skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A eBay rep killed my project by flagging the account for fraud after I asked to speak to supervisor (she refused three times and the account was magically flagged the next day). All of my listings got suspended. It made the whole project untenable costing the client thousands. There was no fraud, there were no signals of fraud , just petty spite. I’ll never use eBay for anything important. Nobody should ever use eBay for anything that matters.
A related talk by my favorite Buddhist teacher, Ajahn Sona, on 'Right Mindfulness'.

https://youtu.be/JOcoynQCmZ0

Highly recommend his channel by the way.
> Which implies the opposite.

You have no way of determining that unless you're in the same environment. For someone who's usually successful socially, it is an utter shame to have to sit through the lunch and be forced to listen to a couple of idiots hopped who can't shut up. Would you want to be in that situation?

The other two comments have no bearing whatsoever on your point.
The first one describes what it is like to be distracted. Replace attractive coworker with anything else.

The second one is a natural response to the frictions present in real life.

Sounds like you're desperately trying to cast someone into a role so that you can feel better about yourself. You sound like you might have social deficits you're trying to overcome yourself based on your comments that show a lack of understanding of what socializing at work feels like for a lot of people.
We also used to have fun with MacOS' perldoc command rendering things cleverly and breaking copy-paste out of the documentation - this resulted in the "hilarious" code here: https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/local-lib-2.000029/source...
18 year old me would say "only noobs think this"
This is really cool. So I just exposed an instance of next cloud, but it requires an email verification before being accessible. Super cool.

Is the cloudflared smart enough to route connections locally? Hm, not sure how that would work.

I'm sitting at home, but accessing my nextcloud through the cloud flare. Is there a way to get it to talk to nextcloud locally or is it going through the net?
This of course is a particular peculiarity with the US, having such varying state taxes.
Therein lies great Cthulhu - dead, but dreaming.

Better not go poking around.
Usually done by giving an inflated contract for services of some sort, to an associate. Associate often returns a kickback to the giver.
As a campus needs a large maintanance budget, this can be a big source of fraud.

However, I agree that low-cost state run colleges are a better strategy than free loans.
My informal polling of my co-workers does not support this assertion.
This context is quite biased by ideological preconceptions.
This is why we are divided now. So be it then.
>Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D

I'm not really an "Apple Guy" so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.
I haven't looked at the article yet. I'm guessing: Men are paid more, because they work in more dangerous areas, work longer hours, and are less often primarily responsible for caregiving.

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Ok, I read it, and pretty much nailed it, but the other factor is that men tend to drive faster, and so simply complete more rides in the same amount of time.

None of the factors explaining the 7% pay gap seem to have anything to do with (a) Uber or (b) Customers. It's all seems to be based on choices by the driver.
>The article defines 300% increase in the requests made to a particular company as “skyrocketing”, but I see no base value that this change is measured against. If four dudes got themselves an extra passport as opposed to one in 2019, the numbers start sounding far less impressive.

You may be interested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25367731 , in which @bildung and I discuss German migration to the US over the past 30 years (including 2019 data) as compared to US migration to Germany, and how the German government's statistical office blatantly manipulates data to make Germany look good. As is so often in such cases lately, Trump is involved.
I mean Facebook has a standalone DM app and Instagram has done it too (and I guess the messaging systems have now just been combined sort of?). It's not out of the question that something like 'Twitter DM' comes out where it will be used to slowly push users to the platform in a more general sense.
So emacs with a distributor like doom-emacs ?
There are some of us who will never learn 'how to get around' one's city. We lack a head for sense of direction, for memorising landmarks etc. We can try all our life, and we'll only cope, but never be comfy.

Of course, if I'm just going to commute to the office and come back, I could do it blindfolded, and those days it's easy to be without the phone. It's exactly when you're doing something unusual that the phone is so handy.
The US by far leads the world in profitable software companies and venture capital funding. The competition for talent in Silicon Valley combined with the huge amount of money generated/raised ends up increasing US engineer salaries even outside California over time.
Who's to say that meditation caused these adverse events? Perhaps some of those events would've happened regardless of if the person mediates.
Just because you don’t have the problem doesn’t mean you should trivialise someone else’s experience. How rude.

Try listening more, and hold back from telling people how to solve problems they didn’t ask for help solving.
What it shows is people who criticize the company don’t actually know anything about it. If you’re going to criticize actually take the time to understand instead of throwing rocks thinking you’re so smart because you read a headline.
Keeping PII for fraud detection is not barred by GDPR.

In this context the more relevant aspect of GDPR, which I think receives too little attention and more so enforcement, is article 22 (Automated individual decision-making, including profiling)
Did you get enlightened? I'm thinking of spending a few months on retreat soon. I've always wanted to have an awakening.
This is amazing. It's extremely disturbing to think how much better it could be with the benefit of a large-language model.

I'm certain it's possible to completely reverse language. Even on my macbook keyboard.
If you are referring to the US, it's more because of the proportional treatment of indigenous, Hispanic, and black people by the government, historically speaking. Not because a particular group is too successful.

For example, if you read about the history of the Trail of Tears and slavery, those were long-term instances of oppression to specific groups. Not that Indians or East Asians haven't had periods of poor treatment, but the government had a hand in making it almost impossible for the aforementioned groups to accumulate wealth or property in America over the centuries.

If you look at the reason why Title IX exists, it is not because "men are too successful", if that makes sense.
Yeah, you're right, of course. I should have mentioned the concept of "comma operator" is a heuristic, not something from the grammar or semantics.

BTW, kind of a tangent, I've always assumed (but not checked) that every "()" literal evaluates to one singleton zero-tuple, do you know if that's true?
Even if Twitter is small compared to WhatsApp, having another major household-name service add "e2ee by default for DMs" is good for the world because it brings "e2ee by default for DMs" closer to being a standard practice, the way SSL has become a standard practice.

At first, only a handful of sites implemented SSL for all their pages, but eventually a critical mass of sites did it, and at that point every major site had to do it.

To make e2ee as ubiquitous for messaging as SSL is for browsing, we'll need a similar dynamic where it becomes standard practice, and each major site that adds it is a big victory.

Also, Twitter might have a smaller userbase, but journalists and political figures are among its most active users, so the social impact (e.g. to the health of democratic governments) of protecting the privacy of Twitter users might be on the same order as that of protecting the privacy of WhatsApp users.
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I just went over 8 years without seeing the sun (jail). I wonder what the long term effects are?
https://ninja-cookie.com/
God I can't stand that kind of BS. Thanks for warning me, I'll be sure to avoid him.

Both supply and demand for these motivational charlatans are immense. Something tells me it's not about actual drive to be successful, because the most successful people aren't listening/reading that crap, they're too busy practicing, learning, etc. Instead I think it's a self-misdiagnosis (there's something wrong with me, and it's my motivation) and then the charlatans confirm that by saying "yes, listen to me, I'll give you a short high of confidence, come back for more!".

In reality the success addicts just aren't passionate about anything, and that's ok. What they need is to either (a) find their passion, and that takes time, an open mind, and trying different things or (b) accept that they aren't passionate and enjoy life in other ways.
Textbook case of "Everybody who is not me is evil" fallacy

Yesterday absolute evil was represented by short sellers and Big Oil, nowadays it's BlackRock and Vanguard.

Saudis were great friends when prince M(Bonesaw)S expressed the intention of maybe taking Tesla private, then they were evil when they backpedaled, ironically they became good friends again when they decided to roll over their stake in Twitter.

People capitalizing on the goldfish memory of the avg. financial analyst and retail investor.

But it will end at some point. Problem is when these 2 fraudolent clowns go down, 4 new ones will emerge to take their place.

It's the gilded age of fraud out there.
Find hobbies other than working. You can use the weekend to do that.

The reason socializing at work sucks is because it is not a very natural environment to make friends. Alliances, yes but friends are harder. Even if you make genuine friends with someone there, if you're working with them directly, their career will take precedence over you. Most people are skeptical of their coworkers and it is a constant power dynamic to prove one's competence and status.

Much easier to find true friends outside of work.
I was going to mention Perfect Dark. Probably my favourite game to this day. So many good wasted childhood hours playing this game.
I have a large in development but it’s still months out, but plan is to start doing development streams on that in the next month.
>Jonah Bennett previously worked at The Daily Caller and he resigned from Palladium when it was discovered he had authored some racist messages and was friends with various white nationalists.

This is the very definition of ad hominem -- you don't want to confront the messages of the essay, so you try to discredit it by highlighting that one of its authors had opinions you disagree with.
Are they easier to measure or are they measured by people who are more concerned about equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity? Is it really significantly easier to measure the "diversity" of the incoming class of an Ivy League school than it is to determine whether the selection process between a set of individuals with the same qualifications will produce selections that are distributed in the same way as the applicants are distributed in that set?
Totally invented this in 1997 with a cross shaped piece of cardboard stuck to the TV screen. Radars off too for extra jumpiness.
People passive invest in index funds because active funds consistently underperform the market.

Musk and Wood have a point but for the majority of people, what are the alternatives? Playing the slot machines?

As a side note, I recently picked up "Local Dollars, Local Sense" by Michael Shuman. One of the takeaways so far is that regulations make it extremely difficult for people to invest in small to mid companies that are local to them. The laws all but force us into the jaws of Wall Street. Perhaps this would be an alternative if the regs were loosened up?

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25087017M/Local_dollars_loca...
I feel like a lot of what's in the category of "you wont believe this is getting popular" on tiktok is a result of them faking views and follower numbers to rope in creators who then go on to think tens of thousands of people are watching them do some random videos, which makes them double down and focus and then eventually gain a real but still much lower real following.

I don't have any evidence to back up the claim that they are faking views, but I know for a fact that the hundreds of followers I have gained making almost no content are not real. And it seems extremely suspicious that they've engineered their whole "creator fund" around trying to not pay creators based just on views/likes and subs, if they where real that would be the most accurate measure to target. But feels like they've decided to completely ignore them and to "sort" creators, likely because they know there's some creators with majorly fake followers that they don't want to pay, but still want to keep on the platform so they keep their fake engagement metrics high, and then there's the "real" popular names that they know they need to pay, but still underpay compared to other platforms. But creators still stick to tiktok because "they have a much larger following". It smells.
Good catch, I wasn't very thorough I just wanted to show what it might look like - also I mangled a couple of the step names :)
I don't think so, because allowing you to work from home doesn't immediately make the cheaper labor cheaper or more available. That is, "they" can already outsource you, WFH or not.
Well is plastic waste a local environmental problem, or a global environmental problem? Is reducing waste in total not a good thing to strive for?

When do we all stop saying, "not my problem" when it comes to single-use, disposable items like this?

"20 years ago was the best time, second best time is now", kind of scenarios.
It's bad and overused.

Example: the top SO answers for "find max of an array" suggest using spread [1]:

Math.max(...array)

but this runs into implementation-defined limits on the number of arguments you can pass to a function, which is often as low as 65k; now your function is needlessly limited and works differently across browsers.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669190/find-the-min-max... and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45123468/max-of-array-in...
My Uncle-in-law is literally going through this process right now. There’s literally nothing left for the family despite so much being left to it. It’s mind-blowing how land that has been passed down for generations just goes “poof.” Meanwhile, had the family member known they were going to pass away, they could have just sold the land for a token amount and it wouldn’t have been part of the estate.
Prisma founder: “I'm starting to give up on React Strict Mode”
PowerToys Run is Wox.[1]

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run#attri...
I would recommend he studies Haskell, which has been called: "executable maths"
In that stack his previous experience is extremely valuable and will make his learning path a lot easier.

For web development he can start with IHP framework and for deployment NixOS.
Curious - has anyone here submitted a complaint to a data authority? I wonder what that process is like.
People, like the WEF, who spend a great deal of time trying to anticipate the future "revolutions" and post-"revolutions" are just a bunch of self-important assholes.

The point about the economy and "revolutions" and other things is that it's an extremely complex chaotic system. Exponentially more complex than anything any computer can model. And details matter. Details matter very very much. A accidental conversation in a hallway or a pebble rolling across a road can lead to world shattering revelations and new technology that will forever after change humanity's trajectory.

This means you cannot predict the future anymore than you can recreate an ice cube from a puddle it makes after it melted.

The required information is simply not available.
95% Programming
WhatsApp, Signal, and Element all handle multiple devices fairly well. Twitter should be able to solve that too.
Unlike USA, most countries have a more stringent ID system so that this scenario simply does not happen. Like, it technically can happen but in practice does not - I spent a few years working in a bank on fraud, and we had zero cases of a forged ID. We had attempts with stolen IDs (there's an electronic database of IDs reported lost/stolen, but there's a time gap until people report that), we had gangs trying to use homeless people (with their real IDs) for money laundering, we had all kinds of interesting fraud schemes but zero cases of forged IDs used to open accounts.

An ID is hard to forge (again, as far as I understand in USA it's different because USA doesn't have a proper ID system) - counterfeiting currency is simpler than passports, and has ways of remote verification (banks use it to e.g. verify when their customers have been declared dead which has all kinds of financial obligations to the institution) so you'd generally need to get someone in the actual government agency to issue a real fictitious ID; that's definitely possible but very rare, that's within the domain of sophisticated organized crime and costly/risky enough to make it not worth it for simple fraud - like, getting a real poor person with a real ID to do what you want is simpler and cheaper, so that's what criminals did.

Also it's risky to use, as forging IDs is a felony by itself, and you'd risk immediate arrest by going to a bank and trying to use it; I believe we had one fraudster arrested in the branch when trying to use a stolen ID, it was more than a decade ago so I don't remember the details.

So someone opening a bank account with my ID and name would require my passport being stolen without noticing it and, crucially, when I do notice it and report it (to get a replacement) the old ID is invalidated, that bank would get notified and the account would get blocked at that point as the fraudster can't provide the replacement ID. Of course, all of that isn't possible with a central registry of IDs which seems anathema to USA and UK, but is successfully used in many other countries.
>Violence and organized labor go together like milk and cereal

What do you base this on? Movies?

Telling someone to strap on a helmet isn't a threat of violence to a reasonable person. Putting a stuffed rat on a ledge near someone's bed is also not a threat of violence. If it had a noose or something, you'd have a better argument.

Here's actual violence done against picketers and looked the other way by police in Alabama:

https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/striking-miners-wife-hit-by-...

Here's a few more people running into picketers in Alabama. Apparently these are strikebreakers:

https://www.wbrc.com/2021/06/08/video-shows-trucks-hitting-w...

Here's another:

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/crime/police-in...

And another:

https://abc7news.com/uc-union-strike-university-of-californi...

There's plenty more.
Create a nice mystic tradition that shows people how to conduct their own investigation of reality and awaken from the matrix and such.

They will turn it into a list of rules. Every time.

Fact is people just want a list of rules. They're born slaves looking for a master.

And of course that's never gonna work.
That's about as relevant as claiming you should carry rattlesnake antivenom because you might come across someone recently bit.
I've been reading Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and the author makes the same point about informed consent. It's widely known in various traditions meditation can mess you up. I think he quotes someone saying "better not to start if you're not going to finish" or you may end up in a bad place for a long time.
> the bad idea circus is in town...

What a fun post!

> The object files are so large because the kernel is initially compiled with debug symbols.

Is there a way to build without producing debug symbols in the first place?
Oh you're right XD I think "bus factor of infinity" is what they're going for!
I misread their first sentence. I see now that they’re lamenting what I mentioned not being in Python. I was thinking they meant in general and not just in Python.
https://www.reddit.com/r/love2d/comments/ul35wx/love_blocks_...
I was hoping this was going to be the announcement that it’s coming to the Switch N64 emulator
I think this is pretty normal. Some people like to put linebreaks after every sentence/clause, which makes diffs much more convenient.
Many colleges put courses up online for free. There is a huge opportunity for people who want to put the time in to get a very high quality education (not degree, but an education) by using these resources. Same thing with the knowledge available in libraries. Some people take advantage of these resources in incredible ways. You'll find people who taught themselves to be a software engineer using only free online sources, etc. However there are many people who are not successful software engineers despite having equal opportunity though access to all the same resources.
5k IUs is well beyond anything your body has a use for, and in fact is above what your body can tolerate! [0]

> RDA: The Recommended Dietary Allowance for adults 19 years and older is 600 IU daily for men and women, and for adults >70 years it is 800 IU daily.

> UL: The Tolerable Upper Intake Level is the maximum daily intake unlikely to cause harmful effects on health. The UL for vitamin D for adults and children ages 9+ is 4,000 IU.

So it's possible your 5k IUs were causing you more harm than good.

[0] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-d/
Maybe it’s better to think of local government as a Proof of Stake system. Where you Stake the value of land+house as collateral (using an address) to access trust based services like voting, banking, etc. such that everyone is clear that you can pay the annual fees or penalties (if ever applicable) for that local government / bank.

Sadly that does mean poor people who can’t stake capital or spend capital on rent in an area get left out of the system.

What would a system look like that didn’t use Proof of Stake as collateral to get people access to trust based systems?
> but they’re not trying to cut all flowers to the same height

This is usually the point in the conversation where they share the cartoon of a group of people staring over a fence watching a baseball game, with each person standing on a different sized stepladder such that their overall height is equal. So yes, I would argue that is exactly what they are trying to do.
I am aware. I am suggesting it as an alternative to IRR.
Analytics measures what you want.

If you want sales, then you're also gonna want to evaluate the sales funnel to see where friction in the online sales process can be reduced, and if you're big enough do some fancier things like A/B testing.

I will agree that a lot of people look at analytics often far too divorced from their business goals. If you care about sales of X, then you probably shouldn't be too invested in regularly looking at most of the big site level metrics unless you're trying to alter those to improve sales of X.
My father-in-law’s old notebooks
Agreed, but the goal is not for Taiwan's army to fend off against the full might of the PLA - the goal is to show and build up enough strength to make the PLA pay a brutal price even for an attempt. Similar to Ukraine.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
My wife got banned from some service a year or so ago. I asked her if she complained, she said no. I thought to myself, “well, I bet those spam-stats are going to look great this quarter.”