skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess I am one of those kind of people who get their news from John Oliver.

From your clarifications in this comment, it doesn't sound like you're the type of person I'm talking about. I don't disagree at all that loans can take advantage of people's innumeracy and desperation-driven irrationality. And I consider this a serious concern with excessively high rates. But it needs to be balanced against the bedrock principle that taking a choice away from someone usually immiserates them further, and if you believe otherwise you need a damn high level of rigor to show it.

Tarring the payday loan industry writ large as a scam doesn't stand up to that level of rigor, and there are a thousand qualitative and quantitative pieces of evidence pointing to the fact that the industry does provide value to a portion of the underbanked population.

This doesn't preclude things like capping rates, but this is an explicit recognition that, at the given rate, the cost of the innumerate being taken advantage of is higher than the cost of cutting off an emergency lifeline for people who can use it rationally.

I don't think you and I are especially in disagreement here, given your clarification of what you meant by "scam".
App engine (and Google's cloud in general) is pretty fantastic. I find it much easier to navigate and use than AWS (as someone whose day job isn't running infra on clouds), and I would have gladly put my side projects in there and recommended it to my clients... if only it wasn't Google and its history of randomly locking people out of their Google account, thus the entire Google ecosystem, without appeal.
Actually this is such a simple thing to implement and also would be wonderful to test out.

Subsidize 2 luggages and a 1-way bus ticket per household member, to anyone that wants to move to a new location. No questions asked. You can do it X amount of times in your life, and anyone with income below (a multiple of poverty rate here) qualifies. That's it.
Jesus, I hope that's at least for a family of 4 or something?

I'm 38 and also have a $7k+ deductible (my plan is HDHP), costs me $275/mo.
They meant more secure encryption for calls, not a more secure app binary.
I have to agree. There is nothing more demotivating for me than documenting a bug thoroughly, only to have it returned to me two months later as part of a bulk 'we didn't get to this in time' cleanup.

Issues for those teams usually 'best effort' isolation going forward, which compounds the issue.
Unions outside the US are "society-wide". We have per-company union organizing because of quick hacks applied to the legal system, the same way our healthcare system was created. Sectoral bargaining systems like Europe are less antagonistic and the employer has less motivation to fight against them. It can make the company more efficient since the execs don't only hear what middle management tells them.
Yes, raw asafoetida has an awful smell.

However, cook it/roast it and it becomes palatable and the fragrance develops into something rather distinctive and compelling.
Unfortunately flash is not supported anymore, so zombo.com didn't work.
I should note that, on iOS, it seems that Safari with a content blocker outperforms the brave skin by a little, which outperforms the Firefox skin by a lot, which outperforms the chrome skin by a lot.
You actually can compute the quality suffering of a regional bakery.
All first-charge-products have to be done pre-delivery, which means - driving distance in hours to the place farthest away is the time point, by which all products have to be transport ready. Not everything can be baked simultaneously, so some products are stored in baskets pre-loading.

Now, you have a idea of the time period the central bakery starts producing, and how old the stuff is when you buy it. If you enter the bakery at 9 o clock, some brezen are already up to 6 h old for some branch-bakeries.

They try to counter that with frozen pretzels that are baked up in hot-air behind the counter-ovens, but those dry the baked goods too much, so they can only be eaten properly for 1-2h.

Its a dying job though, due to the long hours, low pay and bad time to work ( Workday starts around 0 o Clock and ends at 10 o clock).
Low-effort options have all sorts of network effects.
Are you sure you're not confusing HSA with FSA?

The latter should absolutely be avoided, but an HSA is basically just another tax-advantaged retirement account along the lines of an IRA.
> I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally

A lot of comments here seem to think that it has something to do with morals, but from living in poor places, what I gather is that people have no other options when they’re backed into a corner.

If you’re unemployed and you need money for rent and food, what the he’ll are you going to do? Survival mode kicks in, and you’ll do anything to make the next day/week. This could include steeling (to consume or sell) and mugging people (actual money, but probably less of a problem in the near future with everyone using digital payments). Now throw into the mix drugs to numb to pain of living an abysmal life... which are astronomically expensive, so most of the time your only option is to steel and mug more.
I created an extension that flushes all cookies and local storage for the current domain; it then reloads the page so you appear to be a fresh new visitor.
Or if you just weren't on this site, and that's what everyone around you does.
I agree with all this, but it's not like the alternative actually solves these issues. Instead of a boring list sorted by seniority it becomes a boring list sorted by arbitrary internal politics. There isn't a company on earth that can accurately determine who the top performers are once we start talking about any mildly subjective role. Programming performance is especially difficult to quantify, mostly because the people doing the bean counting have no idea what programming really consists of.
China owns about $1.1 Trillion in US debt compared to the $28 Trillion in total debt. Most debt, ~85%, remains owned by Americans.

Also, China has been trying to unwind their US position over time, but it is a difficult task because they have to do something with the US dollars that they get due to the trade imbalance.
Isn't most of the discrimination a result of advertising deals with content owners? How can that be fixed?

I don't think the discrimination is related to racism in any way.
And all the vendors and suppliers that supply to these companies. The number of suppliers very well would exceed into thousands of small and midsized companies scattered around US.
Engineers are on the brink of breaking an encryption barrier
This puts me in a tough spot: There are good reasons to go with nVidia (once they release GPUs with proper memory configuration), DLSS, RTX and now this. On the other hand, do I really want to give money to the company that locked this feature in the first place? Difficult call, but at least the ridiculous prices mean I can still think about it for a few more months.
> reduce its risk more by reading its own

Ok but they can do both, right? I mean, I can improve my performance by looking at my own performance, but also watching others.

Moreover, the US can exert a lot of pressure on other countries to meet certain standards and reduce risk. Knowing what went wrong will help determine standards.

It's not like lab-leak-causes-disease only happens once. This happens all the time, just like aircraft incidents. If incidents weren't investigated and tracked, planes would be riskier than they are.
Ask HN: Are we living in the golden age of technology?
> At worst, they just don't lower prices as quickly as Moore's law decreases their costs.

From a financial perspective, isn't this basically raising prices over time?
Forget Q.

We've known about adrenochrome etc...
Cinnamon + Chocolate in a Crushed looking croissant? Those are delicious, had them every morning at CCC when it was still there..
They're viruses from the same family of viruses. "Strongly resembles" is not strong evidence.

Which you note by pointing out that this is the exact thing we'd expect from a natural event.
If you read the POSIX specification for chown you'll see that the "leave unchanged" sentinel value is, for UIDs, defined to be (uid_t) -1.

I can't be bothered to try it myself but I'm fairly sure the author could just have written (-1i32) as uid_t and gotten some of their life back.
Some bugs are more important to fix than others. If you rank each bug by effort and impact, you want to fix the high-impact, low-effort bugs first, and the low-impact, high-effort bugs last (if ever).
I wonder if even that might be too much motion for under a desk. Plus, it looks like it's designed to be stood on, so I wonder how it would work when you're sitting and not directly over it, and don't have all your weight on it. Still, might be an options.

I've also thought a sliding back-and-forth motion might work -more like a skiing thing.

Thanks for the link
"Buddy" "But yes, that wouldn't go deeper than name->number kinds of lookups."
I was gonna say that!

curl and ffmpeg are definitely commendable "100%" FOSS projects, but they aren't chasing new features. HTTP3 is big, but it's not like curl had to break HTTP 1.1 compatibility to add it. AV1 is big, but it's not like MPEG1 will ever change. Both projects deal in protocols, which means most of their requirements are literally set in stone, or silicon.

Whereas youtube-dl is constantly breaking _only_ because YouTube is constantly breaking, probably on purpose to thwart youtube-dl.

Why spend the other 80% of my time adding armor plating and documentation to a feature that will either be gone or half rewritten next week?
Because they can. Its a game, its a status symbol. Whatever. It doesn't matter what matters is... that it does happen.

They have literal games , such as "knockout". The game is literally to come from behind and hit a random passerby so hard that they fall on the ground... knocked out.

Its some real messed up stuff. I am sure you google.
My opinion matters to Spotify executives only so much as me being a paying customer of their platform. They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors. If you are a paying Spotify customer, then yes, your opinion matters to the executives.

Expressing my opinion on a message board isn't a claim that the executives should listen to me.
There’s nothing to learn though:

It’s either from wild animals, it was an accident, or it was spread with malice. In all scenarios we already have procedures around gain of function research, limiting interaction with animals in markets and biological weapons, respectively.

If the prevailing theory was that it came from an asteroid that would be interesting.

I personally doubt China would pay anything even if it was a lab accident. I guess we’ll see.
Nice link, thanks.

Relevant section:

> Among the types of evidence that may be required, when appropriate, to determine that there is reasonable assurance that a device is safe are investigations using laboratory animals, investigations involving human subjects, and nonclinical investigations including in vitro studies.
"It takes a learner with average aptitude only 15 weeks to reach level 2 for Spanish or French, but about 50 weeks to reach a similar level of the Chinese language. If you want to be fully fluent in Mandarin, you’d better plan to spend about 230 weeks, which is about 4 years."

https://goeastmandarin.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-learn-ch...
These are stories few and between. Literally hundreds of thousands of employees wouldn't remain quiet for not allowing bathroom breaks.

You're pursuaded by anecdotal evidence of certain incident that may have happened. It is difficult to believe hundreds of thousands of workers around the world working in Amazon warehouses have not enmasse complained they can't go to bathroom.

This is a media-driven narrative. Squeeky wheels make more noise.
The write-up specified that they're a noisy minority who disagree with the consensus. In the subheading, after the heading 'scientists say..'. Media!

It's still 100% speculation. The question to ask is, would there be this level of suggestive speculation if it wasn't America's newest top rival?
Yea, I'm not sure how some people can vehemently say any of the most plausible explanations are absolutely wrong or right. It seems like it's just not possible for anyone outside of a very small group in China to know the truth and also seems possible that no one at all knows exactly what happened. Without any smoking gun evidence, it seems like everything else is just guess work with some guesses a lot more educated than others.
Two parents working at Amazon almost hit median household income in the US. Houses in that part of AL cost <$100k, so ownership is within reach. Retirement is provided by social security (pays better than Canada’s public pension does). And they get great health insurance from Amazon.

You’re painting way too bleak of a picture based on zero data.
Isn't it expensive in terms of egress?
Lebanon is notorious for this.

Guns are illegal.

Still, plenty of shootings and killings from random roadrage incidents.
If they were driven they'd own big businesses.
"The Snapdragon 888 wins in terms of CPU performance while the Kirin 9000 seems to be the one with the better GPU and AI capabilities. However, there are other factors to consider such as power efficiency where the Kirin 9000 already does excellently well as shown in our review video. So until there is an in-depth device-to-device comparison, we can’t say which chipset is the clear winner." [0]

[0]https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/12/04/chip-battle-snapdragon...
I responded above. I was talking about the opinions not mattering to decision makers in charge of investor capital.
Building, deploying and getting something that works fine isn't that complicated, but in my experience, without a strong background of the tech (the 100s of hours required), you will lose a significant amount of time, compounded by a high amount of stress and probably money / customer dissatisfaction, when a problem arises (even a trivial one), and that always happen.
Downvote away, but without some public platform, you'll never understand and combat these people.

See: Hells Angels interviews on primetime TV in the 70s-80s etc at the peak of the fear surrounding them.
Yes. Good ones will have a time-domain reflectometer (TDR) that will tell you were the break or sharp bend in the cable is in addition to the standard is this cable terminated correctly test.

They will also be able to do basic connectivity tests to make sure things above the physical layer (eg: is there DHCP?) are operating correctly so you don't also need to swap to a laptop to fully troubleshoot a network drop.
> Chromium-based browsers give precedence to websites over user settings when it comes to decide whether pre-fetching is disabled or not.

Classic google/chrome “Yeah I know you’ve got these setting, but I’m just going to ignore them because this website wants to do it”.
FBI on AWS => https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/11/fbis-counte...

CIA on AWS => https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/aws-cvo-blg-aws-govcloud-servi...

NSA on AWS => https://techbeacon.com/security/nsaarmys-inscom-leaks-top-se...
This is a ridiculous. I dont think you can take on some behemoth with near limitless (financial, legal and otherwise) resources without planning. An ad-hoc lawsuit DOES NOT stand chance against Apple. The united states gov took 8 years to file antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. So I think we can give some benefit to Epic here.
I do listen to Rogan and I'm aware of the trans controversy. What he actually took issue with was a trans woman who fought in women's MMA without telling her competitors that she was trans. This creates a serious safety risk in what is already a dangerous sport, and it was irresponsible of her to lie. Rogan didn't even say trans women shouldn't compete, just that they should disclose it so the people they're fighting know what they're getting into and can make an informed decision.

If pointing out simple biological realities like "the bodies of people who go through puberty as a male have more muscle mass than the bodies of people who go through puberty as a female" constitutes "promoting hate" then the concept has no meaning. If a phrase is "impossible to define" perhaps it is not a good basis on which to form a policy.
I can't remember on which things I heard them, but Seinfeld, Chris Rock, George Carlin, and Jon Stewart all say some super interesting things in interviews. And one I do remember because it's a recent discovery is Jamie Lidell's podcast, Hanging out with Audiophiles. The session he did recently with producer Damian Taylor was fantastic. HTH!
I thought the pretzels at Prater Biergarten in Prenzlauer Berg were pretty good. There's also a Hofpfisterei in Mitte although I don't know their reputation.
So if they're discussing it in this fashion, the inability to backup or export your iMessages is carefully considered.

I know many people who have lost their messages from deceased loved ones. Now I'm figuring out it's because apple mindfully doesn't allow it.
Either demonstrating dominance or as part of initiation. Requiring recruits to perform illegal acts or even random violence is common. It’s to prove you’re willing to do what is asked of you by your superiors.
You think we should wait one-two more years to figure out the biggest pandemic in 100 years?
Past related threads:

Welcome to the Old Internet Again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24808071 - Oct 2020 (192 comments)

Welcome to the Old Internet Again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20297435 - June 2019 (160 comments)

Welcome to the Old Internet Again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559935 - April 2019 (1 comment)
But “harness” can be specifically used in relation to natural resources e.g. harness the wind or harness solar energy. And it’s used generally with other words that you can’t put in a harness. It’s not just a noun.
Thank you. I thought I remembered they admitted it, but I didn't trust my memory. Case closed.
I’ve not noticed any issues. The author is very active on the mailing list.
This headline does not match the original, but, more importantly, the HN version is unintentionally misleading.

It seems to be implying that these scientists who say this are outliers in their belief. Really they are just outliers (I believe) in their willingness to speak up about this matter.

There are reasons others won’t speak up, ranging from access to grant money, to wanting to keep the door open for a China visa in the future, to not wanting to rock the boat with colleagues who are loyal to China.

Unfortunately all this also gets mixed up, even if intentions are completely beyond reproach, with perceived racism and with possibly creating an uncomfortable environment for those who would rather not have the stuff talked about. It’s unfortunate. I don’t know the solution, but unfortunately a harsh “we must get to the bottom of all facts at all costs” approach is not cost free. The alternative let’s all sing Kumbaya approach also is not cost free. No conclusions or solutions here.. it’s a big complex problem. I would prefer to see more nuanced headlines though on HN...
Because people are having emotional discussion doesn’t mean we should stop trying to have rational ones.

In fact it’s the opposite we need to have the hard conversations as early as possible.
ICE was a creation born out of the "war on terror"

Shouldn't be surprising that their staff follows the same principles that created the agency in the first place.

Customer service takes a nose dive once you train your staff on how to spot the next shoebomber.
> I debated reaching out to one of those payday loan places, despite the fact that I knew they were scams.

They aren't scams, but they are only useful for a very narrow band of people in a very narrow band of circumstances. For the vast majority of people that want one of those loans, they are better off not getting it. It's entirely possible to get the loan and use it as intended, it's just the most the people that need it aren't in a position to do so, and the lenders go out of their way to make it real easy to just roll the loan over into a new ones that kicks the problem down the road to the next payday after this one.[1]

1: It's a dark pattern. "You borrowed $400 the other week and you owe use $500 today? How about we fund a new loan for $400 before your payment, roll that into your current payment, and all you have to do is pay the $100 difference this payday, and you can just pay it all next payday when it's more convenient?" Now, the lender has an installment plan for 700-1500% APR as long as they can get the client to keep doing that (but the client does have to choose to do it every time).

At least, that's how it was a decade or so ago. I think it got even more regulated since then, and they can't charge 25% interest per payday anymore (you can likely thank the NY AG if so).
Even when it comes to open source. There's been many people I've recommended gimp to who insisted on pirating Photoshop instead.

These are people who would balk at the idea of downloading a song illegally or pirating most software, but somehow Photoshop was different.

Not professionals or people who needed advanced unavailable features or anything, people doing tasks easily accomplishable with gimp. Simple image editing and stuff.
Is Amazon a monopsony employer in this town? It sounds like they aren't since their warehouse created 1500 jobs and the population is 27000.
So frequent plasma donations would be a better approach for these billionaires. It’s just such a difficult/uncomfortable/time consuming process.
I don't trust Mozilla to not break my workflow or remove features I use or ignore debilitating bugs for upwards of a decade in some ham-handed attempt to "keep me safe".

That sounds pithy, and it is, but Mozilla burned every ounce of goodwill they ever had with me over the last 5 years or so.
TUI 737 weight incident traced to ‘Miss’ interpretation of female passengers
Sure, but also, if the PRC didn't have a tendency of murdering it's dissenters and anyone who made them look bad. They're not exactly a shining beacon of transparency. If this was going down in New Zealand I'm not sure anyone would be speculating, and also WHO investigators would have been granted full access to the facility on day 1.
One early Adobe exec explicitly spoke of pirates as building product mindshare and as sales funnel. Couldn’t find those quotes, but did see the concepts have been researched and codified:

> Based on research conducted by Microsoft, Adobe and Disney … 83 percent of all pirates in mature markets are opportunistic and legally-inclined and will pay for software.

https://www.cleverbridge.com/corporate/software-pirates-your...
"monotonous" I think you meant :). Though the identical etymology makes this a bit silly.
I still use the version from 2019, and I usually do not have much code in tight loops, but rather need to reload different parts of a much bigger application so I tend to decorate the wrong parts of the code. I have no complaints about Reloading, just admiration using the AST module like that was genious.
I would too. I had never heard of either Figma nor Canva. I'm in the printing industry and if it does not have Pantone support, it's not really that useful. I have the Affinity suite for home use. It's getting better but not quite up to the Adobe standard.