skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can he prove he did posses this amount of crypto currency and is not making everything up? With a system without any regulation nor oversight where you have to play your own bank, this is exactly what you’ve signed up for...
> Happiness never built a bridge...

Back in my day, every Philosophy 101 curriculum included John Stuart Mill, who had this to say.

"Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness which does not include their gratification."

You're using a very narrow definition of happiness. A uselessly narrow definition IMO, and apparently for no reason but to spread bigotry. Most people wouldn't be happy knowing they hadn't achieved anything (see: Maslow's hierarchy of needs). Even the otherwise rather short-sighted "Objectivists" tacitly accept this view, with "enlightened self interest" being their phrase of choice to avoid acknowledging the origin of that thought.

Modern Germans do not lack in accomplishment. They just choose to balance goal-directed work with enjoyment of its fruits, instead of staying on the treadmill past the point of diminishing returns. Here in the US, there's a bit of a fetish about claiming to work super-long hours to satisfy a Calvinist "work is virtue" image, while actually goofing off for (at least) half of that whenever nobody's looking. That's really stupid. The European approach of actually enjoying that time with family and friends guilt-free seems smart, compared to spending it in the office neither being productive nor having fun.
A prosecutor, a jury, and a judge, will all have a chance to decide that you're telling the truth. There is not mathematical proof here (there never is in any trials, really), so it will all come down to: do we believe the LEO's and the defendant's experts' testimony? Recall, the defendant won't testify -- their lawyer won't let them -- but if they did, they'd probably do themselves in anyways, the court (jury, judge) won't believe them.

There is no plausible deniability here, really.
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As someone who has worked has written parsers & worker with generated parsers, to add to what OP has said about performance, from my experience there is a lot of noise that comes from a generated parser, and interacting with the code/output is quite unpleasant.

Also you have to decide on checking in garbage generated code into your source or adding a build step so you don’t check the code in (which is less trivial for certain languages/stacks).

Unless I’m making an MVP or a prototype I would write the parser. It’s not as hard as it sounds
Ah you're correct, I'm sorry I misread.
basically statements are the devil's playthings...
No, it should have been better. The Atari 2600 Ms. Pac-Man port was what Pac-Man should have been.
To avoid this I just use my @aol.com address when applying for technical positions.
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Ok, anyway I agree with that completely, which is why I disabled PDFs opening automatically and have to click to open (via a standlone reader, not browser plugin). It's basically the same situation as the bad old days of having Flash load automatically and it making whatever requests it wants...
Why the obsession with the big tech companies?
And thank you for your reception and elaboration.

It seems as though we are illuminating more nuance of the varied interaction and outcome of communal constructs.

I find what you've elaborated to be true and insightful, and reminds me that our perspective can always miss significant factors that may determine our outlook to be optimistic or pessimistic.

I wonder if what the aforementioned comment suggested is still unresolved; would some or all of us lose incentive and/or mechanisms that temper and shape our proclivity to compromise and coexist despite still unaltered and conflicting values and behaviors?

If it's true that the range and resolution of possible human values and behavior has grown considerably, with new nuance blooming all the time, it would seem to follow that there are new lines along which to fracture as well. Though not necessarily in a unique way never overcome before.
>FAFSA still considers you a dependent until you're 24

You can certainly "game" the system still. One could easy join the military, from there you'd get out around that age, they you'd be independent and you'd still have a GI bill to pay for most of it.

Or like me, I went to a tech school for aviation maintenance, graduated in 1 year, started working full time at age of 20. But by 21, I knew this wasn't the right field for me (too low pay for the amount of work required). I saved my money, quit when I was 24 and enrolled in a 4 year uni for CS full time with only $5k in my bank account.

I lived with my grandparents that were about 40 miles from the uni. The $5k got me through one year just fine since I didn't have to pay for rent or food. For the second year, I went back into the aviation field as a contractor making $22 an hour. After 6 months I had $10k in the bank. I then started my second year of college but to my surprise, since I hadn't filed with the IRS the past year and claimed an income of $0 in the previous year, I then qualified for about $6k in pell grants. So with $10k and pell grants, I went to college full time for another 4 years and graduated debt free (yes, it took me 5 years to graduate, perhaps I'm a little slow..). Actually not totally debt free, I still pay $50 a month for my tech school degree loan from 15 years ago...
Open office plans suit small groups of people, maybe 5-6. Even then, I prefer the open office plans where everybody is facing a wall or partition of some sort. Being able to see the person on the other side of the table is terribly distracting!
About this story--was it that they prejudiced all the women they interviewed as quiet, or did they just happen to interview a bunch of women who happened to be quiet because that's what our culture expects of women?

I can't imagine Margaret Thatcher ever being called "too quiet and not a good communicator", but there were also a lot of other bad things people said about her. And yeah, if they interviewed a loud, well-spoken woman, and then rejected her because she was too "aggressive", that would definitely hint at bias to me.

How do you solve that problem, as an employer? If you're an assertive workplace and you don't want to hire quiet, passive people, do you hire less assertive women anyway and then train them to be more assertive? I can see some logic around that, but you have to actually dig in and reason your way to that idea, and then you have to test it, and if it turns out not working out, then what? These are some hard problems, and assuming bad faith isn't the be-all end-all of talking about it.
Wow they have 45k projects? I imagine a lot are dead/outdated modules, but even so it's a fair amount.
Maybe they want to hire based on potential. If the candidate simply hadn't had exposure to the particular technical questions that were part of the standard interview, but did display a good general intelligence level and overall comprehension in related fields it might be worth hiring them and bringing them up to speed.
Of two U2F yubikeys I own, one of them has stopped working when touching it, in less than 2 years. I don't know about other companies, but my personal experience is that they are not that long lasting.

(I have them alongside my keys; one is a NEO - still working - the other is (was) U2F only)
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Ego gets in the way of data. The hiring process is set up primarily to make the hiring party feel smart and powerful, so it's hard to break out of that and realize you don't really know much.

But it's incredible that it's so prevalent in tech, where people are supposedly so smart and data driven.
But how many of the prescriptions you received had the signature on the DAW line? It's typically very uncommon.

In fact, in the hospital setting, a portion of a Physician's reimbursement is tied to the ratio of generics to brand name drugs that their patients were given.

I'm not sure if this is the case for outpatient stuff, but internists are absolutely incentivized to prescribe generics.
I imagine a direct implementation of "western style" democracy in China will cause a huge human right criss. There's no evidence democracy could ever scale to 1.4B people with a great portion of them in poverty still
I don't think it's just the passport (hint: how do you look?)
This is small bore, but I was working on a startup idea for a while and met an angel investor at a meetup and asked them to grab coffee to talk about my idea and they were happy to meet and talk, nothing came of it, but nothing came of my startup idea in general :)
Having a St Kitts passport still subjects you to applying for a US visa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Saint_Ki....
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I don't think anyone defines an asshole as:

>[...] someone who stands by their standards and does so firmly because they believe in their personal principles?

That's integrity. Being stubborn and abrasive about it, however, isn't the same thing as having integrity.

Paraphrasing something I heard on the point: 'most people interested in being brutally honest are more interested in being brutal than being honest.'
I think the debt level is crazy. But it sounds like you wish you’d had a free medicine degree so that you could be free not to practise medicine. I’d think if you get the degree for free then you almost should feel more obligated to practise.
If you insist on being pedantic, at least be correct.

"alumnum" is the correct Latin term for a singular person of undetermined sex.
While I agree with your sentiment about cultural bias, I don't necessarily feel that the red book thing is all that relevant. I live in Europe and I've heard of (and consequently read) the 'red book', though I wouldn't have necessarily called it that.
ChromeOS devices don't ship with Play Store, you have to enable it.
"There's a reason it's a "culture fit" or "match" and not "culturally identical" or "culturally homogeneous." "

Because those others would be way too on the nose and not be defendable?
Related as a better config language (but universal, not for a use case like this) is dhall (non-turing complete, type-safe, remote imports).
https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang
While I do agree that the same problem exists with technical skills, I think it's a larger issue with the "culture fit" concept.
When technology goes well it provides tons of value and becomes invisible. Like the layers in an OS or 1000s of parts in a car for example.

The complaints that life is more complex than before usually fail to compare it to the complexity of things we're accomplishing and what that could have looked like 50,500, 500 0 years ago...

made up example: Communicate with someone on the other side of the planet...

Now: type a message or skype, instantaneous, searchable, recorded backup...

- 50 yrs ago, make an international telephone call. Its unclear, not recorded, difficult to verify(securely) who you're talking with etc.

- 500 yrs ago, write, if you can, on some paper and send it via horses or merchants... who knows if its delivered or if an answer is coming

- 5000 yrs ago. No. You can only talk with people in your village unless you're wealthy, royal or otherwise powerful.
While I think hiring for "culture fit" is amorphous it is useful to understand what sort of cultural mismatches your managers can deal with and which ones they can't. One of the things that people sometimes miss when managing managers is that they all have their strengths and weaknesses in the management domain just like engineers have strengths and weaknesses in their technical domain. So if you have a manager who hasn't learned to prevent someone from always taking over the conversation and driving it, you want to fix that problem before you add someone to their team that tends to do that.

Now if you can fix your managers to be good at integrating diverse teams with a variety of interaction styles, then you can hire pretty much anybody into those teams and quality managers will empower them and make them effective. But when was the last time you had an executive that you knew was focused on improving the communications effectiveness of their line managers?

The trick is that they (the executives) have to know that the investment will pay off in better management but unless they have experienced it in action they won't have the internal understanding to value it versus the performance management goals they have used their whole career up to that point.

The end result is that when someone hires in that the manager can't handle they write it off to "bad culture fit" rather than figure out how to fix the manager and the cycle continues...
> In 1796 Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had caught the cowpox virus did not normally then catch smallpox. Cowpox was very similar to smallpox but less contagious.

> He collected pus from the cowpox blisters on a milkmaid's hands and purposely infected a small boy.

> The boy was taken ill for a short while, but was then resistant to any subsequent infections of the cowpox and smallpox viruses.

> He tested this by infecting the boy with smallpox and no illness occurred.

Gosh, medical testing has come a long way since then. It's a little hard to believe that the discovery of one of the most important vaccines in human history played out this way. Someone doing something similar now would likely be executed or thrown in prison for life, and rightfully so. But, still crazy to think about.
I honestly don't think so. I am generally not a people person and don't make a very friendly first impression.
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It started off good but no.
I agree, but it gets easier if you have more than one visa from a developed country in your passport and a history of "safe" travel. Unfortunately this isn't relevant unless you travel at least once a year.
That's not what the fix was. Disable JS on the site, that should prevent the pdf running JS as well. (although it might prevent the pdf loading in the first place...). As kodablah pointed out, it's not a useful fix.

edit to clarify: sorry I thought you thought that fix was trying to fix the bug, but you weren't, so this comment doesn't make much sense.
We're treading into the land of censorship. As much as I dont like Alex Jones, I think this is wrong.
> This is factually incorrect. You can have privacy without security, and you can have security without privacy. Security keeps things safe, privacy keeps things hidden.

Uh that's not factually incorrect. You can definitely have security without privacy, but not the other way around. Without security that means your privacy can't be protected.
Ah, that's what you meant. Yes, I definitely agree.
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This implies a significant arbitrage opportunity for competitors. If workers really are producing the lion-share of the value, then smaller competitors should be able to gain market share by taking the best workers, paying them slightly more than the incumbent companies, and still reap significant profits.
Could you talk more about this process? I am a dual US/UK citizen and don't remember (might have been to young) such a process.
Yep, stay rich friend!
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Twitter is a not a government entity, so how is this censorship or leading to it?
> It's disheartening, to say the least, that one of the main strategies for dealing with this is apparently "reducing medical prescriptions of opioids". People are in pain -- they need to be helped.

While I pretty much agree with everything you say, I take a bit of issue with this.

Overprescription of opioids is a major factor for creating addicts in the first place, and in that regard, the US is a rather obvious outlier. [0]

Afaik the legalization of Cannabis has already helped with this overprescription trend of opioids [1] and that's a very good thing. If done right, the US could turn this around from being the worst offender to being a world leader in pain treatment research and sensible application.

Yes, that would require a rather big paradigm shift on the political level, one many would consider unthinkable. Just as unthinkable as the legalization of cannabis had been for very long periods in the US.

[0] https://qz.com/1198965/the-surprising-geography-of-opioid-us...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/02/5987877...
Here is the passport index global ranking: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

Never occurred to me that Greece would be so high in the list :-)
I joined the military to get out a bad family situation, after a tour in Iraq I was considered financially independent on the FAFSA due to my veteran status. That designation, in combination with my veteran education benefits, allowed me to pay for school.

While I am thankful it worked out for me, I know this is not a route open to everyone. Unless your family has the financial means (or you get a great scholarship), I am not sure there are many ways to go to college without getting into significant debt.
Your post and my post are both full of hypotheticals, so let's stick to the core empirical claim that could prove you're more correct:

> the activities you cite are so far faring badly. Putnam and Murray (Bowling Alone/Coming Apart)...

There are two problems with Bowling Alone.

1. Bowling is boring; I'd rather grab a cappucino.

Putnam and Murray suppose that the social institutions and conventions of 1910-1940 were a platonic ideal and therefore ignore the myriad of new ways that people socialize and engage in their communities.

To pick just one relevant example, hackerspaces only existed in a few major cities when I became interested in them 10-15 years ago. Now there's at least one in every major city as well as many in smaller communities. But hackerspaces are just an example; there are thousands of other examples of the same phenomenon: popular and thriving community forums that didn't even exist in 1910-1940.

This form of community engagement is the sort of thing that Putnam and Murray completely miss in their analysis because, for them, "community engagement" means regular contact with one of ten or so institutions they happened to have statistics for when they wrote their book.

I spend less time at church potlucks and bowling nights than my grandparents. But then, my grandparents never met friends at coffee shops or hung out at hackerspaces.

2. Far more damning, Putnam and Murray weren't even correct for the tiny subset of community engagement metrics they chose to form their best-selling "darn kids born after 1940" thesis. See e.g., Everett Lad's critique of Bowling Alone.

So not only did new forms of community engagement pop up in response to changing times and interests, but traditional forms of community engagement continued to thrive!
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It really just allows the tech giants to determine what messages should be said. Its not the government, but still entities that largely rule the internet. I see your point, its just murky waters.
Email spam filters handle things well I think.

Instead of completely censorsing/hiding things from you, suspected spam is placed in a folder that you can view and decide for yourself whether or not it's worth your attention.
Censorship doesn't necessarily mean censorship by government. If an entity is powerful enough (Google, Facebook, etc.) they can engage in censorship just as well.
None, but that's not the point. I was just saying that there's not an extra hurdle to prescribe DAW like you were implying.
Headway cells!
Everyone who supports prohibition has blood on their hands. No, your ignorance and stupidity is not an excuse. Pathetic people.
I have seen a lot of price cuts lately on the redfin list in Houston area although it has been increasing a lot for the past 5 years.

How are other markets?
> "Note that exercising this claim yourself will permanently disqualify you from government clearances at all levels."

Could you elaborate on that? Would one be able to renounce one citizenship later on?
if you send the datauri by email (webmail) and use it from there someone with phisical access to the computer wont be able to change it easily.
Remember when college used to be cheap enough for people to afford working summers? I don't remember because that was before my time, but that was also before the subsidies and loans were made available by the feds. Turns out, if you dump money into an industry while increasing demand and not changing supply, prices will increase.
LEDs draw lots of power. I just put ~~50W~~25W of SK6812s in my 3D printer enclosure. (It's overkill, but not drastically so.) So you're going to need big batteries for any LED project.

Edit: matho. 25W, not 50W.
How? Medical is one of the most expensive courses to provide.

I mean I love this, but who is footing the bills on this & are we sure they won't taint the results with ulterior motives...
> Being the propaganda machine is the better option because it's going to happen regardless of whether it's Google. Another company will just take Google's place.

That's a shit argument. In a different context it's "someone's gotta run the gas chambers, so I might as well collect that paycheck."

"Just following revenue" is the new "just following orders."
Have you seen strictyaml?
This is mostly because of inclusion in EU; the EU is able to negotiate visa policies for their citizens as a block instead of individually.
Because censorship does not necessarily need to have anything to do with a government. See sentence one, here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

edit: already downvoted. Wikipedias mundane standard definition is already too controversial for HN. :D
This is rather offtopic but it bothers me how most people in IT seem to use 'transparent' to mean 'opaque'.

When I hear PMs say "this change will be completely transparent to clients" what they mean is, the client will see no difference, which means really, the details are hidden in a black - opaque - box.
When I hear ceramic, I tend to think kitchen knife or superconductor. There's a lot more to ceramics than pots and jars.
Or, we could try just doing none of that, like back when college was actually affordable!
It is mainly responsibility of voters who keep corrupt and evil people in charge. If you voted for a prohibition supporter you have blood on your hands.
Although censorship is particularly abhorrent when it's done by the government, it's still censorship, even when it's done by private entities.
Buying decent pens with your own money will in fact get you to keep them safe until they run out of ink. I probably end up running out of ink and trashing a pen more often than I lose it.
> Note that exercising this claim yourself will permanently disqualify you from government clearances at all levels.

Can you elaborate a bit more on this? Is it something specific to German law? A relative of mine who holds both US and UK citizenship worked for the US government and later for the UK government and was granted elevated security clearances in both roles.
Don't delete your entire history. When the site appears during autocomplete simply press the [delete /[del] key.
Imagine a get together like Burning Man but instead of huge temporary art installations and the burning of the man, people gathered around a mega-structure and your sub-group gained status by adding to it. Bring a new blue stone to Stonehenge and get a bunch of other people to help you install it and you are the cool in-group that year.
What is the alternative? Should the government step in and prevent Twitter from banning its users who are voluntarily using the platform?
That's the wrong question to ask. There are no financial institutions that have proper 2FA. I don't know of a single bank in the US that uses any standard 2FA. They all use SMS. Recently, I found that you can make paypal (US) use TOTP 2FA with a workaround. I recommend everyone to do that.