skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird. I was using MoviePass right at the end and they didn’t need to change my password, they just limited what movie and time I could use my card so much it stopped being worth the trouble.

I guess they could have changed my password to keep me from canceling…
This is simultaneously everything right and everything wrong with America: an entrepreneurial solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.
It is a completely different domain, but I think that notion of Computational Irreducibility of Stephen Wolfram is useful to reason about complexity.

Even with perfect knowledge of the laws and initial conditions, it is not always possible to produce a reliable model.

Simple cellular automaton like Conway's Life or Langton's Ant appears chaotic.

Not even talking about simple mechanical apparatus like the double pendulum.
What they're saying is they can't access your mail at rest, in your mailbox. I'm guessing they do spam and virus checks etc, which has to done decrypted and can be syphoned off to another store. I am suspicious of any mail service that makes the claims that they do based on how email works. Of course PGP is encrypted at point of origin, but that means that they can't be security checked, other than basic DNS auth checks. Less of an issue I grant you, but an issue none the less.
So ... if we combine the two would we get even more benefit? Could it be compounding like alcohol and central nervous system depressants?
> For large residential buildings in California, I’ve heard that apartment owners will essentially swap buildings for some kind of tax advantage.

You might be thinking of the federal-level 1031 exchange [1]. California’s particularly distortive Prop. 13-based market has led to a separate Prop. 60 tax base exchange mechanism that might also fit what you saw [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0110/10-things-t...

[2] https://www.bosinvest.com/blog/tax-planning/dreaming-of-down...
I actually wanted changes like this and I welcome them. To each his own, I guess.
Not exactly a tl;dr but some examples of features unlocked by it:

- https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/41

- https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/37

Maybe somebody else has the energy to summarize them. :-)

The concern was because the old approach was to change the behavior globally. The new approach is to make it opt-in when you use specific new features that rely on it.
At a guess, I'd say "Side effects in render functions". People might be doing things in render that aren't generally considered safe or wise, and forcing concurrent rendering on them would run that code multiple times immediately, instead of the expected "once per render".

The new version apparently doesn't do that, unless you specifically use one of the new features, which means that you have accepted the other caveats for that scenario.
Looks like he failed as well, the article states that he was later found out and named a deserter.
I have never microdosed, but I disagree on the pleasantries of walking in nature. Unless specific conditions apply like not being hot or too cold, walkability of the trail, etc. I find myself really stressed after a hike or an unwanted stroll. Insects, sweat, looking where you put tour steps or else…I get really annoyed.

YMMV but it’s probably just me I guess.

Edit: grammar
Interesting approach: Working Group as a model to allow community participation.
the homeless aren't an impediment to walking around unless you live in the tenderloin or someplace downtown that has an especially big problem. In most of the city they are around, but not bothering anybody. Also much of the "walking in nature" that people do is hiking outside the city where the homeless problem can't have an effect.
What damages could customers seek? Presumably not much more than the cost of the service, which was only around $20/month.
Lazy googling suggests 30-50Wish [1]. The gameboy uses about 1W, so maybe a 1:30 ratio of time cranking to playing? Lazy math, feel free to correct.

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/wind-up-your-la.html
The novel Blindsight, by Peter Watts, explores exactly your quandary. Highly recommended.
For some more comparisons, the UK has free eye-tests for certain groups (children and at-risk) [1], but it costs around £20-25 (~$28-$35 at current exchange rate).

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/opticians/free-nhs-eye-tests...

[2] https://www.specsavers.co.uk/help-and-faqs/how-much-is-an-ey...
"The Co-op" scenario sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town.
Clearly this is meant to be silly but if we take it seriously -

Why shouldn't those who stand to benefit from ill-gotten gains be those who suffer the pain when the company breaks the law? At least in a proportional way? If, for example, a felony conviction of a company for fraud incurred a penalty of 10% of the value of the company stock for all stakeholders it would align market price with shadiness of company executives. It would suck getting burned by an executive doing something nefarious you didn't know about but it wouldn't take many events like that to make some very powerful people very interested in ensuring that ethical leadership was in place.
Probability.

Let's say a state actor had access to a whole pile of tax returns and wanted to manipulate them to change the conclusions ProPublica would draw. The state actor changes half the data points. Let's say ProPublica was able to check an average of 3 data points on those 50 individuals they reviewed. The data point could have either been manipulates or untouched. I'd model this like a coin flip and say that if ProPublica didn't find the manipulation after checking 150 data points, it's like flipping 150 heads in a row or 2^150 or basically impossible.
Raymond Chen answers that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=42...

DOS required extensions and most early DOS apps just always appended their own extensions automatically and only took in the base name. The system ignoring the file extension made it easier to use the devices in every DOS app, not just ones aware of the devices.
Your replies so far don't seem to indicate you gave much thought to how such a system would reasonably work -- as evidenced by the assumption that art owned by charities or governments (institutions which don't pay tax) would also be up for auction.
Right but as has been pointed out elsewhere, the linked article does not say to avoid speaking. Instead it says to avoid a strong focus on forced speech in a classroom, which likely means the sorts of repetition exercises that many of us remember from adolescence. That is very different from not trying to use the language productively at all.
Now we wait for the softsynth OP-1 emulator on this to complete the circle.
Need a 2dr version!
That link is both very damning and very succinctly informative of the problem.
> Teenage Engineering’s products but they have an air “pure consumerism”.

I got bad news for you buddy, video games don't have a functional purpose any greater than beautiful design. You're sort of barking up the wrong tree if you wanna take a dump on something. But I think this was said in good faith, and you should just consider that Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators have a totally different, literally unpolished aesthetic and also sell very well.
oh gosh, something is definitely going to happen, this time, i'm sure!
For the mega-rich it's tax avoidance. That money gets rolled into the estate or trust with the cost-basis resetting on death.
>So far, that article indicates, drones have been unable to yield a decisive advantage in any conflict

Drones gave Azerbaijan a decisive advantage in the recent conflict with Armenia:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/air-and-missile-war-nagorno-ka...
I don't think so. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Working-class people don’t own small businesses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if you’re in that position you’re already middle-class.
If the author is here, could we get the code, I would like to hack on a not-clone of replit :)
Fundamental human rights should be guaranteed by governments, and not corporations.

If as a matter of policy, we want China to change its human rights stance, then we ought to use our government as the tool to enforce those changes.
Could the source of GW190814 event be a black hole-strange quark star system?
Solar farms could double as pollinator food supplies
The article is a good start but could use a lot of editing

I'd look at the eBPF books and articles by Gregg.
it kinda depends. simply being high/tripping is not illegal in most places, but you can still be arrested for public intoxication if you make a scene or just appear very fucked up in the presence of a police officer. they are obligated to detain you if they judge you to be a danger to yourself (often happens with drunks). better hope you don't have any contraband on you if that happens.

a lot of people are overconfident in their ability to handle psychedelics. some people really are capable of maintaining a totally serene presence when they're tripping, but many don't realize just how weird they look to sober observers.
Most of which (unfortunately) run on the WWW.

I'm not sure what the native clients for Netflix and Spotify actually run, but I use their WWW clients mostly. Making most of my internet bits&bytes go over the WWW.
In other discussions here, the notion that some jobs are “bullshit jobs”, an ambiguously defined term coined by David Graeber, has been subject of debate.

Timnit Gebru had a bullshit job. Indeed, her whole field, AI ethics, is a bullshit field.

Now, I’m not saying that AI ethics is unimportant. Indeed, it’s perhaps the single most important topic of consideration of our time.

The reason it’s a bullshit field, and Gebru had a bullshit job, is that ethics can’t be delegated. A firm is, at most, as ethical as it’s CEO and board of directors.

When Google hired Gebru, what they thought they were buying was a cosign of their policies by a “woman of color”. They had no interest in her critique, and they thought she was smart enough to understand that she wasn’t expected to think for herself.
> By wrapping <Comments> into <Suspense>, we tell React that it doesn’t need to wait for comments to start streaming the HTML for the rest of the page. Instead, React will send the placeholder (a spinner) instead of the comments

> When the data for the comments is ready on the server, React will send additional HTML into the same stream, as well as a minimal inline <script> tag to put that HTML in the “right place”

> As a result, even before React itself loads on the client, the belated HTML for comments will “pop in”

This is so cool. Just gorgeous architectural design (if it works!).

Over the years we went from server-side rendered apps, which were fast. To highly-interactive bloaty client side apps, which were powerful but slow. The trend lately has been to move to client-side code-split bundles based on routing, or dynamic/static generated bundles which can be placed on CDNs and broadly distributed, but still require quite a bit of javascript and waterfall requests to load truly dynamic content on the page. All things told, these are earnestly a pretty good balance of speed and functionality.

However, they'll never be faster than a well designed SSR. This finally feels like we've reached the best of both worlds. I implore you to not have a knee-gut "why even do all this" reaction to the FE architecture patterns that have developed, including this one. They have developed for good reasons and just because they may seem convoluted to you does not mean they are not useful, powerful, and ultimately Good. If you don't get it, it's because writing frontend applications is a truly complex problem, much like designing a well architected backend is uniquely complex in its own ways. If you've worked on large frontend projects for over a decade, I think you'll understand how much better we have it today than we did 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago.

I'll repeat – this is so cool. Please give it the credit it deserves.
Worst May Be Soon over for Global Chip Shortage Mayhem According to Analysts
Pulumi sounds interesting. Spent 10 mins with their marketing website and I'm not very clear whether it is a standalone set of libraries, or do they only work in conjunction with their cloud services. Do you know?
You likewise don’t appear to have given a ton of thought to the logical responses that would likely occur from your proposal.

How long until some rich art collector starts a charity to hold their art and protect it from being auctioned?
I would suppose conflict over Taiwan is high on the possible scenario list, though personally I think its not super likely.
Very true, I opened up all electronics or electrical or mechanical things at home, from wrist watches to air conditioners just to see how they work - some I could not put back together like my watch, my parents never bought me a wrist watch ever again - haha
> I thought white-collar crime was usually a person scamming a company.

You thought wrong. White-collar crime is effectively any crime that does not involve physical effort. Breaking and entering to steal a few dollars can get you months in jail. Pumping and dumping a stock can get you a sports car and a holiday home in the Cayman Islands.
>>Rules aren't set in stone

The problem with that argument is who get to make that decision? Would you still be saying that if someone leaked you tax records to the general public?
I should have clarified - banks don't take on market risk.
I think it depends on how much the set of people who browse without JavaScript and the set of people who might connect you with relevant and important people/opportunities intersects. I've heard of people running whole web ad campaigns just to reach one person.
Not letting social media think for you applies equally well to HN comment sections.
Having felt the pain of maintaining my own instances, deploying, updating, dockering, when all I wanted was to have a function deployed out there somewhere I was stoked when serverless functions were announced at AWS Re:Invent. I never felt it was a stupid name because I was done with the servers and all their annoyances. FaaS (functions as a Service) could be interpreted as a dumb name with the same logic we’ve been executing functions the whole time!
Read this what I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27237700
Doubtful. The CCP runs a command economy. It doesn't need to sell its goods to finance a war when the state can simply force the economy to produce the means of war.

Want to stop China from waging war? Knock out its means of production -- target its imports.
Insurance has the additional model of finding ways to avoid paying out claims even when people do try to use it. I think MoviePass would have a hard time stopping users from using their tickets once they already purchased them through the app (although they did try by blacking out certain movies).
macOS Caps Lock Delay
Taking the short position on a stock you own is called selling short against the box. I don't know much about it, just had heard of it, but it sounds like it's been regulated in the US (to reduce its use for tax avoidance) since 1997.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sellagainstthebox.asp
Organic molecules reveal clues about dying stars and outskirts of Milky Way
You’re stretching SCOTUS’s ruling about API’s farther than it goes.
Corporations are people!*

* until a crime is committed
I also have the same opinion that its within no one's rights to have ownership over an idea, implementation, or solution to any problem at all! All good ideas should be shared as the good idea itself, without any ties to ownership or credit where its due.
We were super excited by the Xcode Cloud announcement! It’s a neat evolution of the Apple dev ecosystem and could be especially helpful for smaller teams wanting to more easily and quickly level-up their Apple DevOps.

We more or less see it as a substitute for any of the other cloud CI/CD providers teams are already using and integrating with Runway - on the Apple side only, of course. So, a complementary product that Runway will certainly integrate with! We’re especially excited by the prospect of it helping less mature teams get an out-of-the-box build pipeline that better positions them to take advantage of Runway.
> Shrooms take control while on LSD you're "the pilot."

A counterargument that a friend told me once: a psilocybin trip is like a wagon ride that takes you to what you need to see. LSD is like a jet plane that takes you instantly to where your brain wants to go.

I think it probably depends on the person. My first psilocybin trip was the most intense experience I've had, but then I had a lot that I needed to confront at the time.
Depends on what you spend the money on. If you take the margin and spend it on an asset, then you have the underlying stock as well as the asset to cover calls. Still requires correct thinking but the risk is mostly based on what you do with the loan.
SEO is not a scam and itself is endorsed by major search engines. Trying to position it as such removes any credibility you might have had.
Micro-Monoliths and the Future of Infrastructure
>The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man.

>And that dispassion is the very essence of justice.

>For justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.

Based on the reporting I've read on the internal cultures of police departments and the wider "law enforcement" community (federal law enforcement, prison administration, etc) I am pretty skeptical that "justice" is dispassionate. Instead, I think these groups wrap themselves in a myth of dispassion while they place thumbs (and larger things) on the scale in a way that reflects their personal beliefs and biases.
Why wouldn't it? It's a case of holding stolen goods. You don't get to keep them.
I wish them the best. Games is a cutthroat industry, and game consoles are absolutely unforgiving... The number of failure-points that can bring down the entire project (hardware disruption, lack of developer interest in building for an unproven closed system, lack of consumer interest in buying an unproven closed system) is high. Massive chicken-egg problems in closing the loop on a long-term successful console bet.
Jamming wouldn't break line-of-sight or optical communication. Imagine drones that can simply see one another, and communicate by changing color (e.g. with LEDs).
This doesn't make sense to me. You need to know the logical identifier in order to explicitly link the code with the resource. Otherwise if I change the code for that resource how does TF know what it needs to change if none of the existing resources in state matches the new config? Do you just always destroy and re-create every time there's a change to anything?
Runbooks v1.4 Released
How to use MongoDB in your Lambda functions
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is interesting in a couple of ways. Most have focused on how it was possible to win a conflict that has historically been extremely difficult, but also interesting is what happened afterward. As soon as the aggressive drone campaign was dialed back irregular asymmetric warfare flared back up. So it seems that it is possible to accomplish amazing things with drones, but those victories are only as robust as ongoing drone mobilization allows.
UAL Creative Computing Institute
What happens to your Bitcoin after you die?
Indeed. 1989:

> For computer scientists, the role federal funding plays in shaping research in their field presents both good news and bad news, according to the preliminary report on a study by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Science Policy Committee of the Special Interest Group on Automata and Compatability Theory. The good news is the fact that no abatement is in sight for the dramatic rise in federal support of computer science research

https://www.the-scientist.com/profession/does-dod-funding-sk...
I have three now and the UI to create more is still available. It's possible that clicking on it would fail (I don't want to needlessly waste card numbers), but I have definitely verified that replacing card details works: there is a button that lets you invalidate an existing card and create a new one.

In that sense it may be limited in the amount of cards you can have at once, but unlimited in the number of card details you could go through.
In the end, the government answers to the people and companies answer to shareholders. Of course I agree that companies should be ethical, but they currently have no incentive to do so other than their own morals and I'd imagine those are pretty quickly squashed in the face of shareholders looking for profits and an "everybody else is doing it" argument.

Companies like Twitter and Facebook exist and thrive because they have taken the less ethical route.
They did. ANOM (the messaging app) was developed by and for criminal activity.

> Officials reportedly took control of a communications firm called ANOM around three years ago, after a convicted criminal promised them access to it in return for a more lenient sentence. The devices were billed as super-secure and had a very specific target market - organised crime groups.

To be honest, from a privacy perspective... I'm not really mad at this. This was a really smart move from law enforcement this time, assuming all the facts are being reported accurately.
That's why you can't trust encrypted closed source apps. This time it was the "good guys", but you never know who is behind a software company.
A small software company is treated differently than one of the largest companies on earth, both from a moral perspective and a legal perspective.

Anticompetitive behavior is illegal for companies with a monopoly, and based on the leaked emails, it seems Apple's intentions were clear. The "monopoly" bit is still up in the air, but it's becoming increasingly clear the "anticompetitive behavior" bit is not.

This FaceTime news shows that Apple's lawyers are probably worried.
Some COX inhibitors/NSAIDs increase Covid-19 severity
In those places there is a huge value difference between the adjacent neighborhoods and the rich neighborhoods. This is primarily due to a culture of stability and safety
Raspberry Pi PoE+ Hat Problems
I've been using btrfs on both single-disk machines and disk arrays for years. It works well in both setups, the snapshots alone are invaluable.

It has withstood flaky disk controllers, dying disks, and power losses, always been able to recover.
I think this question is important to whatever emerges as the “survivor” blockchain that emerges out of this as the one we all use (like the internet companies that survived past all the garbage of 99/2000 before the pop).

People need to compute things asynchronously. And they are probably willing to pay. Being able to distribute those out as part of the the mining/validation process would make the energy less “wasted.”

I’m not sure why the grid computing schemes of the 00s didn’t pan out, I suspect aws was just simpler and cheaper than trying to assemble networks of nodes using Globus or whatever.
Yes. The Ars Technica interview from a couple of years ago is great: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/from-uncharted-to-obr...

The most relevant quote to this discussion is probably:

> "My wife played [an early Papers, Please prototype] and said, 'You can finish this, but afterwards, you gotta get a job,'" Pope says with a laugh. "Which is funny, because now, whatever I show her, she's like..." Pope gestures as if he's throwing his hands in the air and giving up. "'Fuckin'... whatever, dude, I'm sure it'll work out.'"