skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" is a book worth reading in this space.
Some news in the french newspaper Le Figaro (via AFP). Translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&c...
I wonder who the founders were for Plurchase. It's kind of weird that they're the only one without this info listed.
Are food ordering apps in the US also forced to use IAP?
i've been there. here. :-D

the last time i strolled into this, i was reading (listening to audiobooks) and heard the word 'ennui' (ahn-wee).

i was like, i've heard that word, but....shit, this description of it...this is me! like, exactly!

so that was cool. another +1 for reading.

i'd been in that state before, but didn't know what it was called, didn't know other folks had felt it, etc.

and then I stumbled upon the word 'ikigai' -- again (japanese for 'reason for being').

and that was kind of interesting.

it reminded me of the few times when i'd felt like, 'Fuck - _this_ is the shit!'

and those were often times when i was doing some project -- typically a side software project that would inevitably do absolutely nothing -- but sometimes other offline stuff, like volunteering or bike blogging or some other hippie do-gooder shit.

and i remembered reading about how the puritanical american psychotic mentality of beig dedicated to overwork and 'achievement' was part of what is making the world a terrible and worse place to live for most people.

fortunately i have at least one friend who thinks about things other than money, so i could talk to him about trying to do important work instead of just work.

and i remembered a lesson i learned when i was actually full-on depressed as opposed to just bored/not motivated -- start doing more of the things that you like, and less of the things that you don't like.

one of my recent insights is that, "I should do something mid-life crisis-y". and there are a few reasons for that, but one of them is, whenever you are learning something new, there's a pretty good chance that it's going to make you feel good, just because it hits something inside of us.

and another aspect of it is that, when you do some of those new things, inevitably it seems like at least one of them is like, "Holy fuck - i can't believe nobody managed to covince me to actually try this earlier". and now there's a new world that is open to you.

like, riding a bike. if you haven't ridden a bike 10 or 20 miles, just buzzing around town, etc., and you actually live in a city/town where you're not likely to be murdered by a terrorist just for riding your bike, then that might be something you should look at.

audiobooks, b/c doomscrolling is poison.

i think chilling for 3/6/12 months is cool. i've actually been straight burned out before -- not depressed, not ennui, burned out. and all it took was 6-12 months of doing jack shit, then i was fine. but if it was 5.99 months? would not have been enough. most of the stuff i read on burnout didn't really capture it. i know one of the nordic countries started an official 'burnout office' within the government.

i suggest a bunch of googling on ennui to start.

then watch some good Mubis.

then go vote.

and then read/watch some Chomsky.
Typically when a company like Google contracts with a vendor like HCL, the statement of work will include work location (for many reasons such as the impact of time differences on productivity). If a vendor moves work to a different location, Google at the least would have assented by accepting a change to their SOW.
I was able to enable it myself through the web interface, no contacting customer support required.

>And to enter it, you ... append it to your password?

Are you implying this is wrong somehow? It's a fairly common way to do 2FA and there's nothing wrong with it. On the backend, all it's doing is taking the input, substringing the final 6 characters and inputting that as the code, and then uses the remaining characters as the password input. It's essentially just a shortcut that allows you to log in with one click rather than having to enter your password, click submit, enter a code, then click submit again.

Per the FAQ, if you for some reason don't want to append it to your password, it'll send you to a normal "Enter your 2FA code" form like you're probably used to.

The main issue for me is that the 2FA is locked to using the Symantec VIP 2FA app, which is disappointing from a usability standpoint.
I partly agree with you, but I doubt the #1 use case for someone buying a Raspberry Pi is to sit and watch YouTube or Twitch. People buy Raspberries to experiment with, to have a Linux "server" at home, or to connect it to something, whether it's a web cam or a sensor using the GPIO pins.
I used HomeJoy once, a student showed up and said "Wow your house looks pretty clean already, I'm not sure what I would even do". My apartment was tidy, but it wasn't clean (at least by my standards)
There’s no legal way to define the boundary between what’s classified as a computer vs a console. Game consoles have apps that are traditional to a computer, such as streaming video and even video editing. Portability isn’t a reliable indicator as you have systems like the Switch.

Nor is it realistically possible to create legal guidelines based on profit margins. I don’t see how it makes sense to apply a different set of rules on devices that are sold as a loss and make up for it in software sales vs the inverse or even both being profitable.
This piece makes the short-sighted and common mistake of only finding fault with the "extreme" right. I happen to know quite a few of these folks that obsessively forward ugly politics, it is a real problem. But I know quite a few incredibly smug folks from "extreme" left that do practically the same thing.

An example: Many are the kind of folks that complained bitterly that people were going to California beaches early in the Covid crisis, "because science" (that they apparently didn't understand). They were clearly superior to those other folks and forwarded articles with carefully chosen photographs (taken at a 15-degree angle) which made the beach seem much more crowded than it really was. A little applied spatial reasoning could see that the groups were several yards/meters apart or more.

The first days the subject came up in the news I said, "no one is getting this sitting alone in the ocean-breeze and sunshine" and was attacked for it. Guess what, a few months later that rule was rescinded, because it didn't make sense. Any apologies over the hysteria and name-calling? Of course not.

Another example would be the housing crisis. In every facebook thread regarding a new apartment building lefty nimbys come out of the woodwork to make comments that even an a high-school economics class graduate can see are backwards, regarding cause and effect. I have other examples, but that's enough for now.

TL;DR: Lefties don't have a lock on reality, and your piece would be better recognizing that.
I'm not sure exactly what the data shows but total compensation would seem to be the more reasonable thing to look at. In particular the value associated with health insurance and other non-cash compensation has gone up.
Plenty of places in Europe never used natural gas as much as the US does. You're imagining needing to replace infrastructure that doesn't necessarily even exist.
Quarterly VC funding for female founders drops to three-year low
The web version is a PICO-8 game. PICO-8 is a very constrained fantasy console (posted here on HN a few times). ESDF are actually the "player 2" keys of the "console", so they're easy to access from within, unlike the actual keyboard - letting me save precious code tokens (you only get 8192 for the whole game on the PICO-8) for actual gameplay.
Typically this takes enough work that it has to be at least somewhat targeted but even some rando with just a few thousand dollars in their account would probably be a large enough target because it doesn't take super long
I know many people will find your comment alarmist and hyperbolic, but you're understating it. I follow this issue closely and some of the crap that's being fed to schoolchildren in the US at the moment is jaw-dropping. Check out the site whataretheylearning.com for the tip of the iceberg.

If you're a parent of a child in K-12 schooling right now, you have a lot of reasons to be worried.
I don't understand how, even after so much privacy was eroded to give marketers additional data to target ads - I still get such irrelevant ones.
I have a bunch of 3s, but I bought a 4 specifically for it's better specs so I'd have a better computer in my garage for looking up schematics/ordering parts/watching youtube how-to videos.
> Ads annoy the bejesus out of me

Yep and in all honesty it's their resource use (slowing down web pages), sometimes intrusiveness (e.g. modal popups), masquerading as news articles (those Taboola boxes), and cross-site user tracking/data sharing behavior that annoy me more than anything else.

If ads were just inline hyperlinked images I'd find them much less annoying, and would probably not bother blocking them if that is all they were.
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination/ethnicdisc#....

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices

https://www.eeoc.gov/filing-charge-discrimination
A decentralised revision control database revolution is brewing!
Let me guess. ShareBlue is unaffected.
Public dataset of Cloudtrail logs from flaws.cloud
I think using the word "disputed" is a big mistake. It implies that a lie has some validity and that there's actual public disagreement.

There's nothing wrong with taking a side between truth and lies. Even their example tweet should be clearly labeled as wrong, not "disputed". There is no serious dispute, only bad-faith political attacks against the democratic process.
While seemingly harsh criticism, I think you may be right. YC of the old (PG, Jessica, etc) was much more selective and smaller inner circle. However, even when PG was at the helm he said they passed on many insanely lucrative opportunities.

Picking startups is hard, like picking stocks. You aren’t gonna pick every winner, but frankly 2M in ARR after two years is not exactly a home-run for YC. So, perhaps them passing was the right call for YC.

Congrats though, sounds like you’ve built something useful and you can be proud of that. Plus, taking VC money ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. If you can bootstrap to get to a level that pay’s yourself $200-300k a year, that’s a win.
From what I see on WSB, you can trade options without even fully verifying your email.
> And if they had kept up since 1949, minimum wage would be $4.22 an hour. Two can play the game of cherrypicking troughs and peaks.

This is just wrong: the article is not talking about inflation; it is talking about indexing the minimum wage to productivity. Eyeballing the graph from the original article (and projecting productivity back to 1949), if indexed to productivity, then minimum wage would be at ~$15.

Your subsequent criticisms have more merit, but the article addresses them as well. You may disagree with the article's arguments, but you should at least acknowledge them.

> It would be claimed that the productivity of minimum wage workers has not kept pace with average productivity growth, so that it would not be feasible for minimum wage workers to earn pay that rises in step with average productivity growth.

> There is some truth to this claim, but only at a superficial level. The productivity of any individual worker is determined not just by their skills and technology, but also by the institutional structure we put in place.
The chronological mode doesn't help either. That's the reason why I keep using half-broken third-party clients on mobile and Tweetdeck on desktop.

If I wanted to "discover" or "explore" something, I'd open the dedicated section, thank you very much. Modern social media is ridiculously user-hostile.
Yes that is true in a pedantic sense. It is also true that my gravitational force affects everyone in the world as I move about. But not enough to matter.
It's more likely due to genes than culture or parenting as adoption studies show:

https://medium.com/@syedmhamzatahir/iqs-of-east-asians-5fe60...
"Is it a skin-ish tone? Is it most of the image? Not very many sharp edges? MIGHT BE A BUTT, BAN IT!"
In this case it would seem that that money is less "disposable" and more "extremely import to ration". I must not understand the definition of disposable.
I've also built several production systems and it has nothing but nightmare. Stack traces are meaningless and there were so many issues with things like ISO Time Zones, HTTP requests (why isn't there a solid http request library? its a mess), Docker problems with compilation, start times were atrocious and still are I think, package management is insane, setting up an internal julia repository is a total nightmare - just go on SO and search for it.

I've lived through this.
Gold is obviously not just an "arbitrary natural resource." There's a reason why we say "gold standard" and not "silver standard," "aluminum standard," or even "dollar standard." Nevertheless, it was only a fun thought experiment (which is what most economic arguments boil down to).
Your argument seems to be "people see problems and other people explain why those problems exist" and somehow you frame it like it's a bad thing.
Surely it matters who benefits (or worse, gets hurt) from what you produce?
You’re thinking along the right lines, but the challenge is that a raw diff will have the same number of pixels as the raw image, so no compression in bandwidth. So, how do we represent the diff/residue also with fewer numbers? At that point it’s the same as choosing better parameters within some clever encoding (be it pre-designed like JPEG or H.264 or learned via ML).
> There are plenty of wonderful investigative reporters (Whitney Webb is a stellar example right now for example) but the editorial employees of oligarch owned media have marching orders and objectives to meet, so voices like Whitney's are invisible in the 'mainstream media', except to be undermined if their work gets through to an audience.

I spent about a half hour scanning some of her stuff, and I'm getting a strong conspiracy-theorist vibe from that person:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/09/investigative-reports/b...:

> [Rosa Brooks] was also previously the general counsel to the President of the Open Society Institute, part of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), a controversial organization funded by billionaire George Soros. Zoe Hudson, who is TIP’s director, is also a former top figure at OSF, serving assenior policy analyst and liaison between the foundations and the U.S. government for 11 years.

> OSF ties to the TIP are a red flag for a number of reasons, namely due to the fact that OSF and other Soros-funded organizations played a critical role in fomenting so-called “color revolutions” to overthrow non-aligned governments, particularly during the Obama administration. Examples of OSF’s ties to these manufactured “revolutions” include Ukraine in 2014 and the “Arab Spring,” which began in 2011 and saw several governments in the Middle East and North Africa that were troublesome to Western interests conveniently removed from power.

The Soros stuff is a bit of a red flag. Also, Ukraine wasn't non-aligned, but aligned towards Russia. Anecdotally, the Ukrainians I know weren't fond of Yanukovych and were happy to see him go, both times.

https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1312730357175902209:

> Good ole sheep herder Bernard!

Referring to people as "sheep"?

https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/status/1312430264870674438:

> My opinion:

> This is about ramping up fear and distracting everyone from the VERY DISTURBING revelations in just the past few days on something the creepiest part of the military you've never heard of is up to. Stay tuned!

The "this" she's referring to is Trump getting Covid-19. Apparently she thinks it's part of some kind of coverup rather than the very obvious end-result of the choices he's made for himself and his staff.
Logical Fallacies That Mess US All Up
Maybe this has to do with women entering the workforce, increasing supply and putting downward pressure on prices. Look at real median family income:

1968, 55745

2019, 86011

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

Edit:
Real median income has also increased: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
As bad as Prop 13 is for California, it's silly to put the whole blame on high rents on it. It's enough to note that rents are high in NYC, Boston, DC, and Seattle, and none of these places have Prop 13. If you can have skyrocketing rents without Prop 13, why would you think that it's Proposition 13 that's bearing the whole blame in California?
Please link me to a single RCT that shows HCQ as having a significant benefit. I also apologize if you felt I was maligning you, I’m not. However I am maligning the belief that a drug works when it’s been proven time and again to show it doesn’t.
Mendel (widely referred to as the father of genetics) had already demonstrated it.
>Cut >50% and it's now a extortion

Extortion (or blackmail) has a legal definition and this isn't it. In California (where Apple is incorporated and headquartered), the statute states:

Extortion is the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with his or her consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right.
It can be very difficult to draw a through line or see a pattern in the EB1A adjudications. What's clear, however, is that it's a much higher standard than it used to be. It used to be similar to the O-1 standard but now USCIS wants to see a lot more than just meeting the required three criteria; it wants to see external/third-party evidence that the applicant is set apart from most of his or her peers through, for example, the purchase of a company founded by the applicant, the widespread use of a product developed by the applicant, the receipt of a major national or international award, publications with lots and lots of citations, extensive media coverage in major media, keynote/major invited conference speaking engagements, very high base and total compensation, etc.
> and every businesses and government utilities and services conspire to control all forms

They don't even have to all conspire together. Instead, merely one of these companies doing it, alone, could have a huge effect.

For example, a power company, or water company doing this, all on its own, not conspiring with anyone at all, would be very bad for society, if it were legal (fortunately, it is not legal for a power company to do that).

This is because it would be extremely expensive, and difficult to get another power line, or water pipe, to your house. There are huge barriers to entry.

If only a singular power company did this (after the law was changed), if would be very difficult for any of their customers to resist such changes. They'd have to take extreme actions, such as moving, or paying for whole new pipes to be dug in the ground to their house.
That’s just what happens when worthwhile initiatives get too big and bloated. I’m sure there was a sweet spot YC was in years ago but I guess it’s no longer that.
> Most people in Julia's target audience know latex already

Is Julia's target audience really that small? Either that or you'd be surprised how many people don't use LaTeX but do write scientific code and papers.
Hmmm.

Thank you for finding that! This opens up a fascinating discussion about ethics.

So, to start from a purely capitalistic viewpoint, it seems like you are free to use your property that you own however you wish, subject to the law. That raises questions like: in this situation, is it legal for the CC numbers to be stored in that way? From the customer’s POV, they authorized HomeJoy to store their CC info, not Fly Maids. But that leads to the question of: those CC numbers are stored somewhere (or the authorization token) and those assets were a part of the sale.

I don’t know. It’s a massive advantage to have your customers in a position of “just click this button to give us money” rather than pestering for CC details.

It’s a little odd, to be sure, but... it seems like unless it’s illegal, it might not be unethical to take advantage of that opportunity. It depends how you feel about capitalism, I suppose. If there was nothing illegal here, which seems perhaps likely, then it seems valid.

From another point of view, it sounds like he was just trying very hard to succeed, and in some sense Fly Maids was the continuation of his previous endeavor. So I sort of understand why it might have felt natural to reach out to the customers you were already doing business with.

But again, all of this has two important assumptions: (a) he legally owned all assets, and (b) used those assets to the letter of the law. If those are mistaken then someone with more experience should definitely call it out.

"When we contacted customers, we didn’t tell them we were Homejoy relaunching because we wanted to gauge reception to our new model without the influence of Homejoy’s brand," Cheung allegedly wrote. "As a result, we scared many customers, who expected the worst had happened to their data. We should have told customers upfront who we were, what we were testing, and used original content."

I dunno. This seems pretty reasonable, honestly. It kind of alarms me that you see this as clearly unethical, because I could see myself making this same mistake, in a different life. If you feel like explaining more of the reasoning regarding the ethics, I’d personally find it interesting to listen.
Productivity isn't measuring worker's "work" anymore. The share of purely financial sector "productivity" has greatly increased.
WFP needs ‘systemic overhaul’ to limit abusive behaviour: external review

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2019/10/14/WFP-Unite...
It reacts with fairly common materials [1], steel is the main one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
Speaking of support, one of the huge issues I had with Fidelity when I was with them was that after 2 PM Pacific (5 PM Eastern), there's literally nobody there who can actually do anything if something is messed up. This eventually lead to me moving my account to E*Trade, where my company's stock plan accounts are hosted. Thankfully, that process was completely seamless, and I've had 0 problems so far, but I do wonder what would happen if I somehow discovered an issue at 3 PM that needed a timely resolution.
WFP needs ‘systemic overhaul’ to limit abusive behaviour: external review