skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sat with people who told me they were hesitant to vaccinate, that they heard different things left and right and didn't know what to do and would wait until it was mandatory to decide if they would get the vaccine or not. This went on for months. I didn't push them to vaccinate or anything like that, I decided it was better to keep quiet about it and maintain the relationship. Then one day I realized they were gaslighting me, organizing protests against covid measures and to regain their right to party, circulating fake news among themselves about how our government head was running pedophile ring and how the deaths were fake. etc., when suddenly they shouted at me how the government was making their life hell on purpose. I cut them off. I realized there were strong parallels with the behavior of cult members I knew long ago. They lie. They lie to appear open-minded, hesitant. Like random Chinese posters discussing alternate interpretation of Tien An Men ("it was a western fabricated lie!" "ah thanks, I never thought about that and it's intriguing, thanks for offering a more reasonable interpretation". Now when I smell someone is using the same tactics I flip off. But on HN I am not even bothering anymore. Conversations about long covid looks like conversation with covid deniers from two years ago and it almost always end up in dictionary/akshually cherry-picking battle.

All that to say that, yeah, I believe there's a lot of conspiracy theorists among people who aren't OK with Covid vaccine policies.

/rant
There are plenty of people working as contractors or freelancers in the UK who are without sin in this respect. Not everyone - or even most people - working independently is trying to evade tax. In fact financially most people would be better off as employees now if you directly compare salary with contract rates as if they meant the same thing. The big advantages of contracting and freelancing are about flexibility and being able to price on value and not according to whatever trends are happening in the employment market.
So here's a good reminder for devs/startups on their free plans (I am using Auth0 on their free plan):

- Have a copy of all your users e-mail within your own infrastructure (DB)

- Have proper backups in place

- Verify regularly that your backups function correctly (backup AND restore)

In case your account get's deleted, you can rebuild from these.
Try adjusting the zoom. At first I had the same problem with New York, but actually it was just doing that thing online maps do to avoid clutter. Subways are absolutely in there.
The Bitcoin Whitepaper is fairly small and quite an easy read, and it is the source of all this ideas. There is only a couple of math formulas that you don't need to fully understand to understand the paper itself. Some of the concepts on the paper deserve to be explored further and you can resort to Wikipedia to dive deeper.

I find the book "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous a good read to break down those concepts. Nevermind the extremists or so called "maximalists" and their exaggerations. The book is a really good intro to macro economics and helps understanding why cryptocurrency is interesting as a store of wealth and/or money replacement.
Yes, although more concretely put, people pay for nothing of value. See [1] [2] for some more historical occurrences.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_Babies

Before you get all worked up about "crypto is better than tulips!", I'm primarily responding to your question by saying that _just because_ people are willing to pay (sometimes exorbitant amounts) for something doesn't imply it has that value.
Ahhhhh I see
There’s an article [1] from Ricky Gervais where he compares British and US culture/humor.

At the end he says:

> ‘for the record I’d rather a waiter say, “Have a nice day” and not mean it, than ignore me and mean it.‘

[1] https://time.com/3720218/difference-between-american-british...
I certainly think there an problem with these kinds of bans.

But I also wonder what kind of public service do you feel is being privatized here?

Previous to internet platforms nobody was at the town hall advising their video games.
So how many stripe heads is a normal reader supposed to have VS one that has a skimmer overlay on it?
Bill nelson ran against Rick scott not charlie christ.
When reading a text or listening to a speaker there is the underlying assumption that the speech act was intentional and was meant to convey something. We use that assumption to fill in the blanks and to correct anything that is unclear. We do it automatically. This is why lawyers are so annoying. They are trained to suppress this instinct, thus finding loopholes and gaps.

When I read a GPT-3 generated text, I catch myself that I do the same thing. I'm very forgiving. Interestingly, with these speech continuation the illusion of somebody being there on the other side, is much stronger. It's like listening to an old Feynman lecture or the like. You don't quite get it, but surely it must make sense, right. It doesn't of course. The box is empty. Or is it?
Can you have been copyright-struck by the famous board-games (and now video games) "Ticket to Ride"? They even have a "Ticket to Ride Europe", I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason.

I also anticipate that you'll have to change your game's name if it ever catches their eye.

Now, I don't want to spit on the grave, but your Twitter had 469 followers according to Google's cache. You haven't exactly lost a massive community.
Well you are on hacker news after all.

A detailed and factually correct replay should not be scorned for being too detailed :/
Ahh, Adobe.. they have earnings for billions and billions and they can not improve their software suites on performance..
You might need to explain the analogy in a bit more detail because currently I have absolutely no idea what you are getting at.
I just ordered a MAX30102 module to test with. You are invited to contact me, my Gmail username is the same as my HN username.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdpJlZ07u4
This is not a helpful nor constructive answer
Fake components are an enormous problem in these fat military contracts. There are any number of ways they can find their way into the supply chain at different stages (component, sub-assembly, assembly, finished products, service/replacement/upgrade boards). Often the fakes aren’t “terrible” but just arent 100% within spec.
Or is the name thought to be near to the game Ticket to Ride: Europe. Which is what I thought when seeing your name
https://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/europe/

This was released in 2005 and the web version I think is before 2011

This name might well be trademarked as well.
The game is not "promoting" any of those things
> reading other people’s code is harder than writing your own

This is the first time I've ever seen this lol. I'd have had a hell of a time learning how to code if that were true!
> discovering why existing systems are the way they are and keeping busy reinventing them

You may have had access to those existing systems (the global financial market) before Ethereum, but many of us did not. Being able to take a risky asset, and hedge it against itself, is not a strategy that I was aware of two years ago.

I was a 12 year old investor and E-trade told Grandma and Auntie that they would have to sell their Red-Hat stock, back in 2003 or 4, because it had gone down so much in value that it was no longer worth the monthly trade commission to maintain the position open. We bought some stock after IPO, and had bad timing by a few months. If they had known then what we know now, well...

I'd not be here wasting my time talking about re-inventing the global financial system on the internet, believe you me. That was a good investment, bad system and bad timing.

Do you have any idea how exploitative the global financial system is for people who are not "in the know"? It's well over time we reinvent it all. This is awful.
> you can implement legally binding (and unstoppable) contracts

I would just call that "automated decision" The legally binding contract is the one where the parties agree on using the implementation as their means to fulfill the contract.

There is nothing legal related in that and no law in any legislation I am aware of giving it any special treatment.
Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?
Tangentially related, but lately Okta's sales people are cold messaging random engineers on LinkedIn with spammy garbage. Fix your OKRs
“Banks are willing to eat the tiny reversed transactions…”

Banks? A chargeback goes to the business.
But cryptocurrency doesn't really solve these in a technically interesting way, as it's neither consistent nor available under partition. The pressure to keep the chain consistent and unified is a purely social one - your BTC is only valuable to other people on the same chain as you.
According to this article, rates of depression during COVID outbreak, were 27.5%. So, at least a decent chance this happens by chance? Also they mention worry, perceived stress and loneliness. Did anyone not perceive stress during the pandemic? 50% seems like a pretty low correlation. I can’t read your article because it’s login walled.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/depression-rates-tripled-wh...
On that note, is there anything we could use as a cryptographic basis? I'm guessing DNA would qualify. We could make everyone's addresses be derived from a content-address of our DNA.
Thats odd. I know loads of lawyers living in mansions while loads of “highly paid” developers live with housemates, or rent tiny homes. If anything, software development pay has reached construction worker pay. At least we dont have to sit out in the cold.
The effects took time to manifest. Now they slowed down.
Sell it to whom?

I for one would not touch a secondhand card from random ebay seller. Those cards were running non-stop and probably have limited lifetime in them anyway.
For ETH contracts to be be binding to things outside of the digital world there will be need for courts. But for small transactions that can be expressed in software, ETH is just a way to enforce the algorithm both parties agree on using to be enforced by the network. So there is at least a small value there (or it was, depending on you trusting PoS as oposed to PoW).
> Who are these businesses? Seriously, stop issuing cards without chips and send new card readers to theses businesses. End of story.

Alternatively - do what Monzo does in the UK and issue cards with a magnetic stripe that is disabled in the backend by default.

If you try to use the magnetic stripe, it sends you an alert that says "Someone (possibly you) tried to pay using the magnetic stripe. Do you want to allow the magnetic stripe for the next hour?"

Then if you travel to a country that relies on magnetic stripe, similarly it sends you a message saying "You have travelled to X - sometimes you may need to enable the magnetic stripe in order to use an ATM. Do you want to temporarily enable the magnetic stripe?"
Numerous inaccuracies discovered in my analytical machine manual transcript (1882 edt.)
I'm bothered by your ignoring the cost and consequences of eliminating influenza. You mention hand hygiene but the reality is - by admission of the links you yourself provided - that it's much more than that. As if washing our hands is what led to the severe reduction of influenza, and not gigantic changes in our society such as banning travel, banning socialising, closing offices, closing schools etc! At huge, huge cost.
Prosecutors vacating Adnan Syed's murder conviction in the 'Serial' podcast case
Yeah but you have the rest of the system to account for. And you need more than just what the system uses to charge the battery storage for overnight use - probably 4000W of panels if not 6kW. The batteries are the most expensive part of this(unless you only want to run the system for few hours during the day, but then what's the point?). You mentioned a 2000Wh power station, but I'm not sure how that helps? That will only store enough energy for an hour of running at most. So yeah, you're looking at about £15k for the whole power system alone.
ETH that's being staked is not available on exchanges to trade. If that manipulation is occurring, then PoS will reduce it by giving whales an incentive to take their ETH off the market, to stake it instead.
Hasn't this been the Dutch playbook, since ~1600?

"Look at how much more freedom we give capital than the rest of Europe!" etc.
I'm ignorant to indie game marketing. How important is Twitter to indie games?
Show HN: Lemon – Alternative to AWS Console that runs atop Terraform
Yeah I was taking into account cost of living increases and inflation when I wrote it, it's quite grim to live in Western Europe on regular dev salary :D
I created a Twitter account for à new company. My main goal was to lock the handle, and I did not do anything with it initially.

Two weeks later my account got suspended, because I supposedly broke some rules. But I did not tweet anything nor followed anyone.
I appealed a few times, no responses.

4 months later my account was unblocked. No idea why.

This is ridiculous they can get away with arbitrary rules and no due process.
I'm not sure I can believe that. The companies who hire for average senior engineers like me do not compete with FAANG. They hire the 90% of us who aren't rockstars and have accepted we have no upward mobility in our careers.

I know very many devops/software engineers in San Francisco making $140k-$150k total comp.
12GB is on the lower end of what you want for SD though. Granted, optimizations are still happening, but if you wanna do something like 1024x1024 or higher, you should at least get 24GB.
Any service that forces a telephone registration for verification is crap in my opinion.

If you need an account professionally, you need a mobile phone to be provided for you. This is in your interest and that of the company if they decide they want to use your account beyond your employment for example.
How often do you have to do it though? It's only for high-value transactions (>£45) and the rest is contactless.
Do you say this because you believe that Americans are exceptional compared to the rest of the world? Because the rest of the modern world has made the change without trouble.
As someone who worked with blockchains & crypto for 10+ years, I'd actually recommend against reading "serious references".

"What is going on now" is largely the same thing as before:

* consensus / Sybil resistance / game-theory / "crypto-economics"
* cryptography - signatures, data structures (e.g. Merkle tree)
* p2p networking
* deterministic computation / virtual machines

If you have a solid CS/software engineering background, you probably already know 90% of it.

I guess crypto-specific consensus might be new, but you can get a good grasp reading few articles. And that part is actually opinionated, so you need to decide on a camp before you read materials. Bitcoin people would likely disagree with anything written about PoS.

Another fun thing is Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). That's actually quite new, complex and might be interesting.

The rest can be rather boring. Users submit cryptographically-signed commands (transactions) which processed in a deterministic fashion. I'm not sure it's worth reading a whole book about it.
Issue in denmark is that high pay gets heavily taxed. So 102k is what 50k at best? Factor in vat and its less.
I don't want to pen THIS discussion again, but... the difference is not that big especially if you calculate risk and family in. I live in Sweden with our "known" high taxes and as far as I can tell from conversations with friends and colleagues is that our QUALITY of life is not that different. Of course, YMMV especially if you were a big shot in a big shot place with no family to support, young and healthy.
This does not matter…

32bits is 32bits is 32bits.
You can generally make as much as you want in this industry without any school at all if you develop niche skill sets and a large enough network.
I continue to think Han Unification, or Unicode for CJK is not the best solution to the problem.
My parasites only allow me to say "My particular mix of parasites tells me to say that there is no soul, but free will does exist" and "My parasites only allow me to say 'My particular mix of parasites tells me to say that there is no soul, but free will does exist'."
Turns out there is some pretty good architecture documentation: https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12358545 .. but that only describes the 3D capabilities, not the whole register map.
Wasn't the Owlet discontinued because of multiple reported false negatives?
ELI5 anyone? What does this exactly mean?
good purchase.
Having worked in startups in SF and now Boston for the last 12 years, I first started making my current salary in 2014 and have never made more than that from one job. So in real figures, salaries have come down quite a bit due to inflation.

Only real way to make money in tech is FAANG. I've owned so much worthless stock it's basically a meme.
Back when eclipse was still the king, Netbeans was actually quite a snappy and worthy alternative, especially as an official tool owned by Oracle.
So what you're saying is, bitcoin was always useless in sufficiently advanced society, like mine, where I routinely verify my identity online through my bank?
> Cuba's biggest export is effectively doctors.

I find it highly amusing how "exporting people" is suddenly portrayed as being an achievement, as if being exploited as an indentured servant is something praiseworthy in the 21st century.

In other contexts this is referred to as human trafficking and exploitation, but being Cuba this is suddenly something to brag about?

I lived in a country where the national health service resorted to hiring cuban "doctors" to fill in vacancies in deserted areas. The Cuban regime ripped them off out of a big chunk of their pay, they had no right to work beyond the job program, the national certification board had to bend over backwards to allow cuban doctors to practice as all they had was a mere 4 year degree whose scientific basis was questionable, and their role in the healthcare service was basically triaging patients to hand over cases to other doctors.

The "Cuba exports doctors" myth doesn't hold to scrutiny. I guess that even Dr Nick Riviera is a godsend in third world countries where people have to walk for hours to get basic medical care, but let's not pretend that Cuba does not coherce undereducated professionals to play a role whose value-added is highly dependent on the development status of the country that pays for this service.
I have a cousin who makes $220k as a crane operator at a port. I'll never make that much in my career.
> Lastly but most importantly, covering the PIN pad with your hand defeats one key component of most skimmer scams: The spy camera that thieves typically hide somewhere on or near the compromised ATM to capture customers entering their PINs.

> Shockingly, few people bother to take this simple, effective step.

I haven't taken cash out of an ATM (or carried cash altogether) for years now, but I never really used to do this as I always assumed it was protecting against the threat of someone looking over your shoulder and then subsequently mugging you.

If I ever end up using a cash machine again, I will be sure to cover the digits. Thanks Krebs!
Alien ‘diamond’ formed 4.5B years ago before crashing to earth
We have to be careful in differentiating correlation and causation.

The study seems to show a correlation only, not establish causation. It seems to me you might have read it as causation (?).

Perhaps what is at play is that people who already have entrepreneurial tendencies end up exposing themselves to being infected more often than the average population.
So much effort just to get kids to do something completely natural. This explains why Western adults are so malfunctioning.
Stable Diffusion Could Develop as a Mainstream Consumer Product
They skyrocketed when remote work became ubiquitous.

Which means you can get Western European (occasionally even American, with a few companies) salaries, while enjoying the low taxation of sole proprietorships in Poland (8-20% depending on how you set yourself up legally) and low costs of living.
>have to write very non-idiomatic Java if you don't want to incur unacceptable performance costs.

You would also, I guess have to choose any library dependencies very carefully as well. Or implement the functionality yourself, negating any advantage that might bring in speeding up development.
I would add finance to the bimodal markets - also like law in that you are locked out unless you did basically everything right from birth.
It seems like it takes a long time to process/calculate the simulation. Is this done server side? Is there a reason for the slowness?
In my experience it's almost tri-modal even without location being taken into account. Non-tech will pay low rates like the OP is seeing. Startups that care about talent will pay 10-50% more without counting equity. Large tech and late stage startups will pay 50-400% more if you count the RSUs (liquid for large tech).

The issue right now is that many companies are having hiring slowdowns and the VC market is cold so there's less jobs in the second two categories.
I have a massive full tower case, it is housing my 3rd rig currently.

The first one was standard pc and the motherboard with gpu looked tiny in it,

I got 3070 recently and it barely fits (with hdd cage still in place), it looks ridiculously big. The card is so big it comes with a special bracket to be mounted below to support its weight.

Those cards are not going down in price any more than they already are.

Also worth mentioning $1,000 in 2000 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,719.92 today, it feels like those cards are getting expensive but part of it is cost of inflation.
It could be because of remote work.

Why should a company pay you $250k+ when they can hire someone from Philippines for $25k (10x less money) or less?

I'm not saying this is a good thing but simply the reality. I've applied to a few remote positions recently and have been offered peanuts for salary because of my 3rd world country citizenship. And as far as I know, my work is indistinguishable from that of silicon valley engineers.

Companies like Turing are advertising to engineers living in 3rd world countries because their clients want top talent for less money.
Cars and trucks have seatbelts to keep your head from smashing into the steering wheel/windshield/dashboard, and seatbelt laws exist.
- Label Profusion: a framework to employ a great number of unskilled laborers in the creation of art via the use of simple terms

Followed by...

- Getting your in-home servants to work with label profusion

- Will label profusion cheapen the work of legitimate artists?

- I have tricked my butler into producing a great deal of smut via label profusion
Good for Figma founders, they'll make a lot of money, bad for Figma users and design authoring tool in general suffering from the lack of competition in the space for the last 25 years.

I've seen what happened to Macromedia products after Adobe bought them.
You are wrong.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/the-law.page