skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of this scam that this director at a BIG company I used to work at did. He got SSN's of dead people and made fake resume's and interviewed himself and hired them. Then collected their paychecks. Eventually he got caught of course, but big companies are funny how they don't like things like that getting out because it makes them look back and would shake investor confidence etc. So they just let him go, didn't prosecute or even try to get the money back, just swept it under the rug. I heard a year or so later he was at another big company with the same title and job. No idea if he was still doing that but would not surprise me if he continued doing unscrupulous things.

Unfortunately, that type of thing seems to happen a lot in large bureaucracies for those same types of reasons, whether governments, big business or whatever, they want to sweep mistakes like that under the rug. Hopefully they plug the hole before doing that. One can hope.
Here is the direct URL: https://getsession.org/blog/twitter-encrypted-dms
I always replace "blockchain" with "distributed ledger" and see if the idea still make any kind of sense (it rarely does).
I don't actually view decisions like this as binary or mutually exclusive at all. I'm a big proponent of polyglot persistence [1], use the data stores you know and double down on what you know well. I use mongo primarily in my current work, but also have redis, elasticsearch, graphite, and etcd as sidecars in the same ecosystem.

I didn't jettison SQL because there was some fundamental limitation from a storage or scalability perspective. It was clear SQL wasn't going anywhere and would be a good infrastructure bet moving forward.

But initially what drew me to mongo was the clean interop between it and JS (Node.js is my runtime of choice). The shell is written in JS, you query (filter) using objects, you insert and update with objects. This seems like a small thing but this sort of developer experience over time is impactful. Everything feels very native to JS and it does so without any heavy abstractions like ORM/ODM.

After having used it now for 10+ years though, there's much more that I admire about it. Both from a pure architecture lens, but also from API perspective as well as it continues to get better.

To cherry pick an example— The new time series collection feature is a good example of that. For years, folks were using the bucket pattern [2] as a means to optimize query strategies for time series data by lowering timestamp cardinality. Now in v5.0, they give you a native way to specify the same kind of collection but they handle all the storage implementation details related to bucketing for you. Your API to interface with that collection remains mostly the same as any other collection. This sort of community-driven roadmap inertia is attractive to me as an engineer.

(Somewhat of a stream of consciousness here, but hopefully gives you some context as to why I made the switch so long ago)

[1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html
[2] https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/building-with-patterns-the...
This is every company that deals with fraud of some sort. They collect evidence. Once evidence is damning enough, they ban, without giving any information. If they were to give out their evidence, then their evidence collection methods would become known and would no longer be effective.

Furthermore, even when they get it right, people who were banned correctly come on to the internet to complain.

But sometimes they get it wrong. And the only recourse seems to be a public shaming online.
It was a commission. I would expect there would be some form of request or discussion on what was being commissioned. What did they write on the invoice?
ID requirements would still apply (and be a serious obstacle to invent fake people), it's just about the address verification.
How do you think most Govt grants including the biggest pell grant works. Same thing. You can’t keep failing.
Night Call is in the ballpark, at least. You play as a taxi driver, budgeting your taxi trips, passengers, gas money, money for other things (ie newspapers or clues) to help solve a whodunnit mystery.
Related:

Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895031 - Sept 2019 (163 comments)

PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20890828 - Sept 2019 (126 comments)

PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845287 - May 2019 (29 comments)
I've thought about it. Your "etc" in the first paragraph is doing a lot of work, especially on Windows. The idea that there is a "native" widget set is increasingly a fiction. I agree though that on mac and iOS it makes quite a bit of sense.

A somewhat galaxy-brain approach to this is to make views generic over Cx, and add "factory" methods to Cx for creating button, stack, slider, etc.

All that said, my personal feeling is that while this would give promising early results for creating simple property-sheet like UI, it will be extremely difficult to make polished, truly native-feeling UI in it, as ultimately the seams will show. The first 90% will go well, but the second 90% will be painful.

I don't want to discourage people from trying it though!
Quick look is more than just a preview, it's really a read-only view of the document. You can read entire documents and PDFs, view HTML files rendered, pan through CSVs, etc
In JS there's no such thing as a reference to a primitive, and there's no such thing as an automatic deep-copy of a non-primitive
Related:

Scapy: a powerful interactive packet manipulation program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4892380 - Dec 2012 (13 comments)

Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653644 - Nov 2013 (2 comments)
Apple seems to have a very strange way of doing things when it comes to secrecy.

When I was working for the defense industry, we would just vet people more extensively than needed to give us some margins and while things were on a need to know basis, you would never have been impaired on requirements like that, it’s just too costly.

You have be very rich to be that inefficient.
Of course, Netherlands sucks in many aspects, so (tongue in cheek) if even a place like Netherlands has a working solution for some problem, then it can't be that high bar to pass for any proper country, can it?
What issue do you take with the reporting, specifically?
Simply try a native Linux install. You will find far better that "our way or the highway" behavior of Windows and OSX .
Courier (YC S19) is hiring software engineers to fix bad product notifications
Job Simulator possibly has some crossover with your requirements, and has decent feedback.

https://jobsimulatorgame.com/
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The real question is why has Apple not implemented snapping behavior after ~10 years of it being in windows? But yeah, you can achieve something similar with tooling for sure.
The language being embedded should provide these features, so USV is kept simple.

If the data is HTML, then you can encode the special characters using ampersand notation. And that can be kept out of the USV spec entirely as an external convention. So that is to say, use the native escaping of whatever data format you are storing.

A similar principle is used in embedding JS or JSON in HTML. A sequence like "</script" could occur in a JS or JSON string literal. For that reason there is a way to escape the backslash \/. Or else the slash can be encoded numerically. This is all provided by the embedded language; the embedding language (HTML) knows nothing about it.

The user, or software, doing the embedding just has to know about this and put in the escapes if they occur in the to-be-embedded data.

USV is nice the way it is; don't make a complicated skullduggery out of it with escape mechanisms. The whole point of choosing those characters is to avoid it. If you're gonna have escapes, then might as well stick with commmas for field separation, newlines for records.
the covid bailouts were the only reason we didn't see massive economic collapse in the middle of the pandemic
> he wasn't entitled to

He actually was entitled to it. His earnings in 2011 were below $100,000. I'm all for keeping people honest, but let's not lie.
I doubt this is the full story.
The article specifies that citations are only sent after multiple infractions. You’d have to Track the same “random motorist” over multiple days and enforcement zones. Not going to happen.
Pathologic 2.
Nah, I'm extremely healthy. Very careful about what I eat and I exercise every day. It's super easy to eat both fast and healthy, it just costs more.
How do we pay for an expansion of federal benefits? The ones we have are already quite cumbersome on the federal budget.
Sounds like you got caught up in their spam & abuse systems, if I had to guess. Spam/scams are at extremely high levels right now across every platform (Oddly somehow, HN keeps things under control) -- so companies are getting aggressive with anti abuse techniques and capturing innocents by mistake.
I have a paper weight I lay on a rock to keep Ctrl pressed. Useful when running long running scripts in background while I'm working on another laptop

I've had environments where the system was pretty locked down, but had access to VBScript: https://gist.github.com/valdergallo/0e05d9e0c90b7be77458
I'm sure the motor spins faster than 60rpm.
Do you really use framehacks in production for the sake of syntactic sugar like this? It's fair that Python can do this sort of thing[0], but it seems like begging for trouble to make it load-bearing without a very strong reason.

[0] That level of access was essential when I was working on https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/seven/dragon-taming-wit...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220506174804/https://www.econo...
Yep. Politicians for years have made it super hard to get benefits, and now decry people not wanting to work. There's a huge gap between "eligible for all benefits" and "makes enough to offset the loss of benefits", and no clear way to cross over short of getting paid $20+ an hour. Trying to make benefits reduce proportional to income would work, but requires a lot of bookkeeping and proof (and, of course, some political will), so that's unlikely to get traction...and raising the minimum wage to the amount necessary so that any job will take one over the gap is -also- politically undoable.

So, yeah. Lots of safety nets, all of which require you to live in extreme poverty to qualify for, and which still don't equate to a reasonable standard of living.
> but it's not expensive _everywhere_. It's expensive in some of the most desirable places.

I disagree with this. I think this was true for the mid 00s property bubble, but now prices are exploding not just in the usual suspects like SF, LA and NYC. Pretty much every place that's not a total shithole is experiencing huge home price appreciation.

I made a post on a different thread making this point, and I used Flint, Michigan as my example of "sure, prices in Flint are still low..." only to get a response from another commenter along the lines of "You'd be surprised - while bad areas of Flint are still depressed, many of the nearby areas have also seen huge runups in real estate values."
You get "native" linux on Windows with WSL. It's a linux container, but with nice integrations out of the box re: networking etc.

I'm not against running linux alone per se, but to me being able to run both Windows (with better app support, polish), and Linux at the same time is kind of the best of both worlds. Windows feels nicer as a daily driver, and can do all dev work directly in a linux environment
Lenders add to the base rate so the return is nonzero afaik.
https://github.com/qntm/tetris/blob/7c108f1f676233da9f20d831...

https://github.com/qntm/tetris/blob/7c108f1f676233da9f20d831...

Just checking: are you leaving the holes intact, the fully-enclosed interior holes in the well? Because those never become relevant in the problem you've phrased -- the game ends after *one* line is filled. So interior structure never becomes visible again.

You're caching the wells that have already been visited (in that 2nd/improved codebase). But I believe the sameWell() equality test can be looser: you can identify as equal two wells which differ only by interior holes. That would make the search tree much (?) smaller.
I think the parent comment is referring to how you can do e.g., `let {x, y, z} = point` (JS, object/dictionary) or `let Point {x, y, z} = point} (Rust, struct) but in Python your only option is `x = point.x; y = point["y"]` etc
In America, the vast majority of financial aid to students is revoked if they fail their classes. Not sure how often aid is given out, but 1 month vs 4 isn’t a big difference.

I haven’t heard much of any America specific big time fraud in this area either. If any implication was this article. That doesn’t count since the article isn’t saying aid is happening unlike Sweden.
Russian GPlay users can no longer download previously paid-for apps as of 5 May
Definitely. All the energy centers / chakras have an intelligence that you can connect with and talk to.

While the belly chakras are separate to the microbiome (tho surely there is some overlap), I think it's really interesting how importance of microbiome is becoming realized widely. Microbiome is also such a powerful thing, and so important for health.
Chamoe: Korean animated short for Mother’s Day
This looks really interesting, thank you.
No different than the bartender AI, defecation, elevator UI, etc. It's a smoke screen to serve as an illusion of "healthy" development. It's a means to sell more ships.

No one will buy ships for a game that will never exist, but they will for a game that they "believe" will eventually exist.
Yes, banking is a requirement for proper participation in society, and we definitely want convicted felons to be able to properly participate in society once they get out of prison (otherwise what's the point of letting them out?) so they should deserve access to banking, and in EU they do have that right.

It might reasonable to deny a known fraudster access to credit, but they should have access to a bank account, for example, to make electronic payments for their rent and utilities.
People were shorter back in Robin Hood's day, so Sherwood was bigger for them.
> its mothers day

Not here it isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
you should add yet to it

inflation eats the bottom out and soon enough $140k will be barely enough to make the ends meet
Banished does a good job at simulating a resource strained community where bad choices can have terrible consequences in the short term.
They're more progressive about admitting it and having metrics for it. But it goes on to varying degrees everywhere, with doctors leaving patients in charge of their own unregulated morphine drip, etc. And everyone turns a blind eye, because it's seen as a reasonable and humane thing to do.
I would argue that destructuring is a special case of pattern matching.
As I mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305712), because it’s targeted at a different audience and because it being separate allows it to be iterated and experimented with more quickly. When you have an install-base as large as Windows, you have to be careful with what you include as a built-in feature versus what is an add-on or option (even first party), because a change made for one class of users could be confusing or detrimental to another. This is particularly true when it comes to utilities and features that are iterated on in public and with great frequency. PowerToys occasionally ships with bugs or crashes that are completely acceptable and manageable to the audience of power users (and are usually fixed very quickly), but that could be much more of a problem if shipped to 1 billion users (and the steps you’d need to take to test against edge cases would slow down development, and the development speed is one of the best parts of PowerToys).

You can install it through the Microsoft Store, WinGet, Choclatey, Scoop or directly from GitHub. It would be nice if there was maybe a pointer to it inside the OS to alert some users of its existence, but the premise was similar to the OG PowerToys, which were downloadable off of the Microsoft website.

As I said in the linked comment, stuff from PowerToys does get upstreamed into the Windows shell, sometimes with modifications or refinements, but some of the utilities are things that wouldn’t necessarily make sense to be included by default.
It's been a long time since I had a cheque book, but way back then the cheque at the bank (not for electricity payments and such) trying to get money needed to be backed up with a bank's card, and the risk was on the card issuing bank.
FAFSA checks the applicants SSN against their name, date of birth, and homeland security.

There is little room for fraud outside of blatant identity theft.
I don't think that's a valid conclusion here at all.
It wouldn't be fun. Grind, grind, grind, never get anywhere. Work twice as hard for half the reward, then get fucked over in every other aspect of life. Games are about escapism, a chance to win at something, not experiencing bleak and abject failure for reasons outside of your control.
Secure builds always!
TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks
One the magic things about social media is that it’s like radio + tv all in one.
This is in addition to earlier restrictions blocking payment from Russia and includes apps that may have been bought years ago. Downloading updates isn't possible either.

It serves as a stark reminder that you should make backups of apps you've bought and that depending on a single application store is very risky.
Have you tried obsidian? It’s basically what you’re doing, but with some nice extra features.
It is probably a genre worth exploring. An interactive fiction game that explored a similar area is Depression Quest:

http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html

A hypothetical "Poverty Quest" (or perhaps "Precarity Quest") would have additional challenges, though, such as avoiding becoming Grand Theft Auto without glossing over the fact that criminality is sometimes the only seemingly viable career path, not to mention intersectional issues like race and class, food deserts and swamps, elevated toxic exposure (including lead) in low income neighborhoods, etc.
"He initially planned to finish the development in 30 days but he worked on development for three years"

Can relate
> The chances of the top three (four?) executives at any given giant multinational company all holding degrees from the same institution is pretty small.

Not really. Colleges are social networks. Alumni favor each other. Facebook and Google were both founded at colleges.

> I don’t think there is an intent to malign Duke

I read it the opposite way, as attempting to say that having degrees from Duke somehow makes Apple leadership uniquely capable: "all have degrees from Duke University and 30 year careers in supply chain management".

> but it is noteworthy.

It's some interesting trivia. But it's not clear why it's noteworthy in the context of the discussion of secrecy at Apple.

Tim Cook got an MBA at Duke, Jeff Williams got an MBA at Duke. Tim Cook was at IBM, Jeff Williams was at IBM. Tim Cook joined Apple in operations, Jeff Williams joined Apple in operations. Do you think those are all just random chance coincidences?
Oops. If I could delete it I would, but HN won't let me.
Poor is exactly what it is. The converter is so broken, that a space in the wrong place will cause it to not work. IIRC something like 5m to ft works but not 5 m to ft
How to program a text adventure in C (2012)
I play darts too.
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.

I realize it’s not entirely the same thing, but it’s also not entirely different.
In theory I agree, it's not hard and if you can run a homelab you definitely should be able to set it up. But from what I've seen a lot of people done.
As I understand it the unifying concept is nondeterminism. It’s a logical framework that can make sense of parallelism, concurrency, and interrupts.

Nondeterministic doesn’t mean unpredictable. For example a pure functional language without side effects is free to evaluate function parameters in any order and still always return the same result.

Other times a nondeterministic algorithm can produce different results each execution but still produce a result that satisfies some predicate. For example iterating over a Go hash makes no promises about the order elements will be visited in, but it does promise they will all be visited. So if your reduce function is commutative and associative you’ll get the same result regardless of ordering.
UK homeless charity Centrepoint created an experience in this vein - “In their shoes”: http://centrepoint.org.uk/intheirshoes
Looks interesting. Seems to be more of a fantasy-dystopian "last civilization on earth" version of SimCity.
Not sure what you mean here. In the U.S. there has been considerable debate, vaccines are free, safe and available same day. Finally we have given up on almost all safety measures as long as the healthcare system can handle the load.

Can you be specific in the change you want or which debate isn’t allowed?
This is the low effort response every time. Where is the nuance in the thinking around magnitude and implementation of policy?

It's not a black/white situation of choosing between economic collapse or hyperinflation at all. And keep in mind there were 3-4 huge packages passed. It's not like this had to be done as a single rushed magnum opus bill, this is the consequence of many bills and executive actions passed over 2 years, coinciding with a Fed that had unilateral power to ease the brakes yet did nothing for 2 years.
The SNAP/Food Stamp Challenge. Learn more: https://www.moneycrashers.com/snap-food-stamp-challenge/
Yeah it's a pretty depressing and challenging game. I beat this game with all the different scenarios. If you play long enough though, you can find a pretty simple formula to win:
- Find the nearest homeless shelter that is near a job board
- Take freelance jobs, putting the bulk of your earnings in a savings account and only keeping a little cash on hand for laundry and other things (otherwise it gets stolen at the homeless shelter)
- Spend all the rest of your time at the library studying until you can get a higher paying job

I'm not sure it's very realistic though because begging nets very little money and negative morale in the game, yet I think panhandlers can actually make quite a bit in real life in high traffic areas.
Ok this one is long and has many many dimensions to try to understand the veracity of (without assuming you know what its referring to).

The conclusion though is something I’ve noticed as well and matches the title. This is exacerbated by the very people arguing for equality, they lose support of would-be supporters in the majority groups by misdefining privilege. Causing resentment by would-be supporters who feel their valid struggles are neglected and invalidated.