skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It seems like best practice for any professional who needs to use Google anything would be to avoid Google to the greatest extent possible except in professional contexts, lest some inadvertent mistake (or something malicious like a hack) cripple your career.

Talking from my company's perspective, this is very real. It gets worse when out of the blue a customer rep from them want to schedule an interrogation about why to do you use their cloud services, which is because the absolutely vital part ML bit of your business is there. We are currently decentralizing and moving to a local cloud provider with real people subject to local laws, better for the environment.
Related discussion about the original Amazon supply-chain article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450420
Yes! And the definition of Treasure given in the article is not only incomplete, but isn't the clause that would apply to these objects. (Bronze isn't gold or silver, but these are probably covered as multiple associated prehistoric base metal objects).
> but it is definately proven beyong gambling

Not following here - how and where was this proven?
CEO tells about 900 employees they’ve been let go during pre-holiday Zoom call
I have 20+ gmail accounts, with separate ones for purchases, for communication with friends, for Android development, for check-once-when-you-need-it tasks (occasional 2fa from steam etc.), mailing lists, several spamboxes etc. I don't believe this is a setup for everyone, but it does help me a lot. I know they will try to force me to give my phone number to them one day, but I hope this will take several years still.
I am skeptical that staying in front of the PC will cause you to be myopic. I am also skeptical that there is anything that needs doing so as to not break your eyesight besides not staring into the sun or laser beams. I mean, i may be right but it seems wrong to me that just using your eyes would somehow break them.
If I'm going to use the monitor and there is not enough light in the room, I switch on a desk lamp and brighten the general area of the monitor. That way my eyes don't get strained that much.

This technique helped me a lot.

I also use a 32" 4K display at 125-150% scale so, fonts are nice and big.
The Pet Body-Shaming Industry Is So Much More Intense Than You Thought (2014)
How Can I Build a Customer Email List?
This story happened and was publicized first. I’d imagine Judge used it as inspiration for that episode. None-the-less, I love Mike Judge!
Most people I talk to don't know AWS has a managed blockchain product, quantum computing service, or an analytics suite for financial analysts and traders.

They seem to have their fingers in every pie, and people don't seem to really notice or care until it's already big or too late.
I'm not against it, but I feel this way about crypto and Web3.

I feel everything is changing too fast and I'm struggling to catch up. I support it and agree with it, it's just so weird to see billboards with NFTs (which I do consider scams) and Ethereum projects spreading so fast.
Perhaps you need to mention suing/lawyer in your original response to avoid your plea being automatically rejected.
How is that assertion not a double standard?
The lottery is more than 14 years old now, it’s time to get used to it. There are people with tickets who were born after it was invented.

It’s older than some financial instruments. I am not arguing it will be successfull or that its good, but it is definately proven beyond gambling.
What livestream YouTube scam videos? I've never seen one.
It’s remarkable to me how little progress there has been in a scientific understanding of the gut. Why does it avoid understanding by modern science?

My own experience is one of life long IBS. The worst I had it was in university, where I was in such intense abdominal pain I basically lay on my couch in cold sweats for a month straight unable to move and barely eating. Even with strong painkillers the pain was only slightly numbed. Gastros at UCSD couldn’t figure it out, had barium xrays, all the various escopies and they had no clue what was going on. Finally they wanted to perform surgery to have a look but all pain went away right before the surgery was scheduled. So bizarre.
Because YouTube provides a lot more than a video hosting service? Discoverability being the main one. Finding an audience isn't trivial.
I'm about 2 feet from a 34" 2K monitor from about 6:30 AM until 8:00 PM every day, with brief breaks for meals and bio.

I got Lasik a little over two months ago. Prior to that, I had severe myopia - 20/400 or so in both eyes. Corrected with glasses, my eyesight was 20/15.

I'm still in the blurry phase of healing, so anything past about 20 feet is about the same level of blurry. Making out license plates from the car ahead is possible if I squint just a little if they're over two car lengths away.

Even before Lasik, once that 8:00 PM time hits, I depart from all digital screens entirely. I try to remember to do the 20/20/20 rule, but I mostly forget.
I've not read the book but I attended their workshop. I took some practical advice about data viz and started making serious changes in my Visualizations. It's helped. My coworkers even noticed the change and mentioned it.
"flawless"

I can't tell if this is satire.
Reception at my doctor's in Norway are all qualified nurses. My sister on the other hand goes to a surgery in the UK has a dedicated receptionist. My sister's experience of visiting the surgery is considerably worse than mine. At the dental practice that I use the hygienists take turns to run the reception desk.

> Would anyone like to have the dentist use his time to answer the phone rather than fix teeth?

I don't care who answers the telephone as long as they are competent to answer questions and have authority to solve problems.
Has anybody used the method to undo myopia at Getting Stronger: https://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thr... ?

It suggests to read at an inch or two past comfortable for a few hours a day. At first it seemed too good to be true, but not completely implausible. I'm curious if anyone has tried or had luck with it.
In fairness, the actual (slightly odd perhaps) phrasing is:

> When treasure is found, the finder does not own it, and it is illegal to try to sell it, according to government guidelines.

There could well be guidelines that say that, about the law ('it is illegal', as it says). HMRC has plenty of guidelines on what tax you owe and how to pay it etc. for example, but it also comes down to law at the end of it.
Weaving and making clothing was done mostly within the household, by women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_medieval_clothing#:~:t....
How can anyone verify he owned all these bitcoins?
I once got a new phone number and I tried to register to Twitter; apparently it's already used, by an account that is banned.

I managed to login to the account but there is no way to ask what's up. I followed the procedures, even wrote them an e-mail that as a EU citizen, I'd want them to forget anything related to me and my phone number. No reply.

Still probably doesn't work, don't care all that much though. Wasn't a Twitter user before, wasn't one after.
This is what works for me: I open a new personal account (using a fake name) every few months, when I open the new one I delete the old one. Obviously I don't use Google for anything important e.g. email.

Basically, at any given time I'm using a throwaway account. It's like Docker for Google accounts.

It's good because I could not care less about losing the account; another welcome side effect is that every few months I get a blank slate, that way I avoid becoming a prisoner of your own bubble e.g. in relation to Youtube suggestions.

PS when opening a new account Google will ask for SMS verification and recovery email address, I use those services that give you a throwaway email address and phone number - that way Google can't "follow me" across accounts.
Did I read correctly that 53 foot shipping containers cost about $2000 before 2020?

That seems a huge amount of steel.
> Also: ALL CAPS.

Yes, the report is output in all caps. Nothing wrong with your eyes!
Teleshopping except with fake crypto giveaways telling people to send in cryptocurrency to get more back, usually done from hacked accounts. Surprisingly successfull.
Your comment makes me think about how sometimes people build their own mental prisons.

I've met several people who told me stories of loosing their Bitcoin; the people who get too caught up on the alternate reality are those who fail to realize they would have sold their coins anyway the first time they had a bill to pay.
It reminds me of the strategy A&P used 100 years ago to dominate the grocery business. But Amazon is taking it further, now owning the means to transport their goods as well.

It was a bit of a head-scratcher watching the Amazon trucks on the streets of the city slowly replace the UPS/Fed-Ex trucks that use to carry their ubiquitous boxes. I wondered what the other carriers thought about that move....

Seems that was only the opening salvo.

When they also own the container ships and factories in China are other retailers going to disappear — leaving as alternatives only antique stores, used book stores and craft festivals?
Walmart comes in, forces hundreds of other stores out of business, decimates mom and pop businesses, creates a massive workforce of underpaid employees, and then Amazon comes in, does the exact same thing, except 'online', and then starts getting into every other business they can think of, and the US Government (and people) just sit there and watch?
Sure you can.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pandora-papers-uk-real-estate-h...

https://qz.com/1151221/offshore-shell-companies-own-86000-br...
These clowns give out 50m bonus checks to traders on a regular basis. They are more than fine, this fine probably corresponds to less than 5% of what they gained from spoofing trades to begin with
30yo, healthy eyes. Never had to do anything. I'm working with my laptop on a stand and a keyboard in front.
Cool, but this is one data point. Would be good research how autocratic type of coordination convergence (e.g. functional oligarchy in this case) is the case compared to open source? If more then that means DAOs are failing to be a better coordination technology.
Virtual Showroom
Its 8 AM. Do you know where your fire extinguisher is? How to do first aid? What to do in a flood? Earthquake? Home break-in? If your bank goes insolvent, and you are so cashless you can't even buy a meal?

Most people aren't prepared for emergencies really, and dats one is not even at the top
Virtual showroom for retail, automotive, manufacturers, medical device producers
> The intended takeaway of this article — which originated as a digital special report — is clear: Amazon is better and smarter and richer than any other retailers, and isn’t suffering the same sort of supply chain challenges that everyone else is this Christmas.

And it's only going to get more better, more smarter, and more richer. And so on.
Because they're justifying a project whose sole difference to the other implementation is the language its written in.
Add to all of that, what seems like an increasing turnover in employment. We used to be able to invest in training our customers to use our product and then get years and years of smooth sailing. These days we seem to be doing a lot of handholding noobs.
This is so much better than the previous, buggy, unsafe and dangerous C implementation.
> As the memories fade, so does interest in the photos. 10 years ago you still remember clearly. 20 years ago is another era.

That's what makes them so interesting.

The photos from 15 years ago with my parents still alive and my kids as toddlers are more interesting than last year's holiday.
Did you try to call their customer service? I ran into the exact same situation with Amazon once. I was trying to sign up a free trial on audible.com, and my years old account had been locked immediately. To make it worse, my AWS services is on the same account, and I was locked out from the AWS console to manage my servers. At the same time, ironically, I still got monthly bills from AWS which I can't even pay. I tried several times to provide as much information as I can on that stupid login page but with no reveal (my bank doesn't send billing statements too, it's all on their app). Finally, I found Amazon's customer service phone number on a purposely hard to find webpage, the woman on the phone was nice and said she will try to contact the relevant person for me. After hung up the phone, I made a final attempt by uploaded a photo of my credit card. The next day, my account was unlocked. I don't know which method finally worked, but it worth a try.
Is X here a "cross product", as used in other systems like Sibyl and TFX?

Plike X Vlike + Pcomment X Vcomment + Eplaytime X Vplaytime + Pplay X Vplay

If so this whole algorithm and what's being done are pretty standard fare, the entire industry works to maximize <metric> (often watch time). These companies are paperclip maximizers and don't have ethics or moral systems per se; they are trying to maximize metric to make $.
One could read up on how bitcoin mining is being used in the west Texas Permian Basin to help reduce flared methane gas. Or, how electric companies could mine bitcoin to provide their grids with power consumption for demand/supply load balancing, enabling them to produce more green energy that would otherwise be feasible.

One just has to be willing to look at the facts rather than repeating environmentalist characterizations of bitcoin technology as bad.
After sinking so many hours into the sims 1, being insulted by its main programmer is probably the biggest honour I’ll ever receive. Thanks.
Why is it important?
Whether by 'this' you mean vaccine side effects or free scientific inquiry barely matters. It is refreshing to see.
Certainly it can't be easier than going to my YouTube account and pressing upload.
This is why I simply don't throw away data. It's so cheap to just store it indefinitely. I have all my personal projects, emails, instant messages going back to 2002. It's literally just a matter of copying your home directory when getting a new computer... Sure, you can get fancy with backups, cloud, and whatnot, but data hygiene 101 is just not throwing it away. I don't get why it's so hard.
You and several parent comments can't tell it's satire.

That is already telling.
Some of those are just 'us too!' offerings rather than serious attempts. Like wtf would anyone use a managed blockchain for anyway?

But yeah Amazon are big and dangerous in general, both to commerce and society, I'll give you that.

Twenty years ago I trusted them above any other online retailer, those were the days when people still felt iffy about typing their card details into a web page. But these days Amazon is full of bullshit 5-star reviews for cookie cutter chinese consumer tech, twelve different manufacturer names and the items are variations of the same two or three models, probably from the same factory ... and then it arrives and is crap quality and badly translated instructions. And all the dark patterns to try and trick me to sign up to goddam prime. Had enough of this predatory bs.
Exactly. I've seen this in military contracts where the rules are REALLY strict (and ancient).

Everyone on the project knows at one point that the resulting product will be outdated and useless, but neither side can call it quits. The one making the product needs to finish or they won't get paid, the one ordering said product can't cancel the project or they'll get sanctions according to the contract.

So they just go through the motions and produce something that'll never get used and is put straight into the bin.
You can buy through an offshore shell company.
Sorry if I was unclear, only Youtube is blocked for me now, gmail & rest of the account is fortunately still working.
It has been obvious for quite some time now. There still seem to be a lot of folks who need to learn the hard way that a megalomaniac overlord isn't a trustworthy steward of anything whatsoever.
And it's law for a reason. While interested hobbyists are often appreciated by archaeologists, there are quite a few people who are small-scale Schliemanns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann#Criticism). And with metal detectors being rather cheap, the damages these people cause do add up.
I've enjoyed Data Visualization Handbook by Koponen and Hildén - https://datavizhandbook.info/

Take a look at the table of contents on that link, it could be a good fit for what you're looking for.
Let's not forget the human factor. Presumably, an operation of this scale would require hiring help - potentially lots of it. How do you make sure that one of the workers does not just leave with the hard drive? It would require security on the level employed in gemstones mines (personal search for every employee who leaves the premises etc.) Kind of hard to set up in a bulletproof way - the potential finder could just let the relevant security people in on the profits.
Something like Mail-in-a-box[1] is easy to setup, you can monitor the spam stuff yourself, comes with all the instructions you need to get the DNS side of setup correctly etc

I've not had any issues with email not reaching people - and I'm not sure that other mailservers would put gmail any higher, especially as they are used for a lot of spam

[1] https://mailinabox.email/
> Bitcoin is 14 years old now, it's time to get used to it. [...] Its older than some financial instruments. I am not arguing it will be successfull or that its good, but it is definately proven beyong gambling

No, it hasn't. Being around for more than 14 years doesn't prove something is anything more than gambling. Slot machines have been around almost 10 times as long as Bitcoin, and sticking money into them is still gambling.
He just released a fifth book. Don't know how it rates. None of his were particularly about the technical side of production though
So it's more like a "Look, it's possible to do this in Rust!"

than

"We did it in Rust, and we believe it's better because ..."

?
> the other is simply breaking the rules.

Actually, this isn't necessarily true. Example regarding the college admission scandal that demonstrates that just because a dollar wasn't "stolen", something of value was.

The admissions slots were stolen from the colleges and resold on the black market. Which is a crime, for good reason. We don’t have to act like there wasn’t a legal, primary market for the admissions slots already.

I think the key is not to understand this as a crime against other applicants, or the public, or “fairness.” It’s a crime against the schools.

The back door—“institutional advancement,” i.e., giving colleges tons of money—is fine, not because it is “fair,” but because the owner of the asset gets to decide the conditions of its sale. (The fairness of the front door is debatable too, by the way.) The side door is wire fraud, not because it is “unfair”—Singer says here that it’s one-tenth the price of the back door, which kind of seems fairer—but because consultants and coaches are misappropriating the asset and selling it for their own benefit. The law doesn’t protect fairness; it protects property.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1105506383770894336

In the JPM fraud case specifically: (FTA)

Through these spoof orders, the traders intentionally sent false signals of supply or demand designed to deceive market participants into executing against other orders they wanted filled. According to the order, in many instances, JPM traders acted with the intent to manipulate market prices and ultimately did cause artificial prices.

Theft, by definition is when someone deprives the right of property from another person. Market participants should have been buying and selling at prices determined by the market. JPM manipulated that and created a profit as a result, thereby deprived other people from their profit.

So yes this is absolutely theft, just not the physical theft you're used to seeing when a robber walks into a bank and steals cash.
"But a bitcoin wallet of the same street value fits on a micro SD, it could literally fall through a hole in your pocket."

But you can make any number of copies of the wallet.
I really like when people say this about screens and never mention books at all.

Can someone with some strong contextual knowledge provide ANY references actually linking myopia/astigmatism to reading?

I would argue actually being on the street in quickly changing weather (very dry air, very humid air, extreme cold/heat) probably has a larger effect on what happens to your eyes, but even that is arguably very weak.
Look at the CDC definition of Vaccine from 2020 Summer and from today.
Compare the Wikipedia entry of Vaccine from today and from a few months ago.

Notice anything in particular? While yes, the definition has changed.
People hate to pay taxes. We see it here and everywhere.
I come from the econometrics end of things and Paul Romer (Nobel Prize winner) put it well:

'A fact beats theory every time...And I think economists have focused on theory because it's easier than collecting data.'

When I read this article this is exactly what I thought of -- modeling/researchers always focus on the low hanging fruit which is sitting in their comfy chair in their ~200 year old university developing hyper-complicated models rather than going out and collecting data that would answer their questions.
No, under the iron grip of central banks.
Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders
I try the 20/20/20 thing - every 20 mins, spends 20 seconds looking at something 20ft+ away.

I wear sun glasses outside when it is even moderate bright.

I take lutein, "the eye vitamin."

I keep pretty far from my monitor and its elevation keeps my head in a neutral position.

I also have semi-regular exams at a retina specialist to monitor some thinning.
Oh, I missed on that. And yes, that is true.

I can't help think that for a hackathon, it's a pretty good use case for something like this. The organizers can then take the files from wherever and post them to their YouTube channel for exposure and monetization if that's what they want.

I'd be furious if I ended up posting some video, mandatory on YouTube, for a fun week-end hackathon and ending up with my entire YouTube account suspended. So if I ever do end up organizing a hackathon or similar event, I'll keep in mind that it might be better to ask for the video files as just files and then handling the posting on my side so as to not expose participants to this risk.

If participants want to ensure their names are linked to the video bits used from their films, they can go through the all the blockhainy-web3-y trouble, if not they can just zip them.
OpSec is hard. I'm not going to risk that Google won't be able to connect the shadow accounts.
If time locks became popular we sure would have stories like "Florida Man locks 420 millions until the year 2202 thinking it was February next year".
That's why I don't use Google and others like that for anything essential, like email or storage. My operating principle is computing has to be done locally, unless I can't help it. I use all these services for distribution, not for permanent access. Twitter suspended an account because their AI does not understand content, but I don't care.

I don't use Gmail, but do have a YouTube account. If that account is suspended this minute, I wouldn't even bother. I still have my videos and can recreate them somewhere else.

On a related note, let's see if HN will let this comment post, since this would be my 2nd in an hour.