skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is, I think, better to think about with the "meme" idea[0], that ideas function like organisms that land in your brain, have a lifecycle, reproduce, and so on. You can apply all kinds of useful intuition from the biological world about reproductive fitness, selection, mutation, and so on. MLMs are the ideas that are like viruses because they are minimally simple (the content is not the point), they spread easily, and they use all the hosts resources (time and money) to reproduce themselves. MLMs are delightfully devious critters because they use your greed against you, promising great wealth while simultaneously sucking you dry. They are poetic justice on wheels.

What is astounding is that the victims of MLMs never see it, not even after the fact. If greed drives the spread, delusion prevents building herd immunity. It's the weaponization of Mark Twain's old saw about the American poor believing they are just millionaires down on their luck.

I think the end-game will be an MLM-as-a-service (MaaS) which services those enterprising folk who see the only way to profit from an MLM is to make a new one, and so start at the top. Make it easy and factor out everything but branding and sales. The customer would pick their product archetype (vitamins, cosmetics, whatever), pick a name and a logo that gets put on the boxes at the factory, and be on your way. Enrollment, payments, shipping, and all of that is all taken care of. For a small fee, of course.

0 - https://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/whats-in-a-meme/
> The nice thing about nuclear waste is the hazard disappears over time.

The radiation hazard disappears over time but how do you know this stuff isn't poisonous for example?
The person you're replying to really means to say "euphemism," or inventing a new term to avoid the negative connotations of an existing term that already fits. Sometimes euphemisms are motivated by political correctness, but not always and definitely not in calling a business model mostly indistinguishable from illegal pyramid schemes multi-level marketing.
I guess this might also explain a little of why older people vote in greater numbers? They've seen that their vote has an eventual impact, while young people don't have such perspective?
Yes. I have a course that I don't know whether I will pass or not. I seem to have a mental block that just isn't helping me solve the assignments. I am also supposed to work because otherwise I won't be able to remain where I live due to costs.

I have unresolved ADHD issues too. I am burnt to a crisp and I don't know what to do.
> I remain puzzled as to why software engineering seems to be immune to this overproduction problem.

Few reasons:

- While an ever increasing number of prospective students enter the field, a much lower number actually graduate.

- People that do graduate quickly get weeded out in technical interviews. This is why you see a high disconnect between unemployed devs and companies who claim they can't find talent.

- Of course the number of competent engineers in the field is going up as well, but that is matched by increased demand, as pretty much every company is now employing programmers for some business process.
Everything on Earth is currently moving at about 30km per second (over 100,000 km/h). So first you need to boost it out of the Earth's gravity well, then you need to decelerate it to near zero from 30km/s. It's easier to send things to other planets than to the sun.
The tan box in the article explains this set. The multiples are n×618 where the smallest prime factor of n (not of n×618) is ≥103 (if any). I.e. 618, 103×618, 107×618, 109×618, etc.
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I got in worst shape in October 2019, wanted to quit my job immediately. In February 2020 got corona directly from China and it was super awful 3 month long Covid. That changed my view towards employment completely. If my management does not care, why should I!!!? Today I am in same position at that company, run small consultancy in my spare time and things are great. My biggest problem today is my overweight, maybe I can fix that in coming couple years too.
There is no bound on n, it always searches to INT_MAX regardless of n.
>> but the ruble dropped and then bounced back.

You are correct.

Understandably, the Russian authorities blamed the West for the drop in the ruble exchange rate, and depreciation for inflation. At the same time, they reacted by enforcing capital controls, restricting convertibility, offering more rubles to support bank liquidity and raising interest rates on ruble deposits.

Shortly afterward, they also announced that in the future Moscow would honor its euro- and dollar- denominated debts, but would ask “hostile countries” to pay for their energy imports in rubles. Some dubbed this policy the “ruble clause.”

The authorities can now boast that the ruble has stabilized. By the beginning of April, one euro bought 85 rubles, marking a slightly stronger exchange rate than before the war began. Western operators are perhaps not overly interested in Russian monetary policy. But what about the ruble clause? Is it little more than a flash in the pan with little practical relevance, or should we take it more seriously?

https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/ruble-clause/
> but without taking away the user's option to continue working with it

You keep bringing this up, but I still don't understand what about this change would prevent people from working with intermediary/local formats, or why tools working with intermediary/local formats would be harder than building validators at every step of the submission process?

How is this change taking away anybody's ability to do anything with local data on their device? And if the point is that they should be able to submit that data, then validators will be just as much of a problem for them as a file format will be.

Lots of programs work with their own temp formats locally that are specific to their needs. I mean, you don't need to even make a new one, if you like the existing format so much, save temp changes to it, and publish finished changes to the new format.

What am I missing here, why is any of this a problem?
Coal ash tends to have a high volume of Carbon-14 which, in the volumes used to burn coal for electricity, releases significantly more radioactivity than any normally operating nuclear plant. Even just a large pile of unburnt coal is much more radioactive than your average pile of rocks
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Seriously. If ego includes sex, it ought to include money as well.
He didn’t deny he had the child porn though did he? Hardly seems like a frame up job if he admits it was there, hidden behind 3 encryption layers. I thought his excuse was someone uploaded it to his server “back in college”.

Even ignoring his troubling sexual history and the chat logs, it sounds pretty legitimate.
Because it’s true? Leaked operational secrets = people killed.
daily standups shouldn't be a thing
If Twitter was lying on their sec reports then yes the deal can certainly be terminated.
> Did anyone figure out what they actually wanted to say?!

Did you read the paper?
I was really hoping this would be about Medical Logic Modules / Arden Syntax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_logic_module
I would use this as an interview question just to see if the person had ever been taught or given any thought to memory caches. "How much slower is it to iterate through a linked list vs. an array?" I mostly interviewed fresh-from-school grads. The most common answer I got was: 2x.
Yes, but not faster than the total mass of crops drops due to the increase in heat. Crop yield per plant in a controlled environment where only CO2 is increased != total crop yield given all of the circumstances involved in climate change.

CO2 as a heat trap is the problem, not so much CO2 in the atmosphere as an input to plant and animal life.
But it is a fundamentally different type of problem. Going through a router imposes hard bandwidth limitations at a central point.

With direct wifi, each monitor only needs to serve a single user, so the devices can be lower powered -- the broadcast only needs to serve ~a single desk. And they are centrally controlled by the IT department, so unlike a wifi router the in RF mad-max anarchy zone that is a modern apartment building, there shouldn't be concerns about noisy neighbors.

I'm not sure there's a point to all this -- the phone being used as a computer is probably going to be plugged in, so why not push everything through USB-C/thunderbolt nowadays? -- but it is almost certainly possible.
How do you contend with the fact that humans dominate every ecosystem we enter? We don't just become the apex predator, we annihilate them all, entirely. Additionally, we find incredibly complex use cases for resources they ignored which increase wealth and prosperity across our civilization. To me, that suggests human intelligence is the most powerful force of survival in the known universe.
More like, you find a house, you read the seller’s disclosures, waive all inspection rights, then show up just before closing and say oh yeah can i inspect the property now even though I waived inspections and all other contingencies?
> Tomorrow I have a second interview at a local retail store. I've been a web developer or software engineer for a decade...

Do you mean to say you're giving up on dev due to failures to land a new dev job...or you are trying to transition out of dev and not able to find a job in a new industry?

I guess either way, an anecdote from own personal experience, I was looking at other options myself...I was burnt out on dev, looking to do something related but I thought might take a burden off my shoulders (QA/support), that didn't work out...but long story short, I just decided to embrace who I was--I'm a dev, and I'd like to think a good one, not to say a bigger transition is out of the question, but I found that it was more realistic to adjust my "internal" dials rather than escape to an entirely new career. That may or may not describe you, but I guess I would say to bear in mind the solution isn't always an external change of circumstances.
> Can any sovereign determine funds are clean, perhaps pushing this to its logical extreme of becoming a funds cleaner?

That's up to each sovereign. Each sovereign has the ability the set the rules by which you must run your business if you want to operate in their country. If you want to operate in the US (or do business with US financial institutions) then you have to follow the US rules for which transactions must be blocked.

Since stolen property still belongs to the owner, recieving stolen property put can you at risk of having that property legally confiscated and returned to the owner. When operating in jurisdictions that allow this, blocking such transactions protects your customers.

Thus there are two good reasons to engage in this kind of flagging, protecting yourself from regulatory authorities and protecting your customers against asset seizure.
It requires ever increasing growth to function and the world's resources are finite.
> (IMHO good few years in early 2000s)

That tallies with when I was using Perl (late 90s / early 00s). Python was very much on the up in that time but I didn't feel compelled to switch, then DayJob and personal projects took me away from such thing completely (DayJob was Windows/VB6/IIS/ASP based, home web stuff went PHP for a while and admin stuff to Bash).
Coordination without any kind of hierarchy has N!/2 complexity. That gets overwhelming way to soon.
Have an idea that requires everyone else to change something. N!/2 conversations to have. (Or one big meeting with the same sort of complexity).
Need to change your approach to match what others are doing, gotta make a 1-on-1 connection. If they need to change their approach, they need to coordinate with others, continue for a long time.

If you want any kind of efficiency
You need to have small-ish teams. I'd guess about 10 people. But lets say 50. You need to chunk up work so that teams can work in parallel. You need central oversight to coordinate the teams. This can be just a group meeting of team leaders, but the big picture should not be lost. And you need to make some decisions from this central picture.

All of this very quickly leads to hierarchy.
> Sometimes you need more complex actions to update a service than just "update the code".

Yes, software that was updated with a `git pull` always had an script or executable that gets the environment up to date with the new version.

> It's fine on one server, but the more you have the more difficult it gets

Nope, it's easy on as many servers as you want. It's just a matter of running `ssh $x (cd dir && git pull && dir/update_environment)` on a for loop. There were plenty of tools to manage that loop too if you didn't want to keep the information on a simple text file.

> Too easy to say "let me just modify this thing here in production"

Well, that's a "don't".

> Changes and dependencies accumulate on the server, which might cause weird errors or necessary configurations that aren't written down anywhere.

And that is the one reason why this was abandoned almost everywhere, as soon as it became possible.
Are the Heat Dome, massive floods in Germany and 50C in May in India not enough to make an induction that things have a pretty reasonable chance of getting a lot worse a lot faster than that?
It's good advice, thanks for it. We are in good financial shape and only plan to have our one child luckily. My partner is not working at the moment but he has a masters degree in engineering so I'm sure he could also find work.

I hope your situation worked out in the end too.

Speaking of standup, yeah.... It's obviously a way to keep people on track and apply some social pressure insofar as that. It's not too bad compared to other stressful jobs but it's annoying haha.
You cannot fix it. There was a discussion on HN some month ago about this issue.
Giving up on a product that only provides marginal value is hardly the same thing as becoming a hermit.

Uber eats isn’t integral to operating in modern society by a long stretch.

The hermit argument is trotted out far too often, it’s one thing if we are talking about something like a smart phone, but just because something is new or techy, doesn’t mean you are a Luddite for not using it.
> it was as good as they say, they'd be doing it themselves not pitching it to you

Counterfactual: franchises.
Software engineering isn't tied to one particular business model, like pharmacy, oil, or airlines. There's the "software industry" and there's all the industries who also have software developers. Big tech has had a massive boom, pushing up salaries. I'm not so sure devs outside of the official software industry are doing great (are they? Someone comment), though of course there's an evaporation of talent to the higher paying area.
Yeah you must not work in the business. Factories with workers are evaporating as fast as they can be obsoleted. It's been going on for 2 decades now.

The obstacle to UBI is not financial nor technological. It's social. Old entrenched views that haven't been revisited since childhood, and the folks holding those views making decisions.

I think a generation will have to grow old and die before UBI will be found acceptable.
Mostly just being sparky as far as hellscape but the air quality can be nasty in Palo Alto several days a year. Some people are indeed forced to take time off work and head out of town.
>full service is considered a premium service and they charge extra for it because a certain segment of consumers will pay for it.

This is disproven by the fact that in my 3+ decades of travel around many US states, I have never seen a gas station attendant outside of NJ and OR. No one is willing to pay the premium necessary to employ attendants, and so they will reward the gas station owner selling self serve for cheaper.

There certainly exists a population of people who would like to have others pump their gas for them. If gas station attendant labor costs made no effect on bottom line gas prices, then gas station owners would try to court these people by selling full service gas at the same price as self service.

Since it does not happen, the premise of negligible labor costs must be false.
This particular copy-pasta of the story is dated to 2022, but the story is much older (I mean, obviously it happened in the 60s, but I think the word-for-word copy is more recent). The story was published online at least as early as 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20071201072335/http://www.916-st...

Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133282 (2008)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=519337 (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652643 (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500153 (2019)
> Leaked operational secrets = people killed.

Correct. Leaked operational secrets, like say via spyware installed on devices, = people killed. Which brings me back to my original question:

> What about the people who could be hurt as a result of the intelligence the CIA collects via the spyware?

So why is the fact that this leak could also save lives not pointed out?
Machines don't do infinity. This article isn't about an imaginary computer with an infinitely long paper tape from a thought experiment, it's about a real computer, just like the ones many HN readers work with every day.

As a result k*N can actually be bigger than N^2 when in fact N isn't "an integer" in a mathematical sense but merely a 32-bit machine integer, for example - simply by k being more than 4 billion in that case.
The question about how many people have the problem isn’t the same question as asking how many people you’ve managed to sign up, can you be clearer about what your number is referring to?

I’ve signed up for many more services than I actually need/use, and even amongst ones I use, there are certainly some solving problems I don’t really have.
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I really must do everything at my own pace, or suffer health consequences. I realized this in my teens, so I never held a job, instead I'm always building things without a boss, and without customers who act like I owe them something. At 30 my health is great, I've been lucky.
I certainly expect him to pay the 1 billion dollars required for backing out, but of course he will try to avoid that.

The real reason is that he can't afford to buy Twitter at the negotiated price, which is entirely on Musk.
Best that happened to me was being so stressed and eventually depressed that I really needed to work with my abilities as a human being with the responsibility to take care about one self.

For a long period it was a matter of looking at a certain ask from someone and I would simply feel if I was ok with that ask.

I have quit a lot of jobs due to me not accepting how people manage their own responsibility and time, because it then hit me.

Listen, I feel you. But don't take shit from no one and especially if has cost on your well being. It is definitely not worth it. Absolutely not.

I hope you find your legs, get someone professional to talk to and get back in the game.

There is nothing wrong with any of us, but as we bend our integrity we slowly lose ourselves, and that's not good. Get back to your own self.

All the best!
It seems so strange, you’d think there’d be no shortage of problems to go around.
Not GP, but here's an answer to your question in the form of a jigsaw puzzle: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739198964/crimethinc-pyramid-of...
It's always fun to see one of these articles pop up about someone I know - I knew Jared from the ultimate frisbee team at Dartmouth!
This sounds like an audio version of LinkedIn.
> If it's about Word and LibreOffice not playing well with text-based diff typically used by version control systems, then maybe the problem is with the file formats used by Word and LibreOffice.

Text-based diff requires you to make a number of assumptions:

1. I'm writing a plain text file
2. The text file is broken up into multiple lines, each with distinct statements/expressions

Compare that to composing a multi-media file:

1. I'm writing a document with plain text, graphics, possibly video, possibly sound, together on one page
2. The text may not be distinct statements/expressions on different lines
3. The media may change incrementally or wholly
4. The layout on the page may change incrementally or wholly

Some multimedia document formats have a text form (ODF is zipped XML), but it still has different assumptions from the text-based diff. An intelligent program understands when the formatting has only changed slightly, without having line-by-line assumptions. Word & LibreOffice already have such version control/diffing built in. So the technology already exists, but we're not applying it in a way that makes it convenient to store these documents with our other versioned/diffed documents.

What we need is a way to combine different methods of diffing/versioning different kinds of files within one contextual view. The one view would allow you to view code diffs/Word diffs/image diffs/etc from one interface, and push/pull/share them to some kind of remote repository. Like Artifactory, but less terrible.
Read some works by Thomas Sowell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
Would highly recommend Basic Economics/

Gives a good foundation on the fiscal side of conservatism.
I didn't even realize the author was black until a few years after I read the book.
Having already read this account I chortled to myself after watching Tom Gun's Maverick...

Deleted after people crying spoiler but an event within the first 10 mins seems like a bit of a stretch.
> No, they're not.

Yes, they are - an unshielded used fuel road will give anyone within feet of it a lethal dose of ionising radiation literally in seconds. They’re over 10,000 rem/h, and exposure to 100+ causes acute radiation sickness and death.
Resource extraction using brutality is pointless without a market for the extracted resources.
It's governed by diffusion. There is an equation ( Einstein eq. I think) that says something about the average distance diffused being proportional to sqrt(time) and a diffusion coefficient which depends on what is diffusing and in what medium. the units of the diffusion coefficient are in m^2/sec because of the square root dependence but it's sort of an analog to the speed.

Delta x = Sqrt(6Dt) in 3d

It's based on brownian motion leading to a gaussian distribution of distances travelled