skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for one, it's not actually defined - and this is deliberate, because if one were try to define it in any meaningful way it could immediately be proven to be incorrect. For the most part, its proponents point to (somewhat arbitrary) statistics, but ignore counter-statistics (like incarceration rates of men vs. women, for example) that undermine their position.
Amphetamine sure, but captagon is a more complicated molecule without any real extra benefit. Théophyllines are meh unless you’re nearly dying of lung disease.

However, Wikipedia reports:

“ Many of these counterfeit "Captagon" tablets actually contain other amphetamine derivatives that are easier to produce, but are pressed and stamped to look like Captagon pills.”

which makes a lot more sense if the chemistry is being done in Syria.
> Also, I'm really pissed and also I'm kind of convinced that its too late anyways to try to convince someone who says stuff like that that they're not right.

Look, I'm not arguing with you here. You're admittedly pissed. Please take a breather. This approach can only bolster confirmation bias for folks who think that science is just another religion with fanatical adherents.

There's a lot of writing about (including several studies) how to talk to people with extreme / conspiratorial / fact-resistant beliefs. Please read up.
When I first read that it completely made sense. But my mind immediately ran to leetcodes subscription.

I imagine their churn is fairly high, but they can also capitalize on new graduates or folks looking to up their game to keep revenue flowing in so that by itself is only part of the story. Likewise their active count maybe falls off a cliff after 4-6 months for users who actively engage with platform, and I’m sure some of them make the purchase and either never use it or give up fairly quickly.

To toy with your question specifically let’s use LC as an example. Some percentage of users need to be engaged and referring it via word of mouth for it to be validating. As for retention and engagement, once you have a decent cycle of customers coming in that becomes a game psychology. Think Reddit emailing you on every comment you get, notifications, gamey mechanics like Robinhood, or some other mechanism to reinforce behavior
The One-Earth Balance Sheet
Just got booted out of Netflix on the PS4 because the console could no longer connect to Sony's license server. Netflix was working just fine by the way.
because the way downdetector works is it just basically counts how many people are searching/visiting for <site> down and if it's much higher than typical it flags the site as down.

So if everyone searched "is google down" and visited the link on downdetector that was returned in the search, that would add to the downdetector count for that site.

Downdetector doesn't actually know if the site is up or down.
Because we humans have immune systems that have worked since our inception as a species. Common sense.
Dear god no... if your sense of morality requires lying, you need to reevaluate some things. Thank you for not lying.
Yes but Captagon is not. How did it become so popular in the middle east and north africa?
If you use a CDN to front your traffic, you need the CNAME for www (or whatever) to be pointing at their DNS infrastructure, so they can return whichever closest POP is going to serve your traffic.

e.g. dig @1.1.1.1 www.nvidia.com +trace

... various things from the root ...

www.nvidia.com. 7200 IN CNAME www.nvidia.com.edgekey.net.
;; Received 83 bytes from 208.94.148.13#53(ns5.dnsmadeeasy.com) in 35 ms

So the main DNS is fine, but it'll never get an A record because the last link in the chain is toast -- edgekey being Akamai in this case, but all CDNs do this so they can route traffic. Normally, this is a good thing so they can shift traffic within 30 seconds on their side. Unfortunately, it also means it would take nvidia an two hours to point away from Akamai.
Completely agree. Every time someone says "I got nothing to hide" they should have to prove it by doxxing themselves. The argument will be over when they refuse to do it.
It's parked by GoDaddy, but unfortunately their website is fubar by this outage if you try to click through to see how much they want for it :)
CBD with Delta-8 THC is all the unregulated rage now.
Yeah, my path was LastPass -> Bitwarden -> 1Password.

Both Bitwarden and 1Password are great.
> That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status?

Yeah, that's literally what they've claimed in the past.. when the 2017 S3 outage happened, the issue wasn't reflected on the status page and they later claimed that they were having trouble updating it because the status page relied upon S3 somehow.

Maybe the 'optimistic' argument is more like the 'naive' argument...
I'm not sure how easy it would be to regulate. But yeah. I've got a few short term trades in my brokerage account, and outages really throw a wrench into those.
There are two main disagreements I have with this point. They’re values based, so I don’t expect to change your mind, but to give you some perspective on why people roll their eyes at these stunts:

1. I don’t think we should be looking towards “what’s next” when we have plenty of more pressing issues to solve here and now. I’d rather we more equitably distribute resources so everyone has food, healthcare, and housing before we start trying to colonize mars.

2. I would rather the money be spent in a more democratic way. I don’t want to let a few people decide “what’s next” for me, let’s redistribute that wealth and let the public decide what’s most pressing.
Those looking for a deeper dive might consider Harold Bloom's "How to Read and Why", for literature; and Mortimer J. Adler's "How to Read a Book", for non-fiction.
Many landlords own tens, hundreds, or more properties. There is not a level distribution.
They should have dummy agree/disagree buttons that disappear once selected and has no function other than to satisfy the malcontents that the machine has recorded their opinion.
To be fair, your door is basically open to your government. If it wants to be in your house, it can be. If it wants to observe you unnoticed, it can. There is no winning against corrupt governments - other than getting rid of them. That being said, I want my government to help others to get rid of corrupt governments, and that should include actions against NSO.
I mean sure if you want it to be art then it can be. But that's not typically its primary purpose. And the skills required to make a UI good for its primary purpose (usable, easy to understand, etc) are quite different from those required to make good art.

In other words, a UI as an artifact might be art. But UI design as process is different to the creation of art as a process. You could do both, but they're mostly orthogonal.
It may help if you asked yourself why you feel qualified to judge a bunch of people's minds.
A few years later, this kind of business will be outlawed. It's basically theft that's currently legal by taking advantage of the legal vacuum. In the name of pedofilia and terrorism the constant surveillance has become so pervasive that it won't be long before people will stop caring about those things , because living as a farmed animal gets really old after a while.
It was fastly last time.
It took me much longer than it really should've to find these videos [0]. Guess I need my morning coffee...

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x#Sec10
Then what was the impetus to switch off of Bitwarden?
Lately I've been experimenting with storing my kernel+initrd in an encrypted usb thumbdrive w/integrated keypad [0].

My laptop now has no bootable disks and simply enters the BIOS boot menu when powered on without something bootable on usb, everything internal is just a dmcrypt volume.

This is just a way for me to help ensure my boot bits haven't been replaced or otherwise tampered with, while still letting me still trivially build/modify kernels and initrds just by unlocking the thumbdrive and inserting it.

It also has the nice side effect of not leaving the boot storage attached continuously, I have to explicitly make it available when I intend to update those components. When booting, I generally yank it the moment I see systemd's version print on the console.

It's also trivial to use a keyfile on the encrypted usb drive, so once the usb is unlocked and inserted, the laptop just boots to login. But then you're really relying on the black box thumbdrive for protecting secrets, vs. uninteresting boot bits you're just trying to prevent from getting replaced.

Another kind of interesting UX with the DT2000 is since it has a battery, you can unlock the drive anywhere (perhaps with more privacy, or just less visibility of doing something interesting), then bring it to the laptop.

I'm not saying this is a super secure solution or anything, it's just a somewhat interesting way to boot (and unlock if using a keyfile) a FDE machine which has proven to at least not be super annoying.

[0] https://www.kingston.com/unitedstates/us/usb-flash-drives/da...
He went on a silent meditative retreat, and had a psychotic break.

That's it, that's the details.

Your surprising defensiveness announced your biases. You monster.
It was a statement of my personal views. It is OK with me if you don't feel the same way.

I do feel everyone is equal in value. Possibly equally worthless depending on how you view humanity's place in the overall universal timescale.

Whenever you look at someone else and think they are being arrogant or self important...likely it is time to take a step back and think about why it is OK to think that they should not feel that way. Maybe they have good reason that day to feel self important :) Take it as a good opportunity to take a good look inside and realize...overall...it doesn't matter how other people view themselves.
(The answer is China.)
Only if you can switch to something like Zig, Rust, etc. But a tremendous amount of code bases are already written in plain C. Using preprocessor metaprogramming allows you to invoke macros right in the same files in which you write ordinary C code, without the need for integration with other languages.
Telling that you're being downvoted by HN community for asking a legitimate question.
>> without becoming a "second job" with the pressure to "perform that comes with it

Exactly. If you can develop a skill of reading in this manner, it's not something anyone can take away from you. No matter what happens to you: illness, imprisonment, poverty, divorce. No one can take that from you.
I've seen someone have a textbook psychotic break while consuming a lot of cannabis. Radio was sending them secret messages, coworkers were government spies, believed they were Jesus (and normally they'd been a confirmed atheist).

As soon as the cannabis consumption stopped, the psychosis stopped. They started smoking again, symptoms came back.

I'd also done some googling to try to understand why some people have panic attacks, and there seems to be a link to cannabis and hypoglycemia for some people. Hypoglycemia can cause: psychosis and panic attacks.
This reminds me of the quote: "When a great team and product meets a lousy market, market usually wins. When a mediocre team and product meets a great market, market usually wins"
You might think that, but not really.

For people who are getting onto the internet with their new smartphones in 2021, they may not have an email.

Yes, it's hard to use google play without a google account, but they may skip that, or have a young person fill that out.

If you made it this far without email, you're unlikely to start now.
Weed doesn't affect everybody the same. Not everyone is a stoner that gets high and says whoa dude on the couch.

I didn't perceive things as more profound rather the little voice of anxiety inside by head went away and for the first time in my life I was free to figure out who I was.
Is it some kind of Voldemort "he who shall not be named" nonsense?

Apparently it also stands for "Too Far Gone" (as it too nutty to convince of the truth), which sort of made sense in the sentence, but not as much as Trump.
My not-so-humble opinion is that if you're using the C preprocessor to do metaprogramming, you have outgrown C and need a more powerful language.
There was a nice article in Nautilus a few years back about this work called "Consciousness began when the gods stopped speaking": https://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/consciousness-began-...
Back up now by the looks of it
Loled at this.
Something about macros that I don't see discussed much is the trade-off between improved clarity of intent vs learning curve for contributors.

I don't have a ton of experience w/ C, but the large projects I've seen appear to have a tendency to avoid heavy macro usage (e.g. using `void *` for hashmap implementations instead of reaching for macros, for example). I see macros appear more frequently among those that prioritize machiavellian cleverness, often under the pretext of squeezing performance: code written by (g|x)ooglers, for example.

I'm curious what more experienced C developers think of jumping into projects with heavy usage of macro-based DSLs, especially the syntax-bending variety being suggested here. Does it get in the way of contributing? Or of reasoning about performance? Etc.
I think the biggest myth with apps today is "if you build it, they will come". I think it was true 10 years ago when the iPhone App Store was getting started, but not today.

The thing is, having a ton of competitors in the space means you will have to work extra hard for your app to be seen and then picked. "Lesson 4: Distribution" in the post is probably the most important thing here. Marketing and SEO are huge in terms of getting people to know about your app.

I have an app of my own in the iOS app store and the times I've had jumps in sales have been tied to either me posting about it somewhere or someone else posting about it on their own. If I don't get the word out, nobody is going to know about my app.

Like the poster, my app is in a crowded space (flash cards), and so a search in the app store doesn't even show my app, at least not until you scroll for a minute or so...
Is it really realistic to build something people "need"? Humanity survived millions of years without a single piece of software; it's unlikely that anything you write is ever going to be a "need".

People buy stuff they don't need all the time. Games and other entertainment are the very definition of "nice to have", and they're vast markets. Even business tools are usually not "needs" if all they do is improve an existing product.

It's incredibly hard to know what will attract people. Even if you know categorically that a thing will make their lives better, people often won't get it, and instead spend their money on something objectively useless.

It seems to be luck as much as anything else, being in the right place at the right time. It catches a "buzz" for whatever reason and becomes popular, or fails to and doesn't. Knowing it beforehand would be great, but nobody ever does.
Okay, the Kurds who control the Iraq/Turkey border, but aren't the PKK, trading through the mountains??

Also I want to know if the drugs in the photo were hidden in the pomegranates
Yes, haven't I already covered this angle by writing "just like they're free to suggest to allow it"?

You could make the same argument, and I would still argue to ban automated data collection.

That's how we make laws: we choose our sides of the argument, and (if we're lucky to live in a functional democracy) vote for it, or vote others that promote the same ideas.
Are there data privacy concerns here ?. As a user im making a decision to share my data with a specific application but now a third party is actually in between us.
Thanks for sharing!

> So the lesson is that while all businesses have a product, not all products are a business.

And even products that look successful may not actually be good business, if they have negative net income and surviving on venture capital that eventually runs out.
CFR isn’t the same thing as “survival rate”, because the denominator only includes reported cases as opposed to all infections.

What you’re looking for is IFR, which by definition is a smaller proportion.

Anecdotally: my family all tested positive for COVID a few weeks ago via the Abbott at-home test. That test has a relatively large false negative rate (~15% IIRC) but a vanishingly small false positive rate. Of the four of us, I’m the only one who might have been reported to the CDC, because after about a week I called my doctor and asked for a prescription for inhaled steroids to ease my shortness of breath.
I thought the sacklers were american
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"I don't discriminate. I select the applicant most qualified to repay the loan."

- Algorithm which refuses loans to black people.
Not to mention that since he says the NSO doesn't have anything to do with how their system is used, he can't possibly assure anyone that if they aren't a criminal then they have nothing to fear.

The amount of obvious deception and doubletalk coming from them goes a long way to confirming that the NSO are not good guys.
On the flip side, are you missing out on some fundamental privacy knowledge by not knowing and sharing information about confidential computing? You are evangelizing privacy (a great thing) but seem to have determined one aspect is crucial, regardless of the possible importance of this other aspect. What I'm saying is: what if avoiding Medium is a drop in the privacy hygiene pond and confidential computing is the pond itself?

I don't think I am knowledgeable enough to answer my question or even validate its premise, but I do think it's unfair to dismiss this information simply because it was published on Medium. And when it comes down to it, we have tools like archive.is which I believe avoids any privacy related qualms with Medium: https://archive.is/wUCRe
The way regulate is like anything else: if they fail to meet QoS uptimes, they get fined in 6-8 figures for every minute of loss.
Totally, relying on the apple app store alone was a mistake. Next product I make will be cross platform. I was blinded by the handful of successful ios apps out there.
Looks like you are still working on learning distribution. I'm typing on a mac, but own an android. i still can't use or try your app :(
Is this related to:

Multiple websites including DraftKings, Airbnb, FedEx, Delta and others appear to be experiencing issues.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/multiple-...
>Before Gmail, it used to be common to have an email account through one's ISP. No need for Google.

I have internet at home through Spectrum, who offers email service. I don't use it, though, because the experience of ISP email, from my memory, was not good. Syncing up new devices with IMAP always took an annoyingly long time and my client would occasionally seem to forget that it had already got the headers for a message. The webmail was also shit. And then the SPAM filtering in Gmail at the time was miles better.

Perhaps things have improved since (this was 15 years ago, so I'd certainly hope so), but what you're remembering here as "the good old days" are etched in my mind as not being so good.
Thanks Carl, appreciate you taking the time to check it out!
With 1/3 of Syria occupied by the USA, I'd say they are in total-war mode so anything goes. The USA is behind yet another miserable state of affairs.
I would never accuse US foreign policy of being ideologically coherent. I'm just pointing out that this was an explicit goal of the US invasion of Iraq, direct from the horses' mouths. Are you calling me dumb for stating that, or them dumb for being incoherent?
You hit the nail on the head. Most people I know will smoke like half a joint in an evening and be done. Maybe take a couple bong rips. You don't sit there and smoke all night long. You'd be passed out long before you'd get through a 20 pack of joints.

Meanwhile, it's super easy to pick up a pack of cigarettes and suck down 5-10 of them in an evening.

Sometimes it feels like people who don't smoke really have to justify it hard. All these justifications they come up with which really aren't even an issue. Maybe they're afraid of it, and don't want to admit it... If you don't wanna smoke it, don't smoke it. There's nothing wrong with that. But some of the reasons I read to not smoke weed are ridiculous.
nice! But I don't understand why they say "having few moving parts at its core."

Gas-based ACs have just 3 moving parts: hot-side fan, cold-side fan, gas compressor

This new SMA-based AC will need: hot-side fan, cold-side fan, hot-side pump, cold-side pump, at least 4 valves, stack compressors ("hydraulic rams or electric actuators").

This looks like way more moving parts than gas systems
Let’s be clear. There is a slim chance of death, particularly if you are younger and/or in good health. There is also a chance that you take the vaccine, get covid, and die anyway. Although I am extremely doubtful that those cases will be talked about very much.
CapitalOne has a broken login which is pretty surprising to me.
Twitter locked my account (again) for an obvious joke
tl;dr: I don't regret working on it. Just not even trying to market it!

By heading in the right direction, I mean that I've built the 'minimum viable product' entirely in one year. Now it was time to go after putting it in the market somehow, search for a venture capitalist or anything like that. But, no, we didn't even try.

We had many features that other sites didn't have back then. Such as the 'Google-like' search with auto-complete, auto-refresh appeal, etc. not so common back then, but we never went out after a single potential consumer or investor.

I was in a situation that I had to stop developing on my own and focus on other things in my life. However, my business partner didn't want to stop adding new features. He wanted a few more things that I could achieve in a month or two to start looking for an investor, but I just didn't have the throughput (no time due to new endeavors + saturated), and things died off.

I blame him for chickening out when we had possibly a tremendous competitive advantage that might make it an easy sell. I blame myself for not doing my own research for investors once I noticed that we reached a point of stagnation.

Context: He had great designing ideas but was not technical. I wasn't good at communication back then and counted on him too much to make this happen. If this was today, it wouldn't happen again, thanks to my experience now.
I'm multilingual. Growing up, friends asked me which language I think in. The answer is "neither". I can produce sentences in my brain in either language if I want, but it's strange to me that anyone would feel that thoughts are in any particular language.

I would feel incredibly limited if all my thoughts had to be synthesized into a language before they could be acted on. In fact, i often struggle to find words to express ideas that I can perfectly think about.
Seattle Startup Wants to Eliminate Vulnerable Code
And people wonder why I try to avoid depending on online anything...
What's frustrating is that DNS is returning an address, instead of just failing, and so macos is caching that value (though it might be cloudflare doing that).
> Imagine how much tax dollars would be gained if all drugs were legalized in US and let's say 20% of it's population started to regularly use them.

...What? Is this a serious take? You think widespread recreational hard drug usage would increase tax revenue and not have any other negative externalities? Like... dead people don't pay taxes.
In my experience those claiming to "sit and wait" have all been vaccinated now. After they waited a month or two and saw minimal side effects.
It's very possible that those are the stoners that stick out. There are a lot of stoners out there that are there and you don't realize are high.
App Store on MacOS is down!
True but cloudflare have been guilty of downtime too.