skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have decided some time ago that I will not work for any company who is engaging in such practices. I will not feed the manipulation machine, to the best of my abilities. I don’t have to quit tech entirely but focus on parts where I can do good for people.

I’m now in talks with a foundation who is building communication tools for social and public initiatives. I don’t know if the idea will work out in the end but there are alternatives worth pursuing.

I really don’t understand the engineers and designers working at Facebook and similar companies. They cannot all be ignorant. There has to be some cultural angle of disdain for the regular user at play.
David Irvine from MaidSafe on the Advancing Safe Network
With clime, I think Azores are a good spot, and since they are part of Portugal, you'll still remain in eu
I'm not so sure Hilton's strategy is shamelessness. It seems more like "owning" it. For example, the leak of the sex tape is the first I'd ever heard of her. I expected her to be mortified and sue and hide. But nope. She owned it, turning it into an opportunity for fame and fortune.

For an example of the opposite, remember the Star Wars Kid? The video of him twirling the light sabre was leaked online, and he was humiliated and sued. Another path he could have taken would be to "own" it, say "yep, that's me". I bet he could have made a lot of money off of that, and perhaps even gotten a cameo on a SW movie out of it.

I have a friend who underwent some major abdominal surgery for cancer. She didn't want to wear a swimsuit because she was embarrassed and ashamed of the large scars. I suggested that her scars were battle scars of her triumph over cancer, and she should be proud of them and show them off. She owned it, and told me later that it transformed her to turn those scars into a positive.

Similar things happen to bald men. The ones who try to hide it with wigs and comb-overs come across rather poorly. The ones who own it and flaunt it fare far better.
Thanks for the feedback. I already promised to add timer hiding option in another comment thread, will do on the weekend.
Ngô kicked out the French in favor of USA, rigged elections, and instituted policies of anti-Buddhist Christian bigotry. He was never elected in a real election, rather propped up by Westerners because he served their interests.

Have you tried evaluating the North by the same standards?

"Ho Chi Minh kicked out the French in favor of USSR, rigged elections, and instituted policies of anti-religious secular bigotry. He was never elected in a real election, rather propped up by China/USSR because he served their interests."
Mind elaborating how cryptocurrencies are at all helpful here? How's government saying 2k cash transactions are illegal different from it saying 2k Bitcoin or Monero transactions are illegal?

The point is not that cops will now chase after conspicuous stacks of colorful paper, but that law-abiding citizens and businesses will refuse dealing with you and/or report you to police if you suggest to commit an offence.
Does it have new ideas? I have read up on it and honestly can’t tell.
If one is relying on time of all actors in a distributed system to be perfectly in sync, you already have a bug, leap seconds or not. (unless you are Google Spanner)

For timers within a single system, use monotonic clock of your own cpu.
I purposefully "misuse" the phrase "begging the question" to mean the same thing as the grandparent, because I want to do my part to change what this phrase means.

Using "begging the question" to mean something as obscure and unintuitive (as in, it's basically an idiom that must be explained first) as "your question originates from circular logic" is a waste of prime dictionary space.

This term should mean "there is a question that is so blindingly obvious regarding the situation at hand, that it simply begs to be asked" - so, more or less what everyone who didn't have the term explained to them, thinks it's supposed to mean.
Spoiler alert: because of familiarity.

It is probably one of the best reasons for picking technology for side projects. I think the article would be better if it just focused on that point. Now it tries to praise angular, but without touching on alternative options fails to make a good case.
Convert Snaps to Flatpack
Apparently created by a disgruntled Canonical employee. Generates scripts to migrate each app, allowing you to edit to your preferences.
New Elmo fire memes with DALL-E 2
Just a word of caution from someone who paid a ton of money to a lot of the people mentioned in the article in the last 2 years and was part of more than a few of these communities. Note these are my observations and opinions.

- Read any testimonials these people out with a dollop of salt. Success rates seem to be around 1-2%(if you are lucky) with most of the others leaving or barely getting by. Easier to make way more money as a software dev in an established company than in the "creator economy".

- Copy what they do to sell their courses rather than buying their courses. Their courses are out of date, but they are still milking it.

- Assume any financial number you see from these people or people in similar spaces as suspect. It is either massaged or an outright lie to make it look much better than it is most of the time.

- Assume you are being marketed to with any content they put out

- There is a TON of luck. A million people put in the same hard work but do not make it. But most of these people spin it as hard work.

- Most of these people cannot teach. Great at marketing themselves, but not much else.
>Your honor the nuclear attack on San Fransisco happened at 10.59.59 as per UTC-Facebook time and is as such part of WWIII and not a violation of the armistice.
Yeah, it was quite different. Half the strategies for grid-net doesn't work, and my pattern matching is off.

Same for Loopy/Slitherlink. It's the same game, but changing shapes vastly changes the game. Very fascinating and refreshing.
If the law is nonsense then breaking the law is a very good use case.
I don't think her colleagues enjoy bringing criticism to her. It's more likely that she's just winding herself up. But that's not a bad thing.

It just so happens that people are less likely to be praised, because if there's something to praise, that's exactly what the employer demands of them. And when an employer criticizes, it means they're not getting "it" from the employee.

However, it's up to the employee to decide what she is comfortable with and what she is not.
The space requirements can be very low capturing something like writing code, where only 1% of the screen might change second-to-second.

"ffmpeg -f gdigrab -i desktop -c:v libx264 -preset medium -fps_mode vfr -crf 0 -an -vf mpdecimate capture.ts" (Windows, -f x11grab -i $DISPLAY for Linux on X11) produces a lossless video that averages 102 MiB/hour for me (1920x1080 @ <= 60fps). That's about two cents a day at current disk prices, and easy to upload as a private YouTube video if you don't want to lug the files around.

If you don't like the CPU hit, use -preset ultrafast to record the capture using less processing power but giving a larger file, and then re-encode that file later using -preset slower. There's no quality loss if you used lossless mode (-crf 0), and for content like this the savings are especially large (reducing to around one-quarter ultrafast size, in my experience).
If you want to deposit an EUR 200 banknote at some banks in my country the bank will charge you EUR 5.

Per note.
The same kids whose parents bought them an XBox or PlayStation. The Quest 2 is cheaper than both at $300. It’s standalone so you don’t need a PC. There’s been a sea change in the VR player base since the first Quest came out:

https://youtu.be/wbB807o-Fjs
All of her classmates and close friends seem to say she is very intelligent.

There is just a very strong sentiment (including yours) that she has to be stupid. She gave you and everybody else what you wanted.

I was very relieved to find out she was intelligent, because that was my theory from the start. I could not believe someone that stupid would make it that far.
I believe twitter's QNTM said it best:

"Facebook developers are apparently so frightened of a negative leap second that they think altering the way global timekeeping works is easier than fixing their code"
New Zealand is making it illegal to buy Gold with cash.

This is not about paying taxes its a global move to make sure the banking systems are well funded, and runs on the bank are pointless during periods of high inflation.

Cash is problematic, how is the banking system meant to increase money supply if everyone holds physical cash.
No, no more buying used cars from private citizens. Got you.

Sure, you could do this by the bank, wait for a few days, then constantly wonder if it arrived, and/or if the car seller is scamming you, while the (honest) car seller wonders the same thing, facing a third potential buyer who brings cash. Or you can just, you know, become a criminal and decide to ignore that particular law.
>can-kicking at best

Covid deaths per 100k population

USA 311.7

New Zealand 40.27

Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

This is what happens when you "can-kick" infections after vaccination (actually, not even after vaccination but after offering vaccines to the population - and a lot of them stupidly refusing them).

As I said:

>Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with ... nuanced information
> imagine if assertion becomes popular for things such as [...] digital movies

You don't need that. Streaming is already crippled on Linux. Hell, Netflix won't even stream full quality on Chrome!

> https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444

4K Ultra HD on a computer

Netflix is available in Ultra HD on Windows and Mac computers with:

Microsoft Edge for Windows

Windows app for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Safari for MacOS 11.0 or later
> no matter how often I tell it to "see this less often"

It's in the wording, innit? It's "don't show me again" but "less often" which implies you'll be nagged again with irrelevant content up until you gave up because the queue never ends as algorithm never sleeps.
RDP is much faster than VNC because it has improved compression and latency management. Also, it is its own X server generally, and not a bolt-on, so less overhead.
Seems ok now. I just dumped the data on ethercalc. Never used their system. Just a quick way to share.
Why are the sim city screenshots in Russian? Kinda odd.
I will definitely not buy CPU with built-in MS core. If Intel will add it too, guess it's time to get 12700 and use it for looong time.
But none of that looks like an excuse for VR to exist. That generation of remote first, they would be less interested in an hmd-based simulation of a meeting room, not more interested. They want a good camera, to be a better face on a screen, not better screens on their faces.
30 years from now this mega structure will begin to socially fall apart and be run by drug dealers.

We’ve seen this movie before.

Judge Dredd all over again.
I'm completely missing how his example of a Word document that can only be opened by approved users on approved hardware within the corporation is supposed to be a bad thing.

Honestly, that sounds pretty fantastic. I've been using 3rd party tools/extensions to do this sort of thing in corporate and government environments for years, but having the attestation go all the way down to the hardware level is a big value-add, especially with so much ransomware/spyware/extortion/espionage going on these days.

Can someone please explain to me how the author might see this level of security as a bad thing?
The author complains about dark patterns but has a hugely annoying autoplaying, non-pausable gif in the middle of the article.
How will they track it? They can only know what people report, which is why they have hardons for digital currency.
this is what you'll expect if you plan t live there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_cHzviGn4
I made a significant payment recently with cash and the only bills the bank would give me were 50€ bills. It was very annoying. A few bills in my wallet vs me having constant fear of dropping a ball of money from my pockets.
It would be extremely hard to issue cash as non government assuming the government doesn't want cash to exist, it would basically require a centralized entity that could be trivially shut down by the government.
> they plan to apply the law to Palestinians under the PA authority.

Only in your twisted imagination. First that's not what the article says, and second they can't even do that if they wanted to.

Greater than 95% of Palestinians live in areas A and B where Israel has no presence. So how do you imagine they would even do it?

Are C which is under Israel control is less than 5% of the population.
Electron. I don’t think that needs explaining, but happy to do so if required.
I've read the same article. The fact remains that it's not a blanket ban. If you could figure out which species are kosher and limit production to just these for kosher products, they would be perfectly fine as far as the religious law is concerned.
Exactly. This looks like a good alternative to importing a Kei car from Japan. With a bigger battery pack and some outlets, could be a be a perfect little runnabout truck for a small farm or ranch.
This still works. This wasn't a disallowed mod, this was part of a custom world made for VRChat.
> Or if customers only use it right before a federal deadline for filing
> forms, or at the end of the quarter when it's time to generate reports.

You're right. How would you suggest to defend against these situations?

I personally like to version my APIs, but that is robust insofar as code changes, not for database changes.
Aha, interesting! In Canada it's possible to "countersign" a cheque, allowing it to be cashed by a third party, but in practice it's extremely rare and many banks refuse to cash such cheques.

It never occurred to me that this mechanism could be used for money laundering!
I think this is a super cool idea. I have been thinking how to introduce my children to a computer for some time now.
They are both also very young - 3 and 5 and currently have very limited interaction with screens.
No tablets/console/PCs at all and TVs only during the weekend for 2-3 hours.

I love the fact that their favorite games are LEGO and board games and I'm concerned that introducing a PC to their life will immediately take over everything else.
I want them to be familiar with other STEM based "toys" before they put their hands on a PC - A couple of days ago I ordered a microscope from Amazon (the expensive kind that is able to view individual cells) and we are going to prepare slides from samples that we'll take from a nearby pond.

At the end of the day, I want them to develop curiousity and fascination towards nature and science. I still haven't figured out completely how to do it with PCs/tablets without getting down a slippery slope
Most people in Hong Kong don't own a car, it's just not necessary due to the high density. This city is expected to to be ~15 times as dense as Hong Kong.
Why so tall? First plans we saw were underground structures.
Had me until almost the end:

> The shameless person is simply a host for a set of ideas, which, like any virus,

I think equating ideas we don't like with a "virus" is very, very counter-productive, at the limit even dangerous when it comes to societal bounds.

Otherwise an interesting article, I think it has been posted in here before at least once.
Also odd that Amazon can be cheaper than a government subsidized program.
Plant more trees:
https://trilliontrees.org/
It used to be "Migrate voluntarily and get a free cape, we will never force you to migrate"

So much for that.
see my reply to redox99 below.

probably would have been better as reply to you.
lex iniusta non est lex. We've philosophically explored that idea for millenia. It's time to act on it.
It’s hard not to see financial repression as another likely motive. Make it impossible for someone to operate without a bank account, then use the banking system as a mean to retaliate against your political ideas like Trudeau did already. It’s similar to covid apps being used to prevent protests in China.

There is a worrying return to authoritarianism everywhere. People forget that none of their rights would have been won if there wasn’t any wiggle room in the system, for people to do illegal things before they get accepted as legal, like smoking pot, being gay, being pro-democracy, etc.
Email dang, he always replies when I've asked weird questions similar to this one xD

hn@ycombinator.com
> Third option: those people were always there, but more people are realizing they can set and enforce boundaries.

This is certainly possible, but why, then, are they realizing this now (in the last five years)? This option lacks a cause for it to be happening now. But the reasons I proposed, a lack of tolerance of differing opinions, do have a quite obvious potential underlying cause, namely a hardening political climate and polarization.

It’s possible that both are true, of course. I.e. a hardening political climate with accompanying ostracism and demonization of any disagreement has also made it socially acceptable to ostracise really irredeemable people in situations where it was not previously feasible.
"Employing it as a strategy" implies the person involved is capable of employing other strategies.
Ah, so he’s a conspiracy theorist and I’m of average intelligence. Have a label for everything don’t we.
... https://www.optionsprofitcalculator.com/? I used this during some trading to double check things lol.
Haven't seen Bibliogram working at all in last 3 or 4 months. Every instance gives me blocked message - guess Instagram is actively fighting against these "proxies".

There's this federated photo sharing service pixelfed [1](of course runs on ActivityPub) but it doesn't seem to be gaining any traction, comparable to mastodon. Perhaps because it doesn't come with a mobile application.

[1] - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Interesting - I had never heard of these guys before the most recent episode of the Planet Money podcast on NPR.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1113115868/little-house-on-th...
Humans really haven't figured out a cheap way to dig a lot of dirt yet. It's also painfully slow.

It's about $175 per cubic meter if you have a huge project and are able to benefit from any economies of scale. A cubic meter is about 1.5 tons of soil.

And then you've got to truck all that dirt somewhere.
For any company loyalists, this should be crystal clear - by and large, your sticking with a single company is costing you some serious salary increases. For all the talk, and verbal recognition, there's nothing that compares to an increase in the bottom line.

I started out with a start-up, the pay was poor and any benefits or 401k were very very minimal. I put up with it because the work was "interesting". Then I got a call from a recruiter in a FAANG company, and their salary range for the exact same role, started at an 80% increase in baseline salary, with nearly the same again in RSU's and benefits. Then I went into a managerial role with a non-tech company, which was a small increase again, and more lately back into another tech company which has me getting an increase yet again.

In ten years I've probably tripled my baseline salary, and total compensation is probably 5 to 10 times what it was for a similar level of effort.
Pretty much all EAC games that are worthy targets have paid hacks/cheats/botting suites that are widely used and not detected. I would guess that it depends on the game's vendor and most don't care enough to actually improve the detections and just use it as a "we tried" excuse.
Reminds of of Palladium:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-palladium-what-the-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
It's sure shaped like a human ant farm.
So change the monospace font in your browser.
That's Hong Kong
https://hackaday.com/2018/03/02/unionize-your-variables-an-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

This is unsafe C Code by nature, but test driven development on platform can make it "safe".

Now you start with a struct in the union:
{inputA, inputB, inputC}

and pad the intermediate struct

{Padding against Overlap, resultB, result C}

and end up with the result struct in the same union.

{outputA, outputB, outputC} .

The trick is to keep track of the state and validate the "purity" via automated tests.

Then you have it all in one L1 Cache Line, pumping through a algo, no dereferences, no huge stack structures, its all there, as long sas the size of input output does not differ wildly.

Remember down there its all just bytes accessed by code. There is no such concept as objects or even variables.
All those mental pots to grab things out and put things back in, are artificial constructs needed by us.

The machine down there, can go to work like a line cooking shiva in a trailer. And doing so and having this in view, makes it faster.

PS: Pointers within the struct nullifys the advantages gained here, because every pointer is a memory load and thus "relatively" slow.
Reminds me of the Little Alchemy game: https://littlealchemy2.com/
This is the equivalent of complaining a foot is no longer my foot, but some kings.
fwiw, NIS 6K (USD$1.7K) single transactions is exceptionally rare for poor people.
The problem with Helium is that there's virtually no demand for LoRa protocol's super-low datarates. Cellular is a different story. There are already 3rd-party cellular towers operators who profitably provide data service to handsets on behalf of the big network providers. Tokenomics could work for cellular with carriers providing demand-side token consumption. However, cellular wasn't Helium's initial target, and watching them migrate to multi-band / multi-protocol has been a bit cringey.
Its going to be an unmitigated disaster!

9M residents housed, 170 km traveled in 20 minutes- all for the low low price of 0.5T USD. An obsession with narrowing the width of the city to 100m! This is some kind of "visionary fantasy" of an idiot who has become a dictator. Sounds like a plan a 10 year old would chalk up.
Good point. Will do so after getting home from work.
China and India likely had huge numbers dead due to the Bubonic Plague, but it's poorly recorded as far as I know. Definitely not 'mainly' a European pandemic, although it had such a great influence on European culture that we still talk about it today.
Found an old associated press article about that:

>Sam Krogstad of Bush Consolidators, which specializes in sending construction materials via the mail, says the Postal Service’s losses are partly self-inflicted because the postal system pays 10 times as much to send the building materials by air freight as it charges Krogstad to mail them.

https://apnews.com/article/281d3e682569b2cc5edd890bf600d17e
I think what the discussion around "narcissism" and "shamelessness" in recent years (apparently occasioned by the rise of Trump) consistently misses is that narcissism as understood by psychologists isn't characterized by lack of, or imperviousness to, shame; rather, the narcissist's acute and formative experience of shame is thought to be at the very core of the disorder, with the subject's pathological behaviors all aimed at suppressing or hiding that emotion.
> As people skill up, they become interesting to more productive companies

I don't think that's the GP comment.

I've had offers below my current pay and not switched.

Hell, I've even got 10%+ bumps and turned it down, because the h1 visa disruptions would eat up time (& complicate travel plans). Plus Hortonworks used to pay 100% of the healthcare premiums, which worked like a stealth raise YoY.

If you would only switch for a pay up, then this result is a natural result of the strategy followed by the switchers.

At best, the article is a recommendation for that strategy, if you care about money & don't know this already.