skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true but so far none of those materials found, to be competitive with electricity+silicon.
It's sort of impressive really...
Ideally you want a Durable Power of Attorney as well, which gives you the power to handle their affairs while they're living (if necessary). Both for being able to take care of them, and as a trump card in case someone else does influence them into signing a new Will you can question their mental competence without ending up in a world of hurt regarding conservatorship etc.

From my understanding a Living Trust is really just a way of bypassing the Will and probate process, and actually allows for less oversight. This might make things easier, or it might make it harder to get justice.

There are also irrevocable trusts that allow for making designations that can't be taken back, which perhaps may fit your situation. But since they're irrevocable they need to be drafted and planned more carefully.

Of course if they're not looking to you to fulfill such a role or discuss such things, then perhaps it's not your scene no matter how much you think it is. Whatever the case may be, you're better off having these conversations sooner rather than too late.

IME a parent's death is when all those unresolved childhood disagreements come back to roost.
If that comment had just used the abstract pattern: "(1) Abuser provides an overtly misleading narrative; (2) Abuser is confronted with evidence that contradicts the thrust of their narrative; (3) Abuser retreats to litigating the clear meaning of their original narrative", would you still see a point in trying to provide counterfactuals? The comment is simply trying to illustrate a pattern common to unproductive and/or abusive arguments; they not really offering you a law school hypo to work through.
Hot take: if it's something that's universally a good thing that should be required of every driver, it should be provided by the state and paid for with taxes / annual registration fees.

Otherwise, it's just an income-generating scheme for private parties.

Oh, and fun fact: the liability insurance isn't required to pay up anything unless the covered driver loses in court. They don't have to follow that the police report says regarding whose fault it is.

How do I know? Got told that after getting into an accident on a road trip. So much for a good thing.
No matter how dismissive one is of the midwest, how could you be ignorant of the existence of a major metro area like Minneapolis-St. Paul? Per [0], it's the 16th largest in the U.S. Its teams participate in every major televised sports league (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB).

I dunno, I almost just don't believe the OP's anecdotes, unless they are talking to recent arrivals to the U.S. from other countries. I'm from a significantly smaller Midwestern city than Minneapolis, and I don't recall anyone ever saying "where's that" or "are there buildings there" when I say where I'm from.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area

Edit: Based on comments it seems many do agree with OPs view. Maybe it's a California/SV thing, I've never lived there. But I've been in the south/east/mountain regions and never encountered this level of ignorance that civilization exists in the Midwest (whether real or feigned.)
>"Fix ancient tax laws to not require storing financial info for decades. "

The government wants to be able to go back in time so they can prosecute tax evasion and 'money laundering'. They also want someone else to take care of collating and warehousing the data for them. The laws aren't outdated, they are just incompatible with maintaining privacy in the 'connected' era.
This glosses over the outright fraud within the banking industry that was at the heart of the S&L crisis. Without the fraud there would have been enough assets and financial incentive to consolidate instead of liquidations. The Fed policies only had the effect of forcing the industry to account for the rot within.
Even in San Francisco it’s mostly in a small geographic area, although it does happen to overlap closely with high foot traffic shopping and tourist areas.
> Obviously you can't generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast.

> it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you're straight and white and "normal".

That suggests that you are using a definition of “nice” that many people (especially those who are not, but even many who are, unless the last term includes bigotry within its ambit) straight and white and “normal” would rather strongly disagree with.
Thank you for validating the theory that many appear to have lost the plot and are primarily motivated by destroying oil and gas rather than solving climate change.

I don't think it's an intentional conclusion many reach, just that they've subconsciously mixed up the purpose of what they're advocating to solve.

Also does anybody responding understand what a hypothetical proposition is? Why are you all responding about the technical merits of carbon capture, which has nothing to do with my comment.
>I saw a few mentions of uBlock origin in yesterday's thread

Statistically speaking it's probably because everyone has ublock origin installed, rather than it getting hacked. It's used by 5M+ users on firefox and "10,000,000+" on chrome. If ublock was really compromised you'd expect widespread reports of account compromise, rather than for only one password manager.
I ran a booth at UMD near theirs back in like... 2014?, and holy shit did they have a huge line. They were giving away so much swag, it was not sane.

We had ~5 resumes dropped off, I assume Palantir had ~200. I don't even remember seeing a Google or Apple booth, I assume mostly because this was east coast and on Palantir's "home" turf (for fed contracts at least), among other things.
While I personally agree with your view that gameplay should always be actually fun, I think that misses the magic of games for a significant population of gamers.

Is most of your real day-to-day life truly "fun" in a game-like sense? Most people would say "no", X hours in a day is a lot of time to be consistently having fun, yet a lot of people would still describe their lives as "rewarding" and therefore worthwhile. In fact, the harder your life is, the more rewarding it can be.

These games aim to be "rewarding" and therefore worthwhile. In many ways, these types of games offer an alternative world and life that's more rewarding than reality. The parallels with real life are direct and intentional: "grinding" is like real work that earns you fungible profit that you can then trade to skip other types of work that you don't like to do. This is a proven loop of reward in reality and it works in games too, being consistently "fun" isn't the only way for a game to satisfy players. I can't speak to Axie Infinity which seems like it's not even well developed to that extent, but for other games in the field these grinds aren't exactly a failure of design, they're effective at constructing a life-like reward system that doesn't solely rely on "fun".

Of course the elephant in the room is that this "reward" is artificial, hence the whole article about this being a bullshit job. I personally avoid these types of games (basically all MMOs) for this reason and I don't see how web3 makes any of it better. But I find it hard to criticize it objectively. I think real life is bullshit anyway, so the cheap imitation of life that these games offer isn't always completely worse. I can see why many people willingly buy into it.
I am kind of in a similar situation. My approach has been to write a very detailed requirements document. I think this could prevent any communication failurs in the future, or help me if I end up just writing the code myself.
Lowrise with mountains and surf breaks is actually pretty nice.
The Youtuber Colonello also has a lot of good videos on this topic
in other words, they haven't thought to make the damn name and case-sensitivity preferences configurable. how odd is that.
Another thing the articles repeatedly observe is the proclivity of parents on these forums to abuse these shared concerns about valid warnings in order to weaponize CPS and social workers against their estranged children. Examples include instances where the parents admit publicly that they lied to CPS in attempts to punish and control their own children.
Pay hundreds of dollars to earn a few per day? This economy sounds more like Cutco more than any modern NFT thing.
Here's patio11's thread: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1459682519360491523

I was shocked to see A16z recently investing $150M in Axie Infinity and doubling down on their justification of play-to-earn as a coherent concept, as if it's not fundamentally a pyramid scheme. It's lowered my expectation of what passes for thought leadership in our industry.
The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No matter how right you are, or feel you are, you can make your substantive points thoughtfully and within the rules here, so please do that instead. As a bonus, your arguments will be more effective that way.
The LastPass extension can be told to remember your master password. They say it's not recommended. We might be seeing the result of people opting to store their master password and something that exploits this.
I stopped logging in to my Google account because they keep sending me multiple emails about suspicious activity every time I do. Thanks Google... Finally mostly Google-free.

Not sure why anyone is still using Lastpass though...
That's a good point.

I'm happy to delete my message if this way of finding out doesn't make sense.
"Narcissism" is generally thrown around as an insult and it has a confused history in the psychology literature going back to Freud using it in two different ways that were both confused and undeveloped.

"Narcissism" essentially means "self-love" and it is something that is part of everyone's psyche. Having something wrong with your narcissism is like having something wrong with your heart and there are many things that can go wrong with your heart such as heart disease, heart failure, bad valves, arrhythmia, heart attack, etc. In the middle of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka Langley Soryu makes a passionate defense of self-love ("you are all you've got!")

There is "narcissistic personality disorder" as well as the (widespread) narcissistic disturbance that Kohut talks about which itself is more or less complicated by borderline and other disturbances at more archaic levels.

It is all front of mind for me right now because I was talking to my therapist and volunteered that I was concerned about an incident of "Dark Triad" behavior on my part and she said at one point I was "talking like a Narcissist" (I agreed) yet when I took a

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/SD3/

I found I was midrange on Machiavellianism, below average on "narcissism" and close to the bottom of the range on psychopathy. (Hmmm... I felt remorse about what I did so I guess I'm not psychopathic.)

I read this book cover-to-cover the next week

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171657.Humanizing_the_N...

and marked it up with a highlighter and drew my version of Kohut's horizontal and vertical split on my whiteboard. I oscillate between grandiosity and worthlessness sometimes and definitely can point to merger, twinship, and mirror transferences. (It was twinship transferences on two people that got out of hand...)

I'd point to at least some of this phenomenology being widespread and almost normal... I think almost anytime somebody blows up for what seems like no good reason there is a grandiosity -> worthlessness transition going on.
We should raise awareness that it's a scam so that reputable people don't fund and promote it. In particular, I hope they can be stopped from raising a series C, limiting their ability to keep the scam going once they exhaust the $150m A16z gave them.
He's just saying that the Midwest (eg. Wisconsin) is not generally as diverse as Overland Park, which is true. You should examine what made you react so strongly to this.
You could write an encyclopedic book of counter intuitive organizational dynamics. While I don't know that this is the case with all of them, perhaps MBAs could be understood as internalizing the combination of such an encyclopedia with a few others besides and gaining insight into how they interplay with supply line logistics.

The insight mostly comes from experiences; the knowledge of what to reference to find where to find where to find what to find could be (boringly) boiled down to rote memorization and distributed through your standard classroom practices.
You wouldn't believe the extent of the beer scene in the Twin Cities. There's pretty much any beer you could imagine, then probably some ones you can't.

I moved here from Chicago ~6 years ago and was disappointed at how much worse the TC food scene was (it still has some gems, and is improving, as another commenter pointed out), but immediately I noticed a stark contrast in my social circles. In Chicago people would invite you to bars and restaurants, but in Minneapolis nearly everyone I met (coworkers, dates, etc) wanted to go to a brewery! And it's clear why - there's genuinely fantastic beers on every corner. You could spend months just trying to sample all the single cans that your local liquor store sells.

Even beer haters would be delighted at the nice array of sours and ciders around. My mom, a known beer-despiser, still asks me when we can get more "nice beers from that place you took me."
The next step would be for the company to automate those jobs by replacing the workers with npc characters who can grind for you.

That would make the game "pay to win," which is presumably easier to implement if you do it that way to begin with.
I've lived here for 12 years and I can tell you that you are totally right -- it's very dull and suburban and also well maintained. It's practically a company town. The Mayor couldn't even name the second biggest employer in town after Apple. I think it's actually Amazon.
Well, the fact that this is a bit confusing is not a good sign. But maybe I should read the page again and more slowly.
The point is that people make generalizations that they don't realize based on their personal experience. For example, I can make tons of generalization about how nice India is for tourists as an Indian (I currently live in America but travel back for family and as a tourist occasionally) but someone who's white might not share that same experience because they might be hounded by scammers and people looking to make a quick buck off of an unsuspecting foreigner.

Similarly, cities and people in the midwest might be great if you're straight, white, and "normal" but that might not be true for everyone. Will people be as welcoming if they see you as an outsider? Maybe. I try to keep an open mind but I also can't be 100% sure.
Yeah, maybe should be mentioned in the title to save people from PTSD over the holidays...
I suspect the average US "Senior SWE" is lucky to retire after decades of work having broken $200,000 compensation.

For every 20-30-40something FAANG engineer making $300-500k+, there are legions upon legions of SWEs working at IT-as-a-cost-center non-tech companies making a fraction of that amount.
For clarity, I assume "import" isn't meant to mean everything in the dataset is shortly in OSM, but it's available to aid with mapping (e.g. free UK Ordnance Survey data).
Yes, and cost of fossil fuels would rise with scarcity leading a free market to slowly transition to renewables as fossil fuels became more scarce/expensive.

In the assumption that we could achieve net zero in a cost effective way with fossil fuels, this would be the most natural transition
> Most people I know who end up at FAANG level companies are interested in sticking around for at least 3-4 years

Which, unsurprisingly, also happens to (usually) be the vesting period for their stocks/options they agreed to receive when starting there.
> Apple is being ran by designers and PMs.

That explains the state of Xcode and WWDC-driven documentation.
I've been using LastPass for work since mid-2018 as well as uBlock origin for Chrome; no blocked login notification so far.
> The sustainable path is commission-based works which could extend to patronage

I'd be curious to see how this would play out - maybe it'd be great, I dunno. I do wonder, though, if approaches like this discourage people from paying and instead encourages hedging their bets to see if everyone else pays. For example, if there is a Kickstarter for a movie idea you find interesting, but you know that once the movie is made that you can get a copy for free (since there is no control over media in this model), you are incentivized to wait and see if it will get funded without you.

Similarly, without any content control, there is little incentive for anyone to sign up for streaming services, so relying on them for funding doesn't seem like it'd work either.
People leaving companies every 1-2 years, doesn't mean, that on any given team, everybody will leave every year, so your example is a bit over the top.

> It's actually becoming fairly common for companies to give back-weighted compensation or hiring bonuses that must be paid back if the employee leaves before two years, especially for job hoppers.

Which companies are doing this?

The way companies keep employees around is with good RSU vesting schedules, and end of the year bonuses, etc... I understand that a team with people leaving all the time, is bad for business , that's why companies (that care) have incentives in place to avoid that. But judging a person for wanting a better pay/treatment/wlb is ridiculous, I can see your point from the business owner perspective.
A user posted this comment then deleted it. Is this true? If so. JFC.

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Take this with a grain of salt.

LogMeIn, the owners of LastPass, had a Chinese APT group in their servers for years. They only found out because the attackers started launching unoptimised SQL queries that started killing their database cluster.
They didn’t have to report this breach, despite being based in Germany where it’s a legal requirement, because they didn’t have proof customer data was accessed.
They didn’t have proof because they didn’t have any logging or auditing. Whatsoever.
Since it's relevant and funny, I'll quote the famous rant of Linus Torvalds on the topic (it was because of issues it caused with Git, but I assume it still means it's unlikely Linux will ever follow this path ^^)

"The true horrors of HFS+ are not in how it’s not a great filesystem, but in how it’s actively designed to be a bad filesystem by people who thought they had good ideas.

The case insensitivity is just a horribly bad idea, and Apple could have pushed fixing it. They didn’t. Instead, they doubled down on a bad idea, and actively extended it – very very badly – to unicode. And it’s not even UTF-8, it’s UCS2 I think.

Ok, so NTFS did some of the same. But apple really took it to the next level with HFS+.

There’s some excuse for case insensitivity in a legacy model (“We didn’t know better”). But people who think unicode equivalency comparisons are a good idea in a filesystem shouldn’t be allowed to play in that space. Give them some paste, and let them sit in a corner eating it. They’ll be happy, and they won’t be messing up your system.

And then picking NFD normalization – and making it visible, and actively converting correct unicode into that absolutely horrible format, that’s just inexcusable. Even the people who think normalization is a good thing admit that NFD is a bad format, and certainly not for data exchange. It’s not even “paste-eater” quality thinking. It’s actually actively corrupting user data. By design. Christ.

And Apple let these monkeys work on their filesystem? Seriously?"
> Health insurance is a pretty terrible product.

What's the alternative?
My favorite fossil fuel shenanigan is convincing folks who purport to care about climate that the solution to climate change isn’t reforming corporate pollution policies (e.g., taxing polluters), but convincing Americans to change their lifestyles—if we can just convince Americans to go vegan and trade in their SUV for a Prius then the world wouldn’t be in a climate catastrophe.
Something similar happened when my grandfather died. My father was the executor. The family thought the estate was much larger than it was. There were lawyers, lawsuits, attempts at extortion, at least one attempt at entrapping my father into striking one of them, and probably some other bullshit I was not aware of.

My grandparents had pretty much everything divided and handed out before they died. Two of them were living on property/in houses that were given to them by my grandparents. After funeral expenses, hospital bills, and everything else, there really wasn't much left.

If you want some real advice: Don't count on it. Set yourself up in a way that you aren't waiting for your parents to die. Have absolutely no stake in the outcome. And if you are the executor, be as open and transparent as possible. If anything, it'll make the lawsuits quicker.
I think an interesting thing here is that even if we all can agree that Meta is bad in the extreme, it's still fairly easy to hook engineers who want to solve non-evil problems on a massive, massive scale. They can tell themselves they're not working on a specific feature or service that participates in the evil, they're just using their talents to ... make an absolutely massive chat system, or incredible optimizations to network topology, or SSL termination at a mind-boggling scale. These aren't directly evil projects, and there are very, very few places where you get the opportunity to work on them at facebook scale.

I think this is how people justify it to themselves. It's probably how I'd justify it to myself if I went there. I personally don't ever plan to work there and the bigger and more evil they get, the weaker that justification becomes, but hey, it's a real thing.
So burning coal and then pumping back everything into the ground that would come out of the smokestacks is not possible or it's just not economical?
This is a fantastic summary of everything actuarial science can touch on. I started my career as a junior actuary at a small insurance startup and was fortunate to be able to meaningfully contribute to many of these areas because we didn't have many senior actuaries on staff. It was a lot of fun as a 23-24 year old to be involved in making such important strategic decision making, it made me realize that insurance companies are really fascinating financial objects.

There are definitely downsides as many are mentioning. As you specialize your job does get more narrow and "boring" (unless you climb the management ladder). Many major insurance companies are not headquartered in interesting or fun places to live. At some point I realized that life was not for me, and transitioned my skillset to data science/machine learning to give myself a more varied career.

But there are absolutely interesting problems to be solved in the insurance space, particularly for people with strong communication/business skills in addition to the wherewithal needed to deal with the actual nuts and bolts of the math and analysis.
Retailers surrender to unprecedented costs on online returns
> Discovered staking and scamming at the duel arena. Invented a new scam and made bils. Made a sizeable chunk over a couple years (enough to pay all my bills in college and a LOT of beer money)

Do you feel any remorse or regret about scamming people out of thousands of dollars? I am a bit surprised that you are bragging about this sort of unethical\illegal behavior on an account directly tied to your real world identity.