skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As just one example (unrelated to what follows), their software bundles FFmpeg DLLs that were built in 2012 and have not been updated since then.

This purported vulnerability does not rely on FFmpeg, hence the disclaimer.
English has 3 grammatical cases, 12 tenses, and 1 gender (natural gender).

But only pronouns retain those 3 grammatical cases, for nouns is only 1, or 2 if you count the genitive. Same for verbs, there are only 3 real tenses (present, past/participle and gerund), every other tense is formed with auxiliary verbs. Also, no verb-subject agreement.

I speak Spanish and compared to Romance languages, English grammar is so much simpler ;)
My understanding is that you are not allowed to store cash in them in US either.
Complications of smoking (addiction thereof) far outweigh the risks of COVID doesn't it.
How do you you know? Perhaps it’s a hard problem that is just taking time to solve.
Repeating the same thing over and over does not make it a fact.

Maybe the stated aim of the research was to study the process. But what they actually did was study how the people involved implemented it.

Being publicly manipulated into merging buggy patches, and wasting hours of people's time are two pretty obvious effects this study had that could cause some amount of distress and thus it cannot be dismissed as simply "studying the process".
Video Games as High Art? Roger Ebert and the cultural abyss (2009)
I'm pro nuclear, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed. Renewable prices have been going down fast and are not stopping, and building a new plant is expensive.

We should care about keeping the old ones operating as long as possible, but we've been hearing tales of new safer smaller easy to deploy nuclear plants designs for decades, I wouldn't hold my breath.
In the video I posted elsewhere in this thread, he actually breaks down all the assets and every single one of them is from the asset store. There's literally nothing original in the game at all.
How's is bitcoin even a hedge against the dollar when it's correlated with the U.S. stock market? So many things just don't add up, like is btc a currency or an investment? Fiat currency is really the only spendable currency.
I think you misread that. It says you could spend your money on something better. like a juicero. Hard to know exactly how the author views juicero in terms of being a good product but I think the point is it's a much better kickstarter than this game. Seems you agree on that.
But E&O is $700+, to start. At the low-end. And then there is the paperwork and the audits.
A key difference between collectibles and bitcoin/cryptocurrency is that collectibles don't claim to be money nor are they trying to replace current money systems. I'm no expert on money, how it works and how it gets value, but I would be interested to find an article discussing whether cryptocurrency has enough of the qualities of "money" to replace any current money system.
Yes, you are quite right. My point was past performance is not always a good indicator of future human potential.
Agreed. This mythology keeps getting repeated, where the only thing that happened was a couple of rich VCs (pg and others) didn't like the idea originally. But as many others have pointed out, Couchsurfing was already big, and VRBO/HomeAway had already received huge funding rounds. Was it really that hard of a leap to see how people (especially millennials) would flock to cheaper urban rentals if a company made the safety and payment aspect of it much better than what existed before?
He delivered food to all three via uber eats.
If developers only get paid for selling auxiliary services, no one actually gets paid to write and improve the software, only to sell services. That's a rotten incentive structure.

Most consumer software doesn't in fact need any auxiliary services. It just needs work put in to actually build it, and that work needs to be paid for.

Props to Red Hat for earning money from enterprise clients. That model only works if you have enterprise customers.

Props to System 76 for selling computers. That model only works if you're selling hardware.

My software doesn't need any services or hardware or other auxiliary bullshit, and I'm not going to invent the need for said bullshit just to satisfy some ideologues.

You're not entitled to tell me what kind of software to write or how to license it. Don't like it, write your own FLOSS version, and outcompete me. Don't want to, or can't sustain yourself that way? Then don't tell me that I should, or that I can. Words are cheap.
You said it yourself: reasonable.

And no, the logic is not that it's bad and dehumanizing, the logic is that some people are truly opposed to doing it. Similarly, if I'm on unemployment, I do not have to, say, go drive a garbage truck just because I see someone hiring garbage truck drivers.
>promising an infinite open world and then having a large-but-limited one.

This is also flat out lying, its just that most people will realize its not true. Simulated gameplay that's labelled as "simulated" is fine but if you end up not delivering anything close to that then you'll rightfully lose all credibility.
you can’t use a beanie baby or baseball card as a permissionless, decentralised, censorship resistant global remittance tool.

That said, BTC lacking the fungible property of sound money is a glaring issue.

Though a money system like Monero may end up becoming very important global money for the internet age.

I think the author is shortsighted.
Addendum:

Now imagine that these baseball cards, instead of featuring professional baseball players, instead featured people who had run on a giant hamster wheel for some time at some speed. Also, the more baseball cards that get made, the longer/faster the person has to run on the hamster wheel.

Initially, you could run on the giant hamster wheel for a few minutes and make a baseball card. Now, because so many baseball cards have been made, you have to run for months on a giant hamster wheel.

Eventually, professional athletes figure out that instead of using their athletic prowess to play sports, they can actually make more money by taking their athletic ability and running on giant hamster wheels. In addition, many metal shops have also figured out that instead of making other stuff, they can maximize their revenue by instead concentrating on making giant hamster wheels so people can run on them to make these cards.
Discussion on IndieHackers, posted late March 2021: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/a-ycombinator-backed-kicks...
I had mentioned something like this on HN multiple times in the past but my thoughts never got much traction or upvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26811819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26094279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25444985

(among others)

I'd like to solicit feedback on why this is, did I not explain some point clearly enough or is it just the legitimacy of it coming from ark vs a random commenter on HN?
> You don't have to spend a month of heavy-duty electrical bills or $50K to buy a fresh baseball card

You didn't have to do that to get bitcoin until recently either.

And even today, you don't have to mine. You can purchase bitcoin for whatever amount in USD, and like baseball cards, it'll (probably) grow in value.
It is not your quota that is the problem, it is the credit risk.

If you paperwork is not up to spec, they are running the risk of credit exposure when you the customer doesn't' pay. Higher risks for any provider when there is no legal entity to sue etc, which is why they want you to convert to invoice billing.
Yeah, I don’t think many people seeing those ads realize a VPN is almost like choosing a different ISP.
plausible deniability
The funny thing is that Bitcoin will basically only have value as a collectible as long as substantial numbers of people believe this essay’s argument is false.

People want to collect bitcoin at current valuations because they are convinced it will become a currency/store of value of the future and hence rise in value.

If everyone suddenly switched to believing “Oh bitcoin doesn’t do anything but it is a fun collectible which also has mining costs to track ownership” its value would plummet.
>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

Dual Universe's owner NovaQuark listed the SAME "strength" and it is clear by their most recent backtracking and company changes (including replacing the CEO) that NOT having gaming experience is a HUGE detriment.
It would be nice if they didn't take on scams so hard, because there are people out there who are a lot more talented than these guys and also really love and care about games.
It doesn't matter whether the patches made it in our not. Even the attempt is illegal in some jurisdictions.
Something this article misses though is that Bitcoin, unlike stamps and Beanie Babies, is digital, which I'd argue makes a huge difference.

Imagine if you could exchange Beanie Babies with anyone in the world with an internet (or satellite) connection. That seems...at least a little more useful?
That’s a competition law thing.

They charge AWS the right to use Windows - so Azure also needs to markup by a similar price, otherwise they would fall foul of antitrust regulations. It’s not legal to give Windows away for free on Azure but not AWS/GCP/anyone else who wants to rent a computer from their garage (I.e. essentially making Windows Server free-as-in-beer).
Most don't. At most the ones in drier regions use cheaply-made desert coolers (that are effective, no doubt), but air conditioning systems are a sign of luxury in India.
I don't agree with this assessment at all. I think the immense value of bitcoin and other technologically advanced, secure, decentralized networks comes from the detailed network communications which they enable. They allow global financial transactions through a powerful medium in a way that has never existed before. This has nothing to do with baseball cards. The fact that decentralized networks enable NFTs and collectibles is a small subset of the value and power of decentralized networks.

The network is the value. To me, this is what bitcoin is.
https://medium.com/the-capital/the-network-is-the-value-an-e...
I really don't care getting downvoted, but I really think this is the worst explanation of what bitcoin is.
There's a book that I strongly recommend to the author of this article: the bitcoin standard.
The book gives also some fundamentals of what money is, and what bitcoin solves and can solve. (talking also about bitcoin layers)
I understand this is a divisive topic, but there's really nothing to with the baseball cards here.
I'd implement a good cost attribution strategy before trying a gatekeeping approach. Companies generally have at least semi-functional mechanisms for managing department budgets. Once there's a clear picture how much each service/webapp/product costs to run then they can feed that into the existing budget infra and let things shake out.

Until you know both halves of the ROI calculation it's difficult to focus effort on trimming the right things. e.g. It seems silly for a team to spend $2k/mo on naive/managed solutions for simple things but maybe it's worth it if it helps them avoid hiring another $10k+/mo engineer.
This doesn't make any sense. That's a poor definitely of money. And Bitcoin does not have "all of the elements of a collectible". Collectibles have cultural, artistic, or other value on their own and are limited numbers of a set ("non-fungible"). Bitcoin is very fungible. If you own 2 BTC, there aren't specific Bitcoins that are marked for you.
Not a bad idea, pass some laws that makes holding onto other peoples location data for more than a week or knowingly collecting large troves of location data a criminal offense. Just because you can make money from something doesn’t mean it should be allowed
What's specifically not possible with current technology?

For example the "infinitely large simulation world" is an off-the-shelf system (or was the last time I looked https://hadean.com/) .

Sure, it might not work in production but that certainly is not a lie.
India's massive COVID surge puzzles scientists
Yes Asians have lots of such hacks based on wisdom of ancient ppl. Many work too. My only concern is ppl don't take precautions like masks etc after following such hacks. In Pakistan ppl started taking a Herb based on Prophet Hadith which has nothing to do with this covid-19. Some one recommend and everyone started following as a religious obligatory. Many suffered from dirrehea . My friend died due to one of these hacks. He took no mask, got severe congestion and died.
Looks like someone has been traumatized for life after smelling it once. :)

Jokes apart, that is a very interesting description - I wish there was somewhere here in Bay Area I could smell it..
That sounds a like a good thing, but really I'm not hearing any buzz about it here or in other tech news sources.
Plenty of old discussion on the main site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21130098
This sounds like any large organization, where each engineer is only one tooth on a very large gear.

I'm guessing, but do not have enough anecdotal experience myself, that just about any large tech company employee here is reading your description and thinking "sounds like my company."

I'm curious how sound my hypothesis/guess is. Can other large organization employees answer with a claim that this does NOT describe their situation?
I'm afraid I don't understand this comment, but I can tell you that doesn't have anything to do with how we moderate HN. It's much simpler than that.
My understanding of safe deposit boxes is that the contents are not guaranteed by the bank at all and if something causes the contents to be lost or destroyed, the best they will do is refund some of the safe deposit box fees.
It's not clear whether India got some new variant like we heard of UK variant?
I agree with you; getting that out of the way.

But if I have BTC, there is a specific BTC that is mine. That is how I've understood it. The IRS tax guide for crypto says as much talking about buying and selling two coins bought from two different years.
I think you underestimate the shade this puts on the UMN name. I've never even heard of UMN before, but I doubt I'll ever forget hearing about this university fraudulently trying to sabotage the Linux project, and will probably treat anything and anyone with an UMN background with great suspicion in the future.
Whenever people argue as strongly about something as they do with "is Bitcoin a currency?", I think there's a heuristic which can be applied:

If people argue very much about if X applies or not, then X probably applies to a certain part close to 50%.

So Bitcoin kinda is like money, and kinda is not.

So can we just stop the arguing and move on to figuring out ways to make use of it, or write code to improve it if you don't like the as-is state, given that it exists and won't go away? :)
There have been some changes that make this entirely untrue for earlier promos and partially untrue for promotions to L6/Staff. There's considerably more locality at this point.
YC invested in a company called Balto that was easily the most absurdly weak idea/company I've seen pass through. It was basically a crappy free-to-play fantasy sports platform that was lightyears behind the incredibly well-established, deeper-pocketed, and totally change-resistant market. The only possible advantage it had for it was that one of the founders was Joe Montana's son, as sad as that sounds.

I'm not sure who they have advising them, but in the areas of games and sports, they're so bad at identifying opportunities that it's borderline comical. Where I will however grant some defense is that ideas like AirBnb probably also looked ridiculous at the time; it's only in hindsight where you have the clarity.
I mean, I went to house warming parties 5 years ago when housing was not a lot cheaper in the Bay Area. As long as you don’t throw it in peoples faces you’re probably fine.

And “can never afford” seems like an extrapolation of the last ten years ignoring corrections that came before that.

For those of us who lived through 2008 it’s amazing how quickly we went from “i’ve never over pay for a house again” to “housing only goes up”.
Bitcoin is not a collectible any more than individual gold bars are collectibles.

A collectible can be compared in value to another collectible of the same type. I might want a 1979 Dave Kingman card because I'm nostalgic for Dave "Kong" Kingman. Others will buy the Dave Kingman card to sell it to people like me, but we all give the card value based on its condition, the player, the year, etc.

But a Steve Macko card and a Dave Kingman card are completely different in value. They are independently valued. Bitcoin is not.
Then I guess it shows that legalizing prostitution in island nations is a good idea? I'll take that.
As a casual observer I see the cryptocurrency space only seriously used by two groups of people: those who want to buy goods/services which are controlled in their or the seller's jurisdiction and so need a bit more anonymity than Paypal; and people who run ICO and more recently NFT swindles.

I have yet to see a widespread other usage of cryptocurrency.
The marketer must have reality bending charisma. That alone has immense value.
Seeing a market and implementing a unicorn class product are quite different things even if you have the accurate perception of market needs. There is a reason unicorns are called unicorns and not justsurveythemarketfortrends-corns.

I admit AirBnB was perhaps not the most relevant example given it's a different industry.

I have no reason to champion the team but having a fairly good knowledge of games and software development I don't see the need to criticize the YC investment based on the context of their pitch.
This seems like a very weak moral argument.

In the specific case you mention making it illegal doesn’t remove the underlying economic imperative. It just punishes the women for being poor and needing the money.

More generally it takes away the liberty of other people (men or women) to do what they want with their own bodies to (not successfully) protect a particular group.
This is nice work. I would guess the only reason it isn't documented publicly is so that it can be changed at any time, without having to wait for existing users to migrate. However, given the sheer volume of people running outdated android app versions, I suspect it will remain stable for quite some time. Thanks for posting this.
Answering tickets is partly the kind of support I look for, Azure will get their account managers of my customer connected to me, Both AWS/Azure are okay to come on customer calls with me for a large enough deal. I never got that kind of support from Google.
From an absolute security perspective, I'm not sure I see how RDAP is much better than a DNS/DNSSEC-based solution, but if you can make RDAP work, you can get most (maybe more!) of the purported benefit of DNSSEC (vis a vis the WebPKI) with a tiny number of deployments, compared to the billions (I think, if you do the math over, say, 10 years, assuming wide deployment --- which won't happen, but, arguendo --- you can get there) we'll spend on DNSSEC...
In terms of physics, no it doesn't make sense, it would consume less energy to turn it on when you get home (or set a timer for 30 mins before you get home). However electricity is usually the most expensive during the evening, and in places that have abundant solar, the cheapest during the day.
(2013)

Often referenced, submitted a year ago, 3 years ago, 7 years ago

Here's a bunch of previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796556
Lots of discussion (>1,000 comments) about this over the past 24 hours or so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...
IIRC that's how it works for internal APIs in the linux kernel.
My experience with GCP has been quite small , most of which have been with GKE and I find that to be good!

What i hate though is more about the company , is what they project they are vs what they are

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-dro...

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I don’t know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the Defense industry,” she continued. “Google Cloud has been building our theme on Democratizing AI in 2017, and Diane and I have been talking about Humanistic AI for enterprise. I’d be super careful to protect these very positive images.
```

Not being judgemental about if defense is right or wrong , but its fair to say we are in the running for it. What is not okay is "we care for humanity and freedom of speech" and then do backchannel discussions on how dissent can be quelled with government agencies.

So to me distrust is for the company possibly and probably not so much on the reliability of its services
Just came to say: nice try mr Adsense
https://www.aamp.com/

American Association of Meat Processors
I wear headphones far less at home than in the office?

If we are going to do the speculation thing, another theory:

People take aspirin to prevent blood clots, many are concerned about vaccines and clots, aspirin taken for a few days causes recurring tinnitus readily in most people.
It’s basically a laptop without the transportability. Only 255GB disk. No numeric keypad. Have to use a bulky charger. Have to carry dongles for the Blue Yeti microphone in USB2 (and the printer). Need a SD adapter to download the films from my reflex camera. Can’t plug headphones.
Please don't. Thoughtful critique is fine. Being an asshole or piling on, not fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another thing to lose sleep over eh ?
> When I wrote about this for Spiked nearly a year ago, it was the only time an article of mine has been marked with a 'fake news' warning on Facebook. Admittedly the headline was 'Smoke fags, save lives', but with hindsight it stands up better than a lot of what the World Health Organisation was saying at the time.

While this is quite funny, it's sad that WHO is prone to making inaccurate and unverified claims in a time when people are looking to them for an authoritative answer.
To me the exact opposite - it’s seems like a prime candidate to be a third party service.

It’s something easy to get wrong, and has a long tail of work which is extremely generic (supporting all the different social logins, two factor authentication, password reset emails, email verification, sms phone number verification, rate limiting, etc...)
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers has at least one. They don't bloom extremely often. Most recent time to smell it was a two day period in August 2020. https://sfrichmondreview.com/2020/09/02/rare-corpse-flower-b...
Some house rules prohibit these contracts -- that's what I alluded to not recommending. Sorry, I was unclear.
> Bitcoin is not a collectible any more than individual gold bars are collectibles.

Some individual gold bars are collectibles.
Bitcoin is anything but fungible. Taint is a real issue.
CVE-2021-22893 exploit honey"POC"
This is GPT-3 generated. Some no name 'news' outlet uses a web scraper to get tweets, and the like, then generates 'articles' about them... change my mind.
So long as the internet is required to use Bitcoin it’s not exactly as permissionless or decentralized as it’s marketing buzzwords pretend.

It is also pretty trivial to fork Bitcoin so there is no more inherent value in Bitcoin vs a clone or fork. Compare that to a USD I think the last attempted fork was the currency of the confederacy going to show it’s not so trivial to fork.