skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I found an interesting thesis that made me think "OK, parts of this sound plausible to me, help me connect the dots."

But then there were no dots to be found, let alone connections.

I am a very literal person, and in my youth I used to think this was a bit of a handicap, as "big thinkers" needed to be able to think of things in more abstract ways. As I've gotten older, though, I think I've become more aware of my blind spots that this literal thinking can cause, but I've also become more confident in that 90% of "big thinking" turns out to be marketing bullshit. Big ideas are one thing, but if you can't give clear, simple-to-understand examples of the point you are trying to make, you're probably full of shit.
I got banned from eBay as well. I bought a part for my dishwasher and received a counterfeit part. I collected evidence, posted the photos, and requested a return. Next thing you know my account is banned. I think the seller reported me in retaliation.

I have no idea where to go next time I need something. AliExpress would probably be even worse when it comes to counterfeits.
I absolutely agree about these problems!

But, that's why I think it's great that PowerToys is made by Microsoft. Just because a feature isn't included in the base OS doesn't mean the same company can't create it.
Good point, and I failed to mention that as part of the experimenting. After going through the variety pack, I ended up finding that Astra Stainless were the best for my skin/hair combination, and Astra Platinum was second.
Wow. That's hard core indeed.
Why not apply to PhD/MSc programs in the US?

The PhD stipend is well above starvation levels and you can go to internships during summer to earn more money and accumulate experience. I have seen many, many people in FAANG with PhDs in SDE/DS roles and they can relatively quickly reach senior levels as well.
As fun as those ways to address a postcard are, they are not addresses that the bank will accept. The bank checks against a database of valid addresses; this is a common problem for people that have just built a house - most companies used cached databases so refuse to accept your address until it has trickled down.
People with criminal histories have imposed a trillion dollar cost on society.
I've been using/selling on Ebay for several years. I've had zero issues. Although don't get me started on Paypal being garbage.

Maybe there is more you aren't telling us, or maybe you're being honest. Good luck!
Related, I've seen a lot of commentary on Roe that takes the form "men should stop telling women what to do with their bodies." On it's face, sure, but men support choice almost as much as women, and while abolishing abortion hurts women much more it doesn't help men one bit, and even hurts men who are also very much a part of the hard parts of family planning.

It's the same fallacy in the opposite direction: the idea that because something hurts one group it must help another group, when really pro-lifers just hurt everyone, even themselves.

I don't really know what this stance does to an ideology... it feels like it's unnecessarily constructing enemies, or misplacing anger in ways that dilute the meaning of that anger. I know in most ways these expressions are just ways to release anger, maybe the form doesn't matter that much, but...
Thefuck[0] will attempt to correct errors in your console commands (available via brew, apt, pip and others). You can even enable instant mode if you feel particularly frisky.

[0] https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
Here is a good TTS implemented in a few lines of HTML and JavaScript: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
> A longitudinal survey of the 2020 U.S. voters reveals that harm perceptions predict voting against actual equality-enhancing policies, more so than voters’ political and egalitarian beliefs.

Doublespeak. These policies are equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity, so those voters are siding with their egalitarian beliefs, not against. Waaaaay down in "Materials and Methods", here's the first study:

> In the equality-enhancing policy condition, participants read about policies that proposed to increase the disadvantaged group’s resource access and not change the advantaged group’s resource access, which would therefore reduce the disparity:

> “Several banks propose increasing the total amount of mortgage loans to Latino homebuyers by $7.3 billion and not changing the total amount of mortgage loan funding to White homebuyers. Ultimately, these banks predict that this proposal will narrow the gap in mortgage loans between Latino and White homebuyers over the next year.”

> In the status quo condition, participants read that no policy was proposed to address the disparity:

> “However, several banks propose not changing mortgage loan funding over the next year.”

> In the inequality-enhancing condition, participants read about policies that proposed to decrease the disadvantaged group’s resource access and not change the advantaged group’s resource access, which would therefore worsen the disparity:

> “Several banks propose decreasing the total amount of mortgage loans to Latino homebuyers by $7.3 billion and not changing the total amount of mortgage loan funding to White homebuyers. Ultimately, these banks predict that this proposal will widen the gap in mortgage loans between Latino and White homebuyers over the next year.”

> Participants indicated how each policy proposal would affect the advantaged ingroup’s resource access [“How do you think the proposed changes will affect [advantaged groups’] chances of [receiving resources]?”; 7-point Likert-scale with meaningful anchors: −3 (greatly harm), 0 (no effect), and +3 (greatly improve)].

On top of the opportunity/outcome distinction, there's a something the voters might be thinking of that they didn't account for (this is huge and I went looking for these questions, so it could easily be in there somewhere, but the word "confound" doesn't appear on the page): Where does the extra money for the loans come from? Banks can't create it out of thin air, it has to come from somewhere, so the "and not changing the total amount of mortgage loan funding to White homebuyers" can easily be read as a lie, making the premise of this section ("and not change the advantaged group’s resource access") incorrect.
It does, that's literally all discussed in OP.
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, and racial tensions would be decreasing, not increasing. How else do you explain the trends? Revolutions don't happen because things are working. They happen because things ARE NOT working. If America was mecca, we wouldn't be in this situation where thousands of teens are suicidal.

Why does it have to be in comparison? I don't have to say, well at least I'm better than that guy and pretend thats good enough. There could be serious flaws with myself that I should acknowledge could be way better than turning and pointing a finger at others.

And talking to those immigrants, the impression I have always gathered is that they don't believe the US is better, but that they have no alternatives where they come from. Lots of people immigrate to whatever country they can get to. If you sum up all immigration to Europe, you suddenly see that the US isn't quite the leader you think it is.
Life was hard before these sugars.

Just a couple of years ago I spent a few months with people stuck in the late 2000s, technologically speaking. Their JS was your typical jQuery spaghetti from that time period. Did not have any fun explaining the new stuff, not to mention Promises, to people who were somehow convinced they knew better than me.
I don't know where you are getting this information. All this ruling does is eliminate constitutional rights. It explicitly encourages congress to regulate abortion, and even provides a list of other constitutional rights that can now be rolled back, including condoms, privacy, gay marriage, and "civil rights".

Have you read the politico article (which links to the full document)?
For folks that already use vscode, the selling point is being able to continue to use vscode for everything, code and markdown. VSCode has an editor experience that is hard to beat

(also, disclaimer: I'm the author of the article and founder of Dendron)
Yep. OP's only real recourse is to just try again in 6 months or a year or whatever and hope that their ML algorithm evaluates their data differently.

If Ebay gave a credit report-style summary saying "you're banned because you're associated with this IP range" or something, then indeed this becomes information that would be exploited by fraudsters. If OP is actually innocent then their being banned is considered an acceptable risk.... one can only hope that in future model training though that this ban would be considered a false positive.
The ramp isn't meant to be different weights. The left is the original Material Design 1 ramp that uses tracking and static font weight tweaks to try to approximate an even color. The right is an actual even color.
I had a similar problem with buying an item on Swappa - the very same “seller found a tracking number going to my town” and gave that to PayPal as proof of shipment. It happened oddly fast, and the ship-from location didn’t match the seller’s.

I think this takes advantage of recent-ish changes to shipping emails and tracking numbers where they don’t show the full destination address, presumably for privacy. Yay unintended consequences :/

In my case it worked out ok, just took a while. After some back and forth with the seller and then going radio-silent, I told Swappa, they canceled the sale and banned the seller almost immediately, and then I had to file a dispute with PayPal where they held my money for a full 30 days before handing it back.
The problem is using outcomes to describe equality. This in and of itself is controversial and not agreed upon (IMO).

I suggest that most humans would agree striving for equal opportunity is a universal goal (although hard to measure and perhaps impossible to fully achieve)

I suggest that many humans see equalized outcomes as more a dystopian nightmare. In todays world it seems equal opportunity, equity.. and equalized outcomes often conflated with one another.
> most people are tired of living under threat of being one misstep away from a Twitter Mob

I think you severely overestimate most people's capacity to give a damn about Twitter.
Yup, I only know about them from this site, where they seem to be held up as an example of taking a microservice architecture too far.
Global GDP is about 80 trillion. Those numbers are laughable.
I expected somone to create a Zoom backdrop with photo realistic but personalized books in a bookshelf.

But didn't find one when I looked a while back.

This highlights one issue, that front covers of books are easy to come by, but not spines. I wonder how hard it would be to generate one from the other automatically.
In my experience, Aliexpress takes claims seriously and is on the side of the customer.
Love the cheeky backstory, from communisty dystopia to capitalist utopia, but not for you
I get what you mean but the statement that reasonable people would agree could always be tautologically true, as opposed to evidence for others.
git is line based, so good for code.

But not for most markdown files, at least how I use it. I only start new line (actually, 2 new lines) when I reach a new paragraph, and I think this is normal for most people who ever write something in markdown.

So now I get a huge 2000 character line with a few small edits, and I can hardly see where the changes are.
What a strange metric. Why do you imagine that any significant fraction of the work someone has done in their career would be visible on their personal Github profile? Don't most developers make their living writing proprietary software, after all?
Quite excited to see what they come out with this week. I’m hoping for an edge enabled data store / DB (this looks very likely! [0]), ideally SQL, and native support for Python in workers!

0: https://mobile.twitter.com/eastdakota/status/152308141414453...
It's because he was interested in philosophy (particularly Leibniz). He also left a job he liked just to develop PowerShell at MS. (he wrote an entire manifesto about it)
Windows 10 comes with cmd.exe and power shell, both include their own terminal emulators. Windows 11 comes with both and with windows terminal on top of it.
That's even bleaker than the "Slow Costly Death of Mrs. K_______" that Edward Tufte loves to use as an example of an annotated medical bill telling an extremely bleak end-of-life horror story.
> If they were to give out their evidence, then their evidence collection methods would become known and would no longer be effective.

I would like to dispute this. Of course, there is a cat-and-mouse game between popular online services and fraudsters, but the argument "if we show you the methods we use to spot them, they won't become effective" is a flawed argument. Sure, it helps a little, but after some time many of these just become public knowledge anyway.

I know if I like too many photos on Instagram, they will block me temporarily, and if I repeat it within certain period, they can ban me for a few days and so on. Having these thresholds and other rules spelled out would be helpful to users. They would know what to avoid, and if they misbehave, they can be rightfully punished. Giving blows out of the thin air is simply unfair.
How Global warming has changed the world since the year you were born
Seriously where in Mexico is it safe to live? Especially if you scream "rich kidnappable Americans"?

Anecdotal: Mt friend had two housekeepete from Mexico who were saving to buy air BNB so they could go back to Mexico.

They visited Mexico and were found dead executed on the side of the road.
The NYT is cashing in that’s for sure
If this is recent, please file a chargeback with your bank. That's the only way to deal with such scum, otherwise they've still won - the scammer got their money and eBay got their commission.

The only thing that matters is money and this is why these bans are a thing - it's cheaper to screw some customers over than to have a competent human analyze the situation. Hitting them in the wallet is the only place they'd actually feel it.
“A Broader Right to Autonomy”
Related, for UK-based users and being discussed on HN now: “No fixed address bank accounts” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31302310
Since I so rarely see a Windows thread, perhaps folks wont mind me asking:
What utilities or code would you leverage if you had a use case to run a program on a Windows machine once a day and look for any CSV/XLS/XLSX files and then copy those to another server? (With full knowledge of the owner of said computer, they are just lacking in proficiency to do anything even as simple as connect Box Sync)
It's the nexus of visual culture, history, politics, linguistics, technology, business... as a visual artist, type has a purity of form that has a Zen quality.

It's both completely ubiquitous and invisible.
I honestly think that's still better than most online bans. If you find out you were ticketed because a cop had a bad day, it's not justice, but at least it's closure. Now you know, and you can accept it or fight/appeal if you're so inclined.

If you're permabanned because of a google/ebay AI bug, you can't even get that far.
I wondered that too for a while as well. I then had two people on my team, one on windows and one on macos, and we discovered that macos (or something on the computer) was converting those automatically.

macos (or some application(s) on macos) also seems to use a unicode version of double quotes " instead of the standard ascii one. I spent a ridiculous amount of time debugging a line in a shell script that had the unicode quotes instead of "normal" ones and broke in ways that were horrible to figure out. Eventually I discovered that he had composed the line in Slack and pasted it in. Definitely something to watch out for!
Russell Conjugation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
This is probably the funniest comment on HN.
I'm older. 10-12 hours is not a problem to me if I sleep 1 hour at noon, and take short running breaks, just 1.5 km does wonder.

Been doing this for years :-). Software development.

I love my job. It's not for money; it has a purpose. I guess that otherwise I would not recommend this o.O
Probably not exactly what you're looking for but i3 could be worth checking out. It's a tiling window manager with a powerful customization/scripting interface and it has a feature to save and restore window layouts. There's also Sway which is similar but based on Wayland though it does not have the save/restore feature.

Granted they might not be as easy to set up as installing PowerToys on Windows if you have specific expectations. (But it's not rocket science either.)
Lightning 5.1.0 with JS enabled and no other 'nasties' in place (no browser spoofing etc.) on Android 7.

Its fork SmartCookieWeb evokes the same reaction. There are 5 different browsers on this phone including two of those suggested, (Firefox and Chrome) but I wouldn't even bother trying them on this site on principle.
66th percentile of the industry for equivalent positions is what was reported.

Anybody who could get more than the 66th percentile elsewhere, more power to them. Anybody who thought that "66th percentile" meant they were being paid less than average, well, their departure was probably regarded as good attrition with a chuckle.
Segmented Displays
The world is pretty awesome. Imagine the technology our ancestors could never dream of that is now in our hands everyday.

The reason you think of the terrible place is because you've been brainwashed to think so. Social media and the news constantly tells you only bad things.

But if you actually step outside, you'll realize the world is an amazing place.
It's Windows Firefox only
Sometimes I do "semi-literate" programming where I don't even bother with the commentary. I just use a tangler so I can write the code in the order I want to see it. I really think writing in "human-order" and tangling into "compiler-order" is the bigger benefit to the methodology. It stops you from (for example) writing a function just to break up the logic into manageable parts.
I love Quick look on Mac OS! You can also use it within dock stacks- hover over an item in an expanded stack and press space.
Usual eBay tactics. I’m a long term seller on eBay and it’s a shit show. The only reason I use it is because the market is the best out there.

EBay don’t give a crap about anything once fees are collected.
Wow, I can't believe I've never heard of this book (SICM, not the wizard book). Seems incredibly cool.

That said, I'll maintain that my initial skepticism was somewhat justified given that the derivation relies on a pre-written symbolic manipulation/solver library (scmutils) so it's not quite 'from scratch' in a Lisp ;) although I believe that you could write such a library yourself, as SICP demonstrates.

As a side note, it looks like I can't go through this book because I have an M1 Mac, which GNU Scheme doesn't support :(
> stuck in the late 2000s

jQuery is still the dominant paradigm. It's used on like 80% of websites. Wordpress is also still very widely used
>The countryside has become an industrial resource base, rather than the setting for a pre-industrial way of life.

I would like to argue that this is the other way round:

A corn field is a highly parallelized and automatized food creation machine.
Is there a significant difference between operating crops and life stock or an industrial machine? I don't think so.

Industrialization means that we have transferred the automation of life onto previously manual processes. The countryside was brought into town.

This process is far from finished. Does anybody on HN doubt that the bureaucratic processes will be automated in a not so distant future? The stalling, the increase in bureaucratic processes is good because it makes it even more profitable to invest into process automation. This will overcome the 'post-industiral trap'.

That said, the observation at the end of the article is still very interesting:

>...will require social technologies of production and knowledge very different from anything we’ve seen before. A good place to start would be a new basis for friendship that defeats atomization, and a truthfulness that is compatible with political loyalty.

Do social technologies have the potential to create systems with far greater capabilities than the ones we have? Is Facebook the 'Wright Flyer of social networks' or is Facebook already the Saturn rocket?
Being able to open a savings account without a fixed address is already pretty unrealistic.
The issue is that outcomes are easier to measure, and so are.

Consequently, the policy eventually targets the measured metric, and we get policies intended to increase opportunity that instead directly target outcomes.

At which point, policy wonks pat themselves on the back for hitting their metrics.
Makes you think how much better would the social science studies be if they hired more diverse (i.e. not only left wing progressive) scientists who could point out those errors and inconsistencies to the authors of the paper.
And uh... if we are playing diversity bingo, where are the Asians, Native Americans, etc. on the Supreme Court?
> How can you make things more equal without harming the relative standing of the person who has almost everything?

Go all the way down to the "materials and methods" section. The questions they used are mostly about loans and bonuses, so they aren't even just harming the relative standing, they're harming the absolute standing.
Another case of individual citizens paying a price for the bad behavior of buroucrat / autocrat leaders.

If only the idealistic borderless free Internet were more of a reality.
There are a few other plants that do similar mimicry of specific plants, but what's remarkable about B. trifoliolata is that it mimics such a large variety of plant leaves. Even leaves of some plants not found in it's native habitat! Even more remarkable is the fact that it does not require physical contact with a plant to mimic the leaves! As far as we know, this is totally unique
The following line from the abstract:

> Misperceptions persist even after an intervention to improve decision-making.

echoes a finding from the CIA handbook Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, which for some reason lives rent-free in my head:

> Initial exposure to blurred or ambiguous stimuli interferes with accurate perception even after more and better information becomes available.
Rhetoric. No significant link between deaths and the unlimited speed on the Autobahns exists (and such data would be subject to scrutiny immediately, given that deaths on the motorway go up with socioeconomic factors, the amount of sun in a given year etc).

You are, however, wasting your life behind a wheel for longer than you need to be. Really senseless, and it puts you on the level of those who deny the efficacy of vaccines for the sake of satisfying their fear.