skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A decent amount of states in the US have “at-will employment” laws, meaning you can be fired for any reason (excluding specific things to do with “protected classes” like race, etc.), at any time, with immediate effect and without any notice. Similarly, this means you can quit your job at any time, with immediate effect and without any notice. If you quit, it’s only if you want to maintain reputation or relationships that you should work a notice period, but given the asymmetry of employer-employee power, that ends up being pretty common. For at-will employment, I don’t think there needs to be any severance package or mandatory weeks of pay, but I think it’s offered in many cases.

Having said that, in finance (I used to work at a proprietary trading firm in an at-will state), it’s extremely common for firings to be immediate, e.g., arrive at work, boss calls you to office, get fired, badge taken and you’re walked out and your desk belongings are mailed to you later. More often, you’re walked to your desk to pick up your things instead of having them mailed out, but both happen. But even more often, people are “incentivized” through bad reviews and bad bonuses to quit in advance of a firing.

When I quit, they didn’t want me to leave, and I negotiated a couple weeks of notice to hand over my responsibilities and knowledge, and to maintain some relationships.

I had a non-compete in my original contract, so I would have to negotiate with the original firm as to whether they would enforce it. If so, I would receive gardening leave pay in order to delay my employment at a competing firm. That could be for as much as 2 years, and they would pay my base salary at the original firm in order for me to not start at the competition. This gardening leave is totally different than a severance package though.
> When's the last time a national currency went to zero?

That's an odd argument for a crypto-bro. A bunch of national currencies have failed due to poor financial policies.
USDC claims to have the entirety of it in short term US treasuries. I don't know enough about banking to understanding whether the evidence in the article conflicts with that though.

> If you have any money left in crypto at this point, then you get what you deserve.

Yeah, I heard this in 2017 too. In reality neither of us knows how things will look a year from now. Short term will probably be ugly though.
Reframe FOMO as JOMO (the joy of missing out). The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. Just because information is abundant it doesn’t mean you can’t focus on a niche
Not really. The last hold out is the 13”, but that design has not changed since it was Intel based. The 14 and 16” versions have no touchbar and I would guess the 13” won’t either on the next redesign.
I hope you add Incognito Mode to that.
If a sizable number of people specifically voted against independence out of desire to remain in the EU, then their votes were undermined. Voting is supposed to represent the will of the people, and I don't think it's fair to treat it like a gamble that this generation just lost because whoops, England changed their circumstances and people said "once in a generation" a bunch of times. Did the voters agree to this "once in a generation" condition, or was it imposed upon them?
I meant that ironic. If one tries to answer the question the reality of crypto will begin to emerge :)
I'm not sure lottery tickets increase your luck surface area. Its exchanging a sure loss in exchange for the remote possibility of a big win. The expected gain is negative. You pay 5 dollars for a lottery ticket (or whatever they cost these days), and that 5 dollars out of your pocket is an opportunity cost. Or let's put it this way:

Imagine that you drive your car for work, and the cost of being unable to repair your car is your job, maybe your house. Now, the chance on any given day that your car breaks down might be, say, 0.1%. Let's say a car repair costs $2000, and let's say you earn $100 in excess of expenses each day, and you have a choice of spending that $100 on 20 lottery tickets, or saving it for the day when your car breaks down. Without going through the tedious exercise of doing the math, it should be plain from common sense that buying lottery tickets--while it increases your luck surface area for winning the lottery--it also increases the probability that you will lose your job and your house...
I love this documentary. Even though I hadn't grown up using BBSes, it reminded me a lot of when I used to use IRC and message boards since the people, their interactions, and the technology involved, share a lot of similarities.
There's something weirdly unnerving about watching HR hurriedly pack other peoples desks without their knowledge moments after they're called into a meeting never to be seen again.

I'd far rather just come back after hours and remove my things supervised than have somebody else hastily throwing my stuff into a box.

Luckily it's never happened to me, but I've seen it happen a couple times.
Right, I understand the idea... but these companies are not out here saying "HEY THIS IS A SCAM EVERYONE" — a lot of them believe their own nonsense. Professionals are fooled all the time. Outside of an email chain that literally says something like "Hey Matt Damon, can you promote our scam" it seems like a legal boondoggle. How would you prove they knew it was a scam? How would you prove that they didn't do sufficient due-diligence in this example?
You can't affect the luck from point #1, it's completely random. The other forms of luck can be affected by an individual. Perhaps that's why the author doesn't emphasize random luck.
Python doesn't, but pandas definitely does.
Why did they join the EU in the first place then? Was it for the money and having some entity to blame for domestic policy failures?
The last point is what politicians here in Austria like to do
Also, this timely announcement that Spotify has acquired Sonantic: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/spotify-is-acquiring-sonan...
Maybe they're using something like an ALIAS record instead of a CNAME setup?
White House climate memo that should have changed the world
Well, it’s not discussed because it is 100% out of your control.

This is an article about how to shape your actions and life to get luckier; nothing to do with blind luck will affect that.
Python goes even further beyond.

>>> True + True
2

>>> True * 13 + (1 - False) * 17
30
That many other (EU) countries who have implemented the EUHR directive deport asylum seekers to other countries, and those countries SC equivalents have not found it to be illegal.

I guess my legal basis is precedent.
No but I think HarveyWi might try them on our behalf.
That study compared car crashes during Covid lockdown (when people drove far, far less) to gunshot deaths for 1-19 year olds. The overwhelming majority of gun violence is the US is gang activity which is populated heavily by 18 & 19 year old adults. If you consider them "children" for one study, yep, you'll get misleading results.
> Look at historical FM, AM, broadcast TV advertising.

The issue is the introduction of smartphone, which is a device that is with you 24x7.
Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits’ Tax
Isn't it better to remove the different root problems isntead of having plugins working around?
Happy the Elephant Isn’t Legally a Person, Top New York Court Rules
also correct but not what I’m saying, thanks for the input
Be that as it may, I agree with the spirit of the grand-parent comment, which is that if you stick to straightforward Pub/Sub Kafka works great.
This is what I get when trying it on any terminal on Windows.
I work in advertising. this change is nothing compared to what Apple did.
Edit : It's better than ETP.
> allow cookies to be shared between secure sites using the same certificate

Or maybe encrypting cookies using the site certificate, which would still allow cookies to be shared with domains having a different certificate, but the server needs the correct key for decryption.
Much obliged.

I see the relevant part seems to be the following, in the "Tip 4" section:

"""
The key to making demonstrations more effective is to make learners predict the outcome of the demonstration before performing it. Crucially, their prediction should be in some way recorded or public, e.g., by a show of hands, by holding up cue cards marked with A, B, C, or D, or by talking to their neighbour. We speculate that the sting of being publicly wrong leads learners to pay more attention and to reflect on what they are learning; regardless of whether this hypothesis is true, instructors should be careful not to punish or criticise students who predicted wrongly but rather to use those incorrect predictions as a spur to further exploration and explanation.
"""
I think the car temps and the station temps are quite different. And maybe it varies by line or car-type in the same system? I've definitely experienced insanely hot cars in Montreal's metro and it previously led me down the rabbit hole to learn why there was no climate control in the system.
I got a bit confused because the top two comments both started with:

> This article isn’t wrong, but
TIL. Also in python bool("a") is True, whereas in R as.logical("a") is NA.
If it was like me, the KDE4 roll out was done way too haphazardly and wasn't usable for a bunch of releases (like 1.5-2 years? been a while) but a whole bunch of distros adopted it anyway, despite the KDE developers saying it wasn't ready yet. That ended up leaving a lot of people with a bad taste for it. the Plasma 5 releases were handled much better. I'm hoping that this latest release fixes the last few bugs with wayland that i kept running into (mostly multimonitor crashes, been tracking the bugs and they claim to have fixed all the ones i remember seeing last, but we'll see). I really want to ditch X11 because there's a noticeable performance increase and better power usage with wayland, by about 4-5 watts on my laptop, when it does run. It's also got better handling of scaling displays which is nice but not as critical for me.
Very cool to see more privacy by default in Firefox.

It is still a lot of effort to have clear separations in every browsern...

I am using Firefox containers with the temporary containers plugins (with history deletion enabled) as well as cookies auto delete plugin (which supports containers).

Therefore, everything is usually isolated in a container inside a tab and only white listed cookies are kept in the named containers.
Recommend me a library to extract article text off news websites?
I need a library (preferably JS / Node) to scrape article text off news websites such as:

Fox News Business
Fool.com
Barrons.com
proactiveinvestors.co.uk
forbes.com

Is there a similar algo / library that people recommend to quickly just get the text?
It's really weird that they claim there privacy work started in 2015. Netscape Navigator add cross site cookie blocking at some point, and firefox has always (?) had it.

The innovation here seems to be that they further partition by the URL in the address bar.

It's frustrating that browsers have been fighting and losing this war for 25 years. (Presumably they still don't block browser fingerprinting, so sites will just move to that instead...)
You could probably test out some of the perception in VR by doing things like putting the moon straight overhead but also put the horizon or some buildings in the sky overhead to see if it has the same enlarging effect as at the real horizon
I like „everythingbubble“ that explains so much so easy :)
No, but to be fair I only have Discord and Teams installed. I also think this is limited to the Linux version, but I wouldn't know since I never used it on Windows.
I think there is one factor you're neglecting, which is that you can no longer just pay attention to the United States and assume that you've described the entire world economy. China and Russia now both have the power and desire to stab the US economy, and more such powers are coming up behind them. It'll hurt them too, but they now both believe it may well be worth it because they can recover faster and better, and it isn't clear that it'll be any better than what the US will already do to them if they defy the US (e.g., taking Taiwan). It is a characteristic of our US elite that they are exceeding and extremely pain averse. It is not shared by everyone else in the world. At some point in the next few years, if not the next few months, someone is going to calculate that knocking down the house of cards that the US-driven economy represents will still net benefit them. The only way the US could stop that is to pull its industry back in and accept cost increases as a result... but see previous comment about the near-total inability of our elite to accept pain.
I've been hearing this for years. Hasn't happened.

Are you willing to say by which date it will happen?
It would be nice to allow users to create "trusted tuples" to list small groups of domains that are allowed to share their cookies. For instance: Zendesk, Asana, Jira, etc.

But have each tuple listed still be isolated from the other, only domains listed together in a single list could share a cookie container.
I don't know much about pro golf and haven't been following this story closely. Since it seems like at least the PGA side is appealing to fair play and morals and accusing the LIV players of chasing money, I'm curious: how much of the money generated on the PGA tour is actually paid out to players in the form of prizes, appearance fees, etc. In short, is this a situation where the PGA tour organization is capturing billions generated by the players and blowing it all on executive projects and phony "charities"? Or are player payouts pretty large already, and the LIV tour's ability to pay more just down to the sovereign wealth fund and the "innovations" just a nicer way to say "better monetization of events, more ads, wringing more money from TV networks"?
USD dropped the gold standard almost a century ago. How is your comment relevant to the greater fool theory and crypto today?
It might be regional or very US/UK specific. In many parts of the world nationalism is also associated with left wing separatist movements. For example, in Spain we have ETA[1], and in Turkey the PKK[2].

I've never specifically associated it with neither left nor right because in my country we have both right and left wing nationalist movements. Yes, far right nationalism is often fascism, nazism, jingoism, etc. but this isn't the only type of nationalism, and we don't use nationalism as a synonym for nazism/fascism, except when speaking specifically in the context of right wing nationalist groups.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party
IMO it's concerning that they don't have more granular security controls than totally shutting down someone's access (or maybe they do, but they laid off the person who knows how to take access away from production systems without taking away someone's ability to read email)
There's some overlap, but ads aren't the only thing using this. Google Fonts is the classic example of something that does add value (nice fonts) to a webpage, and as such isn't blocked by most adblockers (including uBO) by default, but is still able to use this for tracking because the same domain serves the font files on every website using them.
We use Machine Learning at Dyte to scale flawlessly
The difference being LIV golf has nearly unlimited money to just light on fire due to the Saudi backing. The point isn't professional golf. The point is to soften Saudi image around the world, so LIV doesn't have to worry about revenue. If LIV needed some kind of sustainable business model I'd agree they would need to be worried, but with a seemingly unlimited bankroll they don't have to worry about much. There isn't a TV contract and they gave away most of the tickets to the event.
>Whoever England votes for, Scotland gets. We could've sent 59 Scottish Labour MPs to Westminster in each of the last three elections and it wouldn't have changed a thing, because England wanted a Conservative government.

In 2017, if Scotland didn't elect 13 Conservatives to Westminster then Theresa May would not have been able to form a government with the DUP. If it also didn't elect 4 Liberal Democrats then Theresa May would not have been able to form a government even if she somehow managed to establish a three-way power-sharing agreement with the DUP and the Liberal Democrats. In that event May probably wouldn't have been able to form a government, and there would have been new elections. And remember, May was in abysmal straits at the time.

> You're very carefully dodging the main point

Well, the 'point' wasn't a response to the existing conversation. It was a random interpolation, and I didn't find it very remarkable. In a Parliament of 650 seats no randomly selected bloc of 59 constituencies is likely to play a deciding role in the outcome. It will happen sometimes, but not often. But why would it be otherwise? Of course, if you start off with the belief that Scotland is an independent entity that merits complete self-determination, then that will be a problem. But that begs the question, again.
Fair, Facebook's ARPU per region is a good illustration of how much more valuable that market is compared to everywhere else. FWIW I recall seeing an even higher figure for US teens.
Dont underestimate the value of a community of enthusiastic avid folk! This can work & do great things & have amazing value & be awesome, without having to scale to a billion people.

I agree a lot that this is a super pragmatic approach. Loqseq users are, by and large, enthusiasts, who already are willing to go far. Giving them some conventions for how to express social metadata, and then letting the existing graph based product do it's thing, building some books of queries people can use: it seems like a wonderful organic strategy. It invents very little, and rides on the strength of what already is.
Indeed, and millions of people face the choice between working in a polluted city or being unemployed in the countryside.

Far from being "free of coercion".
For me what seems to kill ambition is personal failure. Lack of energy. Lack of motivation. Lack of focus. Ambition often comes, but unless I am SUPER excited about something and/or get very quick positive feedback, I will inevitably become tired, lose focus, and fail.

This has improved over the years thankfully. It was much worse in my 20s. But still, for me at least, ambition is a function of my own ability and not really of any external person or thing.
Speak for yourself, I have no proof that anyone else experiences an “I”, you may as well be a philosophical zombie for all I know ;)
And just like school shootings, that German pilot studied MH370. The MH370 pilot likely did the same thing. He was separated from his wife & at his house they found he practiced the crash route on Microsoft Flight simulator.
Also keen to see something like this. Firefox surely (hopefully!!) isn't going to block cookies across subdomains, or a whole bunch of things are going to break. Would love to see confirmation though...
Do I need to become a Scientologist to know it's shit? No. Do I need to go to university to learn computer science? No.

There is PLENTY of information about philosophy on the internet.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

Pretty thorough and there's enough information on that page to make a smart person scratch his head and think wtf. Additionally philosophy classes create bias. A charismatic teacher and intense study can lead to the psychological equivalent of indoctrination.

I go to read the wikipedia page or stanfords philosophy page with ZERO investment. And I leave with the same. No investment = No bias which is unlike you. You obviously have Bias and investment. You've never dispassionately examined the legitimacy of your own field given the amount of effort you invested in it. That is pure bias and I guarantee you, YOU are biased. Because even if philosophy is legitimate there ARE plenty of head scratchers that leads any unbiased person to at least question that legitimacy.
Take a look at the wikipedia page. Art theory is part of philosophy. Art! and Logic! and Science! and Ethics! and Religion! And Aesthetics, And Confucianism! And Marxism. And the philosophy of math!

It's also divided by Country! Vietnamese Philosophy, African Philosophy, East Asian Philosophy. You should know unless you're asian I likely know more about East Asian philosophy stuff like Buddhism to a level much higher than you since I'm East Asian myself.

I can tell you East Asian Philosophy is utter bullshit. The fact that it's included under the branch of overall philosophy just shows there's a huge category problem here. It's like any attempt at deep thought is a philosophy, EVEN when that deep thought is incorrect and FALSE. Philosophy just justifies all this garbage by asking the question "What does it mean to be False?" Get out of here.

Look it's already pretty nutty how much philosophy encompasses and how diverse it is. Then when you go deeper into some of this stuff it becomes even more nutty.

Philosophy has a reputation for being an intelligent and mind bending field, but that's all it is... a reputation. Once you see past that, it's actually not much different then religion. Oh wait I can't say that because religion IS philosophy. Is there any comparison I can use in metaphor that isn't itself a philosophy? Probably not. Which is my point.
That statement is very much the truth. I don't know whether you follow politics outside the UK, or whether you remember the UK from 10 years ago? In both cases the policies of the current government -- from hard Brexit to unilaterally renouncing the GFA to interning asylum seekers in Rwanda to deporting pension-aged Windrush people to the Caribbean to the "hostile environment" for legal immigrants and foreign students etc etc -- are far more to the right than the derided far-right parties espouse in France or Germany, and far more to the right than the UKIP or BNP ever asked for...
Cutting off access for any IT / OPs / SRE type role when releasing an employee is mandatory, not just typical.
I think your looking at this via your own sircumstatnce. I know of a lot of refugees here in Berlin who carry their life savings with them. They also need to travel for weeks if they lose paperwork. Normally back to Italy.
This is why I'm always mystified by the hoards of people that say that batteries will never be a significant grid resource. They are getting incredibly cheap already, even as our demand is exceeding supply.

There's some great modeling by Christopher Clack about how deploying tons of small storage and solar on the grid edge (at homes and businesses, next to the meter), and doing it right now, will enable far far more penetration of utility scale solar later.

Because, contra utility talking points, distributed solar and storage is actually a massive grid asset that lessens the transmission requirements and greatly lowers the overall cost of our electricity system.

We have the technology to get to 80%-90% renewable energy today, and at today's prices it will be cheaper than our current system. And by the time we get to 80-90% renewable power, other tech will have advanced far enough to go the rest of the way.

We just need to reshape regulations and markets so that the cheapest grid can be built, and that grid will be carbon free, and cause massive amounts of wealth generation. The only losers in this transition will be the corporations that fail to make the right bets on the future.
Some maybe the roof …
It's down ATM. I found a Wayback Machine snapshot for proof.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220614131126/https://plaintext...