skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A startup company, Ambrosia, has been selling "young blood transfusions" for $8,000 since 2017 under the guise of running a clinical trial ... The clinical trial has no control arm and so is neither randomized nor blind. The company was started by Jesse Karmazin, a medical school graduate without a license to practice medicine. David Wright is the licensed doctor overseeing the clinical trial; in his practice he administers intravenous treatments of vitamins and antibiotics for nontraditional purposes and was disciplined by the California Medical Board for the latter in 2015. Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist from McGill University, suggests that Ambrosia is running this trial as they would be unable to get FDA approval to sell this treatment otherwise." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion#Ambros...
They could carry a set of battery packs on the roof and a pair of drones acting as scouts, one flying ahead with cameras and lidar for 10 minutes while the other one returns to swap out its battery.
The mainstream Linux stack is getting closer to parity with AOSP and ChromiumOS anyway, gaining features like touch-screen-first input, small-screen support, phone calls & SMS, GPS location, privacy-focused sandboxing etc. It's all about having a single system for the community to focus on, thus reducing fragmentation. AOSP app support can then be layered over the basic system if needed.
I have created github repositories(https://github.com/systems-programming-jobs) where systems programmers can inform other systems programmers about any vacancies that they might have in their team. The developers just have to add their vacancy to the README file. The reason to use github is that it will attract the right crowd. I want to give every programmer on github access to change the README file.
Unfortunately the volumes of "cleaned" brine are just not significant. See my comment elsewhere in the thread.
Worked for me as well, iPhone X. Very cool!
I was in part saying (2) with the main point being something else, that complexity of the rules i.e. amount of total/active DNA does not have to be the same as the complexity of what's produced. As an analogy, the literal rules of Go are simpler than any other game I know, the gameplay that results from those rules are the most complex. Another example might be rules for how to construct a deeply conneced NN can by very simple, once built and trained it can exhibit complex behaviour not seemingly bounded by the size of the rules of construction.
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Still common to call it BTS (GSM era) contra RBS in the states?
Have you looked at https://buildkite.com/? A great UX and workflow for orchestrating tests, but the tests still run entirely in/on your own infra.
I can't tell you how to handle this, and I have never been in a similar situation before (closest being having to disable accounts for the other person on my team) but here are two thoughts:

Firstly, You don't know for sure what will the client do - with a high probability they will do just like you've said, but I'm not sure it is your obligation to force their hand so to speak, by making that possibility public. Also, if you decide to proceed with telling your coworkers I'd first think whether your employer can accuse you of disclosing what, in their mind, may be confidential information - you're part of the organisation, and "I found it by accident" may not be a strong enough argument to protect yourself from getting reprimended or even fired.

However, I think what's more important in your case is your wife's insistence on you not telling anyone. If I were in your shoes I'd probably try talking to her some more, explaining how not telling your coworkers is affecting your wellbeing, and that will probably become a bigger issue the closer to the April deadline it gets, as your uncertainty grows. I’d even suggest that you together talk with some close and trusted friends, or even a professional, to try and make some sense out of the situation. If you can't reach an agreement, I'd probably suggest siding with your wife - the knowledge you've acquired, while somewhat heavy, is nowhere heavy enough to put it over your own family.

In the end, I can only share my sympathy - It's not an enviable place to find oneself in. I just hope that, whatever you decide, you’ll be able to make peace with that and move on.
This is probably enforced at the policy level rather than systematic, like many other things in the credit card industry. The likely implementation of this, is that the merchant will be liable for chargebacks if they can't prove that the they've sent the consent email or text message.

Usually a recurring transaction has a different indicator flag set (ISO 8583 field 22, IIRC), and AFAIK subjected to a different liability profile than a standard e-commerce transaction. So I believe this has more impact on the merchant side than a customer.

Disclosure: I (used to) work in credit card payment industry. I have not read the details on this one, though.
Even scams like homeopathy can be useful via the placebo effect, at least for disorders where the placebo effect is significant.
If you don’t consent to being recorded, they are required to serve you in an unrecorded line. And if they cannot, then you have been denied service. And if you’re denied service, you cannot cancel. So run the chargeback.
Did these 67.x links above kill anyone’s device cellular connection? Something dangerous going on there.
It doesn't need to be responsible for all of the change, it might only be one among many contributing factors like climate change.

In that context, it would be shortsighted and naive to pretend it couldn't have any impact at all even on bigger and longer scales.
If that was the case, they'd email you a few days before payment was due to remind you.

Twice I've been stung for that - they're silent for the month, but as soon as you cancel (after navigating their dark patterns) they start the email bombardment.

Requiring payment details for a "free trail" is a huge red flag for me now - simply because it tells me what type of company it may be.
The minimum oxygen concentration in the air required for human breathing is 19.5 percent. ... hen oxygen concentrations drop from 19.5 to 16 percent, and you engage in physical activity, your cells fail to receive the oxygen needed to function correctly. Mental functions become impaired and respiration intermittent at oxygen concentrations that drop from 10 to 14 percent; at these levels with any amount of physical activity, the body becomes exhausted. Humans won't survive with levels at 6 percent or lower. https://sciencing.com/minimum-oxygen-concentration-human-bre...
>WireGuard is very hard to run without logging. It simply wasn’t designed for that and the maintainer was paid once to write “a rootkit-like” piece of code for a VPN provider which hired him to help them fix that.

This is a really bizarre misunderstanding of the events.

Wireguard does not generate any log entries by default.

zx2c4 wrote a rootkit which makes it more difficult to retrieve connected users IPs from a running wireguard instance.
There was a time that beanie babies, baseball cards and comic books would have yielded similar returns or better. The collectible market can get insanely hot and then die in an instant.
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He already got arrested prior to this, and continued to engage in the activity?
Having lived in poverty, particularly as a child, was certainly a trigger for many hoarders, but it isn't the only one. We just don't understand how mental disorders are triggered.

I know that I have trouble throwing stuff away if I think I might need it, be able to use it, or be able to repair it. Part of this is probably inherited from my mother, who I think might have ended up with a house like some of those you see on TV if it weren't for my father helping to set boundaries.

While I don't think hoarding itself is genetic, it is clear that there has to be a genetic predisposition that make it easier for this type of behavior to be triggered. My mother also ended up being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, and I think it's a reasonable hypothesis that there's a connection, although obviously I don't have the data to prove it.
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Yes, but this time it's different.

That's what everybody inside the bubble thinks. That's what they must think. It's what makes the bubble work. The bubble must always contain some forgotten ingredient that makes it special. Something that people do not remember about the past bubbles. Then nobody inside the bubble can prove that it will burst and if it's not provable maybe it won't burst.
"The best way to check for a two-way mirror is by using your fingertip. On most mirrors, if you place your fingertip on the mirror, the reflection of it will not touch. Instead, it will leave a quarter inch gap or so"

Went to check all mirrors at home, and placed my fingertip on them. In all, the reflection of my finger touches my finger.

I'm gonna need to have a serious conversation with my wife now.
SSID is not significant. You can use a Google service to get a location, and what you need to supply is 3 or 4 mac addresses, not SSID.
Having built my blog with React Static, I can tell you that this is far easier and fool-proof to do than it is using HTML and Javascript. It might sound like introducing a tool is overcomplicating things, but in this case, it really is simpler.

(Not sure if this holds for Next.js as well, since I believe it does a few other things too, but React Static has been a breeze for me.)
I wonder how well that holds over time. Maybe there is a huge price increase after LEGO stops manufacturing the set, with value not increasing much over time after the point at which buyers are left to the secondary market.

Also, listing fees. Swedish eBay owned Tradera charge fees and 10% of sales value.

But, I would love to save in Lego. Keep them around and look at the boxes.
Alison's "Ask a Manager" blog usually has sound advice

for example: https://www.askamanager.org/2017/11/should-i-tip-off-my-cowo...

maybe some other relevant discussion here: https://www.askamanager.org/category/layoffs
#​Edge​Goes​Chromium
Already do #1 (kinda), do you have any suggestions for #2 and #3?
Disclaimer: I have worked for Azure in the past -not anymore- and specifically in networking.

There's a few things I agree (the UI, even though I like it more than the AWS UI, is not my all time favourite GUI application) and others I disagree, but I wanted to correct some things about your specific example as I'm sure you'll find the information useful:

> In Azure, I'd use expressroute, add the Expressroute circuit to a Subscription,

Anything you create is created inside a subscription and those are not separate steps.

> add a gateway for that, and then an additional gateway for each VPC equivalent,

That's accurate and by design. Each VNet needs their ExpressRoute gateway - that's unless you peer those VNets, then you can use the "hub vnet"'s gateway for all of them, e.g.: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/referenc...

> create an authorization key for each 'VPC' equivalent and sync them,

Only if those VNets belong to other subscriptions, that's why you have to authorize them as the owner of the ExpressRoute. Depending on how your company has structured their access to Azure (they might have a subscription only for ER circuits, I've seen that a few times) you'll need to do this or not.

> and then define routing per gateway.

Not sure what you mean by "define routing". ExpressRoute uses BGP and learns routes from on-prem and from the VNet itself.

> Then when you go in to trace the network path ICMP is blocked.

ICMP is not forwarded by the Azure Load Balancer, but the load balancer is not in the path of traffic between on-premises and your VNets. You totally be able to traceroute to/from on-prem in an ExpressRoute scenario.

Also, as per the transit gateway I believe the equivalent might be the Virtual Want https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-wan/virtual-w... but I haven't really dug much into it yet. As far as I'm aware it doesn't support ExpressRoute at the moment.

All in all I believe your opinion is biased due to what you're used to (unconscious bias, plz don't get me wrong). I had the similar feeling when going to AWS, but after using it daily for some time you see the rationale behind the (different) product design decisions. We're humans, that's how our brain works! :)

Now on the other hand, I've got this daily AWS exposure for the last few months and it's very similar networking-wise. Heck, I even guessed existing features based on troubleshooting + my previous Azure knowledge (I'm looking at you "Src dst check" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-en... - AKA "IP Forwarding" in Azure).
tl;dr: We need more data and better data to draw reliable conclusions. This far the closest we can come is

"The authors’ overall calculations did find a statistically significant negative association between technology use and well-being: more screen time is associated with lower well-being in the young people surveyed. But the effects are so small — explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being — as to be of little practical value."
I tend to agree, but in practice this doesn't work well if the feature is slow.

I was a tester on a project where the primary functionality was a workflow that took 40 minutes minimum to complete, often much longer (it involved migrating servers from one cloud provider to another), and the dev team had this same philosophy: no writing unit tests, just acceptance/feature tests run against live environments, which seemed okay - it was the start of the project, a new codebase, and it probably worked out well on a previous project.

But it was kind of a disaster on this project. With only feature testing: a dev makes a change, updated code is deployed for test, automated acceptance tests kick off and an hour later the tests fail, then they look through the app logs and finally discover a NoneType error or a KeyError or something (Python's dynamic typing did not help either). Then they fix the code and repeat the whole process. Hours later you've got one change tested and merged. Then it goes out to a pre-prod environment for in-depth feature testing with more permutations of inputs, and we'd find trivially broken code there too.

That's a worst case scenario, but it happened all the time. It just took way too long to run all the feature tests needed to get good coverage of code paths. We'd literally waste full days trying to get something out to production because of the slow dev/test cycle. Eventually, the devs caved and added unit tests because we ran into so much broken code.

I never appreciated unit tests much until after that project, especially for dynamically typed languages. It's the quickest and easiest way to weed out trivial issues in the code - human eyes will not catch everything in peer review and feature tests with a sufficient number of input permutations can take way too long to run.
The point of the ChromeOS dual-partition scheme is that ChromeOS system installs are read-only and immutable - they're the equivalent to creating a squashfs live system and burning it to a fresh CD, so it wouldn't make sense to de-duplicate data among them. If you don't care about this property and need more flexibility than that anyway (as with the average Linux distribution, which is updating stuff in /usr all the time), snapshots are the sensible choice and the dual-partition scheme is quite pointless.
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"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

Gas costs have observable side effects, therefore someone will depend on them.
I understand that to be true, but I’ve also read recently that the placebo effect is largely overstated.

I think I’m doubly bitter about homeopathy in particular because it’s available on the NHS. My tax money is going to fraudsters.
And for those curious as to how/why this works this way, Azure has published papers on their virtual switch: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/azure-virtu...
> In the peak year of 1943, 5,755 people were using Hilda's number.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

There are actually lots of dummy SSNs that are used by a lot of people (including illegal workers).
I wonder how much the compatibility between sets (being able to snap blocks made in the 80's to ones from a set today) affects that, along with them having more of a "repeat use" than something like a baseball card or comic.
We really should start a Lego index fund buying up 10% of all new sets, storing them for 10 years then selling them on eBay.

Maybe we should do tulips too while we're at it, I heard they give a huge return too :)
If you remove the ability for people to spend money on worthless things, they will only have money to spend on useful things, and thus drive up inflation.
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The fact that you don't need to know it because you only work with very small customers doesn't mean other folks don't need it :)

Op's article is great IMHO.
"My BDSM dungeon"
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> drugs pay off in visible ways only for people who have already put in the hard work of figuring out how to make and do interesting things.

I agree with this. I’ve known a lot of people who have done a lot of psychedelics and most of them learned absolutely nothing from it if I’m being honest, and the few who had what I’d consider to be profound or interesting insights from it were deep thinkers anyway.
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I always cancel the subscription after entering in those trials, because if I don't like the service I will forget about this service and probably will be billed at the end of the next month, generating a nunnecessary headache.

If I like the service and want to continue to use it after the trial period, I simply re-added my billing information.

Cancelling the trial if I remove my billing information during it is unfair because it is just another mechanism to make consumers forget about the service and being billed by a service they don't even use.
The whole credit card payment system is built on another legacy system (we have emboss letter on credit card because of compatibility with a zip-zap machine!) so having explicit authorization consent for recurring payment is probably not going to be as easy as it seems. The last time payment industry tried to do something that resembles an explicit user consent, it resulted in the 3-D Secure system, which is horrendous and not even secure.
If any of them read hacker news they will probably know soon enough. How many tech teams of 9 are there in the Cotswolds that have an Indian parent company?
Except that the article you link to explicitly states two opposing theories as to why the salinity is so high, and has risen so much.

The two competing theories seem to be 1. desalination and 2. climate change causing excessive evaporation.
Ok, interesting as a curiosity, but:

> In one extreme case, a kit for Star Wars Darth Revan that retailed in 2014 for $3.99 went for $28.46 on eBay a year later -- a 613 percent premium.

Say I'm really prescient, and know exactly which kit to collect.... can I expect to invest 400K and get that 600% return? I doubt it. Sure it's possible for 4$, or 100$, but is it possible at any kind of significant scale?
And again you are being dishonest. I never said it was a trivial matter, I said it was terrifying. I was calling out a deliberate attempt to falsely claim Apple was doing to all of its customers what they did to its customers in one country but you are trying to twist it into something completely different by putting words in my mouth. Shame on you.

And now that you've brought this discussion into ad hominem territory, it has lost any relevance to the actual topic at hand. Peace.
I don't know if Parabiosis will eventually prove to have any use in fighting any sort of disease ever, but what I can tell from this article is that I wouldn't trust that company as far as I can throw it.

Just the thought that someone running a medical company thinks he can gather evidence worth talking about by just observing old people who got blood transfusions tells you all you need to know. He's willing to completely fabricate claims about the benefits of this treatment.

We now how much of a nightmare Theranos was -and that was a relatively passive procedure they were selling. What happens when this scrappy start up skimps on the screening tests for their donors and end up with venereal diseases in their blood supply? The old 'fake it till you make it' doesn't fly here.
Kodak even began shifting, they produced their own sensors, their own cameras etc, they sold their sensors to top camera makers. They had a good plan. They didn't expect the very sudden disruption of digital cameras though.
I guess because some businesses claims it is for verification purposes (because hoping you forget it would be a dark pattern).

I'd say if it is really for verification I can perfectly understand why a customer removes it after verification if they are still not sure if they are going to stay with the service or not.

Being smart about this can save you a few bucks a year (and/or some hassle).

Personally I just don't test products that require cc for free trials. Saves me even more hassle.
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> The high concentrations of salt, as well as chemicals like copper and chlorine,

can we not harvest those?
But wouldn't having it in a stable form as a mountain of salt be a decent storage solution? Or would the volumes produced be quickly untenable?
It isn't anywhere near as unexplored or untapped, as one might believe.

Waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay[0] is a principal example of how these exploits have been explored and later implemented. The tools were "developed" somewhere, tested, "perfected", defined, and then later implemented by training people to execute the methods and then the later execution of those methods.

The problem with these "psychological operations", as they're called, is that they don't take into account the ill-effects we've seen in time immemorial.

Let's say, for example, you've been tortured for 'x' days. How long before you 'break' and just admit to crimes you've never committed or implicate innocent people - all just to get the torture to stop?

"...but that wouldn't happen. People would never point the finger at other innocent people." Oh, yeah? See: The Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism as principal examples. (I'm assuming that you're American, at least, and - as such - you'd already be familiar with how those played-out.)

In normal parlance, this has been grouped into two seperate notions: Pychological Operations[1] and Psychological Warfare[2].

MKUltra[3] was, itself, specifically about mind-control, in order to obtain information and/or confessions.

So, you're definitely not the only one interested in it or in talking about it; however, it's entirely plausible that having an interest in this is something that lands us on yet another list... Yay. =[

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
So, what exactly is the theory here? They are transfusing plasma, which, as far as I understand, is blood without all the various cells in it. So basically water with some elements and whatever proteins are too small to separate in the centrifuge.

So either the specific mixture of stuff in "young blood" is better, or they mean the specific molecules are healthier because of their origin. The latter is homeopathy style chemistry, and the former seems mostly like a contrived way of taking hormonal supplements.