skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're not fucked if you win the lottery... The amount you can afford with 100 million is incredible. Buy a huge lot and hire security.

You're correct about not being fucked. It's dramatically easier than that though. Just go melt into New York City, where there are many thousands of people in that general wealth category.

The US has ~180,000 people with $30 million or more in wealth. 180,000!

You can trivially vanish in numerous major cities in the US if you have $100 million. No need to hire elaborate security or buy a fortress. With $1b it's still difficult to vanish; with $100m it's trivial. You won't show up on the money lists, the public won't know you exist, you won't be famous, the news media and paparazzi isn't going to hound you.
In case you never heard about it (and for other people), these cards seem like the perfect thing to put in a spaced repetition [1] program like Anki [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

[2]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
except these companies are crap at security and the folks posting have a relatively good reputation? That said - yeah, maybe post 500? This could just be trash as you say.
Also, YT content creators and the YT algorithm are clearly affecting each other in complex ways. The content created for YT is tailored to succeed on YT, and would obviously fail on any other platform with a different recommendation engine and community.
Wayne Woolley’s Marvelously Equipped Mind
I can't seem to find a solid statistical study on the lottery-winner murder rate. "That Reddit post" says it's 20X higher than within the general population, and elsewhere I've read that it's more than 30X. I know, [citation needed] and I mean that literally - anyone know of a study?

Of course plenty of anecdata is out there. A glance at any of these stories ought to be scary enough to at least give you pause:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Adams_(lottery_winner)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_(lottery_winne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dampier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavigueur_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_(lottery_winner...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Shakespeare

You can also search for "Tiffani Hill" for an example from just 3 weeks ago.

It's not ALL bad news of course:

Keeps a low profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_R._Ginther

Donated most of it to charity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodtong_Senanan

Used it to run for Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Cisneros

Also politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lohse

World's largest hummus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawdat_Ibrahim

And yet... not all the good news is good either:

Went into... err... business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leyland
18 for consensual actions, barring abuse and trafficking
No, of course not.

I am saying that merchants do not have the ability to verify card holder name.

Your transaction will process properly with Mickey mouse as first last.

Only amex verifies cardholder name.

EDIT: relevant stackexchange is here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/220724/i-can-pa...
"...the simple fact that this horrible act has never been repeated in history."

I'm sorry, to which horrible act are you referring? The Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Second Sino-Japanese War (15,000,000-22,000,000 casualties, whoo), or the invasion of South-East Asia and the Phillipines? But I guess you're right in general; I don't recall any large scale wars of aggression in the last 70-ish years.
Yeah Roblox doesn't want that. They want to be able to take a cut every chance they get and also to encourage people to just keep their money in Roblox to keep it moving through purchases so they can keep taking 75% cuts instead of the /only/ 65% they taken when someone cashes out.
This is not Visa-specific. All major issuers support the same or similar features:

Amex:https://www.americanexpress.com/us/merchant/cardrefresher.ht...

Mastercard: https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/n...

Discover: https://www.discoverglobalnetwork.com/content/dam/discover/e...
Also using an automatic scheduling system like the one described to set up the dates when there's only a handful of fractional owners doesn't make sense to me either. Information about individual preferences should be gathered.
It's an open question, but I certainly suspect the reason humans are able to do this is we can synthesize knowledge from other sources and not have to rely solely upon learning from text. We've been to movie theaters and experienced buying candy there, which adds a great deal to our understanding of sentence containing the associated words without needing to read a hundred million sentences about movies and candy and rely only upon statistical patterns in the text to understand it.
>> I hate to tell you, but you may be one of those people we wish just texted every time we have to stop what we are doing and pick up a call.

>> 99% of the time it could be handled better via a text or email, which allows both parties to answer when they can.

I think it depends very much on your relationship with the person with whom you are communicating and the conversation itself.

The "bandwidth" of communication of a voice call is much higher than a text or email because of voice inflection, voice tone, and other audible factors.

For example, you might be able to immediately tell that the person you called is sick and adjust your plans or request, but a text or email would not tell you that.

A voice call also allows for quick clarifications that could take several rounds of texts or emails. This means that a 30 second phone call could be faster than several rounds of texts or emails spaced over several hours.

A voice call is also better for more sensitive or urgent communication. Urgent or sensitive news conveyed over text or email can feel impersonal or even uncaring.

For asynchronous one-way messages, I agree that texts or emails are better since they do not interfere and allow each side to handle responses asynchronously.

>> It is infuriating when I have to spend 30 minutes of my day trying to phone people back and getting voice mail so that they can tell me something that was best put in a simple text.

I completely agree. I HATE voice mail and have actually turned it off. People who know me and need a voice call can call back or try reaching me by text or email.
If my bank told me something like that, I would go call the police next.

Maybe banks have some extra rights on your country, but that is actively collaborating with fraud.
Nix can do what you want, it just requires a little bit more manual intervention.

There's benefits, too, though - you know the C compilers, build flags, versions and libraries of everything that goes into making a Python library run. It's easy to change any of it, integrate with your own custom libraries or other languages and test the whole contraption in its entirety.
Salaries have not risen outside of certain industries like tech
https://archive.md/PFRY0
When people with iPhones reply to someone who has switched away from Apple, and they use "Messages" (which does both iMessage and SMS) then there's a reasonable chance that the message will go into a black hole, where it will be delivered to iMessage and never appear on the other party's new phone.

This is doubly true if they have ever used an Apple PC to receive iMessages; in that case it will almost certainly never reach the new phone via SMS.

I don't believe there is a fix to this; sometimes you can repair it on the other party's phone by munging the contact, but most messages will just be blackholed.
Normalization of Deviance

"… [Y]ou could make it to a high level of expertise but then succumb to the complacency fed by your successful experiences, you could be beaten by the ever-present need to accomplish objectives (save time, save money, achieve schedules), or you might rebel against unrealistic SOPs and burdensome regulations.

Either way, you are living on borrowed time. Fortunately, you can change things."

http://www.aviationchief.com/normalization-of-deviance.html
Ironically, I attribute most of the Zune's failings to the Apple cult. It had comparable hardware, software (including the UI), and features. Its integration with the Zune subscription service predated Apple's subscription service by almost a decade and Spotify by a few years. The people who gave it a shot loved it, including myself. The main issue was that it wasn't made by Apple and therefore wasn't "cool."
As other commenter mentioned, EA is a useful framework for thinking about giving (what is my dollar really buying and is that a step change in something like foundational research). But don't give to the mainstream EA causes, they already are sitting on billions. Find small groups of people doing speculative stuff and fund them for exploratory research.
Seems not.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/
Deliberate market manipulation from the hedge funds. Who let’s face it, have no business being in the home ownership business. As long as they get their investment returns to hell with society right?
It is a problem with CDMA that Verizon and Sprint use. CDMA can't do voice and data at the same time. Both Verizon and Sprint have mostly migrated to LTE and VoLTE and are retiring their CDMA networks next year.
That's an interesting point! From my understanding, Apple's hash is not the final qualifier. SCMEC also reviews them before reporting to the authorities. But, I can imagine a scenario that might require opinion.
Affordability is only part of the picture though. A higher value loan means higher risk as well.

If interest rates rise, or something else happens that reduces the value of the property, then that $500,000 mortgage might be against a house worth less than $500,000. At that point people have to start playing chicken with the banks again, trying to mitigate the losses with strategic defaults.
I mean I get it, I don't like people snooping in my stuff, but on the other hand I can't fathom why any online service provider would be okay with hosting criminal activity on their platform.

If we want constitutional rights to extend to our online hosting, we should be asking for the government to own and operate a public cloud platform paid for with our taxes.
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Also, be aware that repairing a purely electrical appliance is fairly simple for most small appliance repair businesses. However smart appliances can be setup to only allow "Authorized" repairs. I've seen this for some electric bikes like Bosch bottom bracket motors where you need specific USB keys to work on or modify them that are VERY expensive.

This is an entirely different issue. Even if it's a dumb tv, the manufacturer will probably not prioritize repairability.

I'm guilty of treating most items as disposable, I assume whenever my $300 TV blows out I'll just need to walk on down to Best Buy and buy a new one.
Should have it where your social security is a public key and government has your private key. You're given a device that has your private key to confirm things but you don't know it directly. Public key is used in replace of discussi security number. If your public key gets compromised the government blacklists it and gives you a new one.

This is just a knee-jerk thought and I'm sure it can be improved, but I believe asymmetric keys are the solution.
Useful data:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=s...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sitcom%2C+situ...

It looks like sitcom ran in parallel below situation comedy from the start, then sitcom took over with the boom in the 1980s. Situation comedy never went away, but it never came close once they diverged.
The real answer is that you work to address the underlying reasons that certain demographics are more likely to be delinquent on loans than others. Of course, this would take enormous amounts of effort and decades to happen, which is why nobody wants to hear the real solution to the problem, and instead just want a quick and easy superficial fix (“it must be the algorithm’s fault”).
OK... I have to. jerf, are you a mouse?
> Sometimes at the same time.

This is how you know you're really working with something :)

A really great article by a friend of mine (and ex-VB.NET PM) is here. Really cool to go through it from time to time: https://anthonydgreen.net/2019/02/12/exhausting-list-of-diff...
I think Trump gave it through an executive order initially and Biden carried it on in his term.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gives-cdc...
Did I not day FALLBACK? Oh, I did but I am getting downvoted and mansplained for pointing that out a simple fact.

RAF also stops executing when tab is inactive. Sometimes we don't want our loop halted and that's where setTimeout comes in as the better alternative to setInterval.
Yes. Theirs is called Automatic Billing Updater.

The payments API I use offers both Visa and MasterCard's services at a cost of $0.20 per updated card.
Vqgan and Clip: AI Generated Art
I think this analogy doesn't quite hold, as you don't have athletes saying "I can't throw as far as you because of gravity", whereas you really do have people making ridiculous claims when it comes to weight loss.
It's going to be quite interesting how the bay area fairs if more companies leave over time. I've refused to buy a house thus far and have been looking into more economical (and practical ways) to live on the move given that I've had to move so much in this industry.
I had other symptoms too not just fatigue. So then Googling around, finding a lot of bad info or info that's obviously hocus pocus etc and slowly filtering down to "gut bacteria play a role in this, interesting". So then you gotta sift through the probiotics BS industry stuff and tried different "down to earth - not hocus pocusy" brands/strains. Really hard to find good info though if you don't really look for it.

You can see it in other posts from me. I think the histamine intolerance part was fixed by the Bacillus subtilis that's in what I take. Though some of the regular lacto bacillus strains certainly helped crowd out whatever was in me before. But some lactk Bacillus actually create histamine. For exame I could not drink Actimel.i can attest to the fact that it has live bacteria that make it to the gut alive because actimel gives me headaches (literal headaches not figure of speach)
At 2%, especially if I was getting a tax deduction, I probably wouldn't be in a big hurry to pay off a mortgage if I had otherwise available investment capital. But that's paying off 2% guaranteed. I'm not going to earn that today with a risk-free investment. I'll probably earn more than that on a diversified investment, but it's not a given.
journalists, are in a position of major influence but never having skin in the game. these are the same NYT journalists wo advocated for the Iraqi war. yet never been to Iraq and speak of whiff or arabic. it's a system where itself reinforces, the gvt / other actors influence the media and the media influences policy.
yet those people don't suffer any consequences at all. those are the same people at NYT that slandered Bernie and propped up HC and wake up amused that Trump won.
I'm all for freedom of speech, however journalists should be held to a higher standard. coz honestly most journalists except the local ones doing groundwork are pure scum.
Stupid question: Do increases in things like Home prices, wages, etc. correlate to inflation?
I had a nearly identical issue with an iphone, and it was the battery. The apple store employee was sure that the battery was fine because the "diagnostic" didn't show any battery problems.
But after insisting for half an hour that I wouldn't leave with anything except a battery replacement, they gave in and swapped the battery. Worked perfectly afterwards.
My parents still insist on paying everything, and they earned relatively little in their lives.
Sorry so you think it is suicide? I don't understand your comment.
And in the BBC B, Electron and Commodore 64.
Unknown people in far away countries don't matter at all. Might as well put the money on fire, the outcome would be about the same.

There's probably enough people in your local community that need help of some sort where you could make an actual difference.
I've found this more useful than harmful -- like, if I had to get a new Amex because of someone's data leak, I didn't have to go through and update literally EVERY SINGLE AUTOBILL bc Amex was smart enough to let (e.g.) my cell bill or my cable bill continue to process on the old number while blocking new charges on it.

But it still sucks that it's difficult to block charges like this from the consumer/credit-card side. I see references to OneFinancial in the thread here, and I'll definitely look into that.
What did you do to fix your microbiome? Can you share? It would be really helpful!
"Personal gain is a good motivator but it's far from sufficient motivation to proactively go and learn a new thing for most people."

This was really sort of spread around the org. The PM in charge could have clarified up front "average workload is 30k records, and expected turnaround time is 4hr". The dev(s) involved could have recognized there was missing clarity, and asked. This is less about "you have to go learn SQL" specifically, and more just recognizing communication gaps in general, and working to address.

My colleague who implemented the "faster ingest" process was viewed by PM and others as interfering and threatening to others. He'd only been there 18 months, how could he possibly know better than DevX, who's been with the company 5 years, and knows the problem space so well??

With respect to the 'rare' part, it feels relatively natural to me, and to some others I know. It's at least partially the nature of doing 'problem solving' across multiple disciplines for decades. Having the political ability to get those 'long range' fixes/changes past the vetting of others, who will end up having some of their plans challenged, is the much harder part. But... I've not had a good fit in traditional/normal corporate orgs for many years either.
Cloud Raster and Postgres / Postgis
> If the most legendary game developer of all time thinks Roblox is fine, are you sure he's mistaken?

FWIW, he's the CTO of a 30% app store trying to also break into the Roblox business (their Metaverse talk/Facebook Horizon).

So rather than Roblox only taking 40% and giving 30% to Apple, Facebook will potentially be in position to take the full 70% (or more due to getting children to pay for ad spend) of the child labor.
> You no doubt realize that money doesn’t change who you are. It can, however, change others’ perceptions of you. People project their own needs, resentments, insecurities and ambitions onto others. Compare and despair is an often unavoidable human trait.

Hey, here's one for us in the bay area.
Yep. It's surprisingly unknown outside the target demographic, despite being one of the most highly valued gaming properties around.
Bodies are used commercially all the time, such as in manual labor, physical therapy, disability care, security, policing, military service, athletics, dancing, commercial modeling, ...

The problem that's particular to sex work is legal systems that fail to prevent coercion. This is exacerbated by religious advocacy groups that try to make sex work harder without making it safer.
No doubt - excellent job, C* folks!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be bitter but I'm genuinely curious how much of that improvement can be attributed to JVM (?). And, also, how much of an "optimization reserve" C* itself still has (and will pull off one day)?
I had something similar happen, when my first successful company became successful. Many people who had been my friends or my wife's friends suddenly no longer saw me as me. They saw a wallet walking into the room. Not everyone acted that way, but so many did. I no longer associate with them. I have the utmost respect for those who were not changed by my privilege or fortune.
Jonathan Ellis (Cassandra Project Chair) on running datastax remotely
Thanks for sticking with me as I clarified, I see the crux of our disagreement now.

Basically, I am personally of the belief that any "wrong" or "useless" beliefs that one holds are always actually useful, as all belief is instrumental. Ignorance is maintained because it serves a purpose.

I am also of the belief that the only way to determine why one holds a wrong belief is to understand the "emotional" or desire-based reason that underlies or supports it. Hence why I spent a lot of time above discussing emotions. We have seen in recent times the repeated failure of individuals to adjust their beliefs even in the face of overwhelming evidence. Why is this? My stance is that their "wrong" beliefs serve deep emotional needs for them. Most people have stronger desires than the desire to arrive at truth in their evaluation of the world.

The difference in emphasis here is shifting from "the brain as a prediction-making device" to "the human body including the brain is a system that acts to relieve tensions placed upon it", and that prediction-making is one biological strategy for doing so. Of course, better predictions can and will relieve more tension than worse predictions, but my stance is that being able to conceptualize the causes and nature of tension directly will lead to better outcomes, as it permits stronger meta-cognition.

I see the term "preference" doing a lot of work in rationalist thought, and I generally taboo it. The term comes from economics and fails IMO to adequately describe the nature of desire. But if I were to use the term in this instance, I would claim that disentangling one's preferences from internal conflict is the first step one should take prior to tackling the problem of rationality (because we need to know what we even want to get done before we figure out how to do it). This involves interrogating our beliefs about what our preferences are and why, which is something that the rationalist focus on the "world" seems uniquely unequipped for dealing with.

I hope this all makes sense!
It's already a thing, though. "Fractional ownership" is a mouthful. I would probably call it a "timeshare" unless I needed to be specific, when I'd call it a "fractional ownership timeshare".

https://luxuryfractionalguide.com/fractional-ownership-vs-ti...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-30454773

Interesting article about a protest in 2003
Reading comprehension, what is it? Did I word my thoughts incorrectly? I did say fallback
Which probiotic strains did you try? Did you do anything else that worked?
I'm not a fan of the charity tourism thing. Unless I have some special skill that's in demand in the area, I'm literally taking somebody else's (probably low-wage) job and doing it for free. I'm sure I'd feel good about it, but I'm not optimizing for my emotional fulfillment.

Certainly the selection of charity is a huge issue and is worthy of careful thought and research, but I think a bigger issue to me is how much to donate.

I already live beneath my means, but I could go a lot lower. I could get a roommate, I could get a cheaper place. I could work more hours at a second job.

Especially as I approach the one percenter territory, the degrees of freedom between living like a king and a pauper seem daunting.
I just tried the pattern you recommended using Vue to build a simple Purchase Power Parity Calculator[1] as all current ones are outdated AFAIK.

I'm a least JS, 'You Might Not Need JQuery' kind of person so my complex web applications are all rendered in the back-end using Go but this particular website is static and this is the first time I've added some JS to it for a core function.

It does seem like Vue is a good fit for small front end reactive components like this, I'm refraining from passing further comments on the subject as this is the first time I've tried it.

[1] https://startuptoolchain.com/calculators/ppp.html
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15277766
No matter how much work you put in, you can’t choose your parents. Or your in-laws.