skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess the spirit sort of lives on in the Android ecosystem but there was something so incredible about getting half of the functionality on a device a tenth as powerful.

I feel like the true successor to that ecosystem is the Chinese "emulation portables" market. I have a BittBoy (PocketGo), and it's a perfect "hobbyist homebrew" platform; it's got a nice screen, takes SDXC cards, and has "enough" RAM to have a pixel-addressable framebuffer; but otherwise it's just slightly more powerful than a Nintendo DS, and that "enough" RAM is still only 32MB (and it's probably taking up some of that memory running Linux, unless you've compiled your own unikernel for it.) So it's not like you can get away with un-optimized code.
No, they're a lifestyle company. They're aligned with 'living' and want to penetrate every corner and aspect of that. From your ears to your eyes to your heart to your feet. From the TV you watch to the run you take. To how well you sleep.
Agreed. It's even fully functional on my 3-versions-out-of-date old iPad.
I'm not a win32 programmer, but I think that for a long time windows didn't have os provided condition variables (events are not always an adequate replacement and had nasty footguns around signaling); turns out that iti is hard to implement a cond var with posix semantics and if you managed to get a third paarty implementation it was often buggy. I think they were eventually added in Windows Vista.
Many scams, including the example parent gave, trade on fear rather than a fake reward. How does "more risk tolerant" play when the victims are cooperating because they think they will be prosecuted by the IRS or sued if they don't pay up?
I got -4 for my question? I can feel the CCP spirit.
I have my Calibre library - and lots of other stuff - autosynced to the much maligned but actually superb MEGA service where some small fee gets me 8 TB to play with. So stuff is instantly retrievable on various phones and secondary PC's.

If I really need sync of progress, I either rely on something called memory, or work from Calibre's built-in webserver.
I wanna believe this story, but it's almost too perfect to be true :)
Good to hear. I led the UniFi Protect effort at Ubiquiti. Responsiveness and fast time-to-video were our top UX priorities for the system. The WebRTC direct-connect and bypassing cloud servers were big factors in delivering that responsiveness. The added security and lack of monthly fees was another major bonus.
That's interesting how publicly traded companies are not required to release these numbers. I wonder if that's always been the case?
Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China
The relevant value isn't what the criminal gains -- it's what society loses (e.g. the cost of the property damage from burning the car).
Yes, the rest of society does seem to want to spend an absurd amount of money keeping people incarcerated. But is that a wise choice? And is it really to prevent harm (crime)? If the goal is crime prevention, aren't there less extravagant ways of achieving the same impact or better?
As I said in a different comment, 5 million people leave Wuhan every year around this time, and the model that made this 99%/25% prediction is using data that already takes into account this mass-migration.
I'm not familiar with Indian law, but I am guessing that fraud is illegal there.
I use https://pinpayments.com/ to accept credit/debit cards. My target market is 100% Australian so it was an easy option for me, but it won't be suitable for most people here.
I think that's the plan. Apparently that's Atari's new business model:

On January 21, 2013, the four related companies Atari, Atari Interactive, Humongous, and California US Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.[48] All three Ataris emerged from bankruptcy one year later and the entering of the social casino gaming industry with Atari Casino.[49] Frederic Chesnais, who now heads all three companies, stated that their entire operations consist of a staff of 10 people.[50]

On June 22, 2014, Atari announced a new corporate strategy that would include a focus on "new audiences", specifically "LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari#Infogrames/Atari,_SA_(20...
I hope this happens while I'm in the presence of an elderly relative. I will pick up the phone, naively try to get them to give me any personal info, and record the receiver with my phone. Then I'll inform them I've just done that.

I'm not sure if that's the point of an iPod, though - those scams go a lot further than remote computer access.
It’s easy to say that nothing has changed. I know that I felt that something was changing when Verizon (of all companies) created and publicized a new privacy-focused search engine.

You can argue how successful their privacy-first search engine is or isn’t going to be. But I think this is yet more evidence that the pendulum of privacy is starting to swing back in the opposite direction.

This is the beginning of change.
How many payments have you processed? I thought Bitcoin died as a payment medium.

People have figured out that the overhead is only about $0.50 if you're willing to wait, but most consumer apps don't make it easy to default to the lower fee.

(I haven't looked into this for some time, so that last paragraph is a bit dated.)
>You still have to be nice and compromise

If the ship is sinking you don't have to be nice and compromise with those bailing water into the ship. You have to tie them up and throw them below deck so they don't impede the bailing. Then afterwards you have up try them for mutiny.
>2) there was no placebo group, just low dose and high dose. The investigators called low dose “placebo like,” which anyone familiar with microdosing knows is bullshit.

Care to elaborate? Microdoses are supposed to be below the active threshold.
the PoC can be optimized: after way too much googling, I finally found a way to consume an arbitrary number of non-empty lines without using any special characters. ironically, it uses perl.

perl -00 -ne exit

unfortunately, the first line afterwards is also eaten. this is easily remedied by inserting one junk line though instead of a slide.
Only someone working to promote Chinese influence would say this.

It's no different than Russia and China govs having a blanket ban on Windows and some western hardware.

Interesting twist at the end there, so the NSA is the big concern even with China designed and built hardware eh? Exactly how gullible do you expect readers of your comment to be? Let's say for a moment that even though China (a nation very hostile to the US and UK with a myriad of APT groups who focus on different goals such as corporate espionage,strategic compromise,misinformation and state espionage!) has the advantage of being able to instruct (not coerce since in China this wouldn't be against Huawei's rights) Huawei to implement layers of hardware and software backdoor,they somehow exploit Huawei devices at the same rate as NSA,let's say that's true, so what? Do you expect people to believe the NSA would target the UK as much as China does? Haha, let's say even that is true,so what? The UK are the US's closest ally, while China is probably the most hostile nation to the UK right now, vulnerabilities mean nothing without a threat that causes their exploitation to reduce a security property right??

You're essentially using clever wording to say "Hey, that's just a wooden horse,so what if our enemies left it at the gate? Even our allies send us gifts sometimes,they are just as likely to use it to a malicious end"

And no wonder your comment is top! I use to see this a lot when I was using quora a few years ago. Chinese "trolls" are so different than russian,they're always intelligent,word things well and very very subtle with good knowledge of western context but the propaganda angle is always clear like this. They specifically target influential academic(ish?) sites to exert influence. I am not fully sure you're one of them,but your comment is uncanningly similar. I never thought about an influence operation on HN,but man it makes so much sense.
There’s degrees of “conquered”. Seat belts ‘conquered’ motor vehicle trauma before airbags did. Each new thing helps fill in the gaps left by the already-existing things.
How would that make a conversation more lifelike? It'll still be a limited model of the world, unless somehow you intend to give it the entire breadth of human experience, and will still fall to the same shortcomings as every chatbot, ask it about something it doesn't know and it'll try and fit a response that gives it away as a bot, act confused in a way that gives it away as a bot or just say something nonsensical.

There's things like metaphors, slang, topical references, all things that end up in conversations that change regularly in their meaning and usage. Then there's the unspoken parts of conversations. The implications behind different wordings, ways of writing things, words left unsaid, sarcasm, tone(even in text tone is conveyed in some form).

Humans do all these things while conversing almost subconsciously, each individual person does these things and comprehends these things uniquely based on years and years of sensory input and model building from a huge variety of sources, in a way that's individually unique and poorly understood. How would you even begin to train a model to even a remote semblance of that?
I still daydream a lot about crazy things. A steady diet of science fiction novels and movies feeds that habit so I am in no danger of losing my soul. Of course, I don't dream any longer about bringing world peace,curing cancer and winning the presidential election in the same week Lisa Simpson style. Instead, I dream of making a huge breakthrough in the search for AGI or something like that.
refusal implies that someone required
>As for why it was lost. The article speculates that it was climate change, but I think the lack of a system of writing is probably even more to blame. Some disaster kills off the school of deep ocean navigation and the skills are lost as the old sailors die off.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. When James Cook came through Polynesia, he brought syphilis which ravaged the populations of Tahiti, Hawaii, and others - weakening oral tradition of passing down information. Also, when europeans first came, they were overall very un-interested in preserving any oral history, and mostly just colonised and fucked over the local populations - playing out the classic tropes of colonisation.
Yes, this isn't necessarily what we'd call a 'hospital', nevertheless it happens very quickly. My country would struggle to erect a paper bag on a patch of dirt in 6 months.

There are additional examples of China's construction prowess that perhaps better represent the point I was making.
Spark deserves a better IDE
There are many times the number of people that can sustainably live on earth at the moment (something like an order of magnitude). You can see consequences of this by looking at much more overpopulated areas in the middle east, Africa, or India where starvation is much more a part of life. This is a huge problem in more developed areas as well, with environmental degradation, pollution, and the land made poorer by only a small fraction being wilderness.

A naive idea is, have a baby penalty. A baby penalty would make would be parents think twice about having children, and more about family planning and contraception. It would suck to be a child in a family that cannot afford to raise children (this really needs to be emphasized). To offset this people can be paid to bring up a child that their parents cannot afford, this works great as the people who raise the other parents children are less likely to have children themselves. Now this is naive, is not fleshed out, and has all sorts of things that can go wrong, but conversations about these things has to start. Take China, without their 'Family Planning Policy", the place would be a much worse place to live in than today. What was described is something much softer than the Family Planning Policy, but countries may have to move to something like China's policies to have any hope.

"We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now." - David Attenborough
That particular sword is double edged - it took me a long time to realize how myopic we were about older generations, too.

Human beings, huh?
My parents aren't equipped to deal with the amount of deceit online. They grew up in a different time. For example, my mom went online to buy flowers and didn't realize the top ads on Google are all scams where they overcharge you and forward your order to a real local shop.

Or how about the Marketplace investigation into fake locksmiths in the GTA?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/locksmith-google-maps-reviews...

Fake ads for fake businesses with fake products and fake reviews. Go internet!
Ah the precious made up fame currency. Got to catch them all teh internetz pointz.
I'll add in another fun anecdote while I'm at it.

There are virtually no good ways to debug code on-device with Rockbox, short of adding in a bunch of function calls to print variable values to the device's screen. This usual method, though slow, works surprisingly well with most bugs -- but this assumes that the code is in a sane enough state to be able to write to the screen properly (stack corruption, for example, would render it unusable).

There were a few bugs which were not debuggable with this "trace all the things" method, and those were the ones which required the most ingenuity. I remember having to root out a few bugs which absolutely trashed the processor state and made complex things (like function calls to print things) fail miserably.

One such class of bug was the unaligned read (this is ARM, remember). Thankfully, ARM has a way to set an "alignment trap" to trigger an interrupt when an invalid unaligned read happens. The only problem was that, of course, I couldn't figure out what code was responsible for the unaligned read.

My solution to this was quite the gem -- I modified the ARM exception handler to use the iPod's internal piezo buzzer to beep out the faulting PC address in a sequence of 32 high/low pitched beeps. The piezo, driven by a single memory-mapped register, could be controlled with minimal code (and most importantly, no function calls).
This requires cooperation from the telcos at minimum. That's assuming they even keep records of the origination of the call, and not just the (spoofed) incoming phone number.

We really just need to switch our signaling infrastructure because it is just plain insecure. Legislation could make that happen.
Scott Adams has a Clearview investor on his podcast (ep. 798). Tone deaf really doesn’t adequately describe this investors level of concern about critics. When I was a teenager I once asked a musician what he thought of a certain store for musical instruments, his response is that he supposed someone has to sell peavy gear but he certainly wouldn’t want to see the special room in hell reserved for such a person. That’s kind of how I feel about involuntary biometrics.
That really is a hard problem. Here is a very good slide deck [0] detailing the complexity of flight search. It's written by an employee of ITA Software, who built QPX, the system that was bought by Google and now powers Google Flights. [1]

[0] http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
Small home living: not `downsizing’ but `right-sizing’
To clarify, how would you suggest we factor in the non-monetary harm caused to a mugging victim?
Thanks for replying, that was insightful!

I might try introducing speed-days to the companies I work with actually, sounds like a good way to start building a culture around webperf.
I usually fit in a backpack.

* Eight shirts (4 undershirts, 4 overshirts)

* 4 boxer-briefs

* 4 pairs of socks

* 1 toiletry kit

* 1 laptop or tablet depending on the nature of the trip

* 1 phone charger

* 1 tablet/laptop charger

* 1 medium sized book for the plane/airport

On my person I carry a wallet, car/house keys, airpods, and cellphone.
> With regards to LTS binaries, it is unfortunate

I think this actually applies to LTS sources as well, which is even more unfortunate. Though, their response to this question on the mailing list was rather unclear.
That doesn't sound like a worthwhile use of time though. What would be cool is if we could transfer the call to a robo responder and have it be smart enough to act like a really dumb person.
More b.s., why don't you enlighten us using your knowledge of Mobile networks, how exploitation of these devices will not result as at least an entry point to exploit trust in the network?
> That quote made me look up who Ted Nelson was.

Oh FFS. This is Hacker News. And you had to look up who Ted Nelson is?? He thought up 90% of how you spend your time today, and he did it in the 60s.

Yeah, he had a big problem shipping. And we now know how big a mistake that was. But nevertheless Ted Nelson is a god.
I expect that a lot of people who didn't already know to avoid the 1st rev of Apple hardware learned it due to the keyboard fiasco.

I'm looking forward to getting a 2nd gen 16". It's likely to line up with my upgrade cycle.
I somewhat believe that the sole reason for existence of PostThreadMessage and friends is to make COM cross-apartment calls work for threads that do not own any windows. You can probably devise other uses for that, but such uses still somewhat boil down to implementing your own COM-like bidirectional IPC mechanism (GIMP's libwire comes to mind, which does essentially the same thing on top of “anything that behaves like SOCK_STREAM socket” and shared temporary directory)
> What are the ways for someone to live a stress-free life :)

Can't tell if the smile means your question is tongue-in-cheek, but assuming it isn't, you likely don't want a stress free life.

Stress, when it is the result of a situation that is tractable, is a helpful signal to help inform one's plan of action. A completely stress free life would arguably be one empty of purpose and direction.

It's stress of the pathological and insurmountable variety - whether internally or externally generated - that is damaging. Find ways to identity and address the causes of that. If those causes can't realistically be removed, consider things like meditation to manage the stress.

As for Thailand, it sounds hot and humid, which to me personally feels stressful, but to each their own ;)
Websites telling you that your computer is broken will load just as well on mobile Safari as they do on desktop Safari. I've clicked a search result link that has redirected to them before on iOS myself.

Maybe if the scammer's script absolutely insists you use remote-desktop you might get lucky, but scammers can still scam without remoting in to your computer.
When you refuse to get out of bed immediately after you wake up or refuse to work out at the gym, who are you refusing it to? I think the answer is "yourself", which is the same case as in my original comment.

P.S. If you were genuinely confused, I hope this answered your question. If you were just trying to nitpick in hopes to annoy, then congrats as well, because it was definitely somewhat effective.
Authorize.Net is what we've used for online payments and our internal subscription processing for over a decade. API is easy to use. Never really had any downtime. Rates are competitive. No one has come along and given us much of a reason to change.
'Ghost' population of humans discovered in ancient Africa
ah the old battlechess duck

[It was well known that producers (a game industry position, roughly equivalent to PMs) had to make a change to everything that was done. The assumption was that subconsciously they felt that if they didn't, they weren't adding value.

The artist working on the queen animations for Battle Chess was aware of this tendency, and came up with an innovative solution. He did the animations for the queen the way that he felt would be best, with one addition: he gave the queen a pet duck. He animated this duck through all of the queen's animations, had it flapping around the corners. He also took great care to make sure that it never overlapped the "actual" animation.

Eventually, it came time for the producer to review the animation set for the queen. The producer sat down and watched all of the animations. When they were done, he turned to the artist and said, "that looks great. Just one thing - get rid of the duck." ]
It won’t take a huge shift to really knock the ocean out of balance. Anyone who has ever had a saltwater tank knows how sensitive the balance is to minor swings and how fast the entire system can crash
desperately attempting to understand why old people (taken as an average) shit on what's happening today. This complaint is as old as the sands. Kids are lazy, troublesome, wrong-headed, standards are slipping, the barbarians are at the gates.

Sure, there are likely many factors but I would argue a pretty strong one is that the opinion is just preparing the oldie for acceptance of death by turning it into something more palatable.
That's like comparing the common cold with cancer
I'm so used to browsing things on my tablet that I've caught myself a few times trying to navigate to a link on my laptop, hitting it several times before the brain kicks in and says, "You don't have a touchscreen, dumbass. Use the touchpad."
Services work invoiced through Bonsai, typically paid via ACH with some credit cards mixed in. Stripe handles the ultimate money movement.

SaaS - mostly Stripe credit cards, with a tiny percent in PayPal.
Sunlight, fresh air, food, sleep, exercise. Fermented foods. Medicinal mushrooms like Shiitake, Reishi, Oyster..
Authorize.net

Their fee structure is far cheaper for us than Stripe, who are scam artists and need to be disrupted. Stripe needs to reduce fees dramatically.
You're avoiding the primary point, and the only point that Google complained about ("deception"). Suspicious.

If you really wish to keep nitpicking on gambling, I'll introduce you to a snippet of the Google TOS which invalidates any argument you may have as to whether or not your app can be considered gambling:

> "... including, but not limited to... "

The list of scenarios is non-exclusive, and Google is free to add additional scenarios and interpretations to the list as they please.

> Loyalty points convert to Bitcoin it's not complicated if it was would our rating be 4.5 we have not bought any users ever.

Your rating does not interest me, although I am slightly amused that you're saying you bought your users.

I, as an end-user reading your terms, find your payout scheme rather complicated: You only pay out above a certain threshold, only once a week, and only if you remember to register (despite probably mining regardless). A lot of areas that lead to no or missed payouts.

> Search rewards apps on Google there are hundreds of them. Those do not violate Google terms.

This is entirely irrelevant. Google's enforcement of a policy does not affect its validity.