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> So I'm personally trying to foster microenterprise as part of the solution to what has gone wrong. We need more small time operators.

I agree, and I've always preferred smaller companies to larger ones. Unfortunately, I didn't always know that about myself. There's likely more I don't know that I "should".

In tech, and especially on here, there's a strong bias for the VC-funded growth-at-all costs business model. That of course, leads quickly to large organization.

Fortunately, there are people who post here that support small businesses that stay small and share their experiences.

> And yet in the past year, a lot of things I have been saying on HN for nearly 9 years are suddenly being parroted in various "movements" or whatever.

I'd consider that as an encouraging sign, if not success. Someone is getting the message (if not directly from you)!

> There's other stuff I do. I wouldn't know how to explain it all

You shouldn't even have to. Just doing it is enough.

What I would hope you do on here is suggest what believe other people need to do to help and, more importantly, the mechanism by which it will help.

> I routinely get dismissed by people saying "No, you didn't actually do X. You are deluded."

If someone posts an ad-hominem attack like that, I do urge you to flag it. Even a "shallow" dismissal, with no explanation or reasoning, like even just the first sentence of the above quote could be worthy of a flag. The moderators here are pretty good about keeping a lid on that sort of thing.

On the other hand, I also urge you not to take personally a disagreement, attack, or even a dismissal (with reasoning behind it) of your statement.
> Does a staffing agency pay as a W-2 employee and provide an insurance plan?

Not necessarily. Some will, but the coverage is usually not awesome. Then the question is, do you want the health insurance, or is it better to get obamacare because the staffing agency is likely going to be more temporary?

I'm becoming more an more of a believer that health insurance should be separate from employment. Mostly because your health is permanent and employment is most likely temporary.
>But that's when I realized. Random non-tech people are heavily invested and rooting for random scam projects. That's not good.

Dennis Rodman was literally at the Singapaore Summit with Trump and Kim Jong Un wearing a t-shirt for his "Pot Coin" [0].

I'm not sure I even want to live in this world anymore.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/12/17453080/dennis-rodman-po...
I thought the robo-signing meant fraud for mortgage companies not banks. But perhaps I was wrong.
I'd rather be fired by a machine than fired by a database. In this guy's case, everyone of importance was on his side, it was just a technical matter to get the situation resolved in his favor.

In my case, there was a decision that employees like me would be paid out of the server budget. And then a subsequent decision came down: fire the employees that are getting paid out of the server budget! Of my department, regardless of how well we did our jobs, regardless of pay, regardless of length of employment, some of us had the 'paid like a server' checkbox checked and some of us didn't. The ones that didn't were kept on.
Financial fraud prevention gambits are complicated.

It may be possible that PP thought someone else was using your account.

What should happen in these scenarios is simply a validation of some kind ie payment only goes through if you click on the email your received.

I used to travel to SF from Canada a lot and my bank would block my Visa even though I told them not to.

In the US there's no password in Visas, i.e. no chip-and-pin, which is totally crazy = huge fraud.

It's funny to think in the Silicon Valley, top tech companies in the world ... everyone is still using that old mag stripe stuff when pretty much the rest of the world has moved on.
I don't agree.

Take Dick for example: whether his writing deals with "the highest kind of truth" is not important to me. I've read just about everything he's written because I enjoy his writing.

I think this is equally true for Dostoevsky, Conrad, and other acclaimed writers. When I read those authors, I have an emotional reaction. It's not research. I didn't come away from Crime and Punishment with a better understanding of why people commit murder. I don't understand "nautical psychology" any better for having read The Shadow Line. I was moved by those novels. I'd say that makes them entertainment.

I don't think acclaimed literature belongs in a different category than teenage supernatural romance. Twilight elicit an emotional response from its audience just like Ubik does. The emotions, technique, and the audience could hardly be more different, but I see no reason that one of those novels should be categorized as "base entertainment" and the other as "high art". They're both entertainment.

Some literature may contain a thesis but, in my opinion, it mostly doesn't. If someone has to "study" a novel to "get the point" then that novel has failed, at least with regard to that reader.

Just my opinion.

More on topic: I enjoy Roberto Bolano's thoughts on Philip K. Dick: http://www.electriccereal.com/roberto-bolano-on-philip-k-dic...
Any plans to fix all of the build warnings RN produces for native devs?
Taking money from paypal is a risk, as there's a period of time it's in paypal before you extract it
Sending money to a store on paypal doesn't seem to be a problem
I'm disturbed how "human rights" somehow equates to mandatory acceptance of geo-political agendas.

I'm even more disturbed that ""hypocritical and self-serving" and "makes a mockery of human rights"" is now a place called home.
In the 1950s, barbiturates were widely prescribed for the routine treatment of anxiety and insomnia. Eventually, we realised that they were highly addictive and extremely dangerous, so we stopped prescribing them except as a short-term treatment for acute and severe episodes. Some patients remained addicted for years or decades; many died as a result.

In the 1960s, benzodiazepines were widely prescribed for the routine treatment of anxiety and insomnia. Eventually, we realised that they were highly addictive and extremely dangerous, so we stopped prescribing them except as a short-term treatment for acute and severe episodes. Some patients remained addicted for years or decades; many died as a result.

I'd really like history to stop repeating itself. I have a horrible suspicion that it won't.
I have never found that to be true. I've been a lot of pain meds in the past, and marijuana as well, and the marijuana never did squat for the pain. Transitioning from opioids to marijuana, really? That sounds hella dubious to me.
Yes! Or in a large document/book to guarantee no break between code and executable examples
I work in IT.

I never respected sales,

Until I tried it.
I will always gladly trade a reasonable amount of upload bandwidth to avoid advertisements.
If that's the case then what is driving the rapid rise in land prices?
I've had this happen, myself and an employee who I had signed the termination paperwork for shared the same first name and someone put my name in instead of his. It was hell for at least a month as different automated systems kicked in and disabled my accounts, benefits, and payments.

Worse, the first notification email happened while I was presenting to the CEO and the HR contact in the meeting had noticed half way through that I had been fired. Queue jokes of "was the presentation that bad?". No one was able to stop the machine because no one really knew all the different processes or they weren't built to stop midway.
I dunno. Looking at canned content with VR goggles seems like a dead end. It's 3D TV on steroids. Remember 3D TV? Works fine. Too much trouble just to watch TV. Market failure.

It's been five years since the Oculus Rift DK1 appeared, and there's still no killer app. Game developers are pulling back from VR.[1][2] The VR virtual worlds are a disaster. Sansar has about 50 (fifty) concurrent users. SineSpace and High Fidelity have similar numbers.

VR goggles are cool for about an hour, and in the closet in a month.

The technology is coming along just fine, but that's not the problem.

[1] https://www.gq.com/story/is-vr-gaming-over-before-it-even-st...
[2] https://mashable.com/2018/01/24/virtual-reality-gaming-loser...
It's becoming popular to want to push machine learning tasks onto edge devices like mobile and desktop CPUs, for example apps that include some machine learning. Some of these machine learning algorithms do a lot of matrix multiplies.

"Typical" is highly varied, and it changes.

Edit: here's an example: Google brings on-device machine learning to mobile with TensorFlow Lite

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/15/go...
Vibora: Fast, asynchronous and sexy Python web framework
Microsoft Employees Protest Work with ICE
For what it's worth, I've never had a bad experience with PayPal. I've heard all the horror stories, but nothing has come close to that. I sold something on Ebay once and the buyer didn't receive the item, and did what he should and reported it to Ebay/PayPal. Paypal started the dispute resolution process, and I uploaded a receipt of me sending it. The dispute was resolved in my favour.

I started accepting donations from a community gaming website via PayPal and I was very hesitant about using it due to the bad stories I've heard. A couple of months and a couple of hundreds of dollars later, no problems yet.

The biggest 'problem' I've had with PayPal is moving to a new country. You can't add International cards to your account, and you can't change the country of your PayPal account. The only solution for me was to create a new account, which is fine I guess.

But then I guess you never have a bad experience until you do.
It is simply not the case that "lie + wire = wire fraud". Salmon's summary is obviously not spot-on.

You still don't seem to be following my point regarding jury instructions. My argument isn't that they protect defendants because juries receive them; it's simply that they offer a concise summary of the predicates for felony crimes. A jury's receipt of any given instruction is immaterial.
So what happens to the ranches when they can no longer pay the bills?
Ah, thanks for the correction.

In any case, it seems this is specific to compiled code.
The first step IMO is to refuse to use the tools that alienate you (typescript, react...). Develop a rationale around that. I can help if you want on that as I did that work.
Sounds like he's contracting at a huge company. His contracting company isn't going to make waves over this. I would guess the contracting company is making $300+ an hour off this guy, paying him $50 an hour, and they have 200+ other contractors in the building.
> I think it's a good idea to initially assume most things you read were written in good faith

When a journalist writes, I only look for the narrative.
Most of those ranchers don't have the vision to transform their ranches as they'd have to. Perhaps not the inclination, either. My aunt's family were ranchers out in NW Colorado and Eastern Utah and the entire extended family has transitioned into city life at this point.

Utah is one of the most beautiful parts of the world though, imo.
SoundHound Digs Deeper into Voice AI Market
Thanks, I mostly agree you too. This topic is a hard one to discuss, nearly a taboo. A proof might be that this post was flagkilled, luckily when I mailed the mods about it they did unkill it.

When I said faux-techies I mostly thought about HTML/CSS programmer types. While I did not know about the types you talk about, it's not very hard to believe, given how the way we execute this whole diversity thing is so open and defenceless to exploitation by bad actors. Unfortunately taboos mixed with a prejudiced view of woman as a naive, pure being (which is deeply patriarchal, if anything) are a big obstacle.
The problem is that securily sending someone's money to someone else while avoiding fraud is hard. So you have a service that is difficult and expensive (for the merchant typically), or you have one that sucks for some users but good enough for most.
Moderate drinking teaches heart cells how to toughen up
I think I see what you're trying to fix. The President has far too much power - far more in practice than the Constitution ever intended. Congress is growing increasingly worthless - just perpetual infighting, with no actual governing. The problems you're trying to address are real.

Turning to some problems with your proposal:

This would never pass under the standard that it proposes for requiring other things to pass. So that seems... hypocritical? I think the 90% and 98% numbers are far too high. (And 50% is far too low. And no, I don't have perfect numbers...)

User fees are a bit of an odd way to pay for the military. How much am I using? How can you tell?

No government will have the ability to make any law? That means that the constitution has to either rigidly specify the law for all local conditions, or else it has to be loose enough to be "interpreted" locally. The second pretty clearly isn't going to be what you want; the first is unworkable.
Yeah, I don't get it.

Publish something YT doesn't like, and we'll demonetize you!

Publish something YT likes, and... we'll force you to monetize?
In other news, did anyone get a 'go ad free' pop-up on YouTube today, with 3 months free?

Seems there are some changes going on.
“business always wants the Ferrari solution at the cost of a Fiat panda“

Isn’t that the promise of computers and technology? What would you suggest that business want?
Just imagine if GPS was developed today. There would be widespread blaming of programmers involved because "they are writing software for targeting missiles used to kill people".
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Emerson's Essays. SARK's first 4 or 5 books. The Sirens of Titan. Stevenson's essays.
Would you mind expanding upon that or providing a link? That would be a very interesting read for me!
Would it be possible to map the first detected pose to a 3D model, scale and deform it to match the pose, and then use each next pose to manipulate the 3D model (vs generating all the vertices again)? This should result in smooth animation, without artifacts, and joint limits might even help with position estimation.
This reminds me of how Hynix was able to evade anti-dumping duties by both EU and US in the mid-2000s by using the Eugene, Oregon and later Wuxi, China fabs.
"analyse him fair" is criticism (true for anyone, not just Erdoğan). But as I hear, Erdoğan doesn't tolerate fair analysis.
You correct a $1 preauthorization without capture occurs that veirfy AVS part of Zip code and disappeares from yiur account within 48 hours. So only Zip code of new/old card is required at the office, unless you do it online then whole address is being verified.

Usps system recognizes gift cards and do not allow those, so is majority of online services for example Digital Ocean (due to using their boxes for spam)
I'm incredibly sad at how much of my programming goes into monitoring the performance of my coworkers. The worst part is when I write a new tool and take a look at it before management does. Usually only 1 or 2 people are doing the tasks that management is asking everyone to do daily.
Using a bank and had similar experiences. BBVA flagged flights booked on Southwest as gambling. Nothing they could do about it.
> permissioned

I.e. "trusted". So what does this bring over existing consensus algorithms, besides the "blockchain" buzzword hype?
Would they be using mostly CPU for that, or would they offload it to the GPU or a dedicated chip? I would assume you would use your general purpose CPU only if all else wasn't available (and generally there's a GPU available on most end user devices these days).
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> somehow cancelled the promo via some automated system

Maybe someone just unassigned your employee id to the role, because in reality you weren't actually taking the job!
I'm well informed already about these things. Note that neither of them have significant adoption.

Security tokens are a Bad idea.

Dai is basically only useful for speculating on cryptocurrencies and so I dismiss it like I dismiss exchange dapps. This whole industry can't be built on speculating on the value of nonces.
> You think horrifyingly painful medical conditions are extremely rare

Yes. In particular, they are much less of a concern than the epidemic of people killing themselves with opiates. This is so blatantly the case that I see this piece as simply axe-grinding of a certain agenda. The author is distressed and annoyed that sympathy is going towards this suicidal population. The author wants to direct your sympathy towards people like this guy.

And this guy's problem is not 'pain'. There's medicine for that. This guy's problem is that doctors are skeptical of his pain. And that is way, way, down the totem poll of things I care about, vs. an entire population group killing itself by whatever means are handy.

When I was eight I was worried about people not believing that I was really sick.
I can see the benefit of real time operation, and I can see the benefit of using a single, standardized invoicing / payment system. I don't understand why you need a blockchain for any of that.
I kinda doubt tourism in Smith Mesa comes anywhere even close to ranching economically. Its an out of the way drive that not many people do. It’s a view of Zion, but that’s all. Everyone just goes to the park to go hiking and see the waterfalls and cliff views.

And there really isn’t that much either/or here. Ranchable land and tourist spots might be near each other, but there aren’t really many flat acres good for farming in Utah that also attract visitors. People hike the mountains and run the rivers, but the tourist demand for most of the flat land is pretty low.
So, wage theft.

Now we're not just talking about a lost opportunity to reward a loyal worker. If you're right, somebody ought to be going to jail.
Does Valium count as as a pain-killer? I suppose its' more of an anxiety / mental pain drug than a physical pain drug.

It was commonly seen in homes in the 1980s, successor to meprobamate of the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Little_Helpers
T-mobile and Sprint have 'suspended' this, not outright stopped.

Since they don't care about your privacy - someone with a LocationSmart account should track and harass-the-s* out of the CEOs for these companies, see how they like it...
You're over-analyzing things before they happen and not reflecting enough. Get a blank book and write down your worries with a lot of space underneath to spare. After a week, revisit the book, and see if they came true or not. If they came true, write underneath how you handled them and what they taught you, and how you can move forward with that experience. If they didn't come true, write how you overcame them without worry, or why they were silly to begin with. Do this for a few months. Revisit the filled in pages regularly.

The idea is to reframe your worries as either teaching experiences, or as silly/easy to overcome.
Yeah, when I moved a few years ago I also got no confirmation. So after the move, I sent a letter to my old address, with no return address, to see if it got redirected.

(Although my letter did, I'm pretty sure my first Ventra card was lost in the mail anyway. With the insanity of the switch it got delayed a couple months, and ended up getting sent out right about when I moved)
HPE announces world's largest ARM-based supercomputer
How long will it be before a resourceful individual will be able to meaningfully engineer a biological or synthetic pathogen that could wipe out a good portion of the human race? 1000 years? 200 years? 50 years?

There's nothing wrong with buying a little time while society catches up with the technology.
I have an ex-colleague that was promoted 2 weeks after she resigned, just days before she left the country. The announcements came in the right order, first leaving the company and later being promoted. It puzzled lots of people, but this stuff happens.
Maybe they've got a heads up that there are more spectre like bugs incoming but not enough information to actually mitigate them.

CPU bugs seem to be a rich vein to mine at the moment.
Maybe, but the humans who didn't renew his employment status knew how the system worked. They screwed up more.
He still went back to work at the first company though. I guess this depends a lot on his personal situation as well.
The US largely migrated to chip and signature in 2015. I think a large majority of credit card uses today are chip in the US because the issuers quickly sent out chip cards, most terminals got updated to use them, and swipe is rejected often if chip is available.

To be clear, this is chip (and sometimes signature for large purchases) but not chip-and-pin, so the original statement of no passwords generally holds true, but the mag stripes are generally not used anymore.
The Burden of Leadership
Why Dutch teenagers are among the happiest in the world
This is a really ancedotal story with sample size N=1 so YMMV. I lived in a poorly maintained building constructed in the 1920s. I'm sure there was old lead paint that was just painted over. Also a couple of times per month the pipes would spew out brown water. During that time I was dealing with a lot of anger outbursts and anxiety attacks. Since I've moved (same city, same job, slightly higher rent), these things really haven't been a problem. Again it's hard to know what the exact reason is, but I do wonder if I was experiencing some version of heavy metal poisoning.
I think the GP was asking whether those emissions were being offset, or only emissions incurred during rides.
>Neither rednecks nor hippies have any significant influence on how an average white american behaves

Meanwhile uber-violent and hyper-sexualized mass-market movies, outright pornography, and death metal are largely produced by white people/entities. Should we discuss the influence they have on how ”average american whites” behave? For that matter, much of "gangsta rap" has been produced by white-owned entities.

In short, you provided the "four cornerstones of gangsta rap music". For each, we could just as easily plug in widely consumed, top-grossing films or other products of "white culture".

Meanwhile, back in the real-world, mass shootings seem to be the near-exclusive purview of white men. Shall we also opine on the destructiveness of white culture based on that?

The point is that racist generalizations don't help anyone.
> I don't agree.

Not to nitpick the parent who is entitled to their option, but I think there's an important distinction to add: I can't detect the difference between average and great sake, but the difference exists. I'm not so great at understanding jazz solos, but others know them better. Similarly, the parent might not see what I see in literature, but I promise that those things exist (and almost certainly, vice versa for some other domain of knowledge). And there are people who see more than I do in the same book - I don't think those things are non-existent because I don't understand them; I just assume that I don't see them yet and, if possible, I work a little harder and try to learn a bit more.

Nobody is born with the expertise in any of this. We're all learning as we go. I promise there is so much to see in literature, something I happen to have spent the time to understand.
Yes I said that in my sibling comment.
Yes, but because of the highly asynchronous bandwidth we have available trading an even little bit up upload bandwidth can be extremely detrimental to internet performance.
Hi, we see an over 10x performance penalty for the same scene in webVR vs native application. Also, there's constant sickening object flickering (basically what's described here: https://github.com/toji/chrome-webvr-issues/issues/119) when the object count rises over, say, 50. What's the solution here?