skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah he got $60,000 as an unreported funding gift that bypassed normal research funding mechanisms and went into his private bank account and was actually spent on ???, followed by a $125,000 donation that apparently followed the same route in order to "support his sabbatical", and this is on top of the $225,000 that Dr. Lloyd got through official channels from Epstein.

The $185,000 made as alleged gifts to MIT but which went into Lloyd's bank accounts won't be returned by MIT or donated to charity, nor will the interest they earned on their investments from the officially given $850,000 money given over the last 15 years or so. And was there other side channel off the books funding beyond the $185,000 to Lloyd? Was he really the only one that saw huge sums of cash magically appear in his private bank account?

All interesting. Will Lloyd return the $185,000 or donate it? Was any of that cash declared as income on his tax returns?

So he says oh I just flew out to a Caribbean private island renowned for pedophilia for a brief lunch and nothing more, nothing to it, what's the big deal. Yeah... maybe that's what happened. We'll probably never know, but everyone that went to that island has a black mark.
> recent trend towards Stoicism in Silicon Valley

What trend? I haven't noticed this at all
Actually unremovable, i.e. unrootable and with a locked bootloader? That's pretty bad. On the other hand, when I looked into the Android community a few years ago, it was almost "common knowledge" that a lot of the cheap and unbranded ones come with preinstalled crap, but they're unlocked by default and easily rootable so you can remove it, and there's various guides on how to do that and make a custom ROM.
It's not tougue-in-cheek. Data shows that attractive people have better careers.
Nobody's in the dark. People are just disinterested in your flagrant whataboutism.
Would you rather billionaires place their money in a big trust fund so their giant tree of descendents don’t have to work for a living or would you rather them spend their entire fortune on longevity research in a desperate plea to stay alive? Which one would be better for society? I would argue the latter.
They (and similar corporate 2FA solutions like PingID and similar systems used by banks) basically assume uninterrupted access to the internet which is generally a poor assumption. It often breaks down when you're traveling either due to network or roaming issues just when you desperately need access.

In all these situations, I've found companies which offer a back up SMS option very valuable since it usually gets delivered.
Mattress reviews are notoriously fake. I would take any mattress review with a grain of salt.
Aether has such a compelling pitch that I was going to install it despite the Electron bloat it'd introduce on my system, but then saw that you used snaps, which was really unfortunate.

Have you considered something like AppImage instead? While not ideal, it minimizes your effort while also being compatible with every other distribution without requiring your users to install a large, complicated piece of software/package manager like Snap.
The woman on the left is I believe someone I’ve seen frequently in photos with him. Not sure of her name or relationship to him.
I completely disagree.

Power and influence allow one to be a shitty person without having to deal with the consequences that other folks might, so the situations where that happens are outrageous and rightfully get a lot of exposure. However, this is a consequence of the fact that you already need to be powerful. Unless you get lucky, or otherwise hit the jackpot, you generally have to be a nice person to work your way up to that point.

Not going to lie; taking advantage of others can be a great short-term business strategy. Long-term, not so much. People tend to remember shitty behavior.
It has never stopped.
Very few people buying premium cars buy them exclusively for themselves.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

--- George Bernard Shaw
No, it's common and it will gradually increase. It has nothing to do with dementia. I've been working with several people in their 90s who are still mentally sharp enough that our work is based on my need for their expertise (nothing to do with their own health), and they universally complain about this "tip of the tongue" problem, which I began noticing in myself a few years back. It's frustrating but not a sign of dementia.
Maybe it’s just because they’ve given up? I mean, what’s the point.

> Python brings new meaning to 'off by one errors' by offering 'off by one' indentation errors. (EDIT: quoting a tweet on that thread)

Imagine a long chunk of procedural code. Simple but tedious automated munging.
"If conditional" codepaths depending on whitespace/indentation makes diffs very hard to read and codepaths harder to keep track of. Similarly no way to mark off logical blocks other than with comments.

For any code longer than half a screenful, indentation based semantics is very unpleasant.

I’ll even go a little farther and say that python has a bunch of warts for anything beyond beginner programming (and of course many nice parts too).

But all of that is somewhat tangential to “freedom to have your own style”. I like standardization, auto-formatting, etc. I just wish there was better syntax for encoding structure.
But don't forget, money is speech, and corporations are people. All of which is absolutely not in the first amendment.
It was a PANTS ON massage!
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The current life expectancy for Iceland in 2020 is 83.07 years, a 0.18% increase from 2019. [1]

Life expectancy for Hong Kong is 84.7 years. [2]

Based on a comparison of 158 countries in 2013, Maldives ranked the highest in fish consumption per capita with 166 kg followed by Iceland and Hong Kong [3]

Hong Kong also beats most countries in beef consumption, out-eating Americans by nearly 50% per capita. [4]

So of the countries in the top 10 for life expectancy, we see a lot of meat in the diet. India has the most vegetarians of any country (at 38%). And their life expectancy ranks 133rd at 69.4 years.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ISL/iceland/life-expec...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
[3] https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/fish-consumption-per...
[4] https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-consumption-per-capit...
Somebody Snuck a Potato into CES to Make a Point About Useless Smart Gadgets
Great business story. They quickly capitalized on a trend (tuft and needle started 2 years before), pumped it up with great marketing and distribution, and now are making their exit before a recession.

Would. Not. Buy.
> A useful primer for those un-initiated:

Great share. Pulsed thanks
I've had a lot of negative things to say about Amazon for the past couple of years, but yeah, you shouldn't be paying much more than $300 for a mattress. Everything on top of that is your customer acquisition cost, which should be in your bank account, not Google/Facebook's.

In my experience you can just optimize the firmness to your liking with a pad. If suddenly its too firm or too soft, you can switch it out and not have to replace a whole mattress. Relatives visited and wet the bed? Throw it out and get a new one, your only out a few hundred dollars instead of $1000+.

For couples who want their mattress different ways, that is another market.
These days almost everyone is behind a NAT, which effectively defeats all the scanners trying to exploit Internet-listening services (and XP comes with an unfortunately large number of them in a default install.)
Brasxu
Thanks for the post. Will check out Notion for sure. Although I'm a little worried about the vendor lock-in - as others have mentioned as well. Although I think it is ok to surrender some robustness for the ease of use.
Someone who worked at Facebook for the better part of a decade responded that they felt the media coverage was unfair to Facebook. You were suprised by this response because from an outsider's perspective you felt that Facebook employees should be apologetic? What makes you more qualified to judge whether the public perception was accurate as compared to someone who actually worked there - an "FB vet" in your own words?

Having dug into the Cambridge Analytica story, I can see a number of reasons why Facebook workers would feel wronged by the coverage. In particular, many outlets omitted or downplayed the fact that Cambridge Analytica had lied about the purpose of their data collection, falsely claiming that it was for academic research. Dozens of other academic institutions were similarly allowed to solicit data from users, yet those go unmentioned because most people don't see users voluntarily sharing their data for academic purposes. But that's what Cambridge Analytica was, from Facebook's perspective. The picture painted by the media was one where Facebook brazenly sold people's data to nefarious actors, when in reality Facebook treated Cambridge Analytica just like other academic organizations in allowing them to solicit users for data - except it turned out that CA had lied about the purpose of its data collection.

This story leaves makes me more empathetic towards your interviewer. If my company was so throughly demonized by the media such that candidates discount my own experience actually working at the company and are "floored" when when I tell them that the reality is different from public coverage, I'd be pretty salty too.
Phyrexian Unlife might be the most emotionally effective magic card.
As is every other DMV. Also voting records. Chalk it up to bankrupt state governments.
IPOs have precipitously declined since the 90s. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs. There are now approximately 190 per year. [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/270290/number-of-ipos-in...
Know that if your single phone dies with all your totp credentials, you're sunk.
Submitting this because it borders on performance art and it’s also funny, plus it could lead to interesting discussion
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> It's mainly just an issue of manpower on our end (we do accept doc contributions, but probably we should be doing it); having fresh reader eyes on it like this is still valuable though.

That's absolutely fair, and tbh probably the problem. I've probably been thinking about the concept for so long that it doesn't occur to you that the phrase wasn't that well known.

I remember a multi-year project in college I was trying to explain about, and blew right through "potential energy surface" and lost him completely. I didn't realize it was something I'd have to explain.
Have you read/seen Trainspotting? That's essentially the message
Usually in these situations the onus should be on the senior colleague, because, besides the increased expectations of seniority, they have the power to punish a junior colleague for refusing sexual advances.
Why does being in the military matter? Why would men in the military not count as being part of the labor force? It's a job, that you get paid for. There are plenty of other government jobs that count as being in the labor force.
It pretty much stole social media headlines with just a post saying "tune in a few days for our next VR game". Valve have plenty of clout still, and Half-Life still draws plenty of eyes.
Right, but 1-2x perf is not nearly enough to naively emulate a system.
Twitter didn't ban accounts calling for the murder of the Covington kids. There clearly are no standards for you to hide behind.
Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708405

A larger thread, also from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512955
> Long-term, not so much. People tend to remember shitty behavior.

People remember Amazon workers have to piss in bottles to not get fired, but they don't stop shopping there. People know of Chinese factories with anti-suicide nets but they keep buying iPhones.
I worked for Bill for about a year at GV. He was one of the friendliest managers I've ever met at Google.

I randomly met Dave Drummond once at a coffee shop in Sausalito (I didn't know who he was at the time... he just commented on my Google shirt), and he gave me an inexplicably uncomfortable feeling.
The quoted article[1] mentions Berlin's Tegel airport being built in just 3 or 4 months. This is an amazing feat! Contrast that with Berlin Brandenburg Airport that started being built in 2006 to replace Tegel and is still under construction and massively behind schedule.

[1] https://patrickcollison.com/fast

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
That's ridiculous that you were down voted. My brother slept on a rock hard bed as a kid and is able to sleep on the floor, without a pillow, all night no problem. The soft bed thing is more of a cultural issue than a biological necessity.
Not to get too meta but undermining reviews is also a tactic used by companies to manipulate sales because if you don’t trust any reviews but still have to make a decision you’re going to go with a “safe” “established” brand which usually means whoever has the most mindshare.
I could see Apple offering 2FA as a core feature, at least on iOS.

In fact, Apple should redesign Keychain into a user friendly, 1Password-lite product with 2FA built-in (1Password offers this too) or as a separate app that works with Keychain.
People keep focusing on how these Chinese phones have malware and are being used in the West but I tend to believe that is more of a nice side effect, the real purpose is for China to keep a tight leash on those inside it's borders. I mean if we think about it they have to monitor, survail and keep in check more people than the entire US and EU combined.
I’d rather not do the deal than have a no shop clause.

A no shop clause destroys so much deal leverage. I can see why the buyer would want it.

In fact a no shop clause is indistinguishable from an exclusivity agreement.

If the buyer absolutely required it I’d put a hefty non refundable price on it, probably 50% of deal value. Such a commitment has to work both ways.
Global warming yes. Sorry about the "esotericism". No conspiration intended. I forget to keep it filtered down. People can be really sensitive to it i find. It's natural for me, not so much for most.
Its telling that the people touting this view most often directly benefited from the situation they are now conveniently apathetic towards.

1. Make millions of dollars doing grey area work

2. Grey area work is now identified as black hat work

3. "Thats just the way it is"
Caveat: you are clearly much more proficient at scraping than I am. It's an enviable skill.

What I'm about to say is pretty fuzzy, but I have noticed that services based on scraped datasets trend towards being predictably shittier than services lovingly harvested by a human. Obviously it's domain dependent but my bias is that it seems like scapers pick up a lot of crap; in music, it'd be the singer-songwriter showcases that literally even the performers families don't want to go to more than once a year.

I would filter out a service sending me 100+ mediocre, repetitive listings every week. I would consider paying for 5-6 human curated listings that strike a blend between "don't miss Judd Apatow" and "you might like Little Esther" up-and-comers. It's the human giving a shit that is providing value. I am someone that if I go to something I don't love, it is far worse than if I didn't leave the house.

So, yeah. It's all going to come down to what kind of customer you want. O(1000) comedy consumption sounds like someone who doesn't care how they are entertained so long as they don't have to contemplate how small they are in the universe. Like, if someone in my circle said "let's go see some comedy!" I'd say "oh, who?" and if they looked at me perplexed and said, "I dunno... comedy!" I would consider this grounds to reevaluate this relationship.

"Let's go see some music!" "What band?" "Oh, just some music!" gun

Anyhow. :)

And hey, if you're moving fast and love Vue, keep rocking it. I just meant... use Rails. Use PHP. Use anything that emits HTML that doesn't need to be rendered in JS on the client. This is just my opinion. If you've never tried Rails, perhaps consider trying Rails. Most of the other server frameworks (Laravel, Express, Django) are just efforts to copy Rails in other languages, but they never quite nail it.
Interesting, Alcohol consumption over-all has declined since the start of the 20th century with the US seemingly being alone among advanced nations in having an increase in the last 10 years.[1]

It seem logical the rise in death from alcoholism is broadly related to the "death from despair" phenomena many credit for declining US life expectancy.

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption, see chart "Alcohol consumption per capita"
I bought a cheap Amazon matress (~200 or so) for a guest-room bed. That bed ended up becoming our primary bed and within a year it developed a noticable softspot + indentation where I sleep (my wife's side is fine, I'm a side sleeper, she's half my weight and sleeps on her back mostly). We rotated it and it was good for another 6 months before the same thing happened.

In contrast, our 4 year old Leesa mattress (which we're back on as a primary bed) is fine.

I'm sure that I overpaid with the $900 Leesa, but I don't know how to be sure I'll get a durable mattress if I get a cheap one.
> People remember Amazon workers have to piss in bottles to not get fired, but they don't stop shopping there.

Sorry, but this has nothing to do with the point I was making.

If someone screws you over in business, you're going to try to avoid working with that person in the future. That's just common-sense.
I feel like my whole life is a series of addictions designed to prevent me from drudging through the extreme anger and sadness I have in my life. At least, luckily, I don't like to drink so excessively.
I don't think you're wrong, but there's better avenues to talk about e-waste & general cultural issues behind it and other materialism issues. It's also important to ask these questions in a better manner than shaming/reductionism. For starters, check out Basel Action Network's mailing list (https://www.ban.org - e-waste specific issues at the governance/trade level), and earth regenerators (http://earth-regenerators.mn.co/ - higher level discussion on cultural evolution)
Isn't iMessage just as vulnerable to SIM swapping and number portability fraud as SMS?

Once you have control over a phone number, you can register iMessage as that number on a device you control.
If that was the end of the story it would be great.
The TLD is the question, the title is the answer.
Are you using Google Voice? I have the same problem with Chase on my GV number. Calling works fine, and so does email, but no SMS.
Except for almost all people using smartphones ;)
Because it's being phrased as "punishment", which implies some kind of punitive action. "Oh the greenies are putting trees over green, we'll show them! Watch your share price tank!" That's not what happens. It's a bunch of quants sitting and running the numbers forward a few years to estimate numbers and price accordingly, not a conscious decision to punish. The big traders don't really have a particular attachment to a given company and just buy and sell accordingly. A big chunk of it's algorithmic anyways. If it decreases profit, a company can expect to see a decrease in share price because the company will likely be worth less in a few years. The phrasing of the parent implies it's an intended or targeted action, but that's not how markets work.
But git works the same way. All files are immutable. All directory
trees are immutable. Basically all version control works that way at some level.

Storing data this way doesn't solve the problem of merging the two changes into a new single change. When you can't do that automatically, it's called a conflict.

The only mutable data in git is the list of hashes you've given names to. You can use git without branch names if you want, living in a world of pure immutable hashes. It doesn't do anything to help you get rid of merge conflicts.
Nah, we’re just jealous because you can fit in those half-size street parking spaces in the Sunset.
Tesla is building an EU factory to employ EU citizens...
So the Russian collusion conspiracy is a "conservative" bias. That's pretty interesting.
Yes we have a summer internship program, it is listed on our careers page. Also, we are open source so, like any open source project, you can get started simply by joining the community and contributing.
As evidenced by praise for Gofmt and tools like Prettier.
In a previous company, one of the employees enabled 2FA for their staff account (it was mandatory), stored the backup codes on his phone (presumably as a photo) and it fall in the ocean the next day.

With large enough numbers, you'll see everything, but you don't even need large numbers to get people whose lives are made more difficult by technology.
I am dying for a new type of control. Game input has gotten stale as hell.
Are you a time traveler? Ctrl-alt-del brings up task manager or the login dialog. While I do frequently have to shut down an application forcibly, I don't think I've had Windows itself crash in years. Or at least enough months I've forgotten about the last time.
David was married and had a son

She's not exactly squeaky clean either.
Googling those terms will turn up lots of hits, e.g., https://preshing.com/20120930/weak-vs-strong-memory-models/
> 4U rack/tower case sounds clearly like “we know it is server but will try to sell it as a desktop”. No m.2, no audio, no mention about USB ports, no 1GbE network.

Isn't every server meant to have a 1GbE port nowadays? Dont most of the servers have m.2?

And for PCIe slots - aren't those extensible with raisers?

> That system was kind of Frankenstein’s monster. Audio over some USB stereo-only dongle, all USB devices plugged into hubs due to only two ports on mainboard I/O panel.

Perhaps one could just put a USB hub and the audio dongle inside the actual case?
This is precisely explained by the quote elsewhere in the thread:

once you accept certain principles about the code, for instance that it's more important to be able to hold it at once in your head than to be able to explain it to the uninitiated, this style becomes more efficient and more pleasant
Feels like in all of these booming startup segments there's always an Uber.
While I basically agree, why do you think they'd need your actual DNA? Wouldn't it be hashed?
DontPort.Com - I built this to fix this. I've been a victim of this 4 times and was too much frustrated. Unfortunately Sim swap is only one way to get your 2FA but the risks are much higher which I am working to solve one by one
Some big confounding factors there. Hong Kong and Iceland are also very wealthy compared to India.
Also, in other disturbing news, suicide rates have been climbing steadily since 2000[1]. This makes me wonder if the older anti-depressants are better than the new ones.

[1]https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
Oh, that makes it fine, then. Carry on. /s