skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative was a Germany as vassal state under crippling WWI reparations and a failing economy. The war was not "pointless" even if it ultimately failed in its goals.

I'm not defending his ideology, but its important to understand the rational reasons behind his decisions if we want to prevent another global catastrophe. Even without Hitler its still likely Germany would have instigated fighting at some point.
I was about to say the same. The hand gesture control is the new "drag and drop" that was overhyped back in late 1990s.

While "drag and drop" has its uses today, it's nowhere as ubiquitous as its proponents back then wanted. Back then, it was forcefully pushed into spaces where it didn't belong.

Same for the gesture controls. Damn you, Minority Report, for putting this idea into the heads of the software business people. It's not all slick hand waving in the air.
Threads like this getting buried on HN are a symptom of the ideological intolerance and echo-chamber problems that lead to people like the interviewer never having encountered Peterson's ideas before.
Do you mind me asking what languages/stack you're currently working with? Just out of curiosity.
I've been a moderator on a couple of AppDB entries over the years. The quality and reliability of the entries depends entirely on the person/people moderating the app's page, as results could be rejected or approved at the moderator's discretion. Some would reject almost anything always demanding more details. Some would approve almost anything, even if it didn't contain any useful information at all. Really just hit and miss.

"Gold" and "Platinum" obviously mean different things to different people. If you go strictly, it's hard to call anything "Platinum" because almost everything has some differences in behavior v. native, even if they're only cosmetic. If a tester hasn't run into any, it's more likely that they've just done a superficial check of the program, said "Yep, it launched, looks like everything is here", and submitted "Platinum".

AppDB's moderation perspective and codebase was badly outdated when I was involved (several years ago now). I haven't checked on it recently so maybe they've redone things, but this is why you've seen inconsistent entries in the past.

As for the Windows environment, yes, different programs need different registry settings and other environment hacks. The main company that funds Wine development makes their money by selling software that manages these environments. There is also a free script called winetricks that will help install programs with the correct environment settings.

Despite semi-complex environment management requirements and the outdated AppDB code, Wine remains one of the most impressive pieces of software in production today. It's an extremely ambitious project and it's handled very professionally. It's a great all-around reference point for code quality, standards, and community. Alexandre Julliard is a deeply underappreciated BDFL and IMO his name belongs up there with other open-source luminaries.
The only "proof" they have is an "audit" that is explicitly disclaimed as "not an audit" by the very party they asked to do it in their summary letter.

They've been booted from Wells Fargo, and other banks have refused to do business with them.

They say they have a new bank, but refuse to name it. When a reporter asked, they said they'd require an NDA to even name where they are storing their funds.

Sounds like an organization that isn't exactly trying to build trust.
Yep. The interviewer's style is something akin to this:

Peterson: "Since they are human beings, women are mortal."

Interviewer: "So you're saying that all women should be murdered."

That is only a slight exaggeration of what she was doing. He would say something, then she would respond with "So you're saying...(some hot-button statement totally unrelated to what he actually said)".

I give him a lot of credit for remaining calm through that.
Agreed. Or even worse, 1 great programmer drive away several other great programmers and several other good ones.
The issue is not only about mass. Any mass could form a black hole, the main point is about mass density, and that's not trivial to obtain.

That aside, real infinities is a vague concept. What's important is that any theory of gravity has to deal with the fact that the current understanding of classical gravity and quantum field theory make (when you combine them) a theory that has problems at the Planck scale. Those are problems that any theory of quantum gravity or every theory of everything have to deal with.

But it doesn't mean that those potential theories would have any infinities. Such a theory, though, has been very elusive.

With the exception of string theory, which is the leading theory in terms of its success, most theories tend to have fundamental problems. String theory research is certainly not complete, but it's in my opinion currently the best shot we have. Online, and in academia, you can find lots of very opinionated discussions about it, which include aspects of testability, predictivity, etc. which means that some people really dislike string theory and prefer other approaches.
The mesmerizing dance of the starlings
> How would it take down the entire ecosystem? Bitcoin alone has a $194B market cap. $450M is a drop in the bucket.

I'm not sure you can compare those numbers like that. If somebody used $450M to buy bitcoin, the market cap would likely rise much much more than $450M.

For example, if I look at the GDAX order book right now, I see that the bitcoin price could be pushed up $200 by buying less than $3M worth of bitcoin. That corresponds to increasing the market cap by $3.2 billion.
I recently had an experience with a company that appeared to have this sort of attitude toward its employees. The company is a Fortune 50 company, so it's entirely possible my experience / project was an isolated case. If not, however, I would not hesitate to say they are on the path to becoming a footnote in the history books.
how many levels of rationalization are you on
As far as I can tell it has mostly issued Tethers to itself [1](as Bitfinex). Bitfinex/Tether are hoping that they can entice customers to use their platforms for arbitrage with other exchanges such that they can cream off a healthy margin without actually holding much currency themselves.

[1] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/spoiler-alert-the-institution...
Excellent explanation, thanks! But I feel compelled to point out that only a small minority of working mathematicians are constructivists.
Exactly, interestingly one of these threads had flags turned off, the other one did not.
It works based on it being redeemable for USD. It says it has frequent audits, but only recent one made public was not considered an audit by their own words. US residents on their legal page and updates is stated to not be legal customers of USDT.

Answered this in another thread that includes citation from their own site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16141938
> If any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it, we have to cut it out.

But reasonable people were offended by Brandon Eich donating to an anti-gay marriage proposition, and other reasonable people were offended that he got ousted from Mozilla.

Some people are offended by Damore and been quite vicious towards him, others are saying he's right about things (including you pretty much can't be a conservative in Silicon Valley).

Isn't reality more complex than this idea? Its easy enough to say "don't comment on a coworkers physical appearance" or something equally stupid, but "any non-zero subset" offended by any particular behavior doesn't seem reasonable.
She wasn't confused about anything. She was intentionally misrepresenting what he said.
OK. Then why not be more specific. If "tech" and "the industry" means one corner, of one business domain, with one financing model, on one peninsula... maybe I just haven't landed any jobs with the boorish worklife yet. But I certainly feel the blowback from what apparently happens there.

Reading posts here often feels like I'm in bizzaro world where I've never actually worked in "tech". Yes, my current job is more laid back when I'm not on site at a multinational client's office, but it's not that much. It's still a desk job in software. The scale I use to judge workplaces extends into back into my time in restaurants, retail, admin, music, and mechanics' shops. Now, if you want to talk culture, I could tell some stories about those places (and pardon that expression, I could obviously never tell those stories here).
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So let's take that "biological difference in choices" as premise A, and then take premise B to be the company professing a policy to want a more even split.

The result of that might be an action C, where you lower the standards required to hire people who are in one group to get the numbers more even - otherwise A will cause there to be not enough people of your usually quality for the numbers you want in B.

And that was what he alleged: that the women hired didn't have as high a bar to pass.

And that's where, if you're a woman in the same job as him, you take offense, because the implications of his argument are inescapable: a lot of those women are inferior.

So if you're a Google higher-up who doesn't believe that their diversity/outreach programs are a lowered standards (say, you think they're a different approach to compensate for preparation differences in readiness for certain interviews), then you pretty much have to get rid of the guy who insists on shouting from the rooftops that a bunch of his coworkers aren't as good as he is.

Damore sealed his own fate because he either (a) didn't think through this all, sabotaging his own credibility in the process, or (b) evil-genius arranged it to give himself a platform for a lawsuit and a bunch of conservative media fawning.
Yes you're right that he criticizes particular regulations in that passage. My point is that he doesn't endorse any regulations and criticizes several. This is context in which the passage about collusion between merchants, which Sangar claims supports his contention that Smith's intention was the "opposite" of that of modern free market advocates, appears.

That passage in no way conveys a position in opposition to the free market. If anything, it only supports it.

Moreover, I'd argue statements like "It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice" take a philosophical position against regulations in general, and there are many such statements in the Wealth of Nations.
This is how you wind up with "dongle" jokes that get pretty much everyone involved fired.
Playboy is suing Boing Boing – but linking is not copyright infringement
Wow, I stand corrected, that actually seems pretty useful!
Unfortunately, money in itself is that thing you would never have if you could not sell it. That is the noticeable exception of purely exchange value items.
If you're determimed, though, you just null route, or block, etc, everything other than Cloudflare inbound.
`src/main.cpp` is not a _generated_ C++ file.

It can be seen inside the template project here:

https://phabricator.kde.org/source/rust-qt-binding-generator...
I live in Denver and don't drive. I would love more infill and higher density! Perhaps if the campus took over the Elitch Garden's space I would hope that a lot of the new workers would stay downtown and hopefully many would be without car.
I wish we could meet somewhere in the middle for user interfaces in general. We went from dedicated buttons and knobs to slates of glass. I was really hoping for reprogrammable buttons and knobs instead, where labels and scales are replaced with LCD displays.

IMO things like the Model 3 just take it too far.
It changes the URL to store the image in a specific session, so if you close the tab by accident you can reopen it from history (or ctrl+shift+t in some browsers)

I've opened an issue for it now here: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/49
That's precisely what Android Things does for you for updates :) Plus automatic rollback if the new version is problematic.
The problem with defining toxic tech culture, as the authors have done, as "those that demean and devalue you as holistic, multifaceted human beings, (...) those that prioritize profits and growth over human and societal well being, [and] (...) those that treat you as replaceable cogs within a system of constant churn and burnout" is that it captures a wide range of behaviors that are undeniably unpleasant, but widely occur in other labor markets, and as such, aren't exclusively attributable to tech. Nor do they single out populations that the authors (and others) would consider to be 'marginalized'.

In fact, reading the essay from beginning to end, it's difficult to pinpoint a specific complaint; the cult mentality, the intentionally-skewed work-life balance, the flare-ups of self-awareness amidst lingering self-doubt identified as warning signs and symptoms are the tradeoffs of a lifestyle that everyone in tech self-selects. What, then, is the abuse here, the toxicity, when participation in this environment is a labor transaction?

There are numerous instances of awful, toxic behavior that has occurred in the field of tech, and exacerbated by this environment that could have been called out position this essay against behaviors that are abhorrent and should never be tolerated. But conjecturing an equivalence between a driven, but self-selecting labor environment and the plight of marginalized groups is a stretch, but the writing suggests that that link is self-evident to their target audience. If that's true, the conversation has already lost its nuance, and can't be refuted without collateral damage, making it a rhetorical trap.
Losing Your Job for Sexual Harassment Is Not a Violation of Due Process
A new take on ES and ML
My point is you’re not detecting the ones that you should be the most concerned with.
Imagine the New York Stock exchange decided to print counterfeit dollars (electronically) and use them to buy up shares of all the stocks on the exchange. There would be a huge rally, all the stock prices would go through the roof. But if enough shareholders started selling their shares and asking for real dollars back, the exchange would eventually collapse because they wouldn't have enough money to settle all the trades.

With Tether its basically the same situation, just more convoluted. Rather than counterfeiting dollars, they are rapidly printing USDT that the community, apparently on faith alone, believes are redeemable for $1 per Tether. Curiously Tethers have only been created, never destroyed, which would indicate that none have been redeemed back to USD.
Many other (complicit) exchanges are also accepting these "tethered dollars" - the "USD" volume at exchanges like Bitfinex, Poloniex, Binance, Huobi, Bittrex, OkEX, etc is actually USDT based.

The endgame is the same as the simplified example with counterfeit dollars. The only thing keeping it going is the rising cryptocurrency price, which is keeping people hoarding coins instead of selling back to USD. This is also why the rate of tether issuance has been increasing - they need to keep the price high so people continue to hold. Eventually the selling pressure will increase (on the few exchanges that actually handle real USD), and as people attempt to convert their crypto holdings to real dollars the fraud will become readily apparent.

There will be huge distortions as the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum rockets on Bitfinex and other Tether exchanges as people try to get their money out, and simultaneously craters on GDAX & Gemeni as they try to get back in to fiat. In the end the massively decreased GDAX/Gemeni prices will be the only ones that matter since all faith will have been lost in the former tether-based exchanges.

If you're reading this, you have been warned.
I can't help reading this as "We'll know we have a healthy workplace culture once people subconsciously realise that any time management makes a space available for internal feedback, you should make sure not to express your actual opinions there."
Bhagavad-gita as it is 1972 ed
WhatsApp Business App underwhelms
Formerly secret report details the triumphs and setbacks of the Lunokhod-2 robot
"Scientific Advertising" Claude Hopkins

"Tested Advertising" Caples (4th edition or earlier only)

"How I Raised Myself from a Failure to Success in Selling" Betger

"How to Write a Good Advertisement" Schwab.

"How to Write Sales Letters That Sell" Drayton Bird

"The Robert Collier Letter Book" - by Robert Collier

"Tested Advertising Methods" -by John Caples

"The Lazy Man's Way to Riches" - by Joe Karbo

"Break-Through Advertising" - by Eugene M. Schwartz

"Advertising Secrets of The Written Word" by Joe Sugarman

"Making Ads Pay" by John Caples

"Web Copy That Sells" by Maria Veloso

"The Architecture of Persuasion" by Michael Masterson

"Influence The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini

"The Adweek Copywriting Handbook" by Joe Sugarman

"The Elements of Copywriting" by Gary Blake and Robert Bly

"The Ultimate Sales Letter" by Dan Kennedy

"Cashvertising" by Drew Eric Whitman

"Write to sell " it is written by Andy Maslen

"Influencing Human Behaviour" by H.A.

"Tested Sentences That Sell" by Elmer Wheeler

"Unlimited Selling Power" by Moine and Lloyd.

"Writing for Emotional Impact" by Karl Iglesias

Bob Bly's "The Copywriter's Handbook"

"How To Make Your Advertising Make Money" - John Caples

"The Copywriters Handbook" - Bob Bly

"The Adweek Copywriting Handbook" - Joseph Sugarman

"Sales Letters That Sizzle" - Herschell Gordon Lewis

"Cash Copy" - Jeffrey Lant

"Magic Words That Bring You Riches" - Ted Nicholas

"Ogilvy On Advertising"

"Method Marketing" by Denny Hatch.

"My First 50 Years in Advertising" by Maxwell Sackheim.

"The Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters of all Time" by Richard Hodgson.

"How To Write Advertising That Sells" by Clyde Bedell

"Ads That Sell" by Bob Bly

"Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich" -- David Garfinkle

"Magic Words" -- Ted Nicholas

"Robert Collier Letter Book" -- Robert Collier

"My Life In Advertising" -- Claude Hopkins

"Bird" - Commonsense

"The First Hundred Million" by E. Haldeman-Julius

David Ogilvy's "Blood, Brains and Beer"

"Confessions of an advertising man"

"Million Dollar Mailings" by Denison Hatch

"The Wizard of Ads" trilogy by Roy H. Williams

"Making Ads Pay" by John Caples
A sh*tcoin is anything other than a Bitcoin.
Haha I am realizing that now. It does indeed sound like a totally fluke argument, but what I can assure you is that Apps I've used require $10/month subscription and that I think is excessive. Get a book, read it once, and sell it off and you have all the knowledge and understanding of mindfulness for life. It is not like a C++ reference book that I need to pull off every other day for reference. It is a technique which once you learn, its cemented and you don't need anything else forever!
Until you see someone do it with buying gift cards. Those people are bastards. In that case using a service that helps detect fraudulent card usage is bueno.
Could you explain more what your second paragraph means? I think I’m missing some background information. But, I’m really interested in what you have to say.

As for your last paragraph, which things in the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index don’t you buy? I just just read though the list of items in the PCE, and it seems like stuff we all buy.

https://www.bea.gov/about/pdf/1106_ACM_PCE.pdf

Also, I’m not clear on how this is much different from what economists attempt to do: create models and test them with data.
Nursing is an interesting example. In places right now in the U.S. with high unemployment among men, there are a lot of nursing jobs, however men are not taking them because said nursing job doesn't satisfy the traditional requirements of masculinity (not knocking it) with which those guys were raised.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/men-dont-w...

The article actually cites other potential issues such as the quality of the job itself, but traditional gender roles is a big part of it:

> "It seems like an easy fix. Traditionally male factory work is drying up. The fastest-growing jobs in the American economy are those that are often held by women. Why not get men to do them?

> The problem is that notions of masculinity die hard, in women as well as men. It’s not just that men consider some of the jobs that will be most in demand — in health care, education and administration — to be unmanly or demeaning, or worry that they require emotional skills they don’t have. So do some of their wives, prospective employers and women in these same professions."

...

> “Marriages have more problems when the man is unemployed than the woman,” Professor Sharone said. “What does it mean for a man to take a low-paying job that’s typically associated with women? What kind of price will they pay with their friends, their lives, their wives, compared to unemployment?”

> That may be, he said, because other sociologists have found that while work is important to both men’s and women’s identities, there remains a difference. “Work is at the core of what it means to be a man, in a way that work is not at the core of femininity,” he said.

So at the moment society is trying to figure out if it is OK with nursing being a "woman's" profession.
So what, you're going to punish someone who mentions they saw the shape of water last night and it was really good?

That seems rather ridiculous.

Or how about, I'm trying to learn rust and it's pretty neat but also pretty hard. I don't use rust at work. Is that work related enough since it's tech?

If I walk up to a coworker and say "You idiot, this damn bug is ridiculous" am I not responsible for them getting upset at that?
Barnaby Jack would probably respect having his story told as an anecdote about the real costs of medical device security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack

...

FDA > Digital Health > Cyber security:
https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DigitalHealth/ucm373213.h...

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Information for Healthcare Organizations about FDA's "Guidance for Industry: Cybersecurity for Networked Medical Devices Containing Off-The-Shelf (OTS) Software"
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https://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm07063...
And the Phoenix Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program
The theory is that Bitfinex creates these out of thin air and buys other cryptos with them, thus raising the prices across the board (the prices quickly bleeds into all the other exchanges because arb). Crypto holders buy tethers when they want to short crypto against "USD" since tethers are supposedly equal to usd. Often times the entire market swings at once and lots of it dumps into usdt during downturns ("tether up!"), and back again into crypto on an upswing. Anyway, if you look at Bitfinex, you'll notice they have pairs like BTC/USD... except that USD is really USDT. It's basically counterfeit usd and it seems like all exchanges that can't trade actual usd use it

Right now its almost like tether is like the central bank of crypto, constantly bailing out the market during downturns and pumping the price up. They've really upped their printing the past few days due to the massive downturn.
Kaiser only operates in this manner in certain of the 8 regions they service. Mostly on the west coast. In the regions on the east coast Kaiser contracts with existing hospitals.
> And this causes your spaceship to rise, and defy the Earth's gravity.

Won't it cause the surrounding atmosphere to cave in to the negative-gravity source as well?
I was there two weeks ago. It’s pretty much one street with a dozens of bars. Quite empty during the week.