skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrency mining is a favourite of fraudsters. Get a fake or stolen credit card number / identity, sign up for an account on a cloud provider, and spin up instances to do your mining. Depending on how quickly the provider reacts to the pattern of behaviour, or identifies the account as fraudulent etc, you can have earned a reasonable pay-off.

If the provider isn't paying attention and/or doesn't have good fraud detection in place, it may be a few months before your account and resources are terminated (assuming the payments eventually bounce, and the provider gives you a chance to fix it)
definitely :|
This blog post demonstrates the exact opposite of the authors intent. The post could have been reduced to 2 or 3 sentences. It is opinion supported by anecdote. A post written in 30 minutes isn’t worth the 30 seconds it takes me to read it.
If it’s any comfort the alternative doesn’t turn out much better. Most of my life I looked down on prurient interests and instead chose to master my profession, convinced it had to be the smart choice.

Now I find myself on the wrong side of 30 with a collection of useless money and assets slowly coming to accept that I’ll never have that ideal lifelong relationship with someone that matters. Soon I’ll have more years behind me than there are ahead and anyone I find will never have the shared experience of being with me during my prime years. They can never be a life partner now, they are simply a partner joining me as I age and go downhill from here.

I wish I had spent more time on the hunt when I still had my entire life ahead of me. So if that’s what you did, don’t worry, it works out better in the end.
We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI
Between that and Alzheimers I'd roll the dice on infection.
Flowlingo dev here. Thanks for the feedback! It's been a while since I've taken French, but one thing we plan on adding is translations of individual words in-context. For example, in Spanish, if you tapped an individual verb, the translation would be properly conjugated in relation to the sentence. We'd love to hear your other feedback, feel free to chat with us in the app (tap "Help" and scroll to the bottom), or email us at support@getflowlingo.com.
Yeah. If I pick up and it's spam, I just hang up without saying anything. I just have to deal with it once or twice before I get the call I need.
I believe Peak Oil was supposed to happen a dozen times now; we keep finding more when it becomes worthwhile to do additional exploration, and extraction technology keeps improving. Maybe uranium is different, but I would believe it when I see it.
Are there any legal grounds for this? Isn't the store a private property that can be run using arbitrary rules that apple chooses?
toca boca. everything.
Meanwhile, infant circumcision is still perfectly legal.
> Why don't they only let you review items that you have purchased using the same account? Too simple I guess.

Doing that would help, but probably not as much as you'd think. A lot of the fake review scams have the reviewers purchase the products legitimately and then get reimbursed through Paypal.
its the invisible wall
You become good by spending long amounts of time on your computer, sometimes for 12 hours a day. It is a lonely and solitary activity.
We list the languages on the website and the app description (also rakoo pasted them in his comment).

Check out @levpopov's other comments about phone #s (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20097197) and how we handle translation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20097026).
No Dragging and No IDE Switch = Immersive GUI Development
Hmm...

I would imagine the best case for a seal would be to have equal pressure on both sides.

Since internal gas is compressible it would be easier for water to enter with a pressure differential. Then, because the water would have to be next to the seal with pressurized gas behind it to exit again, the water would probably stay.

Having a non-compressible liquid inside would make the seal work less in most cases.
It's good to see a company pay attention and take action.

That said I would never use them, Amazon AWS is just a smarter solution all round.
Views from Above: The Past Eight Months in Orbit
"I began to spend much less time gaming, and the majority of my time developing my bot."

That's what happened to me. I started playing games, then modifying them, then writing my own, then the coding consumed all my time.

https://www.classicempire.com/history.html
As far as I can tell as part of POC downloads for open projects they always use either MySQL or Postgres if they are going to use a relational database. Cockroach seems to be in a good place here as you can just substitute Postgres for Cockroach.
The margins were small largely because a huge chunk of it goes into prime estate
French education visas allow 20 or 25 hours of work per week built into the visa. But getting to stay after the education is complete is really hard for non-EU citizens.
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Joe Rogan Experience #1309 – Naval Ravikant
is it just me or does the word "try" seem to imply the opposite here? To me saying "try" is like saying "attempt to run this" like we have in a try/catch block. I feel like something like "expect" would more directly explain what this does.

Great functionality though. I'd be very happy to see this included no matter what it's named.

EDIT: This is answered in the FAQ section after I read further. Apparently it's because "try" is already a keyword. I still don't like it, but I get it.
I'm glad you like it! Feel free to send us feedback any time (support@getflowlingo.com or tap "Help" in the app and scroll to the bottom for chat).
Great story, Rodney! You've done very well for yourself.

My background shares some similar elements of yours during the same time period albeit with a different game, Habbo Hotel, and a lot less money :-).

In a few years we'll start to see more from the Minecraft and redstone generation.
My favourite static blog engine is a NIH fueled mix of NodeJS, Handlebars, fs-extra and some glue code. It takes about 10 minutes to knock one up and then you are blessed you can extend it using JS not whatever DSLs are thrown are you by the static site generator. There is a lot more help out there for JS problems than Hugo problems.
Taiwan researchers working on method to predict, slow ALS progression
> If it’s any comfort the alternative doesn’t turn out much better. Most of my life I looked down on prurient interests and instead chose to master my profession, convinced it had to be the smart choice.

> Soon I’ll have more years behind me than there are ahead and anyone I find will never have the shared experience of being with me during my prime years. They can never be a life partner now, they are simply a partner joining me as I age and go downhill from here.

You have it all wrong. Your "prime" is what you make of it. Thinking that someone couldn't be a lifelong partner because they entered your life past your prime will only set you up for unhappiness. I don't know you but I truly hope you do find someone whom you feel you can call a life partner.
Does anyone remember The New Yorker article from June 2018 about the magazine “Teen Boss” that described similar stories regularly, except that it was marketed to pre-teens and teens?

The cover of one of their issues is really something to behold: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-very-unnervi...
> If a server can ping, it can update its DNS record

Isn't there a significant delay for this to propagate?

> consumer WAN access can't be 5 nines guaranteed

2 nines are more than sufficient, plus the occasional longer term outage for various network outages. Even for most business 5 nines isn't that important.

> practical problem no 2 is that if your residential ISP sees activity on the standard SMTP ports

Weirdly enough this isn't a problem for my ISP, I couldn't buy a static IP but they're happy to open any ports I want. YMMV.
I got my start programming because I was interested in writing plugins for the Decal framework.
try! is dead, long live try.
That's another, separate problem to be solved and doesn't make this change any less good.

Although I guess it is vaguely relevant as NY does have a large Jewish population.
Seabird falls victim to plastic waste in Taiwan
I had an infuriating experience with a young child in the hospital, where routine checks were being performed at the worst possible times for his sleep cycles. Sleeping is so critical to healing. Could it be that hospitals are being counterproductive, sacrificing effectiveness for efficiency?
Why Cleveland Wants to Bring Back Postal Banking
It's sad how few games let you host your own now. Pay for XBL/PSN/whatever, or the PC game co runs all the servers, or Google wants to sell you Stadia.

Fortunately, "moddable" is a genre and people want it, so it can't be killed completely. Kind of like how adding IAP "makes more money", but "doesn't have IAP" is a genre people want, too.
I have worked in the academic sector and been exposed to it for a number of additional years. Reading and disseminating research, and more importantly citations, are a key intrinsic metric for researchers, and a KPI providing extrinsic motivation from administration and research funding bodies.

Research impact is a huge force in the academic world these days, and research can only have impact if read, understood and scrutinised by other researchers - as well as the public.
Documents Show Persistent Air Quality Non-Compliance at Tesla Factory
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Please for the love of god no.

Go is awesome for its simplicity. Errors should not be abstracted out of handling convenience. Errors are just values either eliminate the need for the error or handle it like you would any other value.

Stop trying to make go work like every other language.
> The bottom end for such bodies is around $1500

That's not accurate. You can get a Sony a6300 with a lens on amazon for $850 right now. That will get you a much better image, with a lot more flexibility. If the P30 is your phone then it's a fantastic camera and certainly more than good enough for most people. But if you're just getting it to be a camera you're wasting a bunch of money on features you won't be using.
A lot of people eat vegetables tho.
I don't know if it's a promise, but I know from experience that AWS won't kill your account when they automatically detect fraud-like increased usage. They send warnings that the account will be shut down in several days.

Because shutting down running servers without warning is completely unacceptable for a B2B infrastructure provider.
Reminds me of the UK UFO trap story. In the UK it's illegal to listen to police on scanners so detectives transmitted a hoax radio message about a UFO landing near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, then arrested several people who turned up at the spot, charging them with illegally using scanners to monitor police radio transmissions.
Jon Gacnik on observing time (2018)
How to Print in React Using Iframes
Additional hiring has been approved for both Support and AbuseOps to reduce ticket queue wait times.

So this is the way they determine their support department is underresourced? By twitter shaming?
I was planning to introduce my kids to game development this summer. Is Gamemaker still the best platform to introduce kids to game dev? My kids know a bit of scratch...
Japan to ban free plastic bags at stores to fight marine pollution
Not if I can help it.

I'm very likely to be the old dude driving a beat up classic driver's car with a home-grown performance-oriented EV conversion under the skirt.
Looking for NLP/ML engineering roles, preferably with a research bent.

Location: Boston, MA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Javascript, Tensorflow, d3.js, HTML/CSS, Keras, among others

Résumé: https://github.com/pratikmehta14/Resume/blob/master/resume_P...

Email: psmehta@cs.umass.edu
You've got to give luck an opportunity to find you, by getting involved in things.

Once the author saw the opportunity, he then pivoted to exploit it through a lot of time and effort. It's pretty clear that other bot makers did not see that opportunity, or saw it and did little.
The Pen and the Spade
I was heavily involved in the private server scene in the late 2000s :-)
These are silly questions. If you don't delete the email, Google still knows you made that purchase.
Lecture Notes on C∗-Algebras, Hilbert C∗-Modules, and Quantum Mechanics
that's not really relevant -- no customers are really allowed to use a VPS as if it were bare-metal.

This is a pretty routine issue for people (myself included) who have mistakenly considered using a few temporarily spun droplets for a few hours of intense number crunching.

The 'nicest' complaint I've received was from Linode, which was less of a complaint a more of a warning like 'Do you know what your VPS is doing?' rather than 'Don't do this with your VPS.'. They never really told me to stop -- just wanted to make sure that it was intentional.
(CERTs/CSIRTs) Information Sharing and Cooperation Enabled by GDPR [pdf]
I get that the error is still propagated "manually" behind the scene; but how is this different from exceptions in practice once you use try everywhere (except where you forgot and the error is dropped silently)?

Here is my proposal: add restarts [0] as a complement to manual propagation.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/blob/master/v1/doc/typical_res...
Sometimes less controversial problems may be less important but easier to solve.
Myself, for a long time I believed tech startups are micro-R&D for new technologies.

They were from about 1970 to 1998. Then came the dot-com boom.

During that period, most VC firms made money. Now, VC funds as a a class are a net lose.
A History of Internet Art
Firefox doesn’t block ads by default, but you can install uBlock Origin, the best ad blocker available.

I also recommend Privacy Badger. It’s a neat extension that automatically detects trackers by auto-learning. This means that Privacy Badger will catch trackers that aren’t caught by static lists, like what Firefox and uBlock Origin are doing.

Btw, both these extensions I mentioned are now deprecated in Chrome due to Manifest V3 and something tells me they’ll always be at home in Firefox ;-)
With an endowment of over $2 million per student, Princeton doesn’t need to charge tuition at all - it’s a choice they can make though.
You're not important enough to waste a 0day on.
SoftBank service to help power self-driving buses, farm machinery
I got into programming because of Runescape as well! Although my beginning was bots written in AutoHotKey that would:

1) Search screen for pixels within the color of bones

2) Pick up bones

3) Bury bones

My prayer level went through the roof! Then they implemented "sleep", a system where each action added a bit of "exhaustion" that could only be solved by walking to a bed, sleeping, and typing in a captcha in order to wake up. Killed my bots! But not my love of programming :-)
I've stayed with Safari for all web browsing mainly due to it's fantastic power consumption. Still use Chrome for development, but I find Safari's UX so compelling I'll still have it open for reference.

Safari needs a duplicate tab button though.
Wow, exactly how I got into programming too! although I made 40$ in the end instead of 200k :D The timing also matches up pretty well, I wonder if we bumped into each other on the forums. I was on the scar forums, then SRL, but the period I was most active was on villavu (iRobot), after Arga came out I started to become less active. I wasn't at all involved with the RSbot scene and knew almost nothing about it.
FWIW I'm a diehard steam user from the beta in 2002, and the Epic store is every bit as good at this point. Absolutely disappointed in Valve for resting on their laurels for this long.

Frankly I'm almost in the opposite camp now - why would I buy anything on Steam when it's clearly being left to rot.
Location: Trivandrum, India

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: python/webservers/pytorch/gitlab

Résumé/CV: https://www.arjoonn.com/cv

Email: arjoonn.94+hn20083793@gmail.com
Your post-mortem implies this is not allowed at all.
You can count me as another data point. I started taking coding seriously at around 11/12 years old, working on one of the big Runescape fansites, and very quickly lost interest in playing the game because I found coding to be more fun.

I wonder where this is happening today, for the next generation of developers. Roblox seems like a big one, are there others?
Almost definitely not the case. My product had the badge for awhile and our whole category is too small to warrant Amazon’s attention.
Dead Duck Day
> An obvious solution is to use the cost of taking the carbon back out of the atmosphere.

Surely that's more or less an upper bound to the cost of the externality? If it were higher, we would undo it by scrubbing the air, if it were lower, scrubbing wouldn't make economic sense.

I don't think "Let's put the absolute maximum tax on this" is a strategy that works very often.
IIRC it had to blow up on Twitter before DO paid any attention. At the end of the day that's why it's an issue, because they didn't sort it out until it went public.

I suppose the moral of the story is - have offsite backups, so you can switch VPS providers in an emergency.
Well I guess if you enjoy spending hours stuck in traffic and having air that slowly kills you.
Event-Driven Game Development in Unity
Zen 2 is designed for a 7nm process, which limits its production to TSMC or Samsung. There is nowhere to build AMD's newer chips in China (unlike 14nm Ryzen), stopping them from using the tariff bypass they did through this JV. This lack of bleeding edge fabs in China is unlikely to change soon.
And in Judaism you must circumcise in order to signify your acceptance of an ancient religious covenant. Without this acceptance the religion is castrated, eviscerated, made null. Which is of course the sole goal of its critics.

There's also solid scientific evidence it contributes some health benefits, but we can and should ignore that.
Immigrants are not necessarily cheap. H1B problems do bind some employees to their employers removing their leverage. I'm an immigrant, I can tell you I do not come cheap.
Just because you're using atomics doesn't mean that you've created an atomic transaction.

Raymond Chen of Microsoft has a much simpler example of that:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040915-00/?p=37...

Yeah, its not easy. But this is NOT an easy subject by any stretch of the imagination.

Having had to debug many difficult race conditions before, I can say that anything related to concurrency is extremely difficult to reason about, and needs to be done with a lot of careful thought.
That is also an excellent talk. Hard to say which one is "better".

Fortunately, the material is difficult enough that you'll probably want to watch both talks if you're studying this subject :-)
Except the reporting requirement are cost prohibitive for a company that is seeking seed funding to file an s-1 or a reg—a even.

So us, poor unsophisticated plebs, can’t invest in anything until post IPO. Which seems to be way after the majority of the gains have been captured.

Ironically people are trying to build fully automatic DAOs, such that the use of funds is fully transparent. Effectively baking in the reporting into the organization.
I think this is a great response.

While from my own experience I don't see myself using DO again (see my previous posts, I had a similar experience except I didn't complain externally), the points in future measures look like they'll go a long way.

Best of luck to all future customers.
How are the customer damages compensated? With just sorry, we ruined years of your work with couple of bad clicks?
Why is this not law in Canada yet?
A similar story here. I was into the game and started running a Minecraft server hosting company in high school (selling VPS'es with a Minecraft control panel, effectively). I ended up learning and doing the operations, maintenance, support, marketing, taxes--the usual jack-of-all trades of being a startup. My connections and experience there led directly to me joining another company, which has subsequently been acquired and landed me at Microsoft.

I wish more CS/programming classes, particularly pre-college, were game-oriented. A Java course I took in school had us writing a 'database' command line app that held fake enrollment information. Had that kind of thing been the only exposure to programming that I was given, I almost certainly would not have entered the field. But show someone like me a way to automate or expand something like Runescape or Minecraft? That, I'm interested in.
> that would require that the distances to _all_ galaxies are overestimated.

No, underestimated. The estimate of the distance to this particular galaxy was reduced--that's what made its observed parameters consistent with dark matter. So if it were really true that no galaxies have dark matter, our current distance estimates would all have to be too low--in the case of this particular galaxy, 13 Mpc (consistent with dark matter) vs. 20 Mpc (if there were no dark matter).
If that ico was a black box, it basically isn’t different than a stock where you buy a unit of it and expect the price to go up. What else would normal ppl expect it to do?
> SMS is just as bad on Android phones as it is on iPhones.

False. Unlike iOS, Android supports RCS.
Critics are not only happy to eliminate permanently this population, that is their goal, and the goal of all that promote this agenda.
It's better than Amazon or Google. I have had accounts shutdown on both with absolutely no recourse.
Quest for the Operating System (2004)
> At this point, it would take something pretty unusual for me to spend any money on a non-Steam game. I just don't believe other platforms will be around in 5-10 years.

I agree, but I think it's important to consider that they can succeed even if they don't get you or me. There's hundreds of millions of people that have installed it (approaching 250 million a couple months ago), tens of millions playing each month (almost 80 million as of a few months ago) and over 10 million people playing concurrently.[1]

How many of those are young players that might want to try a new game they see some youtuber play, and see it on sale in the epic store they might use to launch Fortnite? That's a hige captive audience, and this battle won't be won by swaying you or me, but by swaying the huge number of new gamers coming onto the market, which are mostly our kids. I know my son who's 9 probably wouldn't care about Steam if I wasn't sharing my library with him. Then again, his computer can't play much and he plays Fortnite on the Switch.

Steam is entrenched, and does have it's own user base, but given that Fortnite along as of a couple months ago has ~66% of the concurrent users of Steam overall[2], I wouldn't count it out. That's a lot for Epic to make something out of.

1: https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-battle-royale-pla...

2: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
> On the other hand, it might be a first step onto a slippery slope that ends with exceptions.

Rust originally had a try! macro just like go and is slowly sliding down that very slope. Let's just say there is a split in the community about whether an exception like outside syntax is a good idea or not. Some like the idea, some don't like it. It yields in threads like this one: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2426