skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emphasizes the difference between owning a startup/small company and merely working for one. Also emphasizes the difference between having health care and having health care tied to your employment. I thought COBRA allowed one to back-purchase coverage if it turned out you needed it - and this would seem applicable to this situation.

Sure sounds like a not-so-hidden attempt to downsize as I posted previously re: negative job actions. Again, no charge to the company if people exit on their own... Read the fine print in these kinds of changes to make sure there's no date where leaving before is a normal exit while leaving after is not (severance, etc).

Life's not fair, and it sux having it thrown in people's faces like this. But without a union and in an industry with dog eats dog thinking, it's up to you to protect your ass.
How would you build this?
With RSU you’ll get your 4 year grant (and refreshers) upfront, so hopefully shares will have substantially grown and more than kept up with inflation by the time they vest years later.

This strategy cannot really be reproduced by investing your after-tax paycheck into the stock.

It’s “similar” (not really but I like the analogy) to buying a house with cash vs getting a mortgage for the maximum amount you can get away with and slowly paying it off. Massive difference by the end of the investment.
I switched because Obsidian free version is not licensed for commercial use. And I considered paying for it, but then Dendron appeared and I have VS Code installed and I copied my markdown files into that instead.
My take: I don't think folding an origami cat in this fashion translates into the dexterity required to be a vehicle artisan. However, it's a very reasonable promotion test for its other qualities: The ability to make a training plan and follow through on it, putting in the time, evaluating your progress and honing your skill. There's also probably an element of "proving that you really want the job."
In Australia at least they have already said it would not be street legal:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/motor...

And hints of the same coming out of UK and EU.
Presumably you are the only person with the password to your phone unless you use biometrics, with which you can be forced to unlock it. The car's black box, on the other hand, can be dumped by warrant (at the most).
Ask HN: Finding good part time freelance clients?
Hey HN,

I have been contracting part time for the past few years now, always at $50-70/hr.

It recently occurred to me that my salaried rate is already at about $65/hr plus amazing benefits and many paid holidays. I’d guess my total comp would be closer to $80/hr if I added everything together.

In the past I’ve found clients on Upwork but it was pretty terrible and the clients were cheap.

I tried going on Arc and got verified, etc. but they only ever send full time jobs.

Does anyone have advice on finding part time freelance jobs at a decent rate, like $120+/hr?

I’m a US citizen, live in the US, etc. Full stack Python/Node/PHP dev so there should be plenty of demand…
This always comes back. It's supporting creators as much as the pennies creators get on Spotify. Only creators with millions of views make money. The rest, if you want to support them, you use alternative channels for that. The main profit maker is Youtube in any case.
Feels a bit silly to have to cite this but Apple’s original proposal is quite readable:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
^this is the solution no one wants to talk about. Everyone says they want a broader distribution of wealth but still refuse to compensate employees remotely proportionate to shareholders. We can’t keep waiting for taxes or government deficits/spending to redistribute.
Are you saying that doing indirect lending around 2005 makes them unable to do the same in 2021?
NewPipe on Mobile all the way
Why wouldn't they have similar markup due to the same forces?
What do you make of the current state of culture in the West?
Huh? False negatives and false positives are irrelevant with respect to the utility of the overall system. It means they don't render the system irrelevant.

Intentional false negatives are irrelevant because catching 100% of CSAM was never stated as a goal of the system. And because it's just not realistic to expect to see any real-world use by CSAM aficionados. Anyone savvy enough to understand the principles behind hashing (and trust some command line tool downloaded from Github) is probably smart enough to have better places to store their child porn than an iCloud gallery.

Intentional false positives are irrelevant because there are, depending how you count them, between two and six other layers which would need to be thwarted or exploited in order for intentional false positives in NeuralHash to result in any adverse outcome.
All true, but I feel compelled to point out that houses need maintenance as well. But, as a percentage of the price, probably not as much.
You’re confusing two entirely different features.

One feature does blind CSAM detection on iCloud photos. Any photos that are being added to iCloud in the USA have a safety voucher calculated on-device and attached to the upload. The device doesn’t know if there’s a match or not. When the uploads reach Apple’s servers, if there are enough matches, Apple has enough information to decrypt the safety vouchers. The photos are then additionally compared with a second, secret hashing algorithm. If those also match, a human reviewer checks a low-res thumbnail to confirm. If they also confirm, it gets reported. So the initial calculation of the safety voucher is done on-device, but the matching can only be completed on the server, and nothing gets reported unless multiple other checks also match.

The other feature uses machine learning to determine whether or not a photo attached to a message contains nudity. If such an image is received by a child’s iPhone, it’s blurred out and they are told that if they choose to view it, their parents will be told about it. The entirety of this scanning happens on-device.
> At least for houses, banks aren't allowed to profit from foreclosures.

I assume the details depend on whatever the fine print on your mortgage says?
On the other hand, iOS App Store shows and ad for Chrome, then the Firefox app, then every other browser. Not much related to your actual search term "Firefox" related other than Firefox Focus and Firefox Lockwise mixed in further down the results
If you wanted to stick a knife in this already reeling economy, centralized planning of chip allocation would be an excellent way to finish it off.
Serial-position effect
Mythical Man Month, 2nd edition but either work. Also Code Complete. Honestly, neither of these refer to Computer Science in the way that other cited books do but they are pertinent to the application of it via software.
It's fucking sad. This is exactly how the MS Store looked 10 years ago when Windows 8 came out. How has it not changed at all? These assholes don't seem to have a clue why nobody wants to use their store. Maybe someone at Microsoft should actually try using their products. The poor employees have buggy shit dogfooded to them all the time, while I bet all the C-levels and other execs have Apple shit for work and home.
Sorry, ALAC, not AFLAC <quack>
I'm in a similar situation my old truck will cost more to repair than it's worth. I thought I'd go EV but two year old used EVs cost the same as new EVs. Used EVs get $5K rebate and new $10K rebate so new it is! But as you say zero new vehicles. I've never seen car lots so empty or new or used.
> someone at Google is probably looking at the results of their A/B test and thinking “Wow, this new feature is great. Look at how many people are using related searches when they can’t find what they’re looking for!”

I was under the impression that the someone at Google knew full well what they were doing and had no misconceptions about the ratio of unintended to intended feature use, but were also savvy enough to know what their manager or whoever is reviewing their promotion packet would likely just see a high usage rate and not dig into why it existed.
It's seriously embarrassing and terrible. Anybody who uploads a $4.99 "Firefox user guide" to the Microsoft Store should be banned for life before the app even hits prod. Microsoft should require a sufficient barrier to entry so these "developers" can be proactively identified and expelled before they have an opportunity to clog the Store with their detritus.

App store cruft like this is one of the most mind-numbingly frustrating things and I tend to avoid mainstream app stores altogether because of it. There's just too many people in one place, and too many parasitic bad actors sucking the lifeblood out of everybody they can reach.

The worst part is that an app store has the potential to be such a boon for a platform. But these people ruin it. Tragedy of the commons at work, even though it's a company's walled garden and isn't the commons at all! How could they let this happen?!
When we have five or more detectors, will we be able to ‘see’ features of the earth’s interior using the discrepancies in the data?
This is why I framed the question of why HackerNews is obsessed with a country like Japan. The vast majority of foreigners who go to Japan thinking it’s a NYC or London, but with anime or better sushi, grow to hate it. The Reddit group for foreigners in Japan are some of the most cynical and bitter concentration of people I ever seen.

I think democracy can’t succeed without responsibility, and Americans ( I am American ) have IMO been irresponsible this past few years. That should be apolitical. Things like wearing a mask.
> I think it should be dismissed.

So you're against compensating the victims financially?

>Criminal lawsuits should be allowed to go forward.

You do realize that this judgement doesn't preclude criminal prosecution? The criminal courts and civil courts operate independently.
Housing doesn't go down. So it will take inflation to bring extreme commodity prices down. This is how bubbles work and is why inflation is essential.
Howto videos have a wide range of qualities and the up/down ratio is indispensible so you aren't sitting through 18min of someone practicing their English or another rattling off a cocaine bender about washing cars.
> It'll be interesting to see what this does to the credit quality of future borrowers, which is the only leverage the bank has. Secured loans on appreciating assets mean that at some point, the bank has an incentive to write loans that they know are not going to be repaid, because they buy only part of the asset, receive a stream of cash payments for it, and then get the full asset anyway when the borrower defaults. It's like a call option that you get paid for instead of paying for.

Seems a bit roundabout. If they want to bet on appreciating assets, they can just buy those assets directly?

> Come to think of it, I wonder if this is why we got NINJA loans with the 05-07 housing bubble.

There was no housing bubble. Only a big housing 'burst'.

See eg https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/p/a-slide-deck-on-bubble-... (and if you are really interested, I can give you some better material.)
The state of Michigan was responsible for damaging the health of the people of Flint, Michigan.

If the people of Michigan elect clowns to run the state, who cause harm to <some group of people>, the people of Michigan should be responsible for making amends. It doesn't make one whit of difference that the harmed people were, or were not part of Michigan.

This creates an incentive to not elect clowns.
I've always used the like / dislike ratio as a measure on the quality/controversiality of the video in question.

Removing it makes paid content so much more attractive for starters...

I am almost laughing as I'm writing this, but reality is moving towards 1984 much quicker that I ever imagined.

The dislike button is like the booo's at a stadium. Removing all negative feedback removes the public ability to respond negatively to a video.
Which obviously is the point. Damn Google got really evil real fast.
Huh you might be right, if only just. It says it's an estimate, but that probably means 3nm nodes will be >$10MM for sure
It’s ultimately the GOP governor that caused this wasn’t it?
Elon is playing his fans like a fiddle.
Not defending Pol Pot, but attributing mass death solely to his regime is a bit misleading when it corresponded with a hostile foreign power carpet bombing the region with hundreds of millions of bombs, many still unexploded, over a decade or so.
This is a huge part of what led me to adopting Dendron (and eventually contributing to and working on the project): the importance of interoperability. Seeing progress being made toward importing docs from Google docs, importing content from GitHub issues, adding other public vaults into my local workspace (like the TL;DR docs seed), etc. were great.
Not that hard if someone is qualified; thousands do it every year.
> People upvote this for many reason that you have no idea about.

You’ve changed your argument after I provided context that by going here and taking pictures, was not indication that it is special to me. Again my question remains.

The unique thing about this building is its architecture. This is not an article about capsule hotels. So yes, I do think it’s getting attention because of its form. This building in particular has shown its not a viable economic / business model as a hotel.

There are all forms of capsule hotels, some much more mundane like a glorified hostel.

As for Japan, I follow every thread that trend here about Japan. I realized they are always about things that Japanese people do not care about. Thus my point about Non-Japanese romanticizing these concepts. Otherwise, why do we not see articles about the Shinsengumi, Tadao Ando, Yohji Yamamoto, or Rei Kawakubo ? Every culturally up to date Japanese person knows those names, but I would bet most of HackerNews don’t. They wouldn’t trend here.

Of course you are interested in capsule hotels, most foreigners are. To the Japanese, this is just space efficient and economically motivated, convenient, which are things Japanese people value. I don’t see what’s weird about it. The fact that you think it’s weird reflects an appeal to different cultural values, possibly where you live land is abundant.
Benjamin Pierce is also the person behind the unison file synchronizer.
The F150 Lightning is ultimately going to eat Tesla alive. Give people what they already expect out of the best selling vehicle in history AND vastly more torque to boot?
I was surprised to read that OPAQUE. uses/generates deterministic asymmetric keypairs based on a secret seed. I'd posit the HSM stores this seed so that it can use various derivations to verify whether a given key asserted by a client was generated by that seed. (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-07.html)

I have only used key derivation in symmetric protocols, so tbh I don't know how you do deterministic asymmetric key generation, or even which primitive uses it.
You still can.

Some schools have great signal to noise ratio, and you can be pretty confident when hiring. It's not just reputation. Some school (Poly in Montreal is a good example - but other do it as well) requires all student to complete a paid internship in their field of study to graduate. So you know if you hire someone from there that they are able to code professionally.
I can think of one UN sanctioned country where whatsapp _works_, but signal is banned.
Yea, I think when comparing the deadliness of ideologies, the true measure should be something like

mortality/(time x population)

For example, the Nazis killed 11M over 12 years and the German population was about 70M in 1939. Thus, their deadliness is 11/(70x12) ~ 1/70

The USSR killed 40M (a middling estimate) over about 70 years and the Soviet population was 170M in 1939, so their deadliness is 40/(170x80) ~ 1/340 or about 1/5 as deadly as the Nazis.

This intuitively makes sense to me since the Nazis actively sought to exterminate people, whereas most (not ALL) deaths in the USSR were accidental because communism is useless.
It's an American thing to have a summer internship?

How else are you supposed to gain work experience? Part time throughout the year?
I’m not sure how “the Wilderness” compares to the status quo, but you’d always need a search option, wouldn’t you? And since search results have to be in some order, you will need to come up with at least one indicator to sort them. Pure randomness is perfectly “neutral” but also entirely useless.

Case in point: the complaints here are about Firefox ranking badly for a very specific search term that it should dominate. Remove any attempt to assess relevancy will lead to that happening for every search. So what everyone is complaining about will become the norm. How is that supposed to be an improvement?

The strictly-worse option appears better because people are judging intention (as they perceive it), not outcome.

But just giving up on trying to return good search result isn’t the morally unassailable solution people here tend to think it is: randomness is fair in that it treats everyone the same. But the results will be highly unfair. Knowing as much when you set up the process means you’re still culpable for shitty results, even if you didn’t know or intent the specific shittyness of the results.

If there’s rampant fraud in the store you operate, that falls back on you. Throwing up your hands and stopping all efforts to combat fraud doesn’t get you out of this: there was never any doubt that you had the ability to remove items from your store in the first place, nor is there any reason why an attempt to mitigate at least some of the harms would create an expectation to be perfect at it and create liabilities that supposedly didn’t exist before.
> [...] you don't change all of your process and accounting norms because of a temporary (at least as we think for now) supply issue.

Yes. And for the appreciation to persist, the supply chain issue wouldn't just have to persist, but get worse.

Current prices reflect expected supply chain issues. That's both prices for new and used cars.
Well that was sobering.

To bad we never did that pivot to Asia...

Taiwan does seem like issue that could unify the American left and right.
TBF that's not really all they have to do. They also have to use that new application, which means (further) diving their communications stream. And it means an additional onboarding step when they set up a new device.

I understand these aren't huge obstacles, but I am generally reluctant to add additional communication channels for these reasons - they aren't trivialities to everyone.
I'm imagining someone in 1990 hearing you say that being able to instantly start watching almost any music video or filmed lecture/talk ever made isn't "a product that's actually worth paying for". I would've given anything to have that.
Bitcoin ATMs: Criminals target cryptocurrency transactions
Wtf this is insane. Why would anyone want this. As someone who does not drive drunk this system still threatens to leave you stranded if it malfunctions or if you are just tired or work night shift.
>> Havoc due to hacking is already possible today

But it's still legal to buy and drive a car from the 80s that can't be hacked.

Looking ahead, my concern is that we'll begin to see laws that restrict human controlled vehicles from autonomous lanes and eventually whole roads. This would take a lot of burden off the manufacturers. If cars can use a common protocol to communicate across brands, you don't even need traffic lights or turn signals; you don't even need to stop at intersections. Cars can just slow down or speed up by a tiny bit in coordination with other traffic. At that point it will be impossible for a human to drive at all.

It's impossible to separate increasing vehicle autonomy from increased government control. Once there's an ability to make any car pull over to the side remotely, knowing who is in it and where it's going, all freedom of movement and therefore all human autonomy exists completely at the whim of government. That level of control will be abused sooner rather than later, if not in America then certainly in authoritarian states.

Full self driving is an authoritarian trap.
He wanted to sell at a good time, and he did.
I had contemplated to choose which language between python and ruby when I was python noob.
At that time I tried both a little bit and I realized ruby had more powerful, rich features than python had. Ruby can handle lots of tasks on behalf of me out of the box so that I can reduce lots of code. So I liked it.

However I had no choice but to use python because it was variously used in practice. I felt it was difficult to persuade my colleagues to use ruby instead of python. Colleagues were not familiar with ruby and there wasn't any ruby project in my company. So I chose python and kept using it for several years. After the decision I didn't try learning ruby because I though they have many characteristic in common and I thought it was meaningless to know both of them, besides I had no time to study it.

It has been several years since I gave up learning ruby, but I still have unresolved feeling about it. Whenever I read articles that highlight the power of ruby, I want to know about it. Haha.. But still there are high prioritized tasks to do. Learning ruby is still remained in the todo list.
> When you produce a compressed tar file, the contents are written into a tar file, and this tar file as a whole is compressed.

I don't think that's quite how it works. I'm pretty sure it's more similar to doing something like `tar ... | gzip > output.tgz`. That is it streams the tar output through gzip before writing to the file. In fact with GNU tar at least you can use a `-I` option to use an arbitrary program to compress.
I wonder if twisting light is similar to this (now useful in fiber optics) or if this would be another dimension to explore.
Yes, by all means, let's protect our advertisers from the users of the platform. Great thinking!
Serious answer, explain this to your full time clients, and ask for more money.

Realistically, higher rates come with non-commodity services. This means relationship based- they know you are worth it, or turnkey where you give advice and make decisions for the client, instead of just doing what they tell you. If you're just delivering a commodity (and broadly I mean work that is scoped by the client), you can only compete on price and you'll always get a worse rate.

Another tactic that comes with non-commodity work is fixed pricing, where you take on the risk and upside of delivering. If you're good, you can make more money out of the risk premium, which may be worth it as a small operator (because the downside is just more hours which is manageable
The classic car market keeps looking brighter.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180808115837/https://www.wired...
Here you go. Who gave them the technology in the first place and who do they rely on? They did not make it on their own, and the US's reseach, sphere of influence, technology shared in the western world is why these countries were able to advance in advanced electronics. Look at the founder's history in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang
Its hard to say what country multinational companies are, you can note their location but does Toyota become Mexican if they assemble their cars in Mexico, Are they American if they assemble it in the US or does Apple become Chinese if they use Foxconn a Taiwanese company in China? If by fabrication location, when TSMC's 3nm plant opens in Arizona, or Samsung opens their 3nm in Texas that mean Taiwan or South Korea has supremacy or the US?
The US controls the supply of the best materials, who gets technology, and sells goods like military technology, its lead the semiconductor business and I would have to say without the ideas, and materials from the US, it would not exist.
Bloomberg, the person, is partial and biased towards China. Many of his interviews has made that very clear.