skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>American men are extremely susceptible to multi-level marketing schemes

Men are under extreme environmental pressures to be successful providers. Perhaps it's why they suffer the highest suicide rates. Equating their eagerness to provide for loved ones with susceptibility (i.e. stupidity) is misguided.
This whole thing comes across as "I'm smart and everyone else is stupid".
I don't think it's necessarily modelled after it, moreso a direct consequence of that lineage.
Let's fight first - we'll figure out the rules later !
Apparently, you've never watched those start-up tutorials sold on YouTube. Half the course is spent on arguing that by paying $2000 to learn how to make your own iOS apps, you're "investing in yourself". And of course the people that run the course make most of their money from running the course and not from actually releasing iOS apps...

I recommend "Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins" by "Folding Ideas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
FedEx has some suss, I'm the OP
How do you feel about your time working at that company?
My entire Tweet

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I stumbled onto an interesting fact about FedEx and the conversation has been even more fascinating! Wanted to see if this community knew anything more.
Indeed. Some companies tread out some light pablum around “we’re a family,” but MLM schemes weaponize human relationships and social conventions for profit.

The MLM metastasizes through social networks and often damages them pretty significantly. Having a personal relationship turn into an avenue for sales pressure is very dispiriting.
Often (at least for me) the first sub-thread is not about the article but about some loosely related topic or personal factoid.

The second sub-thread (for me) is often much more interesting.

I also observed that it looks like there are two "waves" of commentators, the first one has a pack mentality, if they don't like what they see they downvote instead of discussing.

The second "wave" often upvote what was previously downvoted (and it helps that an algorithm removes the downflag button past a few days).
Unless you don't have the time/energy/learning style and want to learn about drop shipping you pay for a course. Many developers are self taught but others paid for someone to teach them.
My wife got involved in something similar that wasn’t MLM, but basically a program where you pay for training and certification (and the certification has to be renewed every year for a fee). The promise of flexible hours was also a big selling point of this new “career”.

It’s hard because to me the whole thing sounded like a bad deal, but you also want to support your spouse. We ended up just talking through our hopes/concerns, what would be an acceptable amount of money to lose, etc.

She decided she wanted to do it anyway, and I resolved to support her (basically just keep my mouth shut and not say “I told you so”). Nothing really came of it and we ended up losing an inconsequential amount of money. No regrets really.

But if it had been an MLM scheme that also required putting pressure on friends and family, or the costs were bigger, that could have been a much harder conversation.
There is a much higher probability that some human monstrosity will be taking you out in the blink of an eye.
This is neat, but why would you want to read books in a monospaced font? Proportional and serif fonts exist for a reason: they make long paragraphs of text more pleasant to read. Words can be better identified by their shape, which makes them easier to distinguish at a glance.

I suppose you could have a separate terminal configuration with a different font for this app, but standalone reader apps or, better yet, e-ink devices, do a much better job of making text easier to read for long periods of time.
>Maybe they’re all exploiting the women in their down lines. Fair. But why are people reluctant to tell their stories?

Fair? You have just explained that its fair for the workers at the lowest and lower tiers of any company to be exploited.

MLM is just a type of business, Ann Summers in the UK and Ann Summers parties is another example besides the US Mary Kay, how ever unlike Mary Kay, Ann Summer parties were exposing kids to sex toys and lingerie, especially as some of the poorest lived in small homes with no where to hide the "sales catalogues" and the toys, or the disruptions to kids that ensued when you got a group of sex starved women together round a house.

Remember the world hysteria comes from the Greek word hystera which means uterus as in hysterectomy.

In general the MLM's that tend to work is because they rely on the sales persons buying into said products. Female MLM selling female jewellery, I think there was a jewellery company called Pandora that did this, female MLM selling cosmetics eg Avon, Vorwerk vacuum cleaners being another.

Thing with MLM is its just a particular way of selling products, some are like franchises like McDonalds in that you have to hand over money before accessing the brand's products to sell on. Some are door to door, others are established in their own bricks and mortar retail outlet of sorts, other online only, or sometimes both.

MLM is just one way of getting staff lock in and selling to the public. IS it any more exploitative than other methods? Thats a legislation issue, just like uber and the london black cab drivers have found out.

Politicians can screw over groups of people with the ballot box.
Not sure if this is in the list of allowed plugins, but…While the “deploy the GH-pages branch” workflow is still around, you can now just go to the settings of your repo and switch to actions mode, and it will generate an actions workflow that does it for you, and supports any plug-in.
Shadows and Elevation in Graphical User Interfaces. Why Are They Important?
> We have a formal structure for who is sovereign in deciding disputes - civil society and the courts.

We do.

But other people reject that system.

And we (in the universal sense, in this case) also have a system of resolving that dispute, and it’s, in practice however much it gets gussied up in theory, to borrow a phrase, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
You mean like those guys that purchased an online course on how to run a walled-garden online course and then are aggressively selling their own online course (on how to run a walled-garden online course) ?
Congrats, everyone wants you and throw boat loads of money to get you. You're also the only competent person in a sea of incompetence. What would the world do without you?
By that logic my childhood in Germany was 95% neglect. Also, I was hurt often and that was good.
That’s awesome, I might use it soon!

One small regret: I wish the library was structured like https://ui.shadcn.com/ , which I love because it allows to copy paste the source code of each component and customize it further in your app, rather than importing a rigid pre made component into your app
"The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty high-quality answers"

Fixed to: "The primary purpose of S.O. is to produce a searchable corpus of answers with few duplicates and pretty OUTDATED answers"
Bots are even more insidious than before, I deleted my account and now only use it to follow breaking news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I constantly get errors, videos not loading, glitches on the page.

Not sure what you mean "running fine", I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating... It's attrition, it's slowly degrading.

It's definitely breaking, in my experience.
> Mounjaro is not an obesity drug. It's a type 2 diabetes drug. Do not call it an obesity drug.

It's in round 2 of phase 3 clinical testing as an obesity drug, and will probably have full approval this summer.
I honestly don't think there's any way to stop people with bad genetics from having children than isn't an ethical nightmare, but I have always found it curious that the right to have children is always considered to be incomparably more important than preventing children from living a lifetime of suffering from debilitating illnesses or deformities.

In general, it seems as though our civilization views children as little more than property of their parents.
I get where you're coming from and want to clarify that my issue is not that you may have to stay on it for the rest of your life. I'm concerned that even while on the drug, your body could get accustomed to it, and you'd end up eating the same as before taking the drug. This happens a lot with bariatric surgery. I realize that that's due to the elasticity of the stomach, but the body adapts and with many medications that have weight loss as a side effect, your body eventually sorts itself out and you start gaining weight again.
> But flatpak has it sandboxed so the worst you could do is maybe steal my Spotify session token.

It has access to X11 <https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client/blob/0856c7641...>, so it could also be running a keylogger.
Each outage will get worse as the skeleton crew burns out.

I’m a fan of small focused teams. This ain’t how that happens.
> I don't understand why anyone's reaction would be to cry

> I have a house in the Bay Area

> I look at my life and I'm satisfied

That's why you don't understand. People in HN are quite privileged. May see others having existential crisis and wonder what is wrong with others.
I am not sure if you are posting in jest but both are published by the same team.
No. Still way too heavy for airplanes. “Short-haul” is still 1,000 miles or more, and energy density is still too low to do that practically. Also, metal-air batteries gain weight as they discharge.
> Most of the time, and only if you have show dead enabled, you will see that dead comments are that way for a reason. They are low quality, nonsense bots, etc. Very, very rarely do I see a dead comment that represents some well thought counter argument.

Unless, of course, the topic at hand happens to be a hot issue in the US. At which point anything outside the established narratives (the propaganda) bites the dust almost immediately.
I find that my FB feed is roughly 50% ads. Sometimes there are two, or even three ads in a row. I barely use it anymore (and I've literally never clicked on an ad). I wonder why FB thinks people will use their product when it is half advertisements. People watch 21 mins of TV with 9 mins of commercials, and they would revolt if it were 15/15.
>If you are running any application that reads data from the Dota client as you're playing games, your account can be permanently banned from playing Dota.

This is weird wording, Dota client stores data inside my RAM, on my hard drive, am I free to read what I want from my own hardware? They send me network packages and i send them back, so am I free to sniff my own traffic and examine it? How do they even detect this? I mean, if they exposed the data which leads to unfair advantage, it's their fault
Learn how to make ChatGPT an assistant while using Microsoft Excel
It's only an MLM if they hire you as HR where you recruit the next wave of exploitation participants.
At the risk of this seeming like self promotion, this is exactly the problem we're trying to solve at tiney.co

We believe the answer to the childcare supply crisis is home-based care. Our platform (which is regulated in the UK) exists to enable people to set up as a home-based childcare provider (in the UK these are called 'childminders', which is a somewhat derogatory name for a highly skilled professional educator!). We then make it easy to run the business through payments, invoicing, educational tools and training, marketing, etc.

We're working on the UK market first but we believe this is a global issue and have our eyes on other countries in the future.

If you'd be interested in chatting or learning more about what we do, you can reach me by email on edd@ on the above domain name :)

(And we're also hiring remote full stack engineers if you happen to be interested in joining the mission.)
> All in the name of convenience.

The lower friction afforded by the convenience is believed to translate to more dollars, and that’s the primary consideration for them.
IMHO question closure should be a vote left to the community and not one angry moderator. Where people browsing questions can vote on whether it is a complete duplicate or still provides value to the reader.
Seems a bit like going back to windows...
I currently use an add-on to block search engine results (Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results[1]) so Kagi sounded interesting, but the free tier having a limit of 50 searches puts it out of the realm of even giving it a trial period for me.

I really like the idea about a sort of global blacklist for your permissions.

[1] https://github.com/pistom/hohser
If you read the text of the site or the paper: it needs a digital elevation model (i.e. a height map) to create the shaded relief. It does not ingest graphical maps and does the relief, it needs a discretized map of height data, such as lidar (which can be downloaded for any place on earth with 1m resolution).
I'm not against capitalism, I just think there should be more regulation (like the Nordic countries).

Like I said, you are making a ton of assumptions out of fear and misinformation.
If someone can't figure out that they're shadowbanned then they probably don't belong here anyway.
Sadly seems like it looks abandoned and has no image support.
1. I've owned iPhones and Apple is hell bent in locking me out of its tech. If you want to live in a straightjacketed tech world then that's fine. In my world that's a truely bricked environment.

2. When I make phone calls I use a feature phone, it's incapable of doing anything else. That is, it has no Internet access—not even Bluetooth.

3. I wouldn't be seen dead on social media or using a Gmail account, and I've no need of Apple's store or Netflix, etc. so the functionality you refer to isn't an issue.

4. My Android phones are for limited internet use only and or portable computer use. Similarly, the functionality you speak of just doesn't apply. They are hacked and tailored specifically for my requirement and they do exactly what I want. Right, I'm in control (unlike iPhone users).

5. Even then, as a rule, my Android phones don't use SIM cards, they connect to the internet wirelessly via separate pocket routers which further isolates them from internet gumpf and garbage.
Employees have a better overall risk / reward ratio, as they usually do receive salary, unlike founders, who often invest their own money and have negative effective salary. So them having a higher equity is fair.
Trucking is still unsolved. This tech would probably start there. It’s entirely possible that a battery generation will cross industries due to process improvements.
For anyone, like me, bamboozled by the domain terminology in the abstract, here’s the press release from Ohio State.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-magic-superconductivity-angle....
Meta has a huge global teenage user base with Instagram and WhatsApp. TikTok complements them rather than replacing. All three are growing.

I don’t know how they’re going to translate that reach to VR profits either, but focusing on Facebook-using retirees misses the big picture of Meta’s growth.
> Many standard shading algorithms exist for creating shaded reliefs, some can easily be found in applications like ArcGIS and QGIS but they are simply not expressive enough (see our paper for examples). Creating these reliefs is partially an art form rather than a simple illumination problem, so trying to encode the 'human-ness' into step-by-step algorithms is simply too difficult. This is where ML enters the picture.
> What documents were you referring to regarding identity verification?

Digicert has a different process where you get put through to someone in India if you are in the US. Drivers licences things like that, but the Indian's cant really tell if the documents supplied are genuine or not.

If you go on the dark web, some marketplaces have identification documents for sale, and I was shocked to learn that the Vatican city is an excellent source for fake identification for any country!!!
Indeed, but I think they oppose the MAGA fab ;)
I’m an auditor at a large organization that uses Sourcegraph, and I love it. On one project I had to trace a compliance flow across 14 services written in 4 languages, and Sourcegraph made it easy to navigate everything and document our findings with links to code at specific revisions. I use it to dig through our codebases on a daily basis.
Flatpak and snap have proven to be ineffective and security theatre. Sandboxing all user apps doesn't work, often the applications are created to not be sandboxed, and the existing sandbox configs are improper.

We don't need yet another store. What we need is a simple registry of applications that are installed with the scripts to uninstall. We already have this, it's a package manager.

For soft that doesn't need a package manager, we have .appimage.

Instead of making it more difficult to package apps for Linux, focus on having few methods that are robustly supported.
> > or otherwise uses my hardware against me

> Proving the current state of your system isn't using your hardware against you. It is showing that your system is secure against cheats.

Complete doublespeak. It is using your hardware against you such that you will be denied service if the operating state of your system isn't to the service operator's liking. I want nothing to do with it outside of employer controlled devices being validated by the employer or my own devices being validated in such a manner by me.

> > Neither will I accept opaque anti-cheat kernel modules

> If they aren't opaque they will be instantly bypassed

Makes no difference to me. There aren't going anywhere near my kernel and I strongly recommend that other people take the same stance. The developers of such modules (and more generally just all software developers) are inherently untrustworthy as has been demonstrated on a number of occasions.

> Cheats are antiuser software that can kill an entire game. Software that combats this threat is prouser.

Cheats take advantage of buggy or poorly designed software. Software that combats that is pro-bad-developer. If it commandeers my machine in the process then it is decidedly anti-user. Write better software. Don't share state with clients if it's supposed to be hidden.
The lottery has some winners too.

Mostly losers though.
It's possible but improbable. When the Andromeda galaxy and the milky collide, there will be comparatively very few actual star collisions because galaxies are mostly made of empty space.

There is a much higher chance of being hit by an object that comes from our own solar system because it would have the same trajectory, speed, etc. I mean those things are following us permanently! And we know this because it already happened.
Bloated and ineffective management is an issue though. I have quit companies because of it and so have quite a few of my friends.
I am pretty sure that doctorow how has a better imagination than to believe that "Holy shit do we live in the worst of all possible timelines."

We actually live in a pretty good timeline when we complain about ordering Thai food over the internet and the worst that happens is we get our food delivered with some trouble.
I think that posts can be bumped to remain longer on the front page or penalized to need more up-votes to remain on the front page. This seems to be done automatically for some titles/websites. For example AFAIK Ask HN's are penalized by default.
So following your first idea, the guy behind Photopea should be sued in justice by Adobe for IP infringement, no ?
GNOME2+ is still around, that's what Mate is. GNOME 3 and later releases has great support for convergence, which is incredibly popular among users - while also being very easy to use via the keyboard, for a more traditional workflow. Ubuntu's Unity interface was built with similar goals, so this is quite far from a pure GNOME thing.
Firefox and Chrome here. Just easier overall.
If only the story was better [1]: to think that humans have interstellar travelling and mind transfer but apparently they must kill some primitive tribes for some goo MacGuffin which grants immortality (?), ChatGPT could have written a better story [2].

[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/12/27/avata...

[2] ---

prompt: write a short story where humans have interstellar travelling and mind transfer

ChatGPT: >>>

In the year 2205, humanity had achieved what was once thought impossible: interstellar travel. They had discovered ways to fold space and time, allowing them to travel to distant planets and even other galaxies. But their greatest achievement was something else entirely: the ability to transfer human consciousness from one body to another.

It was a breakthrough that had been decades in the making, but finally, it had become a reality. People could now leave their physical bodies behind and travel the universe as digital beings. They could inhabit the bodies of robots, or even other humans, in different parts of the galaxy. It was a strange and exhilarating time, and the possibilities seemed endless.

One such person was a man named John. He had been a scientist his whole life, and he was fascinated by the idea of brain transfer. He had always believed that consciousness was more than just a product of the brain, that it was something separate and eternal. And now, with the ability to transfer his mind from one body to another, he felt like he was on the verge of discovering the ultimate truth.

One day, John decided to take a journey across the galaxy. He transferred his mind into the body of a sleek, metallic robot and set off into the void. As he traveled through space, he marveled at the wonders he saw. He visited planets with exotic landscapes, met alien beings of all shapes and sizes, and even witnessed the birth of a star.

But then, something unexpected happened. As he was exploring a distant planet, his robot body was destroyed in a freak accident. John's consciousness was left floating in the void of space, unable to find a new host.

For a while, he felt lost and alone, adrift in the emptiness of the universe. But then, something remarkable happened. He began to feel a sense of freedom he had never felt before. He was no longer tied to a physical body, no longer limited by the constraints of biology.

John realized that he had been wrong all along. Consciousness wasn't something that existed outside of the brain, it was something that was intimately tied to it. And in that moment, he knew that he had found the ultimate truth he had been searching for.

So he remained in the void of space, content in his newfound freedom. He watched as stars were born and died, and marveled at the infinite beauty of the universe. And even though he was alone, he knew that he was never truly alone, for he was part of something much larger than himself.

<<<

beautiful
Then why not just use the app to do your banking at that point?
The web single sign on versus availability problem
Yes. Docker has proved there's utility in what it does. Assuming kinks in the implementation have been ironed out, now is the time to start thinking about making it a kernel module.

If you just put every half thought out, poorly implemented idea straight in the kernel, you'd have a 5 petabyte kernel.
We want programmers with honor, so anytime there is a review the submitter can challenge the reviewer to a duel to erase their incorrect comments. Also the reviewer can challenge the submitter to a duel, when they think the code quality is too low to check into the code base.
"My wife got involved in something similar that wasn’t MLM, but basically a program where you pay for training and certification (and the certification has to be renewed every year for a fee)."

Sounds like Agile Certifications.