skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably something that varies a lot by area but based on my observations of elementary school students (who I’ve seen the most of) and others. The situations you describe sound like pretty strong outliers.

I would want to see pretty strong (non anecdotal) evidence to think otherwise.
There is no evidence that what those consultants do actually helps. They are there so the company can check a box, not to reduce racism.

Edit: HBR wrote about it here (fixed link to right article): https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail
Scenario 3: Unsuspecting people are recruited to get "Bitcoin management operator" jobs, where they receive funds on their account, buy bitcoin with said funds and send the coins over.

In the past, the same mules were sending Western money transfers or similar, but nowadays cryptos are so handy most criminals have migrated to it.

After a few months the cops usually come knocking, and depending on the jurisdiction, the poor mule is hit with fine/jailtime and/or the debt
yup, now with EU/Brexit import duties and VAT on everything, the carriers (DHL/UPS/FedEx) have been made responsible for collecting the fees on the govts. behalf, but they also don't want to slow down delivery, stop it at customs, send a letter to you, wait 3 days for you to pay, etc - so they send a text with a link to a really shady payment gateway where they tell you there's a fee to pay. Mind you, this is what the legitimate carriers do.

After that, it was easy for fraudsters to just spam links to everyone to similar looking pages. I often have 5-6 pending order now, since COVID I buy literally everything online, and I can't keep track of everything that's inbound. I'm sure a lot of people are in a similar situation, which makes this scam very effective.
I am building a tabletop game trainer for Star Wars FFG as the RPG Sessions app is incomplete and trying to do all of the things manually or remember every rule + every modifier to the rule + what all of my NPCs stats are is impossible, and thus when one looks things up, it slows down gameplay a lot, especially during battles. Since the whole point of the system is to make battles feel fast and cinematic, and we want to strictly adhere to the rules as written so we are not constantly re-adjudicating (read: bickering over) house rules, we need something more.

Enter F#. I've been working on (yet not releasing a usable version yet bc I'm bad) this program entirely in F#, using Giraffe as the web layer, following the general architecture defined in Domain Modelling Made Functional, and using Dapper to write to a Sqlite database.

F# is amazing. I'm able to fully understand the codebase and follow exactly what happens from HTML Form request, through input validation, through the business logic, down to the database and back to the domain, then rendering out to a JS-free webpage via Giraffe.

It gets tedious doing the marshalling/unmarshalling from HTML form to input DTO to domain type to output DTO to database records to input DTO etc. and I need to learn both how to create DSLs (so users can type in rules from the book and the system will extract the keywords and compose them into the closest equivalent set of conditions and effects the system supports) and lock down my bounded contexts so I'm developing them in order of least to most entity dependencies rather than in order of where I feel I need them most, but I can't see a way where I would be able to build this in plain old C# without all of my above challenges + lots of boilerplate code to ensure my expected invariants are met and someone (me) hasn't changed an invariant out from under me somewhere else without realizing it.
I think there were court cases on infringement around thirty years ago, when games were being made where they'd just license Shaq or Ken Griffey Jr and the rest of the names would be fake.
I mean yeah your points I agree with. horrifying. but the problem i think (hope) is only a small one. isolated people doing silly things.

At least its not hiding behind the might of massive banks and being sold as prime stock.
Probably not. I guarantee one or several really smart people looking at the targeting problem would have considered it during the initial research effort. "I'm going to target X people with this, what are the cost models when X=1, 100, 1K, 1M targets?"
Th UK government is more interested in encouraging "safety tech" including age verification tech. There is no programme, fund, encouragement or anything of support for anyone doing something like a UK-based PeerTube. In their eyes this is not "innovation". I am very happy to stand corrected but speak from 30 years of mixed experiences.
I would add a couple of considerations, more fundamental rather than metrics;

1. Is your business easily replicable by someone else or can you build metaphorical moats around it e.g. by having exclusive customer contracts, or that you solve a very difficult technology/problem, or the business is otherwise significantly better than what's out there and will be for a while.

2. Total addressable market; what is the total value of the opportunity if the business can scale significantly.

3. Is the business profitable or have a clear and achievable path to profitability.
Worth noting that when you break down the data into age groups the efficacy is substantially higher than that overall number, since the vaccinated population skews older. An example of Simpson's paradox. Good explanation here: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
There are so many ways to abuse micro-targeting. Say hypothetically you’re a private investigator and you have a target that you want to get into their email. You could look at their Facebook page to find their favorite band, food, and travel destination. With that info plus their zip code you could make ads that will just target them personally. Offer free tickets to their favorite band on a landing page with registration, then store their commonly reused password in plain text-done.

This type of ‘nano-targeting’ was the strategy that Cambridge Analytica used to discourage millions of Hillary Clinton supporters from voting. Its been used for countless forms of abuse, manipulation, and data gathering, where even impression counts can be revealing, no clicks needed.
Also the homepage is a bit of a giveaway:

> The current release is OpenBSD 6.9, released May 1, 2021.
When you say "for the most part", what do you mean?
This is a silly move IMHO. The mix to go for should be clean + backup nuclear.
I feel like Gulp sort of shot itself in the foot.

As someone who liked Gulp (SOOO much more than Grunt/Browserify) the transition from v3 to v4 felt really, really bad. Lots of unknowns around release timing, poor community support for the new version, "beta" tags sticking around forever long after it should have been released, maintainer turnover, etc...

It was enough at the time to get me to jump to Webpack, since it seemed like gulp was dying, and if I had to pick a configuration based tool it wasn't going to be Grunt.

Now I'm actually swinging back towards a combination of Gulp and ESBuild on my personal projects. I honestly debated trying a mix of Make and ESBuild (Since Gulp still feels pretty dead, and hasn't had a real release in 2+ years), but Make has enough subtle gotchas that I stuck with something familiar.
I'm tired of hearing about econ 101 ludic cartoon universe from people who know better.
Not without parentheses, which is why -> was introduced.
> ... you can always spot the top and get out before the crash

Until you can't.
I worked on several web search engines in the 2000s. During that time I ended up next to someone who was in the SEO business a handful of times at dinners or meetings. When they explained what they were doing to me I kept thinking "this kind of explains how belief systems and religions are formed".

You would have these very complete theories of how search engine ranking worked - completely disconnected from reality and unburdened by any actual knowledge. If there was ever a cargo cult, SEO was it.

I still cringe when people say that they have "done SEO" on their site while I'm in the room. It is kind of like telling their mechanic they've sacrificed a goat so their car will get better mileage.
You are being voted down, but I can think of little as harmful as the open sewer that is unfiltered social media, especially to younger people that haven't yet learned not to take it all personally.
This is the danger of these discussions. Yes, perhaps Ukrainians have been structurally oppressed, but that is irrelevant to the point here. The same would have happened to a white engineer from Moscow whose great grand parents had been killed by Stalin.
Discouraging someone from voting is now "abuse"?
This just means that as far as users are concerned there is no such thing as an immutable blockchain. That's because people don't interact with chains directly, they use "Bitcoin" and "Ethereum", and those names have an inherent mutability in what they refer to.

The Ethereum developers convinced enough players of the crypto ecosystem to change what chain the name "Ethereum" refers to, not unlike a dns change (but to a large extent, done manually; there were humans in the loop to activate the hard fork). So wallets and exchanges changed the chain that the name "Ethereum" pointed to. Nodes migrated, and miners too. And it just happened that this fork was made specifically to revert a certain transaction.

Those that were left on the original chain had to pick another name for it, and build another branding. It was now called ETC instead of ETH, even though it was ETH that changed; ETC points to the old chain that used to be called ETH.

From the perspective of users, the transactions on ETH were truly reversed. Immutability is a mirage. (This is not necessarily a bad thing though.)
The point of all the studying is to ace the entrance exams, not learn anything about research or original thinking. At least in Japan, once you're actually in the university, you can pretty much slack off for the next four year until you graduate and face the next grueling phase of your life, becoming a junior salaryman.
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> and by god, if a better solution is so obvious to you, why haven't you proposed it yet, or - god forbid - made a merge/pull request??

Because there isn't any obligation to? Why do you think you would be entitled to ask for that?
I don't think it's really been tested legally, but during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, there were a handful of (strikebreakers') names that the players' association got replaced in games.
The US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, etc. are all democracies where the UK had a big influence on their culture.
There are ways to hedge against the tether time bomb. Imo some money will flow out of crypto entirely if tether blows up. But most of it will flow to other stable coins.
My main use for OpenBSD is as a firewall/router, and they frequently make breaking changes to the pf rule syntax so I had to abandon it. Last breaking change when I checked was July, but it's been going on for many years. If you have one firewall no big deal, but if you set them up for customers all over the place it's a nightmare. They should take a page out of Microsoft's book here.
I recommend JavaScript in the context of plain HTML as a language for the first steps in programming (especially for kids). Being able to write a simple HTML file and then see things happen immediately on a refresh is priceless.
> Just like a chess master doesn't chose a move by thinking "I'm going to use x", they just decide on it, and also adapt it to the situation.

This is an interesting analogy maybe someone who knows more about chess can correct me, but don’t chess masters have elaborate memorized openings and end games where they do decide to use “the indian defense” then go on autopilot until someone deviates from the common lines?
For most of us avoiding telephone queues is a blessing.

I have 3 "proper" bank accounts (different banks), a couple of "challenger"/app bank accounts, and 3 credit cards and haven't stepped foot in a branch to open or deal with any of them in 20 years. I've had to get on the telephone with a couple maybe a couple of times.

I couldn't be happier with this arrangement, as long as someone is reachable when shit really does hit the fan.
Ah, that's interesting.

I'm a huge fan of F#, but I had the advantage of knowing .NET first.
Totally correct. The several distros I've tryed in the last 10 to 15 years have no problem handling NTFS partitions and any kind of data in them.
The tether article a week or two ago described them lending tremendous amounts of USD to exchanges and various crypto bank-like entities with Bitcoin as collateral

“ I also learned that Tether had lent billions of dollars more to other crypto companies, with Bitcoin as collateral. One of them is Celsius Network Ltd., a giant quasi-bank for cryptocurrency investors, its founder Alex Mashinsky told me. … Hoegner, Tether’s lawyer, [said] … that its secured loans are low-risk, because borrowers have to put up Bitcoin that’s worth more than what they borrow.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-07/matt-l...
I don't think the power button was good design, but it is pretty clearly labelled on the top. The wave-your-hand-over-it operation has Steve Jobs written all over it in my opinion, not Ive.

If I was going to point to what went wrong with Ive designs I'd point to laptop keyboards, and the flat graphic design of iOS 7, which ruined many of the affordances of the interface.
Cars could trigger destruction of cities, warns top horse-drawn carriage maker
Short and yet the most informative post here.
> If purchased via debt,

Wall St: "hold my beer"
Raw HID keyboard forwarder to turn the Pi 400 into a USB keyboard
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The flu is hardly a "poor health choice", as you put it, and the well-run countries I know well spend a lot of resources on flu vaccination, so what is the conclusion of what you say?
I second this. Rented a house on VRBO. Arrived to find a rundown flop house and had to find other accomodations for my family (3000 miles from home on minutes notice). VRBO has zero consumer protections or support for renters. I got taken for $2200. Since I paid with a debit card...screwed. Amex from now on.
Possibly related to that - I just fixed my letsencrypt problem on an old Mac by following these instructions [0], which were referenced here [1].

[0] https://docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/kb/kb-202109-letsencrypt...

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/428728/why-are-my-...
> It has a scripting mode where compilation is done on the fly. This makes it look and feel very similar to python but you still get type checking and much better performance.

This is a really wonderful quality in a compiled language. I wish there were more languages with this attribute (but it’s a lot to ask for).
Yeah it is always hard to get a proper picture of something like actual school life based on one (or a few) articles when in reality often not even parents of the children themselves know what is really going on.
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I don't have any particular insight on bullying in Japan specifically, but having lived there for a big chunk of my childhood I can say for sure that you have to be very, very skeptical of the "Look how weird Japan is" trope which is super common in Western media.

Those stories always follow the same pattern - pick out the most extreme example of something that you can find, then spin some superficially insightful theory around it relating it to some essential difference between Japanese culture and other cultures.

There is no such thing as essential differences. And if all that reaches your attention about a faraway place is the extremes, you are bound to come to some weird conclusions.

It's just too easy to apply this recipe to anything you don't understand well. Just imagine the stories you could tell about European student culture if you started from the Belgian Reuzegom hazing story [0], and generalized from there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuzegom#Death_of_Sanda_Dia
I believe it's about getting attention and committing to a supplier a certain amount of orders so you get to deal with them directly.

If Framework had split the manufacture of this machine between Intel and AMD then the volume of chips may not have been enough to be in a tier one relationship with either. And so you you need to pick one, and they probably felt that going with Intel first was the safe bet.

I'm sure AMD will come along soon.
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It’s an open offer for someone who understands better to clarify or confirm incase OP has missed something from their calculations.
the problem with that approach is abundantly clear in the sales figure gap between PES and FIFA.

Most people are lazy and don't want to bother with locating files, patching games, dealing with borked patches and so on.
So ban all bank transactions with the fiat exchanges then.

This is where I really respect China, they actually act. When they have a housing problem, they build more housing. When they have an energy problem, they build hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants. When they have an electricity demand problem, they ban cryptocurrencies.

It seems the West has just lost the ability to carry out effective action and invest in infrastructure.
These are still problems developers face when learning that language for the first time, even if they have experience with another language
FTC has to do a LOT of modernization. We have Truth in Lending, the BAR association, Consumer Reports*, but we've lost Journalistic rigor, Logic, and Critical Thinking.

There's a LOT of Qualification 'shorthand' that's been lost in the race to the bottom for the democratization of data distribution. Carrying a Professional Engineer cert in Civil Engineering is a VASTLY different qualification than carrying a CISSP cert.

While this seems to have wandered from fake reviews, its part and parcel to the loss of integrity, where internet communications come into play.
Trying to be charitable to both arguments:

- speed is obviously a factor, but there's a wealth of other factors. 90 on a clear highway with little traffic, and the driver is alert? Fairly safe. 90 while weaving between lanes, leaving little reaction time? Not safe.
- drivers seriously overestimate their competence. Humans undervalue outlier events. This is the root of the stat about accidents occurring within a mile of home.

That's why we have generally-lax enforcement of motorway limits but "strict" enforcement of urban limits in the UK. I'm not asserting that we've got it right here, but it looks more sensible in my eyes.

Caveat: urban centres are increasingly adopting 20mph. I think there's a tacit understanding that people will drive at 27. When it was 30, they'd do 34, so that's a big increase in survivability.
You are paraphrasing incorrectly. He's saying people believe they can always spot the top.
ok, so HN formatting ate a couple * here and there. I meant that

char* something;

in C is like

let something: *mut char;

or

let something: *const char;

In Rust. So complex pointers are easily expressible: they are just *mut something complex
> making everything easy for the novice at the expense of making it difficult for the seasoned professional.

This would be a valid concern if there was only a single programming language in the world. In reality there are thousands, some aimed at absolute beginners and some extremely complex and demanding, aimed for specialized professionals.
I often wonder about the experience of using an eGPU. What are the tradeoffs? I travel a bit for work now and I'd like to have a more mobile gaming setup.
It's confusing when people end what appears to be a declarative statement with a question mark, not sure why I'd get in trouble for asking.
Yes, you're right but what I implied is that lot's of people think they can achieve a perfect timing to get out.

Until you can't = when it flash crashes and everyone loses.
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There are. Next.js is probably the best example. Despite having worked for the company that makes it now, I wasn't personally a huge fan of it for my own projects, but I also wouldn't recommend my own toolset for many others. Next.js is a fine framework for most websites and it has great support, a great community, and genuinely smart people behind it.

Meteor is good for prototyping but I would highly recommend against it for anything serious.

Also, in my opinion, Django is a terrible framework, full of magic and impossible APIs - e.g. the ORM adds fields at runtime that are otherwise impossible to inspect or reason about, as well as firing off synchronous database queries in getters/setters, which means there's no way to understand the side effects of seemingly innocuous code.

Django feels like PHP's Magento - bloated, cumbersome, poorly designed, and ultimately a giant footgun.
He’ll still only get 21 years.
Last line can be applied to almost any problem, and can be seen as a de-facto method for solving problem.
Well, if that is true, why not deregulate? Let us see what happens.

I would just do one thing myself: I would make mandatory to label products with the pollution manufacturing process: this used coal, this used nuclear, this used blabla. This is the amount of waste produced to the environment. And let people choose, with the appropriate information.

In that setup, if nuclears are not worth, they would disappear by themselves.
Automobiles did trigger the destruction of most cities.
I think the killer feature would be if Framework provided schematics so you can carry out component level repairs, even on the replaceable modules.
I don't think it is. I think comparing British freedom at the time to the freedom in the native society is totally fair.

And countries don't evolve in a vacuum. Many countries would have adopted British ideas of freedom just through observation.
I’m not sure that the trade commission should be chartered with (nor made powerful enough to be) fixing the broader evolution of how humans consider and manage trust, but I do think they should be concerned with truthfulness matters specifically around trade.
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> because criminals operate in every country

Sure, they do, but what does that matter; or what does "operate" mean in this sense? You can outsource to elsewhere i.e. you can operate anywhere.

> the EU has a large and often English speaking population

So do many places, the EU is by no means unique in this respect. But there's a reason "cost centres" are being outsourced to India or the Philippines, more often than than the EU. And in the context of criminal operations, "language-speakers" is by far the least important/riskiest factor relative to those that would get you arreseted.

> It’s the same with the US/UK

Is it? Do you have (statistical) examples?

> Email doesn’t care about national borders

Wrt liability, (i.e. Arrest Warrants, the context of this thread) email, or at least the senders of, do care; more-so than language. Unless you are implying criminals care more about maximising profit than getting caught?
That's fine and all except that the typical refrain from internet folks is that if something is free then you are not allowed to critique, comment, or request changes. If you really care about freedom you can handle a little bit of online banter.
That's a bit of a strawman. My full comment is that being familiar with your language of choice, and having a deep understanding of a problem means that can produce a solution faster than someone that doesn't. I used the phrase 'churn out', I could have simply said 'produce'.

I've worked in the industry for almost 30 years, and I've worked with a lot of people in that time. Those that you might qualify as '10x', all have had both of the qualities I mention.

I would not expect any of those people to switch languages and fields and still be a '10x' developer.