skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My employer recently required me to take a training course on privilege, allyship, implicit bias and intersectionality. It was something like 2 hours total spread over 4 trainings.

I found it hard to directly criticize anything they said as the majority of it was common sense and anything objectionable wasn't so egregiously objectionable to warrant any real complaint from me (not that they gave me the option, feedback in the series was suspiciously absent).

The main problem with it as mentioned in the article is the incessant fixation on victimhood. I feel that our culture's relationship to victimhood is no better than the ancients but just in the opposite extreme. Before there were precious few 'celebrated' victims (victims lifted up and supported by society) - they mostly lived and died in obscurity perhaps not even knowing the nature of their victimhood.

Now we want to explore each person's past and expose anything that could possibly be construed as oppression/victimhood and expose it to the world. We end up with the other type of error: people presented as victims who aren't (relative to our perception, of course victimhood is on a spectrum).

No one wants a society full of victims, but we equally can't have a society organized via victim hierarchy (intersectionality).
U2F is great, but these companies want to be able to provide 2FA for people who won’t/can’t have a dedicated hardware device for 2FA.
I once stayed at a timeshare that a friend of mine had. I think, for her, it was maybe a forcing function to go there on a schedule. Earlier I was in a ski house which was nice but more bounded.

But personally I've never seen the attraction in a vacation house. Maybe it can be temporarily more cost effective but even if you have exclusive use of a room--which isn't the case with a traditional timeshare--I'm really skeptical that any potential savings are balanced by "Where do you want to go this month/year?"
Pixelart: Experimental, interactive paint program using existing artworks
Facebook, 1 Hacker , way. Hah hah ha
They are very, very against remote.
Every scientific hypothesis starts without evidence.

So it must be treated as "conspiracy", and not critical thought, according to you?
A simplified and inaccurate version:

- You and I share a secret at my first login. Let's say our shared secret is "wibble".

- For any subsequent successful login with my username and password, for the second factor I send you the last six digits of the SHA1-hash of ("wibble" XOR current timestamp)

- You calculate the second factor yourself as well by doing the same operation (you have stored "wibble" for my username, and know the current timestamp), and verify those last six digits. If they are wrong, I am an attacker!

An accurate version: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238
My concern with that is that if something happened to the off-site token (e.g., ESD damage, or even just random failure over time), I may not realize until I needed it.
> I find that the use of "logical fallacies" to be an intellectual smell as well.

I find there's an over-obsession with logic in some discussions too; as in, ancient-greek-style modus ponens stuff. To me, that's not particularly interesting when it comes to the real world[1]; after all, logically-speaking we could just be a brain in a jar, or whatever.

An argument being "logical" (as in, not self-contradicting) is not enough to make it credible; it's just a very low bar, which lets us dismiss the most nonsensical claims quickly. Arguments which cross the "logical" bar should also align with empirical evidence, have a likelihood that's at least comparable to alternative explanations, etc.

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I don't think "conspiracy theory" has quite become a thought-terminating cliche yet. It can usefully describe a common failure-mode in thinking.

In particular, conspiracy theories become less and less likely as they're inspected closer and closer; e.g. requiring even more people to be "in on it" (making it less likely to be kept secret), requiring ever-more elaborate epicycles to explain-away observations/experiments/events, etc. They can't be disproved, but who cares? That's not a good enough reason, on its own, to affect anything.

Another legitimate use of the phrase "conspiracy theory" is a particular case of "affirming the consequent" (i.e. getting implications the wrong way around). For example "if X is true, Y would make so much sense", where X is the "conspiracy" and Y is some well-known/self-evident fact about the world. This might be true, but the mistake is to treat Y as proof of X: this would give us "if X is true, Y would make so much sense, so X is true", which is an elaborate way of saying 'if X is true, X is true'. Here Y isn't actually proof of anything, it's just a distraction.[2]

[1] In artificial contexts, like mathematics and programming, I find logic to be fascinating and rich; e.g. I spent a lot of time studying topics like type theory and co-induction at grad school!

[2] The "logical fallacy" here is assuming (X -> Y) -> (Y -> X)

PS: From a bayesian perspective, 'if X were true, Y would make so much sense' is evidence for X. It's not proof, but it makes X more likely (essentially by ruling-out the potential for Y to disprove X). However, (a) the change in likelihood depends on the prior probability, if X were wildly unlikely then such weak, indirect evidence cannot make up for that; and (b) this sort of nuance of probabilities is negligible compared to the wild chains of "logic" spewed by the conspiracy theorists I know.
Make it for digital nomads who are willing to pay a monthly fee to build equity on the properties.

Offer not just vacation homes but homes that are big enough to have 6-10 people co-working and co-living.

Instead of having 4 families splitting a house for 3 months, every participant has the right to live in the house or to rent it out.

Create a market for them so that they can trade their shares. Make it easy for people to sell their shares for co-owners.

Make it international, focusing on places that are reasonably developed and with good climate: southern Europe and the Caribbean.

For the past 5 years I've been unsuccessfully trying to convince my very risk-averse wife (civil engineer) that digital nomads are going to be an increasingly powerful market. If you are willing to do any of that, let me know so that I can quit my job and apply to work with you. :) If not, please let me know what problems you see with it. I've been thinking about this for quite a while and the pandemic made it even more appealing to me.
> Actual sacrifices are hard and uncomfortable.

Can't we do both the hard and easy? Neither precludes the other. How are you helping by obstructing either?

> gives you a feeling of moral superiority

Can you give evidence of that being the motive? It's too easy to smear people with it. Maybe you are motivated by moral superiority, maybe I am.
Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 17.2M rps DDoS attack
A recent study showed having had COVID before offers less protection from reinfection than the vaccine [0].

"The study of hundreds of Kentucky residents with previous infections through June 2021 found that those who were unvaccinated had 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with those who were fully vaccinated. The findings suggest that among people who have had COVID-19 previously, getting fully vaccinated provides additional protection against reinfection."

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
Tesla AI Day Highlights – Lex Fridman
It’s not the company who is doing discovery. It is the legal system. You can’t quit out of that.

If personal devices were not subject to legal discovery, every company would just have all the executives only use a personal device for all communication, and suddenly they are immune to discovery?
That's ridiculous.

While I agree with you that these problems are caused by using houses as a speculative vehicle, "only the initial sale should be profitable" would cause way way worse problems than this. This is a very ill thought out proposal, hammers destroy everything but nails.

The actual solutions to this problem are things like higher taxes on second properties, high capital gains tax on selling more than X homes in your lifetime (similar to the lifetime gift tax cap) or on "short term" speculative buys, reduction in ridiculous code and regulations on what sort of shelters people can live in/build for themselves, and I'm sure others I haven't thought of or heard of.
I might be tempted to enter the TOTP, but my browser is unlikely to enter the password, and I definitely won't.
Stress, anxiety and depression don't show up as lung damage on MRI scans.
> I suppose you could rig some type of HUB that lets you flip a switch to control which computer your monitors, keyboard, mouse, headphones, microphone, etc. are active for

This is the only sane option imo. I have been aggressively (during pandemic) switching to USB C and optimizing my desk setup. My personal macbook is usb c, my work macbook is usbc and my in-progress new gaming pc will be usb c.

I have a single usbc hub with one cable that i will move from device to device at home and deal with that as the minimum difficulty solution.
That doesn't prove your point at all. The fact that someone disagrees with you doesn't prove you're right.
IANAL, but yeah, I’m sure tons of people toe the line or try to use LLCs as their personal piggy bank but I imagine it can come back to bite you if you are taking business tax deductions for personal expenses. I think “influencer” Dan Bilzerian may be in hot water for this (or could be). Every major personal purchase of his is done through his company.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2020/07/09/dan-bil...
> According to the suit, the accountants flagged $843,014.06 in company expenses that appeared to be “personal in nature.” These included payments for charges racked up on one of Dan Bilzerian’s credit cards: a half-million dollar yacht rental; a six-figure, two-night trip to London; a $65,000 “Four Elements Guns & Star Wars Set”; a $50,000 bed fame, a $75,000 paint-ball field, an $88,000 vault, “to name a few.”

Maybe it’s not illegal per-se and maybe just a bad idea:

If owners don't treat the LLC as a separate business, a court might decide that the LLC doesn't really exist and find that its owners are really doing business as individuals who are personally liable for their acts.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-basics-30163.htm...
Ask HN: Resigning from permanent position and working again as a contractor?
Hello,

As a technical leader and contractor, I succeeded to achieve some strategic projects for our client.
Naively, maybe I idealised too much the client's structure, I joined that client as a permanent Software Engineer.
Now I have a better salary and some nice perks.

I feel like I regret for many reasons :

- First, on top of the technical part, I have to do some paperwork and have too many meetings

- Due to my responsibilities, I have to fix technical issues even when the contractors I work with cannot do it.

- I became grumpy mainly because of the contractors I work with : I'm not blaming them for not being efficient their jobs but, because we struggle to hire people due to the lack of talents in the area many of them can easily switch to another mission. So they don't care as much as I do.

Anyway, because of those reasons, I'm thinking about switching back to my contractor position or to go for a freelance career and working for the same client.

Question : Did anybody regret going from a contractor to a permanent worker ? Is switching back to the same client an easy step and common ?
I think of many of those things are "tribal markers".

By publicly taking a stand for/against certain things, you show you're a loyal member of the Blue Tribe.

One important thing about that is that the weirder the stance is, the stronger the loyalty signal is.

Saying something borderline idiotic that the Tribe likes, shows you're ready to publicly humiliate yourself for the tribe, which earns extra credit.

I'm not at all saying this is the only thing in play here, but once you realize this is a "thing", it makes some crazy things seem less crazy.
An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer
As someone who no longer shares devices / numbers / ... with employers partly due to NDA shenanigans in the same vein as in this article and when I left that company they tried to make my life as difficult as possible and tried to withhold compensation and so on.

Sure, in the happy path porting number is easy. But this assumes that

* the company will be ok with you porting it out (and not just hold onto it out of spite, which I believe the company I worked for might have done)

* the company will handle that kind of tickets in a reasonable amount of time

* the company will not need to escalate this sort of request to levels where they will then be ignored

* the company will be technically competent to handle this sort of request

I'm not saying that all or even most companies will have these problems but the issue is that if the first thing you do when joining the company is port your number over, how can you know what the internal company culture is and if they will make it feasible for you to get your number back later on?

This also ignores the big selling point of keeping your work accounts / numbers separate: being able to disconnect. Just being able to put your work laptop and phone away and know that you won't get called has it's own fairly large value.
The video mentioned you must also have a premium account at $5/month, so conservatively 7 months is another $35 down.

And presumably you have to pay for the premium account before you withdraw, so you are investing real cash for a chance of a payout?
>There were no such ill effects when the minimum wage was above the poverty level.

I mentioned demographic reasons in my comment because of the decreasing birthrate. The birthrate in the 50s was much different than today, and the sheer momentum of demand caused by new, young people enter society can be a cause of economic growth (the "pie" increasing in size that I was referring to).

With the new parameters of an aging population, I think the situation may very well be different, and already has had an effect over the past 2 decades.

>And aside from the beneficial economic effects, it is just the right thing to do, even if there are some minor costs. The idea that "you can't impose even a cent of costs on me to better everyone" is truly ugly. We live in a complex society, not some solipsistic universe solely for the benefit of "#1". Don't be that "#1".

I also welcome a reduction in wealth/income inequality. I simply think a large part of the reduction will come at the expense of other deciles, which matters because it then affects politics. I actually think it is at the root of the political tension and tribalism in the country, because certain tribes are moving down the socioeconomic ladder relative to others.
In my view it's not a problem specific to any industry or domain, but a fundamental problem of social organizations: the clash between individual (employee) interests and organization interests.
It's not really that hard. They make KVM switches that will swap everything with one button. I've found those to be somewhat unreliable. Instead, I've got a USB switch that handles the keyboard + mouse. Monitors are always connected to both and I swap the input at the monitor.

It mostly works fine except for the piece of crap Mac. Never know what arrangement my monitors will be when I boot up in the morning.
When I tell my wife about something like this conversation goes something like ...
Wife: Why would they do something like that
Me: You know why
Wife (sheepishly): Money
Me: ding, ding, ding
IANAL as well, but I’m sure that is very well the case.

Edit: maybe it’s not illegal, just a bad idea:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-basics-30163.htm...

If owners don't treat the LLC as a separate business, a court might decide that the LLC doesn't really exist and find that its owners are really doing business as individuals who are personally liable for their acts.
A bit more until, by combination of the virus mutating to less dangerous forms and everyone's immune system being primed against it, it settles somewhere between common cold and the flu.
Secondlife have a fair spread and is player to player.

They take 3.5% of fee when you are transfering it to USD. (Sellers)

Buyers are charged charged a 7.50% transaction fee with a minimum of US$ 1.49 and a maximum of US$ 9.99 per transaction

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The current spread on Lindex (SL Forex) is :

BUY: L$242 / US$1.00 (L$14,816 Remaining)
SELL: L$249 / US$1.00 (L$29,411 remaining)
Yes, but what I am saying is that it’d be nice for the API access tokens issued by the DNS providers to be limited to specific record type and specific label.

For example, the access tokens that you generate for giving tools like that one access to act on your behalf, when using CloudFlare as your DNS provider.

CloudFlare at the moment does not to my knowledge offer such fine grained controls as what I am talking about, on the API access tokens.
Permian Methane Analysis Project
This comparison between two datapoints is not too useful.
The graphs at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ provide a more nuanced picture, with the caveat that those are graphs of excess mortality and not necessarily covid-specific.
Human in Robot Costume Good Metaphor for How Close Tesla Is to A.I
Perhaps they could add it to the flu shot.
Do you have awareness that your anecdotal data, even if it were more than anecdotal, still would not prove that the shots you've taken reduced the symptoms, as many cases are asymptomatic / mild symptoms anyways?
That comes from master/pupil
Getting tested - have you? - is not neutral on your body. The nasal swab is sterilized by a carcinogen gas which exposure should be limited and you can’t avoid wrong gesture by a nurse physically damaging your nose. It’s fine time to time but not everyday.
I had someone contact me on Facebook marketplace, we agreed upon a time/price and then they asked for my phone number (which I sadly gave them). Then they said "I'm going to text you a code, so I can verify you are legit". The text I got was from Google Voice's 2FA.....
That's actually what Dr Fauci initially talked about with regard to the general public. With how masks are worn and used in practice, he was probably right.

Fauci: There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.

LaPook: And can you get some schmutz, sort of staying inside there?

Fauci: Of course, of course. But, when you think masks, you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gYAka7qSnM
Good point, but incomplete. It's safe to assume the company improved their process over time.

The point stands that it may be a hassle at other companies. Furthermore, you are beholden to the company until then.
The noise about master branches is nothing because one day the woke types will discover the White House in DC.
Same. My breakthrough infection lasted over a week. Nothing serious, but definitely very infectious, so I self quarantined. I’ve had minimal social contact and just about avoided COVID the original, so it was surprising how quickly I caught Delta after it became dominant.
GPT-3 could have come up with a better comment than this, spoonjim.
Chess colors and the rules around them will probably change at some point. What's worse is that people will act like the prospect is utterly ridiculous while the idea is in its infancy. Then, after FIDE or some other Chess organization release a statement about planned changes, people's tune will change to "It's inconvenient but if it helps even one more Black person feel good about playing Chess then it was worth it".

I'm already starting to believe it. Do we really play a game with white and black pieces where white always goes first? Where black loses more games than white? Not everybody knows the history of Chess. To some new players, especially from less privileged groups, it may seem like just another example of leftover oppression. Even to those who know that the history of the colors predates white European enslavement of black Africans, it nonetheless serves as a painful reminder due to the meanings of those things in a modern context.
Fair enough. It wasn’t an overall disagreement. I’m content to let it go.
Ask HN: Why do some sites take a long time to *close
We measure load time, but how about close time? Sites like cnn.com and other content/ad heavy sites often take a long time to close (eg close tab). Presumably because they do some scripting during a beforeunload event or something like that. Is there a way to measure this and reprimand sites that do it?

To test this try:

- open https://www.allrecipes.com/

- to make it even more pronounced, open 4 or 5 tabs of recipes.com

- let it load

- close tab

- if you had multiple open you will see that you can't even quickly close them all because the first close will freeze the browser
> the hosting platform doesn't generate any revenue

That's false.

"YouTube will run ads on smaller creators' videos without paying them"

https://www.engadget.com/youtube-ads-on-small-creator-videos...

Requirement for YouTube partner is 1000 subscriptions.

In the case of Robox, they are still getting paid for all those small games that make less than $1000, and meanwhile the creators get scrip.
> Have we perhaps forgotten about Sweden: - Has not had it worse than countries with stricter mandates.

Please explain this graph comparing Covid deaths in Sweden to its immediate neighbors that shows the opposite of what you're saying:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

> - Has had 0 covid deaths in the last couple weeks.

Deaths per week are a function of previous deaths and population distribution. If more people die at the beginning, then fewer are left to die later. That's how dying works. Sweden's weekly per capita deaths peaked much higher than in the US or EU overall, and they've lost more people per capita than their neighbors.

A person who cares about numbers should be looking cumulatively, not just within some specific narrow window.

> Are we also forgetting about Iceland / Israel which are among the most vaccinated countries in the world

Israel isn't even in the top 30 and their vaccinations flatlined back in February, they prematurely declared victory, and people went back to licking doorknobs. But let's ignore all of that for now.

Congratulations, people faffed around fighting against restrictions and vaccination for so long that now we have successfully developed a mutation that achieves viral escape. Go team! Yay! Mission accomplished!

Vaccines and lockdowns and mask mandates still appear to prevent deaths and hospital overflow. How do we know? Because deaths and ICU bed percentages go down during lockdowns and go up when lockdowns end and because a tiny fraction of the people dying are vaccinated.

Keep in mind also that Iceland still has one of the lowest total per capita COVID death rates of any place in the world. It's also a weird little volcanic island with everyone living in only a few places with a major international transit hub between Europe and North America. The few places in the world doing better than Iceland are places which also lock down quickly.

> Going back to common sense

Except that your "common sense" tells you that Sweden has done great and that Israel and Iceland are doing poorly when compared to other countries the opposite is true. How then should we assess the accuracy of your common sense?

My common sense says that people who refuse the vaccine should just be refused access to hospital resources if they get sick. It would neatly address a lot of issues.