skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See: North Korea. (I'm sure everyone there is completely up to date and accirate on the character of the world around them!)

See: Russia(Same)

See: Chinese Communist Party (Same)

See: United States and... Well, every nation really. (Same)

See: Propaganda(Literally exists to create skewed perceptions in allies/foes)

See: Filter Bubbles

See: Locality (Physics)

See: Perception Management
(general category of activity)

See: Truman Show

See: Information Asymmetry (If you don't know it exists, woo boy, you might want to look into doing something about that)

See: The Great Firewall (Unrestricted access to the Internet is too dangerous to be allowed by an incumbent power structure)

See: DMCA Takedowns (unmanipulated information access is too dangerous to be allowed by am incumbent power structure)

See: Classification (Secret/Top Secret; unrestricted access to information is too dangerous to be allowed by an incumbent power structure)

See: Every Diplomat and liar ever

I mean, if you're going to play the source card, you may want to pick something that doesn't have so many real life examples that actually enumerating them, and the various contexts from which they have arisen, the timelessness in terms of what generation of humanity is in the process of manufacturing/experiencing said perceptual distortions, and level of infiltration into even the most basic levels of human interaction that requiring further requests for further explanation only serve to show one in a poorer or less flattering light. People lie. Period. The more that is at stake, the easier the act of lying becomes to stomach/justify.

You cannot have achieved adulthood without encountering some level of the type of practice being discussed. Even realizing that you have is in and of itself a formative moment in knowing oneself as a free agent.

It's cognitive dissonance. It:s coping. It's repression. It's distortion. It's for your own good, or more probably for the good of someone in a position to decide what is good for you in your stead.

If this is your first time thinking about or realizing this... I'm truly sorry. My condolences. Integrating it into a naive worldview is not a fun or enjoyable experience.
For a "more personal" CRM, I'd suggest Monica: https://www.monicahq.com/

Discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

Discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270001

It's open-source and easy to self-host.
About two weeks ago, I got a letter from the IRS telling me that I owe an extra eight-thousand dollars from my 2020 return, with a $1000 fine and $200 interest as a result. [1]

I'm not mad about owing the money, but what annoys me is if they have enough information to know that I underreported, then why am I part of this equation to begin with? Clearly they have enough of my tax data to know I screwed up, so why don't they just send me a bill once a year? I don't see why Intuit (or HR Block or TaxAct or Jackson Hewitt etc) need to be part of this transaction at all.

[1] It was an honest mistake on my end, I forgot to report a sizeable stock sale I did in 2020.
Lots of talk about taxing this or repaying that but in Meadows's
taxonomy of leverage points these amount to changes between level 10
and 7.

What the article is kinda saying is that these "extreme positive
incentives for change" (EPICs) that are labelled political/structural
instruments lie outside monetary economics and so hint towards level 5
and 4 changes, to system rules and to self-organisational motives. I
still don't get, if so, how? And if so, why not apply both?

But ultimately changing system goals away from consumerism might be
the gift everyone wants. I know many bored people who want to feel
like they're part of big change, what Alexis De Tocqueville called
"restive fervour" in early America - in British parlance being "up for
it".

If economists exacerbate climate problems it is by the tepidity of
their vision. I think we have forgotten as a society truly grand
ambition. The Panama canal. The Hoover Dam. The dykes of
Nederlands. US post-war Apollo Project. The Channel Tunnel. Imagine
human action at scale, not as ungrateful entitled protest, but
coordinated and purposeful action in the face of climate change. What
would that look like? If we can't even imagine it then we're truly
lost.

In the shadow of the pandemic and Russo-Ukraine war I think we'll have
an opportunity, and to avoid unrest maybe a necessity, for bold,
crazy-ass projects whose ROI can just be written off to posterity -
what William James called the "Moral Equivalent of War", not as mere
National Service, but as Global Service. Literally pay people salaries
to fight climate change.

Of course that would require a strategy backed up by good science.
But realising that monetary economics and "markets" isn't the only way
out would be a good step. The Economist article hints and plays with
that, and then backs off.
This would require police departments to give up their power to illegally obtain information. I'm not going to hold my breath.
Nobody within the hacking scene actually believed that story. It’s remarkable that there’s been 0 evidence that Kaspersky has ever had a backdoor yet so many people believe it.

The NSA’s own incompetence led them to run an antivirus on a computer with Equation Group spyware on it. Keep in mind that Kaspersky had been fighting Western intelligence services for years at that point. Israeli intelligence actually breached Kaspersky’s network in 2015, no doubt because Kaspersky is the only AV company that actually exposes US-created malware.
Nuclear War Shouldn’t Be Up to Any One Person
> You don't need the whole world, just the exchanges.

Then you just tumble the coins and head to an exchange.
Would it be considered retaliation to not hire a candidate who was a whistleblower at their previous company though?
You are judging someone’s life and directing them to find Jesus solely because their blog doesn’t communicate how rich their life is? JFC, I am so glad that I don’t share anything of myself in this space.
Yes, for most repayment is via mandatory payroll withholding tax. If you fall outside of that system it’s also included in your annual tax return.
> There's quite a big elephant underneath this argument, which is the "zero utility in crypto" assumption. If utility exists then the question of energy use and externality is simply a matter of cost/benefit like everything else society does with resources. And then you go back to why the stuff was invented, and it was for exactly the thing that you're dismissing, which is to evade authorities and enhance privacy through cryptography.

Passing laws and then prosecuting offenders is a major way that society codifies what costs are acceptable and what’s unacceptable.

If you believe that offering an bypass around that control has utility (corrupt regimes, whatever), I don’t think it’s fair to handwave the really sticky part: how does society add controls so that we don’t destroy the planet through runaway energy consumption, or end up with the smartest, most ruthless, and least ethical folks controlling all the resources.
something like insurance, but not... if it were insurance it would have to be regulated, have an underwriter, extra insurance licence, able to declare bankruptcy when we feel like it, would need to ask for permission all the time etc...

This one is 'coverage' it's just between you and us, it's incredibly personal and fast, honestly
I've heard a slightly different version of that rational, which I think is more more plausible but cynical. Tax collection is deliberately painful to justify cutting IRS funding and passing tax cuts (mostly for the very wealthy). It doesn't really make a lot of sense rationally, but might be effective as a manipulation tactic.
Except that the statement being discussed isn’t targeted at people who are a target for NSA, but rather those that might be a target for Russia.
And it couldn't have happened to a nicer company. These guys have been begging for some false advertising prosecution for a while.
You may have misunderstood my comment, as I said that Semver does attempt to make the number meaningful. Though I am not asserting that, on its own, it is very meaningful; it relies on users to define what a "breaking change" actually means, and it leaves it up to third-party tools to enforce any semblance of it. Meanwhile, Semver fails to say anything at all about useful concepts like version ranges. Ultimately, I like Semver! But it's the bare minimum of what it means to have meaningful version numbers, and anyone looking to make them truly meaningful has a lot of work to do. Still better that what we had before, of course.
Looks very nice. How long did this take you? What's your deployment stack: Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS, containers, CI?
Yeah, I didn't mention Linux because there are actual builds that are baked into many systems or easily installed. On Windows there seems to be a way to run webkit, but not viably as a daily driver web browser.

Webkit browsers in linux feel a bit half baked as well, though, when you compare it against Firefox and Chromium.
Hey thank you! Yes users are split 50/50 on the chat user interface, and we've got some thoughts on how to accommodate both camps. We already have different views for results (new visual style or like google), and we can extend that concept of "let the user choose" even further :)

Thanks - yes the go feature is super useful!

Hey with the computation results, we're looking at expanding the Wolfram Alpha card and incorporating a lot more detail. We'd love to integrate the step-by-step and result cards from WA more deeply than just the standard API as Andi grows.
> At this point, it seems like YC is just optimizing on execution risk

From YC's side the cash outlay is the same either way so why not put a lot of it into something lower risk?

But what's more interesting to me is from the team's side: clearly they are spending a large amount of equity (<7%) in exchange for some networking and the opportunity to be on the stage on demo day. Seems very expensive, but if you have built a SaaS business away from the deep investor and customer pools, it could really be worth it.
"a scalable way to determine quality" is the billion dollar question so I have no idea. I'd just use plain old text index with no algorithmic ranking.
As everyone else has said, these are common in the US. Generally, they happen once a year. These kinds of "physical safety" trainings are pretty common in the US. Fire drills are conducted once per quarter. Anti-bullying/harassment training is conducted once per semester.

I should add (as a current high school student in Washington State) a couple days after Russian troops entered Ukraine, the DHS asked high schools to practice "chemical lockouts": ensuring all students are inside, sealing externally facing doors, etc.

Also, at least in my state, in the mandatory physical education class for high schoolers (which is only for one year), we do learn CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, and a few other first-aid techniques. However, by the time students graduate, they will have forgotten all of that training.
How does one get hold of $625 million in ETH in the first place? The sums that usually accompany these hacks are astounding.
https://archive.ph/cvq5M
See... that's why it's not insurance, its ... coverage, more precisely coverage for damaged items, cuts & burns
I like Steve Keen. I find his work convincing and practical.
> * Giving criminals and scammers the ability to exchange goods and services anonymously.

Doesn't cash do the same thing?
I report each of these schemes that advertise on facebook as scams; they used to have a rule against crypto advertising but apparently that was lifted last December.
Right. As long as you are accessing the site over SSL and your server is secured, then you really have a form of e2e.
Yeah, back in the 2000s or even early 2010s a $1K+ employee holiday bonus would be a "holy shit!" event that would make the news. Doing so today, even after adjusting for inflation, would be met with "yeah, whatever" by everyone, including new grads.
> Webkit browsers in linux feel a bit half baked as well, though, when you compare it against Firefox and Chromium.

They're just browsers. They don't have built-in web services, they don't dial home, they don't sync your history and bookmarks with some unknown service. Frankly, this is a positive.
I think what gp means is to tell all the exchanges (and maybe merchants) to blacklist your wallet. Not as simple and bullet proof as PayPal freezing your account but similar.
See also 'mercenary'.
This was true probably up to Iraq war. Good example http://www.milspec.ca/radspec/prc-343.html https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/selex/prr/index.htm Ordinary DECT home cordless phones could be considered as secure at the time :)

Nowadays we have enough compute power in a laptop with connected SDR to render this moot security by obscurity.
So, women are abused sometimes therefore doctor's must mask their numbers due to the Hippocratic Oath and HIPAA? Do the doctor's have to disguise their voices as well? Maybe they should talk in code. I won't pretend to be an expert on HIPAA but I very strongly doubt that calling from random numbers is part of it. Wouldn't the random calls look suspicious to the abuser in this circumstance? IMHO something like this would cause more abuse than just I dunno.. lying about why the doctor's office called.
Sure, I like federation and I think it would be nice if Zulip were federated (maybe it is, I actually don't know!). My comment is just about the user experience, though.
IIRC mobx is much easier to use than Redux. Any thoughts on this?
> One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters.

I think the key misconception behind this argument is the idea that harmful governments is a binary flag, such that if you're subjected to one adding more makes no difference. In fact, different governments have different concerns. This means if you're subject to the US and Russia you're significantly more constrained than if you were just subject to one. As such, it makes sense to reduce exposure even if you obviously can't eliminate it.

(I also believe the US govt is much better than Russian, but I'm leaving that out because I my argument doesn't need it and I'm uninterested in that argument)
checked the website, seems like one but it's actually not insurance
Yes, in this case it's not so much specialized indexes as topic-focused models and API handlers/brokers for different domains of knowledge. Although there are some areas where we're looking at building some more traditional limited crawler-based indexes where there aren't strong APIs to use already.

Thanks for your encouragement and for trying out Andi too :)
They have - in the past. The threat from Russia is now.
>Pigovian taxes are great in models but extraordinarily difficult to implement.

Yeah so what? The bureaucracy of an income tax is a drag on an economy. The bureaucracy of pigovian taxes is a blessing for the economy.
raises hand

You’re spot on.
Someone who works at a company that does things that they find despicable because they're optimizing their benefits sounds like a textbook psychopath.
I actually really hate material design in general. It's "okay" on Android, and that's the only place it works.

The Material web design layout never feels good in the browser - it's floaty. Interactions don't ever feel "solid" - basically the experience is always like using a buggy webapp where you're thinking you need to open the dev panel to see if it's erroring silently. Try using any of Google's setting panels or the like compared to an old school bootstrap app - regardless of actual quality, you constantly feel like your interactions with Google are being ignored and that's on Material designs floatiness.

Bootstrap feels solid and clean. Heck even the AWS UI console - which is broken a ton of the time between corporate IAM and just jank - always feels more responsive to your inputs.

It's just a terrible system.
The issue in this case, I believe, is that Google is using its dominance as the primary rendering engine to strongarm its own standards. If they want something, they just implement it in chrome and everyone must follow, least the smaller browsers fails to load more and more websites.
this is not how taxes work with the IRS. If you make a calculation error in their favour they will correct it and issue you a refund. If you make a compilation error in their favour and get reviewed or audited, you will get a refund. They also audit based more on discrepencies vs. "likelihood of a big payout".

If they precalculated your taxes and sent you a bill (or refund) it would (a) be easier, (b) be more accurate and (c) encourage simplification of the entire system. I consider that both more effective and more fair.
Being able to write a newspaper that no one can practically (or want to) read is just a more insidious form of censorship.

In 1984 (the book), one of the tools of censorship was to actually remove words that were unfavorable from the vocabulary. In practice, while it may still be possible to express certain thoughts, if it was made impractically cumbersome to do so it has the same effect as censorship.
>Most political systems have two main parties competing for power

I disagree. While this is true for some (US, UK), it's not true for other democracies (Spain, Germany), and even less true for more authoritarian systems (Russia, China). Some countries have political systems that are actually able to make long term decisions.

>Although both parties broadly agree that climate change is bad

True in some places, but not in others, such as Russia, Brazil, or (most importantly) the US.

While I agree that decarbonization is really hard, and in part due to the reasons you listed, they are also not as universal as you paint them out to be.
To me, a lot of this reads more like some sort of "Team/Company Values and Culture" document than the user manual of a single individual.

Things like "Default to action" are pretty dependent on team/company culture and what you're working on. Your coworkers won't start defaulting to action just because you prefer it if their boss, their boss' boss, etc prefer cautious consideration. There's nothing wrong with preferring to work somewhere with a "default to action" culture, but presumably by the time someone is reading this you've already made the decision that the culture is a good fit for you. (Ditto for "There’s life beyond work". If that isn't the existing culture, then as a reader all it tells me is that you choose to work somewhere that doesn't share your values and we may be in for a bumpy ride.)

Similarly, the way it's written now "Mind the channel" reads like a mandate about team/company norms and culture. Despite being under the heading of "How to efficiently work and communicate with me", rather than explaining which channels of communication you prefer in which contexts, it makes a broad statement about what the reader should consider when communicating with anyone. IMO guidance on how to communicate with others in general, rather than you specifically, belongs in a team handbook and not your personal user manual.

"Don’t give clues" on the other hand is a good example of something that does seem to belong in a user manual. It explains something about you and tells the reader how to more effectively communicate with you. It doesn't make broad generalizations about how they should communicate with others in general.

In the end, I wonder whether this should be split into multiple documents - maybe a user manual (for people working with you) and a separate list of what's important to you in a working environment and company culture (for yourself when job hunting)?

In any case, for the user manual I think it would help to replace broad platitudes and decrees with statements focused on you. If a statement would make sense in a team handbook or similar, I think that's a sign that it may come across as inappropriate/presumptuous in your personal user manual.
I run all python through `black` and `isort`; this is still a huge step up in my book in terms of readability and ergonomics compared to the standard `git diff` or gnu `diff`.
Don't forget that they were acquired by WeTransfer in 2018... which was really weird.
Slim to no chance that a US telecom actually bothers to call up the court and verify an order with the clerk except for orders that are unusual (say: overly broad in scope, or targeting a recognizable name such as a politician or celebrity). My guess is that at best they look at the fax caller ID and/or email headers and that's that.

Their position is likely "it looked like it came from a cop, not our problem if the cop is forging court orders."
My standard for this kind of thing is Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. You purchase a licence key which arrives via email and you copy and paste it into the application, which activates it permanently.
you can also claim refunds for years back; like an audit this is a 2-way street as well.
The mall hangout thing was pretty spot on though in the 1980s (I was born in 1970). So much so that eventually a lot of mall security started making a point of harassing teens that weren't actually actively shopping though.
Because then you get a gag order and a wiretap.
I have no idea how it's stored in my brain. Is that the same way it's stored in GPT-3?
Many search-engine posts recently. When will someone make the Search Engine for Search Engines?
FYI, in the US, depending on the jurisdiction, some items are exempt from sales tax. E.g. necessities like food and clothing. In my jurisdiction, clothing is taxed by the county but not by the state.

Which is a long way of saying that even if you knew the total you spent at Amazon, you wouldn't be able to derive the total amount of sales tax paid.
pg_graphql and EdgeDB both provide a graph-like query language on top of Postgres. EdgeDB

philosophically (I think) EdgeDB tries to do a more complete job of abstracting over Postgres. It has a custom query language (and GraphQL support via a plugin), and a migration system. Its runs separately from the DB.

In contrast, pg_graphql is more narrowly scoped. It enables you to query your existing Postgres database without caring how your data is structured or having any interactions with migrations. It also runs directly inside the database, so theres no separate process/server to manage.

The EdgeDB folks have a great comparison of GraphQL vs EdgeDB syntax on their site https://www.edgedb.com/docs/graphql/mutations
Lol, every HN commenter knows Google was in the wrong but the Googlers themselves didn't because they're gullible. No, the Googlers didn't buy it but continued working because when it comes to it, thinking your company does shady things is very rarely sufficient to get you to up and leave. Is your company bigger than, say, a thousand people? Then they have definitely done something as bad as Google's collusion and you know it even if you don't know what. Are you going to leave?
Of course the government could out-advertise them. It'd be like Google advertising its own products on its search engine -- the government controls all end-user tax related communications.

They just don't want to because someone bribed them to not do so.
Really surprised that a journalist like you doesn't understand the need for brevity. 98% of this "how to work with me" is actually "i like talking about myself". There is like half a sentence of semi-useful (probably aspirational) info on you and then paragraphs of philosophical meandering.

At least Patrick Bateman stuck with a single business card, you had to go and write a whole life story and print it on your digital business card that you presumably shove down everyone's throats.

Consider deleting immediately, i would never work with someone who wrote something like this. Cheers.
It recieved commands as recently as December 2017, when the TCM thrusters were activated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Future_of_the_probe
Lets put the numbers out there objectively for others reading this.

Previously after 4 years you got 20 days per year. Then you got 25 at year 6+.