skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s becoming harder to believe crypto currencies are a good thing when you see how it allows criminal to move money anonymously.

Anybody actually uses crypto for legal goods and services? I’m genuinely curious about it, I do want to be proven wrong, that crypto currency can be used for legal things.

PS: just to be clear, not asking how crypto works, I’m quite familiar with it.
Disclaimer, this is not medical advice, experiment at your own risk! I once tried an "energy shot" called GungHo that was popular with gamers and that claimed to enhance cognition and reduce fatigue and was really surprised that it seemed to work for me, even consuming just a small amount of a shot/package. The company that made it went out of business, but there was a list of all the ingredients on the package so I bought them all and tried them one by one. I found that Eleuthero is the one ingredient that made a difference. I then tried reducing the dose to find out the minimum amount that seemed to have an effect and was astounded to find that a very tiny amount, just wetting my fingertip and touching it to the powder and then ingesting that, still had the same effect as a whole capsule. Here's WebMD's take on Eleuthero:

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-985/eleuthe...

Since then I've read a variety of research papers on PubMed about it and it does not seem to work for everyone. It seems to work better for people who are older. The effect on me is dramatic, within moments I feel more awake and energetic, before I even swallow the powder (so it must be entering through the skin of the mouth). It lasts about 4 hours, and then I feel fatigued again, but there is no crash like with sugar or caffeine, I just feel like I did before. It's cheap and easily available as a herb, also called Siberian Ginseng (although it is not actually a ginseng, real ginseng just seems to raise my blood pressure). I don't use it often but when I want to stay alert and am feeling tired I use it and for me it is very effective. It seems to have been widely used in Russia over many years by the elderly. For me a single bottle of capsules is probably a life time supply.
This happened to me years back. What would you say to the argument that it's to protect users from identity theft
AWS have added probably the worst CAPTCHA flow ever as a feature of AWS WAF
It would probably be more akin to cheating on a test. Like if you don't want to put in the hours but you want to perform above your actual level. These kind of games suffer from survivorship bias, the people that stick around sink thousands of hours into them. They have a very steep learning curve. People with experience and the gunplay to match it will absolutely destroy people that can't, won't or haven't put in the work. Without having to cheat.
For the same reason there's no "M" in FAANG. This industry has PTSD from the old Microsoft of the 1990s and 2000s, and isn't open to giving the new .NET a chance. It's a shame really, as the modern .NET stack / tooling / ecosystem is probably one of if not the best there is (at least for general purposes).
Nitpick but nothing grinds my gears more than people using niche acronyms without first defining them in long form, especially when its something like MP3 that's going to give you a million hits of the wrong result when you try and search for a definition.
Yes, I know the point you were making and it's a fair one. I was just elaborating. It's unfortunate that your post was downvoted, there is nothing wrong with it, IMO. I was taking this as a discussion.
Netblitz digital business card and networking solution
While I respect your opinion, I would argue that if we were to look at the data, it would show some level of shift in people's preferences for where they want to live.
I use that forum every day, and it hasn’t had any major security problems for the 15 years or so it has been used. I’m not seeing what you’re talking about.
Turo* is AirBnb for cars. I’ve used it a few times and it worked well.

* http://www.turo.com
It seems like a giant confidence game to this day. 80% of adults in the US don’t use Twitter, and of those that do, only a much smaller number are regular users, and an even smaller percentage care to follow brands, which most people rightly see as opt-in advertising. The timeline algorithm makes it even less likely that the pointless post from @reebok is going to reach many people, probably nothing close to the amount of free irl advertising that they gave to Twitter and Facebook.
Ask HN: Hosts File – Still Relevant?
My system network DNS is set to 1.1.1.2,1.0.0.2 (cloudflare Malware filtered DNS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families/)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1.1.1)

I would like you thoughts on using a system hosts file (/etc/hosts) such as: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

(Of course I append my existing hosts file to the head of the updated hosts file) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file) )

What are the pros & cons?

I mainly use firefox with DNS over HTTPS enabled; (My ISP sells my DNS data to G00gle) and use:

https://security.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query (cloudflare Malware filtered DNS) for my DNS lookups

with 'network.trr.bootstrapAddress' set to: 1.1.1.2 as fallback, and 'network.trr.mode' set to '3' (only use DNS over HTTPS)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS)

As using DNS over HTTPS negates system hosts lookup, I use uBlock-Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin)

And import a host file combo from: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts into 'Filter lists' of uBlock-Origin.

Any Thoughts?
But cheating in a game is more like littering, I can easily choose not to litter. And my presence on the road doesn't change the rules to disadvantage other drivers. It makes the road more congested, yes, but for everyone including me.
This just in, investment firm thinks there should be more investment into the economy. More on this story and other, at 6PM pacific time.
Agreed. We see about 25% of our traffic come from our forums.

https://forums.ironmansoftware.com
Fair. A bit beyond the scope of the original article, but fair.
Maybe I'm misreading what he is getting at. Is it more of a politeness is bad thing?
Over 200k Servers in One Place Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)
Dating apps have gotten worse as there has been consolidation and attempts are being (successfully) made to extract more money out of customers.
Minority shareholder rights arose because of past abuses, but the advantage is still very much to the majority shareholder. Your odds of winning a case against a majority shareholder is slim to none and would takes years to resolve in court. So my argument stands firmly. You have a overly simplistic and idealistic view of how equity works.

This argument is getting boring so I am going to stop here. If you still think you are right, then I wish you all the best in the real world.
Ethereum is a totally open source, globally decentralized compute infrastructure that executes programs. To say that it gets its value purely from ideology doesn't seem right at all. That is a tangible, valuable development in computer science that is being leveraged more and more.
+1. Also, IMO many users already use Discord for other purposes, so they're more likely to check your project's channel while checking other things. Meanwhile, nobody really goes out of their way to look at a project-specific forum, not until that project build sufficient momentum.
All of them? The government has this data already it just needs to be aggregated by someone motivated.
It isn’t just direct stimulus to private citizens.

It’s the near zero interest rate policy, the literally illegal purchasing of mortgage and corporate bonds by the fed and so much more that is flushing the entire economy with trillions of dollars.
Given that yearly DoD spending is at or near $750 billion, this is just 5 and a bit years of military spending for the USA. The USA also generally ups the DoD budget somewhat every year. One might think that because the DoD can't be audited due to extraordinarily messy financial systems, the DoD appropriations are actually lining someone's pocket, and the reason people piss and moan over non-DoD spending is that nobody gets to grift off it.
Unlike most billionaires, we have a fair idea of what he’s going to buy with it: more employee wages in companies like SpaceX

I wonder about the price of real estate in Brownsville though
> someone thought it was fine to keep appearing and standing in front of me at regular intervals.

That's a lot further than just stretching in the aisle..

I'm on the taller side and I apologize for any inconvenience, but I really do need to stretch. Those coast to coast flights will leave me paralyzed for days otherwise.
Depends who you are buying it from and which country they are spending in
Also the downsides are vastly different between buying a lemon of a car (although I’m those two cases I bet the companies offer a money back guarantee) that you might lose $1-2k on in repairs vs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in buying a bad house.
I wonder if the demand for DRM that actually works will eventually split Linux distros into ones that respect user freedom, and SteamOS, which will be able to run Steam. I thought I read discussion of their proposed anti-cheat kernel module already... can't have nice things with any shared resource...
I see the zealotry surrounding rationalism in this space but was always puzzled by it.

Rationality is achieved when one merely makes rational arguments following some axiom or assumption. But it says nothing about the reasonableness of the axiom or assumption per se. It would seem that some folks employ faulty assumptions in supposedly rational discussions, assuming that they are winning the debate (whether it is a debate or not) without considering their blind spots.
Yeah I imagine Turo is exploding. When I traveled this summer my options for a 5 day rental were $2,200 from all the rental car companies, or $375 from Turo.
It's okay to be critical of proposed ideas. The problem with hand held signals such as this is that they're self-defeating.

To be effective they must be widely understood and conspicuous. If they are well understood and conspicuous, then the attacker will punish the victim for attempting to make them.

Attackers will surely see articles like this and will prevent victims from putting their hands anywhere near the glass in future.
My next GPU won't be an Nvidia, because of the linux nonsupport.

Screw you, Nvidia.
That’s a really good question. I didn’t read the full paper yet, but I think one of the important discoveries here is that there’s a direct causal relationship from brain->immune system in the first place that would allow them to trigger specific responses.

It’s also probably hard to target those same specific neurons without first triggering the immune response since that’s part of their method for finding them.
Rarely/never have to be an expert on day one. A large system will take at least three months to learn anyway. Easy to interleave a platform with that.

A competent developer will be decent at month one, an experienced-pretty-good by month three. An asymptotic gradient, if you will.
It seems China figures out what's the best thing to do, and then just does it. There's no doubts or unnecessary debate about it.

It has been clear to anyone who is paying attention that nuclear power (even fission) is vastly superior to every other method in the long term. It is cleaner than coal/gas, more reliable than solar/wind, less environmentally disruptive than hydro.

Then why isn't everybody doing it? At least the countries with the know-how should be all in on it. USA, Germany, Japan, India, France, all of these should be building a hundred new reactors every year. But instead we are sitting on our assess while China marches on.
I honestly don't have first hand experience, but I seriously doubt every FAANG developer is the rock star you're making them out to be. I'm sure there are certainly plenty of FAANG developers working on boring shit that needs to get done.
After almost 18 years, Joel finally got his wish:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/01/28/please-sir-may-i-h...
XP is 20 years old, its older than invasion of Afganistan.
Scrum is an abject failure.

Java is an abject failure.

Cardano is the best crypto currency.

I think I've nailed the art of clickbait titles.
I think that comment refers to Google trying to know more identifiable information about the user: a phone number. Which adds to Google’s collection of private data, susceptible to more profiling and such.
Biden has not called for drastic cuts in defense spending. I don't think "we spend a lot of money on X" is a good argument for "let's spend a lot more on Y".
I think that some people have post viral mental disorders. Or just general mental problems after going through anything out of the ordinary with their body. After going through Thyroid Cancer I generally don't give two thoughts about much of anything, while people at work are 25 years old and getting boosters for Covid. Some kind of mental thing going on here.

One thing I also found out during this pandemic is people generally don't get sick which was surprising to me since I have 2 kids and have generally been sick with a cold every 2 to 3 months for a decade. Maybe that's why Covid wasn't that bad for me? Although it did put me on my ass for 2 days.
The outcome is that they hold your email / data hostage while escalating their demands for your personal information. That sounds pretty evil to me.

That may not be what they intend, but that is result, regardless.
Housing in your area might get vastly more expensive, but housing somewhere else might not see the same price increase. The CPI is for the entire country
He shot the elephant to avoid looking a fool to the natives. It took a long time to kill the elephant as well.
"It’s becoming harder to believe fiat cash is a good thing when you see how it allows criminal to move money anonymously."

Fixed that for you.
If you throw in an unknown scaler and fudge it, then yes you can make the statistic do whatever you want. I'd argue it's not a relevant or useful statistic, though. It's analogous to you telling me my risk of dying from a bullet to the head is near 100%. It's technically true, but I'm not going to super glue a kevlar helmet to my head.
How do you think people under the age of 16 should get around? For some examples, if they want to go to a friend's house a mile or two away, or from their home to a train station, or to the supermarket.
I don’t doubt that. Oil was expensive in the seventies for geopolitical reasons. Production has since become much more predictable and secure.
Do very intrusive anti cheat like the one Valorant work?
Absolutely personal and unsubstantiated: The typography is really annoying IMO. It's the cliche in-your-face typography from the New York gestalt that's making its way into the everything - from the new Library of Congress logo to the otherwise amiable California design.

As far as the person that brought Bodoni into the corporate branding world - that would be Paul Rand.
SQLite is a good equivalent :D https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html
That is a strange interpretation as Orwell makes it clear the he represents the British Empire, and the elephant represents the subjugated people. His vivid description of his own situation certainly matches how most history books (of the time) describe the British colonial situation, always being thrown from one situation to the next, inevitably guided by circumstance and unable to change course.
Self-hosting has a cost as well. Not sure why you are comparing a free-tier to a non-free option.
Who gets the payoff? There's people behind this, not just some faceless "SCO's creditors" entity. Does Darl McBride get some money? Is he even still alive? What about Orin Hatch's son, who was a SCO lawyer? The whole thing stank.
>No, the stims didn’t really do /that/ kind of wealth expansion.

Of course they did, but indirectly. By propping up the economy by keeping an artificial demand for treasuries, it caused a securities bubble.

I bought a bigger house, and so did plenty of my friends, and so did everyone else my real estate agent was working with, which meant I needed a new couch, bed, desk, curtains, speakers, tv, etc.

All of the move up buyers who moved some of their money from the stock market into housing likely also spent money buying more 'stuff' for the bigger space.
Don't know if percentage of money being spent is a good metric, but Bitcoin is 92.45% the market cap of silver, and 11% the market cap of gold.
Yeah, I get tired of competition easily if I have no chance of putting up a good fight.

Sometimes I even play cooperative table tennis with friends.
not necessarily disagreeing with you, but odd that you think your tip at applebee's is an argument against a basic income
Its about increasing the cost of spam right? For some money is better than using your phone number, for others, they can continue to use the phone. Neither is exclusive of the other.

I know for some they would definitely choose the $5 over the phone for very good privacy reasons.
I think the problem is the proportion.
> ...expects $240M to $265M in losses for homes they plan to buy in Q4

This part of the sentence blows my mind.

We plan to do this thing. It's going to lose a bunch of money. And they're still going to do the thing...
That's not whats observed at the ports. Relative to before the pandemic in LA, container tonnage is down, container volume is down, cargo value down, the number of vessels serviced is down, as well as revenue all down. By all accounts the port just seems to be working at a reduced capacity than even before the pandemic, rather than moving a larger amount of goods than what was 'normal' and struggling to keep up with increased demand. Seems they just can't keep up the numbers seen under normal demand at least at the port of LA.

https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/facts-a...
> have to

Careful, now.
Never fight a strong state I guess...
There can't be many "single issue meat voters". What you mean to say is "they'll lose key money from lobbyists".
Claudia Sahm? Krugman? I rather listen to the hedge fund guys, at least they have skin in the game, don't they? Claudia Sahm is extremely partisan, and so is Krugman. You know it's going to be bad when we are starting to hear from the media that inflation is actually a good thing --because people have more disposable income to spend on things. First, it was just a blip, then they told us it would go away in half a year, now it is here to stay --but it is a good thing, see?

The reality is that the explosive demand, alongside with a lagging supply can lead to an inflationary pressure not seen since the 1970s. At least in the 70s the information technology revolution was just around the corner. Right now, it feels like the supply issue cannot be remedied or solved because of heavy regulations and a stagnant productivity.
I don't think that's a fair criticism of deductive reasoning. A rational argument should absolutely try and drill down into assumptions.

We might accept some assumptions for the sake of argument, but that doesn't take them off the table for unpicking once the main argument is made.
> - A search engine is good when it provides results that are useful and what you wanted.

Agree and I would add that the many relevant results you see today would not appear if it were not for Pinterest users adding context to images and the engineering work to surface these pages and exposing context in a way for Google to fairly rank.

> - Seeing pinterest links in google search is not useful and not what people want (just read this thread)
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> Therefore, by making pinterest results dominate google search, you have made google search worse.
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> Google search is the main way people navigate the internet, so by making google search worse, you have made the internet worse.

There’s a lot to unpack here so let’s just start with a simple question: I would ask, “worse” as measured by what?

Pinterest has staffed a team of dozens for almost 10 years to improve incoming traffic from search engines. Their effectiveness is measured by week over week increase in traffic and sustained use of the product from those users.

Literally 10s of millions of increased MAUs from this one channel alone. For these users, they are clearly finding value in the content that is being surfaced. Google also clearly sees value in surfacing these results over others. If you think Pinterest has somehow been pulling the sheepskin over Google’s eyes for over a decade, you’re mistaken.

I’ve worked for companies where I wasn’t the target demographic and I had to constantly remind myself that just because I wasn’t the target audience, that does not preclude a majority from realizing immense value.
Does not support AirPrint, only regular wireless Ethernet printing.
I agree with the sentiment of the article overall but this one sentence felt bizarrely out of place to me:

> Here are a couple of works by the greatest architect who ever lived, Antoni Gaudí

Really? Apart from the Sagrada Familia, the rest of his more famous works just comes off as weirdly whimsical at best, and discordantly unattractive at worst. It’s strange seeing such a definitive opinion given the grandeur of some of the ancient work the author highlights earlier, which seems far beyond Gaudí. Another irony here is that his work falls under the label of “Catalan modernism”, while the author is railing against modernism and its derivative styles.
Yes, I do. I got diagnosed not long ago.
I was suspecting that I have it. There were obvious signs.

Severity and the type are different from person to person.
If I understood my doc correctly, I have very severe ADHD.

Pre-diagnosis and pre-medication, I excessively drank coffee (up to 10 Monster Energy Zero a day; also: Red Bull Zero, Rockstar Zero etc.).
It calmed me down, and I could sleep with it better.
Prolonged fasting. Fasting prompts endorphins, endorphins promote dopamine. Dopamine is supposedly the thing you are lacking on.
Also, I hate to plan ahead my food or prepare food, so this is a good way to reduce further stress. I also do it in an alternating manner. Meaning one day I eat my minimum calories (2000), the other day I just don't eat anything except calcium-rich water and salt (coffee too). I can do that without any issues, since I have enough body fat and I can live off of it for some time. May be not for you.

Comorbidities usually come along with ADHD as well, I had at least one.

So you are asking for advice. The problem is you don't know what type you have, if you even have it, or how severe it is. So don't think that you have to drink 10 Monster Energy Zero to fix you up. What works for me, may not work for you! (That's the issue here.)

I was not impressed by the meds, while they "tamed" me (less hyperactivity and impulsiveness), I still have inattention and forgetfulness.

The meds are not a magic bullet. I was naive thinking that way... They approximate (!) your brain chemistry to that of a neurotypical person.
Don't expect to get a normal brain with it.
Yes, these cards are visible to the target's OS in their default configurations, as they appear in the PCIe configuration space at a minimum. While they can initiate DMA without the need for any OS-side drivers, an application with sufficient permissions can still locate them in the configuration tree.

This is already part of the cat and mouse with game hackers, as they identify some of the standard PCIe VID/DIDs and at a second level, the PCIe configuration values for these cards.

Beyond this, there are also a lot of ways using performance counters to see if memory is being accessed without the access being accounted for at the CPU level - https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech/issues/107 has some documents around these approaches.
Apart from being a means of exchange, in what way are fiat currencies equivalent to crypto currencies in terms of moving money?