skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might give it a positive spin and be proud you grow and make it without the need to pay investors later?
Is it only speculation or do people get utility out of Bitcoin? Can someone in Venezuela use it get their money out of the country?
Then it probably should in fact be legal to sell them.
Guy is straight up lying when he says he left Apple, Google and Facebook to work for Dreamworld. Just check his linked in. He has less than a year at Google and Facebook, then he left Apple in 2019 and started Dreamworld in 2021.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrison-bellack-1a55b165/
If caught, that's a research, not caught that's a backdoor
And now the jingle will be stuck in my head for a few weeks.
Why are so many e-readers are out of stock in 2021?
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> Perhaps these things are too hard for (human) mathematics.

I'm guessing this thought is partly inspired by Erdős's remark about the Collatz conjecture?

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6389/paul-erdos-quot...
> After obtaining a copy of the hard drive, DailyMail.com commissioned top cyber forensics experts Maryman & Associates to analyze its data and determine whether the laptop's contents were real.

Company name is listed. You'd have to go ask the cyber-firm they used, any outlet could verify it and write a story debunking it if they wanted. Something tells me they don't want to because they know it's true.

An email from the laptop has been DKIM validated, here's the repo: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

What are you suggesting was made up?
How about how they say that the game will also include every genre, and all of this work will be done by two people? This is an absolute scam.
Can you please explain what differentiates your product from previous attempts to realize the dream? E.g. 4GL, Visual Programming Languages, business rules engines, Access, SharePoint, low-code or no-code platforms, etc.
What if the tenant offers the enforcer ownership of the landlord's home if the enforcer evicts the landlord instead?
I'm not aware of any "performance/UI catastrophe" of any of the apps listed above, any context? Sure, Outlook and Teams have less than ideal UX, but the "rest of Office" is pretty good imo.
aka the "you actually want to show ads to paying customers, because you've got evidence they have disposable income and a willingess to part with it" phenomenon.
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It’s (going to be) a rounding error.
I admit, I'm mostly confused as to why this article was written. The kickstarter goal is $10,000, and they've only raised $60,000 so far. Is this really the biggest scam to be writing about?

If it reached millions I could imagine it warranting some level of scrutiny.
Yep, the article slates this as "Like a Juicero".

However Juicero was most definitely a thing and attracted a heap of interest and $120M investment.

So comparing this to Juicero is .... undercutting the entire premise of the rant.
Why do you think AirBnB looked silly?

"After moving to San Francisco in October 2007, roommates and former schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast." -Wikipedia
I got an email from them today re: this
Not the NetApp kind.
I think it's sex work parlance for Asian (American?) massage parlors
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Could he teach it to the children? If not it would start to seem like an argument that members of the tribe lacked mental faculties that the rest of humanity display (unless severely disabled) and for me would really call his claims into doubt without a lot of research from multiple sources.
The same is true for a lot of performance stuff, like racing, or basketball.
Basketball coach Phil Jackson writes that when you move quickly, do not hurry or rush. Don’t go so fast that you start making mistakes.
In racing, “do easy” is even more applicable. Overdriving the car doesn’t find you much more lap time. The fastest, most consistent drivers are smooth.
So yeah, “do easy” or “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” aren’t as esoteric as they may seem at first.
In my experience trying to configure AAD policies, AWS IAM and (to a very limited extent GCP IAM), it does not generally require a large investment in time. It does require a development account in which the developer has full access to IAM/AAD.

At my employer, we have a gatekeeper team who is terribly overworked and hardpressed to push back too much when business outcomes are at stake. One of the more successful things theyve done is create a terraform repo anyone can contribute to. They will review PRs and manually apply changes for production accounts. Whats great is that these folks can take my PRs that are 80% right and they are able to help me achieve least privilege better than I could on my own. However, other devs really dont care about least privilege and they tend to go for large open policies.

AWS's IAM policy is far and away the most sophiscated and granular, and even has a nice UI now. Trying to achieve this in Azure is next to impossible because you must have extremely high permissions to even be able to make new roles/policies that are super granular.
The US electric power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions
A good question, but we already know the answer. At least more killer cops are getting charged and jailed, and that judge who threw the kids into the for-profit prison for kickbacks.
Website is totally broken on firefox mobile
I mean there is no standard build/distribution for c++ on windows, whereas c++ build is available for linux.

Isn't it a bit onerous to ask the users to build/rebuild the whole engine/toolchain if we want to use the c++ version in Windows.

I don't compile Intellij for my environment to use if, for example.
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> encrypted UDP DNS packets and returns encrypted UDP DNS packets, using CurveDNS

Somebody ought to tell the root zone operators about DJB's DNSCurve. Evidently from this PDF they are not aware of it, since it does not suffer from any of the three issues they enumerate as blockers (it is UDP-based, connectionless, and requires no server state):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve

The only additional overhead relative to plain DNS is two ECC operations and two salsa20 operations per query. Hardware capable of doing this at line rate is really not a budget-buster for them -- if you can't afford four crypto ops per packet you ought to reconsider whether you should be running one of the root servers.
Music cognition is an interesting thing.

E.g., consider a typical electronic dance music crescendo in common time. Say you've got four beats to a measure. Then you've usually got the first half of a phrase in 4 measures, with the second half of the phrase happening in the next 4 measures.

Now, imagine that this first 8-measure phrase starts a long crescendo that will eventually lead to the "beat dropping"-- i.e., the percussion finally gets introduced. It's pretty easy to imagine an additional 8-measure phrase right after the first one, and being able to hear how they pair together in the unfolding of the crescendo.

Going further, there are a lot of these buildups where two 8-measure phrases are followed by yet another group of two 8-measure phrases to create a larger pair of 16 + 16 measures. So you have:

1. hierarchy or 4 beats to a measure
2. groups of 8 measures phrases
3. pairs of phrases in 8 + 8 measures
4. pairs of pairs in 16 + 16 measures

If you drop the beat after 16 + 16 measures, most listeners would be able to track where they are at each moment of the long crescendo. In other words-- even if you don't know when the beat is going to drop, you can still hear when you start the second group of 8 measures, or when you being the second group of 16, or when you're at the end of the first phrase, etc. The music-listening apparatus in your brain can track that stuff.

The question is: how far out can you take these groups of measures before the listener loses where they are in the larger rhythmic hierarchy?
They should not have experimented on human subjects without consent, regardless of whether the result is considered benign.

Yes, malicious actors have a head start, because they don't care about the rules. It doesn't mean that we should all kick the rules, and compete with malicious actors on this race to the bottom.
It sure was, but I was stupid back then.
"We should ban hunting, because it's very hard to prosecute poaching after the product has entered the st[r]eam of commerce" wonder how well that would go over here in the US. And yet it's perfectly good logic when it agrees with the decisions you've already made.
>there is something to be learn from the Japanese on how they value something physical

What's different about the Japanese in this regard?
The problem with that is that you have to get the whole planet to agree, or you're just shifting the problem to a different country.
I don't know, but I remember reading about sea-thru via HN: https://www.businessinsider.com/sea-thru-algorithm-reveals-t...
Good point. I got email from them on this topic on April 18.
There needs to be, but there generally isn't, and it's by design. Law enforcement in the US is generally above the law, most of the time.

Most efforts to fix this are denounced as being pro-criminal or anti-cop or some tired variation on the same.

If you know of any good ways to change this system that don't involve violence, I would love to hear them and participate.
In the video they say that this game can encompass all genres of game. Clearly total bs.
I make the argument in the book[1] that no, you shouldn't ever bother to learn CSS.

[1] http://www.yousuckatcss.com (it's PWYW)
>How do we know the so called taped evidence wasn’t manufactured?

would a false tape made 21 years ago show signs of falsification detectable with modern technology? I don't know but I would expect yes.
I definitely encountered this problem at Google (there was a reason it was a meme), but it was far more prevalent at the EM/PM/director level, and so still directly affected the overall product strategy for the org and what you as an IC got to work on.
> Chrome found that the Internet as it actually exists, with a diversity of broken middleboxes, made DANE impossible to deploy effectively. You can't count on DANE lookups succeeding, because middleboxes shoot down DNSSEC lookups, which look weird compared to ordinary lookups.

Yikes!

> It's worth keeping in mind that proof of domain ownership doesn't have to depend on the DNS; you can also just ask registrars directly, via something like RDAP. If we're going to keep pinning Internet trust to name ownership, there's probably no reason we have to involve the DNS at all.

Do you think this would be useful? I'm not part of the Let's Encrypt team anymore, but I still know almost all of them (but, to my knowledge, nobody from any registrars).

I've kind of wished for something like this in the past (on the basis that it would obviate other kinds of attacks against the domain validation process, such as routing or DNS attacks), but I'm not sure what the user interaction flow would look like, or whether it could be made compatible with Let's Encrypt's desire to automate almost all certificate issuance and renewal steps.

It seems like maybe the registrars would have to give out proof-of-ownership RDAP challenge API credentials (that a server could use to ask the registrar to serve a particular value via RDAP?).
That didn't end up being the actual business model though. The vast majority of AirBnB's current revenue is from renting out private apartments or rooms, more in competitition with VRBO or hotels. You can definitely still rent out an air mattress in the living room, but that's not what AirBnB is making its money from.
A fish rots from the head down. I find it hard to believe same dynamics won’t make it down the cloud org given enough time
I would be mildy skeptical of those claims from a AAA studio with MMO experience and a multimillion dollar budget. Making an MMO with a persistent, procedurally generated, infinite, and player-modifiable world is an extreme challenge and I am unaware of any major success at it.

When you add the fact this is a team of 2 with little to no game dev experience asking for only $10k I conclude this is just impossible unless they have discovered a secret everyone else making MMOs hasn't.
COVID-19 victim bodies come in specialized vehicles with PPE-kit-wearing crews, at least as far as I have seen.
I do that too... main issue is scaling. I need one for the laptops screen and another fit the monitor... different scaling (200% vs 100%)
Are you of the belief that there are a set of policies/laws that result in everyone being happy and nobody being screwed over? Such a thing is not realistic. Every system of laws results in some people suffering for the benefit of others. The better law system result in less suffering for more benefit.
> It is still unclear at this moment what other open source projects they tried to hijack, and what is the actual number of vulnerabilities they succeeded in inserting to various open source projects.

This will be the worst part of the fallout, as major OSS projects start retroactively removing and banning contributions coming from University of Minnesota students just to be on the safe side. They've really poisoned the well here.
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Isn't that what is called YouTube premium now?
The Yellow Pages still exist IRL. There was an interesting book I read some years back about the history of the phone book and it included some history behind the yellow pages.^1

The YP allowed an advertiser to pay for a larger type font, or a quarter/half/full page ad, in addition to the free listing. It is also divided into subject catgories.

What has been lost with Google's web search is the concept of the accessible free listing. It is only accesible under Google's secret rules. The ability to finger through the pages to get to, say, the last entry beginning with "Z" is not possible with Google search. Google will hide the bottom of the list and only display the first several pages. This creates pressure to buy ads or SEO services (game the search) in order to "appear at the top", which is "the only way to be found". Absurd. Google will not even return more than 400 results anymore.

While the phenomenon of naming things to begin with "A" may be seen in pratice outside of the web, this has not rendered the system of alphabetical listing obsolete.^2 Not even close. Also, there are likely other factors influencing the decision to name things beginning with letters like "A". As many computer nerds know, not all letters are equally common in the English language. Anyone who has looked at large zone files knows that domain names tend to begin with "A", but such choice of name is not done to game alphabetical ordering.

1. About 11 years ago I read a book by Ammon Shea called The Phone Book. It had some discussion of the history of the Yellow Pages.

2. Last year, Judith Flanders published a book on the history of alphabetical order.
I would hesitate to call it a scam, but it definitely seems like they're inspired by Ready Player One at least a little bit, and may well be overzealous.
I think a more important objection is that increased demand for solar panels and batteries for bitcoin mining pushes up prices for those (edit: if bitcoin prices are above market price for electricity).

It'd be "can't buu GPUs" all over again.
Are these host-managed SMR HDDs available for individual purchase, or are they enterprise-only? Last time I looked it seemed like the latter. I'd be curious to know if anyone has found a way to purchase them individually, and if they're significantly cheaper or higher-capacity than the closest equivalent PMR drive.

I've played with device-managed SMR drives and decided I hate them. Too much I/O happening behind my back, so a low workload they can sustain before hitting a horrible performance cliff. Also, in my very limited sample, poor reliability even if you stay within the rated workload. (2/2 drives that were in continuous use started accumulating bad sectors within a couple years.)

In theory, host-managed SMR drives with the right software might have much less write multiplication. The NVR software I'm working on more or less uses them as a big ring buffer (or several big ring buffers, one per stream) which seems ideal. But I suspect getting host-managed SMR to work optimally isn't worth the effort unless you have datacenters full of drives.
Are you even allowed to put cash in safe deposit boxes in the USA? In Canada, that is against the terms for most banks and they will not reimburse you for cash in them if stolen.
Hustling is showing pre-rendered videos to simulate gameplay, or promising an infinite open world and then having a large-but-limited one.

This is flat out lying and saying you're going to build something that massive mega-studios struggle to even build, then throwing in a few dozen promises for stuff that's not even possible with current technology.
Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?
There's also the fact that Ἰησοῦς (usually rendered in English as "Jesus") is the Greek rendering of ישוע‎ or יהושע‎ which is usually rendered as Joshua in English.

I'd note also that the Vulgate has the Epistle of James as “Epistula Iacobi.”

The original King James Bible text (which is what you'll find in the nightstand of your hotel room) does some interesting things with names as well, using, for example, Noë for Noah in the Old Testament, but when he is mentioned in the New Testament, he becomes Noah. The Vulgate uses Noë throughout.
Why not get an account at a US bank with a presence in Japan?
I did that already in my first reply, but the "if you're not caught in the act it's unenforceable" red herring popped up.
No, arrests and convictions for spreading "misinformation" and "fake news" are very brutal in India currently (at least for those who aren't on the government's side).
One of the potential issues with this is, is that actual service emails might also end up getting blocked.
>Game industry experience? Baldurs Gate or the original Witcher teams had zero of it also in the beginning.

I agree with the spirit of your post but these are bad examples. Baldur's Gate wasn't Bioware's first game and the first game in The Witcher series wasn't exactly received as a masterpiece.

Single Player RPGs and Minecraft style games can easily be simple enough to develop with a small team. So when people are criticizing the size of the team and lack of experience of that tiny team, it has to be taken in context with the type of game they are trying to develop.

What's more important than game industry experience is game dev experience or even software experience in general. Even if that experience is as a hobbyist, it can make a big difference in my confidence level for a project. So my questions would be, what did these guys do before now, what kinds of projects have they worked on, etc.
"Smart contracts are precise, and they require the entire population of coin users to disagree with the computed outcome."

Lol every month or so some smart contract bug gets exploited and coins get stolen.
I second the motion
> Yes, that's the whole point!

Well, in real life, you can't go punch someone in the face to teach them a "point". If you do so, you'll get punished.

> Reverting and reviewing them "at a later date" just makes me question the process.

I don't think anybody realistically thought that the kernel review process is rock solid against malicious anyway. What exactly does the paper expose?
Most of the comments I see here are people going along with the author's rant, so I'm going to take a different perspective.

Many of the author's criticisms of DreamWorld may actually be viewed as strengths. Examples:

>people with no credentials or history in the gaming industry, and try to get funding for some massive project that multi-million dollar corporations haven’t been capable of producing

Isn't this what YC is all about? This team is attempting to disrupt an industry, to do something that a large, bloated and bureaucratic corporation has trouble achieving. Why be hatin'?

>it’s definitely the first time I’ve seen it done while using the default Unreal player model.

This sounds like an intelligent move to me. If this small, two-person team wants to ship, why would they spend time creating custom models? Using default assets for as long as possible seems like the right move to me, and exactly the kind of attitude you want in a team that delivers.

>the mission statement here as well because it grossly oversells what CORE AEGIS actually creates.

The author fact-checks a corporate vision statement for accuracy, which makes me think he has little experience in the corporate world. Therefore, I wonder, what makes him a credible judge of what is or is not a viable business?
One difference though is that all baseball cards were acquired for pennies originally, then grew in value. You don't have to spend a month of heavy-duty electrical bills or $50K to buy a fresh baseball card or a beanie baby or a pez dispenser.
> Not sure what kind of stuff do these guys smoke.

Pretty sure they know whatever they say is slander, it's just the invisible hand of monetary incentives doing its job. Who knew public stupidity could be leveraged to such an extent.
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sounds like someone making their first post on gamedev.net, trying to figure out how to use gcc.
There will never be a real secondary market for NFTs.

How are people going to re-sell an NFT when its metadata points to a file that 404s.
> no one talks about when a process works the way it's supposed to. People want to read about failures.

No, people don't want to read about failures. People want to expect services work as advertised. People write when something doesn't live up to the standard that it should have, even if 99% others are fine.

Years of uptime is expected, so no one writes about that of course but if it goes beyond one's expectation, like being able to run a server for 10 years and over without a down time, I'm sure people start to feel like writing positive stories.
There are good stories of their beginning out there.

The wikipedia summary really does not do justice to how hard their start was.

I enjoy especially the ones as told by their founder in the excellent startup school lectures. They were scrappy, lacked clear direction and hustled and struggled.
> they believe it benefits their ideological group, which is more important than individual rights.

If you find a place where people don't think this way please let me know so I can move there.
If you've reached your 95% resistance level from the vaccine, then I don't think it's particularly egregious to not wear a mask.

I'm sorry my two sentences didn't cover every single nuance of the complicated topic!

I will say, I think there is value to wearing a mask even after being vaccinated, as a symbol of social cohesion, but I totally accept someone deciding that isn't a good enough reason to wear a mask. But, if you don't wear a mask because you've hit your vaccine resitence level, I don't think you're being selfish.

That said, I still support a business or individual's right to require all people to wear a mask on their premises. After all, it might be impractical for them to properly screen who has and hasn't worn a mask.
Networks effects. Microsoft doesn’t want to recreate a 20 year old organization/community that has been built on primarily donations. No company or large group of people is going to donate the same levels of dev-hours to the NT kernel.

It’s just simpler to have a team or two of in-house devs contribute those improvements from NT to Linux.
So, these are apps that could affect someone’s finances, business or health?

Make sure you are at least operating as a corporation.

Techinsurance.com is pretty reasonable for E&O