skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the treasurer of a small European non-profit organisation. We got our PayPal account restricted (no money could be withdrawn) for no reason, only because we suddenly had more donations than usual.

It took three months to resolve the issue. I'm not saying that we had to _wait_ three months: we discussed almost every day with the support, for three months.

The process was a mix of infuriating exchanges, bugs on the PayPal site preventing to send documents (so serious that even the support was aware), and at the end we were wondering if this was on purpose or because of a total lack of intelligence/skills and process from PayPal.

Each day we would have a different support people on the chat, with the dialog summarized:

- Paypal Human Bot: How can we help you ?
- Me: Our account is restricted and we don't really understand why. Would you mind telling us how to solve the issue ?
( Skip long re-explaining everything from the beginning; PayPal has no history of previous exchanges apparently)
- Paypal Human Bot: You are not registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, can you send us the papers ?
- Me: Indeed, we are outside the US, we can't do that. However we can send you the official papers from Europe
- Paypal Human Bot: Okay, so you need to be registered as a commercial entity, please send us your commercial ID
- Me: We are not a commercial entity, we are a small non-profit organisations, and we don't have such ID
- Paypal Human Bot: Okay, so please send us the papers that prove you are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
- ...

We probably sent dozen of various official papers, etc. in the meantime. We had to guess what were the probable causes, as (once again) the PayPal site is riddled with bugs that may (or not) display warnings, ask for fields but that are read-only, etc.

If this was a bank, they would have been sanctioned by banking regulations.

And I am still unsure if this wasn't some kind of twisted social experiment made by some psychopath.
Owning both GitHub and StackOverflow would be one hell of a combo for Microsoft. They'd really have almost the entire worldwide developer community in their hands.
another is that every problem becomes an opportunity. things too slow ? new layer on top of the old. Not enough privacy ? side project that will connect with the old. Everybody jumps on everything to grab their share, get funding and start working but it's all stacked potential.. but nothing stable yet.
Is there any information that indicates that they're launching a next-generation Windows, as the title says? All the linked page says is that there will be an "event" about "what's next for Windows".
I'm an artist and collector on hicetnunc.xyz.
The culture is totally different there and most artists aren't there to make a quick buck.
It makes no less sense than a painting. If you accept that an original painting has more value than a perfectly good copy, whilst being undistinguishable for anyone except a few experts, you should realize NFT's have the exact same arrangement, except 'originality' is determined by the blockchain instead of an expert.
Exactly this! In Germany it is women + openly gay + women wearing headscarfs.

I was recently invited to a candidate selection process with senior managers and HR. There was one guy who was autistic, but talented and good. He was "weird" by normal standards, but scored very well in all interviews and calls.

Long story short, he was considered the "best", but "weird". We hired a less qualified woman wearing a headscarf and the position was then "adjusted" to be more innovation/marketing foused and less hard tech focused.

I tried to convince them to take the autistic dude and also argued with diversity, but was told that "he is just strange and will not fit in" and finally overruled.
How I envy farmers, fishermen, taxi drivers etc.
I commented on the other thread - which became a generic WFH/office discussion - but one reason it devolved into that is this article isn't any more relevant to the core HN demographic than (say) a factory worker who's forced to go to work together with others every day.

There are 2 specific things it seems to me to bring up: domain knowledge and 'tribal' rituals.

There's no doubt in my mind that domain knowledge-sharing has suffered while I've been WFH: I started a new job during the pandemic, and it's been really hard to pick-up all the unknown-unknowns.

But this is a practical problem that can be overcome with the correct mindset and good tools. Instead of picking-up this essential work information in a discussion by the coffee-brewer, we simply need to be better at documenting what a new employee needs to know; we need to be self-aware of how we share knowledge and how it disseminates in an organization.

In other words, the practical things that the article finds are lacking in WFH can be fixed if we want to.

The other special element is the 'tribal' rituals, the adrenaline and team-spirit. Now even though that's sometimes an element in programming - for instance hackdays - the atmosphere in a bank trading floor is totally separate to 99% of the rest of workers' experience.

Probably a lot of things have changed since the 1990s, but I spent a lot of time with bankers in the City of London around that time (my brother worked at a bar there), and the 'tribal' aspect of these people was obvious in their behavior both in the office and socially. So I'm not at all surprised to hear that they performed differently while working separately in their homes (although I also note the authors don't strictly quantify what they mean by "performed better").

For the record, I'd rather continue to WFH but doubt it will be possible as the 'normal' takes over again.
Edit: Parent comment used to say "you can just download the SDK" or something like that.

Original response below:

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From that page:

NOTE

If you need to use the DevEco Studio emulator, your HUAWEI ID must pass the identity verification by Huawei. It is recommended that you submit your HUAWEI ID for identity verification review immediately after the registration. For details, refer to Identity Verification.

The identity verification requirements for individual (not enterprise) developers are here: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/start/ibca-0000...

HUAWEI Developers supports multiple identity document combinations for verification, including:

1. ID card + bank document

2. Passport + bank document

3. Other supporting documents (such as driver's license) + bank document
Won’t that be cheating ? (That’s how aimbot work on warzone and many fps on PC )
Is there any indication that Lighthouse affects SEO at all?
your inaction was perfectly fine. There's always a few lucky people who benefit off these things, millions don't and you don't see them.

It's like becoming a TikTok star. One guy creates a meme, gets ten milion views, lives in a mansion in California. Millions of kids think they can do the same thing and drop out of school. Not worth it. I remember reading a blog post by a Wall Street banker talking about the pre-2008 culture. He said that it was common for people to get promoted because they made money, even if they didn't know why. Justifying bad decisions based on lucky outcomes retroactively isn't a culture you want to emulate.
Interestingly the artist retains copyright - the buyer gets the physical goods. Much like DVDs

So pollock (or his estate or whatever) owns the copyright to the sold painting and so gets paid when you buy a postcard etc.
That “swipe” will happen just by starting typing/pressing any button — so I think it is exactly a good example of convergent UX.

It is exactly my gripe with windows where you have to separately press one key just so to make the locker locker disappear.
There's one linked right on the XBox adaptive controller page https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap..., though boy, that's an expensive piece of hardware.
I've had the same experience of looking up and finding an old answer from someone I knew, but one that I made _myself_ for the exact same problem I've just hit again years later... :D
We at least they have cry booths, so you can have some privacy when you are injured.
Imho it stems from a lack of understanding and faith in the financial services industry, probably exacerbated by the financial crisis.

A large % of people now believe that the finance industry only exists to work against them and make an elite minority rich. There's a strong sense of "Fuck You, I Got Mine" from the last generation, so the current generation is saying "Fine, I'm going to invent my own system... with Black Jack, and hookers!". Crypto/DeFi is creating a sense of euphoria and hope against a backdrop of helplessness where people are thinking "I will never own a home", "I will never be able to afford to retire" etc, so why not take a punt on the next big thing?

I was intrigued by some comments on HN the other day that dApps are where all the 'innovation' in crypto is today, so spent some time looking in to it.

After many hours I couldn't find anything even remotely interesting.
I think it is too early to call it bubble. NFT transactions are low due to crypto market is down for a month or so.
Yep, I'm the software engineer with diploma. I have master degree in Computer Sciences (Software Engineering Department). I'm from Ukraine.
Bubbles are not always the end. Actually quite the opposite. It's just the beginning.

I'd give about 1-2 years for the NFT market to rebound. As the technology matures so will the supply. Demand will follow.

It took about 3 years for Bitcoin to surpass Bitcoin 2017 bubble price levels.

It took about 6.8 years for prices to rebound to dot-com bubble price levels.
Clubs and societies tend to be too... organized, specific, serious? If you are Feynman, do you join the bongo drum society? I mean you play them, but you're just having fun, joining a society for bongo drum players seems like an overkill. Do you join the lockpicking society? If you enjoy playing backgammon every now and then, do you join the backgammon society? If you are interested in hacking software for fun, do you join a competitive computer security club?

After all, you are not interested in these things narrowly and specifically. You just would like to hang out with like-minded people that like to have fun in these sorts of ways.

In these societies, you mostly end up with some specific 'serious' activities (e.g. a talk, a lecture, a discussion, or something competitive). And social engagement then happens separately, usually at a social in a pub, also as a 'targeted' activity. It is a good way to get more serious about your interests, but does not seem like a natural way to make friends.
I am just not willing to give up my privacy and financial freedom for a tiny bit of purchase protection that I have literally never needed. I know I’m not the only one. Cash is still pretty commonly used, anyways.
Amazon solves this problem by only having 5% of your 4-year stock grant vest in your first year.

Every engineer that quits or gets fired in the first year thus saves their employer tens of thousands of dollars.
I think disgust is familiarity. If eating shellfish were something only some remote primitive tribe would do, you'd be pretty disgusted at the idea of eating sea insects.

I learned relatively late that in some Western cultures (USA perhaps?) eating horse or rabbit is a bit frowned upon. They're pretty common and pretty tasty in Italy. But dogs, I'd never eat. Though that's more of a choice than disgust, I'd rather eat dog than a tarantula.
This mania might have one last leg up, but that's it.

The main thing to remember with markets that have ponzi characteristics is that there are tons of latecomers and few early adopters. While the early adopters might HODL in the face of a 70% downturn, the late adopters won't. They FOMOd in because they couldn't stand seeing their friends make easy money any longer. They don't have conviction because the only reason they're in is because they didn't want to miss out.

This doesn't just apply to NFTs but to everything from crypto to meme stocks (AMC, GME, BBBY, EXPR), to SPACS and to ESG stocks, to shipping and commodities, and to leveraged or speculative ETFs.

When this bubble pops many assets will be priced way below their actual value. This overreaction won't make any sense on the way down just like it hasn't made any sense on the way up.

For this it doesn't even matter if NFTs provide real value and are here to stay. It doesn't matter whether a market behaves like a ponzi because it's fraud or because it just got too much social media coverage. The only thing that matters is whether a large enough percentage of the market consists of latecomers who will panic sell. If so, any bad news and POP!
They continue to improve on it and it is actually smooth when I have like 2 windows open, but it stutters with more.
Not sure why is that, plasma always felt buttery smooth compared to that. It is fancy to blame everything on js, but perhaps the animation is indeed initialized inside js?
Sitting in an office all day and not at home has become completely unacceptable for me. No commute, my own food, balcony/garden, etc. Offer me an office job and I will decline.
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Having to come in on Wednesdays and Fridays means you can't even divide up your week into two blocks. If it was Monday/Friday WFH then you'd be at home for 4 days (Fri-Mon) and then in for 3 days (Tue-Thur).

That would open up some interesting options for work/life balance that aren't there when you have to switch work locations multiple times a week.
I could have that talk with him. But i don't want to start it with no options or no suggestions.

Him and his wife don't have it easy ( they used to go walking in the mountains a lot, so the declining mobility in recent months are ... Depressing for them, although they don't really complain. I just notice it in the conversations when it comes up)
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When it completely rolls out during this month, it's going to be tie-breaker which, supposedly, happens a lot more often than people think.

Additionally, it's not the Lighthouse score that you need to worry about, but WebVitals (FID, LCP, CLS) and only that for Field data, if your main concern is SEO.

Lighthouse is just a general tool that can hint you at performance issues.
Positive deviants: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
To elaborate, the wikipedia article cites some organizations moving away from Lena, but there's only one source calling things disturbing and suggestive, and that source is the exact same quote that's being questioned. Linking to that is not a useful answer. It does nothing to explain why that particular quote is correct.
On both counts you should give credit to the Koreans more than the Chinese.
Yes I read the study. That's why I linked to it.

The problem is that in reality the question we need to solve TODAY is global warming and waiting for "subsequent plants" which may or may not come and be finished in decades while renewable energies advance in light speed compared to nuclear technology, the whole issue becomes ridiculous. And it shows. It already makes no sense to build nuclear reactors. It will make less sense with every subsequent year. The only reason states throw actual money on it is because parts required to build a reactor are also needed elsewhere (military). See UK.
I can totally understand that but let's be honest about it and not pretend that it's about fighting global warming or "green" tech because nuclear is neither.
Can't really make any hardware recommendation, but as this post is about games, I would suggest trying out more puzzle like games like "The Witness" or "Outer Wilds". Despite being single player, I played both of them in tandem with my wife and I feel like it was a much better experience than playing alone as there was always something one of us would have missed or would get stuck on.
Gas on ETH is super low right now, around 20Gwei which translates into a $1 fee for a send and maybe $5 for minting an NFT.

Tezos on the other hand is a complete ghost town, it has absolutely no traction - and I say this as a soon to be ex XTZ holder.
I don’t think they hard-depend on systemd.
See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd/Gen...
The difference is the 'can be misinterpreted' part. It's an oil painting
Your performance affects SEO, and people take the Performance Score as measured by Google Lighthouse to be a proxy for how Googlebot will rank their site.
One thing I learned trading and navigating crypto markets, is that a $0 price type of collapse is not possible with a scarce token. If Bitcoin goes to 0, then anyone can buy all the possibly available bitcoins and then decide what the price will be later on. This makes it impossible for the price to reach 0 unless the protocol is hacked.

A 90-95% decline from the height could safely be considered a total collapse. Some people who got in early will still remain in the green after a total collapse.
By "can" do it I mean are able to without burning bridges or feeling like you've betrayed people. A big difference from walking away from a small business you run, by contrast.
I think that from the security perspective, the more important change in Plan 9 was dropping the notion of a privileged "root" account. This forces you to redesign your system from the ground up. No more "root" to mount devices in the filesystem means that unprivileged users need to be able to mount things. But allowing users to mount things in the global namespace can mess things up, so instead we need to implement private per-process namespaces that users can mount and bind stuff in. Bam - containerized applications are the norm, there's no Docker, there's no Flatpak, there exists something like Kubernetes that can handle orchestration but doesn't concern itself with containerization and sandboxing.

When you plug in an USB device it shows up in the list of devices. Then you can mount it as your unprivileged user in the private namespace of your own shell, no issues there with permissions. If that USB device has a filesystem that supports user/group permissions, then you have access only to the files that you own.
> But `x^(2y) + y^(x^2)` is not a function; neither syntactically (since it refers to both x and y) nor functionally (since the relation ignores the sign of x).

It is a function, if you interpret it as f(x) = x^(2y(x)) + y(x)^(x^2).

Of course, we don't know what kind of function y is. And if y is given implicitly, there might be multiple possible ys. But that doesn't stop us from manipulating the composite function. Specifically, if there exist multiple ys, then the manipulated equations will be valid for all of these ys.

So the only extra step is thinking about functions abstractly, instead of being given concrete functions. But otherwise it really is the "normal rules of calculus.
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If you can't afford to live in London - pretty normal.
No one mentions the constant delays, no air-con train and tubes.. changing stations walking the rest of the way.

My commute without delays and everything is on time is about 1hour and 25 mins.. with delays.. you can see how this easily can get close to 2 hours.. delays no transport in the UK.. are almost daily.. it's the only thing they do consistently.

"Let's be 100% honest: you did not spend 4 hours a day commuting pre-WFH. You just didn't." - This comment tells me you're either lucky enough not to have to commute in a big city.. or are rich enough to live in the city you work in.
Looks to me that you are not. using Lighthouse for the right reasons.

Lighthouse isn't there to improve your SEO. It's just a set of heuristics that make you website performance - as perceived by end users - measurable, and thus improvable. They add a quantitative score on a very qualitative process.

If you clawed your Lighthouse score to 90, you should have improved your end users experience, and that's what matters. Your score shot back down to 72, you know have new areas to investigate, super cool ! Your SEO will not suddenly improve or worsen due to this change. If you don't, however, address the new advices given by Lighthouse over a long period of time, other websites will, and their UX will be better than yours. And your SEO will reflect that. But that's the game with technology: over time, technology evolves, requirements change, and expectations shift.
Is there a way to run lighthouse 8.0.0 on older versions of Chrome for local (development) websites, so we can test them now instead of waiting until Chrome 93 is released?
I don't think another player can actually be that helpful in Mario Kart, but it does have extremely strong steering assistance, which can be enabled/disabled in the pause menu. Not trying to be rude by comparing you to a small child, but the main benefit is that little ones can join in and have fun while they're not quite co-ordinated enough to steer properly.

If you wanted to get more into gaming, a Switch would be a good choice. There are lots of games which are mechanically accessible (still not trying to be rude here) to six-year-olds, while still being a ton of fun.
A huge win for WFH advocates. They must have had one to many high value employees threaten to quit.
Curious how HN itself stands now.
FROM scratch
CMD ['/some_golang_or_rust_program_without_dynlibs']

There you go. Never actually tried it but people here told it should work.
These villages better build defenses against the marauders or all is for naught. And of course, the best defense is a good offense. And... Fast forward to the presently peaceful times of mutually assured destruction!
Also, Krita.

Blender, Inkscape, Krita and GIMP are all good software that can compete with paid alternatives, but only Blender was successful at making modern UI that gives you fast comfortable workflow.
which is great. Few companies have done more for the wallet of ordinary people than IKEA.