skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see a parallel universe where in 2008 no one is bailed out and bankers are either on the hook for the risks they took or actually are sent to prison.

Taking it further back, what if the tech bubble of the 90s is allowed to collapse, interests aren't set at almost 0, and a housing bubble isn't blown by exploiting minorities.

And last year airlines, and other corporations who didn't account for black swan events, go bankrupt, and new management take them over (or employees), or they disappear altogether and new startups can fill the void.

I am convinced the USA is in the place it is because since about 99, no rich person has been allowed to fail or lose money, not really.

I'm not a leftie, but it really is capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich right now. But I have to say, the problem is collusion between the rich who are close to politics, and the problem is the GOVERNMENT enabled all this.

The problem is NOT all rich people. Only the ones who are part of this system. And this distinction needs to be made, otherwise the US is headed for a communist disaster of hating the rich. But the problem is the corrupt rich, not all rich.
>Law is a process, punishing people who do their duty for the errors in the process when they have not been involved in misconduct would not be justice.

There are tons of ways to perform badly without misconduct. Companies punish/fire/demote/etc employees who underperform all the time, for example. Or who make bad decisions consistently. Or even a single costly bad decision.

Why should "life of death judging" officials, highly paid at that, get a free pass?
Wow that's a lot of buzzwords in one post!

Is a federal solution more likely to be effective for thefts under $950 or is a tailored localized solution?
Ah. I wish I'd fully investigated more before commenting then, what I said was silly
It’s not where you are physically, but the country you set for your iCloud account.
This is very naive and short-sighted, what percentage of your income go to boots? 1%? Your own example is talking about a ROI of 50USD in years, yeah sure ... that's wealth right there.

People spend 90% of their wage on: rent, food and basic services. Can you be very smart and hack your way into halving your monthly rent? Can you be very smart and buy a really good potato that will last you for years? Can you be very smart and negotiate a better rate for the utilities you pay? Come on, man.

Of course, planning and spending carefully go a long way, but that metaphor is a joke.
YouTube pulled community captions, so more creators are making their own
The last non-redirected crawl on Internet Archive still showed it with all the employees they had before shooting their mouths off.
> I struggle to believe that most scammers in the world are that good that make deliberate mistakes in their letters to reduce false positive rate. More realistic solution is that the average scammer is not well educated, he makes mistakes unintentionally and out of pure luck it works well for him.

These people are doing it as their actual job.

The scammers are not kids who are having fun with a prank, or hobbyists who make mistakes because they do not spend enough time on the task. The scammers are smart human beings who do their jobs, as professionally as they can.

If they wanted a foolproof version of their text, they would be able to find an automated correction tool (e.g. on Gmail), or to ask someone to proof-read it. The fact that they do not is a hint that it is either a waste of time from their perspective, or detrimental to the efficiency of their jobs.
Now there’s a chap who was keen on dreams! :)
My Hometown VW Dealer Is Excited to Sell EVs, Signaling a Shift in the Industry
Being able to repair things as needed also comes into this category.

If I can't immediately afford to send something for repair, then I keep using it until it completely wears out, have an ongoing worse experience, and ultimately a larger expense later on.
It isn't unique to Iran, in general stopping oil wells is a risky thing. There's no guarantee it will start back up, and even when stopped it can leak combustibles.
In the real world the choice will be between WFH and a $30k cut or work in the office for the current pay.
Tips for transpiling code from PHP 8.0 down to 7.1
It's harder to publish negative results.
It wasn’t pop psychology when Jung came up with it. it stands on its own, just read it. The tests just simplify the process for people who don’t know the theory. by the way since you (and I) are so curious to know your type, here is a free test

https://sakinorva.net/functions
https://files.mega65.org?id=9578f132-7db7-4bd1-a03b-b136316f...
Sure. I *try* to limit my HN/Wikipedia/etc usage because it's interesting but it gets me very distracted from my goals. For example, my monkey brain hears a song and I suddenly need to get the lyrics, the story behind it, etc. The monkey brain is very creative at finding ways to avoid doing difficult tasks.

Reddit and Twitter are mostly a waste of time nowadays due to the signal to noise ratio. I dropped my reddit addiction and I'm working on eliminating Twitter.

I wish there were a social network system where people pool and share what they are expected to be doing and help each other. Or at least encourage each other to focus. But this goes against the advertisement paradigm where they want us to be impulsive and stupid. Sad, sad, sad.
These power numbers are for the discrete GPU, not for the displays.
Or just don’t go to China
I thought you were talking about the US until I got to “hostility towards US [...]”. Funny.

The US cares about the Syrian deaths about as much as they do about those in Yemen. Morals play absolutely no role here. And when a politician howls something about humanitarian reasons you can be sure it’s a farce.

What matters is giving head to the right person. Do that, and anything is fair game.
Sharing stories, growing authentically, creating community
This is what I refer to as "the postmodern critique." Nothing is unimpeachable, static, or objectively true: your dreams, goals, beliefs and so on. Everything changes, everything is relative. I agree with this critique.

This view however suffers from what I call "the postmodern trap." If everything is relative - if there is no objective function to maximize - then how do you actually do anything? There exists no optimal decision - no rationally justifiable decision at all - because there is no direction upon which you can orient for any reasonable period of time. And so postmodernism, while logically sound, leads to abject paralysis. This is the trap of an entirely deconstructive and equally self-deconstructive philosophy.

What remains then, in my opinion, is a more pragmatic outlook. You need to believe in some arbitrary, "objective" axis upon which you can orient your life, be it career, knowledge, family, health, and so on. This gives your life purpose, for now. But none of these rational purposes are truly unimpeachable - nothing is (see Gödel). And so, over time, things will change - life happens. You simply re-orient when it does, without being seduced by the false allure of "objective" goals, nor falling into the postmodernism abyss of nihilism.
All of my banking apps detected and refused to open in rooted envs. Maybe that changed.
Don't know how I missed enwik9. Maybe too early for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm curious if you could share some of your stories.

Since last year, I've stopped using social media like FB. When the summer came around, my friends were posting political stuff online and noticed I wasn't interacting with it. My phone would then blow up with messages along the theme of: "are you showing your real self by not supporting x?".
The legal proceedings costs heavily outweigh the lifetime porridge
shut up, miser.

Besides, it’s well known that the CYA process for state murder is more expensive than keeping someone locked up for a lifetime.

You’re just lusting for revenge, not justice
Yes, even when you win that lotto, it is not as much as you may imagine. I rode the SendGrid/Twilio rocket; engineer 12 at SendGrid. IPO and acquisition later, I’m still a decade out on even thinking of being able to retire or be financially independent. Don’t get me wrong, things are good. But early equity in a multi billion dollar company and I’m still having to work :)
Your claim was that the lines were symmetric and "unrestricted". Neither are the standard unfortunately.
I definitely attribute people's actions to their own willful choices. But I think a corollary is that the more intelligent you are, the more you see how objectively bad people's choices really are, regardless of their class. Taking everyone's bad decisions as serious character flaws would be untenable, so I have to give up and just be tolerant.

As such, it's easier for me to sympathize with a poor person who makes bad decisions due to inescapable financial stress (even though I've never been there myself), than someone upper middle class who has mortgaged their entire life to keep up with the Joneses. The latter seems to have much more opportunity to slow down and choose differently.
Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
If only we could all get along and sing Kumbaya together, we could solve all the world problems. In this context of human conflict and geopolitical power struggles, does bitcoin make any sense to you?
Couldnt a bank front the cash to exercise the options? Not familiar with the matter but it seems like an easy thing to get a loan for
I agree that currency devaluation and so on means that saving money earlier in life has a larger impact on your lifetime comfort than saving money later. I don't really follow how it's classed as an expense though. And I don't know how you determine how much income you have "lost".

I think we probably agree on the situation but disagree on what terms make sense to describe it.
This is mostly accurate but it misses one essential point. And so do many of the responses here. One of the reasons to work at a startup is to get a lot of responsibility for something interesting to you, the sort of thing that wouldn't come your way outside of a startup, for a long time, or maybe ever. The point in the article that comes closest to identifying this regards "calling", but that's not the same thing.

I am 64, and worked in many startups, from 1988 through 2013. My main criteria for evaulating a startup were interesting work, and potential financial reward. I would also try to avoid companies whose business model didn't make sense to me. This worked out pretty well. I started out on an academic path, went to an industrial research lab in the 80s, and this led me to the startup world, where some ideas in software research were used as the basis of innovative products. I wasn't comfortable as a pure academic, and I loved writing software, so this was the right path for me.

At each new company, my thought was: if the business fails, at least I've had fun and worked on interesting software. And this often worked out very well:

- Startup 1: The company was building an innovative product, really a new category of software. I was given responsibility for one huge part of it, and this was my first job ever in which I was being paid to create software (as opposed to research). The company had a modest IPO. Nice payout. In my last couple of years, I started a new project which was rejected by the company. But this led to ...

- Startup 2: I took a summer off, built software based on my ideas, and merged with a startup that had complementary ideas. We needed each other. So much fun. This company was acquired toward the end of the dotcom bubble. Nice payout.

- Startup 3: Post bubble explosion, my choices were a consumer startup or interesting tech at a non-startup. I chose the consumer startup. Pretty dull, although fascinating from a sociological point of view. I left when I got bored and tech startups were happening again. Minor payout a few years later when they were acquired.

- Startup 4: My favorite. Fascinating project, three key pieces, I built one of them. I also really enjoyed building the tools to support the development and troubleshooting work. Acquired by a huge company. Nice payout.

- Startup 5: Really interesting idea. I loved the idea so much that I missed the fact it should have been a feature of a product, not a product by itself. Oops.
Most of these are low enough resolution that I certainly couldn't use them to produce anything. I guess they're mainly intended for book/fragment identification?

Which is too bad. They're presumably old enough that they could be public domain, although the university of Birmingham doesn't seem to have licensed them permissibly. It would be nice to make some stamps out of these. Libraries of design elements like this can be really nice for making all kinds of stuff, but the quality and the licensing both mean this will probably only be usable for reference.
Rodger that.
Your dreams are mostly envy, I wouldn't put too much stake in them. Knowing this will save you at least a few years. (You're welcome!)

Do what you enjoy, understand and appreciate what it means to be among the best at it, and then learn to do it very well.
Note that you shouldn’t (can’t?) actually pass an async function directly to useEffect, since it returns a promise: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14326
> Will switch to Apple Silicon version of 16 when it comes out

After buying Mac during a 4 year run of devices with unfixably broken keyboards and GPUs, that will not teach apple to focus on quality or repairability.
There’s a default binding for it as well: `command + /`.
Train police to de-escalate and avoid police violence at all costs instead of the US approach where a traffic stop can involve pointing your gun at the suspect...
who suggested that being intelligent was bad? the problem is that there's no "universal intelligence test" and reducing human intelligence to IQ testing is what those "race science" people do.
The line I draw in the sand is that of thinking that work _is_ the place where one should talk about social issues. To my mind it most certainly is not. Everyone in that organisation has been employed to a single end (hopefully) to create a product.

The software developer or marketing assistant or middle manager does not decide the strategic course of the organisation. This is not a democracy and those individuals (myself included for most of my life) simply do not get a vote.

Now, should work be an environment where we _can_ talk about social issues without repercussion? Sure! Should we be using significant chunks of that time to modify people's behaviour to be socially acceptable? Not in my opinion.

What this highlights is that we really haven't figured out a forum which is designed to discuss social issues. At the moment we've got the internet which guarantees maximal disagreement on all points and we've made the mistake of thinking the work environment is synonymous with the home environment and the social environment. Resulting in everyone being offended about everyone else's behaviour at all times.
Not only is it hard to define what the principal engineering role is, it will be different at almost every company.

The same goes for staff eng and even to a lesser degree senior eng.
I still think Skylake is the James Bond movie every time I encounter it.
They should have used a different term - perhaps even invented one. It's way too politically charged and has way too blurred a meaning to be useful in an academic context.
Isn't the thinking that these jobs are supposed to be for teenagers, which has their income supplemented by their parents?
Rather than a feature of the service, maybe this would be a watchdog script that relies on a REST metric from the service.
In our current system, death penalty is more expensive than life in prison due to legal costs.

Random source, I believe this is well accepted though.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs
Yes, Jobs was deeply passionate about technology and design. But the interviews and talks that you mention are from later stages of his life. I read his biography and watched multiple biopics. What you say is true. But what I am talking about, and the author talked about is about his teenage and post-teen years. During and before the time he started his very first "tech venture" with cream-soda drinking Woz.

And I agree that people should dream. But they should base it on certain things, for example-

0. Nature of the field. If you are 10,000th best Engineer in the world or the 20,000th best Math teacher, you will have 0 problems financially.

1. Past success and ability in your dream field

etc.

The Japanese concept of Ikigai also comes to mind in this context.

I love the dreamers and see myself as same, and I want people to be aware of these knowledges before taking the leap and becoming and remaining a dreamer.
Gold is not good because it is naturally deflationary. Our current system is not good because it is inflationary.

What you want is for the increase in the money supply to match the increase in productivity. What we care about is a stable M2V.
A lot of the opportunities to escape poverty involve the kind of mindset the wealthy have - calculated risk taking, the entitled confidence to turn up to an interview for a job you suspect you can't do, looking on money as an abstract and rational thing, post-scarcity thinking, the knowledge that it could be possible and socially acceptable to ask wealth people for business loans, and so on.

This is in no way blaming those in poverty for not magically knowing how to ace job interviews or detect which risks are worth it, but pointing out that in both cases, X not understanding Y hurts the poor more than the rich.
... which is a good idea anyway because you want your code to be testable.
The whole point is to enforce rules that benefit the whole, at the cost of individual benefit.

Say you have 100 rials or 1M. Converting it to BTC might be good for you individually if you believe the local currency is going to lose value, but it’s not good for the collective as there will now be less demand and more supply of it. So the individual benefits at the cost of the group. Stopping that is the gov’s job.

This is a general comment, I am not familiar with Iran as a country and might be missing context.
psych is questionable for basic reasons. It is a humanities science. It's purpose is not to figure out the world but to change it. Figure out how to end poverty for example.

Therefore it is not well suited to figure out the world.

You should treat all of it with extreme helpings of salt.
I personally work for startups because I prefer building and owning big projects over maintaining someone else's cog in the corporate clocktower.

I'm not interested in working on the "retention" team, or the "console ad integration" team. I want to build the main thing and feel like I make an impact every day I go to work.

It is possible to do that at a larger business but the odds are stacked against me. Google has a history of killing large projects, and the thought of two years work being cancelled by an accountant because it didn't make enough money just sounds draining on a completely different emotional level.
I was unclear, sorry. I meant the reason the whole thing as it happened was IRC drama, not the specific point about not using the data. I agree that specifically most likely happened because a group of volunteers don't want to expose themselves to a bunch of litigation from a hostile party.
But mining doesn't grant you any power (unless you manage to accumulate 51% of it, which is in this day and age pretty much impossible for a single individual or organization). Mining is just a service that you provide (to secure the network), and you get rewarded for it.

Compare that to how monetary inflation works in the fiat world: they just press a button, et voi-la, they got their funding.
> I also met some wealthy people who didn't talk like that...I learned that some actually earned their way there. They grew up poor, worked hard, went to school, worked harder, had some luck by being in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills, and eventually became wealthy.

I have to ask, but how many of these people have had the mindset that "X is poor because they're not working hard enough" or "I worked hard which is why I'm not poor, why can't Y be that way?"

If I had to guess, a good number of them have had those thoughts in the past, but whether or not they still think like that or they've moved on (and have admitted---to themselves or to others---that it's a negative viewpoint) is hard to say.
Turned off paywall, sorry! Didn't realize that it was the default!
I’m not sure if a blanket ban on politics will work either though. At the end of the day, it’s just another form of nepotism, just like boys on Wall Street all going to strip clubs together or something. It might stop some heroes from shooting themselves in the foot I guess.
If they were struggling to make it on $175000, maybe they had a $200000 a year in medical bills! This is America we’re talking about after all.
I remember GTK had editable keyboard shortcuts, I wonder why it was axed together with "tear off" menus, and multi-column menus.
> The US cares about the Syrian deaths about as much as they do about those in Yemen

Especially since they fueled the war themselves. Regime change is less risky if you can just pay people on the ground to do it for you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
That just hides the problem. The existence of a death penalty brings a special salience to injustice but is orthogonal to the key injustice in this case.
It's more complicated than that. It can look something like this: https://xkcd.com/882/
Concerning DNA testing in general.

Recently there was a case where the Finnish police arrested a person as a suspect for a robbery of a convenience store on basis of DNA evidence: the robber had dropped a plastic glove, presumably to hide fingerprints, on the floor of the store. Officers isolated DNA from the glove, searched archives, found a match with a person who had had some minor offense years prior, and brought him in for a questioning.

It turned out the DNA-matched first suspect was innocent when the police found a second suspect, who confessed to the crime and whose clothes fitted security camera footage of the robbery better. So how the first suspect's DNA arrived on the gloves at the crime scene? The investigators noticed he told he had visited the same mall where the second suspect (according to his testimony) had obtained the gloves prior to the robbery. Based on the security camera footage from the mall, the investigators concluded that the likeliest way the DNA of the first suspect ended up on the gloves the robber because they rode the same escalator.

Like this: https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload//w_1200,h_1200,f_auto...

The lesson is, humans shed lot of skin cells around. The DNA from incriminating bodily fluids or similar is much better evidence than random DNA.

Source https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11811155 and Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
There's also the geographic restrictions if you want to work at a FAANG
Maybe if the US hadn’t toppled Irans government and installed a puppet in 1956, things would look differently.
Reason 4 for joining a startup is very underrated. Not all of us studied CS in fancy schools
This seems like an old school and specific way of describing a much larger goal using NNs and auto encoders. To take data and reduce its dimensionality, while getting a (near) perfect reconstruction of the original input from the latent space data. Reducing (haha pun) this broad effort to just "data compression" leaves a lot of nuance and use out of sight.