skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not banks but I think the GP is trying to describe a margin loan. Basically you give (say) an exchange $100, ask them to buy $1000 worth of stuff using your $100 as margin, and if the stuff you bought looks like it is going to be worth less than $900 (ie if they would make a loss by selling all your stuff) they will call you and ask for more collateral or, if you are too slow, sell all your stuff for eg $925, leaving you with a less of $75.
I'm sorry the current state of the US has nothing whatsoever to do with a breakdown of dialog. Nobody looks at a Lion closing its jaws around an antelope and thinks gee what a failure to communicate there. If only they had talked it out.

40 years ago the right wing decided to build its platform on a combination of white people, Christianity, and conservative social and sexual mores.

This went swimmingly for a while but none is the fastest growing religion, white people are headed to be the largest minority instead of a majority by 2040s, and more liberal perspective on sex is becoming increasingly common.

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christ...

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-tps...

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-...

To be specific we have gone from half of people believing homosexuality should be accepted to 72% in the last 20 years. White people are slated to become merely the largest minority by 2044, and Christians went from 77% to 65% in 14 years.

If your bread and butter is white people, who have strong feelings about sexual mores and jesus by 2044 you are going to be looking at 10% of the population down from closer to 50% in 1980. Hell leave out the sexual mores and white Christians are sliding from 64% heading towards 25%. The republican party hasn't had anything like an acceptable game with any other group in decades.

They are losing the country because they built their house on sand and they are freaking out about it instead of making a coherent plan half their party is already off the deep end and wont be dragged back.
You don't need to read any further than the headline to know the interests behind this story.
Yes but perhaps it doesn't matter as much as you'd think to the European airlines. Presumably Russia is charging what the market will bear in overflight fees. If flying over Russia is an option, airlines that choose to go around pay fuel/operational costs for the extra two hours of flying time, but they also must charge less for tickets, because their competitors that overfly Russia get there two hours sooner.

If EU airlines categorically can't overfly Russia, their only economic loss is the extra flying time, not the reduced ticket prices from taking longer, since their competitors are on the same playing field.

The winners in this would presumably be Turkish and the Gulf airlines.
you’re a liar, you don’t do that.
This is super obvious to anybody comparing fertility rates over time and between different ethnic and religious groups.
I'm really curious about the perspective and life experience of posters who didn't read Greaber's book and go "yep, I've been that person a couple times, and almost everyone I know has complained to me at one time or another that one of their jobs was bullshit and didn't need to exist, usually with a nice, long explanation of all the nothing they do". That such jobs exist—and yes, in the private sector, not just government—was in no way the interesting part of that book, for me, but just an obvious fact of life. The cataloguing of why, and the exploration of trends and consequences, was the interesting part.

There must be very little overlap between my place in the world and the people whose reaction is, "nah, that can't possibly be true".
When was the last buyback?
So if I charged someone to listen to my unplugged headphones then it would be infringement? As for the names how is "A One Minute Silence" and "4'33" not different enough?
Taiwan democracy started in 1990. Before that it is in martial law dictatorships. The govt ruled with terror. You can search "white terror". The govt used to suppressed the information too.
Is this an accurate assumption on the number of customers? I never really thought how many a coffee shop gets, but assumed it would be a magnitude more per day.
That's the retirement date for someone leaving school in the UK this year. If they go straight into work then they will be signed up for a workplace pension with that date in mind.
> Archives will probably be compress later on anyway

What do you mean by this? Zip, 7zip, gzip, zstd, etc. get little to no compression on PNG. JPEG, or JPEG2000. Presumably you mean something other than zipping up directories of images.
Personally I think RADIUS is a terrible idea. If that thing is compromised, or even the network or name service to connect to it, the attacker gets everything. Cert-based auth gives every client the ability to independently authorize every login without any ability to learn or compromise credentials. And there are lots of cert-based MFAs that require nothing more than a few lines in an Apache config, or even handled through the operating system to set up a vpn handshake.

One of my biggest contributions at one place I worked was to dismantle their radius auth and replace it with token cert auth. It’s hard to write about that on a resume, because people tend to be more impressed with complexity than simplicity.
this is the stupidest story ive ever read. maybe HN was right to make the text fucking impossible to read.
That's only 4 billion hashes to search the entire IPv4 address space. I don't think the entire search space is big enough for that really to provide much privacy while still being functional. Whatever you put in the way, that's somewhere in the neighbourhood of cracking a 6 character lowercase+number password.
Ideology is logic without actual thinking, similar to belief systems and religion.

Faith is realizing existence.
I didn't want to start a comment war of Europe against USA. I'm saying that from my outsider point of view, with an European education that taught me about slavery, colonialism, and a little of finance, USA has an obvious ingoing problem with skin colours and racism. I don't really think us European are behind the curve, we are just on another line. We are not perfect too, and we haven't been in the past. You mention slavery and colonialism I will add the too many genocides. We can take, and we do take lessons from USA, sometimes a bit late yes. USA could also take lessons from Europe, we have some experience about what not to do.
I think there's considerable overlap between classes of bugs that could be caught by static type checking and those that could be caught by unit tests. That said, I view the two as complementary and use both extensively.

One particularly interesting (though in my experience, rare) class of bugs are typing errors _in unit tests_. For example, an API under test expects one thing and a unit test supplies something else. If the test passes, it's hard to spot the problem without static type checking.
Thanks! I'm too tired to do this justice now but I'll try to reread it later.
Wait, you really think gold is only traded for speculation? Gold is an extremely useful metal. Its not just an artificially limited good.

If you’re buying gold you’re not purely depending on finding another sucker to buy your gold. You can sell it to any one of the countless manufacturers or jewelry makers using it every day. If the price crashed too much, these would probably just increase their inventory of gold in anticipation of a future price increase, which would itself drive up price. If the price stayed low they can lower prices on the goods they’re making, increasing demand for gold, stabilizing the price.

That’s why cryptocurrency is not digital gold. There are no such mechanism setting a fundamental floor for how low the price can go.
> The hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S.

This needs to be remembered: the pipeline was okay all the time. It is accounting software that was taken down. A conspiracy theorist in me thinks that most of the PR activity around the case was (and is) intending to paint this fact over.
Everyone is ragging on Tether but Exchanges do have to exchange them for money and they are not getting Tether for free from Tether I guess.

So the 4% backed Tether could not really be true if you think about it. Or am I missing something?
You would be right if 3G didn't jump down to 2G randomly, 4G does not have this flaw, 5G is meaningless.

HTTP/1.1 is the final transport for humanity, but you need fiber (external IP, preferably static, but operators/governements are not helping) to sell something.

HTTP/2 has head of line blocking issue.

HTTP/3 wont become a standard outside of biased actors like Google.
You HODL until you can get a good enough number to stop HODLing.
There are no rules about these kinds of things in private organizations, so it defaults to the instinctive human behavior.

Whenever you hear about the "greats" of the industry, you can be aware that they rose to prominence through navigating power structures built on such principles.
The described way of increasing maximum velocity does not look realistic, it is not based in any kind of physics or bio-mechanics.

So, is it a suggestion to implement a broken game mechanic.. so that experienced players can transfer their skill to other FPS games? Nice..
I feel like a lot of people in the comments have not read the book itself, only summaries and reviews.

The book does not strike me as ruthless and manipulative. It's a history book. It gives you Pattern A, what others have done in response to Pattern A, and a reversal in which this pattern/solution may go wrong. It's probably the least pragmatic of Greene's books. If you're looking for office politics, try 33 Strategies of War.

48 Laws of Power is more suited for highlighting reasons why people might be envious of you, and ways to look humble. It's suited for stress management and realizing things are not as out of control as you think. You'll not get this from any infographics though.
>I feel like the risk of full-on panic selling seems more and more unlikely as time goes by and more institutional investors get into crypto.

Agreed. Tether is special though because it's very big and (imo) very sketchy.

So it's more of a "too big to fail - banks" company goes down than some random company. Thankfully other stablecoins are gaining ground
It seems they are back up?
Yeah, let's have a completely uniform bunch of people without contrary opinions and all completely PC, sounds like paradise. /s
I agree with your comment about libraries. Destructors biggest advantage is in well used libraries.

Any interesting code involves custom classes written by less experienced developers that are only used once or twice in an application -- it is there that that the complexity of destructors hurt.
The effort required may be less than the benefit as a whole, but as an individual probably not.

Moving from Python 2.7 to 3 involves a lot of work for some people with an old stable code base, and benefits those writing new code.

Of course as Python is open there’s nothing stoping you from maintaining 2.7 yourself - except that’s more work, and until now you’ve likely benefitted from the work others have done more than you’ve contributed.

I had some fairly new code written in nodejs recently that fubared when node was upgraded. Looking at the tangled web of code to try to get working again, and the fact it was under 13 months old before it was reduced to a valueless mess, I spent 4 hours replacing its function with a stable language as that was a better use of my time.
Some people believe they can push for change from inside. I'm not sure what do you mean by "nobody ever does" - we're commenting on an article about people quitting - and they will if they can't achieve the change they want. Others may not join in the first place due to political reasons. (I've refused 2 jobs at companies doing things I don't agree with)
The difference is, (until recently) inefficient private companies could go bankrupt.
I could see this actually happening...
Ask HN: Problems in your field that you want, but can't, solve?
What are some problems in your field that you want solved, but don't have the skills to solve?
Which of these problems you think can be solved through machine learning / artificial intelligence?
> the statement “I have the feeling of doing useful work”

> In contrast the question Gerber used about a "meaningful contribution to the world" [...] It's a very heavily loaded way to put the question.

You're right that Graeber's question is vague (it could do with improvement/narrowing) but the first question quoted above isn't so much worse but just completely irrelevant. They've asked an entirely different question unrelated to what Graeber was trying to get at.

If I don't "have the feeling of doing useful work", does that mean my job is not useful, or my job is potentially useful but carried out inefficiently. Am I attempting useful work but blocked from doing so by some administrative or practical barrier? Do I consider myself insufficiently talented or qualified at my job to carry it out in a useful manner.

Graeber's question, while in need of improvement, is at least asking about the right things: the jobs themselves. This new question is asking about the people's individual relationships to their jobs, not the actual purpose of the role.
Although it does depend a bit on what the cookies they are storing here are used for you cannot use implied consent to workaround the law.

Taking your example of signs in stores: if a store had a sign saying "if you try to steal from this store you will be shot on sight" it does not suddenly make that legal because a customer saw the sign and still decided to enter.

Additionally with a website you do not see the message until you have already entered and they have already placed the cookie so again, there can't be implied consent. It's just notification of what they have already done.

The EU cookie laws are basically, for non-essential cookies (e.g. mostly tracking/ad stuff) users must be given the option to reject them before they are enabled. Seems pretty simple + pretty fair to me. The problem is that most websites fail to implement it correctly. When they do implement it correctly it's really useful in my opinion.
In Germany phone insurance is very common. You would just pay a deductible of 50-100 eur
>Well no, you can just neglect them instead!

Or outsource the work.
Let's see how this plays out. They say volume is a key factor, and the test vehicle is very small, while the plane later will be much larger.
Your service does so and does so well but I would go further and say that any service that does not is not suitable as a backup solution. No matter if the service runs tapes the customer can't decide to overwrite, snapshots they can’t remove or whatever solution they use, the customer should not be able to delete old versions prematurely.
Highly suspicious data collection methods.

“Well gee I walked around the office asking people if their job was essential and everybody said it was.”
I'm an American born in Crimea. The only reason my family was able to finally leave Ukraine when the Soviet Union fell apart is because of the self imposed cultural and economic blockade by the Soviets for 50 years. A whole generation of people lived and died in that time thinking of western music, jeans, movies, and tech as luxuries. My grandpa who lives in the USA now still talks about the Panasonic color tv he managed to get in 1989. Back then a completely black market luxury.

Today a Russian actually has way more freedom than they did in those days. Free travel and the internet have completely changed everything. It will be painful for the Russian people but the best thing western economies can do to hit Russia where it hurts is deny travel entry and conduct a total economic and telecommunication blockade. No credit cards, no internet, no travel, no student visas. Nothing.

The oligarchs know they can just live a western life style in Russia and still have a house in every tax Haven in the world. They send their kids to top universities in Europe and the United States while piliging the Russian people.

If you leave Moscow Russian roads are garbage, schools are falling apart, and vodka freezes when you put it in the freezer.

Russia is so vast that every Russian could be living in a Midwestern style mcmansion and yet everyone lives in gray falling apart квартири.
This article goes into detail on why it failed despite receiving critical acclaim:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22349175/medium-layoffs-u...
Harder than in the past. Look at it another way, some time in the past using just a password would have been considered 'good'. Now, using just a password is not considered 'good' in many domains, not my mum's computer. In the future any password of a complication that could be remembered might be considered not 'good' enough. Someone in the future would probably look back and say what we use now is not good. It was only a short time ago people considered a password and an SMS good enough for banking.
> When reason fails, use fear or violence eh?

I assume you mean to ask this rhetorically, as if the notion is absurd. But this is pretty much the gist of the paradox of tolerance. What would you suggest doing about intolerant people when reason fails?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I’m not sure they would want Malmö back
that's why it said "either: 1,2,3". "Was there even a product" sounds very much like "might as well not exist at all, and no one would notice if they didn't."
I was surprised to see it used on the article itself.
It's enough to make me wish I liked Medium.
If these people simply weren’t doing their jobs, then surely there would be no need for any pretense in firing them, right?
Who are these "woke" people? We don't see them in comments here on HN to defend themselves. Are they strawmen, loud groups and living in their own bubble?

I'd ask the same for far-right too.

Are these platforming issues?
>Why can't you just accept that and say so? What's blocking you from acknowledging your own words are just incorrect?

Very simple logic. He's in a position where he can lie. Conflict of interest. He's paid by the company who sponsors this news site. Why can't you get this simple logic through your head?

>You said he only downweights for one reason.

Please read my post. I said what I meant WAS THIS: The only thing Dang can say is that when he downweights posts he can only SAY that he does so in the interest of the HN community. That's it. Mainly the point is because this is ONLY what he can SAY (keyword) you can't trust what he says, because of a CONFLICT of INTEREST. Get it? Take note I capitalized some words for emphasis to help you understand exactly what I'm saying. The language I use is specific and exact.

>You're not addressing the point.

I am addressing the point. The point is I'm not wrong at all and I'm telling you why. That's really all you need to get through your head.

>What he did in this specific case? Different matter.

What he did in this specific case IS ENTIRELY the point. It is NOT a different matter. ANY thing off this point is off topic. My initial post is completely and only addressing the point. I think your mind is wandering from point to point not latching on the main topic.

>What he does as a matter of both stated policy and declared intent and I would suggest, evidence is different. He downweights for a range of reasons.

Your suggestion is noted. And I suggest there's a conflict of interest here. There.
You should only work in the most important problem of the world if you have a high rate of probability of solving it.

Usually only young and naive people try that because they don't know something is impossible and they believe they are much more capable than what they really are.

Then what happens is they fail catastrophically, like Gutenberg, Columbus, Einstein, Plank did. Over time people that succeed eventually recover(most people don't) and discover something did not plan to discover in the first place that turned to be more important that what they were looking for.

You don't need to do that, Newton probably died virgin. He had no offspring. Gutenberg died bankrupt. It was a great deal for the world, but not that good deal for them personally. The Madam Curie and daughter died on their fifties being exposed to radiation in order to help WWI soldiers with early radiograph. Again great deal for society, not that great for them.

Most people won't risk as much as the people that usually succeed spectacularly. And that is great for them, their lives will be much more balanced and way happier.

People can only see the success part, the beautiful side of the coin, not what it took to get there. They can see SpaceX rockets being reused but don't see Elon Musk asking for money as he went bankrupt after several rocket failures and nobody wanted to lend him more money(and banks wanted to profit from that seizing everything). They can't see Elon sleeping in the Office.
Sure, I'm just saying that Mypy is a real type checker. The distinction is one of degree, not of kind. Writing a spec for Mypy wouldn't make its types more "true", just as deleting Haskell's spec wouldn't make its types less true types.
What massive destruction? Have vaccines been a net health deficit for these groups?
I love this analysis. If you don’t know it already I think you may resonate with George Lakoff’s work on framing and metaphors.
>This rat has no concept of the harm that may come to them when performing this job that has been forced upon them.

You're probably very wrong here. It is very probable that the rat feels the fear and sense of danger being experienced by her handlers around/toward the minefield (dogs and cats definitely feel the fear of their human companions), and she has been the one who has been going into that danger zone for 5 years. What she definitely doesn't know is that that danger isn't applicable to her. So 'heroic' may be very well applicable here.
No instead of blind faith I choose to not trust someone with a conflict of interest. You choose to give him your blind faith and call any form of doubt a conspiracy bubble.
Oh, they only went through each employee, assessed their specific race and entered it into a spreadsheet. What is the problem?
I’m trying to figure out the point you’re trying to make. I’ve never heard of the Socratic approach as being incorrect or pointless, I just think if it as a completely standard rhetorical technique. Does using it render the argument invalid? Is it wrong to have an opinion on a subject after researching it? What’s your challenge to the substance of what he has found?