skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do they justify it to themselves?

By looking at their bank accounts.

> Do other countries suffer similarly with fake self-serving charities like the US does?

Not quite, robocalling is much less common, as are easy ways to figure out who is a likely donor.

A very good effort in this domain is Givewell, their own transparency report is a good example of how it should be done and their information is usually of very high quality:

https://www.givewell.org/

https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes
That seems quite irrational.

I don't wear headphones in public very often, and its rarely that someone wants to interact with me. Usually its just to ask where some street is, and it actually feels quite good if you are able to help someone.
> the digital disenfranchised have the same issue as the people who couldn't read and write back when libraries were one of the main the sources of knowledge.

When libraries in the United States received their first really big financial boost, with lots of money from the likes of Andrew Carnegie, part of the services they offered were instruction in reading and writing for borrowers who might not even speak English. A library today might - depending on where it is and how well funded it is, or how well funded its community's social services are - provide or coordinate instruction in English as a second language, GED, basic job training, remedial Adult learning, computer use, or a ton of other things.

These are important tasks that need to be performed by humans, not "the internet."

> this is backed up by extremely reduced numbers of borrowers

I'm biased by living in an area with a well funded library system (a few, actually) with what are probably per-capita the largest number of borrowers of any libraries in the world. I wonder if maybe your comments are informed by never having lived in a place with a really good library, or by never needing what your library had to offer.

> the benefits of the internet massively outweigh any nostalgic dreams about libraries.

This is a weird false dichotomy. In an era where books in print and physical media are of reduced importance, libraries are lending e-books and music... on the internet. The draw to the physical library space is still a strong one, even for a worshiper of "the internet," since libraries are offering use of tools like 3d printers and laser cutters and other tools, as well as training on their use.
This is how apple.com looks like on Safari (c) by Apple: https://ibb.co/ct6LTB0
Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Found Dead
Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort found dead?? Anyone else heard this?
I can second this. Most branches let you select a job (MOS/whatever the other branches call it) that have real work uses, and you can also change your job if you'd like (with some caveats of course). I certainly didn't enjoy many moments of my military career, but I value the things I learned and the opportunities it opened up for me.

Its certainly not for everyone, but with National Guard/Reserve options it's a pretty sweet deal that the vast majority of people could certainly handle.
> I think he was referring specifically to their traditional function as a repository of information. I think in that regard, libraries are outmoded.

It's like people have never heard of e-books.
The other issue is the health toll many of the trade jobs have. See what 40 years of running cable on your hands and knees as an electrician will do to you vs a cushy desk job.
I guess the hashed ban list is reasonable solution. Actually looking at Airbnb you can register three ways - via FaceBook, Google, or via Email address. Signing via Email requires Email, first name, and birth date. I suppose if someone wanted to beat the ban they could do it at least 3 times.
To add context to the other reply, it’s not uncommon for penetration testers to have Postman in their toolbelt, in addition to traditional security tools like Burp, Metasploit, sqlmap, etc.
What online art communities do you think give critique as well as professional art schools?
I got USD$30k @ 5.5% with no origination fee from Lightstream.com. I am not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.
> the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong

Graham's sleights of hand used to be better hidden.

The "far left" and "far right" are not fixed points in ideological space (even within a single country).
> ...the Trust Problem will become much worse as IoT advances, and, in the limit, nanotech... and you can't trust anything. Within the limits of physics, reality will become permeated with "ghosts", we will haunt the world with our own daemons.

I am reminded of the Quen Ho "localizers" from "A Deepness in the Sky"[1]. They're nanotech devices that provide useful sensor functionality, but they also have hidden features known only to a "programmer archaeologist" who exploits them to advance his plans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Has the gp edited their comment because from what I can see, they said exactly that.

"Airbnb controlls zero real-estate, it's a coordination and payment mechanism, that's all."

How is that different to what you said?
>As opposed to people who don't have mountains of student debt, and can then afford to take lower-paying, better-for-their-life jobs

With income based repayment, you pay 10% of your disposable income (income over 1.5x the poverty rate) , so this isn't really much of an issue.
And if it doesn't help, if you still don't truly know what option you prefer, that means that the downsides and upsides of either are balanced so well you may as well pick whatever the coin landed on - the time you're wasting agonizing over the decision is worth more than the marginal improvement of picking the better option.
I get phishing emails daily and I would imagine the people running the polls do as well.

The Russians didn't come close to hacking the 2016 election. This entire article is ridiculous and only serves to try to invalidate the current administration.

What I find strange is that before the election, Trump mentioned the Russians interfering multiple times and how he was worried about it. Everyone said he was an idiot..until he won. Then they turned it around and claimed the Russians helped him win.

The Steele Dossier was based on information obtained from foreign nationals, hired by the DNC and Clinton campaign and most likely involved the Russian government. This sounds to me like hiring a foreign government to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate...and should result in jail time.
Netflix used to be better, I always felt like they were making their UX actively worse over time. So I'd prefer whatever they did back in 2012.

What never worked was recommendations. The first time I signed up for them, I actively voted on shows I had already watched (and clicked the button that still existed back then that told them I had already watched something), ranked genres, downvoted things I had no interest in. Only for netflix to ignore 99% of what I just spent an hour telling them.
Thanks! We changed the URL to that from https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-success-long-hou..., which is mostly just reporting on it.

What does the s=20 do?
Mortality rates in the military are actually lower than in the civilian world: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22694586

> Crude mortality rates are lower among U.S. military members than their civilian counterparts; service members must be healthy when they enter service and deaths from illnesses are relatively infrequent.

Suicide rates for veterans is on the high end, but comparable to other highly physical professions. Adjusted for age and gender, the suicide rate among veterans is 50% higher than for the population as a whole: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/suicide-rate.... That's on the high end, but not "high" in absolute terms: https://www.registerednursing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11.... (Scroll down to the chart showing suicide rates by profession for men versus women.) At 40-45 per 100,000, male veterans are about as likely to commit suicide as those in the arts and entertainment and installation/maintenance fields, and less likely than those in construction/resource extraction.
Apple's hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power.

The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.
You aren't calling out individual cops for bad behavior. You are collectively blaming an entire group for individual misdeeds. This fits the very definition of dehumanization. If I am making judgments on the morality or individuals without knowing them personally, or even knowing their ideology, I am dehumanizing them. Collective guilt is the pinnacle of every horrifying genocide ever perpetrated. "The Jewish man didn't let me into art school, they are all evil." "The 19 Muslim men blew up the buildings, they are all evil."

It sounds like you are being victimized by a shitty police department. That's a problem, but it doesn't mean that a police department in my state would give you the same problems. You know this, but don't want to believe it, because then you'd have to recognize your own prejudice and correct it. And that would be uncomfortable, so just carry on.
> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

This is becoming less and less true for lots of cohorts. I suspect it will stop correlating for everyone soon.

From a few days ago: "Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns" by Center for Household Financial Stability, St Louis Fed

https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/hfs/is-college...

> The college wealth premium is at a historic low; among other races and ethnicities, it is statistically indistinguishable from zero

> Our results suggest that college & post-grad education may be failing some recent graduates as a financial investment."
Yep, one a day for the last month, on average -- and they post the shortened links instead of the "real" URLs.

All but two have ended up [dead]
U2F > TOTP > Any MFA > no MFA

Why? About 23% of the classified breaches in this data set are due to compromised valid accounts and any MFA would probably have prevented the breach. Often security isn't about out running the bear, it's about out running the person next to you.

data set: https://github.com/ericalexanderorg/SecurityBreach
Not the Caribbean, but I know someone who did this in Mexico.
I had a chronic low-grade sinus infection for 3 years. It was miserable. Constant post-nasal drip, clogged ears, clicking, popping, etc. Oregano Oil and snorting Lactobacillus sakei is the only thing that cured things.
ICs reach a local maximum at some point. Most companies aren't solving problems that are hard enough to warrant executive-level equivalent engineering roles (except organizational ie. management of said engineers).
Yeah, and I watched Veritasium's video on it, but I still don't really buy "spooky action at a distance".

The way I understand it, particles have an "absolute orientation" in space that is impossible to determine because currently we are limited to measuring the orientation relative to another orientation and getting a yes/no probabilistic outcome (also, we can only perform this measurement once because the act of measurement changes the orientation of the particle).

Nevertheless, in reality the particle has an absolute, no-guesswork spin orientation property that a theoretical godlike being running the universe simulation would be able to observe in a "read only" fashion. (We mortals have to use probability abstractions because we don't have sophisticated enough methods of getting quantum information in a read-only fashion)

So basically, when you "entangle" two particles, the act of entanglement affixes their absolute spin orientation to be polar opposites. Bell's theorem doesn't disprove that, afaik, and it accounts for the "spooky action at a distance".
Totally agree with this. To give an example, in the months ahead of launching .app (which I was the tech lead of), I was pulling some 50-60 hour work-weeks vs a typical 40. That was exhausting and definitely the maximum I was capable of pulling (talking about actual hours of work here, not just hours spent in the office). Plus, post-launch, I took things easy for a couple months to recover.
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> that group came because they were granted land by a government. We omit money and how it works

You also omit the part where the people already living there got genocided I guess.
Unrelated to this comment, thread or OP in any way, you mentioned to me the concept of Complexity Catastrophe ~4 months ago from the book Design Rules by Baldwin and Clark. I’ve finally gotten around to reading it and I feel compelled to thank you. I haven’t yet finished, but it’s an absolutely fascinating read that is providing me with a lot of food for thought. I find it both well written and easy to understand. I honestly can’t remember the last time I was so fascinated by the contents of a book. I’m trying to find a new career right now, and this book may single handedly have changed the direction of that journey. So again, thank you.
Prime has PPV? It that a US thing? In France it only shows content directly available. Amazon originals are often promoted first.
The shallow library argument is becoming increasingly dated. If you compare it to studios who have been around for decades, then sure. If you want to limit it to "quality" content, then maybe. If you want to look at it from a pure numbers perspective, Netflix is killing it.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/netflix-more-2019-originals...
True, but for whatever reason, they don't -- and I have a hard time imagining one that would -- say, "Hey we're banning you and we're not telling you why and we're not alerting you to the violation as we become aware of it and not giving you a chance to correct the behavior."

Sure, I suppose nothing legally stops them, I guess, but it just doesn't seem to happen. (Perhaps there is a legal barrier, where they try to leave a defensible paper trail so as to show it wasn't e.g. racially motivated, but then, I don't know why such concerns don't spur similar behavior from Airbnb.)
> But let’s call it like it is. This policy leverages the company’s power over the individual user to a cruel and unprecedented extent.

As a host, when I listed on AirBnB I was completely at their mercy in terms of where I'd show up in the listing ranking and they also had a rule that you can't be a superhost if you decline some percent of bookings - i.e., they decide who you host, not you. After declining a string of suspicious bookings (and having to list at a giveaway price just to be anywhere near the top of the rankings), I decided to just give up completely on the platform. Craigslist is better, where I can at least interview someone.
If they are not required by law to provide the reasons and some context, it is difficult to assess if they are discriminatory or class protected.
Even better you can make a subject access request (SAR) to Airbnb and get the internal communications about the person in question.
How are you going to measure ROI?

Back 2011 the Freakonomics guys said this:

> According to the College Board, a year of tuition at a public college for an in-state student costs an average of $7,605, while a year at a private college costs an average of $27,293. Meaning that (assuming you graduate in four years) a college diploma from a public school costs about $30,000, and about $109,000 from a private school. That’s a lot of coin, but consider this: the difference in yearly income for a person with a college degree and a person with just a high school diploma is $19,550, according to the 2010 Census. So keeping things simple, on average, a public school college degree pays for itself in less than two years, and a private school diploma in less than six. Which is probably why, according to the Pew study, the vast majority of college graduates (86%) say that college was a good investment for them.

Now things are more expensive, but even if the payoff is 2x or 3x longer now, it's still an overall good investment.

Plus, who knows what the benefits would be if the US were producing millions of great global citizens each year. If those global citizens helped educate and raise the world's poorest people out of poverty, those countries would likely stabilize somewhat and maybe that would ease conflict and spending on war.

And even if all the things I just said were wrong, sometimes ROI isn't a great way to value things. For example, journalism, especially at a local level, is hard to fund yet the value isn't zero. Lots of people who don't pay for news still benefit from having eyes on the powerful.
> ... he is the most impressive CEO in this generation, perhaps in history

How anyone can say this with a straight face blows my mind when even in the tech vertical he has some serious competition (are we forgetting about Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc.), let alone actual historical figures like Henry Ford, John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, etc.
I think about windows 95 at least once a month, wondering why the web apps I work on still can’t match it in terms of performance and usability, never mind resource utilization.

One thing that has been a staple since win95 days is the ability to resize windows, sidebars, columns; almost everything, really. Rarely is this found on the web today, or so poorly implemented that it’s thrashing the UI thread when one or more resize callbacks are triggered. Even without that, layout + painting alone would probably lose the race against 95 UI tech.

Another “legacy” UI that stood out to me is blender. It looks decades old (until it was revamped recently), is probably a hodgepodge of C/C++ but stays smooth as everything can be resized even on dated hardware.

I can’t help but think that the UI engineers of old were a much more professional bunch, and that the field has mostly regressed since then.
A number of years ago we decided to get a boat. I've been sailing my entire adult life (through clubs) and love it. And yet, I am also good at math and have seen friends and acquaintances go through the realities of boat ownership. I had exactly zero interest in that.

We bought a boat. It was in good condition. The plan was to enjoy it that summer and sell it a the end of the season. In other words, I bought a boat with the stipulation that we would not keep it after three months. That was not negotiable. We would potentially lose a little money in the transaction. I thought of this as a rental fee.

This worked out great. We had a good time boating that summer. I did not spend a dime doing anything to the boat (I made sure of this by being careful during the purchase selection phase). We sold the boat for $1,000 less than we paid for it. With slip fees that was about $800 per month "rental". Perfect.
What do you mean by movie like? I periodically have dreams in which I do not show up with characters, sometimes voice over narrative, and plots - is this what you mean. An ex-girlfriend of mine called them epic dreams.
I got blocked from accessing a Gmail account half year ago during a long term stay in another continent and despite knowing the password, answering the security question I'm still not able to access nor recover it as i can't recall the date of creating the account (it's too old to recall exact month/year combo). There is nothing you can do in this situation, nowhere to complain, whole identity tied to the account is gone. I'm losing belief i can access it one day..

Anyway, this was a wake up call and since then I'm in progress of migrating all my services outside big players..
Yes it is terrible. Annoying and frustrating.

But fuck Air BNB. Go somewhere else and ensure your friends/family do the same. That's what I'd do if I got shitty service from anyone.
Maybe I’m old school, but I don’t want push notifications from my web browser.
If I was in some kind of debate club or moot court or something like that and got assigned to side that is supposed to argue for allowing this, I'd probably look into some kind of property rights approach and make a distinction between radio waves transiting the property and radio waves that originate on the property.

The property owner could make not operating an access point on the property a condition of granting permission to enter the property. Someone who then operated an access point would be trespassing and they (and their access) point could be evicted. In other words, the property owner is already allowed to monopolize those unlicensed airwaves on their property.

If they choose to exercise this monopoly by using technical measures to stop other access points from working, rather than by physically evicting those access points, why should that make a difference as long as those technical measures do not interfere with access point not on their property?
It's just a project manager that's not worth half the salary.
whats the average hours for FAANG in SV? 60-65 ?
That trades one problem -- knowing how far to pull forward and how sharply to turn -- for another: known when and how sharply to turn toward the oncoming traffic lane.
Because there's meetings, email, IMs, documentation, waiting, etc. The rough breakdown is 20 hours of focused creative work and 20 hours of everything else per week.
Astute observation as it relates to a gap in legislation and regulation that could use some fixing up. An Ombudsman to handle disputes such as these would be a welcomed development.
Personally, I think learning a trade should be an option in high school. A trade is better than a high school diploma both in pay and practical usefulness, whereas "college prep" is almost always useless. If you learn a trade and dislike it, you should have as much time as possible to pivot to something else.

I think high schoolers should have two choices:

- Associates Degree track at a local university
- apprenticeship at a local trade organization

The AA/AS by itself isn't particularly useful (a little better than a diploma though), but it gives you an introduction into college life. A trade by itself isn't particularly useful (need years of practice to master it), but it's a practical introduction to what's available without a college degree. Our current approach of teaching to standardized tests seems like the worse option since it's neither practical (college doesn't really work like the tests) nor in demand (your employer doesn't care about your standardized test scores).

Our whole education system is out of whack, and just making it free isn't going to fix it. We need more paths to success, and we currently only have one that's pushed by our education system: STEM degrees.
Can’t people be grown ups and stop blaming UXs for their behaviors?
A Scientific History of Colours
> 2. If guessing always considered both odds and potential reward for each option, at least heuristically.

Same here. To add a pinch to this, say there are two regions of the visible board that must be answered by guessing. If one has 1-in-3 odds of failure, and the other has 2-in-3 odds of failure, then make the guess on the one with better chances.
> I know they speak english in French and German unis

Lol in France, except in some top programs, they usually won't usefully speak English. Your landlord may be better at it.
> And he is the most impressive CEO in this generation, perhaps in history, so long hours must work for some people.

Even if we assume the first statement is true, which is a big if, it still doesn't necessarily support the idea that working long hours is good. After all, you can't tell whether he was successful because of, or despite the long hours.
The exam has no intrinsic value. It’s just there as part of the learning process. Most classes you can see a division between people who see grades as an objective (will this be on the test?) and people who see grades as a metric for another objective.

If you see grades as an objective, then the exam is something to study for. If you see grades as a metric, then the exam is there to measure progress and guide your study.