skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family members who are always getting themselves involved in MLMs, and for the longest time, it was always some health supplement, or training course, or deregulated energy savings thing.

In more recent years, I’ve become convinced that some of the current MLMs (especially the crypto variety) are fronts for something shadier, and/or are pure scams using the MLM format to court the crowd that’s already into that stuff. Increasingly they can’t really explain what the actual product is, and it’s clear that they’re just greed/desperation traps.
but to say it isn't happening raises a lot of questions. Why do so many firms so widely put mandatory arbritration clauses? why are pro-business arbitrators more likely to be chosen (despite, as you hypothesise, equal information)?

could it be that there are simply more pro-buisness arbitrators than pro-consumer? so a random list would have too many for customer representative to strike off?
I never got all the "don't worry about it, time travel is complicated" in sci-fi. Do people really have that much trouble with it? Or large distances in space, for that matter.

And it turns out, yes, I'm weird for being able to keep and resolve multiple timelines (and not get hung up on paradoxes), and it actually is weird that I can easily comprehend vast cosmic distances.

I had to resist saying "it's just two adjacent timelines offset by an hour" a few times with the recent time change.
More CO2 and a lovely cocktail of toxic gases, this doesn't sound like the elegant solution you're phrasing it as.
$30K per month, even 40 years from now based on 2% inflation, is equivalent to $13k per month today. You'd have to try really hard to not get by on that.

I assume you mean $30k per year. The recommended is more like $700,000, and that factors in your pension, but we're just using approximate figures here. Still, $30k per day today is quite doable for a retiree. What are you going to spend your money on, exactly? You've already purchased everything you need by that point in life, so you're just in maintenance mode.
Explaining 9 types of API testing
> The ballistic missile was launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, and flew almost 1,000 miles over the Arabian peninsula on the way to its target, the Israeli port city of Eilat.

A city known for... tourism and vacationing.
As a mostly backend dev, maybe I'm biased but all the tech you listed there isn't layers of stuff. Each of those do something different. For all but FAANG, kube is overkill. Helm is just templating. The rest existed before DevOps was a term.
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This eruption happened in the 16th century BCE, so Plato was writing about it over 1000 years after it happened. I’m skeptical a story can be passed down that long through oral tradition without changes, so no surprise all the details don’t match up. I would even venture to say that since the focus of this discussion is “something someone once wrote down” and keeping in mind that “people can write down anything they want to” I would say it was completely invented as a thought experiment.

But I’ll also take that Plato could have used an existing folk tale describing that very event as the basis for a point he was trying to make. Especially if his audience was already familiar with said folk tale.
As a protest, I’ve considered creating a browser plugin that takes the TOS and removes arbitration clause, e-signs it and PDFs it. Then posts it to the “agree” endpoint in addition to other form attributes and emails a copy to legal@BigCo. Basically automating the Dmitry Agarkov approach.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russian-rewrites-credit-agree...
Wasn’t this solved last year?

Official new logos below:

https://tidbits.com/2022/09/29/usb-simplifies-branding/
> Sad to see another Mercurial holdout switch to Git.

I am very happy when something like this happens. It means performance matters and a performant implementation is rewarded with market share.

This performance is what made git win, even if the “porcelain”, the CLI commands we use, are not as well-designed as the ones in Mercurial.

Hopefully one day we will no longer use any chat client written in Electron. =)
So you don't think there is a market for labor? You don't think that wages, benefits and workplace conditions (heath & safety), have any effect on where people work? Do you think there are fixed wages for certain categories of jobs, like some soviet economy? Do you think that most jobs are long-term-fixed contracts at some low penalty rate, like indentured servitude? Do you think there are still company towns where people have to work for a monopsonist employer at their terms? Do you think that people can move location?

Wage-based employment in the western world is certainly an economy. It is affected by laws, taxes, regulations, wage transparency, negotiating power, unionization, social welfare benefits, etc. But it is approximately a market, and wages are affected by the supply of labor (with skills/without; with education/without; with an artisan skill/or not; prepared to do dull, repetitive, smelly, disgusting job/or not).

How is labor not a market?

And do you know workers with profit sharing, or performance-related bonuses, or share options? Well they are essentially capitalists in their own employer, with some (small, perhaps insignificant) share of the returns to the business.

Do you know anyone who is self-employed? They are solo capitalists, self-started, owners of their shop or tools, and a capitalist of one.

Do you have a pension that owns equities? You are also a capitalist.

You may hate your manager, or envy them, because they earn more than you, and get to boss people around. They are not capitalists. Managers are not capitalists. Don't confuse your hatreds. They are only capitalists to the extent that they also get share ownership and options. Choose your targets carefully, and be explicit in your class-warfare hatreds.
You mean from this article "Sanitize HTML strings"? https://phuoc.ng/collection/html-dom/sanitize-html-strings/

Yeah, that article really shouldn't imply that sanitization is "that easy". It does at least mention https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify at the end but it should LOUDLY argue against attempting to write this particular thing yourself and promote that exclusively in my opinion.

Filed an issue about this here: https://github.com/phuocng/html-dom/issues/281
>"...or just vote with your Dollar"

What do you mean by this? People can't really vote with their dollar when it comes to the USB Implementers Forum and the decisions they make.
Copying my previous comment over because I found a fix that works for me:

There's some issue with DNS over HTTPS, so you have to whitelist their sites in your settings, or turn off DNS over HTTPS (which I don't recommend).

To whitelist, on Firefox: Hamburger menu > settings > privacy and security > DNS over HTTPS > Manage exceptions > Add "archive.is", "archive.ph", and "archive.today"
This. I'm currently planning on purchasing one of the Kria KV260s for that reason. They're above budget, but are quite capable and you get the free Vivado/Vitis toolchain
The are lot of tasks that don’t require performance, so if you are not going to write embedded / real-time system - you should be fine
These days? This is what we were using 10 years ago before React came about! It works fine, but performance can be a problem in large apps as handlebars just naively recreates entire DOM trees rather than diffing.
I think the AGPLv3 is a poor choice for what is essentially the reference implementation of the Matrix Protocol. The whole point of a protocol is to allow different implementations. Having a base implementation that others can freely fork and develop into whatever they want with whatever license model they want is a good thing for the protocol. I can understand if the Foundation were to maintain a very basic reference implementation- maybe even just a library or set of libraries with no real UI. And then corporations could develop an AGPLv3 (or whatever license they want) Project on top of it.

The CLA is an absolute atrocity, though. It is a bright line of perdition. No one should sign it.
This famous writeup quickly convinced me that this wouldn't work very well:

https://qntm.org/abolish
Daylight saving time is even weirder than you think
HARbleed: Moving Past Bearer Tokens
And now, dear usb consortium: why isn’t this mandatory in the -ing standard?

Oh I know, because you allowed usb 2.0 normal speed and super speed. Were you bribed at least or did you do it for free?
For starters, that's the "point in life" where most medical emergencies arrive.
> The history is an end product intended to help others (often future me) figure out when and why things changed, preferably in self-contained, well organized steps.

Development is often not self-contained or perfectly organized, so we shouldn't expect this of the change history either.

> In the long term it only confuses whoever is looking through the history to figure out why something is the way it is.

Source control is the wrong tool for this job, that's what comments and tickets are for. Source control can help you retroactively figure out how and sometimes why something evolved in a certain way, like a good archaeological tool, but we don't use crude tools when there are better tools.

I've taken to literally embedding ticket numbers along with comments directly in the code and in commit comments to document exactly why code does what it does. All functional changes are tied to tickets [1], and the tickets contain the full context, and the code comments contain a summary of that rationale. Use the right tool for the job.

[1] where "functional changes" means changes that can affect behaviour, rather than stylistic changes on variable naming or revising comments that have no visible effects.
Laws favor the people who have enough money to influence the people who make the laws. Poor people will always be at a disadvantage.
In other words, if you are willing to compromise, Apple isn't so bad of a deal. Well if I willing to compromise I'll do down to dirt cheap and then Apple doesn't even compete there.
M2 have nothing special against similarly priced competition unless for some reason you ABSOLUTELY need to run your powerful hardware in the desert with zero power available. But I am told most people runs their workload at home with plenty of cheap power available. I must be wrong.
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Linux has a very nice and super informative way to do this too: https://github.com/Rajaram-Regupathy/libtypec/wiki/lstypec-:...

It relies /sys/class/typec: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-c... which does not always exist https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274618 https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-controlling-power-di... https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/z92jgf/when_d... etc.
If on average 100% of cases involve a company that is paying for an arbitration lawyer and even 80% of cases involve an individual that is paying for an arbitration lawyer (which I _highly doubt_, though I couldn't quickly find numbers), the net result in the long term is not that "20% of individuals get a negative outcome", it's far worse.

This article is talking about the net effect, which is that the fact that there _is_ asymmetry means that arbitrators have an interest in _being_ biased against the individual, which means that even if you are paying for an arbitration lawyer, they are simply ruling out the _most_ biased firms, while the corporate arbitration lawyer is ruling out the _least_ biased firms. Think natural-selection, rather than game theory.
Most people would choose Google, but they are too incompetent or too indifferent to select the search engine on their device. If you study normal people using a computer or smart phone, they will panic and instantly click "OK" or "Continue" on any alert or dialog that shows on their device.
Even that is really a function of the shell and not the distribution itself.
Obama Drops the UBI Bomb [video]
Cuped Explained
A very important sentiment comes of it: don’t worry, politicians, The solution to this polluting agent is near. The more plastic we generate today, the sooner we are to finding a final solution which does not involve damaging our sacred revenue rate.

There’s no need to destroy our perfect status quo
That specific blindness story was debunked later on (~month past initial report); something about having only a single unnamed source touting that story to multiple newspapers.

As a russian rave goer: my deepest thanks to aliexpress providing lots of reliable UV LED sources, X-Y lasers etc. It really keeps the (insane) DIY at bay.

> they were popular during covid

They were popular long before covid: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarzlampe

TL;DR: invented in Germany, 1906; introduced as a nationwide cure for rickets in German children in 1920; adopted by soviet medicide nationwide in 1950s and never really went away

As for covid, it did trigger a number of insane DIY projects involving UV light sources; I like this one in particular - https://youtu.be/nFSkBsKAH-A?si=SLgdtdvLcNN-sTs0&t=187 (yep, that's a 125W streetlight mercury vapor lamp being stripped down into a hard UV hazard.. These go as far as 1000W, though 125W variation is most common and easily obtainable, at cost of $5 per lamp, and ~$30 on spare parts to get it up and running)
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Catchy title. I work from home as an MSP Enterprise Network Engineer - nothing about work feels anything remotely similar to video games.

I think I'm qualified to know, as I spend way too much time playing video games.
Yeah, people should just turn off their inate psychology more often.
Yes, I can choose not to contribute. But I'm not able to sell commercial licenses of your contributions.

This fundemental asymmetry is incredibly unfortunate for a project whose stated mission is being a fundamental communication layer.
Sadly the "agree endpoint" is usually a checkbox.
turns out that becomes the perfect state for navigating hyperspace freight lanes

melatonin becomes the most expensive drug ever

the spice must flow
This is still true, and it's mandated by the ISO C standard that a[i] is equivalent to (*((a)+(i))) (yes, they specify it with that many parentheses). You're still able to compile code that treats a[i] and i[a] interchangeably.

https://godbolt.org/z/37Kv44o1b

> I had read this in some C book, maybe K&R or the Waite Group C Microsoft Bible.

I haven't read the Microsoft C Bible, but it does say this in K&R while explaining pointers.
Create a browser book mark and set this as the URL of the bookmark:

javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/latest/"+location.href

It will usually open up the archived version of article without the paywall.
there are 18 languages of manual translations subtitles provided
Cleaning those things off of streetcorners is a simple and rewarding way to beautify your city. Also a source of stiff wire that comes in handy for crafts where a coat-hanger isn't quite beefy enough. (I make all sorts of hooks and hangers and brackets out of it.)
If you ever revisit that decision, check out FPM. It can shave off a few of the rough edges related to packaging: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
ChatGPT Plus Adds PDF Analysis and Multimodal Tool Switching
Didn't companies easily start addressing that by forbidding you from doing that?
> But USDT dropped down to 94 cents during the crash

While that is true, they were redeeming them 1:1. So you could buy them at a 6% discount on the exchange, but redeem them, for free 6%.

Few people did because enough of them thought that USDT is going to the ground, causing the discount.
The reason is simple: despite their many problems, plastics are a modern day miracle material. The alternatives I see proposed may match or beat it on one or two factors, but not everything.

A viable general replacement for plastic needs to beat plastic on price, weight, durability, sanitation, strength, and so much more.
Making the microprocessor is just one challenge - you have to produce a workable system that someone wants to buy (aka, is cheaper or more attractive than the other options. It does appear that DEC could have made a single chip PDP-11 in 1980, and probably could have made one with an expanded address space to get around the memory limitations in the PDP-11.

Intel did not do that, IBM in this case managed to - and it had the cachet and name recognition to sell an product that was largely middling in a technical level, over other options that were often superior technically and cheaper.

Intel made a decent enough microprocessor, yes it was kludgy (even the 8086 was), but it performed well enough (I've never seen a claim that the 68000 significantly outperformed the 8086), and was available in quantity. The rest of the things that made the IBM PC a system that stormed the world were COTS parts assembled in an attractive package.

Now, could DEC have done all of that with the PDP-11, yes, absolutely - but the winds were prevailing against it because of the nature of DEC management - I fundamentally do not believe that DEC would not have allowed itself to ship something as 'flawed' as the IBM PC was.
A quick glance shows it uses GNU Make but that's only a build time dependency, I guess.
Another excellent resource in the same vein is the marvelous https://javascript.info/

As a front-end dev who actually like the fundamental platform and the capacities it offers, I'm both happy to see so much nice things coming our way (nested CSS, container queries, and a generally nicer JS experience since ES6) and at the same time horrified by the amount of people using components for trivial things like buttons or bold text.

And I do like framework, but so much framework and library's marketing depend on making people believe that CSS and vanilla DOM manipulation is insanely hard (it's not once you know the fundamentals), and that pulling a random package on NPM is not just quick and easy, but also the professional thing to do.
My understanding is they're already doing it, and they're already allowed to under the previous license.

The CLA is also my least favorite part of this change, but it is overall a shift towards copyleft vs. the previous permissive licensing. If this means the project can remain FOSS and the company can continue to work on it, that's a good thing in my book.

If they ever relicensed to a proprietary license though I'd be calling for a fork.
But the wavers are rather specific, and in all cases I encountered, there are some exceptions for serious cases which the law does not allow to relegate to arbitration.

I suppose that arbitration lowers the cost of a dispute very seriously. It makes sorting out small issues affordable and much faster. I see it as a good tradeoff as long as I don't depend on it in potentially serious cases, where hiring a lawyer would be the least of my troubles.
“Agree” endpoint in quotes as it is whatever form that checkbox is in.
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All models are wrong. Some are useful.

There are, in fact, many establishments that are frighteningly efficient at devoting time, money and effort into manipulating people. But those establishments are ultimately guided by people, too. And those people are fallible creatures, just as prone to vagaries of ideological fashion and lapses in rational thought as those who ushered the events of January 6. Even the juggernauts make missteps. It does not diminish the empiricism of Chomsky's ideas.

The phenomenon you describe transcends notions of class, race, and and so on: over lifetime timescales, a group of people is a chaotic and unpredictable system, replete with knock on effects, where any actor or interest, no matter how fringe, has the potential to dominate. And while one can apply basic sociological principles to anticipate some short-term behaviors, it stands to reason that no amount of cold calculation or meticulous planning (by governments, media, elites, or otherwise) is immune to the simple fact that the course of any given organization is extremely difficult to consistently predict.
That sounds like a deeper issue. I am not a motivational expert, though I've had more experience than I'd like developing coping strategies for low motivation.

Consider that perhaps being motivated automatically isn't always the best thing. Auto-motivation can make it harder to choose a good and worthwhile direction, which motivates you on its own merits to something above self-interest.

Maybe you could afford to let your self-motivation lie fallow for a while, if that's what you need to do. Put your brain in a jar, and do something helpful and physical.

Maybe none of this applies to your situation? I do find it an interesting topic as well though.
If it's any consolation, the fundamental asymmetry replaces a previous asymmetry that Element uniquely donated all of its core Matrix code, including ownership, to the Foundation. But yes, I wish that the economics balanced without a CLA. But they don't.
> What part do you think should be illegal?

The part about cutting off your counterparty's access to the justice system
You are right, but first you ideally should perform scene change detection (to put keyframes at propper positions), and that alone takes quite some processing.
> Errr..no. I only played video games because they were fun

What is a game? I would say that a game is an abstract system used to understand our reality (or experiences in life), via a series of interactive actions that alter the system. Generally there is a set of goals (usually just to "win").

I develop software because it's a game. I do watch a lot of progress bars. Aside from that, it's one of my favorite games (to my wife's chagrin). It's fun for me and I'm not the only one. Why does it matter that other people don't enjoy what they do?
That article is misleading clickbait. Per the US government (BLS), the median household has ~$1,000 per month left over after all ordinary expenses. That is, after car payments on their BMWs, healthcare, iPhones, etc.

The median American can afford to save considerable money but they tend to spend it on lifestyle flexes instead.
Do you have to be successful in price fixing for it to be illegal or is just trying to price fix enough? That is a serious question - I do not know.
Lousy Smarch weather....
people won't switch to a "free" sponsored chatbot?
That's horrible, indeed. But C++ has its own verbosity, just elsewhere.

I will never miss writing header files and oh so many constructors.