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Your view is a popular one, but you fail to understand that the driving force behind poverty is not merely lack of capital. Rather, it's broken social structures. In a dysfunctional nation, there are sinister actors.

If you give a poor farmer a tractor, then that raises more taxes for the corrupt government, which will spend the money on perpetuating corruption, and then they collapse, and then there's a power vacuum, and then a civil war, and it just keeps going

There have always been groups that want to solve poverty. People who have experienced poverty and people who live in poverty want to solve poverty. Yet poverty continues, because it's not a problem anyone knows how to solve
I used levels.fyi and got an extra $50k over the initial offer. The fee was $500. A good ROI!
The ostensible cause for the rate limiting was “excessive scraping”. Battling stuff like this or e.g. spam bots is a constant arms race. So, without staff, the bad actors will eventually win.
> But on average, it's cringe when people who earn literally twice what the average population does talk about "job insecurity" and pretend they are in the same boat as trully struggling lower class worker.

Because the Hedonic treadmill exists, expenses are also higher for high-earning people than the average population's: why would you expect well-paid folk not to worry about being unable to afford paying for their car note, mortgage, child-care and other obligations. Your position would be reasonable if all costs were uniform, and people who earn double put all their money in savings and investments.
Who cares? You should be planning on jumping ship every 2-3 years anyway. So the year over raises staying at a firm are meaningless compared to the outsized bumps going to a new shop.
The huge kicker about this is that the company pine64 already has a better, cheaper option with their line of the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, which are designed exclusively for Linux and phosh experiences. With every upgrade they don't even scratch $600 a unit. At the very least, Purism is pricing themselves unfairly. Also with their past quality control failures with the Librem line, what faith should we have in the company that it will succeed?
> I revised my comment - isn't the name of Russia itself a remnant of Scandinavian origins?

It is, and that has nothing to do with the issue.

> I don't know what "Eastern Europe" has to do with "Westerners".

It has to do with the fact that Europe as a whole is not part of the classical definition of the West, and the part that isn’t Western is (or is a subset of, “Eastern Europe” having multiple definitions) Eastern Europe.

> The opposite of Western Europe - or NATO - used to be, in some sense, the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union.

Western Europe is not the same thing as NATO (a number of Western Eurooean countries were never in NATO, while a couple North American countries are.)

Also, the concept of “Eastern Europe” is older than the post-WWII geopolitical conflict, though its true that that conflict shifted sonewhat the understanding of what “Eastern Europe” was.

> But that doesn't mean they weren't Westerners

Sure, by the older understanding, the West would clearly include Germany (not just West Germany), Poland, Hungary, and some other places behind the Iron Curtain. But it never included Russia.

> In the Cold War era, there was, I believe, a concept of the unaligned countries, and I sort of thought that those were, in 20th century terms, the non-Western countries.

The “non-aligned countries” aren't nob-Western in particular, or vice versa. Many of them were non-Western, some were Western; they were just countries not aligned with either of the two major geopolitical blocs (after the USSR/PRC split, the PRC actively worked to make the non-aligned group a bit more like a third, China-led bloc.)
Can you actually do that?
$ curl -s --head https://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/414-F11/IntroToCrypto.pdf | grep last-modified
last-modified: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:07:09 GMT
No point engaging with the points, I was simply recounting anti-chinese narratives that western media has produced over time. The point is that the overwhelming amount of press they get is negative or at best neutral. They're treated like enemies in the media. politicians use anti-china talking points routinely. The average westerner is unlikely to regard them positively. I wouldn't call this friendship.
The amount of indirection is the same problem as this. This is just a tiny example of it.
That’s a pretty defeatist attitude.

Gizmodo has maintained their quality reasonably well over the years.

I agree that most (in a numerical sense) articles on the internet these days are blogspam, but that’s no reason to accelerate the elimination of journalists.
Emails aren't sent to the whole world and linked to on websites though
This could be relevant for smart contract development.
Prolonged fasting and meditation can generate non-ordinary mental states (which you could call psychedelic trips if you like) but the mechanism and the effects are not the same. When it comes to psychoactive compounds, classification matters a lot, at least from a pharmacological perspective. For example, MDMA dependency is a lot more likely than LSD dependency from an abuse perspective as it hits the dopamine reward circuitry in the brain, and this is generally true of all the tryptamine-class psychedelics.

As far as ketamine, it's an organochlorine compound whose regular use is associated with liver and urinary toxicity, I can't believe anyone who knows about this would want to take it regularly or recreationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
Any evidence for fewer rapes due to porn availability? I’ve seen evidence of porn encouraging violent behaviors in men towards women.
Got curious about changes in the linked digibarn.com version vs. the archived "preliminary" jefraskin.com version. Here is a visual diff: https://www.diffchecker.com/FS72qsjU/
If your website has such awful offering that you think an automated system can do better then maybe you shouldn't be in business anyways. But then again normal human hands are just to slow to react to the latest gossip
Thank you for explaining. I couldn't make heads or tail of what the article was saying, and most of the comments in this thread are discussing different problems with federated services, rather than specifically this problem with federated web apps.
Modern Western capitalism is pretty similar to the Soviet Union or China's.

"State capitalism" and "monopoly capitalism" (the bad kind according to socialists) are about as different as Coke and Pepsi.

Ultimately the "owners" in practice are people you never heard of that work for (government) pension funds and index funds. The billionaires, founders, and celebrities are mostly a sideshow. That's not a denial of wealth inequality, just as officially socialist countries have.

But nearly all big companies have no owner in a top hat running the show, just faceless committees, responsible for buying everything - that company and all its competitors. Bureaucrats, apparatchiks, public or private, it's much the same.

If the C-suite and directors of huge companies are generally parasites, it's because robber barons and corporate raiders are the exception today. People whose job is to invest trillions of dollars by simply buying everything for sale have the least control imaginable over company managers. The current situation reflects classic criticisms of socialism, but it won anyway.

Nearly every source of information on public company stocks in the US has a figure for "institutional ownership". If a company is of any size, and is a real business, this is usually a high % - this is a reality check if what I'm writing sounds outlandish because nobody talks about anything but Twitter around here.
It is unlikely that a system with the scale of Twitter implements the API rate limiter in the backend. Usually you'd do this as early as possible together with other WAF stuff.

If IPs or IP ranges get really annoying we block them on the network level.

Big public sites like Twitter obviously need to have this technology. Due to their political content they probably also need sophisticated DDoS protection.
Yes - first shot was correct. 2nd shot said his second movie was the same as his first (?). 3rd shot was just wrong (said he was not in Little Shop). 4th shot was interesting (listed Little shop as his 3rd movie) then it all went downhill from there.

Using the free sign-up - probably 3.5. I guess the point is that even if 4 is better the amount of trust being put into this thing (as amazing as it is) is somewhat worrying. I still get the 'In vino veritas' vide, FWIT.
Ye, sometimes I don't have enough energy to research how to implement something that day, so I'd put it off till I had the energy. Instead, gpt generates the code, and I just have to debug/test it.
How would you go about designing a high school or undergraduate course in coming up with the questions, ideally including doing work that raises them? What&where are some courses that do this?
I thought show HNs were intended for when you have something to show, not just a “get in touch” button? What can I try without signing up?
I got it on levels.fyi. It was a couple thousand.
I can get behind this for porn if you can get behind the same for bibles.
I think many people don't realize that the git integrated shell prompts for example are not safe to use in untrusted git repos.

Lots of editors will also query git repo information for displaying information to the user, and may do this completely automatically.

If you "git clone" the repo, git will not clone hooks from my understanding, so the primary issue is unpacking a tarball with a git repo inside of it and then trying to do something with the repo.
I guess in an attempt to make something that learns organically, we made something that fails knowledge checks organically too. More like sentience than we initially thought.
>but how can there be nothing of value?

All independent image hosts suffer the same fate. There's simply no money in it. The moment you try to monetize people will move to a new free service, and the cycle starts over.
Sounds like you have no clue about whats happening in other countries
Every decision made by anybody in life arises from a mix of choice, circumstances and coercion [1]. The relative proportions of each depend on the person and the decision. What's often described as "privilege" really is the ability to make decisions with less coercion and more choice than other people in similar circumstances.

If someone is making a decision primarily based on coercion—and having to uproot your life absolutely is coercion—saying that "no actually, it's a choice" is unkind. In 2013 Tumblr terms, I implore you to check your privilege.

[1] I've stolen this rubric from the sex work community, which is at the leading edge not just in infosec but also in the philosophy of labor.
I am intrigued why other games never tried to make a similar solution to GOAL. I read interviews with GOAL and heard how designers could edit properties on a running build in real time.

Some 2D centric engines have scripting languages to do similar feats, but Im guessing the complexity of games simply outstripped the ability to get tight iteration times.
Pretty sure they are the encoded versions, but I couldn't get them to scan by taking a screenshot and sharing it to Binary Eye [1]

[1] https://github.com/markusfisch/BinaryEye
> It's enjoyable to blame insurance companies, but the reality is their profits are capped by law - they are not the problem.

What a delightfully naive view.

Answer me two simple questions:

1) How are insurance companies profits capped?

2) How does increasing or decreasing costs affect thier allowable profits?
Losing the World Record in Hatetris (2023)
Before having an idea of how "proper" cracks should be done, EV copy protection was corrected in resedit by turning Cap'n Hector into an escape pod (so he couldn't kill you) and something else I forget right now to unlock some missions
I searched "what holiday is it this weekend" on kagi and found nothing. I don't know what country GP is in and I haven't heard about any public holidays this weekend.

The "America is the default" is tiring. The US makes up ~ 5% of the population, and most of us do not default to American thinking.
> These psychedelics can help resolve the symptoms

My experience with psychedelic-assisted insight is not consistent with this. You have the right trip, identify some root-causes that you've been overlooking, and then sober-you has the rest of your life to do something with that new awareness.

They're not painkillers. If anything, they're the opposite. There are all of these rumors about LSD causing back pain because people who have been ignoring back pain trip and are suddenly aware of it again. Such an experience caused me to upgrade my chair and start practicing yoga, for instance.
Read it and review the change.

Just because something is difficult to automate doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
I wish we could get some kind of semantic versioning system for manufactured items.
> "Don't write off what you're hearing from your aunt as "FUD". What she's saying is a poor technical understanding of the very real overarching dynamic."

I don't have poor technical understanding. I am pointing out one of the loopholes companies are using to exploit customers: "privacy agreements."

If you want an in-depth technical analysis of how big tech does spy on you, just ask. I can provide a few case studies using OSINT and "hypothetical" speak, so as not to break NDA.
The technique is called "request hedging".
The biggest adversary of the United States is the United States.

Those factories migrated to the US South, then to Mexico, then to China. Not because of some conspiracy, but because we run our institutions based on quarterly financials.

I worked a long time ago on an effort to sue a large manufacturer whose supply chain was shipping counterfeit parts to certain customers. The Chinese partners ran a third shift with no QC and stuffed these parts into the distribution chain. They also stole defective parts and did the same thing. Everyone knew this was happening. But everyone was making money, so nobody gave a shit.

With respect to politics, well yeah, they are the other great power now. It’s in their interest to buffer themselves from whatever they perceive as a threat. The US is no babe in the woods here - our war plan from the 1950s onward was to attack China with nuclear weapons if the Soviets rolled into East Berlin - just in case.

The Chinese can’t compete with the US with air or sea power, so they seek to control their sphere of influence in other ways, and slowly build in preparation for the US decline in power.
That's right. For me, it's essentially living a Bodhisattva life.
Maybe. I don't know. But that link sent me to another rabbit hole, thanks:)
Agreed, it's fud - and there are professional botnets on HackerNews to amplify what they want.

What I've noticed is there's little technical discussion, and more so emotional-provoking replies.
I find this kind of surprising. I feel like I've almost never gotten 6 REM cycles ever. The recommended 8 hours is only enough time for 5 REM cycles, no? You need 9 hours for 6 REM cycles since they're ~90 minutes each.
This is still hearsay.

However, even with my limited experience in similar scenarios on smaller scale - it still feels accurate.
They're being closed by Snap, who bought them.
having worked on products where analytics matter, it's important to be specific about behavior of those who use your products, and a better metric would be related to lingering, did you stop scrolling and if there are many tweets in this feed where you stopped, did you move your mouse towards one of those tweets? was your lingering intentional or related to inattention? It's important to develop an understanding of which in the list is the one you are lingering on (or what even is that list). It's important for behavior monitoring but also to make sure you are serving ads in a way that aligns with attention (assuming you run an ad supported platform, like Twitter) and that you can have accurate measurements for ad impressions (scrolling past an add without even stopping shouldn't cost an advertiser more than the base cost of the ad, and should cost more if someone lingers for even a half second.)

Other random ideas for what you would consider counted? you replied, you liked, you clicked a link through the tweet, you expanded a shortened version of a long tweet. There are so many ways to determine "read" and assuming it's always the naive "it was served" is like building a business based off of page views and not actual engagement.
Elon Musk does not have "radical ideas"

He has moronic ones. The only reason any of his companies have done well is because they have people that can manage HIM well enough to do well in spite of his idiotic moronic stupid ideas.
You have an odd view of Republicans like they're some salt of the earth grass roots folks and not half of the country's political and economic elite. Everything you believe about white liberals is equally true about white conservatives. He's not the supreme court justice of plumbers in Iowa he's the supreme court justice of the Republican congressmen and senators that appointed him and the rich donors that support his party. People have built their whole careers on sucking up to Republicans only for them to eventually eventually eat their face. Not two days ago was a prominent Republican gay man who wasted 7 years of his life trying and failing to get Republicans to not hate him. God the amount of poor Republican trans women in the public sphere playing and losing the same game is depressing to watch. Really proves it's not a choice.

> If you’re going to accuse someone of being a “pick me,” his political views matter, don’t they.

No he's a pick me because he's throwing his weight behind a party that won't hesitate to stab him in the back once he doesn't have anything to offer them anymore.

> you’re saying is that white liberals are right about everything

Oh god no, but you have a choice of the party that hates you and the party that doesn't. I think it is insane to vote for the former even if you like their other policies. It's easier to sell political Republicanism and conservative fiscal policy to Democrats than it is to sell BLM to Republicans. There is of course a wide range of values among people of every race and creed but you don't vote for values you vote for people. I would love if there was a party that was Republican but dropped all the stupid social issue stuff. They would get my vote in an instant. But there isn't so I vote D.

Republicans are being really cavalier with their base of moderates who likely have someone in their lives who is affected by their policies.
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Why? Why can't we effort to find companies to work for where we can grow and stay for the long haul? Places where we can gain experience from, for example, seeing our solutions and theories stand the test of time? Iterate on them, watch others grow meaningfully over several years, watch ourselves grow meaningfully over years.

I want to find a company and encourage the sort of company that pays all its employees fairly, well and with regular cost of living adjustments along with promotions (or raises), that I can remain with and see through it.

As employees, we should be encouraging companies to grow a culture of employee retention; and employers should be efforting toward the same.

This race to the bottom needs to stop; and, "Hacker News" wants to be a place full of startups. That is, a place full of companies that can make those decisions for their whole staff early and cultivate that style, themselves.
Same here, but I used interviewing.io for both practice mocks and subsequent negotiations.
Also via c.tl.x (structure not shown but obvious). There are three fields in a union.
Fire chief warns against ‘unleashing’ self-driving taxis in San Francisco
apologies for failed line separation in above answer. Chat has its own set of rules and if you include a copy and paste selection of instructions to your queries, you will generally get a better quality response.

Drill down your requests into parts. similar to a recipe. Give Chat instructions one by one added on to each other and your end result will show the effort was worth it.
Unfortunately almost nothing is deleted any longer, so once shared it is done.

Thankfully, Facebook said they have stopped facial recognition. Here’s hoping it wasn’t a lie.
Like almost everything in the world, forced labor (not the official definition, but the actual reality) is a spectrum, not a binary.
I think this is an issue of perspective.

I know someone who quite recently died of Covid. There is no longer a pandemic, but the virus is still deadly. Their concern is justified.

Economically, the US is critically dependent on China for facilitating consumer demand. The US cannot afford an adversary in China.

Ethically, the US is not offering a compelling framework or alternative that alleviates the issues you raise. This is a real concern.

China has lifted hundreds of millions of people directly out of extreme poverty. This is their prerogative and modus operandi.

The only way forward is cooperation, adjustment and coordination.
No new law or statute was raised.

She and her lawyer made up a hypothetical scenario, submitted it as a legal injury to the court, and the SCOTUS ruled on it anyway.

Seriously, that lawyer deserves to be disbarred for knowingly filing false info.
The Civil War was about the future, not the past. The South was kinda fucked anyway - land rich agricultural barons were an endangered species everywhere at that point.

The point was to bring slavery to the West. Not just for the free labor, but because slaves suppress the wages of everyone. The sons of the south getting mowed down in the trenches were fighting for those barons whose prosperity was dependent on their poverty. African slaves meant there was always readily identifiable people worse off than you.
I think we're already in an age where you can maliciously clone someone's likeness to commit petty fraud. That's really the threat model I'm working with here.
> It's certainly a problem!

If it were a problem, Washington could get it resolved in a year.

It's not a problem, because half the people bankrolling political campaigns are neck-deep in it! Their businesses are built on it! On cheap labour, on captive markets, on sources of third-world resources that are accessed through theft, violence, or corruption!

And even if you aren't directly involved, our society will not function very well if we stop reaping the benefits of all the practices I've described. Nobody wants to pay $90 for a t-shirt, or $9 for a gallon of gas.
It's hinted at in your post, but to make it more explicit we use GF(2^n) mainly because using it means arithmetic can be efficiently implemented with bitwise operations on digital computers. The whole mathematical machinery of modern crytography is a weird hybrid between the kinds of math computers can do quickly and the kinds of math that are easy to analyze for humans.