skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it happens doesn't mean there's something wrong with the technology. This is the real-life equivalent of walking into a shop that's branded "AyeAye" when paying your "EE" bill.

There is nothing being exploited here like a display bug in the URL bar, TLS vulnerability, etc - it is completely obvious that you are not connecting to EE.co.uk and instead to some weird domain.

There's only so much we can do to fix stupid and natural selection (or in this case financial selection) can take care of the rest. Banks refunding every instance of fraud (even when the user is obviously at fault and failed for an obvious scam) don't help either as it means people still don't understand the importance of being vigilant and actually taking the time to learn some basics in order not to fall for these very obvious scams.
Netflix doesn't quite belong with the others but FAAG is a more problematic acronym and FAAMG isn't pronounceable.

I've also seen GANDALF (google amazon netflix dropbox amazon linkedin facebook), but dropbox probably doesn't belong in that list. There's plenty of backronyms, but one ends up just hitting critical mass.
There's some indirect discussion here that seems to contradict that, but I certainly could be wrong.

https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/973
How We Achieved 5x QPS with Only 26 Lines of Code
I have a used 2015 Nissan Leaf that I bought last year. No problems at all with it. It cost $8000. Can Tesla do that?
I still don't see the issue. They want their employees to be drug free. Athletes already undergo drug testing for example.
AI drives efficiencies in everything we do; transport, manufacturing, mining, "life", etc. Still, humans are in the middle except, they're doing 100 times more than we do now in similar jobs.
Everyone has to level up in tech skills. Everyone is an AI assistant.
Accelerated urbanization overtakes demographics, US gets 3 parties.
Electrification of everything "around the corner".
Fusion reactors coming online.
Massive processes being tested for decarboning (ex. Vesta).
Usually in the form of a discount for non-smokers
Technology in 2050: will it save humanity – or destroy us?
I had to fly to California for work a few months ago, and made a trip to Fry's, since I usually have fun there, and it was one of the most depressing things I've seen in my entire life.

This was a huge one, and I think I might have actually been the only customer walking around, and it was weird...For a moment, there was a part of me that wondered if the store was closed and they forgot to lock up, but then I bought something without any problems.

I grew up in Florida, where there aren't any Fry's, but whenever we went to Texas or California I always looked forward to going, and when I lived in Dallas I went almost every weekend. Pretty sad to see that it's basically dead.
Why not go after the most obvious buyer for this in pharmeceutical companies? Is it because the conflict of interest would undermine the whole idea?
Microcenters in the Chicagoland area (N Elston in Chicago, Westmont) are busy, especially on Saturdays. Shelves are well-stocked, and there's even an electronics section with a potpourri of Arduino and RaspPi accessories.

I'm not sure how they're surviving in the era of online shopping but they seem to be doing well. I wonder if most of the foot traffic is driven by impulse same-day BOPIS (Buy Online Pickup in Store) sales. I'll admit that's how I ended up going to the brick-and-mortar store -- I didn't think that computer superstores still existed in this day and age.
You might find this interesting. http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2015/01/history-of-int...
Interesting -- your comment makes me realize "latest" has many different meanings. "Latest best practice" has a different time scale than, say, "latest Tweet" -- it could be as of 2015 this is the best way to do this, and it still is.

I agree with the help this would offer changing in changing contexts.
Best Buy often has better prices than Amazon.
Since last year I find myself always double-checking the price of anything I want outside Amazon and for big items (e.g. TV, tv stand, etc.) Best Buy is a first choice for sure.
Senior Full Stack Developer Simbe Robotics in South SF
Installing today! Thanks for these links, I haven't played that game in 10 years
Exactly my thoughts as well.

This year I'm celebrating 20 years of being Game Free, after almost flunking out of college freshmen year due to an addictive spell of Ultima Online.

Sometimes I happen across videos of what games look like today, totally blows my mind, and I get the urge to indulge a little bit. Then I read stories like this and feel completely elated.
> We are not (yet) doomed.

there's literally nothing that suggests otherwise, other than that it's physically possible to reduce consumption (i.e. it's not counter to the laws of physics). there is zero political or practical plausibility for reducing consumption to the extent that is necessary to avoid 4 degrees. you're holding out hope for something as unlikely as a miracle.

edit: there was a talk given years ago (i forget where/which channel) where the speaker said that to avoid warming we'd need to mobilize on the scale that we did for ww2 i.e. factories would need to be repurposed and laborers re-skilled. in that scenario it would be plausible. ww2[1] mobilized roughly 7 million people. if today we applied that kind of effort to the problem then maybe we'd have a chance. i don't know i'm not an economist but it's a unilateral effort on that scale that's necessary. and if you look around you can see it's not happening.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_home_front_durin...
The only alternative seems to be things like Stadia. ;)

Users will forever have the ability (and the right) to inspect the memory on their own machine.
Coreboot Devs Improve Support for Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Ice Lake CPUs
It's not so much fun when you're getting sniped from across the map beyond your draw distance the instant you spawn by some dude who isn't even looking in your direction.
I've been a fan of skeleton and then milligram for a while, but milligram has gone quiet recently and has a few issues, and skeleton has been quiet for a long time. Both of them have normalize.css as a dependency.

I wanted an updated CSS file with the same aesthetic, so I've taken some time to stitch it all together. There are a few differences from milligram, but I've tried to keep those at a minimum.

It's on Github at https://github.com/robsheldon/sscaffold-css/. Now's a great time to open up some issues on it before its first release.
I remember going to the Wilsonville Fry's as a kid and playing Gran Turismo 2 for PS1 in an awesome demo setup with a steering wheel, shifter, and huge TV. I went back last year to the same store and found it downright melancholy. Like seeing your childhood die.
Thanks. And nope, I almost never drank alone. Only when it's a "big night out" with a few friends is when it happens. And a few turns into a lot. So I think I will just not even start when I go out now.
The authors of #1 see the solution as "obfuscation". I think they're on to something important, especially when the entity seeking the information isn't just a business wanting to grab what they can get away with, but rather a repressive state who will punish resistance.

So I guess I would put it this way: Seek to reduce the signal to noise in the information gathered about you.

#1 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out...
I like this idea. Thanks.
> On July 2, 2018, GlacierMD powered the world’s largest depression meta-analysis, using data from 846 trials, beating Cipriani’s previous record of 522.

Was this analysis written up somewhere? The author links to Cipriani's study in the Lancet but not to their own.
Wine has come a long way in the last few years, in large part thanks to DXVK (translates DX11 to Vulkan) and Valve funding and pulling together a few Wine related projects. The vast majority of offline Windows games run well on Linux these days, even a lot of high end AAA games often run well on launch day with a relatively minor hit to performance.

Online multiplayer games are the exception, for this very reason here - anti-cheat systems. Since these are designed specifically to make sure the game is running in the exact way they were built, and often are very intrusive in looking at what's running on your system, Wine is unsurprisingly seen as something "not normal". Most games with anti-cheat won't start at all or won't let you into the online servers - this is the case with EAC and BattlEye, which are the most widely used anti-cheat these days.
> You probably know this, as do most people making this argument.

Yes, but this is not a valid criticism of the argument. If you believe in raising taxes on yourself and people like you, then you ought to lead by example, and voluntarily pay the extra taxes you would like to pay yourself, while proposing the law forces others to do the same. For example, it would be hypocritical of me to suggest that the law mandate parents care for their children while neglecting my own. Similarly, the 'ultra-wealthy' who are arguing for higher taxes while not voluntarily paying them are hypocrites.

You probably know this, as do most making this argument.
Couldn't the founder story still be true, but simply incomplete? E.g. Jack Dorsey may have been frustrated that a company didn't accept credit cards, but also, he was already a successful entrepreneur and may have spent months or years researching the problem before starting Square?
Not all cheats inject code. Many cheats use a set of offsets to find game objects in memory and draw an overlay or minimap. This data can also be tied to autoaim hacks that uses mouse input directly for aiming.
No, that guide uses PAM and OTP. This [1] is the guide. It uses OpenSC and the smartcard feature of the YubiKey (not all support this but my YubiKey Neo (3rd gen) and YubiKey Nano 4 both do). Neither of them supports FIDO2 though; other than that they are feature rich.

[1] https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...
I agree this would be helpful, particularly the minimal interface. Do you think it would be best to have the companies provide the info directly, or to have a community source the info, or to do it internally?
No, I have developed my personal particle system engine.
Both, as static with only ONE attribute for vertex (4 float: either pos and color), as dynamic with GL TransformFeedback with only TWO attribute for vertex (8 float: pos, color, vel and time)... Yes, Safari have WebGL2 instruction set, but still uses Shading Language Version: ES 1.0, as WebGL 1, and not ES 3.0 as WebGL2 would like...
So Safari is not "full" WebGL2 compliant... And yes, the native code for MacOSX is slower: Apple have deprecated OpenGL, so drivers are not optimized for it, and version is stopped to 4.1
But the ASICs are used because they are more efficient. Forcing miners to use less efficient hardware is going to drive up the average energy per hash calculated.
The messages are spoofed. The attacker has access to a SS7 signalling link and you can set the source number to anything you want. Telco's share some blame in facilitating this. I tried to stop of of this in the 90's and was told to help the scammers send messages faster. I wanted to terminate their SS7 links but I would have been fired for doing so. To clarrify, the individual scammer may not even know what a SS7 link is. It's usually a tiered system, where one shady person has access to a link, then sells access via bitcoin to other shady people via some tor web interface.

As for the domain name, that problem isn't going away. If anything, it will only get worse, as people are lazy and push UX designers to show less and less information. And the UX devs are right, the users won't know what to do with the extra info most of the time anyway.

And then there are payment processors, who also teach people BAD habits, by sending HTML messages, clickable links, etc. And that isn't going to change because it would increase customer support cases which costs them money. Banks won't implement secure authentication beyond phone MFA for the most part. I can think of a dozen ways to make this more secure, but all the ideas would be rejected as adding too much friction.

All that is left is educating the masses and that fails as well. Most people learn by making mistakes. About 40% of people will click on the scammers links. About 10% of people will enter their credentials.
Please prove to our totally impartial inquisitors that you did not commit this crime.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4662
One thing to keep in mind is that he worked for nearly a decade in product/business roles before founding Amazon.
I’ve seen plenty of project grind to a halt from bad decisions and high pain thresholds. I think you’ll find and even mix in the overanalysis crowd of white tower thinkers and people exhibiting allergic reactions. If you are seeing more of the latter I have two theories. One, those people gatekeepe projects, so once bitten twice shy (ie they accumulate and add friction) or two, you are looking at more early phase startups than me. A seed phase startup locked in analysis never sees my resume, so I don’t see how often that happens.

But the trick is to start with the new Reversible decisions.

We don’t always know which are the reversible decisions, but many of the irreversible ones are obvious. For some reason developers always focus on the irreversible one. We reason that we have to get this right, because it’s very important. And if it’s important, we should do it first.

No. No. No.

If instead you start tackling all the reversible decisions first, you can make those choices quickly (because changing them is cheap, spending a lot of energy on making them is a waste of time and capital). Start building something. Get momentum. Get the team and ideas to gel.

When you start to know what you’re doing, then tackle the irreversible decisions one at a time.

But typically, everyone wants to Decide. And they want you to decide on short notice, right now, like some sort of used car salesman. If we don’t tolerate this from others, why do we tolerate it from our teammates?

Deciding for the sake of deciding is not productivity. It’s painting a floor when you haven’t identified a workable plan yet. There are always at least four corners, and rarely more than two doors. The odds are not in your favor.
There were plenty of toxic jerks online period with community lobbies. Although if you found a good server or set of them it mitigated the exposure. A big difference experience wise but the underlying problem was the same.

Ranked Ladder, PUG Teams, PVP, and especially "griefing mechanics" related to losses for the loser from the stakes can all cumulatively contribute to toxicity.
I mean the X is effectively a six digit purchase after sales tax (or a few options, like self-driving). It's not coming down that much. And $70K more than a new Voyager is... a lot.
I hate it how browsers always screw with how they display URLs. Some hide protocols, some hide the path, etc and the display of HTTPS is inconsistent.

I could see this weird domain name being slightly confusing and looking like a full URL in a browser that normally hides the path part.

It would be much easier if browsers just cut the crap and displayed the full URL (including the protocol) consistently. It's just one thing everyone can learn and then apply across all platforms & browsers.
Vista was basically a massive rewrite of a bunch of components, and the devs had more hw resources at their disposal when they did it. One place I can think of taking up more disk space is all of the theme ing and icons. Imagine how many different images are included in windows, those need to be high-res for hidpi now.
> If only one rich person does it, over time they'll be poorer than other rich people who don't do it.

Oh boo hoo. I feel so sorry for the multi billionaire who has one less billion than the other multi billionaire.
Those things are bad for your health, obviously, but aren't as easy to charge for since they aren't binary. How would you decide if someone was 'overweight' or didn't exercise? You couldn't base it on weight, because some people have a lot of muscle. How many hours do you need to exercise? What counts as exercise? How intense does it have to be? Do you charge someone who is 100 pounds overweight the same as someone who is 200? Or 10?

Smoking is binary, so you can easily price for it.
There's a lot of survivorship bias there. Case and point: the author did have this specific problem, and surely this problem is common.

Uber 'bought' their market - it might not even be viable when they run out of dumping money and have to raise prices.

I think there might be some opportunity in this guys startup with some pivoting.

Also I think there was some funniness on the feedback: Doctor used 'cost' as an excuse, but it may have simply been that the product was not hugely valuable.

Maybe for common drugs it won't help, but there are a zillion drugs out there, maybe doctors want a good reference.

The revenue model he didn't articulate comes from the drug companies. If Doctors used his tool, drug companies might pay for it in some way.

Finally, I have to say 200K lines of code sounds like a lot ...
A curious idea, act on user submitted data or not. A recent reddit post[0] in their classic wow has a video linked where a group decided to take down known and obvious bot driven players that have been reported many times.

So they used in game mechanics that abused how the bots are known to operate; where certain dialog boxes pop and how they move and react to threats; to force the bot to join a group, accept being teleported, and then they sacrificed another of the groups score to drag down the bots score.

the current comment thread includes the cynic but likely true claim that blizzard would ban these players for harassment before banning the bot for cheating/breaking eula

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/ej3l10/because_...
I can see what you're saying, there seems to be some debate about whether RSS is alive or dead, though. Even if it is, your point that RSS seems like a good fit means just finding a good fit in what the existing options are.
I'm aware of the guidelines and apply them, but that's only a small fraction of the problem. What I need is a compiler flag that enforces the guidelines so that I can write it into my software management docs in place of "-std=c++11".
>Haven't thought that far but I really think we need more controls over domain purchases.

This a terrible basis to support more regulation on.
OTOH, in this instance it's at least elites killing each other directly with their toys, and not peasants killing each other for a bunch of megalomaniacs and war spoils.

This was a real decaptitation strike. US killed a major mastermind, organizer, and an icon to some. It's akin to killing Al-Baghdadi or Hannibal at the peak of their successes. It will be interesting to see how that will end up working out.
Not what I was expecting, but this would be interesting!
You don't think the cost of the car is at least partially a proxy for the amount of energy required to produce the components (primarily the battery)? Some pretty smart people have questioned whether, absent innovations in battery recycling, electric cars are actually green.
There is something even better:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p188...

cheers from the shadowland :)
Interesting -- I was thinking of the big name projects that a lot of people use, but this would be helpful too. Thanks for your perspective.
> I absolutely hate cigarette smoke, but voted against the bans.

This is why such bans at adult-only leisure places need to be at the community level, instead of at state level. So your vote matters where it happens.
Being able to get headphones, UniFi gear, a Raspberry Pi Zero W and multiple sensors at Microcenter is very dangerous for me too. And their service to order ahead and just pick it up 20 minutes later is just nuts! I don't have to sift through all the shelves myself!

My local Fry's have gotten a terrible reputation for putting used or broken gear on the shelves -- and they've had that reputation for years. I think they're getting what they deserve, frankly.
I agree. Earlier in my entrepreneurial journey I've spent a year building a product without validating it properly or validating it with biases (validating it with like minded people) only to find that not many wanted it when the product was released[1].

Tangentially, recently this motivated me to build a platform for validating problems by making people post their problems and even validate startup ideas as solutions to those problems[2].

[1]https://hitstartup.com/startup-ideas-vs-problems/

[2]https://needgap.com
While the case is different

That's an understatement. It's wildly different. Nicotine doesn't impair judgement. In fact the short term effects are positive (it can be calming or enhance alertness).
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Honestly this trope is tiring. FUD.
It's not a parody of anything, it's just his story, similar to most startups.
Yeah I've sniped these videos for a while but I'm highly demotivated on my own and don't have much space to tinker with bikes. Alas, thanks anyway, I hope to run into you (collisionless-ly) one day. The sight of ebikes (and even lime scooters on river decks) pleases me a lot.
Correct. It's even more complicated than just trusting a "no logs" policy. You have to also trust that noone with hardware access (rogue VPN company employees, datacenter people, law enforcement and intelligence services) intercepts your traffic or messes with the servers, and that the servers themselves don't get hacked due to some vulnerabilities. Recall how NordVPN recently got hacked because datacenter operator left vulnerable remote management software exposed.

Tor might have its vulnerabilities as well, like all software. Not to forget that pretty much anyone can run an entry guard today and at least associate your IP with usage of Tor..
I usually purchase my computer components from Newegg. However, whenever I was impatient or pressed for time, I used to go to Fry’s. I remember one time in 2011 driving from Santa Cruz to Campbell to pick up a hard drive to replace one that suddenly failed; having to wait days for shipping would have been more inconvenient. Fry’s is a great convenience in these cases.

It’s unfortunate to see Fry’s in the zombified state that it’s in. Back in the 2000s it was a really nice store, but recently it has fallen on hard times. I went to the Sunnyvale store a few months ago to try to find a TV antenna, and the selection was a bunch of beat-up boxes, some of them with discount stickers indicating that they were returned items, which left me not confident about the whole lot.

Meanwhile, I’m a little envious of the electronics stores of Tokyo, particularly Yodobashi Camera and Yamada Denki. I travel to Japan regularly, and every now and then I check out these stores. Their Akihabara flagships are a nice mix of Fry’s selection and Best Buy’s presentation. Sometimes I wonder why we don’t have that in Silicon Valley, but then I remember that Tokyo’s density and transit-oriented planning makes such retail operations more viable than Silicon Valley’s largely car-dependent, US suburbia-style planning, which favors online shopping. Still, these flagship Akihabara stores are wonderful places to shop.
You're correct - this was the intended message :-)