skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Jung was not as bright as is commonly believed as well. He once claimed that UFO's were all imaginary-- a sweeping generalization by someone claiming to be scientist-- whereas I for sure know that UFO's are real for I have seen one and to prove that I wasn't seeing things, I had a camcorder ready which recorded the space-ship going vertically up very slowly. I have lost the video though but it certainly happened 20 years ago and I still remember it.

Your evidence that Jung was not as smart as believed is that you recorded a UFO 20 years ago (but can't prove it) and he said UFOs don't exist? Forgive me, but that's the opposite of convincing.
she* the author is female.
probably philosophical difference

“so you’re saying there’s a chance!?”

is good enough for me, plus when i work hard i feel better even when it doesn’t pay off.
Citibank and Capital One offer them on some cards, iirc
Circle USDC has blacklisted every Ethereum address sanctioned by the US Treasury
Bitcoin Core signs it’s own binaries in a deterministic environment. Not sure if they use xar, or what.
However, don't also say nothing all the time, either. And you'll be perceived as detached, unengaged, and uninvolved.
Yeah, I’ve kind of conflated them in my memory!
Arrrgggghhh! I was getting my math teaching credential when common core was getting its start and what I want to shout from the rooftops is:

COMMON CORE DOES NOT SPECIFY PEDAGOGICAL METHODS!

It is, essentially. a list of topics that should be mastered at each grade level.
Of course - just my opinion. To me, it looks like the combination of low quality webcam + aggressive skin smoothening "beauty" filter.
I think he fails to mention the key step: Have a product the market wants or needs, that's worthy of Google SERP page 1 attention.

That is, in this case, his product was just special - though certainly not unique - enough (in the sense I presume there are plenty of alternatives) to get to page 1.

Then catch a couple of lucky* breaks. That is, lucky in the "Thinking in Bets" (by Annie Duke) sense. To some extent, when it mentions Product Hunt he implies that decision was more luck than it was intentional.

https://www.annieduke.com/thinking-in-bets/

Certainly not knocking him. It's an impressive accomplishment. But how much his story applies to others is going to depend on product, market, etc.
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Bashing on lottery tickets due to EV also really feels like it's really missing the point. Lottery tickets are a mechanism for enjoying a fantasy. Sure you could technically just pretend that you won $10^9, but there is a hard cliff from >0% to 0%. I buy lottery tickets (very very occasionally, but who cares!) because it helps me enjoy a fantasy about being radically independently wealthy.

There's no reason to hate on people for doing something that they enjoy, regardless of what the expected value is. For god's sake, I juggle! As a hobby! Can you imagine the expected return on THAT?
And implementing replayability often comes at a cost: it is much more difficult to create an interesting and compelling story, for example, or witty dialogue, if it must also have the sorts of variation to allow for novel experiences upon replay.

That’s not important for all games, but for some, it absolutely is the difference between a deep and meaningful experience and one that has better replayability mechanics but lesser emotional impact.

I’ve seen a number of high potential games get ruined because the developers thought they had to make it more replayable, which precluded other aspects of the game.
This hot take is a little extreme but not too far from the truth.

You'll only understand the depths to which the LDS church controls the state and enforces it's social and moral code if you've lived in Utah for an extended period as an outsider. It's pretty fucking weird.

- Hard liquor only sold by State Liquor stores, where they digitally record your ID. Only open a few hours a day, and on certain days. Additional state-mandated restrictions on what may be stocked (not too high of proof, etc). Fiendishly overpriced.

- Beer is all 1/2 the standard alcohol content, and may not be purchased on Sundays or after something like 10pm (forgive me, I don't recall the exact hours but you get the point). You must drive to a neighboring state to get regular alcoholic beverages.

- The LDS church wields immense financial power, usually wielded with a thin veil indirection to avoid running afoul of federal non-profit tax law.

- The LDS church is above the law, because they control it. Can't say they hijacked the state, because they founded it. There is no other place in the United States controlled by a single faction like Utah, which should terrify you. Fortunately for the rest of us outsiders, if you leave the morms alone in the macro sense, they'll ignore you, seeing you as a non-variable / non-threat.

- Church is full of porno fiends and sexual abusers; hypocrites at every level (denying human nature breeds curiosity and extremist effects on the population). It's really sad for all the victims, who are often the perpetrators' own family members.

- Lots of closet homosexuality. Also sad. The church has also squashed gay rights in the state and attempted to also suppress same-sex rights at th e federal level.

It's worth noting that over time as more non-morms move to Salt Lake City, some of the cultural norms and somewhat diluted just by sheer numbers of outsiders.

Once you get away from that lone big city, it's something like 80-90% "active" mormons. This is the phenomenon granting the church indirect controls over the vast majority of the politics and state at large.

The mormons and church are clever, going to great lengths to ensure their activities are technically legal.

Lots of nice individual people, but a scary powerful organization. It's a cult.

https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/06/20/mendenhall-lds-chu...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/10/lds-church-moves-quas...
My citi double cash card has it.
Re >> It's legitimate for you to fight the US army because you're not in rebellion?

That's right. Similar to how if a cop tries to arrest you, but you did nothing deserving of arrest, it's legitimate to resist arrest. But... uh, then oic.... /s
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> Sure, and US can pass a law saying that safety regulations of Airbus planes made in France are not sufficient either. Americans just don’t like flying in unsafe planes!

If you cannot see the difference between this and the GDPR, I have no idea why we're talking. The GDPR is some pretty reasonable law, for the most part - if we had carve-outs for Americans who don't have to adhere to it, it would be entirely pointless.

The US is very welcome to end this by repealing their spy law.
Nah, there are plenty of cities with high LDS populations north of SLC. Bountiful, Centerville, Kaysville are like in the 80-90% ranges. It's when you get into Layton with Hill Air Force Base and Ogden where the population seems to dwindle. North of Ogden, you have Brigham City where the population again is very high.
“Superstition” is just as much an abstraction over a general pattern of things happening as “government” is.

You say “show me a government and I’ll listen”; I say “Show me a superstition (and an explanation for in what sense you have shown me one), and I’ll show you a country (in the same sense).”
I don't know why but I instantly remembered about that guy who make the nomadlist site that consisted of one index.php with thousands lines of code.

The thing is that it didn't have any "contemporary" tech stack or whatever, and the founder even didn't know about all that stuff like git.

But the site brought him thousands or even millions of dollars :D

Ah, I know why I remembered about that guy: because he hit the market when the COVID began, so it was probably very timely (everyone started working remotely and then when the COVID ended everyone went to nomad lifestyle)
GitHub accounts of people who contributed to Tornado.Cash repos just got deleted
Says the person using hacker news whichs legal notice has no mention of adhering to gdpr. stop threatening and do it simple and effective.

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
whoops, thanks!
What are your thoughts about Liquid on BTC?
https://blockstream.com/liquid
US sanctions Tornado Cash over fears of aiding North Korean hackers
One additional data point: The Rust compiler got ~2% faster when they made some of the core traits in the serializer infallible (ie. panic instead of using Result): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/93066

Writeup from the contributor: https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/02/25/how-to-speed-up-the...

> The Decoder trait used for metadata decoding was fallible, using Result throughout. But decoding failures should only happen if something highly unexpected happens (e.g. metadata is corrupted) and on failure the calling code would just abort. This PR changed Decoder to be infallible throughout—panicking immediately instead of panicking slightly later—thus avoiding lots of pointless Result propagation, for wins across many benchmarks of up to 2%.
I've successfully implemented this pattern in a medium sized project with about 500 different CRUD screens and their business rules.

Works well and is very easy to grasp for newcomers to the project.

One pitfall to avoid is mixing request processing with business logic. Certain types of request processing/filtering belong to middlewares and/or the request handlers (Controller Actions). It is very easy to the inexperienced developer to put request processing inside service code.

For example: file upload handling for the user avatar, should it belong to the user service or controller? Or perhaps a dedicated async file upload handler?

I tend to encapsulate messy file upload handling and calling it from the controller so services get a clean file_id. There are different approaches though.
Safe trusting an US based company with data _at the very least_ requires that US doesn't have a law that allows them to spy on us.

How does this not compute for Americans, I cannot even comprehend.
But, did the project significantly advance the knowledge in the field, even if the deliverable couldn't be completed?

In that case, I would call it a success anyway.
I have a weird form of procrastination where I can’t get myself to read/watch content I consider myself an expert on. Probably something along the lines of it will prove I’m not an expert on the subject or something. So I compensate by telling people I’m not good at said thing. It probably comes off as self deprecation but it really isn’t.
I disagree. My favourite lecturer for general relativity said the important thing is fluency, which comes from repetition. It’s great to know everything, but you should be able to do the basics, such as calculus or algebra, very quickly and without thinking. You will need that brain power for the new stuff. The best way to gain mathematical fluency is by lots of practise.
In the other direction (Python with Lisp syntax):

https://hylang.org/
> Twitter banning the Tornado Cash account, Microsoft deleting its github repositories, the registrar of its current domain name disabling it, Discord kicking it off, and so forth

Perfectly happy to see all the centralized support crutches kicked out from under another poster child for fake decentralization rhetoric. Let's see how they do after they have to eat that dogfood for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not just for dessert.
exactly that sort of thinking.

there is a color coding system for ammunition:

https://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/MIL-STD-709C.pdf [PDF]

indicating special function, such as armor piercing; incindiary; fragmentary HE etc.

it is also a popular option to have receivers colorized or stamped.
alot of magazines are polymer and could easily be colorized, and detailed, for instance with a large pictogram of the intended ammunition.

this is also on a little more of an angle, a reason to not let that combination of, persons you dont trust; .300 blk; and 5.56 chambers to occur.
> The people have voted that they would rather have KYC

Source?
Paraphrased from what the other commenter said: Um, no.
I can’t remember the details now, but my recollection was that the unit circle enlightened me that they were ratios. It was even possible to reason about “round” angles (like 90° and 45°), in your head without the need of a calculator.

I never tried a random angle like 13° in my head, but I figured it was kind of on a scale between the “round” numbers which I knew, which would give a good sense of the actual number, even if not accurate enough.

The point is, the unit circle explained the figures to me instead of them being just some magic numbers.

Likewise, there was an actual explanation of concepts like cos and sin in that they are the names for relationships between angles/sides (again, I can’t remember now, but it made sense), rather than them just being tools you’re told to use when.
You still haven't said what example from Axios you meant. But compare it to Alex Jones' and Infowars' claims that the shooting at Sandy Hook was a staged false flag operation and the parents of dead kids were crisis actors. Texts from the trial show that they knew what they were doing.

If you aren't familiar with this case, you might want to take a look at it and see how it ranks in terms of heinousness.
> The cloud providers can work with independent operators that run their cloud solutions in Europe.

Does that exempt them from the CLOUD Act? If US companies have access to independent operators in Europe, presumably they can still be compelled to give that data to the US.
1) actively generate and search for such data

What about doing a bunch of video calls, and asking for callers to show their profile, "to guard against deepfakes?"
I personally feel like daily standups are pretty important, contrary to what some people are commenting. Sure there are teams where they don't have any schedule meetings, but having that morning standup for 15-20 minutes each morning does a lot more than people think. I get to see what everyone else is currently working on and offer help if anyone says they have blockers. It works vice-versa as well, I sometimes run into issues and anyone on my team can pitch in, instead of me messaging individual people asking if they've seen that issue before. Even if all the above doesn't apply, I still get to talk and socialize with my entire team for 15 minutes, barely any productivity loss.
Although I would have to agree with all the Agile/Scrum meetings comments here. I work at a very large insurance company and we have a dedicated Scrum Master. We have several meetings a week, each at least an hour with things like Retros, Backlog grooming, Planning, etc. These are the meetings that provide very little value while also taking a huge chunk out of my productivity.
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How do you handle broken data pipelines? How often do you face them?
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They assign you to their junior team. Communication is subpar. Sometimes they go off the grid for days and leave you all alone, stumbling in the dark. They move the goalposts and refuse to own up to their mistakes. When you realize that nothing is what it seems, you’ve already wasted months and blown most of your budget.

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I’m used to whitespace as a delineator thanks to python. If used judiciously it can be a great benefit.

I do admit it would be nice if it were optional so you could have more complicated expressions than you can easily write with paired brackets/braces/parentheses.
Complete and utter non-sequitur but I'll humour you.

I never understood American magical thinking that blames Europe for US military spending. In the end, if you want to cut military spending, you can.

Regardless, you're the hegemon. I don't accept that you don't benefit from that position.
Many banks have been providing auto-expiring virtual card numbers. This is a 10 year old feature. They also let you set a small credit limit for each number.
In post-apocalyptic world I imagine, internet , would be scarce. Nobody will have full time internet connection except maybe internet centers. You will have to walk to nearest center. and upload and download your content. Your software that requires internet connection will stop working one by one. Also , electricity. People will use more low power CPU.
The premise is you've signed up for a service that advertises zero-risk cancellation after a trial period.

On attempting to cancel - by stopping use of the service, by trying to cancel on the website, by emailing them, by calling them during your work hours and sitting on hold for an hour of my time that's worth more than the entire value I got out of the service, and recording the 2 minute interaction with the 'customer service' agent, by calling again the next month after they still didn't cancel, by escalating to a supervisor and recording that interaction, and getting billed again - it often turns out that it's impossible for mere mortals to cancel.

In that case, cancelling by changing your credit card number is reasonable. Yes, there's a small chance they'll chase you to collections and attempt to harm your credit score if you do actually owe something (if they shipped you something physical, for example), but often they just drop it.
To me the real issue is this is an extremely forced binary and there's really at least three meaningful categories (especially in software with a UI of any sort):

- unactionable invariant violation (poisoned mutex, hard memory errors): crash immediately, something that should ever happen happened and there's no way to either handle or present the error to the user in a meaningful way.

- unactionable (at the call site) but normal errors (couldn't open a file, disconnected from the remote end of a connection, etc): these need to be propagated up to where they can be turned into actionable information for a user, ideally. This is rarely a thing the call site where it happened can usefully do.

- immediately actionable and normal errors (user input didn't validate, file user wanted to open doesn't exist, connection failed but can be retried with a backoff, etc). These need to be handled at the call site or maybe one or two levels up.

You need an exception-like mechanism (or at least a process for emulating one, a la go MRV or C errno) to handle the second case, you often want it for the third case, but it never really makes sense to use it for the first.

That said, I think in non-test rust code you should use expect instead of unwrap, because sometimes invariants do trip and that little tiny extra bit of info can make a huge difference to resolving it.
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Erste Bank have it too. At least for Debit cards
But you do not need to mention the GDPR to comply with the GDPR.
> Sure, and US can pass a law saying that safety regulations of Airbus planes made in France are not sufficient either. Americans just don’t like flying in unsafe planes!

That would be rather awkard for Boeing, who would have to strip out half the engines on its 787s and all its 737-MAXes for being certified by the same "insufficient" safety standards.
I am pretty happy with Sonos support but they did already EOL all their original products up to everything with less than 128MB of RAM, on the basis of not being able to run the newer software. Those older platforms also had SuperH CPUs, which might have been part of the problem.
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I am not sure which exact incident you are after, but NSA, the largest operater of surveillance in Europe is American and GCHQ, the second alrgest, is British and also outside EU these days. But yes, there are some actions by European governments i condemn.

However as a European citizen I have ways to counter actions by a European government. By voting, by legal means etc. Into the US I have now range and the US has very little responsibility towards me. Laws protecting Americans or actions in America don't protect me as a foreigner.

That said: The court case here at hand was about the government being the (indirect) customer of that cloud. Thus it's their data amthey want to be protected from foreign governments.