skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A resident of NY is already one of most, if not the most taxed citizen in the country. You pay fed, state, city, and/or borough tax. Relative to the rest of the country, you pay the most for rent, mortgages, food, electricity, natgas, internet, tolls, and even toiletries.

And you want to tax these residents more, and dump the money into the black hole of state-run public transportation projects that take 10x the budget and 10x the time of any where else on planet earth? ...and that is with no guarantee that project would a) get finished b) not be a total clusterfuck like all the others.
I disagree, however I never served in the military. There are companies which provide a safe environment for mistakes to be learning opportunities, its the culture that defines that. Rarely will an actual mistake lead to someone being fired where I work, usually if it does its because of attitude and someone believing they can do no wrong.

If you bring down the production system with a change that is a learning opportunity and your team should be supportive (i.e. help you recover it) when these things occur. Thats why its important to be constantly deploying code and knowing how to roll back, etc.

I’ve worked at a company that did releases months apart and everything was supposed to be perfect, it never was. In that culture it was all about posturing, covering up mistakes and blame-game which is utterly frustrating to work in.
Maybe you're talking about PTSD, soldiers or prisoners or anyone in a war often have, but this is just one range of mental disorders among many others. Even stress, anxiety, drug dependence/addiction are also mental illnesses, food or other overconsumption. In the end the normality is not sanity nowadays in rich countries
Sorry, I may have worded that a bit weird. I meant that basic auth sucks, so we can't use it and take advantage of the login built in the browser. Basic auth sucks because it sends the password for every request, and for get requests it shows in the url, and ends up in logs and whatnot. I don't care about styling at all.
I really liked that one as well.
Which is why there are (some) attempts to disguise Tor traffic, but at some point the bits have to escape and that can be monitored.

I wonder what the "bandwidth breakdown" of various traffic types is, and which ones average Tor usage would be comparable to. Could you encapsulate a Tor session in a Youtube video (with cooperation from Google)? Or would that be noticeable because Youtube is 99/1 and Tor is 80/20?
Dang, The same-link post is over a year old and got 2 comments. Are you pointing this out for the former, latter, or both paragraphs stated in the FAQ?

Signed, never quite grasp the repost guidelines.

Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
Yeah... I just worry that it'll be very geared towards that exact demo, and unable to do more or less anything else.
Meetings over video conference are as mentally exhausting as coding, honestly. Especially if you actually pay attention
The site guilted me into turning off my adblocker. I’m sympathetic to local media outlets.

My god. That site is comically unusable. There is just no way to read an their article in peace.

So when they, too, inevitably have to fold, let it be known, I tried.
I don't understand this line of argument. The facts are that 1) the virus outbreak was in Wuhan, 2) that there ws a local lab working on virus samples that come from all over the world and 3) as far as we know, the particular strain that affected Wuhan is not local. Altogether, this should add confidence to the lab leak theory, not detract from it.
I'm on the journey back too and can't wait to find a role where I actually have some creative input and decision making again.

This obviously varies from role to role but I was told I would be highly involved in deciding what the team does and how they go about it. The reality is that I am responsible for arbitrating the delivery of decisions from more senior managers to the teams and the decisions from the teams on how they execute on those decisions back to the managers.

Facilitating the growth of other engineers is wonderful but, frankly, I can do that (and was doing that) as an IC.

If I'm honest I don't think the exact role I want exists out there but I think I'll make a far better "lieutenant" to a manager who actually likes the job than I make a manager who is becoming increasingly unengaged with their own role.
I agree, but if you're going to use that alphabet for a language that already uses it, you'd just print it in that language.
We can write numbers up to 256 in old persian: https://www.quora.com/How-were-large-numbers-e-g-3000-writte...

So write it ASCII or UTF8 :)
I'm honestly not convinced that this was part of MK-ULTRA, there's no hard evidence and what I think people don't really appreciate is that Psychologists (especially around this time) were performing "studies" where they basically just tortured people. For example, the Stanford Prison "Experiment"
It's difficult to reply to this without implying I'm defending Kaczynski or advocating for violence. I'm not - and I wouldn't like to be misconstrued here, as I'm replying about violence in general.

I would say that violence should never be the preferred solution, but that at times it's the only solution that has any chance of success. This is not to say that it's a "good" approach, or something you should enjoy doing. However, if you (or your people) don't have any other way to facilitate changes that are non-negotiable for you (such as your fundamental right to live being threatened), should you turn the other cheek? Is resorting to civil violence unacceptable in such situations?

We've had examples of civil violence bringing drastic changes when people's lives are being threatened by governments, hunger or societal structures. Notably, the French Revolution. Is it unacceptable for people to kill their king if they don't have anything to eat, and the queen tells them to eat cake if they can't eat bread? Depends on your moral stance. Would the issues that the revolution focused on change if people weren't violent? Highly doubt it.

Of course, I am not equating the French Revolution to the Unabomber: it's drastically different to kill innocent civilians with mailed bombs because of "principles" than it is to behead your king because you don't have anything to eat. Violence is the only reasonable choice in some (albeit rare) situations. The acceptability of it very much depends at what's at stake.
Inflation is a form of taxation, everyone with that currency loses value. Thus when you borrow below the inflation rate the difference is “paid off” by taxing people.

Borrowing isn’t free money, it’s in fact more expensive than taxing people directly.

> That still is irrelevant to this point, which is that writing down rules is the easy bit, and creating value year on year is the hard bit.

Hardly, making money from investments isn’t difficult and has some of the largest tax breaks built in. As someone that’s inherited money I can say theirs nothing inherently virtuous or difficult about it and wow it’s tax free!

But hey I am glad you’re working extra hard so I can lazy around as much as I feel like it.
How many more Mk-ultras were there that we just never found out about?
Unfortunely, things can be depressing and also true. Their rating system does not seem to understand this.
Just run a Tor advocacy program in the area to increase the local userbase.

But I tend to agree, for single agent TOR is probably a bad tradeoff, I suspect the intended use case of TOR is likely more about larger groups like opposition movements or rebel groups
Curious if the https certs for these sites have some common characteristics that could indicate what sites are related as well.
Treat its output like you’d treat an anonymous forum post. It can be a good source of pointers or ideas but don’t use it as ground truth for anything ever.
Does ChatGPT have a hard-wired incentive structure that encourages good-faith answers? No. Can you trust its package recommendations? No.
Vertical integration isn’t an end goal of businesses or regulation. it’s also hard to even define.
Django Ninja allows you to immediately piggyback on all the Django features: the ORM, auth, admin panel, migrations, forms, and so on. If you choose FastAPI you’ll have to add these things yourself (SQLAlchemy for the ORM, Alembic for migrations, etc.). Unless every single percentage point of performance won matters to your use case, I’d go for Django Ninja.
If I were to use that for a treasure hunt, and I wish people would read the tablet back to english in less than an hour, what should I do?
The great plains in the US were legendary for having multiple feet of deep, rich topsoil for farming.

Rich topsoil is that which has lots of organic matter in it, i.e. carbon.

There are people who say the great plains were built by roaming buffalo herds, grazing on the grasses growing there.

So if that natural system was able to sequester carbon it stands to reason that humans could mimic it and in doing so also sequester carbon.
Have you tried living in the wilderness then?

I did actually and I miss it.

But there is a reason, I am not raising my kids there.
As history has shown over and over (and thats just cases which surfaced, most did not and will not), its a stupid idea in all situations.

The cases where people walk away unscathed and achieve some proper good instead of long bad prisons, torture or outright execution are miniscule. You can be sacrificed by some bureaucrat which has lower intelligence than you, doesnt care a bit, is corrupt or just treats you as a pawn in some bigger game.

Greater good my ass, its almost never the case, its rather one of above.

Thats why they always go for desperate people, who they manipulate, extort, threaten to harm families etc. Normal balanced well off folks have no business with such, you can only lose.
reddit Premium costs $6/month and eliminates ads. That's an upper bound on how much reddit values serving ads to users. Include an API key with reddit Premium that users can plug into the app of their choice. reddit gets the value per user, gets the analytics per-user, and it's hard to complain about price gouging given this was the previous price for ad-free service.
Funnily enough, I get the GDPR pop-up, agree to nothing and the site is readable
It probably wouldn't look like editing the most popular public wiki in the world that records and reviews historical edits and changes?
>This guy who published a suspiciously early patent on a covid 19 vaccine fell off a roof three months later?

>That’s kind of buried in the article a bit but was this claim been made anywhere else?

As someone who's followed the debate closely, (with the submission history to demostrate that), I can tell you that the parent article is the first time the assertion that Zhou fell from the roof has ever been made in tbe public-facing side of the debate.
I just came here to say that we already have autonomous "someone-else's" vehicles out there.

If you're in a bar and want to go back to your place, you call one if such autonomous vehicles. Or you want to go from home to work without needing to care about parking. They are called taxis.
The society of HN has a ritual of down playing products that simplify processes for non-developers (the famous dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224) and claiming that we could build some product in a weekend (Dan Luu's essay summarizes it well https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/). These are worthy of immortalizing in cuneiform for our descendants so they may know our hubris.
PHEVs are the compact fluorescent of cars. We're better off waiting for the BEV market to mature a little and get the full benefits. Battery weight and costs, along with the small size of electric motors, will naturally drive electric vehicles to be much smaller and even less polluting.

There a very good reasons other than environmental to free ourselves from the oil scourge.
imo using your language of choice as an html templating engine that serves your "static" files is the best choice - you can essentially be left with editign css/js and html files but if you have some neat feature you want to add you can implement it and start taking advantage of the templates to interpolate your new stuff. Keeps your clients small and it's up to you to keep it simple or add what ever giant frameworks you want.
Amusingly enough failing to pay utilities results in some of the most lenient reactions possible; partially because many localities make it illegal to remove electricity/gas service during "extreme weather months" (because old people freezing to death because they didn't pay a bill is really bad publicity for the utility and the government) and partially because they know they'll get theirs eventually.

They will cut you off when the time comes, but it can sometimes be surprisingly long. And they will put a lien against the property, too.
Revenue below interest due on debts sounds unambiguously insolvent. I've tried to verify this claim and mostly discovered stuff that makes no sense to me. https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262... is one of the clearer things.

Twitter owes ~$12B from when it was acquired by Elon. Somehow twitter owes this, not Elon. How is that a thing? Twitter put itself ruinously in debt in order to hand over control to someone else.
Agreed, you actually have to seek them out now now instead of them being stuffed in your mailbox and it's rare for them to be for staples. I just accept just food will cost more (and switched to Costco) and try to make it up on household stuff.
Yes I've made some money, though it's not exactly a ton (a few hundred quid every few weeks).

Unfortunately, I kinda screwed up a few times, and forgot to monetise popular videos until way later than I should have. Like that video with 6 million views or so? Wasn't monetised until it got about half of that, which was probably a very stupid mistake.

As for whether it's lucrative in general? Eh it depends on the niche, but generally not if we're talking ads. You need hundreds of thousands of views per video to really do well from those alone, and even that is heavily dependent on the subject matter in question and the audience you've drawn in (their country, demographics, etc). Most of the folks I know who do YouTube stuff full time tend to make a decent chunk of their money from Patreon and sponsorships instead, and I know at least one creator who stopped making stuff altogether due to it not covering their living costs (in a fairly cheap, rural part of China mind you).
The implication of a loss of a physical gadget, no matter the hype that exists around it, has low intrinsincal security severity. If the object could be otherwise used to have severe impacts, that would be another story.
I think ratings should be auto generated using chatgpt for maximum effect.
No, but you can teach people about contraception and make it easily available. Or you can not teach people about it, even teach them to avoid contraception because it is sinful, and you can erect hurdles such as prescription and point-of-sale requirements, cost, parental consent, etc.

And while voluntary contraception has a lesser effect than compulsory contraception (obviously, I'd guess), it has an effect.
So you will never buy a car because every manufacturer at some point already fucked something up with accelerate/break which means none of these can be trusted anymore?
You’re missing the reality of how automation “replaces” people. It doesn’t do one person’s job 100%, it does the easiest 90% of everyone’s job. You won’t be replaced by an AI, you and 8 other people will be replaced by an AI plus one guy who has good prompt-fu and editing/fact checking skills.
They've already reached that 96%. Reddit has, and always had, international audience. At this point, anyone who knows a bit of English and is the kind of person to use a site like that, is on it (+/- government blocks, of course). Whatever space for growth Reddit has left, it's not geographical.
>These sections should make companies nervous, because it means they need to assume full responsibility when relying on software in their multi-million-dollar business that was probably developed by a tired young parent or college student who didn't get enough sleep.

But those are exactly the same people who would be developing their software if they brought the work in-house.

Off topic, but doesn't the success of open source software torpedo the claims by many companies that you need on-site collaboration for this kind of work? Even here on HN you see many comments going on about magical conversations in hallways, yada yada. But in reality, many of the software projects that millions use every day were built and are currently maintained by teams who have not only never met, but probably don't even know what the other team members look like.
This is why so many places accept credit card for what you would expect the fees would be too high for; because they know if they can get the large business to just pay the $50k on credit card they will never have to worry about collections, net 90, etc, etc. It's worth the $1,500 hit.

I've even been on the other side of that, expensing it because that was easier in our system than getting a PO.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Crypto's Regulatory Challenges
A game developer or a movie director can now generate music for their games and movies and don't have to bother with hiring a composer.
Considered it, but I think I'd get even more burnt out if I had to rely on YouTube to survive and making videos every day was an absolute necessity.
> What cost are founders willing to pay ...?

The obvious cost would be to provide actual offices (with at least doors that close, and preferably windows that open) for those employees willing to return to "the office".
https://archive.is/6y6YF
What is it like to be a man?
> Violence is certainly not the best way, but aviation is responsible directly and indirectly of so much irreversible damage to the environment.

Violence is bad, unless it is supporting my political goals, in which case it is sometimes justified?
You know why :) Stockholders, Corp Execs want their dividends and bonuses. Saving lives comes last.

There was a proposal to also send this info real time, but that has been shotdown many times.
There's no impediment to any aircraft manufacturer or any airline to develop their own superior system, and augment what's required. Surely, the case could be made that it's helpful mitigating even just future revenue catastrophes?
> Teachers are usually allocated by state government administrations.

This. Biggest issue in all variants of Germany’s education system. Schools should have their own budget which they can allocate as they wish and be allowed to freely raise additional budget from private of public sources for their projects. They should also have a say in the salary of the teachers they employ.

In Germany, historically, all teachers are civil servants that can’t be fired and, hence, aren’t really held responsible for the outcome of their teachings. Especially in troublesome areas schools are left with often incompetent and lazy personnel make the situation for children even worse.
If more people would return their games on such cases, or do lawsuits, like in other goods, they would worry about security.
"Anyone who is a conspiracy theorist has clearly never been a project manager. It's impossible to get a dozen people to do the right thing, much less keep it a secret."

If the CIAs most secret illicit experiment came to light, what makes you think they are meaningfully hiding more?
I want a modern sequel for this. It was so good. Making your little wigglebugs and then conquering the other wigglebugs and burning their towns and taking their women.
As much as I loved the olden says of shareware doom and extensive mods to games like counter strike, I think when it comes to competitive online games streaming is going to become the norm. Every one will be able to play, it will be much harder to cheat, and updates and enhancements are basically instant from an end user perspective.
Opinion: Does the U.S. Government Want You to Believe in U.F.O.s?
Engineer to manager isn't "growth", it's a complete career shift. Fine if you want it, torture if you don't.

"Dear Engineer, you are so good at your job we've decided to have you stop doing it and do a different job with an almost completely disjoint skill set. You get to do something that you will most likely hate and be bad at. Plus you can never go back to your old life."
This is really fascinating to me because MW2 was, and still is, one of my favorite games.

Can you tell me more about these RCEs, how they work, or some technical analysis on this game?
I should order "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." as perhaps the perfection of that.
Came here to say this. If I need to fiddle with NoScript just to read your web page, it isn't small.
I do post shorts, and some of them have done pretty well. However, the number of views needed to make serious money with those is insane even compared to normal videos, and it's a completely different audience to the rest of the site. Additionally, given you can't add custom thumbnails for them and the way the algorithm works there is wildly inconsistent (seen some people get like, a hundred views from one short and a hundred thousand from the next one), it's a very risky game to put too much work into.
Egyptian hieroglyphs are probably one of the better choices for exotic writing that most people won't be able to correct you on since it is not generally used for any contemporary language. Arabic, Chinese and English are bad choices, someone will eventually let you know.
I think that comes down to how comfortable you are with classes and multiple inheritance and whatnot. Django is a shining example of how to do these things right, but yes it can be a bit daunting if you're not used to them.

But in my experience, FBVs become a mess even if they're relatively simple, because of the temptation to keep it all within a single function. If you take the time to break things down into separate functions and try to keep it dry, while passing around the related objects then FBVs are ok, but then you're basically recreating classes.

In any case, my point is that function or class views should never be complicated, they should just be taking a request, and returning an appropriate object. If the process for creating the appropriate object is complex, that should be handled outside the view.

Oh and my use of the phrase "you're doing it wrong" is kind of tongue in cheek, and comes from my time doing tech support in my early 20s, where we all thought it was hilariously unhelpful. I agree it's a bit obnoxious, I almost edited it out last night. But I made myself giggle enough that I left it in.
> controversial comment

> negative influence

Throwing together in a broad set, labelled "«negative influence»", conditions that in a form probably did and in other forms you are claiming should have triggered a specific class of effects, and having taken such untenable assumption further reasoning quantitatively to prove points, makes your comment controversial.

We cannot just suppose that the (resulting) class of behaviours in question would be necessary consequence of "intense general «negative influence»" - proposal which you yourself deny through observation, but that was not theorized in the first place.
Is that your guess? Can you name any high profile cases that were prosecuted as a result of enhanced discoverability?
Yes true. I think they are biased towards the technical complexity of designing such systems. Although to experts in the field it is just a bunch of statistics and some math and coding. It’s not really a big deal but they miss the point that this can be dangerous and life impacting and this is depressing