dynamic than that. Most likely you don't have perfect seals on all your windows, walls, doors, pipes, fans etc.

Secondly, the air from cooking is generally very bad, especially if you're using nonstick surfaces or using much of anything with oil. It's probably better to trade it for smokey air outside.
We are talking about statistics that a machine created here, not body bags.
They trained a machine on a subset and generated the unknown values.
How do you figure? VG flight record shows >50% chance of anomaly.
same at my startup. I made the descision to use elixir because its so fast while still having the readability of ruby or python. end result saves us money on hardware. more importantly, the customers feel like they are using a responsive and fast application.
Users can't vote out a content, they can only downvote it which doesn't affect its visibility, only its sort order. There are even people who love that kind of content and read Reddit sorted by "controversial". Curation has some censorship effects but moderation power trumps it. Reporting is advisory too, it's not a power per se. If subreddit mods don't read any of the reports, nothing would happen. No consequences.
With '&' rather than '#' timestamp delimiter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw&t=14m25s
Pity it is too late to not let him back
The official documentation for `git add` refers to "the index". I'm not seeing any reference to multiple indexes. I've been using git for years, and I've never heard of it. I read a book about it. But parts of it are definitely still mysterious to me. Anyway, where can I find any evidence of these 4 indexes?
> ...met many fully Swedish kids whom at 7 or 8 years old were already gaining...

Who. No m.
> The fundamental failure of this logic of trying to go somewhere and built a new city to escape the policy failures of the old city, is that those conflicts are intrinsic problems of large scale human organization. If you bring people, you bring the politics.

This argument proves too much.

If it were true, all big cities everywhere would have similar problems.

But they clearly don't, so a wide range of outcomes is possible.
Agreed, I worked in food manufacturing for a while, and was fortunate to have suppliers who maintained 1-2 shifts worth of almost all obscure components as a good-faith gesture. As most of our own backstock was perishable, FIFO rotation kept us
from having way too much, or any tax issues.

I learned it was much better to deal with CEO/investors grumbling about $$$ tied up in backstock than Type A Sales Manager + CEO/investors wondering when the f^ck a single critical component would let us restart the production line to launch an overdue product. I don't miss that job! There was also the "Google the new CEO on his first day and find out he's under SEC investigation for withholding payments to his previous corp's suppliers to pad the balance sheet for buyout" but that is another story entirely!
If you literally Google "base jumping risk statistics" it helpfully says, right at the top: "BASE jumping carries a 0.2-0.4% injury rate per jump, and a fatality rate of 0.04% per jump."

I'm saying 0.06% risk of death is comparable to 0.04% risk of death.

How exactly am I spreading "misinformation"?

Googling "everest climbers death rate" yields: "Interestingly, the death rate has decreased a bit, from 1.6 percent in the earlier period to 1.0 percent in the more recent period. That said, since the number of climbers has quadrupled, the actual number of deaths has increased."

Remind me what the CFR/IFR is for COVID for over-70s with co-morbidities again? I don't want to post "misinformation" here, so I'll let you do your own research.
> The thing is, sometimes people are in a crunch and do need something from you. That’s not ideal, but it shouldn’t be considered actually outright hostile.

This is true. But another thing is that it's normal for some rushed people to consider it to be an aggressive action. No amount of educational articles will change that, as it stems from a deeper psychological processes, and that makes this specific example almost unavoidable. It's both normal to politely convey urgency and overreact to it, at least internally. Preventing this internal reaction from spilling out is a part of personal emotional control/development which is out of scope of a pragmatic approach.

But other similar things, like harder pressuring and subtle passive-aggression, that cause the same effects and seem innocent for the senders, can be avoided realistically. Otherwise it'd be disingenuous to blame overreaction on the respondent. The sub-tones do matter no matter how polite the message sounds, after all.
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That is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen all week.
There are government-independent studies that roughly reflect similar numbers. CMU's Delphi team has an interesting survey - no media involvement needed, they offer an API.
TL;DR: they estimate 3.3x more deaths than official covid death reports (15.2 million excess deaths vs 4.5 million reported covid deaths)
Ultimate no trace I suspect

I wonder if anyone does this with the Netflix movies by mail
Think. About. It.
Has anyone found Tweetdeck to be helpful?
Branson is the Royal Crown Cola of the commercial space flight world. He is the ultimate in show-boating bell-ends. I am glad he has had his wings clipped. Unlike his other stunts, the stunt was never core the the virgin business. This stunt (first buffoon in space) is core to the business and he has royally $%@ed it.
Doesn't every interaction between particles involve quantum mechanics? Meaning every chemical reaction? Even simple things like heating water on your stove is a quantum process. Thought isn't something special here. Unless I completely misunderstand quantum mechanics.

If you are proposing that quantum processes aren't really random, that somehow human thought affects how they work, I doubt we have any evidence of that one way or the other. I would call that a fringe theory, but I can't say you are wrong.

I've recently being seeing more about a theory that consciousness is inherent in matter, and that particles choose which quantum path they take. This is way beyond anything we currently know about physics though.
I've been using the staging area for a long time. It only makes me wish I could turn it off.
VLC didn't fix anything
Light aircraft can only carry up to 19, have unpressurized cabins[0], may have 0-multiple engines, weigh under 10 tons. This really has nothing to do with commercial air travel (except very small scale puddle jumpers).. just farmers crop dusting, acrobatic planes, gliders, hobbyist and those in training.

We know cell towers can be spoofed, the argument for this is it helps with GPS spoofing.. technical details avoided. Looks like a paid ad for Mitre, I cannot see how it helps with any of the stated problems (if ground GPS spoofing is an issue, surely cell-tower spoofing/stingrays are too?)

[0]: https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/small...
Wisdom becomes a platitude when repeated without specific comments about relevance.
> If you can cherrypick to distortion

I'm cherrypicking to perspective. Distortion is an additional argument, alongside field of view of the area of focus, etc.

> documentary photographers/photojournalists choose 28-35mm for their more authentic representation

I dispute the idea that there is anything like a uniformity of choices, and I dispute the idea that documentary photographers choose a focal length for authenticity purposes. If you're doing a documentary and especially if you're doing photojournalism, you're choosing focal lengths that properly frame your subject at whatever distance you need to stand at... because often you won't be able to choose your distance to the subject.

This fstoppers article suggests that the two most useful photojournalism lenses are a 24-70mm zoom, and an 85mm portrait lens.

https://fstoppers.com/originals/two-most-useful-lenses-photo...

Other articles seem to suggest that photojournalists should carry zoom lenses covering a range from 12 or 16mm to 200mm, which makes perfect sense.

I see no indication that 28-35mm is preferred.

> To say that they should actually be using 50mm is... foolish at best.

Then don't say that. What does this statement have to do with this conversation?

> When someone pays me for portraits, I will use a 50-75mm, but when I want to remember what it was like to be somewhere doing something and living, I and many others will use a 28mm or 35mm.

And that's fine. You can use whatever focal lengths you want to evoke different emotions. That's one of the reasons we don't just use one lens or one focal length all the time.

This isn't really relevant to the assertion that short focal lengths are somehow closer to human vision.
Sorry but this is the dumbest thing I've heard in the entire internet today. So
basically what they did was they trained a deep neural net to predict the
behaviour of a simulated rat neuron. Then they claimed that the number of layers
and units in the deep neural net is somehow a measure of the complexity of a
"biological neuron".

First of all, they didn't try to model the behaviour of a biological neuron,
only of a model of a biological neuron, and an incomplete model at that. The
article points that out itself.

More importantly, the claim rests on the assumption that a deep neural net
architecture is somehow a sensible measure of the complexity of a completely
unrelated process (as far as I can tell, deep neural nets are not in anyway
related to simulated rat neurons). But this is a big, huge, gigantic assumption.

Suppose I train a bunch of humans to predict the behaviour of a simulated rat
neuron. Suppose I find out that I need to train at least 1000 humans to
accurately predict the simulated rat neuron's behaviour. What does that mean?
That 1000 human brains are as complex as a simulated rat neuron?

Come to that- can a single human brain predict the behaviour of a simulated rat
neuron? I'm prepared to wager that, no, it can't, because human brains are
rubbish at prediction tasks like that. What does that mean? That a simulated rat
neuron is more complex than a human with an entire human brain?

The entire premise of the work is absurd nonsense and it probably only got a
mention in Quanta because it's something released by DeepMind. Irritating.
Sure but the hacker can trash the email.
Ownership of your data.

Your social graph should be yours.

Your photos should be yours

And recently, your health should be yours

The main pillars of a digital bill of rights would be the freedom to choose and portability.
Driving is heavily regulated in terms of what kind of cars are legal and how and where they can be operated. Its just a matter of degrees and cost/benefit as assessed by the public. We don't ban driving outright but be ban all kinds of automotive use.
It's not possible to switch to another tool unless you only ever work on code that you wrote, and never need to collaborate with anyone else.
Any supplier who could actually sell right now would be able to take advantage of this market and build serious market share. So it’s a company with these reserves that will do well in a similar situation.
Can anyone find me a c can right now in Italy?
In my experience it's a combination of a few things. First is time. Consumer electronics has very aggressive release schedules and development cost constraints. That means the software is usually the cheapest, quickest junk someone could throw together. There usually isn't the time or the money to create the kinds of process infrastructure that allows you to produce secure code. Worse, vendor support on much of this stuff is usually outdated garbage and the more deeply embedded, the worse it is.

Also there are just some plain bad practices floating around. I once had a manager who refused to allow version control and would simply remote into my computer overnight to delete any files they didn't personally like. Think any careful, security-conscious work got done in that environment?
Try going to the front page when you’re not signed in.

There are several posts focusing on the woke cause of the week (usually attacking the out group). Then the rest are things you’d imagine would pander to the typical redditor but they’re oddly trying too hard.
Does the iPod support opus? I doubt too many podcasts are played on original iPods these days but there’s something to be said for the fact they can be.
Our local chamber of commerce will let you sign up to their pool if you have at least 2 full-time people on payroll. We didn't qualify, but heard from others the rates were better than the exchange (which is the fallback)
Because the modern world depends on the automobile, and from a utilitarian point of view the modern world has still had a positive effect on life expectancy.

Car culture should not be a foregone conclusion, though -- you are right about that. Many European nations -- the Netherlands being the typical example -- have done a pretty good job of fostering a bike culture in their cities. But us Americans sure love our cars, and so it's ultimately a political question, not a moral one.
I find this thread quite amusing. Starting with covid we have examples of other things which cause large amounts of death, with the intention being to normalize these large-scale causes of mortality.

* Smoking: Is being phased out in much of the developed world, with various restrictions, taxes, etc

* Obesity: Widely recognized as a problem, with attempts such as sugar taxes, etc. Solutions are less widely agreed upon, but the fact that is a problem is not in question.

* Driving: Again, road toll is a known issue which we try to reduce. Driving itself should likely be reduced but the bigger motivation is climate related.
> Its just a matter of degrees and cost/benefit as assessed by the public.

That's the point, though: COVID lockdowns happened even though much of the public said the benefits of locking down weren't worth the costs.
When the algorithm is known, adversaries can figure out how to minimally modify images to certainly avoid detection. Uncertainty about detection capabilities may have been a deterrent.
Yeah mine was sedan until I had my way with it.
I understand where you are coming from when you say that " It's a good thing these employees are getting government aid" but that's only because the alternative is not having any aid.
Which is obviously worse. I support increasing the amount of government aid available but the companies are obviously taking advantage of it. These companies don't care about hiring disabled people and single parents. They aren't a charity, if they could hire people to work for even less money they would.

The companies need to be taxed for every single employee that is on benefits. If the tax is high enough they will either increase how much they pay or fire the struggling employees, I doubt future employees will be in a different set of circumstances. Companies are incentivized by profit. If there is a behavior that you don't want to happen tax or fine it. If the behavior remains, increase the tax/fine. Instead these companies get slaps on the wrist or even rewarded.