skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'crime', 'illegal', etc, are rhetorical escalations you brought into this. Twitter suspends accounts that violate its policy against "intimate photos or videos of someone that were produced or distributed without their consent". The policy includes content that appears to be that but might not be, content posted inadvertently or with the intent to report, etc. There's no mention of crime and of course, there's no easy way to know whether a particular post would actually be criminal and in what jurisdictions. Those are things you just declared, Twitter doesn't.
Looking at the sales of alcohol in the USA, the average person likely is doing all the above. Especially with campaigns to help local bars et al stay open after a challenging period.

Disclaimer: I don't drink, not American, partner is half-American.
I figured there was a chance I'd end up negative on that one, but couldn't let it pass :)
I think most people read the SriLanka situation in reverse. My understanding is that they ran out of money to buy fertilizer and hence switched to organic as a cheaper alternative which also fizzled out - the one they imported from china turned out to be unusable.
I had a friend who bypassed free-for-education restrictions by using an email like "johndoe@pretend.edu.mydomain.com". Turns out a lot of the code that looks for .edu emails doesn't correctly do end-of-line matching on the string.
Except you need CORS permissions and therefore, the website knows the domain name.
If Saudi Arabia wants to launder its reputation, they should be working harder to solve climate change.

This project is estimated at 1trillion. With that sort of investment they could become the de facto energy brokers of the world. Selling both the poison and the cure as we wean off of oil.
If that is the case I am curious what motivates you to chime in on news about Gnome then?

Gnome threads seem to bring out a lot of anti-Gnome commenters and I've never quite understood why so many people who dislike Gnome are nevertheless compelled to continue to talk about it.
Hmm. I am more interested in the Maker/DIY culture. Somehow in India we have lost all of this and even if we have, it is pushed to some grungy areas of the city where it is mainly chop shops and scrap dealing.

I still remember in the 1980's and 90's when I was a kid where we had a lot of repair shops especially for TV and radio/transistors. It was back when things were costly and people used to repair stuff. Now people don't have the skills to repair any more.
The issue is that they evaluate people relatively to each other, but only within their own team, though they try a little bit to do it at the director level.

If you're the worst of the best, you might be paid the same as the best of the worst in a different team, even if you're way better then them.

I think a lot of people would prefer an absolute measure, like did you deliver what people expected you to do deliver for the role and position you were hired for, aka, are you doing the job they need.

If it was an absolute scale, then ideally someone that's the worst of the best would still be paid more than someone that's the best of the worst.

But, like with interviews, I think it's just a hard problem. Evaluating performance is not something anyone has found a good way to do it. Wanting to do it seems reasonable, but being accurate at it isn't easily achievable, there'll always be injustice due to the innacuracies of the process.
Was there some form of coercion involved? How is taking a loan against your home to gamble on risky, speculative assets the fault of someone else?

If someone borrows against their home to try to double their money in stock trading or the casinos, were they exploited by Wall Street or Las Vegas?
This is prime Ig Nobel prize material.
Vacuum Sealers: The Missing Type
I've used one disposable, sealed-bag type unit, and got rid of it. Now I have the Zwilling, which uses special zip lock bags that are reusable.

So much easier to use it all the time.
Are you a programmer? Embed is the easiest feature to implement that I have ever heard
What if there is no solution? In my opinion Twitter, YT, FB and others are, at this moment, simply too big for this world and our society. We've created something that should not exist and we have no way of controlling it and no way of incorporating it into our society and our minds without causing a great amount of damage and introducing a lot of unfairness and inequality.
Would be nice if there was the briefest description about what CTF means here, since I expected it to be about gaming (ie Team Fortress)

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/capture-the-flag...
The problem with any finite number of infinities is that you can't maintain the identity (a/b)*b = a. To make that work you need a different number to represent a/0 for every value of a, including all of your infinities, so you end up with an infinite hierarchy of infinities.
To beat inflation. Simple as that. Interest rates aren't moving in line with the rate of inflation, ergo running out of money before they croak becomes something to be concerned by, thus most folks make investments in retirement to compensate for this.

Lots of folks online saying that crypto is the only way to beat inflation. We both know that's bullshit, but with so many people huffing the laughing gas, it's easy to get taken in, especially with influencers and the Crypto.com Stadium et al.
The downside to this of course is the breadth of your next job search (should it come to that) suffers.
It's a matter of responsible disclosure. Increased terror causes increased publicity, causing more systems to be fixed, and pushes more people to take urgent action against the vulnerabilities. Your PHB cannot say "hackers would need a password, don't worry".
https://web.archive.org/web/20220720163159/https://www.thegu...
We understand how the flu behaves. We've had >100 years of flus and Spanish Flu only happened once.

The only experience we have with poxes in humans is smallpox and monkeypox. Smallpox was not a good time. Past monkeypox outbreaks have killed 5%. This one is behaving very differently, but we don't know if it's going to revert to killing people! It has in the past, like every outbreak, so it's a rational worry.
No, but there are algebraic structures that allow for this, like the Riemann sphere. The proper way to talk about this is the concept of "zero dividers". For Z the only zero divider is zero, 0/0=0.

The closest thing to what you describe is the the dual number (that together with the imaginary and hyperbolic numbers make the geometric numbers), which has zero dividers, and is defined as k^2=0 (where k is not in R).

This is a very interesting number and it can help clean up a lot of problems when using complex numbers.
To compress or not compress
Yeah I got two, one open for when I want to really enjoy music or be available, and one closed for when I need to concentrate.
Also worth noting that ordinary investors were cheated by proxy through no effort of their own as the firms investing their money have taken crypto on to their investment portfolios.
You missed my point: the underlying motive is unknowable, so whatever point you’re trying to make about the unknown and unknowable is quite literally immaterial.

Setting that aside, what is knowable is one’s actions. If someone contributes to organizations and initiatives, that is sufficient to show material support. Especially so at the financial scale at which Theil provides support.

I’m not interested in whether or not someone is “truly” an X or even if someone “truly believes” X. It’s enough for me to know that someone provides material support for X.

Finally, you didn’t define what “greater nationalism” is supposed to mean, nor is it rigorously defined. In any case, it’s a pretty high bar for anyone, even a billionaire. Petty nationalism is bad enough.
You are mixing being happy with being in a country with great economy/salary/transport/etc.

e.g. the job situation is ridiculously bad, and that's not a "compare" thing, it just is. I've seen people break down crying in class in my degree that hated it and studied it only because it's one of the few that you were kinda promised employment when you finished. Many friends all around Europe, or jobless for long stretchs of time, depending on their family.

I have similar anecdotes for how transportation or security can be troublesome in Spain.

Sure you can be happy with little, as Spaniards normally do, but that doesn't mean everything is great or we shouldn't try to do better. How do we improve if we don't see the problems within?
Maybe they're referring to crotchets, (semi) quavers, minims, (semi)breves?
An Observation on Dashboard Speed
Even the two articles that the essay cites from the NYT and New York Post, once you get past the headlines, go on at length about how these things were risky and volatile, or even downright scams. Almost every article about cryptocurrency in these traditional venues tends to have at least one paragraph where they will describe cryptocurrency skepticism.

Now it could be that people started to treat these as a kind of pro forma disclaimer, like the small text about "past results are not guarantees of future returns" that you see with traditional investments. But the warning was there.
At a certain point one can be so reductive and remove enough nuance such that all words lose meaning. We might as well call profit the greater fool theory. Now nothing matters.

Equating crypto to investing in companies is nonsense.
Not at all, doing it 30x more efficient than that is what I have issues with.
I heavily disagree with this. My generation's elderly people cannot read nor write. Of my one grandparent who can read, they have an 8th grade education. Only a minority of 60+ people were literate worldwide, much less financially literate.

This also applies to my parents' generation, who grew up primarily subsistence farmers. They don't understand finances or markets or anything like crypto. They understand business investment as mutual actions of trust, where they lend their neighbor money and their neighbor buys something to benefit the town. Cryptocurrency hijacks those avenues of business investments by forming parasocial bonds and fake communities.
As far as I understand it's competitive hacking/security

which requires really solid theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience from various computer related topics like:

cryptography, reverse engineering, web, low lvl programming, operating systems, networks, protocols, etc, etc.

Top competitors tend to work at e.g Google for Project Zero or other big institutions like CERT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_emergency_response_te...) or Banks
> I religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control.

But then you are losing the anonymizing effect of the VPN. If you are doing something illegal this is obviously bad but I guess it otherwise doesn't really matter. Companies like Mullvad have tens of thousands of users which means that the actions of one VPN IP address can not be attributed to just one person. You're just transferring the ability to surveil you from your ISP to whoever hosts your VPN server.
They’re declaring it an emergency so you don’t know folks next month who’ve had it. That’s the point?
Uber isn’t a Ponzi, it’s a transfer of money from SoftBank to Uber drivers and employees. It’s an investor charity, like Amazon.
Tech companies posture as families all of the time. But Amazon probably doesn’t, to be fair.

The reason why this concerns people is because Amazon’s approach to worker metrics is notorious for all sorts of bad effects, from warehouse staff pissing into bottles to PIP culture among its engineering staff.

Is there any sign that these KPIs will be used in a less stringent way?
All you need is:

- monopropylene glycol (food grade)

- vegetable glycerin (food grade)

- nicotine base liquid

The last one is difficult, but it is possible to grow your own tobacco and extract the alkaloids. That, however, will result in an impure mixture of various nicotine salts, other alkaloids, plant oils and whatnot, so you will probably want to stock up on unflavored nicotine liquid while you can.

As for flavorings, avoid them as a principle.
Laughing or making snide comments at people who aren't intelligent enough to realize that they've made an error is, at its rosiest, just bad sportsmanship. I do have sympathy for these people, and it is a failing of our education systems that people are not mentally well equipped enough to avoid gambling everything on poorly disguised scams.
This sounds very similar to PGP if everyone had chosen to use it comprehensively for every conversation. Adoption, proper key management, and ease of use were the killers there.

Social karma style scores are trumped by giant clusters of spambots building up a huge collective karma and then infiltrating existing networks at the edges by phishing or buying existing accounts/keys. Also, some people turn nutjob and then you need a way to go back and revoke all your permanently-recorded cryptographically signed likes and follows because anything less would allow censorship. Not to mention the cost of re-running pagerank over the entire internet population on every client for every new (un)like/follow. People who abandon their keys leave permanent positive karma sitting around for exploitation. If karma is only positive then pure abusers have no negative signal and can coast on these abandoned karma edges. If you allow negative signals (publicly signed "block"s, "this is spam" judgements, etc) then spammers have a new weapon to kill off every other high-karma key with negative edges to reduce its spam-fighting effectiveness. Don't forget that this kind of battle will also be waged by otherwise highly-rational political actors whose survival depends on curating high karma keys and cliques to bolster then.

What works is human moderation in highly functional online communities. Read the excellent posts by dang here about his ethos and practices. Human communities are too complex for algorithms or models to manage, at least so far.
I am mixing my vape juice at home. The ingredients are always the same and chemically quite straight forward:

Vegetable Glycerine (VG)
Propylene Glycol (PG)

These are usually mixed 50-50 and give you the juice / liquid base. You can buy those pre-mixed but AFAIK that is not good for long term storage.

You then add Nicotine (optional) and for flavor any regular food aromas.

Vape shops should be able to supply you with these things in bulk sizes. Make sure they are in proper containers for long term storage. I think I heard that Nicotine is not chemically stable but I might be wrong.
Maybe?

Most of the "knowledge" my elder neighbours seem to give me is about lawn care. How to have a perfectly cut, perfectly green, weed-free, bug free lawn As if that is something worth achieving.

Meanwhile I'm planting clover in my grass, hanging up mason bee houses, and avoiding RoundUp like the plague.

He mows several times a week, sprays weeds with poison, and waters liberally to make it super green. What a waste of time, effort, and clean water.
https://blogsurf.io/ is an example of a small search engine that just stuck to a directory of known blogs instead of indexing the big sites or randomly crawling the web and ending up with mostly gibberish pages from all the spam sites.
You should know the basics of the subject before stating that everyone is wrong and that the current standard is "ridiculous". You apparently confused "complex number" and "imaginary part". The latter made sense in the historical context, which was finding real solutions of quadratic equations (with real coefficients, of course).

And please keep in mind that complex numbers are not rotations, and they do not map well to them. For instance, which rotations would be represented by the complex numbers "3", "4", "1-2i" and "8i"? You can map {plane rotations} to { r, |r| = 1 } using z ↦ r*z, but that's a circle, not a 2D space.

To summarize, complex numbers can be thought of plane vectors, with an obvious geometric way to add them, and a non-obvious way to multiply them. The set of "rotations" is too vague and loosely related to complex numbers, e.g. 3D rotations are often represented by quaternions, which are more "complex" than complex numbers.
Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress
Mars mission, they had rotational gravity section.
> If you have a ton of figures and not a ton of equations it’s not the best choice to use latex.

Strong disagree; wysiwyg editing in Word is an exercise in endless frustration, and Word’s typesetting and fonts are so ugly that it’s painfully obvious when a paper has been written using Word.

Just write LaTeX and let it do the typesetting, figure layout, citation formatting, etc. It’s less painful than Word WYSIWYG editing, and the result is far more polished.
Seconded. It was insanely effective for me - from daily binges to zero. It is issued on the NHS in the UK, but they wait until you've relapsed a few times before prescribing it, which is maddening - it should be offered immediately IMO.
The value of any other stuff you learn other than solving problems has half life. If you can be paid extra for Cobol stuff for a decade or two, then why not use this opportunity and get up to speed in 2-3 years after that.

If you have just a bit of bad luck, you may have a carreer with no real deep involvement with anything, not even talking about the fact that the language is just one aspect of your productivity.
Yeah, the article's headline is an odd conclusion to draw from the evidence in its body. If the growing cacophony is "put everything into crypto," it seems the exact thing we'd want to do in response is say "don't invest more than you can lose."
Let's face it. Amount of recorded game content saved on servers is enormous. Value of this content do not cover costs of saving them. So... Agressive "rules" and algorithms for baning could be just excuses for obtaining space for saving more valuable content.
I think that is not what they mean. I think what they meant is the site will detect your headless robot and serve it good content, while serving spam and malware to everyone else. The crawlers need their own distributed networks of unrelated addresses to prevent or detect this behavior.
How is this different than trading equities on the stock market (a decidedly non-libertarian culture)? Stock brokerages provide the exact same disclaimers - equities are inherently high-risk assets in which you can lose everything you've put in.
Yeah yeah I have no issue with the firing. He was causing problems and broke rules. It’s not productive to keep him around. I don’t feel like he was discriminated against, etc. That much is objective.

My comment is challenging the “I know how the software works and it’s undoubtably not sentient” assertion. Sure seems that way to me too, but it didn't to Lemoine and we’re only going to get better at building systems that convince people they are sentient. I am curious so to speak that as a society we’ve focused so much on rational and empirical study of the universe yet we still can’t objectively define sentience. Perhaps we’re stuck in a Kuhn rut.

I agree recent events have also highlighted this problem per-say. And I don’t know a solution. I do look forward to backing out of our hyper-rational rut slightly as a society so we can make more progress answering questions that science can’t currently answer.
If it's read only, you can definitely want that, right? As long as the elements are Sync. And it should work (You might have a problem with the cleanup, but Arc or scoped threads should handle that). The problem is when one is a mutable reference, like in this case. AIUI you could have a single mutable reference to an element be used from another thread (For example, a scoped thread) if the elements of the Vec are Sync
But cars are not free
I think it's a hacker tradition to distrust authority and question everything.

And now this attitude of mistrusting anything and everything coming from an "official" source has gone mainstream.
Skipped an info page for famnom, in favor of the user journey gifs + Why? sections on this post. Were they helpful?

I agree an info or onboarding section on famnom itself would be nice to have, thanks for the feedback.
I bought a damaged x230 to restore and play around with. I now use it for all my side projects and outside of work. It’s a really nice size and I love the keyboard.
> I’m sorry, but this is your real problem, not Twitter banning you.

I’m sorry, but no it’s not.

This is called treating the cause instead of the symptom. More people should do it.

The alternative is to acquiesce to the false moral superiority of those in control.
If I could underline your comment repeatedly, I would. We take our access to knowledge for granted.
> If someone borrows against their home to try to double their money in stock trading or the casinos, were they exploited by Wall Street or Las Vegas?

Actually, yes. There are laws regulating loans for the purchase of securities. Most jurisdiction ban lending for gambling.
> Are you arguing foreign workers in UAE are "immigrants"? They aren't.

No, I'm saying exactly the opposite. They aren't, they're non-immigrant temporary workers, thus technically 'expats'. However, they're more often referred to as 'migrant workers' and this report, for example, does not include them.

Another example is Mexico. There are a couple hundred thousand Americans living and working in Mexico. They're considered expats. But a Mexican temporary visa holder is considered either a migrant worker or a legal alien.
Since I was born and raised in Santa Cruz I found this article interesting and posted it to a Santa Cruz local site. The old timers in Santa Cruz like my parents don't like the influence that UCSC brought to the town, but I love it:

MBS’s $500 Billion Desert Dream Just Keeps Getting Weirder

Neom, the Saudi crown prince’s urban megaproject, is supposed to have a ski resort, swim lanes for commuters, and “smart” everything. It’s going great—for the consultants.

"One day last September, a curious email arrived in Chris Hables Gray’s inbox. An author and self-described anarchist, feminist, and revolutionary, Gray fits right into Santa Cruz, Calif., where he lives. He’s written extensively about genetic engineering and the inevitable rise of cyborgs, attending protests in between for causes such as Black Lives Matter. While Gray had taken some consulting gigs over the years, he’d never received an offer like this one. The first shock was the money: significantly more than he’d earned from all but one of his books. The second was the task: researching the aesthetics of seminal works of science fiction such as Blade Runner. The biggest surprise, however, was the ultimate client: Mohammed bin Salman, the 36-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia."

https://archive.ph/65uZx (Bloomberg)
if only the cryptobros had shown up in 2015!
And it’ll come with sweeping vistas of a barren waste land
I think this just isn’t how Google work. I would expect to see a lot more spam if Google were happy to collect money from advertising on spam sites.
Saudi Arabia has the money, land, and climate to be the world leader in solar energy. And with that desalination tech, desert/vertical farming, etc. There are so many things they could do in they were interested in them.

They have some beautiful landscapes, too.
Puberty blockers are probably far worse in the long run. Since we're now running both experiments in parallel let's circle back in 10 years and see how it panned out
The issue is that it's ridiculously expensive. You have to pay an inflated price for an existing, perfectly fine home. Then you have to pay to have it demolished. Then you have to pay to build a brand new home. It's going to cost >2x what the resulting home is actually worth.

When the old homes decay to the point that they need to be torn down, then they will be. But destroying perfectly good houses is just too expensive in this market.