skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US GDP is about a quarter of that, about 24T. So an estimated reduction in efficiency of 40% (40T -> 24T). Seems high, but maybe not laughably so, to me

https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-first-q...
Lots of people in those places are lonely, yes. Have you never been lonely while surrounded by people before?
I've also been felt alienated a lot of times by women fighting for feminism and what some of them has come up with, like womxn, all men are dicks etc. but then I think it takes a bit of mental resilience to understand that it's the most noisy part of a group of people who suffer and is exploited and needs to be supported. On the other hand I think most of the battle might even be shared in terms of interests, I got today a good example about it as in Italy today have made news the words of female stylist saying something along the lines of "I won't hire women younger than 40 as they won't be available 24/7 and would need time off to enjoy friends and family, build families and they would also maybe need time off if they get pregnant, sometimes we forget that the battles are between business owners and workers, properties owners and tenants... and that increasing the salary of one doesn't necessarily means lowering it for another as I think business owners don't reditribute the value created by workers bust most of it is stolen, pocketed and results in yacht, luxury and properties, like business owners are the common enemy we need to fight not each other
What "inverting" a tree means isn't super clear, but the last time this came up on HN it meant reflecting left to right -- right? So the question tests if you can write code dealing with recursive data structures at all. To me it's strange to think of this as a niche concern and not something you may do every day.
Eqaulity of outcome is a stupid target. Different people have different productivity. There are people who don't want to work at all. There are people who want to work 15 hours a day. There are people who produce 10x of work in the same time span. There are people with rare and hard to learn skills. I will never be convinced that a neurosurgeon should be paid the same as a janitor high school dropout. While both cleaning and neurosurgery are important jobs, they are not of the same value to the society.
I’d recommend using line wrapping at some reasonable line length (e.g 80-120 chars)
I have an IronKey for this purpose.
How long did the application take if you don’t mind me asking? (Foreign birth register + passport application)

I looked into it a few years ago but they had such a massive backlog to deal with I was told 24 months, so I put it off.
> I’ve never heard of any company going out of business because one key person left.

Companies don’t die that quickly. It may not be one person but it might be a handful of high performers who leave over time due to a toxic culture. And even then it may take literally years for a VC cash infused zombie company to actually cease operations. One of the problems of having so much cash is bad decisions don’t reveal themselves until much later.
Good for them. They should cherish what little they have left. I've only visited England twice and there are hardly any trees in the wild. Well, at least compared to central and eastern Europe.

Lots of green, mind you. Just not trees.
> EU law is binding to all of them and there's no escape from it.

Only in theory, in practice EU countries break EU law all the time, with minimal consequences. Some like Poland even openly, it recently said something like "we'll rather pay the fine than respect this particular EU law". EU states remain fully sovereign.
Or use Graal to compile to native.
Looking for the next thing to become financially independent, such that I can quit my current job and pursue an independent life. If you know something that can help, please let me know.
If you live in Europe, you can request eBay to delete all your personal information under the GDPR.
This is the game I would suggest too. In my opinion it absolutely is a poverty sim. You work hard every day, but due to basic needs plus unforeseen events you end up never earning enough money to escape. The path that is suggested to you as the only means of lifting your curse requires doing a significant amount of extra work on top of your existing work, in a system that feels byzantine and actively hostile to your success. I really hated playing the game, and quit after a few hours of getting nowhere, but I suspect that was exactly the point.
Key Overwriting (KO) Attacks Against OpenPGP
Have you considered the possibility that there are just a lot of people who want different things from each other and from you?

By the time you get to a group of citizens the size of San Francisco or Los Angeles, are you really going to benefit from me weighing in from Massachusetts, Anna weighing in from Rotterdam, or Jiang from Shanghai on what crime or homeless problems the city is facing or how tall buildings should be allowed to be in some part of the city? That’s not just a few wackos running for a local dog catcher position.
I actually like Aliexpress, but I wouldn't expect them to sell parts for American market appliances. I searched now for the old part I needed, and I see "fits <model#>" and "compatible with <model#>" but not the genuine part. Call me old fashioned but I'll pay an extra $20 for first-party components.
>The former minister said the numbers may have been inflated by more than six times, and included "desertions [and] martyrs who were never accounted for because some of the commanders would keep their bank cards" and withdraw their salaries, he alleged.

wtf
> in some states, minor traffic violations aren't considered "crimes"—they're "civil" offenses. So, in these states, the government might be held to a lesser standard of proof for traffic cases. For example, in New York, the standard of proof for traffic violations is "clear and convincing evidence." And in Oregon, the state needs to prove traffic offenses only by a "preponderance of the evidence."
Happened to me twice on Amazon. Amazon also seems to match addresses and phone numbers to detect connected accounts.
I imagine there would be quite a lot of legwork involved whenever the address gets implicated in things like fraud, collections, warrants, etc. so while it does seem like a charity could get in this business, the expenses would probably put an enormous dent in the previous allocation of resources (food, clothing, etc).
To piggyback on the Powershell and scheduled tasks cement: robocopy and scheduled tasks so how I did this years ago for years.

Built into windows since Windows 7 iirc.
>that doesn’t seem reasonable?

No not really. For starters, who determines what is the “true” culture or what the goals even are?
obsidian is closed source.
support costs for a trillion dollar company, sure

if they can't do it, i know lot of people who would do it for the same salary they are getting over there at MSFT

lazy culture, how long it took them to add tabs to explorer? hmm
> ctrl-f misperceive + misperception -> 75 results

it's not a tautology if you repeat it enough
Google, Microsoft, and Apple all use previously authenticated ips as a signal for their account recovery processes.
The article has a somber tone, lamenting the holes that have opened up in our societies and economies since the heyday of industrial production.

It mentions but does not expand on the central social problem with industrial production: a small group of people can produce enough product for the whole world. And this problem becomes more acute, the more advanced industry becomes.

(There are other problems with industrial production such as environmental destruction and resource depletion, but these problems seem to be more widely diagnosed and understood.)

We have not yet solved the problem that industrial production is too efficient. I use the word "solved" as I consider the economic system from a humanistic perspective. Much like wealth concentration can reduce the flow of money and disincentivize commerce, the concentration of production can do the same.

I think it's an error that efficiency is the only outcome that needs to be optimized, an error often accompanied by facile arguments about comparative advantage, freeing people to do more productive work, and infinite demand. Post-industrial society is, in my opinion, the result of these arguments failing in the real world.

I think the next stage of economic development is a recognition that efficiency must be weighed against redundancy. (As well as conservation, but again this is more widely recognized.) This wouldn't be a return to pre-industrial society, where redundancy was a necessary background given the limits of transportation and communication. Rather it would require a new mindset that sacrifices efficiency for redundancy in a deliberate tradeoff.
I personally use https://github.com/foambubble/foam

Works great and straight forward to setup.
You can sell stock to another person. The sale price will be higher, ceteris paribus, because the company is more valuable. This is how you make money investing in companies that don’t pay dividends. Google retained earnings for a more in depth explanation.

Buying shares of stock in a company that doesn’t pay a dividend isn’t investing, it’s the textbook definition of speculation. You are buying something that you hope to sell at a higher price. Investing is when you put money into something, and it gives you more money back over a period of time. Buying and selling crypto is speculation.
Considering everything, Zach and Plaid had to walk back all of your BS about Stripe stealing everything. Under the hood, Plaid lost to MX and Finicity with Stripe, and then accused Stripe of impropriety. Stripe isn't a moral leader in this world by any means. Plaid though? You are even worse because you act smug as an organization.

There were whistle blowers in 2018 who said Plaid did sell data and I am not sure anything came of it. Why collect more information than necessary in your screen scraping? Something is not adding up.
Yep. I'm not joking when I say that I've almost tried everything. Joplin, Logseq, Boostnote, Tiddlywiki, Notion, Foam, Workflowy, you name it.

I found out that I end up doing a lot of editing + file organisation tricks native to my VSCode setup. So +1 to kevinslin's sibling comment.
A common quote in permaculture is "If you have too many snails, you don't have enough ducks"

I like the idea of permaculture. But I don't want to have to figure out how to get my neighborhood association to let me keep ducks, much less feeding them and caring for them just to get rid of snails. I just want a robot to do everything for me.
It’s not a hack, it’s expected behavior. Go to an Apple store with a broken screen, and this what they will have you do. If I remembered the title of the support article I would have given it to you.
In UK a government letter addressed to you is accepted as proof of address. Like the NINo paper (SSN equivalent). And UK gov doesn't require ownership proof on the address you provide to them.
Snowden doesn’t owe shit to anyone, much less that blogging wanker.
There is a very famous image that illustrates very effectively why equal opportunity is often insufficient: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Image:Equality-equity-just...

There is also the problem that different people hear different things when they think about equality of outcome.

Equality of outcome for everyone to have a jetski and a ski chalet? No.

Equality of outcome for everyone to have food clothing shelter and healthcare? Yes.
That's...generally what competition is.
This story is an incredible testimony to the courage, dedication, perseverance, and iron will of the rest of the crew that managed to make it all the way across the Atlantic without pushing this over-priveleged douchebag overboard.
Who gets to pick the groupings?

Who gets to define disadvantage?

I would think that whoever imposes those choices on others runs afoul of his own ideology.

(If there's a flaw in my thinking I'd be grateful for correction.)
> Don’t worry friend, it’s about the savings rate, not the savings return.

Yikes, please reconsider your advocacy of this.

As Einstein said: "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world."
Fecal transplants have ‘fountain of youth’ potential
Given its native range,[0] I highly doubt you'd be able to recreate it's native environment very well. Year-round rain, very hummus-rich soil, yet up to 2 weeks of snow per year. It's also dioecious so you'll need both male and female flowers for it to reproduce. Not to mention that it's a parasitic plant and likely has very specific relationships with its most common hosts. Also many plants from areas like this have very specific mycorrhizal associations so on top of that you might also require the right soil ecosystem. It's quite likely that it relies on some specific fungal species that's endemic to that area too given the uniqueness of the environment

Are you experienced with growing plants this difficult? I'm big into plants and spend a lot of time reading about plants like these and it always saddens me to read about cool plants and then see that they're endangered because of wild harvesting to sell on the market. I always wonder who the hell is buying this. B. trifoliolata has not yet been evaluated for whether or not its endangered and it's unlikely it will any time soon since parasitic plants are notoriously hard to diagnose. Please don't go out searching for this unless you're absolutely sure you have the equipment and knowledge necessary to actually propagate this plant. A quick search on the Tropical Fruit Forum[1] shows that no one else has really had much success in cultivating this

[0] https://www.gbif.org/species/7306115
[1] https://tropicalfruitforum.com/
Tik Tok is just the latest in an endless waste of time social media networks.

The real utility for something like this is where you are working and leave a Zoom room with camera running so folks can drop in and ask you questions then leave. Sort of like in a non-remote setting at an office. Quite effective.
The way you are presenting this it is as if we only have two options:

a) we give all the power to the union leadership: and suffer strikes every other day because an unreasonable and very powerful union leadership orders it, or

b) we give all the power to our bosses: and suffer poor working conditions, bad pay, hard working hours, loose our paid leaves, etc.

Frankly if these were the two choices I would pick option (a). Seeing how things turned up for America after they abandoned their unions, a strike every other day doesn’t seem too bad.

However this dichotomy is false, there are more options. A union doesn’t need to be unreasonable and powerful. A good union leadership will extend the solidarity to all workers (not just their members), and my experience with a striking workforce (the European country where I’m from also has a strike “every other day”) is that the leadership usually considers the wider implications. For example: striking kindergarden teachers are perfectly aware that they are needed for for other workers, which is why they usually try as they can to minimize the impact of the strike for non-member working parents.
> If you some up all immigration to Europe, you suddenly see that the US isn't quite the leader you think it is.

Geography puts a lot of constraints in who can travel where.

A lot of people came in western Europe from Afghanistan or central Africa by walking [0]. You need two months, so it's not an insurmountable task. Most dangers come from predatory people.

Walking to US could be done from central or south America. A similar feat would be going from Bogota to San Diego. Yet it means much less people are in situation to walk to US than to Western Europe.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kabul,+Afghanistan/Calais+Eu...
I'm no biologist, but if I had to guess, I'd guess the opposite: it wants to look like tastier plants so that animals eat it and spread its seeds.
At least in MA for a driver's license, there are a lot of documents that can be used for proof of residency including things like cell phone and auto insurance bills.

Lots of people's names aren't on utility bills. They may be sharing a place with others or utilities may be included in the rent.
> Where, exactly, does the money to pay for their additional salary and jobs come from?

Money can be and is created every day by banks via loans. The global economy is really not a zero sum game
In my experience, I ordered a fake USB3 capture card (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001773724519.html, check the 1-star reviews, also debunked by Marcan at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906127), filled out comprehensive documentation of it being fake USB3 and unable to capture stable footage at 1080p60, and AliExpress sided with the seller. I had to file a chargeback to get money back for the fraudulent product (and I hear chargebacks can be reversed by the seller, not sure if it happened to me).
> In todays world it seems equal opportunity, equity.. and equalized outcomes often conflated with one another.

Spot on. Even the most hardcore progressive fanatics I’ve spoken to aren’t pushing for a totally equal experience across humanity. It’s about giving everyone a fair shot at a quality life. Some may have terrible ideas for how to achieve that, but they’re not trying to cut all flowers to the same height.
Right, but not for new projects.
For the most part, because you'd be IO-bound, and you'd be limited by single-threaded speed.

A better architecture is to have the same, but as a co-processor for highly multithreaded tasks. That's basically a GPU. You get a few thousand cores on an NVidia 3060, in an architecture designed for this.

To the other comments in the thread:

- I'm mostly giving big-O / ballpark numbers.

- In terms of power, Pentium IV was 180 nm - 65 nm. A 7 nm process can be much more power-efficient.
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My sense from reading the article is that they're not "pretending" so much as "not addressing".

I'm persuaded that in terms of access to resources, equality brings benefits — for example, integrating women into the US workforce unlocked massive economic potential, benefiting men as well as women. This article reinforces that conclusion.

But as to why misperceptions exist that access to resources is always a zero-sum game, this article doesn't say (from what I've seen, haven't read the whole article yet). It just observes that such misperceptions exist and have policy consequences. From the abstract:

> This misperception that equality is necessarily zero-sum may explain why inequality prevails even as it incurs societal costs that harm everyone.

EDIT: ah, here's their theory:

> Building upon this research, we propose a new explanation for this phenomenon — that people fundamentally misperceive losses of relative advantage as losses in absolute terms.
Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal
given the approx. millions of configurations they already support, adding more is always a cost-benefit analysis.

personally if I was a developer of this I wouldn't want it anywhere near the gold release... it'd take all the fun away and you'd have to give up development to some team you haven't heard about in the next cost optimization cycle (Real Soon Now(TM))
Show HN: A tool that complements Google & Reddit for finding niche information
Outcome is opportunity. I'm having a hard time imagining a society with unequal outcomes but equal opportunity.

(I am hesitant to argue outcome should always be equal, but it seems that's what I've done.)
For those situations, there are wobbling mouse platforms that effectively do the same thing as a plug-in USB mouse jiggler.
I actually find them to have an uplifting message: "Change is possible!"
Hi all, thanks for reading and I am super happy that I am finally able to share my project with you. As you can tell it's still in a pretty crude state but I couldn't wait to get feedbacks and start iterating.

LumiAsk is our take on a lightweight Q&A platform that hosts paid Q&A sessions for you as either the questioner or the answerer, and helps you find the right people to engage on your topic of interest.

Our aim is to build something that complements Google and Reddit as a tool to find niche information online, with attempt to address the shortcomings of the alternatives as regularly discussed here on HN.

What it is NOT intended for:

- something for which Google, Reddit etc are perfectly adequate. In fact, we expect it to be the opposite - it is kind of a tool-of-last-resort that yon won't lose anything by trying when everything else fails

- a place for general discussions. Reddit and other online communities are much better suited for that.

- a social site for consuming content (though we won't stop you!). When you visit us, we expect that you need help finding something and probably have not had much luck elsewhere.

Thanks again for reading and I hope you all a pleasant Sunday evening!
Credibility labels have limited effects on quality, fail to reduce misperception
Welcome to the automated account suspension age of the internet, where companies shoot first and don't care later, as the amount of false positives is not worth putting any meagerly (if there's any already) real, physical support to resolve. This can apply to smaller companies too, for other but equally pricey reasons. The amount of fraudulent activity attempts online may warrant those aggressive measures from their business perspective (that are also not limited to passive data collection, but taking active steps such as scanning targets' ports [0]).
Unfortunately, if you live in certain areas or are forced to use mobile networks, with IPs constantly refreshing multiple times a day, major services can be almost unusable, and the user may not even realize the reason why. Some—for reasons I'm not knowledgeable about—do it better than others, but it may simply be about the resources put into it and the amount of risk a miss could amount to.

0. https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/
> I know I'm right because if these were the cure to society, religion would be growing, not shrinking, regulation would be decreasing, not increasing

Your argument is hard to understand, but what I read here is, "economic regulation is good because otherwise, economic regulation would be decreasing", and similar with religion and racism, which shows an outstanding lack of knowledge regarding all the societies that have adopted measures negative for them.

> Why does it have to be in comparison?

Agreed, there's no contradiction in saying the USA is brutal and one of the less brutal regimes in the world, to the point that it's the number one destination from immigrants that can actually choose where to live.
> I have some extra electronics around my house that I’d like to sell so I signed up for an eBay account. In one hour I posted 6 listings totaling less than 500GBP

Depending on the price of the items and how many, this is exactly what it looks like when someone opens an account to sell stolen electronics.
> Imagine if our justice system worked like this, where you could get convicted without ever seeing the evidence against you because it would reveal the methods the police used.

That exists and it’s just as prone to abuse as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
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Those are extremely bold claims — the assertion that disagreement is a misperception even more so.

Is it a misperception of reality that I believe their proposals would decrease overall economic efficiency, not increase it?

The situations they presented are zero-sum. To believe otherwise, you’d have to share their (unsupported, unstated-to-participants) premise that resulting efficiency gains would offset the additional cost that came out of your own pocket to enforce equality of outcome.