skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem with credit card fraud is that it subsidizes the payment networks. Without it, most of their reason to exist would disappear.
Yes, in many states. The buyouts would be an incentive to sell the business to a new owner, not for GM to directly run the dealership.
> No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion.

I am not sure I am convinced with the author's argument. Even if we put aside how all (or most) politicians and public fossil fuel companies (who should disclose existential risks for the company) are conspiring together to lie, I don't understand what is the motivation is for all these parties to work together to lie, just to keep wages low (but if execs are getting ridiculous pays, wages for the company as a line item are perhaps still high). Wouldn't companies see an existential risk and plan ahead to try to diversify investments, rising pricing if its progressively getting expensive over the years to produce etc..

Reminds me of what a friend recently told me - Its funny how the politicians/government/bureaucracies are both incapable of doing anything useful yet also capable of world wide conspiracies.
Yes.

This isn't that kind of 'buyout' though. It's a contract buyout for early termination of a franchise agreement. GM gives dealer franchisee money; Franchisee stops selling Buick vehicles.
It sounds more morally acceptable to say, "The optimum level of anti-fraud enforcement does not eliminate all fraud." It's not that there's a nonzero amount of fraud that is optimal — all fraud is bad — but rather that the return on efforts to eliminate the last bit of fraud is negative.
I just wanted to offer this warning to the younger set who seem to think that unions are one piece to fixing the problems that ail the workplace: in every place I've worked with a union, the union did little to protect me or my colleagues. They were sort of a junior, parallel branch of management that would usually favor some groups more than others. I have friends who were essentially targeted by the factions in the unions. So the idea that unions are some how always thinking of the worker has been untrue in my experience.

There was probably a time when unions made more sense. When much of the work is exactly the same and people are just cogs in a big machine, well, I think the idea of collective bargaining makes sense. But while Amazon warehouse workers and delivery teams are doing pretty similar work, there are still differences. Some people just do more work and I don't see anything wrong with rewarding them.

Now all of that being said, I can see a better argument for breaking up Amazon to ensure more competition. I feel like an open labor market is the best way for workers to earn good treatment. When the market was tight, Amazon responded with higher pay and more benefits-- without the need of a union to get in the way and collect dues.
Right this just creates a bottleneck in the organization where you need an infra person to do anything. It’s not self service which is the best pattern we’ve found
Freezing hiring, buying stock back, reducing risky investments to stockpile cash.
With as many issues as they have had you would almost think that their budget had been significantly cut year over year despite almost universal agreement among Americans that it is one of our most noble institutions
UAP Evidence: Summary, Skepticism, and Confidence Intervals
Strange then that Gaza is firing missiles into Israel rather than negotiating for peace and independence.

Israel has repeatedly said that Gaza can be free and independent if they would just stop firing missile over the border into Israel and sign a peace agreement.

It's insane that people here are taking sides, including the above linked organizations, instead of pressuring Hamas (which controls Gaza) to accept a peace deal.

There are not settlements in Gaza. There are no Israeli soldiers in Gaza. It's the simplest easiest peace deal - stop shooting missiles at Israeli cities.

...and for those who don't understand why they do not do this incredibly easy thing - it is because Hamas is entirely funded and owned by Iran, who specifically forbids any peace with Israel.
Welcome to the concept of creative license.
It's better if NASA focuses on space science rather than rocket engineering at this point. Private companies can build & fly them cheaper (discluding certain legacy contractors)
People keep carrying on about peak oil, climate change, and "corporate greed" because those are less humiliating conversations than admitting that Europe made a major tactical error in trying to sanction their primary energy supplier.
The new Star Wars films made $2 billion, $1.3 billion, and $1 billion in box office alone (this excludes streaming, DVD sales, merchandise, etc.)

So yes, they're making money.

(I have no opinion on these films btw; I haven't seen them, and only dimly remember the old ones – I never cared much for them.)
California has among the worst public schools in the nation, especially for minorities: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chor...
Memories are short. Both were criticised for being woke, especially Black Panther, which I distinctively remember being both lauded and lambasted for the same reason.

I sense though that most people who parrot the "go woke go broke" narrative, focus only on those that have done badly in the box office.
> Not watching something that you critique, and instead basing it on what you saw on Reddit, HN or YouTube, seems de rigueur these days.

Movie and television reviews have been around for decades. There are only so many hours in a day/week, and everyone has to decide how to spend their finite amount of time, so "pre-judging" a show by early episodes is nothing new. But if you want to try to watch everything as a completionist, start to finish, go right ahead.

But as the GP of this sub-thread, I'm was not so much "critiquing" and simply observing that there's a lot ways for people to spend their time, so if a show "wastes" 2 out of 8 episodes with a lot of what folks consider non-plot, then why should I spend my time watching it?

Again, I haven't watched it, and I'll wait until the season is over and see what the consensus is after the full season. But even if it does turn out to be good as whole, why did the show runners seemingly not do much with the plot for a quarter of the season?

The Expanse took about four episodes to really 'set' the universe, but even the first two episodes had quite a bit that happened ("Remember the Cant!").

How does a show producer worth their salt not know that you have to give juicy bits early in a show's run?
Probably because sexual abuse is a bad thing that happens, but not something that invalidates taking drugs to cure depression?
The core complaint here seems to be that therapists abuse patients undergoing pyschedelic therapy - but I don't see any claims of evidence that abuse is more prevalent than abuse in any other therapeutic setting.
> In fact the market economy has been key in fighting poverty and under-development since the industrial revolution.

His point is that even though it has been key, it hasn't solved it.
This particular program is delayed and over budget
I like how much context the media gives on this issue
"Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War" - no mention, of course, of the fact that Jordan occupied it after 1948 war. And that at the initial Palestinian state was supposed to be Jordan, known then as Trans-Jordan, and the later, proposed UN partition created the state of Israel with multiple impossible-to-defend chokepoints to cut - if somehow they accepted this partition in 1948, given the real, factual history of attacks on it by neighboring states they wouldn't exist already.

With journalists who ought to be well-informed, I cannot chalk it up to incompetence - it's anti-semitism, pure and simple.

ADDED oh and, having been an immigrant to both Canada and US, all this kind of stuff is relatively normal. By relatively I mean given the relative security situation. Especially on family visas (not my case) where the US literally checks on your private life to ensure it's not fraud. On non-immigrant visa they grill you about potential jobs you might have lined up, or any relationships you might have, in case you are lying about your intent. Or, you could try to check out the medical restrictions that (used to?) exist when immigrating to Canada. Of course just like with the history, half-truths are necessary here to create the correct narrative that this is somehow abnormal.
To offer a different point of view, I'm a software engineer at ASML in the US. I can only offer the experience I've had on my specific team, and I've heard that this does vary between teams, but we do follow normal software industry practices. We have version control. We have automated regression testing, and unit tests for everything we write. We do Agile and use Jira (with all the same gripes that everyone else has about those). I made $90k here right out of my undergrad, and got a raise one year later (this year) to be over $100k.

Could the tooling be better? Sure. Our version control system is pretty old, but the company has made a massive push over the last few years to modernize all of it, and when we transition to that at the end of this year I think we'll be in a pretty great spot. Some teams are already using the new tooling and it has gotten very positive reviews. I have a great relationship with my team and my manager. I get to work on interesting stuff (mostly embedded systems), and I've had the opportunity to learn a small part of one of the most advanced machines humans have ever built.

I'll say the thing about getting people from defense is true, but not so much in software. If anyone has other questions feel free to just ask.
Technically correct, but this doesn't contradict what I said.
I'm trying to say reasonable measures should be taken to both ensure access to the polls and confidence in the election results. And both parties are guilty of undermining these goals.
Fair enough I should have said there is no reasonable way to appeal it.
I buy scratchy lottos sometimes (the cheap 1-2 dollar ones) because I find the act of scratching them to be tactilely pleasing. $1-2 for a couple minutes of fun and the possibility of winning enough to get myself some candy for 'free' is nice.
I don't think peak oil is trying to be popular.

There are two ways out of peak oil:

The good outcome is we get alternatives (I've heard someone saying "the stone age didn't end for lack of stones", that is apt regardless of the original context of the quotation). PV etc. may be that alternative, I think they will be that alternative, but nothing is ever guaranteed until it is done.

The bad outcomes are like the trees no longer on Easter Island or the phosphate mines of Nauru.
Not as much of an issue if you can transition by mid 30s to being a landlord. You’re almost in the same boat as professional athletes then, rigorous toll on the body for 15/20 years and then chill for the rest of it. These guys normally go straight into an apprenticeship at 16, have qualified by 19 and have bought their first house by 21. If they stay over here they’re normally on at least £60k, if they go abroad they can earn six figures easily, especially if they’re willing to go places like Middle East and Africa. But they can also hit that back home or in developed countries like Australia if they’ve got the right tickets and experience and are willing to travel where the work is which most of them do.
I wonder what this will do for concentrating when using the terminal or writing code?
Cuil Theory
This is the issue with only hearing one side of the story.

She was perhaps offered a range of choices, selected this one, and then filed a complaint that any reassignment was retaliation.

But I would jump at that opportunity. Brazil is an amazing country.
There's diminishing returns on the utility of money. If you're living paycheck to paycheck that guaranteed million is gonna give you a higher expected return of utility than the next 49 million combined. I disagree with the title calling it a "dumb" financial decision. It can be perfectly rational to take the million.
Yep, I use a FreshRoast 540 which is a fluid-bed roaster. It pushes hot air and rotates the beans for an even roast.

I roast about 4oz at a time but you can get an extension or get the larger FR to roast about a lb. For context, bag are usually 8, 10 or 12oz.

Smoke is mininal with the FR but I'm def getting irritated. I live an apartment so it's been a little tricky with venting.

You control two variable, fan speed and temp. With those, you control the temperature curve and it takes about 15 mins each bag from prep to cool down.

We sell for $10 a bag but half goes to green beans and packing and we donate $5.

Def learning a lot about scale. The typical commercial roaster is 10-15kg. Yep... Those cost about 15k.

Next would probably be improving our packaging to make it more attractive.

Lots of content on youtube and podcasts. Hit me up if you have more q's!
It's people like you that keep holding humanity back from really flourishing. Think on that for a bit.
How does it define what's best?
You meant to say that employees should be paying 13% in social security, instead of the current 6.5% + 6.5% model.
This looks like it could be a fun companion device for the Steam Deck on e.g. a long train commute or flight. If the display is fixed in the center of your line of sight it may not be great for productivity work as that’s fairly unnatural, but for gaming you’re most often looking at the center of the screen anyway so it might be okay?
Do people focus on the apollo failures? (there were a lot along the way to the moon the first time)
I charge $150/hr. for new work and do pretty much exclusively hourly-based work. I have many clients that I grandfather on lower rates.

The second half of this equation is how many billable hours you can get as freelancer in a week. Plenty of the things I do are not billable, and the more different small contracts I'm working on the less billable hours I'm able to fit in. I would say I average 20-25 hours billable on a regular work week of 40-ish hours.
Conspiracy to sit on you hands looks a lot like incapability to do anything.
It's also about paternalism.
> Economics is a thin veneer we put over thermodynamics to make accounting easier.

Shouldn't it be "Economics is a thin veneer we put over thermodynamics to make trade / exchange easier"?
"Amazing what you can achieve by some legal shananigens" applies the opposite way. These are technically parts of Israel, but Israel is not really in control of West Bank, and not at all in control of Gaza strip. They are halfway and fully controlled by hostile terrorist organizations that repeatedly claimed that the state they are "part of" must be destroyed, and implied or explicitly called for genocide as part of that.
Not when you are not working.
It seems pretty telling that you didn't actually answer what should have been a simple question.

> And maybe the blue hair too, given she's named after her blue hair.

So then... you agree? White skin representing purity is an aspect that _has_ to be kept, even when so many parts of the actual story have been changed and we've had ~140 years of society in-between?

> Do you agree that for white here we mean white the colour, not the pink skin tone, which is inhuman?

Ok, so is the portrayal in the 1940's Disney Pinocchio equally as outlandish considering she's just a white woman with blond hair? Would you be reacting the same way if they cast a white woman in the role?

And to that point, isn't the new movie intended as a remake of the Disney version, not the original, in which case the blue fairy already didn't have blue hair?

> Why take an 1883 Italian book to show a black fairy?

Because people like the Disney version of the story?
> It was good to experience how feeling good feels. I had almost forgotten.

Good point.

I wonder what kind of interesting experiments could be designed around psychedelics, skilled counsellors & mediators, and people who've ended up with various "extreme" beliefs, political or otherwise.
very few people will even see that prompt. <1% of those that do will respond.

i encourage anyone who doesn’t believe me to spend time with UX researchers while they hold focus groups. it is absolutely terrifying what must be done to have a thin hope that 50% of your users will find something that they want to find.

i have always had very little difficulty noticing differences in pages i visit even semi-regularly, so it was very easy for me to dismiss those who don’t as “idiot users” and to write them off an unimportant. it turns out that people who don’t notice things that you put in a large font, bold, in the center of the screen are a very large portion of your users.

it’s frightening what people simply do not see.
Russia is far "whiter" than the US.

Venezuela's problem cannot be reduced simply to the US being evil / the West hating brown people.

If you want to try that argument with Iran - why doesn't it work with KSA? It's more about geopolitics.
You might like Pyro II v2.2 - https://archive.org/details/PyroV2.2.3SW1991MichaelOBrienAct...
You're right, money don't run tractors or flow waters. But they build serious incentives for either - people won't run a tractor if the incentive is missing, or a too strong incentive might stop a water flow.
> it’s already too late

Too late for… what? What do you think is going to happen? JetBrains are going to lobby for a law preventing local development?

> hypocrisy at play

Wow there’s no hypocrisy. I’ve got no moral obligation to support your open source project just because mine is open source. Hypocrisy is telling people to do something and doing another yourself. Given I haven’t told anyone to do anything, where is the hypocrisy?

You’re the only person telling anyone to do anything.
Yep, posted info above but it's very easy to do at home. Just the light smoke has been irritating me. Very fun to try new beans. Get a bag of Gesha beans. They retail for like $50 but you can get a lb for 15. Berry after taste for a longgg time.
This is a nice concrete refutation of the fallacious reasoning in Pascal’s Mugging [0]. You can take this argument to its absurd conclusion by setting probability p arbitrarily small and the payout X arbitrarily large, such that p*X is arbitrarily greater than $1M, e.g. a 1/100000 chance of winning 100 trillion dollars.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
If everyone is exceptional then truly no one is exceptional.
Was right there with until you said whole country. This just makes SpaceX look even better. It shows that what ever the established procedures with NASA are not working, while whatever SpaceX has going on is working. The weight of bureaucracy keeping NASA from iterating faster? The complacency of Boeing knowing they are getting paid regardless? NASA basically just being a jobs program? All of that compared to SpaceX has to work or company goes bust.
It doesn't seem to work for me?
> For me, I like the political intrigue.

Have you watched The Expanse? If you like faction-y stuff, it's worth checking out.
I once was down to my last dollar, and I bought my one and only lottery ticket ever. What could it hurt? I couldn't do anything to help myself with one dollar. I lost.
I’m not familiar with Upsource, but what you describe sounds somewhat like the Gerrit review process. Each commit is reviewed individually, but sending multiple dependent commits for review is supported as well. It is technically possible for a coworker to build on top of your unsubmitted changes (by checking out your commits and adding more on top). However this process gets somewhat painful if the coworker updates their commits, which would require you to do a convoluted rebase.
Uno, the Startup Manual
What of political science? Sociology? Immunology? Virology? Epidemiology?

These are all performed by humans. And yes, the risk vs the reward is an inherently political discussion, but science is performed by scientists and they are welcome to say, "the model says if we do X, then Y will happen, and I think we should avoid that at all costs."
Different story in Canada. People working from home not in health care lost there job if they were working for the government.
Clean my macOS: Developer friendly command line tool
It's not disingenuous to report what the lawsuits (plural!) were about. The lawsuits that were settled and/or lost by Apple. It was planned obsolescence. You can live in denial if you want, but Apple engages in planned obsolescence.
As long as they get it right before humans use it, no worries.

I'm from the generation that had to endlessly watch "go at throttle up" over and over and over and over and over and over again in high school and it's still traumatizing. It was the original 9/11 in some ways for the media. Why they did that to kids and general population is beyond me.
Dunno. Ask. Listen. Be humble.

Have a hypothesis and then do your best to falsify that. Give him all of the charity he needs to refute your guess that he's a bigot.

"So you say that there is a convention in Italian literature of depicting other-worldly beings as having freakishly white skin. Would you be ok with the Pinocchio reboot if the same African-descended actress portrayed the fairy, but were instead made up with freakishly white skin?"

If he doesn't refute your generous chances, then guess what? You found a bigot. Congratulations.

If everyone were more parsimonious about it, calling someone a racist or white supremacist or a Nazi would actually have some meaning again. At this point it's just coming to mean "This person disagrees with me and I don't like it".

Remember, these depictions are intended to be immersive. If some element reminds the watcher that they are watching a story, and they find it difficult to suspend their disbelief, they're not going to like it. That could mean an actor with clearly incorrect ancestry for the role.

For example, in the real world, a rural village of people whose ancestors have been in the same region for hundreds or thousands of years are going to look a lot alike. This is why Finns do not look like Khoisan. Everyone knows this. No one has a problem with this.

If your fantasy setting has human beings (or humanoid beings) living for generations together in a small rural village, and you just throw a bunch of different real-world ancestries in there, a Khoisan burgher and a Finnish tavern keeper, that's going to need some kind of explanation. Highlighting that as a problem isn't automagically racist. Maybe it's "magic world" and people there just have that kind of reproductive variability. Cool. Whatever it is, it needs a reason. But without that, it comes off as immersion-disrupting tokenism.

So, no, I don't think "focusing on race" is an automatic signifier of racism.
It's coffee with like 1000% markup, unsurprising they don't nickle-and-dime you further.
> In a sense Nokia was (organizationally) victim of its own success. During the dumb phone and feature phone era Nokia did everything better than others. Everything from the supply chain management, to the phone design and manufacturing worked so well.

They are still the best, Nokia "dumb" phones feel a bit like the f91 Casio watch... but just like those watches, they aren't as popular as they once were.

For people who want a no bullshit, inexpensive, bulletproof, practical phone that lasts and isn't horrible to use, Nokia is still the best. But without competing with smartphones Nokias only other option was to downsize, because as great as they are dumb phones are no longer popular enough - so as you say they were a victim of their own success, they reached a size that was unsustainable in the face of what was to come.