skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss

This book could be the most important investment you make.
By using the techniques introduced in the book, I was able to raise my contract rate from $35 to $60. It totally changed my life.
I got banned from facebook this year.

So some background. I used facebook as a normal user from 2010 to 2012. I thought it was stupid on day 1 but was peer pressured into it (thanks high school) and by 2012 I still thought it was stupid and useless so I quit.

At various intervals between 2012 and now I've had shitposting accounts. Fake names and fake pictures but most people in the friends list knew who was behind the mask (and frustratingly would address me instead of the mask). At some point I was posing as an over the top Chinese nationalist, reposting everything from China daily and xinhua. Using FB in this quasi anonymous way is so liberating. You're not playing the same status game as all those other suckers. You're free to touch any political third rail. In fact you're touching the third rail just to touch it. You don't even care what you're saying. You can completely make a mockery of the banality which consumes social media. I used to begin posts with "speaking as a mother" despite being very obviously male. It is like you're the only one who sees the emperor has no clothes, and you're sitting there jiggling his willy and everyone else is still insisting he's wearing pants.

Anyway my last account was one "Fiona Lockhardt". Her profile pic was a purple pen which had a smiley face and boobs added in ms paint. For people who know me, Fiona really is the name of my pen. It is a pen that I built but it is also a lockpick. I named it after a girl in the office who was caught stealing things. I would use this account to interject into conversations with ostensibly on topic information but secretly I was making lock puns. I would post sterotypically girly vacation photos but with the pen in various poses such as sitting on an airplane or drinking starbucks.

Importantly, none of the pictures posted were me. 100% of uploaded photos were the pen with a face added in ms paint. So one day facebook decides that something about my login is suspicious. They ask me to upload a picture to confirm my identity. They won't let me upload a picture of the pen because they failed to detect a face in the picture. So I upload a photo of Mark Zuckerberg. It goes to manual review and then my account gets locked. Ironic, Fiona could unlock things for others, but couldn't unlock her own account.

Do I care? No not really. Facebook was just a stupid site on the internet from day 1. It never deserved to be taken seriously.
> In fact, in Connecticut, a city is located within a town and is subordinate to it! Towns may set their own general method of local governance but are subordinate to their counties and then to their state.

Connecticut doesn't actually have county government. Counties are just a way of roughly collecting towns together.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case here, or at least not completely. These are people I never met outside of Facebook and I initially got involved through IRC. They certainly never had my phone; besides, it had changed from my old Dutch to new UK number anyway. My email has been stable for some time, but I never used it to communicate with this crowd, I'd consider it unlikely that it matched there, too.
If you only need it for 2FA, maybe install it on a second Android profile, fast switching is pretty nice
> The biggest operations make US$ 6-7 figures this way.

In 2018? And here I thought SL died a decade ago...
No. Still super useful to keep in touch with my friends. Actually I was in Milan not so long ago and have a friend living there, but he deleted his facebook account so I didn't manage to reach out to him. It was a bit sad.
That was the point I was trying to make.

I'd like to add, there's a current advert for an Xbox game, the backing track is the Beach Boys "Wouldn't it Be Nice." In any case shooting galore...as a Xmas gift? We're on the cusp of legit virtual reality and our goto is still kill kill kill?

This is why we can't have nice things.
And in the end the lesson is:

People are lazy. They will use the easiest process, even if they have to pay it.
I'm not arguing for control of how a service works, but control of how it works _for you_, _if_ it works for you. From my understanding, Facebook is a for profit company doing their best to get as much data as they can from me and offering x, y and z services in return. So then the question becomes, can I make this service work for me in a way that I feel comfortable with? I believe I can.

I can block most of that tracking through various channels, while also using the platform in a way that brings me value. I am feeding Facebook data when using their platform and I believe that is somewhat fair for them, but I am doing my best to build a system that doesn't feed them additional data, which I believe is unethical.

Do I like Facebook as a company and the direction in which it's going and the societal changes it brings? No. Do I think Facebook has 0 value? Again, no. Do I have an alternative service for keeping up with my friends and family apart from our occasional real life meetups? Strangely enough, I don't think I do.

Once upon a time we had simple HTTP servers sending you server rendered pages, in time, it evolved to a complex ecosystem of requests and responses for each page you visit. Part of that is used to offer us services which were unimaginable "back in the days", but with it came the other part where your behavior becomes heavily trackable.

I remember the old internet, I wish that simplicity came back in a way (somehow without the popups, the toolbars and the risk of running apps on your machine instead of in your browsers), but I think that ship has long sailed, and I'm not sure I'm willing to give up the possibilities of today for that.
$250 was for the Breville. The June Oven is $600.

I'd quibble over the romance part. Efficient cooking through technology is a hallmark of human civilization or else we'd all cook over open flames.
And, if you operate a website, gatekeeping of others access to you.
“When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.”

At one point he reflects on the “high water mark of political correctness during the early 1990s.” Really funny to read that in 2018. Whether you are a liberal or not, everyone would agree that political correctness has grown tremendously since then. Wherher it was for good or bad depends on your politics. In any case, very interesting to consider.

This essay was very good. Thanks.
subjective, sure, but pretty widely agreed upon. :-/ Yeah, his later stuff is just as fun and engaging as his earlier works, IMO, but I wouldn't want to let a too-impressionable teen read it, or try to explain the outline to my mother.
You can have all those with just two sides. The difference now is that the attempt to corral all views into two main camps is breaking down, revealing the chaos of the actual landscape of opinions.
So being wired to find that entertaining is a good thing?

Regardless, given what we're seeing in real life I'm not so sure the appeal is limited to video game activity.
The author isn’t doing any of the things you’re claiming.

He agrees that racism has changed form and supports the goals of 3rd wave anti-racists, and understands why they do what they do.

He just argues that the tactics they use are self-defeating.
Or course, some of the most important economic data sets won't be shared.

It's almost like they want to cover up the systemic disempowerment of the American electorate.
I deleted mine in October, 2015. I haven’t looked back... though I think strictly speaking I deactivated it then, and I finally went through with full deletion in 2017.

Though I did recently have to create a fake one for work to manage our Facebook page.
In central London, at rush hour, especially if tourists are present? Often. I used to travel through Holborn regularly, and simply walking through the short tunnel from platform to escalator would take (what felt like) 10 minutes on bad days, with people literally packed tight. The fully standing escalators stopped that happening. Other stations have the same issue.
Fun aside, that means no browser has a popup rate limit in 2018?
I read that as s/data/secrets/g and thought "hmmm..." and then realized I had too many tabs open. Also, that it is the 1970's already.
You can use the TAGME API to do that, it’s state of the art as far as I know. If you want to implement it yourself I think it’s pretty painful, though.

No reason you can’t fine tune these on your task, that’s true of any word embeddings not just Bert or Elmo.
Are you a dev on binctr? Is so, the following statements are based off an assumption of yes.

> Well, Singularity came out at the same time as runc's rootless containers support was developed -- so at the time it wasn't solved at all. It required (and still requires for several operations and features) root privileges in order to work (such as suid helpers in addition to explicit root requirements).

Alright, but I wasn’t asking about a “back then” scenario, I was mostly trying to figure out what this offers _today_. From a Singularity end-user’s perspective, there’s only one function that requires elevated permissions, and that’s building.

> It's not acceptable for a usecase where you cannot run anything as root (not even installation scripts). ... At the time, LXC's unprivileged containers was the closest thing and it had a few (mostly optional) suid binaries -- I wanted absolutely none.

Now I understand what this offers and it’s overarching goal is. In my specific situation (which is the angle I’m looking at this from), that’s not really a big deal due to the way we handle global and local software installation. I understand this is not a universal situation.

> This last part really isn't revolutionary at all.

I don’t think I made it sound like it was revolutionary, I was just sharing what a commonly used tool in HPC does for a security measure.

Based off of the binctr README:

> Create fully static, including rootfs embedded, binaries that pop you directly into a container. _Can be run by an unprivileged user._

My main confusion stems from that. In comparison to Singularity, it doesn’t seem to offer anything new or noteworthy that would make me take a second look at it. The first phrase just makes me think I’m saving myself a few keystrokes as I wouldn’t have to type `singularity shell <container>` to shell into my container of choice. It just looks like yet another container solution. I still find these things cool (and their above my head in dev terms), but it feels like programming languages, a new one popping up every so often.

I’m primarily looking to see what advantages (or differences in approach) this offers over Singularity, Shifter, or Charliecloud, etc for my context. At least in terms of security and efficiency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745624
Just don't read Number of the Beast (except, perhaps, ironically). It includes some bizarre self-fanfic riffs that take "Da Capo" to an even more absurdist extreme.
Maybe a personal choice how much eccentric behavior one is willing to put up with.
I think we are mostly in agreement. The correlation is definitely partial, but again, I'm not familiar with any better numeric value. This is the one we have.

Salaries are in essence what we are willing to pay one another for each other's time and effort. In your example, people are willing to pay a person 50 times as much for drafting a contract than for taking care of a disabled person. I don't see anything inherently wrong with this. There could be various reasons explaining this disparity, ranging from a lack of availability of people who can do that, to that job potentially being more difficult in some ways, and probably also down to it being more important in some ways, e.g. directly affecting the lives of thousands of people. Whatever the reasons are, the people who choose to pay the fee were probably unable to negotiate a lower fee for a similar level of work.

On the other hand, the question of "what we should value" is much more amorphous and I'd be interested to hear of ideas on how to model and practically implement that, if you have any. There only alternative frameworks I'm familiar with are communism, with its well known share of problems and "time banks" which I've seen working decently well at a local level, but don't tend to scale.
Check out Farnham's Freehold, where a middle-aged man gets flung into the far future with his wife, daughter, and daughter's friend (and another guy). The wife goes crazy, and then the middle-aged man knocks up his daughter's friend. Then his daughter mentions to him that, of the men she's been stranded with, he's the one she'd prefer to father her child (if she weren't already pregnant). Her dad is completely undisturbed and in fact flattered by this.
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To the dead comment: of course it doesn't make sense. We still don't understand DNA fully. That's why it's interesting!
Humans have hunted for nearly the entirety of their existence. Mammals' forms of play simulate predation and evasion. Whether or not it's a good thing is subjective, but that humans innately find some forms of violence entertaining is pretty clear.
Mindbogglingly expensive?
This was a Vue.js year for me.

I'm the past I've used angular and react, but when I was tasked with designing a project manager for artists I decided to try out Vue.

I was originally interested because it seemed easy to include in an existing PHP project without needing to pull in webpacker or extra tooling, while still giving me the best parts of React.

It was. I quickly fell in love with the syntax and was happy to see that the ecosystem was vibrant enough that I could find a good Vue drag and drop library (built on sortable.js) on github.
This is neat. Very neat, good implementation and interesting applications.
I would define anything that responds to remote request a server program, which then would make the system that runs that program a server. =)
This is such a silly canard, outside of the eco-primitivists nobody serious is advocating for wholesale lifestyle deflation.
Thank you for trying to clarify my point, you are very spot on.

I think Facebook as a service SHOULD have access to how you use the platform AS you use it and if you can stop it from tracking your behavior outside their ecosystem and gamifying your interaction with it, I do believe that there's not that much to gain from deleting your account.

There's an argument to be made for their unethical addiction provoking implementations, but until another platform comes up with a working business model and a lack of psychological tricks, one would be arguing against the windmills.
James Lindsay has been making a case for this lately. Here is a (very long) article on the subject that I haven't read yet: https://areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/postmodern-religion-and-...
You could answer this question for your Python work if you refactor one of your dynamic queries to SQL Alchemy's query binding facility. You're working with a query string so you manipulate the string using whatever tools are available in the language. Lots of possible approaches in Python. Same for Rust.
So what?

Don’t watch/listen.
> ...the protagonist is a middle-aged man who has beautiful young women throw themselves at him...

Given that that could be used to describe quite a lot of pulp sci-fi from that era, that is not much of an indictment. Writers, then as now, knew what their audience wanted.
I wonder how much of the change could be explained by a change in the gut flora/fauna that was passed on to the Dutch children due to their parents' starvation.
Chinese food and movie.
It's been a few years, but I'm reasonable sure I actually deleted it and didn't just deactivate it. Or at least, that was the impression Facebook gave me. There was a big "you will lose all data!" warning as well as a cooling down period of a week or so, during which I could restore my account in case I changed my mind.
Never had one in the first place. Facebook's entire existence deeply offended me from when I first heard about it, back in the .edu-only days.

I got along fine before social media existed. I get along fine without it now.
Non-citizens can vote, sometimes. I’m an Irish citizen, but if I moved to the UK, I could vote in mostelections there.

Edit: also, obviously, not all citizens can vote. Children can’t, historically women couldn’t, some countries used to have racial and/or economic qualifications, and some countries still don’t allow people who’ve committed crimes to vote.
[GDS UK] API technical and data standards
could you give some exapmples on how it limits the use of your device?

while i agree with you, i seem to lack the imagination to come up with realistic examples that i can present as arguments.

i am afraid anything i think of would get a response like "yeah, sure, but noone uses their phone like that" or they'll simply accuse me of being paranoid.
'The Black Swan' Becomes the Cheapest Work of Art in History
Is there already word from the land of lulz? I bet they are celebrating the situation no matter if there is any relation.
I started https://pledgebalance.com/ in February and just launched an iOS beta group this month. It's an app to balance the negative impact of your daily travel with tiny payment that goes 100% to carbon offsets. My drive today was 17¢ to balance, which is invested in projects like planting trees.

Only $50 of revenue this month, but hopefully will grow quickly from there. Also will add premium features like corporate accounts for additional fees, though will never take a cut of a person's balanced travel.
This doesn't work in systems which punish trumped-up charges, which any reasonable system clearly should.
No, but I deleted the app off my phone. This is much more manageable as I only check Facebook for event invites through a web browser (either on my phone or desktop). Additionally, I no longer use SSO through Facebook
No, I just didn’t log into Facebook, like ever
I read it and made my own notes and charts and it's a solid and fun software engineering book. I hadn't enjoyed a "soft skills" book so much since Coders at Work.

It's a little bit too technical for the non fiction category though and reads a little too much like course notes (which it somehow is).
The article mentions Mosche Szyf at McGill. Michael Meaney[0], also at McGill, is one of the main investigators in this area. IIRC, mice studies are convincing, in as much as the exact molecular mechanism for epigenetic transmission was tested in crossover studies. “Environmental conditions during early development shape brain development. The Meaney lab idenfitied phenotypic variations in rodent models that derive from variations in maternal care. Maternal care stably modifies the epigenetic state and expression of genes implicated in behavioural and endocrine responses to stress and learning. These studies were the first to describe the influence of the social environment on genomic structure and function.”

[0] https://douglas.research.mcgill.ca/michael-meaney
Brands crate their own AI-rendered influencers, so they have complete control.
I offend and I try to offend, I try to offend the anti-vaxers, the pedophile priests, the corrupt politicians, I try to offend anyone who hold ideas or behaviors that clearly shouldn't be part of society, specially I try to offend people that long ago decided they don't care for reasoning and not matter how much proof there is about them being wrong, to be clear I don't mean any kind of offending but offenses that show how ridiculous or inmoral their stance is on such matters.
Except for the bugs, a lot of this sounds great to me. I haven’t played an MMO style pvp game since Interplay (yes, dial-up modem banks) and this is the first tine an MMO game description has sounded fun to me.
Estonian ID cards or Estonian Mobile ID is not hard to use. The currently working system is proof that TLS client certs can be easily used if provider just supported it.
loose your phone and all your accounts are locked until you can resolve it.

that may be fine for some things, but surely not my bank account
Angular, TypeScript, Ionic.

After working with Scala for 7 years and Scala.js for the last 3 years, a side project led me to learn what life is like on the frontend outside of Scala.

TypeScript is an impressive language, really like union types, string literals, and to some degree structural typing. Development is fairly friction-free, and VS Code is a breath of fresh air compared to cumbersome IDE support in Scala.

As for Angular + Ionic, generally terrible, but I'm not a fan of heavy frameworks. You can create cross platform apps, yes, but performance and development speed leave something to be desired -- Scala is known to have a fairly slow compile/reload dev cycle, but Ionic + Webpack is on an entirely different level of slow.

Looking at Scala + Scala.js + Cordova + Sqlite as a possible stack for cross platform apps that use Quill[1], a type safe query DSL, on backend and frontend.

[1] https://github.com/getquill/quill
Is it really incest, or just masturbation, if it's with your clones?
I'm also going for the Big Data one, looks like a lot of fun
I haven't had it for years already, deleted it a few years ago, and to be truthful I think it's been long enough they legit don't have much data on me anymore.
>One of them did, it has since been deleted by youtube. It probably slipped by people, including youtube moderation for years, because it was a deliberate misspelling of the word "reneging".

I can still see it. 2 of them posted 2 years ago with 400k views each. If he had more I wouldn't know, which is even more concerning.

I'm not going to see it as a character defect, but I will see it as incredibly irresponsible. It would be irresponsible even without Quilette editors tut-tutting about the people who are disturbed by it. The fact that people defend it even with the full scope of the evidence available is not acceptable however.
i mean your tests should cover the ergonomics too. that should be the first thing you test, in fact. if you can't describe how it should work, you shouldn't even be opening an editor