skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a lawyer, but I have a vague idea about my rights and firing people to hire them as contractors instead is illegal in both jurisdictions I know, France and Norway.

Firing people to hire contractors instead is risky because you need a reason to fire people. The reason could be economical, but one could easily argue in court that if the company is hiring contractors instead, well, it was not the real reason.

The other reason could be personal. The employee is incompetent or toxic, for example, but if you get an offer as a contractor after, it sounds trivial to win a trial too.

I know the word is a bit a taboo, but I’m personally in a union, for scientists and engineers, and I would recommend people in USA to start considering thinking about perhaps potentially slowly improving their rights.
At least in the tech world calling the layoffs as increasing inequality is not exactly the same.
> I guess it is you that is living in a dream world. There are no epub3 compliant implementations then, because none of them display math properly.

To start off, you already have posts in this very discussion rejecting your misconception.

Secondly, mathml works fine when we have an epub3 reader opening a epub3 doc created by epub3 generators from epub3+mathml input. If any of those requirements aren't met, you get issues. This happens with each and every single typesetting feature, not just mathml. Would you claim that epub fails to support tables if you open an epub doc with broken tables?

Thirdly, a typical implementation shortcut taken by epub readers is to reuse whatever WebView they pick. If your epub reader uses an outdated or shitty WebView implementation, you get shitty epub docs.

https://caniuse.com/?search=mathml

Why are you commenting on subjects you are clearly clueless about?
The conspiracy of a conspiracy. ;)
Do the studies typically claim "no function", or "not required"?
I read your earlier comment as implying the EV transition was going to cause more huge vehicles. We can agree the huge vehicle phenomenon is not caused by EVs.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen that!
In my opinion, the only advantage of having a separate Taiwan is so China can't do force projection into the Pacific. Everything else is just political rhetoric.
America operates on the principal that it is better to fail quickly and rebuild than it is to defend what’s not working to preserve the status quo for as long as possible. In a century marked by rapid technological change, it is probably better to hybridize the American and European approaches, allowing faster bankruptcies and more flexible job termination in Europe while also providing a more generous safety net in the US.

But American progress is senselessly hobbled by a broken democratic model that has failed to rebalance policy making power toward the democratic center as people have moved into cities and away from the family farm. Until the country enacts reforms that fix this imbalance, other countries that find their way to greater dynamism by emulating the best of US policies may find they are leaping ahead of America.

And many countries are well positioned to make such a move. For example, Canada already has free healthcare and generous family credits that rebalance wealth automatically to the bottom, promoting labour mobility. Yet it also has a flexible labour policy, efficient courts, excellent corporation law, and fast bankruptcy resolution. Add in a well designed skills-based immigration process and you have the recipe for something great. I am not saying Canada doesn’t have its problems (First Nations reconciliation and poverty, protectionist industries such as Telecoms to name two), but the political system is more adaptable and these problems can be solved.

I’m less optimistic that the US will fix its democratic imbalance.
I worked at a company who had an office in Belgium. We were consolidating offices. Same story ~15 months, of process. Offer employment elsewhere, more grace periods of where every employee takes the full time to consider the offer… just to collect a paycheck and say no.

It was a mess, and in the meantime most of that office was at best worthless / some folks just disruptive.

Many of these were capable people, highly employable, but they weren’t productive at all during this time.

I got along with some folks in that office, I really don’t think all that time did them any good. I think the intent behind the laws in play at that time and how individuals used them was very different.
Perhaps we should require AI systems to identify themselves, so that we're not forced to conduct Turing tests in all our online interactions
I watched a YouTube video on this topic a long time ago. This isn't the exact video but similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMgarcFkXz4 (Vox)

tldw: random boarding turns out to be the fastest
The End of Virtual Reality
Taking a guess that it's a sales tactic. Everyone has to walk past first class, where they're already being served food and beverages in their luxury sized seats. Then past business class. Then to your peasant seat.
This is true in general but not in the use case they presented. If they had explained why a normalized distribution is useful it would have made sense - but they just describe this as pick-the-top-answer next-word predictor, which makes the softmax superfluous.
> it takes multiple years of permitting and approvals to build a sloped concrete wall and some water cannons

Sometimes I struggle to remain optimistic about America’s future
That is common sense, but saying that for some reasons gets lots of pushback from several people (both in Europe and America). People seem to forget that countries are only able to take modern moral stances due to their prosperity, and once the prosperity is not there, the voters forget morality in an instant.
I think “winning” really depends on your criteria for success. Maybe it’s winning on overall metrics like GDP, but on an individual level, the story is far less clear.

Like, is it winning to have the option of starting a company that produces generational wealth for yourself, while living in a city unable to solve its homelessness problem? Is it winning to be a 1%-er but have no safety net so that you're always precarious, at risk of being wiped out by factors you have no control over? Is it winning to have a school system so dysfunctional that you send your kids to private schools that most of your neighbors can't afford?

I expect that from a perspective that prioritizes stability, safety, and sustainability, a model where it's hard to be fired and companies are encouraged to take long term responsibility for their employees (and therefore grow slowly) makes a lot of sense.
> How would Europe even compete with America in the long run.

Via "Eurasian integration", specifically the development of transport and logistics megaprojects across the heartland of Eurasia, strongly linking Europe to East Asia by land. But conveniently timed geopolitical events have delayed that somewhat.
Its not just capitalistic competition, but the more fundamental pressure to be first and standard.

The A1111 Stable Diffusion repo is a good example. Its based on the old Stability AI implementation, instead of the newer and (I would argue) better huggingface diffusers library, but its cemented as the standard because it hit critical mass first and is sucking all the air out of the room. And there is basically zero traction for any SD implementations outside of A1111 and diffusers derivatives, much less alternative diffusion networks that are popping up, aside from cloud services with existing name recognition.
Well, the concepts of regulated free markets, free trade between nations, and generally free immigration have created the single largest increase in human living standards in history.
>affordance for more food and richer food

yeah, the U.S eats richer food than the French.
Well, being the only country left with any manufacturing after a catastrophic world war is one major reason.

Also, navigable waterways. Transporting goods by water costs 1/100th what it costs to transport over land. After the US established a corp of engineers to dredge our waterways to make them passable, the ability to transport goods increased substantially, making internal trade extremely cheap.
“Richer” food?
UberLOL!

By what standard exactly is pathological caloric surplus funded by big food considered “richer”?
I'll go ahead and promise to leave the '#wrapper' id on that element in my blog template, so this can be shortened to:

document.getElementById('wrapper').style.margin = '0 auto';

Though if you're in the habit of customizing sites you read, I'd personally recommend using a browser extension like Stylus (https://add0n.com/stylus.html) to do CSS, so you could write it like this:

#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
}
LaTeX is isn't semantic, so how could MathML computed from LaTEX be semantic?
>The important part is not building the capacity in, it's remaining flexible and adapting to what happens.

At some point, flexibility requires extra capacity. You can't improvise when you're spending 100% of your resources on operations.
Being a contractor can be freeing. Everything that normally matters stops mattering. Code quality, longterm issues, finishing whatever you are doing. You are there for a fixed length of time. Not getting access becomes someone elses worry. The project not working, the ceo is unhappy.. don't really matter
I thought it was maybe something like: https://rpubs.com/eR_ic/transfoRmers
becoming a core R package, and I was like, okay why?
Yes but European economies benefit from the American approach without all the downsides. You guys got Google and smartphones and AI in the past couple decades. Europeans lack technical innovation and they don't need it because the innovation comes from somewhere else before percolating into the European economy for free.

The European approach is the winning approach so long as at least one country does all the hard work.
Author here! I had a hunch that the typeclass resolution engine in the Coq typechecker could be Turing-complete, so I proved it by implementing a variant of Brainfuck in it. Feedback welcome.
I suspect someone will create an electric wok that you can store in the cupboard and pull out when you want it. No need for gas.
On the other hand, the question template build up can be useful when initiating contact with someone. They have the space of “Could I have…” or equivalent in other languages to get tuned in to the fact you’re asking a question. Much of speech comprehension is being able to anticipate what’s coming.
Actually if US immigrants were their own country they'd have the best life expectancy in the world. They're holding up our stats, not pulling them down.

> In fact, the researchers say, Americans’ life expectancy would steeply decline if it weren’t for immigrants and their children. Under that scenario, U.S. life expectancy in 2017 would have reverted to levels last seen in 2003 — 74.4 years for men and 79.5 years for women — more closely resembling the average lifespans of Tunisia and Ecuador.

(data is pre-covid)

https://gero.usc.edu/2021/09/30/immigration-boosts-u-s-life-...
You might want to think that, but unfortunately foreign born Americans (immigrants) actually have significantly longer life expectancies than American born do.

Part of the reason for that is the much higher death rate in infants in the US, but it is still a very hard thing to explain away. I will also say as somebody who has lived in the US, US food is high calorie, but it is not better on any dimension, than what I can buy in any European street market. Possibly foreign born Americans stick with their original diets more.. who knows. But ops point about trading quality of life for meaningless economic statistics is spot on.
The sorting orders are the most weird (but still way better than Airbnb where you control nothing and are doomed to scroll an infinite list). For example, teh sort order I use most often is to sort by price, but I need to start from the most expensive offers as I'm looking for (the pretenders to the) best places in a given area. Unfortunately, Booking.com allows to sort by price in one direction only, so I have to start from the end and from the bottom of each page. Weird but easy to solve.

But what I hate is that they won't let me sort by rating! Why do they include ratings, though? They present several weird options I'd never use as they are optimized to land me with a place I don't want. I just want to sort by rating - and let me decide if the number of ratings received makes it trustworthy.
What would Dreamcast 2 bring for users or Sega?

On the consumer side, I can only imagine it would be yet another x86 based console, because what else is there to do? Another samey controller, because once you add a right analog stick, and left and right bumpers and a home button, what do you have left to differentiate on? Can't even put the cable on the wrong side anymore. I guess you could have a nicer screen and just build it into the controller, but that was hardly used last time.

On Sega's side, they're going to do all that R&D to make the same thing as everyone else and then how are they going to make the money back? Not on first party game sales. Third party sales will be hard too, unless they have some really strong pitch, but at this point, they're really a new entrant, so who's going to port to the new guy's platform, unless it's so amazing and underpriced that everyone will want to buy it.

Might be nice if they can figure out how to make a mini-dreamcast though. Depends on how many games they can get licensees to sign up for though, I guess.
You should probably remove your guess or provide a source. If people are seriously dumb enough to “cook” with a dishwasher, someone is probably going to also take your guess at face value.
Did you have a pension as an employee? Significant stock options?
Heh that makes it even worse because the people who decided to remove JPEG XL from Chrome claimed it was technically inferior :')
... which is to a large degree because hiring and firing in the EU is so encumbered by red tape.
In English you can say "One beer please."
While all of that is true, the supremacy of the US in the tech sector is entirely due to policy and culture, and has little to do with other factors, such as geographical wealth.

What is holding us back here in the EU, is bad leadership and lots of outdated corporate, financial and political traditions.
No Capitalism doesn’t centralize for efficiency. Sometimes it centralizes and efficiency is a side effect. But what Capitalism is actually doing is concentrating wealth into fewer hands.
I believe commissions are pretty standardized at 10-12% by now; OTAs have been competing on commission in the fight to sign up hotels.

The most likely reason you might get a better rate from a third-party booking site than from the hotel direct is if the hotel allows the site to do variable pricing to try to capture more willingness-to-pay; sometimes that variable pricing will work out in your favour.
That's interesting because studies have shown that passengers that have to walk to first class are primed for air rage, and resentment.

https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2016/05/11/resentment-of-...

I remember boarding a Virgin flight in Australia in 2019 and they boarded from both ends of the plane. I thought that was the most efficient way.
There are walkable US cities, and one can move to NY, Chicago, Boston, Seattle or its outskirts. However, people choose to stay in the suburbs because they can afford it.
This simply isn't true. Some things are perfectly safe cooked but unsafe when raw. Pork is a good example of this: Folks get parasites from undercooked pork. (I'm sure there are others, I just know this with pork). Cooking meat saves live and helps prevent food-born illnesses.

Heck, this isn't even true with vegetables. Kidney beans need to be properly cooked so they aren't toxic. One kidney bean is enough to cause stomach distress. This is the reason you shouldn't cook raw kidney beans in a slow cooker - they need boiled. Other legumes have this toxin, but in lesser amounts so it isn't as important and as such, safe with most cooking methods.
There was a mention in, I believe, an NPR article(or podcast) many years ago about Europe vs America.

The main thrust was that someone from Chicago can easily start a job in New York with little to no cultural adjustment or misunderstandings.

In Europe, the situation was quite different with e.g. a Spaniard working with Germans etc. The claim was that someone ended up writing a book called "Managing Spaniards if you are a German".
Interesting question! You can try it out easily by varying the N parameter in the script. I uploaded the resulting images to the Readme in my fork: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/fft-image-experiments#scaling-the...

To summarize, the FFTs also have a recursive nature, which becomes more fine-granular with each recursion depth in the original. For example, this trippy FFT https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mxmlnkn/fft-image-experime... shows that the hierarchical square pattern probably repeats ad infinitum. Note that those details that get added with more recursion get lost when downscaling the images and the nearest-neighbor-upscaled images almost look like they are dithered: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/fft-image-experiments/raw/master/...

It is interesting though that the Fourier transform has a recursive nature that is still visible when downscaling a larger image. When doing that for any of the space-filling curves you basically just get a gray image because they evenly fill the space. Well, the Dragon curve and the Gosper Diagram do have boundaries that are still visible even when downsampling large-resolutions versions:

Hilbert Curve that simply looks gray when downsampled:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mxmlnkn/fft-image-experime...

Dragon curve, which is gray but can be discerned from the background:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mxmlnkn/fft-image-experime...
Plot twist, they’re referring to room #1, which is the last one ti be rented out.
I still remember vast majority of HN comments suggest SpaceX's Starship couldn't be done.
This is a nice concrete example of a situation where inheritance is useful for program design.

I think i'd go for the "object oriented" approach, but with convenience functions to avoid explicit upcasts. Start with three types:

cairo_t /* a generic context, could be a page or a pattern */
cairo_page_t
cairo_pattern_t

Functions only defined on pages take a page:

void pdf_page_cmd_bob(cairo_page_t* ctx);

Functions defined on both take a generic context:

void pdf_ctx_cmd_l(cairo_t* ctx, int x, int y);

Then you need some way to upcast from the child types to the parent (which would be implicit in C++ etc):

cairo_t* pdf_page_to_ctx(cairo_page_t* ctx);
cairo_t* pdf_pattern_to_ctx(cairo_pattern_t* ctx);

So a call looks like:

pdf_ctx_cmd_l(pdf_page_to_ctx(page), 10, 20);

But we can generate this:

void pdf_page_cmd_l(cairo_page_t* ctx, int x, int y) {
pdf_ctx_cmd_l(pdf_page_to_ctx(ctx), x, y);
}

Which lets users write this:

pdf_page_cmd_l(page, 10, 20);

The convenience functions could even be macros. There would be no loss of type safety from using macros that way. There would need to be a lot of convenience functions or macros, but they are trivial, and so could be generated by a script (or another macro!).
In case of an attack, the bus driver can just stop the bus on the road, open the doors and let everyone run off the bus. Hard to do on a plane
> AB Classic

Wow. Couldn't even leave the words Angry Birds in the title.
It's the general principle of the matter. Why should an item you supposedly own have programming that works directly contrary to your interests?

Specific easily-imaginable attackers are law enforcement, criminals, and finance companies. Both through deliberate unjust actions, as well as administrative mixups. "Sorry, despite your car being paid off, we incorrectly thought your loan was in default. But we returned your car a week later, so no harm done, right?"

And responding to your other comment about criminals, actual physical property can be parted out and sold. As opposed to committing fraud to obtain paper assets, which can be investigated and reversed. Stealing cars and financial fraud are just different (criminal) industries.
Nit pick but fun trivia: the marathon distance wasn’t yet fixed at its current 42.195 km until 1924. While that distance had been used before, for the 1912 olympic marathon it was 40.2 km.
I always thought it was because the plane would tip if you put all that weight in the back
Advertising is inherently manipulative. That's the entire point. Here, it's biasing toward Expedia, who profits if you use them regardless of which country you travel to.
US manufacturing continues to grow almost monotonically, it is wildly successful. The only thing that has declined is manufacturing jobs due to the high levels of automation used in American manufacturing.
> single largest increase in human living standards.

That's a good point. It'd be useful if the US could raise it's game for it's citizens, and let them participate in that too. :)
Summer 2023 applicant. America Cosmetic Association = 2-sided marketplace directory + Social Network + (secret sauce =) Gamification
I wonder what's with safety of such enclosures made of pcbs? For instance is it going to have unpleasant chemicals transferring on the fingers and then to the body when someone touches eyes or mouth?
> making the platform a space normal people want to participate in

How are you defining normal here?

Discussion of vaccine efficacy, test validity during vaccine trials, alternative medical treatments, and even the basic fundamental purpose of informed consent were all being censored. Those topics broadly fit on the right in general, with a focus on individual freedom, and aren't specific to the far right.

Are you arguing that topics relate to a general opinion of individual vs collective views, broadly held by roughly half our population, aren't normal and should be isolated and silenced?

Are you further arguing that its right for minority views to be thrown out, silenced, and those individuals stripped of their right to free speech? If so, where is that line drawn when compared to other political battles fought by the left to protect and shine a light on opinions of other minority groups?
> An Uber spokesperson said: “We are disappointed that the court did not recognise the robust processes we have in place, including meaningful human review, when making a decision to deactivate a driver’s account due to suspected fraud.

That's a very bad way of saying they aren't sorry they got caught doing unethical automated decisions that would've left the driver with no recourse, had he not belonged to a Union.
Dearth Vader?
> We need to keep in mind that coal based energy emits more radioactive matter at a larger scale then nuclear.

I’ve heard that too. Are you sure that this comparison is taking into account radioactive waste at all, rather than just comparing direct emissions into the environment during normal operation?
Every latino I know, men or women, completely despise this term. I only ever see it used by whites (typically from the US).

Turns out that they really like their languages, and grammatical gender is a thing in Romance languages.
It's literally because people who have paid for business class want to board first.

Think it through. You've just been charged an extra $500 to sit in a chair for four hours, and you're waiting in line behind a mother with five screaming children? You've got very important business things to attend to! Or whatever!

IDK if you ever watched _Veep_ but there's this marvellous episode where a megadonor is complaining that he didn't get more chicken than the $100-plate crowd at a fundraiser. He was literally counting (let's generously say) $5 chicken breasts.

Never mind that he was a hominid of roughly the same proportion as everyone else in the room; did not metabolize food any faster or differently; and certainly couldn't care less about $5.

So: like that, but for air travel.