albertsun

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by albertsun 4y ago
The only reliable way is to have the clause negotiated into a union contract which also has a "just cause" termination clause. One more reason to for tech workers to start organizing.
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by albertsun 4y ago
This is pretty interesting too: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-sedan-vs... Same car has grown by 5% over 15 years.
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Micron Pledges Up to $100B for Semiconductor Factory in New York(nytimes.com)
27 points by albertsun 4y ago|9 comments
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by albertsun 4y ago
A domain name can go away just as easily, maybe more easily than a popular URL shortening service.
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by albertsun 5y ago
Try https://www.newsblur.com/ it does a lot of what you're asking for and works well on web and mobile app.
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by albertsun 6y ago
It's only a tradeoff if you assume that the process must be automated and operate with a minimum of actual human scrutiny or consideration. Any qualified human review would immediately be able to distinguish and vastly improve both the
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Diabetes monitor outage fails to send critical blood sugar alerts(nytimes.com)
1 points by albertsun 7y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 8y ago
Well, almost no one does, but someone has filed a whistle-blower claim with the IRS that this pricing arrangement is an illegal tax dodge: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/your-money/vanguard-a-cha...
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by albertsun 8y ago
There are! We're hiring for lots of open technology jobs here https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech For backend specifically, on the CMS team there's this job https://nytimes.wd5.myworkd
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by albertsun 8y ago
We're hiring! You should apply! https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Tech/job/New-York-NY/S...
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by albertsun 9y ago
This is like a less thought out version of the carbon fee and dividend plan https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-and-dividend/ that has wide ranging support - though not from the people who currently matter.
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by albertsun 9y ago
This section is troubling. > In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare, Google,
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by albertsun 9y ago
You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Think about what's on the x-axis here. The graph is really a histogram with average income growth binne
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by albertsun 9y ago
They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing. And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?
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by albertsun 10y ago
GDP growth and income growth are not equivalent - for example, corporate profits that aren't distributed would count towards GDP but not towards individual incomes.
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by albertsun 10y ago
The New York Times | New York, New York | Onsite | Full-time Come work in the newsroom of The New York Times and write code to shape the future of journalism. The Interactive News Team is looking for full-stack developers (ones with ops exp
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by albertsun 11y ago
That's definitely not the case... Journals provide news outlets with complimentary copies of papers specifically so that they can be written about. Often, but not always, they're even provided in advance of official publication.
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by albertsun 11y ago
It's really depressing how cynical that is. (Developer working at the NYTimes here). The actual reason links to studies are often left off articles (particularly in cases like this with sharp deadline pressure to publish fast before th
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by albertsun 11y ago
If your mental model for something is so malleable that it can explain cancer and police corruption the same way, maybe it's not actually providing any insight and all you've done is distort reality to fit it. Just saying... Game
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by albertsun 11y ago
No. The desire to translate all nutritional research into diet advice is what leads to fad diets and horrific misunderstanding of what science knows and doesn't know about nutrition and metabolic pathways.
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by albertsun 11y ago
The New York Times | New York, NY (Remote is ok) | DevOps The New York Times interactive news team is looking for a dev ops engineer to work on developing our infrastructure for creating breaking news applications, cutting edge data visuali
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by albertsun 11y ago
This is indeed a manual switch in the CMS that human editors decide to turn on for certain stories. (Source: I work at the Times)
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by albertsun 12y ago
Here's the developer overview: https://developer.apple.com/researchkit/researchkit-technica... It appears to mostly be an iOS UI toolkit of sorts for easing the creation of individual apps to collect research data
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ArchieML is a structured text format optimized for human writeability(archieml.org)
67 points by albertsun 12y ago|13 comments
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Ask Not, “Will It Snow?”; Ask “What’s the Distribution of Your Forecast?(medium.com)
1 points by albertsun 12y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 12y ago
It might test well in metrics, but this is the kind of thing that points out why purely data based decision making can be dangerous. A-B testing assumes users will all behave the same in the future as in the past. But people's future b
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by albertsun 12y ago
All the training in needfinding, and exploring the problem and solution sound very similar to how business school classes work to me. And I would guess that those skills are all very valuable, but aren't enough on their own. Lots of th
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by albertsun 12y ago
There's already support for agents written in javascript: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/app/models/age... And for more substantial tasks it'd be possible to write an a
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by albertsun 12y ago
The best part of Huginn is being able to self-host and write any arbitrary agents you want.
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by albertsun 13y ago
I can see the direct resemblance between tracking the two... What I really don't understand is how you can't see the difference between tracking someone's online activities that they engage in through a web browser and tracki

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