skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moratoriums are a way for governments to spend other peoples money for political gain. Governments will never get tired of this. The job of an economist is to rationalize what the government wants to do anyway. There is also the added benefit that it disproportionately hurts landlords with a few houses and helps the institutional investors who also happen to be donors.
I'm confused how your first sentence appears to say that you completely solved your depression, addictions, anxiety, neurosis and worldview with two trips, and your second sentence says that depression can't be solved with a pill. These seem to be at odds, unless I'm missing something.
I have a few Alfred snippets to respond to recruiter emails. I just copy the first name of the recruiter and that use the appropriate snippet.
I have very conflicted views on unions.

I worked for ~2 years as a contractor for a government entity in Canada. ~3500 headcount of employees. What I observed there was sickening. This was a place that had white-collar unions for all non-management employees. This union had completely hijacked the mission of this institution. It was no longer about serving the people that this entity was created to serve, but rather to protect the union and its contributors.

The software we were in charge of writing had direct, material impact on the physical and mental well beings of people in the province. Life and death. And at times I saw things like a deployment of features being delayed by weeks/months because a union member who was responsible for _manually_ deploying the changes was on vacation. To automate that deployment meant automating a union employees job and was impossible. These features directly served the needs of people that were in critical need of them.

On the other hand, I have family friends who work for UPS and other delivery services and see the brutal toll it takes on their body and mind. Pushed to absolute limits and exploited because they don't have a union.

But to me, it seems unions can and often do exploit people. After witnessing all of this I've developed a very dim view of humanity. We all just want to exploit someone.
I do it all. Have for 25 years. Frontend is actually my weakest skillset (but I'm still awesome at it)
>When I start up my Oculus Quest 2 and it has the fixed startup screen logo before it switches to head-tracking mode, it's rather disorienting, since visual cues are totally mismatched with my sense of balance.

Since you already have a Quest, you might be able to approximate the fixed AR experience using a media player and a 1080p video file.

Moon VR[1] is free and has a passthrough mode to overlay the video on your external surroundings. I haven’t personally used it but I’d be surprised if it doesn’t have a head-lock option for making the video track your head (if it doesn’t, Skybox VR does, but it’s a paid app) - in theory this should be fairly close to the Lenovo glasses experience only much heavier and with a grainy B&W passthrough.

[1]https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4304774742883035
You say that like NASA never had a candlestick blow up. Or shrugged their shoulders when a piece of insulating foam fell onto the leading edge of the wing during launch and decided to let that vehicle re-enter atmo.

Yea, you're right. NASA has never done anything like that, at all.
Interesting that they are also offering on-prem option for Space [1], currently in beta.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/space/download/
Performance isn't even the only problem.

A few weeks ago, my mother (who uses Ubuntu) asked “Why did inkscape just discard every change I did?”. I went and checked what's going on, and apparently the snap version just doesn't open any file dialogue. She hit Ctrl-S to save and (very understandably) assumed it saved it. Well she lost 3 hours of work. Installing the debian package fixed it, and, as a bonus, it started following the system theme and stuff.

Such subtle bugs are everywhere. I don't even know where to begin investigating it, and frankly, I don't care enough. Snap is a bad, overcomplicated piece of technology that deserves to die.
I offered to build someone a website for $100 in 2001.
It's nice to see an exploit used for a light-hearted prank again, rather than some sort of money making scheme or political-driven cyberattack. I miss the days of those viruses and such that just replaced your desktop with weird porn and then went on it's way
> a business could eliminate exposure to credit card fraud by not accepting credit cards

A business could eliminate all fraud, abuse and theft of every type by shutting down completely.
Violent agreement. There does exist "learning facilitation".
100% word of mouth and when I was looking, the "Freelancers to be hired" monthly threads here have brought in a ton of money for me too.
It's now the size of a 1st and 2nd generation 4Runner.
A company with $2M/year in profit should have no issue getting a $200k loan for improvements they'll be using for the next decade.
> The Axios Smart Brevity Studio team is looking for talented freelancers to create content on behalf of Axios clients at the local level. Individuals will write copy and capture lifestyle imagery and videos (primarily on smartphones) for use on Axios Local’s social media, websites and newsletters.

> Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for Axios Local’s mission and have the following skills: (...) Must be able to secure transportation to shoots. Take note: Assignments may fall during the workweek as well as on weekends.

This doesn't sound very "remote". It also does not sound like a real job.
We’ve been quoted $4bn per launch. If this pattern of delays turns out to be fundamental (a big, if plausible, if), what would the launch costs actually be?
This is a key observation in more practical concerns like retirement planning. Often, maximizing expected value isn't actually what you want. For somebody with a comfortable retirement portfolio you care a lot more about not running out of money than ending up with a huge amount when you die. So you'll choose strategies that might have worse expected values but limit the frequency of worst case scenarios.
Many great comments but no one addressed major issue. As a single, straight male, these apps are useless for people over 40. I've used to had a good amount of matches and it stopped at 41. Women between 30-40 which I've been previously dated successful, just don't go there. The only ones that are looking for this range are women over 50.
That's really made me sad and nervous for a while, but when I finally accepted this I've moved on and stopped using all the apps together.
This is a much more profound statement than it seems at first and I wholeheartedly agree with it. Not only that but the gains compound over time.

It's not about the expected value of any one opportunity, it's about the expected value among every opportunity you will encounter in your life. This also implies that one should do what they can to expose themselves to said opportunities especially while they're young.
> …but, it sets a precedent…

A negative one, seemingly.

“The Bitcoin experiment promoted by the Bukele administration has significantly raised the market’s risk perception of the country,” said Fabiano Borsato, Chief Operating Officer of Torino Capital LLC.
> > Living in San Jose I have only seen my rent go down in the last couple years.

> So basically.. showing that supply and demand works. Lots of people left SV due to remote jobs and COVID, demand dropped, price went down.

It may have worked for him, but rents have still increased in the South Bay over the last couple years-- just less so than the rest of the country. It's still one of the most expensive rental markets. Vacancy rates have fallen, too.

Only SF itself has lower rents than it had before COVID-19 (and fractionally so).
A girl wanted to keep the goat she raised for a county fair. They killed it
Even if you take psychedelics it won’t magically fix your problems bc most peoples problems are systemic. The system must change but the psychedelics allow the user to see the value in the change.
Err, you're aware that GitLab is MIT and Space is not even pretending to be open, right?

IntelliJ and PyCharm Community are both Apache 2 licensed and are absolutely stellar <https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community> (I mean that they're not crippleware, they're outstanding products that just happen to omit Spring, SQL, and Django support from the Apache 2 versions)
Thanks for the tip! I've been thinking about growing my own.
Reusable rockets optimize for cost while sacrificing total launch capacity. They need to reserve fuel to land. They don't get to put all of their fuel into launching their payload. They're great if you're doing commercial launches and making margins. They're less great if you're trying to launch a large mass a long distance.

SpaceX is betting on in-orbit refueling for getting Starship anywhere but low Earth orbit. They have yet to demonstrate that capability, even between two Dragon capsules. So the Starship is not a guaranteed vehicle for any missions NASA wants to run.
So your analogy breaks down because there is nothing corresponding to CEO/Management.

Yeah, this is a terrible analogy.
I used to think that. I had a similar knee-jerk reaction when watching the Witcher.

But then, when stories are told and retold, it's not quite the same story each time. Jackson's LoTR follows the books closely, but is not the same. Some plots, like Tom Bombadil, are taken out. Some are modified, like the rivalry between Rohan and Gondor.

Partly it's cinematic but also partly it is about what story the reteller wants to tell. When the Orcs attack Rohan and civilians suffer and run away, it feels like Jackson wants to emphasize the suffering of "normal" people, which gets less attention in the books.

If the reteller has an angle to the story which introduced actors who don't fit the "Nordic white people" angle, it's up to them. It might not be a good angle to take for other reasons, but nothing wrong with having your own slant.

For me, my conclusion is that fantasy really is inclusive. If we had black Romans then why not black Elves? Maybe you can use that to say so etching interesting about race, in a context that mimics normal life but isn't bound by its constraints.

Or maybe it's just woke. I haven't seen the series yet.
Maybe you're right. But I've mentored a few college students on the side.

All interested in programing and in pursuing a CS degree and yet some of them wanted only the solution. They were not interested in why their code didn't work or what the error was, they wanted me to jump in and give them the solution.

It's like they liked the idea of being a developer like many like the idea of becoming a writer, but they didn't have that mindset, that stubbornness and willingness to spend hours reading some shitty incomplete readme, going through dozens of GitHub issue threads, googling compiler's errors, reading the doc, trying until it works and feeling that rush of pleasure once it compiles/do whatever you want your program to do.

And some of them couldn't grasp some basic, fundamental concepts like a for loop or accessing a method on an object after two semesters in a CS program.
Are you paid primarily for product design, graphic design or engineering? That's a killer trifecta of skills. It reminds me of some advice from Scott Adams: "Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."
I’m not an expert but my understanding is that the answer is “No.” For a company to employ someone legally in a country on a salary basis, the company and employee need to follow local tax and employment law. As you can imagine, these vary significantly from country to country. The only way around this to my knowledge is if the company sets up a legal operation in the country or hires via a third party “professional employment organization” (PEO). The company contracts with the PEO and the PEO hires the individual. The primary function of the PEO is to follows all of the local tax and employment laws. From my experience, PEOs increase employment cost by ~50% or more.
Not so. It can be throughly reasonable to make a choice that has lower expected value but has a distribution that fits your needs more closely.
Upload got good numbers. Stranger Things was extremely successful. I remember a period when everyone was talking about Dark a few years ago. Original stories can be extremely well received with the right marketing push.
In the way that these are analogies for actual situations, not just pure whiteroom thought experiments.
Okay, I see your point, I think we were talking about different things.
Having done none of these, perhaps it's something about the quality of the experience? E.g. perhaps when you do cocaine/heroin, the quality of the high is so clearly unusual and extreme that you could never mistake it for being an accurate representation of "how things could actually be" without depression/anxiety? And maybe shrooms etc aren't nearly as extreme?
> This is why important transactions like banking have KYC checks, and buying a pair of sneakers don't.

Banks do KYC checks because it is required by law, not because it does anything to reduce fraud. Fake IDs are a thing. Requiring identification does not make transactions safer without a lot of other stuff happening too.
On paper, the Silverado EV truck has specs that match or best the Lightning but we have to wait until 2024, late 2023.
https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/silverado-ev
UPS is fully unionized and has been for a long time.
It strikes me as pretty dismissive, heartless even, to refer to people so hard up that they can't afford a roof over their head or stable place to sleep as "hiding behind" COVID-related eviction moratoriums.
Apple is leaving overlapping windows too.. overlapping windows are a pain in the butt, unless you really don't have enough space. It'd probably be a better thing to have windows scaled down when you need the space.

Windows also shouldn't be too big. Compare it to a sheet of paper which suddenly is way too big. Too much empty space. This is also why in I usually have the filetree / navigator bar open in any IDE.. you need some margin from the edge of the screen.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron) says the lineage is Visortron (????), Glasstron (1996), HMZ-T1 and HMZ-T2 (2011), HMZ-T3 (????, maybe also 2911)

https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/the-first-playstatio... claims the Visortron was never released commercially.
Yeah I agree it's complicated and context is important.

Even though I do resent spending the majority of my useful lifespan "working", I don't feel like I'm being exploited. Rather, I mostly consider myself lucky and privileged to be able to work from the comfort of my home doing an activity that I mostly enjoy for a decent salary. Sure my company overlords make money from the deal, much more than I make, but they're not villians - they're just people that did better than I did and good for me that their quest for money gave me an opportunity to enrich myself.

The power imbalance and exploitation you refer to applies to people who aren't so lucky and have to do real labor. I don't that's who we're mainly talking about in this thread. Instead, it's the people that are already lucky and privileged that rationalize deception because they think they deserve even more.
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Adjusted for inflation their budget is the highest it’s been in 25 years. 25 years ago NASA was launching shuttles with manned missions multiple times per year.
https://www.quora.com/Which-countries-imposed-a-travel-ban-o...

https://qphs.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b39d6210ab7224d8434ca...

look at this. India, back before 1991, had this printed on their passport. I dare any human rights advocating country to do this today against Israeli apartheid state?
That’s a lot to extrapolate based on no data
I think the people it hurts the most are those being evicted.
> True, but we don't always get the balance right.

Agreed :)

> Take, for example, many sites asking for the CVV code when using a saved card. In many cases, why?? If I supplied the CVV once and I haven't changed anything since what's the chance a subsequent order is fraud?

As a fraud risk manager, I've seen this scenario way too often: Say you have your card saved on a merchant website - fraudsters can often compromise your login on said merchant site and go on a spending spree with all your saved cards (unless you ask for a CVV from time to time, that is).
Artemis is a federal jobs program.
This is normal for any new launch vehicle.

…which is why it’s often a good idea to not use a new launch vehicle on the critical path for your crewed spaceflight program. (Could have used LEO rendezvous of various types to go to the Moon.)

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

> 39. The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:
1) No new launch vehicles.
2) No new launch vehicles.
3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.
Marginal utility does let you view the pressing of the red button as an action a rational actor could take. That said, when you get into concepts like prospect theory in behavioral economics, there is definitely a psychological aspect as well.
Marked up LNG from Russia LOLZ
Yep, can recommend The Expanse as well. I find the end somewhat unsatisfying though. There is potential for a sequel, 500 years later or so.
We don’t need there to be a benefit to a low amount of fraud to optimize for it. Optimization is a purely mathematical exercise [1]. Once we construct the problem with a chosen set of constraints then we apply mathematical techniques to solve it. Of course, many types of optimization problems (especially non-linear or non-convex) can be extremely difficult to solve optimally without relaxing some constraints or settling for approximations to the optimal solution.

But, besides that, the task of interpreting the results and of potentially selecting new constraints or even a new objective function is a separate matter. Perhaps we should be seeking to maximize trust rather than minimize fraud in society. But then we have to ask ourselves: “what would that look like?”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization
Or. Be better at selecting your fellow co-founders. Once you are partners it's already too late if there's a problem getting along.
Yeah, bonus points for them seeming to use the same `.idea` directory but in incompatible ways :sob:
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Digging into the Drake Equation
Please note that I'm talking about critics' ratings: RT has them and IMDB doesn't.

So it's better for me, as I value known critics more than random people.
And with all that effort all that friction, you still get hit with chargebacks no matter your policy for returns.
> I can pretty much determine in about an hour if a candidate is a good fit or not

I have interviewed a lot of people. Most of the time I can determine three questions in if someone is not a good fit. This is on a technical interview. I have never done an interview where someone blew, or gave middling answers to the first three questions, and then recovered. Also, I never gave an interview where the person hit the first three questions out of the park and then started flagging, in terms of technical answers any how.

In terms of people who did well on the first three questions but who did not get an offer, it was always due to "cultural" issues, and it was someone else (often the manager) who raised those cultural issues, with me sometimes disagreeing (for instance, my old manager thought someone was too arrogant, whereas I didn't mind).
That's a great reference. Here's a bit from that much longer article that seems relevant here, re academic institutions:

> "The method of a hereditary leisure class without duties was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had been taught to be industrious, and the class as a whole was not exceptionally intelligent. It might produce one Darwin, but against him had to be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers. At present, the universities are supposed to provide, in a more systematic way, what the leisure class provided accidentally and as a byproduct. This is a great improvement, but it has certain drawbacks. University life is so different from life in the world at large that men who live in an academic milieu tend to be unaware of the pre-occupations of ordinary men and women; moreover, their ways of expressing themselves are usually such as to rob their opinions of the influence that they ought to have upon the general public. Another disadvantage is that in universities studies are organized, and the man who thinks of some original line of research is likely to be discouraged. Academic institutions, therefore, useful as they are, are not adequate guardians of the interests of civilization in a world where every one outside their walls is too busy for unutilitarian pursuits."

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

The image of academic students as show ponies doing specified routines (with plenty of meaningless busywork) for their degrees fits with that structure.
I may be wrong about exactly what company he worked for. Also it could be they're not unionized in Canada. Anyway I don't think it changes much.
There's no money in integration. It's very easy to get approval for some big shiny tool with a frontend and 19 different features. It's very difficult to get corporate approval for a tiny integration thing that makes 5 of those features work with some others in a different tool. "Can't you just type it in manually?"
>> At the very least, tax payers need to stop bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors who scoff at their teaching assignments.

> I think this is missing the forest for the trees.

Not at all. People have a sense of right and wrong, and this fact offends them far more than the nebulous task of assess the effectiveness of research.

I have a PhD and spent a lot of time within and interfacing with academia. I think even the average science-skeptic congressperson massively over-estimates both the short-term and long-term value of the sort of research that happens in most of academia. But we're probably not going to agree on that.

So, see, we can go back and forth all day about the relative merits of academic research. And there's always cover because most congressional people -- let alone voters -- don't know enough to have a really informed opinion.

If I go to a congressional staffer and complain about the NSF or NIH, not much is going to change unless the candidate already agrees with me and is passionate about the issue. They know voters don't care.

But I can go to a congressional staffer and ask: why does your candidate support bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors who scoff at their teaching assignments?

And THAT question is going to be viewed very differently, because it's something that could anger voters who don't have the time and attention to vote on the basis of whatever useless crud the NSF is funding this year.