skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fred Brooks has been warning us that the key problem with software development is 'how to keep complexity at bay'. Half a century later we're still wondering why sloppy complexity management bites us in the ass later on.
I disagree. Payroll, data protection, working hours - all things that go into a normal contract plus an enforcement mechanism/agreement.

If they don't work out you just fire them. It's more to give them peace of mind for them to sue you if you don't pay them.

I don't need to know anything about the host country as long as I don't violate sanctions. The idea is you have an employee contract sets out what you want and how much you will pay them, and say nothing about where the employee is allowed to live.
> Because the FSF has an absolutely asinine definition of "free software" wherein any code that can be modified or updated is non-free, but if it comes from an untouchable ROM chip they can pretend it's still "free"

So mask ROM or OTP ROM are okay, but EPROM/EEPROM/flash are not?
I’d already read the original “Fought the Lawn” article and clicked on the link for this post because I thought it meant there was a follow-up article. So I got clickbaited by un-clickbait.

And then I, rules nerd, rabbit-hole scrolled all the way down however-many comments to find out whether anyone noticed or cared. I believe I will go paint my house purple now.
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight, feeling the Trojan wind.
He knows the Hisarlik wind is a crazy wind;
It blows the dust of ages past the tired walls
To scour the shining helmets of dead heroes
And when men listen to it for too long
They hear gods talking.
Where are the gods now? Ajax doesn’t hear them.
The day he did has gone. Zeus the old lecher
Is boss of bosses now, practically half legit;
White-robed, nobody touches him now.
Apollo owns a theatre where the performers use the rear door.
Athena drives by with the dark windows rolled up tight.
Aphrodite? She dresses nicer than she did.
The little heroes tossed around below by the crazy wind
Still do the Destiny Makers’ fighting,
Take the long fall for them like always,
Suckered by the crazy wind’s promise of the Olympian move,
The shot at making their own destiny.

https://www.tor.com/2011/04/24/two-from-weird-tales/
For me, circuit simulator / schematic capture tool (you can not have former without latter effectively, nobody creates netlists in text editor now) which look modern will use modern conventions about mouse and keyboard, which is well-known to anybody who tried at least one graphical editor.

You now, left (primary) click for select, click-hold-and-move to move, right (secondary) click for context menu, this kind of stuff.

Many PCB/Schematics/Simulation packages uses their own old conventions, which are alien to modern users, like "you must have to choose move tool, click on symbol, move, click to drop in new place" and so on.

3D, skeuomorphism, etc., looks nice in tutorials with 3-10 parts but are unusable after that.
A police report would be good enough proof for me. Or a video of the alleged stalker engaging in any of the claimed activity. Not a video of someone calmly sitting in a car, recording someone recording them and saying "I'm not."
I think the lack of legal recourse if somebody behaves unethically / illegally could be an issue when it comes to more obscure jurisdictions. We don’t think about it day-to-day but a lot of the trust between employer/customer and employee/contractor comes from the fact that the former can make life hell for the latter if they do something really crazy (like upload the code base on Pirate Bay).

If you have a contractor working from the outskirts of Timbuktu, who do you call if they go completely rouge on you?
if we focus on the best sources, even in studies a lot of research can't be replicated, and if we focus on te most common ones like newspapers and tv, I'd say most of it is made up or might as well be
Has anyone done one of these (or wants to) for PHP?
really, really nice! Any possibility this would be open source?
I think we had similar rules and then they relaxed the rules in my country. It's a points rule I believe: if you have more than x criteria (you work at your location, you use your own equipment, you have more than one client and so on) then you are a "company" otherwise you are a employee.
> He made a bunch of very recent, very public, and very direct commitments to that effect, and now he is backtracking on it.

He backtracks it because he prioritizes his family's safety.

Is that a bad thing in your view?

> It's absolutely something that he should reconcile with and address.

Yeah, I bet he already reconcile it. That's why he prioritizes his family's safety.

He even tweeted the new policy that tracking people in real-time is not ok.

Did you just make a bunch of criticism without actually checking what Elon has tweeted so far?
it me, the incontrovertible proof that is an 11s clip of somebody dressed like an 80s action film ninja inside a fuckin random-ass hyundai
> It's still a huge win for most applications, nonetheless.

Not from the benchmarks I've seen. Most games, perhaps.
I think something being overlooked is this creating more centralised control of food production. Especially, if it comes with patents and licensing.

This is not a good thing for equitable and available food supply, no matter how it looks on the pamphlet.
for everyone's sake, send this prick to Mars already.
In my personal experience, and through my network of friends/former colleagues, it's incredibly easy to find work as a contractor - in the UK at least.

I've never met a contractor who was short of contracts and options. There is pretty constant demand. Most of my contractor friends work 8-9 months of the year, take an extended break, then when they are ready for new work will land a new contract within 2-3 weeks at most. Totally normal to land a new contract within a few days.
Suddenly, all those movies and tv shows where characters tell robots to concentrate start to make sense.
really cool, thanks!!
Edit: I'll never buy a Tesla after seeing the Twitter saga because Elon could easily make a half-based decision on a key safety feature/hardware without thinking through the repercussions. I would not feel safe owning a Tesla.
What does this have to do with tracking his plane using public data? This is not about tracking his, or Grimes' or any other ex's car; not even about stalking them.
I definitely don’t agree with your political belief that automated location stalking broadcast on social media should be protected speech, or the belief that the US 1st amendment actually does protect it.

I get where you’re coming from, though. Replace “Elon’s location data” with “Elon is horrible” or “we should tax billionaires at 99%” and I’d also support the right to broadcast it far and wide.
This seems like a US centric view?

If you are an employer in the US then the US government will care very much about not violating sanctions.

The relevant local government will however care very much about full compliance with HR and tax law. And in an employment situation the employer has those responsibilities. (They are mitigated in a B2B contracting situation.)

As an example, even something like pensions is fiendishly complex nowadays. In the UK we have mandatory enrolment and the numbers you have to pay are a function of income tax and national insurance. Calculating the right figure from Delaware and codifying it an employment contract sounds intimidating enough alone.

I am not one for unnecessary risk averse beuracracy either, but I can understand why companies don’t want to touch this. It’s a minefield.

Incidentally, I suspect it’s a big reason why the Accentures of the world are as big as they are.
Then don't eat plants or have pets or deal with people who do either.

It's not a simple issue to just make a big yes/no choice on, much as you might feel good or less guilty for doing so.
Not sceptical of the achievement which no doubt was a small feat. But is desalination and purification something that's been a blocker for electrolysis? I don't remember ever even seeing this in efficiency charts of for example hydrogen powered cars. Maybe I always glanced over it, but I just assumed there is always plenty fresh water available for hydrolysis, no need to even consider sea water?
Ah I see now.

He is not allowed to take immediate actions to ensure his family's safety before filing the police report.

> Or a video of the alleged stalker engaging in any of the claimed activity. Not a video of someone calmly sitting in a car, recording someone recording them and saying "I'm not."

Yeah, I think the logistics was difficult around the incident.

You'd have to take the video all the way before you realized there was a stalker, and the stalker would have to be stupid enough to say "I'm the stalker" out loud while being recorded.

Are most the victims of stalking able to do that with the first incident? Is Elon an outlier here?

My conclusion is still valid. As of now, there is no way to satisfy your ridiculous criteria.
Nobody is a true free speech absolutist; and Musk least of all[0]. There are always limits to speech.

Things like libel, threats, blackmail, etc are also speech, and yet banned or restricted in some way. Social media are doing a lot of work exploring the edge cases of these, and it's possible laws need to be updated to account for the results.

[0] Years ago Musk cancelled a Tesla order from a critic. On Twitter, it didn't take him long to ban a lot of satirical accounts.
I work as a contractor. None of the things related to legal employment matter in this case, I pay my own taxes, care about all the legal stuff, insurance etc. Switched 3 jurisdictions this year amid war, and for the company wasn't an issue, we just sign a new contract with the new legal entity in the new country. This can be tricky in some countries due to their laws (like aforementioned IR35 in UK), but it's usually all on contractor, not "employer".

Btw, I hate those companies which post their jobs as remote, but turns out it's "US only remote"
elon has finally found a follower who likes to attract attention like himself. I am happy for both of them.
It may be a bit harder to do, but in my experience people are still happy about you reaching out and them getting to share what they've been doing.

It doesn't happen much but itself anymore, which is why I find a lot of value in explicitly "just chatting" with people.
# There are a bunch of metrics that are very positive for bitcoin:

1. With the fall of FTX/Alameda, and previously 3AC and Celsius, more users are realizing that an old rallying cry for bitcoin still holds true: not your keys, not your coins. Every new 'generation' of users (bitcoin is in its eternal September) has to learn the same lessons as others learned before. So, you would expect to see more self custody of coins, and that is precisely what the on-chain metrics show. See also https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mt-gox-hack/

2. Real-world adoption is growing with great products like Strike build on top of the fast and cheap Lightning network (one of the various second layers build on top of L1 Bitcoin). See https://bitcoinist.com/watch-jack-mallers-send-free-instant-...

3. More people realize the long view, and buy and hold for multiple years. See also https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/the-hodl-model
> The ability for a website to see when you click on things outside of the page itself

It doesn't let pages see what you're clicking on outside of the page. That would indeed be a serious privacy violation. It merely tells the page that it's not on-screen any more. Personally I don't see any problem with that.
SvelteKit is the most pleasant web dev experience I've encountered in a long career.
I've never opened a 20,000 page document, but I've opened documents of several hundred pages with no noticeable issues. Pressing either Space or PgDown instantly moves the page down, no scrolling animation. The option still does not exist, but it seems that the feature doesn't exist either.
But this is probably the solution, until international laws are more unified/interoperable.
It seems very arbirtrary to claim that she can absolutely be this bad at poker but she can't possibly be this bad at cheating.
On that wiki entry:

> Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 55) states the actual speed values of a warp factor are dependent upon interstellar conditions, for example gas density, electric and magnetic fields in different regions of the galaxy, and fluctuations of the subspace domain. Also quantum drag forces and motive power oscillation cause energy penalties to a ship using warp drive.

Depends on road conditions, very convenient for plot.
Collect and eat road kill then...

Oh wait that's gross so no way. People make choices on what morally fits their views, not on logical solutions.
So these "kidnappers" you are talking about are smart enough to create a security risk for a multi-billionaire who can afford any level of security, but at the same time they are too stupid to combine a few pieces of publicly information themselves and would only be dangerous if some teenager on Twitter does it for them?
Since crypto doesn't have any intrinsic value to base its prices on, it essentially follows US interest rate news and Nasdaq.

Also, the occasional pump by Tether other shady stable coins.
2. Real-world adoption is growing.

Real-world adoption is shrinking.
Why do you need any of that other food either then, just have your soylent green.
As a side note, I love how geeky the notation is in "32K-64K I$ (ECC)", so much to unpack!

Best is the use of "$", normally pronounced of course "dollar". That is a currency symbol (like £ and €) -> currency is money -> money can be cash -> that sounds a bit like "cache" which is what is being talked about.

The design has between 32768 and 65536 bytes of instruction cache, stored in error-correcting memory.
Removing "off" makes it sound like they were fired when they weren't...
Oh I am a huge believer in CFS and their SPARC system. I’ve watched every hour long lecture they’ve posted on YouTube. My whole issue is that this announcement from NIF is not some kind of holy grail so many in the news are making it out to be. It’s a positive step but Neil DeGrasse Tyson is talking about “now engineers need to figure out if they can put this in cars” and it’s like… no that’s very much not the next step. In fact NIF isn’t really trying to be a path to a functional power plant so much as a weapons research system that happens to produce research which might be useful for other systems.

I just really feel like NdT is really misrepresenting the importance of this specific announcement. In particular he’s conflating Q plasma with Q power plant. The NIF draws about 100x more power than it delivers to the target so if they actually tried to harvest the energy they generated they’d be losing 99.4% of what they’re putting in, at least according to comments I’ve read on HN about it. NdT makes it sound like they have actually gained energy when they are two orders of magnitude away from doing that at NIF.
> Adult: What do you want to be when you grow up?

Child: An honest, brave, compassionate human being.

Adult: No. I mean, how do you want to sell your labor?

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/328209-what-do-you-want-to...
It is very relevant in the context of claim that ElonJet only reshared information that was already public.

We need to be careful about not (unintentionally) spreading misinformation.

(Your objection to Elon is correct of course.)
So, the actual achievement comes down to this:

> “The fusion reaction is heating the fusion reaction, which is making more fusions happen,” says Steven Cowley, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. “It’s like the fire has been lit. This is the first controlled fusion ignition that we’ve ever seen, and that’s spectacular.”

Well for me it's debatable whether this is such a huge achievement, because the distinction between controlled and uncontrolled fusion is a bit academic in this case. In uncontrolled fusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon), you are using a nuclear fission primary stage to generate enough energy to start the fusion reaction in the secondary stage. In the NIF, you are using lasers (that have to be aligned to trillionths of a meter and damage their own guiding optics everytime they fire) to start the fusion reaction in a smaller pellet (that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars). So the only real difference between the first and the second case is that the H-bomb is smaller, much more expensive per amount of energy released, and explodes inside a chamber. And it's obvious to pretty much everyone who is paying attention that transforming this setup into a working and cost-effective fusion power plant is a very tall order...
With the patents and centralised control some people dream of. I think this is something to be very cautious of.
He does not mention that domain registries will not allow such domain names to be registered.
Contracting sometimes bypasses this, but it's not foolproof for all countries.

In South Africa if you derive >80% of your income from one contracting client, they're obligated to treat you as an employee (with all the benefits and complications that that brings). Technically speaking, for international companies this would mean they have to set up legal shop in the country. This is not easy to enforce and the tax man mostly just wants his dues, but it is something to be aware of.

Now multiply that intricacy with that of every other country you consider hiring in.
Flickr's API is still the best.

Does everything you want it to.

Has a few fun surprises that you didn't expect that make it even more fun to make things with.

Simple to use.

Well documented.

Test playground at your fingertips to experiment with any call you like.

One of the first APIs ever released and you can still count the number of other available APIs that positively compare on one hand.
Maybe some sort of cure as a service?
Here's some irony: while it's unlikely that cheating occurred; the huge amount of attention on the potential to cheat has likely inspired multiple future attempts to cheat in these hypothesized ways.

So there's a significant chance that the theory was wrong, but will become true at another event.
here is the prompt I used:
help me create a script to generate two tables in my local postgres instance:
1. a table containing cocktail recipes: id, name(unique and indexed), url, rank (floating number) optional
2. an ingredients table, containing: ingredient name, amount, and related cocktail (by id). index ingredient name, and PK should be (cocktail id, ingredient name)
IIRC that should be the method they use in the Expanse
Funny that you use the high speed rail network as an example. While China built an impressive amount of it in a short time, they also built way too much of it. The routes between smaller cities and some of the routes between larger ones lose ridiculous amounts of money and most of the network is just getting to the age where the first major maintenance is becoming necessary.

The network as a whole is deep in the red and it accumulated $ 1T of debt, alot of which was underwritten by the local governments. Because the fares are so high, most chinese cannot afford the high speed trains and they instead use the slower service. In essence local taxpayers are subsidizing the high speed journeys of the rich.

Contrast this with Germany, where sure buildout is slow and >250km/h sections are rare, but all train operators combined only have something like 5B € in debt and the high speed sections are about break-even.
Fool, do not throw your life away. There is no nobility in doing what can be accomplished without risk to human life. Robotics vs Human exploration: Robotics win. Full stop. Anything a human can do in space or on another planet, a robot can do, only cheaper and without the risk of losing a life.
I really like Telegram's bot API. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Helps me automate stuff around my life with a few small apps that connect to Telegram message threads. Summaries from other APIs, smart home functionality, family errands and shopping list reminders with my spouse and more.
Python Magic Methods You Haven't Heard About
You mean the sun as the Sun or as their local star? Not sure how you'd use ours as a lens.
Some companies prefer regular employees period. In a recent experience a prospect employer cited restrictions to accessing client data: that they have a contract with clients that forbid making their data available to other companies, and this unfortunately includes freelancers.

As to where to set up shop: wherever it's easiest for you. You still need to comply with the local rules, file reports and what not.
Logism evolution works great and is quite modern.

https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
Sorry to hear this. Hope you found somewhere better now. In my experience with 4 day weeks - in the public sector e:g gov't, academia, it really means that. You can chill , do caring responsibilities, whatever on the 5th day. And ironically, as result you are more productive the other 4 days. Whereas the private sector is patchy. In a corporate like Google, its less likely to work. I worked for a large US corp where they allowed compressed hours. Still 4 day week but just tiring long days instead. Where they have systems comparing peoples performance on the same grade against each other (a bit like apples and oranges. ;) ) , doing PIPs etc, someone working less hours may be hurt by getting less work done at times. That's fine, because for 80% of the salary the employer should expect 80% of the work (in practice they probably get 85-90% so its a bargain). However, private employers in particular can be rigid and just see that person as having done less. If there's internal politics and everyone's trying to look better than others, sometimes working 4 days makes you miss a crucial meeting and be out of the loop of what you need to do to impress Manager X by end-of-year. Public sector by contrast, its in the culture, for years plenty of people working part-time including some senior managers, more women in senior positions who previously juggled work and kids and know what its like, and, it just works. The work gets done.
If he's 24/7 in a cell losing his mind and twiddling his thumbs, how did he write this letter?

How did he quote those books if he doesn't have access to a library or books?? From memory? That Dickens quote has a "..." in the middle. Who memorises a quote so well that they can abridge it on the fly? Who memorises a quote with an abridgement in it?

If he has no access to any media, how did he cite a recent court case?

What the hell is this shit!?
> There is nothing 'real world surveilance' about following this link:

There is about how you know which link to follow.
Presence at a specific public event with an audience specifically to see them, is not the same thing as constantly tracking and publishing someone's whereabouts.
> It is relevant to those people.

Literally doesn't matter for my original comment

> And you’re focusing too much on percentages

Percentages matter for the health of the browser ecosystem. Which is, and I repeat myself:

- Chrome with overwhelming dominance. Which led to Chrome literally shitting all over the standards processes and doing whatever it feels like

- A very, very, very distant second Safari

- Firefox which rapidly slides into obscurity

That is it. There's nothing else. It's a objective, verifiable monopoly by Chrome.
If you own a home, your address may also be publicly available via county records.

Does that make it ok to post someone’s home address?
>He is not allowed to take immediate actions to ensure his family's safety without filing the police report first.

I never said anything remotely like that. A video of someone in a car is not proof of his claims.

>Are most the victims of stalking able to do that with the first incident?

No, but if they end up filming the alleged stalker's license plate I'd assume they do immediately contact the police. That's not a ridiculous criteria.
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