skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, why would the colonists on Mars, a much more resource-restrained environment than the post-cataclysm earth, be any more willing to cooperate or bring back or perpetuate civilization as we understand it today?
> If you own a rare card and damage it or lose the physical version, it's okay because the publisher will send you a new one for a small fee.

Is this a real issue?

> On top of this, it acts as proof of authenticity; if someone's trying to sell a rare card, instead of the buyer having to figure out whether it's a fake, the seller just has to prove ownership of the NFT and ideally the publisher would maintain a catalog of valid NFTs.

This just shifts the burden to authenticity of the NFT. How does that help?
> Will I at least make the same insane TC CoL adjusted?

There's enough disagreement about what this means that its difficult to say. If your goal is to buy a house, you'll be making more CoL adjusted. If you're happy to rent, its less clear cut but still probably close.

> Or am I more likely to be paid what an average developer in Atlanta can take home or just a bit more

More.
>> It seems silly tho that we need to pass a law to uphold what's already written into the constitution.

The argument is probably pretty simple. These companies will sell your data to anyone for the right price, why would a government agency be any different. It's probably not a search or seizure, just a purchase between parties that don't even include any specific member of the public.

First congress needs to make all this data selling and trading illegal, then we'll see how the government goes about obtaining it and weather that's legal or not. But too many lobbyists represent companies that make a ton of money on it, and of course these agencies would prefer to just purchase the data "legally", so I'm not terribly optimistic.
>Once upon a time when EA pulled their games off Steam there was much less controversy as people understand that EA has the right to make any business decision for their first party games.

we saw very different reactions back then. Most of it may have been existing unrest over EA, but I wouldn't downplay the reaction back then.

> However things are quite different when Epic decides to waltz in at the last minute and scoop games from other store fronts because they can outspend others.

I don't see the difference outside of it more immediately inconveniencing you with a title you care about more.

And I don't understand when the contractor became the sole fault over an agreement on 2 parties. I doubt epic is holding people agreeing to terms under duress.

> Has Apple every turned down an app submission because the same software is being offered on Android?

- if you made an app targeting IOS using native tools (to extract out the argument of "but X framework can target 10 platforms") and it was rejected, you're SOL on what to do with it unless you want to target the jailbreak homebrew market.
- If you made an app targeting Android using native tools and it was rejected, you can still sideload it or use a few other stores out there to publish it.
- if you made an app targeting Steam and it was rejected, you have the entire windows ecosystem to deploy your app on. Including hosts like Itch.IO if you don't want to spin up your own server.

I see epic just like Steam. It's their rules on what to accept or not. I care less about the rulings than the ability to have a plan B if they decide to not host the app. Which apple has practically zero option of.
Both points you make are questionable.

Hurting the market is no different from hurting investors because bad practices that hurt one investor have a chilling effect on other investors' activity. Moreover, regulators don't have to clear a "does this hurt the whole market" test before taking action. For example, I know a guy who was running a business at an investment bank and got in trouble with FINRA for trading through NBBO on a very small order (retail sized).

The crypto market has grown to a size and role that affects the greater economy. We see that in so many ways, not only due to the holdings but also because different economic participants are catering to miners and setting up payment options for holders of crypto. It's no longer a cute side project.
Wow the Cirrus is looking pretty good for how much damage it did to the Metro. Flight surfaces are still there and it's only broken in half of the parachute landing. Guessing it might not have been controllable after the collision.
What are you talking about? People have lived in Tibet for 20,000+ years?
The interstate highway along that stretch (I-15) does not seem to have enough space in the middle for that, unfortunately.
Pretty much anywhere with a revolution or similar in their history.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that while paying a ransom is not illegal itself, anything that facilitates the payment of a ransom is. There is a chance some party that handled the ransom money broke this law by doing so.

There is another much greater chance that some party with a fiduciary duty to shareholders could be sued for misrepresenting the risk of this happening to shareholders.
+1.

I maintained and extended a self rolled auth system built on top of django and it was a constant headache. We lost weeks of engineering productivity fighting with keeping the various libraries up to date and running into the usual "forgot password" edgecases.

I spent a few days with FusionAuth for a demo project and once I grokked it I really wished we had used it or something similar instead. Amazing abstraction layer to have at your disposal.
How are they getting hardened?? Magically??
> 2-3 hours a day round trip

That would be ridiculous, if it would up to 1 hour round trip it maybe would be more effective.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they bought Cardano’s ADA ahead of this. It’s the biggest crypto that already implemented proof of stake, so the most likely place anyone seeking refuge may move value to, increasing its price dramatically. This could make it a dump & pump, if that makes sense. Dump BTC with a claim that pumps ADA.
The person you're replying to stated elsewhere that they don't believe in the conservation of energy, so (ironically) save yourself the energy of arguing with them.
looks like like idiots do not like being called as such :)
No 4d chess needed. It feels like this was a simple pump and dump.
It is more than unconvincing. It is outright misleading. The idea that scientific investigations are refuting the idea that these skills are learnable is false. It doesn't make much effort to find studies to the contrary. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056179/

It also goes against common sense. Math, reading, and so many things are all learned, but frequently used by people who have a high IQ. Are we to assume that these things are not learned, because the author thinks IQ is the cause of reading skill, math, and similar things?

I've bothered going through the labor to learn the skill. I've seen my baseline measurement of recall ability improved by the training time I invested in learning the skill. I haven't bothered to get to a competitive level, but I don't need to do so to be certain that humans can learn skills by practicing them with the intention to improve.

The skeptic is just wrong. People can learn to improve their memory.
> That's more on the fence for me.

What? You claimed you are comfortable with 0.01% chance, but now you're "on the fence" with a 1% chance?

An analogy: some chance of your child being occasionally bullied in school, or a 0% chance of bullying but a 30% chance they'll get murdered.

You say "tough call" -- and I'm baffled.
I noticed that you keep posting this as the definitive reason as to why they changed their minds. Is this confirmed or just conjecture?
The market has already solved this in the form of ransomware groups. No need to have the government do it and issue a fine, ransomware groups literally are doing what you said.

I guess the government could legalize ransomware hacking to encourage it, but that'll never happen.
"And yes, a reasonable amount of intelligence, patience, and maturity is also required."

What is a "reasonable amount of intelligence"? I'd guess that few math professors at research universities have IQ < 130.
Actually, I'm curious why coreboot (probably with TianoCore and maybe SeaBIOS payloads) isn't wildly popular; is it just that companies making motherboards (I think?) just tend to do their own think and OEMs just go with that by default so it'd be extra work? Because if every OEM had to go get a firmware implementation for every machine, I'd naively expect coreboot to be super widespread just by virtue of costing nothing and probably having better tooling than the proprietary alternatives.
How Science is used to discredit Science. [video]
I've learned not to participate in arguments with people who are operating in bad faith.
One simple trick™ is to admit when you're wrong or made a mistake as early as possible. Just own it, that way you own the issue and the issue doesn't own you.

Doing this is like having a super-power that makes you look both super confident and trustworthy.
Absolutely this. Paying a ransom should be illegal and company officers should face personal criminal liability for allowing it. If the CEO of Colonial was facing jail time, there is no way the payment would have happened.
unless your data is legally required to stay confidential under HIPPA or similar law. Then a backup just keeps you operating but not immune to the threat of data publication.
Not even a cozy hotel on the moon, overlooking the earth?
> Elon is a gambler on a hot streak. He keeps making big bets that pay off, but the luck to cunning ratio is dangerously high.

If I could publicly pump and dump something I would also be on a hot streak.

Are we forgetting about the secured funding to take Tesla private tomfoolery.
Earth's is more like 3kgs if I remember correctly
The real power is consensus in an idea. Hopefully that idea is good but ultimately, you need critical mass to accept an idea or reject it.

If people in the US really want to grab back power to the citizens of this country it can be done (peacefully even). All it really takes is a large enough consensus of voters to upend all the garbage we're being subjected to. The issue is that the consensus is more difficult to reach due to the scale of the US voter population combined with tactics like gerrymandering and overall difficulty of orchestrating movements to support ideals most people seem to support (which isn't oppressing a minority unless we classify power and wealth hungry individuals as a protected minority which we currently seem to do).

Reaching consensus amongst citizens is far far more difficult these days, giving an edge to those already sitting in positions of concentrated power with fewer players, lending itself more likely to reach a consensus. It doesn't help that those in power actively try and divide the general voter population and set us against one another making it even more difficult to reach a consensus.
I like the ipython-sql magic in Jupyter: https://github.com/catherinedevlin/ipython-sql Depending on what you're doing you might be able to get away entirely with just using it and some basic queries, i.e. no python glue code in the notebook at all. But worst case you might need a cell to open up the DB connection and make the magic aware of it, then you can execute clean and simple SQL queries in cells using the magic.
> You're excused. It's clear that assessing public company valuations is not your area.

Basic business economics doesn't seem to be your area.

Here's a basic example of how you can shoot the "public valuation" of a company into Low Earth Orbit without actually earning a single penny for your operations:

Issue 100 million shares at 0.01 cents per share and go public. That's now a $10k dollar public company. Next, you do an increase in capital stock by selling 1 million additional shares at 0.5 dollars per share to gullible investors.

In order to achieve that, you hire a bunch of credible consultants who support your fundraiser by lending your company their good reputation and who advertise your business. You can pay them from the $500k you got from selling the new 1M shares and you can now call yourself a multi-millionaire, because the initial 100 million shares are now worth $50M on paper, because that's the latest share price.

See how that works and why public valuation based on share value isn't always the most useful tool in assessing a company's finances?

> Current earnings matter little to the valuation of high growth companies.

See above for how a company can still be cash-starved from cost of operations and investments despite being worth billions on paper.

Current earnings do matter, because the current share price doesn't pay wages or keeps the lights on in your Gigafactories.

edit: I also find it quite amusing that you think the self-proclaimed "King of Doge" and co-founder of PayPal(!) doesn't know how crypto works, oh please.
Interesting. To me, Mars is a large rock in a universe of large rocks, but it could be our second home (even if it is done for profit). In conversations like this I often consider this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/modules

I don't care about Mars' surface processes. If I had a button to blast its outer layer off and replace it with a habitable one I would press it without hesitating - yet I imagine if I spent years studying the planet academically I would act differently, based on an amalgam of my concepts of "studying" and "Mars" I came up with on the spot and am ignoring anyway. Empathy is a poor substitute for understanding.

There's a philosophical difference here too. I don't see a problem with pulling resources from as much of the galaxy as we can reach if it prolongs Earth life, assuming we don't find other lifeforms. The galaxy only has mystique when we assign it, which we can't do if we're dead.
There is a great Dr. Who episode called “World Enough and Time” that is all about time dilation:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6340138/

Far better than the treacly Interstellar, in my judgement.
They could do it indirectly, by requiring insurance against security holes.
>I think most people don't care much about privacy for themselves ("I have nothing to hide") and are happy to let military intelligence daddy read their emails, as long as it doesn't affect their life.

I'd point out that the DoD is purchasing this data from private entities, not collecting it themselves.

As such, I'd say that it's less about government surveillance specifically, and more about surveillance in general.

Corporate surveillance is nothing new (Equifax/Experian/etc. have been doing that for at least half a century) and those folks collect, store and correlate enormously more data than does the US government.

There is a massive effort by corporations to hide this sort of data collection, which has been mostly successful.

Complaining about the government dipping into all that tasty, tasty data is like blaming the child who was sickened by stealing a cookie from a batch that was poisoned, then making sure that the rest of the batch is fed to the intended target.

That most folks are just complaining about big, bad government (which isn't wrong, but just a tiny portion of the larger issue), rather than the folks who are collecting, correlating and using such data to their own advantage (of which selling it to governments is just chump change) seems rather silly and short-sighted.
this is already happening. maybe not in Nature, but all over the "small" papers of this world (and so also with any Nature derivatives). There's people milling the same article with nonsense "results" through 3 journals each in Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and RCS. And they stay up. Forever. And anyone looking into this topic will waste an hour because these 10x cited articles are just self-citations of the same crap.
In hindsight, I'm starting to think that fixing the Y2K bugs was a mistake. Or maybe we shouldn't have fixed all of them. Let a few ATMs and electric plants shutdown, remind us what could have happened. As it is, we ended up complacent because nothing happened when those Chicken Littles said Y2K was going to cause problems.
Maybe let's try more substantive arguments than a genetic fallacy.
I'd be down, but it's more likely going to be an awful penal mining colony armed with nukes pointed back down at us.
You are projecting your beliefs. The popular science crowd thought it was incredibly realistic [1-3]. As you say, the movie is ingratiating to the people who have heard something about time dilation. But even the movie itself gets it horribly wrong. I remember there is a scene of a crew in the orbit of the planet growing old while those on the surface don't because "it is near a black hole" which is true, but the distance between the surface of the planet and the orbit to cause such massive time dilation would imply the humans should liquefy in their suits. Overall, I found Interstellar to go out of the way to use science to explain events in the movie and then asked the viewers to ignore applying the same principles to other parts. I have no problem with science fiction, but if you try to explain the fiction, you have to keep the universe consistent.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interstellar-science-explained-...

[2] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-i...

[3] - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/parsing-th...
> the idea that an employee can’t leave because they would be giving up too much money if they do.

This is part of the reason a cash-biased compensation package at a startup can be attractive. Effectively it places less coupling between your career path and financial success, which IMHO reduces unnecessary stress and gives you freedom to make the trade-off between these two at the time of _your convenience_, rather than some fixed number of months.
Forking new processes is less efficient than spawning new threads as processes uses more machine resources and more memory. In addition, communication between threads is far more simple than communication between processes. Multicore may not be deal-breaker for server applications, but it matters for applications that require parallel processing.
Did they sell their remaining 1 billion in bitcoin? I saw they sold 100m a few months ago.
One Year with OpenJDK 11
> And an advantage of high speed trains is they can accelerate very quickly.

They really can't.
You cannot regulate what energy sources are being used for mining Bitcoin. If any particular energy source is available at the right cost somewhere, be it in a remote location with a defunct government, miners will use it.
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Writing Technical Design Docs
This reads like something you'd overhear at a Sackler family cookout.

Surely you can recognize the benefits of government regulations in lopsided markets where small participants lack either the power or the information needed to keep large participants honest.
> If only I didn't want to run a game every now and than

I hear surprisingly good things about remote options like https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/ which would avoid you needing the hardware at all.
"I've had (cis, white, male) friends tell me that they were basically promoted on potential and didn't have to actively go out of their way for several months to prove their performance. It'd be nice if that happened to the rest of us, but don't bet on it."

Where is all this white privilege? I seem to have missed the boat (I have the correct pigmentation apparently). I had to provide value in order to be promoted / get raises and actually speak up and ask for it.
One of my clients was hit with a ransomware attack on their website.

It was a WordPress website, and I got an email that the website was down. I visited the website and saw the ransom, something something pay us in bitcoin.

I had been using their backup services for a long time, so it took me three minutes to create a new server and import the data and the site was down for no longer than 10 minutes.

I changed the users passwords and had virtually forgotten about it for a few weeks. When I was reminded about it a few weeks later, when a user asked why the password was changed.

Does it cost too much to do backups?
>buying exclusivity after the game was announced for a different platform

contracts take two parties to agree to something.
>I want restrictions on EVERYONE buying my data. Not just one entity.

That's a start, but I'd prefer restrictions on EVERYONE collecting my data too.
And yet there's still a product, still a date that product will ship to customers, and therefore time estimation is at some level necessary. Often there's a factory building something, physical shipping, late fees, etc. If you're solely responsible for setting all your own deadlines, then there's no need to estimate time. That's very rare.

Time estimating is broken and inaccurate. But that doesn't mean it's unnecessary, or that one can just give up on it. Teams should focus on delivering value incrementally, then using time taken as a metric (among others) over those increments as a measure for future increments.
My only experience with Go was to help advise a team when porting a Java cache. They struggled with performance because Go kept fighting them. This was partially due to it having a poor concurrency library, resulting in excessive use of read/write locks whereas Java's advanced capabilities made more things lock-free. The database founder noted that Golang is slow single-threaded but makes up for it via concurrency and low latency.

To my unexperienced eyes, it seemed like a real PITA mostly because the Go authors insisted on artificial limitations externally, but bypassed them internally. I certainly have not found it hard to make Java fast and the core developers have always been open minded when I've talked to them.
No mention of this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_(film)
What It's Like Going Through a Deep, Dark Depression
My company had Notion hit us up for an Enterprise contract. When we asked if they offered enhanced security, single tenancy, or even they’d accept some sort of liability if they had a breach … the answer was no, no, and no.

We ultimately decided to not go enterprise since it offers little value over their existing plan and keep sensitive data out of Notion.

I hope Notion gets to a point where they can offer stronger guarantees to their customers. If they pull it off they’ll easily be mission critical software.
Wasn't that what Jesus said about Judas Iskariot? To paraphrase: there must necessarily be evil in the world, but woe to the one who makes himself its conduit.
> Companies buy out smaller software projects and add spyware to them fairly often (on the iPhone this usually happens via dylibs rather than the App publisher purposefully doing it.)

Yes.

and Apple has removed one of the only ways to catch this without an adequate replacement.

No - these can be scanned for during app review.

> The effect is much worse overall security.

No, consumer software outside the App Store is rarely examined by experts who have access to the source code.

This certainty is not a general practice.
In stable markets or mismanaged ones?

Currency is a representation of the market it represents. Not from memes of billionaires.

Is that so hard to understand?
> keep an opsec team on payroll and just pocketing a multimillion dollar bonus for optimizing the opsec budget

This is not how companies actually work. This is a fun “incompetent executive” fantasy that floats around but in real businesses you don’t pocket a huge bonus solely by cutting costs.

You’re gonna have a lot of explaining to do on why that money was being spent in the first place and why it’s not needed now.
> the reason for his change of mind

How do you know this?