skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely.

You can pickout from someone's words how embedded in "self" they are. The west has nurtured a selfish society; one that isn't just greedy, but that is obsessed with "self". We call it individualism, but also express the doctorine through all the words with the self- prefix, where self-actualization may be the most grandiose.

But when we embody our "self" we embody our ego. When your ego is fulfilled you are fulfilled. When your ego is hurt you are hurt. When your ego is actualized you are actualized. And we become obsessed with self-this and self-that, with everything pointing inward. But this is your ego taking hold of you. You have no control. You end up trying to pursuade yourself to no avail.

Except, there really is nothing inward. So as much as your ego is "there" you can never get to it or "fix" it. The ego itself is void.

So when you begin to believe that when all else fails, there has to be something wrong with your "self" or that "you must change" or that the solution is "deep within you", you get sucked into that black hole and you implode. You may turn to drugs to feel better, but you're still stuck with your problem, which is you, in your head.

But the moment you externalize your ego and embody your ego-less self, you gain freedom from self, and the freedom you need to begin solving your external problems, of which your ego just becomes one of them.

When you tell yourself "I am hungry" who is listening?

When you tell yourself "I should go eat" who is speaking?

It takes at least two to have a conversation.

The needy one is your ego. The other one is you.

When people say "pat yourself on your back", they mean pat your ego. And it feels good to the extent that your ego gets the attention it craves. The one doing that patting is you. If you called this self-patting, now you have the template.

Self-motivation is you trying to motivate your ego. Forget it. Remove your ego and ask yourself why you can't do something. You're probably tired, unamused, or just don't believe in it.

Self-help is you trying to help your ego. Forget it. Remove your ego and just go ask for help if you need it.

Etc, etc.

Your ego is still there. He'll be there waiting and occasionally bugging you. But to be in control you cannot be him. And there is no changing you through him because there is no changing him because there are no parts to him.

All the parts are with you. Like body parts, we have mental parts. We also have moods and states. He is just one of the many parts that makeup what others and you may perceive as you. But none of them are you; the one that lifts the hand to pat your ego on the back. That is the control you have.
The entire point of this injunction is that it can be applied to people running their own resolvers.
wine? no? then how about Libre office? or even the olddy but goldy VM running Win(whatever version) for your Windows only needs? Plenty of choices
OTOH, if you look at the numbers of deaths only, 150 died out of 1200 who got COVID after vaccination, for a death rate of 12.5%, compared to 2% non-vaccinated (18k out of 852k).

This would suggest that the main benefit of a vaccine is in not getting infected in the first place, because you are worse off once you do.

Or more likely, that there is so much data missing that it's useless to look at it this way.

Generally, I still believe the problem with pro-vax movement is that they try to massage data in a way to show off bigger benefits than the data actually show, and then people see through it. Exactly like the no-vax people.

Basically, I am vaccinated, but that's because I made my own risk assessment and despite the bullshit coming from both sides.

Please, stop with the bullshit if you want people to be vaccinated!
I'm surprised to see this downvoted. My understanding is that one can only contribute to a Roth IRA if their income is below a certain limit. For the 2021 tax year that is $139k. Plenty of founders are receiving salaries below that threshold in 2021, even after raising money.

If Thiel made this contribution for tax year 1998, then this would be before they even took any external funding. It's quite conceivable that he received an exceptionally low salary that year and relied on savings.
Many have tried Signal in the past few months here in India because of WhatsApp's privacy policy changes which managed to create quite a buzz. None of my friends stuck around though. Everyone is back to WhatsApp.
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I was correcting a factual error in the GP's statement.

The graves were marked, it's just that it was with wood which has since disintegrated over time. Even stone ones will dissolve eventually. I went to three funerals in 2020 and was at the cemetery for the lowering of the body/ashes in each case: plenty of almost-disappeared graves in cemeteries that are less than a century old (of which many did (used to) have stone markers once).

If I have erred in my statements, provide the correct information.
I mean I'd be perfectly okay with adding a third criteria to my list being something like "max holdings of $10m (tied to inflation) and returns higher than that are taxed as capital gains." That's enough to ensure a luxurious retirement. But I do think the other parts are helpful and would help reduce other avenues for abuse. The IRA was intended for lower and middle class people to build retirement investments. Also 1m seems low for the maximum. At least IMO.
Let's hold a committee to propose which harsh words we shall scream at the Googleplex.

I vote for "bastards."
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If it isn't obvious, then I'm not sure what I can add to it. To each his own.

Edit: I realize this can come across as rude. In short, the unproven "mysterious" GU stuff is something he is trying to advertise. McAfee was recently found dead, and it makes the news. The tweet is a weird rambling that somehow manages (tries to?) throw in some more conspiracy and tie it to GU. In any case, bs alarms are ringing. He expects people to care about GU, but I'm not buying it.
That has gone to court. They're using the same limitation of liability (including data loss), as-is clause, and waiver of warranties found in every software license. It's entirely enforceable.

Read the TOS. You're not getting anything from them if they delete your data.
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(Not the OP)

One thing I always ask about but find to be especially helpful with less technical roles is to go into the whole process. Start with what they accomplished but keep digging. What other options did you consider? What were the trade offs? How did you decide your approach was best? What lessons did you learn and how did you apply them in the future?

Those questions can all be BSed but at a certain point if you have good answers for them then you at least know what you’re talking about even if it’s all made up.

Then I usually combine with some kind of concrete exercise that relates to the actual job. For product managers I like to give some kind of product strategy (either something we’ve done or something we’d never do to avoid people feeling like they are doing free work) and have them put together a product proposal. The more junior they are the more guidance they get and the more it’s a test of turning a discussion of features into clear requirement. If they’re more senior it’s about turning strategy into a clear product.

The second part has caught a number of people who said the right things but couldn’t execute, or at least not in a way that was compatible with our culture.
Make it up in volume ;)
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Calendar is what kills this approach for me. I am not two different people with two different calendars, I am one person with one calendar. Scheduling & making all my appointments is really troublesome with two separate calendars.
This is not correct.

While a hard-drive could be lost in a fire, etc., the state of availability of the data on it is decoupled from that of the system that has the data that's being backed up.

And that's the entire point! Take that as a definition: a backup is a redundant copy whose availability is independent of that of the original.

FYI, from one of the comments below:

>I've "lost" (had to restore from personal backup drives) data from Dropbox due to an error made by their support staff during a mass rollback, which was itself needed due to the Dropbox client interpreting a drive disconnection as a mass file deletion.
There are so many methods of encoding information into a printed picture, so relying on the absence of yellow dots is naive.

Seemingly random pixel positions shift, brightness shift, density shift, etc.
The most reliable backup avaliable to a common man seems to be burning blueray disks and then posting to different friends/family
Not to get into a pedantic argument about grammar and such, but seeing as writing is a form of communication, does writing rule of thumb vs rule-of-thumb provide any more or less information to the reader?

I would pronounce both of those the same out loud, I read both of those the same in my mind. Hyphens in places like that are a piece of punctuation that provide no real extra information or purpose, but clutter the sentence with symbols.

Punctuation exists to provide missing information to a reader. What information do hyphens provide in that situation that is necessary for me or other readers to understand what the commenter intended?
There have been several Star Trek episodes about this, notably centered around the conceit of the Prime Directive[0], which states that a starfaring society should not interfere with the development of a system- or planet-bound society. What makes it a useful conceit is the stories that can be told about when or if that directive should be broken. Should first contact be made if it would save a civilization from collapse, for example?

Another issue that is touched on in some episodes is that non-interventionism as a blanket rule disadvantages the members of the community that might in fact want to be "uplifted", whether because they are currently oppressed in that community or because they simply are drawn to new and different things.

I think the key thing, for me, is that each individual should be entitled to make the decision about how (or if) they choose to be "uplifted" for themselves, and they should also retain the right to withdraw from that process at any time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
Is Windows still like that or was that tongue in cheek? I run my Mac for months, only restart for updates.
No, that's not what the injunction says. It says we have to pay because we were negligent in failing to inspect every web site on every domain that we answer for. To come to an informed determination about whether the web sites contain infringing content. Tens of millions of times per second.
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Yes, I think that’s something companies may consider eventually.
My state ( which is not KY) has no resictions either, I verified it just now as I had not looked at the regulations in several years as I do not hunt normally so I wanted to see if they had changed since the last I looked, but no changes.

A land owner is free to hunt, fish, etc on their own land with no license in my state
Generally I'd recommend using a filesystem designed for that. Something like btrfs or (I think) ZFS, which have checksums built into the filesystem (and if you set them up in a RAID configuration, these checksums can be used to correct data as well)
Personally, I'm relying on the NSA having backed up all my data.
If my cloud backup backend provider cancels my account, my backup software will quickly complain. There will be a window of exposure, but I can act quickly.

If my backup harddrive is in the same house as my main storage and my house burns down, I'm fucked.

If I'm fancy, I may have multiple backend storage providers, too. Lot easier to do that then to have multiple houses. I wanted to use a safe deposit box in the past, but last time I called banks near me, they didn't even have safe deposit boxes available to rent! I can ask some friends, but then will be limited in frequency of updates, still.
I am very sorry to break it to you, but there is no Santa, and you'll be SOL if Dropbox's SLA hits a SNAFU.

Also, from another comment in this thread:

>I've "lost" (had to restore from personal backup drives) data from Dropbox due to an error made by their support staff during a mass rollback, which was itself needed due to the Dropbox client interpreting a drive disconnection as a mass file deletion.
To clarify for the others, a project manager keeps the project on time and budget, and makes sure that the right person are in the team, reports progress, protects the team from political influences, and so on.

A product manager is more like a movie director. She protects the product from feature creep, remains in close contact with users/stakeholders, chooses which bugs to prioritize, etc.

Often there's overlap between the roles but they'll split it up into specialty roles.
We have a governance platform for private companies, used by a lot of YC and other startups
That’s excellent! Do you have a video? I would love to see it in action.
This worked because he used a self directed IRA that most likely invested in some LLC with a marginal amount. It's very probable he also invested in the same company via some other investment vehicle, possibly direct ownership. The managing members simply assigned more benefits to the self directed IRA instead of the other account...

What does not seem fair is that most people think you can only invest in stocks and bonds in an IRA. You go to a bank or brokerage to open an IRA account... They offer you mutual funds, etfs, stocks, bonds... not much else... No one ever tells you that you can do this a different way and invest in different ways... Why? It's just too complicated for most people...

https://trustprovident.com/self-directed-investing-in-a-limi...

Yes it does suck for the rest of us but if you have money you have good advisors that can construct this IRA and all of its transactions in a legitimate manner.
On the language side you'd need a way to tell the runtime which properties were relevant to extracting a backbone structure. Maybe a "backbone" field on the property descriptor - e.g.:

`Object.defineProperty(obj, "prop", { writable: true, value: ..., backbone: true });`

Then you'd need to generalize the hidden type modeler in the VM to interpret the backbone field and lift "prop" (and the value associated with it) into the hidden type representation. The important thing to remember here would be to ensure that these foldings of things into the hidden type are _transitive_. If the value of `obj.prop` itself has one or more "backbone" fields defined on it, then those too would need to be lifted into the hidden type.

Assignments to these fields would need to generate a new hidden type for the underlying object, much as new shapes are created and installed for JS objects are mutated to add new properties or change the prototype.

You'd then need to implement some mechanism of collapsing the object representations down to some inline format.

Lastly, you'd need to teach the code-generator to use the hidden type to optimize accesses through "obj.prop" (or longer property access sequences).

At the end of all of that, you then get a really beautiful optimization behaviour where:

"obj.prop.anotherBackboneProp.someRegularProp", in suitably monomorphic or lightly-polymorphic locations, becomes not 3 separately-checked property accesses, but a single type-check on "obj", followed by a access into the top-level object.

That would give a rudimentary ability for library and framework developers to define common shared, stable backbone structures for their own use. And that's fun to really think about.

There's a bunch of work to be done, and it has to be motivated by real use cases, but I'm sure they are there. The idea that this powerful technique is only applicable to the _specific_ set of data structures involved in property lookup in object inheritance chains seems an unimaginative perspective.
The Residential School Program continued well into the 20th century, when Canada was very much a modern nation state with resources.

It's not just that these children died. These were indigenous children that died without the knowledge of their families because the Residential Schools intentionally uprooted them from their cultures.
Not that I’m aware of!
I think at least some of this may boil down to the fact that there are people employed in positions that require them to provide some results that justify them keeping their jobs. Sadly.
Not surprising, seeing how slow testing capacities appeared back in 2020. First, the FDA and CDC spent all of February 2020 sabotaging testing Because Procedure, only to slowly release their grip sometime in March ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de... ). Then, states slowrolled things, presumably because no one wanted to be the red blot on the yellow sea that everyone else barricades their borders from.

Not to say that this was a US-specific problem; widespread tests didn't appear in Germany until some time in March 2021(!).
Sex, birthday, and zip code is totally different than sex and birth year… sex, birthday, and zip code creates 1,523,000,000 different ‘buckets’ of people for everyone born in the last 50 years. That is more buckets than people in the US, so it makes sense that you could deanonymize.

Sex and birth year only creates 100 total buckets for people born in the last 50 years. There is no way you could deanonymize that.
QNAp takes the ‘just ship it’ approach. They have a lot of functionality, but it’s clear if you deal with their software much that it was a rush job. Lots of random breakages, bugs, stability issues, etc.

You’re wise to not trust it with anything important.
There’s “cloud backup” and there’s “storing everything primarily in one cloud provider”.
Pretty nice minimal grammar notation. Simple, but not very compact.

ABNF[0] is less beautiful but a bit faster to read and write, mostly thanks to having syntax for explicit repetition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_...
I converted a QNAP device to Ubuntu after the updates stopped coming. It’s decent and fits perfectly where it lives in my house.

Of all things, it has a weird boot-up bug where it fails to boot to Ubuntu during about a half-hour period (around :15 and :45) each hour and lands on a kernel panic within a second after grub. I have no idea where to start. Firmware is latest.
There's a virtualized Android concepts out there, but I really want it to go further. I already have dual sim in my phone, but Android has essentially no support for multiple independent copies of individual apps.

Of course, workplaces tend to insist on remote data wipe functionality and that's a big nope from the get go.

The sad thing is, Google could fix this and use their authoritative position to declare it safe: support multiple encryption keys in the secure enclave on a device, encrypt apps associated with different profiles with different keys, and allow registering "work" keys as remote wipeable. Throw in some sort of copy+paste restriction option to satisfy the pedant IT managers who think cameras aren't cheap and common.
I think this backup maximalism can be taken further. Say if it’s not one of many tapes stored offsite at an Iron Mountain repository, it’s not a backup. Or multiple locations at that, can’t discount redundancy (what if one location gets nuked)
> But not as a backup strategy.

Nonsense. Any robust backup strategy has multiple copies, and multiple locations. Cloud is a sensible component to this.
Of course not. I was using an example to illustrate my point.
The government did a purge of records in the 1930s and 1940s. While storage of information is cheap nowadays, it wasn't always so and sometimes it was decided things needed to go.
Or don't have the time. I have/had profitable projects that don't take much time, but they'd be more profitable under someone who isn't spread as thin.
Rather than turn off all attributes with "tput sgr0", instead I Save Cursor with "tput sc" at the beginning to save attributes, and Restore Cursor with "tput rc" at the end to restore attributes.

Save and Restore cursor doesn't always work because I don't necessarily need the vertical position restored, for example:

ls_color () {
tput sc;
/bin/ls --color=auto "$@";
push_cursor_position;
tput rc;
pop_cursor_position
}
Thank you! We hugely appreciate it! If this were just about us, we could have the Swiss courts throw it out, like US courts would, but that would leave the precedent standing and usable against anyone in the EU. So we need to fight this in Germany, and that's going to be expensive. Eco, the German Internet association, have committed a bit to the legal defense fund, and we're talking with the EFF and Digital Freedom Fund.
Apple didn’t the same thing but prompted me to opt in or out when I did the update. It’s part of the OS.
This is often stated as the 3-2-1 rule. At least: 3 copies, 2 different kinds of media, 1 copy offsite.
These are a little too tiny. There are projects I would pursue as a side project, but not in the 5k territory (it's just not worth the effort), and I would be very concerned that they were simply using small projects to push malware.
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And:

4. My crypto exchange disappeared/went bankrupt/was a scam and now my crypto is all gone.

I swear, some people never learn.
I agree that Thiel did stretch the law, but all of this only matters because PayPal was exceptionally successful. Almost all founders who buy their early shares prefunding and place them in a Roth IRA will end up with worthless equity for retirement.

Further, there are disadvantages to having this portion of his wealth in a Roth IRA. For one, you cannot borrow against equity in a Roth. So while he can sell and buy something else tax free, none of these assets are available to him until retirement age. Whereas his PayPal shares outside of retirement accounts can serve as collateral for loans, which would allow him to access a portion of these assets tax free , while allowing the equity to continually appreciate.
I don't think so. If Linux isn't natively supported, even if it runs fine via Proton, you're much less likely to receive bug reports directly, because there's less of an expectation that things work without issues. And closing tickets doesn't help with negative reviews—in fact, some users may use that as a reason to give you a "thumbs down" on Steam.
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Hmm, but WSL2 just runs a VM instead, right? Given that I'd have expected WSA to be a container on the WSL VM, running something similar to Anbox.
It's a pain, but no way are my appointments any of the company's business, and it's not worth putting work stuff on my calendar.

Fortunately my work day ends when I leave work and I can just block off time if I am otherwise out of office for whatever reason.
Yep. It's reform-washing. The problem is the symbiotic corruption of government, media, and extremely rich individuals who are acceleratingly-enriched by ownership of corporations as cash extraction leviathans. The problem Aaron Swartz identified to Larry Lessig cannot be "solved" by half-measures when powerful people can buy their ways out-of, around, and through any attempts to impose limits on their effectively-absolute power. The billionaires' money is the source of their power, as are the ruthless, callous, greed of the individuals themselves. If you want a just civilization, end the billionaires, one way or another because we're only facing a conflagration of several existential crises and billions of people put-upon with unnatural stress and misery.