skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title, while true, is overly obvious.

One of the main themes of the first book of the Bible (Genesis) involves persuasion, so it's safe to say that misinformation isn't going away. The serpent told Eve "God told you that eating this you will die. But you won't die." and then Eve, not wanting to die, but wanting to see if the serpent was telling the truth, persuaded Adam to eat it -- the serpent taught Eve to misinform.

The original sin wasn't eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, but Eve's tricking Adam into eating it. Hence the punishment mostly being put on women (Pain in birth being the main punishment noted in the story).

(Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just pointing out that it is too obvious that misinformation and persuasion aren't going away. Belief in the Bible isn't relevant... the fact that there's an ancient story about misinformation and persuasion being the reason for human downfall is all that I'm bringing up.)
I am also interested in getting a pulse on the tech scene in Lisbon, to move there as an IC more so than an entrepreneur.

How do you stay up to date on what's happening tech wise in Lisbon? Just contacts in your personal network or are there specific social media, blogs, podcasts, that you can recommend to get a feel for what's happening?

Are salaries for IC's still suffering from a 'near-shore' effect or are salaries just a flat remote rate and there isn't much of a 'local market' arbitrage effect?
On the other hand, Elders voted the UK out of the EU.
Kafka Parallel Consumer
This library lets you process messages in parallel via a single Kafka Consumer meaning you can increase consumer parallelism without increasing the number of partitions in the topic you intend to process. For many use cases this improves both throughput and latency by reducing load on your brokers. It also opens up new use cases like extreme parallelism, external data enrichment, and queuing.
You are out and about it your car. It’s reasonable to think people can’t just open it and search it.

You are sitting on a park bench. It would be considered an invasion of privacy if someone opened your bag and took out a diary or note book and started reading it.

If you were meeting a friend in a public space and someone later confronted you about something you had said and produced a recording, it would probably make some portion of people uncomfortable.
Also no legitimate method of inquiry works by someone saying "I'll give you a reward if you prove me wrong!" and then having that promise of reward settled in court.
https://archive.ph/oI9pH
so if you add thermal pads to the Macbook Pro with the M2? its very confusing that this article is actually about two devices with the same chipset, the Macbook air and Macbook pro. It seemed like they were referring to a different unreleased superior chip: the M2 Pro
> Helping each of my children to learn their strengths and the power of their ability...has made a world of difference.

Thanks for sharing your experience. This is important advice for any parent, educator, or mentor.
I'm the same way I like paypal to mask this. However some credit cards now have "virtual cards" that give you a temporary online number that you can use for specific transactions. It's another great way to avoid your data getting out there. I use one from Citibank as I have a CC from them.

I highly recommend that instead of Paypal too if you suspect a site will have a much higher chance you'll need to reverse a charge. Paypal has longer wait times for disputes than the CC companies. CC companies will also have your back a bit more, typically.
Are there reasons I'd use this over LibreOffice?
There was an episode of The Good Wife where a dispute was settled using Christian arbitration. Not sure how realistic it was, but it was kind of interesting.

https://ew.com/recap/the-good-wife-season-6-episode-3/
PayPal is garbage. Every interaction I have had with them has been miserable. At a previous ecommerce company we basically had to accept that 95% of our fraud claims would be denied without reason, just denied and closed and money lost, disregarding our proof.
Their dispute process is weird. I sold a few items on ebay and one of the buyers filed a dispute under a ridiculous pretense (sending pictures of a pulverized item that was a different color than what I had in my ad and claiming I sent them that). PayPal sent an email claiming they were investigating, apparently that was my cue to send in evidence or something but I assumed it meant they were investigating this ridiculous fraud on the part of the buyer.

Not so! They said since I didn't send in evidence in response to their very subtle prompt the decision defaulted to the claimant and I was out a bunch of money.

It was the last time I used PayPal or ebay for anything.
This really seems bizarre to me. Isn’t the whole point of this aspect of you religion that you are supposed to turn the other cheek? It sounds to me like you are trying to do an end run around that principle. If you’re going to do that why not just convert to a different denomination?
Whenever I can I use SEPA payment for subscriptions (which it looks like OVH accepts, most debitcards are SEPA in Europa), because it allows you to withdraw within 2 months directly from your bank application directly, no questions asked. (SEPA is EU based)

Much better then credit cards and paypal, where you have to open a request for refund etc. You only have this in the EU, but it's the best option.

I also had the flip side where customers would withdraw a few months in payment because the couldn't make their mortgage. Which we ended up resolving in a nice way.

Maybe someone can recommend CC companies that tend to side on the Consumer side, American Express maybe?
I'm not surprised at either OVH's or paypal's behavior.

OVH has been on my shitlist (and email blocklist) for years, because of their tolerance of spammers on their network; abuse notifications are ignored.

As for Paypal, there are so many stories of Paypal scamming companies out of money by closing their accounts on some pretext, and just keeping the money. Just google it, this goes back decades.

Both are awful companies, avoid them like the plague. Dispute the OVH charge with your credit card company, generally not a scammy outfit.
> Extended Stay America

The third word is the key. ;)

I've added a bit to my comment after the initial posting - an example of my last long-term stay. It was in Georgia (Sakartvelo, not the US state), and it's a good but developing country - to best of my awareness they don't really have anything similar, or at least my searches hadn't found it. So I suppose it depends on a country.

But you're absolutely correct, Extended Stay America is probably a very good option. When I've immigrated to the US, it was very high on my list. I still went with an Airbnb because I needed to find a new permanent home anyway (so I was renting short-term only as I was looking for a job), and Airbnb was in a more favorable location as I needed things in a walking distance (had no never driven a car at the time, hah), and maybe that was a mistake - it was OK but not exactly great. Anyway, I do have a home in the US now (and love the country) and I'm not really exploring the country just yet - but if/when I'll have a long-term trip somewhere else here, I'll definitely consider Extended Stay America. So far my US trips were all fairly short though.

And thanks for the tip about The Calyx Internet Membership. I don't have use for this right now, but this might come in handy!

BTW, does anyone know - is there something similar in Mexico, in safe(r) areas, ideally a gated community? This is the next country life is sending me to - because of some family circumstances I'll have spend some months down there...
Oh, crikey, that's handy for a lot of things which will only allow you the choice of MySQL or Postgres.
none whatsoever
I barely even bother with AirBNB now. They lost the battle of peer to peer renting. Cleaning fees, taxes, etc all add up and airbnbs are almost never cheaper than hotels in most cities when I look. Might be better space or amenities like a kitchen, but the glory days of this are gone thanks to the hospitality lobby and NIBMY bullshit of local governments. Sad. Seems like you can’t do anything without several middlemen putting their hands into the transaction for their cut. Sound almost like the mob. Ha.
Chandrasekhar dynamical friction is just a function of gravity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_friction
Former unimportant Eve player active 2008-2017, involved in most of the big wars of that time-frame. I met Mittens for the first time in meatspace in 2011, before he built much of his influence and infamy, but the impression I got back then mirrors your bias and was confirmed on many later occasions. Ironically he himself comes to the same conclusion, if a decade late: "... has resulted in [] my presence being a net negative for the wider tribe". For the record I think that Goons are still a net positive for Eve despite the many overstepped limits, but that is debatable.
> I find the stance a little baffling though; if Measles isn't a virus, why can it's spread by halted by vaccination?

I mean surely anyone making the first claim would also make the claim that the measles vaccine is bogus. That second claim is already infamously popular enough in areas of the U.S. that there have been measles outbreaks among unvaccinated children.
Most people idk. But most people are not the ones for whom the lack of a fan would ever be a problem.

Most people do not run long renders, or compile lots of code. Most people browse the web, look at photos, and send emails/messages.
Last I checked, solar panels are manufactured from refined silicon which is derived from sand.

It can be recycled and used for a variety of applications.
5 people gets tricky, but up to 4 people is definitely doable in Western Europe where I've travelled.
I am sorry but BFR point-to-point will never ever happen. Just watch their presentation where they show cities such as Zürich, Switzerland. Zürich is extremely small, if you launch a rocket the size of the BFR you will blow out every window in the entire city.

It absolute snake oil and will never ever happen. There is no way to make a rocket that size quiet enough to launch in most places in the world. Especially not near any city.
You're right, on looking back at the threads it was not nearly that hot. But it was elevated enough to cause issues. People reporting their laptops got uncomfortably hot, compared to stock.

Looks like the actual point where you start to get problems is quite low, somewhere around ~38C, so if the mod elevated temperatures even to 40-50C, you'd be in heavy discomfort or possible burn territory. This paper talks about skin lesions and burns happening around there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853603/
My guess is it was a handful of French former telecom workers and, generally speaking, complete dicks.
Why would a terrible paper by physicists indict all of psychics?
Celebrate people's accomplishment and criticize when they make egregious mistakes.

There's no need to be for all or totally against a company/person.
What does Vercel offer that AWS Lambda and its other products already provide? I see Vercel has serverless functions but how does it compare to Lambda for instance?

edit: I see from reddit discussions it is initially cheaper but quickly gets even more expensive than AWS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/ra1whm/bye_vercel_h...
> To figure out if a system is vulnerable, Atlassian advised Confluence users to search for accounts with the following information:

User: disabledsystemuser
Username: disabledsystemuser
Email: dontdeletethisuser@email.com

Why does this even exist at all? It doesn't even seem like a default admin user. Is this for automated testing and somehow ended up part of the deployed codebase?
Looks like Falcon 9 is $67M and Falcon Heavy is $97M.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/spacex-raises-prices-for-lau...
Paraphrased from the docs [1]:

> SpatiaLite is smoothly integrated into SQLite to provide a complete and powerful Spatial DBMS (mostly OGC-SFS compliant). Using SQLite + SpatiaLite you can effectively deploy an alternative open source Spatial DBMS roughly equivalent to PostgreSQL + PostGIS. The difference between them is mainly architecture: PostgreSQL + PostGIS uses a client/server architecture suitable for sophisticated Spatial Data infrastructures at the cost of complexity; SQLite + SpatiaLite has much simpler architecture more appropriate for desktop, stand-alone, and personal activities.

> SpatiaLite supports direct SQL access to several commonly used external datasources: ESRI Shapefiles, DBF Archive Files, TXT/CSV/XLS ...

> SpatiaLite actively supports many alternative standard Geometry notations: WKT [Well Known Text] and WKB [Well Known Binary], PostGIS own EWKT and EWKB [Extended WKT / WKB], GML [Geography Markup Language], KML [Keyhole Markup Language, used by Google Maps and Google Earth], GeoJSON [Geometry Java Script Object Notation], SVG [Scalable Vector Graphics].

[1]: https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/splite-doxy-5.0.1/index.ht...
It's interesting because I had to integrate Stripe's dispute API for a client once and I'm sure the opposite was true - we had to prove the customer was lying, as Stripe would side with the customer by default, not the other way around.

I might be wrong though, this was years ago and I had no involvement in the dispute process itself, but that was my recollection. I'd have thought PayPal would be more pro-consumer if anything because of how consumer facing it is - it's not like they're just doing anonymous CC processing on behalf of the merchant, which is largely what Stripe does.
It would seem most social systems across the world are built like Social Security and rely on at a minimum stagnant population growth.
It has a non-negligable impact on surface temperature. Even on actively-cooled Macs I've owned in the past, the MacOS governor is way too lenient with letting the CPU clock up. Having an 80c+ internal temp made the palmrests too warm to comfortably use, for me at least. I don't really see how removing the fans is going to help reduce the surface temperature, especially with a material as thermally conductive as aluminum.
It's basically writing prompts for culture-war mad-libs. Ways to start a fight. You should not regard it as serious discourse.
> It occurred to me that none of this would have occurred in a regular hotel. The hotel would have a proper fire and sprinkler system with actual fire escape routes, the electrics would not be amateur and they would have had proper insurance.

It's not like there's zero chance of negligence at a proper hotel, but yeah the odds should be better.

I'm reminded of an incident ages ago when I was renting a modern townhouse in a large corporate complex where they were arranged like duplexes with shared garage walls. My gf at the time had fallen asleep immediately after starting one of those Duraflame logs without opening the flue. She and our cats nearly died from smoke inhalation.

The units were all on a centralized smoke detector/fire alarm system powered by in-wall wiring that we weren't responsible for. We didn't know it at the time, but someone had unplugged all of the detectors so no alarms went off while her and the cats came dangerously close to dying in the buttoned up space. I came home to find her and the cats sitting on the front stoop, all coughing and sooty. The interior was all blackened with smoke damage.
Tangentially related: this doctoral thesis a friend of mine published 15 years ago:

https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/45...

(sadly it's only available in German)

Eradicating polio is harder than it seems
I was reading a book on cognitive biases recently and the part that really stuck for me was: The smarter you are, the more likely you are to fall prey to the Narrative Bias/Fallacy.

Super smart people are so good at constructing plausible narratives that they can convince themselves of almost anything. You have to actively look for ways to disprove your own narratives. This is hard because they sound so plausible.
When someone says $500k/year, they usually mean a package like $150k base + $350k stocks with yearly grants.

For the standard 4-year vesting schedule, and assuming a new $350k grant every year, this means actual earnings are:

Year 1: $150k + $0 $150k
Year 2: $150k + $87.5k $237.5k
Year 3: $150k + $87.5k*2 $325k
Year 4: $150k + $87.5k*3 $412k

If you leave here, at year 4, and lose all unvested options (expected), your actual average was $281k/year.

Only by year 5 you'll finally actually earn the $500k/year, and the vesting schedule has such an impact on the early earnings that even after a decade, your yearly average is still $400k.

Not to forget taxes. So the idea to "save for one year then take 6 years off" is kinda off the menu unless they've been at the company for a long, long time, or are willing to spend those 6 years living in Thailand.
Surely it's not based on interviews. You'll lose the will to live if one in a thousand interviewees gets the job.

Based on applicants it's ok, went all seen how any job ad attracts piles and piles of spam applications.
I can't understand why they used completely different input signals as a comparison.

Is convolving using some sort of smooth derivative of each useful? Or, is that too sensitive to noise?
- if the language eagerly binds on determined promises (ie it doesn’t schedule your .then function) you can get weird semantic bugs.

What would be an example of this? If the promise has been determined, why not just immediately run the .then function?
They hired the Secret Service guy who deleted Jan 6 texts. Never been a fan of them due to their usage of shadow profiles, I hope any such company goes bankrupt.
How though when any interesting wireless target uses encryption?
What jurisdiction?

If you’re in the US, Regulation E provides some protection from unauthorized charges. Though paying with a bank account is still silly because you’re losing out on cashback and credit cards always side with the customer in these disputes.
Fed printed crazy amounts of dollars since 2008 and didn't drive inflation

High oil prices, restricted supply chians from covid do drive inflation
What brand piano are you using?
> Etsy was a site heavily targeted towards women, and what was said about the sea of shirtless dudes and the dickfilter made me realize that in large enough groups and without any sensible moderation, both men and women will focus on their basest desires.

That’s not really what happens. Most users of a website are trying to use it as intended. It’s 1% of users who get a kick out of trolling a website with weird content. The difference is that they have a lot of free time and their content can be gathered randomly from Google and posted with little effort. Compare that to actual sellers, who have to actually make something and photograph it, and you can see why the low-effort spam content fills the site up despite being a relatively small number of users doing it.
Financialisation.

I have a strong suspicion that the benefits of increased productivity are claimed by the finance industry. Credit/debt increases along with productivity keeping us mere mortals from enjoying the benefits we otherwise could (e.g. greater security and leisure time).
I agree except willful malice is not a mistake. I will not support looking the other way because of elon's accomplishments. He is not above any rules or expectations that apply to any CEO or company.
Do you really think Elon had much to do with it?
This project is a shame. There is no point in making people believe that this is a serious open source office solutions. I'm saw even recently so many people using it and complaining about it while they could use libreoffice instead and have a better experience.
Segmentation in the sense that: this laptop is not designed for the workloads that produce 100+ temps.

That's not an oversight, that's an engineering tradeoff to lower the weight and thickness for the workloads that it is designed for: day-to-day usage by the average person (i.e. no video render, no big project compiling).
Came here to link SSC as well. I find the predictive coding theory to be a pretty compelling model of cognitive function/dysfunction.

There seems to be another related but separate dimension to the spectrum. I remember an analogy of borderline personality disorder being the female version of autism mentioned somewhere on SSC as well, which is interesting. The disorders seem to share some sort of failure in integration between top-down priors and bottom up sensory information, but with a different focus. Borderline personality disorder seems like a difficulty in integrating more extrinsic, social concepts like self-identity and models of other people. It makes me think there's something fundamentally different between introverted and extraverted cognitive strategies.
Seeing how point-to-point is not their primary use case (or even secondary or tertiary), I don't see how this matters at all.

I can see how maybe in the far future, when Starship has been perfected, they could possibly try it. Obviously not downtown Zurich, but at a space port nearby.
Or the oral (active) polio vaccine?
This isn't one bit political. Don't treat people like shit, that's all. How is that political?
Elon can sure help design some shit, but he sucks as a manager.
another one game that's similar to EVE in some ways but different from what you're describing here (that I found from an HN comment 73 days ago) is Prosperous Universe https://prosperousuniverse.com it's kind of a cross between EVE and Factorio but glacially slow. there's no combat or graphics (aside from some fancy but not really useful map screens), so it's really just a game of logistics/planning/economy, and the amount of enjoyment you get from the game depends almost entirely on how much fun you find spreadsheet-making ("a lot" for me). I got some friends to play with me and it's been really fun to coordinate our slowly-expanding galactic empire.
> [Rockland County residents], have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state; Monsey's is the lowest in the state, at 17.8%, as of June 15, 2021

Rockland County from the article.
Then, vs, now...

Tampered Persistent Management 2.0

The media companies shipped a rootkit with that PC you bought, and now it's mandatory to run the popular OS that most people use. Your computer is not your own; it is a 'trusted' device for movie and audio companies.
Pretty interesting. Its odd Amazon allows this to happen, but I guess they have no incentives not to. Reminds me of this video from the Pitch Meeting YouTube guy: https://youtu.be/nQpxAvjD_30
Smarter, Better, Faster: Using Machine Learning to Review Emotes
Man I keep starting that, but get stuck trying to do basic stuff like open a cupboard. Can you suggest a good intro?
So this is a device for the Mr Robot crowd as I suspected.
I suppose something like WebTorrent could be used in that instance? The peers could eliminate the need for the server.

Still that's too much JS for my minimal/no-JS goals.
We should be praising you instead, who with a bit of sarcasm demonstrates to be a world class CEO - CEO without company
People get unreasonably excited about swag. I try not to take T-shirts any longer unless there's something unique about them. If it's just some random company's name I'll pass. I've given away huge trash bags of lightly worn or unworn T-shirts and I still have massive piles of them.
The alternative vendors have no shortage of similar issues.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1550230795230781440.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20220722194603/https://threadrea...
Amazon "... is turning their marketplace into a flea market of total junk."

Man if this isn't the dead-on honest truth. Amazon is so garbage now that Walmart.com is a trusted supplier by comparison.

I can't believe Amazon gets away with the crap they do. They so obviously turn a blind eye to constant, serious anti-consumer crap from Chinese sellers. Why? And why doesn't the FTC or any other department do anything?